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A sharp fit for readers drawn to dark fantasy with siege action, secret passages, arcane relics, and a determined warrior heroine.
The Last Shield
Fantasy · Dark Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure
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Called “gritty, action-packed, and ceaselessly clever” by Andrea Stewart, Briar, commander of the Shields, must defend Sunweald Palace, its royal heir, and the magical Wyrm Vault when brigands and traitors seize the fortress, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 100 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers drawn to dark fantasy with siege action, secret passages, arcane relics, and a determined warrior heroine.
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A gender-flipped Die Hard set in a mysterious castle, Cameron Johnston's The Last Shield is an engaging fantasy read, perfect for fans of John Gwynne and Mark Lawrence.
The ancient forest realm of Sunweald is bordered on two sides by far mightier nations – a precarious situation. At its centre, the Sunweald Palace is home to the Lord Regent and the heir to the throne, together with numerous precious and powerful artefacts. The Palace is protected by the realm's elite Shields, dedicated to guarding the royal line against all foes.
A group of vicious brigands called the Wildwood Reivers have been stealing arcane artefacts and smuggling them across the borders, out of Sunweald. And the objects they most desire are stored in the mystical Wyrm Vault, hidden away deep in the bones of the earth, within the walls of the Palace itself.
As political and religious tensions mount, Sunweald's druids prepare to enact rituals for the Summer Solstice – but the Wildwood Reivers and their treacherous allies have other plans. It falls to Briar, the commander of the Shields, to defend the ancient corridors and secret tunnels of the Palace. The odds may be against her, but she'll see every enemy head adorning a spike or she'll die trying…
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Best for readers who enjoy sprawling epic fantasy, multiple storylines, political plots, lost identities, and intricate worldbuilding.
Cephrael’s Hand
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy
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Three paths converge in the dying realm of Alorin: an Adept searches for a branded traitor who may save his people, a prince hunts the assassin who killed his blood-brother, and a soldier enters the desert seeking the truth about his forgotten past. Their separate quests draw them toward a powerful enemy and a darker pattern, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 1,600 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who enjoy sprawling epic fantasy, multiple storylines, political plots, lost identities, and intricate worldbuilding.
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“All things are composed of patterns...” And within the pattern of the realm of Alorin, three strands must cross:
In Alorin...three hundred years after the genocidal Adept Wars, the realm is dying, and the blessed Adept race dies with it. One man holds the secret to reverting this decline: Bjorn van Gelderan, a dangerous and enigmatic man whose shocking betrayal three centuries past earned him a traitor’s brand. It is the Adept Vestal Raine D’Lacourte’s mission to learn what Bjorn knows in the hope of salvaging his race. But first he’ll have to find him...
In the kingdom of Dannym...the young Prince Ean val Lorian faces a tenuous future as the last living heir to the coveted Eagle Throne. When his blood-brother is slain during a failed assassination, Ean embarks on a desperate hunt for the man responsible. Yet his advisors have their own agendas, and his quest for vengeance leads him ever deeper into a sinuous plot masterminded by a mysterious and powerful man, the one they call First Lord...
In the Nadori desert...tormented by the missing pieces of his life, a soldier named Trell heads off to uncover the truth of his shadowed past. But when disaster places him in the debt of Wildlings sworn to the First Lord, Trell begins to suspect a deadlier, darker secret motivating them.
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A dark, haunting fit for readers drawn to hidden heirs, royal intrigue, dangerous prophecies, identity, and vengeful spirits.
The Bone Doll’s Twin
Fantasy · LGBTQIA+ · Epic Fantasy
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In a kingdom ruled by a usurper determined to eliminate women from the royal line, Princess Tobin is magically given male form and raised without knowing her true identity. Protected by wizards and a forest witch, she must survive the king’s wrath, her mother’s madness, and the vengeful spirit of her murdered twin, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 500 Amazon reviewers. A dark, haunting fit for readers drawn to hidden heirs, royal intrigue, dangerous prophecies, identity, and vengeful spirits.
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Sometimes the price of destiny is higher than anyone imagined....
Dark Magic, Hidden Destiny
For three centuries a divine prophecy and a line of warrior queens protected Skala. But the people grew complacent and Erius, a usurper king, claimed his young half sister’s throne.
Now plague and drought stalk the land, war with Skala’s ancient rival Plenimar drains the country’s lifeblood, and to be born female into the royal line has become a death sentence as the king fights to ensure the succession of his only heir, a son. For King Erius the greatest threat comes from his own line — and from Illior’s faithful, who spread the Oracle’s words to a doubting populace.
As noblewomen young and old perish mysteriously, the king’s nephew — his sister’s only child — grows toward manhood. But unbeknownst to the king or the boy, strange, haunted Tobin is the princess’s daughter, given male form by a dark magic to protect her until she can claim her rightful destiny.
Only Tobin’s noble father, two wizards of Illior, and an outlawed forest witch know the truth. Only they can protect young Tobin from a king’s wrath, a mother’s madness, and the terrifying rage of her brother’s demon spirit, determined to avenge his brutal murder....
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to whimsical fantasy mysteries, witty married sleuths, unusual magic, and eccentric supernatural creatures.
The Hexologists
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy
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Called “a joyous delight on every page” by Madeline Miller, The Hexologists follows married magical investigators Iz and Warren Wilby as they investigate why the king wants to be baked into a cake. Their search uncovers a decades-old royal secret involving anti-royalists, ghouls, infernal alchemists, and a bookish dragon, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 1,000 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers drawn to whimsical fantasy mysteries, witty married sleuths, unusual magic, and eccentric supernatural creatures.
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The first book in a wildly inventive and mesmerizing new fantasy series from acclaimed author Josiah Bancroft where magical mysteries abound and only one team can solve them: The Hexologists. “Bancroft is a magician.” — Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe
“Fantastic! The Hexologists fizzes eloquently with wit and elegance, but also has marvelous worldbuilding and an excellent plot - and a central pair of characters who I quite simply love. A cocktail of a book made with the very best champagne.” — Genevieve Cogman, author of The Invisible Library
The Hexologists, Iz and Warren Wilby, are quite accustomed to helping desperate clients with the bugbears of city life. Aided by hexes and a bag of charmed relics, the Wilbies have recovered children abducted by chimney-wraiths, removed infestations of barb-nosed incubi, and ventured into the Gray Plains of the Unmade to soothe a troubled ghost. Well-acquainted with the weird, they never shy away from a challenging case.
But when they are approached by the royal secretary and told the king pleads to be baked into a cake—going so far as to wedge himself inside a lit oven—the Wilbies soon find themselves embroiled in a mystery that could very well see the nation turned on its head. Their effort to expose a royal secret buried under forty years of lies brings them nose to nose with a violent anti-royalist gang, avaricious ghouls, alchemists who draw their power from a hell-like dimension, and a bookish dragon who only occasionally eats people.
Armed with a love toughened by adversity and a stick of chalk that can conjure light from the darkness, hope from the hopeless, Iz and Warren Wilby are ready for a case that will test every spell, skill, and odd magical artifact in their considerable bag of tricks.
"Bancroft is a wonder as ever! The Hexologists was a joyous delight on every page— buoyantly inventive, witty, poignant, gripping, and deeply satisfying." — Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe
“Josiah Bancroft’s imagination will astound you. One of the most inventive fantasy authors out there.” — Fonda Lee, author of the Green Bone Saga
“Bancroft has returned to the page in force, deploying his crystal prose and razored wit around a tale that mixes whimsy and threat in equal measure. He's a gift to the genre." — Mark Lawrence, author of The Book That Wouldn't Burn
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A strong match for readers who like classic sword and sorcery, brooding antiheroes, decaying empires, and dynastic conflict.
Elric of Melniboné
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Sword and Sorcery
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Called “the greatest writer of post-Tolkien British Fantasy” by Michael Chabon, Michael Moorcock begins the Elric saga with the brooding albino emperor of a dying kingdom. When his amoral cousin Yrkoon targets the throne, Elric must defend his rule and his country’s future, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 1,100 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers who like classic sword and sorcery, brooding antiheroes, decaying empires, and dynastic conflict.
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From World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award winner Michael Moorcock comes the first book in his famous classic dark fantasy series, Elric of Melniboné, brought to vivid new life with stunning illustrations.
In one of the most well-known and well-loved fantasy epics of the 20th century, Elric is the brooding, albino emperor of the dying Kingdom of Melniboné. With Melniboné’s years of grandeur and decadence long since passed, Elric’s amoral cousin Yrkoon sets his eyes on the throne. Elric, realizing he is his country’s best hope, must face his nefarious cousin in an epic battle for the right to rule.
Elric of Melniboné is the first in Michael Moorcock’s incredible series, which created fantasy archetypes that have echoed through the genre for generations. The beautiful, vivid illustrations bring new life to the story and are sure to captivate fans, new and old.
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Best for readers who like academy fantasy with dragons, phoenixes, revenge, friendship, and magic.
Academy In Flames Box Set
Epic Fantasy · Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Urban Fantasy
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This box set collects the bestselling Academy in Flames series, following Ana de Navalles from the slums to Galfour’s Point, a prestigious academy for dragon riders, where she bonds with a young phoenix and investigates her friend’s murder as dark magic rises, with a 4.5-star average from more than 1,900 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers who like academy fantasy with dragons, phoenixes, revenge, friendship, and magic.
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This box set includes the entire bestselling Academy in Flames series, featuring majestic magic, daring dragons, and a tale of adventure you won’t ever forget.
“All my life I wanted to be a respected dragon rider. That is, until I met my phoenix.”
Ana de Navalles has almost nothing, aside from her friends. Having always been a child of the slums, her fortunes change when she’s admitted to Galfour’s Point, the prestigious and almost-mythical academy, and the only place in the world where you can train to become a dragon rider.
Just before she is set to leave, her friend Cien is murdered before her by a mob-affiliated criminal with surprising strength. But Ana does not cower. With dark magic seemingly on the rise, her hunger to make something of herself – and thirst for revenge – is revived.
After mere days at the academy, Ana is beginning to feel like the odd one out. A poor slum-dweller in a school of snobbish rich kids, all eyes are on her, and if she can’t pass her entrance exams, she’ll be kicked out without so much of a glance at a dragon.
So when she discovers a young phoenix, newly hatched, and quickly establishes a bond with the precocious and unpredictable creature, Ana’s suddenly the talk of the academy. If, that is, she can convince the school authorities to let them stay.
As Ana and her friends – some new and some old – prepare to investigate Cien’s murder, nefarious forces within the academy, and outside in the wider world conspire against them. Can Ana and Fyrenza – her newly named phoenix - rise from the ashes, and shine bright upon a cruel world?
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Best for readers who like fae romantasy with oppressed kingdoms, royal secrets, reluctant alliances, and dangerous quests.
Heir of Broken Fate
Epic Fantasy · Romantasy
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Delilah Covington, heir to a suffering human kingdom, flees across the border after discovering the vanished Fae may still be alive and finds herself tangled in lies, riddles, and Knox, a frustratingly charming Fae king, with a 3.7-star average from more than 7,800 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers who like fae romantasy with oppressed kingdoms, royal secrets, reluctant alliances, and dangerous quests.
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It’s exquisite to see, that something so beautiful, shrouded and hidden by darkness, can still shine bright.
One hundred and fifty years ago the Fae race vanished. Along with their magic and creatures. With the fallen Fae lands the humans were soon to follow as corruption spread throughout the realm. Heir to the throne, Delilah Covington is forced to watch her people suffer under the sinful hands of her father, the king—while she herself suffers his cruel hand. Delilah has longed for change, her prayers going unanswered until she discovers salvation.
Fae are alive.
In desperation, Delilah flees her home and crosses the border, in hopes that the Fae will save her people.
Yet she isn’t the only one who needs help.
Caught in a web of lies and riddles Delilah’s only chance at hope is Knox, one of the irritating, yet frustratingly charming Fae kings. Together they’ll need to unravel the many mysteries to bring freedom to both their oppressed people, or damn them all.
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A strong pick for readers who like fae romantasy with resurrection magic, dangerous heirs, court conflict, and yearning.
The Hanging Heart
Epic Fantasy · Romantasy
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Elorie has only known life on a magic-void prison island until she accidentally resurrects a lethal Fae prisoner and becomes central to a fight over dying magic, rival crowns, and untamed power, with a 4.3-star average from more than 1,000 Goodreads ratings. A strong pick for readers who like fae romantasy with resurrection magic, dangerous heirs, court conflict, and yearning.
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A heart-pounding, epic-stakes romantasy for fans of Callie Hart and Sarah J. Maas.
Magic is dying until a human girl accidentally resurrects a villainous Fae king, unlocking the key to saving her realm, but cursing another. With ruthless Fae, endless yearning, and devastating twists, you'll be wondering who is a villain until the very last page.
An instrument of chaos. Of fate...
Elorie has never known anything beyond the magic-void prison island of Alyssium. She tends to the dead who are sent to the shore for burning, while living among the humans who help guard the Fae prison.
Until one day, she rests her hands on a dead Fae prisoner's chest and accidentally wakes the most lethal warrior in the constellation of realms.
Fascinated by Elorie's unique ability to resurrect such power, the King summons her to the Ley Court. He declares her to be his chosen, promising a union that will restore magic to a dying land.
But the Fae she woke has other plans.
As the rightful heir to a rival crown, Wilder doesn't want to heal the kingdom that locked him in a cell for a century, he wants to destroy it. And to do so, he'll claim Elorie for himself.
Except magic can't be stolen, only offered. And in a war between crowns, Elorie is the only one who can choose how to bind her untamed power.
If only the same rules applied to her heart.
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Best for readers who like dark epic fantasy with morally complex characters, brutal magic, lying gods, and war with real cost.
A Shroud Undone
Fantasy · Dark Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Sword and Sorcery
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Called “epic,” “gory,” and “deep” by readers, A Shroud Undone follows Theron, a man hiding from the choices that shaped a thousand-year war, and Nyra, a ruthless legion commander whose orders from the gods no longer make sense. Together, they uncover a truth about the sacred Stillight that could destroy everything, with a 4.8-star rating from 38 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like dark epic fantasy with morally complex characters, brutal magic, lying gods, and war with real cost.
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A thousand years of war. A sacred light built on a lie. And a truth powerful enough to destroy the world.
For over a millennium, soldiers have died at the Mountain Temple, believing the Stillight—a divine flame of red and gold—demanded their sacrifice.
They were all deceived.
Theron hides in a forgotten village, feeding the starving and asking for nothing. Atonement is all he has left for the choices that shaped the war. But when battle erupts at the Mountain Temple once more, his past drags him back.
Nyra commands the Sylphar legions with ruthless precision. Total victory is the only answer. Failure is not permitted. But the orders she receives from the gods themselves make no sense—and obeying them may cost her everything.
When their paths collide beneath six empty thrones, they uncover a truth the gods never wanted revealed.
The war was never about territory. The gods aren't distant. And the light everyone worships? It's been lying from the beginning.
Stopping the war means confronting what keeps the world alive. And some truths don't set you free—they doom you.
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Best for readers who like slow-burn romantic fantasy with dragons, touch magic, political tension, and dangerous tournament stakes.
To Touch A Silent Fury
Epic Fantasy · Romantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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To Touch A Silent Fury follows Tani, the only woman in the Moontouched Brotherhood, and Lang, a dragon-riding Crown Prince sent to Eavenfold as her unwanted Marriage Fate threatens to shift the balance of empires, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 1,900 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like slow-burn romantic fantasy with dragons, touch magic, political tension, and dangerous tournament stakes.
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Fans of Sarah A. Parker and Penn Cole will love this sprawling new adult epic romantic fantasy, filled with dragons, deceit and a delicious slow-burn romance.
She rides to claim her fate, he flies to burn it down.
As the only woman in the Moontouched Brotherhood, Tani studies on the haughty island of Eavenfold surrounded by men who see her as an ill omen at best. Her Fate Ceremony is only days away, offering five possible escapes from the storm-locked island, but each with their own consequences.
Lang, an insubordinate Crown Prince, holds the reins to one of the few true dragons left in the world. Sent to Eavenfold on a diplomatic mission by his warmongering father, he watches as the Brothers bestow a rare and unwanted Marriage Fate on Tani. Already her touch magic alarms him, but if she succeeds and marries the victor of the upcoming tournament, her power could topple empires.
They both arrive at the games. Her, to claim her Fate. Him, to destroy it by any means possible.
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Best for readers who like fantasy heists, outlaw magic, ragtag crews, and political intrigue.
An Illusion of Thieves
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure
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Romy, a banished courtesan with hidden sorcery, must return to Beggar's Ring and join a swordmaster, a silversmith, and her thieving brother to stop a plot that could spark civil war, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 200 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like fantasy heists, outlaw magic, ragtag crews, and political intrigue.
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A ragtag crew with forbidden magic must pull off an elaborate heist and stop a civil war in An Illusion of Thieves, a fantasy adventure from Cate Glass.
In Cantagna, being a sorcerer is a death sentence.
Romy escapes her hardscrabble upbringing when she becomes courtesan to the Shadow Lord, a revolutionary noble who brings laws and comforts once reserved for the wealthy to all. When her brother, Neri, is caught thieving with the aid of magic, Romy's aristocratic influence is the only thing that can spare his life—and the price is her banishment.
Now back in Beggar's Ring, she has just her wits and her own long-hidden sorcery to help her and Neri survive. But when a plot to overthrow the Shadow Lord and incite civil war is uncovered, only Romy knows how to stop it. To do so, she'll have to rely on newfound allies—a swordmaster, a silversmith, and her own thieving brother. And they'll need the very thing that could condemn them all: magic.
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A strong match for readers drawn to sprawling epic fantasy with alternate history, political conflict, sorcery, and layered destinies.
King’s Dragon
Fantasy · Dark Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Historical Fantasy
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“A complex fantasy world with intriguing parallels to European history, colorful characters, and plenty of action and magic” by Locus, King's Dragon follows Liath and Alain as civil war, northern raids, dark portents, and old magic pull them into a conflict that could reshape the land itself, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 600 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to sprawling epic fantasy with alternate history, political conflict, sorcery, and layered destinies.
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Set in an alternate Europe, the first Crown of Stars epic fantasy chronicles a world-shaking conflict for the survival of humanity.
“A complex fantasy world with intriguing parallels to European history, colorful characters, and plenty of action and magic.” —Locus
It begins with civil war . . .
For though King Henry still holds the crown of Wendar, his reign has long been contested by his sister Sabella. There are many eager to flock to her banner, and there are ways to make even the most unwilling lord into a weapon pointed at the heart of Henry’s realm.
Torn by internal strife, Wendar also faces deadly raids from the north by an inhuman race, the Eika. And now terrifying portents are being seen; old ruins restored to life under the light of the full moon and peopled by the long-vanished Lost Ones; dark spirits walking the land in broad daylight. And suddenly two innocents are about to be thrust into the middle of the conflict.
Liath, who has spent her early years fleeing from unknown enemies, is a young woman with the power to change the course of history if she can only learn to master her fear and seize what is rightfully hers.
While Alain, a young man who may find his future in a vision granted by the Lady of Battles, must first unravel the mystery of who he is—whether the bastard son of a noble father, the half-breed child of an elfin lord, the unwanted get of a whore, or the heir to a proud and ancient lineage. For only when he discovers the truth can he accept the destiny for which he was born.
Liath and Alain, each trapped in a personal struggle for survival, both helplessly being drawn into a far greater battle, a war in which sorcery not swords will determine the final outcome, and the land itself may be irrevocably reshaped by the forces unleashed . . .
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