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Featured Fantasy: Cobalt (Pretty Little Mermaids Book 1) by A.L. Knorr

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Featured Fantasy: Cobalt (Pretty Little Mermaids Book 1) by A.L. Knorr

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A siren on the run. A ship full of strangers. A storm that knows her name.

Gina is running from a life she can’t explain—and a truth she can’t face. Under false pretences and with no plan beyond the horizon, she boards a historic sailing ship hoping to vanish into salt and sky. But when she meets someone who sees more than he should, and a storm that feels more like a reckoning than an accident, Gina realizes the sea has plans of its own.

For one boy, she’s unforgettable. For the sea, she’s unfinished business.

Cobalt is a haunting prequel about identity, escape, and the beginning of a legacy far bigger than one mermaid.

Return to the siren realm of A.L. Knorr with Pretty Little Mermaids, which expands the lore and worlds established in Born of Water, Mermaid’s Return and The Siren’s Curse, but is set before the events of the latter.

Featured Fantasy: Aquamarine (Pretty Little Mermaids Book 2) by A.L. Knorr

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Featured Fantasy: Aquamarine (Pretty Little Mermaids Book 2) by A.L. Knorr

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She’s a siren by blood. A science nerd by choice. And she’s about to pick a fight with the ocean itself.

To most mermaids, the Salt is sacred—an ancient tide that claims your memory, your humanity, and controls your mating cycle. But Eadie Jackson isn’t like most mermaids. She’s the youngest of triplets, allergic to destiny, and still angry that the sea took her mother.

She wants a normal senior year: survive her bully, ace her science fair, and maybe get Seth Foster to look at her like she’s not just weird-Jackson-girl number three. But when Eadie discovers a mermaid trapped in salt-flush—her memory wiped, her identity gone—she realizes the Salt isn’t just cruel. It’s a cage.

Now the ocean wants Eadie too. And it’s not used to hearing no.

Can the “weakest” Jackson sister outwit ancient magic without losing herself—or the only normal life she’s ever wanted?

Aquamarine is a fierce and funny YA mermaid fantasy packed with high school chaos, slow-burn romance, and a heroine who refuses to sink.

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Featured Fantasy: Peculiar Mysteries Books 1 – 4 by Renee George

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Shapeshifters, Romance, Humor, and Mystery.
Check. Check. Check. Check.

You’ve Got Tail
Sunny Haddock, an animal-loving vegetarian psychic, is stoked to leave California behind to start a new life in the Ozark town of Peculiar with her best friend Chavvah Trimmel. She ups the moving date when Chav goes missing, and Sunny high tails it to the small town. What Sunny doesn’t realize is that she’s moving into a community of were-shifters, and they don’t want a human resident. Especially one dumb enough to arrive a couple of days before the full moon.

But Sunny has more to deal with than unfriendly townsfolk…like disturbing killer visions and the dog-like animal no one else sees that seems to be stalking her every move. To make matters worse, she is finding Babel to be more irresistible than crack on a donut.

Sunny needs to get her ability and her hormones under control if she wants to solve the mystery and save her best friend.

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Featured Fantasy: The Amplifier Protocol A Novella by Meghan Ciana Doidge

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The Amplifier Protocol (Amplifier Series - Book 0) Kindle Edition by Meghan Ciana Doidge (Author)

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They called me an amplifier. And they had bred me, raised me, and trained me to be a killer with preternatural precision. I was capable of taking, holding, and transferring power that wasn’t my own with a simple touch. Skin-to-skin contact. Along with four others of my generation, I could infiltrate any magical organization, extracting whoever or whatever I’d been ordered to extricate. Then I could destroy all evidence of our passing presence.

They had made me. They directed me. Controlled me.

Then they tried to kill me.

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Featured Fantasy: Pride and Paranormal (Souls and Shadows Book 1) by Adrienne Blake

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Featured Fantasy: Pride and Paranormal (Souls and Shadows Book 1) by Adrienne Blake

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What do love potions and banshee karaoke have to do with one of the greatest enemies-to-lovers tales of all time?

Izzy may be the only responsible witch in her poor family of misfits, and as such, she has duties to uphold. Only a hot, mysterious, and infuriating warlock is determined to get in the way.

When the rich and handsome Darcy Fitz blows into town, sparks fly.

The wrong kind…

He has earned her ire as much as her eye with his constant harsh words and acts, but what will happen when a bit of magic goes awry, and Izzy needs the help of this powerful man she claims to hate?

Will Izzy’s pride get in the way of saving her family’s welfare and reputation? Find out in this witty, funny, fantasy retelling of Pride & Prejudice.

Featured Fantasy: Drinks and Sinkholes (Weary Dragon Inn Book 1) by S. Usher Evans

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Featured Fantasy: Drinks and Sinkholes (Weary Dragon Inn Book 1) by S. Usher Evans

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Warm beds, cozy mysteries, and the best rosemary bread this side of Pigsend Creek. Welcome to the Weary Dragon Inn.

Bev may not know who she was before she showed up in the quaint village of Pigsend five years ago, but that doesn’t bother her much. She’s made a tidy little life for herself as the proprietor of the Weary Dragon Inn, where the most notable event is when she makes her famous rosemary bread.

But when earthquakes and sinkholes start appearing all over town, including near Bev’s front door, she’s got to put on her sleuthing hat to figure out what—or who—might be causing them before the entire town disappears.

Drinks and Sinkholes is the first book in the Weary Dragon Inn Series, a cozy fantasy mystery by award-winning author S. Usher Evans.

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