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Featured Fantasy: The Devil Next Door (Vegas Slayers Book 7) by Christine Pope

November 14, 2026 by Carolynn

The Devil Next Door by Christine Pope

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The Lockwoods could finally have the happy ending they’ve bled for — if the devil next door doesn’t take it first.

Caleb Lockwood has spent a year learning how to be happy. Quarter-demon, retired from the tables, and about to be a father, he’s traded Hell and high-stakes poker for a house in Summerlin, a ten-foot Christmas tree in the tall windows, and the woman who loves him, monster and all.

He should have known his father wouldn’t let a clean ending stand.

Delia Dunne can feel a haunting the way other people feel a draft…and lately, something cold has been leaking through the wall of the vacant flip next door. She wants to blame the pregnancy, two unfamiliar kinds of power humming under her skin at once. But the wrongness isn’t coming from the baby. It’s coming from whatever Daniel Lockwood left behind, patient and waiting for the family’s power to gather close enough to touch.

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Featured Fantasy: A Gathering of Ravens (Grimnir Series Book 1) by Scott Oden

November 14, 2026 by Carolynn

A Gathering of Ravens by Scott Oden

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“Magnificent. . . . A dark, grim and unrelentingly bloody tale of the last Orc and his quest for vengeance. Highly recommended.” —John Gwynne, author of Wrath (Book Four of The Faithful and the Fallen)

“A satisfying saga that’s as complex as an old tree’s roots, and a pleasure to read.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

To the Danes, he is skraelingr; to the English, he is orcnéas; to the Irish, he is fomoraig. He is Corpse-maker and Life-quencher, the Bringer of Night, the Son of the Wolf and Brother of the Serpent. He is Grimnir, and he is the last of his kind―the last in a long line of monsters who have plagued humanity since the Elder Days.

Drawn from his lair by a thirst for vengeance against the Dane who slew his brother, Grimnir emerges into a world that’s changed. A new faith has arisen. The Old Ways are dying, and their followers retreating into the shadows; even still, Grimnir’s vengeance cannot be denied.

Taking a young Christian hostage to be his guide, Grimnir embarks on a journey that takes him from the hinterlands of Denmark, where the wisdom of the ancient dwarves has given way to madness, to the war-torn heart of southern England, where the spirits of the land make violence on one another. And thence to the green shores of Ireland and the Viking stronghold of Dubhlinn, where his enemy awaits.

But, unless Grimnir can set aside his hatreds, his dream of retribution will come to nothing. For Dubhlinn is set to be the site of a reckoning―the Old Ways versus the New―and Grimnir, the last of his kind left to plague mankind, must choose: stand with the Christian King of Ireland and see his vengeance done or stand against him and see it slip away?

“Not to be missed. More The Broken Sword than Lord of the Rings, this is Norse Fantasy with a Vengeance. Grab your axe and line up for the shield wall, and Odin count the dead.”―Charles R. Rutledge, co-author of Blind Shadows and Congregations of the Dead

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Featured Fantasy: Monsters & Empire (Urban Magick & Folklore Book 5) by C. Gockel

November 14, 2026 by Carolynn


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Grendel never believed love could conquer all. She’d better be wrong.

Beowulf’s brother, the Dragon King, has found an unstoppable weapon: Beowulf. With Beowulf’s Magick, the Dragon King is creating an army capable of destroying everything in its path.

Can Grendel convince herself love is a force strong enough to break down the most powerful walls … the ones inside?

Can she convince Beowulf she is not the enemy, or will Beowulf follow the path of his namesake and let pride and a thirst for vengeance destroy Grendel’s homeland and himself?

Grendel’s faith and Beowulf’s choice will decide the fate of monsters and empires, human and non-humans, the living and the dead.

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Featured Fantasy: Mother of Monsters (Urban Magick & Folklore Book 4) by C. Gockel

November 14, 2026 by Carolynn

 
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Once upon a time Beowulf defeated the bloodthirsty Vampire Grendel in the worst possible way … he captured her heart. 

Grendel has mixed feelings about this. Beowulf is as brave and self-sacrificing as he is arrogant and stubborn. She fears his idealism will be his undoing, and maybe hers as well.

After freeing enslaved Ember miners, Beowulf and Grendel are escorting the former captives on a desperate dash to safety, traveling deeper into Beowulf’s homeland, where Vampires are staked on sight.

Unknown to Grendel or even Beowulf, greater dangers than slave traders or Vampire hunters wait for them. Dangers neither of then can begin to imagine.

A new human king is rising, with dreams of empire. A Fae King sees a great game afoot and won’t be denied a play. Meanwhile, the trickster God Coyote has motives of his own.

Grendel and Beowulf will have choices to make. Choices larger than the life and unlife of a Vampire hunter and a Vampire … Choices that will affect mortals and gods, living and dead.

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Featured Fantasy: Urban Magick & Folklore Series by C. Gockel

November 14, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Urban Magick & Folklore Series by C. Gockel

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Once upon a future-time, in a city of steel, concrete, and Magick, a wicked queen trapped a mighty warrior with a curse …

In the tiny village of Somer, far from the city, Cherie knows nothing of the evil spell. Her home is a safe, Magickal place. The Fae travel freely along its roads, Magickal humans and animals are welcome, and everyone is hidden from the Queen’s sight by Jack Frost, the local ghost, who blurs the Queen’s mirror with snow and ice.

But when Jack’s spell begins to crack, the Queen’s eyes fall on Somer. Nothing will keep her from abducting all of Somer’s Magickals, not even a war with the Fae.

To avert a war, save her village–and herself–Cherie strikes a perilous bargain. Aided only by Jack and her own small Magick, she’ll set off on a quest … If she fails, she’ll lose more than her life.

The first two books are retellings of Snow White Rose Red with Urban Magick, plenty of folklore, and a Princess Charming. Perfect for fans of Naomi Novik’s Uprooted and Spinning Silver. Books 3 through 5 are a retelling of Grendel & Beowulf.

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Featured Fantasy: Blood So Red (Urban Magick & Folklore Book 2) by C. Gockel

November 14, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Blood So Red (Urban Magick & Folklore Book 2) by C. Gockel

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Fairy tales often have grisly endings …

Fairy tales don’t always go “by the book,” either. Cherie, the Charming Princess, rescued Jack, her sleeping prince, but she didn’t get her happy ever after. 

Jack is distant, the city is in turmoil, and Cherie’s made new friends, but new enemies, too.

And all the while, the Evil Queen is watching, scheming, and waiting for her chance to strike.

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