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Featured Sci-fi: The Aliomenti Saga by Alex Albrink

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Featured Sci-fi: The Aliomenti Saga by Alex Albrink

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“They took everything he loved. Now he’ll take everything they have.”

They destroyed his life. Now they’ve created their worst enemy.

Will Stark had everything—a billion-dollar tech empire, a brilliant wife and son, and a future he’d built from the ground up. Then came the fire. The slaughter. The near-death beating. A brutal, calculated strike… meant for someone else.

It was supposed to be a clean hit. But they missed.

Pulled from the wreckage by a rogue trio with secrets of their own, Will is thrust into a shadow war between rival factions of an ancient society known as the Aliomenti—puppet masters of power, wealth, and human evolution. Their technology defies explanation. Their reach is global. And they believe Will is dead.

He’s not. He’s evolving.

As Will learns to unlock dormant abilities and master forces that blur the line between science and sorcery, he must navigate a deadly new world of espionage, betrayal, and impossible choices. Driven by grief, powered by purpose, he’ll seek the truth behind the Aliomenti’s lies—and become something they never saw coming.

Fast-paced. Mind-bending. Emotionally charged.
Fans call A Question of Will “unputdownable,” “brilliantly plotted,” and “the beginning of an unforgettable journey.”
If you love high-tech thrillers with heart, conspiracies with teeth, and heroes who rise from the ashes, this is the series for you.

Featured Fantasy: Shadows of the Fallen (A Trespass of Angels Book 1) by A.L. Knorr

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Featured Fantasy: Shadows of the Fallen (A Trespass of Angels Book 1) by A.L. Knorr

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Their relationship? Complicated.
Their chemistry? Irresistible.
Their enemies? Biblical.

Petra is the only one of her kind—a telekinetic supernatural with a tragic past, questionable judgment, and the subtlety of a thrown grenade. After spending three years wiping an evil corporation off the map (long story, lots of fire), she and Jesse can finally be free. Then a demon shows up to say, You’re one of us.

So naturally, Petra ghosts. Not because she doesn’t love Jesse. But if she’s tied to something ancient, monstrous, and cosmically wrong, she’ll do whatever it takes to keep it from touching him. Even if that means breaking his heart.

Jesse, meanwhile, does what any genius hacker with abandonment issues would do: ignore common sense and dig through encrypted hell to find her. When a sleek biotech company offers him a job, it looks like the perfect distraction—easy hours, clean code, and no one asking about the girl who left ash and silence in her wake.

But Petra isn’t done being hunted.

As she uncovers her connection to the ancient Watchers—angelic rebels from Heaven—Jesse gets pulled deeper into a web of corporate secrets, divine conspiracies, and an apocalypse that may already be in motion—and Petra’s not just caught in the middle, she is the point.

This isn’t a story about falling for an angel. It’s about surviving one.

A fast-paced supernatural thriller with urban fantasy roots, a gritty romance where ‘I love you’ comes out as ‘don’t die’, and a heroine weaponized by divine design—whether she likes it or not. If you liked Shadowhunters, but wished it had less romance drama and more ancient conspiracies—you’ll love Shadows of the Fallen.

Featured Sci-fi: No Freedom by Inge-Lise Goss

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Can humans survive the android uprising?

Paislee Hobson is born into a world struggling after a war that killed most of the world’s population. Rebuilding has been accomplished through androids developed by and under the control of The Institute. The human population has been divided into strata.

An Artifical Companion

Paislee, a legal clerk, is a member of the upper stratum. Her recent boyfriend dumped her. To avoid another heartache, she purchases a human-looking android companion, Pellegrin. No one suspects Pellegrin is not human. He arouses and satisfies all her desires and is a polished companion and conversationalist in public.

Murder and Missing Persons

When strange things begin to happen around the courthouse, people start acting mysteriously. Some disappear and others are murdered. Pellegrin’s true identity surfaces as he slowly and methodically takes over all aspects of Paislee’s life. She is in turmoil trying to find a way out. The love of her youth appears and she longs for a life that is denied to her.

Can Paislee regain her freedom or is she doomed to a life under Pellegrin’s control?

Featured Fantasy: Reverie (The Hellgate Chronicles Book 2) by Jocelyn Lindsay

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Featured Fantasy: Reverie (The Hellgate Chronicles Book 2) by Jocelyn Lindsay

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Home isn’t what it used to be. Then again, neither is Meg Walker.

After barely surviving the chaos of her return, Meg thought she might finally catch her breath. No such luck.

Destiny’s knocking—and it brought receipts.

An old enemy is stirring up secrets, conspiracies, and enough supernatural baggage to drown a lesser woman.

But Meg isn’t lesser. She’s forty-two, fully loaded, and way past asking for permission.

Lines will be crossed. Truths will unravel. And some wounds? They bite back.

Because the hardest battle isn’t against monsters.

It’s against the version of yourself that survived.

Reverie is a sharp-tongued, high-stakes ride through betrayal, redemption, and unapologetic badassery. Buckle up, buttercup. It’s going to be a hell of a fight.

Featured Fantasy: Moonlight and Storm (Australian Supernatural: High Country Book 1) by Nicole R. Taylor

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Featured Fantasy: Moonlight and Storm (Australian Supernatural: High Country Book 1) by Nicole R. Taylor

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Shapeshifters, conspiracy theories, and an urban myth brought to life. Welcome to the Australian High Country, where secrets and magic lie beneath the melting snow.

After Grace Atkinson’s city life crumbles, she’s forced to move back to her childhood home—the sleepy alpine town of Targangil.
When she arrives, she finds herself in the centre of not only her own family drama, but a flurry of mysterious black panther sightings—elusive predators rumoured to roam the wilderness, but whose existence has never been proven.
But when Grace comes face to face with a black panther in the shadow of a looming storm, she becomes determined to uncover the truth behind the sightings once and for all. But her world is shattered when she witnesses the panther transform…into a human being.
Lawson’s hidden shapeshifting abilities have always been a closely guarded secret, but as his past catches up with him, Grace’s discovery of his true identity exposes them both to danger.
Because he is hunted…and now so is she.

Moonlight and Storm is the first book in the Australian Supernatural: High Country series.
Set in the wild and romantic Snowy Mountains, it tells the story of Grace Atkinson, who discovers a secret world of shapeshifting black panthers…and the evil forces who hunt them.

Featured Sci-Fantasy: First Contact (Eclipsed Evolution Phase I) by Kim Harrison

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Featured Sci-Fantasy: First Contact (Eclipsed Evolution Phase I) by Kim Harrison

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In the wake of the solar eclipse, a portal between our world and a paranormal realm opens—and a scientist’s life will never be the same, in this thrilling serialized adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hollows.

Dr. Renee Caisson knows there are worse things than an attractive man in uniform drafting her into a secret government project—especially when Major Jackson makes it clear that he isn’t bothered by her questionable past. But when her labs come back with decidedly odd results, the Major is forced to come clean over who the government is actually studying. Renee is shocked to learn her subjects are demonic-looking beings who call themselves “Neighbors”—refugees from a dying world, who arrived during the nation-wide solar eclipse.

The Neighbors’ technology is unlike anything Renee’s ever encountered. At first, she dismisses an injury that inexplicably heals as “just one of those things”. And surely August, the most gregarious Neighbor, begins to speak English overnight because of the team linguist’s skills?

Not until August begins evolving in real time to withstand Earth’s brighter, dryer atmosphere does she admit that the Neighbors’ “tech” feels less like science and more like magic—the same magic that brought them here in the first place, and the same they’re trying to rekindle with a mysterious labyrinth in order to return home and save their world.

At least, that’s what August claims they came for…