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Featured Sci-fi: The Signal by Nick Cook

May 6, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: The Signal by Nick Cook

FREE as of May 6, 2023
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For decades radio telescopes have scoured the skies for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence but have found none. Why? 

Could it be we really are alone in the universe? Or is it that the truth has been withheld from us by a global conspiracy of silence?

When radio telescope operators Lauren Stelleck, a woman with a special gift enabling her to literally see certain sounds, and Steve Andrews, a diehard sci-fi geek, detect a signal like no other at Jodrell Bank in England, a chain of events is unleashed that propels Earth towards all-out nuclear war. Can Lauren and Steve unlock the secret of the signal before our species tears itself apart?

The Signal is a prequel novella to the Earth Song series and the Fractured Light trilogy, and is part of the Multiverse Chronicles, an epic series of interlinked stories that follows the struggle of humanity to survive across parallel universes.

Watch the skies because the darkness is coming for us.

What Readers Are Saying…

★★★★★ “This book was a total blast – a lean, fast-paced, intelligent sci-fi thriller that reads like the very best of classic (and classy) British sci-fi. Taut, contained, with an almost real-time feel to it, it’s a perfect read-it-in-one-sitting page-turner. Will I be back for the follow up books? Oh yes!”

★★★★★ “I am so pleased that I am rather late at this party and the remaining books are already published and I don’t have to wait. That’s it. I have something urgent to do now. Read the next book in the series.”

★★★★★ “What a thoroughly enjoyable short story and a brilliant introduction to the Earth Song series. I came across Nick Cook’s book by accident, and boy am I glad I did. Decided to start with this book first, then move on the Earth Song series. Nick is obviously a very accomplished writer as I stayed up into the small hours to complete this book. A brilliant story with really good characters too. I shall be reading all his books now!”

★★★★★  “Superbly written short story. Great characters and plot with twists and turns on almost every page. A great introduction to Nick Cook’s work!” 

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Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Multiverse Chronicles, Nick Cook, The Signal

Featured Science Fiction: When They Came Book 1 by Kody Boye

May 4, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Science Fiction: When They Came Book 1 by Kody Boye

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I was never afraid of monsters—at least, not until They came: the visitors from outer space.

Six years later, at the age of seventeen, I’m just about to graduate from school and declare my career of choice. The Midnight Guard—who protect our community from the vicious things that lie outside our walls—calls to me, and a shortage of applicants instantly lands me a spot in their ranks.

But when I am bitten by an alien on a supply run, I begin to dream of things not of this world—and will soon find that my life is about to change forever.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Kody Boye, When They Came

Featured Fantasy: Beneath the Canyons (Daughter of the Wildings Book 1) by Kyra Halland

May 4, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Beneath the Canyons (Daughter of the Wildings Book 1) by Kyra Halland

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The gunslinger. The rancher’s daughter. They share the same dangerous secret – magic.

Silas Vendine, mage and bounty hunter, follows a trail of strange, dark magic to the remote Wildings town of Bitterbush Springs. There, he lands in the middle of a violent feud – and discovers that a local rancher’s daughter is hiding a deadly secret.

Lainie Banfrey has been taught all her life that wizards are unnatural creatures with no heart and no soul. If anyone finds out she has magical powers, she could end up on the wrong end of a hanging rope. But when a gunslinger named Silas Vendine arrives in town, searching for the man who has brought Bitterbush Springs to the brink of open warfare, his power calls to hers, and she agrees to help him.

While hiding their magic from the mage-hating townsfolk – and falling for each other, in defiance of the strict laws of the Mage Council – Silas and Lainie must stop the renegade mage who is tearing the town apart, before the dark power he has discovered destroys everyone who lives in the Wildings.

Beneath the Canyons is the first book in the innovative Daughter of the Wildings epic romantic fantasy-western series. If you love magic, adventure, and romance in a unique setting, come discover the wonders and mysteries of the Wildings today!

Contains language, violence, and mild to moderate sensual content.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Beneath the Canyons, Daughter of the Wildings, Kyra Halland

Featured Science Fiction: Open Minds (Mindjack Book 1) by Susan Kaye Quinn

April 27, 2023 by Carolynn

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When everyone reads minds, a secret is a dangerous thing to keep. 

Sixteen-year-old Kira Moore is a zero, someone who can’t read thoughts or be read by others. Zeros are outcasts who can’t be trusted, leaving her no chance with Raf, a regular mindreader and the best friend she secretly loves.

When she accidentally controls Raf’s mind and nearly kills him, Kira tries to hide her frightening new ability from her family and an increasingly suspicious Raf. But lies tangle around her, and she’s dragged deep into a hidden underworld of mindjackers, where having to mind control everyone she loves is just the beginning of the deadly choices before her.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Mindjack, Open Minds, Susan Kaye Quinn

Featured Fantasy: The First Ancestor (Ranger of the Titan Wilds, Book 2) by J.D.L. Rosell

April 27, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: The First Ancestor (Ranger of the Titan Wilds, Book 2) by J.D.L. Rosell

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The best-selling epic fantasy series that began with The Last Ranger continues in its thrilling sequel, The First Ancestor.

She avenged the fallen. Rebelled against an empire. Commanded a titan itself. Now Leiyn must win a war against death incarnate.

Oathbound to a deceased shaman, the ranger Leiyn ventures north with her comrades to fight alongside the Gasts in their ancestral war.

But this enemy is like none other Leiyn has faced. Ancient and malevolent, the very world bends to their dominion.

To overcome them, she seeks to rediscover a secret lost to time. A magic that even dryvans fear.

The true power of titans.

Leiyn must prevail, for the Gasts’ war reaches far beyond the Veiled Lands. Should she falter now, the Gast nation shall fall, and all of Unera will soon follow.

The First Ancestor is the second book in the Ranger of the Titan Wilds series. Continue the tale of adventure, wonder, friendship, and magic in this next installment today.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: J.D.L. Rosell, Ranger of the Titan Wilds, The First Ancestor

Featured Fantasy: Fae Away (Fae Bloodlines Book 1) by Rose Garcia

April 27, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Fae Away (Fae Bloodlines Book 1) by Rose Garcia

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Princess Celyse has two rules she must obey— never touch a portal, and never kiss a human.

Despite being born into the most powerful house in the faerie realm, Celyse dreads her life of duty and obligation. But everything changes when she finds a shimmery portal that offers a glance at the forbidden human realm. If discovered with the portal, it could mean her death. Yet she dares to peek anyway and finds herself face to face with a gorgeous human. Soon, she is visiting her would-be enemy nightly. Until a malicious suitor threatens her life and her kingdom.

Julio can see ghosts— it’s in his blood as the son of a powerful curandera.

With spirits drifting in and out of his life, Julio thinks having visions of an ethereal girl with silver hair is another part of the supernatural weirdness that happens to him. But when the very real girl shows up in the flesh, she brings a dire plea for help. Her faerie realm and his human realm are in danger, and only he can help. His head blares a warning against this deadly path while his heart urges him to do anything to save her. Including risk his own life.

Fae Away debuted as an Amazon #1 New Release!

Fae Away is a breathtaking portal fantasy featuring forbidden love, destined encounters, palace intrigue, and shocking betrayals. 
Fae Away is book one in the Fae Bloodlines Duology. Don’t miss the other books in this epic saga!

Fae Bloodlines Duology
Book One: Fae Away
Book Two: Fae Fractured

Fae Bloodlines Legacy Duology

Book One: Fae Hunted
Book Two: Fae Rising

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Fae Away, Fae Bloodlines Book One, Rose Garcia

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