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Featured Fantasy: Stolen Time (The Witches of Mingus Mountain Book 1) by Christine Pope

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Featured Fantasy: Stolen Time (The Witches of Mingus Mountain Book 1) by Christine Pope

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When the past steals her future, only one man can help her reclaim it.

Devynn Rowe never asked for her unpredictable gift of time travel. But when a fall in an abandoned mine shaft hurls her back to Jerome, Arizona, in 1926, she finds herself trapped in a world where her own witch clan — the Wilcoxes — are the mortal enemy of the McAllisters of Jerome.

Rescued by the handsome and kind warlock Seth McAllister, Devynn weaves a web of lies to protect her true identity. As she struggles to adapt to life a century before her time, she can’t ignore the growing attraction between them. But pursuing a relationship could unravel everything she’s fought to keep hidden.

Seth is drawn to the mysterious woman he found unconscious in the mine, even as his duties to his clan pull him in another direction. When family obligations thrust him into a dangerous world of bootlegging and deceit, he finds himself torn between loyalty and love.

As Devynn and Seth dance around their feelings and their secrets, the truth threatens to burn away all their illusions. But time is running out. A moment of violence changes everything…catapulting them into a situation more perilous than either could have imagined.

Featured Fantasy: Red City Reaper (Books 1 – 3)

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Featured Fantasy: Red City Reaper (Books 1 - 3)

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If you try to assassinate the Grim Reaper… Don’t miss.

Dax used to be the Grim Reaper. Until he was banished to Earth to live as a human. Exiled to Redemption City, he’s doing his best to keep his head down and run his shabby dive bar. But when an assassin puts a bullet in his chest, his quiet life dies a bloody death.

Red City is a corrupt and decaying metropolis. Finding out who wants Dax dead could be a long twisted road. He’ll have to test the boundaries of his suppressed magic if he hopes to survive.

But if he presses his power too hard, the death gods who allied against him will do more than just exile him to earth. They’ll obliterate him from existence…

Featured Fantasy: The Witches of Cleopatra Hill Books 1 – 3 by Christine Pope

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Featured Fantasy: The Witches of Cleopatra Hill Books 1 - 3 by Christine Pope

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Ancient curses…family feuds…finding a happily ever after can be a real nightmare for the modern witch….

DARKANGEL:
Angela McAllister is searching for the green-eyed man who haunts her dreams. The man she’s sure is fated to be her consort when she becomes the next prima of her witch clan. The catch: She must find him before her next birthday, or her magic will be diminished and her clan left vulnerable. The problem: the only man she’s felt a spark with isn’t a witch. But when a rival clan moves in to seize control, she’ll find out who’s a betrayer — and whom she can trust.

DARKNIGHT:
Angela McAllister’s body is still tingling with the sweet fire of her bonding kiss with Connor Wilcox. She can’t allow herself to want him, yet as she settles uneasily into life with the quiet artist, she gets the feeling he’s as much a victim of his brother’s schemes as she.

But when a series of gruesome deaths begin taking place around Flagstaff, Angela has a very bad feeling the killer is lurking close to home…and uncovering the truth could break the fragile trust she and Connor have worked so hard to build.

DARKMOON:
Certain she’s lost Connor’s love, Angela returns home to resume her place as the McAllister prima — without her consort. Then she learns her little birth-control charm couldn’t fool Fate — and now she’s the next target of the fatal Wilcox curse. Determined to break this dark legacy, she reaches out reconcile with her beautiful, brokenhearted Connor.

Then she must journey to the otherworld to fill in the blanks of her own past. With every broken thread she reweaves into her history, her magic grows and evolves. But the healing that will finally break the Wilcox curse could cost Angela everything….

Featured Fantasy: Urban Magick & Folklore Series by C. Gockel

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Featured Fantasy: Urban Magick & Folklore Series by C. Gockel

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Once upon a future-time, in a city of steel, concrete, and Magick, a wicked queen trapped a mighty warrior with a curse …

In the tiny village of Somer, far from the city, Cherie knows nothing of the evil spell. Her home is a safe, Magickal place. The Fae travel freely along its roads, Magickal humans and animals are welcome, and everyone is hidden from the Queen’s sight by Jack Frost, the local ghost, who blurs the Queen’s mirror with snow and ice.

But when Jack’s spell begins to crack, the Queen’s eyes fall on Somer. Nothing will keep her from abducting all of Somer’s Magickals, not even a war with the Fae.

To avert a war, save her village–and herself–Cherie strikes a perilous bargain. Aided only by Jack and her own small Magick, she’ll set off on a quest … If she fails, she’ll lose more than her life.

The first two books are retellings of Snow White Rose Red with Urban Magick, plenty of folklore, and a Princess Charming. Perfect for fans of Naomi Novik’s Uprooted and Spinning Silver. Books 3 through 5 are a retelling of Grendel & Beowulf.

Featured Fantasy: Scale of the Dragon (Marked by the Dragon Book 1) by Richard Fierce

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Featured Fantasy: Scale of the Dragon (Marked by the Dragon Book 1) by Richard Fierce

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Her key to freedom is also her torment.

Mina is an outcast. A childhood accident left her scarred and with a curse that her master exploits to hunt dragons for sport.

She wants freedom, from both her master and the curse, but unless the right dragon is killed, she’ll be a bondservant for the rest of her days. 

With Mina’s uncanny ability and her master’s magical strength, the beast responsible for her misery will fall … even if she has to take matters into her own hands.

Scale of the Dragon is the first episode in the series Marked by the Dragon.

Featured Fantasy: The Bone Mask Cycle by Ashley Capes

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Featured Fantasy: The Bone Mask Cycle by Ashley Capes

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A bitter mercenary. A naïve mask-carver. A city in peril.

Sofia is a failure. The sentient magical mask with the power to compel, the Greatmask, refuses to choose her as its successor. Without it, the mask-carver will never succeed her father or have the power to protect her city. When palace conspiracies place a tyrant on the throne and lead to her father’s disappearance, her only choice is to hide.

Notch wants revenge. After escaping imprisonment for a crime he didn’t commit, the grizzled old mercenary is more determined than ever to kill the king of Anaskar. It might have been impossible, until he stumbles across Sofia with her Greatmask and decides to protect her—his best shot at vengeance.

Taking Anaskar back from the tyrant is no simple task. With an uncooperative Greatmask and royal assassins hunting them down, staying alive is half the battle. Can they survive long enough to save their city, or will Sofia’s shortcomings and Notch’s need for retribution doom them all?

City of Masks is the first thrilling fantasy novel in the Bone Mask Cycle. If you love underdogs, perilous quests, and epic adventures, slip into City of Masks!