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Featured Fantasy: Academy of Horrors (New Arrival Book 1) by Holly Hook

July 1, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Academy of Horrors (New Arrival Book 1) by Holly Hook

New Release
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I’m Raelyn Silverton, and as a 16-year-old born into a prestigious monster slayer family, I’ve already seen my fair share of feral, law-breaking vampires, werewolves, and other creatures. But as a girl, my parents insist I carry a phone and tablet instead of stakes and crossbows, and my brother is the only person who believes in me.

But when my awesome brother and I find a monster that shouldn’t exist, which steals his soul, I’m elevated…to top suspect in his disappearance.

My Hunter’s Guild doesn’t believe what I saw, so to get help, I break into the closest monster reserve and then into Soulstone Academy—no Hunters allowed. Attending as a fake witch is my best shot for saving my brother, and I’m lucky to have help from Asher Love, the school’s top warlock student.

Though in class with civilized monsters—mostly—if I’m found out, I’ll go into the dungeons or worse. And do you know what’s scarier? My brother is still missing, and new, more terrifying monsters are mysteriously appearing. And Asher might be closer to the problem than I thought.

Academy of Horrors: New Arrival is a fresh new series in the Cursed Academy and Monster Academy universe. This new series can be read alone as it begins with a new character, but Cursed Academy and Monster Academy are also recommended for those who are new to this book universe. This book is the first of a YA (Young Adult) urban fantasy book series that features a slow-burn romance and numerous paranormal and academy tropes, along with plenty of spooky secrets. If you like slayer stories, magic, and Halloween, you’ll love Academy of Horrors.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Academy of Horrors, Holly Hook, New Arrival

Featured Fantasy: Year Four (Monster Academy Book 10) by Holly Hook

April 17, 2025 by Carolynn

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After dealing a massive blow to the Society, we should celebrate. Byron and I could finally move ahead with our relationship.

But once again, Sunny has found a way to come out on top, and she doesn’t need her organization to crush us anymore. She just needed a connection to power more terrifying than the Dark Corruption to start her reign of terror, and she won’t stop until she enslaves us and the ordinary people.

Our one ray of hope? The monstrous entity that now holds more sway over me than ever. But the source of the Dark Corruption won’t give me anything for free and always has tricks up its sleeve. Even with Byron at my side, enemies are everywhere, and the worst one might be within.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Holly Hook, Monster Academy, Year Four

Featured Fantasy: Monster Academy (Semester One) by Holly Hook

April 17, 2025 by B. G.

Featured Fantasy: Monster Academy  (Semester One) by Holly Hook

FREE April 17, 2025
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Enter a world where it’s Halloween every day and where the monsters are normal, and the normal are monsters…

I’m Ali Welson, and I’m the most normal, goody-two-shoes girl you’ll meet. It’s how I survive a strict home, far from the mysterious Dark Corruption that converts people into B-movie monsters on contact.

But after a close call, Monstreuse, the monster academy, sends an obnoxious sorcerer to claim an unwilling new student–me. Only it’s a mistake, I swear. I never touched the Corruption, as much as Byron insists otherwise. But when my family disowns me, I have no choice but to go.

Thrust into a new, forbidden world, I’m sure I won’t survive my classes, my classmates, or my new rival. But even that pales in comparison to the biggest horror of all. I might be the least normal Monstreuse student in history, and my family is right to fear me.

Why else would someone be trying to do me in?

Monster Academy is a young adult, paranormal academy series that takes place in the same universe as the Cursed Academy series, occurring ten years after the conclusion of Cursed Academy: Year Four. However, it can be read on its own. If you love Halloween, B-movie monsters, slow-burn romance, and danger at every turn, you’ll love the Monster Academy series!

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Holly Hook, Monster Academy, Semester One

Featured Fantasy: Blood Magic (Supernaturals Undergound Book 1) by Holly Hook

August 4, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Blood Magic (Supernaturals Undergound Book 1) by Holly Hook

99¢ as of August 4, 2024
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Ever since a horrifying incident that got me turned into a vampire at two, life has been hell. My mother disowned me, and I can barely have friends or attend school. And if the authorities find me out? I’m toast.

I thought moving to the city would help me blend in, but boy, was I wrong. When the authorities catch on to me, I get kidnapped…um, rescued by Xavier Lovelli, an impossibly hot Mage who’s full of himself. He’s also a roper for Supernaturals Underground, a magical, hidden city.

At least here, I don’t have to hide anymore. But I must earn my keep. Supernaturals are going missing all over the city, including my father. The demon mayor is rounding us up for some diabolical plan, and the Underground wants me to help them fight.

Oh, and Xavier has magically bound me to him so that we’re forced to fight together. What the hell? Time to knock him down a notch.

Or maybe I won’t have to. Xavier’s got his own scars, and we have bigger things to worry about. Turns out, I’m wanted personally by the mayor and special, and that’s never good news in the Supernatural world.

Blood Magic is the first book of the Supernaturals Underground series. It is a dark young adult urban fantasy with plenty of action, a slow burn romance, a strong heroine, and crushing secrets.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Blood Magic, Holly Hook, Supernaturals Underground

The Supernaturals Underground Series Boxset (Books 1-5) by Holly Hook

April 16, 2024 by B. G.

The Supernaturals Underground Series Boxset (Books 1-5) by Holly Hook

99¢ as of April 16, 2024
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The first five books of the Supernaturals Underground Series are now available as a complete series in one boxset! Binge on a young adult urban fantasy series with heart-stopping adventure, shocking secrets, dark magic, and slow-burn romance!

I’ve been a vampire for fourteen of my sixteen years.

It hasn’t been easy pretending to be normal so I don’t get taken away by the Supernatural-hating authorities. Even school is a nightmare, and the last thing I want to do is bite someone. And my life is about to get much worse.

When the authorities catch on to me and I learn that the city’s mayor is rounding up all Supernaturals, I get kidnapped…um, rescued by Xavier Lovelli, an impossibly hot Mage full of himself. Oh, and the mayor? He’s a secret demon who wants me, and me specifically, for some diabolical plan to end the world.

Oh, if only I could walk away from my nature, but there’s one complicating factor.

Xavier has bound me to him magically so that we must fight together or die. Without my permission. And I’m stuck working with him because the mayor is using my father as bait.

Yikes. Looks like it’s time to face my nature, and time to knock Xavier down a notch.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Holly Hook, The Supernaturals Underground

Featured Fantasy Series Sale : A Twisted Fairy Tale by Holly Hook

February 6, 2024 by Carolynn

BOOK 1 – FREE \ BOOK 2 – 99¢ \ BOOK 3 – $3.99
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What if the frog prince wasn’t so charming? What if Rumpelstiltskin turned out to be your lifeline but not in the way that you expected? And what if Red turned out to be the monster in her story?

A Twisted Fairy Tale is a series of seven young adult fairytale retellings, all tied to the magical realm of Fable, where the fairytales are all real and things go bump in the night. Based on the original Grimm’s Fairytales, A Twisted Fairy Tale is great for those who love fairytale romance, retellings, adventure, magic, friendship, and danger!

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: A Twisted Fairy Tale, Holly Hook

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