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Featured Sci-fi: Renegade Imperium Complete Trilogy by Jon Frater and A.K. Duboff

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An ex-soldier with unfinished business. Rebels with bold aspirations. One grand adventure.

Complete Trilogy: 1,200+ pages of interstellar intrigue, space pirates, and starship action!

Karmen Sley thought her military days were behind her after a tragic accident took the life of her best friend and her vision. But when a mysterious pirate known as Mother Carnage attacks her new home planet, Karmen is conscripted from her quiet retirement to solve the case.

Racing across star systems to track down the perpetrators, Karmen discovers a shocking personal connection to Mother Carnage that turns the investigation upside down. Worse, the pirate isn’t acting alone.

Concerning clues point to a growing separatist movement that could plunge the region into chaos. Fearing for the safety of her world and loved ones, Karmen and two ambitious young military officers race to gather the evidence needed to head off the conspiracy.

Torn between her loyalties to family and career, can Karmen confront her painful past to save her future?

Set in the Cadicle space opera universe created by bestselling author A.K. DuBoff, the Renegade Imperium trilogy is perfect for fans of fast-paced space operas with dynamic characters, planet-hopping action, and galactic intrigue.

Grab your copy to join the fight for the Taran Empire’s future today!

The Renegade Imperium collection contains the complete trilogy:

  • Book 1: Grand Theft Planet
  • Book 2: Carnage and Courage
  • Book 3: Homeworld for a Queen

Featured Fantasy: Lost Library Book 1 by Kate Baray

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Featured Fantasy: Lost Library Book 1 by Kate Baray

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A mysterious and magical book

What’s the point of a book that can’t be read? Lizzie hasn’t a clue, but she does know there’s magic afoot.

When a handsome stranger shows up on her doorstep asking questions and expecting her to have all the answers, she can’t decide if she wants to thump him or kiss him. And John’s revelation that he’s a werewolf doesn’t simplify matters.

Before Lizzie can catch her breath, she and John are caught up in an evil mastermind’s bid for power.
Can she and John put a stop to their newfound enemy’s plans? Take a romp through the life of the quirky and well-meaning Lizzie as she discovers magic, creatures that go bump in the night, and maybe love.

Featured Fantasy: The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

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Featured Fantasy: The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * #1 INDIE BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“An immersive, sensual experience.” —The New York Times

“Essential.” —The Washington Post

GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FINALIST * A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Kirkus, Women’s World, Town & Country Magazine, NYPL

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo comes a spellbinding novel set in the Spanish Golden Age.

In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to improve the family’s social position.

What begins as simple amusement for the nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia garners the notice of Antonio Pérez, the disgraced secretary to Spain’s king. Still reeling from the defeat of his armada, the king is desperate for any advantage in the war against England’s heretic queen—and Pérez will stop at nothing to regain the king’s favor.

Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the lines between magic, science, and fraud are never certain. But as her notoriety grows, so does the danger that her Jewish blood will doom her to the Inquisition’s wrath. She will have to use every bit of her wit and will to survive—even if that means enlisting the help of Guillén Santángel, an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both.

Featured Sci-fi: Star Breakers by James David Victor

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Featured Sci-fi: Star Breakers by James David Victo

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As a Breaker, she was destined to live a hard life serving the whims of galactic corporations. As an Earth Alliance Marine, she has a chance to change the balance of power in the galaxy.

Holly Cropper grew up as a Breaker, mining the outer reaches of space. Now, she’s an up-and-coming lieutenant in the Earth Alliance Marines. Her mission: keep the peace and help humanity survive in the endless darkness of space. When a distress call comes in from a large mining vessel, her orderly world gets turned upside down. What starts with a simple pirate takeover turns into a hostile alien invasion. This Breaker Marine and her small team might be the only thing standing between humanity and annihilation at the hands of ancient aliens.

Breaker Marine is the first book in the Star Breaker series. If you like fast-paced space adventures with interesting characters who battle aliens, evil corporations, and space pirates, Holly Cropper and her team of Marines are ready to share their epic adventure with you.

Download Breaker Marine and get started on your next space adventure today!

Featured Fantasy: Sweet Tea and Spirits (Southern Ghost Hunter Mysteries Book 5) by Angie Fox

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Featured Fantasy: Sweet Tea and Spirits (Southern Ghost Hunter Mysteries Book 5) by Angie Fox

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From New York Times bestselling author Angie Fox

Southern girl Verity Long is about as high society as her pet skunk, Lucy. Which is why she’s surprised as anyone when the new head of the Sugarland social set invites her to join the “it” girls. But this is no social call. Verity’s new client needs her to go in undercover and investigate strange happenings at the group’s historic headquarters.

But while spirits are whispering hints of murder, the socialites are more focused on Verity’s 1978, avocado-green Cadillac. And when Verity stumbles upon a fresh body, she’s going to need the long-dead citizens of Sugarland to help her solve the crime. Good thing she has the handsome deputy sheriff Ellis Wydell on hand, as well as her ghostly sidekick Frankie. The bad thing is, the ghosts are now whispering about the end of a certain ghost hunter.

What Reviewers are saying…

5 Stars! “I love Lucy and always wish I had a pet skunk after reading about her. She has to be the greatest book pet I’ve ever read!”

5 Stars! “I have read hundreds of cozy mysteries and this series ranks in my top 10.”

5 Stars! “My personal favorite not only of the series, but of the year’s read books.”

5 Stars! “A beautiful town full of interesting characters that jump from the page and into your heart.”

Rating: Clean and Wholesome

Paranormal Cozy Mystery Romance (with a cute pet skunk!)

Featured Fantasy: Barkside of the Moon Books 1 – 3 by Renee George

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Featured Fantasy: Barkside of the Moon Books 1 - 3 by Renee George

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“Clever, frisky, and fun! Pit Perfect Murder is a spirited paranormal mystery jam-packed with witty characters and rollicking twists.” –Ann Charles, USA Today Bestselling Author of the Deadwood Mystery Series

Barkside of the Moon Cozy Mysteries are exciting who-done-its with a paranormal twist. Clean reads full of humor and small town charm, mystery, and even a little romance.

Pit Perfect Murder
When cougar-shifter Lily Mason moves to Moonrise, Missouri, she wishes for only three things from the town and its human population. . . to find a job, to find a place to live, and to live as a human, not a therianthrope.

Lily gets more than she bargains for when a rescue pit bull named Smooshie rescues her from an oncoming car, and it’s love at first sight. Thanks to Smooshie, Lily’s first two wishes are granted by Parker Knowles, the owner of the Pit Bull Rescue center, who offers her a job at the shelter and the room over his garage for rent.

Lily’s new life as an integrator is threatened when Smooshie finds Katherine Kapersky, the local church choir leader and head of the town council, dead in the field behind the rescue center. Unfortunately, there are more suspects than mourners for the elderly town leader. Can Lily keep her less-than-human status under wraps? Or will the killer, who has pulled off a nearly Pit Perfect murder, expose her to keep Lily and her dog from digging up the truth?

Murder and the Money Pit
Sometimes, trying to be part of the human world can be a real killer. . . Cougar-shifter Lily Mason is ready to put down roots in the human town of Moonrise, Missouri. She only has two problems: her attraction and proximity to Parker Knowles, her boss at the Pit Bull Rescue Shelter, and her need to shift into animal form more than once a month.

When she gets the opportunity to buy a “fixer-upper” outside of Moonrise with plenty of room to get wild without running into easily freaked-out humans, Lily jumps at the chance. Smooshie, Lily’s lovable pit bull and partner in chaos, is eager to participate with the home improvements. Unfortunately, Smooshie’s help includes digging out a mummified body from the living room wall.

Lily is still recovering from the last murder investigation she got involved in–and she’s not looking forward to being in the middle of another one. The case gets even stickier when Lily’s landlord is murdered, rumors of a heist gone wrong run rampant, and Parker’s old high school buddies have returned to Moonrise, thus increasing the suspect pool. Lily’s attempts to become a bona fide citizen of Moonrise might well be thwarted by this newest complication–especially when the murderer sets sights on her.

The Pit List Murder
All Lily wants is to enjoy a simple life in her new town, her fixer-upper house, while working a job she loves. Besides, the mystery of whether Parker Knowles, her boss at the rescue shelter, will or won’t finally ask her out gives Lily plenty to keep her guessing.

But when an abandoned pit bull puppy leads Lily and Smooshie to the corpse of a local Lothario, she is once again drawn into the seedier side of small town living. Even though she’s warned off the case by the local sheriff, Lily is determined to find the killer. It doesn’t help matters that more nasty notes are showing up around town, making Lily wonder if the two things are connected.

Lily and Smooshie need to crack the case of the dead Don Juan, while navigating what it means to live in an all human town, before the secrets of the people she cares for are exposed.