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Featured Holiday Fantasy: Sinister Lang Syne by Colleen Gleason

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Featured Holiday Fantasy: Flight Before Christmas by Christine Pope

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A secret crush.
A New Year’s Eve wedding.
A decades-old curse.
What could go wrong?

Wicks Hollow favorite Iva Bergstrom has finally agreed to marry Hollis Nath. Their wedding is about to take place…but will they make it through the vows?

Event planner Callie Quigley is determined to prove that the Curse of Tremaine Clock Tower is nothing more than a legend, so she proposes Iva and Hollis’s wedding at the site on New Year’s Eve.

Unfortunately, Brenda Tremaine—the ghost that haunts the clock tower ever since she died on her wedding night on New Year’s Eve ninety years ago—has other ideas.

When Ben Tremaine—a guy Callie has crushed on since high school—comes on the scene to help Callie debunk the curse, more than a few sparks fly from the angry ghost, who is definitely her own kind of Bridezilla…

This is a short holiday-themed novel set in Wicks Hollow. It’s spoiler-free and stand-alone. The Wicks Hollow series does not have to be read in order.

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Featured Holiday Fantasy: A Karma Girl Christmas by Jennifer Estep

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Featured Holiday Fantasy: A Karma Girl Christmas by Jennifer Estep

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It’s Christmastime in Bigtime, New York, but society reporter Carmen Cole isn’t in the mood to celebrate since her husband, Sam, has to go on a business trip and might not make it home for the holiday. But Carmen has plenty to keep her busy, since she moonlights as Karma Girl, a member of the Fearless Five superhero team.

On Christmas Eve, Carmen, as Karma Girl, is assigned to guard toys, clothes, food, and more that are intended for needy children and their families. But an ubervillain also has his eye on the toys and plans to steal and then sell them to the highest bidder. Carmen will have to use all her empathic powers just to stay alive, not to mention make sure Christmas is a happy one for all the kids who are counting on her. It’s all in a night’s work for a superhero….

Note: This is a 14,000-word story that takes place after the events of Jinx, the third book in the Bigtime series. It can also be read as a stand-alone holiday story.

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Featured Sci-fi: The Apollo Stone Series by P.M. Johnson

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Featured Sci-fi: The Apollo Stone Series by P.M. Johnson

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EARTH HAS CHANGED. The old world order collapsed following the meteor impacts of 2031 when fire rained down from the skies, instantly vaporizing millions. Billions more died during the Long Winter and resource wars that followed. Over one hundred years have passed since those devastating events and new societies have formed around the globe.

In North America, the fragile peace that exists among the continent’s independent nations and city-states is under threat. The ambitious Grand Guardian of the People’s Republic of America is mobilizing his massive war machine in order to make real his dream of reunifying a former great power. But on the eve of the offensive, a leading scientist dies under mysterious circumstances, though not before he entrusts another with the key to unlocking a secret so powerful, it could not only unravel the Grand Guardian’s designs, but also doom, or save, all of humanity.

The Warrior, The Renegade, and The Conqueror (the final book in the series), now available.

Featured Fantasy: Hunter Circles Series Complete Boxset by Jessica Gunn

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Featured Fantasy: Hunter Circles Series Complete Boxset by Jessica Gunn

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**This is a complete five-book series urban fantasy adventure boxset.**

Bound by duty. Marked by fate.

I’m Krystin Blackwood, and I’ve only ever been good at one thing: killing demons of Darkness.

But at twenty-four, I’m about to face my toughest challenge yet: shifting from working alone to joining a team of three other Hunters. Newbie Hunters. They don’t know their magik, they barely know their place in the world, and when they find out the secrets I’ve been carrying, they’ll definitely decide it’s safer if they don’t know me.

But unfortunately for them—and me—Darkness has other plans. Lady Azar, Darkness’s heir, stole my new team leader’s son two years ago. Now, she and her lackeys are rallying to exchange Ben’s son for me because of the power I wield. I’m one-half of a prophecy to save an ancient city the Powers of Good lost centuries ago. And if I fail or die before that happens, the destruction of that city will be felt across all planes of existence.

If we can’t find Ben’s son before All Hallows’ Eve and somehow save him without putting my life at risk, that existential explosion will absolutely happen. But it’ll be nothing compared to the destruction wrought if Lady Azar changes Ben’s son into a demon… and her minion.

Because the only thing more dangerous than me with a blade is a father’s wrath.

This complete series boxset contains all five books of the Hunter Circles Series: The Hunted, The Traitor, The Changed, The Hero, and The Power. All are full-length 60k+ urban fantasy adventure novels full of non-stop action-packed adventure and demon-fighting, magic, gray anti-heroes, a slow-burn romance, and a story full of heart from the very first page.

Featured Sci-fi: Empire Rising by D.J. Holmes

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Featured Sci-fi: Empire Rising by D.J. Holmes

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It’s the year 2465, two hundred years since the stars were opened to Humanity by the invention of the shift drive. Its discovery began the First Interstellar Expansion Era, catapulting Humanity into a deadly race for the limited resources of navigable space. Now tensions between the Human nations are threatening to boil over into open hostility.

Into this maelstrom steps the exiled Commander James Somerville of the Royal Space Navy. Banished from London to the survey ship HMS Drake, he is about to make a discovery that may change his fortunes and throw Britain into a deadly war with its closest rival. With only his witts and the courage of his crew to see him through, he will be challenged like never before.

The Void War is a military science fiction novel and the first book in the epic twenty-two novel Empire Rising series that charts the rise of James Somerville’s career and Humnaity’s desperate struggle for survial in a hostile galexy.

If you love grand strategy, cunning tactics and large-scale battles, with heroic characters that face many trials and sacrifices, then this series is for you!

“Fans of Honor Harrington will enjoy this series!” – amazon.com reviewer.

Featured Fantasy: Dragonflight: Volume 1 in The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey

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Featured Fantasy: Dragonflight: Volume 1 in The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey

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The first novel in the legendary and magical New York Times bestselling dragonriding series, “a masterpiece of adventure, intrigue, and romance” (Danielle L. Jensen), from Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Anne McCaffrey

“Anne McCaffrey’s Pern novels are truly foundational books; it’s hard to imagine the modern-day landscape of fantasy and science fiction without them.”—Naomi Novik, author of the Temeraire series
 
On a beautiful world called Pern, Lessa is an outcast survivor—her parents murdered, her birthright stolen—a fierce young woman who has never stopped dreaming of revenge. That is, until an ambitious young dragonrider, F’lar, offers her something even greater: the chance to lead Pern at his side by Impressing a golden dragon with whom she will share a telepathic bond more intimate than any human connection. Although there is also her intense relationship with F’lar himself.
 
But Lessa’s fierceness and courage will be put to the test when an ancient scourge returns to the land: a deadly silver spore that falls from the sky, destroying all it touches. Only dragons can fight this Thread, and there are not enough dragons to protect all of Pern. Lessa and her dragon may hold the key to their world’s salvation . . . but executing her daring plan may be costlier than she ever envisioned.
 
Don’t miss the original trilogy from Anne McCaffrey’s beloved Dragonriders of Pern series:
DRAGONFLIGHT • DRAGONQUEST • THE WHITE DRAGON