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Featured Fantasy: The Prince’s Man (The Five Kingdoms) by Deborah Jay

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Featured Fantasy: The Prince's Man (The Five Kingdoms) by Deborah Jay

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What if the magic that could save your loved ones condemns you to death?

Rakish royal spy, Rustam Chalice, loves his life the way it is, so when the kingdom he serves is threatened from within, he leaps into action. To his dismay the spymaster prince teams him up with an untouchable aristocratic assassin. And to make matters worse, she’s the most beautiful woman in the Five Kingdoms.

Plunged into a desperate journey over the mountains, the mismatched pair struggle to survive deadly wildlife, the machinations of a spiteful god—and each other. When Rustam discovers he has magic of his own, he is forced to question his identity, his sanity, and his loyalty to his prince. For in Tyr-en, all magic users are put to death.

The Prince’s Man is the first book in The Five Kingdoms epic fantasy series. If you like action, intrigue, and magic, spiced with a touch of romance, then you’ll love Deborah Jay’s vividly realised characters.

Featured Fantasy: Gates of Hell (The Ragnarok Prophecy Book 8) by Matt Larkin

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Featured Fantasy: Gates of Hell (The Ragnarok Prophecy Book 8) by Matt Larkin

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No one returns from Hel.

With Baldr’s death, Ragnarök has begun. Now, Odin has sent Hermod to the farthest reaches of creation to bring back his son’s soul. The son of a valkyrja, Hermod alone can make such a trek. But to do so he must descend into horrors beyond imagination.

Meanwhile, Odin begins an even more desperate gambit: to challenge the Norns themselves for control of Fate. Yet his journey will offer him knowledge he could not him imagined nor ever would have wanted …

This total reboot of Gods of the Ragnarok Era replaces and expands on that Norse-inspired epic. Mythology, horror, and dark fantasy meld together in an ice age. The Eschaton Cycle begins.

Featured Fantasy: The Spiritual Warriors (Warriors of the Way) by Orlando A. Sanchez

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Featured Fantasy: The Spiritual Warriors (Warriors of the Way) by Orlando A. Sanchez

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A WAR. A WEAPON. A WARRIOR.

After ten years of grueling training with legendary martial arts Master Wei, Dante is selected to undergo a secret tournament.

Emerging triumphant, but bloody, he is chosen to join the ancient sect of Spiritual Warriors—supernatural fighters trained to protect our very plane of existence from the Shadows of evil.

But a civil war is brewing and Dante will be forced to choose a side.

Can he embrace the darkness within to protect the light? Can Dante master this weapon without succumbing to the darkness within himself?

And will he unravel the mystery before he must face the evil of the Dark One?

Featured Fantasy: Archibald Lox by Darren Shan

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Featured Fantasy: Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between the Worlds by Darren Shan

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 “A brisk, entertaining tale that unfolds in a wonderfully bizarre world.” Kirkus.

There is a universe beyond our own, known as the Merge.

A young locksmith called Archibald Lox is about to cross worlds and explore it.

As he learns about these lands of wonders, he will have to face cold-blooded killers, rivers of blood, hell jackals and more…

Book one of the Archibald Lox series, by Darren Shan, the New York Times bestselling YA author of Cirque Du Freak and Lord Loss.

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Featured Fantasy: Never Save a Demon (A Daughter of Eve Book 1) by J.D. Brown

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Featured Fantasy: Never Save a Demon (A Daughter of Eve Book 1) by J.D. Brown

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The rules for demon slaying are simple.
Rule #1: Never save a demon’s life.
… Oops.

Lyn Conway is a hot mess. She’s past due on her rent, can’t get clients to take her paranormal investigations business seriously, and … Oh yeah, she’s a demon hunter who broke the ultimate rule. She didn’t mean to save a demon’s life. She thought she was saving a cute guy from a horrific attack. But now?

Sam. Won’t. Die.

That is, he won’t die until she does.

Being bound to a gorgeous demon isn’t all that bad, until women who look suspiciously similar to Lyn start dropping dead with a demonic seal carved into their flesh. The tables have turned. The hunter is being hunted. Fortunately, Lyn lives with her number one suspect.

Featured Fantasy: All Gremlins Great & Small (A Novella of The Portal Storms) by T.M. Baumgartner

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Featured Fantasy: All Gremlins Great & Small (A Novella of The Portal Storms) by T.M. Baumgartner

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Four years ago, Nessa’s careful life imploded when her husband disappeared during the first portal storm. Shimmering gateways to thousands of worlds appeared and vanished, sweeping away the unlucky. Later, the portals settled, but only a suicidal risk-taker would willingly touch one.

Nessa rebuilt her life and her veterinary practice, now specializing in xenotics — the creatures that resulted from evolutionary paths on other worlds. But she still leaves supplies along the route Mark was traveling, in case he makes his way back.

Hiking with a stranger to restock aid stations, Nessa realizes the portals have changed again. And this time she is the one in danger.

Dive into the beginning of a dazzling science fantasy adventure with All Gremlins Great & Small, the novella that starts The Portal Storms.