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Featured Fantasy: Rune of Thorns (Enchanted Shadows Book 2) by Kelly N. Jane

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Featured Fantasy: Rune of Thorns (Enchanted Shadows Book 2) by Kelly N. Jane

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For readers who love epic fantasy with prophecy, fae magic, and political intrigue, where duty clashes with desire, and fate is never what it seems. Fans of Wheel of Time, The Queen’s Rising, and The Realm of the Elderlings will feel right at home.

Vengeance has its cost. Now, Rowena must pay.

Haunted by the weight of her loss, Rowena’s path to redemption is anything but clear. A web of deception tears Rowena from Bram’s side, forcing her to learn that trust is as fragile as the throne she lost. No one is beyond suspicion—not even the man who swore to stand by her.

Bram’s secret has been exposed. And now, it may cost him everything.

The governing druids summoned Bram to answer for his actions, forcing his return to a homeland he barely recognizes. What he uncovers shatters his beliefs, leaving him at a crossroads: upholding his sacred duty or following a path that risks unraveling everything he’s fighting for.

The fate of the realm hangs in the balance, but for Rowena and Bram, the most significant battle lies within. They must confront their deepest fears, challenge their loyalties, and decide whether the love they have found is worth the cost of duty.

Because saving the world may require sacrificing what they need most—each other.

Featured Fantasy: Hedgewitch for Hire by Christine Pope

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Featured Fantasy: Hedgewitch for Hire by Christine Pope

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When you pull up stakes, make sure you don’t get stabbed in the back.

Self-taught in the arcane arts, hedgewitch Selena Marx is comfortable doing divination for West Los Angeles’ anxiety-ridden housewives, lawyers, and aspiring actresses. Her biggest challenge? Avoiding Lucien Dumond, leader of the Greater Los Angeles Necromancers’ Guild, who views her as fresh meat to add to his harem of slavishly devoted groupies.

Selena’s not interested in the slimy, celebrity-schmoozing sorcerer, but nobody turns Lucien down without consequences. When he threatens to fit her with magical cement shoes and drop her off the Santa Monica Pier, Selena’s Tarot cards point her to Globe, Arizona, for a new home, a new shop, and a cursed pet cat.

Just as she’s settling in and meeting the locals — including Calvin Standingbear, hunky chief of the San Ramon Apache tribal police — Lucien tracks her down…and promptly disappears. When his body turns up on tribal lands, it’s up to Calvin to investigate. Starting with Selena.

And when one of Lucien’s acolytes is killed, traces of dark magic and cryptic warnings from the spirits send Selena and Calvin in a race against time — before a too-close-for-comfort evil cuts her own life short.

The Hedgewitch for Hire series will continue with book 2, Social Medium, releasing on March 31, 2021. The romance subplot will stretch over the entire series, while each novel will be a self-contained mystery without a cliffhanger.

Featured Fantasy: Prophecy of the Forgotten Fae Complete Series by Tessonja Odette

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Featured Fantasy: Prophecy of the Forgotten Fae Complete Series by Tessonja Odette

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This COMPLETE SERIES COLLECTION includes all three books in the trilogy in a single volume: A Throne of Shadows, A Cage of Crystal, and A Fate of Flame.

A feisty outlaw.
A conniving prince.
A war of magic and shadows.

Wanted by the crown for a murder she didn’t commit, Cora dreams of getting revenge on the mage who framed her. In the meantime, she hides in the forest and hones her witch magic. But when she discovers her enemy’s violent hunt for rare and endangered unicorns, she forms a plan for vengeance.

Prince Teryn, heir to a bankrupt throne, will do anything to keep his country from sinking into ruin. When he meets an outlawed witch wanted by a neighboring kingdom, he gets his chance. The woman has an impressive bounty on her head, one that could pay off his kingdom’s debts.

If Teryn can help Cora save a few magical creatures, he can gain her trust, hand her over to her king, and collect the bounty. But Cora has plans of her own, and none of them include being betrayed by her handsome new traveling companion.

The closer Cora and Teryn get to their desires, the harder their tasks become. And it isn’t just their budding attraction that’s the problem. A secret war is coming, one stemming from ancient feuds and forgotten fae magic. They must work together to stop it, or else both their kingdoms will crumble to ash.

PROPHECY OF THE FORGOTTEN FAE is perfect for fans of Throne of Glass, Air Awakens,andShadow and Bone. If you like fierce witches, a sassy unicorn familiar, and a slow burn enemies-to-allies-to-lovers romance that spans all three books, then you’ll love this epic romantic fantasy tale.

PROPHECY OF THE FORGOTTEN FAE is an upper YA/NA fantasy that contains moderate violence/gore and adult situations. The romance is sloooow burn, leading to open-door mildly steamy scenes in the third book.

Featured Fantasy: Fated to the Frost King (Frostbound Court Book 1) by Robin D. Mahle & Elle Madison

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Featured Fantasy: Fated to the Frost King (Frostbound Court Book 1) by Robin D. Mahle & Elle Madison

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A brutal Frost King. A bastard fae bride. A bond neither of them wanted.

Everly Elarion never asked to be chosen. A bastard with a dangerous lineage, she’s spent her life surviving in the shadows of powerful men. Now she’s being forced to marry one.

Draven Ashwynter, the Frostgrave King, rules the Winter Court with an iron will and a heart carved from ice. Just when the kingdom teeters on the edge of ruin, the Court’s Visionary comes forth with a solution: the king’s fated mate has been found.

He’s meant to receive a match to his power. An equal. Instead, he gets Everly. She’s illegitimate, defiant, and the last woman who would ever kneel to a king.

She doesn’t trust him. He doesn’t want her. But fate never asked their permission.

As enemies close in and old magics stir beneath the ice, their cold alliance begins to thaw into something far more dangerous than desire. Because in a court ruled by frost and blood, love isn’t just a weakness.

It’s a weapon.

And when war comes for the court, it may not be the kingdom that shatters first.

Fated to the Frost King is a slow burn, enemies-to-lovers romantasy, perfect for fans of Shield of Sparrows, Carissa Broadbent, and Sarah J. Maas.

Featured Fantasy: The Fall of Wolfsbane (Ravenglass Legends Book 1) by Jon Cronshaw

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Featured Fantasy: The Fall of Wolfsbane (Ravenglass Legends Book 1) by Jon Cronshaw

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They came with fire and banners. By dusk, his father’s head rolled across the courtyard stones.

Ragnar Wolfsbane watched from his knees as the Empire executed his chieftain father before their conquered people.

In one brutal day, his homeland falls, his sister becomes a hostage, and everything he trained to protect burns to ash.

Now Ragnar faces an impossible choice: die with honour like his father, or live as the Empire’s tamed wolf.

Dragged to the enemy’s capital as a political pawn, he discovers a darker game—one where yesterday’s allies become tomorrow’s betrayers, and survival means learning to bite the hand that feeds you.

But when palace halls run red with blood and steel meets steel in midnight corridors, Ragnar begins to understand a dangerous truth: empires built on fear can crumble from within.

Sometimes the best revenge isn’t a sword in the night—it’s a patient wolf learning the shape of his enemy’s throat.

A brutal tale of vengeance and survival perfect for readers who crave the morally grey heroes of Joe Abercrombie and the intimate violence of John Gwynne.

The Fall of Wolfsbane launches the complete Ravenglass Legends series—where honour is a luxury and revenge requires sacrifice.

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Featured Fantasy: Book of Never by Ashley Capes

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Featured Fantasy: Book of Never by Ashley Capes

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Adventure? Check. Magic? Check. Sarcasm? You bet.

After years of running down dead-end clues, the rogue Never has nearly given up his quest for answers; his blood is cursed and his true name a mystery, yet no library, no healer, and none who claim to know dark magics have ever been able to help.

Until he steals a map to the mysterious Amber Isle, which might just hold the answers he needs.

But Never isn’t the only one who wants the map – an old enemy, Commander Harstas, also seeks it, and Harstas craves revenge for the deaths of his men.

Forced to flee through a war zone, Never soon stumbles across a group of treasure hunters hoping to discover the wonders of the Amber Isle for themselves. But the deeper they venture into the Isle, the more deadly it grows.

Trapped between the greed of the treasure hunters, cunning traps in the Isle itself, the threat of Harstas’ fury and his own desperation to finally uncover answers, Never must find a way to unlock the Isle’s ancient secrets and escape – or perish without ever learning the truth.