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Featured Sci-fi: Machine A White Space Novel by Elizabeth Bear

May 13, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Machine A White Space Novel by Elizabeth Bear

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A “spectacularly smart space opera” that follows Ancestral Night in the Hugo Award–winning author’s White Space duology (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Meet Doctor Jens.

She hasn’t had a decent cup of coffee in fifteen years. Her workday begins when she jumps out of perfectly good space ships and continues with developing treatments for sick alien species she’s never seen before. She loves her life. Even without the coffee.

But Dr. Jens is about to discover an astonishing mystery: two ships, one ancient and one new, locked in a deadly embrace. The crew is suffering from an unknown ailment and the shipmind is trapped in an inadequate body, much of her memory pared away.

Unfortunately, Dr. Jens can’t resist a mystery and she begins doing some digging. She has no idea that she’s about to discover horrifying and life-changing truths.

Written in Elizabeth Bear’s signature “rollicking, suspenseful, and sentimental” (Publishers Weekly) style, Machine is a fresh and electrifying space opera that you won’t be able to put down.

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Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Elizabeth Bear, Machine, White Space

Featured Fantasy: Kissed by Songs of Lillies: A Frog Prince Fairy Tale Romance by E.V Everest

May 13, 2024 by B. G.

Kissed by Songs of Lillies: A Frog Prince Fairy Tale Romance by E.V Everest

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Never bargain with a frog.

There was a chill in the salt air the morning my sister was taken. All they left was a single golden shell in her bed. The fae had claimed another bride.

Now, careless on champagne, I’ve met one myself. By night, an intoxicating gentleman with piercing green eyes. By day, a slimy, conniving frog.

When I drop my precious golden shell, he offers to retrieve it… for a price. By his law, we are betrothed.

To break a bargain is to die, so I will cross the cursed waters with him and go to their hidden isle. But this won’t be a one-way trip. It won’t be so easy to claim the heart of this princess.

Kissed by Songs of Lilies is one of ten books in the Enemies Ever After series, a collection of standalone short novels featuring enemies-to-lovers fairy tale retellings with a touch of steam.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: E.V. Everest, Kissed by Songs of Lillies

Featured Science Fiction: Fire Fight (The Fire Planets Saga #1) by Chris Ward

May 13, 2024 by Carolynn

Chris Ward Fire Fight

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In a far corner of the galaxy, the seven systems of the Fire Quarter face a terrible threat from a dangerous warlord.

On the fire planet of Abalon 3, evil Raylan Climlee threatens to unleash a wave of destruction in order to take control of the planet’s valuable source of trioxyglobin, a dangerous but valuable liquid used for starship fuel. The only person who can stop him is Lianetta Jansen, a disgraced former Galactic Military Policewoman now turned smuggler, who is haunted by a terrible tragedy in her past. Along with her ragtag, wisecracking crew—the one-armed pilot Caladan, and the malfunctioning droid, Harlan5—Lia must confront her own demons, while trying to stop another.

Fire Fight is the beginning of the Fire Planets Saga, an epic new space opera series.=

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Chris Ward, Fire fight, The Fire Planets Saga

Featured Fantasy: Nora Black Midlife Psychic Mysteries Book 1 – 3 by Renee George

May 10, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Nora Black Midlife Psychic Mysteries Book 1 - 3 by Rene George

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Join Nora Black, the fifty-one-year-young owner of Scents & Scentsability, as she navigates life in the charming resort town of Garden Cove. Since her near-death experience during a hysterectomy, Nora’s developed a peculiar psychic gift triggered by scents, thrusting her into a world of mystery and intrigue.

In Sense and Scent Ability, Nora becomes embroiled in a murder investigation to clear her best friend Gilly’s name. Using her newfound abilities, Nora races against time to catch a killer before Gilly is wrongly convicted.

Then, in For Whom The Smell Tolls Nora tackles another case, investigating the suspicious death of a friend’s cousin. With allergies hindering her senses and her ex-chief of police breathing down her neck, Nora must rely on her intuition and loyal friends to sniff out the truth.

Finally, in War of the Noses, Nora faces off against her former nemesis at a spa convention turned deadly when murder becomes the main event. With the help of her friends and her hot detective beau, Nora dives nose-first into solving the mystery, determined to uncover the truth before another life is lost.

Filled with humor, friendship, romance, and plenty of intrigue, this aromatic trio of mysteries proves there’s no scent (or villain) too elusive for Nora Black to sniff out.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: A Nora Black Midlife Psychic Mystery, Renee George

Featured Sci-fi: Weapons of Choice by Nick Snape

May 10, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Weapons of Choice by Nick Snape

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A failed military training exercise. An alien incursion, desperate and on the hunt. Survival is just the beginning…

‘This is a moment in time humanity will never forget. Hostile Contact.’★★★★★ Goodreads

Finn had thought he’d seen it all…but no…he had to admit…

Not quite everything…

There was a big universe out there and it was about to land in his lap.

Just how bad could it be?

Finn is a troubled war-hero, overseen by an unyielding Commanding Officer while dragging his group of rookies through basic training. When an alien incursion lands in the middle of a patrol exercise, wielding powerful weapons and alien armour far beyond their own, he is forced to lead the remnants of Delta Squad in a desperate struggle for survival.

Utilising light-reflecting camouflage, the aliens go on the rampage, killing indiscriminately and capturing Finn’s CO before going on the hunt. Outgunned, and with the world’s armed forces helpless to act after a second incursion drops, Delta set out on a desperate rescue mission, only for the aliens to reveal a weapon that could change modern-day warfare forever.

Finding themselves in a battle for Earth’s future, Delta Squad discover the aliens are more than they seem, and that alien technology can be just as deadly in the hands of humanity when they unearth a deadly secret ‒ the Weapons of Choice.

Read Hostile Contact, an action-packed sci-fi survival novel – where ‘Predator’ meets ‘Full Metal Jacket’ in a pulse-pounding, non-stop thrill ride.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Nick Snape, Weapons of Choice

Featured Fantasy: The Last Lunar Witch: A Witch Urban Fantasy (The Lunar Order Chronicles Book 1) by S.F Henne

May 5, 2024 by B. G.

Featured Fantasy: The Last Lunar Witch: A Witch Urban Fantasy (The Lunar Order Chronicles Book 1) by S.F Henne

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I only wanted to control my magic, but a single potion catapulted my life into chaos…

I’m Nyssa Thornheart, a witch with broken magic. I escaped to the big city to pursue my passion for alchemy, and hide from my coven until I fix my powers.

If my unstable gifts are exposed, they will be stripped away. To live without magic, that’s a fate worse than death. So I drank a long-forgotten potion in a desperate bid to harness my volatile powers.

But when I’m cornered by thugs, I unleash a rare and dangerous magic, tearing the veil between our world and a demonic realm. My new powers are growing stronger and resist every attempt to subdue them.

Now I’m a hunted witch, pursued by both demonic creatures and authorities determined to protect our realm from the threat I pose.

Can I master my magic, or will I have to sacrifice my powers before the city falls to demons?

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For fans of Heather G. Harris and Lindsay Buroker, The Last Lunar Witch is the first book in the fast-paced Lunar Order Chronicles. An urban fantasy series filled with strong women, found family, inner growth, and heart-pounding action. Dive into S.F. Henne’s gripping adventure now!

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: S.F Henne, The Last Lunar Witch, The Lunar Order Chronicles

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