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Featured Sci-fi: Independent Flight by T.M. Baumgartner

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Featured Sci-fi: Independent Flight by T.M. Baumgartner

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Rose piloted spaceships… until she crossed the wrong owner. Now she’s stuck in the Oligarchy with her cat, working in a salvage yard while trying to fix her ship — though without a cardinal crystal, the hyperspace drives are useless.

When she finds an outlaw AI who claims to have a synthetic crystal, Rose promises to smuggle the AI back to the Independent Federation for a reward.

It’s the perfect solution! If the synthetic crystal works. If her second-hand (possibly stolen) ship doesn’t fall apart. And if they can escape all the people chasing them.

Space opera has never been more fun! Download Independent Flight and start your adventure today!

Featured Fantasy: Dragon Storm (Heritage of Power 1) by Lindsay Buroker

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Dragon Storm Heritage of Power Book 1 Lindsay Buroker

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Born with a secret power he must hide…

Telryn “Trip” Yert has always been a little odd, with hunches that are too accurate to explain. Magic is feared and forbidden in Iskandia, so he’s struggled his whole life to hide his eccentricities. As a boy, he was forced to watch his mother’s execution. Her crime? Witchcraft.

Understandably, Trip wants nothing to do with the power that lurks within him, always threatening to reveal itself. Instead, he dedicates himself to serving as an officer in the king’s army, to battling pirates and imperial conquerors. He longs to become a soldier as respected and renowned as the legendary General Zirkander.

But his country is in need of more than a soldier…After disappearing for over a thousand years, dragons have returned to the world. 

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Featured Sci-fi: A Dead Ship in the Deep Black (Dominion Chronicles The Lyra Cycle Episode 1) by Rene Astle

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Rule number 1: Whatever you do, don’t open the box.

Well, that’s rule number two actually. Rule number one is don’t take salvage jobs from people who’ve tried to sell you to an Antillian bug salesman.

Neara “Tink” Bell is used to a life of odd jobs and even odder crewmates, working as the engineer and all-around fixer on the cargo ship Lyra. But when the ship picks up two new crew members and a salvage job on a third-rate space station, things go sideways in a cosmic way.

Alek Wa is on the run. And he’s pretty sure he can hide amongst the motley crew of Lyra. But that’s not the only reason he’s on-board. He has a mission. If only his minders had told him what it was.

Captain Rebeka Mino just wants to retire with a whiskey and a steamy novel. She’d even let the ship’s cat sit on her lap, provided he keeps his claws to himself. Too bad the ship keeps getting shot at.

And when they arrive at the coordinates for the salvage job, they’re confronted by a dead ship in the deep black.

Can Tink keep the Lyra running despite unexplained accidents? Can Alek outrun the people hunting him? Can Rebeka prevent their pursuers from blowing them up? Most importantly, can they keep their curiosity in check and not look in the box?

Find out now in this rollercoaster ride of a sci-fi adventure!

Featured Fantasy: Snow White and the Seven Shades (Olympus Ever After) by Eva Pohler

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Featured Fantasy: Snow White and the Seven Shades (Olympus Ever After) by Eva Pohler

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SNOW WHITE meets Persephone . . .

Seven shades. One runaway goddess. A fate even the Fates couldn’t foresee.

Fleeing her overbearing mother, Snow White tumbles through a hidden chasm and lands at the gates of the Underworld. Sneaking past Cerberus, she finds refuge among a group of eccentric shades who inhabit the seers’ pit of Tartarus. Though they warn her of Hades’s wrath should she be discovered, Snow White is captivated by the hidden wonders of the Underworld, a place far more enchanting than the bleak prison her mother described. But when the Fates intervene, casting her into an enchanted sleep within a glass coffin, her fate rests in the hands of the very ruler she has evaded.

The books in this series can be read in any order.

Featured Fantasy: The Librarian of Crooked Lane (The Glass Library Book 1) by C.J. Archer

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Featured Fantasy: The Librarian of Crooked Lane (The Glass Library Book 1) by C.J. Archer

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A librarian with a mysterious past, a war hero with a secret, and the heist of a magic painting. THE LIBRARIAN OF CROOKED LANE is an intriguing new fantasy from C.J. Archer, the USA Today bestselling author of the Glass and Steele series.

Librarian Sylvia Ashe knows nothing about her past, having grown up without a father and a mother who refused to discuss him. When she stumbles upon a diary that suggests she’s descended from magicians, she’s skeptical. After all, magicians are special, and she’s just an ordinary girl who loves books. She seeks the truth from a member of the most prominent family of magicians, but she quickly learns that finding the truth won’t be easy, especially when he turns out to be as artless as her, and more compelling and dangerous than books.

War hero Gabe is gifted with wealth, a loving family, and an incredible amount of luck that saw him survive four harrowing years of a brutal war without injury. But not all injuries are visible. Burying himself in his work as a consultant for Scotland Yard, Gabe is going through the motions as he investigates the theft of a magician-made painting. But his life changes when he unwittingly gets Sylvia dismissed from her job and places her in danger.

After securing her new employment in a library housing the world’s greatest collection of books about magic, Gabe and Sylvia’s lives become intwined as they work together to find both the painting and the truth about Sylvia’s past before powerful people can stop them.

But sometimes the past is better left buried…

Featured Sci-fi: Shipwrecked Far From Home the Complete Series by John Walker

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Featured Sci-fi: Shipwrecked Far From Home the Complete Series by John Walker

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Seth Levy thought civilian life would be the easy part. He was wrong.

When a freak accident strands the retired Marine on a brutal alien prison planet, he discovers a galactic conspiracy, a corrupt empire, and an underground rebellion fighting for survival. Forced to navigate a universe of hostile empires, zealot warlords, and bioengineered monstrosities.

Seth is thrust into a conflict that could determine the fate of entire civilizations.

Alongside a misfit crew of rebels, former enemies, and AI allies, he must face mercenaries, monsters, and military forces as they fight to uncover buried truths and ignite a revolution.

The galaxy doesn’t need another hero. But it’s about to get one anyway.

If you like war-hardened protagonists, sprawling space operas, and relentless action, then you’ll love Shipwrecked, the explosive sci-fi adventure series that proves no one cages a Marine for long.

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