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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: Thrive Earth Return (Thrive Colony Corps Space Adventures Book 1) by Ginger Booth

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Featured Sci-fi: Thrive Earth Return (Thrive Colony Corps Space Adventures Book 1) by Ginger Booth

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They thought Earth was dead.

Captain Sass Collier can’t die. A century ago, the Colony Corps carried her away to the stars. Because Earth was doomed.

She returns with tech advances from the colonies, hoping to restore the one best planet for humanity, and save isolated pockets of desperate survivors.

Instead her motley crew from the boonies finds not one, but three surviving worlds — Earth, Luna, and Mars. And she’s with the invading aliens.

Her homecoming starts with a bang.

The Northern League tyrannizes Earth now. They capture Sass and her ship separately, to hold them hostage against each other.

Can Sass save her crew from its most powerful foe ever – the mother world?

Join Thrive’s family of misfits for hard science fiction with rivets, and fresh page-turning space adventure! Book 1 — new to Thrive? Start here! The series is now complete.

Suggested for fans of Firefly, Lindsay Buroker’s Star Kingdom, and Dennis Taylor’s Bobiverse.

Featured Fantasy: Deadlines and Dryads (Terra Haven Chronicles) by Rebecca Chastain

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Deadlines & Dryads: A Terra Haven Chronicles Prequel Kindle Edition by Rebecca Chastain

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Getting the scoop might cost Kylie and her gargoyle companion their lives…

Dryads are a reclusive, passive species—or they used to be. Overnight, the peaceful woodland creatures have turned violent, attacking travelers with crude weapons and whipping the trees of their grove into a ferocious frenzy.

When rumors of the dryads’ bizarre behavior reaches journalist Kylie Grayson, she pounces on the story, determined to unearth the reason behind the dryads’ hostile transformation.

Accompanied by Quinn, her young gargoyle friend, Kylie plunges into the heart of the malevolent grove. But nothing she’s learned prepares her for the terrifying conflict she uncovers…

USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Chastain returns to the beloved world of the Gargoyle Guardian Chronicles for a brand-new spellbinding adventure of elemental magic and courageous gargoyles. If you love action-packed stories filled with mythical creatures, brave heroines, and adorable sidekicks, you’ll love Deadlines & Dryads.

“a fast-paced, furiously exciting and fun trip into the world where gargoyles and magic users are the norm” —Tome Tender

Pick up your copy today to start the magical adventure!

P.S. The next book in the series is on sale!

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Featured Sci-fi: The Old Chrome Box Set (Book 1 – 3) by I. O. Adler

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Featured Sci-fi: The Old Chrome Box Set (Book 1 - 3) by I. O. Adler

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Hunter or Hunted?

After fleeing River City with a body full of hardware he doesn’t own, Miles Kim seeks refuge from Meridian Corporation in the wasteland town of Seraph. But Miles has a head full of secrets he can’t access.

All too soon, he learns his former masters aren’t ready to release an old soldier like him so easily. And Seraph has its own criminals, mercenaries, and bounty hunters who are all on the lookout for a payday.

Unfortunately for them, Miles Kim won’t go down so easily.

The Old Chrome Boxed set includes the following complete novels:

  • The Seraph Engine
  • The Atomic Ballerina
  • A Haunt of Jackals.

Discover a new favorite series in this post-apocalyptic cyberpunk adventure.
Grab your copy of the box set and enjoy the ride!

Featured Fantasy: Eleanor Morgan Box Set (Books 1 – 4) by Amy Cissell

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Featured Fantasy: Elanor Morgan Box Set (Books 1 - 4) by Amy Cissell

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I am faced with an impossible choice – destroy the realm of my birth or the world I call home.

I’m Eleanor. I was minding my own business, trimming my hedge when bam! Vampire! (Bampire?) At least that’s what the pointy-fanged guy called himself before I staked him. And to make matters worse, my best friend revealed he’s a half-elf Fae and I’m a Fae princess.

Now I’m in a race I don’t quite understand to open gates I’m not entirely sure should be opened to save the Fae Realm. My half-elf friend is guiding me on this quest, but we both need some personal growth if we’re gonna make things work. He needs to get over the hope that I’ll ever be in love with him, and I need to get over the fact that he deliberately infiltrated my life by order of my Fae father.

Not everything on this whirlwind quest is bad, though. Meet Mr. Tall, Dark, and Sexy werewolf, who is along for the ride. Between everyone and everything, there are too many secrets to sort out, and I feel like I’m the only one playing this thing straight. But when one of them stabs me in the back, I’m not sure I can survive two realms trying to hunt me down…

Featured Fantasy: Outback Spirit (Australian Supernatural: Origins Book 1) by Nicole R Taylor

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Featured Fantasy: Outback Spirit (Australian Supernatural: Origins Book 1) by Nicole R Taylor

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Opal, snakes, and supernatural beings. In Outback Australia, there’s more than one thing that’ll kill you…and it’s not entirely human.

Deep in the harsh and unforgiving Australian Outback lies the sleepy opal mining town of Solace. Frequently bypassed by all but the desperate, there’s nothing spectacular about it…on the surface.


Solace is a haven for supernatural outcasts. A witch runs the general store, a vampire cuts and polishes opal, the mechanic is a werewolf, a fae is the local layabout, and an elemental works the mine.


Everyone has a past, and the Exiles of Solace are no exception. But when a curious new arrival appears in town, they’ll do whatever it takes to protect their home…and the secrets each of them would die to protect.
Welcome to Solace, Outback Australia, where deep underneath the iconic red earth, lies more than glittering opal.

Outback Spirit is the first book in Australian Supernatural: Origins, a magical series set in the red heart of Outback Australia where myth and magic live alongside the harsh and unforgiving land.