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Featured Sci-fi: Starship Identity (Protector Jaks Book 1) by James David Victor

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Featured Sci-fi: Starship Identity (Protector Jaks Book 1) by James David Victor

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The endless expanse of space isn’t large enough to save someone from a ruthless enemy.

An epic sci-fi adventure from Amazon All-Star author James David Victor.

August Jaks overcame odds that were thoroughly stacked against him to become an Earth Alliance Protector. When he finds himself in the middle of a murder that just doesn’t add up, he soon finds that things aren’t as straight forward as they seem. Jaks must revisit his past, recruit old allies, and uncover a conspiracy that he has unwittingly been part of since the beginning. Can he find the culprit and uncover a conspiracy that just might topple the entire Earth Alliance and create chaos for all of humanity?

Starship Identity is the first book in the Protector Jaks series. If you like fast-paced sci-fi adventures with high tech artificial intelligence, power suits that give people superhuman power, and an interstellar conspiracy that could spell doom for humanity, Protector Jaks is your kind of hero.

Download Starship Identity and start your next epic space adventure today!

Featured Fantasy: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

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Featured Fantasy: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

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Editors Note: A lovely imaginative book.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Two starcrossed magicians engage in a deadly game of cunning in the spellbinding novel that captured the world’s imagination. • “Part love story, part fable … defies both genres and expectations.” —The Boston Globe

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.

But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance.

Featured Fantasy: Afterlife Calls Book 1 – 3 by K.C. Adams

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Featured Fantasy: Afterlife Calls Book 1 by K.C. Adams

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One mother. One daughter. One haunted town.

Niamh

Widow. Divorcee. Mother.

Retired ghost hunter.

Something has just unleashed dozens of 200-year-old ghosts on my hometown. And my seventeen-year-old daughter wants to be the one to solve the mystery. Isn’t that just great?

Little does she know that a ghost killed her dad. Which is why I really, really don’t want either of us to go near them ever again.

But, of course, she’s my daughter. Stubbornness runs in the family.

So does ghost hunting. If I don’t look into the ghosts haunting the town, I’ll never be able to live with myself if someone else gets hurt.

But how can I when I’m terrified they’ll hurt my family again?

Edie
I never signed up to be a ghost hunter. I was born one.

But my mum won’t let me do it. Which means I can see ghosts, but I can’t actually do anything.

I can’t help them. I can’t help the people they haunt. And, if she had her way, I wouldn’t event talk to them. Ugh.

What’s the point in having magic if you can’t even use it?

I need to prove to Mum, once and for all, that I can do this. The question is, how?

Discover a whole new world of ghosts, magic, and romance in The Ghost’s Call, the first book in a new mother/daughter fantasy series. It’s a little bit spooky, sprinkled with romance, and seriously sarcastic. Perfect for fans of Charmed, Supernatural, Ghost Whisperer, and Lost Girl.

Featured Fantasy: Heartless (Athena Ellison Book 1) by Jocelyn Fox

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Featured Fantasy: Heartless (Athena Ellison Book 1) by Jocelyn Fox

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“An adventure-filled tale of love and magic with a strong central relationship…Fox populates this fantasy tale with a bright cast of characters who ably bring the story to life. “– Kirkus Reviews (Indie)

In the hidden magical Secondworld, the cauldron is about to boil over with intrigue.

Mage bounty hunter Athena enthusiastically slaps her hex cuffs on handsome homicide suspect Kellan Mordigan, only to become the hunted as a necromancer who literally stole Kellan’s heart looks to finish the job and smash the patriarchy while she’s at it…

Athena Ellison, a powerful young mage who spurns her family’s old-money expectations to become a bounty hunter, has a geomancer’s talent for finding things—but sometimes the things that find her first have teeth and a thirst for magical blood. She captures Kellan Mordigan, a mage who’s the main suspect in a triple homicide; and as a bonus, the Mordigans and the Ellisons have been feuding for about a century. But right after Athena tracks Mordigan to a coffee shop and arrests him, they’re attacked by a group of revenants, and even Athena’s supernatural fighting skills barely get them out alive. As much as Athena wants to believe the worst of Mordigan, she’s drawn into the quest to uncover the truth behind the Council’s actions. Amid monsters and mayhem and with Mordigan in tow, Athena must put together a plan to defeat a necromancer who has made a literal deal with the devil and evade the tightening net of the Council’s warrant, all while preserving the secrets of the Secondworld and keeping her world-ending power under control…

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Featured Sci-fi: In Daylight (A Sci-fi Thriller) by Caroline Flarity

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Featured Sci-fi: In Daylight (A Sci-fi Thriller) by Caroline Flarity

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“Invites readers to solve a tantalizing riddle.” —Publishers Weekly/BookLife Editor’s Pick

In Daylight is a sci-fi psychological thriller offering a chilling and intimate take on a phenomenon of global—and cosmic—reach.

It was the reunion she longed for. Then she lost herself.

Mika’s sister Naomi delivered a terrifying and cryptic warning the day she severed ties with Mika and the entire Crane family.

When her ailing father tracks Naomi down in New York City nearly two decades later, Mika decides to confront her sister about the damage she left behind and unravel the mystery of her departure.

After a tense reunion, the two women reconnect, until Naomi shares the secret behind her disappearance—an otherworldly revelation that leaves Mika questioning her sister’s state of mind.

Determined to bring Naomi home, Mika follows her into an increasingly bizarre and shadowy world. A world she might never escape.

Featured Fantasy: Crow Investigations Books 1 & 2 by Sarah Painter

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Featured Fantasy: Crow Investigations Books 1 & 2 by Sarah Painter

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Discover the new star of magical London with the first two books in the bestselling Crow Investigations urban fantasy mystery series.

Omnibus edition includes: The Night Raven and The Silver Mark

The Night Raven: Meet Lydia Crow…

Lydia has always known she has no power, especially next to her infamous and more-than-slightly dodgy family. Which is why she carved her own life as a private investigator far away from London.

When a professional blunder forces her home, the head of the family calls in a favour, and Lydia finds herself investigating the disappearance of her cousin, Maddie.

Soon, Lydia is neck-deep in problems: her new flatmate is a homicidal ghost, the intriguing, but forbidden, DCI Fleet is acting in a distinctly unprofessional manner, and tensions between the old magical families are rising.

  • The Crows used to rule the roost and rumours claim they are still the strongest.
  • The Silvers have a facility for lying and they run the finest law firm in London.
  • The Pearl family were costermongers and everybody knows that a Pearlie can sell feathers to a bird.
  • The Fox family… Well. The less said about the Fox family the better.

For seventy-five years, a truce between the four families has held strong, but could the disappearance of Maddie Crow be the thing to break it?

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