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Featured Fantasy: Quentin Black: Psychic Detective (Quentin Black Mystery Series Books 1-3) by JC Andrijeski

August 2, 2023 by M Gockel

Featured Fantasy: Quentin Black: Psychic Detective (Quentin Black Mystery Series Books 1-3) by JC Andrijeski

99¢ as of August 2, 2023
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The first three novels (plus a connecting novella and short story!) in the paranormal mystery romance series, QUENTIN BLACK MYSTERY, starring brilliant but dangerous psychic detective, Quentin Black and forensic psychologist, Miri Fox.

Includes the following books:

BLACK IN WHITE (Quentin Black Mystery #1)
BLACK AS NIGHT (Quentin Black Mystery #2)
Black Christmas (Quentin Black Mystery #2.5)
BLACK ON BLACK (Quentin Black Mystery #3)
Black Supper (Quentin Black Mystery #3.5)

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Description of BLACK IN WHITE (Quentin Black Mystery #1):

“My name is Black. Quentin Black.”

Gifted with an uncanny sense about people, psychologist Miri Fox works as an off and on profiler for the police. So when they think they finally nailed the “Wedding Killer,” she agrees to check him out, using her gift to discover the truth.

But the suspect, Quentin Black, isn’t anything like Miri expects.

He claims to be hunting the killer too, and the longer Miri talks to him, the more determined she becomes to uncover his secrets.

When he confronts her about the nature of her peculiar “insight,” Miri gets pulled into Black’s bizarre world, and embroiled in a game of cat and mouse with a deadly killer––who might just be Black himself.

Worse, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Black, a complication she doesn’t need with a best friend who’s a homicide cop and a boyfriend in intelligence.

Can Miriam see a way out or is her future covered in Black?

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Description of BLACK AS NIGHT (Quentin Black Mystery #2):

“He will break anything you try to keep pure, brother.”

When her now-employer, psychic detective, Quentin Black, calls from a Bangkok jail, asking for her help, forensic psychologist, Miri Fox, is forced to fly across the world to get him.

She finds Black working undercover inside a gang of criminals, trying to discover who’s murdering street children and burning their bodies inside Buddhist temples.

Black isn’t the only one interested in the crimes, however, and soon his investigations get the attention of a crime syndicate out of Russia that doesn’t appreciate his meddling.

When Miri shows up to help, events quickly spiral out of control, and Miri soon finds herself the hunted.

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Description of BLACK ON BLACK (Quentin Black Mystery #3):

“What kind of confession are you looking for, brother…?”

Black disappears, leaving Miri alone in San Francisco mere days after they return from Bangkok.

No explanation. Not a word about where he is, what he’s doing, what his mysterious new contract entails or even who he’s working for.

Black will only drop cryptic hints, leaving her breadcrumbs.

Miri can feel him, though. More every day.

She feels so much through her dreams and into her waking life that her world starts to spin out of control, especially when things between Black and his new employer begin to sour.

Black’s in danger, although he won’t admit that, either.

Only Miri can save him. But to help Black, she has to cross lines she swore she’d never cross, exposing herself in a way that will change her life forever.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: JC Andrijeski, Quentin Black: Psychic Detective

Featured Science Fiction: Faring Soul (Interspace Origins Book 1) by Tracy Cooper-Posey

August 2, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Science Fiction: Faring Soul (Interspace Origins Book 1) by Tracy Cooper-Posey

FREE as of August 2, 2023
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SFR Galaxy Award 2015 Winner

Rumors emerge that Catherine Shahrazad has returned from the fringes and been seen in Federation space. Wherever she goes, her name and her history cause civil unrest, riots and worse. The Federation Board doesn’t want her there. Neither do the leaders of Cadfael College, the educators and moralists of the galaxy. No one pays any attention to the reticent navigator called Bedivere X, who pilots her ship better than she does.

The truth about Bedivere threatens the entire Federation.

His feelings for Cat might just save everyone.

This book is part of the Interspace Origins science fiction romance series:
Book 1: Faring Soul
Book 2: Varkan Rise
Book 3: Cat and Company

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Faring Soul, Insterspace Origins, Tracey Cooper-Posey

Featured Science Fiction: Our Lady of the Artilects (The Ruined Vineyard Book 1) by Andrew Gillsmith

July 31, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Science Fiction: Our Lady of the Artilects (The Ruined Vineyard Book 1) by Andrew Gillsmith

FREE as of July 31, 2023
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For fans of Dan Simmons, Gene Wolfe, Neal Stephenson, A Canticle for Leibowitz and other classic metaphysical sci-fi…this near future technothriller dives deep into questions of consciousness, faith, and artificial intelligence.
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World leaders are already on edge as Artilects (next generation androids) begin reporting a strange apocalyptic vision that only they can see.

But when an Artilect belonging to the wealthiest man in Africa shows up at the Basilica of Our Lady of Nigeria claiming to be possessed, the stakes are raised. The Vatican sends Fr. Gabriel Serafian, an exorcist and former neuroscientist, to investigate. Serafian quickly finds himself swept up in a conspiracy of global–and possibly supernatural–dimensions.

The timing couldn’t be worse. Rome is on the verge of reconciliation with the Chinese Economic Interest Zone after a 50 year cold war, and the Chinese are particularly sensitive about the so-called Apparition.

To discover the truth and save not only humanity but the artilects themselves, Serafian enlists the aid of a tough-as-nails Imperial Praetor named Namono Mbambu.

Our Lady of the Artilects is a mind-bending supernatural science fiction novel where The Exorcist meets Westworld, with a light dusting of Snow Crash.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Andrew Gilsmith, Our Lady of the Artilects, The Ruined Vineyard

Featured Fantasy: The Fated Chronicles Boxset (Books 1 – 3) by Humphrey Quinn

July 31, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: The Fated Chronicles Boxset (Books 1 - 3) by Humphrey Quinn

FREE as of July 31, 2023
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Orphaned at birth and traveling with their uncle to hide their ability to read each other’s minds, a brother and sister are shocked to discover a book, that first—claims magic is real, and second—that they belong in that world, and third—they are chosen by blood to fulfil a prophecy: to either save or destroy all magic. The Fated Chronicles is a Contemporary Portal Fantasy Adventure Series.

From strange childhood to stranger adolescence, twins Meghan and Colin Jacoby are coming of age in a land of magic alongside everything they thought was make believe…

The Complete Fated Chronicles Portal Contemporary Fantasy Adventure Series:
Over 700,000 Words / 2400 Pages)

The Heirs of Magic (included)
Prophecy of Fire (included)
Trials of Initiation (included)
Child of Chaos
Destroyer of Worlds
Brothers of Flame
Curses of Glass
Throne of Ghosts
Game of Fate
Wings of Fury
Bonds of Blood

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Humphrey Quinn, The Fated Chronicles

Featured Science Fiction: Outer Rim Rough Riders (Outer Rim Rough Riders Book 1) by Jonathan Paul Isaacs

July 30, 2023 by M Gockel

Featured Science Fiction: Outer Rim Rough Riders (Outer Rim Rough Riders Book 1) by Jonathan Paul Isaacs

99¢ as of July 30, 2023
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In a galaxy broken by war, the ceasefire didn’t stop the conflicts.
It just moved them out of sight.

Noah Denson thought he was just taking another job.

Smuggle the spy. Run the blockade. In this case, free the prisoner. Freelancers like Noah made a fortune providing services like these—especially when they had a fold drive starship and could jump light years at a time.

But what started as a simple jailbreak turns into something much different when a warship intercepts them during their escape. It seems a Combine admiral needs him to take on a second mission. This one involves prisoners, too–except these are grakken, hostile aliens and mankind’s mortal enemy, and they need to be delivered to a secret military base for interrogation.

Two unrelated contracts. One conflicting schedule. Zero choice.

In his effort to complete both, Noah never imagined what he might set in motion.

And it would end up making him a legend.

Set out on a grand adventure with a captain and his motley crew in this brand new science fiction series. If you’re a fan of Firefly and Andor, this might just be the story you’ve been waiting for.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Jonathan Paul Isaacs, Outer Rim Rough Riders

Featured Fantasy: Gobbelino London & a Scourge of Pleasantries (Gobbelino London, PI Book 1) by Kim M. Watt

July 30, 2023 by M Gockel

Featured Fantasy: Gobbelino London & a Scourge of Pleasantries (Gobbelino London, PI Book 1) by Kim M. Watt

99¢ as of July 30 2023
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“What’ve we got?”

“Tigers. Snakes. Alligators. Tears in the skin of the universe.” Susan shrugged. “I think I saw a kraken in the sink, too.”

Find a missing book. That was the job the woman in the Doc Martens gave us.

Easy money, right?

Only now it seems she’s actually an ancient, powerful sorcerer, and the book is a Book of Power that doesn’t want to be found.

It wants to tear reality apart at the seams, and it’ll use anyone it can to do it.

So now we’ve got one spectacularly displeased sorcerer, a hungry, still-missing book, a dentist with bad hygiene, and a neighbourhood having some reality issues to deal with.

Plus about a day before the book turns our world – and us – inside out.

We’ve totally got this.

I hope.

This is the first book in the Gobbelino London, PI urban fantasy series, centred around the adventures of a mercenary feline PI and his human sidekick. It contains snarky cats and other gods, many bad jokes and terrible puns, plus a large serving of mythological and real creatures behaving badly. It will appeal to anyone who likes their fantasy funny, modern, and filled with friendship rather than romance – and also to those who suspect their cat may be living a great and secret life when they’re not looking.

A Scourge of Pleasantries contains some violence, particularly toward furniture, but none of it is graphic. It contains no sex and only mild language. It does, however, contain blasphemy.


The final book in the Gobbelino London, PI series will be out 28th July 2023.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Gobbelino London & a Scourge of Pleasantries, Gobbelino London PI, Kim M. Watt

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