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Featured Sci-fi: Extinction Reversed (Project Transhuman Book One) by J.S. Morin

June 26, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Extinction Reversed (Project Transhuman Book One) by J.S. Morin

99¢ as of June 26, 2025
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These days, even the humans are built by robots.

Charlie7 is the progenitor of a mechanical race he built from the ashes of a dead world—Earth. He is a robot of leisure and idle political meddling—a retirement well-earned. Or he was, until a human girl named Eve was dropped in his lap.

Geneticists have restored Earth’s biome and begun repopulation. But primate cloning is in its infancy; human cloning is banned. Far from a failed genetics experiment, Eve is brilliant, curious, and heartbreakingly naïve about her species’ history.

But Eve’s creator wants her back and has a gruesome fate planned for her. There is only one robot qualified to protect her. For the first time in a thousand years, Charlie7 has a human race to protect.

A.I. didn’t destroy humanity. It didn’t save us, either.

The robots we built in our final days preserved human minds. They survived the end of life on Earth and embarked on the greatest single project in all recorded history.

They rebuilt. The result of 1,000 years of genetic engineering, terraforming, and painstaking toxic cleanup has resulted in the ultimate achievement of the Post-Invasion Age: a healthy human.

Her name is Eve14. Don’t ask about the 13 Eves before her.

Or do, because that’s the reason why she’s in danger, and why one brave robot puts his millennium-long life on the line to save her.

Extinction Reversed is the first book in the Project Transhuman series. For fans of old-school science fiction where robots are people and any problem can be solved (or created) with enough scientists. If you’ve ever wondered what the world would be like if scientists who’d read I, Robot created a race of robots, or if you ever wondered what might be more dangerous to clone than dinosaurs, this is the series for you.

Grab your copy while there’s still an Earth left to read it on.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Extinction Reversed, JS Morin, Project Transhuman

Featured Fantasy: The Musician and the Monster (The Castamar Duology Book 1) by Megan Van Dyke

June 25, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: The Musician and the Monster (The Castamar Duology Book 1) by Megan Van Dyke

99¢ as of June 25, 2025
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Beauty and the Beast meets The Phantom of the Opera in this Bridgerton-esque fantasy of manners with strong gothic vibes and magic.

“Music says things words never can. I love you. I miss you. I’m sorry I killed you.”


Every night, Ceridwen Kinsley plays music on her rooftop for the spirit of her dead mother. Until one night, she’s attacked by something not quite human, bringing her to the attention of Lord Protector Drystan Winterbourne.

Charged with protecting the backwater city of Teneboure by the king, Drystan is failing at his task, and he can’t afford another slip up. But when fate and the very monster he means to conquer bring Ceridwen to his notice, he seizes the opportunity and presents her with an offer: play music for him at his manor in exchange for the money her impoverished family desperately needs. Music eases the strain of his magic, and who better to hire than the woman whose tunes he secretly listens to at night?

At first, Ceridwen is put off by Drystan’s unkempt appearance and harsh demeanor, not to mention the odd ailment that plagues him. But as he embraces her passion for music and she draws the recluse out of his lonely tower, the two develop an unlikely attachment. Class lines begin to blur as fearful indifference shifts to unexpected desire.

However, the monster prowling the night isn’t their only enemy, and as terrible secrets come to light, even true love may not be enough to save them.

This retelling of Beauty and the Beast incorporates themes and motifs from Phantom of the Opera, and is set in a Bridgerton-esque world but with magic and strong gothic vibes. It should appeal to fans of romantic and atmospheric retellings and fairy tales by authors such as Hannah Whitten, Tessonja Odette, and Stephanie Garber.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Megan Van Dyke, The Castamar Duology, The Musician and the Monster

Featured Sci-fi: Hot Moon (Apollo Rising: Book One) by Alan Smale

June 25, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Hot Moon (Apollo Rising: Book One) by Alan Smale

FREE as of June 25, 2025
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One of the most critically acclaimed hard science fiction novels from a two-time Sidewise Award winning author.

“A nail-biting thriller.”−Publishers Weekly

“I loved it. Great ‘hard’ science fiction with convincing space battles. “−Larry Niven

“Will delight and enthrall.”−Library Journal

“A provocative science fiction novel.”−Foreword ReviewsAn alternate 1979. The Moon is the new front line. And one woman is caught in the crossfire.

Hot Moon isn’t just another adventure book. It’s a gripping alternate-history thriller packed with Cold War tension, hard science fiction, and pulse-pounding action—in a setting so real, you’ll smell the lunar dust.

In this intriguing unique setting, the U.S. and Soviet Union have Moon bases, orbiting stations, and spy satellites. Space isn’t a frontier anymore—it’s a battlefield.

Enter Apollo 32. Enter Vivian Carter. Enter disaster.

On a routine mission, astronaut Vivian Carter finds herself in the middle of a Soviet attack on a U.S. space station. Forced to spacewalk through a vacuum just to survive, she returns to the Moon only to discover something worse: the war isn’t over. It’s just getting started.

Stranded. Outnumbered. Unarmed.

She and her crew must improvise, adapt, and fight back—before the Moon becomes a Soviet stronghold.

From two-time Sidewise Award winner and former NASA director Alan Smale, Hot Moon delivers credibility with blockbuster-level storytelling.

This is for fans of The Martian, For All Mankind, and Red Storm Rising—for readers who crave unique intense addictive novels and a riveting captivating thought provoking storyline.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Alan Smale, Apollo Rising, Hot Moon

Featured Fantasy: Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs (Jane Jameson Book 1) by Molly Harper

June 23, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs (Jane Jameson Book 1) by Molly Harper

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The first in the Half-Moon Hollow series is “wry, delicious fun” (Susan Andersen, New York Times bestselling author) as it follows a librarian whose life is turned upside down by a tempestuous and sexy vampire.

Maybe it was the Shenanigans gift certificate that put her over the edge. When children’s librarian and self-professed nice girl Jane Jameson is fired by her beastly boss and handed twenty-five dollars in potato skins instead of a severance check, she goes on a bender that’s sure to become Half Moon Hollow legend. On her way home, she’s mistaken for a deer, shot, and left for dead. And thanks to the mysterious stranger she met while chugging neon-colored cocktails, she wakes up with a decidedly unladylike thirst for blood.

Jane is now the latest recipient of a gift basket from the Newly Undead Welcoming Committee, and her life-after-lifestyle is taking some getting used to. Her recently deceased favorite aunt is now her ghostly roommate. She has to fake breathing and endure daytime hours to avoid coming out of the coffin to her family. She’s forced to forgo her favorite down-home Southern cooking for bags of O negative. Her relationship with her sexy, mercurial vampire sire keeps running hot and cold. And if all that wasn’t enough, it looks like someone in Half Moon Hollow is trying to frame her for a series of vampire murders. What’s a nice undead girl to do?

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Jane Jameson, Molly Harper, Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs

Featured Fantasy: Fangs and Frenemies (Blue Moon Bay Witches Book 1) by Sierra Cross

June 23, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Fangs and Frenemies (Blue Moon Bay Witches Book 1) by Sierra Cross

FREE as of June 23, 2025
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A quirky genius bobcat shifter.

A sassy ex-cheerleading vampire.

A sweet—but slightly neurotic—witch.

They fight crime.

Hazel Greenwood’s magical career and love life are finally looking up at twenty eight. Take that, shallow Beige Witch mom and sisters! And everyone else who made her feel like an outcast growing up, just because she inherited Gran’s powerful Green Magic.

But when a mean girl from the past goes missing, Hazel’s thrown back into the whirlwind of small town drama, rekindled rivalries, and romantic sparks.

High school’s back, witches.

To clear each other’s names, three supernatural frenemies must set aside ancient grudges and learn to trust each other.

Because in the cozy, sea-swept village of Blue Moon Bay, Oregon, everyone’s guarding a magical secret.

Will these three women, who usually can’t stand each other, find love and friendship while cracking the mystery—or are they cursed to fail?

Dive into a world of magical intrigue, snarky humor, heartwarming friendship, and slow burn romance. Escape to Blue Moon Bay now!

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Blue Moon Bay Witches, Fangs and Frenemies, Sierra Cross

Featured Fantasy: Blood & Ash (The Jezebel Files Book 1) by Deborah Wilde

June 23, 2025 by Carolynn

99¢ as of June 23, 2025
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“Wilde combines hardboiled noir and Jewish folklore in this action-packed, perfectly paced paranormal romp… This giddy, sexy series launch is a delight.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Missing teens. Impossible magic. And the sexy nemesis who might drive her to murder.

Ashira Cohen takes great pride in the detective agency she’s built from scratch. It may be small, but she harbors big dreams of becoming a renowned sleuth.

Thing is, a modern-day Sherlock Holmes wouldn’t let her stakeout go sideways.

Or find a mysterious tattoo hidden on her scalp.

Or discover it’s a now-broken ward that was suppressing dangerous magic she had no idea she possessed.

Don’t even get her started on the golem.

The only bright spot is that her new unruly powers nearly kill her long-time nemesis, Levi, the irritatingly hot leader of the magic community. No, right… that’s a bad thing.

One word from him revealing her forbidden abilities and she’ll be locked up for life, with everything she’s built taken from her by force. Definitely a bad thing.

Except…

It seems Levi requires her unique set of skills to solve a spree of abductions.

This is her shot. Sure, there’s a sinister supernatural organization pulling strings from the shadows, but Ash is positive she can rescue the captives, uncover the truth, and take her career to a new level.

Plus, after years of being underestimated by Levi, it’s Ash’s chance at payback. And she’s going to relish bringing him to his knees.

If you like headstrong heroines, clever mysteries, and a dash of red-hot romance, you’ll burn through this wickedly funny series.

Binge the complete series now!

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Blood & Ash, Deborah Wilde, The Jezebel Files

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