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Featured Sci-fi: The Black Heart of the Station (Black Heart Series, Book 1) by Jay Allan Storey

July 22, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: The Black Heart of the Station (Black Heart Series, Book 1) by Jay Allan Storey

FREE as of July 22, 2026
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Delinquent or Prophet? Whichever teenager Josh Driscoll is, he may be his people’s only hope of salvation.

The Station is a city buried deep beneath the surface of a frozen, lifeless earth, its origins lost in the mists of time. Josh’s frequent rule-breaking exploits are focused on a single question – how did we get here?

But Josh goes too far when he steals a space-suit and escapes to the surface to explore.

As punishment, the governing Council, of which his father is a member, concscripts him to Saint Carmine’s, the Station’s resident monastery. At first desperate to escape, Josh finds himself drawn into the monastery’s ancient texts.

Deciphering a centuries-old scripture, Josh learns that the Black Heart, a computer complex sealed off after an ancient asteroid strike, may hold the answers he’s been seeking, and may be all that can save the Station from annihilation. When the deranged head of the Council vows to demolish the complex, Josh leads a desperate battle to stop him.

But can Josh and his tiny band of followers prevail in time to save them all?

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Black Heart Series, Jay Allan Storey, The Black Heart of the Station

Featured Fantasy: The Fire Prophecy (Hidden Legends: Academy of Magical Creatures Book 1) by Megan Linski

July 22, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: The Fire Prophecy (Hidden Legends: Academy of Magical Creatures Book 1) by Megan Linski

FREE as of July 22, 2026
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USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHORS Megan Linski and Alicia Rades create a fantasy paranormal world where magic wages war and romance is deadly.

Winner of Best Fantasy Book of the Year by Once Upon a Book. Bronze Medal Winner in the Readers’ Favorite International Book Awards Contest!

Fire and Water don’t mix.Sophia

I’m Sophia Henley, your typical college freshman. I never expected a lion to be stalking me, nor for fire to come shooting out of my hands to protect my sister. Next thing I know, a drop-dead gorgeous guy shows up on my doorstep to sweep me away to a magical school, where I’ll learn to control my element and bond with a powerful creature called a Familiar.

I don’t believe I’m the savior of an ancient tribe, or the missing piece of a prophecy that’s more myth than reality. Worst of all, I’m forced to enter the Elemental Cup, where I’ll either earn my place in this society… or die trying.

Liam

The night I met Sophia, I didn’t think we’d form an undeniable connection. But I’m from the Water tribe, and she’s fire. I’m forced to push her away even as I’m falling for her.

I lost everything, yet Sophia makes me whole again. Our world is fixed on keeping us apart, but we’re in this tournament together. We have to keep each other alive at any cost— or I’ll give my life for hers. It’s pretty clear.

If I continue to play with fire, I’m going to get burned.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Academy of Magical Creatures, Alicia Rades, Megan Linski, The Fire Prophecy

Featured Fantasy: Time Watcher (Mine Through Time Book 1) by Kate Serzenta

July 21, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Time Watcher (Mine Through Time Book 1)

99¢ as of July 21, 2026
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New York City, 1862. Fabienne Beaumont lies bleeding in a filthy alleyway. Desperate to escape the bloody War of Rebellion, she and her siblings had been trying to hustle passage back home to their native France. Instead, she fell victim to a card shark’s bullets. As everything fades to black, Fabienne thumbs the hands of her old pocket watch – unaware that she’s about to awaken from one nightmare straight into another.

Hartford, Connecticut, 1864. Two years earlier, Union war hero Brayden Marshall married the beautiful Fabienne – but she’s been like a stranger to him ever since. Everything changes, however, when he’s summoned back to Hartford on a mission for The Watchers – a secret society that can harness the power of time travel. It’s like meeting Fabienne for the first time all over again. She’s passionate, curious – and desperate to right the wrongs of her past. Could the mysterious pocket watch she clings to explain the sudden change in Fabienne’s behavior? And if so, can Brayden risk his future on a woman so obsessed with her past?

Savannah, Georgia, 2008. Spirited high-schooler Emily Willburne is reluctantly researching her family history for a Civil War assignment when she stumbles across the diary of her great, great grandmother, Fabienne. The diary claims to contain the secret of traveling through time – a secret Emily believes could save her dying mom, and rebuild her fractured relationship with her estranged father. But as Emily literally steps into her own history, a new possibility emerges – that the only way to reunite her family in the present is to tear Fabienne and Brayden’s marriage apart in the past.

Does Emily have the power to fix what once went wrong? Or will she tear apart her future, instead?Time Watcher is an intricately woven, clockwork-tight tale of time travel and romance – perfect for fans of Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife and Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Kate Serzenta, Mine Through Time, Time Watcher

Book Review: Only Bad Options (Galactic Bonds Book 1) by Jennifer Estep

July 21, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Science Fiction: Only Bad Options (Galactic Bonds Book 1) by Jennifer Estep

$1.99 as of July 21, 2026
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This was the most fun in sci-fantasy fiction I read in all of 2022. If you loved the original Star Wars, but could have had a little more romance (although it is not technically a romance*), I think you’ll like this book. It’s definitely Space Fantasy. There is “magic” and there are also “soul bonds.” It is satisfyingly complicated, and the character development well done. If you’re looking for a fun read this holiday, I highly recommend it.

*Also, this is not blue alien erotica.

Here is the setup:

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Galactic Bonds, Jennifer Estep, Only Bad Options

Featured Sci-fi: The Key to Kells (A Key Murphy Thriller) by Kevin Barry O’Connor

July 20, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: The Key to Kells (A Key Murphy Ancestral Memory Thriller) by Kevin Barry O'Connor

FREE as of July 20, 2026
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“… a thriller that will be pleasing to any fan of The Da Vinci Code,” —Kirkus Reviews.

DISCOVERY UPENDS EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT MEMORY AND GENETICS. IT MIGHT COST KEY MURPHY HIS LIFE.

Key Murphy is a freak, a prodigy. He has visions so real he’s diagnosed with PTSD. Key learns that his visions might be caused by a mutated gene which allows him to experience the memories of an ancestor.

Key also has a family link to The Book of Kells. Pages from the book were stolen in Ireland in the distant past. Those pages are believed to contain a fundamental secret of Christendom.

Padraig Collins is one of the wealthiest men in Europe. He was an undercover operative for the IRA. He amassed a fortune. He wants those pages. His soul depends on them. He will do whatever it takes to possess them.

The race is on.

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Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: A Key Murphy Thriller, Kevin Barry O'Connor, The Key to Kells

Featured Sci-fi: Firestorm Complete Series (Books 1 – 9) Daniel Young

July 19, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Firestorm Complete Series (Books 1 - 9) Daniel Young

$4.99 as of July 19, 2026
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★★★★★ “Old-fashioned space opera at its best”

FULL AND COMPLETE SERIES—OVER 1,000 PAGES!

Captain Aaron Decosta, a decorated starship commander, embarks on a clandestine mission across the uncharted expanses. But fate has a twist in store when his vessel is swallowed by a cosmic maelstrom, leaving him and his crew stranded on a world shrouded in mystery and danger.

Back on Earth’s galactic frontier, Colonel Michael Decosta receives the harrowing news of his son’s disappearance. Bound by blood and honor, he defies the chain of command, embarking on a perilous journey to the Bone Yard—a place where space anomalies distort reality and where no rescue has ever returned from.

As father and son navigate their separate but parallel odysseys through alien terrains and treacherous alliances, their tales of survival converge in a saga of family and warfare. With a reunion their only beacon of hope, they must forge alliances with strangers and face off against unfathomable foes.

The Firestorm series offers an unrelenting adventure of survival, loyalty, and the unbreakable bond between father and son.

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Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Daniel Young, Fire Storm

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