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Excerpt+Giveaway: Beyond the Birch by Torina Kingsley

Featuring middle grade fantasy Beyond the Birch by Torina Kingsley

Eleven year old Macy dreams of action and adventure that will take her far beyond her family’s farm. But what will happen when that adventure finds her?

Long ago, faeries were banished from the land after a legendary battle. So long ago that many wonder if faeries really exist or if the battle was just a tall tale. But one mysterious night, Macy’s mother is attacked, and ever since, unusual things start happening. M...

Interview+Giveaway: Divided Fates by Stephanie M. Allen

Interview with Stephanie M. Allen, author of fantasy novel Divided Fates

Ten days after the battle in the north, the world of Erez has been thrown into turmoil.

Princess Isemay awakens – injured and weak –  in a strange village. Branded an outcast because of her mixed heritage but forced to stay against her will, she must choose to conform to the sha’nidow way of life or face the consequences. When a mysterious stranger arrives with a heartbreaking message, Isemay’s hope abandons her t...

Review+Giveaway: The Finest Lies by David J. Naiman

Review of young adult novel The Finest Lies by David J. Naiman

2021 Best Teen Book Award Finalist Indies Today

High schooler Nicole Hallett has just about had it with her brother Jay, so when a mysterious man appears with an offer to replace him with a better one, she doesn’t hesitate. Nicole has always been impulsive, but this time, she finds herself in a predicament far worse than anything she’s experienced. Just like that, an average snow day—usually filled with hot cocoa and sn...

Review+Giveaway: The Nexus Games by Shami Stovall

Review of fantasy novel The Nexus Games by Shami Stovall

Special Forces Soldier Alex Kellan has three problems. He’s on forced medical leave, he’s alone on Christmas, and two men are actively stalking his every step.

Things get worse when Kellan wakes up in a twisted world where people have magical abilities and high-tech weaponry. It turns out, Kellan’s stalkers want him to participate in a deadly competition—whether or not Kellan agrees.

Forced to compete in the infamous Nexus...

Interview+Giveaway: The Prince by Antony Soehner

An interview with Antony Soehner, author of epic fantasy The Prince

Destiny will always test the greatest of leaders.
Theo never imagined life outside the king’s castle. But when the queen’s funeral reveals the king’s true colors, Theo must rely on his sister, her allies, and his friends to get him to safety. With the help of mercenaries and the native tribes of the plains, Theo must learn to face his destiny and open his mind to the diverse world he’s been thrown into.

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Interview+Giveaway: The Starfolk Trilogy by Martha Dunlop

Interview with Martha Dunlop, author of The Starfolk urban fantasy trilogy

Destiny calls. Soulmates draw closer. One woman stands in the way.

Beth trusts her psychic senses. So when her birthday visit to a daytime TV talk show takes a weird turn, she knows something is wrong. Amelia, the celebrity on stage, is oddly fixated on Beth and the man with the microphone is hauntingly familiar. Things become even stranger when she buys a tarot deck, and they are all pictured in the cards.  

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ARC Review: A Woman in Time by Bobi Conn

The grace and lyricism of Conn’s prose stuns and sustains the reader through this lush tale of women’s strength, creativity, and will to love in bleak, Depression-era Eastern Kentucky. Conn’s poise and confidence as a storyteller holds the reader in loving embrace through many a well-wrought and gut-wrenching episode, and brings us out the other side more awake to the preciousness of life and what it means to be accountable to one another across a span of generations. Bobi Conn’s A Woman In ...

Review+Giveaway: Discovery of the Five Senses by K.N. Smith

Review of YA urban fantasy thriller Discovery of the Five Senses by K.N. Smith

A suspenseful incident in a forbidden preserve heightens the senses of five friends. But furious battles confront the boys as they try to understand their sensory super powers in a race to save mankind. With light beings and mysterious strangers complicating their plight, will the boys be able to defeat the evil Druth before it’s too late?

Excerpt from Discovery of the Five Senses

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Excerpt+Giveaway: Daughter of Light by Eileen Dreyer

Featuring paranormal romance Daughter of Light by Eileen Dreyer

He’s had enough…

Harry Wyatt, Earl of Hartley has enough problems trying to keep his estate solvent. What he does not need is yet another lost child showing up on his land looking for the Hartley Fairy Diamond made famous by a recent film. A fairy diamond that is no more than myth handed down by delusional ancestors and responsible for the perilous state of his finances. And yet there is something about this latest vis...

Interview and Review+Giveaway: The Undine’s Tear by Talena Winters

Featuring a review of YA epic historical fantasy The Undine’s Tear and an interview with Talena Winters

She’s destined to save the world . . . if she doesn’t destroy it first.

Calandra’s destiny is also her doom. As the most powerful healer since the woman who sank Atlantis, she’s been raised to restore the Heartstone that protects her island from humans . . . before she goes Mad like her mother and all the powerful undine healers before her. When she learns she needs both male and...