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The False Prince - I enjoyed this whole Young Adult series by Jennifer NielsenDefy by Sara Larsen - I've only read the first book but I really liked it
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale - I liked the whole Books of Bayern series
Hourglass Door Trilogy by Lisa Mangum - This series may be more paranormal than Fantasy (sometimes I don't really know where to draw the line, plus it has been a long time since I've read it, but I remember really liking it)
(And I second the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson)
The Paper Magician series by Charlie N. Holmberg is really good! So is her standalone, Followed by Frost.
Caitlyn wrote: "The Paper Magician series by Charlie N. Holmberg is really good! So is her standalone, Followed by Frost. "I have The Paper Magician on my kindle, waiting to be read!
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Daughter of Winter by Amber ArgyleBargains. Only the truly desperate make them. Only the truly desperate need them. And always, the desperate pay.
The silence and never-ending dark of winter are all Elice has ever known, for she is the daughter of the Winter Queen. Isolated in a northern queendom with only the seals for company, she dreams of color and music and life. So when a whaling ship crashes just offshore, she doesn’t hesitate to rescue the lone survivor, Adar, who quickly becomes her friend. She must keep him hidden from her mother at all costs, for if the Winter Queen discovers him trespassing, she’ll kill him.
When her mother reveals just how dark her soul has become, Elice realizes she is as much a prisoner as Adar. To ever know true freedom—to ever become the woman she was meant to be—she must flee with him. But in their flight, she begins to see hints of something more nefarious. The darkness that has taken hold of her mother is spreading, staining the world with its influence.
Unbeknownst to Elice, a bargain was made long ago. A bargain she was born to fulfill.
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Echoes of Silence by Elana JohnsonHer voice could unleash a war.
Twenty-three-year-old Echo del Toro doesn’t know about the bride-choosing festivities the tyrannical Prince of Nyth has planned–until she’s taken from her home by five armed soldiers. She’s led under the cover of a magically produced storm to an opulent compound to join hundreds of girls, each vying to be chosen as the next Queen of Nyth.
As she plays the charade of falling in love with the Prince, Echo realizes three terrifying truths: He is hungry for her song-magic, he has a secret plot to dethrone his father, and he is not wholly unlikeable.
Faced with the strongest dark magician in centuries, Echo must know when to let her voice fly and when to hold her tongue, or she’ll find herself caught in the lasting notes of a song that can’t be unsung.
Book 1 in my epic fantasy series:
Dreams and ShadowsMichael is a young man in modern England, minding his own business in the local library. Life turns on its head, however, when he has a powerful dream, full of symbols and foreshadowing. After awakening the next morning, he is compelled to seek answers of his dream: a quest that soon draws him into the beautiful and magical land of Aylosia.
In an unfamiliar world with frightening creatures chasing him, threats against his life from all sides, and no way of knowing who he should trust; Michael must learn to face truths within himself in order to gain the power to save those he has grown to love.
With plot twists and turns, wisdom literature that will make you ponder, and a story that is both tragic and triumphant, Dreams and Shadows is a story that will linger in your mind long after you have finished reading.
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The Bird and the Sword by Amy HarmonSwallow, daughter, pull them in, those words that sit upon your lips. Lock them deep inside your soul, hide them ‘til they’ve time to grow. Close your mouth upon the power, curse not, cure not, ‘til the hour. You won’t speak and you won’t tell, you won’t call on heaven or hell. You will learn and you will thrive. Silence, daughter. Stay alive.
The day my mother was killed, she told my father I wouldn’t speak again, and she told him if I died, he would die too. Then she predicted the king would sell his soul and lose his son to the sky.
My father has a claim to the throne, and he is waiting in the shadows for all of my mother’s words to come to pass. He wants desperately to be king, and I just want to be free.
But freedom will require escape, and I’m a prisoner of my mother’s curse and my father’s greed. I can’t speak or make a sound, and I can’t wield a sword or beguile a king. In a land purged of enchantment, love might be the only magic left, and who could ever love… a bird?
My book, THE PATH OF DESTINY, released in Feb is doing really well. I am excited to see it in the top 15 YA Fantasy Sword an Sorcery books, and top 100 Teen/YA fantasy. "Forgotten lines of ancient magic and the power of the throne. One will make them both his own if his heart sees the true power. . . " So begins the ancient Cremelino Prophecy.
Darius San Williams, son of one of King Edward's councilors, cares little for his father's politics and vows to leave the city of Anikari to protect and bring glory to the Realm. But when a new-found and ancient power emerges from within him, he and his friends Christine and Kelln are faced with decisions that could shatter or fulfill the prophecy and the lives of all those they know. Wizards and magic have long been looked down upon in the Realm, but Darius learns that no matter where he goes, prophecy and destiny are waiting to find him.
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Once Enchanted by Marie HigginsA Rapunzel Story.
Once upon a time…
The time had come for Princess Clarissa to find a husband—or so her parents told her. The shy and somewhat clumsy, Prince Ormond from a neighboring kingdom, is a contender. Clarissa knows she’ll never fall in love with him much less accept him as a husband. And yet… seemingly in a split second, she changes her mind.
Ryder Grey has known Clarissa since childhood and cannot understand the sudden change from the girl he once adored, to the woman he sees now. How can she be in love with the meek Prince Ormond? Ryder begins to investigate and discovers that a reclusive witch has Clarissa under a spell.
When Ryder interferes with Clarissa’s budding romance with Prince Ormond, she takes action and locks her childhood friend in a secluded tower in the east forest until she and Ormond can marry.
Forgotten in the tower by all but the rats can Ryder enchant Clarissa and break the sinister spell? His chances do not look favorable.
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Peak Crosser by Adam J. MangumIn an ancient empire covered by a nearly impassable mountain range, factions within and without threaten to topple a thousand-year-old peace. The Empire’s survival depends on the unknowing and unwitting.
Zornan is a simple man who works as a Peak Crosser carrying letters and small items amidst the empire’s isolated valleys on his giant hawk. His idyllic life with his wife Calla and their daughters is shattered when a stranger frames him for murder. His only path to clear his name and return to his family is for Zornan to help the stranger’s illegally born daughter Mairie reunite with her mother.
As they flee over and under mountains, Zornan discovers that Mairie is not an innocent young woman, more monster than maiden. Pursued by the empire and its enemies and confounded by betrayal, each step hurls Zornan farther from his family and entangles him more with Mairie.
Zornan’s wife Calla is left to discover a way to cleanse her husband’s sullied name, assisted by an imperial agent who is falling in love with her. All the while, the Emperor dispatches an earnest military scout named Mizcarnon to find Zornan and Mairie before rebels use them to shatter a crumbling Empire.
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The Sword Chronicles: Child of Sorrows by Michaelbrent CollingsSword thought it was over.
She thought that when she killed the Chancellor and ended the corrupt reign of the Emperor, that everything would get better. That the suffering would end in Ansborn. That the people would be free.
But now a new terror has been born. A trio of warriors who live only for vengeance, who know only hate, have set their sights on Sword and on those she holds dear. They are powerful, they are deadly, and they are impossible to kill.
And worst of all, they are but harbingers of what is to come. Because after a thousand years, the unknown enemy that lies below the mountains of Ansborn is at last on the move. And it is coming for them all.
Death from among them.
Death from below.
And only one person—one Sword—has any chance of stopping it.
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Woven Peril by Jeffrey CollyerThe Guardian’s forces may have left the forest, but they haven’t departed from Michael’s mind as he struggles to learn what his enemy will do next. Torn between feelings of guilt and love, he must now push ahead to find mythical halls deep in the earth, where secrets from the distant past are spoken of, and new riddles unearthed.
Entering dark paths, Michael must learn to use his growing power if he is to discover that which will save the land, at the same time as trying to protect those now under his care from new and deadly monsters sent to hunt him.
And all while he struggles to understand mysteries surrounding his mother.
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Safety Assured Leaving East of Medicetti by Trish MercerIt’s been three weeks since Mahrree publicly denounced the Administrators about Terryp’s land being poisoned, and since Perrin resigned from the army instead of becoming its High General. The world’s been shunning them ever since.
But the Shins have been fine with that, busy with making their own plans to sneak away to Terryp’s land…
Until one night when mysterious visitors in dark mottled clothing tell Mahrree and Perrin about a new land and an unknown civilization where they need to take their family, because Chairman Mal is planning to arrest the Shins and try them for sedition.
The Shins and Briters have to trust these secretive people to help them escape before the Administrator of Loyalty arrives.
But seventeen-year-old Peto, the last Shin thinking clearly anymore, is agreeing to go along only so that he can rescue his family from the rescue of Shem Zenos—the duplicitous spy—and his “Guarders.”
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Caitlyn wrote: "The Paper Magician series by Charlie N. Holmberg is really good! So is her standalone, Followed by Frost. "I loved The Paper Magician series. I didn't know Followed by Frost even existed - now I do it and it is on my Kindle to be read. Her new one Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet was out last month also. That I will pick up soon.
Hi folks. My crit partner and friend, also an LDS author with a bunch of awesome fantasy books, has a new release coming out on August 15th, and it's amazing. :) It's alternate history fantasy with high seas battles, magic, romance and pirates during the Napoleonic wars.Burning Bright Melissa McShane
It's up for pre-order now, and will release officially on August 15th.
Jana wrote: "It's alternate history fantasy with high seas battles, magic, romance and pirates during the Napoleonic wars."It is a truth universally acknowledged that the average regency novel would be much improved with the addition of high seas battles, magic, and pirates.
Great cover!
A.L. wrote: "Jana wrote: "It's alternate history fantasy with high seas battles, magic, romance and pirates during the Napoleonic wars."It is a truth universally acknowledged that the average regency novel wo..."
Heehee. Too true and this totally does it. :) Fire and kaboom and ships...and pretty dresses.
Erica wrote: "New release
Foxtails: A Paranormal Regency Romance"
Congrats, Erica!
Here's the blurb:
A Regency Romance unlike any other.
Elizabeth Pendry is a book worm who likes to believe in fantasy. Little does she know she's about to discover that fairies do indeed exist.
And that some myths from around the world are true.
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Burning Bright by Melissa McShaneIn 1812, Elinor Pembroke wakes to find her bedchamber in flames—and extinguishes them with a thought. At 21, she is old to manifest magical talent, but the evidence is unmistakable: she not only has the ability to start fires, but the far more powerful ability to control and extinguish them. She is an Extraordinary, and the only one in England capable of wielding fire in over one hundred years.
As an Extraordinary, she is respected and feared, but to her father, she represents power and prestige for himself. Mr. Pembroke, having spent his life studying magic, is determined to control Elinor and her talent by forcing her to marry where he chooses, a marriage that will produce even more powerful offspring. Trapped between the choices of a loveless marriage or living penniless and dependent on her parents, Elinor takes a third path: she defies tradition and society to join the Royal Navy.
Assigned to serve under Captain Miles Ramsay aboard the frigate Athena, she turns her fiery talent on England’s enemies, French privateers and vicious pirates preying on English ships in the Caribbean. At first feared by her shipmates, a growing number of victories make her truly part of Athena’s crew and bring her joy in her fire. But as her power grows and changes in unexpected ways, Elinor’s ability to control it is challenged. She may have the power to destroy her enemies utterly—but could it be at the cost of her own life?
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Of Sand and Stormby Amber ArgyleBy law, any child born in Idara is free, even if that child is born in a slave brothel. But as Cinder grows into a beauty that surpasses even that of her mother and grandmother, she realizes that freedom is only a word. There are other words too, stronger words. Words like betrayal and prison and death. And there are words even stronger still. Words like courage and family and love.
In the end, if Cinder is to escape the fate of her matriarchs, she’ll have to fight for her freedom. Because true freedom is never free.
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The Sweet Sister by C. David BeltAn ancient evil has returned out of the mists of time, and Peggy Carson must risk everything to protect her best friend, Derek.
Peggy is smart, funny, geeky… and plain. And Derek has no clue how much she loves him.
Derek has discovered a series of old diaries, each written by the same young woman, and each spaced several decades apart—a period spanning centuries. He thinks he has found a time-traveling, fairytale princess—but a princess under an evil curse. Derek is determined to break the curse, to rescue sweet, pretty Elaine from her sister—the evil, disfigured Morgaise.
But where he sees fantasy and romantic adventure, Peggy sees horror and death. Soon the ancient evil begins to stalk Peggy. Even if she can save Derek, who will save her?
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Master of Time by Lisa RectorHe thought time was his worst enemy…
Meuric refuses to acknowledge the light’s power within his half-Emryn body—a power that has failed him in the past. For years he’s harnessed his darkness, building it as the dark army’s enigmatic leader, until a new ability emerges—the power to move through the ether. During battle, his power is triggered, backfiring on him and one of his nearest enemies, throwing the pair through time.
Injured in the battle, Catrin’s light diminishes and is no longer able to sustain her immortal body. Desperate to return to her time, Catrin demands that Meuric take her home. Her world shatters when he tells her there is no conceivable way—his ability has disappeared. Though they are two immortal enemies thrown together, Meuric and Catrin band together, searching for the way home.
A malicious shadow starts trailing Catrin and Meuric, and as a wielder of darkness, only Meuric knows the enormity of this evil that wants to claim Catrin, a pure Daughter of Light. In the face of Catrin’s failing health, Meuric confronts a reality—his long-ignored light could save her. Time throws the challenge in his face, forcing him to relive a tortured past, face his fears, and use his light—or watch Catrin die. With her time running short, Catrin follows him to the ends of the three realms, searching for the way home—if there is a way home at all.
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The Broken Queen by Jeff BordersIn the northern city of Ebondark, something ancient and powerful stirs the heart of Kyra Noelle.
The diamond that she believed would be the answer to her life on the street, has only led to questions and death. Nothing would bring greater pleasure than to cast her old life aside and disappear forever, but she knows the threat that the Church Eternal poses.
With the power of the diamond, the Church can fully resurrect the Ageless One and her Shadowborn army. If the world stands any chances of survival, Kyra must push past her grief and pain, embrace the power inside her, and become the queen she was always meant to be.
She must not waver.
For herself. For her people. For Feyora.
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Well, if we're talking Fantasy, then we have to talk about Brandon Sanderson. His initial Mistborn trilogy has already been listed, but his very first published book was Elantris. Being a first book, some have said it was hard to get through (including some of my friends); however, I didn't have a problem with it at all. Maybe it has something to do with my being single, but it resonated with me. He has since added a novella that covers in more detail, some events towards the end of Elantris. I think he pulled it out so as not to interfere with the flow of the story. Also, there's The Emperor's Soul, another novella, which takes place on the same planet as Elantris, but with totally different characters and newly revealed additions to it's magic-system.Elantris was the capital of Arelon: gigantic, beautiful, literally radiant, filled with benevolent beings who used their powerful magical abilities for the benefit of all. Yet each of these demigods was once an ordinary person until touched by the mysterious transforming power of the Shaod. Ten years ago, without warning, the magic failed. Elantrians became wizened, leper-like, powerless creatures, and Elantris itself dark, filthy, and crumbling.
Arelon's new capital, Kae, crouches in the shadow of Elantris. Princess Sarene of Teod arrives for a marriage of state with Crown Prince Raoden, hoping -- based on their correspondence -- to also find love. She finds instead that Raoden has died and she is considered his widow. Both Teod and Arelon are under threat as the last remaining holdouts against the imperial ambitions of the ruthless religious fanatics of Fjordell. So Sarene decides to use her new status to counter the machinations of Hrathen, a Fjordell high priest who has come to Kae to convert Arelon and claim it for his emperor and his god.
But neither Sarene nor Hrathen suspect the truth about Prince Raoden. Stricken by the same curse that ruined Elantris, Raoden was secretly exiled by his father to the dark city. His struggle to help the wretches trapped there begins a series of events that will bring hope to Arelon, and perhaps reveal the secret of Elantris itself.
A rare epic fantasy that doesn't recycle the classics and that is a complete and satisfying story in one volume, Elantris is fleet and fun, full of surprises and characters to care about. It's also the wonderful debut of a welcome new star in the constellation of fantasy.
No offense to A.L., but I just have to get Brandon Sanderson entire Mistborn acknowledged. There's the original trilogy, plus two Novellas, that's a bit Dystopian Fantasy. The world was being overcome by darkness, but was saved by an egomaniac control freak, so yeah, not really saved, huh? And now the darkness/mist is overflowing again:In a world where ash falls from the sky, and mist dominates the night, an evil cloaks the land and stifles all life. The future of the empire rests on the shoulders of a troublemaker and his young apprentice. Together, can they fill the world with color once more?
In Brandon Sanderson's intriguing tale of love, loss, despair and hope, a new kind of magic enters the stage — Allomancy, a magic of the metals.
Then there's the follow-up four-book series that takes place 300 years after the first trilogy. The world reborn with free agency intact -- it's got a kind of frontier/western/steampunk feel to it, but the fourth is looking likely for 2018, hopefully!! Love Wax and Wayne!!! Ah, heck, love them all!!!:
Centuries after the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is on the verge of modernity - railroads, electric street lights, and skyscrapers. Waxillium Ladrian can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will. After 20 years in the dusty Roughs, in the city of Elendel, the new head of a noble house may need to keep his guns.
Now onto EPIC Fantasy. Ten big books, with Brandon Sanderson promising a book every two years, now that The Wheel of Time has been completed. So, two books have been released with the third due in 2017:Speak again the ancient oaths,
Life before death.
Strength before weakness.
Journey before Destination.
and return to men the Shards they once bore.
The Knights Radiant must stand again.
Roshar is a world of stone swept by tempests that shape ecology and civilization. Animals and plants retract; cities are built in shelter. In centuries since ten orders of Knights fell, their Shardblade swords and Shardplate armor still transform men into near-invincible warriors. Wars are fought for them, and won by them.
In one such war on ruined Shattered Plains, slave Kaladin struggles to save his men and fathom leaders who deem them expendable, in senseless wars where ten armies fight separately against one foe.
Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Fascinated by ancient text The Way of Kings, troubled by visions of ancient times, he doubts his sanity.
Across the ocean, Shallan trains under eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar’s niece Jasnah. Though Shallan genuinely loves learning, she plans a daring theft. Her research hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.
Bet you're wondering if I can come up with anyone other than Brandon Sanderson? And yes I can, I really enjoyed Brian McClellan's Powder Mage Trilogy + assorted Novellas. Of course, he was a student of Brandon Sanderson and he recommended Brian McClellan, which is how I initially found him:The Age of Kings is dead . . . and I have killed it.
It's a bloody business overthrowing a king...
Field Marshal Tamas' coup against his king sent corrupt aristocrats to the guillotine and brought bread to the starving. But it also provoked war with the Nine Nations, internal attacks by royalist fanatics, and the greedy to scramble for money and power by Tamas's supposed allies: the Church, workers unions, and mercenary forces.
Stretched to his limit, Tamas is relying heavily on his few remaining powder mages, including the embittered Taniel, a brilliant marksman who also happens to be his estranged son, and Adamat, a retired police inspector whose loyalty is being tested by blackmail.
But when gods are involved...
Now, as attacks batter them from within and without, the credulous are whispering about omens of death and destruction. Just old peasant legends about the gods waking to walk the earth. No modern educated man believes that sort of thing. But they should...
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Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection by Brandon SandersonArcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection is the first book of short fiction by Brandon Sanderson.
The collection includes nine works. The first eight are:
“The Hope of Elantris” (Elantris)
“The Eleventh Metal” (Mistborn)
“The Emperor’s Soul” (Elantris)
“Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania, Episodes 28 through 30” (Mistborn)
“White Sand” (excerpt; Taldain)
“Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell” (Threnody)
“Sixth of Dusk” (First of the Sun)
“Mistborn: Secret History” (Mistborn)
These wonderful works, originally published on Tor.com and elsewhere individually, convey the expanse of the Cosmere and tell exciting tales of adventure Sanderson fans have come to expect, including the Hugo Award-winning novella, “The Emperor’s Soul” and an excerpt from the graphic novel “White Sand.”
Arcanum Unbounded will also contain the Stormlight Archive novella “Edgedancer,” which will appear in this book for the first time anywhere. It is a story of Lift, taking place between Words of Radiance and the forthcoming Oathbringer.
Includes essays and illustrations for the various planetary systems in which the stories are set.
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Stealing Eternity by Jeff BordersIn the thriving port city of Trista, Kyra Noelle, a young teal-eyed thief, struggles to survive. But her latest score—a rare blue diamond—could change everything.
The jewel’s wealth alone should be enough to buy her safety in a faraway land. But she’s a Teal—enemy of the Church Eternal—and life could never be that easy.
Especially when that jewel belongs to the Church.
Especially when that jewel is the key to unleashing a devastating weapon.
Hunted not only for her eye color, but the jewel which she now possesses, Kyra Noelle holds the power which could save the world, or destroy it.
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Darker the Shadow by J. Lloyd MorganWyjec, a slave to the Masters of Sothcar, refuses to die.
Pendr, an apprentice blacksmith to his father, fights so others can live.
Neither of them expects their destinies to intertwine in a battle to either destroy or save their world.
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Duskfall by Christopher B. HusbergPulled from a frozen sea, pierced by arrows and close to death, Knot has no memory of who he was. But his dreams are dark, filled with violence and unknown faces.
Winter, a tiellan woman whose people have long been oppressed by humans, is married to and abandoned by Knot on the same day. In her search for him, she will discover her control of magic, but risk losing herself utterly.
And Cinzia, priestess and true believer, returns home to discover her family at the heart of a heretical rebellion. A rebellion that only the Inquisition can crush…
Their fates and those of others will intertwine, in a land where magic and daemons are believed dead, but dark forces still vie for power.
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Doom of the Dragon: A Dragonships of Vindras Novel by Margaret Weis and Tracy HickmanIn three previous novels, Skylan Ivorson overcame obstacles that would have defeated a lesser man, rising from obscurity to become the Chief of Chiefs of the fearsome Vindrasi who sail their living dragonships far and wide to raid and plunder for the glory of the gods. However, a cruel twist of fate struck him down before he and his beloved could complete their quest for the five sacred dragonbones that would summon the great dragon Ilyrion and save their people from destruction at the hands of an evil god. But even true death is denied him, and his destiny is unfulfilled.
Caught between life and death, he must lead those who journeyed with him to battle the evil god and the vast army of the god and his human emperor. Skylan must fight as he never has before to win back his life and his love, while seeking the last Spiritbone—the key to summoning the ultimate victory—before it can be snatched away by the forces of evil.
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Wondering Sight by Melissa McShaneSophia Westlake is an Extraordinary Seer, gifted with the ability to see past, present and future in Dreams and Visions. Her talent led to the destruction of the Caribbean pirates plaguing England’s shipping and gained her renown and the accolades of her peers. But when she accuses a prominent politician, Lord Endicott, of embezzling from the Army, her Dream is “proved” false and she is disgraced, her reputation ruined and her career in the Army’s War Office over.
Humiliated, Sophia returns to London, but Lord Endicott follows her, intent on making her life increasingly miserable. Furious and desperate, Sophia takes the only course left to her: she sets out to discover Lord Endicott’s criminal enterprises, to expose him as the fraud he is and bring him to justice.
Sophia’s allies are few, but loyal. Cecy, her best friend, supports Sophia in her quest, while her cousin Lady Daphne, an irrepressible Extraordinary Bounder, is always ready for a challenge that will strike at Lord Endicott’s heart. And always watching her is the mysterious Mr. Rutledge, who claims to be interested in Sophia’s friendship—and possibly more than that—but who has an agenda of his own.
But as Sophia delves deeper into prophetic Dreams, Cecy and Daphne begin to fear for Sophia’s health and sanity. Driven to collapse by her frequent Dreaming, Sophia is forced to reevaluate her motives: does she want Lord Endicott brought to justice, or is it revenge she seeks? As Sophia draws closer to the secret of Lord Endicott’s criminal enterprise, a counterfeiting ring, his torment of Sophia increases, until the two are bound together by their respective obsessions. Though Sophia insists she is in control, her friends fear she is turning into the man she most hates.
Sophia’s Dreams and Visions are leading her to just one place: the destruction of Lord Endicott. But the cost of her vengeance may be too high—and may demand the sacrifice of her own life.
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The God-Touched Man by Melissa McShaneFive years after the defeat of the Despot, the southern country of Santerre has finally recovered from his rule and sends an embassy to Dalanine. Piercy Faranter, government agent and man about town, receives an assignment to watch over the princess of Santerre, who is disguised as one of her own ladies in waiting. It’s a task perfectly suited to his charm and reputation with attractive young ladies, but proves to be more of a challenge, both personally and professionally, than he ever could have anticipated.
The beautiful Ayane Caligwe seems shy, but Piercy finds behind her coy smiles she’s more than a match for him in cunning and cleverness. But when a rogue magician opens a portal to the past, dragging Piercy and his reluctant charge with him, they are both forced to put pretenses aside.
Trapped in a time two hundred years before his own, Piercy finds himself embroiled in a mystery whose roots are a thousand years deep. With time running out, he and Ayane must work together to stop the magician’s madness—even if it costs them their lives.
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The Princess and the Pea by Jenni JamesWill love reveal the truth?
When Princess Kyra’s coach is overturned by bandits, she is forced to flee for her very life during a raging storm. Thankfully, Kyra discovers a castle and is hopeful that the kingdom might give her the shelter she desperately seeks. However, as she approaches, a guard arrives with the matching horse from her carriage, Kyra is frightened all over again and cautiously presents herself as a commoner named Marie.
The queen is not convinced Marie is merely a commoner and commands her son, Prince David, to entertain and woo the girl until the truth comes out. There is intrigue afoot in the kingdom, and the queen is bound and determined to see if this mysterious girl had anything to do with it.
With Prince David gleaning the truth, what could go wrong? No one could have expected him to fall for the bedraggled princess, least of all Kyra!
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The Lady and the Frog: The Pippington Tales by L. PalmerWelcome to Pippington, where motorcars bump down old city lanes, frogs transform into men, and mermaids just might be real.
Evelyn Havish is through waiting for Henry Kingston to look up from his ledgers and propose. But, when Henry’s brother Jack is transformed into a frog and trapped in a well, Evelyn must join the rescue.
Armed with her training as a lady and a solid punch, Evelyn must outwit a scheming heiress, wrestle an octopus, and kiss far more frogs than a girl should be expected to.
As she dives deeper into a hidden world of magic, she discovers Jack may not be the one who needs saving.
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God of the Sun by Kimberly LothCrown Princess Zwaantie of Sol harbors a dangerous secret. One she has managed to hide even from the ever present sun. She’s doesn’t want to be queen.
Desperately trying to avoid responsibility she does the unthinkable. She falls in love with a slave.
When Zwaantie’s mother decides it’s time for her to get married, she frantically tries to form a plan to escape the crown. After three attempts on her life, Zwaantie fears that the sun has recognized her plans and is now trying to kill her for being disobedient.
When a high prince from Stella, the barbaric country across the mist, arrives seeking her hand, Zwaantie sees an opportunity to escape her death.
As those around her discover her plans, they unravel and she fears not only for her own life, but the survival of her kingdom.
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Talismans by Lisa LowellAmnesia plagues Owailion, the Awakened One. After he meets Mohan, a gargantuan dragon, he becomes his apprentice.
As the dragons are preparing to enter hibernation for a thousand years, Owailion is tasked to protect the Land from all invaders. He will be alone; the only human sealed off from the rest of the world. He learns about the theft of the thousand-year old runestones, and is charged to find the missing stones and deal with the thief.
But Owailion is about to learn that even limitless powers have their limits. He can conjure anything, speak with minds across vast distances and even move instantly anywhere we can imagine… but he is unable to control his own fate.
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Witchy Eye by D.J. ButlerSarah Calhoun is the fifteen-year-old daughter of the Elector Andrew Calhoun, one of Appalachee’s military heroes and one of the electors who gets to decide who will next ascend as the Emperor of the New World. None of that matters to Sarah. She has a natural talent for hexing and one bad eye, and all she wants is to be left alone—especially by outsiders.
But Sarah’s world gets turned on its head at the Nashville Tobacco Fair when a Yankee wizard-priest tries to kidnap her. Sarah fights back with the aid of a mysterious monk named Thalanes, who is one of the not-quite-human Firstborn, the Moundbuilders of the Ohio. It is Thalanes who reveals to Sarah a secret heritage she never dreamed could be hers.
Now on a desperate quest with Thalanes to claim this heritage, she is hunted by the Emperor’s bodyguard of elite dragoons, as well as by darker things—shapeshifting Mockers and undead Lazars, and behind them a power more sinister still. If Sarah cannot claim her heritage, it may mean the end to her, her family—and to the world where she is just beginning to find her place.
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The Runes Universe: Frozen Souls by Ali CrossSai Luk is more comfortable with the dead than the living. For 900 years, he’s been shepherding souls to Valhalla and keeping company with souls; careful not to let anyone breach the walls around his heart.
As a sixteen-year-old slave girl, Elpi Moros found her soul mate among the Jin’s vast army. For the briefest moment, they knew happiness. But when Sai is killed on the battlefield, she drives a knife into her heart, unable to face a lifetime without him. She’s been escorting souls to the underworld ever since, enduring an eternity with a broken heart.
Destiny drove them apart, but when they’re both given missions in Kayville, Oregon, their love draws them together. With competing assignments and dueling destinies, will Sai and Elpi choose to honor their masters, or their love?
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On Wings of Thunder by Gary J. DarbyFrom the savage maelstrom of the battle of Dronopolis, the Company of the Golden Dragons must now travel to a world of shadows and darkness, where Hooper must meet and defeat his own dark demon.
If he can not—or will not, then all may die, and the quest to save Golden Wind ends in Vay’s evil victory over all of Erdron.
From the ode book comes guidance, but it points toward an unexpected and entirely unwelcome direction. Still, the company has no choice but to journey to a fiendish place where they must fight and defeat monsters, some of their making, behind a dark shroud without any help and where all may perish unbeknownst to the rest of the world.
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The Queen and the Cure by Amy HarmonThere will be a battle, and you will need to protect your heart.
Kjell of Jeru had always known who he was. He’d never envied his brother or wanted to be king. He was the bastard son of the late King Zoltev and a servant girl, and the ignominy of his birth had never bothered him.
But there is more to a man than his parentage. More to a man than his blade, his size, or his skills, and all that Kjell once knew has shifted and changed. He is no longer simply Kjell of Jeru, a warrior defending the crown. Now he is a healer, one of the Gifted, and a man completely at odds with his power.
Called upon to rid the country of the last vestiges of the Volgar, Kjell stumbles upon a woman who has troubling glimpses of the future and no memory of the past. Armed with his unwanted gift and haunted by regret, Kjell becomes a reluctant savior, beset by old enemies and new expectations. With the woman by his side, Kjell embarks upon a journey where the greatest test may be finding the man she believes him to be.
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Fairydom is home to the four fairy tribes: the Silver Fairies, Sky Fairies, Plant Fairies, and Wood Fairies. The Water Fairy tribe exists only in bedtime stories, doesn't it? But a tiny group of Sky Fairies knows better. When Seeker Kuntza of the Water Fairy Tribe asks for a representative to go under the sea with him for the winter, it's Prince Cambrian who volunteers. Joined by Captain Constance Kimberlite and the young Silver Fairy, Historian Rolf Warner, they leave their world in great danger from a monster snowstorm and venture into Kuntza's world, where things do not go as planned.
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The Unicorn Hunter by Rachel KirkaldiePrincess Jessalyn has the perfect life all lined up for her: she is the most beautiful princess in the realm and is about to marry the soon-to-be-king of Gontir. Her glorious future is set—until she’s kidnapped by a murderous unicorn hunter and thrown into the middle of a bizarre plot to take over the realm.
Erik is a thief desperate to get away from Sharadel before the evil he’s running from catches up with him. Betrayed by a scheming stranger, he partners with an obnoxious knight to save the princess and seize his revenge.
Dark and mysterious things begin happening, and Jessalyn may be the only one who can save the realm. Faced with the realization that everything she once cherished is not what she thought it was, Jessalyn must decide if the life she’s always wanted is worth the price of her heart.
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Dark Immolation by Christopher HusbergA new religion is rising, gathering followers drawn by rumors of prophetess Jane Oden. Her sister Cinzia—once a Cantic priestess—is by her side, but fears that Jane will lead them to ruin. For both the Church and the Nazaniin assassins are still on their trail, and much worse may come.
Knot, his true nature now revealed if not truly understood, is haunted by his memories, and is not the ally he once was. Astrid travels to Tinska to find answers for her friend, but the child-like vampire has old enemies who have been waiting for her return. And beyond the Blood Gate in the empire of Roden, a tiellan woman finds herself with a new protector. One who wants to use her extraordinary abilities for his own ends…
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Wolf's Pawn by Chaaya ChandraTwenty-five hundred years ago, two human armies marched into the jungle to claim a mineral rich area. On the dawn of the day that was to be their first meeting in battle, both sides awoke from a magical sleep that transformed them into wolf-folk. The two sides fled the area and attempted to return to their own countries, only to be rejected by their kin and forced to flee back to the jungle.
Since that time, the wolf-like vykati of the world of Terah have endured the fear and superstition of the human lands around them, including many attempts at exterminating them completely. Their current leader, Benayle Ramisa, wants to change that as does the daughter of a national hero, Sajani Adida. It’s not an easy task, as the animosity between the races is mutual.
When elves invade the Eastern Continent and quickly conquer the strong human nation of Zenache, Sajani resigns her post as Minister of War to become a privateer, while Benayle opens new diplomatic ties and attempts to forge alliances. Erstwhile enemies slowly and hesitantly begin to come together to face the new threat. The elves, however, appear unstoppable, with a technology level much higher than the natives. Fighting them will take something other than military power: it will take the patience and cunning of a wolf and the filial strength and coordination of the pack.
The odds are not in their favor.
Can a reluctant and manipulative leader and a rising pirate queen succeed against the elven juggernaut, when so many nations have failed?
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