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Featured Fantasy: Longbourn Dragon Entail (Jane Austens’s Dragons Book 2)

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Featured Fantasy: Lonbourn Dragon Entail (Jane Austens's Dragons Book 2)

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A dragon’s imagination is very rapid. It jumps from separation to anxiety, and anxiety to wreaking havoc.

Fitzwilliam Darcy finds caring for a baby dragon more of a fraught guardianship than anticipated. Little Pemberley may have survived a perilous hatching and still successfully imprinted on humans, but she’s pining for one particular human to the point she is fast becoming a danger to herself and others.

Elizabeth Bennet may yearn for baby Pemberley, but she has her own share of misfortunes to manage. Her cousin Mr. Collins, heir to the Longbourn entail, has decided that marrying her will add very greatly to his future happiness. While the estate dragon agrees–and insists she accept him–Elizabeth and the rest of Longboun’s dragons insist he is the last man in the world whom she could ever be prevailed on to marry–a better dragon’s dinner than a husband.

It’s disappointment and spleen all around as Lady Catherine de Bourgh involves herself in the affair after hearing reports of a most alarming nature. There are few people in England besides herself who could make things worse. In that, Lady Catherine is a true proficient.

Baby Pemberley’s fate is caught in a deadly tangle of families and fortunes, forcing Darcy and Elizabeth to take the biggest gamble of their lives to win or lose it all.

Meryton meets Pern in a fantastical regency romp bound to delight readers of Jane Austen and Anne McCaffrey alike.

Featured Fantasy: The Keeper Origins: The Complete Trilogy by J.A. Andrews

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Featured Fantasy: The Keeper Origins: The Complete Trilogy by J.A. Andrews

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Sable just wants an escape from the corner of the world she’s trapped in, but what lies outside is far more dangerous…

Sable would do anything to break free from the ruthless gang boss she’s indebted to before he corrupts her younger sister or discovers Sable’s magical ability to sense the truth in people’s words.

In a last desperate attempt at freedom, Sable stumbles into unexpected help—Atticus, the famous playwright, and his traveling theater troupe.

Far more than a means of escape, the mismatched band of actors is destined to become the family Sable never knew she wanted. They help awaken her magic until she becomes the burning symbol of truth that the entire land needs.

As war looms and corruption eats away at the halls of power, Sable’s ability to sense—and share—the truth may be the only thing that can save them all.

The Keeper Origins is a complete epic fantasy trilogy with rich characters and a delightfully optimistic flavor that stays just on the right side of epic with all the cozy feels.

It includes all three books:
Dragon’s Reach- Sable’s rise from a trapped, indebted thief to an actress with words strong enough to change a city.
Raven’s Ruin— Embroiled in the politics and scheming of the priories, Sable finds herself drawn to the rebels who fight against them.
Phoenix Rising— With war on the doorstep, Sable and the troupe struggle to keep the foreign Empire from conquering and the corruption in the priories from destroying them from within.

Featured Fantasy: The Faerie Girl and Other Tales: Six Magical Stories (Sharp Tales Book 3) by Anthea Sharp

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Featured Fantasy: The Faerie Girl and Other Tales: Six Magical Stories (Sharp Tales Book 3) by Anthea Sharp

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From USA Today bestselling author Anthea Sharp, a collection of enchanting, mystical tales! Delight in the award-winning story The Sea King’s daughter (inspired by The Little Mermaid), follow the ill-fated adventures of a goblin who falls in love, and take heart in the hope that unlikely heroes can – with a bit of faerie magic – change their own destinies

Includes: The Faerie Girl, The Sea King’s Daughter, Brea’s Tale, The Faerie Invasion, Goblin in Love, and The Tree of Fate and Wishes. Approx 210 pages

Featured Science Fiction: The View from Here (The View from Here Trilogy Book 1) by Leon Stevens

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Featured Science Fiction: The View from Here (The View from Here Trilogy Book 1) by Leon Stevens

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Two adventurous people. A strange world. One goal. Unravel the mystery.

What would you do if you found a portal that brought you to another world? Do you have the skills and knowledge needed to survive or to make sense of what you see?

Thomas sets out on a hike he has done many times before. Taking only what he needs for the three or four hours he expects to be gone, he passes a vehicle in the parking lot. The handwritten note on the dashboard read: Not Abandoned. The view at the end of the trail was not what he expected—neither were the friendships.

Two people with adventurous spirits, heading off into the unknown with only their physical fitness and combined knowledge to get them through everything they may encounter.

The View from Here (Book One of the trilogy) is available on Kindle Unlimited.

Featured Science Fiction: The Legacy Human (Singularity 1) by Susan Kaye Quinn

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Featured Science Fiction: The Legacy Human (Singularity 1) by Susan Kaye Quinn

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What would you give to live forever? 

Elijah Brighton wants to become an ascender—a post-Singularity human/machine hybrid—after all, they’re smarter, more enlightened, more compassionate, and above all, achingly beautiful. But Eli is a legacy human, preserved and cherished for his unaltered genetic code, just like the rainforest he paints.

When a fugue state possesses him and creates great art, Eli miraculously lands a sponsor for the creative Olympics. If he could just master the fugue, he could take the gold and win the right to ascend, bringing everything he’s yearned for within reach… including his beautiful ascender patron. But once Eli arrives at the Games, he finds the ascenders are playing games of their own. Everything he knows about the ascenders and the legacies they keep starts to unravel… until he’s running for his life and wondering who he truly is.

The Legacy Human is the first in a philosophical HopePunk sci-fi series that explores the intersection of mind, body, and soul in a post-Singularity world.

Featured Fantasy: Here There Be Dragons (Jane Austen’s Dragons Book 12) by Maria Grace

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Featured Fantasy: Here There Be Dragons (Jane Austen's Dragons: A Regency gaslamp dragon fantasy adventure Book 12) by Maria Grace

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Life was definitely better when one’s fondest dreams came true.

Better, indeed, for newly made baronet, Sir Frederick Wentworth. Enjoying a title, a sea-side estate, a dragon to Keep, and most importantly, marriage to his dearest Anne, life was far better than he dreamed it could be.

Better, but not easier.

Stubborn local sea dragons refuse to talk, much less entertain a treaty with the Blue Order. The Order’s patience is wearing thin, and the local Order magistrate—impertinent, ineffective, and downright hostile toward all things cold-blooded or female, only makes matters worse.

Lady Anne Wentworth, Special Liaison for the Blue Order, not being cold-blooded, but being female, finds her duties impeded at every turn. She tolerates his machinations until the delayed arrival of an urgent letter calls her across the county. If only she is not too late…

Naturally, upon Anne’s departure, relations with the local sea dragons shift from becalmed to turbulent, threatening the fragile balance of Blue Order peace. Can Wentworth tame the gale-force dragon storm threatening to capsize the life he holds dear?

A fresh new gas lamp fantasy adventure in the engrossingly intricate world of Jane Austen’s Dragons. Anne McCaffrey meets Jane Austen, a perfect mix for dragon lovers and regency-era fans alike.