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Featured Sci-fi: The Kurgan War by Richard Turner

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Featured Sci-fi: The Kurgan War by Richard Turner

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When war comes after a century of peace, it is sudden and brutal. Taken by surprise Earth’s far-flung colonies are in danger.

The only son of an admiral, Second Lieutenant Michael Sheridan finds himself thrust into a desperate conflict that he and the untried soldiers under his command are not ready for. Focusing on the people struggling to survive the onslaught, First Strike is a novel that propels the reader to the furthest limits of space. Fighting a ruthless and determined enemy, Sheridan soon learns the brutal lessons of war and that his enemy may not be what it appears to be.

Featured Fantasy: The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

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Featured Fantasy: The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

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RECOMMENDED: A mesmerizing, lyrical read that kept me up all night. So if that’s your thing pick it up.

In the woods is a glass coffin. It rests on the ground, and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives….

Hazel and her brother, Ben, live in Fairfold, where humans and the Folk exist side by side. Since they were children, Hazel and Ben have been telling each other stories about the boy in the glass coffin, that he is a prince and they are valiant knights, pretending their prince would be different from the other faeries, the ones who made cruel bargains, lurked in the shadows of trees, and doomed tourists. But as Hazel grows up, she puts aside those stories. Hazel knows the horned boy will never wake.

Until one day, he does….

As the world turns upside down, Hazel has to become the knight she once pretended to be.

The Darkest Part of the Forest is bestselling author Holly Black’s triumphant return to the opulent, enchanting faerie tales that launched her YA career.

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Featured Science Fiction: Starship Found, Child Missing (Alien Ship for Sale Book 1) by Miles Rozak

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Featured Science Fiction: Starship Found, Child Missing (Alien Ship for Sale Book 1) by Miles Rozak

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What would you do if the night you discovered a spaceship, your four-year-old son went missing?

For U.S. Marine Tyson Gage, there’s only one option left. Become a galactic bounty hunter, then collect enough loot and upgrades to mount a rescue among the stars…

Eight hundred years in the future.

Joined by his dog and a beautiful woman who, despite their attraction, is on his last nerve, Gage must leave life on Earth behind for a universe of aliens, criminals, and hyperspace more deadly and awesome than he can imagine…

Where he’ll ascend, reloaded, reborn, as one of the galaxy’s greats.

If you like found starships, galactic quests, and action-packed sci-fi journeys—don’t miss this brand new science fiction series from bestselling author Miles Rozak—and embark on one Marine’s incredible journey across the stars for his son.

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Featured Fantasy: The Way (Volumes of the Vemreaux Book 1) by Mary E. Twomey

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Featured Fantasy: The Way (Volumes of the Vemreaux Book 1) by Mary E. Twomey

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How far would you go to save the people you love?

In a world not divided by race, creed or color, but by blood type, Blue Anders finds herself on the wrong end of fortune’s mercy. Born with a lesser blood type, Blue is raised in The Way, a work camp for A-bloods.

Now Blue must fight against and alongside her violent brother to free their people and end the slavery forced upon her family by the blood drinkers. Standing up to her sociopath brother will be difficult, but admitting what she wants when she meets an intriguing man from the ruling class just might be impossible.

If you like dystopia romance, underdog tales, and a female heroine on a mission, this vampire trilogy is the page-turner for you.

“The Way” is book one in a dystopian trilogy, written by USA Today bestselling author Mary E. Twomey.

Start a new adventure, and read book one today.

Featured Sci-fi: Galactic Titan, Part III (Alien Starship for Sale Book 7) by Miles Rozak

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Featured Sci-fi: Galactic Titan, Part III (Alien Starship for Sale Book 7) by Miles Rozak

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SOMETIMES YOU DON’T GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR… WHEN BENDING SPACETIME PAYS FOR ITSELF.

Like most people, Tyson Gage thought time was linear. One thing after the next. Well, that’s how it felt.

Until spacetime nearby turned into a loop.

The Commonwealth he’s known has been sold out by bribery and corruption. His task force? Disbanded – now lost or dead. If history’s fixed, what options are left?

One thing about cycles… they’re made to be broken. The Empire might’ve sold Gage and crew short.

Because that’s what they’re going to do next.

If you like artifact science fiction, hilarious crews, realistic space battles, and romantic resolutions, don’t miss the series finale that’ll thrill you, fascinate with its actual science, leave you in stitches, and stick with you long after it ends.

Strap in for the action-packed, emotionally stirring conclusion of Gage’s journey through space and time.

Download the series – now complete – and join the unforgettable adventure…

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Featured Sci-fi: The Immortality Thief (The Kystrom Chronicles Book 1) by Taran Hunt

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Far off the edge of human existence, beside a dying star lies a nameless ship abandoned and hidden, lost for a millennium. But there are secrets there, terrible secrets that would change the fate of humanity, and eventually someone will come looking.

Refugee, criminal and linguist Sean Wren is made an offer he knows he can’t refuse: life in prison, “voluntary” military service – or salvaging data in a long-dead language from an abandoned ship filled with traps and monsters, just days before it’s destroyed in a supernova. Data connected to the Philosopher’s Stone experiments, into unlocking the secrets of immortality.

And he’s not the only one looking for the derelict ship. The Ministers, mysterious undying aliens that have ruled over humanity for centuries, want the data – as does The Republic, humanity’s last free government. And time is running out.

In the bowels of the derelict ship, surrounded by horrors and dead men, Sean slowly uncovers the truth of what happened on the ship, in its final days… and the terrible secret it’s hiding.