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Five urban fantasy back to school reads

Back to School Reads

The kids are back in school, the days are still fairly long, and the hectic pace of fun-filled summer activities is over. What you need is a list of five good urban fantasy reads to celebrate back to school.

Why?

Because routine returns. And that means it’s the perfect time for you to start a new book. Or several.

If you’re looking for some great urban fantasy books to fill a few hours now that the kiddies are back in school, I’ve got just the list for you. (disclaimer: I do make a few pennies in Amazon affiliate income if you buy anything on this page.)

Moon Called: Patricia Briggs

Mercedes Thompson, aka Mercy, is a talented Volkswagen mechanic living in the Tri-Cities area of Washington. She also happens to be a walker, a magical being with the power to shift into a coyote at will. Mercy’s next-door neighbor is a werewolf. Her former boss is a gremlin. And she’s fixing a bus for a vampire. This is the world of Mercy Thompson, one that looks a lot like ours but is populated by those things that go bump in the night. And Mercy’s connection to those things is about to get her into some serious hot water

Water Witch: a new adult urban fantasy series

In a world where love is a thing to kill for, can she find one to die for?

Alaysha has lived the whole of her life as an outcast in her village. Shunned by her own people because she can’t control the powerful elemental magic capable of turning everything to dust in a single heartbeat, she is exploited by her tyrannical father as a weapon of conquest.  Every day, each battle, she grows more and more terrified that her magic will hurt someone she loves.

Then an enigmatic stranger in a village she is commanded to annihilate does the impossible: he alone survives her attack. And when he claims to have the key to guiding her destructive powers, she sees a chance to finally free herself from her cold and calculating father’s influence. 

But harboring the charismatic stranger puts her in defiance of her father’s explicit orders. And no one disobeys her father and lives. So when she discovers the stranger has dark secrets of his own, secrets that could put her entire world in jeopardy, she must decide what is more valuable.

His life or hers… 

If you enjoy stories where a young woman comes into her power in the most literal of ways, you won’t want to miss this epic coming of age fantasy journey. With a slow burn romance that will melt your heart and plenty of breathtaking action to binge read.

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Keystone: Dannika Dark

Raven Black hunts evildoers for fun, but her vigilante justice isn’t the only reason she’s hiding from the law. Half Vampire, half Mage, she’s spent years living as a rogue to stay alive. When a Russian Shifter offers her a job in his covert organization hunting outlaws, dignity and a respectable career are finally within her grasp. The catch? Her new partner is Christian Poe – a smug, handsome Vampire whom she’d rather stake than go on a stakeout with.

 

The Priestess & The Vampire

She's got a problem and it isn’t being enthralled by an obsessed vampire.

Jade just got dumped by her fiancé for a younger woman. But she’s a survivor. She’ll get through the ache of feeling like a fool, even if it means accepting a date with a stranger to a fancy costume party at his boss’s sprawling mansion. 

Her sexy voodoo priestess costume helps her fake much needed confidence as she meets her date’s smoking hot boss. Disguised as a marauding Viking in a room filled with Draculas, his commanding presence overshadows the creepy-looking vampire costumes.  Unnerved, she drinks a bit too much and finds out too late that the vampires are real.

The Viking tears her away from her rabid attacker’s grasp. But it’s almost too  late. Her date is gone. The party is over. And now, she’s forced to recover from an assault that nearly kills her. As she fights for her life, she realizes she is a prisoner as the brooding Viking demands to know if she wants to die quickly or live a life of bondage.

But salvaging enough self-esteem to prove she’s worth living is just one small feat she needs to accomplish in the ruthless world she finds herself in. And navigating her newly awakened feelings for a man she knows isn’t human isn’t her only problem.

Because that costume she rented also came with a curse, and if she can’t undo it, she might lose more than just a little blood…she might lose her soul.

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Justice Calling: Annie Bellet

Gamer. Nerd. Sorceress.

Jade Crow lives a quiet life running her comic book and game store in Wylde, Idaho. After twenty-five years fleeing from a powerful sorcerer who wants to eat her heart and take her powers, quiet suits her just fine. Surrounded by friends who are even less human than she is, Jade figures she’s finally safe.

As long as she doesn’t use her magic.

 

BONUS BOOK

Sword of Honor: book one in a dystopian retelling of King Arthur

When the world needs a hero do you run for the hills?

A magic sword. A world divided. A legendary King. This is no Camelot and Skye is no Guinevere, but the world is dark and divided, and it does need a hero.

With the government burying itself in bunkers underground and technology lost to all but a sacred few, it seems hope of that hero grows dimmer. Skye has been waiting for a champion to come ever since brigands destroyed her home and sent her running into the hands of a despot.

…But that same despot is searching for a weapon of incredible magic.

And he’s looking for Skye.

Time is running out.

It’s time to act and Skye is ready to fight. Even if it means taking possession of a sword possessed of magic both terrible and frightening. A sword offered by a powerful sorcerer who wants to put it into her hands.

A sword that turns her into that hero.

But does she have what it takes to wield its power without losing herself to it? Or will her hesitation cost the nation in blood?

If you love stories reminiscent of the Arthurian legend but saturated with apocalyptic flavors of the future, you will want to give this a try.

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