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Contemporary fantasy romcoms written as Lia Amador

cover of Witch Is Mine, with Emelia on the left wearing a pantsuit and holding a pink fireball, a blue dragon plushie wrapped around her neck, Sebastian on the right holding a book wearing a vest and bowtie, between them a stack of books with papers and peacock feathers flying out of the top open book

Coming March 2, 2027!

WITCH IS MINE

In an enchanted Miami, former academic rivals turned roommates get a second chance at romance when they challenge each other to a magical matchmaking contest.

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Cover for Witch You Would, Gil and Penelope stand on opposite sides of a bubbling cauldron billowing smoke with the outline of a heart-shaped couple smooching inside, floating around it are a film slate and butterfly and a pair of candles

Before WITCH IS MINE, there was…

WITCH YOU WOULD

When a young witch gets a life-changing chance to compete in a magical reality show, sparks fly as she’s partnered with a man she can’t stand.

Read it now!

Space opera to transport you to distant planets

Cover of Prime Deceptions, featuring Eva Innocente falling out of her ship, reaching for a piece of cargo drifting in space, surrounded by other falling stuff and cats in space helmets on or inside boxes
Cover of Prime Deceptions, featuring Eva Innocente falling upside-down through a space gate trying to catch a leaping cat, a planet in the background
Cover of Fault Tolerance, featuring Eva Innocente falling out of a spaceship surrounded by cats as a giant robot hand reaches for them
Cover of Where Peace Is Lost, featuring Kel Garda in translucent armor with wings and a round shield, a circle of blue behind her and a gold halo around her head, a starfield in the background

Magic: the Gathering Stories

Secrets of Strixhaven
Bloomburrow
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan

Latest short fiction

The Cold Curse of Drathe
Courier’s Honor
Cover of Uncanny Magazine issue 57
A Magical Correspondence, to the Tune of Heartstrings
Lies Seek Shadows
Atalanta Hunts the Boar

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