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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

FREE as of October 3, 2024
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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

$1.99 as of October 2, 2024 (£2.99 in U.K.)
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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.

Featured Fantasy: The Complete Coffee & Ghosts Seasons 1 – 3 by Charity Tahmaseb

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Featured Fantasy: The Complete Coffee & Ghosts Seasons 1 - 3 by Charity Tahmaseb

99¢ as of September 28, 2024
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*EDITORS NOTE: This is 738 pages of pitch perfect FUN. Believable characters, light humor, and increasing stakes. I paid full-price for the second and third installment of this series because I loved it. Now you can get it for 99¢—but only for a few more days. Charity is raising the price on Tuesday*

Come for the coffee, stay for the supernatural adventure. There’s more than one way to catch a ghost, and it’s never been this fun!

Katy and her grandmother have always used coffee to catch ghosts. It pays the bills and keeps them in high-end beans. After her grandmother dies and a rival ghost hunter moves to town, Katy fears things will never be the same.

She’s right. Malcolm changes everything.

When Christmas brings both strangers and ghosts of the past to Springside, Katy fears her new business, new relationship, and quiet hometown will never be the same.

She’s right, again.

Once she uncovers long-held family secrets, Katy finds herself entangled in past and present—and on a mission to find the truth. To unravel the mystery that links her family with Malcolm’s, she’ll need to bargain with a powerful entity and face retribution from the necromancer community.

Where Katy must go, Malcolm can’t follow. She’ll need to make the ultimate sacrifice. To save Malcolm, Springside, and everything she loves, Katy will need to give them up forever.

Coffee & Ghosts is a cozy paranormal mystery/romance told in a series of novellas. The Complete Coffee and Ghosts contains the first three books in the series and is perfect if you like quirky stories that are a little bit scary, a little bit romantic, and a whole lot of fun.

Featured Fantasy: Black Kat Series Sale by Kimberly Gordon

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Featured Fantasy: Black Kat Series Sale by Kimberly Gordon

START THE SERIES FREE – Book 2 only 99¢, Book 3 only $2.99
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From Misfit Cop to Bad-Ass Bounty Hunter…
Officer Katherine Carter never fit in to the Chicago Police Department. Her tracking powers pull in everything around her, including trouble. Now they’ve caused a media frenzy and ended her career for good.

But there are other ways to serve the law, and Kat is given a chance to join a Fugitive Recovery Team, where her abilities can be put to better use…and lead her into deeper danger. Can she survive her career change? And what exactly is she, really?

If you like Heroes, the X-Men, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., you’ll love the Black Kat series, a superhero urban fantasy packed with action, adventure, mystery, comedy, and romance. And cats. Lots and lots of cats…

Featured Fantasy: Runes and Ravens (Familiar Spirits Book 5)

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A raven’s cryptic clues might just lead her to wrack and ruin….

Charity Hughes, owner of Full Moon Apothecary, is ready for Salem’s busiest season. But her broken heart isn’t the only thing haunting her. When confronted by a raven familiar who communicates only through mysterious rune stones, Charity must untangle the bird’s bizarre behavior while juggling the demands of tourist season.

The stakes rise when paranormal researcher Eunice Bartlett is found murdered behind Charity’s shop. Charmed by the invitation of Eunice’s rival, Dr. Nathan Grimes, to the Halloween masquerade ball, Charity agrees to be his date. But the enchantment fades when she encounters her ex, veterinarian Noah Jenkins, stirring up unresolved feelings.

As the murder investigation ensnares an innocent man, Charity’s intuition screams that something is amiss. With the raven’s frantic clues and her own Tarot cards as her guide, she races to unravel a web of secrets and lies…before the real killer disappears forever.