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Featured Science Fiction: Traitor (Collaborator Book 1) by Krista D. Ball

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Featured Science Fiction: Traitor (Collaborator Book 1) by Krista D. Ball

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Seven years ago, Rebecca St. Martin took the coward’s path to save her skin.

She has lived with that decision, eking out a life as an indentured servant on a space station far from home.

Only now, fate has decided to give Rebecca another chance. A ghost from her past plans to execute a daring rescue from the prison bowels of the station Rebecca now works. Rebecca has to face the same decision she made all those years ago.

Could she watch her friends be murdered? Or could she, just for once, be a hero?

Featured Fantasy A Dream So Wicked: A Sleeping Beauty Retelling (Entangled with Fae) by Tessonja Odette

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Featured Fantasy A Dream So Wicked: A Sleeping Beauty Retelling (Entangled with Fae) by Tessonja Odette

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A vicious rivalry.
A forbidden desire.
A curse only her enemy can break.

After twenty years stuck in a fae convent with no word from whoever abandoned her there, Briony Rose is all out of hope. But when her parents suddenly claim her and reveal she’s a lost fae princess, she’s burdened with the weight of a kingdom on the brink of collapse. To secure her family’s precarious position, she must marry a wealthy human stranger. She would have done her duty with pride…if it weren’t for Thorne Blackwood.

Thorne Blackwood harbors three things: a secret name, a love for baked goods, and a long-standing plan for revenge on the family that destroyed his own. Briony Rose—a woman born to be his nemesis—provides the solution. With a single touch, he controls her. And through that control, he tricks her into triggering a curse that sends her family into one hundred years of enchanted sleep.

But Briony isn’t the soft princess he expected her to be. She’s just as sharp and cunning as he is, and when she traps him in a bargain to reverse her family’s curse, he has no choice but to join a tense alliance. He too stands to gain from her plans, for if they break the sleeping spell, his own family will return from their forced slumber.

To accomplish their goal, they must cooperate on one task: pair Briony with a husband who will make her parents proud. It should be easy. Thorne has connections while Briony has wit and beauty. What neither of them expects is the forbidden desire that burns in their darkest hearts…

ACOTAR meets Kingdom of the Wicked in this standalone fairytale retelling of Sleeping Beauty. If you like enemies-to-lovers romance where the villain gets the girl, you’ll love this swoon-worthy story in the Entangled with Fae series.

Featured Science Fiction: Molting of a Queen (A Vol’kris Chronicles Sci-fi Novella) by Peter J. Foote

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Can a new world heal an old wound?

Nina Carson is a part of a health & safety team and wants nothing more than to curl up with a bottle of wine to drown out the voice of her long-dead twin brother.

But when the team’s helicopter hits a mysterious storm and falls through a hole in the sky, it crashes on an alien world ruled by insects, and everything changes.

Survival in this alien world requires more than finding water & shelter. It also means Nina must learn to trust her own instincts — even when they go against all she’s ever learned. Because something in this strange world is trying to make a mental connection with her, and its intent is unknown.

If you like lost worlds, daring adventure, and unique aliens, you’ll love Molting of a Queen, the latest sci-fi adventure from author Peter J. Foote

Featured Fantasy: A Thief in Fashore (The Farshore Chronicles, Book 1) by Justin Fike

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I’m Charity, and before I saved the world I was just a common thief.Also a drunk, rabble-rouser, harlot, and blasphemer according to the magistrate who sentenced me to ten years of forced labor in Farshore, the emperor’s new colony across the great sea. You’d think that stepping off of a prison ship on the ass-end of the world was bad enough, but everyone in Byzantia has heard the stories…

The pioneers who first settled this strange new world discovered horrible monsters, wild magic, and mythic creatures in the hills and forests beyond the city walls. Turns out all those nasties we didn’t believe in were waiting on the far side of the world to eat us for lunch.

A smarter girl than me would have kept her head down until she figured out which end was up. But how did I spend my first day in Farshore? Assaulted the governor, offended the gods, and got myself sentenced to fight in the bloody games of the arena before sundown.

I survived Byzantia’s tangled streets by thinking fast, running faster, and never letting anyone get too close. But I soon realized that I was going to have to do the one thing I’d sworn I’d never to again if I wanted to survive long enough to make it home…trust someone.

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