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Featured Sci-fi : No Way Home by Jasper T. Scott

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Featured Sci-fi : No Way Home by Jasper T. Scott

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The Celestial Voyager was supposed to be a dream vacation—until a navigational error left the ship stranded in uncharted space. And then the bodies started appearing…

Cut off from Earth with no way home, disgraced fleet Captain Elias Mercer must find a habitable planet before supplies run out. The ship’s AI claims there’s one nearby—but after everything that’s happened, can it be trusted?

Security Chief Lars Dekker is sent to explore, only to uncover something terrifying waiting on the surface.

Meanwhile, Cruise Director Lexi Rourke clashes with the captain as she tries to keep her passengers entertained, and oblivious, for as long as she can.

Among the passengers:

  • Gavin Trent, a desperate family man hiding the collapse of his finances and his marriage.
  • Nico Virelli, a con man on the run looking for his next mark.
  • Zara Quinn, a retired cyborg assassin with unfinished business aboard.

As the grim reality of their situation comes to light, paranoia spreads, giving rise to a chilling theory: what if the ship didn’t get lost by accident? Someone might have planned this… but why? And what were they hoping to find?

Before anyone can begin to answer the question, they discover that someone—or something—on board is killing the passengers.

A chilling sci-fi mystery where paradise turns to panic, and survival means facing the secrets you brought with you.

Featured Fantasy: Magical Midlife Mom Boxed Set Books 1 – 4 by DM Fike

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Featured Fantasy: Magical Midlife Mom Boxed Set Books 1 - 4 by DM Fike

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What would a single mom do to protect her only daughter from a hidden world of dangerous, magical fae?

I love my smart, kind, and funny daughter. We may not have much, but we get along without any of the normal teenage drama.

Or at least we did, until my daughter got curious about her biological father.

Now our world is falling apart. A handsome client threatens my employment. A monstrous black wolf shows up on our doorstep. A mysterious masked woman begins stalking us.

And that’s not mentioning the fae.

I didn’t expect to have a midlife crisis involving magic, but it doesn’t matter. I may be just a single mom, but I’ll do anything to protect my daughter.

Even if it kills me.

Join Melissa Hartley as she goes on a magical journey only a mother could take. For readers of Paranormal Women’s Fiction who like strong female protagonists, witty banter, and a hint of romance.

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Featured Sci-fi : Project Charon 1: Re-entry: A Galactic Adventure by Patty Jansen

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Featured Sci-fi : Project Charon 1: Re-entry: A Galactic Adventure by Patty Jansen

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Previously published under a different pen name.

On the backwater world of Cayelle, Tina Freeman runs a shop with her son Rex: fifteen years old, half-human, half-android with a massive chip on his shoulder about having been born without arms or legs.

The shop makes a modest profit, but when a creditor turns up wanting his money back, everything goes pear-shaped.

She needs money, and needs it fast. Another creditor is impossible to find. That leaves her one option: to return to the world she fled fifteen years ago and Kelso Space Station, where her spaceship has languished for over fifteen years, and finally sell the thing.

Tina worked as scientific officer in the Federacy Force’s top secret Project Charon, and was forced out when she rang alarm bells about particles that escaped out of a rift to another universe.

As it turns out, the alien dust has been infecting people in her absence, causing profound changes in human behaviour.

When Tina re-surfaces at Kelso, her presence is a threat to those who still defend the project, including her ex-husband, and they want to shut her up, but her continued silence may well mean the end of civilisation.

Featured Fantasy: Visions & Vampires (Sasha Urban Books 1 – 3) by Dima Zales and Anna Zaires

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Featured Fantasy: Visions & Vampires (Sasha Urban Books 1 - 3) by Dima Zales and Anna Zaires

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Action-packed and laugh-out-loud funny, the Sasha Urban series is your next binge read! For a limited time, get the first three books in a convenient, discounted bundle.

Analyst. Illusionist. Psychic?

When Sasha Urban finally gets the chance to perform her magic tricks on live TV, the last thing she expects is to discover that she has very real, very scary powers.

Oh, and to be totally humiliated in the process.

But being made to look like a fraud is the least of Sasha’s problems now that she’s been thrust into the dangerous world of the Cognizant. With necromancers, orcs, and moody teenage werewolves out for blood, Sasha will have to rely on her super-strong best friend, surprisingly deadly pet chinchilla, and mysteriously powerful boss to help her survive her first few months as a Cognizant.

But will she be able to master her psychic powers in time to save herself when everything goes wrong?

Featured Sci-fi: Cut (The 1/2986 Dystopian Series Book 1) by Annelle Wendeberg

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Featured Sci-fi: Cut (The 1/2986 Dystopian Series Book 1) by Annelle Wendeberg

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I’ve reached my expiration date.

Not that it matters. We’re all going to die.

To Mickaela Capra, all words have flavours. Each emotion burns so fierce she carves them into her skin. The night she decides to press the blade deep enough, a stranger offers her a different kind of ending. One that makes her question everything she’s learned about the apocalypse.

But truth comes with a price. Two rules carved in bone: Kill. Survive.

Because the final wars were never meant to end.

Featured Sci-fi: Voyage (NASA Trilogy Book 1) by Stephen Baxter

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Featured Sci-fi: Voyage (NASA Trilogy Book 1) by Stephen Baxter

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In this sci-fi alternate history, JFK’s planned mission to Mars embarks on an intrepid journey—”a wonderful, patriotic tale of lost possibility” (Kirkus).

In Voyage, Stephen Baxter imagines how, if President Kennedy had lived, America might have gone on to send a manned mission to Mars in the 1980s. Created from true lives and real events, this richly detailed novel returns to the geniuses of NASA and the excitement of the Saturn rocket. Historical figures from Neil Armstrong to Ronald Reagan are interwoven with unforgettable characters who embody the promise of a young space program that held the world in thrall.


This sprawling tale tells the story of Gregory Dana, a Nazi camp survivor who achieves the dream of his hated masters; Gershon, the Vietnam fighter jock determined to be the first African-American to land on another planet; and Natalie York, the brilliant geologist/astronaut who risks love and career for the chance to run her fingers through the soil of another world.