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Featured Sci-fi: The dark of Light (Starhawke Rising Book 1) by Audrey Sharpe

April 7, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: The dark of Light (Starhawke Rising Book 1) by Audrey Sharpe

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Save a planet. Sacrifice your future.
For Aurora Hawke, protecting the secret of her half-human heritage has been a lifelong challenge. Taking command of her own starship and the best crew in the quadrant has been her dream. Failing at both is her nightmare. But the survival of a planet may depend on it.

With millions of lives at risk, she’ll do whatever it takes, even if revealing her unique abilities means spending the rest of her life on the run.

If you like Star Trek style pulse-pounding interstellar adventures, intriguing alien encounters, and otherworldly starships, you’ll love the Starhawke Rising series. Perfect for fans of Lindsay Buroker, Michelle Diener, and K. Gorman.

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Featured Fantasy: They Left Magic in Their Wake by Marilyn Peake

April 6, 2024 by B. G.

Featured Fantasy: They Left Magic in Their Wake by Sarah Chorn

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At the end of the world, there will be magic.

Earth has been decimated by climate change. Humanity has fractured into isolated tribes. A child born in the southwestern desert of the United States appears to have magical powers, a strict taboo in his part of the world. In four other locations, people discover magical items. No one knows how they work or where they’re from. Although these strange objects capture the imagination, using them is risky and dangerous.

The five tribes at the heart of this novel:

Southwestern Desert Tribe: Zadie and Nora have fled their tribe where human reproduction is so rare, pregnant women are burned at the stake as witches. Zadie gives birth to triplets, only one born alive. The surviving infant shows signs of having magical powers, another punishable taboo.

Northeastern Mountain Tribe: Finley is a young boy too curious for his own good. Meddling with strange technology he finds in a cave, he eventually boards a flying ship that takes him far away from the only world he’s ever known.

Tribe in Akihabara, Japan: Exploring post-apocalyptic Tokyo, Emiko, Katsuki, Rin and Ko discover ancient manga and D&D items, as well as glowing cubes they mistake for dice. When the long-dead neon lights of Tokyo begin to flicker, the teenagers get caught up in the most intense adventure of their lives.

McMurdo Station Tribe—Located in the Land of Magical Ice, Formerly Antarctica: Settlers at the abandoned McMurdo Station practice a form of mysticism, their ancestors having fled religious persecution as well as the droughts and fires of Australia. Arthur Campbell and Harrison Clark are researchers studying the strange technology that runs the place.

Vostok Station Tribe—Located in the Land of Magical Ice, Formerly Antarctica: The original settlers of the abandoned Vostok Station fled the extreme heat, fires and droughts of Brazil. Years later, giant squid and a spaceship emerge from Lake Vostok as the ice begins to melt. Salvador Siqueira and his crew leave their station to investigate.

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Featured Fantasy: Sorcery and Stagecraft by Kristin L. Hamblin

April 6, 2024 by B. G.

Featured Fantasy: Sorcery and Stagecraft by Kristin L. Hamblin

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The power to unlock new worlds. A prophecy to end them.

When sixteen-year-old Ricci donned her costume that morning, she never expected to portal to the fae realm in the middle of a performance. Ecstatic, Ricci wows the townsfolk with a beautiful scene from another world—but magic is dangerous, and her family is afraid. Still, if this newfound ability can earn some much-needed coin, what’s the harm?

More harm than she can imagine.

In the fae realm, Lela is tending herbs when a portal opens in her backyard and Ricci walks through. Gongs ring out across the land. The prophecy they’ve feared for centuries has begun—the doom of the fae. Now, Lela must put aside her dream of capturing the heart of the male next door and find a way to save her people.

Back in the human world, Callen struggles to brew a potion that will satisfy his master’s quest to open portals. When the Magnificent Menowin Traveling Troupe rolls into town with rumors of a girl whose magic transports you like you’re part of the show, well, Callen must find her and turn her over to his master. Only then will he become a full mage.

But Ricci distrusts mages, Lela distrusts humans, and Callen is falling for Ricci hard and fast.

Their destinies are intertwined against an enemy they never see coming. Only friendship and love can save them. But if they cannot set aside their differences and fears, more than one world will be destroyed.

Sorcery and Stagecraft is book one in the Sorcery & Sacrifice series, a young adult clean romantic portal fantasy, perfect for fans of coming-of-age tales, deep friendships, and good triumphing over evil. Although a standalone, it is recommended to read the books in order of publication for the best experience.

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Featured Science Fiction: Oasis (The Last Humans Book 1) by Dima Zales

April 6, 2024 by Carolynn

The Last Human Book 1 Oasis by Dima Zales

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A dystopian/post-apocalyptic series from a New York Times bestselling author

My name is Theo, and I’m a resident of Oasis, the last habitable area on Earth. It’s meant to be a paradise, a place where we are all content. Vulgarity, violence, insanity, and other ills are but a distant memory, and even death no longer plagues us.

I was once content too, but now I’m different. Now I hear a voice in my head, and she tells me things no imaginary friend should know. Her name is Phoe, and she is my delusion.

Or is she?

Note: This book contains some strong language. We felt it was important for the censorship theme of the novel. If such words offend you, you might not enjoy this book.

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Featured Fantasy: Angelbound Origins Books 1 – 3 by Christina Bauer

April 5, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Angelbound Origins Books 1 - 3 by Christina Bauer

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Angels! Demons! Love! Snark! The first three books of the best-selling series are now in one ebook collection…

ANGELBOUND (Book 1)
Myla Lewis is a girl who loves two things: kicking ass and kicking ass. She’s not your every day quasi-demon, part-demon and part-human, girl. Myla lives for the days she gets to fight in Purgatory’s Arena. That is, until she meets Prince Lincoln, a super-sexy half-human and half-angel demon hunter. But what’s a quasi-demon girl to do when she falls for a royal demon killer? With a love with fighting for, Myla’s about to shake up the after-realms.

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Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Angelbound, Christina Bauer

Featured Sci-fi: Quantum Whispers (Quantum Ascension Series Book 1) by Alex M. Brandt

April 4, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Quantum Whispers (Quantum Ascension Series Book 1) by Alex M. Brandt

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Ben has just completed a hard day’s work blowing up psychotic killing machines, when he’s acclaimed a hero and sent off to Ceres, an icy planetoid orbiting beyond Mars. He sees this as a promotion – his boss sees this as a way of getting him killed.

Once he gets to Ceres he discovers his imminent demise is the least of his problems. Invincible aliens are on their way from the far side of the Galaxy to eradicate all human life. And the only faint hope for the survival of the human race is Kay, a young woman transformed into a human/AI hybrid who his bosses also want to destroy. The AI is of alien origin, and gives her “magical” powers. This helps her to fool and outwit the people trying to kill her. Ben would rather just shoot them.

He’s also skeptical about the mysterious Alien AI. Humanity’s own experiments with advanced AI led to the rise of the crazed warmechs that destroyed his family. But as it turns out, nothing is quite what it seems, and everyone has a hidden agenda.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Alex M. Brandt, Quantum Ascension, Quantum Whispers

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