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Featured Fantasy: Lost Among the Living by Simone St. James

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Featured Fantasy: Lost Among the Living by Simone St. James

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Murder Road comes a gripping novel that “is the perfect blend of history and mystery, with a little paranormal activity and romance thrown in for the ride” (Suspense Magazine).

England, 1921. Three years after her husband, Alex, disappeared, shot down over Germany, Jo Manders still mourns his loss. Working as a paid companion to Alex’s wealthy, condescending aunt, Dottie Forsyth, Jo travels to the family’s estate in the Sussex countryside. But there is much she never knew about her husband’s origins…and the revelation of a mysterious death in the Forsyths’ past is just the beginning…
 
All is not well at Wych Elm House. Dottie’s husband is distant, and her son was grievously injured in the war. Footsteps follow Jo down empty halls, and items in her bedroom are eerily rearranged. The locals say the family is cursed, and that a ghost in the woods has never rested. And when Jo discovers her husband’s darkest secrets, she wonders if she ever really knew him.  Isolated in a place of deception and grief, she must find the truth or lose herself forever.
 
And then a familiar stranger arrives at Wych Elm House…

Featured Fantasy: Becoming Crone (The Crone Wars Book 1) by Lydia M. Hawke

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Featured Fantasy: Becoming Crone (The Crone Wars Book 1) by Lydia M. Hawke

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She wanted purpose. She got dark magic and war.

Claire Emerson is adrift. After a lifetime as a wife, mother, and grandma, she never saw divorce or loneliness coming and is desperate for some sense of purpose. But when her sixtieth birthday brings a snarky gargoyle, an annoyingly sexy wolf shifter, and an unknown magical calling, she thinks she’s losing the only thing she has left: her sanity.

Refusing to believe she’s the powerful defender of humankind her so-called protectors claim, Claire attempts a return to her safe life… only to have her powers ignite when she’s attacked by dark supernatural creatures. And without the training she was supposed to have received, she has no idea how she’ll defeat sinister mages plotting her demise.

Can Claire overcome creaky joints and major hot flashes in time to save the world – and her own life?

Featured Fantasy: Riley Cruz Series Books 1 -3 by L.A. McBride

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Featured Fantasy: Riley Cruz Series Books 1 -3 by L.A. McBride

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I’m a shifter with a checkered past and sticky fingers.

I like my new life. I’ve got good friends, cheap barbecue, and weekly karaoke. Sure, I live in an apartment with more deadbolts than functioning windows. And yeah, I earn just enough tips as a mediocre bartender to buy name brand ramen noodles. But I can be as flamboyant and fun as I want—as long as I keep my hands clean.

When a mysterious stranger strolls into my bar with tales of a magical dagger so rare it’s guaranteed to start a bidding war, that itch is back. One last heist…for old times’ sake. At least, that’s what I tell myself.

With an uptight alpha werewolf dogging my every step and a demon after my prize, this job could be my downfall. One wrong move, and the pack of werewolves I ran from eight years ago will come looking for payback. Only this time, they won’t leave me breathing. Hopefully, my survival skills are better than my bartending.

Series Omnibus Includes:
1. Relic Hunter
2. Brimstone Burglar
3. Magic Heist

The Riley Cruz series stars a goat shifter who steals magical artifacts. If you like fun, fast-paced urban fantasy with quirky characters, found family, and a dose of slow-burn, opposites-attract romance, this is the series for you.

Featured Fantasy: Sunshine by Robin McKinley

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Featured Fantasy: Sunshine by Robin McKinley

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*RECOMMENDED: McKinley’s prose “sucks” you in, and her forthright heroine keeps you reading.

Although it had been mostly deserted since the Voodoo Wars, there hadn’t been any trouble out at the lake for years. Rae Seddon, nicknamed Sunshine, head baker at her family’s busy and popular café in downtown New Arcadia, needed a place to get away from all the noise and confusion—of the clientele and her family. Just for a few hours. Just to be able to hear herself think.
 
She knew about the Others, of course. Everyone did. And several of her family’s best regular customers were from SOF—Special Other Forces—which had been created to deal with the threat and the danger of the Others.
 
She drove out to her family’s old lakeside cabin and sat on the porch, swinging her feet and enjoying the silence and the silver moonlight on the water.
 
She never heard them coming. Of course, you don’t when they’re vampires.
 

Featured Fantasy: Virginia Creeper (Mystery House Series: Book 10) by Eva Pohler

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Featured Fantasy: Virginia Creeper (Mystery House Series: Book 10) by Eva Pohler

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Colonial Williamsburg has secrets.

During the holidays, Ellen, Tanya, and Sue want to go to the most Christmassy town in America, which Google says is Williamsburg, Virginia. While they’re enjoying the magnificent light display at Busch Gardens and touring Colonial Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown, they sense someone following them. They quickly realize the creeper is not among the living.

At first, their efforts to communicate with this unknown entity provide no answers. Little do they know that he will share his message on his own terms, in his own way. The unsettling truth he shares will rock their world, but it may give them a chance to bring peace to dozens of American Revolutionary War heroes who have been lost for centuries–that is, if they can convince the creeper that they are on his side.

If you can’t get enough of Karen White, Heather Graham, Bobbie Holmes, or Jana Deleon, then this “perfect mix of fun and scary” paranormal mystery is for you!

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

Grab your copy of this ghostly adventure today!

Featured Fantasy: Elven Shadow (Court of Rebellion Book 1) by Kathrin Hutson

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Featured Fantasy: Elven Shadow (Court of Rebellion Book 1) by Kathrin Hutson

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An elven prophecy. An unwanted crown. And a shifter who ruins it all…

Joining the underground organization of magical vigilantes known as Shade was supposed to help Rebecca Bloodshadow keep her head down, reinvent herself, and hide in plain sight. Sweeping the criminal garbage off the streets was supposed to be an added bonus…not the greatest threat to her plans.

When a mission goes terribly wrong under incompetent leadership, Rebecca’s first mistake is to react. Her second mistake is becoming part of the coup herself, succeeding, and being voted in as Shade’s next leader. That was not the goal, but she can’t refuse the position now. Not if she wants to keep her past—and her identity as the Bloodshadow Court’s elven heir—a secret from all of Chicago.

Not so easy now thanks to Maxwell Hannigan, the shifter who distrusts her just enough to start digging into the truth of her past.

Despite blocking his attempts to expose her secrets, Rebecca finds herself entangled in a battle of wills with the shifter—and the infuriatingly hot-and-cold attraction growing between them. As pieces of her old life catch up to her in the Windy City, though, destiny and duty and prophecy all come knocking with a vengeance. Rebecca’s still determined to define her own destiny, but can she pull it off no matter how much blood winds up on her hands?

Fans of Charlaine Harris and Patricia Briggs will love this next action-packed Urban Fantasy Adventure set in International Bestselling Author Kathrin Hutson’s Accessory to Magic Universe.