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Featured Sci-fi: Third Loch From the Sun—a Scottish Sci-fi Adventure by Rex Burke

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Featured Sci-fi: Third Loch From the Sun—a Scottish Sci-fi Adventure by Rex Burke

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Secrets come in all shapes and sizes

Jake has left it late, and the only summer job he can find is on the remote Scottish island of Elsay. Still, that sounds fine – the work isn’t too hard, the pay’s all right, and the scenery is great.

But he soon has second thoughts about staying. His boss, Fraser, is a bit of a rogue, while Fraser’s cute but snippy daughter, Alva, takes against him from the start. And the oddball characters in the local pub aren’t exactly welcoming.

Then Jake stumbles on an extraordinary secret that changes everything that’s known about the universe. A secret he can scarcely believe. A secret that Alva and the island recluse, Ruan Strang, have sworn to protect at all costs.

As the mystery deepens, the questions only mount – and none of the answers make any sense. Plus, Jake’s falling for Alva and she still hasn’t so much as smiled at him.

One thing’s for certain – he’s not going anywhere until the full, fantastic truth is revealed.

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Featured Fantasy: Cobalt (Pretty Little Mermaids Book 1) by A.L. Knorr

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Featured Fantasy: Cobalt (Pretty Little Mermaids Book 1) by A.L. Knorr

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A siren on the run. A ship full of strangers. A storm that knows her name.

Gina is running from a life she can’t explain—and a truth she can’t face. Under false pretences and with no plan beyond the horizon, she boards a historic sailing ship hoping to vanish into salt and sky. But when she meets someone who sees more than he should, and a storm that feels more like a reckoning than an accident, Gina realizes the sea has plans of its own.

For one boy, she’s unforgettable. For the sea, she’s unfinished business.

Cobalt is a haunting prequel about identity, escape, and the beginning of a legacy far bigger than one mermaid.

Return to the siren realm of A.L. Knorr with Pretty Little Mermaids, which expands the lore and worlds established in Born of Water, Mermaid’s Return and The Siren’s Curse, but is set before the events of the latter.

Featured Fantasy: Aquamarine (Pretty Little Mermaids Book 2) by A.L. Knorr

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Featured Fantasy: Aquamarine (Pretty Little Mermaids Book 2) by A.L. Knorr

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She’s a siren by blood. A science nerd by choice. And she’s about to pick a fight with the ocean itself.

To most mermaids, the Salt is sacred—an ancient tide that claims your memory, your humanity, and controls your mating cycle. But Eadie Jackson isn’t like most mermaids. She’s the youngest of triplets, allergic to destiny, and still angry that the sea took her mother.

She wants a normal senior year: survive her bully, ace her science fair, and maybe get Seth Foster to look at her like she’s not just weird-Jackson-girl number three. But when Eadie discovers a mermaid trapped in salt-flush—her memory wiped, her identity gone—she realizes the Salt isn’t just cruel. It’s a cage.

Now the ocean wants Eadie too. And it’s not used to hearing no.

Can the “weakest” Jackson sister outwit ancient magic without losing herself—or the only normal life she’s ever wanted?

Aquamarine is a fierce and funny YA mermaid fantasy packed with high school chaos, slow-burn romance, and a heroine who refuses to sink.

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Featured Sci-fi: Starship Ass Series Sale by Ethan Freckleton and J.R. Frontera

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Featured Sci-fi: Of Donkeys, Gods, and Space Pirates (Starship Ass Book 1) by Ethan Freckleton and J.R. Frontera

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Donkeys. Pirates. Pizza.

Symbiont Harry—rejected by his tribe, exiled from home, and braying at the stars—is imprisoned in the form of a donkey.

Trapped on an interstellar livestock vessel, Harry dreams of being loved, or at least having a decent conversation.

Space pirates capture the ship, hoping to score. What to do with a hold full of livestock? And what’s with the wisecracking donkey?

When a galactic animal contest promises a fortune, the talking donkey starts to look like a potential winner—if only he can lay off the pizza.

Buy or BURRO this wonderful series today and see why readers can’t wait to get more Starship Ass!

★★★★★ ‘Sweet, adorable, emotive, hilarious, action-packed!’

★★★★★ ’Loved the Guardians of the Galaxy vibe…fast, funny, and fresh sci-fi writing.’

★★★★★ ’Why would you not want to read the adventures of a Star Trek-loving symbiont slash donkey duo, and his pirate crew?’

Featured Sci-fi: Frontier Corps (Forlorn Hope Book 1) by Joe Kassabian

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Featured Sci-fi: Frontier Corps (Forlorn Hope Book 1) by Joe Kassabian

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They fight the wars nobody else wants to.

The Frontier Corps are the Terran Empire’s repository for failures, malcontents, criminals, and other people with nothing left to lose but to sign their names on the dotted line of a ten year contract for another shot at life.

But flung across the stars to face horrifying enemies, it may as well be a death sentence.

Pari Petrosyan is a grizzled veteran of the Corps. With only a few months left of her contract, she has her mind on her discharge papers. Her easy path on her way to freedom is interrupted when a new commander arrives, ready to launch a large-scale military offensive to finally end the conflict she had spent her entire career fighting.

Caught between the grinding war machines of the empire and the inhuman monstrosities known as the Resh, Pari has to try to survive if she ever hopes to be free.

Experience the start of a Military Sci-Fi series from Joe Kassabian, author of the Liberty of Death Series. This gritty, space marine boots-on-the-ground series is perfect for fans of Rick Partlow, Galaxy’s Edge: Legionnaire, and Starship Troopers.

Featured Fantasy: The Amplifier Protocol A Novella by Meghan Ciana Doidge

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The Amplifier Protocol (Amplifier Series - Book 0) Kindle Edition by Meghan Ciana Doidge (Author)

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They called me an amplifier. And they had bred me, raised me, and trained me to be a killer with preternatural precision. I was capable of taking, holding, and transferring power that wasn’t my own with a simple touch. Skin-to-skin contact. Along with four others of my generation, I could infiltrate any magical organization, extracting whoever or whatever I’d been ordered to extricate. Then I could destroy all evidence of our passing presence.

They had made me. They directed me. Controlled me.

Then they tried to kill me.

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