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Featured Science Fiction: Shadows of Empire (Cadicle Book 1) AK Duboff

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Featured Science Fiction: Shadows of Empire (Cadicle Book 1) AK Duboff

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A secret war. A galactic empire in crisis. One final hope for victory.

Wil Sietinen is torn between two worlds. As a High Dynasty heir and the galactic military’s most promising telekinetic trainee, teenage Wil is expected to be nothing short of exceptional—and he’s starting to crack under the pressure.

When Wil is captured by the mysterious enemy Bakzen, he comes face-to-face with his destiny. An all-out war has been secretly waging for generations, and Wil’s unique telekinetic powers are the only remaining hope to win.

However, there’s a dark secret behind the conflict, and Wil realizes that he and his loved ones are at the center of an insidious galactic conspiracy. With enemies not who they seem, who can Wil trust in his fight to save the Taran Empire?

Shadows of Empire is the riveting first installment in the Cadicle series, a timeless space opera epic filled with interstellar adventure, political intrigue, and virtuous heroes.

Grab your copy and begin the epic journey today!

Shadows of Empire contains the first three volumes in the Cadicle series:

  • Volume 1: Architects of Destiny (prequel)
  • Volume 2: Veil of Reality
  • Volume 3: Bonds of Resolve

Featured Science Fiction: Grip of Deceit (After the End Book 1) by Sam J Fires

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From Amazon #1 Best-Selling Author…

A gunshot cost him his job, his leg, and his self-worth. Can this retired ex-cop reclaim his inner strength as the world plunges into darkness?

Oregon, USA. Patrick Edward Dunn has nothing left. Heading home in snowy weather after dropping off his kids, the fifty-something, three-time-divorcé is shocked when cars on the highway lose control and start crashing. And stopping to help a woman trapped in her vehicle, he only has seconds to save her as a logging truck hurtles right at them…

Holly Rebecca Winters doesn’t know what’s going on. Waking up with surprising bandages on her head and no memory of the last twenty-four hours, the psych hospital patient overhears staff worried about a suspicious power outage. So with her keepers distracted, the forty-three-year-old detainee grabs the chance for a desperate escape.

As Patrick’s ancient EMP-immune Chevy inches its way through the mayhem and brutal elements, he tries to help the injured. While Holly runs into rising danger, increasingly at risk of not making it off the frigid streets alive.

Can these two survivors find safety, or is everyone doomed?

Grip of Deceit is the riveting first book in the brand-new post-apocalyptic EMP survival series. If you like characters that jump off the page, spellbinding action, and edge-of-your-seat drama, then you’ll love bestselling author Sam J Fires’s nail-biting thriller. Perfect for fans of Ryan Schow, Grace Hamilton, Kyla Stone, and Jack Hunt.

Buy Grip of Deceit to discover the hero within today!

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Featured Fantasy: Renegade Valkyrie (Valhalla’s Curse Book 1) by Stacy Claflin

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Featured Fantasy: Renegade Valkyrie (Valhalla's Curse Book 1) by Stacy Claflin

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When an angel of death breaks her Valkyrie oath, she’ll face Valhalla’s brutal wrath.

Soleil isn’t one to follow the rules. Still in mourning for her fiancé’s death, she defies an assassination order from Valhalla itself to keep a friend alive. Now the Valkyrie’s entire species plans to make her pay…

On the run from her own kind, Soleil’s problems double when a powerful witch targets the angel of death on a quest for revenge. Desperate to keep her best friend Titan safe, she considers abandoning the one she cares about most. If only she wasn’t starting to fall deeply in love…

Facing retribution from all sides, Soleil must endure an impossible supernatural battle or die trying…

Renegade Valkyrie is the first book in the gripping Valhalla’s Curse series of urban fantasy novels. If you like sweet paranormal romance, plucky heroines, and underworld fantasies, then you’ll love USA Today Bestselling Author Stacy Claflin’s spell-binding novel.

Featured Fantasy: Spirits Rising (Spirit Caller Series Book 1) by Krista D. Ball

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Featured Fantasy: Spirits Rising (Spirit Caller Series Book 1) by Krista D. Ball

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Rachel has no trouble believing in spirits. It’s the living she has a tough time believing in.

The man she’s in love with? Taken.

The job she loved? Gone.

Her neighbours? They’re taping religious tracts to her door.

Then a rebellious teenager Wiccan accidentally summons the area’s ancestral Viking spirits — who promptly bring their thousand-year war to the remote Newfoundland fishing village. If Rachel’s going to have any hope of sending the spirits to their peace, she’ll have to stop drooling over unattainable men and trust her 93-year-old neighbour to help her stand against the spirits before their supernatural war engulfs them all. *Spirits Rising is a novella approximately 80 pages long, or about 25,000 words.

Featured Science Fiction: Reese Daniel’s Smuggler Series by T.D. Wilson

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Smuggling precious cargo to a remote colony was supposed to be easy. I was dead wrong.

Awarded Silver Honorable Mention in the recent first quarter Volume 40 of L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future contest.

Smuggling is a dangerous business and Reese Daniels has the score of a lifetime within his grasp; however, getting shot down on one of Uranus’ moons wasn’t in his plan. Stranded and on the run in the middle of an alien invasion, Reese must work with a group of Marine cadets to escape a grisly fate.

Featured Fantasy: Warrior Mage (Chains of Honor Book 1) by Lindsay Buroker

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Featured Fantasy: Warrior Mage (Chains of Honor Book 1) by Lindsay Buroker

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His mother was one of the most powerful wizards in the Nurian Empire until she abandoned her people to become a notorious pirate. That choice doomed the family she left behind to a life of disgrace.

Yanko White Fox doesn’t remember his mother, but as the only gifted child in the family, he is expected to erase the mark she left on them all. With an affinity for earth magic and communicating with animals, he’s not the most natural candidate to become a warrior mage, but it’s the only sure route back into the Great Chief’s good graces. He has resigned himself to training for that destiny, whether it matches his passions or not.

Long before he’s ready for his first battle, insurrection comes to his distant corner of the empire. Rebels take over the salt mine his family manages and slay the only relative who ever supported Yanko. On the heels of the tragedy, a courier brings a message from the Great Chief’s son. Whether he is prepared or not, Yanko must undertake a quest, one that could save millions of lives… or fail utterly, leaving him dead, his family forgotten, and his people the victims of starvation and endless war.