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Featured Sci-fi: Irrelevant (The Relevance Series Book 1) by Sarah Addison-Fox

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Featured Sci-fi: Irrelevant (The Relevance Series Book 1) by Sarah Addison-Fox

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☢☣ For fans who loved Divergent, Razorland, and Moon Dwellers comes an astonishing dystopian romance like no other. ☢☣

Mallory’s been hiding who she is for 18 years…

But now her terrible secret has been exposed.

Branded Irrelevant, Mallory is cut off from everything she knows.

Irrelevants are criminals, banished to live in the old city. But in the wasteland between the new city and the old, she stumbles on Cristan.

He’s bitter, paranoid, and possibly crazy…

He may also be right about everything.

To survive, Mallory must figure out who to trust, and embrace the behaviour she’s been taught to deny.

The answers may lie in a place even the most rebellious Irrelevants won’t go.

Featured Sci-fi: Alterian Wars Series Sale by G J Ogden

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Featured Sci-fi: Alterian Wars Series Sale by G J Ogden

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– KINDLE STORYTELLER AWARD WINNER 2023 –

Humanity’s only hope is the commander they spurned.

Once, Master Commander Carter Rose was the Union’s secret weapon. An augmented, bio-engineered officer in command of the most powerful warship ever devised by human minds, Rose brought them victory against the post-human Aternien Empire.

Then they cast him aside.

A century later, living alone on a distant forest moon, feared and forsaken by the people he fought to save, Rose has grown bitter and resentful, while his superhuman body refuses to age.

When Major Carina Larsen seeks his help to save Earth from becoming the last frontier of humanity, Rose is reluctant to return to duty. Until Larsen reveals the real peril: the Aterniens are on the rise again, hell-bent on revenge.

And after a century of peace, the Union has forgotten how to fight.

But even if Rose can recover his marooned warship and assemble a crew, his allegiance is now a valuable commodity — and a secret weapon is only ever as dangerous as those who wield it…

Forsaken Commander is the winner of the Kindle Storyteller Award 2023 and book one of the Aternien Wars series, an epic blend of space opera and militaristic sci-fi. Follow an elite crew of augmented officers as they fight a post-human enemy styled on the myths of ancient Egypt.

Featured Fantasy: Wormwood Abbey (The Secrets of Ormdale, Book 1) by Christina Baehr

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Featured Fantasy: Wormwood Abbey (The Secrets of Ormdale, Book 1) by Christina Baehr

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As a Victorian clergyman’s daughter, Edith Worms has seen everything — until a mythical salamander tumbles out of the fireplace into her lap.

When a letter arrives from estranged relatives, Edith is swept away to a crumbling gothic Abbey in the wilds of Yorkshire. Wormwood Abbey isn’t just full of curious beasts and ancient family secrets: there’s also a tall, dark, and entirely too handsome neighbour who is strangely reluctant for her to leave.

An unexpected bond with her prickly cousin Gwendolyn gives Edith a reason to stay in this strange world — especially when it turns out that Edith herself may have a role in guarding her family’s legacy.

But not all of the mysteries of Ormdale are small enough to fit in her lap…and some of them have teeth.

WORMWOOD ABBEY, Book 1 of The Secrets of Ormdale, is a cosy gothic novel of mystery, dragons, and the perils of friendship, perfect for fans of Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries and Maria Grace.

Start exploring the hidden valley of Ormdale in 1899 with WORMWOOD ABBEY, the first in a new 5 book series.

Featured Fantasy: The Perfect Brew Books 1 – 3 by Jo-Ann Carson

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When Cassie Black, a clumsy young witch who likes to party with vampires, inherits a sentient coffeehouse in a small Pacific Northwest town, her life turns upside down.

Cassie Black inherits from her crazy Great-Aunt Ophelia a sentient coffee-house, complete with an inter-dimensional portal. Determined to find her aunt’s murderer, Cassie becomes well-acquainted with her aunt’s life and her dream of creating a haven for supernatural beings. What Cassie finds lurking beneath the small town is a nest of infinite darkness ready to invade the world. She alone can stop it.
Warning: This story involves a seductive warlock, a tall, dark and annoying detective, and a snarky cat that may steal your heart.

When evil rises, one clumsy witch must save the world.

As this is a “cozy” there’s no sex or violence on the page but be prepared for some serious romance, mystery, and magic. 

Featured Sci-fi: Starship Freedom Series Sale by Daniel Arenson

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Featured Sci-fi: Starship Freedom Series Sale by Daniel Arenson

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The starship Freedom is just a museum ship. Until the aliens attack!

Battlestar Galactica meets Starship Troopers in this sci-fi adventure from Daniel Arenson, the USA Today bestselling author of Earthrise.

The starship Freedom was once a mighty warship. Today she’s a tourist attraction. The space wars ended long ago. The Freedom is now a flying museum. The tourists love it. The Changing of the Guard, the starfighter aerobatics, the starboard cannon salute . . . it’s the best show in the galaxy.

James King commands the starship Freedom. He hates his job. He was a real soldier once. Back when the Freedom was a real warship. He never imagined himself running a tourist trap. Right after Christmas, he plans to retire.

Then, on Christmas day, the aliens attack. Horrifying aliens. Creatures of claws, fangs, and endless malice. Within hours, they devastate Earth’s military. Millions die.

So much for retirement.

The aliens spare the starship Freedom. After all, she’s only a tourist attraction. But not to Commander King. He will get his beloved starship battle-ready. He will enter the fight. The Freedom will fly to war again!

Featured Fantasy: The Runemaster’s Daughter: A Tale of Gorsk Mountain by Lawrence M. Schoen

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Featured Fantasy: The Runemaster's Daughter: A Tale of Gorsk Mountain by Lawrence M. Schoen

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Who will succumb to the thirst sleep?

A troll invasion forced the dwarves to flee their home in Gorsk Mountain.

Now, five hundred years later, an expedition of dwarves has returned, seeking to reclaim the mountain kingdom. They have great and glorious plans as they rebuild, including brewing beer.

But most of these dwarves are young, still in their first century. Too young to have experienced running out of beer, let alone the devastating effects of the thirst sleep.

Brewmaster Shrem knows better. She grew up in the Gorsk. She’s witnessed firsthand the death that prolonged lack of beer induces. The supply of beer the expedition brought with them is running dangerously low and Shrem is forced to ration what remains. She must brew new beer but needs a source of water, one that partakes of the mountain’s strength.

Accompanied by an apprentice and a journeyman brewer, and the young daughter of the mountain’s runemaster, Shrem will follow her memories from half a millennium ago and seek out suitable pools deeper into the mountain than the returning dwarves have yet ventured. Can she lead her small group through tunnels riddled with troll blight and blocked by the ensorcelled corpses of hundreds of goblins in time? Can a young runesmith help clear the way before any of them succumb to the thirst sleep?