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Excerpt: The Crucible by Aoibh Wood

Aethyrim like Mora Dray don't enroll. They're delivered. Property of the Empire. Trained to kill. Culled when they break. Mora walks through the gates with quick knives, a closed mouth, and a secret that will hang her if anyone looks too closely. So the plan is the one that's kept her breathing this long: be nobody. Head down, scores middling, name off every list. She has invisible down to an art. Nobody warned her about Liora Skaggs.

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4 days ago

Unveiled (Monarchs of Magic #1) by Susan Mac Nicol

Like a place in fables and fairytales, the town of Glengàill is filled with secrets and enchantments. This remote area of the Highlands is home to two enigmatic wolf shifters. Connor, who rules his clan with primal strength and fierce loyalty, and Adrian, whose compassion and humour shines through to keep the clans balanced.

Merissa

Sep 29

Spotlight: The Midnight Carousel (A Forest Falls Frolic #2) by Hanna Park

Belle Stanhope had plans. Good plans. Practical plans. None of them involved Hudson Carver. The florist with the crooked smile had become a distraction she neither wanted nor could avoid. Which was inconvenient, considering the Pretty River Inn and the upcoming bachelor auction left little room for distractions.

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Sep 24

Spotlight & #Giveaway: Moonset on Desert Sands (Murder, Tea & Crystals #2) by Sherri L. Dodd

Arista Kelly has traded her redwood forest for Sedona's red rock vistas, selling crystals and quietly rebuilding a life shattered by violence. Between reading auras and burning citrus candles for protection, she almost believes the worst is behind her.

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Sep 2

Excerpt & Giveaway: Reign of Silver & Stardust (Stardust Trilogy #1) by Diana A. Hicks

My twin sister was murdered. To find her killer, I had to die. CATALINAI was never supposed to survive. As the mortal spare to an immortal sister, I lived in the shadows until Ry was murdered by a weapon that shouldn't exist. Now, justice is all I want. To find her killer, I must take her place in the Queen’s Immortal Army and become the very monster everyone fears. But becoming a weapon means losing my humanity… and losing the one man I can't resist.

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Aug 27

Spotlight: Dragonslayer's Valkyrie: The Legend of Sigurd and Brynhildr by Jennifer Ivy Walker

As the Norns tighten the intricate threads of fate, Brynhildr must guide Sigurd toward his destiny as a dragonslayer—by defying the web of wyrd and incurring the wrath of Odin.

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Aug 7

Review: The Spirit of the Times by Justin Newland

In fourteenth-century Central Asia, Karia is a young woman living under the yoke of Mongol occupation. But she’s different. She’s a fighter with supernatural powers. She could use them to keep the Black Plague at bay and solve the mystery of the purple skies at dawn – if only she could overcome her self-doubt.

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Merissa

Jul 27

Spotlight: Fearless Hearts Forbidden Love (Hearts of Sparta Trilogy #1) by Anthea Laurelton

Spartan warrior, Diokles, has waited years for the opportunity to right a failure that torments his heart and integrity. Sent to hunt down a threat to Sparta, this campaign may be his final chance to restore his honour and uncover the traitor whose actions blighted his life. Success is at his fingertips, but when duty forces him to take an unwilling accomplice, his plans are challenged in ways he never foresaw.

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Jul 21

Spotlight: Via Malorum by G.G. MacLeod

In the shadowed streets of ancient Rome, 37 CE, power is a blade that cuts both ways. Agrippina, a towering enigma of ambition, slips from Caligula’s gilded cage with her newborn son, Domitius, her mind a labyrinth of cold calculation. At her side prowls Messalina, a siren in scarlet, her seductive cunning as deadly as her blade. Together, they navigate a city teeming with decadence and deceit, pursued by whispers of treachery and the emperor’s wrath.

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Jul 16

Excerpt & #Giveaway: Reaper's Quest (Curse of the Royal Reaper #1) by Debra A Kristi

Raven Gunn blamed herself and the cheat she used on her last job for her team’s assignment to the cursed reaping. Her father even packed the tool responsible for the cheat in her travel bag, silently suggesting the need, while reminding her not to trust her designated coreaper, Chace Badden. A hundred years of accumulated reapings, a prohibited reaper-tool, her born rival tasked as her partner… What could go wrong? She definitely wouldn’t allow Chace’s good looks to compromis

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Jul 14