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Featured Fantasy: Spell O’Clock (The Clockview Inn Cozy Mysteries Book 1) by Addison Creek

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Featured Fantasy: Spell O'Clock (The Clockview Inn Cozy Mysteries Book 1) by Addison Creek

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Cassidy is a witch in a small town called Clockview, one of the last places in the world where witches live. Cassidy runs an inn, and like everyone else in Clockview she’s terribly excited about the most important night of the year, which is coming soon.

The Night of Spirits and Phantoms has been taking place every summer for as long as Cassidy can remember. It’s a witch celebration, but the humans in Clockview don’t know that. This year there’s a murder as the big night approaches, and on the night of the murder, a knock-your-socks-off-handsome stranger comes to stay at the inn.

Cassidy investigates the murder against her family’s wishes and discovers that the killer is no one she ever suspected, someone willing to risk the death of all witches in pursuit of a particular goal. Along the way Cassidy discovers that young witches have power beyond what she thought possible, and that you can solve the crime if you just put your mind to it.

Featured Sci-fi: Flight of the Old Wolf (Against the Endless Dark Book 1) by KJ Coble

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Featured Sci-fi: Flight of the Old Wolf (Against the Endless Dark Book 1) by KJ Coble

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A burnout captain. An obsolete starship. One more mission for both.

Tenacity is the last of the Fenris-class battlecruisers, the “Old Wolf” as her crew calls her. Captain Dath Raker—storied, scarred, and outrageous—gets called worse. But the command’s been his last, best chance to shine, even if it’s just showing the Republic of Sanctuary flag while ferrying a delegation to peace talks.

The Republic’s deadliest rival has no interest in peace. Deranged by centuries in thrall to obscene alien gods, the Golgothan Empire is ready to make their big move. And a meeting of the star-nations is a perfect way to get all their enemies in one place.

The Golgothans’ plan relies on surprise and the rapid collapse of resistance.

They’re about to find out that Tenacity is more than just a name.

Featured Fantasy: Precise Oaths (Liliana and the Fae of Fayetteville) by Paige E. Ewing

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Featured Fantasy: Precise Oaths (Liliana and the Fae of Fayetteville) by Paige E. Ewing

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Even though spider-kin Liliana sees the past, the future and into men’s souls, she can still be surprised. After all, no one wakes up wondering if they’ll be accused of murder by a werewolf.

Wolf-kin Peter Teague of Fort Bragg’s Criminal Investigation Division analyzes the venom in six dead soldiers. The victims were killed by a spider-kin, and Liliana is the only spider-kin in Fayetteville.

Pete’s handsome boss, the dangerous fae Colonel Bennet, watches Liliana with burning ember eyes, but refuses to call his investigator off.

It’s up to Liliana to keep Pete from executing her and convince the skeptical scientist she’s not the murderer, all while keeping her new friend from getting eaten by the real killers. And if that’s not enough, she might even have to socialize!

How will she survive the paranormal mystery that puts her as the prime suspect?

Precise Oaths is the first book in the Liliana and the Fae of Fayetteville series, urban fantasy Fae romance for adults containing a strong female lead, intense action, a diverse cast of charming characters, offbeat humor, Fae and shifters like you’ve never seen them before, and a touch of slow burn spider romance.

Featured Fantasy: Kat Drummond Collection Books 1 – 10 by Nicholas Woode Smith

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Featured Fantasy: Kat Drummond Collection Books 1 - 10 by Nicholas Woode-Smith

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Hope City is crawling with monsters. Kat Drummond makes sure they don’t crawl too far.

By day, Kat is a college student barely scraping through her classes. By night, she’s a monster hunter armed with little more than cheap steel, sheer stubbornness, and the ghost of a long-dead paladin whispering battle tactics in her ear.

After a necromancer murdered her parents, Kat swore to take the fight to the undead. But hunting ghouls and zombies for rent money is nothing compared to what’s coming. A new necromancer has arrived in Hope City, and he’s building an army that could drown the streets in corpses.

Kat is brave. Kat is reckless. And Kat is completely outmatched. But with monsters on the rise and the city in peril, giving up isn’t an option. Not when vengeance runs in her veins.

Perfect for fans of The Dresden Files, Faith Hunter, and Ilona Andrews, the Kat Drummond Series is a fast-paced urban fantasy packed with grit, humor, and heart.

Enter Hope City today and meet your next favorite monster slayer.

This epic box set contains the first ten books of the Kat Drummond Series:

  1. Part-Time Monster Hunter
  2. Blood Cartel
  3. Devil’s Gambit
  4. Necrolord
  5. Darkness Beckons
  6. Lost Huntress
  7. Dead World
  8. Silver Brotherhood
  9. The Fae Hunt
  10. Dark Order

Featured Sci-fi: Neptune Crossing (The Chaos Chronicles Book 1) by Jeffrey A. Carver

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Featured Sci-fi: Neptune Crossing (The Chaos Chronicles Book 1) by Jeffrey A. Carver

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When John Bandicut falls into a cavern on Triton, his life changes irrevocably—and for an alien quarx, a million years of solitude abruptly comes to an end.

Bandicut is hardly ready for the storm of chaos that’s about to blow through his life. He has just made humanity’s first contact with alien life—an intelligence that takes up residence in his mind and will be revealed to no one else. The quarx, part of an ancient galactic civilization that manipulates chaos theory to predict catastrophic events, seeks to prevent an event that could destroy the Earth. But it must have help. If Bandicut chooses to trust the quarx, he must break all the rules—indeed, sacrifice his life as he knows it—to prevent humanity’s greatest cataclysm.

Leaving friends and lover behind, hurtling across the solar system in a stolen spaceship, Bandicut can only pray that his actions will save the Earth. Even if he doesn’t live to see it again.

Neptune Crossing is the opening volume of the acclaimed hard science fiction series, The Chaos Chronicles, from the Nebula-nominated author of Eternity’s End.

Available in ebook, print, and audiobook from Starstream Publications. Audiobook narration by Grammy winner Stefan Rudnicki. DRM-free ebook edition.

Featured Fantasy: Relics of Andromeda (Song of Ancients Book 1) by Jonathan Michael Erickson

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AN EPIC TALE SPANNING CIVILIZATIONS AND CENTURIES.

Anka believed the stories since childhood: the alien relics bring ruin and madness.

Ancient pieces of technology that have minds of their own, the relics interface with human psychology, granting the power to bend space and time—often inducing psychosis.

When the colonists of Andromeda first discovered the relics, long before Anka was born, humanity was plunged into chaos.

Now Anka carries a relic in her pack, tasked with securing the object before it does any harm. She sets out with her companions across the desert by foot, marching towards the distant city—even as the relic begins to whisper in her mind…