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Featured Fantasy: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

March 11, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

$2.99 as of March 7, 2025
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Editors Note: A lovely imaginative book.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Two starcrossed magicians engage in a deadly game of cunning in the spellbinding novel that captured the world’s imagination. • “Part love story, part fable … defies both genres and expectations.” —The Boston Globe

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.

But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

Featured Fantasy: Afterlife Calls Book 1 – 3 by K.C. Adams

March 11, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Afterlife Calls Book 1 by K.C. Adams

Start the Series for FREE—Book 2 & Book 3 $2.99 Each
as of March 11, 2025
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One mother. One daughter. One haunted town.

Niamh

Widow. Divorcee. Mother.

Retired ghost hunter.

Something has just unleashed dozens of 200-year-old ghosts on my hometown. And my seventeen-year-old daughter wants to be the one to solve the mystery. Isn’t that just great?

Little does she know that a ghost killed her dad. Which is why I really, really don’t want either of us to go near them ever again.

But, of course, she’s my daughter. Stubbornness runs in the family.

So does ghost hunting. If I don’t look into the ghosts haunting the town, I’ll never be able to live with myself if someone else gets hurt.

But how can I when I’m terrified they’ll hurt my family again?

Edie
I never signed up to be a ghost hunter. I was born one.

But my mum won’t let me do it. Which means I can see ghosts, but I can’t actually do anything.

I can’t help them. I can’t help the people they haunt. And, if she had her way, I wouldn’t event talk to them. Ugh.

What’s the point in having magic if you can’t even use it?

I need to prove to Mum, once and for all, that I can do this. The question is, how?

Discover a whole new world of ghosts, magic, and romance in The Ghost’s Call, the first book in a new mother/daughter fantasy series. It’s a little bit spooky, sprinkled with romance, and seriously sarcastic. Perfect for fans of Charmed, Supernatural, Ghost Whisperer, and Lost Girl.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Afterlife Calls, K.C. Adams, The Ghost's Call, The Mummy's Curse, The Necromancer's Secret

Featured Fantasy: Heartless (Athena Ellison Book 1) by Jocelyn Fox

March 10, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Heartless (Athena  Ellison Book 1) by Jocelyn Fox

FREE as of March 10, 2025
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“An adventure-filled tale of love and magic with a strong central relationship…Fox populates this fantasy tale with a bright cast of characters who ably bring the story to life. “– Kirkus Reviews (Indie)

In the hidden magical Secondworld, the cauldron is about to boil over with intrigue.

Mage bounty hunter Athena enthusiastically slaps her hex cuffs on handsome homicide suspect Kellan Mordigan, only to become the hunted as a necromancer who literally stole Kellan’s heart looks to finish the job and smash the patriarchy while she’s at it…


Athena Ellison, a powerful young mage who spurns her family’s old-money expectations to become a bounty hunter, has a geomancer’s talent for finding things—but sometimes the things that find her first have teeth and a thirst for magical blood. She captures Kellan Mordigan, a mage who’s the main suspect in a triple homicide; and as a bonus, the Mordigans and the Ellisons have been feuding for about a century. But right after Athena tracks Mordigan to a coffee shop and arrests him, they’re attacked by a group of revenants, and even Athena’s supernatural fighting skills barely get them out alive. As much as Athena wants to believe the worst of Mordigan, she’s drawn into the quest to uncover the truth behind the Council’s actions. Amid monsters and mayhem and with Mordigan in tow, Athena must put together a plan to defeat a necromancer who has made a literal deal with the devil and evade the tightening net of the Council’s warrant, all while preserving the secrets of the Secondworld and keeping her world-ending power under control…

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Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Athena Ellison, Heartless, Jocelyn A. Fox

Featured Fantasy: Crow Investigations Books 1 & 2 by Sarah Painter

March 8, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Crow Investigations Books 1 & 2 by Sarah Painter

99¢ as of March 8, 2025
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Discover the new star of magical London with the first two books in the bestselling Crow Investigations urban fantasy mystery series.

Omnibus edition includes: The Night Raven and The Silver Mark

The Night Raven: Meet Lydia Crow…

Lydia has always known she has no power, especially next to her infamous and more-than-slightly dodgy family. Which is why she carved her own life as a private investigator far away from London.

When a professional blunder forces her home, the head of the family calls in a favour, and Lydia finds herself investigating the disappearance of her cousin, Maddie.

Soon, Lydia is neck-deep in problems: her new flatmate is a homicidal ghost, the intriguing, but forbidden, DCI Fleet is acting in a distinctly unprofessional manner, and tensions between the old magical families are rising.

  • The Crows used to rule the roost and rumours claim they are still the strongest.
  • The Silvers have a facility for lying and they run the finest law firm in London.
  • The Pearl family were costermongers and everybody knows that a Pearlie can sell feathers to a bird.
  • The Fox family… Well. The less said about the Fox family the better.

For seventy-five years, a truce between the four families has held strong, but could the disappearance of Maddie Crow be the thing to break it?

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Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Crow Investigations, Sarah Painter

Featured Fantasy: The Scarlet Alchemist by Kylie Lee Baker

March 4, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: The Scarlet Alchemist by Kylie Lee Baker

$1.99 as of March 4, 2025
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“A dark and glittering jewel of a book.” —Judy I. Lin, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of A Magic Steeped in Poison

“Visceral to the core.” —Chloe Gong, 
New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights

New from the author of The Keeper of Night comes a YA fantasy duology set in an alternate Tang Dynasty China, where a poor biracial girl with the ability to raise the dead gets caught up in the dangerous political games of the royal family.

Zilan dreams of becoming a royal alchemist, of providing for her family by making alchemical gold and gems for the wealthy to eat in order to stay young forever. But for now, she’s trapped in her impoverished village in southern China, practicing an illegal form of alchemy to keep food on the table—resurrecting the dead, for a price.

When Zilan finally has the chance to complete her imperial exams, she ventures to the capital to compete against the best alchemists in the country in tasks she’ll be lucky to survive, let alone pass. On top of that, her reputation for raising the dead has followed her to the capital, and the Crown Prince himself seeks out her help, suspecting a coming assassination attempt.

The more Zilan succeeds in her alchemy, the more she gets caught in the dangerous political games of the royal family. There are monsters lurking within the palace walls, and it’s only a matter of time before they—and secrets of Zilan’s past—catch up with her.

Don’t miss the Keeper of Night duology!
The Keeper of Night
The Empress of Time

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Keeper of Night, Kylie Lee Baker, The Scarlet Alchemist

Featured Fantasy: Witchy Awakening (Midlife Potions) by C. A. Phipps

March 3, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Witchy Awakening (Midlife Potions) by C. A. Phipps

FREE as of March 3, 2025
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Discovering you’re a witch because your cat talks to you isn’t as fun as it sounds.

After the sudden death of her mother, Jessica Lavender’s mediocre life as a baker takes an unexpected turn.
Forced to return to her home town to run her mom’s store, she must learn to harness her magical abilities while dealing with nosy neighbors.

If that wasn’t enough, her snarky familiar insists she unearth and solve the suspicious death of the body in her garden!

Good Fortune is no longer the boring little town she thought it was and midlife crisis takes on a whole new meaning.

This paranormal cozy mystery will have you questioning everything you thought you knew about magic and murder.

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Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: C. A. Phipps, Midlife Potions Cozy Mysteries, Witchy Awakening

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