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Featured Fantasy: The Purgatorium (The Purgatorium Series) by Eva Pohler

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Featured Fantasy: The Purgatorium (The Purgatorium Series) by Eva Pohler

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Did her parents send her to the Purgatorium to help her or punish her?

A teen who feels guilty for her sister’s death is sent by her parents to a remote island off the coast of California for “suicide therapy,” where she learns that the doctor and her team use experimental methods that cross ethical lines. After undergoing one bizarre experience after another, the teen gets lost on the haunted side of the island and wonders if her parents meant to help or to punish her.

Some readers have compared this young adult psychological thriller by USA Today bestselling author Eva Pohler to Shutter Island and Lost.

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Featured Fantasy: The Rogue and the Healer (Five Kingdoms Book 3) by Cidney Swanson

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Featured Fantasy: The Rogue and the Healer (Five Kingdoms Book 3) by Cidney Swanson

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Magia awakens….

Katrin and Cyril return to the mysterious island of Talisfarne only to find their beloved stonecote – and their lives – in appalling disarray. Things get worse when Katrin must choose whether or not to heal the son and heir of her darkest enemy, who lies gravely ill. Worse still, Cyril is threatened with expulsion from the abbey school, and Astrid is betrothed to a prince, with the promise that she will reign as queen.

Meanwhile the dashing Tsarevich Sasha feverishly pursues his own agenda, determined to uncover the mysterious source of Katrin’s and Cyril’s increasing magia. Before long, however, all five friends face must heart-wrenching choices that threaten lasting impact, not only on the Five Kingdoms but also on the Kingdom of the Fey.

The thrilling third book in the trilogy ventures into the treacherous landscape of the human heart, and the desperate choices to be made when all outcomes appear bleak.

Possible triggers: book contains character memories of being forcibly struck as a child and off-screen flogging of an adult male. For more information contact the author via her website.

Featured Fantasy: The Legend of the Gods Complete Trilogy by Aaron Hodges

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Featured Fantasy: The Legend of the Gods Complete Trilogy by Aaron Hodges

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★★★★★ “Aaron Hodges is one of those authors you just can’t put down. His books suck you in and just won’t let go. Matter of fact, you don’t want them to let you go. You want the book to continue on and on, the let down is once the book is over.”

A century since the departure of the Gods, the Three Nations are now united beneath the Tsar. Magic has been outlawed, its power too dangerous to remain unchecked. All Magickers must surrender themselves to the crown, or face imprisonment and death.

Alana’s mundane life has just been torn apart by the emergence of her brother’s magic. Now they must leave behind everything they’ve ever known and flee – before the Tsar’s Stalkers pick up their trail. Tasked with hunting down renegade Magickers, the merciless hunters will stop at nothing to bring them before the Tsar’s judgement.

As the noose closes around Alana and her brother, disgraced hero Devon finds himself at odds with the law when he picks a fight with the wrong man. The former warrior has set aside his weapons, but now, caught between the renegades and the Stalkers, he is forced to pick a side – the empire, or the innocent.

Brandon Sanderson meets Terry Brooks in this epic fantasy series by New York Times Bestselling Author Aaron Hodges.

Featured Fantasy: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

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Featured Fantasy: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

$2.99 as of March 7, 2025
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Editors Note: A lovely imaginative book.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Two starcrossed magicians engage in a deadly game of cunning in the spellbinding novel that captured the world’s imagination. • “Part love story, part fable … defies both genres and expectations.” —The Boston Globe

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.

But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance.

Featured Fantasy: Afterlife Calls Book 1 – 3 by K.C. Adams

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Featured Fantasy: Afterlife Calls Book 1 by K.C. Adams

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One mother. One daughter. One haunted town.

Niamh

Widow. Divorcee. Mother.

Retired ghost hunter.

Something has just unleashed dozens of 200-year-old ghosts on my hometown. And my seventeen-year-old daughter wants to be the one to solve the mystery. Isn’t that just great?

Little does she know that a ghost killed her dad. Which is why I really, really don’t want either of us to go near them ever again.

But, of course, she’s my daughter. Stubbornness runs in the family.

So does ghost hunting. If I don’t look into the ghosts haunting the town, I’ll never be able to live with myself if someone else gets hurt.

But how can I when I’m terrified they’ll hurt my family again?

Edie
I never signed up to be a ghost hunter. I was born one.

But my mum won’t let me do it. Which means I can see ghosts, but I can’t actually do anything.

I can’t help them. I can’t help the people they haunt. And, if she had her way, I wouldn’t event talk to them. Ugh.

What’s the point in having magic if you can’t even use it?

I need to prove to Mum, once and for all, that I can do this. The question is, how?

Discover a whole new world of ghosts, magic, and romance in The Ghost’s Call, the first book in a new mother/daughter fantasy series. It’s a little bit spooky, sprinkled with romance, and seriously sarcastic. Perfect for fans of Charmed, Supernatural, Ghost Whisperer, and Lost Girl.

Featured Fantasy: Heartless (Athena Ellison Book 1) by Jocelyn Fox

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Featured Fantasy: Heartless (Athena Ellison Book 1) by Jocelyn Fox

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“An adventure-filled tale of love and magic with a strong central relationship…Fox populates this fantasy tale with a bright cast of characters who ably bring the story to life. “– Kirkus Reviews (Indie)

In the hidden magical Secondworld, the cauldron is about to boil over with intrigue.

Mage bounty hunter Athena enthusiastically slaps her hex cuffs on handsome homicide suspect Kellan Mordigan, only to become the hunted as a necromancer who literally stole Kellan’s heart looks to finish the job and smash the patriarchy while she’s at it…

Athena Ellison, a powerful young mage who spurns her family’s old-money expectations to become a bounty hunter, has a geomancer’s talent for finding things—but sometimes the things that find her first have teeth and a thirst for magical blood. She captures Kellan Mordigan, a mage who’s the main suspect in a triple homicide; and as a bonus, the Mordigans and the Ellisons have been feuding for about a century. But right after Athena tracks Mordigan to a coffee shop and arrests him, they’re attacked by a group of revenants, and even Athena’s supernatural fighting skills barely get them out alive. As much as Athena wants to believe the worst of Mordigan, she’s drawn into the quest to uncover the truth behind the Council’s actions. Amid monsters and mayhem and with Mordigan in tow, Athena must put together a plan to defeat a necromancer who has made a literal deal with the devil and evade the tightening net of the Council’s warrant, all while preserving the secrets of the Secondworld and keeping her world-ending power under control…

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