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The Oddities Emporium
Series · 3 books · 2020-2021

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Glasswing

2020

Who knew a dead butterfly could bring Templars, Witches, and Warlocks to a fight? Jakob Mercer returns home from Costa Rica with a few treasures to display in his store, The Oddities Emporium. One of those items was given to him by a Bruja. Upon returning home, the supernatural forces living in Charleston, South Carolina come to claim the glasswing butterfly. Jakob knows that some of the items in his shop aren't simply for display, and they carry great powers. However, he didn't believe that the small butterfly he'd received would cause him so much trouble. With his friend, Gordy, the warlock, and a new acquaintance, Tempest, a witch, Jakob has to rescue the butterfly from the hands of thieves. In doing so, he will learn who his true friends are and who is now his worst enemy. Glasswing is the prequel to The Oddities Emporium series by Kimbra Swain. A new series with a human protagonist who fights his way through a supernatural world with the artifacts in his care. This Urban Fantasy series is filled with humor and will have you cheering for Jakob and wanting your own tweed hat!
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Shadow Athame

2020

When a human shop owner is given a ritual knife containing the spirit of a powerful witch, darkness emerges from the shadows and threatens to lay Charleston to waste to get it. Jakob Mercer owns The Oddities Emporium, a shop filled with the strange and macabre. He knows that his artifacts aren't all harmless. When a stranger gives him an athame which contains the soul of a powerful local witch, he realizes that it will take his entire arsenal of not-so-harmless curiosities to keep his enemies from destroying him and the city to get it. Jakob is aided by Tempest Balfour, a sassy witch whose brother is the head of the local warlocks, and Gordon Pruitt, a haphazard warlock with a penchant for destruction. The three face factions from the Church, the witches, the warlocks, and forces beyond what Jakob knew existed to keep the athame out of the hands of evil. Join Jakob and his friends as they fight to protect the Shadow Athame. Pre-Order your copy today! Shadow Athame is the first book in The Oddities Emporium series by Kimbra Swain, author of the Fairy Tales of a Trailer Park Queen series and its popular spin-offs. To get a glimpse of Jakob and his friends, read the prequel, Glasswing in the Urban Magic: Power, Magic, and Heart Anthology.
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Bone Dice

2021

Do you feel lucky? Dead lucky? Jakob Mercer hesitantly takes a job to retrieve a set of magical dice for an elderly woman with lots of money. She makes promises, but she also warns Jakob that the world he must enter to get them is over his head. Jakob has been all over the world searching for oddities. He doesn't expect that an underground group of supernatural beings in Charleston to be a threat. That is until he realizes that he's been sent there under false pretenses and more than one person wants to see him dead. In a secret society, even the secrets have secrets. Can Jakob retrieve the dice and survive? Bone Dice is the second book in the Urban Fantasy series, The Oddities Emporium, written by Kimbra Swain.

Author

Kimbra Swain
Kimbra Swain
Author · 52 books

From early in life Kimbra Swain was indoctrinated in the ways of geekdom. Raised on Star Wars, Tolkien, Superheroes and Voltron, she found herself immersed in a world of imagination. She started writing in high school, and completed her English degree from the University of Alabama in 2003. ​ Her writing is influenced by a gamut of authors including Jane Austen, J.R.R. Tolkien, L.M. Montgomery, Timothy Zahn, Kathy Reichs, Kevin Hearne and Jim Butcher. ​ Born and raised in Alabama, Kimbra still lives there with her husband and 5 year old daughter. When she isn't reading or writing, she plays PC games, makes jewelry and builds cars. Please visit my Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts. Also if you sign up for the newsletter at my website to receive a FREE book: www.kimbraswain.com

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