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Featured Sci-fi Thriller: State of Fear by Michael Crichton

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Featured Sci-fi Thriller: State of Fear by Michael Crichton

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton delivers an edge-of-your-seat thrill ride mixing cutting edge science and action-packed adventure in State of Fear.

In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor.

In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology, built to his specifications.

In Vancouver, a small research submarine is leased for use in the waters off New Guinea.

And in Tokyo, an intelligence agent tries to understand what it all means.

A deftly-crafted novel, in true Crichton style, State of Fear is an exciting, stunning tale that not only entertains and educates, but will make you think.

Featured Fantasy: Murder Any Witch Way (Brimstone Bay Book 1) by N. M. Howell

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Featured Fantasy: Murder Any Witch Way (Brimstone Bay Book 1) by N. M. Howell

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Welcome to Brimstone Bay—where the coffee’s strong, the gossip’s stronger, and the witches try not to burn the town down.

Fresh out of journalism school, River Halloway thought a sleepy coastal town would be the perfect place to launch her career—and hide her magical identity. But when a traveling Shadow Festival arrives and a body turns up behind the boardwalk, River is pulled into a mystery with more secrets than the town library.

Armed with coffee, charm, and questionable spells, River must find the killer before her own secrets rise from the grave.

If you love small-town charm, quirky witchy housemates, and mysteries with a magical twist, you’ll adore this paranormal cozy mystery series. Start reading Murder Any Witch Way today—and fall under the spell of Brimstone Bay.

Featured Sci-fi: Galaxy’s Most Wanted Books 1 – 4 by Michael Lavoice

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Featured Sci-fi: Galaxy's Most Wanted Books 1 - 4 by Michael Lavoice

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A smuggler in the wrong place. An ancient alien technology. Now, everyone is after him.

Kai Fletcher thought he could go straight, until he couldn’t. And when his last “last” job goes wrong, he finds himself stowed away in a starship belonging to an alien crime syndicate.

Forced into servitude to pay the debt for passage off world, Kai bargains with the syndicate. All he has to do is help them rob the Vakness Empire, the most powerful alien empire in known space, and he gets to go home.

Easy Peasy. Until it isn’t.

Planning the heist, Kai discovers that the Vakness Empire has stolen ancient alien technology that will allow them to achieve their dream of ruling over all other sentient species. He’s never been a good guy, but even he has limits.

Hunted by both the Empire, and the syndicate, he manages to get on the wrong side of everyone in the galaxy who wants the discovery for themselves.

Kai just wanted to get back to Chicago, but instead, he’s become the Galaxy’s Most Wanted in this Sci-Fi thrill ride from Michael LaVoice!

“An interplanetary Ocean’s 11. Well worth the read.”—Jeffery H. Haskell, Author of The Grimm’s War series.

Featured Fantasy: The Obituary Society (An Obituary Society Novel Book 1) by Jessica L. Randall

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Featured Fantasy: The Obituary Society (An Obituary Society Novel Book 1) by Jessica L. Randall

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When Lila Moore inherits her grandfather’s house, she finds herself in a small Midwestern town where margarine is never an acceptable substitution for butter, a coveted family recipe can serve as currency, and the friend who will take your darkest secrets to the grave will still never give you the secret to her prize-winning begonias.

Lila is charmed by the people of Auburn, from the blue-eyed lawyer with the southern drawl to the little old lady who unceasingly tries to set Lila up with her grandson. But when strange things begin to happen, Lila realizes some of her new friends are guarding a secret like its a precious family heirloom. It’s a dangerous secret, and it has come back to haunt them. Lila is caught in the middle, and her life may depend on uncovering it. But even if she can, can she stay in Auburn when not everyone is what they seem, and even the house wants her gone?

Featured Sci-fi: Melody (The Unbound Duology Book 1) by David Hoffer

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Featured Sci-fi: Melody (The Unbound Duology Book 1) by David Hoffer

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A melody from the stars can save humanity, but only if Stephen can awaken the alien within…

Childhood therapy cured Stephen Fisher of disturbing visions and the delusion of having come from another world. But when his daughter obsesses over a star in the night sky, he fears that his genetic legacy may have burdened her with the same illness. His sanity is then shattered when he loses his child and the military abducts him claiming that she recorded a song broadcast from another world.

A voice inside Stephen’s head convinces him that he can bring his daughter back to life. What he discovers instead is a stunning truth about himself, his child’s destiny, and fate of the entire human race…

Melody is a riveting and thought-provoking science fiction novel. If you like first contact scenarios and action-filled pages, then you’ll love David Hoffer’s otherworldly adventure.

2021 San Diego Book Award for Magical Fiction
2022 Finalist Self-Published Sci-Fi Competition (SPSFC)

Featured Fantasy: Wyrde and Wayward (House of Werth Book 1) by Charlotte E. English

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Featured Fantasy: Wyrde and Wayward (House of Werth Book 1) by Charlotte E. English

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Miss Gussie Werth is the only ordinary lady in her family, without a single drop of magic to liven things up. Fortunately, she’s just been abducted.

Miss Gussie Werth has grown up surrounded by the most supernatural family in England. Nell talks to the dead, Lord Werth is too often found in the churchyard at the dead of night… and the less said about Lord Bedgberry, the better.

Somehow, Gussie has been passed over by the family curse. She sups on chocolate, not blood; she’s blissfully oblivious to spectres (except for Great-Aunt Honoria, of course); and she hasn’t the smallest inclination to turn into a beast upon the full moon, and go ravening about the countryside. All things considered, her life has been unbearably placid and uninteresting.

Thankfully, Gussie has just been abducted by a neighbouring family every bit as strange as her own… and as deliciously spectacular disasters start to stack up, she begins to suspect that she may not be quite as normal as she thought. Far from being ordinary, Gussie may well prove to be the worst Werth of them all…

Meet the Regency-era Addams Family—full of spectres, gorgons, and polite, ravening monsters—in this fresh, absurd gothic fantasy by the author of Modern Magick and the Malykant Mysteries. “Strange and utterly delightful” (Olivia Atwater), Wyrde and Wayward‘s notorious House of Werth will sink its teeth into you and leave you wanting more.