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Featured Sci-fi: Fallen Star (Project Gauntlet Book 1) by Richard Turner

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Featured Sci-fi: Fallen Star (Project Gauntlet Book 1) by Richard Turner

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A sudden and brutal attack on a coalition training camp in Iraq wipes out all but two survivors: Captain david Grant and Australian SAS Sergeant James Maclean. Drawn into a clandestine world that deals with unusual encounters the two soldiers volunteer to help with the investigation into an alleged UFO crash in Alaska. The mission, however, is far from simple as it soon becomes apparent that something dangerous is going on and not everyone is as they appear to be.

Featured Fantasy: Unmasked (Mark of the Least) by Kendra Merritt

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Featured Fantasy: Unmasked (Mark of the Least) by Kendra Merritt

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Her truth could start a war…or set her heart free.

The world has always been a bit baffling to Lysandra with its unspoken rules and unnecessary metaphors. Even magic doesn’t work the same way for her as it does for the council of mages. Luckily, Lys has always had Issy, the princess of their island nation, who has shielded Lys from the world that doesn’t quite understand her. But as a princess, Issy has new duties while Lys wants nothing more than to live quietly, protecting the islands from the storms that ravage them. But to do that, Lys will have to go to the mages and explain the impossible way she does magic. Lys can’t imagine anything worse. She’d even rather live Issy’s life for a few days.

So begins the scheme that will give them both what they want. The girls trade places, and Issy goes to plead with the mages while Lys pretends to be royalty. But as soon as Issy leaves, Lys learns there’s a visiting prince and a king vying for the princess’s hand. Now she’s stuck hiding who she is with a king who is determined to start a war and a prince who is determined to see Lys as her true self. Keeping her secret might be the most important thing she’s ever done when the truth could break the fragile peace of the islands. Not to mention her heart.

Featured Science Fiction: Star Heroes Books 1 – 10 by G J Ogden

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Featured Science Fiction: Star Heroes Books 1 - 10 by G J Ogden

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A bad decision. An alien treasure. A mistake that could destroy the galaxy…

Hudson Powell is a freelance starship pilot with no prospects, but a hunger to prove himself. So, at thirty-eight years old, he decides to turn his life around and join the Relic Guardian Force as a rookie officer.

That was a huge mistake.

Established to police the alien hulks found on every portal world discovered in the last century, the RGF ensure relic hunters pay taxes on the priceless alien tech they scavenge.

The problem is that the RGF is corrupt, and its a-hole officers are even deadlier than the star scavengers who plunder the wrecks, seeking their fortune.

Fed up with his obnoxious training officer – the most unlikable man in the galaxy – Hudson quits and enters the exhilarating world of the relic hunters, where he meets the intoxicating and deadly mercenary Tory Bellona.

But the discovery of a mysterious crystal will set events in motion that cannot be undone. An alien power of planet-destroying force, lost and wandering for eons, is about to be awakened.

And Hudson is to blame.

People stopped asking where the alien wrecks had come from. People stopped asking who created the interstellar portals, and why.

Hudson will discover that some alien relics are best left buried.

Firefly meets Indiana Jones in this epic sci-fi action-adventure with a unique alien invasion twist. Combining Star Scavengers and Star Guardians, this epic ten-book set covers the complete voyages of relic hunter, Hudson Powell.

– Ten books with 4,300 global 5-star ratings as a single boxed set! –

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Featured Fantasy: The Skeleton in the Closet (Southern Ghost Hunter Mysteries Book 2) by Angie Fox

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Featured Fantasy: The Skeleton in the Closet (Southern Ghost Hunter Mysteries Book 2) by Angie Fox

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From the USA TODAY bestselling Southern Ghost Hunter series

A haunted library is no place for a girl who can see ghosts, but when Verity Long stumbles on a dead body in the middle of the main reading room, she has to believe someone…even a dead someone…must have witnessed the crime.

Her ghostly sidekick Frankie warns her to stay out of it. The very alive, very handsome deputy sheriff, Ellis Wydell, inadvertently places her directly in the middle of it. And her ex-fiancé, Ellis’s brother, is back with an agenda of his own.

Undaunted, Verity presses forward, uncovering scandalous secrets, long-forgotten ghosts, and a shocking trail of clues that places her directly in the path of a killer.

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Featured Sci-fi: The Pike Chronicles Books 1 – 10 by G.P. Hudson

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Featured Sci-fi: The Pike Chronicles Books 1 - 10 by G.P. Hudson

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The Sol System was conquered and humans lived as slaves for 500 long years.

Now, after years of brutal warfare, humanity has been liberated. Liberation, however, comes at a cost, and the Sol System has become nothing more than a puppet state for a vast galactic empire.

For Jon Pike, a war hero who has lost everything, there is no substitute for freedom. He blames the aliens for humanity’s troubles, especially the one living inside him.

But when he is sent on a top secret mission into unexplored regions of the galaxy he discovers that humanity’s troubles are just getting started.

Can he find freedom for himself and humanity?

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Featured Fantasy: Luathara (The Otherworld Series Book 3) by Jenna Elizabeth Johnson

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Featured Fantasy: Luathara (The Otherworld Series Book 3) by Jenna Elizabeth Johnson

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Burdened by a secret legacy. Beloved by a fearless warrior. Hated by the Celtic goddess of war and strife. Meghan’s conflict with the Morrigan comes to a breathtaking conclusion in a final, epic battle between good and evil …

“Ah, but what is a sacrifice worth if it is not given from our hearts? It is worth nothing, Meghan, if there is nothing to lose. That is what makes it a sacrifice; that is what allows it to hold its own power.”

Meghan Elam knows she belongs in Eile, but she isn’t quite ready to leave her old life in the mortal world behind. With Cade on the mend after a recent brush with death, and her mortal family aware of their daughter’s true identity, everything seems lined up for her to make a smooth transition into her new life in the Otherworld. But the Morrigan – a volatile Celtic goddess of immense power – has not yet given up on her chance for revenge.

As Meghan struggles to find her place in Eile, secrets from a past she knows nothing about well up and threaten to tip the scales even further. And when the Morrigan vows to bring a war down upon the Otherworld, she finds herself stuck in the middle of an epic battle, one that promises to destroy all that she holds dear.

Celtic lore blends beautifully with the modern world in this dark, young adult paranormal romance fae fantasy series. One-click to start reading today!