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Tag results: “fantasy books”
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The Most Anticipated Romantasy Books of Fall 2025
By Lacy Baugher Milas
September 11, 2025 | 12:00pm
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The Most Anticipated Fantasy Books of Fall 2025
By Lacy Baugher Milas
September 3, 2025 | 2:00pm
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The Best New Fantasy Books of August 2025
By Lacy Baugher Milas
August 26, 2025 | 10:30am
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10 Unorthodox Summer Beach Reads For Science Fiction and Fantasy Fans
By Alana Joli Abbott
August 8, 2025 | 3:00pm
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Exclusive Cover Reveal + Excerpt: L.D. Lewis’s
The Year of the Mer
By Lacy Baugher Milas
August 7, 2025 | 10:01am
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Author Kiera Azar Introduces Us to Her Buzzy YA Fantasy Debut
Thorn Season
By Lacy Baugher Milas
July 31, 2025 | 1:21pm
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Exclusive Cover Reveal + Excerpt: Addie Thorley’s
Burn the Kingdom Down
By Lacy Baugher Milas
July 30, 2025 | 1:00pm
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The Nightshade God
Is an Unhinged, Chaotic, and Thoroughly Satisfying Series Conclusion
By Lacy Baugher Milas
July 15, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Exclusive Cover Reveal + Excerpt: Katrina Kwan's
The Legend of the Nine-Tailed Fox
By Lacy Baugher Milas
July 9, 2025 | 10:00am
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Rose in Chains
Is a Highly Addictive Dark Romantasy That Does Right By Its Fanfic Roots
By Lacy Baugher Milas
July 8, 2025 | 11:00am
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The Best New Fantasy Books of July 2025
By Lacy Baugher Milas
July 7, 2025 | 3:05pm
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Reimagining Detroit with Magic and Mystery: Debut Author V.L. Barycz Talks
A Promise of Sirens
By Jo Watkins
July 1, 2025 | 1:00pm
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Read the Prologue to Jessica S. Olsen’s Latest YA Fantasy,
Den of Liars
By Lacy Baugher Milas
July 1, 2025 | 10:30am
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Introducing Kathleen Carr Foster’s Epic Fantasy Debut,
The Jewel of Corlivo
By Lacy Baugher Milas
June 30, 2025 | 10:00am
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Sprayed Edges Are Everywhere and I Hate Them
By Selah Jordan
June 27, 2025 | 10:35am
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In This Excerpt From
Tusk Love
, a Drunken Cuddle Masks Genuine Emotion for Two Famous
Critical Role
Figures
By Lacy Baugher Milas
June 26, 2025 | 11:00am
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The Best New Fantasy Books of June 2025
By Lacy Baugher Milas
June 23, 2025 | 11:30am
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Exclusive Excerpt: Liz Shipton’s Urban Fantasy
Dot Slash Magic
By Lacy Baugher Milas
June 18, 2025 | 1:00pm
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6 Must-Read New Fantasy Novels That Fight for a Better World
By Alana Joli Abbott
June 11, 2025 | 1:00pm
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Bury Our Bones In the Midnight Soil
Is V.E. Schwab’s Answer to
Interview with the Vampire
By Lacy Baugher Milas
June 10, 2025 | 10:00am
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Read the First Chapter of Highly Anticipated Romantasy Sequel
The Robin on the Oak Throne
By Lacy Baugher Milas
June 6, 2025 | 10:00am
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The Most Anticipated Romantasy Books of Summer 2025
By Lacy Baugher Milas
June 5, 2025 | 10:00am
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The Maiden and Her Monster
Meet in This Exclusive Excerpt From Maddie Martinez’s Dark Fantasy Debut
By Lacy Baugher Milas
June 4, 2025 | 10:00am
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The Most Anticipated Fantasy Books of Summer 2025
By Lacy Baugher Milas
May 30, 2025 | 10:00am
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Exclusive Excerpt + Q&A: A. B. Poranek Introduces Us to
A Treachery of Swans
By Lacy Baugher Milas
May 27, 2025 | 10:00am
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The Knight and the Moth
Is a Gorgeously Imagined Gothic Fantasy Romance
By Lacy Baugher Milas
May 20, 2025 | 11:00am
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Exclusive Cover Reveal + Excerpt: H. Leighton Dickson Takes to the High Seas in
Ship of Spells
By Lacy Baugher Milas
May 16, 2025 | 10:00am
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The Devils
Is a Rollicking, Old School Fantasy Adventure (With Teeth)
By Lacy Baugher Milas
May 13, 2025 | 10:00am
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Silver Elite
Is Bringing Bingeable Dystopian Fiction Back
By Lacy Baugher Milas
May 6, 2025 | 11:00am
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The Best New Fantasy Books of May 2025
By Lacy Baugher Milas
May 2, 2025 | 11:00am
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Antonia Hodgson on Introducing the World to
The Raven Scholar
, Crafting Her Unique Heroine, and More
By Lacy Baugher Milas
April 29, 2025 | 11:00am
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Exclusive Cover Reveal + Q&A: Shanora Williams Introduces
Mayhem and the Mortal
By Lacy Baugher Milas
April 28, 2025 | 11:00am
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The Raven Scholar
Deserves to Be the Biggest Fantasy Book of the Year
By Lacy Baugher Milas
April 15, 2025 | 10:00am
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Holy Terrors
Offers a Chaotic, Thoroughly Satisfying Conclusion to Margaret Owen’s
Little Thieves
Trilogy
By Lacy Baugher Milas
April 3, 2025 | 10:30am
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The Best New Fantasy Books of April 2025
By Lacy Baugher Milas
April 1, 2025 | 10:00am
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In This Excerpt From
The Raven Scholar
, A Difficult Choice Will Have Far Reaching Consquences
By Lacy Baugher Milas
March 28, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Appeasing Radicals, Politicians, and Gods in Eliza Chan’s
Tideborn
By Alana Joli Abbott
March 25, 2025 | 10:40am
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One Woman’s Search for Her Sister Puts Her In Unexpected Danger In This Excerpt From
The Never List
By Lacy Baugher Milas
March 13, 2025 | 1:00pm
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The Sequels You Can’t Miss in 2025
By Alana Joli Abbott
March 10, 2025 | 10:30am
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The Best New Fantasy Books of March 2025
By Lacy Baugher Milas
March 3, 2025 | 10:00am
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A Mysterious Bell Keeper Is Trying to Hold Her Life Together In This Excerpt From
What Wakes the Bells
By Lacy Baugher Milas
February 28, 2025 | 1:00pm
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With
The Dark Mirror
, Samantha Shannon's
Bone Season
Series Becomes the Fantasy Saga Our Moment Requires
By Lacy Baugher Milas
February 27, 2025 | 10:00am
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The Best New Fantasy Books of February 2025
By Lacy Baugher Milas
February 5, 2025 | 10:00am
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Rune and Gideon Are Reunited In This Excerpt From Highly Anticipated Sequel
Rebel Witch
By Lacy Baugher Milas
February 4, 2025 | 10:00am
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Exclusive Cover Reveal + Excerpt: Jordan Stephanie Gray’s
Bitten
By Lacy Baugher Milas
January 31, 2025 | 10:00am
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The Best New Fantasy Books of January 2025
By Lacy Baugher Milas
January 28, 2025 | 10:00am
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How Rebecca Yarros' Empyrean Series Came to Dominate Modern Romantasy
By Kayleigh Donaldson
January 23, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Exclusive Cover Reveal + Excerpt: Cozy Fantasy An Ancient Witch’s Guide to Modern Dating
By Lacy Baugher Milas
January 17, 2025 | 10:00am
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The Most Anticipated Romantasy Books of 2025
By Lacy Baugher Milas
January 16, 2025 | 4:00pm
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Gail Simone Talks Bringing the She-Devil with a Sword to Life in a New Medium with
Red Sonja: Consumed
By Lacy Baugher Milas
January 7, 2025 | 11:30am
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Thea Guanzon Talks Romance, Middle Books, and
A Monsoon Rising
By Alana Joli Abbott
January 2, 2025 | 5:32pm
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The Most Anticipated Fantasy Books of 2025
By Lacy Baugher Milas
January 1, 2025 | 4:24pm
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The Best Fantasy Books of 2024
By Lacy Baugher Milas
December 12, 2024 | 10:00am
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Exclusive Cover Reveal + Excerpt: K. X. Song's
The Dragon Wakes with Thunder
By Lacy Baugher Milas
December 11, 2024 | 10:08am
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Hurricane Wars
Sequel
A Monsoon Rising
Puts Romance Ahead of Politics
By Lacy Baugher Milas
December 10, 2024 | 10:30am
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Remaking an Identity: Memory and Mistakes in
The Last One
By Alana Joli Abbott
December 3, 2024 | 11:00am
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The Best New Fantasy Books of December 2024
By Lacy Baugher Milas
December 2, 2024 | 10:00am
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A Young Seer Gets a Mysterious New Opportunity In This Excerpt From
The Half King
By Lacy Baugher Milas
November 13, 2024 | 1:00pm
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The Lotus Empire
Offers a Blockbuster Conclusion to the Burning Kingdoms Trilogy
By Lacy Baugher Milas
November 12, 2024 | 10:30am
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The Best New Fantasy Books of November 2024
By Lacy Baugher Milas
November 4, 2024 | 10:00am
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Exclusive Cover Reveal + Excerpt: Molly X. Chang’s Vampire Romantasy
The Nightblood Prince
By Lacy Baugher Milas
November 1, 2024 | 10:00am
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Alexis Henderson Breaks Down the Secrets at the Heart of
An Academy for Liars
By Lacy Baugher Milas
October 31, 2024 | 12:00pm
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Exclusive Cover Reveal + Q&A: Tracy Wolff Takes Us Back to Calder Academy In
Sweet Chaos
By Lacy Baugher Milas
October 30, 2024 | 1:00pm
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Get Your First Look at Amélie Wen Zhao’s Fantasy Romance
The Scorpion and the Night Blossom
By Lacy Baugher Milas
October 17, 2024 | 10:00am
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Kiersten White Seeks Justice for One of Literature’s Most Underserved Characters in
Lucy Undying
By Lacy Baugher Milas
October 9, 2024 | 12:00pm
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The Best New Fantasy Books of October 2024
By Lacy Baugher Milas
October 7, 2024 | 10:30am
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Exclusive Cover Reveal + Q&A: Elise Kova’s
Dragon Cursed
By Lacy Baugher Milas
September 27, 2024 | 1:00pm
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A Secret Meeting Kicks Off a Deadly Mystery In This Excerpt From
Zodiac Rising
By Lacy Baugher Milas
September 25, 2024 | 12:00pm
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The Best New Fantasy Books of September 2024
By Lacy Baugher Milas
September 23, 2024 | 10:30am
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Long Live Evil
Is a Deliciously Subversive Celebration of Everything We Love About Fantasy Romance
By Lacy Baugher Milas
August 30, 2024 | 6:20pm
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The Most Anticipated Fantasy Books of Fall 2024
By Lacy Baugher Milas
August 29, 2024 | 5:00pm
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Wisteria
Brings Adalyn Grace’s
Belladonna
Trilogy to a Close By Shifting the Series' Focus
By Lacy Baugher Milas
August 22, 2024 | 11:15am
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Ava Reid’s
Lady Macbeth
Is Ferociously Feminist But Not Particularly True to Shakespeare’s Text
By Lacy Baugher Milas
August 13, 2024 | 10:40am
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A Sorceress Comes to Call
Is Whimsical, Subversive Fantasy Perfection
By Lacy Baugher Milas
August 7, 2024 | 12:00pm
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A Quest for Vengeance Leads to a Seven-Eyed Dragon In This Excerpt From
Blood of the Old Kings
By Lacy Baugher Milas
August 5, 2024 | 10:15am
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The Best New Fantasy Books of August 2024
By Lacy Baugher Milas
August 1, 2024 | 10:30am
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Blythe and Fate Share an Unexpected Moment In This Excerpt From Final
Belladonna
Installment
Wisteria
By Lacy Baugher Milas
July 31, 2024 | 10:00am
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Why So Much Cozy? Thoughts on Jam, Cheese, and the Rise of Cozy Fantasy
By Sarah Beth Durst
July 19, 2024 | 2:30am
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In Spellbinding Sequel
Le Fay
, the Most Famous Sorceress of Arthurian Legend Enters Her Villain Era
By Lacy Baugher Milas
July 17, 2024 | 10:30am
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The Bright Sword
is a Radiant Reimagining of Arthurian Legend
By Emily Price
July 16, 2024 | 10:30am
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Jenn Lyons's
The Sky on Fire
Is Breezy High-Fantasy with Bite
By Hayden Mears
July 11, 2024 | 12:00pm
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The Best New Fantasy Books of July 2024
By Lacy Baugher Milas
July 8, 2024 | 3:00pm
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Rebirth Below the Waves in Leslye Penelope’s
Daughter of the Merciful Deep
By Alana Joli Abbott
July 4, 2024 | 10:45am
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The Best New Fantasy Books of June 2024
By Lacy Baugher Milas
June 28, 2024 | 4:30pm
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A Mother’s Mysterious Gift Hints Dragons Are Real In This Excerpt From
The Night Ends with Fire
By Lacy Baugher Milas
June 26, 2024 | 2:00pm
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What We Talk about When We Talk About Romantasy
By Alana Joli Abbott
June 24, 2024 | 10:30am
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The Most Anticipated Fantasy Books of Summer 2024
By Lacy Baugher Milas
June 4, 2024 | 11:00am
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I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons
Proves Peter Beagle Is Always Worth the Wait
By Lacy Baugher Milas
May 15, 2024 | 12:00pm
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The Best New Fantasy Books of May 2024
By Lacy Baugher Milas
May 8, 2024 | 10:35am
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Second Nightshade Crown Installment
The Hemlock Queen
Has a Few Sophomore Stumbles
By Lacy Baugher Milas
April 10, 2024 | 11:30am
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Leigh Bardugo Effortlessly Steps Into a New Genre with Historical Fantasy
The Familiar
By Lacy Baugher Milas
April 9, 2024 | 11:00am
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The Best New Fantasy Books of April 2024
By Lacy Baugher Milas
April 3, 2024 | 10:30am
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Exclusive Cover Reveal + Excerpt: august clarke’s Adult Fantasy Debut
Metal From Heaven
By Lacy Baugher Milas
March 21, 2024 | 2:00pm
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The Best New Fantasy Books of March 2024
By Lacy Baugher Milas
March 11, 2024 | 1:58pm
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In This Excerpt From
The Last Bloodcaver
, A Fateful Meeting Has Questionable Motivations
By Lacy Baugher Milas
March 7, 2024 | 10:15am
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Holly Black Talks
The Prisoner’s Throne
, Prince Oak’s Journey, and Writing a More Mature Jude and Cardan
By Lacy Baugher Milas
March 5, 2024 | 10:15am
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A Queer Fantasy for a Post-Colonial Reality:
A Vicious Game
Author Melissa Blair on the World of The Halfling Saga
By Melissa Blair
March 1, 2024 | 11:25am
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Navigating the Tides of Change In Eliza Chan’s
Fathomfolk
By Alana Joli Abbott
February 27, 2024 | 11:35am
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In This Excerpt From
A Promise of Peridot
, Tensions Of Every Kind Are On the Rise
By Lacy Baugher Milas
February 23, 2024 | 10:00am
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The Warm Hands of Ghosts
Is a Bittersweet Story of Things Both Lost and Found
By Lacy Baugher Milas
February 13, 2024 | 11:14am
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The Best New Fantasy Books of February 2024
By Lacy Baugher Milas
February 10, 2024 | 3:57pm
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A Violent Meeting Will Change Everything For Two Young Women In This Excerpt From
Daughter of the Bone Forest
By Lacy Baugher Milas
February 9, 2024 | 11:00am
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The Best New Fantasy Books of January 2024
By Lacy Baugher Milas
January 27, 2024 | 6:00pm
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Kamilah Cole on
So Let Them Burn
and Exploring the Next Chapter of a Chosen One’s Story
By Lacy Baugher Milas
January 26, 2024 | 4:15pm
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Exclusive Excerpt + Q&A: Delve Into the World of Hafsah Faizal’s
A Tempest of Tea
By Lacy Baugher Milas
January 23, 2024 | 11:00am
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Read the First Chapter of Kamilah Cole’s Jamaican-Inspired Fantasy Debut
So Let Them Burn
By Lacy Baugher Milas
January 20, 2024 | 2:00pm
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Exclusive Cover Reveal + Excerpt:
The Hunter’s Gambit
Promises a Dark Vampire Tale
By Lacy Baugher Milas
January 15, 2024 | 11:00am
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A Grieving Sister Learns Her Brother May Yet Live In This Excerpt From
The Warm Hands of Ghosts
By Lacy Baugher Milas
January 11, 2024 | 10:40am
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