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Featured Fantasy: Household Demons by Christine Pope

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Featured Fantasy: Household Demons by Christine Pope

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Never get into a bidding war with a demon. Winning could be murder.

One phone call from her mother, and Selena Marx’s relatively quiet summer ends with the clang of alarm bells in her head. Mom and her husband are coming to Globe…and not just to meet Selena’s boyfriend of two months, Calvin Standingbear. They’ve also dipped a toe into the local real estate market.

By buying the most haunted Victorian mansion in town. Sight unseen.

Resigned that there’s no talking them out of their vacation rental dreams, Selena checks the place out for herself. Oddly, she senses nothing. But there’s no mistaking the unholy racket of bangs, wails, and evil laughter blasting through the walls. Something is infesting this house, and it’s not your garden-variety ghost.

This time, her arsenal of moon water, coffin nails, and rock salt isn’t going to cut it. Selena needs backup, but when it arrives, the house strikes back — hard and deadly. Now her parents are murder suspects. If Selena can’t find the true culprit, she could be the haunted mansion’s next victim.

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Featured Fantasy: Grave Mistake (Hedgewitch for Hire Book 1) by Christine Pope

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Featured Fantasy: Grave Mistake (Hedgewitch for Hire Book 1) 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.

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Featured Fantasy: A Sorcerer in a Teacup – The Witches Murder Club Books 1 – 8 by Samantha Silver

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Featured Fantasy: A Sorcerer in a Teacup - The Witches Murder Club Books 1 - 8 by Samantha Silver

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Welcome to Golden Hope, where the whole town will cast you under its spell…

Weather witch Storm Bancroft has never been afraid of ruffling a few feathers, even if it means occasionally being pecked at. Which comes in handy when she finds herself embroiled in the middle of a murder investigation. Join her, and the rest of the Witches Murder Club, as they solve crimes in the sleepy hamlet of Golden Hope, and Storm uncovers secrets about her past.

Oh, and don’t forget the snarky, talking cat familiar.

Grab a blanket, curl up and get ready to laugh out loud with this cozy mystery boxed set that includes the following titles:

Cursing Up a Storm
Snowball’s Chance in Hex
Fairy-Weathered Friend
Brewing in the Wind
Throw Cauldrons to the Wind
On Crone Nine
Come Rain or Scry
Cloudy with a Chance of Magic

Featured Fantasy: The Frey Saga by Melissa Wright

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Featured Fantasy: The Frey Saga by Melissa Wright

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Frey’s life is a lie. She doesn’t remember being bound from magic. She didn’t intend to discover this dangerous secret, to get entangled in Council business. But she did.

And now she’s on the run.

With the aid of a stranger, she discovers a world beyond the elves who bound her. But it’s a world of shadows and dark magic, a world she’s been warned not to trust. The farther she strays, the more she finds a forgotten past. As she fights to reclaim her true identity, Council trackers hunt her down.

If they find her, she will burn.

The stranger offers her a way out, but it’s a path of no return. How do you know who to believe when you don’t even know who you are?

An epic adventure to regain a forgotten past, with fierce magic and found family in a world where humans are fairytales.

Featured Fantasy: The Azure Kingdom (Iridescent Realm Book 1) by Michelle Dare

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It starts with a dream.

When my mother died, I lost the last family member I had. The antique store was her passion, not mine. I’d rather spend my time reliving my dreams about the man who’s always just out of reach.

What my mother never told me was she was hiding something that would alter my life.

Not many people can say they have a key to another realm. Or that within the realm is the father they’ve never met.

That person is me. My father is the king in a land I didn’t know existed. I’m so using that key.

When I get there, I find the literal man of my dreams. Not only is he handsome but he’s a prince and an elite fighter. A man I’m not sure if I should fear or kiss.

I’m told my father isn’t the man I pictured, and instead is vile and vicious. I wonder if I made the worst decision of my life coming here.

I still have the key. I could go home.

I also have a prince vowing to protect me with his life.

Falling for him is easy.

Becoming a pawn in my father’s game is not.

The Azure Kingdom is book one in the Iridescent Realm series. It features a strong heroine and a sexy prince, who can only fight what is meant to be for so long. This book contains explicit content and graphic violence intended for those 18 and over. Each book in the series ends with a happily ever after.

Featured Fantasy: Lord Valentine’s Castle (The Majipoor Cycle) by Robert Silverberg

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Featured Fantasy: Lord Valentine's Castle (The Majipoor Cycle) by Robert Silverberg

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In this epic, “[a] brilliant concept of the imagination,” an amnesiac wanderer rediscovers his destiny as ruler of a vast planet (Chicago Sun-Times).

Valentine, a drifter who remembers nothing except his name, finds himself on the fringes of a great city. Joining a motley troupe of jugglers and acrobats, he travels with them across the magical planet of Majipoor. All the while, he hopes to meet someone who can help him retrieve his past.

Then Valentine begins to dream—and to receive messages in those dreams. Messages that tell him he is a lord, a king turned out of his castle. Now his travels have a purpose: to return to his home, discover what enemy took his memory, and claim the destiny that awaits him.

“An imaginative fusion of action, sorcery, and science fiction.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Absorbing . . . a wildly imaginative universe.” —People