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Featured Fantasy: Tarnished by Time (Romancing Aranthium Book 3) by Daniela A. Mera

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Featured Fantasy: Tarnished by Time (Romancing Aranthium Book 3) by Daniela A. Mera

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An urban fantasy Hades and Persephone retelling perfect for fans of Crescent City and The Cruel Prince.
“Putting aside the fact that he was my ex-boss and the fact he had orchestrated my kidnapping, I had no business being the wife of a king.”

Aidoneus

My first wife died three centuries ago. Now, Aranthium was facing a major threat. Time without having a queen had weakened my powers. In order to win the war against my brother Phelix, I needed to remarry.

After months of being paraded around with the most eligible Aranthian bachelorettes, I made my choice. Phaedra was not a princess, nor did she come from a powerful family. But, somehow, she had the power of the gods. She was exactly what I needed in my life.

The only problem was she made me feel things I had no right feeling for someone a quarter of my age.

Phaedra

I grew up in a gilded cage, unable to spread my wings. My mother never let me have the freedom I craved. Then, when I was beginning to live my life as an independent Angel in Olimpie, I was abducted by the King of the Daemons for my own “safety”.

I worked for him for years, but one day, things changed. After an attack on the city I had come to call my home, I was in a coma for months. When I woke up, new power flowed through my veins.

Aidoneus needed a wife. I needed someone to balance the power before it destroyed me. Hades approached me with a proposal: marriage. As friends. Nothing more.

Resisting the King of the Daemons was a lot more difficult than I had ever bargained for.This book is a complete, stand-alone story that is part of a larger series. “Romancing Aranthium” books are the perfect books for fans of fantasy romance who love sweet love stories, powerful ladies, danger, political intrigue, and epic journeys. Setting classic stories in an urban setting with vampires, fae, merpeople, angels, and were-shifters makes them all the more enticing.

Featured Fantasy: Death of a Fairy Tale (Mari Fable Mysteries Book 1) by Emily Fluke

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Featured Fantasy: Death of a Fairy Tale (Mari Fable Mysteries Book 1) by Emily Fluke

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She’s a skeptic.
But the birth of her baby sparks storybook murders.
Can she find the truth before dark fairy tales determine her daughter’s fate?

An engaging and delightful urban fantasy, Death of a Fairy Tale, is filled with heart-stopping danger and gripping mystery. For fans of The Dresden Files, Once Upon a Time, Supernatural, and Grimm.

Mari can solve any mystery, except who wants to murder her and why they’re leading her to grandma’s house.

Death of a Fairy Tale is a supernatural mystery chock-full of classic stories, murder, and sarcasm. Mari is a determined, if not a little frazzled, investigative journalist and brand-new mother. The birth of her daughter sparks strange events that lead into the hidden world of fairy tales. Mari struggles to balance her baby in one hand and her job in the other while she hunts her supernatural stalker and uncovers the truth behind beloved children’s stories.

Featured Fantasy: Wolf of the Tesseract (Wolves of the Tesseract Book 1) by Christopher D. Schmitz

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Featured Fantasy: Wolf of the Tesseract (Wolves of the Tesseract Book 1) by Christopher D. Schmitz

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A demon set Claire’s house on fire… with her still inside!

Inferno monsters aren’t the worst of it. Her archaeologist father is missing, news that comes after the Feds confirm suspicions of a bigfoot serial killer. And of course there are lizard people—and they’ll stop at nothing to capture Claire.

When her father’s long-time friend, an elderly language professor, decodes a primeval text, Claire learns that cultists believe there is magic in her veins. Only her blood has the power to allow those chasing her to breach an inter-dimensional gate that must never be opened and unleash an ageless evil.

Claire’s only hope is to unravel the secrets of a mysterious artifact that can alter reality: The Tesseract. But it’s guarded by ancient protectors, The Wolves of Vangandra.

If the cultist catches her, they’ll end all existence… but Claire can’t run forever. Can she trust the wolf and face this evil head on?

A great match for fans of Cassandra Clare, Sarah J. Maas, Holly Black, or Stephanie Meyer.

Featured Fantasy: The Demon Hunters Trilogy by Tiger Hebert

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Featured Fantasy: The Demon Hunters Trilogy by Tiger Hebert

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Seraphim once protected the mortal realm against the hordes of the Nine Hells. Those days were long ago…

In the years that followed, mortals found themselves on the front-lines of the bloody war. None more prominent than the Rift Wardens, the holy order charged with the defense of their world.

Her whole life, Vaseen had dreamed of becoming a Warden. Her very first mission after the academy left her searching a massacred village for clues when she’s waylaid by a powerful demon. After only narrowly escaping the demon’s wrath, the Warden realizes she’s going to need help.

She must hire a sell-sword.

Bounty hunters are aplenty, but when it comes to killing demons, the Black Blade is the best there is—but he will cost her more than coin…

The Demon Hunters Omnibus Includes:
1. Faith and Fury
2. Dark Pact
3. Herald of the Nine

Featured Fantasy: DarkRise (The Origin Prophecy Book 2) by M.A. Phipps & Rebecca Jaycox

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Featured Fantasy: DarkRise (The Origin Prophecy Book 2) by M.A. Phipps & Rebecca Jaycox

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A wavering loyalty. A determined love. When the light falls, the dark will rise.

Remember your bloodline. That lesson has been drilled into eighteen-year-old CALEB since childhood, and as grandson to Alexander the Great, he has always respectfully heeded those words. But when that loyalty lands him in the middle of an uprising that could lead to a war that would rival the Fall, Caleb realizes that family isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be. Especially when the price for that blind devotion is the girl he loves.

LUNA thought she nearly lost her mind once, but four months in a hidden celestial realm has her teetering closer to insanity than ever before. Imprisoned by the Council for her role in Alexander’s release, she spends her days obsessing over the revelation of her true identity and having conversations with people who might not actually be there. Trapped in a cage where time never moves and reality and hallucination have become intertwined, only one thing remains clear to Luna: she will never leave this place.

Caleb won’t rest until he rescues his Goldilocks, even if that means defying his grandfather and the Council to save her. But will he reach Luna before she is lost to her madness? Or will he fail and lose her again—this time forever?

DARKRISE is the second book in the YA paranormal romance trilogy The Origin Prophecy, a loose Romeo + Juliet retelling about star-crossed teenagers in a magical, hidden world of angels, demons, and Nephilim.

Featured Fantasy: Lightfall (The Origin Prophecy Book 1) by M.A. Phipps & Rebecca Jaycox

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Featured Fantasy: Lighfall (The Origin Prophecy Book 1) by M.A. Phipps & Rebecca Jaycox

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A forbidden friendship. A dangerous secret. What’s done in the dark always comes to light.

After a number of violent incidents brand seventeen-year-old LUNA as a danger to others, she’s committed to a psychiatric hospital, reaffirming what she’s always known—she’s crazy. Only one person disagrees with her diagnosis: the new doctor with the bewildering golden glow who insists she’s “special” and doesn’t belong there. When he arranges to have her transferred to a school in Egypt for children with angelic blood, Luna is forced to question if she’s actually insane or if there’s possibly more to her troubled past than she thought.

CALEB is a Dark Nephilim student at the Tower of Babel Academy in Iraq. Despite being the third generation of his bloodline, he’s more gifted than many of his peers, making him the perfect candidate to go undercover as an exchange student at the school for Light Nephilim in Alexandria. Once there, he has only one mission: find a way to free his grandfather, Alexander the Great, who was entombed after trying to conquer the world.

When Luna and Caleb cross paths, their outcast natures draw them to each other despite everyone around them saying Lights and Darks can’t be friends. With millennia of prejudice working against them, can they overcome the divide built to keep them apart? Or will the building trail of secrets and lies they discover destroy their fragile, new-found bond?

LIGHTFALL is the first book in the YA paranormal romance trilogy The Origin Prophecy, a loose Romeo + Juliet retelling about two teenage Nephilim caught on opposing sides of an ancient feud. This novel features a slow burn, enemies-to-lovers, forbidden romance and ends on a cliffhanger.