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Featured Fantasy: Magic in the Desert: Three Paranormal Romance Series Starters Set in the American Southwest by Christine Pope

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Featured Fantasy: Magic in the Desert: Three Paranormal Romance Series Starters Set in the American SouthwestFeatured Fantasy by Christine Pope

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Witchy magic meets the magic of the desert! Three complete first-in-series paranormal romance novels.
DARKANGEL : Finding the man of your dreams can be a real nightmare….

BAD VIBRATIONS : She thought she could see it all…He showed her so much more.

CHOSEN : When a fatal fever nearly wipes out the entire world’s population, the survivors of what became known as “the Dying” believe the worst is in the past.

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Featured Fantasy: Hedgewitch for Hire by Christine Pope

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Featured Fantasy: Hedgewitch for Hire by Christine Pope

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When you pull up stakes, make sure you don’t get stabbed in the back.

Self-taught in the arcane arts, hedgewitch Selena Marx is comfortable doing divination for West Los Angeles’ anxiety-ridden housewives, lawyers, and aspiring actresses. Her biggest challenge? Avoiding Lucien Dumond, leader of the Greater Los Angeles Necromancers’ Guild, who views her as fresh meat to add to his harem of slavishly devoted groupies.

Selena’s not interested in the slimy, celebrity-schmoozing sorcerer, but nobody turns Lucien down without consequences. When he threatens to fit her with magical cement shoes and drop her off the Santa Monica Pier, Selena’s Tarot cards point her to Globe, Arizona, for a new home, a new shop, and a cursed pet cat.

Just as she’s settling in and meeting the locals — including Calvin Standingbear, hunky chief of the San Ramon Apache tribal police — Lucien tracks her down…and promptly disappears. When his body turns up on tribal lands, it’s up to Calvin to investigate. Starting with Selena.

And when one of Lucien’s acolytes is killed, traces of dark magic and cryptic warnings from the spirits send Selena and Calvin in a race against time — before a too-close-for-comfort evil cuts her own life short.

The Hedgewitch for Hire series will continue with book 2, Social Medium, releasing on March 31, 2021. The romance subplot will stretch over the entire series, while each novel will be a self-contained mystery without a cliffhanger.

Featured Fantasy: Project Demon Hunters Books 1 – 3 by Christine Pope

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Featured Fantasy: Project Demon Hunters Books 1 - 3 by Christine Pope

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Project Demon Hunters is what you might get if you mashed The X-Files and The Conjuring movies together, then threw in secrets, lies, a dollop of unresolved sexual tension, and scenes that’ll make you think twice about reading in the house alone!

This boxed set includes the first three books in the Project Demon Hunters series:

Unquiet Souls

On the surface, psychologist Audrey Barrett is the perfect co-host for Michael Covenant’s new cable series, Project Demon Hunters. There’s just one problem. Michael has made it his mission to stay out of her orbit.

After the tragedy that took her parents, Audrey keeps herself on the fringe of the paranormal world. But with her small therapy practice floundering, the money the show’s offering is too good to pass up.

But when they step inside a rundown mansion, things start flying. Worse, evil follows Audrey home — and she discovers why Michael is the last man she should let herself trust.

Unbound Spirits

When Audrey fails to show up in Tucson to film the second episode of Project Demon Hunters, Michael’s sense of foreboding is confirmed when his psychic gift pinpoints the exact spot where she was kidnapped. No telling where she is now.

Audrey is shocked her kidnapper is the demon she and Michael just killed — or so she thought. In revenge for their closing his personal portal to hell, he plans to crush Audrey’s throat.

Like a homing beacon, Audrey’s soul reaches out for Michael, but he fears that even if he reaches her in time, this fight isn’t over.

Unholy Ground

Audrey Barrett tries to play hero while filming Project Demon Hunters but fails — at a terrible cost. Now the network has pulled the plug on the show, and they’re all out of a job. At least she still has Michael safely at her side.

But as they tie up loose ends, they come across clear signs that the demon that’s been making their lives miserable isn’t through with them after all. Now they have no choice but to confront evil on its own turf…and not even an ocean of holy water will help them.

Featured Fantasy: The Witches of Cleopatra Hill Books 1 – 3 by Christine Pope

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Featured Fantasy: The Witches of Cleopatra Hill Books 1 - 3 by Christine Pope

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Ancient curses…family feuds…finding a happily ever after can be a real nightmare for the modern witch….

DARKANGEL:
Angela McAllister is searching for the green-eyed man who haunts her dreams. The man she’s sure is fated to be her consort when she becomes the next prima of her witch clan. The catch: She must find him before her next birthday, or her magic will be diminished and her clan left vulnerable. The problem: the only man she’s felt a spark with isn’t a witch. But when a rival clan moves in to seize control, she’ll find out who’s a betrayer — and whom she can trust.

DARKNIGHT:
Angela McAllister’s body is still tingling with the sweet fire of her bonding kiss with Connor Wilcox. She can’t allow herself to want him, yet as she settles uneasily into life with the quiet artist, she gets the feeling he’s as much a victim of his brother’s schemes as she.

But when a series of gruesome deaths begin taking place around Flagstaff, Angela has a very bad feeling the killer is lurking close to home…and uncovering the truth could break the fragile trust she and Connor have worked so hard to build.

DARKMOON:
Certain she’s lost Connor’s love, Angela returns home to resume her place as the McAllister prima — without her consort. Then she learns her little birth-control charm couldn’t fool Fate — and now she’s the next target of the fatal Wilcox curse. Determined to break this dark legacy, she reaches out reconcile with her beautiful, brokenhearted Connor.

Then she must journey to the otherworld to fill in the blanks of her own past. With every broken thread she reweaves into her history, her magic grows and evolves. But the healing that will finally break the Wilcox curse could cost Angela everything….

Featured Fantasy: Unexpected Magic by Christine Pope

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Found Objects: A Paranormal Witch Urban Fantasy (Unexpected Magic Book 1)

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Penny Briggs is a perfectly ordinary woman. Until her life takes a left turn at Albuquerque…

I thought my marriage would be a fairy tale. Instead, I’ve put a thousand miles between me and my broken dream, starting over with temp job in Albuquerque. Prop shopping for a TV production takes my mind off my troubles — until I buy an old pair of glasses no one on the set can wear.

Curious, I look through the lenses myself — and they show me a wild vision of a lonely desert canyon I’ve never seen before.

A friend directs me and my weird glasses to her cousin, a brujo — a male witch — who specializes in weird. He’s also the most spectacularly handsome man I’ve ever seen, with black hair, dark eyes, and a flashing smile so dazzling, I almost miss his casual remark that my magic is powerful.

Magic? What magic? I’m just an ordinary woman from an ordinary family.

Yet as the two of us explore the mystery surrounding those supernatural glasses — and give in to our growing attraction — I discover a past I knew nothing about. And that there’s a dangerous reason it’s been hidden from me all these years….

Featured Fantasy: Killing Time – A Time Travel Witch Romance (The Witches of Mingus Mountain Book 3)

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Featured Fantasy: Killing Time - A Time Travel Witch Romance (The Witches of Mingus Mountain Book 3)

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When time itself becomes your enemy, who can you trust?

Stranded in 1947, witches Devynn Rowe and Seth McAllister find themselves caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse. With Seth’s cousin Ruby kidnapped by a dangerous Wilcox primus who believes he can break an ancient family curse, they’re in a race against time itself.

Devynn’s time-traveling abilities are growing more unstable by the day, threatening to trap them in the past forever. Meanwhile, Seth must put aside generations of distrust to work with the very family his clan has always viewed as their mortal enemies. As the couple delves deeper into the Wilcox family’s dark secrets, they uncover a plot far more sinister than they could have ever imagined.

When Devynn falls into the hands of a man willing to sacrifice everything — and everyone — to achieve his goals, Seth must choose between his family’s ancient prejudices and saving the woman he loves. With the dark of the moon approaching and a deadly ritual looming, their only hope lies in the very magic that has kept their families apart for generations.