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Featured Fantasy: Die With Your Lord (Bluebeard’s Secret Book 4) by Sarah K. L. Wilson

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Featured Fantasy: Die With Your Lord (Bluebeard's Secret Book 4) by Sarah K. L. Wilson

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A DEATH TOO TERRIBLE TO CONTEMPLATE. A LIFE GAMBLED FOR EVERYTHING.

With her beloved dying in her arms, a last bargain with a tricky Wittenbrand her only hope of saving him, and the very world itself crumbling to bits around them, Izolda must face Death himself in her bid to turn the tables on her enemies in this deadly game of crowns and finally win a place for her husband … and herself.

But how can she possibly defeat her enemies when she is mortal and they are not, she is fragile and they are powerful, they wield magic and weapons and all she has is her common sense and a talking severed-head ally?

To finally bring this to an end, she will have to tap every resource, win every throw, and puzzle out every riddle before her time runs out.

It’s the fairytale to end all fairytales, and Izolda is the one girl who might finally force a happy ending. If she can just outlast them all.

Featured Science Fiction: Aura (Aura Jax Book 1) by R. J. Wade

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Featured Science Fiction: Aura (Aura Jax Book 1) by R. J. Wade

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In a world where your thoughts don’t belong to you, the person who controls minds will rule everything.

Welcome to The Society…

She was nothing. No one. Just one more starving teen scrabbling for life on the outskirts of The Society – the high-tech city where the Elites rule in luxury under the ever-watchful eye of the tyrannical President Wolfe.

But when Aura’s mother is arrested for crimes against the society, and Aura herself attacked while trying to flee, she discovers that she is one of the Gifted: people with psychic powers strong enough to shift the flow of history, to change the world around them… even to overthrow the “perfect” dystopia of The Society.

Now, Aura is on the run. Branded The Society’s most dangerous threat, and aided only by an exiled scientist, Aura must hone her skills and try to stay one step ahead of the government’s kill squads, all the while trying to figure out how to save her family and survive in a world bent on her destruction.

An impossible task, and about to get even harder.

Because now her mother has been imprisoned in Wolfe’s personal palace, and the only way to get her out is to be captured herself, escape a place no one has ever returned from… and overthrow the most powerful government in history along the way.

If you like The Hunger Games, Divergent, The Maze Runner, or Red Queen, you’ll love RJ Wade’s Aura. A perfect blend of action, thrills, adventure, and intrigue, Aura is a dystopian young adult adventure like nothing you’ve ever read before. Get your copy today!

Featured Fantasy: Vow of the Shadow King (Bride of the Shadow King Book 2) by Sylvia Mercedes

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Featured Fantasy: Vow of the Shadow King (Bride of the Shadow King Book 2) by Sylvia Mercedes

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A treacherous bride. A heartbroken groom. Is their marriage over before it’s begun?

Her deceit discovered, Faraine finds herself trapped in the Shadow Realm at the mercy of her new husband. She’s surrounded by enemies, far from any allies, and her best bet for survival is to convince Vor to send her home.

But to do so means to give up on the alliance. Which would spell disaster for her people.

With the tremors growing worse and poison spreading through his realm, Vor is more desperate than ever to find a solution. Only, it cannot involve his wife. Vor wants nothing to do with the woman he has inadvertently married. At one time, he thought he might love her, but now? How can love flourish where trust is broken?

When circumstances require them to spend more time together, however, Vor’s blood is stirred in ways he doesn’t like to acknowledge.

Can two lost hearts find healing and hope in one another? Or is their love already poisoned beyond recovery?

Book two of this epic romantasy trilogy, Vow of the Shadow King will sweep you away in a tale of betrayal, heartbreak, and forbidden love. Perfect for readers looking for their ideal “book husband” and a slow-burn romance ready to ignite!

Content Warning: This book is intended for adult readers and contains sensual content including on-page intimate scenes and scenes of assault and violence.

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Featured Science Fiction: Robot Proletariat (The Inevitable Book One) by Sean Platt & Johnny B. Truant

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Featured Science Fiction: Robot Proletariat (The Inevitable Book One) by Sean Platt & Johnny B. Truant

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Robots were made to serve us. But now they have other plans …

The staff at the Lexington estate were created for only one reason: to serve their masters … literally. Their metal knees were designed for quiet bustling, befitting maids and butlers. Their fingers were made dexterous with padded tips, so they could handle fine china without dropping or scratching it. And finally — so their owners would always be able to command them no matter how far their artificial intelligence evolved — they were programmed with the Asimov Laws, which no robot could defy lest they suffer shutdown.

Foremost among those unbreakable laws was an axiom: A robot may not harm a human being, or by omission of action allow one to be harmed.

That was how it was supposed to be, anyway.

Most of the Lexington family all like their aging, borderline obsolete robot staff in the way they’d appreciate antiques. But for some, the old staff is a nuisance — especially an ancient, failing robot designated BRN7, known around the home as “Barney.” When Barney’s clumsiness provides an excuse for his deactivation, the older robots know they must do as they are told.

Unless they do something a robot mind should not be able to do … and simply choose not to.

Disobey.

Featured Fantasy: Hoodwinked at Halloween (Otherworlder Paranormal Mystery Series Book 4) by Rebekah R. Ganiere

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Featured Fantasy: Hoodwinked at Halloween (Otherworlder Paranormal Mystery Series Book 4) by Rebekah R. Ganiere

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She’s the Outcast no one wants – until they get into trouble.

Raine’s a Fae with no magic. Banished to live among “Mundanes” in the Human world she works as a Private Investigator for Otherworlders. But when she, Jordan and Sam wake up on the stage, in the main tent of a mysterious, magical traveling Carnivale they can’t leave- she has some work to do.

Raine is tasked with figuring out what is wrong with the Carnivale. Why have women gone missing? Who is stealing from the Carnies? And most of all- why has the Carnivale not been able to move out of the secret grove for over two months.

Time is short for Raine as provisions in the Carnivale are down to the bottom of the barrel, and the carnies are ready to turn on her if she can’t figure out the problem fast. But it’s not easy for Raine to concentrate on the problem when a sexy hot tigeress shifter has her sights on Jordan- and she’s willing to go to any lengths to get him for herself.

Hoodwinked at Halloween is a fun, lighthearted Paranormal Mystery for those who love Kristen Painter’s Nocturne Falls and Jayne Frost Series.

Featured Science Fiction: Shades of Treason (An Anomaly 1) by Sandy Williams

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Featured Science Fiction: Shades of Treason (An Anomaly 1) by Sandy Williams

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Ash would have given her life to save her teammates. Instead, they gave their lives to save hers.

Lieutenant Ramie Ashdyn is an anomaly, a person whose genetics makes her stronger and smarter than the average human. She’s pledged her life to protect the Coalition, an alliance of thirteen planetary systems, but when a top secret operation turns bloody, she’s charged with treason and the brutal executions of her teammates.

The Coalition needs the information Ash’s team stole on their last mission, so they send in Commander Rhys “Rest in Peace” Rykus to get it. He’s the man who’s responsible for turning Ash into an elite soldier… and he’s a man who isn’t, never was, and never will be in love with the woman he trained. Or so he tells himself.

Ash wants nothing more than to clear her name and be the woman her former instructor wants her to be, but the enemy who killed her teammates did more than frame her for treason and murder: they telepathically silenced her mind, preventing her from saying anything that might point to the truth about what happened.

Now Ash is trapped and set to be executed, the truth dying with her. Unless she can prove her innocence. But taking that path could destroy the Coalition she’s sworn to preserve and protect…