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The Last Forest #Dystopian #Dark Fantasy

“When humans come to fell the Last Forest, they are in for a nasty surprise.
A short dark #fantasy tale of the wrath of nature. #Dystopian #Shortfiction #shortstory #environmental #Audiobook #Ebook
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https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B08S5JP35Y

https://www.audible.fr/pd/B08S5B65SX

https://www.audible.de/pd/B08S489KKM”;

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?

https://books2read.com/HereBeMagicBundle

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/here-be-magic

https://books.apple.com/us/book/id1474685562

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/here-be-magic-dayle-a-dermatis/1132724600

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
    18 rated for scenes of violence

https://www.books2read.com/TheWatcherJTR

https://www.amazon.com/Watcher-Jack-Ripper-Story/dp/B07HGGP71V

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Watcher-Jack-Ripper-Story/dp/B07HGH915S

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
Amazon audio http://amzn.to/2H53qwe

Amazon UK audio http://amzn.to/2nPKdXq

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
https://www.amazon.com/Stolen-Tower-Light-Beyond-Chronicles/dp/B08K4G75VB/
https://www.audible.com/pd/B08K3SQFCB/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08K3SDVBS/

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B08K3RND8F/

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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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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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?
#Ebook #Audiobook  #Paranormal #Ghoststory

https://books2read.com/SecretBlossomRise

 

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.

If you want to lean more, please visit the author’s website at https://djprattauthor.com

Or, ready to read? It’s available on Amazon at https://a.co/d/5URDI42

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.