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Featured Fantasy: A Time of Gladiators and Fate (Last Road to Rome Book 1) by Susan Illene

October 31, 2026 by Carolynn

A Time of Gladiators and Fate by Susan Illene

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Time travel to ancient Rome. Become a gladiator. Try not to die.

And DO NOT be tempted by any morally questionable hot men.

Grace King grew up on a farm in Kansas, so nothing prepared her for landing in the Roman Colosseum while it’s still intact. A heart-pounding chase in her rental car follows with spear-throwing legionnaires, armed gladiators, and a couple of wild animals. Grace is eventually forced to surrender in a floral sundress meant for vacation, not blood sport.

The emperor offers her two choices: execution or gladiator school. While she isn’t afraid of hard work, the ludus where she’ll train with other men and women is brutal. Most doubt her right to be there, adding pressure to an already difficult situation. Every aspect of her new life, down to the clothes she wears and how she’s treated, is vastly different and horrifying.

Her fate will rest in the hands of two dangerous, conflicting men.

In the training arena, the first is a formidable lead instructor with icy good looks. He will push her body to its absolute limits and test her willpower to survive while trading heated banter with her. The second is a wealthy, enigmatic sponsor who shields her against Rome’s darkest exploits for a price, but his own time-travel secrets weave a dangerous web. The handsome man knows far more about how she ended up in ancient Rome than he’s willing to tell her.

A Time of Gladiators and Fate follows the gripping journey of a modern woman who must become a force that ancient Rome will fear and admire if she ever hopes to earn her freedom and find a way home. Perfect for fans of Outlander and Spartacus, with a genre blend of romantasy and time-travel historical fiction.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: A Time of Gladiators and Fate, Last Road to Rome, Susan Illene

Featured Fantasy: Maggie MacKay Magical Tracker by Kate Danley

October 31, 2026 by Carolynn

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She just wanted to pay her rent, but the vampires came after her family. This magical tracker is about to tear the world a new portal.

When monsters show up in Los Angeles, Maggie MacKay is is the one you call to haul them back to the dimension where they belong.

But when a mysterious elf saves her from a vampire attack, a whole new world is about to be opened to her. The scope of her tracking business is about to expand interdimensionally…

Come along with Maggie, her elfin sidekick Killian, and her crazy family in this USA Today bestseller for a snarky urban fantasy adventure.

WARNING: This book contains cussing, brawling, and unladylike behavior. Proceed with caution.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Kate Danley, Maggie MacKay Magical Tracker

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

October 31, 2026 by Carolynn

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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Featured Sci-fi: The Martian by Andy Weir

October 31, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: The Martian by Andy Weir

$2.99 as of October 31, 2026
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A survival story for the 21st century and the international bestseller behind the major film from Ridley Scott, starring Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain.

I’m stranded on Mars.

I have no way to communicate with Earth.

I’m in a habitat designed to last 31 days.

If the oxygenator breaks down, I’ll suffocate. If the water reclaimer breaks down, I’ll die of thirst. If the hab breaches, I’ll just kind of explode. If none of those things happen, I’ll eventually run out of food and starve to death.

So yeah. I’m screwed.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Andy Weir, The Martian

Featured Fantasy: Cobweb Bride (Cobweb Bride Trilogy Book 1) by Vera Nazarian

October 28, 2026 by Carolynn

Cobweb Bride by Vera Nazarian

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Many are called… She alone can save the world and become Death’s bride.

COBWEB BRIDE (Cobweb Bride Trilogy, Book One) is a history-flavored fantasy novel with romantic elements of the Persephone myth, about Death’s ultimatum to the world.

What if you killed someone and then fell in love with them?

In an alternate Renaissance world, somewhere in an imaginary “pocket” of Europe called the Kingdom of Lethe, Death comes, in the form of a grim Spaniard, to claim his Bride. Until she is found, in a single time-stopping moment all dying stops. There is no relief for the mortally wounded and the terminally ill….

Covered in white cobwebs of a thousand snow spiders she lies in the darkness… Her skin is cold as snow… Her eyes frozen… Her gaze, fiercely alive…

While kings and emperors send expeditions to search for a suitable Bride for Death, armies of the undead wage an endless war… A black knight roams the forest at the command of his undead father… Spies and political treacheries abound at the imperial Silver Court…. Murdered lovers find themselves locked in the realm of the living…

Look closer–through the cobweb filaments of her hair and along each strand shine stars…

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Cobweb Bride, Cobweb Bride Trilogy, Vera Nazarian

Featured Fantasy: The Witches of Wormwood Mysteries Books 1-5 by Silver Nord and Ruby Loren

October 27, 2026 by Carolynn

The Witches of Wormwood Mysteries Books 1–5 by Silver Nord and Ruby Loren

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A thrilling and funny supernatural mystery series, packed with magic, cats, and murder! Perfect for fans of Stephanie Plum, Agatha Raisin, Sabrina, and Supernatural.

Not many people move to Wormwood.

The witches aren’t welcoming.

The fortunetellers are frauds.

And the recent murder is only going to make things worse.

Hazel Salem just wanted a story for her magazine. Instead, she finds herself at the centre of an investigation that’s about to turn into a witch hunt.

If someone doesn’t solve this murder – and fast – it will be out of the cauldron and into the fire for Wormwood’s witches.

If you love talking cats, smart mysteries, and snarky humour, you’ll love this series. Pick up these page-turning witch mysteries today!

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Ruby Loren, Silver Nord, The Witches of Wormwood Mysteries, The Witches of Wormwood Mysteries Books 1–5

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