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Featured Science Fiction: Star Mage Saga Books 1 – 3 by J. J. Green

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Featured Science Fiction: Star Mage Saga Books 1 - 3 by J. J. Green

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Carina Lin is a slum brat turned space mercenary. With a twist. She’s also a mage, and she’s about to risk everything.

Her merc band, the Black Dogs, is assigned a suicide mission. A young boy has been kidnapped by one of the galactic sector’s most powerful clans, and the Dogs’ task is to rescue him.

Carina faces an impossible decision. To save the boy she must Cast, but if her powers are revealed she will be tortured and enslaved.

When she makes her choice and throws the dice, the fallout is beyond her imagination.

So begins the first trilogy of the dark, exciting science fantasy, Star Mage Saga.

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Featured Fantasy: The Cup and the Prince (Kingdom of Curses and Shadows Book 1) by Day Leitao

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Featured Fantasy: The Cup and the Prince (Kingdom of Curses and Shadows Book 1) by Day Leitao

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When a girl set on revenge meets an arrogant prince, sparks fly and tempers rise.

Yes, Zora cheated her way into the Royal Games, but it was for a very good reason:
Spite.
Her ex was an asshole and thought she could never attain glory on her own.
Just because she’s a girl.
So she took his place.

Now she’s competing for the legendary Blood Cup, representing the Dark Valley, a place where shadow creatures spawn in the dark and survive in sunlight. It’s her chance to prove her worth and bring glory to her people. If she wins, of course.

But winning is far from easy.
The younger prince thinks she’s a fragile damsel who doesn’t belong in the competition. Determined to eliminate her at all costs, he’s stacking the challenges against her. Ha. All he’s doing is making her want to win this competition more than ever.

The older prince is helping her, but the cost is getting Zora entangled in dangerous flirting games.
Flirting. The last thing she wanted.

And then there’s someone trying to kill her.

The Cup and the Prince is book 1 in the series Kingdom of Curses and Shadows, a Young Adult romantic fantasy series with romance, action, humor, and intrigue for readers 15 and older.

Readers have compared it to Folk of The Air (hate-to-love trope), Throne of Glass (royal contest), Red Queen (complicated royal brothers), The Shadows Between Us (quirky prose), and Spin the Dawn (royal contest).

Featured Fantasy: The Fall of Wolfsbane (Ravenglass Legends Book 1) by Jon Cronshaw

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Featured Fantasy: The Fall of Wolfsbane (Ravenglass Legends Book 1) by Jon Cronshaw

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Ragnar is destined to rule…

…but when the Empire ravages his homeland, his birthright is lost.

Ragnar and his sister Maja are taken hostage and separated.

To keep each other alive, they must comply with their royal captors.

Can they convince the Empire they assent to the new order while doing all they can to find each other and restore their homeland?

Or will their loyalty wane in the Empire’s gilded halls?

Featured Sci-fi: Legacy (The Biodome Chronicles Book 1) by Jesikah Sundin

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She is locked inside an experimental world.
He has never met the girl who haunts his dreams.
A chilling secret forever binds their lives together.

Willow Oak Watson has never met a stranger. Never known the open wide sky. Never seen modern technology.

The experimental world she was born into is built on rules and traditions. Edicts no one has dared challenge—until her father’s shocking death places an invisible crown of power on her brother’s head. A coveted legacy that may be the very reason her father now lies dead.

Unsure of who they can trust, her brother risks their family’s banishment in a hunt for answers. A bold decision that leads them to a hidden communications room and to Fillion Nichols, a young man with a chilling link to her family. A stranger Willow feels a bond with the moment they meet. A connection that has haunted his dreams for years.

Everything about Fillion bends her reality and screams danger. He is the complete opposite of all that she has ever known and from a world she fears. Yet he is the only one who can decode the many cryptic secrets destroying her home.

A necessity if her family is to survive.

Worlds collide in an unforgettable quest for truth, unfolding a story rich in mystery, betrayal, and love.

A salivating blend of MEDIEVAL meets THE NEAR FUTURE in this gritty young adult eco-dystopian tale, brimming with psychological thrills, strong nature and found family themes, and an angsty, enemies to lovers slow burn fated romance that forever alters the reality of two worlds.

Featured Fantasy: Tsarina Scholar Woodsman Thief by Cidney Swanson

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Featured Fantasy: Tsarina Scholar Woodsman Thief by Cidney Swanson

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In this enchanting fairytale, a pair of estranged siblings, a tsarina, and a woodsman must band together to outwit a crooked duke who wants them all—and isn’t particular as to “dead” or “alive.” Here be dragons and sirens, magical gifts and dread debts, deeds noble and foolhardy. With a touch of Narnia and a dash of Baba Yaga, it’s a tale that reads like balm for the weary in soul.

Glance over the first lines. Peruse the first chapter. And then find your coziest reading nook and settle in, preferably with a “Do Not Disturb” sign nearby.

Featured Fantasy: Bricks and Murder (Seattle Slayers Book 2) by Ken Bebelle & Julia Vee

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Roxy Lim is now an inked member of the Seattle Slayers, tasked with enforcing the Oceanic Pact in a city teeming with deadly shifters, devious vampires, and scheming fae.

I made it into the Slayers by the skin of my teeth and now I just need to figure out a plan to ship some Cure back to my mom. Cure doesn’t survive the Crossing through the Veil without the right vessel. But earning my stripes with the Slayers should get me just the vessel I need to do it.

Things at the Dojo were going great. The head of the Dojo himself has taken an interest in my training. I got my ink and was riding high when my shifter landlady Mrs. Chu goes missing in the Wilds. Faced with the decision to either carry out my duties with Slayers or to bail to the Wilds to find the one person in Seattle who has taken care of me like family, it’s no choice at all.

What I thought would be a simple errand lands me in a full scale vampire war between the Night Court and a rogue vampire named O’Malley. Shifters are dying and now I can’t leave and the Slayers won’t help.

All I’ve got to save Mrs. Chu and the rest of the shifters is my hammers, a sharp knife, and my growing Breaker magic. I’ll use everything I’ve got but will it be enough to stop O’Malley’s war?

Join Seattle Slayer Roxy Lim on her wildest mission yet as she battles through the largest peril of vampires she’s ever come across and one deadly rogue leader who wants to add Roxy to his team.