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Featured Fantasy: Bond of a Dragon – Zahara’s Gift by A J Walker

March 8, 2022 by Carolynn

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A young man forced into action. A juvenile dragon alone in a new world. Whispers of a terrible evil returning to power.

Nineteen-year-old Anders lived a fairly normal life until the only family he had was taken away from him. When he finds himself forced to embark on an action packed adventure, he discovers there is more to the world than he was told. The magical force that flows within everything around him becomes revealed. Dragons, elves, orcs, and goblins lurk around nearly every turn along the path as he pursues his two kidnapped cousins.

As Anders discovers more about his family’s past, he learns of their involvement in The War of The Magicians and the circumstances leading up to the attack of his hometown. When Anders is told about his potential involvement in a prophecy involving dragons and their powerful magic, he will need to make a difficult decision. Will he continue to follow the path that is laid out for him or can he make his own destiny? Will he ever be reunited with his family again? And if he succeeds, will he ever be able to return to the life he once knew?

Bond of a Dragon: Zahara’s Gift is the first book in an adventure fantasy series.

If you like fast-paced adventure novels, fierce dragons, powerful magic, and a hero fighting for justice, then you’ll love the fantastic starter in A. J. Walker’s new page turning series.

Unlock Bond of a Dragon: Zahara’s Gift to embark on this great adventure today!

Featured Science Fiction: Lawless (Lawless Saga, #1) by Tarah Benner

March 7, 2022 by Carolynn

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From the author of The Fringe comes an addictive new dystopian saga.

When Lark was sentenced to twenty-five years behind bars, she thought San Judas was her lucky break. The primitive 16,000-acre community in rural New Mexico isn’t like any other prison. There are no cells, there is no warden, and Mother Mercy is the law.

She didn’t realize she’d be fighting for survival on a daily basis — battling hunger, violent inmates, and Mother Mercy’s iron fist. Lark’s only friend is Bernie — an off-the-rails environmental activist doing time for arson — and a mysterious stranger who’s been sending her illicit messages from the men’s colony.

Lark never thought escaping San Judas was possible until a message in a bottle changes everything: The guards outside the walls are disappearing, and the world as they know it is coming to an end.

Featured Science Fiction: Small Beginnings (Hamgeean Misfit Book 1) M T McGuire

March 7, 2022 by Carolynn

Featured Science Fiction: Small Beginings (Hamgeean Misfit Book 1) M T McGuire

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What do you do when trouble comes knocking and everyone else is out?

When your very existence is treason, employment opportunities are thin on the ground. But when one of the biggest crime lords in the city makes The Pan of Hamgee a job offer he can’t refuse, it’s hard to tell what the dumbest move is: accepting the offer or saying no to Big Merv. Neither will do much for The Pan’s life expectancy.

Small Beginnings is written in British English and is the first in a series, although it can be read as a stand alone story.

This is a humorous science fiction fantasy story set in a parallel reality.

Featured Fantasy: Dowser Series (by Meghan Ciana Doidge)

March 7, 2022 by Carolynn

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Three bestselling urban fantasies from award-winning author Meghan Ciana Doidge.

Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic …

If you’d asked me a week ago, I would have told you that the best cupcakes were dark chocolate with chocolate cream cheese icing, that dancing in a crowd of magic wielders — the Adept — was better than sex, and that my life was peaceful and uneventful. Just the way I liked it. That’s what twenty-three years in the magical backwater of Vancouver will get you — a completely skewed sense of reality. Because when the dead werewolves started showing up, it all unraveled … except for the cupcake part. That’s a universal truth.

Featured Fantasy: Fae Hunted (Fae Bloodlines Book 3) by Rose Garcia

March 7, 2022 by Carolynn

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A human girl with fae blood. A broody fae protector with too many secrets. A devious witch thirsty for revenge.

Gabriela is the descendant of a fae princess and a human witch. But her life is earth-bound, and she knows little about her fae heritage. That all changes when she discovers someone from the fae realm wants to wipe out her bloodline—someone who’s wanted to destroy her name for a long time.

She soon learns firsthand of the perils of the fae realm when she’s attacked. And when she’s told of the deadly foe hunting her, she finds herself whisked to faerie with a broody fae protector at her side. He’s mysterious and quiet, and she senses he’s carrying his own secrets. Even so, she can’t deny the undeniable pull she feels toward him, and she’s sure he’s feeling it too.

With her life at risk, Gabriela must embrace who she is as a fae and a witch before it’s too late and she loses everyone she loves.

Fae Hunted is book three in the Fae Bloodlines Series featuring slow burn romance, enemies to lovers vibes, blood-thirsty revenge, and heartbreaking truths.

Don’t miss the other books in this epic saga!

Book One: Fae Away
Book Two: Fae Fractured
Book Three: Fae Hunted
Book Four: Fae Rising

Book Review: The Hanover Square Affair by Ashley Gardner & Jennifer Ashley

March 6, 2022 by Carolynn

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If you really love flawed heroes and deep feels, the Hanover Square Affair is for you. Captain Lacey is a living on half-pay after leaving the British Cavalry after the Peninsular Wars. His exit from the military wasn’t completely by choice. Plagued by a war injury, melancholia, and boredom, blessed and cursed with a very strict moral code, when he stumbles into a riot led by a grieving father looking for his abducted daughter, he cannot let the matter rest. His quest to find the missing girl takes him from the gutter to the highest echelons of British society, and everywhere in between.

It’s not “light” reading I guess; but for some reason, when times are hard, I want to see people surviving hard times in my literature. Also, I want the characters to be believable. Every character in this book was well drawn with virtues and weaknesses. It is *not* a romance, but there is romance, and those relationships feel true. Everything physical is strictly fade to black.

I loved the picture of the times and society this book painted. The mystery and the conclusion were satisfying to me; though I have to admit, I am not generally a mystery reader. I do have a pre-med background from a long ago career as a medical illustrator, and I didn’t see any injuries or ailments that would be impossible to survive, something that has turned me off mysteries and thrillers in the past. I know, I know, how can a sci-fi and fantasy author not suspend their disbelief? But that is the thing, when my robots, cyborgs, or demigods get a bullet wounds that would kill a mortal they can survive with tech and magic. It’s logical!

As soon as I was done with this one, I bought the second, and then had to stash my Kindle somewhere far from my bed so I wouldn’t be tempted to stay up reading.

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