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July 26, 2025
Here Be Magic Bundle
Magic invites . . .
Curses and blessing, sorcerous time travel, shape-shifters, hidden enchantment and corrupted blood.
Magic demands . . .
Saving those you love, courage, betrayal and fights against unspeakable forces.
Magic promises . . .
Last best hopes, reluctant and desperate heroes, ancient power unleashed and the compulsion to overcome death itself.
Magic risks . . .
Forbidden spells and deadly bargains.
Here be magic!
From life to death, from realm to realm, from past to future and in between—dare you adventure with wizards?
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Audiobook Week – sign-ups
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Audiobook week will be the 3rd week of the month. Sign up below.
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Audiobook Week – The Watcher #Horror #Audiobook
The year is 1888, and the place is Whitechapel, in the very heart of London. But the heart is bleeding. #JacktheRipper #Shortfic #HistoricalFiction #IARTG #Horror #ebook #audiobook
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July 24, 2025
Audiobook Week – Tales of Erana Myths and Legends #Fantasy #Audiobook
“In a world where magic is illegal, and elves enslaved dare you hear the tales of old? Five tales of myth, magic, and monsters #fantasy #Audiobook #mythictales
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July 23, 2025
Audiobook Week – The Stolen Tower Citadel #Fantasy #DarkFantasy #Audiobook
What stalks the land cannot be but is. Dare you claim the dangerous secrets guarded by unthinkable creatures in the #StolenTower? #Audiobook #Darkfantasy
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July 22, 2025
Audiobook Week – The Shining Citadel #Audiobook #fantasy #Darkfantasy
Share the romance and revenge, magic and passion, and the wages of greed in a world of darkest #fantasy #Fantasyromance #Audiobook #IARTG #Shiningcitadel Amazon audio
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July 21, 2025
Audiobook Week – The Light Beyond the Storm Chronicles #Fantasy #DarkFantasy #Audiobook
In a dark world beset by tyranny and lies, can love and magic entwined bring freedom? Dark adult fantasy with sizzling sorcery, romance and revenge #Audiobook #LBTS #Fantasy #Sexnsorcery #IARTG #ASMSG #Darkfantasy
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July 20, 2025
What is the Secret of Blossom Rise?
When a young nurse takes a job at an old military hospital she finds the answers to an old family question – what is the secret of Blossom Rise Hospital? Who is the long-dead man who walks the grounds?
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July 18, 2025
Dirty Dozen Character Interview – Léonide #Metaphysical #Romance
From the Library of Erana: A Glimpse into the Soul of a Metaphysical Romance
Every so often, a book arrives that doesn’t just tell a story — it unearths something older, something deeper. Prima Nocta by D.J. Pratt is one such tale. Rich with reincarnated souls, tangled destinies, and the electric ache of spiritual longing, it weaves metaphysical vision with sensual intensity in a way that defies easy genre labels.
Today, we’re joined by one of its most enigmatic figures — a woman of many names and few certainties. Some call her Léonide. Some remember her only by what they felt in her presence. She is not a witch, not a priestess, not quite of this world… and yet, she may be the one who remembers it most clearly.
Step into the character interview below and decide for yourself whether Léonide is myth, memory, or something in between.
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Interview with Léonide, from Prima Nocta:
Tell us a little about yourself.
I am called Léonide. I have many names… Some names are older than most tongues. Some do not yet exist.
But names are labels, not windows: you may call me as you will, my truth is in what you see.
I am not a priestess, though some have thought to make me one. Nor am I a witch, though I walk with spirits. I listen. I open. I remember what has been and what will be.
How did you end up in the situation you’re currently in?
The wind shifts. The moon moves. My memories were born when the veil thinned, and they slipped through with a purpose I did not choose.
I followed the soul that called to mine – me to them and they to me. Not to possess, but to witness.
That has always been my role: to be a midwife to that which should’ve been and that which must come to be.
Do you have any regrets?
Regret is a word the pitiful grounded cling to. I prefer the language of currents and echoes.
If I regret anything, it is that, again, we are unaligned. It is not to be this time either.
Love… is what binds the weave.
Is your life now as you envisioned it? If not – then why?
My life unfolds like smoke — never still, never shaped long enough to hold. I envisioned nothing. I remember things, and live the peace that comes from certainty.
Do you believe in monsters?
Yes. But not the toothy ones in children’s stories. The worst carry amulets of unreasonable reason and robes of self-righteousness. They call their cruelty ‘truth,’ but it is a conceit born of ignorance.
Do you believe in magic? How do you feel about it?
No. It’s not a belief: rather, it’s a breath. An essential part of the weave of the earth, the skies, and across dissociated time. It is the rhythmic hum of the world beneath the world – where reason is nonsense and chaos reigns beautiful.
Would you die for those you love?
Yes. In fact, I have.
But more often, I live for them; that is harder, for death is the coward’s escape.
How do you define ‘heroism?’
The ones who stay behind to clean the wounds.
The ones who open their hearts knowing they will bleed.
Heroism is not conquest. It is continuity.
What is your greatest weakness (we won’t tell)?
I still believe even the broken can remember how to sing.
So, I grieve that I remember the melodies but yet I cannot share.
Do you believe you will be successful in your quest?
I am certain. Not because I’ve seen it, but because I know the weave, the forces, the inscrutable fluidity that makes and shapes all things.
I grasp this truth… what is meant to be will come – because that is how it works.
I will be together with my beloved. But, sadly, in this life, I can only sow those seeds.
What do you think of your author/creator?
A kindred spirit, hearing the whispers behind – but deluded, pretending they’re an illusion. Flawed, frightened kin… but kin nonetheless.
What do you love most in the world?
The moment someone realizes they are not alone.
That the veil is not a wall, but a breath.
And they have always been part of something vast, trembling, and sacred.
What do I love? I love it when they are with the ones they are meant to find.
July 17, 2025
The Conall Series – Blog Tour #Historical #Fantasy
Heroes and villains from myth, legend,and history converge in this saga set in the vast ancient forests, treacherousbogs, snow-capped mountains, and mysterious lochs of Scotland some four hundredyears before the birth of Christ.
The Placeof Blood – Rinn-Iru
Conall Book I
by David H.Millar
Genre:Historical Fantasy
Over fourhundred years before the birth of Christ, the island of Ériu is a patchwork offeuding kingdoms, vast plains, and frozen bogs. Battle, intrigue, betrayals,and courage are part of life for the Celts who call Ériu home.
At the same time, from their underground halls, the mysterious demi-goddessesof the Aes Sídhe seduce brave warriors, turning men into kingsand binding them with fearsome geis.
Conall Mac Gabhann is content with his apprenticeship with thelocal blacksmith. Content, that is, until he finds his family slaughtered intheir home. Two men share responsibility for the massacre: a mad Irish king anda dissolute Roman. Conall will have his vengeance or die in the attempt.
Accompanied by his childhood love—the beautiful but dark-spirited—Mórrígan,and the veteran warrior Fearghal, Conall’s quest takes himnorthward through unfriendly kingdoms to a confrontation beyond the ancientearthworks of the Black Pig’s Dyke.
Along the way, Conall and Mórrígan will gather an army and come under theinfluence of the Aes Sídhe. If Conall desires, an apprentice blacksmith willbecome a king. Who knows what Mórrígan will become?
The Conall Series contains scenes of sex and violence and languageappropriate to the period (400 B.C.) it is set in. It is not recommended forthose under 14 without parental consent.
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TheRaven’s Flight – Eitilt an Fhiagh Dhuibh
Conall BookII
Conall II:The Raven’s Flight continues to chronicle the story of Conall and Mórrígan andthe epic journey of the warriors from Ériu (Ireland).
Conall and his brooding queen, Mórrígan, lead over two thousand warriors withtheir followers across the narrow sea separating Ériufrom Albu (Britain). Their quest: the capture of Cassius FabiusScaeva, the dissolute Roman held responsible for the slaughter of theirfamilies.
The Ériu encounter human, natural, and supernatural foes and friends. At themercy of the Aes Sídhe, a race of demi-goddesses who demand that hefulfil his geis, Conall is named the Hand of the Goddess and giventhe instrument that will crush the Na Daoine Tùrsach—a tribe of fanatical,blood-lusting priests.
They battle fierce northern tribes: the Forest People’s one-eyed king, DrostanRuadh, opposes their presence, as do the Na Mèadaidh, led by the slyFinnean Mac Sèitheach. Yet, not all are enemies. The Raven People offer theirsupport, although it too comes at a price.
Heroes and villains from myth, legend, and history converge in this saga set inthe vast ancient forests, frozen bogs, snow-capped mountains, and mysteriouslochs of Scotland some four hundred years before the birth of Christ.
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TheSisters – Na Deirfiúracha
Conall BookIII
It is 406B.C. The Gaels tramp battle through the vast forests of Northern Albu and crossthe brooding moors and marshes to reach the grain fields of Southern Albu. Themajestic stone brochs, crannags and dùin of the north give way to the greathillforts of the South.
The Sisters is the third book of the series. In this tale,the fearsome women surrounding Conall take centre stage.
A malevolent queen bent on conquering Northern Albu launches an invasion andkidnaps the twin daughters of Conall and Mórrígan. The king’s andqueen’s blood oath promises no mercy until the young twins are returned.
A merciless assassin stalks the community, and Tadhg is giventhe unenviable task of tracking the killer down. His mission worsens when thesigns point to one of the women close to Conall, and he becomes the target.
Which partners are loyal to their hand-fasting oaths, and who will betray them?Will honour be redeemed on the battlefield?
Amid the battles, betrayals and intrigue, Mòrag, a tall beauty and fearsomewarrior, desires Conall at any cost. A clash with Conall’s queen, also knownas The Dark Huntress, is inevitable.
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A Brace ofEagles – Snaidhm Iolar
Conall BookIV
“Butter-goldand cruelly hooked, the beak ripped a ragged gash across the newborn’s throat.”
Blacksmith’s son, Conall Mac Gabhann’s only desire was to follow inhis father’s footsteps and enjoy a long life with his childhood love, Mórrígan.The slaughter of their parents dashed those dreams. Fuelled by vengeance, bothembark on the dark path of retribution.
From the ancient forest, two great eagles take wing. With amber-goldeyes, Fate and the Goddess watch, ready toguide and meddle in human lives.
Conall, now Clann Ui Flaithimh’s ‘king over kings’, must completehis geis—at any cost. He takes another stride closer to Rome and areckoning with Marcus Fabius Ambustus. Flat-bottomed biremes carryConall’s army across the Muir nIocht to crash on the shinglebeaches of Northwestern Gaul.
New enemies and uneasy alliances flourish. Assassins, treason, and betrayalthrive.
Above all, Conall values loyalty. Thus, treason within the tribe sours hisbelly. Mercy will have no part in his response.
The fourth novel in the Conall series, Conall IV: A Brace of Eagles,is a rousing epic of Celtic heroes and villains, bloody battles, politicalintrigue, honour, betrayal, tragedy and forbidden love.
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Retribution– Díoltas
Conall Book V
“Witch!”Tullus gasped.
“You are not that fortunate, Roman,” came the menacing reply.”
Blood has purchased a fragile peace for Conall and Mórrígan andthe close circle of friends they call family. However, allies and enemies alikewonder if the king and queen have lost the thirst for vengeance on those whoslaughtered their families. Alarmed, gods, kings, and despots conspire to pokethe slumbering fire.
Brennus of the Senones smarts at his defeat at Conall’s hands andcovets his lands and wealth. Will a bruised ego and hubris overrule the Gaulishking’s typical pragmatism?
The Gaiscedach want revenge for the defeat and execution oftheir queen. In the dead of night, like cockroaches, they scuttle over thewalls of Lugudunon.
Marcus Fabius Ambustus tolerates no challenge to his plan to be theDictator of Rome. But has arrogance blinded him to the enemy he hasnurtured?
The gates of Rome and retribution draw closer. But Conall needs his enemies asmuch as his friends. Still, who are enemies and who are friends? It is a timeof schisms and rebuilding, of loved ones endangered, and assassins and spiesrevealed.
Yet, there has always been one constant: only the foolish doubt that Conall andMórrígan will show mercy to those who threaten their family.
Conall V: Retribution
is the final novel in the Conallseries.
The Conall Series contains scenes of sex, violence, and language appropriateto the period (400 B.C.) in which it is set. It is not recommended for thoseunder 14 without parental consent.
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Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, internationallypublished and award-winning author David H. Millar is the founder, owner, andauthor-in-residence of A Wee Publishing Company—a business formed to promoteCeltic authors and literature.
David is the author of the five-volume, ancientCeltic-based Conall series and the spin-offs The Dog Roses, TheDog Roses: Resolution, The Blood Queen and Brianag: A Blood QueenNovel.
David resides in Houston, Texas, with his family andtwo recent family members, tuxedos Beau and Stiletto.
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