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Featured Sci-fi: Jeryn’s Dagger (Empire and Ashes Book 1) by D.L. Young

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Featured Sci-fi: Jeryn's Dagger (Empire and Ashes Book 1) by D.L. Young

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A fresh recruit is the only hope of stopping Interstellar war.


Jeryn Lorsi is hardly ready for an important operation. An ex-black marketeer turned spy, he’s no hero.

But when tragedy strikes, that’s exactly what he’ll have to become.

A conflict of unimaginable scale threatens to end ten thousand years of Realm primacy, and Jeryn is the only one in the position to stop it.

War Is Coming… Interstellar civil war

The explosive first entry in a galaxy-spanning science fiction thrill ride by bestselling author D.L. Young! It’s perfect for fans of JN Chaney, MR Forbes, and Marko Kloos!

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Featured Fantasy: War of the Fae (The Changelings Book 1) by Elle Casey

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Featured Fantasy: The Changelings (War of the Fae Book 1) by Elle Casey

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NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR, ELLE CASEY, brings readers Book 1 in the YA Urban Fantasy WAR OF THE FAE Series.

With over 1,700 5-star ratings on Goodreads for Book 1, readers love the War of the Fae series!

Jayne Sparks, a potty-mouthed, rebellious seventeen-year-old and her best friend, shy and bookish Tony Green, have a pretty typical high school existence, until several seemingly unrelated incidents converge, causing a cascade of events that change their lives forever. Jayne and Tony, together with a group of runaway teens, are hijacked and sent into a forest, where nothing and no one are as they seem. Who will emerge triumphant? And what will they be when they do?

Featured Fantasy: Paranormal Outcasts the Complete Series by Sean Fletcher

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Featured Fantasy: Paranormal Outcasts the Complete Series by Sean Fletcher

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In this paranormal world, her death is just the beginning.

Riley’s seventeenth birthday should have been fun, but when a knife-wielding psycho attacks her best friend, of course Riley tries to stop him.

Turns out, taking a knife through the heart isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Neither is death.

Instead of pearly gates, Riley wakes up alive and ensnared in a witch’s curse with twelve paranormals known as the Outcasts—including the inhumanly beautiful, totally-hates-her-guts vampire Jasper. And shifters, faeries, witches, and other creatures that shouldn’t exist? They’re real. And Riley just might be the most powerful paranormal amongst them.

Between attempting to control her unstable new magic, figuring out what the deal is with broody Jasper, and learning more about her role in the Outcast’s curse, it becomes clear she’s a target. A dangerous paranormal wants her dead. Only this time, dead means dead.

There’s only one thing to do: she’s got a destiny to fulfill.

If you like snarky, fast-paced fantasies full of magic, mysteries, and a slow-burn enemies to lovers romance then this series is for you!


This bundle contains all three books in the Paranormal Outcasts series:

  1. Elemental Outcast
  2. Elemental Trial
  3. Elemental Queen

Featured Sci-fi: A Dead Ship in the Deep Black (Dominion Chronicles The Lyra Cycle Episode 1) by Rene Astle

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Rule number 1: Whatever you do, don’t open the box.

Well, that’s rule number two actually. Rule number one is don’t take salvage jobs from people who’ve tried to sell you to an Antillian bug salesman.

Neara “Tink” Bell is used to a life of odd jobs and even odder crewmates, working as the engineer and all-around fixer on the cargo ship Lyra. But when the ship picks up two new crew members and a salvage job on a third-rate space station, things go sideways in a cosmic way.

Alek Wa is on the run. And he’s pretty sure he can hide amongst the motley crew of Lyra. But that’s not the only reason he’s on-board. He has a mission. If only his minders had told him what it was.

Captain Rebeka Mino just wants to retire with a whiskey and a steamy novel. She’d even let the ship’s cat sit on her lap, provided he keeps his claws to himself. Too bad the ship keeps getting shot at.

And when they arrive at the coordinates for the salvage job, they’re confronted by a dead ship in the deep black.

Can Tink keep the Lyra running despite unexplained accidents? Can Alek outrun the people hunting him? Can Rebeka prevent their pursuers from blowing them up? Most importantly, can they keep their curiosity in check and not look in the box?

Find out now in this rollercoaster ride of a sci-fi adventure!

Featured Sci-fi: The Forgotten Fleet the Complete Trilogy by Craig Andrews

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Featured Sci-fi: The Forgotten Fleet the Complete Trilogy by Craig Andrews

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Humanity is on the brink.

Piloting drone fighters from inside the fleet’s most durable ships, drone pilots wage space battles thousands of kilometers away. Their success is unparalleled, and for years they have held the invading Baranyk at bay. But when the alien enemy develops a new weapon that renders the fleet’s drone fighters inoperable, humanity is on the verge of destruction.

Callan “Coda” O’Neil joined the Terran Fleet Academy with dreams of becoming a prestigious drone pilot and restoring honor to his disgraced family. Fleet Command, however, has other ideas.

To counter the alien weapon, Commander Chadwick Coleman, a legendary pilot from the early days of the Baranyk War, is assembling an experimental new squadron that will place real pilots in the cockpit of real starfighters. And he wants Coda to be part of it.

With the enemy pressing in, and forced to train under impossible conditions, Coda and his fellow wingmen must learn to fly as one. Failure means the destruction of the human race.

And time is running out.

If you’re a fan of Ender’s Game, Old Man’s War, and Starship Troopers, then Wings of Honor is for you. Strap in and start reading today!

Boxed Set Includes:
Wings of Honor
Wings of Mourning
Wings of Redemption

Featured Fantasy: The Marcella II (Vampires and Gods Book 1) by Eva Pohler

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Featured Fantasy: The Marcella II (Vampires and Gods Book 1) by Eva Pohler

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After the murder of a friend, teen gods and demigods join forces to face a common threat, but unexpected romantic feelings complicate their mission.

Poseidon asks Prometheus and his troop of young gods aboard the Marcella II to search for pirates and their ship, the Tarantula. But in a twist of events that even the legendary gods couldn’t see coming, the Marcella II is found first, the young gods are captured, Prometheus is beheaded, and a mortal friend is killed.

Shocked by this turn of events, Hades recruits demigods Gertie and Hector to join in the effort to rescue the young gods and uncover the secret of the vampire pirate organization. But love and duty collide, and nothing goes as expected.

This brand-new series shares the world of The Underworld Saga and The Vampires of Athens but can be read first or independently of the others.

PG 13: Contains violence, mild language, and no sex.

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