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Featured Fantasy: Stoking the Embers (Dragon Duels Book 1) by Laura Greenwood

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Featured Fantasy: Stoking the Embers (Dragon Duels Book 1) by Laura Greenwood

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Two hundred and fifty people go into the Dragon Duels. One in fifteen come out.

When Raine finds herself part of the quarterly Dragon Duels, she has to do everything she can to survive without losing herself in the process. Teaming up with a volunteer from the White Towers is the last thing she thought she’d do, but Cobalt has the information she needs to live to win, and she isn’t about to let that slip through her fingers.

Escaping from the dragons is only half the battle – does she have what it takes to win the rest?
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Stoking the Embers is book one in the Dragon Duels series, an urban fantasy adventure with a dystopian flare and a slow burn m/f romance.

Featured Sci-fi: The Tradepoint Saga the Complete Trilogy by LL Blacklocke

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Featured Sci-fi: The Tradepoint Saga the Complete Trilogy by LL Blacklocke

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Get the Tradepoint Saga Box Set, featuring all three books in the series. 1000+ pages of space opera filled with political intrigue, mystery, and a diverse cast of alien characters!

Nine hundred Vennans undertake a cultural exchange to Tradepoint, a space station where aliens from different worlds meet to do business. A young and gifted Speaker, Gredin, is translator and diplomat for the happy occasion.

But a horrific vision shatters her first night’s sleep on Tradepoint. Venna, their homeworld, has been destroyed. Now, the safety of the delegation, the only Vennans left in all of time and space, rests on Gredin’s young shoulders.

Stunned and grieving, she navigates trade wars and political prejudice, bartering with other races — some friendly, some neutral, some outright hostile – for what her people need to survive. And the cost of failure is the unthinkable.

Extinction.

Buy this special-edition omnibus to experience this complete space-opera trilogy today. This coming-of-age tale is perfect for fans of CJ Cherryh, Arkady Martine, Wen Spencer, and Star Trek: Picard.

This bundle contains three full-length novels: Refuge, Aftershock, and The Bereft.

Featured Fantasy: The O’Hare House Mysteries Complete Series – by Kate Danley

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Get all four O’Hare House Mystery books in one set!

The year is 1890. When grieving widow Clara O’Hare moves into her new home, little does she know she is opening the door to a world of paranormal curses and murder. With a psychic named Wesley at her side, she finds herself enmeshed in a supernatural conspiracy leading back to her husband’s death.

Join Mrs. O’Hare on this haunting four book adventure written by USA Today Bestselling author Kate Danley.

This complete penny dreadful serial features A Spirited Manor, Spirit of Denial, Distilled Spirits, and In High Spirits.

Featured Fantasy: Kingdom of Wind & Fire (The Elemental Kingdoms Series) RA Lewis

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Featured Fantasy: Kingdom of Wind & Fire (The Elemental Kingdoms Series) RA Lewis

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Blood is magic. Magic is everything. And it can get you killed.

Twins Brianna and Brayden have had to hide their volatile elemental powers all their lives. But now they must use them if they want to survive.

After fifteen years apart, Brayden escapes enslavement to a SpiritSinger who controls his every move. No sooner has he reunited with his family when the twins’ mother is captured by the same enemy.

The twins must make an impossible choice: to rescue her or follow her last wish. With the help of a snarky smuggler and his crew, Brayden and Brianna embark on a quest to hone their magical skills and save their mother.

But evil is brewing on the horizon, and it’s coming for anyone with power.

Featured Science Fiction: The Galactic Mage by John Daulton

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Featured Science Fiction: The Galactic Mage by John Daulton

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Altin Meade is a sorcerer with a curse. Seeking to avoid a looming doom, he sets his magical sights on the stars—a quest that will likely bring about the very consequence he’s seeking to escape.

Far across the galaxy, Ensign Orli Pewter of planet Earth has a looming doom of her own—one of loneliness, depression and, worse, a race of genocidal aliens known as “Hostiles” seeking to destroy humanity. Trapped aboard a spaceship she never asked to be upon, Orli is in a fight for both her life and her sanity.

Worlds apart, Altin and Orli share a destiny, but neither knows the other is alive. The Hostiles know. And they have other plans.

Featured Science Fiction: Port State

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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke

There are many ways to test humanity to destruction. Serving tea and cakes is one of them.

And it is over tea and cakes that the enigmatic Mr. Day makes his proposition to skeptical diplomat Thaddeus Maine.

The offer is for the United Kingdom to become the sole distributor of technology so advanced as to be out of this world. A conduit, delivering wonders to the rest of the globe.

Naturally, the United Kingdom will want to attach a premium, to cover their costs and so forth…

But when it comes to a sufficiently advanced technology, we are so conditioned by what we see at the movies that the real thing no longer seems magical.

And unfortunately, that’s exactly what happens.