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Addergoole by Lyn Thorne-Alder

Love, lust, ownership, exploration, and coming-of-age in a strange and novel world hidden beneath the known.

Addergoole is a contemporary fantasy story with erotic and dark-fantasy elements.  Set in a world which is, on the surface, much like our own, Addergoole follows three students as they enter a strange, new school and discover just how much they don’t know about themselves, their parents, or their world. . . .

A serialized novel, updating twice weekly.
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The Bentlefay Papers by Kathy Monahan

From the archives of an imaginary kingdom located on the Sarcastro Sea.

A fiction serial in epistolary form about the imaginary kingdom of Bentlefay, with particular reference to its royal family and their retainers.  At the center of it all is Crown Princess Dulcie—young, beautiful, sought-after, and hating every minute of it.  Will Bentlefay repel the attacks of neighboring Marshweather?  Will the princess ever get porridge for breakfast when she wants it?  . . .

A serialized novel, updating twice weekly.
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Carpe Arcanum by Randilin

Scientia non-est potentia quae prologum potentia solidum est.

This is a serialized web story that follows the students at Carpe Arcanum, a magical university hidden on the campus of a traditional university, as they struggle to deal with their new lives and situations that has been sprung on them. . . .

An ongoing series, with new episodes twice weekly.
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Oysters, Pearls and Magic by Joyce Chng

A serialized novella about a girl’s journey of self-discovery, set in a future world of oysters, pearls and magic.  Mirra is a magic user, but her gift is scorned by the menfolk in her village.  Men are allowed to use magic; women are not.  So, after a tumultuous event, Mirra decides to leave and heads for the City to continue . . .

A serialized novel, updating weekly.
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A Fistful of Fire by Misti Wolanski

Tales of loathesome tyrants, seduced maids, and prophesied saviors aren't nearly so appealing when you are a 10-year-old royal bastard with a prophecy hanging over your head…

Evonalé has never cared for tales of loathsome tyrants, seduced maids, and prophesied saviors.  In the world of Aleyi, prophecies always come true.  Evonalé herself is supposed to somehow free her grandmother’s enslaved queendom.  But she’s merely a child, and her father is the powerful fire mage who subjugates the realm. Evonalé has therefore fled home, her two half-siblings, . . .

A serialized novel, updating thrice weekly.
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Ember by Bettie Sharpe

Imagine the Cinderella fairytale without the sweet fairy godmother, that Prince Charming was a louse, and Cinderella was a witch capable of cruelty and spitefulness.  Sharpe’s retelling of the classic tale includes lust, deception, and violence.  Nothing you’d ever expect in the Cinderella myth, but still the heart of the story survives in this re-imagining for mature readers. . . .

A complete novel.
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The God Eaters by Jesse Hajicek

A western themed fantasy, following the story of a low-level political discontent beginning with his imprisonment in a decidedly high security prison. . . .

A complete novel.
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City of Night by Jennifer Recht

Morgan Silver lives in the City of Night, but she is terrified of the dark.  Sandy Banks lives in the City of Light, but her skin burns too easily in the sunshine.  The two teenagers live in a city like no city in our world; a city divided, where magic is the controlling force and Sorcerers clash with Witches for . . .

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Phantasia by Darien Meredith

Phantasia Celeste has spent her life living in an ethereal world of flying islands and pretty people with soul-wings – but, unlike Phantasia, other faeries don’t have white hair or diamond eyes and so, driven to understand her place in the world, she travels to the human world. The 31st Century, however, is not a friendly place.  A millennia . . .

A serialized novel, updating weekly.
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The Key by Lauren Delaney

Being a mage was great until it became a label for extermination...

Marianne Rivers is the only mage she knows—that is, until another mage named Aeryn stumbles into her tranquil life.  She soon learns that, outside the safety of her secluded village, the king of Altrud is invading other kingdoms and turning his own into an empire.  On top of that, he is convincing everyone that mages’ powers are not natural, but . . .

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Crown of the Realm by Dalton Reed

In this first volume of the All Things Impossible series, an ancient evil has returned.  An ancient war has resumed.  And for the first time in elven history, the Crown of the Realm has been stolen. But young Derora Saxen knows nothing of such things.  When she sets out from her village with her best friend Kelin, she knows . . .

A complete pdf novel.
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EMBER

A Wonderful Re-invention

Editor: Sonja Nitschke
July 27, 2009

Let me say it as simply as I can:  I loved Ember.

I loved that instead of the Disnified empty cardboard characters, the author has filled them out so that they are people—people that readers can identify with, people that readers can love.

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Member: quantumelody
June 26, 2009

Ember is a very interesting and worthwhile read. Ms. Sharpe’s intimate scenes are not burdened with awkward language and clichéd phrases. The imagery in this story is rich and powerful, and she knows how to write fantastic descriptions of events. I found the first-person narrative engaging, and my sympathy for the main character was not compromised due to any of [more . . .]

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