Category: Fantasy

New Release – Slashed Beauties by A. Rushby

  Synopsis Seoul, present day. Antiques dealer Alys’s task is nearly complete. She has at last secured Elizabeth, the final anatomical Venus in a dangerously intertwined trio. Crafted in eighteenth-century London and modeled after real-life sex workers to entice male medical students to study female anatomy, these eerie wax figures, known as slashed beauties, carry unsavory lore. Legend […]

Review & Giveaway – To Condemn a Witch by Lisa A. Traugott

  TO CONDEMN A WITCH By LISA A. TRAUGOTT   Historical Fantasy Publisher: Rose Castle Media Pages: 399 Publication Date: August 11, 2025     Synopsis A stolen scroll. A cursed bloodline. A prophecy that binds three witches across life and death… Scotland, 1729. When clairvoyant healer Fiona MacLeod discovers an enchanted scroll, she awakens […]

Interview with author E.L. Deards, Author of The Lavender Blade

  Synopsis Colton and Lucian, a young pair of exorcist con artists, use sleight of hand and their natural charm to scam the nation’s wealthiest…until one of them becomes possessed for real. Colton has to act quickly to learn the real tricks of his trade and exorcise the demon before Lucian’s soul is snuffed out […]

Excerpt – The Gallantiers by Jim Bates

  Synopsis In the 27th century, ten-year-olds Sammy and Cal work digging tunnels beneath the streets of the underground city of Pierpoint. When two huge rats attack them, Sammy is wounded, but their boss refuses to give him any time off to heal. With a bleak future ahead of them and Sammy’s infected wounds getting […]

Guest Post & Excerpt – A Sister to Butterflies by Aaron Christopher Drown

    There are stories that entertain—and then there are stories that haunt you. A Sister to Butterflies is the latter, a novel of quiet power and lyrical grace that bridges the gap between the fantastic and the deeply human. The story is framed as a confession—a creature neither human nor fully otherworldly speaks to a child, […]

Excerpt – All the Perfect Days by Michael Thompson

  Synopsis Family doctor Charlie Knight is in his late thirties, still playing tennis against the same people every Friday night. Still jogging the same streets every morning. Still treating the same patients every day—fixing the high blood pressure and arthritic knees of folks who’ve known him since he was a kid. But Charlie has […]

Review – The Sirens by Emilia Hart

    Synopsis A story of sisters separated by hundreds of years but bound together in more ways than they can imagine 2019: Lucy awakens in her ex-lover’s room in the middle of the night with her hands around his throat. Horrified, she flees to her sister’s house on the coast of New South Wales […]

Excerpt – The Time Traveling Healer by Jim Bates

  Synopsis When he fails to help curb the worldwide pandemic in the 21st Century, time-traveling healer Torak loses confidence in himself. He is sent to the land of Anon where a plague is ravaging the countryside. He makes many friends and successfully curtails the plague, but when evil King Zorandon becomes ill and calls […]

Review & Excerpt – Dragged Down Deep by Michael Okon

    Synopsis Logan Osborne has spent his life chasing the shadows of the past. As a child, he watched helplessly as his father was snatched from a fishing boat by what he swore was a mermaid. No one believed him then. No one believes him now. Determined to prove that mythical creatures exist, Logan […]

Review & Giveaway – Junie by Erin Crosby Eckstine

  Synopsis A young girl must face a life-altering decision after awakening her sister’s ghost, navigating truths about love, friendship, and power as the Civil War looms. Sixteen years old and enslaved since she was born, Junie has spent her life on Bellereine Plantation in Alabama, cooking and cleaning alongside her family, and tending to […]