Best of
Wizards

2019

Demons and DNA


Meghan Ciana Doidge - 2019
    We had adapted. And when our magic came back, we changed course again. Hiding instead of running, knowing that we needed to remain hidden from the Collective. Knowing that our lives, our freedom, depended on it. Then the sorcerer showed up, drained and disoriented. And when my past came quickly following him, I had to make another choice. Fight or flight. Continue to deny the power that resided in my blood, in my DNA. Remain perpetually caught between being Amp5 and Emma Johnson. Or face my demons. ----------------- Demons and DNA by Meghan Ciana Doidge is the first novel (75k) in the Amplifier series, which is set in the Adept Universe along with the Dowser, the Oracle, and the Reconstructionist series. Reading order of the Amplifier Series: • The Amplifier Protocol (Amplifier 0) • Close to Home (Amplifier 0.5) • Demons and DNA (Amplifier 1)

Midnight Academy


May Sage - 2019
    From immortal princes to normal human girls, shifters and witches, there’s an academy for every taste. Midnight Academy is only available temporarily, so grab it while you can! Master of Álfheimr—May Sage: Twins. One girl, one boy, both destined to rule the empire. Lenka and Nikandre are the two sides of the coin that will dictate the fate of the world. Only, fate hasn’t yet chosen heads or tails. Blazing Academy—Avery Song: When Alice Blaze is transferred to yet another school, she hopes the rumors regarding her flaming trouble streak will be left behind her. Add the fact that her mother abandoned her, and her dad is an alcoholic, she has no choice but to follow her grandparent's rules. With shattering windows and questionable circumstances, will Alice be able to find an academy that can handle the scorching power following her? Blackwood Magic—LJ Swallow: Matt is trouble, and Amelia can’t help but admire his magic skills. Now if only he could stop misusing them, he might just avoid expulsion… Dark Water Academy—S.L. Morgan: Wolf shifter Jenna Silvers is ready to take on the sexy and antagonistic strong Alpha wolf, Dominic Rossi in a challenge to prove female shifters are just as strong. Once on the challenge quest, both shifters get more than they bargained for. The Call of Avalon—L. Cross: ‪Artura Drake earns an invitation to attend the mysterious Sword of Avalon Academy—she just needs to survive the entrance exams. Unfortunately for her, that means taking down a troll that appears on test day. With a pen as her sword, and a laptop as her shield, she faces down her first magical foe.‬‬‬ California Magic—Erin Bedford: Callie moved hundreds of miles away to attend the California Academy for Witches and Wizards. There's only one tiny problem…Callie's human.

The Legend of the Gods: The Complete Trilogy


Aaron Hodges - 2019
     But the gratitude of rulers is short lived, their anger eternal. Named a coward for turning his back on the crown, the former warrior has been reduced to a pauper. But when Devon picks a fight with the wrong man, he finds himself drawn back into the world of bloodshed and violence he sought so hard to escape. Meanwhile, Alana’s life has just been torn apart by the emergence of her brother’s magic. Outlawed by the Emperor, his new powers will see them both executed. They cannot remain in the capital, but the winter roads are dangerous, and they’ll need more than Alana’s sword if they are to survive the journey. Is Devon the man to see them to safety? Grab over 1000 pages of Epic Fantasy in this Three Book Set by New York Times Bestselling Author Aaron Hodges!

Academy of Magic


Angelique S. AndersonTracy Korn - 2019
     Choose wisely because the magical education you pick could set the course of your whole life….or sometimes ever after. Join Mages, shifters, princes, princesses, witches and spies in this fantastical collection of magical academy books by USA Today and Amazon best selling authors. Scroll up to start your magical education now. Class is now in session.

A Legacy Witch


Ashley McLeo - 2019
     But my parents don’t want me attending their alma mater, Spellcasters Spy Academy. They think I can’t hack it. Of course, I plan on proving them wrong. If I can stay alive long enough. Someone is attacking witches in my year, and I seem to always be nearby when they strike. I swear I have nothing to do with it. Shoot, I can barely get my magic to cooperate. But convincing some people of my innocence is impossible. Like hot-as-hell Alex Wardwell, who despises me because of one dumb mistake. So between proving my parents wrong, passing the trials Spellcasters has in store, trying to convince Alex that he has me pegged wrong, and simply staying alive, it looks like I’m going to have a busy year. Thank the universe I’ve always been up for a challenge. A Legacy Witch is an upper YA/NA paranormal academy novel with an espionage twist! With an enemies-to-lovers romance, mysterious deaths, and a diverse cast of supernatural creatures, your enrollment at Spellcasters will be unlike anything you’ve experienced before. Enroll today!

The Arcana of Maps & Other Stories


Jessica Reisman - 2019
    Here are tales of adventure and transformation, clockwork detectives and polar bears, a wild sea on a space station, alien salvage and revenants. Featuring 16 previously published works and one unique to the collection, these stories open obscure doors into fantastic otherwheres and whens, conjuring worlds with deft and evocative lyricism.INTRODUCTION BY MARTHA WELLS

Enchanted Dreams


Eleni Konstantine - 2019
    From wizards to magic mirrors, dragons to ghosts, minions to goddesses, space ships to diamond slippers, there's an enchanting tale right for you.

Mages' Uprising (Defenders of the Wildings Book 3)


Kyra Halland - 2019
    Then the mage-hating Chardonikans came and drove them from their home.Now, Silas and his children have been captured by the Chardonikans, who are intent on spreading their despotic rule through the Wildings. On the trail of Silas and the children, Lainie and her companions approach the Broadgrass, territory of the hostile P'wagimet people, in search of the Chardonikan stronghold. When the true extent of the Chardonikans' plans in the Wildings is revealed, Silas and Lainie must somehow work together, even though they're separated by the enemy, to defeat the Chardonikans, reunite their family, and protect the freedom of all the people of the Wildings.Mages' Uprising is the final book of Defenders of the Wildings, a follow-up series to the western-inspired fantasy series Daughter of the Wildings. It is a self-contained series and can be enjoyed even if you haven't read Daughter of the Wildings.Contains language, violence, and mild sensual content.

Arcana


Paul Kane - 2019
    But some groups are fighting back!Callum McGuire is a new M-forcer who once worked the quiet streets of London. As an orphan, Callum has been brought up to believe that all magic is evil, but the more he sees of The M-forcers’ cruel methods (implemented by General Nero Stark, and his second-in-command Sherman Pryce), the more he begins to question whether or not they are right.And when he unwittingly encounters a member of the rebel group called Arcana, he’s introduced to their world and realises that nothing will ever be the same again.Join award-winning and bestselling author Paul Kane (the sell-out phenomenon Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell, the Hooded Man series, and the bestselling Before) as he shows you a kind of magic you’ve never seen…

Gods of Merlin


Priya Ardis - 2019
    Eowlyn Patience is a girl with NO future until she's asked to kill her physics teacher.Everything changes when Someone must claim Excalibur.She is so not the right person... Trouble follows seventeen-year-old Eowlyn Patience around. Desperate for her current foster family to like her, her life all falls apart when the actual Sword in the Stone drops like a dead bird into the heart of London. And suddenly she has to attend some weirdo school in England with the irritating smart kid from science class.After a teenage Merlin wakes from a fifteen-hundred-year nap, he takes the name Matt Emrys. Now he must track down the next Arthur before the apocalypse begins. But the Avalon Academy trials are being sabotaged by vicious gargoyles, and his growing feelings for exactly the wrong girl are getting in the way.As Eowlyn desperately tries to master the skill of freeing Excalibur, she's plagued by her attraction to immense power and to the two hot boys who are so not her type. And Merlin fears the troubled path the girl is on will end with his heart broken and him sacrificed to a dark god. Can the destiny assemble the Round Table before the world ends in fire and blood?

Mages' Exile (Defenders of the Wildings Book 2)


Kyra Halland - 2019
    But the Chardonikans want more than Silas and Lainie's land. Though they deny that magic exists, the foreigners are after Lainie and the children, Wildings-born of mage blood.When their retreat from Prairie Wells turns into a flight for their lives, Silas and Lainie seek refuge in the forbidden canyonlands. But it isn't only their family who are threatened by the ruthless, powerful Chardonikans; all the mages who make the Wildings their home, even the very magic of the Wildings itself, are endangered.With the Chardonikans intent on tearing their family apart, Silas and Lainie must find allies and discover the true nature of their enemies if they are to have any hope of fighting back and protecting the magic and people of the Wildings.