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The Girl of Dorcha Wood by Kristin Ward

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The Girl of Dorcha Wood by Kristin Ward

Treacherous. Evil. Dark. Dorcha Wood is all of these. And none of them.

The people of Felmore talk of Dorcha Wood in whispers, if they speak of it at all, fearing the wrath of the Cù-Sìth should their words be carried on the wind. Those murdering beasts still roam the darkness of the forest, the last remnants of the cursed Aos Sí, a race of elves, long since vanished from the world.

But to seventeen-year-old Fiadh, it is home. A haven. A forest whose secrets become known only when it chooses to reveal them. Her life is one of balance until the outside world shatters it.

From the moment Fiadh set eyes on Gideon, the peaceful rhythm of her life was lost. As a new path unfolds, Fiadh confronts the reality of old hatreds, the consequences of things hidden, and the truth of who she really is.

Steel, Blood & Fire by Allan Batchelder

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Steel, Blood & Fire by Allan Batchelder

On the march, around the campfire, and in the taverns, they tell incredible stories about Tarmun Vykers, the Reaper – how he’s never been cut in battle, how he once defeated hundreds of men by himself, how he exterminated an entire people over an insult. These stories make Vykers seem like a god, but he is a man, an arrogant, ruthless and bloodthirsty man. For all that, he may be the only thing standing between the human race and utter annihilation at the hands of the mad wizard who calls himself the End-of-All-Things. Against this backdrop, smaller, lesser folks struggle to fulfill their own destinies, folks like Aoife, burdened with a secret so dark she is driven to do the unimaginable and seek an alliance with fey powers no mortal has ever encountered.

Featured Book: Just A Little Wicked by Lily Luchesi

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16 witchy novellas, 99c for a limited time!

You call them witches like it’s a bad thing.

It’s time to get wicked with over a dozen tales of magic, mystery, and mayhem from New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors.
Put away your broomsticks and get out your cauldrons; it’s time to settle in for some frightfully delicious reads.

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Hand of Justice Boxed Set (Books 1 – 4) by Jace Mitchell

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Hand of Justice Boxed Set (Books 1 – 4) by Jace Mitchell

She swore to protect her kingdom…

And he swore to destroy it.

Riley is lithe and fast, her tongue every bit as sharp as her sword. She’s a new-age knight pledged to keep her King and countrymen safe.

Storm clouds are circling on the horizon.

Riley’s hearing rumors about a dark mage in the north. He’s amassing a ruthless army and practicing twisted magic. His evil past intertwines with Riley’s kingdom…

…and he’s coming to claim it.

With the kingdom at stake, Riley embarks on a collision course with this mage… and with her own mortality.

Will Riley’s fighting prowess prove enough to vanquish the dark mage and his legion, or is her fate already sealed in his twisted magic?

You’ll love this book, because it’s got a hero you can cheer for and the fun doesn’t stop. Grab it today!

This Boxed Set included the first four books in the Hand Of Justice Series

The Dark Mage

Chasing Magic

Magic Rising

Magic Unchained

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Chuck Dixon’s Paranormal Double Pack: Gomers and Blooded by Chuck Dixon

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Chuck Dixon’s Paranormal Double Pack: Gomers and Blooded by Chuck Dixon

BESTSELLING AUTHOR CHUCK DIXON DELIVERS HIS UNIQUE TAKE ON VAMPIRES AND ZOMBIES IN THE PARANORMAL DOUBLE PACK

(Yes, the same Chuck Dixon who co-created the character Bane.)

GOMERS

WHEN THE DEAD WALK THE EARTH…
…THE LIVING GO SHOPPING.

Jim and Smash are looking for a safe place to sit out the zombie armageddon.

They choose a giant home improvement store as their sanctuary.

But an Afghanistan war vet and an attack dog with gender issues have already claimed the place.

And then there’s the girl…

BLOODED

He left the bar with a girl he didn’t know for the wildest night of his life.

A night that would never end.

Her gift to him was immortality. The gift came with a price:

A diet of human blood.

Forget capes, coffins, bats, wooden stakes and garlic. Follow the journey of a former real estate salesman that begins with his death and leads to an un-life of hunger, hunting and betrayal.

A FEW QUOTES ABOUT CHUCK DIXON:

“Chuck is a damn good writer who is really good at hooking you, giving you fun characters, and telling you one hell of an adventure story.”
Larry Correia, Monster Hunters International, the Grimoir Chronicles

“An intelligent and well thought-out high action time travel story.”
Noah Mullette-Gillman, Luminous and Ominous

“Dixon excels at putting down action, of introducing larger-than-life heroes, kicking them through the door into a big mess, and having them sort out a situation in a flurry of martial arts moves and big guns.”
Mel Odom, The Rover series.

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Blood of a Fallen God by Joshua Cook

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Blood of a Fallen God by Joshua Cook

William Reis had no interest in ever being a hero. His goal in life is to join the prestigious Smithing guild, something no one from his city has ever achieved. When a pair of ancient artifacts are discovered by his Duncan his cousin, it unleashes a terror that will change everything.

When the artifact known as the Blade of Valnijz injures Duncan, Will is horrified to discover that the wound is cursed. His cousin is slowly transformed into an inhuman killing machine, driven by magical blood lust and rage. And only a dead god has the power to restore his humanity.

To save his family, to save the only world he has ever known, William Reis must do the impossible whether he wants to or not. He must become a figure out of legend, he must become a Forgemaster.

Immortal Defiance by Laura Maybrooke

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Immortal Defiance by Laura Maybrooke

Love your dark high fantasy romance and adore it when it’s slow-burn enemies to lovers?
Join this elven Dragonmistress and her handsome vampire warrior hero in righting some wrongs!

To win, she must lose. To succeed, she must win. Defeat may be this elven enchantress’s only chance for victory, and a handsome, immortal warrior the unwilling hero she knows not she needs.

Winterbloom by Jessica Rydill

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Winterbloom by Jessica Rydill

Sophie Vasilyevich is a teenager growing up in Anglond, the child of exiles. Sometimes grass springs up where she walks, and her future holds an unusual fate: she is going to be kidnapped when she is sixteen, and no one can stop it.
Taken between worlds to the city of Bath in 1920’s England, Sophie meets a young man called James Carnwallis, once a pilot in the Great War. But even as she falls in love, she learns more about the forces at work – and her fate in their plans.
As an alliance of shamans, ghosts and gods assembles in a desperate attempt to recover Sophie and prevent the destruction of their worlds, they find that their only hope may lie in Sophie’s gift, and in the Greenwood: a power older than time itself.

Featured Book: Pandemonium by Sean Farley

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Jackson Armstrong is blessed with an extraordinary memory and a young son who loves him. He is also cursed with a compulsion to gamble that has cost him nearly everything. While chasing another big win, Jackson is killed in a car theft gone wrong and finds himself trapped in Pandemonium, a hellish, urban netherworld where demons rule over man.

Before long, Jackson begins having visions of a mysterious portal. Convinced his visions are the key to escaping Pandemonium and returning home to his son, Jackson forms an unlikely alliance with Lilith, an enigmatic demon who has an agenda all her own. As the two are relentlessly pursued by an evil older than time itself, they must navigate their way across a brutal, fantastical landscape and find the portal before it closes forever.

“Pandemonium” is a dark fantasy adventure that will take readers to the depths of a richly imagined hell unlike any they have experienced before.

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Featured Book: Necromancer by Graeme Ing

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A primeval fiend is loose in the ancient metropolis of Malkandrah, intent on burning it to a wasteland. The city’s leaders stand idly by and the sorcerers that once protected the people are long gone.

Maldren, a young necromancer, is the only person brave enough to stand against the creature. Instead of help from the Masters of his Guild, he is given a new apprentice. Why now, and why a girl? As they unravel the clues to defeating the fiend, they discover a secret society holding the future of the city in its grip. After betrayals and attempts on his life, Maldren has reason to suspect everyone he thought a friend, even the girl.

His last hope lies in an alliance with a depraved and murderous ghost, but how can he trust it? Its sinister past is intertwined in the lives of everyone he holds dear.

Can only evil defeat evil?

*** Necromancer listed in the Top-3 most read indie books in the Fantasy category of the libraries SELF-e program, 2015 – Library Journal ***

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Sanyare: The Last Descendant by Megan Haskell

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Sanyare: The Last Descendant by Megan Haskell

Amazon Best Seller and B.R.A.G Medallion Winner!

A woman torn between honor and survival…
  Raised in a realm where humans are no better than slaves, Rie Lhethannien has struggled for decades to earn a meager post in the High Court messenger service. Even training as an elite fighter isn’t enough to earn the respect she craves. Scorned by the high elves who rely on her loyalty, Rie’s closest allies are the fierce carnivorous pixies who travel by her side. 

When she’s attacked on a routine delivery by assassins from the enemy Shadow Realm, Rie’s martial prowess keeps her alive…and frames her as a traitor. Facing execution at the hand of an unmerciful king, Rie must forsake her oaths and flee into enemy lands to prove her innocence. With surprising help from a bastard prince and an ambitious blood sidhe, Rie searches for the truth behind the attack. The secrets she uncovers may threaten more than her honor or even her life…for war is looming in the nine faerie realms.

  Sanyare: The Last Descendant is the first book in The Sanyare Chronicles, a fast-paced dark fantasy adventure. If you like kick-butt heroines and action-packed fantasy filled with mythological creatures, then you’ll love the first novel in Megan Haskell’s debut series. Start your journey across the nine faerie realms today!

Featured Book: Living Through the Glass by Lynn Daniels

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FREE from August 31st to September 4th, 2017!

Living Through The Glass is the first book of the In Search of Infinity series. The story centers around a woman named Chloe. Chloe is a supremely clairvoyant, paraplegic Goddess. Her disability makes her an outcast among the close-knit circle of Gods and Goddesses. After a lengthy incapacitation, Chloe returns to find her entire world turned upside-down by the actions of Norman, the powerful, yet troubled new leader of Cerebes. Chloe must then use her abilities, quick wit and the assistance of a brand new generation of Gods and Goddesses to figure out what led to the destruction of her family and how to keep Norman from spiraling further out of control.

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Featured Book: The Tegen Cave by Inge-Lise Goss

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On the run from her old flame’s criminal family, Sara Jones hides in Billings, Montana. But when people around her start dying, she finds herself trapped between the crime family and a sinister group that uses poisonous spiders to paralyze their victims. Can she escape?

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The Tegen Cave by Inge-Lise Goss

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The Tegen Cave by Inge-Lise Goss

On the run from her old flame’s organized crime family, Sara Jones hides in Billings, Montana, and finds a new boyfriend. But when people around her start dying from poisonous spider bites after she receives a mysterious package with a spider concealed inside, she worries that the crime family has found her. Life takes an even more bizarre turn when she seems to be not only immune to the spider venom, but also surrounded by a sinister group of people using spiders to incapacitate their prey. Even her new boyfriend starts acting suspiciously. Just who can she trust?
Then to make matters worse Sara’s twenty-fifth birthday approaches, and her dark heritage begins to emerge. She is forced to make a life-or-death decision. And somehow, she must find a way to deal with the crime family.

Featured Book: The Stone of the Tenth Realm by Eva Gordon

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Sophie Katz, a Jewish chemistry student, harrowingly escapes a Nazi concentration camp. By way of Prague and with the help of a golem and a magic stone, she is transported into the Tenth Realm, a magical dimension that parallels the world she left behind.

Logan MacLeod, a Scottish warrior, hunted for a crime he did not mean to commit, flees to the Bestiary, a forest so dangerous no man dares enter. Drawn by the haunting sound of his bagpipes, Sophie and Logan meet.

Even as love ensues, the dark evil of the Third Reich threatens the Tenth Realm, led by Gustaf Hissler, Adolph Hitler’s doppelganger.

Together they must join the forces against Hissler in the Tenth Realm and help stop Hitler from world domination in Sophie’s realm. Will they be able to stop the Third Reich before its evil conquers all of the realms?

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Sinful Cinderella by Anita Valle

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Sinful Cinderella by Anita Valle

I’m not who they think I am. A docile girl who meekly obeys her stepmother and stepsisters. Some kind of sick angel who cheerfully bears their mistreatment. That’s what I WANT them to think. Because then they won’t suspect what I’m really up to.

The ball, the prince – it’s all part of my plan to come out on top. Stepmother and her demented daughters will pay for every floor I have scoured, every sneer I have borne. They don’t know about the white magic, how I use it to enhance myself. They can’t see that my heart is black as midnight, rotten as a poisoned apple.

They’re about to find out.

Featured Book: Queen Mab by Kate Danley

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McDougall Previews Award for Best Fantasy Book of the Year
WINNER – 1st Place Fantasy Book, Reader Views Reviewers Choice Awards

Hell hath no fury as a faerie queen scorned…

When Faunus, the god of daydreams, breaks the heart of the faerie queen Mab, revenge can be the only answer. Using the most powerful families in Verona, they wage their war against one another. But when Mab falls in love, this bitter queen will do anything, even if it means destroying the world, to change the story.

USA TODAY Bestselling author Kate Danley weaves a dark, romantic fairytale around the mythology of the fairy bringer of dreams – Queen Mab. ALSO available from Audible, beautifully narrated by British actor Julian Rhind-Tutt.

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Featured Book: Sanyare: The Last Descendant by Megan Haskell

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FREE through May 7, 2016
B.R.A.G. Medallion Winner

A woman torn between honor and survival…

Raised in a realm where humans are no better than slaves, Rie Lhethannien has struggled for decades to earn a meager post in the High Court messenger service. Even training as an elite fighter isn’t enough to earn the respect she craves. Scorned by the high elves who rely on her loyalty, Rie’s closest allies are the fierce carnivorous pixies who travel by her side.

If you like kick-butt heroines and action-packed fantasy filled with mythological creatures, then you’ll love this dark fantasy adventure. Start your journey across the nine faerie realms today!

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Featured Book: Knightswrath by Michael Meyerhofer

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In this sequel to the award-winning dark fantasy novel, Wytchfire, Rowen Locke has achieved his dream of becoming a Knight of the Crane, and he now bears Knightswrath, the legendary sword of Fâyu Jinn. But as the war continues, Rowen battles his own doubts, as well as a growing list of enemies.

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Featured Book: Rising Tide: Dark Innocence by Claudette Melanson @Bella623

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CHOSEN AS ONE OF 400 FOR THE SECOND ROUND OF THE AMAZON BREAKTHROUGH NOVEL AWARD FOR 2014!!!

ARE YOU A FAN OF VAMPIRE ACADEMY, VAMPIRE DIARIES OR TWILIGHT?

Rising Tide will sink its fangs into you, keeping you awake into the wee hours of the night
Could Maura’s life get any worse? …turns out it most certainly can.

Isolated and sheltered by her lonely mother, Maura’s never been able to make friends. She seems to drive her classmates away—except for the odd times they pay enough attention to torture her—but she doesn’t understand why. Maura considers herself to be a freak of nature, with her unusually pale skin and an aversion to the sun that renders her violently nauseous. Her belief is only worsened by the fact that almost everyone around her keeps their distance.

Even her own father deserted her before she was born, leaving Maura alone with her emotionally distant mother, Caelyn. Even though Maura is desperate for answers about her unknown parent, Caelyn remains heartbroken and her daughter can’t bring herself to reopen her mother’s wounds. Or is there a more sinister reason Caelyn refuses to utter a word about her long-lost love?

When a cruel prank nearly claims Maura’s life, one of her classmates, Ron, rushes to her rescue. Darkly handsome & mysteriously accepting, Ron doesn’t seem to want to stay away, but Maura is reluctant to get too close, since her mother has announced she’s moving the two of them to Vancouver…nearly 3,000 miles away from their hometown of Indiana, Pennsylvania.

If life wasn’t already challenging enough, Maura begins to experience bizarre, physical changes her mother seems hell bent on ignoring, compelling Maura to fear for her own life. Vicious nightmares, blood cravings, failing health and the heart-shattering loss of Ron—as well as the discovery of a tangled web of her own mother’s lies—become obstacles in Maura’s desperate quest for the unfathomable truth she was never prepared to uncover.

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