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Featured Fantasy: Stolen Time (The Witches of Mingus Mountain Book 1) by Christine Pope

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Featured Fantasy: Stolen Time (The Witches of Mingus Mountain Book 1) by Christine Pope

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When the past steals her future, only one man can help her reclaim it.

Devynn Rowe never asked for her unpredictable gift of time travel. But when a fall in an abandoned mine shaft hurls her back to Jerome, Arizona, in 1926, she finds herself trapped in a world where her own witch clan — the Wilcoxes — are the mortal enemy of the McAllisters of Jerome.

Rescued by the handsome and kind warlock Seth McAllister, Devynn weaves a web of lies to protect her true identity. As she struggles to adapt to life a century before her time, she can’t ignore the growing attraction between them. But pursuing a relationship could unravel everything she’s fought to keep hidden.

Seth is drawn to the mysterious woman he found unconscious in the mine, even as his duties to his clan pull him in another direction. When family obligations thrust him into a dangerous world of bootlegging and deceit, he finds himself torn between loyalty and love.

As Devynn and Seth dance around their feelings and their secrets, the truth threatens to burn away all their illusions. But time is running out. A moment of violence changes everything…catapulting them into a situation more perilous than either could have imagined.

Featured Sci-fi: Star League Assasins by Jaxon Reed

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Featured Sci-fi: Star League Assasins by Jaxon Reed

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The Republic’s AI controls a clone on one planet. The League controls a bot on another . . .

Jade Thrall is the League’s Tetrarch but she holds a secret even she does not realize. She is a highly advanced droid, formerly known as Miriam.

Few military assets are available to Jade in her effort to wrest back League planets lost during the war. But one potent tool remains in her arsenal: assassins . . .

Join this rip-roaring, action-packed space opera adventure! Featuring space marines, rotten villains, fist fights, gun battles and sharp political intrigue, Digital Death kicks off a brand new series by veteran science fiction and fantasy author Jaxon Reed set in the Milky Way Universe.

Featured Sci-fi: The Departure (G581 Book 1) by Christine D. Shuck

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Featured Sci-fi: The Departure (G581 Book 1) by Christine D. Shuck

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Their mission was to build a second home for humanity – but who knows if humanity will survive long enough to reach it? Setting forth on a six-year journey to Gliese 581g – Zarmina’s World – Daniel Medry and a crew of fellow scientists planned to explore a brand-new world potentially ripe for colonisation – but when a man-made virus wipes out most of Earth’s population and leaves the rest infertile, their exploration mission becomes humanity’s only hope for survival.

Alone in deep space, a series of equipment malfunctions occur that might not be accidental – and as the crew struggles for survival, some suspect that one of their own intends to keep them from making planetfall. With time running out, Daniel must stop the saboteur before humanity’s last hope for survival is snuffed out in the cold, unforgiving vacuum of space.

Gliese 581: The Departure is an exhilarating sci-fi thriller. If you like dystopian future worlds, second-chance heroes, and suspenseful mysteries, then you’ll love Christine Shuck’s gripping intergalactic thrill-ride.

Featured Fantasy: Red City Reaper (Books 1 – 3)

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Featured Fantasy: Red City Reaper (Books 1 - 3)

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If you try to assassinate the Grim Reaper… Don’t miss.

Dax used to be the Grim Reaper. Until he was banished to Earth to live as a human. Exiled to Redemption City, he’s doing his best to keep his head down and run his shabby dive bar. But when an assassin puts a bullet in his chest, his quiet life dies a bloody death.

Red City is a corrupt and decaying metropolis. Finding out who wants Dax dead could be a long twisted road. He’ll have to test the boundaries of his suppressed magic if he hopes to survive.

But if he presses his power too hard, the death gods who allied against him will do more than just exile him to earth. They’ll obliterate him from existence…

Featured Sci-fi: Red Thunder by John Varley

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“The heart-pounding space race is on . . . in this riveting SF thriller” from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Red Lightning and Rolling Thunder (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
 
As Chinese and US spacecraft compete to be the first to land on Mars, a former astronaut, his cousin, and four teens from Florida decide to take matters into their own hands. If they can quickly build their own space-worthy ship using scrap metal, appliances, and power tools, they have a chance to come from behind—thanks to an inventive new power source that can propel them to the Red Planet within three days. No guts, no glory . . .
 
“Varley’s great strength is in his characterizations, but in Red Thunder he also shows a strong sense of place. . . . If you are willing to simply fantasize about fleeing your office cubicle and becoming a heroic space explorer, this novel will fulfill your wishes.” —The Washington Post
 
“Fast paced . . . Engaging characters.” —Rocky Mountain News
 
“Full of little gems of wit and intelligence.” —Booklist
 
“[A] fun-filled adventure. Varley matches a serious literary style with an outrageous plot, and he’s one of the few writers in the field who could make it work.” —Chronicle

Featured Fantasy: The Witches of Cleopatra Hill Books 1 – 3 by Christine Pope

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Featured Fantasy: The Witches of Cleopatra Hill Books 1 - 3 by Christine Pope

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Ancient curses…family feuds…finding a happily ever after can be a real nightmare for the modern witch….

DARKANGEL:
Angela McAllister is searching for the green-eyed man who haunts her dreams. The man she’s sure is fated to be her consort when she becomes the next prima of her witch clan. The catch: She must find him before her next birthday, or her magic will be diminished and her clan left vulnerable. The problem: the only man she’s felt a spark with isn’t a witch. But when a rival clan moves in to seize control, she’ll find out who’s a betrayer — and whom she can trust.

DARKNIGHT:
Angela McAllister’s body is still tingling with the sweet fire of her bonding kiss with Connor Wilcox. She can’t allow herself to want him, yet as she settles uneasily into life with the quiet artist, she gets the feeling he’s as much a victim of his brother’s schemes as she.

But when a series of gruesome deaths begin taking place around Flagstaff, Angela has a very bad feeling the killer is lurking close to home…and uncovering the truth could break the fragile trust she and Connor have worked so hard to build.

DARKMOON:
Certain she’s lost Connor’s love, Angela returns home to resume her place as the McAllister prima — without her consort. Then she learns her little birth-control charm couldn’t fool Fate — and now she’s the next target of the fatal Wilcox curse. Determined to break this dark legacy, she reaches out reconcile with her beautiful, brokenhearted Connor.

Then she must journey to the otherworld to fill in the blanks of her own past. With every broken thread she reweaves into her history, her magic grows and evolves. But the healing that will finally break the Wilcox curse could cost Angela everything….