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Featured Fantasy: Warlock of Muscovy (Sun War Trilogy Book 1) by Brien Feathers

August 27, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Warlock of Muscovy (Sun War Trilogy Book 1) by Brien Feathers

FREE as of August 27, 2023
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When words fail, bring out the guns, swords, and death spells.

Marina is the daughter of Tsar Alexander the Cruel, the most powerful warlock. She’s also a princess of the Court of White Rose. The only problem is that she’s mundane—she has no magic.

On her sixteenth birthday Marina fled from her father’s tsardom to the revolutionist side of Muscovy, and five years later she’s doing all right, working as a seamstress in the United Workers’ Factory. Despite the political police, the never-ending witch hunt, and her best friend living as an orange cat, she’s happy. She gets along with her cottage mates and is even seeing a guy… until the city blows up, she’s implied in the sabotage, her guy turns out to be an enemy, her friends are murdered, and an alchemist maniac hunts her down for a blood vendetta.

With the Red Army and the Alchemist Federation on her heels, Marina runs back to the Court of White Rose, but when death follows her home she must uncover a prophecy, reconcile with the warlock, and stop an oncoming war. It’s a tall order for a seamstress.

The first book in the Sun War Trilogy, this intensely dark tale of magic and mayhem is full of grey characters that blur the line between good and evil.

Content warning for strong language, graphic violence, and intimate situations.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Brien Feathers, Sun War Trilogy, Warlock of Muscovy

Featured Science Fiction: Midnight Wings: A Science Fiction Retelling of Cinderella (Rove City Book 1) by Ariele Sieling

August 26, 2023 by M Gockel

Featured Science Fiction: Midnight Wings: A Science Fiction Retelling of Cinderella (Rove City Book 1) by Ariele Sieling

FREE as of August 26, 2022
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In El’s fantasies, she pilots a fighter jet for the intergalactic fleet. In reality, she’s a mechanic whose social grid ranking guarantees she’ll never advance beyond the lowest grunt work, and a slave in all but name to her cruel and self-centered stepmother and stepsisters. The most she can hope for is a few stolen moments of happiness practicing on her sisters’ flight simulators, or talking to the mysterious stranger she met on an illicit night of stargazing.

When the queen announces a competition to find new pilots for the fleet, El knows this is her chance to escape. But her stepmother will never let her compete—and then she learns that her new friend, the one person she thought she could trust, was hiding a secret that changes everything between them.

It’s a good thing she has a lot more friends than she thinks she does.

Exciting, fast-paced, and hopeful, this science fiction retelling of Cinderella is the first in the Rove City series.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Ariele Sieling, Midnight Wings, Rove City

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

August 26, 2023 by M Gockel

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

New Release
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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.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Grimm Rose, Kasi Blake, Once Upon a Curse

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

August 22, 2023 by M Gockel

Featured Fantasy: Cursebreaker: The Complete Series by JT Lawrence

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.

***

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.

***

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?

***

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!

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Curse Breaker, JT Lawrence, MJ Kraus

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

August 21, 2023 by Carolynn

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

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

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Joshua James, Last Stand

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

August 20, 2023 by Carolynn

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

$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.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Catrin Russell, The Light of Darkness, The Resurgence of Light

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