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Featured Fantasy: The Demon’s Fae (The Four Horseman Series Boxset Book 3) by LJ Swallow

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Featured Fantasy: The Demon's Fae (The Four Horseman Series Boxset Book 3) by LJ Swallow

99¢ as of April 27, 2023
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Read the entire Demon’s Fae series in this discounted box set.
Fast-paced supernatural action, magic, adventure, and a medium-burn why choose romance with three unusual but sexy and devoted guys, all led by a kickass heroine with a very British sense of humour.

HELD BY MAGIC
The London fae court is in turmoil and a demon prince plans to take control.

I make one tiny mistake, and suddenly I’m marked for death, running from demons, and pursued by my fae ex-lover. Who knew stealing a magic box could cause so much trouble?

My skills are more in demand than I realise because three hot demons from a mysterious institute track me down.
Powerful but seductive elemental demon Cillian.

Sharp and guarded djinn Morgan.

And their companion Dex who’s definitely not human and also strangely familiar.

Hook ups aren’t on my agenda, but these guys have some interesting skills to distract me from my imminent death.

ELEMENTS OF MAGIC
A day spent tracking down demon-filled boxes? Frustrating.

Four powerful and sexy men in my life? Distracting.

A night out in a fae drug den? Bad idea.

We’ve discovered a secret alliance between rogue fae and the demon prince—one that could destroy the London fae court. The mysterious and sexy fae the Collector could stop the court’s downfall but is he prepared to step forward and reveal himself?

SHADES OF MAGIC

A demon unleashes. The dark fae return. And a hellhound is missing.

I finally discover why I’m tracked down by a demon—and how I’m connected to these sought-after boxes. But if I have to face any more surprise revelations, I’ll convince myself I’m in one of Morgan’s parallel worlds. There’s not enough whiskey in the world to deal with all this.

Featured Science Fiction: Kyron Invasion The Complete Series by Jasper T. Scott

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Featured Science Fiction: Kyron Invasion The Complete Series by Jasper T. Scott

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THEY HAVE ARRIVED.
2150 AD: Chris Randall just lost his job as a bodyguard. That night, after picking up his wife, Bree, from her shift at a local casino, he breaks the bad news.

Moments later, thunder cracks the sky, but there’s no lightning. Flaming debris rain across the valley, and a dark mass goes sailing out of the clouds, headed straight for LA.

It’s not one of the Union’s starships, because they can’t defy gravity like that. But then what is it?

The answer chills both Chris and Bree to their cores: it’s an invasion.

They have to pick up their kids and get away from the city. But the Randalls soon discover that nowhere is far enough away to keep them safe.

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Featured Fantasy: Ballroom Bits (Hedgewitch for Hire Book 9) by Christine Pope

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Featured Fantasy: Ballroom Bits (Hedgewitch for Hire Book 9) by Christine Pope

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Waltz, tango, foxtrot…murder?

Not much has changed about Selena’s fussy, finicky, magical talking cat, Archie. Except now, instead of roaming Globe’s streets and alleys on four feet. he’s kicking up two very human heels at a ballroom dance competition with his fiancée, Victoria.

Selena couldn’t be happier for her formerly furry friend. Stepping Stars could be the gateway to Archie’s unfulfilled dreams. But when a competitor is found dead in Archie’s costume trunk — sporting some very strange wounds — the future he’s longed for is threatened…because witnesses saw him claws-out with the victim just hours earlier.

Though the evidence is flimsy at best, Selena goes straight to her divination tools to look for clues. Her Tarot cards and pendulum seem to point nowhere, but she’s sure of one thing. Her instincts never lie — and the killer could be using glitz, glamour, and bright lights to cover his tracks.

Book Review: City of Storms (Nightmarked Book 1) by Kat Ross

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Featured Fantasy: City of Storms (Nightmarked Book 1) by Kat Ross

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C’s review: A delightfully complex blend of action, adventure, and romance in a unique fantasy setting. Think post-magic apocalypse “utopia.” If it has any flaw, it is that it might have been written in a serial style and the author wasn’t quite sure how to put the episodes together. The last 1/3 of the book could have been in book 2–erm, I may have had that issue before! It didn’t keep me from stopping at book 1, and I just bought book 3 last night.

Winner of the 2022 Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

A city simmering with repressed urges…

A fallen angel bent on chaos…

And a conspiracy that could destroy them all.

Can one woman harness her own psychic power to stop it?

In a world with three layers of ever darker magic, few dare to wield the most dangerous. And those who try can fall prey to violent madness.

The Church keeps a tight leash on its citizens. It tests every child for psychological deviancy.

If you pass, you’re given a Mark. A tattoo that lets you use the ley power—and shields you from your most primal desires.

For the lucky ones, the world is at their feet. The rest suffer a life of menial jobs and hopelessness.

When tarot reader Kasia crosses paths with a young priest who hunts deviants, her own ugly secret is dragged into the light. Will they learn to trust each other in time to stop a greater evil from corrupting their world?

You’ll love the first book in this epic fantasy series because the lush weaving of intrigue, action and slow-burn romance will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Get it now.

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Featured Sci-fi: Horizon Protocol The Complete Series (Jackson Stone Science Fiction Thriller) by Brandon Ellis and Max Wolfe

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Featured Sci-fi: Horizon Protocol The Complete Series (Jackson Stone Science Fiction Thriller) by Brandon Ellis and Max Wolfe

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Hope you’re well-rested. Horizon Protocol will WRECK your REM cycle!

Eight found dead under futuristic UFO beams…

Artifacts adrift across time in Egypt’s past…

The beginning of the truth intertwines with the Garden of Eden.

Jackson Stone—a ufologist weaponized by a covert agency—questions his murky past. The answers he seeks perch inside a web of lies.

What secrets does his femme fatale partner Agent Alabama Wren hide? Are her uncanny empathic abilities a match for the Others?

Forced to work together, their secret organization assigns Stone and Wren on a mission to prevent a national crisis that uncovers a worldwide conspiracy.

Aliens. Time travel. Mythic sites of religious renown…

…All presumed fictitious. Everything assumed sacred must be scrutinized.

But a rival paramilitary Deep State dispatches dark ops to neutralize Stone and Wren. These ego-crazed men will gladly sacrifice casualties to reshape the world.

If the Horizon Protocol initiates, will it unravel the fabric of reality?

Globetrot alongside this tough-as-nails team on an adrenaline-inducing espionage adventure, spanning the past and present to save the future of humanity.

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Featured Science Fiction: Kaine’s Sanction (Shattered Empire Book 1) by D.M. Pruden

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Featured Science Fiction: Kaine's Sanction (Shattered Empire Book 1) by D.M. Pruden

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Undisturbed for aeons, something has been awakened…

When the UEF Scimitar is dispatched to retrieve an archaeologist from an isolated and abandoned Terran colony, young officer Hayden Kaine thinks it is a routine mission. But when a mysterious accident traps the ship in the quarantined star system, survival soon becomes everyone’s only concern.

Attacked by an unknown alien species, the ship is damaged and half of the crew is killed or injured, including the captain. The only surviving bridge officer, Kaine is thrust into the command seat; a role for which he is neither experienced nor prepared, and which most of the surviving crew do not easily accept.

While the enemy amasses an overwhelming invasion fleet capable of overwhelming the unsuspecting confederation, Kaine must stave off a mutiny long enough to find a way to warn Earth of the danger. If he fails, the empire which has survived for five hundred years will fall and humanity will be doomed to extinction by a foe whose existence seems to defy the laws of physics.

If you love the science fiction works of Heinlein, Clarke or Asimov, try D.M. Pruden’s rousing military space opera adventure, Kaine’s Sanction, the first book in the Shattered Empire series.