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Featured Fantasy: Death by Miss Adventure by S.G. Tasz

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Featured Fantasy: Death by Miss Adventure by S.G. Tasz

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She’s a ghostly assassin. He’s a sharp-eyed Brit who can melt minds. When something goes amiss in the magical underworld, can they unravel a murderous puzzle before all hell breaks loose?

Adina Venture keeps her banter brisk, and her emotions hidden. Maintaining a careful barrier between herself and anyone she cares about, she stalks the lonely Las Vegas nights as a supernatural killer-for-hire. Her signature? Making her jobs look like bizarre accidents—or “misadventures,” as they are often called in the official death reports.

When an organization known for its brutal justice accuses her of slaying one of their own, little Miss Adventure knows she’s in big trouble, and the only way out of it is to prove she’s not guilty. There’s just one problem: Until they’re sure she’s not a killer (at least, not the one they’re looking for), she will be magically bound to Chief Inquisitor Levi Breitling, an unforgiving and unceremonious investigator who’s sure of her guilt. If she can’t convince him she’s innocent, he’ll verify it himself—by digging into her head and ripping out her memories one by one.

In the struggle to clear her name, the unlikely pair uncover clues that suggest the murder was part of a much bigger, potentially Armageddon-level plot. Now, the fate of Sin City hangs on whether Adina and Inquisitor Breitling can find the true culprit before a deadlier monster awakens. And the longer it takes to track down the killer, the tighter the chain between them seems to grow…

Death by Miss Adventure is the darkly humorous first book in the Death by Miss Adventure urban fantasy series. If you like twisty mysteries, witty banter, and slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers romance with a dash of spice, then you’ll love S.G. Tasz’s award-winning novel. Unravel this snarky gothic mystery today!

Featured Sci-fi: The Handler’s Gambit (The Saxen Saga Book 1) by Ingrid Moon

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Featured Sci-fi: The Handler's Gambit (The Saxen Saga Book 1) by Ingrid Moon

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A young man undermines a warlord’s conquest to free himself and a girl he barely knows.

Play the game.
Murder the innocent.
Don’t let them see you sweat.

Commander Boone’s treacherous secret could save thousands of lives—if he could only escape from the murderous warlord who employs him. He wears his game face while following orders to destroy enemy fleets and handles a reckless assassin with elemental powers. Behind the scenes, he is undermining the warlord’s pursuit of an innocent rival.

The duplicity and the horrors are taking their toll. Boone wants out.

In a bold gambit, he crafts a plan to escape. But his superiors might be catching on, and the plan is not without its own horrors. With everything working against him, including the woman he thought was his salvation, he may not live long enough to execute it.

“Absolutely epic action with a tug at the heartstrings.”

Space Battles, Biological “Magic,” Ground Assaults, Betrayal, Unlikely Allies

The Handler’s Gambit is a dark, character-driven thrill ride across the galaxy, where the sacrifices made for freedom clash with the indomitable human spirit.

Featured Fantasy: The Oath (Chronicles of the Ordained Book 1) by Jerri Hines

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Featured Fantasy: The Oath (Chronicles of the Ordained Book 1) by Jerri Hines

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Seven hundred years ago, the Knights of the Ordained banished the demon, Asmeodai.

Buried deep beneath Wahi Tapu Temple, the evil becomes a distant memory.

For those seven hundred years, Asmeodai seethed in hatred for those that condemned him to this hell. He has survived only for his chance to enact his revenge.

Now, though, the time of the Secundus has come again. With the rising of the second moon comes the fear of Asmeodai’s re-emergence. The aftermath of the last Secundus saw the once-great Jornada Empire splintered into three realms. Moreover, the Knights of the Ordained are not what they once were. But all is not lost. There is hope. There are those born who are ordained to fight this evil.

Their destiny will not be denied.

Featured Sci-Fi: Eater by Gregory Benford

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Impending personal tragedy is dimming the brilliant light of Dr. Benjamin Knowlton’s world. On the threshold of their greatest achievement, the renowned astrophysicist’s beloved wife and partner—ex-astronaut-turned astronomer—is dying.

But something looms alarningly on the far edge of the solar system: at once a scientific find of unparalleled importance that could ensure the Knowltons’ immortality, and a potential earth-shattering cataclysm that dwarfs their private one. For Benjamin and Channing have discovered “Eater,” an eons-old black hole anomaly that devours stars and worlds. Yet its most awesome and devasting secrets are still to be revealed…and feared.

Featured Sci-fi: Trading in Danger (Vatta’s War Book 1) by Elizabeth Moon

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Featured Sci-fi: Trading in Danger (Vatta's War Book 1) by Elizabeth Moon

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The first volume in the Vatta’s War series – action-packed military SF from the Nebula Award winning author of The Speed of Dark.

Ky Vatta is a highly promising military cadet with a great future ahead of her, until an insignificant act of kindness makes her the focus of the Academy’s wrath. She is forced to resign, her dreams shattered.

For the child of a rich trading family, this should mean disgrace on a grand scale. And yet, to her surprise, Ky is offered the captaincy of a ship headed for scrap with its final cargo.

Her orders are absolutely clear, but Ky quickly sees potential profit in altering the journey. Because, whatever the risks, it’s in her blood to trade – even if the currency is extreme danger.

‘I thoroughly enjoyed Trading in Danger and wholeheartedly recommend it’ THE BOOK SMUGGLERS

Featured Fantasy: Firefly Junction Cozy Mysteries Series (Books 1 – 3) by London Lovett

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Featured Fantasy: Firefly Junction Cozy Mysteries Series (Books 1 - 3) by London Lovett

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With her social life and writing career in tatters at the ripe old age of thirty-five, Sunni Taylor decides to pack up her things and join her sisters, Lana and Emily, in the small town of Firefly Junction. Hoping to open a bed and breakfast, Sunni sets herself the task of refurbishing the rundown Cider Ridge Inn, a two-hundred-year-old house with a sordid past. In the meantime, she’s stuck writing dull human interest stories for the Junction Times. But when Sunni decides to bend the rules on her first newspaper assignment, she soon finds herself in her favorite place—right in the center of a murder investigation. Now if she can just steer clear of the cocky, irritating and far too appealing local detective, Brady “Jax” Jackson.

It isn’t long before Sunni discovers that avoiding Jax is a piece of cake compared to staying clear of the equally cocky, irritating and far too appealing two-hundred-year-old ghost haunting the halls of the Cider Ridge Inn.