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Featured Science Fiction: Exin Ex Machina (Amaranthe 11) by G. S. Jennsen

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Featured Science Fiction: Exin Ex Machina (Amaranthe 11) by G. S. Jennsen

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Cyberpunk and space opera collide in a thrilling new trilogy from the author of the acclaimed Aurora Rhapsody saga. When man and machine are one and the same, there are many crimes but only one sin: psyche-wipe. The secrets it has buried could lead to a civilization’s salvation, or to its doom.

The Asterion Dominion is at peace with its neighbors and itself. Its citizens enjoy great freedoms and all the luxuries their biosynthetic minds can imagine, design and create. But beneath the idyllic veneer, something is going wrong. People are going wrong, driven to commit inexplicable crimes without motive or purpose. And once imprisoned for those crimes, they simply vanish.

Psyche-wiped and dumped in an alley 5 years ago, awakened into a culture where ancestral memories stretch back for millennia, Nika Tescarav’s past is a blank canvas. But if whoever erased her did so in the hope of silencing her, they should have tried harder.

Someone must speak for the lost.

Someone must uncover how and why they became lost.

Someone must find the lost.

Nika is that someone.

Featured Fantasy: Of Songs and Seashells (Magically Ever After Book 2) by T.M. Franklin

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Featured Fantasy: Of Songs and Seashells (Magically Ever After Book 2) by T.M. Franklin

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An immortal woman.
An ancient curse.
A deadly pact.

Lily has roamed the earth for centuries, unable to die but also unable to truly live, lest her secret be discovered.

Unfortunately, saving a young boy from an almost-deadly accident attracts a handsome stranger’s rapt attention.

He sees her in a way few others have before, putting them both at risk and awakening an ancient curse.

After years of searching and nearly losing all hope, Lily’s finally found something—and someone—to live for. But will that be enough to save them from what is coming?

Equal parts puzzle and page-turner, Of Songs and Seashells is a modern continuation of the classic fairy tale The Little Mermaid. We promise you’ve never read anything quite like it before.

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