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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.

Featured Sci-fi: Chloe’s Kingdom (Stellar Heist Book 1) by Gregory Michael

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Featured Sci-fi: Chloe's Kingdom (Stellar Heist Book 1) by Gregory Michael

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Six Motivated Thieves. One Deadly Heist.

Chloe Espinoza is a wild-haired petty thief aboard the Kingdom, a drifting city spaceship. Once rich but now poor, Chloe is determined to break free from the Honeycombs and return to her life in the Gardens. Only one problem: she hardly has enough koin for a burrito, making a lavish apartment seem as distant as the stars. All that might change, however, when Chloe is offered a heist that could make her unimaginably rich. But she can’t break into the impenetrable Koin Vault alone…

A young mastermind who can’t let go of her past.

A mathematical genius in desperate need of koin.

A privileged kid from the Gardens with a debt to pay.

A bartender who’s serving revenge.

A mischievous raccoon with a bottomless appetite.

A battered soul who’s been wronged by the council.

Gone are the days of stealing snacks. Chloe’s crew is aiming for the ultimate prize: the Koin Vault. Their plan? To rob the Treasury and bring down the corrupt council. But in a game where the stakes are jail or death, every move could be their last.

A thrilling Young Adult Science Fiction Heist novel set in the unforgiving void of outer space, perfect for fans of ‘Six of Crows’ by Leigh Bardugo and ‘Artemis’ by Andy Weir.

Featured Sci-fi: The Complete Cyber Seed Compendium Books 1 – 5 by Craig A. Falconer

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An unmissable sci-fi box set from the author of the global blockbuster Not Alone — perfect for fans of ‘The Peripheral’ and ‘Ready Player One’.

Grab all five thrilling books in the COMPLETE CYBER SEED COMPENDIUM for one low price, in this great value 1200+ page sci-fi box set! [Includes an exclusive new story which can only be read in this collection]

Some inventions change the world. Others send it straight to hell…

When Kurt Jacobs imagines the ultimate gadget — one capable of replacing phones, credit cards, keys and TVs — the idea consumes his every waking moment. When the Sycamore corporation buys into Kurt’s creation and The Seed becomes a reality, his every dream comes true.

Power like this has never existed.

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Featured Fantasy: Mate Market (Ghost Pack Book 1) by Aimee Easterling

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A mating of convenience even a lone wolf can’t refuse.

I’m Wren, a shifter without a pack in a world where unclaimed females are considered property. Luckily, friendly ghosts keep me one step ahead of greedy alphas while also helping me free other women before they’re sold to the highest bidder.

Then a battle-scarred alpha who can banish ghosts with a single touch rips into my carefully controlled world. Locke offers me a deal: become his mate in name only, and he’ll fight by my side to free lone females.

I try to refuse. I should refuse. But when one of my ghosts becomes trapped in Locke’s territory and the next mate market looms, I realize I can’t win this battle alone.

I need the help of someone living—even if it means binding myself to an alpha like the one who turned my friends into ghosts.

Mate Market is the first book in the slow-burn romantic urban fantasy Ghost Pack series, set in the unforgiving arctic wilderness where forced proximity, found family, and fierce werewolves collide.

Featured Sci-fi: Just One Command by M.E. Harker

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Featured Sci-fi: Just One Command by M.E. Harker

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In a space-faring future, janitorial engineer Casey Cassandra spends her days contentedly fixing robots on an ambassador’s spaceship. But when one of her robotic cleaning cubes happens to be in the wrong place at the right time, Casey overhears an ominous threat.

Someone is plotting to kill the ambassador, and that someone is a traitor within their own fleet.

Armed with only a hefty cleaning cube bot (named Charles) and her eccentric engineering knowledge, Casey must go against all fleet standards. She’ll have to break the rules in order to secretly warn her boss, Ambassador Dessian Tandor, that he’s in imminent danger — from his own people.

Although Dessian is hard-pressed to believe Casey’s claims, he can’t deny that things have been strange lately aboard his ship. With the help of a lazy yet charming pilot, Dessian and Casey escape from their spaceship home. Within a few hours, all three of them are publicly branded as criminals. On the run now, Casey and Dessian must find out why they’re being framed — and who they can trust, when the whole fleet seems to be against them.

It’s just one command between life and death, and somehow the ship’s janitor has found herself at the helm of a universe-wide conspiracy plot.

Featured Sci-fi: Not Alone Series by Craig Falconer

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Featured Sci-fi: Not Alone Series by Craig Falconer

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Aliens exist, the government knows, and Dan McCarthy just found the proof.

When Dan McCarthy stumbles upon a folder containing evidence of the conspiracy to end all conspiracies — a top-level alien cover-up — he leaks the files without a second thought.

The incredible truth revealed by Dan’s leak immediately captures the public’s imagination, but Dan’s relentless commitment to exposing the cover-up and forcing disclosure quickly earns him some enemies in high places.

For his whole life, Dan McCarthy has searched for a reason to believe. Now that he finally has one, he might soon wish he didn’t…

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Not Alone is a multi-time Kindle Unlimited All Star title and Audible.com ‘Best of 2016’ finalist. Dive in to a roller-coaster tale of contact and disclosure for the 21st century, with well over 100,000 copies sold.