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Featured Fantasy: Sympathy for the Devil (The Devil You Know Book 1) by Christine Pope

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Featured Fantasy: Sympathy for the Devil (The Devil You Know Book 1) by Christine Pope

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Heaven is a step away…until it all goes to Hell in a handbasket.

Ruling Hell isn’t all that much fun anymore. With humans so adept at corrupting themselves, frankly, the Devil is bored and ready to do anything for a change of scenery.

Predictably, God’s got a catch: Lucifer must fall in love, and the woman in question must surrender her heart. A woman has even been pre-selected for him, ripe and ready for picking, so how hard can it be? A little charm, a little magic, and Heaven will be his.

Luke Nicolini is everything Christa Simms — any woman, really — dreams about. Deep blue eyes, knee-melting smile, divine Cosmo-making skills. Then there’s that instant teleportation thing, and his refreshing honesty about who he is.

The mystery? Why the Devil, who could have anything, anyone he wants, would look twice at her — ordinary, unremarkable Christa Simms. But it’s her birthday, she’s alone, and if the Devil wants to show her a good time, she’s in.

But even the best of intentions can turn the road to love into a slippery slope. And when Luke goes one step too far, love — and Heaven — could slip forever beyond his reach.

Featured Science Fiction: Gaian Consortium Books 1 – 3 by Christine Pope

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Featured Science Fiction: Gaian Consortium Books 1 - 3 by Christine Pope

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Welcome to Iradia, where the Gaian Consortium looks the other way if enough money changes hands, and the best way to ensure a long life is to secure passage off-world…

Three adventurous science fiction romance books from Christine Pope’s Gaian Consortium series:

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Featured Fantasy: Ballroom Bits (Hedgewitch for Hire Book 9) by Christine Pope

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Featured Fantasy: Ballroom Bits (Hedgewitch for Hire Book 9) by Christine Pope

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Waltz, tango, foxtrot…murder?

Not much has changed about Selena’s fussy, finicky, magical talking cat, Archie. Except now, instead of roaming Globe’s streets and alleys on four feet. he’s kicking up two very human heels at a ballroom dance competition with his fiancée, Victoria.

Selena couldn’t be happier for her formerly furry friend. Stepping Stars could be the gateway to Archie’s unfulfilled dreams. But when a competitor is found dead in Archie’s costume trunk — sporting some very strange wounds — the future he’s longed for is threatened…because witnesses saw him claws-out with the victim just hours earlier.

Though the evidence is flimsy at best, Selena goes straight to her divination tools to look for clues. Her Tarot cards and pendulum seem to point nowhere, but she’s sure of one thing. Her instincts never lie — and the killer could be using glitz, glamour, and bright lights to cover his tracks.

Featured Fantasy: Finding Destiny (Unexpected Magic Book 4) by Christine Pope

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Featured Fantasy: Finding Destiny (Unexpected Magic Book 4) by Christine Pope

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Family ties can heal the past. Or drag you straight to hell…

Isaac Zamora, my significant other and a talented user of magic, insists I’m a powerful witch. But when my bio-grandmother sends demons to kidnap me to her monstrosity of a Victorian house in Boulder, I can’t exactly fight back. Against Virginia Powers, who’s been wielding the dark arts since before I was born, there’s no point.

I need a plan. Someone who uses that much magical Botox has a blind spot somewhere, and I intend to find it. But she finds mine first — a half-sister named Destiny. I’ve always longed for a sister, someone with a connection to the mother who died so young.

But not if it means giving up my freedom.

Like the objects my lodestone ability brings to me, that connection seems to draw the truth out of gentle, seemingly innocent Destiny — Virginia’s secret plan to summon the prince of Hell. Our grandfather. This revelation answers so many questions, and gives me a valuable tool to foil good ol’ grandma.

But once Isaac learns the truth about my demon blood, the love we’ve slowly, carefully nurtured over time could go up in flames….

Note: Finding Destiny is the fourth and final book in USA Today bestselling author Christine Pope’s “Unexpected Magic” series.

Featured Holiday Fantasy: Jingle Spells a Hedgewick Novella by Christine Pope

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Sweet baby Jesus, someone’s stolen a lot of Christmas dough!

All is calm and bright as Globe, Arizona’s holiday celebrations approach. Selena Marx should have known it wouldn’t stay that way. The painted snowflakes on her shop window are barely dry when her best friend, Josie Woodrow, bursts in with news that the baby Jesus is missing from the crèche in front of St. Ignatius.

Selena has enough on her mind without having to use her psychic powers to suss out the culprit. Her boyfriend Calvin Standingbear’s parents are still on the snow-covered fence about accepting her, which throws a dimmer on the town’s highly anticipated Festival of Lights. And when Calvin springs a surprise on the solstice, Selena realizes she has some work to do to reconcile the two men in her life: Calvin, and her cursed cat, Archie. 

The last thing she needs is a spontaneous vision that indicates the baby Jesus theft was more than just a prank. And if someone doesn’t spill the beans soon, someone’s getting away with…well, not murder (this time), but a whole lot of dough — and we’re not talking cookies.

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Featured Fantasy: Prophet Motive (Hedgewitch for Hire Book 8) by Christine Pope

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Featured Fantasy: Prophet Motive (Hedgewitch for Hire Book 8) by Christine Pope

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The perfect Thanksgiving recipe for disaster — means, motive…and opportunity.

As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, Selena finds herself soothing the nerves of her friend Josie, who’s now Globe’s newly minted mayor. Popular television preacher Aaron Galloway is bringing his traveling prayer gathering to town, and Josie is worried Selena’s New Age shop will attract negative attention.

Josie’s concern is touching, but Selena can’t imagine her humble little shop being any more than a blip on the faithful’s radar. Still, she does a quick Tarot reading, just to be sure. To her dismay, the cards warn there’s trouble brewing. What kind and how deep it goes is anyone’s guess. Until Galloway falls over dead of arsenic poisoning — and Josie is accused of murder.

Holiday plans are put on hold as Selena races to prove Josie’s innocence. And as she begins unearthing something rotten under the megachurch’s squeaky-clean veneer, the real killer is getting nervous…and determined to mow down anyone who gets too close to the truth.