Fire Touched

Fire Touched
Author: Patricia Briggs
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2016-03-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0698180917

Mercy Thompson has been hailed as “a heroine who...always remains true to herself” (Library Journal). Now she’s back, and she’ll soon discover that when the fae stalk the human world, it’s the children who suffer... Tensions between the fae and humans are coming to a head. And when coyote shapeshifter Mercy and her Alpha werewolf mate, Adam, are called upon to stop a rampaging troll, they find themselves with something that could be used to make the fae back down and forestall out-and-out war: a human child stolen long ago by the fae. Defying the most powerful werewolf in the country, the humans, and the fae, Mercy, Adam, and their pack choose to protect the boy no matter what the cost. But who will protect them from a boy who is fire touched?

Fey Touched

Fey Touched
Author: Nicola Claire
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-09-06
Genre:
ISBN:

May the Goddess guide you. And may the Champion protect you. Kara Middleton didn't ask to become a fairy. She didn't ask to be made the Dark Fey's Champion, either. And she certainly didn't ask to be a general in a fairy war. But sometimes life throws curve balls at you. The Light Fey are coming and their Queen has her mad gaze set on Kara. The lower castes of the Dark Fey Court are rebelling and Kara's maids are in the thick of the revolt. And then there's her lover, Aliath, King of Dökkálfa. He wants Kara. He wants her to be his mate and queen. He wants it all. But can Kara give in to her heart and be everything Aliath wants of her? Or will she have to fight to the death for the freedom of Dökkálfa? Faerie is her home now. The Dark Dance, her way of life. It's time for Kara to embrace what she has become and fight for what is hers. The final battle is upon them. And so it must end now. But who will history say is the winner? Dökkálfa or Ljósálfar?

Aspect Core Rulebook FC 2015 SC

Aspect Core Rulebook FC 2015 SC
Author: Heather Gunn
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2014-06-19
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 131228952X

Aspect is not your ordinary dungeon crawling, dragon slaying role playing game. Aspect focuses on freedom of character development, not linear progression. Its rich mechanics allow for sharpened words as well as sharpened blades, duels of social wit and mental cunning as well as strategic physical combat familiar to veteran gamers.

Between Two Thorns

Between Two Thorns
Author: Emma Newman
Publisher: Diversion Books
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2016-03-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1682303144

“JK Rowling meets Georgette Heyer” in this series debut, a scintillating fusion of urban fantasy and court intrigue from the Hugo Award-winning author (The Guardian). Between Mundanus, the world of humans, and Exilium, the world of the Fae, lies the Nether, a mirror-world where the social structure of 19th-century England is preserved by Fae-touched families who remain loyal to their ageless masters. Born into this world is Catherine Rhoeas-Papaver, who escapes it all to live a normal life in Mundanus, free from her parents and the strictures of Fae-touched society. But now she’s being dragged back to face an arranged marriage, along with all the high society trappings it entails. Crossing paths with Cathy is Max, an Arbiter of the Split Worlds treaty with a dislocated soul who polices the boundaries between the worlds, keeping innocents safe from the Fae. After a spree of kidnappings and the murder of his fellow Arbiters, Max is forced to enlist Cathy’s help in unravelling a high-profile disappearance within the Nether. Getting involved in the machinations of the Fae, however, may prove fatal to all involved. “Between Two Thorns shows the darkness beneath the glamour of the social Season. Learning to be a young lady has never seemed so dangerous.”—Mary Robinette Kowal, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the Lady Astronaut series “Emma Newman has built a modern fantasy world with such élan and authority her ideas of why and how the seemingly irrational world of Fairy works should be stolen by every other writer in the field . . . This book of wonders is first rate.”—Bill Willingham, Eisner Award-winning author of Fables

The Stone

The Stone
Author: Seb L. Carter
Publisher: Wolfline Publishing
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2019-03-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A stone holds an ancient secret—and the key to present-day terror. A murder-suicide was only the beginning. Seven years ago, Liam’s father picked up a gun, killed his family then himself. Liam was left behind to carry the burden and the guilt. Now Liam only wants to finish college and live a normal life. But when he is handed a stone, a stone that appears plain, he is catapulted into an unknown world of mystery and magic… …and mayhem. A CIA agent finds himself a part of something with more secrets than the government he works for. Patrick possesses a psychic ability to find people. Coerced to find Liam, their first meeting reawakens an ancient connection. Together, they find themselves in the midst of a culling, the destruction of a secret society formed millennia ago. Destiny unites a group of strangers to face an antediluvian evil that has the world as its prize. The Stone is a 142,000-word paranormal, urban fantasy adventure that involves a secret agent, a law man, and a gay guy who becomes a hero. This novel features an LGBT relationship with a low-heat romantic subplot.

Any Other Name

Any Other Name
Author: Emma Newman
Publisher: Diversion Books
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2016-02-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1682303152

Second in the series that “weav[es] magic, mystery, and parallel worlds together with ease” (Adam Christopher, author of the official Stranger Things tie-in novels). Thought-provoking, wonderfully inventive, and filled with treachery and mystery, the soaring second book in the Split Worlds Series pulls Cathy, Will, Max, and Sam deeper into the twisted world of Fae-touched society. Cathy has been reluctantly married into the Iris family and moves to Londinium, the magical Nether reflection of London, setting her on a collision course with the restrictive, high-pressure social circles that demand propriety and obedience, things the vocal and free-spirited Cathy cannot abide. Will, meanwhile, is trying to find a compromise for his new bride, but whispers in his ear are urging him towards dark deeds . . . Sam, determined to dive back into the world of Exilium to rescue innocents, crosses paths with Cathy and Max once again as Max and the gargoyle uncover more information about the mysterious Agency and the chain of events that wiped out the Bath Chapter. Sacrifices, terrible deals, and dreadful revelations mark this second installment of Emma Newman’s wondrous Split Worlds series. Praise for the Split Worlds series “JK Rowling meets Georgette Heyer.”—The Guardian “Emma Newman has built a modern fantasy world with such élan and authority her ideas of why and how the seemingly irrational world of Fairy works should be stolen by every other writer in the field.”—Bill Willingham, Eisner Award-winning author of Fables “Learning to be a young lady has never seemed so dangerous.”—Mary Robinette Kowal, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the Lady Astronaut series

Asylum

Asylum
Author: Jessica Lynch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2019-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781696783026

The fae are real. I just pretend they're not. Black Pine Facility for Wayward Juveniles. The asylum. It's a place where they stick troubled cases like me until we age out or they think they've fixed us. Newsflash: you can't fix what's not broken. And I may have been thrown into Black Pine when I was barely fifteen, but I'm not crazy. I'm cursed. Because the fae? They're real. Gorgeous, ethereal, mythical creatures who can't lie but are experts at twisting the truth. Just one touch, that's all it takes. Just one touch and the fae have power over you. Just one touch and your whole world can go up in flames. I was warned. He called himself the Shadow Man. With his raven hair and glowing silver eyes, he looked the part, too. He's the one who told me about the fae, who made me promise not to be tricked into giving up everything I have with the single touch of my hand. I'm... I'm not so good at keeping promises. Now I'm just about to turn twenty-one. I've kept my head down, constantly wearing my leather gloves as if that's not too little too late. At least they're finally letting me out of the asylum. I've done my time inside here, went through therapy, worked with my psychologists. I'm supposed to be released in two weeks. That's when Nine, the Shadow Man who once haunted my childhood, returns for the first time in six years with another warning--plus one hell of a surprise. There's a prophecy. The Fae Queen wants to get her hands on me because of it, and she has the power of the whole Seelie Court behind her. I'm screwed--unless I can hook up with the dark mate mentioned in the prophecy. Too bad I'd rather die than let another fae male touch me again. **For fans of Holly Black, C. N. Crawford, and Lily Archer, Asylum is the first book in a planned trilogy featuring a wary independent half-fae heroine, the Dark Fae who has shadowed her her entire life, and her quest to learn about who she really is and why the powerful Fae Queen wants her dead.

House of Gods

House of Gods
Author: K.A. Linde
Publisher: K.A. Linde
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2023-10-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde returns to the Royal Houses series with House of Gods: the story of Kerrigan Argon, a half-Fae, half-human as she seeks her place in an unforgiving world filled with magic, mayhem, and romance. Perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Holly Black, and V.E. Schwab. On the other side of a portal, Kerrigan Argon lands in the home of the gods--alone. She's lost everything: Her family. Her magic. Her world. Even her dark Fae prince, Fordham Ollivier, has disappeared. She has no where to turn, and no idea how to survive in this new world. The first kind face in the crowd gives Kerrigan hope. Until her would-be helpers, kidnap and deliver her into a new kind of hell and the only chance to get home--the gladiator ring. Win the gladiator tournament and receive a gift from the gods. Kerrigan is determined to gain that boon to save her people.

Tattoo of Crimson

Tattoo of Crimson
Author: Sarah Chislon
Publisher: Wings of the Wind Press
Total Pages: 550
Release: 2023-01-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1958755028

Society, suitors, and…serial murders? As much as she desires to please her family, gently-bred herbalist Jessa Caldwell has no intention of making a suitable match—not when she’s seeking the truth about the taint of the fae that lies within her. If she’s to escape the madness brought on by fae-touch, she must devote her energies to seeking a cure. But then mysterious tattoos begin to appear on the citizens of Avons. None recall receiving these harbingers of death, but all die at the hand of an untraceable killer days or weeks after being marked. When the tattoo appears on her beloved mentor, Jessa seeks the Magistry with information on the case—yet they refuse to consider her findings, so she must risk both social censure and her own safety to hunt for the killer herself. Her one possible ally represents her greatest fear—the encroaching Otherworld consuming her mind—and may well undo all her efforts to control her fae-touch. Yet if she forsakes the offered aid, the killer will go free. Something sinister stalks the streets of her city, and she must decide…how far will she go to stop the killing? Tattoo of Crimson, a gaslamp fantasy novel, is the first book in the Blood of the Fae series. If you like quick-minded heroines who solve cases with logic and intuition, beautiful yet deadly fae, and Otherworldly intrigues, then you’ll love this mystery set in a world of manners and mythical monsters.

The Willow Trail

The Willow Trail
Author: Alexi Blake
Publisher: Twisted Mirth Publishing
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2020-11-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1839840420

I started to see things that may not be there, and want things no kid should want. Then, I began to need them. With ancient blood running through her veins, Keira doesn’t fit in at school, in town, or in her picture-perfect family. Too cruel and wicked for the human world, too mortal for anywhere else, she’s destined to feel inadequate. At least in her new small town, she’s safe. Until she spots a tantalizing stranger at the edge of the woods. Keira has spent eighteen years avoiding the eyes of the folk. One mistake, and she’s thrust into a ruthless, unforgiving fae territory, where she’s nothing but prey. Run, run, run away. All her instincts demand she return to the security of the mortal world. But it may just be too late. While it may be read on its own as a novella, The Willow Trail is a prequel to the contemporary fantasy romance standalone novel, Pick Your Poison.