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Featured Fantasy: The Fall of Wolfsbane (Ravenglass Legends Book 1) by Jon Cronshaw

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Featured Fantasy: The Fall of Wolfsbane (Ravenglass Legends Book 1) by Jon Cronshaw

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Ragnar is destined to rule…

…but when the Empire ravages his homeland, his birthright is lost.

Ragnar and his sister Maja are taken hostage and separated.

To keep each other alive, they must comply with their royal captors.

Can they convince the Empire they assent to the new order while doing all they can to find each other and restore their homeland?

Or will their loyalty wane in the Empire’s gilded halls?

Featured Sci-fi: Legacy (The Biodome Chronicles Book 1) by Jesikah Sundin

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She is locked inside an experimental world.
He has never met the girl who haunts his dreams.
A chilling secret forever binds their lives together.

Willow Oak Watson has never met a stranger. Never known the open wide sky. Never seen modern technology.

The experimental world she was born into is built on rules and traditions. Edicts no one has dared challenge—until her father’s shocking death places an invisible crown of power on her brother’s head. A coveted legacy that may be the very reason her father now lies dead.

Unsure of who they can trust, her brother risks their family’s banishment in a hunt for answers. A bold decision that leads them to a hidden communications room and to Fillion Nichols, a young man with a chilling link to her family. A stranger Willow feels a bond with the moment they meet. A connection that has haunted his dreams for years.

Everything about Fillion bends her reality and screams danger. He is the complete opposite of all that she has ever known and from a world she fears. Yet he is the only one who can decode the many cryptic secrets destroying her home.

A necessity if her family is to survive.

Worlds collide in an unforgettable quest for truth, unfolding a story rich in mystery, betrayal, and love.

A salivating blend of MEDIEVAL meets THE NEAR FUTURE in this gritty young adult eco-dystopian tale, brimming with psychological thrills, strong nature and found family themes, and an angsty, enemies to lovers slow burn fated romance that forever alters the reality of two worlds.

Featured Fantasy: Tsarina Scholar Woodsman Thief by Cidney Swanson

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Featured Fantasy: Tsarina Scholar Woodsman Thief by Cidney Swanson

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In this enchanting fairytale, a pair of estranged siblings, a tsarina, and a woodsman must band together to outwit a crooked duke who wants them all—and isn’t particular as to “dead” or “alive.” Here be dragons and sirens, magical gifts and dread debts, deeds noble and foolhardy. With a touch of Narnia and a dash of Baba Yaga, it’s a tale that reads like balm for the weary in soul.

Glance over the first lines. Peruse the first chapter. And then find your coziest reading nook and settle in, preferably with a “Do Not Disturb” sign nearby.

Featured Fantasy: Bricks and Murder (Seattle Slayers Book 2) by Ken Bebelle & Julia Vee

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Roxy Lim is now an inked member of the Seattle Slayers, tasked with enforcing the Oceanic Pact in a city teeming with deadly shifters, devious vampires, and scheming fae.

I made it into the Slayers by the skin of my teeth and now I just need to figure out a plan to ship some Cure back to my mom. Cure doesn’t survive the Crossing through the Veil without the right vessel. But earning my stripes with the Slayers should get me just the vessel I need to do it.

Things at the Dojo were going great. The head of the Dojo himself has taken an interest in my training. I got my ink and was riding high when my shifter landlady Mrs. Chu goes missing in the Wilds. Faced with the decision to either carry out my duties with Slayers or to bail to the Wilds to find the one person in Seattle who has taken care of me like family, it’s no choice at all.

What I thought would be a simple errand lands me in a full scale vampire war between the Night Court and a rogue vampire named O’Malley. Shifters are dying and now I can’t leave and the Slayers won’t help.

All I’ve got to save Mrs. Chu and the rest of the shifters is my hammers, a sharp knife, and my growing Breaker magic. I’ll use everything I’ve got but will it be enough to stop O’Malley’s war?

Join Seattle Slayer Roxy Lim on her wildest mission yet as she battles through the largest peril of vampires she’s ever come across and one deadly rogue leader who wants to add Roxy to his team.

Featured Fantasy: Stakes and Bones (Seattle Slayers 1) by Ken Bebelle & Julia Vee

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Featured Fantasy: Stakes and Bones (Seattle Slayers 1) by Ken Bebelle & Julia Vee

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Roxy’s got two hammers, a bit of Breaker magic, and the deathbed promise she made to her father.

The Seattle Slayers, an elite cadre of fighters dedicated to protecting the city, is having their Trials for new initiates. My dad was a Slayer–one of the best. I thought his legacy might give me an edge in the Trials, but I was wrong. If anything, it made them harder on me.

But joining the Slayers is my best chance to save my mom. And, maybe, I need to see if I can fill my dad’s shoes.

The only things standing between me and my dreams are all the other elite fighters and magic users who want their spot on the Slayers too. I will battle them all–fae warriors, river demons, and a vicious animage who hates my guts.

I’ve got my hands full but a certain vampire princeling further complicates my life even as he saves it. He’s powerful, handsome, and deadly–a combination I find hard to resist.

If you enjoy slow-burn romance and rooting for the underdog, cross over to Twilight Veil, where life is cheap and vampire blood spends the best.

Featured Fantasy: School for Spirits by Aron Lewes

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Leigh Riley is three weeks away from her high school graduation when she’s suddenly crushed by a truck. She may be dead, but her education is far from over. Seventeen-year-old Leigh is inducted into the School for Spirits, where she learns how to be a spirit guide for mortals.

Leigh meets Alyx, her rebel roommate who just doesn’t care about the spirit guide stuff. Then Leigh develops a massive crush on an absurdly hot Archangel named Jophiel. Finally, she is assigned to a veteran instructor, Taishi Nakamura. The handsome samurai is quiet, strict and private, but Leigh is determined to crack his shell.

School For Spirits is a young adult paranormal romance. Due to some minor language, it is recommended for ages 13+.