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Featured Sci-fi: Betrayal (The 1,000 Revolution Book Once) by P. DaCosta

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WARNING. Rated: R. Restricted. Contains space battles, killer AI, intergalactic ass-kicking. Read at your own risk.

She is programmed to kill.
He’ll do anything to survive.

Ex-con Captain Caleb Shepperd believes being good is overrated. All he wants is to smuggle illegal cargo through the nine systems and live a prosperous (likely short) life on the wrong side of the law.

But there’s a problem with that plan. The priceless synthetic stowaway on his ship is a distraction he doesn’t need.

Torn between selling her and tossing her out the airlock, Shepperd fails to realize the synth is a killer, and he’s the one locked in her sights.

In a world where only one thousand synthetics were built, synthetic number One Thousand and One should not exist. She is no ordinary synth. Memories locked inside her code could bring Shepperd—and the entire nine systems—to its knees.

Captain Shepperd and the oppressive corporations are about to learn that you can’t hide from the sins of your past, especially when that past has orders to kill.

WARNING: 18+ only. Contains adult content, including sex, drug use, violence, and swearing.

Genre: Kick-ass space opera.
Action & adventure.

The Complete Series Reading Order:

#1 Betrayal
#2 Escape
#3 Trapped
#4 Trust
New Season:
#5 Deliverance
#6 Resistance
#7 Vengeance (Finale. Coming soon)

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Featured Sci-Fi: Diving Into the Wreck (The Diving Series Book 1) by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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Kristine Kathryn Rusch Hugo Award-Winning Author - Diving into the Wreck

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Asimov Science Fiction Readers’ Choice, and RT Reviewers’ Choice.

Hurtling through the blackness of space, Boss detects a mysterious blip from an unknown source that sets her heart pounding…

Boss dives derelict space vessels, for money, yes, but more for their historical value. So, when she uncovers the find of a lifetime, she enlists the best divers she knows to help her pursue it—off the grid and under the Empire’s radar.

Boss’s discovery leads her and her team to the Room of Lost Souls. Boss remembers the Room. It haunts her. Her mother died there. Now, a client wants her to go back to help uncover the Room’s mysteries. But the truths they discover might destroy everything Boss holds sacred.

Because the more they discover, the less they realize they know—and the more it will cost them all.

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Featured Science Fiction: The Belt the Complete Series Book 1 – 6 by Gerald M. Kilby

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Featured Science Fiction: The Belt the Complete Series Book 1 - 6 by Gerald M. Kilby

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**Grab all six books of the thrilling BELT series, in this great value 1200+ page sci-fi box set!

Out in the asteroid belt, you’re never far from a rock and a hard place.

Commander Scott McNabb and the crew of the science vessel, Hermes, are three years into a five-year-long survey of the asteroid belt when they discover a derelict spaceship in orbit around a binary asteroid. The ship contains an experimental quantum device, lost while en route to a research colony on Europa.

However, once word of the crew’s discovery gets out, they soon realize that ownership of this technology could fundamentally change the balance of power within the colonized worlds, and they now find themselves at the very nexus of a system-wide conflict.

Their fight for survival plays out across the solar system, from the mining outposts of the asteroid belt to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and from the great Martian city of Jezero to an irradiated wasteland on Earth.

This is an epic tale of humanity’s battle for power and control in a time when artificial intelligence has almost out-paced our own ability to control it.

This box set contains all six BELT SERIES novels:
– Entanglement
– Entropy
– Evolution
– Enigma
– Exodus
– Emergence

What Amazon readers are saying:
★★★★★ ‘Wow. Couldn’t put these books down. All so well written as one story led into the next.’
★★★★★ ‘Awesome Read. I enjoyed this series very much! Couldn’t put it down. Exciting twists and turns.’

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

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

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She must learn to control her unusual magic or risk destroying the kingdom, and her friends.

Destiny Snow hates blackmail, especially when she’s the victim. Yet, the threat leads her to what she’s always wanted—family. With family though, come demands. A requirement to attend the witch academy, where she’s immediately an outcast. A call for her sacrifice. A claim on her heart.

The loyal friends that followed her are outsiders who can’t handle the toxic atmosphere adjacent to the underworld. Now, Destiny is caught in the middle of a power struggle between witches and warlocks. Both sides fight over the greater force controlling the devilish double-dealing. A force so powerful the entire coven could be ruined. A force that works against her and will take Destiny away from everyone she loves. A force that prophesized she’d destroy the kingdom.

Can a powerful mixed majik stop the prophecy written about her before it comes to a Wicked End?

Snow Witching White is the sixth book in the twisted fairytale series A Glass Slipper Adventure. If you like magical heroines, split family loyalties, and ill-fated lovers, then you’ll love Allie Burton’s new installment in this spellbinding series.

Buy Snow Witching White and magically fly into jeopardy!

Featured Fantasy: The Wild Hunt (Faerie Sworn Book 1) by Ron C. Nieto

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The Wild Hunt (Faerie Sworn Book 1) Kindle Edition by Ron C. Nieto (Author)

FREE as of July 28, 2022
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People believe faeries aren’t real. They’re wrong.

Lily Boyd never suspected the old rhymes and children’s games her grandmother taught her were anything but colorful tradition, and when her mother moved the family to Manchester and forbade her from returning to the Scottish Highlands, she nearly forgets the ancient tales. However, when she returns years later, the memories start to trickle back… along with the unexplainable.

When Lily’s grandmother is kidnapped, strange creatures, dark and terrible, invade her home. Her only savior is Troy, a kelpie, a devourer of human flesh, and darker and more terrible than those who would have killed her. He has his own agenda, his own goals. Troy is her only lead, but can she trust him? Can she learn the rules of the fairy game before losing everything she cares about?

Don’t give a faerie your name. Don’t give them your thanks. And never, ever give them your trust… the stakes of the game could be your life.

*EDITORS NOTE: I’ve read all the books in this series. It is EXCELLENT. Pick it up and be enchanted.*

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Featured Fantasy: One Sorcerer and a Sacrifice (The Tarot Societies Book 1) by Cait Ambrose

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Featured Fantasy: One Sorcerer and a Sacrifice (The Tarot Societies Book 1) by Cait Ambrose

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You are cordially invited to the Hierophant Society. Black tie only. Bring your tarot card and don’t ask questions.

The letter has dropped out of thin air into my lap moments after I’ve been kicked out of my apartment. It can’t have come at a better time.

I’ve always had a wicked sense of adventure. And trouble’s basically my middle name at this point.

The black-tie part of the invite? That’s going to be a problem. But a secret society might be interesting, and I’ve got nowhere else to be.

When I’m introduced to the leader of the Hierophant Society—a devilishly handsome sorcerer who can summon fire with a click of his fingers—my normal ‘human’ world is shaken to its core. He’s offering me everything I’ve ever wanted. Adventure, acceptance, a world that’s steeped in intrigue and magic, and a place in his society.

The only question left is what does the ‘society’ want from me?