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The Wolf’s Time

by Oskar Östlund

5 / 5

Plot Summary (spoiler-free) In the quiet Swedish coastal town of Skutskär, the summer of 2004 curdles into a nightmarish, apocalyptic fever dream. Erik and his close circle of friends had plans for…

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The Dragon’s Keeper

by M.L. Burns

5 / 5

Plot Summary (spoiler-free) The Dragon’s Keeper follows Azahara through a stormy stretch of her story, still bound up in trauma and in power she does not fully control. Her past is full…

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The Hourglass Keeper

by M.L. Burns

5 / 5

Plot Summary (spoiler-free) The Hourglass Keeper opens the series with a story of survival at any cost. Azahara has to cross a world overrun by dark forces, and she does it with…

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The Useless Witch

by Savannah Lee

4 / 5

Plot Summary (spoiler-free) Saoirse is a young woman with no magic in a world where that is close to blasphemy. She works in a bakery, trying to get out from under her…

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A Tale Told By Traitors

by Renee Dugan

3 / 5

Lionyra Vara has spent years building a quiet life as a baker in the port city of Krylan, and hiding, badly enough that it finally catches up with her: the woman hunting her is Lucretzia Nore, the Del’s Own Blade, and the truth Lucretzia drags to the surface is that “Lionyra” is really Alyona Graven, the long-lost heir to the throne of Amere-Del, being hauled home to be married off to a dissident leader as a political peace offering. Aboard the ship carrying her back, she strikes up an easy, unplanned friendship with a deckhand named Bastyan, who turns out to be Ryker Kassian, a pirate captain sailing under a false name specifically to claim her as ransom. What follows is a bargain struck between captor and captive: Lionyra will help Ryker double his payday if he helps her first find Tristah, the decoy and true sister-in-arms she left behind years ago, before Lucretzia can use her as leverage instead.

The search for Tristah pulls both of them through a pirate stronghold built on debt and cruelty, a city simmering with a rebellion led by a masked figure called the Incendiary, and eventually into open war with the Old Salts who profit from misery on every side of Amere-Del’s civil unrest. Loyalties shift, disguises come apart, and by the time the trail leads back to the throne itself, the question isn’t only whether Lionyra can save the people she’s come to love. It’s whether the woman she used to be, and the throne she was born into, will let her go.

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New Moon Rising

by Cassandra Featherstone, Serenity Rayne

3 / 5

Twin sisters Fiadh and Feray Morgenstern have spent their whole lives believing they’re both witches, with Fiadh the gifted one and Feray the family “dud” who can’t cast a single spell. At their Ascension ceremony, the ritual where every young witch in the city of Briarvale is supposed to receive her full power and meet her fated mate, everything goes wrong in public and at once: Fiadh’s magic doesn’t manifest as promised, Feray turns out to be a wolf shifter and not a witch at all, and neither of them appears to have a mate. The city’s High Mage seizes the moment to declare them worthless in front of the entire community, and the sisters are shunned on the spot. That same night, the bar and apartment belonging to Philly, the satyr who’s been their found-family father figure since their parents’ deaths, burns to the ground.

Cast out of witch society and homeless, Fiadh and Feray take jobs at a vampire-owned BDSM nightclub and slowly rebuild, only to discover the Ascension lied to them twice over: they do have mates, several each, who simply weren’t present at the ceremony because witches and shifters and Fae don’t all attend the same rites. As the sisters settle into new poly households with their respective partners, they start pulling on a thread that runs from a mysterious symbol carved into Philly’s back after a second attack, back to their parents’ unsolved, deeply suspicious deaths three years earlier, and into a prophecy that names the sisters the “Children of the Moon,” destined for a battle neither of them understands yet.

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Potions and Perils

by Reck Well

4 / 5

Plot Summary (spoiler-free) Potions and Perils is a cozy fantasy set in the village of Lushwood, following Eshail, a witch trying to balance ordinary potion-making with the tangled obligations of village life.…

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