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Featured Fantasy: Thanatos (The Underworld Saga Book 1) by Eva Pohler

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Featured Fantasy: Thanatos (The Underworld Saga Book 1) by Eva Pohler

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Death had never been kissed, until now . . .

Thanatos meets seventeen-year-old Therese while she’s in a coma hovering between the realm of the dead and the realm of dreams. A lucid dreamer, she takes control of her dream and kisses him, unaware that he is Death. It was his first kiss. No one, in his long existence, has ever wanted to kiss Death.

After Therese awakens from her coma, Thanatos is desperate to find her. He makes a deal with Hades and goes to the Upperworld as a mortal to pursue her and to see where it might lead.

The deal requires Therese to avenge the death of her parents. With the help of Than’s fierce and exotic sisters, the Furies, she finds herself in an arena face to face with the murderer, and only one will survive.

*Formerly The Gatekeeper’s Sons, this series has been edited so that the main character begins her journey at age seventeen.

Featured Sci-fi: Day Zero (Endpoint Book 1) by J. W. Griffin

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Featured Sci-fi: Day Zero (Endpoint Book 1) by J. W. Griffin

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A final shadow swallows the Sun and the Earth, and in mere minutes, humanity is erased from the cosmos—all save one.

When Ryan McBain regains consciousness adrift in orbit, his life is gone. But a higher purpose is in play for Ryan, and the path forward is twisted by mysterious correlations to his troubled past. The constant threat of death fuels a madness that drives him to the doorstep of ancient lifeforms. Using images from his past to communicate, a race of stellar beings makes first contact with the last human in existence. Through a shared cognitive overlap, an unlikely alliance is formed.

All the while, an evil presence drives a horde of dark minions across the galaxy and threatens the lives of billions.

Ryan knows that to kill a monster, you must first understand it. However, living long enough to know this enemy is far easier said than done.

Featured Science Fiction: Traitor (Collaborator Book 1) by Krista D. Ball

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Featured Science Fiction: Traitor (Collaborator Book 1) by Krista D. Ball

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Seven years ago, Rebecca St. Martin took the coward’s path to save her skin.

She has lived with that decision, eking out a life as an indentured servant on a space station far from home.

Only now, fate has decided to give Rebecca another chance. A ghost from her past plans to execute a daring rescue from the prison bowels of the station Rebecca now works. Rebecca has to face the same decision she made all those years ago.

Could she watch her friends be murdered? Or could she, just for once, be a hero?

Featured Science Fiction: Molting of a Queen (A Vol’kris Chronicles Sci-fi Novella) by Peter J. Foote

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Can a new world heal an old wound?

Nina Carson is a part of a health & safety team and wants nothing more than to curl up with a bottle of wine to drown out the voice of her long-dead twin brother.

But when the team’s helicopter hits a mysterious storm and falls through a hole in the sky, it crashes on an alien world ruled by insects, and everything changes.

Survival in this alien world requires more than finding water & shelter. It also means Nina must learn to trust her own instincts — even when they go against all she’s ever learned. Because something in this strange world is trying to make a mental connection with her, and its intent is unknown.

If you like lost worlds, daring adventure, and unique aliens, you’ll love Molting of a Queen, the latest sci-fi adventure from author Peter J. Foote

Featured Science Fiction: The Disappeared: A Retrieval Artist Novel (Retrieval Artist Series Book 1) by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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Winner of the Endeavor Award

“…one of the top science fiction sagas in recent years.”—Midwest Book Reviews

Whose rules does Detective Miles Flint live by?

Humans and aliens have formed a loose government called the Earth Alliance, with treaties that guarantee humans are subject to alien laws when on alien soil. But alien laws often seem senseless, and minor violations draw outrageous punishments—from death to the loss of a first-born child.

Miles Flint grapples with three cases that have collided: a stolen space-yacht filled with dead bodies, two kidnapped human children, and a human woman on the run to avoid alien prosecution, trying to become one of the Disappeared. Flint must enforce the law—giving the children to aliens, solving the murders, and arresting the woman for running from the legal system. But how can he enforce laws that are unjust? How can he sacrifice innocents to a system he’s not sure he believes in? How can Miles Flint do the right thing in a universe where the right thing is very, very wrong?

This is Flint’s first adventure in the 15-book series, the story that turns him from a police detective in the Armstrong Dome on the Moon into a Retrieval Artist.

“Part CSI, part Blade Runner, and part hard-boiled gumshoe, [Retrieval Artist] Miles Flint would be as at home on a foggy San Francisco street in the 1940s as he is in the domed lunar colony of Armstrong City.”—The Edge Boston

“Rusch has created an entertaining blend of mystery and sf, a solid police drama that asks hard questions about what justice between cultures, and even species, really is.”—Booklist

“It feels like a popular TV series crossed with a Spielberg film-engaging.”—Locus

“The Disappeared is a very readable, very thought-provoking novel that lives up to every expectation we have of Rusch and her considerable talents. Buy and enjoy.”—Analog

Featured Science Fiction: Forsaken Commander (The Aternien Wars Book 1) by G. J. Ogden

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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 book #1 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.