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Featured Fantasy: Tsarina Scholar Woodsman Thief by Cidney Swanson

January 18, 2024 by Carolynn

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.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Cidney Swanson, Tsarina Scholar Woodsman Thief

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

January 15, 2024 by Carolynn

FREE as of January 15, 2024
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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.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Bricks and Murder, Julia Vee, Ken Bebelle, Seattle Slayers

Featured Fantasy: Stakes and Bones (Seattle Slayers 1) by Ken Bebelle & Julia Vee

January 15, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Stakes and Bones (Seattle Slayers 1) by Ken Bebelle & Julia Vee

FREE as of January 15, 2024
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Roxy’s got two hammers, a bit of Breaker magic, and the deathbed promise she made to her father.

The Seattle Slayers, an elite cadre of fighters dedicated to protecting the city, is having their Trials for new initiates. My dad was a Slayer–one of the best. I thought his legacy might give me an edge in the Trials, but I was wrong. If anything, it made them harder on me.

But joining the Slayers is my best chance to save my mom. And, maybe, I need to see if I can fill my dad’s shoes.

The only things standing between me and my dreams are all the other elite fighters and magic users who want their spot on the Slayers too. I will battle them all–fae warriors, river demons, and a vicious animage who hates my guts.

I’ve got my hands full but a certain vampire princeling further complicates my life even as he saves it. He’s powerful, handsome, and deadly–a combination I find hard to resist.

If you enjoy slow-burn romance and rooting for the underdog, cross over to Twilight Veil, where life is cheap and vampire blood spends the best.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Julia Vee, Ken Bebelle, Seattle Slayers, Stakes and Bones

Featured Fantasy: School for Spirits by Aron Lewes

January 14, 2024 by Carolynn

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078YNFD4F?tag=ibrthfi-20

FREE as of January 14, 2024
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Leigh Riley is three weeks away from her high school graduation when she’s suddenly crushed by a truck. She may be dead, but her education is far from over. Seventeen-year-old Leigh is inducted into the School for Spirits, where she learns how to be a spirit guide for mortals.

Leigh meets Alyx, her rebel roommate who just doesn’t care about the spirit guide stuff. Then Leigh develops a massive crush on an absurdly hot Archangel named Jophiel. Finally, she is assigned to a veteran instructor, Taishi Nakamura. The handsome samurai is quiet, strict and private, but Leigh is determined to crack his shell.

School For Spirits is a young adult paranormal romance. Due to some minor language, it is recommended for ages 13+.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Aron Lewes, School for Spirits

Featured Sci-fi: Star Breaker Complete Series Box Set by James David Victor

January 14, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Star Breaker Complete Series Box Set by James David Victor

99¢ as of January 14, 2024
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As a Breaker, she was destined to live a hard life serving the whims of galactic corporations. As an Earth Alliance Marine, she has a chance to change the balance of power in the galaxy. Will she break the galaxy in the process?

A complete series, military sci-fi adventure boxed set from Amazon All-Star author James David Victor

Holly Cropper grew up as a Breaker, mining the outer reaches of space. Now, she’s an up-and-coming lieutenant in the Earth Alliance Marines. Her mission: keep the peace and help humanity survive in the endless darkness of space. When a distress call comes in from a large mining vessel, her orderly world gets turned upside down. What starts with a simple pirate takeover turns into a hostile alien invasion. This Breaker Marine and her small team might be the only thing standing between humanity and annihilation at the hands of ancient aliens.

The Star Breaker Complete Series Boxed Set contains all nine books in the Star Breaker series. If you like fast-paced space adventures with interesting characters who battle aliens, evil corporations, and space pirates, Holly Cropper and her team of Marines are ready to share their epic adventure with you.

Download the Star Breaker Complete Series boxed Set and get started on your next space adventure today!

Books Included: Breaker Marine, Sons of Thor, Martian Invasion, Sun Kisser, Prison Break, Hyperspace, Star Breaker, Mother Ship, and Alien Empress

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: James David Victor, Star Breaker

Featured Sci-fi: Hammerfall by C. J. Cherryh

January 13, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Hammerfall by C. J. Cherryh

$1.99 as of January 13, 2024
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(Available at regular price: Amazon United Kingdom, Germany)

The Hugo Award–winning author and SFWA Grand Master delivers the first Gene Wars novel and “a brand-new universe with brand-new rules” (The San Diego Union Tribune).

In this brilliant novel—possibly Cherryh’s masterwork—the fate of billions has come down to a confrontation between two profoundly alien cultures on a single desert planet.

Marak has suffered the madness his entire life. He is a prince and warrior, strong and shrewd and expert in the ways of the desert covering his planet. In the service of his father, he has dedicated his life to overthrowing the Ila, the mysterious eternal dictator of his world. For years he has successfully hidden the visions of a silver tower that plague him, but when his secret is discovered, Marak is betrayed by his own father and forced to march in an endless caravan with the rest of his world’s madmen to the Ila’s city of Oburan.

Instead of death, Marak finds in Oburan his destiny, and the promise of life—if he can survive an impossible mission given to him by the strange people in the towers.

According to these beings who look like him yet act differently than anyone he has ever known, Marak has a slim chance to save his world’s people from the wrath of Ila’s enemies. But to do so, he must convince them all—warring tribes, villagers, priests, young and old, as well as the Ila herself—to follow him on an epic trek across the burning desert before the hammer of the Ila’s foes falls from the heavens above.

“C. J. Cherryh remains at the top of her game.” —Tulsa World

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: C. J. Cherryh, Hammerfall

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