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Featured Fantasy: On Wings and Ash (The Immortal Voices) by Jo Holloway

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Featured Fantasy: On Wings and Ash (The Immortal Voices) by Jo Holloway

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A quirky pet goose, an arranged marriage she dreads, and a secret ability that could get her killed …

Alessa’s life is complicated.

I should know. I’ve spent the past few years of my immortal life at her side, watching over her through the eyes of her feathered companion.

With the town’s festival for Hades approaching and a visiting delegation from Sparta on the way, Alessa just needs to keep her head down and not reveal my existence. But this day is full of surprises, starting with the warrior we find in the woods.

This Spartan’s ego is as big as his sword, but Alessa can handle him. Too bad the missing princess he’s searching for isn’t our first disaster of the day … nor our last. By the time the bonfires are lit, Alessa’s only hope to save the princess and herself from a death sentence is to put her trust in two men.

  One is the stranger she’s been promised to in marriage.

  The other is the man she’s been forbidden to love all her life.

And me? I’ll have to save the rest of the town.

Because tonight is also the night my kind become monsters.

Featured Science Fiction: The Defiant (Star Legend Book Six) by J. J. Green

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Featured Science Fiction: The Defiant (Star Legend Book Six) by J. J. Green

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Forced to face an unknown fate

When Taylan Ellis found her kids, she thought her life of adventure was over. She looked forward to raising her children on a new, peaceful Earth, where the scientific revelations of friendly aliens are changing the world for the better.

The Britannic Alliance has other plans for her. Skein mappers, who chart the newly discovered connections between all things, say Taylan still has a role to play.

The Alliance asks her to travel with her children aboard their latest starship, the Defiant, to challenge the hostile entities who threaten the planet with their deadly games.

If she agrees, her kids’ lives will be in danger. If she refuses, human civilization will be at risk.

The Defiant is the sixth and final book in the epic space fantasy series, Star Legend.

Featured Science Fiction: Beyond These Walls Book 1 – 6 by Michael Robertson

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Featured Science Fiction: Beyond These Walls Book 1 - 6 by Michael Robertson

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In Edin, when you turn eighteen, you have to do national service.

Six-months outside the city’s walls, fighting the diseased hordes.

Only half the recruits survive.

Spike refuses to be just another statistic.

Beyond These Walls is a post-apocalyptic epic. Join Spike, Matilda, and their friends as they leave their city for the first time to face the brutal reality of national service. Some of them won’t return, and for those who do, their lives will never be the same again.

Featured Fantasy: An Inheritance of Ash and Blood (Heirs of War Book 1) by Jamie Edmundson

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Featured Fantasy: An Inheritance of Ash and Blood (Heirs of War Book 1) by Jamie Edmundson

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Sorcery is dying out


No one misses it.

Feared and despised in equal measure, Sanc is only tolerated because he’s the son of the powerful Duke of Morbaine.

But Sanc is more important than he knows. When his life is threatened, he is forced to confront his true inheritance.

For a new god has arrived in Dalriya. Unstoppable, Ezenachi brings only conquest and slavery.

Sorcery is dying out, and now Dalriya needs a sorcerer more than ever.


An Inheritance of Ash and Blood is the first book in a new series, Heirs of War. It combines coming of age character journeys with rich worldbuilding, dark sorcery, political intrigue, and bloody war.

Featured Fantasy: Bright of the Moon (Dark-Elves of Nightbloom) by Miranda Honfleur

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Featured Fantasy: Bright of the Moon (Dark-Elves of Nightbloom) by Miranda Honfleur

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A cursed noblewoman. A broken dark-elf prince. A love that could save both their nations… or break their hearts.

By all appearances, Bella has lived a quiet life as a young noblewoman in her family’s castello—but in secret, she pens treatises criticizing the realm’s warmongers… and now there’s a price on her head. As she struggles to hide her seditious activities, a chance encounter with a unicorn leaves her with four hooves and a horn of her own—and a form she can’t control. The dark-elf queen has offered her a chance to acquire that control… if Bella can find the unicorn who turned her.

Prince Dhuro of Nightbloom has never met a problem he couldn’t solve with his fists—that is, until he fought for a place in the army’s elite forces and lost. Immortal beasts are growing in power and threatening his people, and he would much rather fight than dwell on all the ways his past broke him. His mother, the queen, sends him on a fool’s errand instead—helping a human newly turned unicorn find her sire, and asking the impossible: whether the pacifistic unicorns will stand with them against the beasts ravaging his people. Making things worse, Bella challenges his every decision, argues with him, infuriates him… until beneath the full moon, she shifts to her human form… and enchants him.

A war is raging, Dhuro must marry for political advantage, and only Bella’s sire can help her… And when the bounty hunters after her find them, Dhuro and Bella’s worldviews collide like life and death. But can Dhuro somehow be the answer to helping her control her form, and can she chase away his darkness? Can they find a way to be together and fight the war threatening to devour the land… or will it swallow them too?

Featured Science Fiction: Mongrels United (The Endurance) by Tracy Cooper Posey

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Featured Science Fiction: Mongrels United (The Endurance) by Tracy Cooper Posey

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Morale on the Endurance is at an all-time low.

Grady Read is one of the youngest Chiefs of Staff to the Captain to ever serve. She is supremely ethical and hard working. Nash Hyson, on the other hand, is one of the Endurance’s richest citizens, lives life at light speed, is friends with all the wrong people, and is absolutely the last person Grady should be seen with.

When Nash’s father dies from unknown causes, Nash’s hunt for answers brings him and Grady together to investigate what they believe is a deadly threat to the Endurance, one that might explain the misery that grips the ship and makes life unpleasant for everyone. They struggle to keep their relationship purely business, even though their mutual attraction is powerful.

Their investigation uncovers a decades-old conspiracy, and brings them into the sights of those who will do anything to keep their secrets…

Mongrels United is part of the science fiction romance series readers are calling gripping, superb and fantastic. Written by award-winning SFR author Tracy Cooper-Posey, it is set aboard the marathon-class vessel Endurance, a generation ship a thousand years from its destination. If you like the smart, romantic SF of authors like Linnea Sinclair and Anna Hackett, you will love the Endurance series.

Dive into this thought-provoking science fiction romance series today!