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Featured Fantasy: The Seven Kingdoms Books 1 – 9 Box Set by Cordelia Castel

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Featured Fantasy: The Seven Kingdoms Books 1 - 9 Box Set by Cordelia Castel

99¢ as of March 2, 2023
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An enchanted staff. An anti-magic regime. An escape into a world of fairytale villains!

Sixteen-year old Cendrilla has two choices—and they could both mean death:

Become the seventh dead wife of a murderous ogre or escape into a badlands of cutthroats and bandits and trolls.

Armed with just her wits and a powerful and illegal brand of magic, she must reach the safety of the capital’s tall walls.

If she succeeds, a handsome prince awaits. But will Cendrilla make it to the ball on time?

The Seven Kingdoms contains books 1-9 from the action-packed fantasy series. If you like damsels who defy distress, magical creatures, and surprising twists and turns, then you’ll love Cordelia Castel’s page-turning adventure!

Featured Fantasy: Persephone (The Underworld Saga Book 0) by Eva Pohler

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Featured Fantasy: Persephone (The Underworld Saga Book 0) by Eva Pohler

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Unrest brews among gods and mortals alike when Hades makes a deal with the Fates to end his loneliness in the Underworld.

But when Persephone proposes to conspire with him in a plot against Demeter, things get out of hand. Find out the truth of how Hades and Persephone met and fell in love and the impact it had on the rest of the pantheon in the throes of the Trojan War.

Learn how their children–Hypnos, Thanatos, Megaera, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Melinoe–came into being. Discover why they were assigned their respective duties as Sleep, Death, the Furies, and the goddess of ghosts. Find out the real reason why the Olympians possessed such profound disdain for these Underworld gods.

This prequel to The Underworld Saga is more than a retelling of the Persephone myth. Many more of the ancient myths are woven together to reveal the conflict, tension, and relationships among the gods in one of the most beloved pantheons in human history.

Persephone can be read before or after The Underworld Saga.

*Formerly called The Gatekeeper’s Bride

Featured Fantasy: Extreme Medical Services Book 1 – 3 by Jamie Davis

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Featured Fantasy: Extreme Medical Services Book 1 - 3 by Jamie Davis

$1.99 as of February 26, 2023
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Monsters, Paramedics, and Street Medicine

Save 40% over individual books

New paramedic Dean Flynn is fresh out of the academy.

Then he learns his patients aren’t your normal 911 callers.

With patients that are vampires, werewolves, fairies and more, will Dean survive his first days on the new job?

Will his patients?

Come along now with Extreme Medical Services, a supernatural medical thrill-ride with the paramedics of Elk City by best-selling author and real-life paramedic Jamie Davis.

Jump on the ambulance with Dean, Brynne and the rest of the team.

Click and get Extreme Medical Services Vol 1-3 now.

Featured Science Fiction: Regrets Past (Stories from the Collaborator Series) by Krista D. Ball

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Featured Science Fiction: Regrets Past (Stories from the Collaborator Series) by Krista D. Ball

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“Each and every time you choose mercy, you are choosing to stay yourself a day longer.” – Tobi Rowe

This collection contains brand-new short stories and novellas set in the Collaborator world, including three post-Rebel adventures.

The Trouble with Chance (short story) – An escape from the Corps, during The Fall. With a little help from a friendly neighbourhood terrorist.

Incubator (short story) – As it turned out, Jupiter Station was crawling with terrorists, and they all needed a way out. Now. And for Sara Smith, she would do anything to finish her contract, and gain her freedom.

Unexpected Gifts from Unexpected Places (short story) – Payton Livy discovers a rather lucrative, and dangerous, surprise onboard the ship Tobi traded him after blowing up Jupiter Station.

Just a Bit More Tinsel (short story) – Rebecca discovers it’s Christmastime and throws a party. Just one problem: no one knows what Christmas is.

In Search of a Good Heart – In this post-Rebel novella, the gang know they are walking into a trap. But there is a Blackout ship out there, and it might have the one piece of equipment the gangs needs to keep Tobi alive. Oh, and they still have to deal with a certain spy.

The History of Bombs and Stealth – In this post-Rebel novella, Tobi Rowe and Payton Livy are arrested for disturbing the peace. While waiting for their lawyers to earn their retainers, they reflect on their past regrets for having loved one another.

Featured Fantasy: Snow White Collection (A Glass Slipper Adventure Book 4 – 6) by Allie Burton

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Featured Fantasy: Snow White Collection - A Glass Slipper Adventure Book 4 - 6 by Allie Burton

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White as snow and evil as ice. Who is the real Snow White?
Three full novels in this twisted fairytale book bundle tell her story.

Snow Wicked White –What if she chose to stay out of the fight, but when she’s forced to help the enemy, her betrayal wakes a sleeping giant? Destiny Snow is the last known banshee in the kingdom and under the regent’s orders she forced to track majiks to steal their power. When she makes a major mistake, several important resistance leaders are captured, including her childhood crush, Stone.

Snow Warrior White – What if finding others like her costs her the one she loves? Destiny planned to fight in the battle with the prince, but she’s kidnapped by a secret banshee clan. She believes there’s safety in numbers and she’s finally found other banshees. But when she comes into her full powers, it releases a cataclysmic force no one can control.

Snow Witching White – What if she must learn to control her unusual magic or risk destroying the kingdom, and her friends? Destiny is caught in the middle of a power struggle between witches and warlocks. Both sides fight over the greater force controlling their world, a force that works against her, a force that prophesized she’d destroy the kingdom.

“An excellent sequel that is spellbinding and magical and wickedly good.” – Reviewer

Book Review: Whatever You Do, Don’t Run by Peter Allison

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Book Review: Whatever You Do, Don't Run by Peter Allison

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This was just loads of fun, written by a nerdy Australian animal lover from the Sydney suburbs (apparently they aren’t all action heroes, who knew?) If you love animals, and want to go on a book escape to Africa, with a charming narrator, get this. It’s a love letter to the African animals, and to the people of Botswana. It also offers a chapter that is a moving biography of Seretse Khama, the once king, later prime minister, later president of Botswana, who is largely responsible for making a land-locked country in Southern Africa a success story. This book is funny and poignant by turns.