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Featured Fantasy: Out Like a Goddess (Surprise Goddess Cozy Mystery Book 1) by A.M. Canavan

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Featured Fantasy: Out Like a Goddess (Surprise Goddess Cozy Mystery Book 1) by A.M. Canavan

FREE as of April 24, 2025
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The gods are real. Unfortunately, so are their messes.

Evangeline Lewis was just trying to make it through her birthday without another cosmic disaster. Instead, she gets fired, inherits a mysterious house in a town called Surprise, and finds out she’s not just unlucky—she’s divine.

Turns out the gods of Olympus are alive, and living among us causing more trouble than they clean up. Eva moves in to her inherited estate but there’s a catch. She’s the newest goddess on the block which comes with job she never asked for: fixer of divine problems.

But when gods start vanishing and visions of danger blur the line between dreams and reality, Eva discovers she’s not just here to fix things—she might be the key to saving the whole mythological world. Assuming she can survive talking tortoises, suspiciously hot wind gods, and three kings who definitely aren’t just CEOs.

One wrong step and it’s not just Olympus at risk—it’s Eva’s life, sanity, and the one shot she has at finding out who she actually is.

For fans of Lore Olympus, Good Omens, and divine chaos in small-town settings, this cozy mystery brims with mythology, magic, heart, and a heroine who refuses to be forgotten.

Featured Sci-fi: The Glass Complete Series by Nathan Hystad

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Featured Sci-fi: The Glass Complete Series by Nathan Hystad

99¢ as of April 24, 2025
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THE GLASS: THE COMPLETE SERIES is over 1200 pages of thrilling adventure, inspiring characters, and mysterious aliens. With over 5000 ratings, you won’t want to miss out. What’s really behind the Glass?

A hush falls over Earth as invisible barriers appear at random. Cars crash into them; trees are sliced in half, but nothing prepares humanity for what comes next.

As the effects take hold, Ransom learns his young daughter Chrissy is prone to inclinations, which is exactly what he’d feared the most. Drake, a seasoned detective, joins forces with Britt, a brilliant journalist, as well as Peggy and Will, two small town lovers unwittingly thrust into danger.

The road won’t be easy, and they have no choice but to venture past the Glass. What they find on the other side is another story.

From the best-selling author of The Event, First Life, Echoes From the Moon, and Lost Contact.

Included Inside:

The Other Place (The Glass Book One)
The Hidden Space (The Glass Book Two)
The Secret Base (The Glass Book Three)

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Featured Sci-fi: Slice of Entropy (Pizza in Space Book 1) by Lawrence M. Schoen

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Featured Sci-fi: Slice of Entropy (Pizza in Space Book 1) by Lawrence M. Schoen

99¢ as of April 23, 2025
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Melody Wilder just needs to complete her dissertation and life will be perfect. Alas, that’s not going to happen.

She hasn’t picked a topic yet, her undergraduate loans have been “un-forgiven” with a vengeance, the university is about to strip her of her stipend, her job, and her apartment, and a pirate-priest minotaur is systematically destroying her hopes and dreams.

Meanwhile, alien bear cub physicists are trying to extradite her best friend on charges of violating the laws of conservation of matter every time he makes a pizza!

And things are just getting started.

With a blend of colorful aliens, explorations of new types of memory, the introduction of social predestination, and the healing power of pizza, Slice of Entropy is a rollicking romp of science fiction fun and adventure that will leave you hungry for more.

Featured Fantasy: Death’s Intern (The Intern Diaries Book 1) by D. C. Gomez

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Featured Fantasy: Death's Intern (The Intern Diaries Book 1) by D. C. Gomez

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A talking cat, a boy genius, missing people, and an untrained Intern for Death. What could possibly go wrong?
Did that really happen?

There’s no way Death offered me a job. I’m a musician that makes her living as a waitress, with absolutely no training in the supernatural world. This is all a very bad dream.

But Bob has been kidnapped, and I can’t possibly lose the only friend I have.

Bob, you’d better be alive. Because if I just gave my soul to Death for nothing, I will personally kill you. Not to mention, it seems Death’s Interns have fairly short life expectancies.

God, don’t let me die.

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Featured Sci-fi: Take the Shilling (The Confederated Worlds Book 1) by Raymund Eich

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Featured Sci-fi: Take the Shilling (The Confederated Worlds Book 1) by Raymund Eich

FREE as of April 21, 2025
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“Military science fiction [concentrating] on the psychology and politics of societies in conflict.” —Analog, on the Confederated Worlds series

The Confederated Worlds implanted in his brain the skills to make him a soldier.

He had to learn for himself how to survive interstellar war.

Tomas Neumann seeks escape from his backwater planet and overbearing mother, and a mentor to replace his long-dead father.

“Taking the shilling”—enlisting in the Confederated Worlds military—promises both.

But the soldier’s skills implanted in his brain can’t prepare him for combat against fellow humans. Especially ones supposed to welcome him and his fellow soldiers as liberators. The war on New Liberty threatens to destroy him. Not just in body. Also in spirit.

Grieving for lost comrades, demoralized by harrowing combat, Tomas must learn what he needs to survive.

Because soon, with the fates of thousands of his fellow soldiers in the balance, he will face his war’s ultimate challenge.

Take the Shilling is the first book in The Confederated Worlds series.

Featured Fantasy: The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris by Evie Woods

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Featured Fantasy: The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris by Evie Woods

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From the million-copy bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop

‘A delicious book that I couldn’t resist devouring in one sitting. It was a delight to lose myself in the world of Edie and the mysterious baker. I would recommend to pastry lovers and book lovers alike!’ Sally Page, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Keeper of Stories

Nestled among the cobblestone streets of Compiègne, there existed a bakery unlike any other.

Rumours were whispered through the town that its pastries offered a taste of magic, chasing away the darkest of sorrows. Just one bite of a croissant might bring luck, unlock a precious memory or reveal hidden longings.

But dark clouds were looming on the horizon…

For Edie Lane, a recipe for disaster doesn’t require that many ingredients. Take an unhealthy amount of wishful thinking and a sprinkle of desperation and that’s how Edie left everything behind in Ireland for her dream job at a bakery in Paris. Except the bakery isn’t in Paris – and neither is Edie.

This might not be where Edie intended to be but she soon realizes it’s exactly where she needs to be…