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Featured Fantasy: Pawsitive Beginnings (A Mystic Notch Cozy Mystery Prequel) by Leighann Dobbs

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Featured Fantasy: Pawsitive Beginnings (A Mystic Notch Cozy Mystery Prequel) by Leighann Dobbs

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Willa Chance has just inherited her grandmothers bookstore… little does she know it comes with a couple of mischievous ghosts and a mystery solving cat!

When a body is found behind her store, Willa finds herself embroiled in a twisty mystery. She can’t help but try to solve it despite the warnings of her sister, Gus, the county Sheriff. Luckily Willa has her senior sleuth bookstore regulars, and the Mystic Notch cats, to help her out!

Enjoy Willa and Pandora’s first adventure in this Mystic Notch prequel!

Featured Fantasy: River Marked (Mercy Thompson Book 6) by Patricia Briggs

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Featured Fantasy: River Marked (Mercy Thompson Book 6) by Patricia Briggs

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Editor’s note: This is the first book in the series that really delves into Native American lore. Coyote, of said lore, appears in this book. I love Coyote.

In the sixth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, coyote shifter Mercy Thompson and Alpha werewolf Adam finally reach the alter. But when they make the Columbia River their honeymoon destination, their newlywed bliss turns into a fight for survival…
 
Being a different breed of shapeshifter—a walker—Mercy can see ghosts, but the spirit of her long-gone father has never visited her. Until now. An evil is stirring in the depths of the Columbia River—and innocent people are dying. As other walkers make their presence known to Mercy, she must reconnect with her heritage to exorcise the world of the legend known as the river devil.

Featured Fantasy: A Shift in Shadows (Lost Legacies Book 1) by Maddox Grey

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Featured Fantasy: A Shift in Shadows (Lost Legacies Book 1) by Maddox Grey

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A wicked feline shifter. A cruel warlock.
And a dark secret that can devour worlds.

A bloody heart. That has been my birthday gift every year from the warlock I once loved. He used me, so I left him. And found the love of my life. We shared a blissful life together until Sebastian destroyed it all with one sweeping declaration.

You will always be mine.

After failing in my attempt to get revenge and barely escaping. I find myself once again starting over with the support of my friends, and trying to let go of the past. When I meet the sweet and adorably innocent local werewolf, Andrei, I think I might finally have a real shot at finding happiness again. I should have known better.

Sebastian has found me and he’ll do what he always does—hurt those I love. But I have a secret. The dark magic I keep chained deep within my soul is a weapon just waiting to be unleashed. I could finally claim my revenge and protect everyone important to me. But my kind of magic is forbidden. And the price for using it may be my life.

A Shift in Shadows is Book One of the urban fantasy series Lost Legacies. If you enjoy urban fantasy vibes set in an expansive world full of snarky morally grey characters, all the found family, and a slow burning romance subplot that plays out over several books, don’t miss out on this series!

Featured Fantasy: Faelorehn (The Otherworld Series Book 1) by Jenna Elizabeth Johnson

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Featured Fantasy: Faelorehn (The Otherworld Series Book 1) by Jenna Elizabeth Johnson

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Haunted by eerie visions. Guarded by a captivating stranger. Hunted by a vengeful goddess. And that’s just the start of Meghan’s troubles with the fae …

I never heard him come after me and even as I climbed the slope and stumbled onto our shaded back lawn, I didn’t look back. I was either saving myself from that serial killer I always imagined lived down in the swamp, or I had finally gone over the deep end.

Meghan Elam has been strange her entire life. Her eyes have this odd habit of changing color and she sees and hears things no one else can. On the eve of her seventeenth birthday, the visions and voices in her head grow worse, making her believe she’s lost her mind. That is, until the captivating Cade MacRoich arrives with an explanation of his own.

Cade brings Meghan news of Eile, an enchanted Celtic realm brimming with ancient magic, a world where whispering spirits exist in the very earth, and a place where Meghan just might find the answers she has always sought.

Celtic lore blends beautifully with the modern world in this dark, young adult paranormal romance fae fantasy series. One-click to start reading today!

Featured Fantasy: Unnatural Magic by C.M. Waggoner

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Featured Fantasy: Unnatural Magic by C.M. Waggoner

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A “brilliant and terrifically fun”* debut novel brings an enchanting new voice to fantasy.
 
Onna can write the parameters of a spell faster than any of the young men in her village school. But despite her incredible abilities, she’s denied a place at the nation’s premier arcane academy. Undaunted, she sails to the bustling city-state of Hexos, hoping to find a place at a university where they don’t think there’s anything untoward about providing a woman with a magical education. But as soon as Onna arrives, she’s drawn into the mysterious murder of four trolls.
 
Tsira is a troll who never quite fit into her clan, despite being the leader’s daughter. She decides to strike out on her own and look for work in a human city, but on her way she stumbles upon the body of a half-dead human soldier in the snow. As she slowly nurses him back to health, an unlikely bond forms between them, one that is tested when an unknown mage makes an attempt on Tsira’s life. Soon, unbeknownst to each other, Onna and Tsira both begin devoting their considerable talents to finding out who is targeting trolls, before their homeland is torn apart…

 
*Kat Howard, Alex Award-winning author of An Unkindness of Magicians

Featured Fantasy: Only Mostly Dead (Afterlife Incorporated Book 1) by Alli Temple

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Featured Fantasy: Only Mostly Dead (Afterlife Incorporated Book 1) by Alli Temple

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No one tells you how much paperwork there is after you die.

I expected to wake up on a cloud where angels played harps and fed me grapes. Instead, I’m a ghost stuck in suburban Toronto. The only one who can see me is an unemployed grim reaper who’d rather play video games.

Turns out the business of dying is a train wreck. But if there was ever a girl boss who could get it back on track, it’s me. All I need is a little help from my new undead roommate, whether they want to be involved or not.

Nothing at Afterlife Incorporated moves quickly and if I don’t find a way out soon there won’t be anything left of me to cross over. They say death can be easy, but being only mostly dead sucks.

Only Mostly Dead is the first installment in the Afterlife Incorporated urban fantasy trilogy. It features a slow—so slow—burn romance that may take several books to resolve. Be patient. Death is coming…eventually.