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Featured Fantasy: A Thief in Fashore (The Farshore Chronicles, Book 1) by Justin Fike

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I’m Charity, and before I saved the world I was just a common thief.Also a drunk, rabble-rouser, harlot, and blasphemer according to the magistrate who sentenced me to ten years of forced labor in Farshore, the emperor’s new colony across the great sea. You’d think that stepping off of a prison ship on the ass-end of the world was bad enough, but everyone in Byzantia has heard the stories…

The pioneers who first settled this strange new world discovered horrible monsters, wild magic, and mythic creatures in the hills and forests beyond the city walls. Turns out all those nasties we didn’t believe in were waiting on the far side of the world to eat us for lunch.

A smarter girl than me would have kept her head down until she figured out which end was up. But how did I spend my first day in Farshore? Assaulted the governor, offended the gods, and got myself sentenced to fight in the bloody games of the arena before sundown.

I survived Byzantia’s tangled streets by thinking fast, running faster, and never letting anyone get too close. But I soon realized that I was going to have to do the one thing I’d sworn I’d never to again if I wanted to survive long enough to make it home…trust someone.

Featured Fantasy: Emerge (Immortals of Indriell Book 1) by Melissa A. Craven

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Allie Carmichael has never fit in. People don’t like her. They don’t want to be near her. They don’t want to touch her. It’s one of the many things about her life that just doesn’t add up.
But there are a few things she knows for certain.

  1. Moving across the world in the dead of night is not normal.
  2. Her new friends might know more about her than she knows about herself.
  3. Aidan McBrien is the most insufferable flirt she’s ever met … but she can’t stay away from him.

When Allie awakens to an excruciating pain she doesn’t understand, a latent Immortal power emerges within her, nearly killing her. Now the secrets and lies have fallen away, and she is no longer the awkward, uncertain girl she once was.
She is Immortal.
One of the two most powerful of her generation. Yet death still stalks her at every turn.
With Aidan standing beside her as her equal in power, the task is simple.
Learn to fight.
Hide in plain sight.
Don’t fall in love.

There are dangerous powers at play in Allie’s life, but is death truly a threat to an Immortal?

Don’t miss the chance to be swept away by this highly original, dark and gritty tale of Immortality and fated romance, sure to take readers on an epic journey they won’t soon forget.

Featured Fantasy: Anakisha’s Dragon, Dragon Mage, Dragon Pirate (Riders of Fire Dragon Masters Collections Books 1-3) by Eileen Mueller

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Powerful new players threaten Dragons’ Realm…

The last thing Yanir, the King’s Rider, expects when he visits Fieldhaven on his onyx dragon is an unconscious woman in his arms after midnight. A dragon rider’s life is unpredictable. But then again, so is this girl, Anakisha.
Despite the sparks that fly between them, Anakisha’s not interested in dragons—or him.

Or is she? Yanir has bigger things to worry about. A powerful young dragon mage is rising through the ranks, causing senior mages to hatch assassination plots across Dragons’ Realm.

Another threat is on the horizon as a bloodthirsty new pirate captain and his vengeful sea dragon terrorize the Naobian Sea.
The lives of dragons, dragon riders and hundreds of innocents are at stake. Mages, dragon riders and warriors must unite to battle the pirates.

Their bloody clashes will ripple through Dragons’ Realm for generations.

And unbeknown to Yanir, a lethal enemy from another world will soon rip Dragon’s Realm apart.

Soar on dragon back with the Riders of Fire Dragon Masters wild adrenaline ride.Courageous dragon riders, nail-biting action, dangerous mages, swashbuckling pirates and snarky dragons.

Great for readers of Fourth Wing, Eragon, Dragon School and Dragon Riders of Pern.

Featured Fantasy: Aerisia: Land Beyond the Sunset: A romantic portal fantasy adventure (The Sunset Lands Beyond Series Book 1) by Sarah Ashwood

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An entire world is in danger, and I’m supposed to save it. Only…it’s not my world.

Before saving another realm, she must learn to save herself.

Hannah’s college plans didn’t include becoming the savior of a parallel world and getting tangled up with an immortal warrior…. The mystery of other worlds is not one Hannah Winters ever dreamed she’d solve. She also never counted on meeting an elderly stranger bearing an enchanted moonstone during her evening run, a stranger claiming to have crossed from another world in search of that realm’s promised deliverer. Her.

Protests have no sway with the visitor, and Hannah finds herself transported to Aerisia, a mysterious land beyond Earth’s sunsets. Here, Hannah is believed to be the Artan, a legendary heroine prophesied to oppose the dreaded Dark Powers. Majestic fairies, the immortal Simathe, and the peaceful Moonkind are all willing to help her discover her true identity, but Hannah’s just an ordinary college student from Earth. She doesn’t have any latent magical abilities and she’s not the Artan.

Unfortunately, her allies aren’t seeing it that way. Neither are her enemies. In fact, Hannah’s life is in jeopardy from the moment she arrives in Aerisia, which means becoming the Artan may be the only way to survive….

An epic portal fantasy adventure with original races, familiar fairy tale creatures, plenty of twists and turns, lots of action, and slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance. Suitable for Young Adult, New Adult, and adult readers. Welcome to Aerisia! Begin your journey today.

Featured Fantasy: Perfect Pending (Witches of Gales Haven Book 1) by Lucía Ashta

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Featured Fantasy: Perfect Pending (Witches of Gales Haven Book 1) by Lucía Ashta

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Second chances are as good as any spell, and she’s not passing this one up.

Gales Haven is a small town hidden from the rest of the world. For centuries, it’s been a refuge for those with magic. It’s where witches and wizards can let their eccentricities hang loose.

Years after leaving home, Marla is coming back with her tail tucked between her legs. Her two teenage children are sparking with their emerging powers, and as the only dud in a family of remarkable mages, she can’t help them.

When Marla returns, her family welcomes her with open arms. Her grandmother and three aunts are wild, loud-mouthed, and brazen. They’re also powerhouses not to be messed with. No matter what, family always has your back.

Finally, Marla is where she belongs. And when her first love is possibly interested in picking up where they left off, even when she disappeared without a forwarding address, well, Marla only wishes she came back sooner.

Even when the trouble starts, and the spell that has protected the town all these years goes on the fritz, there’s nowhere Marla would rather be. That is, until she starts hearing a little hedgehog sassing her, anyhow…

Perfect Pending is a humorous Paranormal Women’s Fiction fantasy. If you love snarky stories with women so empowered they’re a force to be reckoned with, then you’ll love the Witches of Gales Haven series.

Featured Fantasy: Shadow’s Edge (Kyn Kronicles Book 1) by Jami Gray

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Featured Fantasy: Shadow's Edge (Kyn Kronicles Book 1) by Jami Gray

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Raine’s spent a lifetime hunting monsters, but can she stop her prey from exposing the supernatural community one bloody corpse at a time?

Everyone fears the hunter in the shadows – even the monsters…

Raine McCord, forged in the brutal maelstrom of magic and science, is an elite hunter at home hunting monsters through the murky shadows of the supernatural world of the Kyn. Not an easy task when you’re trying to keep the humans ignorant of the existence of creatures typically confined to campfire tales. And gets worse when a series of disappearances and deaths in the Kyn community suggests someone wants to rip the thin veil of secrecy aside and expose the horror lurking behind the curtain.

To even the odds, Raine is forced to partner with another hunter, the sexy and tantalizing Witch-Fey, Gavin Durand. Their partnership proves to be as challenging and dangerous as the prey they hunt. Especially when the trail leads back to the foundation that warped Raine’s magic as a child and threatens to resurrect the nightmares of her past.

Determine to stop the threat to the Kyn, Raine and Gavin stalk their prey through a maze of lies, murder, and greed, but will the price they pay be too high?

If you like fast-paced, suspense-filled, dark urban fantasy with a thrilling edge, then grab your copy of Jami Gray’s riveting SHADOW’S EDGE, the first in her Kyn Kronicles series.

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