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Featured Fantasy: Wind Across the Silver Blade (Yokai Bonds Book 1) by Catharine Glen

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Featured Fantasy: Wind Across the Silver Blade (Yokai Bonds Book 1) by Catharine Glen

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A girl with a hidden power. A demon from the past. A god bent on revenge.

Young noblewoman Yumi seeks a new purpose in exile. But when a dangerous power awakens within her, she is forced to flee once more. Lost in the mountain forest, she discovers a forgotten shrine guarding an ancient secret — and a demon from the past. Drawn into the treacherous world of yokai, can Yumi trust the captivating winged demon — or will he use her for his own ends?

Touma, next leader of the great tengu, wakes from a deadly battle to a human girl tending his wounds — three centuries later. Worse, they share a soulbond, an unexpected complication he must resist at all costs. For there is more to Yumi than he initially believes, and their link may be the catalyst of a devastating threat. Faced with the loss of an unreachable past, Touma has nothing left to protect — except the girl with the secret to time itself.

The dangers of Touma’s past lurk in the present, his future irrevocably linked to hers. As their enemies close in, Yumi may be the final hope against an ancient god bent on revenge — or the very conduit for his cause.

Wind Across the Silver Blade is Book 1 of Yokai Bonds, an interconnected Asian fantasy romance series featuring powerful yokai and the brave heroines who steal their hearts. Fans of fated mates, forbidden romances, gods and demons, and time magic will find lots to love in this breathtaking new story.

Featured Fantasy: Glass and Sass (An Amethyst’s Wand Shop Mysteries Prequel) by Laura Greenwood and Arizona Tape

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Featured Fantasy: Glass and Sass (An Amethyst's Wand Shop Mysteries Prequel) by Laura Greenwood and Arizona Tape

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Amethyst likes to do things her own way, even when that means being suspended by the Centre for Wand Control when she uses a material she shouldn’t when making wands, ending up with her Grammie’s wand making license being suspended.

But Amy is determined to put it right, even if she has to go toe to toe with the CWC and prove that sea glass isn’t an unstable component of wands.

Can she get the suspension lifted?
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Glass and Sass is prequel to the Amethyst’s Wand Shop Mysteries series. The series is urban fantasy mystery with an underlying slow burn romance, the prequel focuses on Amy’s first clash with the Centre for Wand Control.

Featured Fantasy: Beechwood Harbor Ghost Mysteries Book 1 -3 by Danielle Garrett

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Featured Fantasy: Beechwood Harbor Ghost Mysteries Book 1 -3 by Danielle Garrett

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Welcome to Beechwood Harbor. A rustic, coastal town where paranormals live among humans, undetected — at least, so far.

Scarlet Sanderson isn’t a paranormal being per se, but she’s no stranger to things that go bump in the night. She’s had the ability to see and speak with ghosts since she was eight years old. Whether it’s a gift or a curse is still up for debate.

She moved to the picturesque town of Beechwood Harbor to open a flower shop and start a new life after years of being a nomad. What she didn’t expect to find was a town filled with witches, vampires, shape-shifters and ghosts. So, so many ghosts.

With her sarcastic ghost cat and a stately 20th-century gentleman by her side, she can take on the world. She just wishes that world would stop landing her in the middle of murder investigations. Cold case murders, reckless poltergeists, and depressed specters are becoming Scarlet’s new normal. But how in the Otherworld is she supposed to have any kind of real life when she’s stuck halfway between the world of the living and the dead?

This boxed set includes the first three books in the series, The Ghost Hunter Next Door, Ghosts Gone Wild, and When Good Ghosts Get the Blues.

Featured Fantasy: The Berylian Key: Series One in the Pantracia Chronicles by Amanda Muratoff and Kayla Hansen

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Featured Fantasy: The Berylian Key: Series One in the Pantracia Chronicles

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Amarie’s legendary magic could incinerate her enemies, but it’s her sword she trusts.

While running from the men who killed her family, she learns of an ancient text locked within the Great Library that might be the final key to understanding her curse. During the daring theft, a stranger inserts himself into her scheme. Kin’s roguish good looks and boundless charm threaten to distract her, but she has no intention of landing in the city jail.

Kin’s life, riddled with shadows and death, is as dark as his soul.

He embraces his power, given by a wicked master, but when he meets Amarie… She shatters the walls he’s built, piercing his solitude with vibrant light. But if she learns he hunts the power cursing her family, he will lose her forever.

Trusting him could risk her heart and her life, but it might be the only way to destroy the world’s most sinister evil. Unless Kin’s master finds her first…

This series includes three full-length novels comprising The Berylian Key trilogy, which is the first installment in the Pantracia Chronicles. It includes Embrace of the Shade, Blood of the Key, and Unraveling of the Soul.

This series is perfect for readers who enjoy Sarah J. Maas, Jennifer Armentrout, Leigh Bardugo, and Holly Black. It is recommended for 18+ as it contains sexual content, violence, and language.

Featured Fantasy: Court of Tricksters (Fae Tricksters Book 1) by S. L. Prater

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Featured Fantasy: Court of Tricksters (Fae Tricksters Book 1) by S. L. Prater

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The fae Duke of Night doesn’t believe in love—but he’ll claim his mate nonetheless.

Mating is a matter of politics for Night, not the heart. To prevent a forced union that will plunge the Lunar Court into war, he must find and bond his true mate.

When he lays eyes on Rain, he knows the shy forest witch is the bond mate he’s been searching for. Unprepared for the intensity of his attraction, Night makes an offer that would keep his priorities straight and his court safe: a marriage of convenience. Any eligible woman—mortal and immortal alike—would leap at the chance to become the powerful duke’s bride.

But Rain isn’t interested.

She’s lived outside of society too long to ever fit into Night’s world of shapeshifting tricksters and back-stabbing politicians. And Rain demands more than the trappings of marriage. She wants a match with heart.

Night doesn’t have the luxury of time to change his mate’s mind. War looms closer and the Lunar Court is caught in the middle. Out of options, the fae duke sees only one choice.

Kidnap his bride.

Featured Fantasy: First Time’s A Charm (Grimalkin Academy Book 1) by Laura Greenwood

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First Time's A Charm (Grimalkin Academy Book 1)

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Things might be easier if I could stop conjuring kittens every time I attempt a spell.

I used to be good at magic. That’s how I got into Grimalkin Academy in the first place. Then I was dared by my friends to try a spell way above my abilities. Now, the end of year exams are coming up, and I need to find a way to stop my magic going haywire all the time or I’m going to fail.

At least matters of my heart are easy enough…for now.