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Featured Fantasy: The Oath (Chronicles of the Ordained Book 1) by Jerri Hines

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Featured Fantasy: The Oath (Chronicles of the Ordained Book 1) by Jerri Hines

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Seven hundred years ago, the Knights of the Ordained banished the demon, Asmeodai.

Buried deep beneath Wahi Tapu Temple, the evil becomes a distant memory.

For those seven hundred years, Asmeodai seethed in hatred for those that condemned him to this hell. He has survived only for his chance to enact his revenge.

Now, though, the time of the Secundus has come again. With the rising of the second moon comes the fear of Asmeodai’s re-emergence. The aftermath of the last Secundus saw the once-great Jornada Empire splintered into three realms. Moreover, the Knights of the Ordained are not what they once were. But all is not lost. There is hope. There are those born who are ordained to fight this evil.

Their destiny will not be denied.

Featured Sci-Fi: Eater by Gregory Benford

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Impending personal tragedy is dimming the brilliant light of Dr. Benjamin Knowlton’s world. On the threshold of their greatest achievement, the renowned astrophysicist’s beloved wife and partner—ex-astronaut-turned astronomer—is dying.

But something looms alarningly on the far edge of the solar system: at once a scientific find of unparalleled importance that could ensure the Knowltons’ immortality, and a potential earth-shattering cataclysm that dwarfs their private one. For Benjamin and Channing have discovered “Eater,” an eons-old black hole anomaly that devours stars and worlds. Yet its most awesome and devasting secrets are still to be revealed…and feared.

Featured Sci-fi: Trading in Danger (Vatta’s War Book 1) by Elizabeth Moon

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Featured Sci-fi: Trading in Danger (Vatta's War Book 1) by Elizabeth Moon

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The first volume in the Vatta’s War series – action-packed military SF from the Nebula Award winning author of The Speed of Dark.

Ky Vatta is a highly promising military cadet with a great future ahead of her, until an insignificant act of kindness makes her the focus of the Academy’s wrath. She is forced to resign, her dreams shattered.

For the child of a rich trading family, this should mean disgrace on a grand scale. And yet, to her surprise, Ky is offered the captaincy of a ship headed for scrap with its final cargo.

Her orders are absolutely clear, but Ky quickly sees potential profit in altering the journey. Because, whatever the risks, it’s in her blood to trade – even if the currency is extreme danger.

‘I thoroughly enjoyed Trading in Danger and wholeheartedly recommend it’ THE BOOK SMUGGLERS

Featured Fantasy: Firefly Junction Cozy Mysteries Series (Books 1 – 3) by London Lovett

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Featured Fantasy: Firefly Junction Cozy Mysteries Series (Books 1 - 3) by London Lovett

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With her social life and writing career in tatters at the ripe old age of thirty-five, Sunni Taylor decides to pack up her things and join her sisters, Lana and Emily, in the small town of Firefly Junction. Hoping to open a bed and breakfast, Sunni sets herself the task of refurbishing the rundown Cider Ridge Inn, a two-hundred-year-old house with a sordid past. In the meantime, she’s stuck writing dull human interest stories for the Junction Times. But when Sunni decides to bend the rules on her first newspaper assignment, she soon finds herself in her favorite place—right in the center of a murder investigation. Now if she can just steer clear of the cocky, irritating and far too appealing local detective, Brady “Jax” Jackson.

It isn’t long before Sunni discovers that avoiding Jax is a piece of cake compared to staying clear of the equally cocky, irritating and far too appealing two-hundred-year-old ghost haunting the halls of the Cider Ridge Inn.

Feature Fantasy: Outside the Circle Mystery Boxed Set (Books 1 – 3) by Shereen Vedam

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Feature Fantasy: Outside the Circle Mystery Boxed Set (Books 1 - 3) by Shereen Vedam

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Do you believe in magic?

A Grimm descendant, with a family legacy of saving innocents, is drawn to solve supernatural mysteries in present-day Britain.

Book 1: Death Takes a Detour
Feuding with her over-protective mother, Abigail Grimshaw rebelliously stops at St. Michael’s church against her mother’s order to “hurry home,” and runs straight into danger.

Book 2: Death Shifts Gears
Abbie must prove she can be a fit guardian for two young orphans, but a shape-shifter friend needs her to find out why his sister was killed. This new investigation drives Abbie straight into the cutthroat world of magically modified food.

Book 3: Death Smells Disaster
A powerful witch offers to watch over Abbie’s kids so she can attend a memorial for the friends and colleagues she lost to a bombing a year ago. When that witch goes missing, all her plans change.

If you enjoy magical tales with a fairy tale flavor, you’ll love discovering this new face on the Grimm scene.

Dive into this magical, adventurous mystery series today!

Featured Fantasy: His Majesty’s Service – Three Novels of Temeraire by Naomi Novik

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Featured Fantasy: His Majesty's Service - Three Novels of Temeraire by Naomi Novik

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***LOVED EVERYONE OF THESE NOVELS***

Together in one volume, here are the first three novels in Naomi Novik’s New York Times bestselling Temeraire series, combining the gripping history of the Napoleonic era, the thrill of Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern books, and the excitement of Patrick O’Brian’s seafaring adventures. In His Majesty’s Service also includes an exclusive original Temeraire short story.

Capt. Will Laurence is serving with honor in the British Navy when his ship captures a French frigate harboring most a unusual cargo–an incalculably valuable dragon egg. When the egg hatches, Laurence unexpectedly becomes the master of the young dragon Temeraire and finds himself on an extraordinary journey that will shatter his orderly, respectable life and alter the course of his nation’s history.

Thrust into England’s Aerial Corps, Laurence and Temeraire undergo rigorous training while staving off French forces intent on breaching British soil. But the pair has more than France to contend with when China learns that an imperial dragon intended for Napoleon–Temeraire himself– has fallen into British hands. The emperor summons the new pilot and his dragon to the Far East, a long voyage fraught with peril and intrigue. From England’s shores to China’s palaces, from the Silk Road’s outer limits to the embattled borders of Prussia and Poland, Laurence and Temeraire must defend their partnership and their country from powerful adversaries around the globe. But can they succeed against the massed forces of Bonaparte’s implacable army?