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Featured Fantasy: Demons & Bounty Hunters—The Kalos Aeon and Ruby Callaway 6 Book Super Collection by D.N. Erikson

July 15, 2025 by Carolynn

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Six full-length novels.
Two complete series. And 100% snark.

THE HALF DEMON ROGUE: Kalos Aeon has survived for 7,000 years by adhering to a simple code. But saving the world from destruction may require him to break it.

RUBY CALLAWAY: set in the same world twenty years later, Ruby Callaway discovers that even being the world’s best bounty hunter doesn’t mean much when you’re trapped behind bars.

This collection contains two complete urban fantasy trilogies – six full-length novels set in the same world: Demon Rogue, Blood Frost, Moon Burn, Lightning Blade, Shadow Flare, and Blood River.

Featured Fantasy: Witching Hour Books 1 – 3 by Christine Zane Thomas

July 14, 2025 by Carolynn

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A powerful heroine over forty.

On the eve of her 40th birthday, Constance leaves her old life behind. She moves in with her odd grandmother in Creel Creek, Virginia… but nothing is as it seems.

Under the sleepy surface, the small town is teeming with supernatural beings. Constance discovers she comes from a long line of witches. And on the day she hits the big 4-0, she’ll come into her powers.

When she finds the town’s resident vampire dead, things go from surreal to scary. The local sheriff is convinced that a killer is lurking in the shadows, hunting anyone with supernatural abilities…including witches like her.

Read this page-turning mystery and two more full-length stories as Constance proves you can find your power at any age.

This boxed set includes:
Midlife Curses
Never Been Hexed
Must Love Charms

Featured Fantasy: The Spirit Girls (A Rylan Flynn Mystery Book 1) by Dawn Merriman

July 14, 2025 by Carolynn

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“OH MY GOD! I have found my new addiction! I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS BOOK!!… I was hooked… I am just buzzing from this!” Zooloo’s Book Diary

I’m Rylan Flynn. I hunt for ghosts and restless spirits, and solve the mysteries that make them haunt the living.

I’ve learned to live with my “gift” but sometimes I long to escape. My aunt’s cabin, deep in the woods, is usually peaceful. But this time I can feel that something is different.

The ghost of a young woman approaches through the trees. She leads me to her body, then vanishes into thin air. With a flood of horror I realize she was murdered.

A killer is at work and my abilities could be the only way to prevent further deaths. But handsome Detective Ford Pierce makes it very clear he doesn’t want my help.

And any unexplained knowledge of the case could make me the perfect suspect.

When another body is discovered and blood at the scene points to my family, I race against time to untangle a web of dark secrets. But can I find answers before the killer claims another victim?

A heart-pounding mystery with a touch of romance, The Spirit Girls begins a new series of paranormal thrillers that are impossible to put down. If you love urban fantasy or psychic thrillers by Heather Graham and Wendy Wang, this book will grab you from the first page and never let go.

Featured Sci-fi: Nepenthe Rising (Stars in Shadow Book 1) by John Triptych

July 14, 2025 by Carolynn

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The most lethal pirate crew in the galaxy just met their match.

In the far future, two major factions are locked in a galactic cold war. As tensions mount between the technocratic Union and the genome-harnessing Concordance, both sides anxiously watch for a chance to conquer the other.

The Nepenthe is a pirate vessel, loyal to neither. Led by the enigmatic Captain Dangard, her rough and ready crew includes the cat-like alien Commander Creull, Zeno the immortal synthetic, the dashing Garrett Strand, and Duncan Hauk, a promising young recruit.

Hired by a cryptic employer, the crew waylays a transport ship carrying a mysterious passenger. In due time, this incident sparks the beginnings of an interstellar conflict that could threaten the state of known space.

The first of an epic new sci-fi series, Nepenthe Rising delivers what today’s fans want: detailed world-building, thrilling action, and mind-blowing adventure on a grand scale.

Featured Fantasy: Rune of Thorns (Enchanted Shadows Book 2) by Kelly N. Jane

July 14, 2025 by Carolynn

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For readers who love epic fantasy with prophecy, fae magic, and political intrigue, where duty clashes with desire, and fate is never what it seems. Fans of Wheel of Time, The Queen’s Rising, and The Realm of the Elderlings will feel right at home.

Vengeance has its cost. Now, Rowena must pay.

Haunted by the weight of her loss, Rowena’s path to redemption is anything but clear. A web of deception tears Rowena from Bram’s side, forcing her to learn that trust is as fragile as the throne she lost. No one is beyond suspicion—not even the man who swore to stand by her.

Bram’s secret has been exposed. And now, it may cost him everything.

The governing druids summoned Bram to answer for his actions, forcing his return to a homeland he barely recognizes. What he uncovers shatters his beliefs, leaving him at a crossroads: upholding his sacred duty or following a path that risks unraveling everything he’s fighting for.

The fate of the realm hangs in the balance, but for Rowena and Bram, the most significant battle lies within. They must confront their deepest fears, challenge their loyalties, and decide whether the love they have found is worth the cost of duty.

Because saving the world may require sacrificing what they need most—each other.

Featured Science Fiction: Qualify (The Atlantis Grail Book 1) by Vera Nazarian

July 14, 2025 by Carolynn

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The Atlantis Grail has been optioned for development as a feature film series and/or TV series.

You have two options. You die, or you Qualify.

The year is 2047. An extinction-level asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, and the descendants of ancient Atlantis have returned from the stars in their silver ships to offer humanity help.

But there’s a catch.

They can only take a tiny percent of the Earth’s population back to the colony planet Atlantis. And in order to be chosen, you must be a teen, you must be bright, talented, and athletic, and you must Qualify.

Sixteen-year-old Gwenevere Lark is determined not only to Qualify but to rescue her entire family.

Because there’s a loophole.

If you are good enough to Qualify, you are eligible to compete in the brutal games of the Atlantis Grail, which grants all winners the laurels, high tech luxuries, and full privileges of Atlantis Citizenship. And if you are in the Top Ten, then all your wildest wishes are granted… Such as curing your mother’s cancer.

There is only one problem.

Gwen Lark is known as a klutz and a nerd. While she’s a hotshot in classics, history, science, and languages, the closest she’s come to sports is a backyard pool and a skateboard.

This time she is in over her head, and in for a fight of her life, against impossible odds and world-class competition—including Logan Sangre, the most amazing guy in her school, the one she’s been crushing on, and who doesn’t seem to know she exists.

Because every other teen on Earth has the same idea.

You Qualify or you die.

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