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Featured Fantasy: Of Deeds Most Valiant (A Poisoned Saints Novel) by Sarah K. L. Wilson

June 2, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Of Deeds Most Valiant (A Poisoned Saints Novel) by Sarah K. L. Wilson

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Eleven paladins walk into a monastery. Only one knows it’s a trap.

When Victoriana Greenmantle is summoned to represent her paladin order in an unusual quest, the timing couldn’t be worse.

Having just witnessed the horrific death of her mentor, she is barely a paladin at all. Worse, she has a trapped demon on her hands and if anyone discovers she hasn’t quite managed to cast it out, she will be made to suffer consequences worse than death.

The summoning requires Victoriana to journey to the newly revealed Aching Monastery and there to search for and recover the fabled Cup of Tears on behalf of her order.

But her order is not the only one seeking this relic. And her rivals are stronger, smarter, more experienced and just as motivated as she is. Will this cynical paladin have the faith to find the truth?

When Adalbrand Von Menticure is summoned to the Aching Monastery he is unamused. Far from his holy work healing the sick and injured, this quest seems a waste of his time. But when the murders start and he’s thrown together unwittingly with a young female paladin who keeps breaking all the rules and drawing everyone’s ire, he is forced to confront ghosts of his past. Can he push past his guilt to accept this tempting ally?

Together, these two holy paladins may be the only ones who can discover what or who is killing their compatriots and whether the Cup of Tears is really worth the bloodshed and danger within the monastery walls before time runs out and they are trapped forever.

A complicated mission, you say? Oh, but it gets worse, because forbidden love is slowly stalking them both, complicating everything, and leaving them each more vulnerable than they can afford to be in the face of a danger worse than either of them ever imagined.

Will this pair find strength in their strict discipline and holy orders in time to escape, or will they fall before the twin dangers of a rogue killer and an attraction more deadly than the simple risk of death?

This adult romantic epic fantasy stand-alone novel features paladins in all their aspects and is perfect for lovers of T. Kingfisher, Tamsyn Muir and Danielle L. Jensen. Though this book is a part of a collection of books linked by the same world it is a complete story in itself and does not bleed out into the other books in the series.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Of Deeds Most Valiant, Poisoned Saints, Sarah K.L. Wilson

Featured Science Fiction: The Senthien (Descendants of Earth Book 1) by Tara Jade Brown

June 2, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Science Fiction: The Senthien (Descendants of Earth Book 1) by Tara Jade Brown

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Five thousand years in the future, the Earth is dead. A galactic network of terraformed planets, connected by teleportation portals, is populated by the genetically improved Descendants. The original Humans, labeled dangerous and barbaric, are kept under constant surveillance.

In this seemingly peaceful society, Dora Dana Dasnan, a gifted Visionaire, serves the leading race of Descendants by reporting her Visions of the future. But when she witnesses a forbidden Vision — an intimate contact with a Human man — her very life is in danger.

She needs to escape before her masters find out, but in this disciplined and controlled society that is impossible. Just when Dora loses all hope, a teleportation error sends her to a new and astoundingly beautiful world. Soon, she meets the natives, and as she adapts to an alien culture, she also reveals a tightly kept secret of her own.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Descendants of Earth, Tara Jade Brown, The Senthien

Featured Fantasy: Taxing Courtship (The Hands of Destin Book 1) by Jaycee Jarvis

June 2, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Taxing Courtship (The Hands of Destin Book 1) by Jaycee Jarvis

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In a magical realm, an enchanting Lady ensnares a virtuous tax-collector into her dangerous double life.

Lady by day, lockpick by night, Em has some serious misgivings about her latest sneak job. It stinks of espionage, and she’d be more comfortable with straightforward theft. Her intuition proves right when she is confronted by her client, a sweet and sexy mind-reading tax-collector named Quintin. The job turns sour when they are discovered by his blackmailing boss. Posing as lovers to throw off the scent, their passionate embrace haunts Em even as she returns to her brittle facade as a pampered Lady of the Realm.

This double life is further threatened when her criminal contact is thrown in the stocks, leaving her in danger of exposure, and even worse, with no way to support the temple that has been her responsibility since her mother’s death. In desperation, she seeks Quintin out and is horrified to discover he is a Hand of Destin, marked for service to the Troika by a feline familiar. Hands are loyal and true, defenders of the weak, upholders of the law, notoriously honor-bound. In short, everything that she, a willing outlaw, is not.

Despite their differences, the attraction between Em and Quintin only grows stronger, even as she seeks out new ways to earn the beans she needs for her temple. When Em’s father starts talking marriage settlements with a wealthy, but odious, suitor, Em realizes just how much Quintin means to her. But can she find a way to save her temple and still marry her poor but perfect tax collector?

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Jaycee Jarvis, Taxing Courtship, The Hands of Destin 1

Featured Science Fiction: Qualify (The Atlantis Grail Book 1) by Vera Nazarian

May 31, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Science Fiction: Qualify (The Atlantis Grail Book 1) by Vera Nazarian

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The Atlantis Grail has been optioned for development as a feature film series and/or TV series.

You have two options. You die, or you Qualify.

The year is 2047. An extinction-level asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, and the descendants of ancient Atlantis have returned from the stars in their silver ships to offer humanity help.

But there’s a catch.

They can only take a tiny percent of the Earth’s population back to the colony planet Atlantis. And in order to be chosen, you must be a teen, you must be bright, talented, and athletic, and you must Qualify.

Sixteen-year-old Gwenevere Lark is determined not only to Qualify but to rescue her entire family.

Because there’s a loophole.

If you are good enough to Qualify, you are eligible to compete in the brutal games of the Atlantis Grail, which grants all winners the laurels, high tech luxuries, and full privileges of Atlantis Citizenship. And if you are in the Top Ten, then all your wildest wishes are granted… Such as curing your mother’s cancer.

There is only one problem.

Gwen Lark is known as a klutz and a nerd. While she’s a hotshot in classics, history, science, and languages, the closest she’s come to sports is a backyard pool and a skateboard.

This time she is in over her head, and in for a fight of her life, against impossible odds and world-class competition—including Logan Sangre, the most amazing guy in her school, the one she’s been crushing on, and who doesn’t seem to know she exists.

Because every other teen on Earth has the same idea.

You Qualify or you die.

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Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Qualify, The Atlantis Grail, Vera Nazarian

Featured Fantasy: Ruins of Sea and Souls (Fae Isles Book 3) by Lisette Marshall

May 27, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Ruins of Sea and Souls (Fae Isles Book 3) by Lisette Marshall

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“You fell in love with a fae executioner. Did you truly think that would end well?”

With war looming, Emelin’s plan is simple: break the Mother’s bindings while her more diplomacy-minded friends persuade the rest of the world to join their rebellion. Unfortunately, their would-be allies are far too concerned about Em’s exact connection to the feared and hated Silent Death.

They might risk their lives for the world’s only unbound mage, but they’ll never fight for a fae prince’s puppet.

Forced to hide the explosive secret of their love, Em and Creon journey to the plague-cursed continent to learn more about the bindings. But as they face dragons, ruins, and murderous forests in search of the vanished gods, distrust between Creon and their travel companions brings tensions to a boiling point.

And if their love may cost them the victory against the Mother … how will Em ever choose between her heart and her duty?


Ruins of Sea and Souls is book 3 of the Fae Isles series. Like the previous books in the series, it is an adult fantasy romance and features scenes intended for a mature audience.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Fae Isles, Lisette Marshall, Ruins of Sea and Souls

Featured Fantasy: Beyond the Veil (The Veil Series Book 1) by Pippa DaCosta

May 27, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Beyond the Veil (The Veil Series Book 1) by Pippa DaCosta

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The Veil Series starts here. Reviewers say; “Epic!” “A spectacular series!” “Best series EVER!” And it’s now complete!

If your ex is the Prince of Greed, you’d better be ready to raze Hell.

Half demon, Charlie Henderson, is living a lie. Her real name is Muse, and her attempt at a normal life is about to go up in smoke.

After an assassin tries to kill her, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake, Muse must return to the one man she hoped never to see again and ask for help. The Prince of Greed isn’t known for his charity. His price is high and the cost could tear her apart.

Trapped between a scheming Prince of Hell and an assassin with ulterior motives, Muse must embrace the demon inside her if she has any hope of surviving them both.

Complex characters, original, and twists galore. The phenomenal Veil Series is an action-packed, gritty urban fantasy for fans of Ilona Andrews, Lilith Saintcrow, and Jeaniene Frost.

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award 2014 Quarter-Finalist.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Beyond the Veil, Pippa DaCosta, The Veil Series

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