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Featured Fantasy: Book of Never by Ashley Capes

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Featured Fantasy: Book of Never by Ashley Capes

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Adventure? Check. Magic? Check. Sarcasm? You bet.

After years of running down dead-end clues, the rogue Never has nearly given up his quest for answers; his blood is cursed and his true name a mystery, yet no library, no healer, and none who claim to know dark magics have ever been able to help.

Until he steals a map to the mysterious Amber Isle, which might just hold the answers he needs.

But Never isn’t the only one who wants the map – an old enemy, Commander Harstas, also seeks it, and Harstas craves revenge for the deaths of his men.

Forced to flee through a war zone, Never soon stumbles across a group of treasure hunters hoping to discover the wonders of the Amber Isle for themselves. But the deeper they venture into the Isle, the more deadly it grows.

Trapped between the greed of the treasure hunters, cunning traps in the Isle itself, the threat of Harstas’ fury and his own desperation to finally uncover answers, Never must find a way to unlock the Isle’s ancient secrets and escape – or perish without ever learning the truth.

Featured Fantasy: Never (The Book of Never Amber Isle Prequel) by Ashley Capes

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Featured Fantasy: Never (The Amber Isle Prequel) by Ashley Capes

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A nameless rogue. A priceless treasure map. An abundance of bad choices.

The rogue Never wants two things—his blood curse lifted and to know his true name. He’s hunted down every relic and clue only to end up empty-handed. Until he hears of a treasure map to a sunken city full of potential answers.

Getting his hands on the map might prove to be Never’s most dangerous heist yet. When the city is invaded in the middle of his caper, Never trades stealth for brute force to save the map before it burns along with the city.

But his violence has consequences. As he makes an enemy of the invading commander, can Never survive long enough to secure the map as well as his getaway, or will he go down in flames?

Never: Prequel to The Amber Isle is the thrilling prequel novella to the epic fantasy series The Book of Never. If you love charming rogues, daring heists, and epic quests, steal a glance at Never: Prequel to The Amber Isle!

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Featured Science Fiction: Galactic Empires by Multiple Authors

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Featured Science Fiction: Galactic Empires by Multiple Authors and Patty Jansen

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Seven full-length novels of adventure, war, intrigue and survival in the far reaches of space.

The Backworlds by M. Pax
A man struggles to survive in the harsh world of humanity’s outer settlements and prove his father wrong.

Ambassador 1: Seeing Red by Patty Jansen
To look an alien superior in the eye is a deadly offense. To accuse him of a political murder…

Alien Hunters by Daniel Arenson
A scruffy alien pest controller faces an alien threat the likes of which the universe has never seen.

Hard Duty by Mark E. Cooper
Hostile aliens nearly eradicated humanity. Will the next encounter finish the job?

Bypass Gemini by Joseph Lallo
A disgraced racer pilot gets mixed up with a mega-corporation. Now he has to stop them.

Sky Hunter by Chris Reher
Sent to a human outpost to investigate sabotage, a pilot finds more trouble than she bargained for.

First Conquest by David VanDyke
To find a home and keep humanity safe from hostile aliens, Task Force Conquest must fight to

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Featured Science Fiction: Al Clark by Jonathan G. Meyer

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Featured Science Fiction: Al Clark by Jonathan G. Meyer

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Old Fashioned Science Fiction

A thousand specially selected people leave a troubled Earth for a new start on a virgin world many years away. Their starship is state-of-the-art and entirely automatic; its passengers safely sleeping through the long journey. All possible scenarios have been taken into account except one. There is no way to predict sabotage.

Al Clark wakes to begin a new life, alone on a crippled starship with no memory of what transpired to place him there.

It is the beginning of a quest that will take him places he could not have imagined, manage feats he would not have thought possible, and teach him the true meaning of friendship.

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★★★★★ SciFi as it was meant to be – Jennifer Seidler

★★★★★ I have a new (to me) author to add to my favorites – Lesley Wood

★★★★★ SciFi at its best, intrigue, robots, action, mystery, and very witty. Loved it! – Montzalee Wittman

★★★★★ Good old fashioned SciFi – Cenvillager

★★★★★  Reminds me a little of the Sci-Fi of days gone by – jcat-top 500 reviewer

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Featured Science Fiction: Murder on the Intergalactic Railway (The Ritchie and Fitz Sci-fi Murder Mystery Series Book 1) by Kate MacLeod

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For Murdina Ritchie, acceptance at the Oymyakon Foreign Service Academy means one last chance at her dream of becoming a diplomat for the Union of Free Worlds. For Shackleton Fitz IV, it represents his last chance not to fail out of military service entirely.

Strange that fate should throw them together now, among the last group of students admitted after the start of the semester. They had once shared the strongest of friendships. But that all ended a long time ago.

But when an insufferable but politically important woman turns up murdered, the two agree to put their differences aside and work together to solve the case.
Because the murderer might strike again. But more importantly, solving a murder would just have to impress the dour colonel who clearly thinks neither of them belong at his academy.

Featured Sci-fi: The Genesis Machine Boxset by K.J. Gillenwater

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Featured Sci-fi: The Genesis Machine Boxset by K.J. Gillenwater

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The Genesis Machine Box Set includes Inception, Decryption, and Revelation—a gripping sci-fi thriller trilogy.

When Navy linguist Charlie Cutter joins a secret NCIS team, she’s tasked with decoding an ancient text tied to top-secret photos—and a crashed alien pod. The language is familiar. Too familiar. Aliens have landed… and not for the first time.

As more pods appear, some containing human-like survivors, Charlie races to uncover the truth. A child emerges. A saboteur strikes. And secrets unravel—about the aliens, her team, and herself.

Haunted by past failures and drawn to the distant yet magnetic Agent Demarco, Charlie navigates a deadly web of conspiracies stretching from D.C. to the Vegas desert.

When Demarco goes rogue and a terrifying plan is revealed, Charlie must risk everything to decode the final truth—before humanity is changed forever.

Originally serialized on Kindle Vella. Now fully edited and complete.