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Featured Fantasy: Monster Academy (Semester One) by Holly Hook

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Featured Fantasy: Monster Academy (Semester One) by Holly Hook

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Enter a world where it’s Halloween every day and where the monsters are normal, and the normal are monsters…

I’m Ali Welson, and I’m the most normal, goody-two-shoes girl you’ll meet. It’s how I survive a strict home, far from the mysterious Dark Corruption that converts people into B-movie monsters on contact.

But after a close call, Monstreuse, the monster academy, sends an obnoxious sorcerer to claim an unwilling new student–me. Only it’s a mistake, I swear. I never touched the Corruption, as much as Byron insists otherwise. But when my family disowns me, I have no choice but to go.

Thrust into a new, forbidden world, I’m sure I won’t survive my classes, my classmates, or my new rival. But even that pales in comparison to the biggest horror of all. I might be the least normal Monstreuse student in history, and my family is right to fear me.

Why else would someone be trying to do me in?

Monster Academy is a young adult, paranormal academy series that takes place in the same universe as the Cursed Academy series, occurring ten years after the conclusion of Cursed Academy: Year Four. However, it can be read on its own. If you love Halloween, B-movie monsters, slow-burn romance, and danger at every turn, you’ll love the Monster Academy series!

Featured Fantasy: Merlin Takes a Familiar (Merlin Magical Mysteries Book 1) by Molly Fitz

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Featured Fantasy: Merlin Takes a Familiar (Merlin Magical Mysteries Book 1) by Molly Fitz

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My name is Gracie Springs, and I am not a witch… but I’m pretty sure my cat is.

I first started to get suspicious when he jumped just a little too high while chasing after a robin in our front yard. I knew for sure when he opened up his mouth and addressed me by name!

The first thing he told me? That he doesn’t like the name I gave him—even though “Fluffy” fits him like a warm sweater at Christmas. Now we’ve compromised on “Merlin the Magical Fluff,” which according to him references his long and proud lineage just fine.

After that small matter was settled, he informed me that I must uphold his secret or risk spending the rest of my life in some magical prison. I agreed, not knowing it would turn into a full-time job of covering his tracks and fibbing our way out of some pretty tight spots.

When my boss at the local coffee shop turns up dead as a dormouse, things go from challenging to practically impossible… especially since all my coworkers seem to think I’m to blame.

Here’s hoping my witchy cat can charm our way out of this one, because right now it looks like I’m cursed if I do and charged with murder if I don’t. Yikes!

Featured Fantasy: Edge of Magic (Tara Knightley Book 1) by Jayne Faith

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Featured Fantasy: Edge of Magic (Tara Knightley Book 1) by Jayne Faith

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My name is Tara Knightley, and I’m on the Fae mafia’s hit list. My childhood crush just rode back into town, too, and that may spell even bigger trouble . . .

My talent for sensing magical objects has made me a damn good professional thief for the past decade. But it’s also what got me into a blood oath with notorious Fae mob boss Grant Shaw.

My relationship with Shaw is rapidly souring, and I need to break free before it turns deadly. The solution? I must steal a magic skull from Shaw’s biggest rival and deliver it to him, and then he’ll nullify our blood oath.

Just as I’m set to go after the skull, my childhood best friend and crush, wolf shifter Judah McMahon, shows up asking for help. It’s been ten years since the falling out that ended our friendship, and I know I shouldn’t get involved.

Featured Fantasy: Rampant Dawn by J.W. Meyer

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Featured Fantasy: Rampant Dawn by J.W. Meyer

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A dangerous task turned deadly. When a novice wizard is pulled into a perilous quest, can he survive a trial by fire?

Kresdin Agaldiar works hard to conquer magic. Keeping a tight rein on his complex emotions, the self-doubting young man hungers for knowledge while diligently studying under his master’s watchful eye. But after an errand for his mentor turns into a life-or-death battle against vicious lizardmen, he’s shocked when he becomes the victim of a mystical kidnapping.

Ordered by his unseen captor to chase down scattered pieces of a mysterious artifact, Kresdin hurtles through a portal to a verdant woodland full of ruins and bloodthirsty horrors. And inadvertently agreeing to help the natives defeat a band of evil jackal folk, the disoriented mage is nearly torn to shreds as he scrambles to locate the first fragment of the coveted relic.

Equipped with little more than his wits and untested gifts, can Kresdin conjure up unexpected courage, unlikely friends, and impossible victories?

Apprentice Gone is the fast-paced first book in the Rampant Dawn epic fantasy series. If you like gritty action, endearing sidekicks, and whispers of dragons then you’ll love J. W. Meyer’s journey of a lifetime.

Buy Apprentice Gone for a treasure hoard of excitement today!

Featured Fantasy: Unexpected Magic by Christine Pope

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Found Objects: A Paranormal Witch Urban Fantasy (Unexpected Magic Book 1)

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Penny Briggs is a perfectly ordinary woman. Until her life takes a left turn at Albuquerque…

I thought my marriage would be a fairy tale. Instead, I’ve put a thousand miles between me and my broken dream, starting over with temp job in Albuquerque. Prop shopping for a TV production takes my mind off my troubles — until I buy an old pair of glasses no one on the set can wear.

Curious, I look through the lenses myself — and they show me a wild vision of a lonely desert canyon I’ve never seen before.

A friend directs me and my weird glasses to her cousin, a brujo — a male witch — who specializes in weird. He’s also the most spectacularly handsome man I’ve ever seen, with black hair, dark eyes, and a flashing smile so dazzling, I almost miss his casual remark that my magic is powerful.

Magic? What magic? I’m just an ordinary woman from an ordinary family.

Yet as the two of us explore the mystery surrounding those supernatural glasses — and give in to our growing attraction — I discover a past I knew nothing about. And that there’s a dangerous reason it’s been hidden from me all these years….

Featured Fantasy: Pawsitive Beginnings (A Mystic Notch Cozy Mystery Prequel) by Leighann Dobbs

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Featured Fantasy: Pawsitive Beginnings (A Mystic Notch Cozy Mystery Prequel) by Leighann Dobbs

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Willa Chance has just inherited her grandmothers bookstore… little does she know it comes with a couple of mischievous ghosts and a mystery solving cat!

When a body is found behind her store, Willa finds herself embroiled in a twisty mystery. She can’t help but try to solve it despite the warnings of her sister, Gus, the county Sheriff. Luckily Willa has her senior sleuth bookstore regulars, and the Mystic Notch cats, to help her out!

Enjoy Willa and Pandora’s first adventure in this Mystic Notch prequel!