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Featured Fantasy: Tides of Mana (Heirs of Mana Book 1) by Matt Larkin

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She controls the seas. Her sister controls the flames.

Together, they rule as god-queens over their Polynesian island paradise. No mortal army can stand against their power. Power, matched only by their pride. But when civil war erupts between them, there may soon be no kingdom left to rule.

The Sea Queen Namaka and her fiery sister, Pele, embark on a relentless quest for dominance, leaving devastation in their wake, and attracting attention from the merfolk who rule the deep. As Namaka turns the fury of the sea on her sister, wreaking untold devastation on the land and under the sea, she earns the ire of the mer kingdoms. Their answer: turn Namaka into one of them. Possessed by a mermaid spirit, she is drawn into battles in their alien world.

Amidst battles that span both land and sea, Namaka must confront the consequences of her choices and navigate the treacherous waters of power, betrayal, and redemption.

The fate of two worlds hangs in the balance between two sisters.

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Featured Fantasy: A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire Book 1) by George R. R. Martin

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Featured Fantasy: A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire Book 1) by George R. R. Martin

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NOW THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES—THE MASTERPIECE THAT BECAME A CULTURAL PHENOMENON
 
Here is the first book in the landmark series that has redefined imaginative fiction and become a modern masterpiece.

A GAME OF THRONES
 
In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the North of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.
 
A GAME OF THRONES • A CLASH OF KINGS • A STORM OF SWORDS • A FEAST FOR CROWS • A DANCE WITH DRAGONS

Featured Fantasy: The Teashop Terror (The Weal and Woe Bookshop Witch Mysteries Book 1) by Cate Martin

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Featured Fantasy: The Teashop Terror (The Weal and Woe Bookshop Witch Mysteries Book 1) by Cate Martin

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No one knows more about every branch of magic than Tabitha Greene. She devoted years to studying the most esoteric texts, hunting down the most obscure source materials, and deciphering the most cryptic ancient scrolls. But her career in academia hits a dead end when no wizard will take her on as an apprentice.

Just because, despite being descended from two long and prestigious lines of witches, her attempts to actually perform any magic always fail. Often spectacularly.

But no more college means no more dorm life. And no magical skills means no real job skills, at least, not in the witchy world. And a life spent moving from school to school every few months was a life without real friendships. She finds herself alone with nowhere to go.

Then an uncle she barely remembers offers her a summer job, running his bookstore over the summer. The Weal and Woe Bookstore, located in a magical pocket world within a block of buildings just north of the old Mill District of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Not exactly the pinnacle of all her hopes and dreams. But it’s just for one summer, right?

Or so Tabitha tells herself. But unbeknownst to her, the Weal and Woe Bookstore is about to change her life.

Featured Sci-fi: Ravenglass Legends Books 1 – 3 by Jon Cronshaw

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Featured Sci-fi: Ravenglass Legends Books 1 - 3 by Jon Cronshaw

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They conquered his home. They killed his father. They made him one of them.

Ragnar Wolfsbane was meant to become chieftain of Meerand.

Instead, he becomes a prisoner of the Ostreich Empire.

Raised among the conquerors, trained by their warriors, and watched by their wyverns, Ragnar must face an impossible choice: fight the empire that destroyed his home, or learn its secrets and turn its power against itself.

His sister Maja fights a quieter battle. Taken hostage and carried into the heart of the imperial court, she must survive a world of politics, manipulation, and dangerous alliances. Gifted with a rare power over minds, she begins to realise that knowledge can be as deadly as any blade.

But empires are never as stable as they appear. Rebellions stir. Secrets spread. And the Wolfsbane name refuses to fade into history.

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Featured Fantasy: Crown of Briars (Crowns of the Fae) by R.L. Perez

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Featured Fantasy: Crown of Briars (Crowns of the Fae) by R.L. Perez

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He must wed her to break the curse. She must kill him to save her kingdom.

Every generation, the Earthen Court gives a princess bride to the Wraith King to protect their realm from his deadly shadows. Princess Sybelle has prepared her entire life to be married to the monster who has been terrorizing her people.

And she has a plan to end her people’s suffering for good.

With the help of her dragon familiar, who can sniff out powerful enchantments, she intends to uncover the source of the Wraith King’s shadow magic. Once he is rendered powerless, she plans to kill him.

But despite his demonic appearance, the Wraith King is not who he appears to be. He is as alluring as he is deadly and, as Sybelle comes to know him, he awakens a fire in her soul she never knew she had.

When she realizes he is trapped by a powerful curse, she wants to do everything in her power to break it.

But to do so would endanger her own life and the lives of her people.

Torn between her duty to her kingdom and breaking the Wraith King’s curse, Sybelle must decide where her loyalties lie: to the home she was raised to protect, or to the dark king who has worked his way into her heart?

This book contains adult themes. Readers are encouraged to check the content warning inside before reading.

Crown of Briars is a romantasy Beauty and the Beast retelling with dragons and fae, enemies to lovers, arranged marriage, a shadow daddy, and slow burn spice.

This fairytale retelling is part of the Crowns of the Fae series, which can be read in any order as stand-alone novels.

Featured Fantasy: Mate Market (Ghost Pack Book 1) by Aimee Easterling

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Featured Fantasy: Mate Market (Ghost Pack Book 1) by Aimee Easterling

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A mating of convenience even a lone wolf can’t refuse.

I’m Wren, a shifter without a pack in a world where unclaimed females are considered property. Luckily, friendly ghosts keep me one step ahead of greedy alphas while also helping me free other women before they’re sold to the highest bidder.

Then a battle-scarred alpha who can banish ghosts with a single touch rips into my carefully controlled world. Locke offers me a deal: become his mate in name only, and he’ll fight by my side to free lone females.

I try to refuse. I should refuse. But when one of my ghosts becomes trapped in Locke’s territory and the next mate market looms, I realize I can’t win this battle alone.

I need the help of someone living—even if it means binding myself to an alpha like the one who turned my friends into ghosts.

Mate Market is the first book in the slow-burn romantic urban fantasy Ghost Pack series, set in the unforgiving arctic wilderness where forced proximity, found family, and fierce werewolves collide.