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Featured Fantasy: Nun of Your Business Books 1 – 3 by Dakota Cassidy

October 10, 2021 by Carolynn

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Nun of Your Business Mysteries Collection Book 1-3

Join ex-nun Sister Trixie Lavender, currently possessed by a demon, her demonic pal Coop, a talking owl, and a cast of quirky characters as they solve mysteries while running Inkerbelle’s Tattoo Shop in the heart of Portland, Oregon!

Books included in this collection:
Book 1 Then There Were Nun
Book 2 Hit and Nun
Book 3 House of the Rising Nun

Then There Were Nun
My name is Sister Trixie Lavender, and I’m an occasionally possessed excommunicated nun. But I have help. My amazing friend Coop—the demon who saved me from an ugly end—remains by my side, loyal and true. She was Hell’s best tattoo artist back in the day, and together with my designs, we’re opening Inkerbelle’s Tattoos and Piercings, right in the heart of Portland’s most darling district, Cobbler Cove.

Of course, our bid to fit in would be a little less rocky if I could help Coop assimilate with humans, keep a lid on our sassy, talking owl, Livingston…oh, and if someone hadn’t killed our landlord on day one—in our shop.

Hit and Nun
My demon buddy Coop and I, along with our sassy talking owl Livingston, have settled nicely into our newly opened shop, Inkerbelle’s Tattoos. We’ve found our groove, our clientele is growing, and everything’s pretty great.

That is, until Portland’s World Naked Bike Ride finds us smack dab in the middle of another murder mystery! Yep, you read that right. Naked people. On bikes. It ain’t pretty. And even less so when a dead, bare biker lands right on our doorstep!

House of the Rising Nun
When we’re invited to a Halloween party at the Peach Street Shelter, how can we resist spending some time with our favorite ex-undercover police officer turned shelter owner Higgs, on a day that involves candy and costumes?

Unfortunately, the day also involves a murder, a spooky urban myth spreading like wildfire among the homeless population about an organ-stealing-madman, and of course, my testy and unpredictable demonic possession…

Join me, Coop, Higgs and the rest of the gang as we relentlessly hunt for answers to the murder of a local dentist and the legend of The Organ Grinder!

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Featured Fantasy: String Magic by Sarah K. L. Wilson

October 7, 2021 by Carolynn

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SHE HAS RENEGADE MAGIC – AND THAT WILL COST HER EVERYTHING.

Aella is the most relentless, determined seventeen-year-old in the Winged Empire’s newest settlement so of course when she manifests magic, it’s a renegade kind – the kind that gets people killed if they aren’t careful.

The only thing that seventeen-year-old Aella ever wanted was to keep raising horses with her sprawling family on the frontier of the Winged Empire.

But when the Winged Empire tests for magic, they’re looking for spirit-birds and Aella doesn’t manifest a spirit-bird – she manifests bees. An angry swarm of bees to be precise.

Furious at her aberration, the Empire snatches her from her home, ransacks her town, and draws her into a world that she hates to her very core.

Until a mysterious revolutionary offers her a deal that could change everything.

Now, Aella must choose – learn to use her new magic to save her family and the entire continent or submit to the Winged Empire and watch everything she loves crumble.

Empire of War and Wings is a dramatic, fast-paced, young adult fantasy series by USA TODAY bestselling author Sarah K. L. Wilson, featuring sweeping battles, tantalizing magic, sweet romance, and an epic fantasy story that will compel you to keep reading to the very last word. Start the adventure today!

Featured Sci-fi: The Moon and Beyond by John E. Siers

October 7, 2021 by Carolynn

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Ian Stevens, director of the Deep Space Research Institute, isn’t interested in conducting research just for the sake of research. While the rest of the world—including the U.S. government—thinks that’s the DSRI’s sole mission, Stevens is actually interested in more—he wants manned space travel and the colonization of the moon.

With NASA defunct, few scientific probes are being launched, and no one even talks about human spaceflight anymore. Stevens is out to change that. A billionaire in his own right, Stevens has assembled a crew of the best scientists and engineers he can find, and the DSRI is secretly building and testing gravity-powered spacecraft.

There’s just one problem—the project would be widely condemned worldwide, especially since there’s no government supervision. Everything they do has to be kept out of sight and away from the prying eyes of the NSA, Homeland Security, the IRS, OSHA, and a half-dozen other government agencies. They’ve got the world’s smartest computer on their side, but will it be enough?

As the government gets ever closer to figuring out what the DSRI is doing, Stevens’ plan to establish a permanent settlement on the Moon nears fruition. The race is on—will the government find out and shut down the project, or will Stevens be able to implement…the Lunar Free State?

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Featured Sci-fi: Valkyrie’s Daughter by John E. Siers

October 7, 2021 by Carolynn

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The Otuka are hunting a most dangerous game!

The alien Akara have a secret. They’ve discovered the location of a planet that is home to a primitive human civilization, another ancient “seeding” of the legendary Progenitors. But this planet lies in the territory of the Otuka, spacefaring alien predators who consider human flesh to be a delicacy and the planet to be their private hunting preserve.

Unwilling to confront the Otuka, the Akara have passed the problem to their human allies, the Lunar Free State. Now, the LFS needs to decide what to do about it. Are the “Moonies” willing to take responsibility for an entire planet’s population?

One thing seems certain: a favorite food of the Otuka is about to get much more expensive, as the LFS Marines stand ready to teach the Otuka hunters a hard lesson in the perils of hunting the humans in this part of the galaxy. But no one knows the technology state of the Okuta. Will the Marines be the hunters, or find themselves being hunted in turn?

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Featured Fantasy: Auntie Mags (Maggie MacKay Magical Tracker Book 12) by Kate Danley

October 1, 2021 by Carolynn

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Maggie’s a now an auntie and ready to show this new nugget all the awesomeness of being a World Walker. But when the child is kidnapped as part of an ancient prophecy, Maggie and Killian must save the kid before nap time means a permanent sleep. The creatures of the Other Side are about to get a hands-on lesson in why you don’t mess with the MacKay girls.

Auntie Mags is Book Twelve in the Maggie MacKay: Magical Tracker series.

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Featured Fantasy: The Seeker’s Shadow by Isadora Brown

October 1, 2021 by Carolynn

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The most dangerous being in Wonderland wants Alice, but he won’t tell her why

It’s not because she’s daughter of the police chief – Rumpelstiltskin has his own dark magic he uses to his advantage, especially when the desperate want to make deals with him.

It’s not because she has her own magic – in fact, Alice is the only human in a world of magic, which means she doesn’t have a magical bone in her body.

And it’s not because she’s special – in fact, she has no idea who she is other than the fact that she was adopted by Paul Winter when she was a baby.

She has nothing to offer the Imp – and yet, he makes her an offer: help him uncover the truth behind her best friend’s murder and he’ll help her unlock who she really is.

Alice has no idea how she is supposed to help him and he’s not saying anything either. But she can’t refuse him, even if she wants to. The truth is too important to her – even if it means forcing herself to trust someone as mischievous and as selfish as Rumpelstiltskin himself.

With the grittiness and mystery of Veronica Mars and the magic and romance of Once Upon A Time, The Seeker’s Shadow is a captivating urban fantasy mystery readers are sure to be enchanted by!

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