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Featured Sci-fi: Apache Dawn (Wildfire Saga 1) by Marcus Richardson

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Featured Sci-fi: Apache Dawn (Wildfire Saga 1) by Marcus Richardson

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Chad Huntley—The Source—is the world’s most wanted man.

He’d done his part during the Great Pandemic to help defeat the deadliest threat to face mankind in modern history. At last he can live his life, alone and on his terms. He finally has a chance at peace.

But just when things return to normal after a decade of chaos, the devastating virus returns–this time as a weapon. The unique properties of Chad’s blood provide the tools needed to craft a cure but not everyone wants the plague stopped. A team of Army Rangers is sent to retrieve and defend The Source at all costs and Chad finds himself in the crossfire. He may be the last best hope for mankind, but only as long as he can stay alive.

The sacrifices made to secure The Source will be in vain if the scientist who spearheaded the original effort to stop The Pandemic can’t be found. The invasion of America has begun and foreign soldiers are willing to tear the country apart to find him. Cooper Braaten’s Navy SEALs race to secure the virologist and his critical research but it will take all their skills and more than a little luck to succeed when Apache Dawn is declared.

Apache Dawn is a high octane military thriller for fans of post-apocalyptic action.

Featured Fantasy: Realm Breaker by Jasmine Young

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Featured Fantasy: Realm Breaker by Jasmine Young

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“This one deserves more than 5 stars.”
“[B]rings you such phenomenal dragons that your jaw will be on the floor.”
“I might have just read my favourite high fantasy book of 2023.”
“Just came off a high after Fourth Wing and Bound and Broken series. In a funk until I found your Realm Breaker series.”

The Realm-Building Enterprise is open to all. On the continent of Elondria, anyone may become the next legendary dragon rider by building the greatest towns, cities, and even kingdoms.

Skálda Branwright dreams of leaving the Longcold and becoming the first Dragonlord to build an official realm. Only no dragon egg has ever hatched for her.

But when a wild hatchling falls to her from the skies, begging for rescue, she must decide whether to relinquish her dreams and become the worst criminal of all – a rogue rider. One with the potential to restore mankind’s sovereignty from the brutal dominion of elves.

The Realm-Building Enterprise was meant to unite all races, until it became a means for elves to control the continent.

But this is no ordinary dragon. By the time Skálda realizes what she holds in her hands, it is much too late.

Stealing this hatchling will mean breaking Elondria’s twenty realms, beginning with the one she calls home…

A Realm-Breaker is coming.

Featured Science Fiction : Starshine (Amaranthe 1) by G. S. Jennsen

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Featured Science Fiction : Starshine by G. S. Jennsen

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SPACE IS VAST AND UNTAMED, AND IT HOLDS MANY SECRETS.
Now two individuals from opposite ends of settled space are on a collision course with the darkest of those secrets, even as the world threatens to explode around them.
The year is 2322. Humanity has expanded into the stars, inhabiting over 100 worlds across a third of the galaxy. Though thriving as never before, they have discovered neither alien life nor the key to utopia. Earth struggles to retain authority over far-flung planets and free-wheeling corporations while an uneasy armistice with a breakaway federation hangs by a thread as the former rebels rise in wealth and power.

Alexis Solovy is Earth Alliance royalty, her father a fallen war hero and her mother an influential military leader. But she seeks only the freedom of space and has made a fortune by reading the patterns in the chaos to discover the hidden wonders of the stars.

Nothing about her latest objective suggests the secret it conceals will turn her life— not to mention the entire galaxy—upside down. But a chance encounter with a mysterious spy leads to a discovery which will thrust Alex into the middle of a galactic power struggle and a sinister conspiracy, whether she likes it or not.

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Featured Sci-fi: War Begins Series Sale by Odette Bell

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Featured Sci-fi: War Begins Series Sale by Odette Bell

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Diana’s had a troubled past. Her family were brutally murdered right in front of her eyes. It’s changed the course of her future – but it will soon change more. An ancient race left a gift inside her mind, and it will now rise.

Sampson is a psychic soldier – the Coalition’s best. When he’s sent to the Academy to spy on students, he has no clue he’ll be drawn toward Diana and into the final fight for the Milky Way.
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War Begins follows a secret alien weapon and a covert psychic fighting to save the Coalition from their greatest enemy. If you love your space operas with action, heart, and a splash of romance, grab War Begins Book One today and soar free with an Odette C. Bell series.


War Begins is the 8th Galactic Coalition Academy series. A sprawling, epic, and exciting sci-fi world where cadets become heroes and hearts are always won, each series can be read separately, so plunge in today.

Featured Fantasy: Trapped by Clocks and Hearts by S. L. Breaker

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Featured Fantasy: Trapped by Clocks and Hearts by S. L. Breaker

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He stole her heart for the Queen
But now he wants it for himself
Will he sacrifice everything
To unlock the magic of her heart?

A notorious assassin for the Queen of Hearts, Rabb Silverhope has never had trouble making women fall for him so he could steal their hearts for the Queen.

Until he captures Allie’s.

But that’s not her real name.

A blank slate, “Allie” doesn’t remember who she is. She doesn’t know how she arrived in the mystical Land of Wünder. She doesn’t know how to return to her world. Except that she must.

Allie’s blank heart is the special on the Queen’s menu.

But curiouser still, it appears to hold the key to unlocking the secrets of Rabb’s own veiled past.

Can Allie stay immune to Rabb’s charms long enough to find her way home? Can Rabb resist her temptation or will he sacrifice her heart for his own?

Featured Sci-fi: Intergalactic Wizard Scout Chronicles by Rodney Hartman

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Featured Sci-fi: Intergalactic Wizard Scout Chronicles by Rodney Hartman

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An epic adventure blending science fiction and fantasy in a tale of courage, sacrifice, and undying friendship.

A high-tech, futuristic soldier is thrust into battle alongside a magic-using, high-elf priestess in a quest that could mean the salvation or destruction of two galaxies.

Wizard scouts are the elite, deep-recon forces of the Intergalactic Empire, trained to operate light years behind enemy lines with little or no support. While still a first-year student at the Intergalactic Empire’s legendary Wizard Scout Academy, Cadet Richard Shepard excels at the mix of technology and psionic abilities that make wizard scouts the Empire’s most elite soldiers.

When war breaks out with the Crosoian Federation, Richard is sent by an entity known only as ‘the One’ to the magic dimension to help the beautiful elf, Shandria, defeat a demon and its army of undead. Trained at the academy to fight against armored vehicles, phase beams, and attacking starships, Richard quickly finds himself in unfamiliar territory. Regardless, with the fate of two galaxies riding in the balance, he must somehow use his wizard scout skills and the technology of his newly acquired battle suit and prototype computer, Nickelo, to overcome a host of dragons, demons, trolls, zombies, and ghouls.

Can a lone wizard scout cadet prevail with only the aid of his battle computer and the magic of an elf priestess for support? The odds are against him, but Richard is determined to somehow snatch victory from the jaws of defeat or die in the attempt.