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Featured Fantasy: Fated to Burn (Grid Fae Book 1) by Lilith Darville

November 8, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Fated to Burn (Grid Fae Book 1) by Lilith Darville

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Editor’s Note: I don’t usually share fantasy or sci-fi romance of the spicy variety (the author says the series will be five peppers hot 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ … which I think is the hottest pepper rating.) But the idea of this TWISTY FAE IN F1 was so much fun I had to share!

She sees the impossible. He’s been hiding it for eight centuries.

Xio Valencia’s gift ruined her career at MIT—the ability to see probability threads that predict crashes before they happen. Now she hides in the shadows of Formula One, sending anonymous warnings to save drivers who’ll never know her name.

Until she notices something impossible about Thorne Blackthorn’s lap times.

Thorne has concealed his fae nature for eight hundred years, using probability magic to dominate every circuit. But when a brilliant analyst starts seeing through the glamour—and her scent shatters the binding that’s kept him numb and touch-starved for centuries—his carefully controlled world implodes.

The courts want her eliminated. He’s supposed to obey—he’s killed for them for two centuries. Instead, he claims her as his fated mate, defying his king to keep her alive as they navigate Grand Prix circuits by day and court assassins by night.

Her awakening power could save them both. Or condemn the entire supernatural world to exposure.

He’ll burn the world before he lets them touch her.

One fierce mathematician. One tortured fae enforcer. One impossible choice.

Drive to Survive meets A Court of Thorns and Roses in this scorching, high-heat fated-mates romance featuring a touch-starved antihero, forced proximity, and possessive protection that knows no limits.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Fated to Burn, Grid Fae, Lilith Darville

Featured Sci-fi: The Sam Gunn Omnibus—Every Story About Sam Gunn and Then Some by Ben Bova

November 8, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: The Sam Gunn Omnibus—Every Story About Sam Gunn and Then Some by Ben Bova

99¢ US / $1.99 CA as of November 8, 2025
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Seven hundred four pages of sci-fi action. The collected adventures of Sam Gunn, astronaut, explorer, opportunist, and rogue—from a six-time Hugo Award–winning author.

A hero without peer or scruples, Sam Gunn has a nose for trouble, money, and women—though not necessarily in that order. A man with the ego (and stature) of a Napoleon, the business acumen of a P. T. Barnum, and the raging hormones of a teenage boy, Sam is the finest astronaut NASA ever trained . . . and dumped.

But more than money, more than women, Sam Gunn loves justice. (And he really does love money and women.) Whether he’s suing the Pope, helping twin sisters entangled in the “virtual sex” trade, or on trial for his life on charges of interplanetary genocide, you can be sure of one thing: this is one space jockey who’ll meet every challenge with a smile on his lips, an ace up his sleeve . . . and a weapon in his pocket.

Now, for the first time between covers, author Ben Bova presents all the tales of Sam Gunn to date, including three never before collected in book form. Here is the entire chronicle of Sam Gunn, trailblazer and scoundrel, as he scams his way from one end of the Solar System to the other, giving bold new meaning to the term “venture capitalist.”

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Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Ben Bova, The Sam Gunn Omnibus

Featured Sci-fi: The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis

November 8, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis

$2.99 as of November 8, 2025
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A delightful novel about alien invasions, conspiracies, and the incredibly silly things people are willing to believe—some of which may actually be true—from the Nebula and Hugo award-winning author of Blackout and All Clear

“An absolute blast with abundant humor, copious references to old westerns, and . . . a delightful, intergalactic twist on the romantic comedy.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • LOCUS AWARD FINALIST

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Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Connie Willis, The Road to Roswell

Featured Sci-fi : Soldier of Fortune (Fortune Chronicles Book 1) by Kathleen McClure

November 8, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi : Soldier of Fortune (Fortune Chronicles Book 1) by Kathleen McClure

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Gideon Quinn has a handful of starbucks, a draco named Elvis, and a target on his back.

Wrongly convicted of treason, Colonel Gideon Quinn is serving a life sentence under the killing suns of the Morton Barrens. But after six years of hard labor, a general of the Colonial Corps arrives with an offer of freedom, and the chance to clear his name.

Gideon (not being an idiot), seizes the opportunity and, with his pet draco Elvis, boards an airship bound for Nike City in search of revenge. And justice. But mostly revenge.

What he finds is a daring street-thief in need of a champion, a city steeped in corruption, and a mysterious enemy hell-bent on safeguarding their deadly secrets.

Now Gideon is engaged in an entirely different kind of war—one that plays out in the shadows—and if he loses this battle, Fortune’s new and fragile peace will certainly shatter.

Welcome to the planet Fortune, where tech is low, heroes unlikely, and the odds ridiculous. If you like low-tech science fiction, found families, and feel-good adventures, you’ll love Soldier of Fortune.

This is the second, newly-edited edition of Soldier of Fortune.

Books in the Series:
Soldier of Fortune
Outrageous Fortune
Change of Fortune
Fortune’s Fool

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Fortune Chronicles, Kathleen McClure, Soldier of Fortune

Featured Fantasy: Secrets of Saltcliff (Forty, Fired, & Fighting Demons Book 1) by Brenda Trim & Chris Cain

November 6, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Secrets of Saltcliff (Forty, Fired, & Fighting Demons Book 1) by Brenda Trim & Chris Cain

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Turns out, when a realtor says ‘location, location, location!’, they aren’t going to mention the property is directly above a portal to Hell…

I’m Eliza Grey, and my charming fixer-upper came with an unexpected feature: a gateway to the infernal realms in the basement.

So much for open-concept living.

Now, instead of choosing tile patterns, I’m deciphering ancient runes. My real estate agent? Secretly a magical mentor. The grumpy handyman? A half-demon hunter with a penchant for brooding. And my new house? Let’s just say it has opinions on my renovation choices.

I’ve got to master my newfound magical abilities, navigate the bureaucratic nightmare that is Hell’s Seven Boroughs, and find a mystical artifact before a demon lord uses my property as his personal welcome mat to world domination.

Home improvement shows never prepared me for this. If I can survive magical training, outsmart Hell’s henchmen, and keep my sanity (and my house) intact, I might just save the world.

Although there’s no telling what this will do for the resale value.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go sage my cutlery. In this house, you can never be too careful.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Brenda Trim, Forty Fired & Fighting Demons, Secrets of Saltcliff

Featured Fantasy: Witches of Keyhole Lake Books 1 – 3 by Tegan Maher

November 6, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Witches of Keyhole Lake  Books 1 - 3 by Tegan Maher

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If you love laugh-out-loud southern wit, magic, and murder, then you’ll fall in love with this witchy mystery series.

From Sweet Murder, Book 1: What’s a witch to do when the meanest man in the county drops dead in his coleslaw during her shift at the local barbecue joint? Noelle does what any good Southern girl would do: she flicks a wrist to clean up the mess, then thanks the stars for doing the world a favor. She should have known nothing’s that easy.

A skydiving best friend and a bossy, living-impaired aunt become the least of her worries when the killer decides to bump up the plan by bumping her off. Can she figure it out in time to save all that she holds dear, or will Noelle be next on the list of folks who’ve turned up dead?

From Murder to the Max, Book 2: Granted, being murdered first thing in the morning would make anybody cranky, but when local contractor Max Wheeler meets his unnatural end, he takes it more personally than most. As any perturbed ghost looking for justice would, he goes straight to the local sheriff to report the crime.

Cranky ghosts, sticky-fingered vagabonds, and disappearing food keep the gossip wheel churning, but Noelle’s about to lose her mind. Is it really too much to ask that people stop killing each other long enough for a witch to get some work done?

From Murder so Magical Book 3: Keyhole Lake has its fair share of oddballs and ne’er-do-wells, but sometimes even good folks do bad things, right? At first, the crimes seem to stem from desperation or teenage rebellion, but when the president of the ladies’ auxiliary is busted stealing church funds, Noelle starts to piece together a pattern that points to a much more nefarious – and magical – explanation.

This box set also contains Witching for a Miracle, a Witches of Keyhole Lake short story.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Tegan Maher, Witches of Keyhole Lake Books 1 - 3

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