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Featured Fantasy: Born of Earth (The Elemental Origins Series Book 3) by A.L. Knorr

August 4, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Born of Earth (The Elemental Origins Series Book 3) by A.L. Knorr

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A trip abroad. A dark secret. Her family’s legacy of magic may cost a teen her life…

Georjie’s summer is shaping up to be a big disappointment. Trapped in Ireland with her aunt’s gorgeous but cold adopted son Jasher, her “vacation” gets worse with each passing day. But when a trip to the greenhouse reveals glowing cocoons she shouldn’t be able to see, she embarks on a quest to solve a magical mystery…

In the pages of an ancient diary, Georjie learns of her dark family history and unearths an incredible elemental power. But as she digs deeper and realizes she isn’t the only one with a touch of magic, the ghosts of the past may do much more than haunt her.

Can Georjie provide justice for her ancestors before she becomes the next family victim?

Born of Earth is an enchanting fae novel in the Elemental Origins series, a nonlinear collection of YA contemporary fantasy novels. If you like powerful young women, dangerous boys, and spooky spirits, you’ll love this ghostly adventure.

Can be read as a standalone. Set in Ireland.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: A.L. Knorr, Born of Earth, The Elemental Origins Series

Featured Fantasy: Shadows of the Fallen (A Trespass of Angels Book 1) by A.L. Knorr

July 7, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Shadows of the Fallen (A Trespass of Angels Book 1) by A.L. Knorr

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Their relationship? Complicated.
Their chemistry? Irresistible.
Their enemies? Biblical.


Petra is the only one of her kind—a telekinetic supernatural with a tragic past, questionable judgment, and the subtlety of a thrown grenade. After spending three years wiping an evil corporation off the map (long story, lots of fire), she and Jesse can finally be free. Then a demon shows up to say, You’re one of us.

So naturally, Petra ghosts. Not because she doesn’t love Jesse. But if she’s tied to something ancient, monstrous, and cosmically wrong, she’ll do whatever it takes to keep it from touching him. Even if that means breaking his heart.

Jesse, meanwhile, does what any genius hacker with abandonment issues would do: ignore common sense and dig through encrypted hell to find her. When a sleek biotech company offers him a job, it looks like the perfect distraction—easy hours, clean code, and no one asking about the girl who left ash and silence in her wake.

But Petra isn’t done being hunted.

As she uncovers her connection to the ancient Watchers—angelic rebels from Heaven—Jesse gets pulled deeper into a web of corporate secrets, divine conspiracies, and an apocalypse that may already be in motion—and Petra’s not just caught in the middle, she is the point.

This isn’t a story about falling for an angel. It’s about surviving one.

A fast-paced supernatural thriller with urban fantasy roots, a gritty romance where ‘I love you’ comes out as ‘don’t die’, and a heroine weaponized by divine design—whether she likes it or not. If you liked Shadowhunters, but wished it had less romance drama and more ancient conspiracies—you’ll love Shadows of the Fallen.

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Featured Fantasy: Cobalt (Pretty Little Mermaids Book 1) by A.L. Knorr

May 24, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Cobalt (Pretty Little Mermaids Book 1) by A.L. Knorr

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A siren on the run. A ship full of strangers. A storm that knows her name.

Gina is running from a life she can’t explain—and a truth she can’t face. Under false pretences and with no plan beyond the horizon, she boards a historic sailing ship hoping to vanish into salt and sky. But when she meets someone who sees more than he should, and a storm that feels more like a reckoning than an accident, Gina realizes the sea has plans of its own.

For one boy, she’s unforgettable. For the sea, she’s unfinished business.

Cobalt is a haunting prequel about identity, escape, and the beginning of a legacy far bigger than one mermaid.

Return to the siren realm of A.L. Knorr with Pretty Little Mermaids, which expands the lore and worlds established in Born of Water, Mermaid’s Return and The Siren’s Curse, but is set before the events of the latter.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: A.L. Knorr, Cobalt, Pretty Little Mermaids

Featured Fantasy: Aquamarine (Pretty Little Mermaids Book 2) by A.L. Knorr

May 24, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Aquamarine (Pretty Little Mermaids Book 2) by A.L. Knorr

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She’s a siren by blood. A science nerd by choice. And she’s about to pick a fight with the ocean itself.

To most mermaids, the Salt is sacred—an ancient tide that claims your memory, your humanity, and controls your mating cycle. But Eadie Jackson isn’t like most mermaids. She’s the youngest of triplets, allergic to destiny, and still angry that the sea took her mother.

She wants a normal senior year: survive her bully, ace her science fair, and maybe get Seth Foster to look at her like she’s not just weird-Jackson-girl number three. But when Eadie discovers a mermaid trapped in salt-flush—her memory wiped, her identity gone—she realizes the Salt isn’t just cruel. It’s a cage.

Now the ocean wants Eadie too. And it’s not used to hearing no.

Can the “weakest” Jackson sister outwit ancient magic without losing herself—or the only normal life she’s ever wanted?

Aquamarine is a fierce and funny YA mermaid fantasy packed with high school chaos, slow-burn romance, and a heroine who refuses to sink.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: A.L. Knorr, Aquamarine, Pretty Little Mermaids

Featured Fantasy: Bones of the Witch (Earth Magic Rises Book 1) by A.L.Knorr

November 8, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Bones of the Witch by A.L.Knorr

FREE November 8, 2023
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High in the hills of Scotland, an ancient evil has returned. One young woman struggling to master her magic is the only hope to stop it…

Georjie longs to unlock the full force of her fae-given powers. So when she’s invited to Scotland, she’s eager to explore the Highlands’ famed fairy realm hoping to find a mentor. But instead of unearthing a teacher, she discovers a mummified body within the walls of a seventeenth-century ruin.

Teaming up with a handsome amateur historian, she uses her earth-elemental gift to overturn the secrets hidden deep in the soil. But never far from the trail of clues lurks a shadowy creature on the hunt for prey. And Georjie fears it may have found its first target when a local girl vanishes, only to be discovered in an open grave with her life slipping away…

Can Georjie break the curse before ancient evil claims an innocent victim?

Bones of the Witch is the first book in the explosive Earth Magic Rises contemporary fantasy series. If you like strong heroines, dark sorcery, and medieval Highland history, then you’ll love A.L. Knorr’s unforgettable adventure.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: A.L. Knorr, Bones of the Witch, The Earth Magic Rises

Featured Fantasy: Born of Metal (The Kings of the Inconquo Book 1) by A.L. Knorr & Aaron D. Schneider

September 10, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Born of Metal (The Kings of the Inconquo Book 1) by A.L. Knorr & Aaron D. Schneider

FREE as of September 10, 2023
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A powerful artifact, a secret society, an ancient evil. Can Ibby embrace her destiny as Inconquo guardian before an ages-old demon is unleashed on London?

Ibby’s parents gave up everything for a chance at a better life. So, after a terrible accident leaves her alone in London, Ibby works her internship at the British Museum and goes to her classes to make them proud.

But when Ibby finds a strange artifact and encounters a mysterious professor in the bowels of the museum, she learns that her lineage means bigger responsibilities than good grades. Training in the secrecy of a ghostly underground tube station defunct since 1933, her waking powers means Ibby must face the wrath of a titan with a vendetta against her kind…and she has to do it alone.

If you love strong female characters and millennia old secrets, you’ll love the origin story of Ibukun Bashir, metal elemental. Welcome to the world of the Inconquo.Enjoy Born of Metal today and experience a wild ride and the forging of a modern legend!

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: A.L. Knorr, Aaron D. Schneider, Born of Metal, Rings of the Inconquo

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