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Featured Fantasy: Tides of Mana (Heirs of Mana Book 1) by Matt Larkin

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She controls the seas. Her sister controls the flames.

Together, they rule as god-queens over their Polynesian island paradise. No mortal army can stand against their power. Power, matched only by their pride. But when civil war erupts between them, there may soon be no kingdom left to rule.

The Sea Queen Namaka and her fiery sister, Pele, embark on a relentless quest for dominance, leaving devastation in their wake, and attracting attention from the merfolk who rule the deep. As Namaka turns the fury of the sea on her sister, wreaking untold devastation on the land and under the sea, she earns the ire of the mer kingdoms. Their answer: turn Namaka into one of them. Possessed by a mermaid spirit, she is drawn into battles in their alien world.

Amidst battles that span both land and sea, Namaka must confront the consequences of her choices and navigate the treacherous waters of power, betrayal, and redemption.

The fate of two worlds hangs in the balance between two sisters.

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Featured Fantasy: Gates of Hell (The Ragnarok Prophecy Book 8) by Matt Larkin

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Featured Fantasy: Gates of Hell (The Ragnarok Prophecy Book 8) by Matt Larkin

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No one returns from Hel.

With Baldr’s death, Ragnarök has begun. Now, Odin has sent Hermod to the farthest reaches of creation to bring back his son’s soul. The son of a valkyrja, Hermod alone can make such a trek. But to do so he must descend into horrors beyond imagination.

Meanwhile, Odin begins an even more desperate gambit: to challenge the Norns themselves for control of Fate. Yet his journey will offer him knowledge he could not him imagined nor ever would have wanted …

This total reboot of Gods of the Ragnarok Era replaces and expands on that Norse-inspired epic. Mythology, horror, and dark fantasy meld together in an ice age. The Eschaton Cycle begins.

Featured Fantasy: The Ragnarök Prophecy by Matt Larkin

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Featured Fantasy: The Ragnarök Prophecy by Matt Larkin

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The necromancer who became a god of death …

From out of the Mist he came, his name whispered in awe and dread, for Odin cast himself as a god of Man. But behind the illusion and the lies, Odin too was once a man, in an age of ice and an era of Mist.

With his blood brother Loki by his side, Odin wanted only to protect his people from the soul-stealing Mist and its denizens. But when a vision of Ragnarök shows him the end of the world, he is forced to accept a terrible truth. In the face of the extinction of Mankind, any action, any deception, no matter how vile, is needful if it might avert the end.

So Odin will kill, will lie, will use Men in his ceaseless schemes. Because the price of his failure is unthinkable …

Featured Fantasy: The Deluding of Gylfi (The Ragnarok Prophecy Book 1) by Matt Larkin

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Featured Fantasy: The Deluding of Gylfi (The Ragnarok Prophecy Book 1) by Matt Larkin

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Dive into this epic Norse mythology series starter in the Eschaton Cycle historical fantasy universe.

He was a god. He was a king. A necromancer, a shaman. A prophet …

From out of the Mist he came, his name whispered in awe and dread, for Odin cast himself as a god of Man. But behind the illusion and the lies, Odin too was once a man, in an age of ice and an era of Mist.

With his blood brother Loki by his side, Odin wanted only to protect his people from the soul-stealing Mist and its denizens. But when a vision of Ragnarök shows him the end of the world, he is forced to accept a terrible truth. In the face of the extinction of Mankind, any action, any deception, no matter how vile, is needful if it might avert the end.

So Odin will kill, will lie, will use Men in his ceaseless schemes. Because the price of his failure is unthinkable …

The Ragnarök Prophecy recombines material previously published as Gods of the Ragnarok Era, Runeblade Saga, and Legends of the Ragnarok Era, along with new material, to produce a definitive edition of this retelling of Norse myth. Mythology, horror, and dark fantasy meld together in an ice age. For fans of Rob J. Hayes, Ryan Cahill, and Zamil Akhtar, this is a dark mythological retelling filled with gods and monsters from the Viking Age and beyond. The Eschaton Cycle begins.

Featured Fantasy: The Eyes of Athene: A tale of the Greek gods (Tapestry of Fate Book 9) by Matt Larkin

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Featured Fantasy: The Eyes of Athene: A tale of the Greek gods (Tapestry of Fate Book 9) by Matt Larkin

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History is Merciless

Athene fought a desperate battle to save Elládos from the encroaching Babilimian army.

She lost.

But in the shining courts of Babilim, she finds something she never expected … the Truth.

A wave fit to drown the world arises. And if Pandora cannot stop it, Fate will at long last close its crushing fist upon her and everyone she’s ever loved.

The end of an Era draws nigh …

Featured Fantasy: Waves Breaking Over Ys (Tales of Dark Faerie Book 1) by Matt Larkin

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Featured Fantasy: Waves Breaking Over Ys: A Little Mermaid Retelling by Matt Larkin

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The mermaid Lí Ban has long studied humans, fascinated by their culture and strange ways. But when she begins to have dreams in which she lived a human life, she decides she must have once lived in the surface world, in a past life. Determined to regain what she has lost, she makes a dangerous bargain, trading her tongue for legs.

But the bargain has a catch: she must win the heart of the man once she once saved from drowning. If he should ever wed another, she will lose her soul. Plagued by increasingly insistent dreams, Lí Ban realizes not only does she need to win a heart—she may have unfinished business from her past life.