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Featured Sci-fi: Star Mage Quest (Star Mage Saga Book 1) by J.J. Green

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Featured Sci-fi: Star Mage Quest (Star Mage Saga Book 1) by J.J. Green

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A dark heroine. Space warfare. Magic.

Carina Lin is a mage with a mission. After her parents’ disappearance when she was a toddler, she was brought up by her grandmother. Then the old lady’s death left her a slum brat, alone and friendless on a godforsaken planet at the ass-end of the galaxy.

All she wants is to find other mages like herself, but her plan is fraught with danger. Warring clans are fighting for galactic supremacy, and if they discover her powers she risks slavery and torture.

A golden opportunity arises to fulfil her dream and win her heart’s desire. But if she loses, death will seem inviting.

Star Mage Quest is book one in the dark, exciting space fantasy, Star Mage Saga.

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Featured Fantasy: Shadowstalker Series by Natalie Johanson

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Featured Fantasy: Shadowstalker Series by Natalie Johanson

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Second Place winner in BookFest’s book awards for Action/Adventure and Magic, Myths, and Legends

First Place winner in Firebird’s book awards for Young Adult Fantasy

Rose Trewin is on the run, trying to escape her past as a spy and desperate for a quiet life. After a fateful encounter on the road she is forced to carry a message to the king and warn him of forces plotting to end his life and take his kingdom. She is thrown into a world of courtly intrigue, political machinations, and a king who asks too many questions. However, Rose has a deeper secret than her life as a spy; a magic she tries to keep hidden. Her ability to walk among the shadows, disappear into the darkness has its advantages, but in a country where magic is feared and distrusted, it’s also a liability.

King Micah Ellsworth knows someone is plotting against him. He just doesn’t know who, exactly. When a strange woman with secrets and defiance in her eyes arrives in his court, she seems the perfect person to uncover the plot.

Soon, both realize more is at stake when dark forces fueled by a similar magic to Rose’s appear. The two must work together to find who is behind the plots, forcing Rose to share secrets and to question her loyalties, her magic, and the power she wields.

Featured Sci-fi: Pilgrims by M.R. Leonard

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Featured Sci-fi: Pilgrims by M.R. Leonard

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Latin was a dead language-until the aliens arrived.

Out-of-work Latin teacher and borderline alcoholic Austin DeSantis is determined to spend his final days in the arms of a prostitute-that is if the aliens don’t exterminate humanity first.
 
But when the aliens land at the Vatican, begin speaking Latin, and reveal themselves to be Catholic, the world turns upside down.
 
Pressed into service as a translator and thrust into the center of humanity’s first contact with a cryptic alien race, Austin must uncover their true intentions before religious turmoil rips the planet apart. But with Austin caught between the Catholic Church, the US military, and an enigmatic alien AI, he’ll have to decide where his loyalties lie as the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.
 
PILGRIMS is a sci-fi retelling of Augustine’s Confessions, mixing a high-concept premise à la Children of Time with the ceaseless pacing and rich characterization of Red Rising.
 
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Featured Fantasy: The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs by Katherine Howe

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Featured Fantasy: The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs by Katherine Howe

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A magical bloodline. A family curse. Can Connie break the spell before it shatters her future?

A bewitching novel of a New England history professor who must race against time to free her family from a curse, by Katherine Howe, New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane.

Connie Goodwin is an expert on America’s fractured past with witchcraft. A young, tenure-track professor in Boston, she’s earned career success by studying the history of magic in colonial America—especially women’s home recipes and medicines—and by exposing society’s threats against women fluent in those skills. But beyond her studies, Connie harbors a secret: She is the direct descendant of a woman tried as a witch in Salem, an ancestor whose abilities were far more magical than the historical record shows.

When a hint from her mother and clues from her research lead Connie to the shocking realization that her partner’s life is in danger, she must race to solve the mystery behind a hundreds’-years-long deadly curse.

Flashing back through American history to the lives of certain supernaturally gifted women, The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs affectingly reveals not only the special bond that unites one particular matriarchal line, but also explores the many challenges to women’s survival across the decades—and the risks some women are forced to take to protect what they love most.

Featured Sci-fi Deadmen’s War by Anthony J. Melchiorri

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From the ashes of the ancients, a cataclysmic new threat rises.

Born on a forsaken desert planet, Cole Shaw has two options – perish from starvation and disease, or enlist in the New World Republic’s armed forces. He chooses the military. For the first time, he thinks he has a shot at a better life. But survival is not guaranteed.

Leading an elite team of mech operators, he is deployed to a frozen planet called Ferrous where dangerous relics of a past war lurk beneath the ice and savage creatures prowl the barren wastelands. Scientists on Ferrous are chasing rumors of godlike technologies buried in the ruins of a long-extinct civilization. When Shaw and his team are assigned to protect the researchers, they face an unexpected, merciless new enemy desperate to stop them.

An ancient secret has been awakened on Ferrous. The deadly race to claim this terrifying power has only just begun.

Featured Sci-fi: Not Alone Trilogies Boxset by Craig A. Falconer

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Featured Sci-fi: Not Alone Trilogies Boxset by Craig A. Falconer

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Grab all three books in the globally acclaimed NOT ALONE Contact Trilogy for one incredible price, in this great value 2100-page sci-fi box set! (SERIES SALE: The follow-up trilogies are also hugely discounted today)

***200k+ sold, 70 MILLION pages read, 10,000+ 5-star ratings on Amazon and Audible***

When Dan McCarthy stumbles upon a folder containing evidence of the conspiracy to end all conspiracies — a top-level alien cover-up — he leaks the files without a second thought.

The incredible truth revealed by Dan’s leak immediately captures the public’s imagination, but Dan’s relentless commitment to exposing the cover-up and forcing disclosure quickly earns him some enemies in high places.

For his whole life, Dan McCarthy has searched for a reason to believe. Now that he finally has one, he might soon wish he didn’t…

This box set contains all three novels in The Contact Trilogy:
1) Not Alone
2) Not Alone: Second Contact
3) Not Alone: The Final Call

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