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Featured Sci-fantasy: Zombies vs Aliens vs Vampires vs Dinosaurs by Jeff Abugov

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Featured Sci-fantasy: Zombies vs Aliens vs Vampires vs Dinosaurs by Jeff Abugov

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When a highly sophisticated race of alien insects arrive to exterminate mankind, mythical creatures from human lore turn out to be more real than anyone imagined. It is an epic battle for the preservation of our planet, and no one is left out. Oh, and some of them fall in love.

“A chaotic, full-throttle parody that’s as smart as it is slimy.” – Kirkus Reviews

“Highly recommended reading for anyone who appreciates cheeky intelligent storytelling.” – George Mihalka, Director, My Bloody Valentine

Featured Fantasy: Shadow Blade Series by Yasmine Galenorn

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Featured Fantasy: Shadow Blade Series by Yasmine Galenorn

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There are some places even a demon fears to tread…

My name is Kyann, and I’m half-demon. I grew up on the streets, learning how to take care of myself early on. I also learned, with the help of my best friend, how to control my darker side.

Now, together with Dante, a wolf shifter who’s too hot for his own good, I own a supernatural PI firm. We investigate everything from wayward pixies to vampire stalkers.

While checking out the murder of a local member of the Witches Guild, we uncover a demonic force trying to creep into the area, one that feels oddly familiar to me.

As we race to solve the murder, I start piecing together scattered pieces of my past. Now, not only are we embroiled in a murder, but I seem to be on a collision course with the dark secrets of my birth.

Featured Fantasy: Fairy World MD Series by Tamara Grantham

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Featured Fantasy: Dreamthief (Fairy World MD Book 1) by Tamara Grantham

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DREAMTHIEF received the INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award from Foreword Reviews for fantasy and also won a RONE award for Best New Adult Romance.

Forget the fairies and unicorns, most people return from fairy world with lost memories and mental problems. Olive Kennedy knows. She’s the therapist who treats patients suffering from Faythander’s side effects.

Traveling back to the fairy realm wasn’t on Olive’s to-do list. But she has no choice. The fate of both Earth and Fairy depends on her ability to stop an ancient being called the Dreamthief. To complicate matters, she may be losing her heart to someone who can’t love her in return. Saving the world, she can handle. Falling in love—not so much.

Dreamthief is the Amazon #1 bestseller in both Mythology and Fairy Tales. With over 150 five-star reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, Dreamthief is an imaginative, romantic fantasy for fans of The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. Morgan Stamm of InD’tale magazine says, “[Dreamthief] springs to life from the very first sentence.”

This imaginative read has been nominated for both the Foreword Reviews’ INDIEFAB book of the year award, as well as InD’tale’s prestigious RONE award.

Featured Fantasy: Ava’s Coven Books 1 -3 (Daughter’s of the Warlock Boxsets Book 1) by Maggie Shaw and Amelia Shaw

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Featured Fantasy: Ava's Coven Books 1 -3 (Daughter's of the Warlock box-sets Book 1) by Maggie Shaw and Amelia Shaw

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Her bloodline is forbidden. Her magic could destroy the realms.

After her mother’s death, a young woman discovers the truth—she’s the secret daughter of the most powerful Warlock in existence. If the Warlock Council learns who she is, she’ll be executed.

Forced into hiding, she sets out to find the father who never knew she existed, guarded only by a deadly half-Fae warrior sworn to protect him. Forbidden attraction ignites as assassins close in, secrets unravel, and her dangerous magic awakens.

Now hunted by the Council and destined to change the magical world forever, she must choose between obedience… or fighting for her freedom, her power, and the man she loves.

This complete paranormal fantasy trilogy includes:
• Sisters of Magic
• Hiding from the Council
• Heir of the Warlock

Perfect for fans of powerful heroines, forbidden love, warlocks, political intrigue, deadly magic, and slow-burn fantasy romance.

✨ A clean/fade-to-black fantasy romance series suitable for all readers. ✨

Featured Fantasy: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

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Featured Fantasy: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

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An outcast princess must earn her birthright as a hero of the realm—in this “utterly engrossing” Newbery Medal–winning fantasy (The New York Times).

Aerin is an outcast in her own father’s court, daughter of the foreign woman who, it was rumored, was a witch, and enchanted the king to marry her.

She makes friends with her father’s lame, retired warhorse, Talat, and discovers an old, overlooked, and dangerously imprecise recipe for dragon-fire-proof ointment in a dusty corner of her father’s library. Two years, many canter circles to the left to strengthen Talat’s weak leg, and many burnt twigs (and a few fingers) secretly experimenting with the ointment recipe later, Aerin is present when someone comes from an outlying village to report a marauding dragon to the king. Aerin slips off alone to fetch her horse, her sword, and her fireproof ointment . . .

But modern dragons, while formidable opponents fully capable of killing a human being, are small and accounted vermin. There is no honor in killing dragons. The great dragons are a tale out of ancient history.

That is, until the day that the king is riding out at the head of an army. A weary man on an exhausted horse staggers into the courtyard where the king’s troop is assembled: “The Black Dragon has come . . . Maur, who has not been seen for generations, the last of the great dragons, great as a mountain. Maur has awakened.”

Featured Fantasy: Dragons on the Edge (Jane Austen’s Dragons Book 16) by Maria Grace

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Featured Fantasy: Dragons on the Edge (Jane Austen's Dragons Book 16) by Maria Grace

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Secrets, swords, and a touch of dragon fire
” A top fun comfort read.”~ Gail Carriger

Everyone expects Sir Fitzwilliam Darcy to fix their problems: estate management, endorse a courtship, hide from the Blue Order Council dragons. Some were more difficult that others, but still within the realm of a Pendragon Knight.

The mounting dangers to the Blue Order and all of Dragonkind, though, dealing those would require more effort. Perhaps after a strong cup of coffee—not tea, world-ending disasters required coffee.

Dragon Sage Elizabeth’s pregnancy had left her tired and cranky and as big as a dragon. But her father’s emergency visit … best just say, it did not foster pleasant tea time conversations.

Between his entitled demands and his socially-inappropriate dragon assistant, Bede, nothing is sacred. Not correspondence, not locked rooms, and especially not the secrets Bede is supposed to be keeping, rather than whispering into the ears of impressionable young firedrake, Pemberley.

Of course, Pemberley intends to do something with all the secrets she isn’t supposed to know. Things which could turn the Blue Order on its ear. Things which would soon make Elizabeth and Darcy’s world very, very complicated.

Swords, poisons, and a touch of dragon fire could be required to set things back to rights. But first maybe coffee.

A fresh new gaslamp fantasy adventure in the engrossingly intricate world of Jane Austen’s Dragons. Anne McCaffrey meets Jane Austen, a perfect mix for dragon lovers and regency-era fans alike.