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Featured Fantasy: Emerge (Immortals of Indriell Book 1) by Melissa A. Craven

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Allie Carmichael has never fit in. People don’t like her. They don’t want to be near her. They don’t want to touch her. It’s one of the many things about her life that just doesn’t add up.
But there are a few things she knows for certain.

  1. Moving across the world in the dead of night is not normal.
  2. Her new friends might know more about her than she knows about herself.
  3. Aidan McBrien is the most insufferable flirt she’s ever met … but she can’t stay away from him.

When Allie awakens to an excruciating pain she doesn’t understand, a latent Immortal power emerges within her, nearly killing her. Now the secrets and lies have fallen away, and she is no longer the awkward, uncertain girl she once was.
She is Immortal.
One of the two most powerful of her generation. Yet death still stalks her at every turn.
With Aidan standing beside her as her equal in power, the task is simple.
Learn to fight.
Hide in plain sight.
Don’t fall in love.

There are dangerous powers at play in Allie’s life, but is death truly a threat to an Immortal?

Don’t miss the chance to be swept away by this highly original, dark and gritty tale of Immortality and fated romance, sure to take readers on an epic journey they won’t soon forget.

Featured Science Fiction: The Disappeared: A Retrieval Artist Novel (Retrieval Artist Series Book 1) by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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Winner of the Endeavor Award

“…one of the top science fiction sagas in recent years.”—Midwest Book Reviews

Whose rules does Detective Miles Flint live by?

Humans and aliens have formed a loose government called the Earth Alliance, with treaties that guarantee humans are subject to alien laws when on alien soil. But alien laws often seem senseless, and minor violations draw outrageous punishments—from death to the loss of a first-born child.

Miles Flint grapples with three cases that have collided: a stolen space-yacht filled with dead bodies, two kidnapped human children, and a human woman on the run to avoid alien prosecution, trying to become one of the Disappeared. Flint must enforce the law—giving the children to aliens, solving the murders, and arresting the woman for running from the legal system. But how can he enforce laws that are unjust? How can he sacrifice innocents to a system he’s not sure he believes in? How can Miles Flint do the right thing in a universe where the right thing is very, very wrong?

This is Flint’s first adventure in the 15-book series, the story that turns him from a police detective in the Armstrong Dome on the Moon into a Retrieval Artist.

“Part CSI, part Blade Runner, and part hard-boiled gumshoe, [Retrieval Artist] Miles Flint would be as at home on a foggy San Francisco street in the 1940s as he is in the domed lunar colony of Armstrong City.”—The Edge Boston

“Rusch has created an entertaining blend of mystery and sf, a solid police drama that asks hard questions about what justice between cultures, and even species, really is.”—Booklist

“It feels like a popular TV series crossed with a Spielberg film-engaging.”—Locus

“The Disappeared is a very readable, very thought-provoking novel that lives up to every expectation we have of Rusch and her considerable talents. Buy and enjoy.”—Analog

Featured Fantasy: Anakisha’s Dragon, Dragon Mage, Dragon Pirate (Riders of Fire Dragon Masters Collections Books 1-3) by Eileen Mueller

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Powerful new players threaten Dragons’ Realm…

The last thing Yanir, the King’s Rider, expects when he visits Fieldhaven on his onyx dragon is an unconscious woman in his arms after midnight. A dragon rider’s life is unpredictable. But then again, so is this girl, Anakisha.
Despite the sparks that fly between them, Anakisha’s not interested in dragons—or him.

Or is she? Yanir has bigger things to worry about. A powerful young dragon mage is rising through the ranks, causing senior mages to hatch assassination plots across Dragons’ Realm.

Another threat is on the horizon as a bloodthirsty new pirate captain and his vengeful sea dragon terrorize the Naobian Sea.
The lives of dragons, dragon riders and hundreds of innocents are at stake. Mages, dragon riders and warriors must unite to battle the pirates.

Their bloody clashes will ripple through Dragons’ Realm for generations.

And unbeknown to Yanir, a lethal enemy from another world will soon rip Dragon’s Realm apart.

Soar on dragon back with the Riders of Fire Dragon Masters wild adrenaline ride.Courageous dragon riders, nail-biting action, dangerous mages, swashbuckling pirates and snarky dragons.

Great for readers of Fourth Wing, Eragon, Dragon School and Dragon Riders of Pern.

Featured Science Fiction: Forsaken Commander (The Aternien Wars Book 1) by G. J. Ogden

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Humanity’s only hope is the commander they spurned.

Once, Master Commander Carter Rose was the Union’s secret weapon. An augmented, bio-engineered officer in command of the most powerful warship ever devised by human minds, Rose brought them victory against the post-human Aternien Empire.

Then they cast him aside.

A century later, living alone on a distant forest moon, feared and forsaken by the people he fought to save, Rose has grown bitter and resentful, while his superhuman body refuses to age.

When Major Carina Larsen seeks his help to save Earth from becoming the last frontier of humanity, Rose is reluctant to return to duty. Until Larsen reveals the real peril: the Aterniens are on the rise again, hell-bent on revenge.

And after a century of peace, the Union has forgotten how to fight.

But even if Rose can recover his marooned warship and assemble a crew, his allegiance is now a valuable commodity — and a secret weapon is only ever as dangerous as those who wield it…

Forsaken Commander is book #1 of the Aternien Wars series, an epic blend of space opera and militaristic sci-fi. Follow an elite crew of augmented officers as they fight a post-human enemy styled on the myths of ancient Egypt.

Featured Fantasy: Unquiet Souls (Project Demon Hunters Book 1) by Christine Pope

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Their chemistry could make their show a monster hit — if the monsters don’t kill them first.

On the surface, psychologist Audrey Barrett is the perfect co-host for Michael Covenant’s new cable series, Project Demon Hunters. She’s smart, articulate, and photogenic as hell.

There’s just one problem. Michael has made it his mission to stay out of her orbit. Thanks to his producer’s stubborn insistence, however, there’s no avoiding her — which means Michael will have to bury his secrets even deeper.

After the tragedy that took her parents more than ten years earlier, Audrey has kept herself on the fringe of the paranormal world. But with her small therapy practice floundering, the money the show’s offering is too good to pass up.

From the moment they step inside a rundown mansion, things start flying: sparks between Audrey and Michael, not to mention furniture hurled by something determined to make sure their investigation fails. Worse, evil seems to have followed Audrey home — and she discovers why the man at her side on camera is the last man she can trust in real life.

Featured Science Fiction: The Armageddon Seeds (Dekker’s Dozen Book 1) by Christopher D. Schmitz

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Dekker Knight has a secret past.
Vivian “Vesuvius” Briggs has a sword and a chip on her shoulder.
Together they run a crew of sanctioned space mercenaries: the Dozen.

During an operation gone wrong, an alien spy steals a seemingly insignificant item: a benign seed found on Ganymede. A secret cult believes it has immense power, perhaps coming from the Garden of Eden itself. If it falls into enemy hands, it could wreak unspeakable evil across the galaxy.

The Dozen fight to keep their debts settled, fuel in their ship, and some equilibrance to their moral ledger. They are more than mercenaries: they are part of a family they’ve chosen—and this seed threatens to tear it apart.

Between a corrupt government, and forces in league with the notorious villain, Prognon Austicon, threats squeeze them from every side. Dekker and Austicon have a vendetta. Vivian’s family and Austicon have a history. Austicon has powerful friends and a superweapon. With the fate of the universe hanging in the balance, can the Dozen swing the pendulum back?