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Featured Fantasy: His Majesty’s Service – Three Novels of Temeraire by Naomi Novik

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Featured Fantasy: His Majesty's Service - Three Novels of Temeraire by Naomi Novik

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***LOVED EVERYONE OF THESE NOVELS***

Together in one volume, here are the first three novels in Naomi Novik’s New York Times bestselling Temeraire series, combining the gripping history of the Napoleonic era, the thrill of Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern books, and the excitement of Patrick O’Brian’s seafaring adventures. In His Majesty’s Service also includes an exclusive original Temeraire short story.

Capt. Will Laurence is serving with honor in the British Navy when his ship captures a French frigate harboring most a unusual cargo–an incalculably valuable dragon egg. When the egg hatches, Laurence unexpectedly becomes the master of the young dragon Temeraire and finds himself on an extraordinary journey that will shatter his orderly, respectable life and alter the course of his nation’s history.

Thrust into England’s Aerial Corps, Laurence and Temeraire undergo rigorous training while staving off French forces intent on breaching British soil. But the pair has more than France to contend with when China learns that an imperial dragon intended for Napoleon–Temeraire himself– has fallen into British hands. The emperor summons the new pilot and his dragon to the Far East, a long voyage fraught with peril and intrigue. From England’s shores to China’s palaces, from the Silk Road’s outer limits to the embattled borders of Prussia and Poland, Laurence and Temeraire must defend their partnership and their country from powerful adversaries around the globe. But can they succeed against the massed forces of Bonaparte’s implacable army?

Featured Fantasy: Evans Witches by Reut Barak

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An all-powerful mage, a fairy queen and a dragon were the last folk I thought I’d meet (and befriend) when I time-travelled. All the stranger, I couldn’t even remember what caused me to go back in time in the first place, that I was Kim Taylor—college student at Oxford, or that I had just met the love of my life…

And now, there’s Seth. He’s actually that same guy, but he’s different here. A knight. He was an olympic fencer back in college, on a scholarship, but he doesn’t remember that either, or me, or the world we came from. All he knows now is that he serves the King of Scotland, and my father betrayed that King!

Yes, I’m a traitor’s daughter – and my life is not something that Seth would think twice before sacrificing. He took me in the night, away from the safety my father’s palace, and out into the cold, dangerous woods.

But there is something about me that Seth doesn’t know. The secret I had to keep back in college: I’m not human.

Featured Fantasy: The Witches of Time by Leigh Ann Edwards

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Featured Fantasy: The Witches of Time by Leigh Ann Edwards

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“A witch!”

It’s an accusation Arianna O’Sullivan dreads as she struggles to conceal her abilities from the suspicious villagers in Colonial Massachusetts. Saved from the pillory by a handsome, chivalrous stranger, Arianna senses an inexplicable connection. When she’s given no choice but to marry the charismatic man even after discovering he’s the grandson of an infamous witch-hunter, she fears her powers won’t be restrained for much longer.

Intrigued by the scarlet-haired beauty, Darius Wyndham recklessly weds her and brings her home to his settlement. Falling in love with his wife was never in the plan, and Darius grows suspicious of his new feelings. He never believed in witches, yet he certainly feels bewitched. Or could Arianna be his destiny?

Arianna dares to believe she’s finally found love and safety in the arms of her new husband, but when the spirit of his first wife appears with disturbing clues to her death and long-hidden secrets from their past, Arianna is left questioning everything.

Featured Fantasy: The Witchstone by Henry H. Neff

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An unforgettable, high-stakes, laugh-out-loud funny novel, The Witchstone blends the merciless humor of The Good Place with the spellbinding fantasy of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods.

Meet Laszlo, eight-hundred-year-old demon and Hell’s least productive Curse Keeper. From his office beneath Midtown, he oversees the Drakeford Curse, which involves a pathetic family upstate and a mysterious black monolith. It’s a sexy enough assignment—colonial origins, mutating victims, et cetera—but Laszlo has no interest in maximizing the curse’s potential; he’d rather sunbathe in Ibiza, quaff martinis, and hustle the hustlers on Manhattan’s subway. Unfortunately, his division has new management, and Laszlo’s ratings are so abysmal that he’s given six days to shape up or he’ll be melted down and returned to the Primordial Ooze.

Meet Maggie Drakeford, nineteen-year-old Curse Bearer. All she’s ever known is the dreary corner of the Catskills where the Drakeford Curse has devoured her father’s humanity and is rapidly laying claim to her own. The future looks hopeless, until Laszlo appears at the Drakeford farmhouse one October night and informs them that they have six days—and six days only—to break the spell before it becomes permanent. Can Maggie trust the glib and handsome Laszlo? Of course not. But she also can’t pass up an opportunity to save her family, even if it means having a demon as a guide …

Thus begins a breakneck international adventure that takes our unlikely duo from a hot dog stand in Central Park to the mountains of Liechtenstein. As the clock ticks down, tough-as-nails Maggie and conniving Laszlo will uncover a secret so profound that what began as a farcical quest to break a curse will eventually threaten the very Lords of Hell.

Featured Fantasy: White Haven Witches TJ Green

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Featured Fantasy: White Haven Witches TJ Green

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Witchcraft, dark secrets, and demons. No one is safe in White Haven.

Avery, one of the five White Haven witches, practices her magic alone and spends her days working in her bookshop, refusing to join the coven.

However, days away from Litha, the summer solstice, a deceased customer bequeaths her a rune covered box and an intriguing letter that reveals the witches are missing a vital part of their history. The news shatters her organised life completely.

Five ancient family grimoires are hidden in the town, and within their pages lies a secret.

Unable to resist a mystery, Avery is determined to find them. However, the tarot cards predict danger, and when another witch—the sexy, but annoying Alex Bonneville—shares the same premonition, they know that an unknown enemy is determined to stop them using any means necessary.

Avery never backs down from a fight, and Alex refuses to let her fight alone.

When White Haven turns into a battleground of magic and demons, the witches’ lives will never be the same again.

Buried Magic is perfect for fans of paranormal mysteries who love authentic witchcraft and magic, a slow-burn romance, English humour, a gorgeous Cornish setting with lots of myths, and plenty of action. Join the coven and buy Buried Magic now!

Featured Fantasy: A Matter of Magic Duology by Patricia C. Wrede

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Featured Fantasy: A Matter of Magic Duology by Patricia C. Wrede

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An orphan in Regency London discovers a world of magic, intrigue, and romance in this YA historical fantasy duology—now available in one volume!

When a stranger offers Kim a small fortune to break into a traveling magician’s wagon, she doesn’t hesitate. Having grown up a waif in the dirty streets of London, Kim isn’t above a bit of breaking-and-entering. But when the magician catches her in the act, Kim thinks she’s done for.

Instead, Mairelon the Magician asks Kim to become his apprentice. And that’s when the real trouble begins. Kim soon finds herself entangled with murderers, thieves, and cloak-and-dagger politics, all while trying to learn how to become both a proper lady and a magician in her own right.

A Matter of Magic includes the books Mairelon the Magician and The Magician’s Ward.