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Featured Fantasy: The Witches of Scotland by Steven P Aitchison

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Featured Fantasy: The Witches of Scotland by Steven P Aitchison

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Get ready to embark on a thrilling journey across the globe with “The Witches of Scotland: The Edinburgh Files,” the highly anticipated sequel to the smash-hit series “The Witches of Scotland: The Akashic Chronicles.”

In the heart of Edinburgh, witches David and Jessica have joined forces with a top-secret agency to unravel the mysteries of the occult, supernatural, and conspiracy theories that span the world. With their unparalleled magical abilities and razor-sharp instincts, this dynamic duo is ready to take on any challenge that comes their way.

From the misty moors of Scotland to the bustling streets of Tokyo, David and Jessica will travel far and wide to investigate the strange and inexplicable events that threaten the fabric of reality. They’ll face powerful supernatural entities, ancient curses, rogue AI programs, and shadowy organisations that will stop at nothing to keep their secrets hidden.

However, David and Jessica are not alone in their fight. With the support of Aunt Gen, Jacqueline and Logan Gordon and a team of expert agents with access to cutting-edge technology, they’ll have the resources they need to crack even the most complex cases. Along the way, they’ll forge new alliances, uncover shocking truths, and confront their own deepest fears and doubts.

As they delve deeper into the heart of each mystery, David and Jessica will discover that the key to saving the world may lie in the forgotten lore of ancient civilisations and the untapped potential of their own magical heritage. They’ll race against time to unravel the threads of a conspiracy that weave through history, all while battling their own growing feelings for each other.

With non-stop action, heart-pounding suspense, and a richly imagined world that blends magic and mystery, “The Witches of Scotland: The Edinburgh Files” is a globe-trotting adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat. So pack your bags, grab your wand, and get ready to join David and Jessica on a quest to save the world, one case at a time!

Featured Sci-fi: Angel City Blues by Jeff Edwards

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Featured Sci-fi: Angel City Blues by Jeff Edwards

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2018 Writer’s Digest eBook Award – First Place Winner for Science Fiction

Another action-packed cyberpunk detective thriller from the award-winning author of ‘Dome City Blues’

Los Angeles: 2065. A wealthy reporter vanishes from her high-security apartment without leaving a single strand of DNA behind. No trace of the victim’s disappearance is recorded on any of the building’s many cameras or security sensors. Her apartment’s memory cores have been destroyed beyond any hope of recovery.

To find the missing woman, Private Detective David Stalin must unravel a crime with no apparent motive, no imaginable means, and no conceivable opportunity. The truth, when he finds it, will blur the lines between pleasure and pain. Between fantasy and reality. Between life and death…

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Featured Sci-fi: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa (Translated by Stephen Snyder)

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Featured Sci-fi: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa (Translated by Stephen Snyder)

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Finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award

A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.

On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young writer discovers that her editor is in danger, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards, and together they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past. Powerful and provocative, The Memory Police is a stunning novel about the trauma of loss.

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American Book Award winner

Featured Sci-fi: The Forever Children by Frank Kennedy

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Featured Sci-fi: The Forever Children by Frank Kennedy

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In defense of forever ….

Bioengineered immortal Exeter Woolsey retires to Aeterna but discovers discontent,  conspiracy, and treason. Unable to reproduce, many immortals question life’s purpose without children. Yet this dilemma pales against the designs of the reclusive alien intelligence that built Aeterna. Exeter’s people face unimaginable change in this thrilling saga.

Featured Fantasy: The Witching Place A Fatal Folio (A Curious Bookstore Cozy Mystery-Book 1) by Sophie Love

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When Alexis Blair, 29, is fired from her book publishing job and breaks up with her boyfriend on the same day, she wonders if life is urging her to make a fresh start. She decides it’s time to pursue her lifelong dream of opening a bookstore of her own—even if that means leaving Boston and accepting a job in a curious bookstore in a small seaside town an hour away.

But the odd shop, Alexis soon learns, is from more than just a rare, occult bookstore. Something strange is going on in the shop’s secret back room, with its eccentric owner, and in the small town itself.

And when a dead body appears, Alexis, with her beloved newfound cat, may find herself right in the middle of it all.

A page-turning cozy, rife with the supernatural, mystery, secrets and love—and centered around a small town as odd and endearing as its shop—A CURIOUS BOOKSTORE will make you fall in love and keep you laughing out loud as you turn pages late into the night.

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Featured Fantasy: City in the Dragon’s Eye (Dragon Reich Book 1) by Jordan Loyal Short

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Featured Fantasy: City in the Dragon's Eye (Dragon Reich Book 1) by Jordan Loyal Short

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Have you or a loved one suffered from magical tumors turning you into a dragon? You may be entitled to a white-knuckled adventure, a hilarious treasure hunt, and a high-stakes race to stop the rise of the Dragon Reich!

To rescue his fellow soldiers from a deadly ambush, Viktor draws too deeply on the power of the Dragon Well, and now an agonizing tumor has begun to change him…one scale at a time.

With the Fatherland defeated, and the Great War at an end, Viktor sets off with a flask in his back pocket and a slice of his mother’s strudel wrapped in a handkerchief. His irreverent quest for a cure will lead him to a remote sanitarium, where Viktor will uncover a mad doctor’s strange experiments, and a mysterious letter.

As a sinister band of dragon supremacists closes in, Viktor races the mustache-twiddling secret society to the fabled Tyrant’s Tomb, beneath the streets of Dannbridge. Deadly traps and cryptic puzzles await, protecting a relic of unspeakable occult power. With every heartbeat the tumor’s corruption spreads. Can a saucy nobleman and a disgraced scholar help Viktor find his cure? Or is it too late to save the city from a mad doctor’s dark designs?

The adventure of Indiana Jones meets the laughter of Dungeon Crawler Carl in a wild romp full of loveable misfits, naughty jokes, and the looming rise of the Dragon Reich!