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Featured Fantasy: Cities of Smoke & Starlight (Gate Chronicles Book 1) by Alli Earnest

June 7, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Cities of Smoke & Starlight (Gate Chronicles Book 1) by Alli Earnest

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A science fantasy series perfect for those who loved the world of Divine Rivals, wanted to soar with Jim Hawkins in Treasure Planet, and wished Rogue One had a romantic hate-to-love subplot.

Two tortured souls. One world on the brink of war.

Kase Shackley is an embittered hover pilot still reeling from the night his sister died in his arms. He’s a screw up in every sense, so when a pilot nearly dies on his watch, he faces serious charges. Seeking to clear his name, he flies a ragtag crew to a lost and dangerous land from which they might never return. If only he didn’t have to work with the infuriating bookshop girl who insulted him with Shakespeare…

Hallie Walker, top scholar at the University, is jaded by the glittering society she’d always dreamed of joining. Raised in the mountains, she fled to the city to forget her painful past. When she loses her bookshop job and the promise of school tuition, she agrees to a top-secret government mission if only for the promised substantial sum upon her return. Now if she could just ignore the ungrateful, arrogant prat of a pilot…

In a world of hoverships and crumbling First Earth artifacts, it’s up to Hallie and Kase to accomplish the impossible: secure an alliance with an elusive, mystical race to help defend against a kingdom with dangerous technology and ancient magic. If they fail, the war will be lost before it even begins.

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Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Alli Earnest, Cities of Smoke & Starlight, Gate Chronicles

Featured Sci-fi: A World Apart Complete Series Books 1 – 4 by Robert D. Armstrong

June 7, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: A World Apart Books 1 - 4 by Robert D. Armstrong

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From USA Today bestselling author Robert D. Armstrong comes the complete series, A World Apart.
 
She crossed the stars to put the war behind her.

For veteran fighter pilot Captain Victoria Belic, the Kelton Wars on Earth were over. She had earned the callsign Lioness in humanity’s last stand against the machines. By the end, the enemy knew her name.

But victory left scars. Victoria tried to bury the Lioness with the ghosts of everyone she could not save.

Then came the chance to colonize a new world. A chance to leave the wreckage of Earth behind and help build something better. 

When Victoria woke, she was on a world she did not recognize, and her reputation had beaten her there. And now, the machines that destroyed Earth were coming for them next.

But the machines made one critical error:
They came for the last pride of humanity.
And woke its Lioness.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Robert D. Armstrong, World Apart

Featured Science Fiction: The Galactic Mage by John Daulton

June 7, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Science Fiction: The Galactic Mage by John Daulton

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Altin Meade is a sorcerer with a curse. Seeking to avoid a looming doom, he sets his magical sights on the stars—a quest that will likely bring about the very consequence he’s seeking to escape.

Far across the galaxy, Ensign Orli Pewter of planet Earth has a looming doom of her own—one of loneliness, depression and, worse, a race of genocidal aliens known as “Hostiles” seeking to destroy humanity. Trapped aboard a spaceship she never asked to be upon, Orli is in a fight for both her life and her sanity.

Worlds apart, Altin and Orli share a destiny, but neither knows the other is alive. The Hostiles know. And they have other plans.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: John Daulton, The Galactic Mage

Featured Fantasy: Tomb of the Queen (Jayne Thorne CIA Librarian 1) by Joss Walker

June 5, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Tomb of the Queen (Jayne Thorne CIA Librarian 1) by Joss Walker

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A librarian. A spell book. And a magical terror organization set on controlling the world.

Librarian Jayne Thorne enjoys her quiet life of tea and books. That is, until she finds a spell book in the Vanderbilt University archives that accidentally gives her access to a magical dimension.

Now she’s hunted by a magic-wielding terrorist group, and the only way for her to survive is to team up with a secret branch of the CIA. Her first mission: Go undercover at Trinity College Library in Dublin and determine if the Book of Leinster is actually a magical necromantic grimoire.

With the help of a handsome Irish kickboxer, Jayne uncovers the truth of her unexpected spell book: The Irish manuscript is one of five grimoires that can raise five dead, master magicians, and secure their totems of power. With these totems comes the power to control the world.

But the spell book isn’t the only thing with secrets in Jayne’s new life. Danger lurks in every corner and Jayne must rise to meet her fated role…or perish alongside the rest of the world.

A Discovery of Witches meets Mercy Thompson, with a splash of Indiana Jones and Gilmore Girls, in this award-winning contemporary fantasy adventure.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Jayne Thorne CIA Librarian, Joss Walker, Tomb of the Queen

Featured Sci-fi: Omega Taskforce by GJ Ogden

June 4, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Omega Taskforce by GJ Ogden

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An action-packed military sci-fi space opera for fans of Battlestar Galactica, Galaxy’s Edge, and Star Trek: Section 31.

The Sa’Nerra were close to defeat — then everything changed. Armed with a neural weapon, the alien warriors turned humanity’s own Fleet against itself. Entire warships went rogue. Suspicion and fear spread like wildfire.

Surrender seemed like the only option.

Captain Lucas Sterling knows the truth. In the fight against the Sa’Nerra, there’s only victory or death.

Sterling is an Omega Captain, forged in a brutal trial of grit and sacrifice. Backed by an AI-powered warship and an elite crew, he’ll stop at nothing to prevent the fall of Earth — even if it means sacrificing the people he loves.

To save everything he swore to protect, he must risk his ship, his crew, and his very soul. Because against an enemy that despises mankind, only a commander as ruthless as the foe he faces can be victorious.

From Kindle Storyteller Award Winner G J Ogden, The Emissary is Book 1 of 12 in the Omega Taskforce series — a high-octane, galaxy-spanning space opera full of elite special ops, high-stakes alien warfare, devastating fleet battles, and mystery-fueled military drama.

If you love fleet warfare, ruthless alien invaders, AI warships, and high-tech combat, you’ll binge read this epic sci-fi saga.

Click ‘Buy Now’ to begin your mission into the Sa’Nerra Universe.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: GJ Ogden, Omega Taskforce

Featured Fantasy: The Emperor’s Edge Collection Books 1, 2, & 3 by Lindsay Buroker

June 4, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: The Emperor's Edge Collection Books 1, 2,  & 3 by Lindsay Buroker

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An enforcer wanted dead for crimes she didn’t commit…
An assassin wanted dead for crimes he 
did commit…

Normally, they would be enemies, but they both seek the same thing: exoneration.

Unfortunately, a nefarious underground organization is attempting to kill the one man who could grant it to them, the emperor. If they want to win their freedom, they’ll have to battle powerful wizards, out-scheme master schemers, and defeat bloodthirsty monsters, all while dodging friendly fire and evading the law.

Exoneration isn’t easy.

This boxed set includes the first three novels in this high fantasy adventure series:

  • The Emperor’s Edge
  • Dark Currents
  • Deadly Games

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Lindsay Buroker, The Emperor's Edge

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