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Featured Fantasy: Blue Moon Sacramento Book 1-10 (Blue Moon Investigations Sacramento) by Alex Gates & Steve Higgs

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Featured Fantasy: Blue Moon Sacramento Book 1-10 (Blue Moon Investigations Sacremento) by Alex Gates & Steve Higgs

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‘It’s like Jack Reacher got trapped inside an episode of Scooby-Doo!’

Curiosity. It’s going to get more than just the cat killed.

Sacramento has its share of spooky, crazy, and unexplained, just like everywhere else, but most other places don’t have a self-appointed paranormal investigator to really stir things up.

There are good reasons to fear the night. August Watson is about to kick them in the pants.

With an oversized sidekick, a school-skipping apprentice, and too many bad habits to count, August aims to drag the truth into the light. Kicking and screaming if necessary.

Fast-paced, darkly funny, and a full-on adrenaline fest, this complete series of urban fantasy books will take you on a journey like no other.

Featured Fantasy: Switching Hour (Magic and Mayhem Book One) by Robyn Peterman

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Released from the magic pokey and paroled with limited power is enough to make any witch grumpy. However, if you throw in a recently resurrected cat, a lime-green Kia and a sexy egotistical werewolf, it’s enough to make a gal fly off the edge.

Not to mention a mission…with no freaking directions.

So here I sit in Asscrack, West Virginia trying to figure out how to complete my mysterious mission before All Hallows Eve when I’ll get turned into a mortal. The animals in the area are convinced I’m the Shifter Whisperer (whatever the hell that is) and the hotter-than- asphalt-in-August werewolf thinks I’m his mate. Now apparently I’m slated to save a bunch of hairy freaks of nature?

If they think I’m the right witch for the job, they’ve swallowed some bad brew.

Featured Sci-fi: Ashes of Empire (Books 1 – 3) by Eric Thomson

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Humanity’s thousand-year-old empire is collapsing under a mad empress, plunging the galaxy into civil war. As rebel admirals shatter the Imperial Fleet, frontier worlds are left exposed to marauders who hold life cheap and plunder without mercy. Captain Jonas Morane of the cruiser Vanquish foresaw this chaos and formed a desperate plan: lead the shattered remnants of the 197th Imperial Battle Group to a hidden sanctuary and preserve humanity’s knowledge before it’s lost to the long night of barbarism. Along the way, he rescues a Marine Pathfinder battalion and a mystical religious order, binding them to his cause. But even if they survive the flames of rebellion and the depredations of invaders, can Morane’s sanctuary—and hope for civilization—endure?

Imperial Twilight and Imperial Night continue the saga, as new empires rise, old horrors return, and humanity teeters on the brink of a darkness that may never lift.

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Featured Sci-fi: Sentenced to War Book 1 by J.N. Chaney and Jonathan P. Brazee

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Featured Sci-fi: Sentenced to War Book 1 by J.N. Chaney and Jonathan P. Brazee

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2021 Dragon Award Nominee for Best Military Science Fiction

Sit in prison or join the military. The choice is yours.

Convicted of a minor traffic violation, Rev Pelletier is conscripted into the Perseus Union Marine Corps… for up to a thirty-year term of service. Anxious to get back to his civilian life and job, he opts for a shorter term as a Marine Raider, taking the fight to the enemy.

But with extremely high mortality rates, can he and his friends survive until their term of service is over?

Download Sentenced to War now to follow Rev through perilous battles as he fights to hold back the alien invasion. If you’re a fan of Old Man’s War, Starship Troopers, or Armor, you’ll love this military scifi thrill ride.

Featured Fantasy: Merlin Kills a Zombie (Merlin’s Magical Mysteries) by Molly Fitz

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My magical cat brought me a dead bird. Then it came back to life, and now we’re facing a full-blown necromantic uprising.

Merlin the Magical Fluff isn’t just a talking cat. He’s a trouble magnet. I used to be a regular barista with a thesis to finish, but now I’m his reluctant familiar, dodging undead squirrels, battling dark magic, and trying not to get zombified.

Turns out a familiar foe has returned to raise an army of the undead, threatening the entire world of magic. And if magic dies, so do all who wield it, including one very opinionated cat.

This third installment in the Merlin’s Magical Mysteries series delivers more funny paranormal chaos, magical showdowns, and the kind of witch-familiar bond that won’t quit. Even if the world ends.

If you enjoy paranormal cozy mysteries with snarky sidekicks, zombie pets, and cozy magical chaos, you won’t want to miss this spell-slinging adventure.

Start reading now and help save the world, one sarcastic cat at a time.

Featured Fantasy: The Trianid by Anne Mollova

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Featured Fantasy: The Trianid by Anne Mollova

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2024 Young Adult Winner of the Indie Author Project annual contest.

A princess with a secret. An ancient evil rising. A kingdom caught in the balance.

Alyen, crown princess of Dúramair, has trained her whole life to be queen. She’s kept her faerie Sight a secret, trusting that the Keeper of Scales will find an apprentice soon—for surely one other candidate can be found. But when news comes from the north of dark magic returning to Dúramair, Alyen is forced to make the hardest decision of her life. A decision that could determine the fate of her kingdom.

As darkness takes hold, Alyen finds herself thrown into a quest for a legendary weapon that will be Dúramair’s last hope for victory in a looming war. Accompanied by a warrior apprentice, an assassin with a dark past, and a monk of questionable sanity, Alyen struggles to master her growing powers, knowing that if she fails, she risks destroying everything and everyone she loves.

Keeper of Scales is book one of the completed Trianid trilogy, an epic fantasy series featuring medieval settings, adventurous quests, slow-burn romance, elemental magic, and a strong female lead.