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Featured Fantasy: Once Upon a Bite – 15 Incisive Faerie Tales by Multiple Authors

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Featured Fantasy: Once Upon a Bite - 15 Incisive Faerie Tales by Multiple Authors

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Fifteen tales tinged with darkness, where vampires and werewolves roam and familiar fairytales take on overtones of blood and vengeance.

Note: Some of these stories are not suitable for sensitive readers, but my story, Cat in Combat Boots, is just plain fun. In it, Beatrice, the intrepid grandma from I Bring the Fire finally gets her “man.” Yelf Reviews by Kay McSpadden is also very fun, but don’t drink tea while reading it! You’ll ruin your computer screen.

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Featured Science Fiction: Blackout the Complete Seres by Daniel Young

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Featured Science Fiction: Blackout the Complete Seres by Daniel Young

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SAVE THEIR WORLDS? CHECK. DON’T KILL EACH OTHER? MEH.

A stubborn captain, an angry gunner, an alien trickster, a haughty monster, and a pair of twin assassins.

When it comes to motley crews, the Blackout has most starships beat.

But as a ruthless force swarms over the quadrant, crushing and enslaving all civilizations in its path, it might fall to this unlikely band of non-heroes to turn the tide.

If they don’t end up killing each other first.

Blackout: The Complete Series is old-fashioned space opera at its best, perfect for fans of action-packed drama and fun!

If the top things you look for in your sci-fi are…

  1. Action.
  2. Action.
  3. Action!

…then welcome to your next binge read.

Note: The Blackout series is an homage to thrilling pulp sci-fi of yesteryear. If you’re interested in hard science fiction look elsewhere. But if you’re looking for action-packed adventures on strange worlds with even stranger aliens, this series is for you!

Featured Fantasy: Muckrackers and Minotaurs (Terra Haven Chronicles Book 3) by Rebecca Chastain

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Featured Fantasy: Muckrackers and Minotaurs (Terra Haven Chronicles Book 3) by Rebecca Chastain

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The exciting conclusion of the Terra Haven Chronicles!

Kylie’s everlasting seed is supposed to guide her to the story of a lifetime, but that hardly matters now. Suspended from her position as a journalist for the Terra Haven Chronicle, she can’t publish anything.

However, a stymied career is the least of Kylie’s concerns. Someone is targeting her mom. First, they tried to make her look like a criminal. Now they’re trying to kill her.

Kylie will stop at nothing to save her mom. Unfortunately, the only people who might have useful information are pyromaniacs and prisoners, and they would rather see Kylie dead than help her.

Determined to flush out her enemy, Kylie must follow every lead, no matter how dubious. And this time, not even Kylie’s loyal gargoyle companion, Quinn, can keep her safe…

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Featured Fantasy: The Wolf’s Witch by Rachel Medhurst

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Featured Fantasy: The Wolf's Witch by Rachel Medhurst

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It’s just a scratch – a scratch that transforms the witch forever.

Already a witch at breaking point, I really can’t be dealing with the latest scandal affecting my life. I’m busy selling spells when my brother accidently kills a werewolf, attracting the wrath of my enemy, the Brighton Pack alpha, Malone. His attack leaves me with a scratch that turns me into the first ever hybrid-witch and solidifies my expulsion from the coven, leaving me all alone. I’m not sure how much more I can take.

When Malone smells his toxins in me, he vows to help me through the first shift. As alpha, his responsibility is to his pack and turning a witch is against sacred wolf laws. His pack will disown him if he doesn’t get rid of me. He’s ready to rectify his wrong, threatening to end my life, until I shift and the mating bond is evoked.

Can Malone reject the forbidden pull towards me in order to keep his pack? Or will I be able to escape before he claims me and jeopardises his position as alpha?

18+ Paranormal Romance with mature themes.

Featured Sci-fi: The Left Hand of Dog (Starship Teapot Book 1) by SI Clarke

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Featured Sci-fi: The Left Hand of Dog (Starship Teapot Book 1) by SI Clarke

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Escaping intergalactic kidnappers has never been quite so ridiculous.

When Lem and her faithful dog, Spock, retreat from the city for a few days of hiking in Algonquin Park, the last thing they expect is to be kidnapped by aliens. No, scratch that. The last thing they expect is to be kidnapped by a bunch of strangely adorable intergalactic bounty hunters aboard a ship called the Teapot.

After Lem falls in with an unlikely group of allies – including a talking horse, a sarcastic robot, an overly anxious giant parrot, and a cloud of sentient glitter gas – the gang must devise a cunning plan to escape their captors and make it back home safely.

But things won’t be as easy as they first seem. Lost in deep space and running out of fuel, this chaotic crew are faced with the daunting task of navigating an alien planet, breaking into a space station, and discovering the real reason they’re all there…

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Featured Fantasy: Daughter of No Worlds (The War of Lost Hearts Book 1) by Carissa Broadbent

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A former slave fighting for justice. A reclusive warrior who no longer believes it exists. And a dark magic that will entangle their fates.

Ripped from a forgotten homeland as a child, Tisaanah learned how to survive with nothing but a sharp wit and a touch of magic. But the night she tries to buy her freedom, she barely escapes with her life.

Desperate to save the best friend she left behind, Tisaanah journeys to the Orders, the most powerful organizations of magic Wielders in the world. But to join their ranks, she must complete an apprenticeship with Maxantarius Farlione, a handsome and reclusive fire wielder who despises the Orders.

The Orders’ intentions are cryptic, and Tisaanah must prove herself under the threat of looming war. But even more dangerous are her growing feelings for Maxantarius. The bloody past he wants to forget may be the key to her future… or the downfall of them both.

But Tisaanah will stop at nothing to save those she abandoned. Even if it means gambling in the Orders’ deadly games. Even if it means sacrificing her heart.

Even if it means wielding death itself.

Fans of romantic high fantasy like Sarah J. Maas and Miranda Honfleur will devour this tale of dark magic, passionate romance, vengeance, and redemption.

(Note: This book contains adult material.)