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Featured Sci-fi: Heretic (Archangel Project Book 3) by C. Gockel

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Featured Sci-fi: Heretic (Archangel Project Book 3) by C. Gockel

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The day of reckoning is coming …

Commander Noa Sato has almost reached the Kannukah Cloud. Within hours her crew may be able to reach Sol System through a hidden time gate. If they make it, she and her crew won’t just save their own lives–they’ll save millions from genocide at the hands of Luddeccean fanatics.

But the Luddecceans “fanatics” may not be as mad as Noa believes.

If the Ark reaches Sol, Professor James Sinclair will be revealed as the imposter he is. Designed to be the perfect spy, James’s love for Noa seems to be the only thing truly his own. But what can love be to an agent of the gates?

When the final confrontation occurs, and the truth of the gates is revealed, James and Noa will have choices to make … Choices that may divide them forever and lead to the destruction of the human race.

Featured Fantasy: A Sea of Golden Chains (Backward Fairy Tales Book 2) by Callie Thomas

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To escape death, I pledged an unbreakable vow to the sea.

A failed ransom sends Marigold overboard into the turquoise waters, death’s grip too tight to escape. As she sinks into the darkness, her screams echo into a bewitching song, luring a handsome merman to her rescue. Now the ancient magic that saved her chains them together, their destinies and hearts entwined forever—a bond Marigold didn’t ask for, especially as painful memories from her past weigh heavily on her conscience. Desperate to reconcile with her estranged family, she flees to shore before her transformation can complete.

But Ryken is hooked, refusing to leave her side, even if that means following his mate to the surface and entering the one place despised by the Merfolk. His rash decision strips him of his strength and converts his glittering tail into a pair of useless legs. With their roles reversed, he is forced to rely on Marigold to help him traverse the human world while they search for her family. The longer they stay on land, the more their feelings grow into something deeper—something he would kill to protect.

Chaos ripples out from Cadell’s feuding territories, sending the couple off course into dangerous territory. But Marigold refuses to give up on her quest despite Ryken’s warnings. The salty breeze beckons them home—a reminder that their time on land is running out. Torn between her family and her vow to the sea, she finds herself testing the bonds of her newfound love.

Will she ignore the call of the sea, even as war looms in the distance? Or will she find the courage to fulfill her destiny with Ryken at her side?

A Sea of Golden Chains is a YA fairy tale inspired by a reverse Little Mermaid and Beauty & the Beast. If you love swoony mermen, second chances, family relationships, and underwater adventures then this is the backward fairy tale for you!

Featured Fantasy: Deadly Awakening (The Ashdale Reaper Series Book 1) by G.K. Lund

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Featured Fantasy: Deadly Awakening (The Ashdale Reaper Series Book 1) by G.K. Lund

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No one ever said surviving life would be easy.

Ben Reed is not who everyone thinks, and worse, he can’t remember anything.

Overcome with curiosity, he has taken over the body of a distraught soul. After this, there’s no way back…at least for one of them. And with breaking the laws of nature by being decidedly not dead after washing up on a riverbank, he must face the relentless suspicions of Detective Olivia Jones.

Olivia has had enough excitement in life before taking her new job, and having one of two dead bodies wake up at her crime scene is not appreciated. Resourceful and determined, she must find out what really happened the night Ben ended up in the murky and cold Ashdale River.

Meanwhile, Ben’s inherited companions must deal with the fact that their childhood friend has changed in strange ways. All Ben knows is that he isn’t human and that he doesn’t want to be one. He only wants to leave, but soon finds himself trapped in his newly acquired vessel. Life doesn’t get any easier when the only person who can help is terrified of him.

While forced to face the needs of his new friends, Ben struggles to find the truth that could free him from this fragile existence. But when a shocking danger emerges, he must work together with his enemy to fight the deadly threat.

Featured Science Fiction: Generation (Dark Nebula Book 3) by Sean Willson

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Featured Science Fiction: Generation (Dark Nebula Book 3) by Sean Willson

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In the future, he’s immortalized as an A.I. Now, he’s plotting Earth’s course for centuries… and perhaps sending them all to their doom.

Harold Olivaw believes valiantly in humanity’s grand destiny. Astounded by the alien probe he’s unearthed beneath the ice of Antarctica, the aspirational scientist sets into motion a secret mission to push humankind to its limits.

Vice Admiral Gwar will not let humans undermine the Galactic Alliance a second time. Tipped off when human researchers in Sol cause a massive explosion, he mounts a secret expedition to root humanity out to protect his ultimate goal of galactic supremacy.

Stark Olivaw can’t afford to squander another minute. Acutely aware that colonizing the stars is non-negotiable, he willfully continues his family’s decades-long subterfuge.

With interstellar forces amassing and human beings ignorant of cosmic power plays, aliens and homo sapiens will soon clash in an epic war like no other…

As the stage emerges for the greatest threat of all time, will anyone emerge unscathed?

Dark Nebula: Generations is the all-revealing third book in the Dark Nebula space opera series. If you like answers to serial mysteries, getting into the enemy’s head, and era-spanning explorations, then you’ll love Sean Willson’s mind-blowing saga.

Buy Dark Nebula: Generations to watch the dominoes fall today!

Featured Science Fiction: Discovery (Dark Nebula Book 2) by Sean Willson

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Featured Science Fiction: Discovery (Dark Nebula Book 2) by Sean Willson

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He found peace far from Sol, but danger never left his orbit. Can he help free humankind from death’s clutches?

Bradley Olivaw grew tired of the lies. Breaking from his family by leaving for a colony lightyears away, he’s proud of his work contributing to the new planet and he even soothed his anger issues. But when his brother Zachary reappears and reveals his old home in Sol is under intergalactic trial, he lets his rage drive him into action.

With past resentments resurfacing between Bradley and his sibling, the pair take to the stars in search of a way to save humanity. But even after they split up to cover more ground and keep from killing each other, the crimes of their species follow them… and attract lethal alien threats.

Will the brothers rise up to prevent humankind’s extinction?

Dark Nebula: Discovery is the absorbing second book in the Dark Nebula space opera series. If you like expanse-spanning stakes, futuristic tech, and traversing the depths of emotion, then you’ll love Sean Willson’s engulfing adventure.

Featured Science Fiction: Isolation (Dark Nebula Book 1) by Sean Willson

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Featured Science Fiction: Isolation (Dark Nebula Book 1) by Sean Willson

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Lies crafted from good intentions. Death spreading through the stars. When the past returns to claim its due, will anyone survive?

Earth Solar System, the Future. Abigail Olivaw is drowning in self-doubt. Hiding a devastating secret from the populace, the President of the Confederation of Planetary Explorers is horrified when hostile aliens arrive to announce they’re putting humanity on trial. Forced to act as her species’ defender in court, she struggles to hide her family’s hidden multi-generational history that could lead to a sentence of genocide.

Epsilon Eridani Colony. Joyce Green’s passion for her job is dwarfed only by her love for her son. So when he dies from a mysterious virus that threatens the entire settlement, the Director of Colonization vows to stop at nothing to discover what triggered the deadly infection. And as she uncovers the truth bit by bit, her heartbreak fuels a berserk need for justice.

Trapped by guilt over a mistake she didn’t choose, Abigail falls into a tailspin when the invaders reveal the facts of her race’s origins. And when Joyce unmasks a traitor, the rest of her people would be lucky to only die from disease.

With their paths on a collision course, will the women’s consequence-laden decisions destroy humankind’s last hope?

Dark Nebula: Isolation is the gripping first book in the evocative Dark Nebula space opera series. If you like emotionally complex characters, chilling twists, and eye-opening takes on technology, then you’ll love Sean Willson’s sweeping epic.