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Featured Sci-fi: My Junkyard Starship (Interstellar Birthright Book 1) by Marc Stapleton

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Featured Sci-fi: My Junkyard Starship (Interstellar Birthright Book 1) by Marc Stapleton

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Jace thought he’d inherited a dusty old ranch. What he really got was a flying rust bucket and a cosmic mess with his name all over it…

Weeks after his beloved father’s passing, Jace Jones is surprised to discover he’s been left a ranch in the middle of nowhere; a place so remote, even the tumbleweeds are lonely. Curious and confused, he makes the trip… only to watch a starship drop out of the sky and obliterate the entire property!

Inside the smoking wreck? No crew, and no answers. Just a sarcastic onboard AI, a storage bay stuffed with useless contraband, and a mysterious set of coordinates burned into the flight computer. And if all that wasn’t puzzling enough, the ship greets Jace like he’s its long-lost captain…

Now, dizzily launched into a deep space adventure alongside his sass-bot copilot, sustained by critical circuitry held together with tape, and troubled by the prospect of a shadowy alien stowaway, Jace must unravel a galactic mystery tied to a past he never knew he had.

Turns out, some legacies aren’t handed down in wills…
They come screaming out of the sky, loaded with secrets, sarcasm, and space grease.

Featured Fantasy: Tales of the Latter Kingdoms Books 1- 3 by Christine Pope

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Featured Fantasy: Tales of the Latter Kingdoms Books 1- 3 by Christine Pope

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Three complete fantasy romance novels: Dragon Rose, Ashes of Roses, and One Thousand Nights. (Books 1-3 in the Tales of the Latter Kingdoms series)

DRAGON ROSE:
Rhianne Menyon would rather face the Dragon than marry the odious merchant her mother has chosen. When her secret painting talent threatens her family’s ruin, she makes an unprecedented sacrifice — taking her best friend’s place as the Dragon’s Bride. At Black’s Keep, she expects a monster but finds Theran Blackmoor, a man shrouded in mystery whose gentleness awakens unexpected feelings. Yet she glimpses his terrible true form and discovers a graveyard of previous Brides who chose death over their fate. When prophetic dreams reveal a stranger’s face she’s compelled to paint, Rhianne must discover if her gift for seeing truth can break five centuries of a curse.

ASHES OF ROSES:
Emperor Torric Deveras refuses a loveless marriage, hosting a five-day celebration to choose his Empress from all marriageable women in his kingdom. Ashara Millende should be a noblewoman, but her scheming stepmother stole her inheritance, leaving her a servant in her own home. She dreams of escape and true love — but attending the Emperor’s festivities seems impossible. When a mysterious woman offers Ashara the chance to win her heart’s desire, she must decide if she’s bold enough to reach for love beyond her station. Will she discover that the greatest transformation comes from believing she deserves her happily ever after?

ONE THOUSAND NIGHTS:
Princess Lyarris marries Hierarch Beshalim Kel-Alisaad for political alliance, but her husband remains distant, haunted by his first wife’s execution for treason and adultery. Though intelligent and devastatingly handsome, Besh keeps Lyarris at arm’s length…while his eyes burn with controlled desire. When Lyarris discovers the tragic truth behind the execution and meets the amber-eyed child who may not be Besh’s daughter, she understands his emotional walls. But Chancellor Tel-Karinoor works to keep them apart, and palace enemies threaten their lives. Using her storytelling gift, Lyarris must breach Besh’s defenses before the past destroys their future.

Featured Sci-fi: Rogue Star Frozen Earth Book 1 by Jasper T. Scott

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Featured Sci-fi: Rogue Star Frozen Earth Book 1 by Jasper T. Scott

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A DEAD STAR IS HEADED FOR EARTH…
THE SHIFT IN EARTH’S ORBIT WILL UNLEASH A NEW ICE AGE…
AND THIS SUMMER WILL BE OUR LAST.

THE NEWS BREAKS
Logan Willis’s life is falling apart: he lost his job and found out that his wife is cheating on him all in the same day. Thinking that his world has ended, Logan checks into a hotel and turns on the TV to see that he’s not far wrong—radio telescopes have detected mysterious signals coming from inside our solar system, and the source is moving toward us at over 500 miles per second. The media concludes that these signals must be of an alien origin. Still reeling from the news, Logan gets a phone call from his brother-in-law. Richard is talking crazy about the end of the world again, but this time he doesn’t sound so crazy.

A DEADLY CONSPIRACY UNRAVELS
Meanwhile, Richard, who is an astronomer working with the James Webb Space Telescope, is at the White House briefing the president to announce what he and the government have known for almost a decade: aliens are not invading, a frozen ball of gas is. The so-called rogue star is predicted to make a near pass with Earth, disrupting our orbit and unleashing an ice age, the likes of which we haven’t seen for millions of years.

WE’RE PUTTING A COLONY ON MARS
Government insider, Billionaire Akron Massey, has received a steady flow of funding over the past decade for his company, Starcast, to put a colony on Mars. Over the same period he’s been using his personal fortune to create a colony closer to home where he plans to ride out the coming storm along with a thousand of the smartest people on the planet. Humanity will need seeds to plant in the ashes after the chaos clears.

AND WARS IGNITE
When the true nature of the threat becomes known, the nations of Earth prepare to fight over all the warmest parts of the planet. But as war fleets set sail and armies begin marching south, a stunning discovery is made that will change a lot more than just the weather….

Featured Science Fiction: Descendants of War the Complete Series by G J Ogden

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Featured Science Fiction: Descendants of War the Complete Series by G J Ogden

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The complete space opera series for fans of Babylon 5, Deep Space 9 and kickass action sci-fi.

Commander Dalton Reeves is a maverick officer with exceptional genetic strength and a dark family history – a history that will come back to haunt him.

Punished for exceeding orders one time too many, he’s packed off to the “The Abyss” – the most dangerous space station in the galaxy. But a posting that should have led to five years in obscurity will propel Reeves into the centre of an interstellar war against a long-forgotten alien adversary with a bitter grudge.

With the six realms on the brink of all-out war, Reeves must face his demons and be prepared to go to any lengths to become the warrior and the leader the galaxy desperately needs him to be.

Dive into this epic space opera science fiction series, set in a vivid, multi-species universe. It’s filled with danger, intrigue and drama played out against the tense backdrop of a looming war versus an ancient and bitter alien enemy.

Featured Fantasy: The Confectioner’s Guild by Claire Luana

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Featured Fantasy: The Confectioner's Guild by Claire Luana

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A magic cupcake. A culinary killer. The perfect recipe for murder.

Wren knew her sweet treats could work wonders, but she never knew they could work magic. She barely has time to wrap her head around the stunning revelation when the head of the prestigious Confectioner’s Guild falls down dead before her. Poisoned by her cupcake.

Now facing murder charges in a magical world she doesn’t understand, Wren must discover who framed her or face the headsman’s axe. With the help of a handsome inspector and several new friends, Wren just might manage to learn the ropes, master her new powers, and find out who framed her. But when their search for clues leads to a deep-rooted conspiracy that goes all the way to the top, she realizes that the guild master isn’t the only one at risk of death by chocolate.

If Wren can’t bring the powerful culprit to justice, she and her friends will meet a bittersweet end.

The Confectioner’s Guild is a delicious YA fantasy mystery. If you like spunky chefs and twisty mysteries with a drizzle of romance, then you’ll love Claire Luana’s scrumptious tale that’s sure to satisfy your sweet tooth.

Featured Sci-fi: Embers of Rebellion (Secession War Book 1) by D. J. Holmes 

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Featured Sci-fi: Embers of Rebellion (Secession War Book 1) by D. J. Holmes 

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From the author of the amazon best selling Empire Rising series comes a new epic saga.

For over two millennia, humanity has lived under the unyielding peace of the Human Republic. Born from the ashes of a devastating revolt, the Republic vowed to prevent the nuclear holocaust of another interstellar war at any cost. Its inner core worlds—thirteen powerful colonies—maintain an iron grip over the thousands of outlying planets humanity has settled.

But peace has come at a price.

Two and a half thousand years of centralized rule, greed, and corruption have all but enslaved those who live outside the Republic’s inner core. For the citizens of these rim worlds, freedom is a distant dream—a relic buried in humanity’s past.

Yet what has been buried cannot be hidden forever.

For those who strive for these long lost ideals, they will soon discover what so many before them have learnt the hard way – freedom always comes at a cost.

For Second Lieutenant Caleb Hawthorne, the cost will be higher than he can imagine. When a secessionist movement arises, Caleb must choose between the navy he has dedicated his life to and his loyalty to family and homeworld. As the tyranny of his masters becomes clearer, there is only one choice. But can he learn the ways of war fast enough to make a difference? And can he throw off the ties that bind him to the Republic so easily?

Freedom, family, and love are powerful rallying cries, but can they inspire a people to accomplish what no one has done in nearly three thousand years— to forge a nation of their own?