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Featured Fantasy: Precise Oaths (Liliana and the Fae of Fayetteville) by Paige E. Ewing

September 29, 2025 by Carolynn

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Even though spider-kin Liliana sees the past, the future and into men’s souls, she can still be surprised. After all, no one wakes up wondering if they’ll be accused of murder by a werewolf.

Wolf-kin Peter Teague of Fort Bragg’s Criminal Investigation Division analyzes the venom in six dead soldiers. The victims were killed by a spider-kin, and Liliana is the only spider-kin in Fayetteville.

Pete’s handsome boss, the dangerous fae Colonel Bennet, watches Liliana with burning ember eyes, but refuses to call his investigator off.

It’s up to Liliana to keep Pete from executing her and convince the skeptical scientist she’s not the murderer, all while keeping her new friend from getting eaten by the real killers. And if that’s not enough, she might even have to socialize!

How will she survive the paranormal mystery that puts her as the prime suspect?

Precise Oaths is the first book in the Liliana and the Fae of Fayetteville series, urban fantasy Fae romance for adults containing a strong female lead, intense action, a diverse cast of charming characters, offbeat humor, Fae and shifters like you’ve never seen them before, and a touch of slow burn spider romance.

Featured Fantasy: Kat Drummond Collection Books 1 – 10 by Nicholas Woode Smith

September 28, 2025 by Carolynn

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Hope City is crawling with monsters. Kat Drummond makes sure they don’t crawl too far.

By day, Kat is a college student barely scraping through her classes. By night, she’s a monster hunter armed with little more than cheap steel, sheer stubbornness, and the ghost of a long-dead paladin whispering battle tactics in her ear.

After a necromancer murdered her parents, Kat swore to take the fight to the undead. But hunting ghouls and zombies for rent money is nothing compared to what’s coming. A new necromancer has arrived in Hope City, and he’s building an army that could drown the streets in corpses.

Kat is brave. Kat is reckless. And Kat is completely outmatched. But with monsters on the rise and the city in peril, giving up isn’t an option. Not when vengeance runs in her veins.

Perfect for fans of The Dresden Files, Faith Hunter, and Ilona Andrews, the Kat Drummond Series is a fast-paced urban fantasy packed with grit, humor, and heart.

Enter Hope City today and meet your next favorite monster slayer.

This epic box set contains the first ten books of the Kat Drummond Series:

Part-Time Monster Hunter
Blood Cartel
Devil’s Gambit
Necrolord
Darkness Beckons
Lost Huntress
Dead World
Silver Brotherhood
The Fae Hunt
Dark Order

Featured Sci-fi: Neptune Crossing (The Chaos Chronicles Book 1) by Jeffrey A. Carver

September 28, 2025 by Carolynn

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When John Bandicut falls into a cavern on Triton, his life changes irrevocably—and for an alien quarx, a million years of solitude abruptly comes to an end.

Bandicut is hardly ready for the storm of chaos that’s about to blow through his life. He has just made humanity’s first contact with alien life—an intelligence that takes up residence in his mind and will be revealed to no one else. The quarx, part of an ancient galactic civilization that manipulates chaos theory to predict catastrophic events, seeks to prevent an event that could destroy the Earth. But it must have help. If Bandicut chooses to trust the quarx, he must break all the rules—indeed, sacrifice his life as he knows it—to prevent humanity’s greatest cataclysm.

Leaving friends and lover behind, hurtling across the solar system in a stolen spaceship, Bandicut can only pray that his actions will save the Earth. Even if he doesn’t live to see it again.

Neptune Crossing is the opening volume of the acclaimed hard science fiction series, The Chaos Chronicles, from the Nebula-nominated author of Eternity’s End.

Available in ebook, print, and audiobook from Starstream Publications. Audiobook narration by Grammy winner Stefan Rudnicki. DRM-free ebook edition.

Featured Fantasy: Relics of Andromeda (Song of Ancients Book 1) by Jonathan Michael Erickson

September 28, 2025 by Carolynn

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AN EPIC TALE SPANNING CIVILIZATIONS AND CENTURIES.

Anka believed the stories since childhood: the alien relics bring ruin and madness.

Ancient pieces of technology that have minds of their own, the relics interface with human psychology, granting the power to bend space and time—often inducing psychosis.

When the colonists of Andromeda first discovered the relics, long before Anka was born, humanity was plunged into chaos.

Now Anka carries a relic in her pack, tasked with securing the object before it does any harm. She sets out with her companions across the desert by foot, marching towards the distant city—even as the relic begins to whisper in her mind…

Featured Sci-fi: The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

September 26, 2025 by Carolynn

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Mars was a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in waves… Each wave different, and each wave stronger.

The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America’s most beloved authors. In a much celebrated literary career that has spanned six decades, he has produced an astonishing body of work: unforgettable novels, including Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes; essays, theatrical works, screenplays and teleplays; The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, The October Country, and numerous other superb short story collections. But of all the dazzling stars in the vast Bradbury universe, none shines more luminous than these masterful chronicles of Earth’s settlement of the fourth world from the sun.

Bradbury’s Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor-of crystal pillars and fossil seas-where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn -first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars … and then is conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race.

Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles is a classic work of twentieth-century literature whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time’s passage. In connected, chronological stories, a true grandmaster once again enthralls, delights and challenges us with his vision and his heart-starkly and stunningly exposing in brilliant spacelight our strength, our weakness, our folly, and our poignant humanity on a strange and breathtaking world where humanity does not belong.

Featured Fantasy: Society for Paranormals Complete Series by Vered Ehsani

September 26, 2025 by Carolynn

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It’s Jane Austen meets Lara Croft in a 12-book cozy paranormal mystery romp through Victorian Africa.

Armed with exquisite etiquette, a fully loaded walking stick, and a dead husband, Miss Beatrice Knight arrives in the small colonial town of Nairobi, Kenya, desperate for a pot of tea. But she’ll need more than that if she’s to unravel a series of increasingly deadly mysteries without being eaten in the process.

She must endure all manner of inconveniences while surviving the machinations of friends, enemies and dashing gentlemen, not to mention the efforts of her safari guide to feed her to any lion willing to drag her away. Talking chimps, African gods, shape-shifting demons, zombie elephants, firefly vampires, steampunk automatons, and a possessed horse… What is a ghost-chasing widow to do?

This delightful, binge-worthy collection brings together all twelve books in the Society for Paranormals cozy mystery series in which a paranormal detective refuses to let danger, death, and unsolicited suitors inconvenience her in colonial Kenya. Welcome to murder, mayhem, mythology, and the search for a perfect spot of tea.

If you love Agatha Christie, Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate, Elizabeth Peters’ Amelia Peabody, or Pride & Prejudice; or if you enjoy historical mysteries, adore Gaslamp intrigue, or would love to experience adventure in colonial Kenya, then download Society for Paranormals: The Complete Series to start your supernatural safari today.

Included in the boxset are the following cases:

Miss Knight and the Night in Lagos
Miss Knight and the Pyramid’s Puzzle
Miss Knight and the Ghosts of Tsavo
Miss Knight and the Automaton’s Wife
Miss Knight and the Mantis’ Revenge
Miss Knight and the Fourth Mandate
Miss Knight and the Nandi’s Curse
Miss Knight and the Spider’s Web
Miss Knight and the Stones of Nairobi
Miss Knight and the Wedding Killer
Miss Knight and the Throne of Death
Miss Knight and the Poacher’s Catch

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