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Featured Fantasy: Fates (I Bring the Fire Part IV) by C. Gockel

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Featured Fantasy: Fates (I Bring the Fire Part IV) by C. Gockel

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The Leader Who Rules Chaos, Rules the Realms…

Two years ago Loki, God of Mischief and Chaos, destroyed a large chunk of Chicago’s financial district and then vanished into thin air. He still has not been found. Odin, ruler of the Nine Realms, is desperate. To find Loki, he sends his son Thor on a dangerous quest to consult the all-seeing Norns. But Thor needs humanity’s help…

Loki’s former lover, veterinarian Amy Lewis, is carrying all of Loki’s memories—but missing some of her own. Hoping to keep Loki from Odin’s machinations, she agrees to help Thor on his journey.

Bohdi Patel’s memory was wiped by Loki’s mischief. He thinks Amy and Thor are both crazy to want anything to do with Loki. But he needs to find his parents, and he’s been told the Norns will answer any question—for a price.

When Chaos is the goal, only one thing is certain: Amy and Bohdi are about to get into worlds of mischief.

Featured Fantasy: I Bring the Fire Parts I, II, III & In the Balance by C. Gockel

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Featured Fantasy: I Bring the Fire Parts I, II, III & In the Balance by C. Gockel

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The special Kickstarter edition of the USA Today Bestselling I Bring the Fire Omnibus—with Illustrations by me! I’ve been sharing illustrations of the characters with my fans on Facebook for years, they asked me to compile them, so I did.

For those of you unfamiliar with the plot … Sometimes the hero is the wrong guy at the right time. Sometimes the hero is drunk.

When Amy prays for a savior, Loki Norse God of Mischief and Chaos isn’t who she has in mind. Loki can’t resist Amy’s summons, but he can insist she help him outwit Odin, ruler of the Nine Realms. Can Amy trust a so-called God of Mischief? With a powerful evil calling him from beneath the Chicago’s streets, can Loki even trust himself?

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Featured Sci-fi: Rogue Stars 7 Novels of Space Exploration and Adventure by Multiple Authors

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Featured Sci-fi : Rogue Stars 7 Novels of Space Exploration and Adventure

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Sometimes you have to go Rogue …

Jump into seven full-length novels exploring the last great frontier. Rogue Stars has alien invasions, artificial intelligence, galactic intrigue, and heroes that will defy orders to do what is right.

Blast off to new worlds. Download this collection today.

About the Books:

Archangel Down – C. Gockel
Commander Noa Sato doesn’t believe in aliens. She’s wrong. In the face of genocide she must hatch a daring plan with a ragtag crew to save the lives of millions—and her own. Every step of the way she is haunted by the final words of a secret transmission: The archangel is down.

Betrayal – Pippa DaCosta
She is programmed to kill. He’ll do anything to survive.
In a world where only one thousand synthetics were built, synthetic #1001 should not exist. She is no ordinary synth and the memories locked inside her code could bring the entire Nine systems, an ex-con Captain Caleb Shepperd, to their knees.

Quantum Tangle – Chris Reher
A deep cover agent fights to keep the enemy as well as his own people from taking control of a strange alien that has invaded his ship, his mind and his life. It’s high adventure in deep space where the voices inside your head are all too real.

Starshine – G. S. Jennsen
Space is vast and untamed, and it holds many secrets. Now two individuals from opposite ends of settled space are on a collision course with the darkest of those secrets, even as the world threatens to explode around them.

Hard Duty – Mark E. Cooper
In the far future, nanotechnology will be all that keeps us alive in a brutal war with the Merkiaari. Into this war-torn galaxy a courageous Marine, an alien geneticist, and a broken hero will unite in common cause to oppose the coming onslaught.

Ambassador 1 – Patty Jansen
In Coldi society, you can get killed for looking a superior in the eye. Never mind accusing him of murder.

Lunar Discovery – Salvador Mercer
Alien technology has been discovered on the moon, and NASA scientist, Richard “Rock” Crandon must lead a desperate race to get there before America’s rivals. But it isn’t just the fate of Earth that is at stake in this exciting adventure.

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Book Review: Nightwings the Complete Collection by Robert Silverberg

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Book Review: Nightwings the Complete Collection by Robert Silverberg

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“Roum is a city built on seven hills. They say it was a capital of man in earlier cycles. I did not know of that for my guild was Watching, not Remembering …”

So begins Nightwings the Hugo award winning novella by Robert Silverberg, and the first of three novellas in this collection.

It may be because I’d recently read Rome A History in Seven Sackings (entertaining and recommended) and The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes (enlightening, but dry in some places), but whatever the reason, I was instantly charmed. The book was well worth a read, especially if you like sci-fi that is optimistic, as I do. Yes, history does rhyme, but I don’t think that all is hopeless. There have been improvements in the human conditions, and both non-fiction books I just mentioned will bear witness to that.

I liked it enough to even read the forward by the author. Nightwings was written in 1968, when the country was in turmoil at home, and in Vietnam aborad, and Mr. Silverberg’s own life was in chaos, as he’d lost his studio (It had burned down along with all his reference books–even with Wikipedia and Google, that would be painful. Granted, I don’t have a studio, just a corner and a bookshelf, but still, I get it.)

The hero and heroine in Nightwings experience doubt of history and science, and come face to face with alien invaders bent on domination. The solution wasn’t the typical, but it was believable, and hopeful.

The version of the story I’m linking to is the collection that contains Nightwings, Among the Rememberers, and The Road to Jorslem. You can purchase Nightwings on its own, but I couldn’t find the other two novellas. I would recommend just buying the whole collection at Amazon US, United Kingdom, Nook, Apple, GooglePlay, or Kobo (available in KoboPlus). Or you can borrow the collection on Everand.

Featured Fantasy: Nine Lives Magic Mysteries Books 1 – 6 by Danielle Garrett

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Featured Fantasy: Nine Lives Magic Mysteries Books 1 - 6 by Danielle Garrett

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“Have you ever wished your cat could talk to you? If so, allow my story to be your cautionary tale.”

Over 1,500 pages of snarky fun! The purr-fect series for anyone who wanted to adopt Salem from Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

Cora Hearth’s life was going just fine by most standards. She ran a successful business in a tight-knit magical community and lived just a few blocks from a beautiful lake and a series of hiking trails.

Then Selene showed up.

According to some magical code, Cora inherits her aunt’s ancient familiar: a grumpy ten-pound cat with a broken filter. Selene fancies herself something of a saber-toothed tiger and claims to have wrestled the thread of her ninth life away from the Fates themselves—although Cora is pretty sure that last part isn’t true.

Almost positive.

Cora still needs to read through the magical fine print, but in the meantime, she’s stuck as the guardian of a talking cat with the personality of Sophia from the Golden Girls. Oh, and by another cruel twist of fate, her ex-husband has just moved back into town.

Cora’s plate is already overflowing, but when a murder rocks her small community, she winds up entangled in the investigation and has to work to clear the name of a handsome stranger.

If only life came equipped with a rewind button.

**This boxed set contains the first six books in the Nine Lives Magic Mysteries series by Danielle Garrett. These paranormal cozy mysteries are full of whimsy, magic, mystery, and a touch of romance!**

Featured Fantasy: Wicked Witches of Shadow Woods Book 1 – 9 by Sara Bourgeois

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Featured Fantasy: Wicked Witches of Shadow Woods Book 1 - 9 by Sara Bourgeois

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Reva Brennan is a witch unlike any other.

She owns The Dimidio Inn, a haunted hotel that’s been in her family for generations.

With her best friends, Cyrus the Victorian ghost, and Pistol, a snarky tabby kitten that will never grow up, at her side, life is pretty good.

That is until a dead body turns up at the cemetery next door to the inn. A dead body in a cemetery might not sound so bad, but this one was murdered.

Come along as Reva solves crimes one spell at a time.

This omnibus contains books 1 – 9 of the Wicked Witches of Shadow Woods series.

Witch Hunt
Spooky Business
Nobody’s Purrfect
Dizzy Spells
Curse the Dark
Claws of Murder
Potion Problems
Charm Offensive
Tragic Magic