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Featured Fantasy: The Witches of Time by Leigh Ann Edwards

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Featured Fantasy: The Witches of Time by Leigh Ann Edwards

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“A witch!”

It’s an accusation Arianna O’Sullivan dreads as she struggles to conceal her abilities from the suspicious villagers in Colonial Massachusetts. Saved from the pillory by a handsome, chivalrous stranger, Arianna senses an inexplicable connection. When she’s given no choice but to marry the charismatic man even after discovering he’s the grandson of an infamous witch-hunter, she fears her powers won’t be restrained for much longer.

Intrigued by the scarlet-haired beauty, Darius Wyndham recklessly weds her and brings her home to his settlement. Falling in love with his wife was never in the plan, and Darius grows suspicious of his new feelings. He never believed in witches, yet he certainly feels bewitched. Or could Arianna be his destiny?

Arianna dares to believe she’s finally found love and safety in the arms of her new husband, but when the spirit of his first wife appears with disturbing clues to her death and long-hidden secrets from their past, Arianna is left questioning everything.

Featured Fantasy: The Witchstone by Henry H. Neff

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An unforgettable, high-stakes, laugh-out-loud funny novel, The Witchstone blends the merciless humor of The Good Place with the spellbinding fantasy of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods.

Meet Laszlo, eight-hundred-year-old demon and Hell’s least productive Curse Keeper. From his office beneath Midtown, he oversees the Drakeford Curse, which involves a pathetic family upstate and a mysterious black monolith. It’s a sexy enough assignment—colonial origins, mutating victims, et cetera—but Laszlo has no interest in maximizing the curse’s potential; he’d rather sunbathe in Ibiza, quaff martinis, and hustle the hustlers on Manhattan’s subway. Unfortunately, his division has new management, and Laszlo’s ratings are so abysmal that he’s given six days to shape up or he’ll be melted down and returned to the Primordial Ooze.

Meet Maggie Drakeford, nineteen-year-old Curse Bearer. All she’s ever known is the dreary corner of the Catskills where the Drakeford Curse has devoured her father’s humanity and is rapidly laying claim to her own. The future looks hopeless, until Laszlo appears at the Drakeford farmhouse one October night and informs them that they have six days—and six days only—to break the spell before it becomes permanent. Can Maggie trust the glib and handsome Laszlo? Of course not. But she also can’t pass up an opportunity to save her family, even if it means having a demon as a guide …

Thus begins a breakneck international adventure that takes our unlikely duo from a hot dog stand in Central Park to the mountains of Liechtenstein. As the clock ticks down, tough-as-nails Maggie and conniving Laszlo will uncover a secret so profound that what began as a farcical quest to break a curse will eventually threaten the very Lords of Hell.

Featured Fantasy: White Haven Witches TJ Green

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Featured Fantasy: White Haven Witches TJ Green

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Witchcraft, dark secrets, and demons. No one is safe in White Haven.

Avery, one of the five White Haven witches, practices her magic alone and spends her days working in her bookshop, refusing to join the coven.

However, days away from Litha, the summer solstice, a deceased customer bequeaths her a rune covered box and an intriguing letter that reveals the witches are missing a vital part of their history. The news shatters her organised life completely.

Five ancient family grimoires are hidden in the town, and within their pages lies a secret.

Unable to resist a mystery, Avery is determined to find them. However, the tarot cards predict danger, and when another witch—the sexy, but annoying Alex Bonneville—shares the same premonition, they know that an unknown enemy is determined to stop them using any means necessary.

Avery never backs down from a fight, and Alex refuses to let her fight alone.

When White Haven turns into a battleground of magic and demons, the witches’ lives will never be the same again.

Buried Magic is perfect for fans of paranormal mysteries who love authentic witchcraft and magic, a slow-burn romance, English humour, a gorgeous Cornish setting with lots of myths, and plenty of action. Join the coven and buy Buried Magic now!

Featured Fantasy: A Matter of Magic Duology by Patricia C. Wrede

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Featured Fantasy: A Matter of Magic Duology by Patricia C. Wrede

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An orphan in Regency London discovers a world of magic, intrigue, and romance in this YA historical fantasy duology—now available in one volume!

When a stranger offers Kim a small fortune to break into a traveling magician’s wagon, she doesn’t hesitate. Having grown up a waif in the dirty streets of London, Kim isn’t above a bit of breaking-and-entering. But when the magician catches her in the act, Kim thinks she’s done for.

Instead, Mairelon the Magician asks Kim to become his apprentice. And that’s when the real trouble begins. Kim soon finds herself entangled with murderers, thieves, and cloak-and-dagger politics, all while trying to learn how to become both a proper lady and a magician in her own right.

A Matter of Magic includes the books Mairelon the Magician and The Magician’s Ward.

Featured Fantasy: Vegas Arcana by James Anderson Foster

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Featured Fantasy: Vegas Arcana by James Anderson Foster

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Behind the neon glow lies a darker truth—welcome to VEGAS ARCANA.

“Vegas Arcana: Deck Runner’s Gambit” is the first book in the Vegas Arcana series, a cornerstone of the expansive ARCANAVERSE. While Vegas Arcana stands on its own, it also opens the door to an interconnected urban fantasy world. Readers can choose to stay in Vegas or explore other Arcanaverse series, each offering unique adventures that ultimately weave together in epic crossover events. Whichever path you choose, the Arcanaverse promises an unforgettable journey into the hidden corners of our world.

In the city where the dazzling lights cast the darkest shadows, an ordinary life is about to be upended.

Las Vegas is known for its glamour, but beneath the surface, Malcolm Byrne discovers a hidden world of magic and danger. Thrust into a centuries-old battle to maintain the balance of power, Mal must navigate treacherous waters filled with arcane threats.

As Mal delves deeper into this mystical underworld, he forms fragile alliances with those who straddle the line between the magical and the mundane. Tested in ways he never imagined, he confronts not only external enemies but also the shadows lurking within himself.

Will Mal survive the dangers of this hidden world and discover who he truly is? Find out in “Vegas Arcana: Deck Runner’s Gambit,” a fast-paced Urban Fantasy perfect for fans of Jim Butcher and Benedict Jacka. Dive into a world of hidden magic, thrilling action, and complex in-fighting that will keep you turning pages late into the night.

Featured Fantasy: Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

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Featured Fantasy: Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

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New York Times Bestseller! Indiana. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother’s bedside. She’s been stricken with something the old-timers call “Milk Sickness.”

“My baby boy…” she whispers before dying.

Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother’s fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.

When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, “henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose…” Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.

While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.

Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.