Fantasy

It’s a dangerous thing, creating glass slippers for a prince … Seventeen-year-old Chiara Dragoni is a master glassmaker of Venice, a position that is both a privilege — and a trap. For the glassmakers of Murano are forbidden to ever leave the islands of the Venetian lagoon. When Chiara’s uncle is caught on the mainland and thrown into the dungeon of the Doge’s Palace, she must use all her talents, including magic, to help free him. But the gift she creates for a prince of ...

In a land of three warring kingdoms, a centaur huntsman and a warrior priestess might be the only hope for peace. If the two enemies don’t kill each other first, they might even find love. Seira of Blackstone has fought in many border skirmishes against the centaurs of the lowlands, but when she comes upon a massacre, it’s soon apparent the centaur and human dead weren’t fighting each other. They were fighting together against a third, unknown foe. Toryn, a centaur huntsman, is following the ...

Jim works a janitor at an insane asylum in rural Idaho. He is thinking of ending it all when one of the patients saves his life and introduces him to Cryptofauna: a secretive game in which players are given special abilities to influence events around the globe. If Jim can survive the strange world he’s tossed into, he might just discover a reason to go on living. Don’t miss out on this laugh-out-loud contemporary fantasy loaded with heart, humor, and plenty of weirdness. It’s time ...

An Ancient Evil Stalks Modern Day Boston A Boston cop. A Celtic demi-goddess warrior woman. A centuries old Japanese vampire. And a race to find an ancient artifact that can command armies. In modern day Boston. Yeah, right. If encountering a warrior woman on horseback, complete with chain mail and a sword, didn’t blow Sean Regan’s mind—a former police detective recently busted down to patrol—the red-clad leprechaun carrying a magic lantern, and the giant, bloodthirsty vulture that exploded into a puff of smoke certainly did. ...

Sleeping Beauty with a twist! “I love Dracogmagan’s character. She’s great: irreverent, mouthy and full of attitude.” DoctorWolf For once, Parsley’s in the limelight as she and Dracomagan set out to rescue the son of Lord Thyme. But many things stand in Parsley’s way; an impenetrable forest, a silent castle and a strange green orb… If Parsley and Dracomagan can’t reach Lord Thyme’s son soon, he may die or worse, become enslaved to an evil sorceress! This is a humourous take on a well-loved fairy ...

She wasn’t supposed to become so powerful. She wasn’t even supposed to survive. In an empire divided into three rings, Talise is from the lowliest and most dangerous outer ring. To escape that life, she just has to do three things. 1) Attend an elite academy for manipulating the elements of water, air, earth, and fire. 2) Become the most powerful student in her year. 3) Prove her magic is the best in a competition in front of the emperor himself. Everything goes according to ...

A warrior with nothing left to lose. A prince trying to hold his kingdom together. As a child, Etta ran from the palace for her life. Now, she must find a way back in. The kingdom of Gaule is a dangerous place for those with magic. To be found is a death sentence, forcing magic wielders into the forests to hide from the crown. Etta Basile has spent years among the trees, training for the day she’ll take up the curse of her ancestors, a ...

A Dangerous Destiny Some of the survivors are different, powerful. Their bloodlines have been brought together in this time and place to create safety for the remnants of all societies. Fated to lead and rebuild, these magnetic women and men are now the most valuable commodity in the apocalyptic wastelands. Nuclear war devastated the world just days before Christmas. All governments went underground, leaving their citizens to fend for themselves. The desperate normals who barely managed to stay alive must now make a choice. Do ...

Her greatest power is her identity. The world knows Mary O’Sullivan as a Page Six regular; she’s an heiress, a playgirl, a philanthropist—and an orphan, after she survived the plane crash that killed her celebrity parents. The world knows her vigilante alter ego, too—they just don’t know it’s Mary behind the mask. There’s a lot the world doesn’t know. Like the fact that their vigilantes work together in a top-secret superhero league. When Mary blows off that league’s protocol to rescue a fire-powered newcomer, she ...

Most people could never kill without regret. I don’t have that luxury. I’m an artificial creation who exists solely to follow the orders of a tyrannical maniac. Death is the only constant I know. I want more, so I’m running. What lies beyond the realm of my former master, presents a whole new set of problems, including a mistake that lands me at death’s door. I accept that. Welcome it, really. For a relic of war, death is my inevitable release. But fate is a ...

A Man Called Ove meets The Good Place in Under the Whispering Door, a delightful queer love story from TJ Klune, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea. Welcome to Charon’s Crossing. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he’s ...

From Misfit Cop to Bad-Ass Bounty Hunter… Officer Katherine Carter never fit in to the Chicago Police Department. Her tracking powers pull in everything around her, including trouble. Now they’ve caused a media frenzy and ended her career for good. But there are other ways to serve the law, and Kat is given a chance to join a Fugitive Recovery Team, where her abilities can be put to better use…and lead her into deeper danger. Can she survive her career change? And what exactly is ...

Kal has trained to enforce the rules and maintain the peace in the Governance. The system he serves clamps down on anyone who steps out of line, particularly elementals. When Kal encounters a young boy whom he suspects might be an illegal earthborn, he can’t bring himself to report him. Despite his training and the advice of friends, he decides to help him onto what he believes is the right path. This choice lands him in more trouble than he bargained for, and he soon ...

What do you get when you mix a novice wizard, a reckless warrior, a sharp-tongued thief, & a saintly cleric? Swords, sorcery, & sarcasm. They didn’t set out to be heroes, but the little town of Ravenford was in desperate need. Before Glolindir and his friends knew it they were facing fierce monsters, deadly assassins, black mages, cunning demons, powerful dragons, and even the remnants of the dread Thrall Masters themselves. Will they be able to live up to the challenge, or will they fall ...