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Featured Fantasy: Aquamarine (Pretty Little Mermaids Book 2) by A.L. Knorr

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Featured Fantasy: Aquamarine (Pretty Little Mermaids Book 2) by A.L. Knorr

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She’s a siren by blood. A science nerd by choice. And she’s about to pick a fight with the ocean itself.

To most mermaids, the Salt is sacred—an ancient tide that claims your memory, your humanity, and controls your mating cycle. But Eadie Jackson isn’t like most mermaids. She’s the youngest of triplets, allergic to destiny, and still angry that the sea took her mother.

She wants a normal senior year: survive her bully, ace her science fair, and maybe get Seth Foster to look at her like she’s not just weird-Jackson-girl number three. But when Eadie discovers a mermaid trapped in salt-flush—her memory wiped, her identity gone—she realizes the Salt isn’t just cruel. It’s a cage.

Now the ocean wants Eadie too. And it’s not used to hearing no.

Can the “weakest” Jackson sister outwit ancient magic without losing herself—or the only normal life she’s ever wanted?

Aquamarine is a fierce and funny YA mermaid fantasy packed with high school chaos, slow-burn romance, and a heroine who refuses to sink.

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Featured Sci-fi: Starship Ass Series Sale by Ethan Freckleton and J.R. Frontera

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Featured Sci-fi: Of Donkeys, Gods, and Space Pirates (Starship Ass Book 1) by Ethan Freckleton and J.R. Frontera

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Donkeys. Pirates. Pizza.

Symbiont Harry—rejected by his tribe, exiled from home, and braying at the stars—is imprisoned in the form of a donkey.

Trapped on an interstellar livestock vessel, Harry dreams of being loved, or at least having a decent conversation.

Space pirates capture the ship, hoping to score. What to do with a hold full of livestock? And what’s with the wisecracking donkey?

When a galactic animal contest promises a fortune, the talking donkey starts to look like a potential winner—if only he can lay off the pizza.

Buy or BURRO this wonderful series today and see why readers can’t wait to get more Starship Ass!

★★★★★ ‘Sweet, adorable, emotive, hilarious, action-packed!’

★★★★★ ’Loved the Guardians of the Galaxy vibe…fast, funny, and fresh sci-fi writing.’

★★★★★ ’Why would you not want to read the adventures of a Star Trek-loving symbiont slash donkey duo, and his pirate crew?’

Featured Sci-fi: Frontier Corps (Forlorn Hope Book 1) by Joe Kassabian

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Featured Sci-fi: Frontier Corps (Forlorn Hope Book 1) by Joe Kassabian

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They fight the wars nobody else wants to.

The Frontier Corps are the Terran Empire’s repository for failures, malcontents, criminals, and other people with nothing left to lose but to sign their names on the dotted line of a ten year contract for another shot at life.

But flung across the stars to face horrifying enemies, it may as well be a death sentence.

Pari Petrosyan is a grizzled veteran of the Corps. With only a few months left of her contract, she has her mind on her discharge papers. Her easy path on her way to freedom is interrupted when a new commander arrives, ready to launch a large-scale military offensive to finally end the conflict she had spent her entire career fighting.

Caught between the grinding war machines of the empire and the inhuman monstrosities known as the Resh, Pari has to try to survive if she ever hopes to be free.

Experience the start of a Military Sci-Fi series from Joe Kassabian, author of the Liberty of Death Series. This gritty, space marine boots-on-the-ground series is perfect for fans of Rick Partlow, Galaxy’s Edge: Legionnaire, and Starship Troopers.

Featured Fantasy: The Amplifier Protocol A Novella by Meghan Ciana Doidge

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The Amplifier Protocol (Amplifier Series - Book 0) Kindle Edition by Meghan Ciana Doidge (Author)

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They called me an amplifier. And they had bred me, raised me, and trained me to be a killer with preternatural precision. I was capable of taking, holding, and transferring power that wasn’t my own with a simple touch. Skin-to-skin contact. Along with four others of my generation, I could infiltrate any magical organization, extracting whoever or whatever I’d been ordered to extricate. Then I could destroy all evidence of our passing presence.

They had made me. They directed me. Controlled me.

Then they tried to kill me.

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Featured Sci-fi: The Survivors Box Set Books 1 – 6 by Nathan Hystad

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Get the first six books of the epic space adventure in one collection. Over 1500 pages together for the first time.

The ships came at dawn.

Dean’s wife is dead. Her last words: When the ships come…wear the necklace. Then the ships arrived. Cities all around the world reported strange alien vessels descending. Some saw them as the heralds of a new age; others fired everything they had at them. All were taken as the beams lashed down and drew them into the sky. Dean was left behind, seemingly the last man on Earth. A trail of clues left by his dead wife guide Dean on a perilous journey across America and beyond, to learn the truth behind the mysterious ships and save humanity from its doom. But not everything is as it seems. Begin the epic Survivors series by best-selling author Nathan Hystad today.

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Featured Sci-fi: Terminus (Fringe Worlds #1) by Kevin Hardman

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Featured Sci-fi: Terminus (Fringe Worlds #1) by Kevin Hardman

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Master Sergeant Gant Maker was a highly-decorated and well-respected Marine – until his last mission left him as the sole survivor of an encounter with a vicious race called the Vacra. Served up as a scapegoat and drummed out of the military, he has since lived a life of seclusion with only an adopted alien as a companion.

Now the Vacra have returned. As the only person to have ever faced them and survived, Maker is reinstated in the Corps and given the onerous task of finding this enemy on a world located at the edge of known space. Assisting him is an unlikely band of military rejects, including a blind sharpshooter, an unstable psychic, and a genetically-engineered killing machine who refuses to fight.

Given that the Vacra have superior weapons and technology, Maker recognizes that his team is at a distinct disadvantage. But Marines are nothing if not resourceful, and Maker has an audacious plan that just may level the playing field – if it doesn’t get them all killed.