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Featured Fantasy: The Berylian Key: Series One in the Pantracia Chronicles by Amanda Muratoff and Kayla Hansen

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Featured Fantasy: The Berylian Key: Series One in the Pantracia Chronicles

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Amarie’s legendary magic could incinerate her enemies, but it’s her sword she trusts.

While running from the men who killed her family, she learns of an ancient text locked within the Great Library that might be the final key to understanding her curse. During the daring theft, a stranger inserts himself into her scheme. Kin’s roguish good looks and boundless charm threaten to distract her, but she has no intention of landing in the city jail.

Kin’s life, riddled with shadows and death, is as dark as his soul.

He embraces his power, given by a wicked master, but when he meets Amarie… She shatters the walls he’s built, piercing his solitude with vibrant light. But if she learns he hunts the power cursing her family, he will lose her forever.

Trusting him could risk her heart and her life, but it might be the only way to destroy the world’s most sinister evil. Unless Kin’s master finds her first…

This series includes three full-length novels comprising The Berylian Key trilogy, which is the first installment in the Pantracia Chronicles. It includes Embrace of the Shade, Blood of the Key, and Unraveling of the Soul.

This series is perfect for readers who enjoy Sarah J. Maas, Jennifer Armentrout, Leigh Bardugo, and Holly Black. It is recommended for 18+ as it contains sexual content, violence, and language.

Featured Fantasy: Court of Tricksters (Fae Tricksters Book 1) by S. L. Prater

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Featured Fantasy: Court of Tricksters (Fae Tricksters Book 1) by S. L. Prater

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The fae Duke of Night doesn’t believe in love—but he’ll claim his mate nonetheless.

Mating is a matter of politics for Night, not the heart. To prevent a forced union that will plunge the Lunar Court into war, he must find and bond his true mate.

When he lays eyes on Rain, he knows the shy forest witch is the bond mate he’s been searching for. Unprepared for the intensity of his attraction, Night makes an offer that would keep his priorities straight and his court safe: a marriage of convenience. Any eligible woman—mortal and immortal alike—would leap at the chance to become the powerful duke’s bride.

But Rain isn’t interested.

She’s lived outside of society too long to ever fit into Night’s world of shapeshifting tricksters and back-stabbing politicians. And Rain demands more than the trappings of marriage. She wants a match with heart.

Night doesn’t have the luxury of time to change his mate’s mind. War looms closer and the Lunar Court is caught in the middle. Out of options, the fae duke sees only one choice.

Kidnap his bride.

Featured Fantasy: First Time’s A Charm (Grimalkin Academy Book 1) by Laura Greenwood

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First Time's A Charm (Grimalkin Academy Book 1)

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Things might be easier if I could stop conjuring kittens every time I attempt a spell.

I used to be good at magic. That’s how I got into Grimalkin Academy in the first place. Then I was dared by my friends to try a spell way above my abilities. Now, the end of year exams are coming up, and I need to find a way to stop my magic going haywire all the time or I’m going to fail.

At least matters of my heart are easy enough…for now.

Featured Fantasy: Ravenite (Vengeance and Vampires Book 1) by Alicia Rades

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Featured Fantasy: Ravenite (Vengeance and Vampires Book 1) by Alicia Rades

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Bronze Medal Winner in the Readers’ Favorite International Book Awards!

Never mess with a witch who bites back.

I’m Rachel Collins, low witch and raven shifter in hiding. I spend my days tending the cash register at a local magic shop and my nights patrolling the streets for vampires with a death wish. Until the night I spot the mark of the Soulless on some lowly vampire’s wrist.

The Soulless answer to Valkas, the original vampire and the most ruthless of them all. They’re the same bloodsuckers who murdered my parents and kidnapped my sister. I want answers—and maybe a little revenge.

Along comes Venn, a handsome, protective wolf shifter who takes my breath away. We’re both after the same guy, and as much as it kills me to ask for help, I kind of need it.

Heaven help me. The dark, dangerous road we’re traveling together will either free my sister or get me killed.

Featured Fantasy: Hunting Werewolves and Other Bad Dates (Reapers of the Grimm Brotherhood Book 1) by Kel Carpenter & Meg Anne

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Featured Fantasy: Hunting Werewolves and Other Bad Dates (Reapers of the Grimm Brotherhood Book 1) by Kel Carpenter & Meg Anne

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Dying is supposed to be the end of the line. Not for me, though. I’m just not that lucky.

When my twin brother dies, I return home knowing life will never be the same. I just didn’t expect to die in a supernatural car crash on my way there. Plot twist: I’m not actually dead-dead, and I have no idea why.

As if things aren’t confusing enough, my late brother’s bad-tempered and sinfully attractive best friend finds me in the woods in all my recently deceased glory.

He claims that half of my hometown are actually monsters; that people like he and my brother exist to keep them in line, and–cherry on top of this crap sundae–my brother didn’t die in an accident.

He was murdered.

Now it’s up to me and his brooding best friend to find answers before whoever, or whatever, killed my brother cuts the last branch off my family tree and sends me into the afterlife–permanently.

Wish someone would have prepared me for hunting werewolves and fending off sex vampires, but apparently that’s too much to ask.

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.