A Deal with the Elf King (Married to Magic Book 1) – Elise Kova
The elves come for two things: war and wives. In both cases, they come for death.
Three-thousand years ago, humans were hunted by powerful races with wild magic until the treaty was formed. Now, for centuries, the elves have taken a young woman from Luella’s village to be their Human Queen.
To be chosen is seen as a mark of death by the townsfolk. A mark nineteen-year-old Luella is grateful to have escaped as a girl. Instead, she’s dedicated her life to studying herbology and becoming the town’s only healer.
That is, until the Elf King unexpectedly arrives… for her.
Everything Luella had thought she’d known about her life, and herself, was a lie. Taken to a land filled with wild magic, Luella is forced to be the new queen to a cold yet blisteringly handsome Elf King. Once there, she learns about a dying world that only she can save.
The magical land of Midscape pulls on one corner of her heart, her home and people tug on another… but what will truly break her is a passion she never wanted.
A Deal with the Elf King is a complete, stand-alone novel, inspired by the tales of Hades and Persephone, as well as Beauty and the Beast, with a “happily ever after” ending. It’s perfect for fantasy romance fans looking for just the right amount of steam and their next slow-burn and swoon-worthy couple.
La Princesa de Invierno (Hielo y Traición Book I) – Paula Gallego
After his latest conquest, the young King Soren of Runáh has made many enemies. To get closer to the people and give them hope, he decides to call a tournament to which any man or woman can participate. The winner will have seven days to win the heart of the sovereign and reign at his side.
Princess Elara is part of a family of powerful women in Larisia. Her grandmother is a great reader of stars who is loved by the people and one of her mothers won the right to govern when she was young, just as she did later.
When Elara discovers that there may be a way to once again be the queen her people need, she will not hesitate to enter the tournament. However, the king already knows her, since they faced each other in a duel to the death that fate, luck or betrayal wanted to annul. Therefore, in order not to be discovered, she will have to hide her identity.
Soren will try to keep his head, and also his heart, in a court that is increasingly dangerous since the princess is nearby. Elara will fight to regain the crown taken from her, even if it means joining the traitor who dethroned her mother.
The Cat Who Saved Books – Sōsuke Natsukawa
Natsuki Books was a tiny second-hand bookshop on the edge of town. Inside, towering shelves reached the ceiling, every one crammed full of wonderful books. Rintaro Natsuki loved this space that his grandfather had created. He spent many happy hours there, reading whatever he liked. It was the perfect refuge for a boy who tended to be something of a recluse.
After the death of his grandfather, Rintaro is devastated and alone. It seems he will have to close the shop. Then, a talking tabby cat called Tiger appears and asks Rintaro for help. The cat needs a book lover to join him on a mission. This odd couple will go on three magical adventures to save books from people who have imprisoned, mistreated and betrayed them. Finally, there is one last rescue that Rintaro must attempt alone . . .
Sosuke Natsukawa’s international bestseller, translated from Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai, is a story for those for whom books are so much more than words on paper.
Stealing Embers (Fallen Legacies Book 1) – Julie Hall
A realm of monsters. A world of lies. She belongs to both.
Everything I’ve ever been told is a lie.
Monsters don’t exist. Wrong.
The nightmarish spectrum world is just my imagination. Wrong.
In a few months, I’ll finally be free. Wrong.
It takes being dragged to a secret training academy in the mountains to unravel the truth. My captors—an elite race of angel-born warriors called Nephilim.
The deadliest of them all is an arrogant shape shifter, Steel. He’s gorgeous, lethal, hot-headed . . . and convinced I’ll be the death of them all.
Maybe he’s right. As soon as I show up, the monsters that have haunted me my entire life breach the academy walls. My only hope of saving my new friends is learning how to control my powers, but when a stunning betrayal hurts someone I care about, I have an impossible choice.
Stay and fight for a place to belong . . . or decide once and for all that I’m better off alone.
Enter the spectrum world, a realm in-between worlds where shadow beasts draw blood, reality is a maze of twisted lights and sounds, and life goals are whittled down to just one: survive.
Fuera de Contrato (Book I) – Valeria Liz Geden
Hannah has been awarded a scholarship to a prestigious firm on the other side of the country at a moment in her life when she only needs excuses to escape her home.
Adam is obligated to assist her in her induction process at the firm if he wishes to qualify for the promotion they have offered him.
Hannah is cheerful, spontaneous, and smiling.
Adam is arrogant, skeptical, and proud.
She is struck by news that upends her world.
He is tormented by a memory that won’t let him move forward.
She has a dream.
His have been shattered.
Hannah is trying to avoid her future.
Adam is trying to escape memories of the past.
There’s no more time to follow the rules of a contract.
He has boundaries, she breaks them.
Marked for Ruin (Stones & Curses Book 3) – Lissa Bolts
Hey… it’s Nora. Again. And this time, I’m in way over my head.
The jinn are being hunted right and left, and as their unwitting leader, that paints a sparkly neon target on my back.
Yay, me.
The druids are my biggest threat. They’re dark sorcerers who fuel their filthy magic by feasting on the souls of others like they’re at an all-you-can-eat buffet. As for me, well… I’m the main course.
But I’ve got news for them. This jinn is off the menu because I’m done running.
Rafe and I are finally on the same page, and although I want nothing more than to get lost in those depthless grey eyes, we’ve got work to do. He’s sacrificed so much to ensure my survival, but the other jinn doubt my ability to lead, and what’s worse, I’ve gone and allied myself with the fae.
The fae!
They’ve forced me to see the cost of the druids’ magic—a plague of darkness spreading across the land. If left unchecked, it will consume everyone and everything in its path.
And the only one powerful enough to stand against them? The one with an actual chance at making them pay?
You guessed it. Me.
A Tournament of Crowns (A Trial of Sorcerers Book 3) – Elise Kova
A Royal Tournament. Thrilling Magic. Deadly Mysteries. Slow-Burn Romance.
Last night, Eira killed a man.
However justified her actions were, many now regard her as a cold-blooded murderer and a heretic who extinguished their hope. But there’s no time to explain herself. She barely has a chance to wash the blood off her hands before the Tournament of Five Kingdoms begins.
Sequestered with the other champions for the duration of the tournament, Eira must now navigate the games, her competition, the enemies who hunt her head, and — somehow worse than all the rest — being stuck in close quarters with the man who broke her heart.
All is fair in love and magical tournaments, and Eira is ready for the fight of her life.
Midlife Magic School – Nicole Wells
Going to magic school at fifty is the least of Chloe’s worries.
A magical inheritance. A dog with an attitude. A sexy headmaster. And people trying to kill her.
When Chloe receives a bolt of magic out of the blue on her fiftieth birthday, she’s cast into an exciting but tumultuous world filled with Shifters, Elementals, Witches, and one very hot headmaster Witch. In order to return the inheritance to its rightful owner, and satisfy her curiosity at the same time, she must go to the Universal Magush Academy and learn all about the magical community while keeping one big secret—she’s human.
Or is she?
Threats to her life and those she holds dear lurk in every corner. As if that wasn’t enough, students and teachers alike hate her on sight.
As she digs deep to discover who she is, she finds herself in the middle of two battles: one for the fate of humanity and one for the peace of the magic realm. Soon these twisting fates have Chloe questioning everything she thought she knew.
But maybe, with the help of a sexy sidekick and a handful of misfit friends, she’ll teach this magic world a thing or two.
And she might just turn both worlds on their heads while she’s at it…
Sell Your Haunted House (2021)
Ji Ah, a woman who has inherited exorcism abilities from her mother, is the owner of Daebak Realty, a company that specializes in selling haunted houses.
Ji Ah looks perfect and is also brilliant, but her hot temper makes her fists fly before her words.
One day, Ji Ah encounters a conman named In Beom who specializes in exorcism fraud. Late at night when Daebak Realty operates, In Beom visits Ji Ah to make an offer. He suggests that they team up to exclusively sell houses that are haunted by vengeful spirits and lingering ghosts.
Can the two get along well and deal with house prices, ghosts, and their sorrowful stories?
Snowdrop (2021)
The blossoming of radiant first love
Snowdrop takes place in 1987, a pivotal year in South Korean history that included the June 1987 Democracy Movement, a mass protest movement with the purpose of forcing the dictatorship in South Korea to hold fair elections, and the resulting December 1987 democratic elections, which led to the end of the authoritarian Fifth Republic of Korea and the establishment of the democratic Sixth Republic of Korea.
Snowdrop is set in November and December 1987. Lim Soo-ho (Jung Hae-in) plays a graduate student who is found covered in blood by Eun Yeong-ro (Jisoo), a female university student and hides him from the government in her dorm room. However, it is revealed that Soo-ho is not who he appears to be. Against the backdrop of political upheaval, the pair’s story unfolds and the two develop a romantic relationship.