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This is not the fairy tale you remember.
The Salt Grows Heavy
Fantasy · Horror · LGBTQIA+ · Dark Fantasy · Occult Horror
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This is not the fairy tale you remember. After a kingdom burns and her daughters feast on its ruins, a sharp-toothed mermaid flees into a frozen forest with a plague doctor hiding their own sins. What follows is brutal, lyrical, and unsettling—a dark fairy tale that demands its characters embrace monstrosity to survive.
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“Khaw’s poetic prose and stylish approach to gore make it a blood-soaked, unforgettable gem.” —The New York Times
From Cassandra Khaw, USA Today bestselling author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth, comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewitching fairy tale of discovering the darkness in the world, and the darkness within oneself.
A Best Horror Book of 2023 (The New York Times, Library Journal) • A Best Book of 2023 (NPR) • A Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award Finalist! • An Indie Next Pick
You may think you know how the fairy tale goes: a mermaid comes to shore and weds the prince. But what the fables forget is that mermaids have teeth. And now, her daughters have devoured the kingdom and burned it to ashes.
On the run, the mermaid is joined by a mysterious plague doctor with a darkness of their own. Deep in the eerie, snow-crusted forest, the pair stumble upon a village of ageless children who thirst for blood, and the three “saints” who control them.
The mermaid and her doctor must embrace the cruelest parts of their true nature if they hope to survive.
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Peace has reigned for years, but old magic mistakes don’t stay buried.
The Cutting Edge
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure
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Peace has reigned for years, but old magic mistakes don’t stay buried. When prophecies warn of Pandemia’s collapse, King Rap learns a long-ago error could shatter the laws holding magic in check. Forced onto a perilous quest, he must face gods, war, and his own past to prevent the realm from falling into chaos.
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The Aurora Award–winning author of the Man of His Word novels returns to the magical realm of Pandemia with the first in his Handful of Men series.
For fifteen years, Queen Inos and King Rap—the former stable boy and secret sorcerer—have ruled Krasnegar wisely and happily, raising a family and prospering in their remote little kingdom.
But a darkness is encroaching, foreshadowed by prophecies of unimagined cataclysms across Pandemia. Prince Emshandar, better known as Shandie to Krasnegar's royal family, is engaged in several conflicts along the Impire's borderlands, as armies of djinns, gnomes, and other races declare and wage war. His grandfather, the aged imperor himself, continues to behave more erratically and tyrannically with each passing hour.
Rap dismisses the warnings as superstitious nonsense and the borderland battles as far from home and none of his kingdom's affair. But on the night of the birth of his fourth child, Rap is visited by a god who regales him with a cryptic tale of Pandemia's impending doom. Once upon a time, a young sorcerer made an error, an error that now threatens to nullify the Protocol, the treaty that has controlled the use of magic for a millennium. Without the Protocol, the realm will fall into chaos and certain destruction—unless Rap embarks on a dangerous quest to right his long ago wrong . . .
The beginning of a new series by the author of the Seventh Sword novels and many other acclaimed works of fantasy, The Cutting Edge is "deftly woven and set forth with a refreshingly unpretentious clarity and directness: imagine David Eddings rewritten by Kate Wilhelm. Grab this one" (Kirkus Reviews).
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In 1901 Oxford, apprentice bookbinder Lilian Delaney uncovers a hidden letter inside a burned book that hints at forbidden love and murder.
The Bookbinder’s Secret
Fantasy · Historical Fantasy
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In 1901 Oxford, apprentice bookbinder Lilian Delaney uncovers a hidden letter inside a burned book that hints at forbidden love and murder. As she hunts for the remaining pages across London, rivals emerge and danger mounts. The Bookbinder’s Secret is a gripping historical mystery about obsession and hidden truths.
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Every book tells a story. This one tells a secret.
A young bookbinder begins a hunt for the truth when a confession hidden beneath the binding of a burned book reveals a story of forbidden love, lost fortune, and murder.
Lilian ("Lily") Delaney, apprentice to a master bookbinder in Oxford in 1901, chafes at the confines of her life. She is trapped between the oppressiveness of her father’s failing bookshop and still being an apprentice in a man’s profession. But when she’s given a burned book during a visit to a collector, she finds, hidden beneath the binding, a fifty-year-old letter speaking of love, fortune, and murder.
Lily is pulled into the mystery of the young lovers, a story of forbidden love, and discovers there are more books and more hidden pages telling their story. Lilian becomes obsessed with the story but she is not the only one looking for the remaining books and what began as a diverting intrigue quickly becomes a very dangerous pursuit.
Lily's search leads her from the eccentric booksellers of London to the private libraries of unscrupulous collectors and the dusty archives of society papers, deep into the heart of the mystery. But with sinister forces closing in, willing to do anything for the books, Lilian’s world begins to fall apart and she must decide if uncovering the truth is worth the risk to her own life.
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Ravenna Maffei hides forbidden magic in a city that would destroy her for it.
Graceless Heart
Fantasy · Historical Fantasy
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Ravenna Maffei hides forbidden magic in a city that would destroy her for it. When she is captured by Florence’s ruling immortals, survival means serving their most dangerous heir. As war against magic looms, Ravenna must navigate desire, captivity, and power that could reshape the world. Graceless Heart is a sweeping adult fantasy from a #1 New York Times bestselling author.
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#1 New York Times bestseller Isabel Ibañez in her adult debut: a gorgeous, historical, and romantic fantasy that will leave readers breathless for more!
She was never meant to be seen. Now she’s a weapon the world can’t ignore.
As a sculptress, Ravenna Maffei has always shaped beauty from stone but she has a terrible secret. Desperate to save her brother, she enters a competition hosted by Florence’s most feared immortal family, revealing a dark power in a city where magic is forbidden.
Now a captive in the cutthroat city of Florence, Ravenna is forced into a dangerous task where failure meets certain death at the hands of Saturnino dei Luni, the immortal family's mesmerizing but merciless heir. But as he draws her closer, Ravenna realizes the true threat lies beyond Florence’s walls.
The Pope’s war against magic is closing in, and Ravenna is no longer just a prisoner but a prize to be claimed. As trusting the wrong person becomes lethal, Ravenna must survive the treacherous line between a pope's obsession and the seductive immortal who might be the end of her — or surrender her power to a city on the brink of war.
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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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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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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
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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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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The Dwarves follows Tungdil, a foundling raised among humans who has never known his own kind.
The Dwarves
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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The Dwarves follows Tungdil, a foundling raised among humans who has never known his own kind. When ancient defenses fail and war threatens Girdlegard, he is sent to reunite with the dwarves and deliver a vital message. Untrained and untested, Tungdil must embrace his heritage and courage to protect a world on the brink.
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For countless millennia, the dwarves of the have defended the stone gateway into Girdlegard. Many and varied foes have hurled themselves against the portal and died attempting to breach it. No man or beast has ever succeeded. Until now. . .
Abandoned as a child, Tungdil the blacksmith labors contentedly in the land of Ionandar, the only dwarf in a kingdom of men. Although he does not want for friends, Tungdil is very much aware that he is alone -- indeed, he has not so much as set eyes on another dwarf. But all that is about to change.
Sent out into the world to deliver a message and reacquaint himself with his people, the young foundling finds himself thrust into a battle for which he has not been trained. Not only his own safety, but the life of every man, woman and child in Girdlegard depends upon his ability to embrace his heritage. Although he has many unanswered questions, Tungdil is certain of one thing: no matter where he was raised, he is a true dwarf.
And no one has ever questioned the courage of the Dwarves.
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Awakening Horde follows Pax, a classless street rat struggling to protect his crew in a city battered by monster waves.
Awakening Horde
Fantasy · LitRPG · Sword and Sorcery
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Awakening Horde follows Pax, a classless street rat struggling to protect his crew in a city battered by monster waves. When his friend is captured, Pax is dragged into a ruthless empire and its elite mage academy. There, forbidden magic awakens within him, forcing Pax to survive corruption, rebellion, and powers meant to be erased.
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Against all odds, a defiant street rat takes on a ruthless empire.
Pax, a cunning street rat without a class, navigates life in a city constantly threatened by monstrous beast waves. He's dedicated to keeping his crew safe and fed, especially after his family vanished without a trace. But when his best friend is captured, Pax risks it all—even his freedom—on the eve of the Awakening.
Caught and thrust into the Astan Empire's war machine, Pax must adapt to survive the perils of the empire's elite mage academy. While struggling to harness the forbidden magic surging within him, he must avoid the attention of corrupt leaders determined to snuff out any hint of rebellion and maintain their iron grip on power.
With ancient secrets, and long-lost spells at stake, can Pax triumph against his foes, defeat fearsome monsters and secure a future for himself and his crew?
With over 1 million Royal Road views and counting, this epic LitRPG series is a must-read for fans of action-packed fantasy.
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Titan’s Descendant follows Nathan, the weakest disciple in his cultivation sect, cursed with a flaw that blocks his growth and threatens his only hope of returning home.
Titan’s Descendant
Fantasy · Teen + Young Adult · LitRPG · Sword and Sorcery
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Titan’s Descendant follows Nathan, the weakest disciple in his cultivation sect, cursed with a flaw that blocks his growth and threatens his only hope of returning home. When his System awakens, that flaw becomes his greatest weapon. By enduring what should break him, Nathan uncovers a new path to power where survival itself fuels advancement.
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A fatal flaw is his only path to power.
For two years, Nathan has been a failure. Cursed with an abysmal energy absorption rate, he's the weakest disciple in the Verdant Spire Sect and faces certain expulsion. His dream of returning to Earth to save his ailing mother is about to die. He's a talentless cultivator at the bottom of the food chain, with one day left to change his fate.
Just when all hope is lost, his long-dormant System awakens, granting him a bizarre and unique power: The Passive Paradigm.
His flaw is no longer a curse. It's the key to a new kind of advancement where endurance is strength, and survival itself is a source of explosive growth. By discovering loopholes and turning the rules of cultivation on their head, Nathan forges a new path. But this power comes at a cost, forcing him into a brutal tournament where he is the underdog and a deadly forest that wants him dead.
Experience an Epic Cultivation LitRPG where the grind pays double. Perfect for fans of Cradle and He Who Fights with Monsters, this adventure features a clever underdog, a unique skill system, brutal martial arts combat, and a progression from outcast to alpha.
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