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In a future city ruled by a wicked queen, Cherie lives hidden in a magical village protected by Jack Frost’s spell.
Snow So White
Romantasy
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In a future city ruled by a wicked queen, Cherie lives hidden in a magical village protected by Jack Frost’s spell. When that magic begins to fail, Cherie must strike a dangerous bargain to save her people. This Snow White retelling blends urban fantasy, folklore, fae politics, and a Princess Charming in a high-stakes quest for survival.
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Once upon a future-time, in a city of steel, concrete, and Magick, a wicked queen trapped a mighty warrior with a curse ...
In the tiny village of Somer, far from the city, Cherie knows nothing of the evil spell. Her home is a safe, Magickal place. The Fae travel freely along its roads, Magickal humans and animals are welcome, and everyone is hidden from the Queen’s sight by Jack Frost, the local ghost, who blurs the Queen’s mirror with snow and ice.
But when Jack’s spell begins to crack, the Queen’s eyes fall on Somer. Nothing will keep her from abducting all of Somer’s Magickals, not even a war with the Fae.
To avert a war, save her village--and herself--Cherie strikes a perilous bargain. Aided only by Jack and her own small Magick, she’ll set off on a quest … If she fails, she’ll lose more than her life.
A retelling of Snow White with Urban Magick, plenty of folklore, and a Princess Charming. Perfect for fans of Naomi Novik’s Uprooted and Spinning Silver.
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In The Wolf and the Woodsman, exile and survival give way to a bond neither character can afford to trust.
The Wolf and the Woodsman
Fantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Dark Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Historical Fantasy
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In The Wolf and the Woodsman, exile and survival give way to a bond neither character can afford to trust. After Évike is surrendered for a king’s sacrifice, she is forced into an uneasy alliance with a disgraced captain whose fate is tied to her own. This is historical fantasy steeped in folklore, political tension, hidden magic, and a slow-burn romance shaped by betrayal and belonging.
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In the vein of Naomi Novik’s New York Times bestseller Spinning Silver and Katherine Arden’s national bestseller The Bear and the Nightingale, this unforgettable debut— inspired by Hungarian history and Jewish mythology—follows a young pagan woman with hidden powers and a one-eyed captain of the Woodsmen as they form an unlikely alliance to thwart a tyrant.
In her forest-veiled pagan village, Évike is the only woman without power, making her an outcast clearly abandoned by the gods. The
villagers blame her corrupted bloodline—her father was a Yehuli man, one of the much-loathed servants of the fanatical king. When soldiers arrive from the Holy Order of Woodsmen to claim a pagan girl for the king’s blood sacrifice, Évike is betrayed by her fellow villagers and surrendered.
But when monsters attack the Woodsmen and their captive en route, slaughtering everyone but Évike and the cold, one-eyed captain, they
have no choice but to rely on each other. Except he’s no ordinary Woodsman—he’s the disgraced prince, Gáspár Bárány, whose father needs pagan magic to consolidate his power. Gáspár fears that his cruelly zealous brother plans to seize the throne and instigate a violent reign that would damn the pagans and the Yehuli alike. As the son of a reviled foreign queen, Gáspár understands what it’s like to be an outcast, and he and Évike make a tenuous pact to stop his brother.
As their mission takes them from the bitter northern tundra to the smog-choked capital, their mutual loathing slowly turns to affection,
bound by a shared history of alienation and oppression. However, trust can easily turn to betrayal, and as Évike reconnects with her estranged father and discovers her own hidden magic, she and Gáspár need to decide whose side they’re on, and what they’re willing to give up for a nation that never cared for them at all.
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When the first snow falls, mysterious invitations appear across the city, promising a single night of glamour and enchantment.
Upon a Frosted Star
Romantasy
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When the first snow falls, mysterious invitations appear across the city, promising a single night of glamour and enchantment. Drawn into the legend, artist Forster uncovers an abandoned manor, a cursed woman longing for freedom, and a secret bound to winter itself. A lyrical fairy tale where beauty, longing, and magic intertwine.
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‘An enchanting new twist on a classic tale’ Elodie Harper
When the snow falls, she will be free…
The invitations always arrive the same way – without warning, appearing around the city on the first snowfall of the year, simply inscribed with ‘Tonight.’
When struggling artist, Forster, finds an invitation, he’s bewitched by the magic of the evening, swept up in the glamour of this notorious annual party and intrigued as to who is behind them.
Determined to find out more about the mysterious host, Forster discovers an abandoned manor house silent with secrets and a cursed woman who is desperate to be free…
From the bestselling author of Midnight in Everwood, comes another spellbinding literary fairy tale that’s The Great Gatsby meets Swan Lake.
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Clara Stahlbaum believes her future is set until a mysterious nutcracker pulls her into an enchanted world of rival fairies, living music, and dangerous magic.
The Enchanted Sonata
Fantasy · Teen + Young Adult
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Clara Stahlbaum believes her future is set until a mysterious nutcracker pulls her into an enchanted world of rival fairies, living music, and dangerous magic. As spells are woven through song and loyalties blur, Clara must decide whether the life she planned is worth more than the one unfolding before her in this lush Nutcracker retelling.
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Clara Stahlbaum has her future perfectly planned: marry the handsome pianist, Johann Kahler (ah!), and settle down to a life full of music. But all that changes on Christmas Eve, when Clara receives a mysterious and magical nutcracker.
Whisked away to his world--an enchanted empire of beautiful palaces, fickle fairies, enormous rats, and a prince--Clara must face a magician who uses music as spells...and the future she thought she wanted.
"The Enchanted Sonata," a retelling of The Nutcracker Ballet with a dash of The Pied Piper, will captivate readers of all ages.
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Thistlefoot is a lyrical modern fairy tale about estranged siblings, inherited magic, and the weight of memory.
Thistlefoot
Fantasy · Historical Fantasy
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Thistlefoot is a lyrical modern fairy tale about estranged siblings, inherited magic, and the weight of memory. When Bellatine and Isaac inherit a sentient house on chicken legs, they’re pulled into a cross-country journey shaped by Jewish folklore, family trauma, and a relentless shadow from the past. Tender, strange, and quietly devastating.
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In the tradition of modern fairy tales like Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver comes an immersive fantasy saga, a debut novel about estranged siblings who are reunited after receiving a mysterious inheritance.
“A wonderfully imaginative, wholly enchanting novel of witness, survival, memory, and family that reads like a fairy tale godfathered by Tim Burton in a wild America alive with wonders and devils alike. Thistlefoot shimmers with magic and mayhem and a thrilling emotional momentum.” —Libba Bray, bestselling author of The Diviners
The Yaga siblings—Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist—have been estranged since childhood, separated both by resentment and by wide miles of American highway. But when they learn that they are to receive an inheritance, the siblings agree to meet—only to discover that their bequest isn’t land or money, but something far stranger: a sentient house on chicken legs.
Thistlefoot, as the house is called, has arrived from the Yagas’ ancestral home outside Kyiv—but not alone. A sinister figure known only as the Longshadow Man has tracked it to American shores, bearing with him violent secrets from the past: fiery memories that have hidden in Isaac and Bellatine’s blood for generations. As the Yaga siblings embark with Thistlefoot on a final cross-country tour of their family’s traveling theater show, the Longshadow Man follows in relentless pursuit, seeding destruction in his wake. Ultimately, time, magic, and legacy must collide—erupting in a powerful conflagration to determine who gets to remember the past and craft a new future.
An enchanted adventure illuminated by Jewish myth and adorned with lyrical prose as tantalizing and sweet as briar berries, Thistlefoot is a sweeping epic rich in Eastern European folklore: a powerful and poignant exploration of healing from multi-generational trauma told by a bold new talent.
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Gifted with psychic instincts, Lexi Sobado refuses to be a passive target when a deadly stalker closes in.
Weakest Lynx
Mystery
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Gifted with psychic instincts, Lexi Sobado refuses to be a passive target when a deadly stalker closes in. Protected by a former SEAL hiding his own secrets, she must balance truth and survival as danger escalates. This intense psychic suspense thriller holds 4.6 stars on Amazon and over 2,000 Goodreads ratings.
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She wanted a simple life. What she got was anything but…
Lexi Sobado is anything but ordinary. She can do things—sense things—that most people cannot. When she attracts the attention of a deadly stalker, she’s not about to sit quietly and let the handsome ex-SEAL save her. She’s going to take care of herself and help catch the madman—even if it’s the last thing she ever does.
Striker Rheas is supposed to protect Lexi. He can’t do his job, though, if she’s keeping secrets—and she’s definitely hiding something from him. But then again, he has a secret of his own. He can’t let her know he’s falling in love with her…
Lexi’s gut (and psychic ability) is telling her that what she hides, what she reveals, and what she uncovers will have to be in perfect balance if she’s going to stop a killer—and save her own life in the process. Time is running out…
Weakest Lynx is an intense psychic suspense thriller, where vigilante justice is really self-preservation. This women's action adventure romance series is filled with ex-special forces, spies, conspiracies, and international terror as Lexi and Striker move from friends to lovers, and Lexi desperately searches for her happily ever after. Grab your copy, and let's go!
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Former cop Matt Stromsoe believes his past is settled after the man who killed his family is imprisoned.
Storm Runners
Thriller · Action Thriller
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Former cop Matt Stromsoe believes his past is settled after the man who killed his family is imprisoned. A protection job shatters that illusion when a stalking case leads back to old betrayals and unresolved vengeance. This emotionally driven crime thriller holds 4.3 stars on Amazon and over 1,400 Goodreads ratings.
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"Tasty tension . . . a psychologically sharp crime thriller" from the Edgar Award-winning, New York Times–bestselling author of Desperation Reef (Entertainment Weekly).
Matt Stromsoe has come a long way since his wife and son were killed in an explosion meant for him. Wounded severely in both body and spirit, Stromsoe gave up the last thing that held any meaning for him—his job on the police force—and proceeded to hit rock bottom, hard.
That was a lifetime ago, and finally the spiral of personal destruction and despair seems to have come to an end. The man responsible for the murders—Stromsoe's best friend from childhood and his wife's old lover—is behind bars and Stromsoe has put the past behind him, rescued from the abyss by a former colleague who offers him a job at his private security firm. Stromsoe's first assignment is to protect local television personality Frankie Hatfield from a stalker. But the further Stromsoe is drawn into this case, the more he finds that the net of intrigue is wide and ultimately leads back to the man who killed his family. As events conspire against him, Stromsoe learns that prison is no safeguard against revenge.
T. Jefferson Parker has been hailed as belonging "in the first rank of American crime novelists" (The Washington Post Book World) and praised for "some of the finest writing you'll ever read" (Chicago Sun-Times). Superbly crafted, emotionally complex, and filled with heart-stopping action, Storm Runners proves why the novels of T. Jefferson Parker are impossible to resist.
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A kindhearted dogcatcher falls in love with a woman hiding a deadly secret in modern Los Angeles.
Sharp Teeth
Horror · Mystery · Thriller · Suspense
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A kindhearted dogcatcher falls in love with a woman hiding a deadly secret in modern Los Angeles. As ancient werewolf packs rise and violence spreads, love becomes a liability. This literary horror thriller blends crime, myth, and identity, earning 4.3 stars on Amazon and thousands of Goodreads ratings.
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A Los Angeles dogcatcher falls for a female werewolf desperate to keep her monstrous identity a secret in this debut literary horror thriller.
An ancient race of lycanthropes has survived to the present day, and its numbers are growing as the initiated convince L.A.'s down-and-out to join their pack. Paying no heed to moons, full or otherwise, they change from human to canine at will—and they're bent on domination at any cost.
Caught in the middle are Anthony, a kindhearted, besotted dogcatcher, and the girl he loves, a female werewolf who has abandoned her pack. Anthony has no idea that she's more than she seems, and she wants to keep it that way. But her efforts to protect her secret lead to murderous results . . .
Blending dark humor and epic themes with card-playing dogs, crystal meth labs, surfing, and carne asada tacos, Sharp Teeth captures the pace and feel of a graphic novel while remaining "as ambitious as any literary novel, because underneath all that fur, it's about identity, community, love, death, and all the things we want our books to be about" [Nick Hornby, The Believer].
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Drowning in debt, Nikki Fairchild accepts a powerful man’s dangerous offer, believing control is hers to keep.
Release Me
Romance · Erotica · Romantic Suspense
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Drowning in debt, Nikki Fairchild accepts a powerful man’s dangerous offer, believing control is hers to keep. Desire complicates everything as trust, vulnerability, and risk collide. This emotionally charged erotic romance explores power and surrender, earning 4.3 stars on Amazon and over 80,000 Goodreads ratings.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first book in the sexy, emotionally charged Stark trilogy—a romance between a powerful man who’s never heard “no” and a fiery woman who says “yes” on her own terms
Wealthy, powerful, and exceedingly dangerous, Damien Stark wants to own me. . . . Or at least my likeness. He’s offered me one million dollars to pose for a nude portrait that will become the diamond of his private art collection.
And I need the money. Bad.
But it soon becomes obvious that this deal is too good to be true, and that Mr. Stark wants much more from me than I ever planned on giving.
Except now I just might want him as much as he wants me.
Some say he’s a killer, that this game of seduction could lead to my demise. . . . But what if it’s worth the risk?
BONUS: This edition includes excerpts from J. Kenner's Claim Me and Say My Name.
Don’t miss any of the Stark Saga, intended for mature audiences
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Feared as a wicked sorceress, Queen Saskia wants only peace and control over her magic.
Wooing the Witch Queen
Romantasy · Cozy Fantasy
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Feared as a wicked sorceress, Queen Saskia wants only peace and control over her magic. A gentle new librarian brings unexpected tenderness and dangerous secrets into her guarded world. This gaslamp fantasy romance blends political tension, hidden identity, and slow-burning love, earning 4.2 stars on Amazon and thousands of Goodreads ratings
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In a Gaslamp-lit world where hags and ogres lurk in thick pine forests, three magical queens form an uneasy alliance to protect their lands from invasion…and love turns their world upside down.
Queen Saskia is the wicked sorceress everyone fears. After successfully wrestling the throne from her evil uncle, she only wants one thing: to keep her people safe from the empire next door. For that, she needs to spend more time in her laboratory experimenting with her spells. She definitely doesn’t have time to bring order to her chaotic library of magic.
When a mysterious dark wizard arrives at her castle, Saskia hires him as her new librarian on the spot. “Fabian” is sweet and a little nerdy, and his requests seem a little strange – what in the name of Divine Elva is a fountain pen? – but he’s getting the job done. And if he writes her flirtatious poetry and his innocent touch makes her skin singe, well…
Little does Saskia know that the "wizard" she’s falling for is actually an Imperial archduke in disguise, with no magical training whatsoever. On the run, with perilous secrets on his trail and a fast growing yearning for the wicked sorceress, he's in danger from her enemies and her newfound allies, too. When his identity is finally revealed, will their love save or doom each other?
“Stephanie Burgis is a fresh new voice and I can’t wait to see what she does next.” —Ilona Andrews, #1 New York Times bestselling author
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The Book of Gothel tells the origin story behind Rapunzel’s tower, centering the witch history forgot.
The Book of Gothel
Fantasy · Historical Fantasy
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The Book of Gothel tells the origin story behind Rapunzel’s tower, centering the witch history forgot. Set in medieval Germany, it follows Haelewise as she finds refuge, forbidden magic, and hard-won power among women surviving church control and noble cruelty. Lush, feminist, and quietly fierce, it explores how history becomes myth—and who gets blamed.
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Everyone knows the story of Rapunzel in her tower, but do you know the story of the witch who put her there? Mary McMyne's spellbinding debut, rich with historical detail and forbidden magic, reveals the truth behind the fairy tales—the truth only a witch could tell.
"Smart, swift, sure-footed and fleet-winged, The Book of Gothel launches its magic from a most reliable source: the troubled heart. Mary McMyne is a magician."—Gregory Maguire, NYT bestselling author of Wicked
Germany, 1156. With her strange black eyes and even stranger fainting spells, young Haelewise has never quite fit in. Shunned by her village, her only solace lies in the stories her mother tells of child-stealing witches, of princes in wolf-skins, and of an ancient tower cloaked in mist, where women will find shelter if they are brave enough to seek it.
When her mother dies, Haelewise is left unmoored. With nothing left for her in her village, she sets out to find the legendary tower her mother spoke of—a place called Gothel, where she meets a wise woman willing to take Haelewise under her wing. There, she discovers that magic is found not only in the realm of fairy tales.
But Haelewise is not the only woman to seek refuge at Gothel. It's also a haven for a girl named Rika, who carries with her a secret the church strives to keep hidden. A secret that reveals a dark world of ancient spells and murderous nobles, behind the world Haelewise has always known.
Praise for The Book of Gothel:
"A sprawling epic, full of magic, love, and heartbreak." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A luscious origin story." —Booklist (starred review)
"A sweeping, sharp story of how history twists into fairy tales and back again." —Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author
"Sparkles with the intermingled magic of gods and goddesses, seers and wise women." —Louisa Morgan, author of A Secret History of Witches
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A sharp fit for readers who enjoy feminist fairy tale retellings, dark humor, and contemporary literary fiction.
How to Be Eaten
Literary Fiction · Magical Realism
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One of NPR's Best Books of the Year, this darkly funny novel follows five women whose experiences resemble familiar fairy tales as they meet in a New York City trauma support group. As they share their stories, they begin questioning what happened to them and why they've been brought together. A sharp fit for readers who enjoy feminist fairy tale retellings, dark humor, and contemporary literary fiction.
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One of NPR's Best Books of the Year: This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma.
In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire. Ruby, once devoured by a wolf, now wears him as a coat. Gretel questions her memory of being held captive in a house made of candy. Ashlee, the winner of a Bachelor-esque dating show, wonders if she really got her promised fairy tale ending. And Raina's love story will shock them all.
Though the women start out wary of one another, judging each other’s stories, gradually they begin to realize that they may have more in common than they supposed . . . What really brought them here? What secrets will they reveal? And is it too late for them to rescue each other?
Dark, edgy, and wickedly funny, this debut for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, Kristen Arnett, and Kelly Link takes our coziest, most beloved childhood stories, exposes them as anti-feminist nightmares, and transforms them into a new kind of myth for grown-up women.
*Belletrist June Book Club Pick*
Named a Best Book of May by TIME Magazine & Glamour One of NPR’s Best Books of the Year
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