Many are called… She alone can save the world and become Death’s bride.
COBWEB BRIDE (Cobweb Bride Trilogy, Book One) by two-time Nebula Award Nominee Vera Nazarian is a history-flavored fantasy novel with romantic elements of the Persephone myth, about Death’s ultimatum to the world.
First in Series Free: The Cobweb Bride by Vera Nazarian was originally published on Must Use Bigger Elephants
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The Duke of Voltur has schemed for years to become the power behind the throne of Heddred, using his niece Miriel as a pawn to secure the King’s heart. To this end, he has chosen Catwin, an orphan girl, to become Miriel’s Shadow: spy, assassin, and bodyguard. Thrown together by the ambitions of a ruthless man, Catwin and Miriel must learn quickly to survive in a Court that wants them both dead…
First in Series Free: Shadowborn by Moira Katson was originally published on Must Use Bigger Elephants
What if your whole life was a lie?
Alexis Ferguson thinks she has everything figured out, but has no idea how wrong she is. Set up on a blind date, she meets a gorgeous stranger and feels that she’s known him her entire life, but she has never seen him before.
He awakens in her long-forgotten dark memories, and now she must face the one who ordered her death years ago. Will she learn to use her strange new powers in time to save herself? Will she let him help her? Should she trust him?
First in Series Free: Deception by Stacy Claflin was originally published on Must Use Bigger Elephants
Jordan Amador. 21. New Yorker. Waitress. Mild alcoholic. Murderer.
Two years ago, Jordan accidentally shot and killed a Seer: a person who can see, hear, and talk to ghosts with unfinished business. Her crime came with a hefty price, too. She has two years to help a hundred souls cross over to the afterlife or her soul is bound for hell. Tough break.
As if that weren’t bad enough, two days before her deadline a handsome pain-in-the-ass poltergeist named Michael strolls into her life. His soul is the key to her salvation, but the cost just might be more than she can handle. Solving his death puts her right in the crosshairs of Belial: a vain, bloodthirsty archdemon who won’t rest until she’s his slave. Can she rescue Michael and save her own soul, or will they both be dragged down into the clutches of the eternal black parade?
First in Series Free: The Black Parade by Kyoko M was originally published on Must Use Bigger Elephants
QuiTai, ruthless concubine of Levapur’s mysterious crime lord, the Devil, receives an unexpected invitation to cocktails with disgraced Thampurian Kyam Zul. She doesn’t trust Kyam enough to drink anything he pours, and won’t help him no matter how hard he begs – or threatens. But when QuiTai’s ex-lover is murdered, Kyam is the only one who knows the name of the killer, and he won’t tell QuiTai unless she helps him first.
The torpid back alleyways of Levapur’s tropical colony hide more than lovers. There are things with claws, beings with venomous fangs, and spies lurking in the jungle.
Most of them want to keep their secrets.
One of them wants QuiTai dead.
First in Series Free: The Devil’s Concubine by Jill Braden was originally published on Must Use Bigger Elephants
Crispin is a “circus baby,” born in a caravan, working as a daemon handler and aerialist… until an accident on the high wire casts him out into a world even stranger that the circus that nurtured him.
Crispin falls headlong into the arms of Rae, an orphan girl of equally exotic origins. And soars in daemon-powered biplanes over the wastelands of the Raw, joining the awesome battle between Ferupe’s slow-dying Queen and her adversary, the Lizard Significant.
First in Series Free: The War In The Waste by Felicity Savage was originally published on Must Use Bigger Elephants
The ex-slave Taylin finds herself in control of the Rune Breaker, an ancient evil wizard.
She has no intention of keeping a slave, but in order to survive a new and alien world, she’ll have to learn to work with him–or else they both might not survive the enemy who has set its sights on them.
First in Series Free: The Girl and Her Monster by Landon Porter was originally published on Must Use Bigger Elephants
Healer Merys Thranion has been trained to fight disease and wage war against ignorance. Her training comes to the ultimate test when she is captured by slave traders in a neighboring country and brought to the estate of Lord Shaine. Her task is to heal the brooding lord’s injured daughter…but that is only the first of her trials. As the deadly plague raises its head again and threatens to wipe out everyone on Lord Shaine’s estate, Merys must summon all her skills to protect those she has come to care for…including the man who has become much more to her than simply her master.
First in Series Free: All Fall Down by Christine Pope was originally published on Must Use Bigger Elephants
The Debut Novel From Two-Time John W. Campbell Award Nominee Felicity Savage!
“The young Humility of the title is as bold as the author herself” — The New York Times Book Review
An ordinary girl from the countryside … sucked into a corrupt, elite society obsessed with sex and death.
Humility never expected to leave her hardscrabble farming village, until Beau, her beautiful cousin, was chosen for the cruel ritual of ghosting. Now Delta City gleams like a diamond, drawing them to a future beyond their control and a destiny entwined with the world of Salt’s.
To survive in this decadent realm, Humility must work out who she really is … and how far she’s willing to go for justice.
Followed by “Delta City.”
First in Series Free: Humility Garden by Felicity Savage was originally published on Must Use Bigger Elephants
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Amra Thetys lives by two simple rules—take care of business, and never let it get personal. Thieves don’t last long in Lucernis otherwise. But when a fellow rogue and good friend is butchered on the street in a deal gone wrong, she turns her back on burglary and goes after something more precious than treasure: Revenge.
Revenge, however, might be hard to come by. A nightmare assortment of enemies, including an immortal assassin and a mad sorcerer, believe Amra is in possession of The Blade That Whispers Hate—the legendary, powerful artifact her friend was murdered for—and they’ll do anything to take it from her. Trouble is, Amra hasn’t got the least clue where the Blade might be.
She needs to find the Blade, and soon, or she’ll be joining her colleague in a cold grave instead of avenging his death. Time is running out for the small, scarred thief.
First in Series Free: The Thief Who Pulled Trouble’s Braids by Michael McClung was originally published on Must Use Bigger Elephants
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