Showing results by publisher "Author's Republic" in Fantasy

The god of death is allowed to take a holiday, conditional on completing a task. Eamon the Handsome Ghoul deputises, but grows to like the job. Mason, a violent misogynist detective, agrees to let the god of death assume his identity.

Louise Matthews has got it good. Wonderful job? Check. Loving family? The best. Roommates? Pretty fantastic, thank you. All of this helps her stay focused on what she wants: to finish out her apprenticeship and become a fully licensed Switch-an animal mage who bonds familiars to their witches. Only a problem has just moved in-a hot, occasionally wolf-shaped problem. Declan Mackenzie doesn't want to be a lone wolf, but he doesn't have a choice. Girlfriend? Gone. Sister? Starting a new life. Parents? In prison where they belong, thankfully.

Colin Everroad should be dead, but after his lobster boat founders during a violent storm off the Maine coast, he wakes up on a beach. He’s cold, but unscathed...with strange memories of a face he can’t conjure and a voice he doesn’t recognize. No one can explain it, but a friend suggests Colin was saved by one of the mer. Except the mer don’t exist. Do they? But…that face. That voice. Someone was in the water with him. Someone saved him. If not a mer, then who? And whoever it was, Colin wants to see his face. Lir broke protocol by rescuing a land person.

In Irish Mythology, Otherworld is a happy land and Underworld is a foul land. These worlds exist alongside Earth. Wizard Drowe is sentenced to be a swan, but he escapes. He has tricked Ciarán, his apprentice, into becoming the swan. Granny and Aoife pursue the swan because Granny believes it will lead her to her lost village. Hunted by Wizard Drowe and the vampire Dearg-due, Ciarán and Aoife move from initial dislike to romance. These, in turn, are pursued by Venus and the Drimnagh Witches, servants of the Faerie Queen.

For Feliss Warwick, life was nothing but rudimentary. Living as a baroness, implored to be duty-bound, stuck in a world of deceit and falsehood, while the world saw her in marital bliss. Then, Feliss learns that she is not just an ordinary noble. She has a destiny, tethered to the safeguard of the world. A world that is under glamor, housing mystical creatures and "magic". Hunted by a white beast, haunted by the death of her twin, Feliss discovers that she is a human deity with a bounty on her head. Will Feliss escape the clutches of the dark druids? Will she keep her loved ones safe?

Expelled for her intolerance. Seduced by a dangerous attraction. One woman must risk her life to open her heart. The stubborn, spoiled, favored granddaughter of the Devi goddess Astoreth, Moreva Tehi has failed to perform her sacred duty and now she must be punished for her transgression. Temporarily banished from É life, she is dispatched to Mjor - a backwater village in the Syren Perritory - to assume the roles of custodian of the landing beacon as well as the spiritual leader and commander of Astoreth’s garrison stationed there.

Ruby Rose is obsessed with finding her fairy-tale dream of “happy ever after”. Searching her whole life for true love, Ruby Rose learns the hard way, through heartbreak and pain, that fairy tales aren’t true. She finds herself at the age of 32 in a hospital bed alone. Pregnant and facing an abortion, she undergoes an operation. As she slips into unconsciousness, Ruby Rose meets her future self in a beautiful garden and is offered a rare and exciting opportunity to enter a program that will change her life forever.

How do you fight something that knows you better than you know yourself? A plague is spreading. It writes on skin, bringing the innermost thoughts of its victim to the surface. Until there is no more skin to write on. Then...it brings death. Ana and Rafe are completely unaware of the plague, caught up in case after case. Until someone they're close to is infected. Soon, it's a race against the clock to save them - and there's only one way to stop the spread. To pass it on....

Franklyn was born into a gritty north of England town. His expected path through life would have him live out his years in the manner of that town's baseline existence. But it wasn't to be. Perhaps he was pre-selected to break rank so that bigger dreams could be fulfilled. Whatever the prime force may have been, he was to know a different life.