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Featured Fantasy: Waterspell Series By Deborah J. Lightfoot

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Featured Fantasy: Waterspell Series By Deborah J. Lightfoot

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Bitter memories and suppressed emotions bubble to the surface in The Warlock, an epic fantasy adventure that follows the tumultuous relationship between the lost traveler Carin and her mysterious rescuer. He proves to be more her captor, a darkly dangerous wizard who draws her into schemes of magical power and possible murder. There’s a world to save, even if it costs Carin her life.

The intricate plot centers on Carin’s quest to discover her identity and her destiny. As the warlock’s unwilling “guest” in a mystical alternate reality that evokes medieval Europe, the determined young woman glimpses another world she had once called home. It lies upon a shore that seems unreachable. To learn where she belongs and how to get there, Carin must decipher the words of a fantastical book, follow the clues in a bewitched poem, conjure a dragon from a pool of magic … and tread carefully around a hot-tempered, emotionally scarred sorcerer who can’t seem to decide whether to love her or kill her. The relationship between Carin and the wizard grows increasingly complex, balancing in a tense power struggle as, together, they navigate a world of dangers while yearning for redemption, a sense of belonging, and maybe a little unconventional romance.

With elements of environmental fantasy and dystopian undercurrents, and the immersive suspense of a murder mystery, Waterspell is a cross-genre saga with too many layers for a single label. Unpredictable plot twists and compelling characters weave a binge-worthy series that will captivate lovers of imaginative, emotional, dramatic storytelling. Perfect for fans of the Winternight and Black Magician trilogies.

The Warlock is Book 1 of the series. The enemies-to-lovers relationship is a true slow-burn, developing fully in Books 2-4: The Wysard, The Wisewoman, and The Witch.

The saga carries on into a new generation with a pair of linked sequels, The Karenina Chronicles and The Fires of Farsinchia.

Featured Fantasy: Blood of the Covenants Books 1 – 3 by Leah E. Welker

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Featured Fantasy: Blood of the Covenants Books 1 - 3 by Leah E. Welker

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C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia meets clean YA romantasy in this dual POV, slow-burn romance.

This bundle includes books 1-3 out of a 6-book series.

DRAGON’S BLOOD (Book 1)
Sarah Lind has fallen into a perilous world inhabited by a race of dragon shapeshifters. If she is to find her way home, she will have to work with their handsome Heir, Koriben, who believes she is the leader he needs to restore the broken Covenants that are the foundation of his people’s existence—before the Devourer consumes their worlds.

DRAGON’S HEIR (Book 2)
Earth’s secret guardian, the Tree of Ice, has given Sarah a way back home: if she finds and unlocks all six moongates hidden across the Six Realms, the Tree will reveal the seventh moongate to Earth. As Sarah races against all odds to find her way home, she risks something even greater than her life: her heart.

DRAGON’S TEAR (Book 3)
With only four days left for them to finish their quest before the Devourer’s invasion, Sarah and Koriben don’t have much time to find the answers to their deepest questions about their destinies and each other. Yet if they don’t…the darkness could tear them apart.

Featured Sci-fi: Novjaro by Earl T. Roske

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Featured Sci-fi: Novjaro by Earl T. Roske

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Tane only wanted space to breathe.

Tane joins the Navjaro colony to get out of the overcrowded Sol system. This is a chance to put his past behind him and have a new start. Unfortunately, one painful part of his past is on the colony ship, too.

Now Tane’s future is as damaged as the ship they’re on.

Tane is saddled with the blame. Already disliked by many of the colonists, Tane wonders if things can get worse. As it turns out, yes, they can. But not just for Tane, who soon finds him in the middle of everything and everywhere.

More than just the colony depends on what Tane does next. But it requires him to do something he’s never done before.

Can he do it? Or is the colony doomed to fail?

In the tradition of Andre Norton’s Catseye, Philip Wylie & Edwin Balmer’s When World’s Collide , and Elizabeth Moon’s Remnant Population, Novjaro is an adventure into human possibilities and resilience.

Featured Fantasy: Body at the Crossroads (The Viking Witch Mysteries Book 1) by Cate Martin

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Featured Fantasy: Body at the Crossroads (The Viking Witch Mysteries Book 1) by Cate Martin

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When her mother dies after a long illness, Ingrid Torfa must sell the family home to cover the medical bills. Her career as a book illustrator not yet exactly launched, Ingrid faces two options: live in her battered old Volkswagen, or go back to her mother’s small town in northern Minnesota.

The small town that still haunts her dreams more than a decade since she last visited it. Or rather, not the town but the grandmother.

All of the drawings she fills notebooks with witches and the trolls that do their bidding? Not as whimsical in her nightmares as she sketches them in the bright light of day.

If not for her beloved cat Mjolner, living in the Volkswagen just might tempt her.

But the cat wants four walls and a door, so north she goes. And finds trouble in the form of a dead body before she even finds her grandmother’s little town. How much can a town of stoic fishermen possibly be hiding?

As Ingrid is about to find out, quite a lot.

Featured Sci-fi: The Token Complete Series by Nathan Hystad

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Featured Sci-fi: The Token Complete Series by Nathan Hystad

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THE TOKEN: THE COMPLETE SERIES is a 1200 page science fiction thriller that’ll have you reading to the last page.

The last living astronaut to walk on the Moon has been murdered…

Silas visits his estranged grandfather’s lakehouse, in the aftermath of the deadly home invasion. What he discovers hidden below the floorboards triggers a mystery buried since the final trip to the Moon, over fifty years earlier.

Rory returns to her family home in Vermont to write her second novel, but fate has a different story in mind. Her reunion is shattered when she’s thrust into danger revolving around the same tokens.

Special Agent Waylen Brooks exposes a covert operation linked to the death of a retired astronaut. He soon finds out he’s not the only one searching for answers, and willing to kill for the truth.

The unlikely trio find themselves defying the odds, with no one to trust but each other.

Aliens are among us, but who will stop the invasion?

From the best-selling author of Ethos, The Event, First Life, The Other Place, and Lost Contact.

Included Inside:

Echoes From the Moon: The Token Book One
Shadows of the Earth: The Token Book Two
Warmth of the Sun: The Token Book Three

Featured Sci-fi: Echoes of Tomorrow by Alexander Titus & Sean Platt

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Featured Sci-fi: Echoes of Tomorrow by Alexander Titus & Sean Platt

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First Place BookFest Award Winner — Sci-Fi Series

Earth is gone.
Humanity has one last world.

On the distant planet DaVinci, the survivors of Earth’s fungal apocalypse try to build a future. But the alien Bloom that blankets the planet carries a devastating side effect: no child can be born.

Until one scientist breaks the rules.

Dr. Samara Makinde engineers the impossible… a daughter designed to survive the alien world. The child should save humanity.

Instead, she changes it.

Across generations, DaVinci becomes a battleground. Geneticists push the limits of human evolution. Religious zealots rise in rebellion. Hybrid outcasts blur the line between human and alien. And when a mysterious billionaire arrives with cyborg servants and technology centuries beyond anything the colony possesses, the fight for humanity’s future turns into something far more dangerous.

Because survival isn’t the only thing at stake.

Who gets to decide what humanity becomes?

The Echoes of Tomorrowbox set contains the complete four-book science fiction saga by Alexander Titus and Sean Platt, a sweeping, cinematic story of alien worlds, forbidden science, rogue machines, and the evolution of the human race.