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Featured Fantasy: Night In His Eyes (The Fae Prince of Everenne Book 1) by Alisyn Fae

April 3, 2022 by Carolynn

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A war of Fae Houses. A Prince waking from darkness. A woman drenched in his blood.

Prince Renaud, my mother’s killer, is waking. The Court has not felt the full weight of an Old One in centuries, and it’s my fault.

I am Aerinne Capulette, Lady of House Faronne, and I will have my vengeance against House Montague and Renaud. But despite the ground war I’ve led since I was a child, we remain locked in bloody stalemate.

If the Prince takes the field against us, he will rip from my mind the secret that will shred any hope for peace, or victory.

He will kill me if he discovers the truth. . .

. . .sweet, foolish child. Your death is not what I desire. I have not waited, watched, and planned for centuries to let something as petty as a halfling girl’s vengeance keep me from claiming what is mine.

To protect you, and to ensure my reign, I will bend you to my will. I will slake this obsession with your blood and tears, and I will yield you to no one.

Let your House protest. Let my Court look aghast. They are nothing.

And you—you are my anchor.

We may be enemies, but your hatred only seduces my darkness.

Night in His Eyes is an adult high heat, slow burn Fae fantasy romance, first in the Fae Prince of Everenne series. This not a standalone and ends in a cliffhanger.

For readers who crave enemies-to-lovers, obsessed dark heroes, murderous heroines and a battle of dark wills and enjoy authors such as Sylvia Mercedes, Sarah J. Maas, Kathryn Ann Kingsley, and Laura Thalassa.

Featured Science Fiction: The Guardian Program (The Terre Hoffman Chronicles Book 1) by Herman Steuernagel

April 3, 2022 by Carolynn

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A program designed to protect us. A malfunction that could obliterate us all.

When the United States comes under attack from an AI program its government built in secret, IT specialist Terre Hoffman learns firsthand how deadly the program can be; with one strike, the machines decimate Terre’s entire family. As Terre comes to terms with the loss, he and fellow robotics consultant Kristopher Klein are assigned to investigate the AI anomalies and bring the bots back under human direction.

Under pressure and under attack, the two experts only have one shot at success—override the network and shut down the Guardian Program.

With everything on the line, Terre must overcome the pain of losing his loved ones in order to stop the war machines from causing absolute and horrific destruction. If they fail, it means handing over complete control to the very machines designed to protect them … but bent on killing them instead.The Guardian Program is the first thrilling apocalyptic entry in The Terre Hoffman Chronicles—a new standalone series expanding the universe of the internationally best-selling Lies the Guardians Tell.

Featured Fantasy: Blood & Ash – A Snarky Urban Fantasy Detective Series (The Jezebel Files Book 1) by Deborah Wilde

April 1, 2022 by Carolynn

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Missing teens. Long-lost magic. Can one determined private eye topple a dark conspiracy?

Detective for hire, Ashira Cohen is having a no-good, very bad day.

When Ash was thirteen, her con artist father disappeared, leaving her with emotional scars and a limp she can’t hide. But she toughened up, determined never to be played again. Is history repeating itself?

First, she’s hit on the head during a stakeout, revealing a mysterious tattoo on the back of her skull.

Even worse? It’s a now-broken ward unleashing dangerous magic that as a Mundane, she shouldn’t possess.

And the icing on this crap cake? Her unruly powers nearly kill her long-time nemesis, Levi, the uptight leader of the magic community. One word from him revealing her forbidden abilities, and everything she’s built will be taken from her… by force.

The only bright spot is that Levi requires her supernatural skills to solve a spree of abductions. After years of being underestimated by him, it’s Ash’s chance at payback and she’s going to enjoy bringing him to his knees—or stuffing him in a body bag.

Crackling with humor and suspense, Blood & Ash features a headstrong heroine tackling paranormal mysteries and an enemies-to-lovers romance.

Featured Science Fiction: Kaine’s Rebellion (Shattered Empire Book 4) by D.M. Pruden

April 1, 2022 by Carolynn

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His ship is lost and his crew is missing…

Oberon is a world at war, torn apart by open rebellion. Hayden Kaine and his ship’s human/AI hybrid, Cora, find themselves caught up in the planetary conflict when their ship, Scimitar, is destroyed, and they are marooned on the planet.

But, is the ship really destroyed?

Damaged in the crash of their escape pod, Cora claims to hear Scimitar calling to her across interdimensional space. Fearing that she is going mad, Kaine must cross rebel held territory to reach the government forces who can give him access to the technology he needs to save his only surviving friend.

But he is conflicted when he learns the unsettling truth about the Confederation his family has served for generations.

Torn between saving Cora and righting a wrong perpetrated on countless worlds, Hayden Kaine must make the most difficult decision of his life.

Featured Fantasy: Fly with the Arrow (Bluebeard’s Secret Book 1) by Sarah K. L. Wilson

March 28, 2022 by Carolynn

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A STOLEN BRIDE. A TERRIFYING BRIDEGROOM. THE GAME THAT WILL DETERMINE THEIR FATES.

I’m a practical girl. I can resign myself to an unwanted marriage – and I had. I just didn’t expect my first potential bridegroom to be murdered by the second and all because I broke the Law of Greeting.

No one warned me the law existed. No one told me breaking it would mean I’d be swept up into the arms of a powerful and beautiful immortal bent on taking me as his sixteenth bride and dragging me off to his strange world. That’s a bit much to ask of a person.

But I’m not the kind of girl to just give up. Not even if it means facing all the strange mystery and magic of this mad fae world with nothing but my common sense. I will not mope in my room, or go crazy, or let myself be killed by one of his rivals. And I absolutely WILL NOT fall in love with him.

Not even when he keeps surprising me with depths and kindness I didn’t expect.

Not even if it turns out he actually might have a good reason for all of this.

After all, he’s had fifteen wives before me and it’s not a case of “the more the merrier.” Especially not now, when it turns out he’s playing a game for the fate of my nation.

Failure in this world will mean the desolation of everyone I love.

The stakes couldn’t be higher. But I have a crafty husband, a severed-head best friend who gives surprisingly good advice, and the common sense my mother gave me, and if that isn’t enough to take on the whole of this fae world … well, they’ll just have to be. That’s all there is to it. Because I’m not dying unless I have a very good reason.

Come along on a wild romantic fantasy adventure with USA Today bestselling author Sarah K. L. Wilson, guaranteed to enthrall, delight, and maybe even surprise you.

Featured Fantasy: Case Files of an Urban Witch Complete Series Boxed Set – An Oriceran Urban Cozy by Martha Carr & Michael Anderle

March 28, 2022 by Carolynn

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Magic is real, but the world isn’t ready to know it. It’s up to the Silver Griffins to keep it a secret. It’s harder than it sounds, especially in Los Angeles.

Lucy Heron is a mom with three kids, and a baker with a happy marriage in sunny Echo Park. She’s also Silver Griffins Agent 485. She has to balance family life, PTA meetings and her secret agent duties. She has a wand and a mission. Can she get it all done?

Grab the complete series boxed set to set off on a magical adventure!

Included in this set is:

Secret Agent Mom
The Mom Identity
One Mom Army
Rogue Mom
Mom’s The Word
Ogres and Mom
Mom’s Got This
A Mom, A Wand, And A Mission

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