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Featured Fantasy: Under Dark Skies (Nightshade Forensic FBI Files Book 1) by A.J. Scudiere

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Featured Fantasy: Nightshade (Forensic FBI Files Book 1) by A.J. Scudiere

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The supernatural isn’t hiding in the woods. It’s getting recruited into the FBI.
Their first case could break them both…

Eleri Eames thought her career as an FBI analyst was over after her last case got her committed for psychiatric help. When she’s offered a chance to be an agent with the secret NightShade division, it feels like a second chance. But her new partner may be hiding more than she is, and he and NightShade are both not what she expected.

Donovan Heath was content in the morgue, his uncanny abilities making him a sought-after medical examiner. When his wins start drawing unwanted attention, that offer from the Bureau starts looking like a solution. NightShade needs the unusual edge he brings. Donovan understands what he is makes him a target, but Eleri might just figure him out before he can decide if he even trusts her.

Thrown together on their first assignment, they’ll have to track a charismatic cult leader, solvea high-profile kidnapping, and navigate a world where nothing is as it seems. As NightShade’s mysteries grow darker, the line between what they hunt and what they are blurs.
Will their secrets save them or destroy them?

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Featured Sci-fi: Ironhold Station (USS Hamiltron Book 1) by Mark Wayne McGinnis

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Featured Sci-fi: Ironhold Station (USS Hamiltron Book 1) by Mark Wayne McGinnis

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The surprise attack within the Auriga Star System was worse than brutal, it was heinous—leaving the US-Navy’s 3rd Fleet decimated. Thousands of crew are reported dead, including the ship’s Captain.

Reluctantly, the young XO, Galvin Quintos, will be taking command of the fleet’s crippled dreadnaught, the USS Hamilton, while doing his best to bring fleet survivors back to Earth.

Going from bad to worse, a murderer is running loose onboard the ship. Add to that fuel levels are critically low, and the Grish are back and in fast pursuit—ready to finish what they’d started. Only by sheer luck, along with a good measure of cagey smarts, will Quintos be able to rise to the challenge.

Featured Sci-fi: On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington Book 1) by David Weber

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Featured Sci-fi: On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington Book 1) by David Weber

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INTRODUCING
HONOR HARRINGTON

Having made him look a fool, she’s been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates her.

Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship’s humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station.

The aborigines of the system’s only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens.

Parliament isn’t sure it wants to keep the place; the major local industry is smuggling; the merchant cartels want her head; the star-conquering, so-called “Republic” of Haven is Up To Something; and Honor Harrington has a single, over-age light cruiser with an armament that doesn’t work to police the entire star system.

But the people out to get her have made one mistake. They’ve made her mad.

Featured Sci-fi: Humanity’s Last Stand Books 1- 9 by Daniel Young

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Featured Sci-fi: Humanity's Last Stand Books 1- 9 by Daniel Young

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Commander Nathan McCrory expected a routine seven-month deployment.

He woke up three hundred years too late.

The solar system is unrecognizable. Mars has been renamed. The planets have moved. And humanity—once masters of the stars—now numbers fewer than five thousand souls, hiding in underground cells while relentless machines hunt them to extinction.

Everyone McCrory knew is dead. His civilization is gone. The enemy is overwhelming, tireless, and utterly without mercy.

But McCrory refuses to accept humanity’s defeat.

Armed with three-hundred-year-old military training and a stolen machine ship, he begins teaching desperate survivors a radical concept: they can fight back.

Humanity’s Last Stand collects all nine books of the Operation Brainstorm saga—over 400,000 words of desperate combat, impossible odds, and humanity’s refusal to surrender.

When extinction is certain and hope is gone, one man’s vision changes everything.

The war for humanity’s survival starts now.

Featured Sci-fi: The Fresco by Sheri S. Tepper

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Featured Sci-fi: The Fresco by Sheri S. Tepper

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An Albuquerque bookseller is caught up in an intergalactic drama when aliens choose her as messenger of their wisdom in this feminist sci-fi novel.

The bizarre events that have been occurring across the United States—unexplained “oddities” tracked by Air Defense, mysterious disappearances, shocking deaths—seem to have no bearing on Benita Alvarez-Shipton’s life. That is, until the soft-spoken thirty-six-year-old bookstore manager is approached by a pair of aliens asking her to transmit their message of peace to the powers in Washington.

An abused Albuquerque wife with low self-esteem, Benita has been chosen to act as the sole liaison between the human race and the Pistach, who have offered their human hosts a spectacular opportunity for knowledge and enrichment.

But ultimately Benita will be called upon to do much more than deliver messages—and may, in fact, be responsible for saving the Earth. Because the Pistach are not the only space-faring species currently making their presence known on her unsuspecting planet. And the others are not so benevolent.

Featured Fantasy: Lattes and Levitation by Christine Pope

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Featured Fantasy: Lattes and Levitation by Christine Pope

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Welcome to Las Vegas…New Mexico, that is. It might lack the neon lights of Sin City, but this quirky town has a surprising knack for unexpected murder.

Skye O’Malley just wants to pour the perfect espresso at her shop, Levitation Latte, and lead a normal, quiet life. But when the local body count starts interfering with business, Skye has to rely on her hidden talents — reading tea leaves and the occasional prophetic dream — to catch the killers. With a little magic and a lot of caffeine, she’s brewing up some serious justice.

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