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The executioner’s blade was already at Rowan Vale’s throat when he opened his eyes—and the dying sorcerer’s last memory was a treason conviction he never committed. He escaped with a wounded storm-beast and one impossible plan: turn a ruined floating island into a farm before the kingdom found him. But the moment his crops began to grow, Royal Investigator Lyra Quill arrived with orders to arrest him. She was supposed to drag him back in chains, yet Rowan’s forbidden repairs revealed he hadn’t destroyed the kingdom’s leyline—he had unknowingly restored it, making him the erased heir at the center of a royal conspiracy. Forced to work side by side, the sharp-tongued engineer and the ice-cold investigator fought every spark between them while the crown, the merchant guild, and a ruthless leyline director closed in. Now Lyra must choose: deliver the man she was ordered to condemn—or betray the crown, kiss the kingdom’s most wanted traitor, and help him expose the power that could destroy them all.

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NewBy Evelyn M. Hart · Western Fantasy & Magic
The silver-bullet victim on Evelyn Hart’s stretcher wakes as her forbidden spell seals his wound—and whispers her dead mother’s name. Then the curse in his chest spreads across the city, block by block. Kane Rook offers her one impossible bargain: marry him tonight, infiltrate the enemy council, and he’ll pay for her dying brother’s treatment. But on their wedding night, Evelyn discovers her new husband is the missing heir who commands the city’s shadow beasts—and the most hunted monster alive. He suspects her blood opened the curse, yet every dangerous touch makes it harder for either of them to tell protection from possession. With the council demanding Kane’s surrender and the blood door ready to destroy the city, will Evelyn expose the husband she’s beginning to love—or sacrifice her brother to save the monster inside him?
NewBy Marlowe Ashford · Western Fantasy & Magic
The freshman’s body hit the banquet table, still warm, as Ivy Kline felt a black-robed hand close around her throat. Then the midnight bell rang—and she was back at the academy gates, holding the same admission card, with no one remembering the murder. Every six hours, another student dies, and only the lowborn alchemy apprentice remembers the bloodshed. The arrogant noble heir forgets her each time, yet his body keeps saving her before she can fall—while the professor’s assistant guards a forbidden key and dies every third loop. By the seventh reset, Ivy uncovers the truth: the loop isn’t meant to save the victims, but to protect an expelled genius who controls the academy’s magical barrier. Before midnight comes again, Ivy must expose the killer, break the spell, and decide whether to trust the noble heir whose heart remembers her—or sacrifice everyone to escape the night.
NewBy Elara Wren · Western Fantasy & Magic
After three years as a Sanctum Guild apprentice, Ivy Gray finally earns her first field assignment—only to be paired with Cole Ashe, the guild's lowest-ranked night guard and a man rumored to have no soul left. When a soultaker nearly kills her, Cole saves her with forbidden magic, trapping a shard of his soul inside her dreams. Every night, he whispers spells in her dead mother's voice. As Ivy's locket opens and a black bloodmark awakens, she learns the guild's greatest hunt was never about monsters. It was about her mother—and the ancient pact hidden in Ivy's blood. To survive, she must trust the broken hunter haunting her sleep.
NewBy Cassandra Nightshade · Western Fantasy & Magic
The forbidden ember pierced Riven Vale’s chest—and began whispering his forgotten childhood. Before he could run, Selene Marr’s blade was at his throat, her hand closing around the fire as it fused him to her. She was the ruthless Memory Collector sent to reclaim it. He was a lying con artist who trusted no one, yet the ember chose him—and removing it would kill him. Now a binding contract chains them together: every lie tightens the shackle, every completed clause pulls them dangerously closer, and the city’s stolen memories are burning to keep civilization alive. But Riven’s erased childhood may be the very fuel keeping the city’s walls standing. When Selene discovers the truth, will she obey the order to sacrifice him—or betray her command and burn the entire city to save the man she was meant to destroy?
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