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Featured Fantasy: Eat, Drink, and Be Scary (A Ravenmist Whodunit Paranormal Cozy Mystery Book 1) by Olivia Jaymes

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Featured Fantasy: Eat, Drink, and Be Scary (A Ravenmist Whodunit Paranormal Cozy Mystery Book 1) by Olivia Jaymes

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Welcome to Ravenmist! A tiny Midwestern town with charming covered bridges, quirky residents, delightful antique shops, and more than their share of haunted activity.

It’s time for the annual Fall Festival, and that means the quaint Ravenmist Inn—owned by Theodosia “Tedi” Hamilton—is filled to the brim with out of town guests. It’s her favorite time of the year with all the spooky decorations, sugar-filled candy, and over the top costumes.

The festival doesn’t quite go as planned, however, when one of her guests is found face down in the apple bob. To make things worse, her best friend becomes the number one suspect. Tedi has no choice but to spring into action.

Come join the spirited antics as Tedi deals with an unsolved murder, a shy ghost in her closet, a mischievous spirit in the bookstore, and the handsome new local sheriff who drives her crazy. You see, he thinks all the ghost stories are made up for the tourists. But Tedi knows better, and now so will you…

Featured Sci-fi: Minotaur (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

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Featured Sci-fi: Minotaur (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

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Life has been found beneath the icy shell of the moon of a gas giant orbiting a red dwarf at a distance of 11 light-years from Earth. When the crew of the original exploration mission crashes on the alien moon, a rescue ship is launched. Arriving decades later, the crew of the Kelvin finds a colony of survivors living in the labyrinth of caves beneath the surface of the moon. When people start dying, they realize they need to unravel the secrets of this alien world and the mystery of the minotaur.

The Minotaur is a tribute to the 1961 classic Solaris, written by Stanislaw Lem, and considers the psychological impact of examining an exotic alien life form unlike anything ever encountered on Earth.

FIRST CONTACT is a series of stand-alone novels that explore humanity’s first interaction with extraterrestrial life. This series is similar to BLACK MIRROR or THE TWILIGHT ZONE in that the series is based on a common theme rather than common characters. This allows these books to be read in any order. Technically, they’re all first as they all deal with how we might initially respond to contact with aliens, exploring the social, political, religious, and scientific aspects of First Contact.

Featured Fantasy : Sense and Scent Ability by Renee George

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Featured Fantasy : Sense and Scent Ability by Renee George

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My name is Nora Black, and I’m fifty-one-years young. At least that’s what I tell myself, when I’m not having hot flashes, my knees don’t hurt, and I can find my reading glasses.

I’m also the proud owner of a salon called Scents & Scentsability in the small resort town of Garden Cove, where I make a cozy living selling handmade bath and beauty products. All in all, my life is pretty good.

Except for one little glitch…

Since my recent hysterectomy, where I died on the operating table, I’ve been experiencing what some might call paranormal activity. No, I don’t see dead people, but quite suddenly I’m triggered by scents that, in their wake, leave behind these vividly intense memories. Sometimes they’re unfocused and hazy, but there’s no doubt, they are very, very real.
Know what else? They’re not my memories. It seems I’ve lost a uterus and gained a psychic gift.

When my best friend’s abusive boyfriend ends up dead after a fire, and she becomes the prime suspect, I end up a babysitter to her two teenagers while she’s locked up in the clink. Add to that the handsome detective determined to stand in my way, my super sniffer’s newly acquired abilities and a rash of memories connected to the real criminal, and I find myself in a race to catch a killer before my best friend is tried for murder.

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Featured Fantasy: It Takes a Thief to Catch a Sunrise by Rob J. Hayes

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Featured Fantasy: It Takes a Thief to Catch a Sunrise by Rob J. Hayes

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“Chases, duels, romance, airships and a fortune to be won or lost.” – Fantasy Book Review

One last job!

Jacques Revou and Isabel de Rosier are at the height of their careers. Of course those careers are as professional charlatans, thieves without peer. With the completion of their final heist, they decide it’s time to retire and settle down. But they have not escaped unnoticed. The king’s spymaster, Renard Daron, has a job for the thieves, one only they can perform, and he does not take no for an answer.

With the threat of destitution and death hanging over their heads, Jaques and Isabel must take on their greatest roles yet, the Baron and Baroness Bonvillain. Can they ferret out the treasonous elements within the government? Can they escape the clutches of the nefarious Seigneur Daron? Can they regain the fortune so unfairly taken from them? And, can they finally complete their one last job?

From award winning author, Rob J. Hayes, comes a story of daring heists, thrilling duels, and villainous spies. It would take a heart of stone not to fall in love with these charming thieves.

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Featured Sci-fi: The 28th Gate Volume 1 by Christopher C. Dimond

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FREE as of March 22, 2025
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With a stolen experimental starship and a pair of advanced synthetic limbs, Hunter isn’t an average bounty hunter.

“A gunslinger adventure with good, clean fun!”

When he accepted the job on a backwater planet, Hunter thought it would be easy. He and his partner just had to track down a missing researcher. But when they find her, she’s fled a quarter of the way around the massive ring of twenty-seven gates and Hunter realizes all is not as he was told.

That simple realization, and Hunter’s drive for retribution, kick off a series of adventures leading to the most important discovery since the fall of the Gate Age—and put him in direct confrontation with the corp he’s been running from for the past 10 revolutions.

Set in a far distant future, The 28th Gate is a series of tales that will appeal of fans who like space marines, space fleets, and military hard science fiction. The series consists of eight volumes spread across four seasons telling the story of Hunter’s struggles against the AAA corporation that created him. Each volume contains six episodic novelettes each with the action, character, and plotting of a complete story all crammed into an espresso-like package, while each season chronicles a different arc in the overall epic.

Join the adventure now in Volume 1!

Featured Sci-fi: The Time Bubble Box Sets Books 1 – 5 by Jason Ayres

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Featured Sci-fi: The Ti0me Bubble Box Sets Books 1 - 5 by Jason Ayres

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Time travel fans will love this innovative and bestselling series – now available in this handy collection which contains the first five of the original Time Bubble books.

1) The Time Bubble
Join the Time Bubble team on their very first adventure, set in 2018, as they stumble upon the means to travel to the future.

2) Global Cooling
Ten years after the events of The Time Bubble, the world is gripped by a catastrophic climate event. Can time travel provide an escape?

3) Man Out of Time
Imagine finding yourself 22 years in the future, cast adrift in a world where your home is no longer yours, your currency is worthless, and you’ve been declared legally dead.

4) Splinters in Time
What would it be like to be lost, not only in time but in a myriad of parallel universes, each eerily similar, yet different from our own?

5) Class of ’92
Relive the 1990s in this thrilling time travel extravaganza! If you were flung back to 1992, what would you do?

Begin your journey today, with each book building upon the last to craft an epic narrative that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Every book in the series will take you on a rollercoaster ride of innovation and ingenuity, presenting fresh, original ideas that push the boundaries of the time travel genre, alongside a rich cast of characters who intertwine throughout.

Two further box sets containing books 6 – 10 and 11 – 15 are also available.