Fantasy Realism

Welcome to Shadow Vale, where the locals bite, monsters are real and the witches play fast and loose with the rules. Kristen O’Mead left behind grief and the magical shenanigans of Shadow Vale ten years ago. Now she’s back, to dust off her magic and solve the riddle of her ex-husband’s ghost. Unfortunately he’s not the only ghost from her past she has to deal with. Shadow Vale isn’t your usual town tucked away amongst the rolling hills. It’s a haven for paranormals, protected by a Forget-Me spell, and the old stomping grounds of her teenage hormones. She’s barely settled into ...

Cosmopolitan Magazine calls Addison's books..."easy, frothy fun!" Addictive from start to finish! The Celestra series has been optioned for film by 20th Century Fox! A halfbreed angel who can read minds, one too many love interests, and an entire faction of angels who are out to kill her—living on Paragon Island can be deadly. From NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Addison Moore. From NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Addison Moore A death. A war. Regret. Heartbreak. An old enemy. A new enemy. A well-placed boyfriend. An ending you won’t believe. ...

Gemma Turner once dreamed of stardom. Now the actress is on the cusp of obscurity. When she’s offered the lead in a radical new horror film, Gemma believes her luck has changed—but her dream is about to turn into a nightmare. One night, between the shadows of an alleyway, Gemma disappears on set and is never seen again. Yet, Gemma is alive. She’s been pulled into the film. And the script—and the monsters within it—are coming to life. Gemma must play her role perfectly if she hopes to survive.

Where did the Brothers Grimm get the inspiration for their classic fairy tales? Maybe from their own encounters with the strange and magical… Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm never believed in magic—until their mother fell ill, and tales of a rare and powerful magic that can bring back the dead became their only hope. Desperate to save her, the brothers venture into the dark forest, where myths come to life and danger lurks behind every tree. A water sprite speaks in riddles of love spells and lost souls. A witch lures children to a house covered in breads and cakes. An infuriating girl named ...

As he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, Haruki Murakami's protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread in which he collides with call girls, plays chaperone to a lovely teenaged psychic, and receives cryptic instructions from a shabby but oracular Sheep Man. Dance Dance Dance is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through the cultural Cuisinart that is contemporary Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs.

Better the enemy you know than the enemy you don't. Queen Morgana presents me to her people as the heiress to the throne. Meanwhile, my earthly friends and I are settling into the day-to-day life of this world. But we all know what is coming. King Auberon is hellbent on replacing Morgana on the Avalonian throne. As the key component in a desperate bargain for peace, I’m the only one who can stop the impending war. A war I fear will tear the magical realm of Gwyn Fanon to shreds. Auberon is not the only threat, however, and I can hardly separate friend from foe anymore, as invisible ...

On Tommy Llewellyn’s first birthday, his doting parents awoke in a home without baby blankets and bottles in the fridge, without the photos of their newborn once scattered about, and without any idea that the one-year-old sleeping in their home was their child. That’s because Tommy Llewellyn is a boy who, in the very cosmic sense of things, will never be remembered—stuck in a universal Reset that causes everyone to forget he exists when the clock strikes midnight on his birthday each year.

Wayétu Moore’s powerful debut novel, She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia’s early years through three unforgettable characters who share an uncommon bond. Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. Norman Aragon, the child of a white British colonizer and a Maroon slave from Jamaica, can fade from sight when the earth calls him.

After a smooth jump to Dimension 9, Chase, Alyx, and chimera pup, Bo, discover that this world’s peaceful existence only extends as far as the local high school. A different kind of battle wages there, and the identity of the school bully is a surprise they never anticipated. When Chase decides they have no choice but to enroll at Dune Harbor High and repeat their senior year, Alyx is less than thrilled. But the two soon discover the influence just one person can have over the decisions, lives, and even deaths, of those around them. While they try to prevent one tragedy, another one ...

A killer has come to Isle, and suddenly the grand reopening of Tilly Hudgins' family hotel has gone from celebration to crime scene. Tilly Hudgins has poured her heart and soul into restoring her family's historic beachfront hotel. With her sassy familiar, Smudge, offering commentary at every turn, and her well-meaning but meddlesome Aunt Pearl "helping" in her own chaotic way, Tilly's grand reopening weekend should be perfect. That is, until a local real estate developer turns up face-down on the hotel’s lawn—very much dead and very much on Tilly's property. With the local paper ...

When two teens discover that they were both sexually assaulted at the same party, they develop a cautious friendship through her family’s possibly magical pastelería, his secret forest of otherworldly trees, and the swallows returning to their hometown, in Anna-Marie McLemore's The Mirror Season....

God Mode on! In the wake of the withdrawal of wild faerie magic from most of the world, Faeries have become the new celebrities, and the most adored is the Faerie God himself. To capitalize on his popularity an online game called Lore has been created and has attracted the interest of none other but Lucifer, Azrael's father. But the Devil's noticed something odd about the game; his gaming friends are disappearing and there's a powerful monster that just won't die. When he calls in the Godhunter to help, she's pulled into an online world that may be more real than anyone thought. Will ...

In a post-apocalyptic world, 4,000 years from the present, Captain Senaya is the first of the Jaru forces to arrive at the far northern temple of the imposter deity, Queen Nouei. The Queen’s forces have been soundly defeated and she is now vulnerable. Senaya’s sole task is to secure a weak and defenseless queen until reinforcements arrive. But Senaya wants more. She wants to be the one who forces the queen to recant her false claims to divinity. Senaya is a seasoned warrior and this is her moment of glory. She has everything all planned, that is until she meets the queen.

Scarlet Barlow thought she had escaped her past. But when her dangerous ex-husband, Corey Jensen, resurfaces, so do the demons she’s been running from. Corey is a man shaped by violence and manipulation, and his obsession with Scarlet is far from over. As his grip tightens around her life once more, she’s forced to confront the truth she’s spent years burying. In her desperation to break free, Scarlet turns to Belial—a powerful, ancient force who offers her protection in exchange for something she’s reluctant to give: her trust. But Belial is no ordinary guardian. With a presence ...

In the wake of her mother's passing, Layla Hurley unexpectedly reconnects with her mother's sisters, women she hasn't been allowed to speak to, or of, in years. Her aunts reveal to Layla that a Gullah-Geechee island off the shore of South Carolina now belongs to her. As Layla digs deeper into her mother’s past and the mysterious island’s history, she discovers that the terrifying nightmares that have plagued her throughout her life and tainted her relationship with her mother and all of her family, is actually a power passed down through generations of her Gullah ancestors.

In Japan, cats are a symbol of good luck. As the myth goes, if you are kind to them, they'll one day return the favor. And if you are kind to the right cat, you might just find yourself invited to a mysterious coffee shop under a glittering Kyoto moon. This particular coffee shop is like no other. It has no fixed location, no fixed hours, and seemingly appears at random to adrift young people at crucial junctions in their lives. It's also run by talking cats.

When best-selling author Carrie McClelland visits the windswept ruins of Slains Castle, she is enchanted by the stark and beautiful Scottish landscape. The area is strangely familiar to her but she puts aside her faint sense of unease to begin her new novel, using the castle as her setting, and one of her own ancestors, Sophia, as her heroine. Then Carrie realizes her writing is taking on a life of its own and the lines between fact and fiction become increasingly blurred.

As a little girl, Jane has no one. Her mother, Vivienne Margaux, the powerful head of a major New York theater company has no time for her. She does have one friend - Michael - but no one can see him except her. When Jane is in her 30s, working for her mother's company, she is just as alone as she was as a child. Then she finds Michael again - handsome and just the same as she remembers him, only now he's not imaginary.

Written in a spirit that embodies storytellers like the brothers Grimm and Guillermo Del Toro, The Isle of Children is a dark fairytale incorporating contemporary horror and mid-century fantasy. Step back in time to an early 19th century orphanage and find yourself in the weathered shoes of a 14-year-old boy named Carlos, and follow along as he manages a harrowing escape, only to find himself lost at sea. Eventually, he awakens on a strange island and quickly realizes something is wrong. He makes his way to a large palace to find dozens of other children, and a lone figure watching over ...

Enter a world of forbidden symbols, ancient prophecies, and dangerous truths in The Spellmaker’s Secret, the spellbinding debut of the Symbology Guild Saga. Aidan Gallagher never wanted to be extraordinary. He was content to live a quiet life in a crumbling cottage on the cliffs, burdened only by his mother’s illness and the looming power of the Symbology Guild. But everything changes when a mysterious symbol comes to him in a dream, one that manifests power without stone or carving. Suddenly, Aidan is thrust into a dangerous game of power and control. The Guild, guardians of symbol ...