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Featured Fantasy: Savage Skies (The Fourth Empire Book 1) by Kat Ross

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Featured Fantasy: Savage Skies (The Fourth Empire Book 1) by Kat Ross

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Winner of the 2024 Readers’ Favorite Bronze Medal for Magic & Wizardry!


When someone dies in Aveline, they don’t always stay that way.Castelio learned this hard lesson when he was a boy.

Now he roams from village to village as a Quietus, banishing restless spirits and keeping the Ducissa Orlaith’s peace—until the day her only son is kidnapped.

Blame falls on the land across the Boundary, where necromancers practice their black arts in eternal darkness.

To get the child back, Castelio recruits the aid of a young stranger named Delilah, along with her peculiar (and possibly demonic) cat Thistle. The pair has a habit of attracting violent thunderstorms, but their wind ship can cross the high mist-cloaked passes of the Boundary.

As the trail leads deeper into the wilds of midnight, Castelio and Delilah discover there are worse things than the risen dead. Yet nothing is quite as it seems in the Moon Courts. Despite the dangers all around, they find allies in unexpected places.

And choosing a side in the brewing war between light and dark magic might be harder than they imagined.

Featured Fantasy: Witching Hour by Christine Zane Thomas

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Featured Fantasy: Witching Hour by Christine Zane Thomas

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A Paranormal Women’s Fiction murder mystery for anyone who believes you can find your powers at any age.

On the eve of my fortieth birthday, I pack up and move across the country, ready to start over. Like square one start over.

Creel Creek, Virginia seems perfect. It’s the last place either of my ex-husbands will ever think to look for me. What better place to hide than a town so small it isn’t even mentioned on a map?

After all, I’m desperate.

Desperate enough to move in with a grandmother I haven’t seen since I was a little girl. A grandmother who informs me she comes from a long line of powerful witches. And on the day I hit the big 4-0, I’ll be blessed with powers like hers.

Gran’s not the only paranormal person in town. Under the sleepy surface, Creel Creek is teeming with supernatural beings.

The problems start when I find one of those beings dead, the town’s resident vampire to be exact. The local sheriff, a widowed single dad with smoldering good looks, is convinced a killer is lurking in the shadows, hunting anyone with supernatural abilities…including witches like me.

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Featured Fantasy: Brush With Death (Necromancer Academy Book—Death’s Doorstep Book 1) by Mia Hall

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Featured Fantasy: Brush With Death (Necromancer Academy Book—Death's Doorstep Book 1) by Mia Hall

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My first year at the Dreadmore Academy. What can go wrong? How long do you have?

The list of stuff that can go right is much, much shorter. I’m probably going to fail right out in the first week. I’m supposed to be a necromancer. That’s right. You heard me. A necromancer. But I can’t seem to do a thing to reanimate dead stuff. Not one bit.

The next thing that’s likely to go wrong? I’m shy. Painfully so. And I’ve been known to stutter. I’m a social catastrophe just waiting to implode.

So how can I explain that one of the cutest guys in school—also a necromancer—likes me? I can’t. I also can’t explain the murders that are happening on campus. No one can. Until those closest to me are targeted.

Featured Fantasy: Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles Book 1) by Anne Rice

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Featured Fantasy: Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles Book 1) by Anne Rice

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RECOMMENDED! The spellbinding classic that started it all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author—the inspiration for the hit television series

“A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire.”—Chicago Tribune

Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly sensual, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force—a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.

Featured Fantasy: Legacy of Dragons the Complete Series by Sean Fletcher

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Featured Fantasy: Legacy of Dragons the Complete Series by Sean Fletcher

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She’s hunted for what she is. He hunts those who would hurt them.

When Astrid is attacked by a creep calling himself a Slayer, it seems like a cruel prank the universe is pulling on her already crappy life.

Then Kaden, the most infuriating, stunning boy she’s ever met, arrives and tells her she’s a dragon-kin like him—part dragon, part human.

Then Astrid actually shifts into a dragon.

Wonderful.

It’s not wonderful to Kaden, who should be busy hunting down the Slayers, a group as vicious as his methods and as dark as his past. He doesn’t have time to chaperone a girl with newly awakened dragon powers, one who’s too stubborn to stay safe.

Yet as the Slayer threat grows, Astrid and Kaden will have to work together to control a magic unlike any their world has ever seen, and stop a rising darkness from destroying everything they know.

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Featured Fantasy: In Like Lloyd (Noctis Investigations) by Matt Armstrong

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Featured Fantasy: In Like Lloyd (Noctis Investigations) by Matt Armstrong

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Thief. Private Investigator. Shadow Walker.

Lloyd Gibson lives in hiding as a two-bit PI, mostly taking jobs from the paranoid and delusional—the kind who think pigeons are spying on them. It pays the bills. Mostly. But when fire investigator Mireya Delgado shows up with a case involving unexplained arsons, Lloyd gets pulled into an eighty-year-old conspiracy that hits way too close to home.

He’s got no licence, no plan, and no backup. Just a strange ability to walk through shadows, and a city that’s about to go up in flames.

In Like Lloyd is a grounded, genre-blending mix of urban fantasy, conspiracy-laced sci-fi, and snark-soaked noir mystery. If you like sarcastic protagonists, secret organizations, and off-the-books investigations, this one’s for you.

“If you’re a fan of Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files, you may enjoy this, as well.” – Shannon Myers, Reedsy