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Featured Sci-fi: The Jovian Universe by Kim Catanzarite

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Featured Sci-fi: The Jovian Universe by Kim Catanzarite

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They Will Be Coming for Us. In this gripping sci-fi drama, Svetlana Peterman has met her soul mate in Andrew Jovian, a young astronomer who works for Starbright International, the aerospace company his wealthy parents own. Once married, they make a home in Kirksberg, Pennsylvania, a small town famous for a UFO sighting that occurred in the 1960s. Svetlana is, for once, truly happy, except that Andrew’s family is strange, and not in a normal-strange kind of way.

Preoccupied with only two things—the night sky and carrying on their family lineage—the Jovians lack social skills and often pry into Svetlana’s personal life. Her intimidating mother-in-law demands she get busy fulfilling her reproductive duty to the family, and Andrew’s eccentric uncle seems to be able to read her mind.

Feeling bullied and wanting a career before motherhood, Svetlana takes precautions but ends up pregnant anyway. But that’s the least of her worries when she discovers the Jovians have a monumental secret that will change her fate (and that of her child’s) forever—a secret so powerful, it could alter the course of mankind.

They Will Be Coming for Us is a BlueInk Notable Book and a five-star Readers’ Favorite contest winner. It is the first book in The Jovian Universe series.

Featured Sci-fi: Yestertime Series by Andrew Cunningham

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The handwritten note was in a dusty trunk that sat in a cave untouched for 150 years. What did the words mean? When journalist Ray Burton finds the trunk near the Arizona ghost town of Hollow Rock, his life changes in an instant.

Something in the trunk shouldn’t be there.

This begins a dangerous journey of discovery bordering on the impossible. A discovery that will affect the past, the present, and the future.

Featured Fantasy: Virginia Creeper (Mystery House Series: Book 10) by Eva Pohler

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Featured Fantasy: Virginia Creeper (Mystery House Series: Book 10) by Eva Pohler

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Colonial Williamsburg has secrets.

During the holidays, Ellen, Tanya, and Sue want to go to the most Christmassy town in America, which Google says is Williamsburg, Virginia. While they’re enjoying the magnificent light display at Busch Gardens and touring Colonial Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown, they sense someone following them. They quickly realize the creeper is not among the living.

At first, their efforts to communicate with this unknown entity provide no answers. Little do they know that he will share his message on his own terms, in his own way. The unsettling truth he shares will rock their world, but it may give them a chance to bring peace to dozens of American Revolutionary War heroes who have been lost for centuries–that is, if they can convince the creeper that they are on his side.

If you can’t get enough of Karen White, Heather Graham, Bobbie Holmes, or Jana Deleon, then this “perfect mix of fun and scary” paranormal mystery is for you!

The books in this series can be read in any order.

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Featured Fantasy: Elven Shadow (Court of Rebellion Book 1) by Kathrin Hutson

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Featured Fantasy: Elven Shadow (Court of Rebellion Book 1) by Kathrin Hutson

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An elven prophecy. An unwanted crown. And a shifter who ruins it all…

Joining the underground organization of magical vigilantes known as Shade was supposed to help Rebecca Bloodshadow keep her head down, reinvent herself, and hide in plain sight. Sweeping the criminal garbage off the streets was supposed to be an added bonus…not the greatest threat to her plans.

When a mission goes terribly wrong under incompetent leadership, Rebecca’s first mistake is to react. Her second mistake is becoming part of the coup herself, succeeding, and being voted in as Shade’s next leader. That was not the goal, but she can’t refuse the position now. Not if she wants to keep her past—and her identity as the Bloodshadow Court’s elven heir—a secret from all of Chicago.

Not so easy now thanks to Maxwell Hannigan, the shifter who distrusts her just enough to start digging into the truth of her past.

Despite blocking his attempts to expose her secrets, Rebecca finds herself entangled in a battle of wills with the shifter—and the infuriatingly hot-and-cold attraction growing between them. As pieces of her old life catch up to her in the Windy City, though, destiny and duty and prophecy all come knocking with a vengeance. Rebecca’s still determined to define her own destiny, but can she pull it off no matter how much blood winds up on her hands?

Fans of Charlaine Harris and Patricia Briggs will love this next action-packed Urban Fantasy Adventure set in International Bestselling Author Kathrin Hutson’s Accessory to Magic Universe.

Featured Sci-fi: A Heritage of Stars by Clifford D. Simak

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Featured Sci-fi: A Heritage of Stars by Clifford D. Simak

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A man hunts for lost knowledge in a future society that’s reverted to a primitive tribal state in this novel by the author of Way Station.

More than a thousand years have passed since humankind intentionally destroyed its treacherous technology, choosing to revert back to a primitive tribal state. In this society the rusting brain cases of long-inert robots are considered trophies, and the scant knowledge that has survived is doled out to an inquisitive few in monastery-like “universities.” It is at one such center of learning that young Tom Cushing first reads of the legendary “Place of Going to the Stars,” rumored to exist on a high butte somewhere in the western part of the land. Driven by enthusiasm and an insatiable need to track the myth to its source, Tom sets out on an amazing trek across what was once called “America,” teaming up with a witch, the world’s last remaining robot, and other odd companions. But all the astonishing discoveries and dangers they encounter along the way will pale before the revelations that await them at journey’s end.
 
Clifford D. Simak, award-winning science fiction Grand Master, offers a breathtaking vision of the future that is both dystopian and hopeful in equal measure. In A Heritage of Stars, he boldly displays the heart, intelligence, and awesome imaginative powers that have established him as one of the all-time greatest authors of speculative fiction.
 

Featured Fantasy: Reclaiming the Fire by Alicia Wolfe

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Featured Fantasy: Reclaiming the Fire by Alicia Wolfe

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Jade McClaren is a thief with a mission … and a secret.

Half human and missing her secret other half, Jade makes a living in New York, stealing magical items from bad guys.

But when one wrong move attracts the attention of powerful enemies, she’ll be forced to team up with a relentless Fae Knight that is as much her new partner as he is her enemy.

Now Jade must contend with vampires, demons, witches, and more before what’s happening in post-Fae New York destroys the Fae Lords…and maybe the world itself.

Dragon Shadow is the first volume of an exciting urban fantasy series for fans of Patricia Briggs and Ilona Andrews.