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Featured Sci-fi: The Sea of Storms (Lodestone Book One) by Mark Whiteway

August 4, 2024 by Carolynn

Lodestone Book One: The Sea of Storms: SciFi Adventure Kindle Edition
by Mark Whiteway (Author)

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On the planet Kelanni, life is cheap.

With the aid of the fearsome “Keltar” enforcers in their flying cloaks, a ruthless invader is forcing the native population to mine the colloquially named “lodestone” – a substance from another universe with infinitely destructive power.

The only ones who can stop him are a tiny girl with a fiery disposition, a former Keltar, a failed revolutionary, a musician and the mysterious creature Boxx, who seems to speak only in riddles…

Pursued by Keltar, the party will encounter bizarre creatures, ancient technologies and terrifying dangers. Finally, they must seek to cross a massive storm barrier in order to reach the other side of their world …

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Featured Sci-Fi: Code Exodus: A science fiction thriller (Farewell Amity Station Book 4) by Frank Kennedy

August 3, 2024 by B. G.

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A conspirator unmasked. A fight for power. A deadly betrayal.

Ten months after their lives changed, the Stallion brothers have earned front-row seats to history. Their winding, improbable journeys collide as momentous events threaten to shape the foundations of the Collectorate.

New Gov. Trevor Stallion adapts to life as an administrator and politician, beset by competing interests and the need to please various factions. Through it all, he questions the circumstances that brought him to the highest office on Amity Station.

Lt. Connor Stallion, now fully immersed in Requiem’s dangerous plans, prepares to return home and fulfill his role in Code Exodus – a project that could change the course of history. But as his loyalty to his brother clashes with his duty to his cause, Connor must make a decision that could tear their family apart.

Meanwhile, Thomas Quinlan plots his ultimate revenge against the Stallion brothers, while the mastermind behind their turmoil steps into the light.

In this tense, penultimate chapter of the Farewell Amity Station series, revelation will bring clarity, fear, and heartbreak.

Featured Fantasy: Eyrie (Gryphon Insurrection Book 1) by K. Vale Nagle

August 3, 2024 by Carolynn

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A bloody massacre. A looming civil war. Can two opposed gryphons work together to save their kind?

Zeph thrills at the wind in his wings and the hunt for wild parrot. As a simple forest gryphon, he never thought much about his sophisticated city-dwelling cousins living in the lofty eyrie at the edge of the woods. But his carefree life turns upside down when he comes across a young city gryphon stunned by her discovery of a field littered with slaughtered animals.

Kia always has her beak in a book. But when her best friend goes missing, she flies down to the woodland and gets tangled up with a wild country gryphon and a shocking conspiracy. With food in short supply and war on the horizon, Kia must choose between forsaking her own or allowing Zeph’s people to be wiped off the map.

Forced to overcome their prejudice and misconceptions, the unlikely pair races against time to prevent an apocalypse.

Can Zeph and Kia unite their species before a fiery conflict destroys them all?

Eyrie is the first book in the high-flying Gryphon Insurrection epic fantasy series. If you like mythical creatures, graphic battles, and moral dilemmas, then you’ll love K. Vale Nagle’s darkly compassionate tale.

Featured Fantasy: The Demon’s Kiss (Bloodcaster Chronicles Book 1) by R.L Perez

July 31, 2024 by B. G.

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An assassin with a secret. An angel with a strange power. A war that threatens to destroy them both.

Cora is an assassin who never misses her mark. But she has a deadly secret: her blood can create the most powerful magical elixirs in the world.

And she’s been hunted for it her whole life.

When a powerful demon blackmails her, threatening to expose her secret, she has to do one last job to buy her freedom: kill a Nephilim named Vince. Cora figures this will be an easy target.

Until Vince time travels, appearing in two places at once.

Thwarted, Cora must get close to Vince so she can learn the secret to his strange ability–and finally kill him once and for all.

But the closer she gets to Vince, the more her icy heart begins to thaw, making way for new emotions she’s never felt before.

As she falls for him, her secret is exposed, igniting a powerful war between demons and Nephilim. In the end, Cora must choose between her own survival and preventing a war that will tear the magical world apart.

★★★★★ “A fantastic read! R.L Perez’s ability to craft strong, relatable characters always leaves me wanting more! Engaging magic, quick-paced plot, compelling romance. The perfect escape!” – JA Curtis, author of the Faerie Warriors series

Featured Fantasy: The Fair Chronicles: The Complete Trilogy by Lyndsey Hall

July 31, 2024 by B. G.

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When Aria is dragged through the Veil into the Fair Realm by a handsome, silver-eyed boy and his band of fairy soldiers, she discovers she is the legendary Fair Queen, the subject of a prophecy that promises to bring an end to the centuries-long conflict between the Five Kingdoms.

With terrifying creatures on their heels, and a tyrannical king who will stop at nothing to prevent the prophecy from coming true, Aria will have to rely on her wits if she’s to escape the Fair Realm with her life.

But can she resist the charms of her dark and mysterious captor, or will the fae prince steal her heart?
This gripping omnibus combines all three books in The Fair Chronicles trilogy in one volume:
The Fair Queen
The Solitary King
The Fair War

Featured Sci-fi: Genesis Code (Genesis Series Book 1) by Eliza Green

July 31, 2024 by Carolynn

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A hunter seeking revenge. An alien dying to stop him. Could a government conspiracy put them both six feet under?

Investigator Bill Taggart’s wife is missing. He can only find her by confronting the World Government’s biggest fear: a dangerous alien species on a distant planet.

When his government sends him on a covert mission to deal with the threat, Bill ends up confronting one alien. He is disturbed that the natives are not what he expected, and may have nothing to do with his wife’s disappearance.

Worried he’s made a huge mistake, Bill reports back his findings, only for them to be ignored. No closer to finding his wife, the investigator stalls in his progress. But when he stumbles upon secrets that could destroy lives on both worlds, he is shocked into new action.

Caught between two sets of lies, Bill is no longer sure who he can trust. Can he stop chasing ghosts long enough to save humankind from the real enemy?

Genesis Code is the first novel in this dystopian society thriller. A perfect read if you enjoy incredible world building, complex characters, and disturbing secrets.

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A conspirator unmasked. A fight for power. A deadly betrayal.

A bloody massacre. A looming civil war. Can two opposed gryphons work together to save their kind?

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