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Featured Fantasy: Demon Riding Shotgun (The Rifter Series Book 1) by L.R. Braden

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Featured Fantasy: Demon Riding Shotgun (The Rifter Series Book 1) by L.R. Braden

99¢ as of March 15, 2026
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A demon in her head. A cop on her tail. A city about to burn.

Mira Fuentes has been possessed by a demon since she was eleven.
Fortunately, the demon is on her side… mostly.

Together they hunt Rifters—demon-possessed humans who sow chaos in the Mortal Realm. Most hunts are quick, brutal, then she moves on, but when a routine hunt in Baltimore uncovers a powerful Rifter with plans to tear open the barrier between worlds, everything goes sideways, and Mira goes from the hunter to the hunted.

Recently retired from the Paranatural Task Force after the death of his partner, Detective Ty Williams wants nothing to do with magic anymore, but when a victim is killed by supernatural forces, Ty becomes the department’s reluctant expert.

His prime suspect?
The mysterious woman he took home from a bar the night before.

As Ty closes in, Mira faces an impossible choice: keep running… or trust a man determined to uncover her secrets. If she fails to stop the Rifter, the humans of Baltimore will become meat puppets for the denizens of the Rift. If she succeeds, she may take its place as public enemy number one.

Demon Riding Shotgun is the explosive first book in the Rifter Urban Fantasy Series—perfect for fans of fast-paced supernatural action, sharp-tongued demons, slow-burn romance, and gritty city magic.

If you love the dark humor of Venom and the monster-hunting thrills of Supernatural, buckle up.

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Featured Fantasy: Ghost Mortem (Ghost Detective Book 1) by Jane Hinchey

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Featured Fantasy: Ghost Mortem (Ghost Detective Book 1) by Jane Hinchey

FREE as of March 14, 2026
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Yesterday, my biggest problem was finding a blouse without a coffee stain.

Today, it’s the ghost of my best friend demanding I solve his murder. Oh—and his cat talks. With a British accent.

Ben doesn’t remember how he died. Just that it wasn’t an accident. And somehow, in the middle of all this, I’ve inherited his private investigation business.

Me. Audrey Fitzgerald. Formerly employed. Frequently underestimated. Currently seeing dead people.

Between a ghost with unfinished business, a cat who believes he’s the smartest one in the room, and a distractingly handsome detective who thinks I should leave the investigating to professionals, my life has officially veered off course.

I don’t trust cops. I trip over perfectly flat surfaces. And I have absolutely no intention of letting Ben’s murder go unsolved. He was my best friend. And if someone thinks they got away with killing him, they’re about to learn otherwise.

Ghost Mortem is the hilarious first book in the Ghost Detective paranormal cozy mystery series, featuring a ghostly best friend, a talking cat, small-town secrets, and a slow-burn romance that starts with suspicion.

Featured Fantasy: Snow White and the Seven Shades (Olympus Ever After) by Eva Pohler

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Featured Fantasy: Snow White and the Seven Shades (Olympus Ever After) by Eva Pohler

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SNOW WHITE meets Persephone . . .

Seven shades. One runaway goddess. A fate even the Fates couldn’t foresee.

Fleeing her overbearing mother, Snow White tumbles through a hidden chasm and lands at the gates of the Underworld. Sneaking past Cerberus, she finds refuge among a group of eccentric shades who inhabit the seers’ pit of Tartarus. Though they warn her of Hades’s wrath should she be discovered, Snow White is captivated by the hidden wonders of the Underworld, a place far more enchanting than the bleak prison her mother described. But when the Fates intervene, casting her into an enchanted sleep within a glass coffin, her fate rests in the hands of the very ruler she has evaded.

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

Featured Fantasy: Shadow’s Edge (Kyn Kronicles Book 1) by Jami Gray

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Featured Fantasy: Shadow's Edge (Kyn Kronicles Book 1) by Jami Gray

FREE as of March 10, 2026
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Raine’s spent a lifetime hunting monsters, but can she stop her prey from exposing the supernatural community one bloody corpse at a time?

Everyone fears the hunter in the shadows – even the monsters…

Raine McCord, forged in the brutal maelstrom of magic and science, is an elite hunter at home hunting monsters through the murky shadows of the supernatural world of the Kyn. Not an easy task when you’re trying to keep the humans ignorant of the existence of creatures typically confined to campfire tales. And gets worse when a series of disappearances and deaths in the Kyn community suggests someone wants to rip the thin veil of secrecy aside and expose the horror lurking behind the curtain.

To even the odds, Raine is forced to partner with another hunter, the sexy and tantalizing Witch-Fey, Gavin Durand. Their partnership proves to be as challenging and dangerous as the prey they hunt. Especially when the trail leads back to the foundation that warped Raine’s magic as a child and threatens to resurrect the nightmares of her past.

Determine to stop the threat to the Kyn, Raine and Gavin stalk their prey through a maze of lies, murder, and greed, but will the price they pay be too high?

If you like fast-paced, suspense-filled, dark urban fantasy with a thrilling edge, then grab your copy of Jami Gray’s riveting SHADOW’S EDGE, the first in her Kyn Kronicles series.

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Featured Fantasy: The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

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Featured Fantasy: The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

$1.99 as of March 9, 2026 in the US and Canada
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I loved this dark fantasy. There’s friendship, and love, and fae being twisty.

A girl makes a secret sacrifice to the faerie king in this lush New York Times bestselling fantasy by author Holly Black. Set in the same world as The Cruel Prince!

In the woods is a glass coffin. It rests on the ground, and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives….

Hazel and her brother, Ben, live in Fairfold, where humans and the Folk exist side by side. Since they were children, Hazel and Ben have been telling each other stories about the boy in the glass coffin, that he is a prince and they are valiant knights, pretending their prince would be different from the other faeries, the ones who made cruel bargains, lurked in the shadows of trees, and doomed tourists. But as Hazel grows up, she puts aside those stories. Hazel knows the horned boy will never wake.

Until one day, he does….

As the world turns upside down, Hazel has to become the knight she once pretended to be.

The Darkest Part of the Forest is bestselling author Holly Black’s triumphant return to the opulent, enchanting faerie tales that launched her YA career.

Featured Fantasy: The Baby Dragon Bookshop (The Baby Dragon Series) by A. T. Quereshi

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Featured Fantasy: The Baby Dragon Bookshop (The Baby Dragon Series) by A. T. Quereshi

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A standalone cozy romance filled with books, baby dragons, and happily ever after guaranteed!

Emmy has an enemy, and his name is Luke. The good news? She rarely sees him. The bad news? When she does, she (and her pet dragons) are reminded just how handsome he is.

Besides, Emmy is too busy focusing on her dragon-fuelled business to have time for love. But when both she and Luke approach the same local investor for funding, she’s suddenly unable to avoid him. The kookie investor insists they must compete for the cash by working at the local failing baby dragon bookshop to prove their magical business knowledge.

Determined to win the funding, Emmy dives into the task. But making a very flammable bookshop fit for baby dragons is no small feat, and it seems these rivals may need to join forces. Could Luke and Emmy’s fiery animosity spark something more between them?

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