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Featured Fantasy: Snow White and the Seven Shades (Olympus Ever After) by Eva Pohler

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Featured Fantasy: Snow White and the Seven Shades (Olympus Ever After) by Eva Pohler

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SNOW WHITE meets Persephone . . .

Seven shades. One runaway goddess. A fate even the Fates couldn’t foresee.

Fleeing her overbearing mother, Snow White tumbles through a hidden chasm and lands at the gates of the Underworld. Sneaking past Cerberus, she finds refuge among a group of eccentric shades who inhabit the seers’ pit of Tartarus. Though they warn her of Hades’s wrath should she be discovered, Snow White is captivated by the hidden wonders of the Underworld, a place far more enchanting than the bleak prison her mother described. But when the Fates intervene, casting her into an enchanted sleep within a glass coffin, her fate rests in the hands of the very ruler she has evaded.

The books in this series can be read in any order.

Featured Fantasy: Shadow’s Edge (Kyn Kronicles Book 1) by Jami Gray

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Featured Fantasy: Shadow's Edge (Kyn Kronicles Book 1) by Jami Gray

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Raine’s spent a lifetime hunting monsters, but can she stop her prey from exposing the supernatural community one bloody corpse at a time?

Everyone fears the hunter in the shadows – even the monsters…

Raine McCord, forged in the brutal maelstrom of magic and science, is an elite hunter at home hunting monsters through the murky shadows of the supernatural world of the Kyn. Not an easy task when you’re trying to keep the humans ignorant of the existence of creatures typically confined to campfire tales. And gets worse when a series of disappearances and deaths in the Kyn community suggests someone wants to rip the thin veil of secrecy aside and expose the horror lurking behind the curtain.

To even the odds, Raine is forced to partner with another hunter, the sexy and tantalizing Witch-Fey, Gavin Durand. Their partnership proves to be as challenging and dangerous as the prey they hunt. Especially when the trail leads back to the foundation that warped Raine’s magic as a child and threatens to resurrect the nightmares of her past.

Determine to stop the threat to the Kyn, Raine and Gavin stalk their prey through a maze of lies, murder, and greed, but will the price they pay be too high?

If you like fast-paced, suspense-filled, dark urban fantasy with a thrilling edge, then grab your copy of Jami Gray’s riveting SHADOW’S EDGE, the first in her Kyn Kronicles series.

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Featured Fantasy: The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

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Featured Fantasy: The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

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I loved this dark fantasy. There’s friendship, and love, and fae being twisty.

A girl makes a secret sacrifice to the faerie king in this lush New York Times bestselling fantasy by author Holly Black. Set in the same world as The Cruel Prince!

In the woods is a glass coffin. It rests on the ground, and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives….

Hazel and her brother, Ben, live in Fairfold, where humans and the Folk exist side by side. Since they were children, Hazel and Ben have been telling each other stories about the boy in the glass coffin, that he is a prince and they are valiant knights, pretending their prince would be different from the other faeries, the ones who made cruel bargains, lurked in the shadows of trees, and doomed tourists. But as Hazel grows up, she puts aside those stories. Hazel knows the horned boy will never wake.

Until one day, he does….

As the world turns upside down, Hazel has to become the knight she once pretended to be.

The Darkest Part of the Forest is bestselling author Holly Black’s triumphant return to the opulent, enchanting faerie tales that launched her YA career.

Featured Fantasy: The Baby Dragon Bookshop (The Baby Dragon Series) by A. T. Quereshi

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Featured Fantasy: The Baby Dragon Bookshop (The Baby Dragon Series) by A. T. Quereshi

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A standalone cozy romance filled with books, baby dragons, and happily ever after guaranteed!

Emmy has an enemy, and his name is Luke. The good news? She rarely sees him. The bad news? When she does, she (and her pet dragons) are reminded just how handsome he is.

Besides, Emmy is too busy focusing on her dragon-fuelled business to have time for love. But when both she and Luke approach the same local investor for funding, she’s suddenly unable to avoid him. The kookie investor insists they must compete for the cash by working at the local failing baby dragon bookshop to prove their magical business knowledge.

Determined to win the funding, Emmy dives into the task. But making a very flammable bookshop fit for baby dragons is no small feat, and it seems these rivals may need to join forces. Could Luke and Emmy’s fiery animosity spark something more between them?

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Featured Fantasy: Under Dark Skies (Nightshade Forensic FBI Files Book 1) by A.J. Scudiere

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Featured Fantasy: Nightshade (Forensic FBI Files Book 1) by A.J. Scudiere

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The supernatural isn’t hiding in the woods. It’s getting recruited into the FBI.
Their first case could break them both…

Eleri Eames thought her career as an FBI analyst was over after her last case got her committed for psychiatric help. When she’s offered a chance to be an agent with the secret NightShade division, it feels like a second chance. But her new partner may be hiding more than she is, and he and NightShade are both not what she expected.

Donovan Heath was content in the morgue, his uncanny abilities making him a sought-after medical examiner. When his wins start drawing unwanted attention, that offer from the Bureau starts looking like a solution. NightShade needs the unusual edge he brings. Donovan understands what he is makes him a target, but Eleri might just figure him out before he can decide if he even trusts her.

Thrown together on their first assignment, they’ll have to track a charismatic cult leader, solvea high-profile kidnapping, and navigate a world where nothing is as it seems. As NightShade’s mysteries grow darker, the line between what they hunt and what they are blurs.
Will their secrets save them or destroy them?

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Featured Fantasy: Lattes and Levitation by Christine Pope

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Featured Fantasy: Lattes and Levitation by Christine Pope

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Welcome to Las Vegas…New Mexico, that is. It might lack the neon lights of Sin City, but this quirky town has a surprising knack for unexpected murder.

Skye O’Malley just wants to pour the perfect espresso at her shop, Levitation Latte, and lead a normal, quiet life. But when the local body count starts interfering with business, Skye has to rely on her hidden talents — reading tea leaves and the occasional prophetic dream — to catch the killers. With a little magic and a lot of caffeine, she’s brewing up some serious justice.

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