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Featured Fantasy: Magic Today (Mathilda Holiday Urban Fantasy Book 1) by Anna McCluskey

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Magic Today by Anna McCluskey

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Magic is real — and it’s a bitch.

Mattie’s life is already unraveling when she learns that her twin sister, Tillie, has vanished. She drops everything and rushes across the country to join her friend Trevor in the search.

What they uncover is bigger than a disappearance.

A hidden room filled with crystal balls and grimoires. Strangers manipulating time. Spells cast in broad daylight. A powerful network of mages operating in the shadows.

Tillie isn’t just missing.

She’s being hunted.

Can Mattie and Trevor outmaneuver a secret society before they become targets in a deadly magical conspiracy?

Magic Today is the first book in the Mathilda Holiday series — a fast-paced contemporary urban fantasy with LGBTQ+ characters, neurodivergent representation, found family, supernatural suspense, and sharp humor woven through escalating danger.

Perfect for readers who love queer urban fantasy, paranormal thrillers, secret societies, strong female leads, and character-driven contemporary fantasy.

If you enjoy fantasy by Nicholas Woode-Smith, Emma Shelford, Kim Richardson, or Lisa Edmonds, you’ll love this free series starter.

Featured Sci-fi: Steel for Hire (Galactic Mercenaries Book 1) by Richard Fierce

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Steel for Hire by Richard Fierce

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Some jobs turn you into a zombie. Literally.

Captain Jayde Thrin of the cargo ship Determination has one goal: make enough money to retire in style. Her small mercenary crew travels the universe taking on odd jobs, but when a botched gig lands them in hot water, it’s up to Jayde to figure out their escape – and their survival.

The nearby mining planet M44 provides an opportunity to refuel and make a quick buck, but there’s more going on in the mines than anyone realizes. What Jayde expects to be an easy job turns out to be one of the hardest yet, especially with the outpost overrun with the undead.

Steel for Hire is the first episode of Galactic Mercenaries, a space opera series about zombies, space battles, alien invasion, and a misfit crew trying to survive in a dangerous universe.

Featured Sci-fi: Ambush (Flight of the Intrepid Book 1) by Kevin McLaughlin

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Featured Sci-fi: Ambush (Flight of the Intrepid Book 1) by Kevin McLaughlin

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For fifty years, humanity has stood its ground against the Drechnai. Tyrants of the first order, these beings have wiped out over a dozen spacefaring races, and they’ve done everything in their power to make humanity the next.

But for those fifty years, humans have scraped out a desperate battle for survival, relying on determination, tenacity, and raw courage to overcome our foe’s impossible technological advantage. Fifty years of constant war has honed our species into a deadly blade.

Without warning, the enemy sued for peace. But Captain George Oliver doesn’t trust them at their word, believing that this is some new deceit. Despite his misgivings, Earth’s fleet goes to sign a peace accord with the Drechnai.

It’s a trap! The human fleet is attacked, leaving Oliver’s vessel the sole Star Carrier still intact and able to defend Earth against the strike Oliver knows is coming.

He’s not wrong. The Drechnai intend to finish humans off once and for all time, their master stroke dealing death blows to both the fleet and Earth itself.

But they failed to factor in the men and women of the Star Carrier Intrepid, who will pay whatever price is required for the human race to survive!

Featured Fantasy: The Witches of Scotland the Edinburgh Files Books 1 – 4 by Steven P Aitchison

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Featured Fantasy: The Witches of Scotland the Edinburgh Files Books 1 - 4 by Steven P Aitchison

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🔥 Four Witches. One City. Zero Room for Error.
The Edinburgh Files: The Complete Collection (Books 1–4)

Welcome to Edinburgh—where ancient magick meets modern conspiracy, and the fate of the world hangs by a silken thread of spellcraft.

When witches Jessica Campbell and David Hunter are pulled into a chilling investigation involving an all-knowing AI, they uncover far more than a rogue algorithm. What begins with code soon spirals into time travel, political mind control, and the awakening of magick long buried beneath Scotland’s capital.

From 17th-century witch trials to a modern enchantress rewriting reality with her voice, Jessica and David face enemies who blur the lines between prophecy and power, faith and fear. Alongside unlikely allies—like Isla Douglas, a historian whose blood unlocks ancient secrets—they must race to stop a plan centuries in the making, orchestrated by a man willing to destroy the world to save it.

Four explosive books. One relentless arc.
Packed with twists, haunted cathedrals, ancestral witches, time rifts, secret societies, and a pulse-pounding battle for humanity’s soul.

Perfect for fans of dark urban fantasy, political thrillers with a supernatural twist, and anyone who believes magick never truly dies.

Featured Fantasy: White Silence (Elizabeth Cage Book 1) by Jodi Taylor

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Featured Fantasy: White Silence (Elizabeth Cage Book 1) by Jodi Taylor

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The first instalment in the gripping supernatural thriller series from international bestselling author, Jodi Taylor.

‘I don’t know who I am. I don’t know what I am.’

Elizabeth Cage is a child when she discovers that there are things in this world that only she can see. But she doesn’t want to see them and she definitely doesn’t want them to see her.

What is a curse to Elizabeth is a gift to others – a very valuable gift they want to control.

When her husband dies, Elizabeth’s world descends into a nightmare. But as she tries to piece her life back together, she discovers that not everything is as it seems.

Alone in a strange and frightening world, she’s a vulnerable target to forces beyond her control.

And she knows that she can’t trust anyone…

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Featured Fantasy: The Monster MASH (The Monster MASH Trilogy Book 1) by Angie Fox

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The Monster MASH by Angie Fox

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Ancient gods. Modern war. And a star-crossed couple who could use some divine intervention.

Drafted into a war between immortals, Dr. Petra Robichaud finds herself practicing battlefield medicine alongside a sphinx, a werewolf who skips meat, and a vampire with serious attitude. Keeping her patients alive is difficult enough. Keeping her own secret could be a matter of life and death.

Petra can see ghosts—and the gods forbid it. So when a devastatingly attractive commander begins to die on her operating table, saving him means doing something she should never attempt: putting his departing spirit back into his body.

Now Galen knows what she can do. Worse, he believes she is the key to a prophecy that could finally end the war. Petra would rather avoid both divine attention and a dangerously tempting demigod, but the predictions are beginning to unfold.

A paranormal romantic comedy with battlefield chaos, supernatural coworkers, and a doctor whose most reckless rescue may change everything.