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Featured Fantasy: Warden’s Justice (Trials of the Aegis) by Aaron Hodges

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Featured Fantasy: Warden's Justice (Trials of the Aegis) by Aaron Hodges

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☆☆☆☆☆ – “It’s way past my bedtime, but I couldn’t put this book down. I want to learn more about everything. The plot is great, the characters are engaging, the pace is fast, and the frustration is perfect.” – MWH

The Magisterium will not be challenged.
They do not want you thinking for yourself.
Otherwise, you might realise there are questions they cannot answer.

Kaila Dwyn only ever dreamed of becoming a Warden, a protector of her people. So when she discovers an intruder in her village stealing precious agimet crystals, she does what any loyal subject of the Magisterium would do—she tries to stop him. But as the pair wrestle for control of the crystal, something awakens in Kaila. Something powerful. Something forbidden. Magic.

Now Kaila finds herself hunted by the very heroes she once worshipped. Nothing is as the Magisterium taught her to believe, and pursued by a monstrosity of iron and magic, Kaila must unlock her hidden powers if she’s to survive. But there is only one man who can teach her the magic of the Elysian—Theron, the man who destroyed her life. Can Kaila set aside the past and join forces with the Elysian thief?

Dive into this gripping epic fantasy, a thrilling blend of sword and sorcery in the spirit of Mistborn and The Shannara Chronicles. Journey with Kaila Dwyn as she faces betrayal, forbidden magic, and a fight for survival that will keep you enthralled until the very last page.

Featured Sci-fi: Those Alien Skies Books 1 – 3 by Clayton Graham

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Featured Sci-fi: Those Alien Skies Books 1 - 3 by Clayton Graham

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Cross the threshold into uncharted realms.
Three linked worlds. Three captivating tales.

LITERARY TITAN BOOK AWARD
GLOBAL BOOK AWARD SILVER
AUTHOR SHOUT TOP PICK
BOOKSSHELF TOP TEN FINALIST
READERS’ FAVORITE 3 X FIVE STARS

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Featured Sci-fi: The Pride of Chanur by C.J. Cherryh

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Featured Sci-fi: The Pride of Chanur by C.J. Cherryh

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I haven’t read this series, but I loved her Foreigner series. I’m picking this one up!

The first in a series of “lively tales of swashbuckling capitalism in space,” featuring a fascinating alien culture based on the social structure of lion prides (Locus)

Chaos breaks out when the captain of an all-female alien crew agrees to rescue a human male wanted by their enemy . . .

No one at Meetpoint Station had ever seen a creature like the Outsider. Naked-hided, blunt toothed and blunt-fingered, Tully was the sole surviving member of his company of humans―a communicative, spacefaring species hitherto unknown―and he was a prisoner of his discoverers and captors―the sadistic, treacherous kif―until his escape onto the hani ship, The Pride of Chanur.

Featured Fantasy: Shades—Unconventional Ghost Stories by Sherry D. Ramsey

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Featured Fantasy: Shades—Unconventional Ghost Stories by Sherry D. Ramsey

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Ghosts, spirits, spectres, shades…they turn up in almost every culture and society, and these stories form a rich literary tradition that comes with its own set of expectations. But what if we turned some of those expectations upside down?

Follow a slightly different ghostly path in this collection with stories about spirits who help the living and ghosts who need our help; ghostly inhabitants inside computers and unusual shades in a unique community; ghosts seeking solace, ghosts who might be a scam, and a handful of literary Christmas apparitions.

The stories in these pages are more likely to be humorous than horrifying, but they also explore ideas of family, home, and how we find our way in the world, with or without spectral companions. Come along on some haunting adventures with ghostly bagpipers, spirit dogs, beloved authors, and more.

Featured Science Fiction: Dinosaur Lake by Kathryn Meyer Griffith

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Dinosaur Lake Kindle Edition by Kathryn Meyer Griffith (Author)

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An ancient predator has been reborn in the caves beneath Crater Lake
…and it’s hungry.

Ex-cop Henry Shore has been Chief Park Ranger at Crater Lake National Park for eight years and he likes his park and his life the way it’s been. Safe. Tranquil. Predictable. But he’s about to be tested in so many ways.

First the earthquakes begin…people begin to go missing…then there’s some mysterious water creature that’s taken up residence in the caves below Crater Lake and it’s not only growing in size, it’s aggressive and cunning…and very hungry.

And it’s decided it likes human beings. To eat.

And it can come up onto land.

So Henry, with the help of his wife, Ann; a young paleontologist named Justin; and a band of brave men must not only protect his park and his people from the monster but somehow find where it lives and destroy it…before it can kill again.

*** An EPIC EBOOK AWARDS 2014 *Finalist* in their Thriller category. And now there are three sequels: Dinosaur Lake II: Dinosaurs Arising; Dinosaur Lake III: Infestation and Dinosaur La

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Featured Sci-fi: The Synchronicity (The Synchronicity War/Retro War Part 1) by Dietmar Arthur Wehr

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Featured Sci-fi: The Synchronicity (The The Synchronicity War/Retro War Part 1) by Dietmar Arthur Wehr

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When the United Earth Space Force stumbles across a shockingly xenophobic alien race, the resulting war quickly turns into a war of extinction.

With the outnumbered and outgunned Space Force on the verge of being annihilated, one Space Force Officer experiences precognitive visions that help him fight back but he can’t control when he receives those visions.

His superiors are convinced that he’s a tactical genius and give him more authority. Will he be able to save the Human Race and who or what is sending him information from the future?

Part 1 is the first of a complete four part series of military SF describing desparate battles and the men, women and artificial intelligences that fight and die in them.