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Featured Sci-fi: Starsea Collection—Starsea Cycle Books 1 – 3 by Kyle West

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Featured Sci-fi: Starsea Collection—Starsea Cycle Books 1 - 3 by Kyle West

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The first three Starsea Cycle books at a discounted price – 1,000 + pages of epic space fantasy!

A mage’s fate is worse than death…

Lucian dreams of a new life outside the cesspool of Earth. Unfortunately, his wish comes true when the government identifies him as a mage.

No one knows why the mages are being born. No one knows why their powers lead to madness and death. The only solution is to train them at the Academies, for them to serve the League of Worlds that subjugated them fifty years ago.

When Lucian is exiled from Earth, he must travel to the distant world of Volsung to receive training. During the long passage, he meets a mysterious mage. She prophesies he is marked by the Manifold, the reality that is the source of all magic. It is a destiny that requires him to master abilities he never imagined he possessed.

Trouble is brewing in the galaxy. An ancient alien menace has awoken, somehow connected with the return of magic to the stars. Lucian faces a terrible choice. To accept his new reality as a mage. Or, to try and outrun destiny…

Featured Fantasy: Can’t Teach an Old Demon New Tricks by Cara Lockwood

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Featured Fantasy: Can't Teach an Old Demon New Tricks by Cara Lockwood

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Cara Lockwood, USA TODAY–bestselling author, brings her trademark blend of intense romance and sharp comedy to this hilarious paranormal tale about what happens when you make a Texas girl good and mad.

Rachel Farnsworth doesn’t believe in the paranormal—she’s got enough trouble right in Dogwood County. Her family hardware store is being crushed by a Mega-Mart, and her toddler can turn birthday candles into a five-alarm blaze with a single breath. But when her marriage literally goes up in smoke, Rachel learns her husband Kevin isn’t just a deadbeat—he’s a demon. A sloth demon, which explains the lack of housework.

Unfortunately, Kevin is hiding a secret he’s kept for a millennium, and a fallen-angel bounty hunter named Sam is hot on his trail. Sam once lost everything for loving a mortal woman, and the spark between him and Rachel threatens to undo him all over again.

As dark forces gather in Dogwood County, Rachel must decide whether the celestial chemistry crackling between her and Sam is more than just magic—and whether it’s strong enough to save her son, her home, and maybe even her heart.

Featured Fantasy: The Witches of Mingus Mountain Books 1 – 3 by Christine Pope

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Featured Fantasy: The Witches of Mingus Mountain Books 1 - 3 by Christine Pope

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Three eras. Two rival witch clans. One love that defies time itself.

From Prohibition-era Arizona to the wild Old West and beyond, Devynn Rowe and Seth McAllister must fight curses, enemies, and destiny itself in this spellbinding paranormal time-travel romance trilogy.

STOLEN TIME

When the past steals her future, only one man can help her reclaim it.

Time-crossed witch Devynn Rowe lands in 1926 Arizona, hiding her identity from enemy clan member Seth McAllister, her rescuer. As forbidden attraction grows between them, family obligations, bootlegging schemes, and dangerous secrets threaten both their lives…and their impossible love.

BORROWED TIME

When the past becomes their prison, can love be their key to freedom?

Time-crossed witches Devynn and Seth find themselves trapped in 1884 Flagstaff. As they search for a way back to their own time while navigating their growing attraction, they must face both the dangers of the Old West…and a resurfaced enemy threatening to alter history.


KILLING TIME

When time itself becomes your enemy, who can you trust?

Stranded in 1947, witches Devynn Rowe and Seth McAllister are racing against time itself to save Seth’s kidnapped cousin and break a deadly family curse. But as Devynn’s unstable time-traveling powers threaten to trap them in the past and Seth is forced to ally with the enemies his clan has hated for generations, love and loyalty collide in a battle against dark magic, ancient grudges, and a sinister plot that could destroy them both.

Featured Fantasy: Body at the Crossroads (A Viking Witch Cozy Mystery) by Cate Martin

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Featured Fantasy: Body at the Crossroads (A Viking Witch Cozy Mystery) by Cate Martin

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When her mother dies after a long illness, Ingrid Torfa must sell the family home to cover the medical bills.

Her career as a book illustrator not yet exactly launched, Ingrid faces two options: live in her battered old Volkswagen, or go back to her mother’s small town in northern Minnesota. The small town that still haunts her dreams more than a decade since she last visited it.

Or rather, not the town but the grandmother. All of the drawings she fills notebooks with witches and the trolls that do their bidding? Not as whimsical in her nightmares as she sketches them in the bright light of day.

If not for her beloved cat Mjolner, living in the Volkswagen just might tempt her. But the cat wants four walls and a door, so north she goes.

And finds trouble in the form of a dead body before she even finds her grandmother’s little town. How much can a town of stoic fishermen possibly be hiding? As Ingrid is about to find out, quite a lot.

Featured Sci-fi: The Oracle (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

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Featured Sci-fi: The Oracle (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

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Karl Meier is a private in the German Army. He’s been sent to occupied Greece on a secret mission in late 1944 as the Wehrmacht is withdrawing from the country. Karl has been assigned to support Professor Johannes Schmidt in the excavation of the ruins at Delphi, searching for a wunderwaffe—a wonder weapon that could help Germany win the Second World War. Deep within a cave, he finds a golden orb. On touching it, Karl connects with an alien intelligence that has sat dormant on Earth for thousands of years—the Oracle.

“The German soldier has not learned to retreat. He stands, and when necessary, he dies where he stands.” — Adolf Hitler.

FIRST CONTACT is a series of stand-alone novels that explore humanity’s first interaction with extraterrestrial life. This series is similar to BLACK MIRROR or THE TWILIGHT ZONE in that it is based on a common theme rather than common characters. This allows these books to be read in any order. Technically, they’re all first as they all deal with how we might initially respond to contact with aliens, exploring the social, political, religious, and scientific aspects of First Contact.

Featured Fantasy: Murder Above the Fold (Mag and Clara Balefire Mysteries Book 1) by ReGina Welling & Erin Lynn

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Featured Fantasy: Murder Above the Fold (Mag and Clara Balefire Mysteries Book 1) by ReGina Welling & Erin Lynn

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New town, fresh start… and one very dead welcome wagon.

Mag and Clara Balefire thought moving to Harmony, Maine would mean quiet mornings, fewer magical mishaps, and maybe—just maybe—time to actually run their antique and apothecary shop, Balms and Bygones, without supernatural drama.

They were spectacularly wrong.

When a dead body turns up among the vintage furniture, the local police shrug it off as a tragic accident. But the Balefire sisters didn’t become two of the strongest witches in their bloodline by ignoring their instincts. Something about this death reeks of murder, and it’s not just their enhanced magical senses talking.

Determined to uncover the truth, Mag and Clara dive into Harmony’s deceptively placid waters—only to discover that their picturesque new home harbors secrets darker than a moonless night. Between dodging the machinations of power-hungry coven leader Hagatha Crow and trying to keep their magical abilities under wraps, the sisters must solve their first Harmony mystery before the killer decides to permanently close their shop.

Welcome to small-town life, witch style. The body count is already climbing.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Finally, witches who feel like real people! Mag and Clara’s banter had me cracking up even during the murder scenes. Can’t wait for the next one!”

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Perfect blend of magic and mystery without being too cutesy. These sisters know how to handle both spells and suspects—loved every page!”