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Featured Fantasy: The Seeker’s Shadow by Isadora Brown

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Featured Fantasy: The Seeker's Shadow by Isadora Brown

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The most dangerous being in Wonderland wants Alice, but he won’t tell her why

It’s not because she’s daughter of the police chief – Rumpelstiltskin has his own dark magic he uses to his advantage, especially when the desperate want to make deals with him.

It’s not because she has her own magic – in fact, Alice is the only human in a world of magic, which means she doesn’t have a magical bone in her body.

And it’s not because she’s special – in fact, she has no idea who she is other than the fact that she was adopted by Paul Winter when she was a baby.

She has nothing to offer the Imp – and yet, he makes her an offer: help him uncover the truth behind her best friend’s murder and he’ll help her unlock who she really is.

Alice has no idea how she is supposed to help him and he’s not saying anything either. But she can’t refuse him, even if she wants to. The truth is too important to her – even if it means forcing herself to trust someone as mischievous and as selfish as Rumpelstiltskin himself.

With the grittiness and mystery of Veronica Mars and the magic and romance of Once Upon A Time, The Seeker’s Shadow is a captivating urban fantasy mystery readers are sure to be enchanted by!

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Featured Fantasy & Sci-fi: The United States of Vinland – Four Tales From Norse America by Colin Taber

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Featured Fantasy & Sci-fi: The United States of Vinland - Four Tales From Norse America

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Welcome to Norse America!

In this collection you will find the first four instalments of a grand retelling of history. The beginnings of a glorious saga befitting the Viking age!

The Norse settled Greenland in 985AD and reached continental North America not long after – almost five centuries before Columbus – but left.

What if they had stayed?

Imagine what may have happened, how the world we know might be different…

Would the British still have built their great empire? What of the Spanish, Portuguese and French imperial expansions? 

What about the two catastrophic world wars our timeline has endured?

Would there still have been some kind of American Revolution and Civil War? In such an alternate history, might the American Bible Belt celebrate the All-Father Odin, Freya and Thor instead of Jesus Christ? Indeed, what kind of America could have arisen?

We begin with The Landing as the Norse arrive on the shores of what we know as Canada’s Labrador. From there we will watch the first of them explore, live, love and in some cases fall. In time they will raise halls and found their first settlements as their colonies spread. They will meet other peoples and face great challenges. Bitter winters will come, but they will be followed by hope-filled springs. And all the while the Norse Gods will look upon the work of their mortal followers as a new civilisation grows.

Join me as we explore this amazing alternate history!

This boxed set includes:
United States of Vinland #1: The Landing 
A Short Tale From Norse America #1: Young Ravens & Hidden Blades
United States of Vinland #2: Red Winter 
United States of Vinland #3: Loki’s Rage 

Over 1300 pages of Viking exploration and adventure!

United States of Vinland #4: Odin’s Hall will release in 2019. 

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Featured Fantasy: Royal Factions Box Set Books 1 – 3 by W.J. May

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How do you keep fighting when you’ve already been claimed?

When sixteen-year-old Elise is ripped from her home and taken to the royal palace as a permanent ‘guest’, she thinks her life is over.

Little does she know it has only just begun…

After befriending a group of other captives, including the headstrong Will, Elise finds herself swept away to a world she never knew existed—polished, sculpted, and refined until she can hardly recognize her own reflection. She should be happy to have escaped the poverty of her former life. But she knows a dark truth.

The palace is a dream on the surface, but a nightmare underneath.

With a dwindling population, the royals have imprisoned the teenagers to marry and breed. Only seven days remain of freedom before they will be selected by a courtier and forever claimed.

Danger lurks around every corner. The only chance of escape is death.

But when the day of the claiming finally arrives…the world will never be the same.

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Featured Fantasy: Finding Fae Artifacts by Isa Medina

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Featured Fantasy: Finding Fae Artifacts by Isa Medina

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Dangerous Fae artifacts. Creepy basements. One unfortunate binding spell. What could go wrong?

Joining the Magical Artifacts Institute as an artifact hunter has always been my dream job. Problem is, they keep rejecting my applications. So when I find a dangerous Fae artifact stashed in my temp job’s basement, I know I’m about to prove them wrong.

Unfortunately, the arrogant stranger who interrupts my find doesn’t agree with my good fortune. Aidan belongs to the Institute and insists on following procedure and confiscating my artifact. He’s welcome to try, but there’s one small problem.

Oops, make that two: he’s triggered a binding spell that won’t allow more than a few feet between us, and someone has unleashed a nightmarish Fae hound that’s trying to turn us into lunch.

Now I must break the bond, escape the hound, convince Aidan that I’d be the best Institute worker ever, and figure out who’s willing to kill to get to my artifact. Sounds hard? That’s okay—I might be only one-sixteenth Fae, but I’ve got plenty of tricks up my sleeve.

Finding Fae Artifacts is the first book in the Magical Artifacts Institute series—a fun, fast-paced Urban Fantasy series featuring tricky magic, adventure, and an opposites attract slow burn romance.
A quick read perfect for fans of Annette Marie, Linsey Hall, Helen Harper, R.J. Blain, and K.M. Shea.

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Featured Fantasy : Black as Night by Anthea Sharp

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Featured Fantasy : Black as Night by Anthea Sharp

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One princess. Two realms. And a reckless choice that could destroy kingdoms…

Rose Valrois has escaped the sorcerous red priests and returned to the castle beside the enchanted Darkwood, but her troubles are far from over. Her stepsister, Princess Neeve, is more secretive than ever, and as war threatens, Rose’s mother pushes her toward a political alliance, even as her heart is torn between a heroic prince and the Dark Elf guardian of the forest.

But when Neeve makes a terrible choice, the fate of two kingdoms hangs in the balance. Rose must risk her freedom, her world, and even her heart to save her sister. Can she bear to make that sacrifice? Does she even have the choice?

Book two in the Darkwood Trilogy from USA Today bestselling author Anthea Sharp takes the reader into a lush fairytale blending elements of Snow White and Rose Red with romance, magic, and dangerous secrets that will change the fate of worlds.

Featured Fantasy: Into the Darkwood Trilogy by Anthea Sharp

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Featured Fantasy: Into the Darkwood Trilogy by Anthea Sharp

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Prophecy demands she marry a Dark Elf prince, but Mara Geary refuses to meekly accept her fate.

Danger, adventure, and romance await in the magical forest of the Darkwood, where an intrepid heroine and a warrior prince must learn to trust one another before their kingdom is devoured by an ancient enemy…

A complete epic fantasy trilogy brimming with intrigue, royalty, and fairytale enchantment from USA Today bestselling author Anthea Sharp. Includes: ELFHAME, HAWTHORNE, and RAINE

Mara Geary faces a bleak future in the village of Little Hazel until, on the eve of her seventeenth birthday, strange glowing lights beckon her into the mysterious shadows of the Darkwood. She follows, seeking adventure. What she finds is her destiny…

Prince of the Hawthorne Court, Brannon Luthinor has spent his life becoming a powerful warrior-mage in order to save his people. Now, on the eve of war, his fate is rapidly approaching. Brought together by fate, Bran and Mara forge an uneasy alliance. But in the face of evil, they must find a way to trust their lives – and their hearts – to one another.

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