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Featured Fantasy: The Affiliate by K.A. Linde

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Featured Fantasy: The Affiliate by K.A. Linde

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The first book in the fantasy Ascension series that NYT bestselling author Susan Dennard called “perfect for fans of Sarah J Maas.”

On the day of her Presenting, in front of the entire Byern Court, seventeen-year-old Cyrene Strohm’s lifelong plans come to fruition when she’s chosen for one of the most prestigious positions in her homeland–an Affiliate to the Queen.

Or so she thinks.

When Cyrene receives a mysterious letter and an unreadable book, she finds nothing is as it seems. Thrust into a world of dangerous political intrigue and deadly magic, Cyrene’s position only grows more treacherous when she finds herself drawn to the one man she can never have…

King Edric himself.

Cyrene must decide if love is truly worth the price of freedom.

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Featured Fantasy: String Magic by Sarah K. L. Wilson

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Featured Fantasy: String Magic by Sarah K. L. Wilson


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SHE HAS RENEGADE MAGIC – AND THAT WILL COST HER EVERYTHING.

Aella is the most relentless, determined seventeen-year-old in the Winged Empire’s newest settlement so of course when she manifests magic, it’s a renegade kind – the kind that gets people killed if they aren’t careful.

The only thing that seventeen-year-old Aella ever wanted was to keep raising horses with her sprawling family on the frontier of the Winged Empire.

But when the Winged Empire tests for magic, they’re looking for spirit-birds and Aella doesn’t manifest a spirit-bird – she manifests bees. An angry swarm of bees to be precise.

Furious at her aberration, the Empire snatches her from her home, ransacks her town, and draws her into a world that she hates to her very core.

Until a mysterious revolutionary offers her a deal that could change everything.

Now, Aella must choose – learn to use her new magic to save her family and the entire continent or submit to the Winged Empire and watch everything she loves crumble.

Empire of War and Wings is a dramatic, fast-paced, young adult fantasy series by USA TODAY bestselling author Sarah K. L. Wilson, featuring sweeping battles, tantalizing magic, sweet romance, and an epic fantasy story that will compel you to keep reading to the very last word. Start the adventure today!

Featured Fantasy: Auntie Mags (Maggie MacKay Magical Tracker Book 12) by Kate Danley

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Featured Fantasy: Auntie Mags (Maggie MacKay Magical Tracker Book 12) by Kate Danley

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Maggie’s a now an auntie and ready to show this new nugget all the awesomeness of being a World Walker. But when the child is kidnapped as part of an ancient prophecy, Maggie and Killian must save the kid before nap time means a permanent sleep. The creatures of the Other Side are about to get a hands-on lesson in why you don’t mess with the MacKay girls.

Auntie Mags is Book Twelve in the Maggie MacKay: Magical Tracker series.

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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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