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Featured Fantasy: The Twisted Fairy Tale Full Series Box Set (Book 1 – 7) by Holly Hook

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Featured Fantasy: The Twisted Fairy Tale Full Series Box Set (Book 1 - 7) by Holly Hook

Expected to be 99¢ as of September 10, 2023
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What if the Frog Prince isn’t so charming? What if Rumpelstiltskin is? And what if a certain long-haired girl trapped in a tower becomes a heroine rather than a damsel in distress?

The Twisted Fairy Tale Series, seven complete novels, are available in this boxed set. At 8.99, you’ll save over $15 from buying each novel one by one. “The modern and the classic collide” in seven fairy tales as you haven’t seen before.

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Featured Fantasy: The Woods: A Dark Standalone Fairy Tale Retelling of Little Red Riding Hood (A Cursed Woods Novel) by Em McDermott

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Expected to be 99¢ on September 4
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A brooding wolf. A heroine who doesn’t need protecting. And a curse that only love can overcome.

Gran’s stories of horror and violence have dictated Red’s whole view of the forest outside her village and the wolves who live there. Sheltered but bold, Red longs to explore that forest for herself, but the Huntsmen who guard her village keep her trapped. When Gran is injured, Red sees her chance. To save Gran’s life, Red ventures down a path Gran hoped she’d never follow.

In the woods, Red finds a secret, hidden world full of death and danger. The beasts in it all try to kill her…so why does she feel so alive?

The Huntsmen will stop at nothing to get Red back. They will kill every wolf in the woods, and there’s one in particular Red is determined to save. The villagers have magic on their side, and all Red has is love. Will it be enough?

Featured Fantasy: Delta Underground Operatives: Clara & Damien: Complete Boxed Set (The Dream Travelers Collection Book 6) by Sarah Noffke

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99¢ on September 1
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A brand new Urban Fantasy adventure from USA Today bestselling author Sarah Noffke — perfect for fans of The Unstoppable Liv Beaufont.

Grab all three books in the action-packed and hilarious trilogy for one incredible price!

Blood-sucking vampires and vegan psychics don’t mix.

But to save the world from a magic-stealing madman, they’re going to have to.

The Delta Underground Operatives, humanity’s last line of defense against evil threats, only enlist the brightest and the best.

Clara and Damien fit the bill.

So when a threat like no other can only be stopped by a perfect assassin team, the organization recruits these two unlikely vigilantes with complementary skill sets.

Too bad they can’t stand each other.

He’s dangerous. She’s peaceful.
He’s loud. She’s meditative.

They don’t see eye to eye, but they’ll have to fight side by side.

As their target hunts the innocent and threatens to destroy the delicate balance of magic, everything rests on the duo’s ability to work together.

Clara wants peace. Damien wants vengeance.

Only they can take down evil.

But first, they’ll have to learn to get along….

This box set contains all three novels in Delta Underground Operative: Clara & Damien Trilogy
1) The Improbable Pair
2) The Reluctant Assassins
3) The Immutable Pact

What Amazon readers are saying:
★★★★★ — It is everything a reader wants in a supernatural book!
★★★★★ — Great series by Sarah Noffke.
★★★★★ — Sarah Noffke is a brilliant author who comes up with fascinating characters and amazing storylines!! So happy to have met Clara & Damien!
★★★★★ — The story was fast paced and filled with plenty of action. I enjoyed the humor throughout the story especially Damien’s amusing quips.
★★★★★ — Incredible world building and amazing characters especially our mc’s whose banter and hilarity only enhances their chemistry and partnership and together they learn from each other, to help face their battles to save the day!

Scroll up and click ‘Buy Now’ or ‘Read for Free’ (Kindle Unlimited) to grab your copy of the Clara & Damien boxed set today and get ready, this story is action-packed!

Featured Fantasy: The Non-Magical Declan Moore (Winterthorn Saga 1) by Nathan Taylor

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Featured Fantasy: The Non-Magical Declan Moore (Winterthorn Saga 1) by Nathan Taylor

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“Everything you know is a lie.”

Declan Moore was raised to believe he was powerless. A worthless branch on a magical family tree. His mother is a witch; his father, a wizard. Declan is… nothing.

Then his parents are taken. Not just taken, turned to iron and carted away in a nondescript van. They’re not the only ones. Overnight, thousands of witches and wizards vanish from their homes, leaving the powerless ones—like Declan—to pick up the pieces.

But then the vans return. The people in them—the ones wearing the black regimental coats—made a mistake. They missed someone. A wizard, a weapon—one too powerful to be controlled or contained. Declan Moore.

Is that why he was never told he could do magic? Why he spent the last seventeen years as an outcast?

Declan doesn’t care. If he can do magic, he can save his parents. The cost be damned.

Featured Fantasy: Warlock of Muscovy (Sun War Trilogy Book 1) by Brien Feathers

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Featured Fantasy: Warlock of Muscovy (Sun War Trilogy Book 1) by Brien Feathers

FREE as of August 27, 2023
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When words fail, bring out the guns, swords, and death spells.

Marina is the daughter of Tsar Alexander the Cruel, the most powerful warlock. She’s also a princess of the Court of White Rose. The only problem is that she’s mundane—she has no magic.

On her sixteenth birthday Marina fled from her father’s tsardom to the revolutionist side of Muscovy, and five years later she’s doing all right, working as a seamstress in the United Workers’ Factory. Despite the political police, the never-ending witch hunt, and her best friend living as an orange cat, she’s happy. She gets along with her cottage mates and is even seeing a guy… until the city blows up, she’s implied in the sabotage, her guy turns out to be an enemy, her friends are murdered, and an alchemist maniac hunts her down for a blood vendetta.

With the Red Army and the Alchemist Federation on her heels, Marina runs back to the Court of White Rose, but when death follows her home she must uncover a prophecy, reconcile with the warlock, and stop an oncoming war. It’s a tall order for a seamstress.

The first book in the Sun War Trilogy, this intensely dark tale of magic and mayhem is full of grey characters that blur the line between good and evil.

Content warning for strong language, graphic violence, and intimate situations.

Featured Fantasy: Grimm Rose (Once Upon a Curse Book 1) by Kasi Blake

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Featured Fantasy: Grimm Rose (Once Upon a Curse Book 1) by Kasi Blake

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Happy endings are optional.
If she steals Cinderella’s glass slipper, she gains her freedom.
If she fails, she loses her life.

A Beauty and the Beast/Cinderella retelling with elements of both exciting stories intertwined. Familiar favorites and interesting new characters you will fall in love with are cleverly woven together to make a story you won’t soon forget. Get ready for a tale of powerful magic with an enemies-to-lovers, slow burn romance, plenty of action, and surprising plot twists.

At sixteen, Shayne should be attending parties and giggling over boys. But half-ling servants—half faerie and half mortal—aren’t allowed to have fun. Her destiny is to serve the royal family until she dies. It’s a bleak existence with no way out… or so she thinks.

When a runaway bride chooses death over marriage to the pudgy prince, the Ivory Queen shoves the cursed engagement ring onto Shayne’s hand and announces that she will take the dead girl’s place. Marriage to the Toad? She’d rather die.
Seeing her reluctance, the queen offers her a choice. She can marry the prince, or she can steal Cinderella’s glass slipper. Swiping a shoe from Cinderella’s last living relative sounds easy.

Then she meets Cinderella’s son. It’s hate-at-first-sight for both of them. He has magical powers, a bad attitude, and a deep thirst for vengeance that rivals her own. Stinking troll!

Aric refuses to let her have his mother’s glass slipper. She tries reasoning with him. That doesn’t work. She gives him a sob story about a fictional sister locked in the queen’s dungeon. He doesn’t even blink. By his own admission, he has a heart of stone. Nothing can sway him.

In what she sees as an act of cowardice, he spills sugar and orders her to count each crystal. Her knees buckle. She hits the floor hard. There isn’t anything she can do.

Their hatred for the queen is the only thing they have in common. Can they put their loathing for each other to the side long enough to destroy the Ivory Queen and save the faerie realm?

“I am totally sucked into this world. The action is fast-paced, the way I like it. A real page-turner.” –Author Bryna Butler

This is the first book in the Once Upon a Curse series. Revenge meets Once Upon a Time (tv shows), and will appeal to both fairytale retelling lovers and straight up fantasy fans.