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Featured Fantasy: The Demon Overlord’s Retirement Plan (A Gentle Apocalypse Book 1) by M. H. Foster

October 25, 2026 by Carolynn

The Demon Overlord’s Retirement Plan by M. H. Foster

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A USA Today Bestseller

The Demon Overlord retires to farm turnips in peace, only to find small village life more chaotic than he ever could have anticipated.

“A wonderful romp with a Dark Lord who gets a taste for Pratchett-esque small town living, assisted (kind of) by a floofy hellhound and a devious goat. Lots of fun!” —Django Wexler, author of How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying

Galornus Prime was the Demon Overlord. He had defeated the Hero and done everything worth doing—some of it more than once.

His retirement plan was simple: get a goat, farm quietly in the small town of Lower Middleton, and avoid accidentally conquering anything. The plan didn’t include soul-crushing town halls, after-school combat lessons with children, and an undergarment-based war with the rose-growing widow next door.

When corrupt officials and greedy merchants threaten his infuriatingly loveable neighbors, Galornus faces a new kind of challenge: saving the village without revealing he is the monster parents invoke to make children eat their vegetables.

The Demon Overlord’s Retirement Plan is a cozy fantasy with teeth, where the hardest battle isn’t defeating heroes—it’s staying retired and learning how to live after 444 lifetimes of villainy.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: A Gentle Apocalypse, M. H. Foster, The Demon Overlord’s Retirement Plan

Featured Fantasy: Murder Any Witch Way (Brimstone Bay Book 1) by N. M. Howell

October 24, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Murder Any Witch Way (Brimstone Bay Book 1) by N. M. Howell

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Welcome to Brimstone Bay—where the coffee’s strong, the gossip’s stronger, and the witches try not to burn the town down.

Fresh out of journalism school, River Halloway thought a sleepy coastal town would be the perfect place to launch her career—and hide her magical identity. But when a traveling Shadow Festival arrives and a body turns up behind the boardwalk, River is pulled into a mystery with more secrets than the town library.

Armed with coffee, charm, and questionable spells, River must find the killer before her own secrets rise from the grave.

If you love small-town charm, quirky witchy housemates, and mysteries with a magical twist, you’ll adore this paranormal cozy mystery series. Start reading Murder Any Witch Way today—and fall under the spell of Brimstone Bay.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Brimstone Bay, Murder Any Witch Way, N.M. Howell

Featured Fantasy: Forever Charmed (The Halloween LaVeau Series) by Rose Pressey Betancourt

October 24, 2026 by Carolynn

Forever Charmed by Rose Pressey Betancourt

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Halloween LaVeau is descended from a long line of witches. Yes, her name is Halloween. The cosmic universe is definitely playing some kind of sick joke on her. She’s the ultimate witch cliché, complete with a black cat and spooky house. Thank heavens she’s missing the warts and flying broom.

When Halloween inherits her great-aunt’s manor, she decides to put the house to good use as a bed-and-breakfast. Her first guest is the sinfully good-looking Nicolas Marcos, but he’s not here for the continental breakfast. Halloween discovers a ratty old book in the attic. It’s written in an unfamiliar language.

Halloween soon learns this is not an ordinary spellbook. The tome brings her a new talent, but her new skills come with a catch. When a rival witch comes after the book, Halloween doesn’t know who to trust—the sexy vampire who says he wants to save the day, or the warlock who says he can destroy the book once and for all.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Forever Charmed, Rose Pressey Betancourt, The Halloween LaVeau Series

Featured Fantasy: Death Before Dragons Books 1 – 3 by Lindsay Buroker

October 24, 2026 by Carolynn

Death Before Dragons Books 1 - 3 by Lindsay Buroker

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I’m Val Thorvald, and I kill bad guys for a living.

My half-elven blood, magical sword, and telepathic tiger give me an edge, at least against most villains. But when dragons show up in Seattle, the city is in serious trouble—and so am I. Dragons are bigger, stronger, and more powerful than anything I’ve battled, and they don’t appreciate it when you sass them.

Just ask Lord Zavryd’nokquetal. That’s a name, not a cat hacking up a hairball, and if you mispronounce it, he’ll either insult you, incinerate you, or throw your Jeep up in a tree. Trust me, I know.

Unfortunately, he’s taken an interest in me. Not in the “half-elves are sexy and appealing and I need a new girlfriend” kind of way. Nope, he wants to use me. He’s on a mission, and he’s decided I’ll make the perfect bait to lure his enemies to him.

That’s about as good for your longevity as it sounds, and I’d love to decline the gig, but dragons can magically coerce people into doing their bidding. If I can’t figure out how to get him to leave me alone, I’ll either end up his servant for the rest of my life… or dead. And who’s going to protect Seattle then?

This bundle includes the first three novels in the Death Before Dragons urban fantasy series:

Sinister Magic
Battle Bond
Tangled Truths


Death Before Dragons features adventure, snark, and even a little romance. The series is now complete and perfect for those who enjoy binge reading!

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Death Before Dragons, Lindsay Buroker

Featured Fantasy: Dead to Rites (Last Call Book 1) by Christine Pope

October 21, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Dead to Rites (Last Call Book 1) by Christine Pope

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She inherited a haunted house, a Whiskey Row wine bar, and the ability to see ghosts. Then someone got murdered in her men’s room.

Designer Lorelei Cosgrove was perfectly content drifting in Scottsdale — mourning her parents, running a small Etsy shop, and not particularly interested in being responsible for anything more demanding than her own takeout order. Then her great-aunt Hazel passed away and left her a Victorian house in Prescott, a wine/beer/mead bar called Copper State Cellars, and one stubborn stipulation: live there and run the bar, or lose it all.

A near-fatal reaction to a bee sting on Lorelei’s first afternoon in town wakes up a latent Cosgrove family gift — one Hazel apparently forgot to mention. The Victorian’s most prominent resident is Hazel herself, still wearing her twin sets, still bossy as ever, and apparently not too worried about being dead. Then there’s the 1920s Prohibition-era federal agent who haunts Copper State Cellars and calls Lorelei “doll” and the murdered priest who turns up dead in the men’s room — and immediately starts haunting it himself, unable to remember anything about who killed him…or why.

With a local police detective eyeing her as a suspect, a defrocked priest turned bookstore owner she can’t quite figure out, and a local parish where every suspect has a secret worth hiding, Lorelei has to learn the rules of her new gift on the fly. Because ghosts can witness. They can warn. They can mislead.

But what they can’t do is solve the case for her.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Christine Pope, Dead to Rites, Last Call

Featured Fantasy: Assassin’s Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy Book 1) by Robin Hobb

October 21, 2026 by Carolynn

Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb

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A gorgeously illustrated anniversary edition of the book that launched the epic Farseer Trilogy, praised by George R. R. Martin as “fantasy as it ought to be written” and Lin-Manuel Miranda as “an incredible series,” featuring a new foreword by Robin Hobb and ten illustrations.

Twenty-five years ago, Robin Hobb’s first novel featuring FitzChivalry Farseer and his mysterious, often maddening friend the Fool struck like a bolt of brilliant lightning. Thus began a beloved saga spanning multiple series, full of adventure, magic, and sinister plots. To celebrate a quarter-century of wonder, this special edition presents a modern classic as it’s never been seen before, with ten beautiful illustrations by Magali Villeneuve.

Young Fitz is the bastard son of the noble Prince Chivalry, raised in the shadow of the royal court by his father’s gruff stableman. He is treated as an outcast by all the royalty except the devious King Shrewd, who has him secretly tutored in the arts of the assassin. For in Fitz’s blood runs the magic Skill—and the darker knowledge of a child raised with the stable hounds and rejected by his family.

As barbarous raiders ravage the coasts, Fitz is growing to manhood. Soon he will face his first dangerous, soul-shattering mission. And though some regard him as a threat to the throne, he may just be the key to the survival of the kingdom.

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Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Assassin’s Apprentice, Farseer Trilogy, Robin Hobb

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