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Featured Sci-fi: Talented (Talented Saga Book 1) by Sophie Davis

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Featured Sci-fi: Talented (Talented Saga Book 1) by Sophie Davis

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With over Half a Million worldwide downloads and Twenty-Eight Million pages read in Kindle

Unlimited, readers are raving about the Talented Saga: “X-Men meets Divergent in a new way.” “Intoxicatingly good.”

Block out thoughts.
Talia Lyons has one goal at the McDonough School for the Talented: learn to use her Talent as a Mental Manipulator to kill the man who murdered her parents.

Block out pain.
She’ll deal with anything. The brutal physical demands. The emotional toll. Whatever it takes to reach her objective.

Block out friendship.
With only one year left in the program, Talia is suddenly finding it harder than ever to ignore the rest of her life. Block out love. Even worse, she can’t seem to turn off her psychic connection to her first love…or quit thinking about her fascinating new teammate.

Feel only vengeance.
Ian Crane. The man who destroyed Talia’s life. The one she’s determined to eradicate.

Now focus.
It’s time to kill.

The Talented Saga is an award-winning and internationally bestselling Dystopian Romance series about the life of a girl with extraordinary psychic powers, and what happens when a heart is torn between love and rage…

Featured Sci-fi: Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton

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Featured Sci-fi: Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton

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“A fascinating, compulsively readable clash of hardware and ideals” in a stand-alone space opera from an acclaimed sci-fi author (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

In the distant future, corporations have become sustainable communities with their own militaries, and corporate goals have essentially replaced political ideology.

On a youthful, rebellious impulse, Lawrence joined the military of a corporation that he now recognizes to be ruthless and exploitative. His only hope for escape is to earn enough money to buy his place in a better corporation. When his platoon is sent to a distant colony to quell a local resistance effort, it seems like a stroke of amazing fortune, and Lawrence plans to rob the colony of their fabled gemstone, the Fallen Dragon, to get the money he needs. However, he soon discovers that the Fallen Dragon is not a gemstone at all, but an alien life form that the local colonists have been protecting since it crashed in their area. Now, Lawrence has to decide if he will steal the alien to exploit the use of its inherent biotechnical processes—which far exceed anything humans are capable of—or if he will help the Resistance get the alien home.

“One of Hamilton’s best . . . undeniably a page-turner.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Featured Sci-fi: Soul Marked (An I Bring the Fire Novel) by C. Gockel

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Magic is real, but Tara’s life isn’t a fairy tale.

From humble beginnings, Tara’s managed to work her way into a great job researching Dark Energy, aka “magic,” in Chicago. She has a beautiful house she renovated with her own hands, and a loving extended family, but she hasn’t found her soulmate … Not that she believes in soulmates.

Lionel is a Light Elf. Despite being of dubious heritage and being born a peasant, he’s risen in the ranks to serve the Elf Queen. Like all true elves, Lionel has a soulmark to identify his soulmate … He just hasn’t found her yet.

When Lionel’s and Tara’s lives collide and Dark Elves strike, they’re forced to work together or perish. Friendship and more grows between them, but dangers loom … Tara is more important than she knows, and Lionel is more important than he wants to admit. Both of them have choices to make.

Will Lionel choose a “perfect” love over Tara? How much is Tara willing to give up for a happily ever after?

They might find that in an uncertain world, the love you struggle for is the only certain thing.

Featured Fantasy: Magic After Midnight (An I Bring the Fire Novel) by C. Gockel

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Featured Fantasy: Magic After Midnight (An I Bring the Fire Novel) by C. Gockel

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Magic is real, and Marcia’s life is a fairy tale. Except, according to her stepdaughter, she’s the wicked stepmother. Undermined by a meddling godmother, Marcia is struggling to raise three teenagers in a world of enchantment and monsters. When she’s introduced to a Night Elf who appears half her age, love is the last thing on her mind.

Count Darerick Razvano is a Night Elf–please don’t call him a vampire! Fighting for the survival of his race, he has no time for matters of the heart. When a charming widow inadvertently threatens the Night Elves’ most carefully guarded secret, Darerick must seek Marcia out to save his people.

Marcia’s devoted to her children. Dare’s determined to save his race. They aren’t looking for love, but love might find them.

In a world of monsters, love may save Night Elves and humans alike.

A standalone, slow burn, paranormal romance in the world of I Bring the Fire.

Featured Fantasy: Demons & Bounty Hunters—The Kalos Aeon and Ruby Callaway 6 Book Super Collection by D.N. Erikson

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Featured Fantasy: Demons & Bounty Hunters—The Kalos Aeon and Ruby Callaway 6 Book Super Collection by D.N. Erikson

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Six full-length novels.
Two complete series. And 100% snark.

THE HALF DEMON ROGUE: Kalos Aeon has survived for 7,000 years by adhering to a simple code. But saving the world from destruction may require him to break it.

RUBY CALLAWAY: set in the same world twenty years later, Ruby Callaway discovers that even being the world’s best bounty hunter doesn’t mean much when you’re trapped behind bars.

This collection contains two complete urban fantasy trilogies – six full-length novels set in the same world: Demon Rogue, Blood Frost, Moon Burn, Lightning Blade, Shadow Flare, and Blood River.

Featured Fantasy: Witching Hour Books 1 – 3 by Christine Zane Thomas

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Featured Fantasy: Witching Hour Books 1 - 3 by Christine Zane Thomas

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A powerful heroine over forty.

On the eve of her 40th birthday, Constance leaves her old life behind. She moves in with her odd grandmother in Creel Creek, Virginia… but nothing is as it seems.

Under the sleepy surface, the small town is teeming with supernatural beings. Constance discovers she comes from a long line of witches. And on the day she hits the big 4-0, she’ll come into her powers.

When she finds the town’s resident vampire dead, things go from surreal to scary. The local sheriff is convinced that a killer is lurking in the shadows, hunting anyone with supernatural abilities…including witches like her.

Read this page-turning mystery and two more full-length stories as Constance proves you can find your power at any age.

This boxed set includes:
Midlife Curses
Never Been Hexed
Must Love Charms