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Featured Fantasy: Witching Hour Books 1 – 3 by Christine Zane Thomas

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Featured Fantasy: Witching Hour Books 1 - 3 by Christine Zane Thomas

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A powerful heroine over forty.

On the eve of her 40th birthday, Constance leaves her old life behind. She moves in with her odd grandmother in Creel Creek, Virginia… but nothing is as it seems.

Under the sleepy surface, the small town is teeming with supernatural beings. Constance discovers she comes from a long line of witches. And on the day she hits the big 4-0, she’ll come into her powers.

When she finds the town’s resident vampire dead, things go from surreal to scary. The local sheriff is convinced that a killer is lurking in the shadows, hunting anyone with supernatural abilities…including witches like her.

Read this page-turning mystery and two more full-length stories as Constance proves you can find your power at any age.

This boxed set includes:
Midlife Curses
Never Been Hexed
Must Love Charms

Featured Fantasy: The Spirit Girls (A Rylan Flynn Mystery Book 1) by Dawn Merriman

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Featured Fantasy: The Spirit Girls (A Rylan Flynn Mystery Book 1) by Dawn Merriman

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“OH MY GOD! I have found my new addiction! I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS BOOK!!… I was hooked… I am just buzzing from this!” Zooloo’s Book Diary

I’m Rylan Flynn. I hunt for ghosts and restless spirits, and solve the mysteries that make them haunt the living.

I’ve learned to live with my “gift” but sometimes I long to escape. My aunt’s cabin, deep in the woods, is usually peaceful. But this time I can feel that something is different.

The ghost of a young woman approaches through the trees. She leads me to her body, then vanishes into thin air. With a flood of horror I realize she was murdered.

A killer is at work and my abilities could be the only way to prevent further deaths. But handsome Detective Ford Pierce makes it very clear he doesn’t want my help.

And any unexplained knowledge of the case could make me the perfect suspect.

When another body is discovered and blood at the scene points to my family, I race against time to untangle a web of dark secrets. But can I find answers before the killer claims another victim?

A heart-pounding mystery with a touch of romance, The Spirit Girls begins a new series of paranormal thrillers that are impossible to put down. If you love urban fantasy or psychic thrillers by Heather Graham and Wendy Wang, this book will grab you from the first page and never let go.

Featured Fantasy: Rune of Thorns (Enchanted Shadows Book 2) by Kelly N. Jane

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Featured Fantasy: Rune of Thorns (Enchanted Shadows Book 2) by Kelly N. Jane

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For readers who love epic fantasy with prophecy, fae magic, and political intrigue, where duty clashes with desire, and fate is never what it seems. Fans of Wheel of Time, The Queen’s Rising, and The Realm of the Elderlings will feel right at home.

Vengeance has its cost. Now, Rowena must pay.

Haunted by the weight of her loss, Rowena’s path to redemption is anything but clear. A web of deception tears Rowena from Bram’s side, forcing her to learn that trust is as fragile as the throne she lost. No one is beyond suspicion—not even the man who swore to stand by her.

Bram’s secret has been exposed. And now, it may cost him everything.

The governing druids summoned Bram to answer for his actions, forcing his return to a homeland he barely recognizes. What he uncovers shatters his beliefs, leaving him at a crossroads: upholding his sacred duty or following a path that risks unraveling everything he’s fighting for.

The fate of the realm hangs in the balance, but for Rowena and Bram, the most significant battle lies within. They must confront their deepest fears, challenge their loyalties, and decide whether the love they have found is worth the cost of duty.

Because saving the world may require sacrificing what they need most—each other.

Featured Fantasy: Hedgewitch for Hire by Christine Pope

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Featured Fantasy: Hedgewitch for Hire by Christine Pope

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When you pull up stakes, make sure you don’t get stabbed in the back.

Self-taught in the arcane arts, hedgewitch Selena Marx is comfortable doing divination for West Los Angeles’ anxiety-ridden housewives, lawyers, and aspiring actresses. Her biggest challenge? Avoiding Lucien Dumond, leader of the Greater Los Angeles Necromancers’ Guild, who views her as fresh meat to add to his harem of slavishly devoted groupies.

Selena’s not interested in the slimy, celebrity-schmoozing sorcerer, but nobody turns Lucien down without consequences. When he threatens to fit her with magical cement shoes and drop her off the Santa Monica Pier, Selena’s Tarot cards point her to Globe, Arizona, for a new home, a new shop, and a cursed pet cat.

Just as she’s settling in and meeting the locals — including Calvin Standingbear, hunky chief of the San Ramon Apache tribal police — Lucien tracks her down…and promptly disappears. When his body turns up on tribal lands, it’s up to Calvin to investigate. Starting with Selena.

And when one of Lucien’s acolytes is killed, traces of dark magic and cryptic warnings from the spirits send Selena and Calvin in a race against time — before a too-close-for-comfort evil cuts her own life short.

The Hedgewitch for Hire series will continue with book 2, Social Medium, releasing on March 31, 2021. The romance subplot will stretch over the entire series, while each novel will be a self-contained mystery without a cliffhanger.

Featured Fantasy: Prophecy of the Forgotten Fae Complete Series by Tessonja Odette

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Featured Fantasy: Prophecy of the Forgotten Fae Complete Series by Tessonja Odette

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This COMPLETE SERIES COLLECTION includes all three books in the trilogy in a single volume: A Throne of Shadows, A Cage of Crystal, and A Fate of Flame.

A feisty outlaw.
A conniving prince.
A war of magic and shadows.

Wanted by the crown for a murder she didn’t commit, Cora dreams of getting revenge on the mage who framed her. In the meantime, she hides in the forest and hones her witch magic. But when she discovers her enemy’s violent hunt for rare and endangered unicorns, she forms a plan for vengeance.

Prince Teryn, heir to a bankrupt throne, will do anything to keep his country from sinking into ruin. When he meets an outlawed witch wanted by a neighboring kingdom, he gets his chance. The woman has an impressive bounty on her head, one that could pay off his kingdom’s debts.

If Teryn can help Cora save a few magical creatures, he can gain her trust, hand her over to her king, and collect the bounty. But Cora has plans of her own, and none of them include being betrayed by her handsome new traveling companion.

The closer Cora and Teryn get to their desires, the harder their tasks become. And it isn’t just their budding attraction that’s the problem. A secret war is coming, one stemming from ancient feuds and forgotten fae magic. They must work together to stop it, or else both their kingdoms will crumble to ash.

PROPHECY OF THE FORGOTTEN FAE is perfect for fans of Throne of Glass, Air Awakens,andShadow and Bone. If you like fierce witches, a sassy unicorn familiar, and a slow burn enemies-to-allies-to-lovers romance that spans all three books, then you’ll love this epic romantic fantasy tale.

PROPHECY OF THE FORGOTTEN FAE is an upper YA/NA fantasy that contains moderate violence/gore and adult situations. The romance is sloooow burn, leading to open-door mildly steamy scenes in the third book.

Featured Fantasy: Fated to the Frost King (Frostbound Court Book 1) by Robin D. Mahle & Elle Madison

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Featured Fantasy: Fated to the Frost King (Frostbound Court Book 1) by Robin D. Mahle & Elle Madison

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A brutal Frost King. A bastard fae bride. A bond neither of them wanted.

Everly Elarion never asked to be chosen. A bastard with a dangerous lineage, she’s spent her life surviving in the shadows of powerful men. Now she’s being forced to marry one.

Draven Ashwynter, the Frostgrave King, rules the Winter Court with an iron will and a heart carved from ice. Just when the kingdom teeters on the edge of ruin, the Court’s Visionary comes forth with a solution: the king’s fated mate has been found.

He’s meant to receive a match to his power. An equal. Instead, he gets Everly. She’s illegitimate, defiant, and the last woman who would ever kneel to a king.

She doesn’t trust him. He doesn’t want her. But fate never asked their permission.

As enemies close in and old magics stir beneath the ice, their cold alliance begins to thaw into something far more dangerous than desire. Because in a court ruled by frost and blood, love isn’t just a weakness.

It’s a weapon.

And when war comes for the court, it may not be the kingdom that shatters first.

Fated to the Frost King is a slow burn, enemies-to-lovers romantasy, perfect for fans of Shield of Sparrows, Carissa Broadbent, and Sarah J. Maas.