Fiction - Magical Realism

A young woman. A dying river. A destiny written in water.Sarah Tegest has spent her entire life feared by her village. Tall, isolated, and haunted by mysterious stories surrounding her birth, she has learned to live on the margins of other people's fears. But...

Maren Ashvale has spent twenty years being indispensable. Now she's burned out, forty-two, and the reluctant owner of a Victorian greenhouse she inherited from an aunt she barely knew - in a village she's never once visited.She came here to stop.Instead, she starts paying...

New York was supposed to be the end of it.After the coven stopped Blackwood's crypto-driven power grab, Elara and her sisters thought they'd bought the city-and themselves-some breathing room. But the cracks don't stay local. Strange anomalies begin surfacing across the globe: clocks that...

One paw. One seed. One chance to erase everything. Ginger stands alone in the Arbor Animus - a void between worlds - with the First Draft seed pulsing beneath her trembling paw. Touch it, and reality resets. The corruption ends. The Realm survives. She...

She was a Fortune 500 CEO. Now she's a 10-pound cat in a world that doesn't even have a stock market. Fortunately, she knows how to build an empire from scratch. Ginger was at the top of the food chain. Literally. As the ruthless...

Avery Grant never asked to inherit a legacy written in blood.When an ancient artifact resurfaces in Salem, she discovers she's bound to a centuries-old covenant-and to the Stream, a living current of magic that never forgets its debts.As dormant sigils awaken and monsters slip...

Meet Sir-Sticks-A-Lot, the bravest knight in the Backyard Kingdom.Phillip is nine years old, armed with a mighty collection of sticks, and absolutely certain that dragons live in the clouds above his home. From the towering heights of Castle Maplefort to the mysterious Tall Grass...

For fans of Evie Woods's The Lost Bookshop and Matt Haig's The Midnight Library, a contemporary women's fiction novel with a fantasy twist about a woman who unlocks the ability to fly--only to discover just how many perils accompany that superpower. Quinn has spent...

If you found yourself captivated by the urban grit and high-stakes tension of Crescent City, then A Heart of Brass and Blood is the evolution of Romantasy you've been waiting for. While both explore a world where ancient magic and modern machinery collide, Memphis...

For fourteen years, the world believed she slept.In the epic tradition, Urmila - wife of Lakshmana - is remembered as the woman who vanished into silence while heroes walked into legend.But what if her sleep was never passive?What if it was war?In this visionary...

For generations, the realms have lived in the shadow of a forgotten war. The spark that once held the Darkness at bay vanished with the death of Aurelia Kuro Kenshi-Eldia's greatest protector and the last bearer of the ancient light. Her sacrifice saved the...

The cashmere throne is mine.The filet mignon is mine.Mommy? Also mine.Then the potato arrives.He snores like a freight train.He follows me everywhere.He looks at me like I hung the moon.I do not do siblings.But this wrinkled disaster refuses to stop loving me.And somehow--impossibly--he learns...

Tuesday mornings in the Holloway household usually involve levitating pancakes, empathic meltdowns, and Emma scraping batter off the ceiling fan. But when a gothic monstrosity called Blackwood Academy appears overnight on the hill overlooking Willow Creek, the three witch sisters realize their biggest challenge...

Every night at 3 AM, the sky drops its secrets.In the city of Oakhaven, the silence is broken by the heavy thud of winged corpses falling from the clouds. Scientists call them anomalies. Religious groups call them warnings. But for Nura, they are a...

Why are there medieval knights rampaging around the Underground stations of modern London, harvesting body parts? What is the connection between the Queen of England and King Edgar, first king of England in 959 AD? And who is the mysterious woman in red who...

The World Is Not Made combines three distinct narratives: about contemporary artist Inna in France and war-torn Ukraine, revolutionary Oleksii on the steppe fighting with anarchists, and peasant Lesia in the mountains of Austro-Hungary. Across more than 200 years, each generation faces novel challenges...

She didn't mean to open the doorway. It wasn't supposed to exist. Not in her apartment. Not in her life. One moment, Amara Chen was struggling to meet deadlines and keep her world from falling apart. The next, she was standing in a garden...

Before she became the woman the swamp would answer to...she was the girl the storm tried to claim.In the shadowed heart of Blackwater, Louisiana, Elise Blackwater has always known the swamp was alive.It listens.It remembers.And it does not forgive easily.As a child standing barefoot...

She was born in a hurricane.The swamp went silent when she cried.In the shadows of Elm Grove, Louisiana, they whisper her name like a prayer and a warning.Elise Blackwater is not the kind of witch you find in storybooks. She does not wear soft...

The sky once broke because heaven feared losing control.Now it must learn to live without it.After war, suppression, and annihilation attempts, Aurielle stands as queen in a realm forever altered. The seam in the sky remains - not as a wound, but as a...

The Line Between Crowns follows Princess Elara, who defies her court and rides into the frozen wilds to rescue Prince Aldric after he vanishes under suspicious circumstances. What begins as a desperate love-driven mission turns into a deadly conspiracy when Elara discovers Aldric wasn't...

Some wounds can only be healed where the world ends.At the very edge of existence, where the map dissolves into the shimmering nothingness of the Void, sits a clinic. It doesn't treat broken bones or common colds. It treats the things that traditional medicine...

The story of Zakwill is an epic journey that begins with a personal loss and evolves into a mission of inter-tribal peace. It follows a young orphan as he navigates a landscape filled with ancient magic, survival challenges, and the looming threat of total...

In this cosy urban fantasy steeped in elemental magic and hidden tensions, Thalia-a mature Aether Guardian nearing the end of her tenure-is called to sun-drenched Greece when strange storms and rising tides hint at an elemental imbalance.As ancient feuds, sacred sites, and guardian politics...

One potion. One party. One last chance to get the girl. What could possibly go wrong? Andres has spent his high school years fading into the background, a ghost in his own life. He's hopelessly in love with his childhood friend, Dulcina, a girl...

Book Three of The Axis Queen TrilogyThe dragons have stepped back.Now humanity stands alone.When Obsidian shatters the ancient balance and withdraws dragon correction, the realm is given one final test: one year to govern without fear, without intervention, and without excuse.If they fail, he...

The portal is gone. The bear is a monster. And the CEO is not accepting resignations. Ginger's hostile takeover of The Realm was going according to plan-until the way home collapsed and her most loyal ally became a creature of living shadow. Now her...

Tessa Sinclair can see how long people have left to live.Not in years.In days.Numbers hover above wrists like quiet truths, invisible to everyone but her. At first, she does what anyone would do-small interventions, gentle nudges, moments of mercy. A warning here. A delay...

After the fall of Withering Fen, Drusilla Vale once an immortal vampire, now painfully mortal awakens in a world unraveling. Memories no longer match reality, and fragments of time bleed through the cracks. Armed only with a lantern that preserves lost stories, she joins...

Lyra never imagined that a single fragment of starlight could change everything.When destiny pulls her into a world of ancient magic and dangerous forces, she must learn to harness the power within her-or risk losing everything she loves.Kael is a warrior bound by secrets...

The train was moving.No one was driving it. When Emily falls through the floor of a world that no longer remembers her, she lands in a forest stitched with silver thread and broken skies. The realm is unraveling. Names are slipping from buildings. Memories...

When a forbidden mark ignites beneath Serene's skin, it doesn't grant her power.It makes her a threat. The world was built on balance - gods above, mortals below, hunger contained. But Serene is not part of that design. She is an omission. A fracture...

When Lira Santiago, a 40-year-old overworked virtual assistant, jokingly replies "Sure, why not" to a strange midnight text about being transported to another world, she never expects it to come true.Moments later, she and her five beloved cats-Chloe, Mochi, Bean, Cinnamon, and Nori-find themselves...

A curse born in silence. A love that defies eternity.Some souls are too powerful to fade.Some curses are too sacred to end.I was never meant to be ordinary.Born at midnight on a leap year, I carry the forbidden soul of my great-great-grandmother, Blow Wind-the...

Auralia Evanora has always felt like she was living someone else's life. Found wandering the streets of London as a child with nothing but her parents' names as clues to her past, she's barely scraping by as a university student when a mysterious job...

A vampire prince bound by duty. A human journalist chasing truth. A love that could destroy them both-or save their worlds.Marie Thompson came to Los Angeles with dreams of breaking into journalism, not breaking every rule she'd ever known. When a chance collision outside...

MONSTERS don't always live in the DARK... Sometimes, they read you bedtime STORIES. This isn't a fairy tale of good and evil. It's not a novel about a chosen one. This is a SURVIVAL narrative of those who have been forgotten, those who have...

They say Sleeping Beauty was cursed to sleep for a hundred years. They lied. Seventeen-year-old Rory Vale knows what it means to be hollowed out-abandoned by her royal mother at age five, shuffled between foster homes, her entire existence defined by absence. When a...

THE LAST CURRICULUMAt the most prestigious magical academy in the world, students are taught that knowledge must be earned.One lesson has been deliberately withheld.When Corin earns admission to the legendary Collegium, he expects years of disciplined study, ancient magic, and intellectual challenge. Instead, he...

Some legacies survive even the end of the world.She was never meant to be human.After the most devastating heartbreak of her life, Mackensie believes she has lost everything-her love, her sense of self, her place in the world. One sleepless night, grief pulls her...

The most dangerous conflict does not unfold between people - but within them.As the world continues to exist around a single axis, and the relationship becomes its emotional core, a question emerges that can no longer be silenced: how much of this love is...

The Silverfrost Sisters: A Cozy Little Women Retelling of Hearth, Heart, and MagicIn a world locked beneath an endless winter, magic is not measured by power-but by warmth.At Orchard House, four sisters survive not through grand spells or heroic battles, but through domestic magic:...

What remains after loss, after love, after the moment has passed?The Shape of What Endures is a collection of thirteen literary stories that explore memory, moral consequence, and the quiet persistence of human connection across time, distance, and uncertainty. Blending subtle science fiction, magical...

Eternal Canvases is a mesmerizing collection of short stories woven from the threads of magical realism, where the boundaries between the tangible world and the ethereal dissolve like mist at dawn. Drawing inspiration from the ancient legends of Iran-echoing the lush forests of Gilan,...

This enthralling collection of 25 short stories transports readers through the rich tapestry of Iranian life, blending ancient mysticism with contemporary struggles in settings from bustling bazaars and hidden underground cities to misty forests and futuristic worlds. Themes of love, betrayal, redemption, and self-discovery...

In the rich tapestry of Persian heritage, where ancient traditions weave seamlessly with the rhythms of everyday life, emerges a captivating collection of 25 short stories that delve into the soul of Iran. Crafted by Max Nabati, this anthology invites readers on a journey...

In "The Lion's Silk: The Eternal Garden," Max Nabati invites readers into a mesmerizing continuation of his acclaimed series, where the boundaries between history, myth, and imagination dissolve like ink in water. Building on the rich tapestry of cultural fusion and hidden legacies introduced...

In the silence between galaxies, where time forgets its name, wanders a soul that once was human - searching not for home, but for the memory of light.Every star she touches awakens a fragment of forgotten worlds, every shadow she meets - a mirror...

The Shifting Veil follows the Oakhaven Keepers as they navigate a world where the boundary between the town of Oakhaven and the magical realm of Aethelgard is no longer a wall, but a translucent membrane. While the veil was stabilized in previous adventures, it...

In the beginning, the universe knew itself.It did not think, not as minds would later think. It resonated. Every law was a note held in perfect continuity, every particle a vow kept without question. Time flowed because it had always flowed. Space expanded because...