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Featured Fantasy: Grimm Rose (Once Upon a Curse Book 1) by Kasi Blake

August 26, 2023 by M Gockel

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Happy endings are optional.
If she steals Cinderella’s glass slipper, she gains her freedom.
If she fails, she loses her life.

A Beauty and the Beast/Cinderella retelling with elements of both exciting stories intertwined. Familiar favorites and interesting new characters you will fall in love with are cleverly woven together to make a story you won’t soon forget. Get ready for a tale of powerful magic with an enemies-to-lovers, slow burn romance, plenty of action, and surprising plot twists.

At sixteen, Shayne should be attending parties and giggling over boys. But half-ling servants—half faerie and half mortal—aren’t allowed to have fun. Her destiny is to serve the royal family until she dies. It’s a bleak existence with no way out… or so she thinks.

When a runaway bride chooses death over marriage to the pudgy prince, the Ivory Queen shoves the cursed engagement ring onto Shayne’s hand and announces that she will take the dead girl’s place. Marriage to the Toad? She’d rather die.
Seeing her reluctance, the queen offers her a choice. She can marry the prince, or she can steal Cinderella’s glass slipper. Swiping a shoe from Cinderella’s last living relative sounds easy.

Then she meets Cinderella’s son. It’s hate-at-first-sight for both of them. He has magical powers, a bad attitude, and a deep thirst for vengeance that rivals her own. Stinking troll!

Aric refuses to let her have his mother’s glass slipper. She tries reasoning with him. That doesn’t work. She gives him a sob story about a fictional sister locked in the queen’s dungeon. He doesn’t even blink. By his own admission, he has a heart of stone. Nothing can sway him.

In what she sees as an act of cowardice, he spills sugar and orders her to count each crystal. Her knees buckle. She hits the floor hard. There isn’t anything she can do.

Their hatred for the queen is the only thing they have in common. Can they put their loathing for each other to the side long enough to destroy the Ivory Queen and save the faerie realm?

“I am totally sucked into this world. The action is fast-paced, the way I like it. A real page-turner.” –Author Bryna Butler

This is the first book in the Once Upon a Curse series. Revenge meets Once Upon a Time (tv shows), and will appeal to both fairytale retelling lovers and straight up fantasy fans.

Featured Fantasy: Cursebreaker: The Complete Series by JT Lawrence and MJ Kraus

August 22, 2023 by M Gockel

Expected to be 99¢ on August 25, 2023
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Green witch. Potion mistress. Cursebreaker. Assassin.

Asha Viridian Rook is all of these things, but when she wakes up in hospital with thirty-six stitches in her head, she has no memory of any of them.

According to the medical team, the damage to her skull was catastrophic, but Asha surprises them with her lightning-quick healing.

When the unnervingly attractive detective Armstrong arrives to arrest her for murder, she runs … but she doesn’t get very far.

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On the other side of the city, a woman in a strange trance tries to jump off a bridge, causing a massive pile-up on the highway and killing dozens of people.

Nicola Landau had no apparent reason to jump, and no prior record of mental illness.

The court sends Nicola to Riverside Asylum, a cruel and creepy psychiatric institution – where her real problems begin.

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Asha begins to explore her home and her life, gradually learning the truth about who she is and who her friends are – an excommunicated witch, a loyal werewolf, a greasy goblin, a dwarf fairy godmother – but it’s only when she attends her coven meeting that she understands how important her job really is.

Asha is The Cursebreaker, the one whose job it is to restore balance in the Realm.

The attack that almost killed her was only the beginning. It becomes clear that there is a price on her head and the bounty hunters, dark wizards known as the Dusk Reapers, will be happy to deliver it.

With the help of a werewolf, a goblin, a grimalkin, and her hot detective, Asha must break into the nightmarish asylum to save Nicola Landau from the curse that’s devastated her life.

But will they reach her in time?

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With more twists and turns than you can shake a wand at, this is a dark magic mystery with humor, adventure, and a whole lot of heart.

Fans of Patricia Briggs and Ilona Andrews will burn through this brand new addictive urban fantasy series.

Read the entire series now!

Featured Science Fiction: Last Stand The Complete Series by Joshua James

August 21, 2023 by Carolynn

99¢ as of August 21, 2023
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SOMETHING HAS FOUND US.

In a distant future where humanity has colonized the stars, settlements are suddenly going dark.

When deep space trackers Gunnison Creek and Uma Salvo begin to investigate, they are swiftly scapegoated and forced to go on the run.

Before long, a chilling conspiracy begins to emerge, one that threatens humanity — and all life itself.

With the help of a teenage runaway, a celebrity technologist, and a motley assortment of fellow trackers with little respect for authority, Gunn and Salvo begin to fight back.

But faced with an ancient and seemingly invincible enemy, that might not be enough.

As the walls close in, survival may lie in the one place that has been forgotten for generations.

A place called Earth.

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★★★★★ “Space opera that reads like a pulse-pounding thriller.”

★★★★★ “I could not guess where this story was going. Wonderful characters and twists and turns!”

★★★★★ “It made me fall in love with space stories!!”

★★★★★ “Fantastic non-stop action and a delicious amount of sarcasm.”

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Includes all 8 books in the series (Over 2,000 pages):

Galaxy Run
Friendly Fire
Calypso End
Bygone Star
Infinite Grey
Outward Sky
Starlit Path
Beyond Sol

Featured Fantasy: The Resurgence of Light (The Light of Darkness) by Catrin Russell

August 20, 2023 by Carolynn

$1.99 as of September 7, 2023
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Despite miraculously avoiding an eternity of darkness, Samael teeters on the brink. The High Priest might be gone, but his taint still claws at the demon’s mind.

The Prime is struggling to resist the feral, unable to keep the state contained while the priestess desperately searches for a way to aid him. But the taint is seemingly impossible to cleanse, and Anaya’s efforts only lead to more unanswered questions.

She begins to doubt her prophesied fate.

Anguish engulfs the couple as they face their most merciless challenge yet. Unrest abounds within the Panther tribe, and foreboding rumours surface, threatening to bring the House of Fahd to its knees.

The callous grip of peril is not limited to demons, for, in the wake of a madman’s quest for vengeance, the champions of Light are left adrift. The Priesthood is shattered, the Temple village is left in ruins, and the priests find themselves in a world overrun by demons. Survivors attempt to gather in resistance, but they do not know where to turn.

Until they receive the most unlikely summons.

The Light of Darkness delivers an epic fantasy tale dripping with dark undertones and a touch of romance.

Buy now to continue the engaging tale of Anaya and Samael.

Featured Fantasy: The Path of Salvation (The Light of Darkness) by Catrin Russell

August 20, 2023 by Carolynn

99¢ as of September 7, 2023
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The stench of death in the interrogation cave no longer disturbs the High Priest. Nor do the horrific screams of the demons within.

He drives his priests with fanatic fervour. They gather more prisoners for his demonic experiments and slaughter any demon that gets in their path. Not even young demon children can escape his righteous wrath.

As her beloved Temple village transforms into an army training camp, Anaya finds herself increasingly torn. Especially since her past encounter with the elusive demon Samael has brought unexpected consequences.

She seeks a course to deliverance, to cleanse her blood-stained soul.

Back among his brethren, Protector Prime Samael fights his own battles. Breaking the rules and acting on instinct has cost him dearly. A primordial bond now sings in his veins, and he fights against its unyielding call.

Torn in between resentment, desire and need, he must pave his own path, in pain, suffering and sorrow.

Past horrors return to haunt the present. Ancient prophecies are brought to life. In the centre of it all, two paths forged; one of darkness, another of light.

Where will the Goddess lead them?

The Light of Darkness series is intended for a mature audience, containing sensitive subjects including violence, torture, consequences of sexual abuse, emotional scars, mature language, and steamy scenes.

The Light of Darkness is ideal for readers who enjoy High and Epic Romantic Fantasy with dark undertones. Download to continue the gripping tale of Anaya and Samael.

Featured Science Fiction: Final Life (The Final Life Series Book 1) by Rose Garcia

August 19, 2023 by M Gockel

FREE on Most Vendors on August 19, 2023
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Some pasts are doomed to be repeated.

Seventeen-year-old Dominique thinks her life is over when she’s forced to move across the country during her senior year. All she wants to do is make it to graduation, and then she can move back to Michigan for college. That’s the plan. That is, until her new neighbor pressures her into playing a mystical card game.

And this deck is like no other.

With one touch of the cards, Dominique plunges into a vision of a crimson desert inhabited by a dark presence with murderous intent. She desperately tries to convince herself it’s all in her head, but the images refuse to be ignored. And when the apparitions include hints of past lives, Dominique realizes the darkness is really after her. Not only in her visions, but also in her reality. If she’s to survive, she must discover the secrets hidden in her past. If she doesn’t she’ll be dead. For real.

SOMETHING HAS FOUND US.

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