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Featured Fantasy: Long Ago & Far Away by Multiple Authors

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Long Ago and Far Away: Six Fantasy Novels Inspired by Fairy Tales, Myths, Legends, Folklore, & Magic Kindle Edition by Christine Pope (Author), Jennifer Blackstream (Author), Laura Greenwood (Author), Kat Parrish, , Jenna Johnson (Author), Julia Crane (Author)

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Get swept into a world that never was….

Enter realms of enchantment in a boxed set of six spellbinding novels from USA Today and internationally bestselling authors! Fall under the spell of “tales as old as time,” now given a fresh new twist in this captivating collection.

Long Ago and Far Away includes these six full-length fantasy romance and fantasy novels:

Dragon Rose – Christine Pope
Before Midnight – Jennifer Blackstream
Spindles and Spells – Laura Greenwood
Bride of the Midnight King – Kat Parrish
Faeborne – Jenna Elizabeth Johnson
Down the Rabbit Hole – Julia Crane

Featured Fantasy: How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

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Featured Fantasy: How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

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Tom Hazard has just moved back to London, his old home, to settle down and become a high school history teacher. And on his first day at school, he meets a captivating French teacher at his school who seems fascinated by him. But Tom has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history–performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life.

Unfortunately for Tom, the Albatross Society, the secretive group which protects people like Tom, has one rule: Never fall in love.

“A quirky romcom dusted with philosophical observations….A delightfully witty…poignant novel.” —The Washington Post

Featured Fantasy: Mermaid in Troubled Water (Purgatory Falls Mysteries Book 1) by Nikki Haverstock

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Featured Fantasy: Mermaid in Troubled Water (Purgatory Falls Mysteries Book 1) by Nikki Haverstock

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As a mermaid, Brooke has never been to the Rocky Mountains. Stumbling across the murder of a werewolf is not a great start to her visit.

In the paranormal-only town of Purgatory Falls, though, she’s discovered a place where she can reveal her true self for the first time in her life. So she shakes off her unease and tries to enjoy herself, exploring the quaint small town and getting to know its residents, including a dragon shifter police officer.

When the official investigation into the crime she witnessed seems to narrow in on the wrong suspect, however, Brooke realizes she might have to start poking around on her own—and begin to test her own magical abilities.

Featured Science Fiction: Milijun by Clayton Graham

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Featured Science Fiction: Milijun by Clayton Graham

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A First Contact… with Earth’s fate hanging in the balance.

Laura and Jason Sinclair’s peaceful vacation becomes a nightmare when ethereal beings descend upon Earth under the cover of darkness. Stranded in a world suddenly turned upside down, they are drawn into a shadowy conflict between covert government factions and a mysterious alien presence. As reality itself begins to fracture, the lines between friend and foe blur.

Caught in a web of secrets and hidden agendas, Jason may hold the key to the alien visitors’ true purpose—but what role does he play in their mission?

As the world teeters on the brink of an interstellar revelation, humanity faces a future that could change everything—whether they’re ready or not.

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Featured Sci-fi: Galactic Terror by Michael Robertson

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Featured Sci-fi: Galactic Terror by Michael Robertson

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They say you can’t run from your past, and now she’s reached the other side of the galaxy, Sparks wonders if they’re right …

Living on a distant planet with a transient population for the past year, ducking in and out of spaceport dive bars, mixing with pirates, bounty hunters, and criminals, she’s become just another being in the crowd.

But she wasn’t born to eke out a living at the very fringes of society. Not with her powers.

So when a stranger makes her a tempting offer …

An adventure she’s been desperate to have …

She wonders if now’s the right time for her to step from the shadows?

To return to the planet-hopping, high-risk thrill-ride that used to be her life.

To take back control.

And if the next few months end up looking like the past twelve, then it’s not like she has anything to lose.

Galactic Terror is the first book in a series of space opera thrillers, where every page crackles with high-stakes action and interstellar intrigue.

Featured Sci-fi: Contract of Defiance (Spectras Arise Trilogy, Book 1) by Tammy Salyer

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Featured Sci-fi: Contract of Defiance (Spectras Arise Trilogy, Book 1) by Tammy Salyer

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WHEN ALL OTHER OPTIONS RUN OUT, NEVER LET GO OF YOUR GUN.

In a few hundred years, the Algol system becomes humanity’s new home. The question is: is it a better one?

When a crew of arms smugglers botches their latest job, Corps-deserter and crewmember, Aly Erikson, is separated from her brother, the only person she can trust, and left behind to fight for her life. In the aftermath, as she tries to piece together what happened, a crew of roughneck settlers pressgang her into a dangerous mission in the heart of Corps territory.

Time is running out to get back everything she’s lost…

Her crew, her brother, and her options. But no one is taking her gun.

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