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Featured Sci-fi: Alice Luck Space Adventures by H. Claire Taylor

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Featured Sci-fi: Alice Luck Space Adventures by H. Claire Taylor

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In space no one can hear you yeehaw.

Earthling Alice Luck dreamed of bigger things than working at an office supply store. Fortunately, the gig is not what she thought it would be. Instead of pushing printer ink, she’s now the unqualified space captain on an intergalactic mission to breed dwindling populations.

With the help of a warrior woman from a parallel universe, an anxious expert in weapons and culture, a holographic therapist, and an operating system with a hard-on for double entendres, Alice leads the crew of DeepService Team One on their inaugural mission.

But when an unexpected attack on alien territory catches them with their pants down, Alice must ask herself: why in the multiverse does someone want them dead?

Lucky Stars is the first book of the Alice Luck Space Adventures series. If you like a rag-tag crew, zany aliens, and unexpected laughs, you’ll love this space comedy series from H. Claire Taylor.

Featured Fantasy: Mermaid’s Return: The Complete Series (The Elemental Origins Universe) by A.L. Knorr

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Featured Fantasy: Mermaid's Return: The Complete Series (The Elemental Origins Universe) by A.L. Knorr

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Discover the depths of a siren’s heart.

Mermaid’s Return is the start of a new mermaid mythology, that follows Mira as she returns to land for the first time in over eight years. She is driven by the urge to procreate, to find a human mate and produce a siren child.

It proves more challenging than she expected. A siren creates reactions in human males just by being who—what—she is. Is it possible to navigate human society, find a way to earn money, and seek out her perfect mate? Can she overcome prejudice, other supernaturals, and the unexpected to not only survive but thrive on land?

This series is a prequel to The Elemental Origins series—which includes Born of Water, the story of Targa, Mira’s daughter—and The Siren’s Curse series, which does a deep dive (pun intended) into a new mermaid mythology.

Featured Sci-fi: Shockwave (Star Kingdom Book 1) by Lindsay Buroker

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Featured Sci-fi: Shockwave (Star Kingdom Book 1) by Lindsay Buroker

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What if being a hero was encoded in your genes?

And nobody told you?

Casmir Dabrowski would laugh if someone asked him that. After all, he had to build a robot to protect himself from bullies when he was in school.

Fortunately, life is a little better these days. He’s an accomplished robotics engineer, a respected professor, and he almost never gets picked on in the lunchroom. But he’s positive heroics are for other people. Until robot assassins stride onto campus and try to kill him.

Forced to flee the work he loves and the only home he’s ever known, Casmir catches the first ship into space, where he hopes to buy time to figure out who wants him dead and why. If he can’t, he’ll never be able to return home.

But he soon finds himself entangled with bounty hunters, mercenaries, and pirates, including the most feared criminal in the Star Kingdom: Captain Tenebris Rache.

Rache could snap his spine with one cybernetically enhanced finger, but he may be the only person with the answer Casmir desperately needs: What in his genes is worth killing for?

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Twice nominated for the Goodreads Readers’ Choice awards, Lindsay Buroker has made a career of delighting fantasy and science fiction fans with fun, fast-paced adventures filled with characters you wish could come to your weekend barbecues. Join the fun, and grab a copy of Shockwave now!

Featured Fantasy: The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy by Edward W. Robertson

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Featured Fantasy: The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy by Edward W. Robertson

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Dante Galand is young. Penniless. Alone. But devoted to learning the dark magic of his world.

His quest will take him from the city gutters to a foreign land of sorcerers. To a war for independence. And finally, to another war—this time, for his people’s very survival.

A USA Today bestselling series, THE CYCLE OF ARAWN is a complete trilogy of 1600 pages—over half a million words of strife, civil war, friendships made and broken, and one man’s obsession to become the greatest sorcerer since the days of the gods. Includes two illustrated maps.

Featured Sci-fi: The Silver Ships by S.H. Jucha

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Featured Sci-fi: The Silver Ships by S.H. Jucha

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Unlike most captains, Alex Racine can’t detect an anomaly, log it, and ignore it. His curiosity drives him to push his ship to its limits, swinging around a massive planet to gain the velocity he needs to intercept the object.

What he captures in the dark isn’t an asteroid. It’s a crippled starship. Survivors of a lost colony ship are in stasis, and a self-aware digital entity is only hours from ending its existence. There’s the unmistakable evidence of damage from a powerful weapon that his people have never seen. It’s a first contact no one planned for, with a civilization as human as Alex’s own and a threat from anything but.

The adversary has consumed entire worlds for six decades without leaving a single survivor to warn others. It does not respond to hails, does not negotiate, and does not stop its advance. Now two long-separated branches of humankind divided by a vast technological gulf must come together to have a fighting chance to survive.

Featured Fantasy: Drag it On Book One by Odette C. Bell

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Featured Fantasy: Drag it On Book One by Odette C. Bell

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Dragons aren’t real. Magic is fictitious.

And nothing I know is true.

When Ricki violently stumbles across magic at an elite nightclub, her life explodes. It turns out she’s an impossibly rare fire witch. Worse, dragons – the top of magic’s food chain – are bred to want her power. When the city’s most mysterious dragon offers her a deal, she takes it. He’ll protect her, and she’ll hunt for him.

Dark dragons called absorbers are stealing people’s life force. She has the unique ability to trick and catch them. But it’ll come at a cost. For those at the top don’t fall easily.

Ricki is soon sucked into a violent world of power, intrigue, fire, and death. With only a standoffish ghost, her burgeoning skills, and a mysterious playboy dragon to help her, she’ll have to learn what her body is built for. Fire. It fills her, and no matter how hard the dragons try to suppress it, it will fight back.

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Drag it On follows a new witch and her dragon keeper fighting to rein in unchecked magical power. If you love your urban fantasies with action, heart, and a splash of romance, grab Drag it On Book One today and soar free with an Odette C. Bell series.