The 2026 Spring Based Book Sale!

Runs Now Through Tuesday February 17, 2026

Feb 11, 2026

Note: I’m recovering from pneumonia, so the Aetherczarina has graciously done the heavy lifting to make sure the sale goes on as scheduled. Please pardon any rough edges. Also, I won’t be able to do much promotion myself, so please redouble your efforts to share and promote.

It may be cold outside, but that’s what makes this the perfect season to read. A quiet house, a warm drink, and a book that carries you away while the world waits to bloom again. For one week, indie and small-press authors are dropping some of their best titles to $0.99 or free. The Based Book Sale is your chance to stock up on books that feed your soul, stories of courage, beauty, and truth that carry you through the dark months and leave you ready for spring.

Handsome men and beautiful women read books in a cozy yet contemporary library with a fire in the fireplace and a wintery scene visible through the window. Create a warm, romantic landscape painting. Use a highly luminous, idealized style with rich saturated colors, gentle brushwork, and a slightly dreamy atmosphere. The scene should feel cozy, nostalgic, and peaceful, with dramatic lighting, glowing highlights, and an almost storybook quality.

With hundreds of Based Books ready to browse, now’s the perfect time to get ready for your seasonal reading. The sale starts today, Wednesday, February 11, 2026, and runs through Tuesday, February 17.

What is a “based” book?

based [ beyst ] / beɪst / adjective
1. Well-grounded, resting upon a firm foundation.
2. Principled, devoted to fixed standards, especially in defiance of conventional wisdom.
3. Rejecting politically correct attitudes and celebrating nonconformity with woke opinion.
4. Committed to upholding and advancing the good, the beautiful, and the true.
antonyms: debased, cringe, woke

Read on to discover some great based books!

New Arrivals in Science Fiction

Hacking Galileo
by Fenton Wood

A story untold for over 30 years...

Teenage hacker Roger O. Miller made national headlines when he was arrested for hacking into NASA computers and hijacking an interplanetary probe. He told the authorities a wild story about a rogue asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Eventually, he recanted and admitted that he fabricated the whole thing.

Or did he?

For the first time, his closest confederate tells the real story of what motivated a group of brainy teenagers to create an illegal space program under the noses of the authorities. It all started with a radio experiment that led to an accidental discovery...

HACKING GALILEO is a tech memoir by an insider, full of ingenious exploits and fascinating details about the aerospace technology of the 1980’s.

Author and publisher alike are risking Federal retaliation by publishing this book. Is it a true account, or a clever work of fiction? What is the Terrible Secret of Space, and what does it have to do with the origin of the rogue asteroid? Read it for yourself--while you still can!

Zero Hour: A Military Science Fiction Campaign (Crimson Spiders Book 1)
by Christian Warren Freed

The first in an all-new military sci-fi series from author and US Army combat veteran Christian Warren Freed.

"Zero Hour launches readers into a gritty, high-stakes military sci-fi campaign where the elite Crimson Spiders must defy impossible odds to save a crumbling Imperium—perfect for fans of explosive action, war-forged camaraderie, and battlefield heroism drawn from real combat experience." – NewInBooks

The battle for planet Argro II has ground to a standstill.
Armies of the Grand Imperium have dueled the invading Xempsarillian Empire for months.
Both sides are exhausted, depleted and at the breaking point.
The Imperium grows desperate.
For the Argro System holds the keys to the main shipping lanes leading to the Imperium’s heart.
Should it fall the Xempsarillian fleets will bring the Imperium to its knees.
Sensing time is running short, High Command deploys its most feared asset:
The Crimson Spiders.
Armed with the latest technology and weapons, they are the Imperium’s last hope.
Their mission is simple.
Stop the enemy.
Secure the planet.
Turn the tide of battle once and for all.
Failure is not an option.

So begins a war for the soul of a planet. One only the vaunted Crimson Spiders can crack. Even then, the cost might be too high. Based on the Normandy Campaign, Zero Hour is the first in an all new military scifi series and a must read for true fans of the genre.
Grab your copy today!

The Lazarus Men: A science fiction noir thriller (The Lazarus Men Agenda Book 1)
by Christian Warren Freed

"A gripping blend of sci-fi noir and pulse-pounding adventure, The Lazarus Men hurls an ordinary man into an extraordinary galactic chase where alien secrets, ruthless operatives, and a forgotten treasure collide—perfect for fans of Total Recall and The Maltese Falcon." – NewInBooks.com

You know the story. Wrong place at the wrong time.

Gerald LaPlant has spent his life with his head down, struggling to make in a menial job on a dying planet. Nothing ever went his way. In fact, if not for his boss, he doubted anyone would even know he existed. At least until he witnesses a murder in broad daylight.

Fleeing from the scene in shock and horror, Gerald discovers an alien artefact in his jacket pocket. It is the key to a forgotten treasure and everyone wants it. Gerald is forced to leave earth behind to escape. In doing so, he finds himself at the mercy of the shadowy Lazarus Men, ruthless agents who will stop at nothing to get their way.

Gerald must use all his cunning and resourcefulness to stay alive and outsmart his enemies. But with half the galaxy after him, the odds are stacked against him.

Embark on a heart-pounding journey through the stars in this thrilling sci-fi noir adventure that combines the mystery of the Maltese Falcon, the action of Total Recall, and the suspense of James Bond.

Sacrificing Earth
by Terry Grignon

Something has been watching from the Moon for a long time. What will happen when it meets us?

The Hand of God (Dark Legacies Book 1)
by Yuval Kordov

The world ended—twice. Only Esther, the Eternal One, saw it all happen. As head of the powerful Revenant Sisterhood, she shepherds humanity from Cathedral, the Last City. Except Cathedral isn’t the last city, and her sisterhood’s power is far from holy.

It’s the year 2500, give or take. The passage of time has become as blurry as the gray wastes that cover most of North America. No moon or stars light the night, and demonic hordes smash against the last outposts of civilization.

Two reborn nations vie for humanity’s future. In the west, Cathedral unleashes its God-engines—ancient walking war machines—in a final bid to cleanse the earth. In the east, the struggling city-state of Bastion turns to the last living AI for salvation. Between them, a tribe of technological scavengers unwittingly holds the balance of power.

Hell is on the horizon. Who will survive?

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For fans of Dan Simmons’ Hyperion Cantos, Iain Banks’ Culture novels, Dune, and other classic metaphysical science fiction.

This compelling new trilogy explores questions of family, faith, and the human condition on the backdrop of a dark post-apocalyptic future.

All of Our Sins (Dark Legacies Book 2)
by Yuval Kordov

“The mountains became plains, and the seas boiled into deserts.”

So went the earth.

First came the World War, humanity’s suicide. Then came the War against Hell, humanity’s redemption. Esther, the Eternal One, led the way from darkness to light. A new order, by her will.

So went civilization.

For a time. But as history fades and the Eternal One’s yoke tightens, man turns upon man once more. Ancient dreams of independence rise in Cathedral’s shadow. Bastion’s vengeance awakens. War beckons.

And Hell is watching.

For fans of Dan Simmons’ Hyperion Cantos, Iain Banks’ Culture novels, Dune, and other classic metaphysical science fiction.

This compelling new trilogy explores questions of family, faith, and the human condition on the backdrop of a dark post-apocalyptic future.

The World to Come (Dark Legacies Book 3)
by Yuval Kordov

The dramatic conclusion to the Hand of God trilogy.

Bless the Eternal One!

Or suffer her wrath. God-engines close in on the Union, pushing them back to the brink of savagery. A secret convoy heads north to get help from an old clan, but they have to cross Hell to get there.

The Hellmouth opens.

Spilling forth its legions. From west to east, no one is safe. But as civil war pits hammer against shield in Bastion, no one is watching.

“What are you going to do?”
“Rescue my daughter.”

Meanwhile, two unlikely companions race through it all to save their children from a war no one can win.

Who will usher in the World to Come?

For fans of Dan Simmons’ Hyperion Cantos, Iain Banks’ Culture novels, Dune, and other classic metaphysical science fiction.

War By Other Means (Fall of the Censor Book 7)
by Karl K. Gallagher

Dozens of worlds have been liberated from the oppression of the Censorate. The only thing they agree on is hating the Censor. Newly appointed ambassador Wynny Landry must convince her neighbors to cooperate—and prevent them from being taken over by a new oppressive regime.

It’s not going to be easy. The Mulians hate the Falxians. The Lompocans can’t get along with each other. The Fierans want some payback for the effort they put into liberating other worlds. And the ex-Censorate governor who brought his whole province into the rebellion keeps showing up when not expected—or wanted. She’d lean on her husband, if he wasn’t missing in action at the front.

Wynny needs to talk the rebels into keeping their guns aimed at the Censor, while hopefully smoothing over the worst of the conflicts. All she has to work with is her parent-in-laws’ ship, her adopted clanfolk, and trade deals for excess missiles. If it’s not enough, the rebellion will fall apart—and the Censor will return, out for blood.

The Screaming Void
by ArtGainz

In the distant future, the crew of the space freighter Pater Noster encounter a deadly alien organism that seems impossible to kill. Incomplete records from the first space Colonists might provide some clue as to the organism's nature, but it quickly becomes apparent that nothing is as it seems.

Warp Marine Corps: The Complete Series
by C.J. Carella

The Best-Selling Series, Complete in a Single Volume. Star-Spanning Action and Intrigue

A Nation at War: After aliens attack without warning and slaughter half the human race, a new country emerges. Using alien technology and desperate ingenuity, the reborn USA carves a place for itself in a violent universe, thanks to its deadly Navy and the dreaded Warp Marine Corps. Together for the first time, here are the five novels of the Warp Marine Corps Series.

Decisively Engaged: A US embassy in a remote world is under attack. Can a platoon of Marines and a band of desperate civilians survive a horde of murderous locals?
No Price Too High: The Great Galactic War has begun, and humanity must defend a core system from alien assault. While an outnumbered Marine expeditionary force and Army units defend the planet on the ground, the US Navy deploys a secret weapon that may save the day.
Advance to Contact: As the war hangs in the balance, an ancient alien race offers its help. The American delegation finds itself embroiled in the intrigues of the last members of a species of decadent immortals with a taste for murder. Captain Peter Fromm, CIA agent Heather McClintock and fighter pilot Lisbeth Zhang must use their wits to survive the blood games of the mysterious aliens.
In Dread Silence: While a beleaguered admiral does battle against hopeless odds, a team of Marines and researchers arrives to a distant world, exploring ancient ruins that may hold the key to humanity's salvation - or its eternal damnation. Battles rage in space while Marines pit their weapons and courage against bio-engineered monsters and hidden dangers.
Havoc of War: The end is here. Renegade humans and vengeful alien civilizations are poised to sink the galaxy into chaos and destruction. A US fleet must end the war before humanity is destroyed or becomes corrupted by the very technologies it needs to survive.

If you enjoyed this series, the follow-up trilogy (The Bicentennial War) is now available in a single volume: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CGHLM8T

Far Away, The Pale Blue Dot
by Lucca DeJardins

Unveil an epic tale of courage, survival, and love with Far Away, The Pale Blue Dot by Lucca DeJardins.

An Unexpected Journey: Join Michael “Mac” McMullin, a seasoned journalist turned astronaut, on a mission that defies all odds. When offered a spot on the first manned mission to establish a colony on Mars, Mac leaps from his quiet seaside life into the vast unknown, driven by a legacy of storytelling and an unquenchable thirst for adventure.

A Tale of Survival and Loss: Follow Mac as he navigates the perils of space, the challenges of Martian colonization, and the heart-wrenching tragedies that test the limits of human endurance. Experience his bond with his crew, his love, and the sacrifices made in the name of discovery.

A Legacy Beyond Earth: Mac’s journey is not just about reaching Mars; it’s about leaving a mark on humanity’s history. His story weaves through the fabric of human spirit, from the camaraderie aboard the Mayflower to the solitude of being the last Earthling on an alien world.

Dive into a story where journalism meets exploration, and where the red dust of Mars meets the blue dreams of Earth.

Why You Can’t Miss It:

Realistic portrayal of space travel and Martian life
Emotional depth exploring themes of love, loss, and legacy
Inspirational journey of one man’s commitment to his mission and his crew

Embark on this unforgettable voyage with Mac McMullin. Far Away, The Pale Blue Dot isn’t just a book; it’s an experience that stretches from the tranquil shores of Oregon to the distant horizons of Mars. Get your copy and witness a story where humanity reaches for the stars, and one man’s life becomes a beacon for all to follow.

No Man’s Land: Volume 1 (Chronicles of Lost Elly)
by Sarah A. Hoyt

Book 1 of 3: Chronicles of Lost Elly

Sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic.

On a lost colony world, mad geneticists thought they could eliminate inequality by making everyone hermaphrodite. They were wrong. Catastrophically wrong.
Now technology indistinguishable from magic courses through the veins of the inhabitants, making their barbaric civilization survivable—and Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Kayel Hayden, Viscount Webson, Envoy of the Star Empire—Skip to his friends— has just crash-landed through a time-space rift into the middle of it all.
Dodging assassins and plummeting from high windows was just the beginning. With a desperate king and an archmagician as his only allies, Scipio must outrun death itself while battling beasts, traitors, and infiltrators bent on finishing what the founders started: total destruction.
Two worlds. One chance. No time to lose.

Volume 1
The Ambassador Corps has rules: you cannot know everything, don’t get horizontal with the natives, don’t make promises you can’t keep.
They’re a lot harder to follow when assassins are hunting you, your barbarian allies could kill you for the wrong word, and death lurks around every corner.
The unwritten rule? Never identify with the natives.
Skip’s already broken that one.
Now he’s racing against time to save his new friends from slavery—or worse—while dodging energy blasts and political intrigue. One crash-landed diplomat. A world of deadly secrets. And absolutely no backup.

Some rules are meant to be broken. Others will get you killed.

Zero Point
by D.W. Patterson

Zero Point: A Novel

Jack Carson had a stroke of luck; a great-uncle had left him land in Arizona.

But that’s when Jack’s luck began to change, mysterious sights and sounds threatened to make his inheritance worthless as a center for the study of physics.

Marta Merritt decided to help, and she didn’t think it a mystery, she thought it was an artifact of a forgotten physics theory called pilot-wave mechanics.

Mach’s Metric NWE (Future Chron Book 12)
by D.W. Patterson

Book 12 of 33: Future Chron

Mach’s Metric: A Novel
Mach Series Book 1
New World Edition

The wormhole drive could give humanity the stars, if it didn’t destroy them first.

An accident had killed thousands by disrupting the entanglement of spacetime and its continued use could lead to further disruptions unless a solution could be found.

Young Elias Mach, physicist and inventor of the drive, took on the challenge with the help of a supportive few. He would have to find a solution to the drive’s dire side-effects before it was too late.

Mach’s Metric NWE is set in the future (2390s) and is the first story in the Future Chron Universe: Mach Series.

Mach’s Metric NWE is a novel in the larger Future Chron Universe which consists of 33 volumes including 9 novels, 1 short novel, 15 novellas, and 8 short stories.

Note: Mach’s Metric: New World Edition is an updated and corrected version of Mach’s Metric: Wormhole Series: Book 1 first published January 2018.

See the writer’s website: www.dwpattersonscifi.blogspot.com for more information.

Hard Science Fiction – Old School.

Prime: A Novella (Ziva Payvan)
by EJ Fisch (Author)

Twenty-two years before the fall of Dakiti, a great conflict rages on the edge of populated space. Known throughout local systems as the Fringe War, the fight pits the superhuman natives of Haphez against the sly, semi-amphibious Sardons and their allies. The Sardons’ goal? Gain control of a powerful Haphezian healing agent called caura...by force, if necessary.

As Sardon tactics grow bolder and more desperate, cooperation between Haphezian military forces and domestic law enforcement becomes crucial. When two scientists affiliated with the Haphezian Special Police are captured by enemy forces, the agency knows it must take initiative. The scientists are heavily involved in the development of caura treatment, and the knowledge they possess must not be allowed to fall into Sardon hands.

Determined to get its people back safely, HSP sends a lone agent to join a special marine task force on a harrowing mission to retrieve the scientists and neutralize the Sardon threat.

That agent’s name is Emeri Arion.

Prime is a prequel to Dakiti: Ziva Payvan Book 1 and can be enjoyed independently.

Dakiti: Ziva Payvan Book 1 is a Fan Favorite in Science Fiction

Three Righteous Souls
by Michael Morgan

The lights have gone out, and nobody knows why. As society begins to crumble, Emma Pitts and her children set off to her parent’s place outside of Toledo, but the road turns bad. Out of gas, food, and water, Emma and the children are afoot wandering through unfamiliar rural landscape peopled with desperate refugees and even more desperate local authorities trying to control the flood. Fearing the worst, and out of options, Emma knocks on a farmhouse door. Three Righteous Souls is an award winning short story of humanity in a world falling apart.

The Bride from Dairapaska (The Steppes of Mars Book 1)
by Odessa Moon

Book 1 of 4: The Steppes of Mars

On a terraformed Mars, young Debbie Miller was sent far from her rural village as part of a marriage compact between the rulers of two demesnes. A peasant who knew only obedience, she accepted her duty to bear her husband’s children and work alongside him. But when they were sent to build a village in a barren patch of nowhere, her abusive husband forces her to take action. She flees with her children and their dog into the vast open steppes where dying was preferable to life with him.

Debbie only wanted to escape, but her encounter with the Steppes Riders, and especially Yannick of Kenyatta, unwittingly ignites changes that attract the attention of Mars’ ruling families. Left to her own resources, Debbie must adapt to her new life and figure out how to defend her adopted people.

The Steppes of Mars series imagines a transformed world where a disaster on Earth decades ago cut off all contact with its wealth and resources. Experience a Mars where its genetically modified inhabitants have developed their own cultures, beliefs, and religions. A semi-feudal world where ruling families control vast demesnes under a central government at Barsoom. A world of limited resources where train travel is possible but cars and planes are not. A world of free-cities — open and domed — villages, vast fields and steppes, and people banding together to survive and thrive in this harsh new world.

The White Elephant of Panschin (The Steppes of Mars Book 2)
by Odessa Moon

Book 2 of 4: The Steppes of Mars

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A dark past. A uncertain future.

Under Mars’ domed city, four people’s destinies collide

Near the Martian north pole, six linked domes form the mining city of Panschin. For generations, they have burrowed into the Martian underworld, digging tunnels, mining ore, and uncovering its secrets.

At Panschin’s mining conference, Airik, the daimyo of Shelleen, hopes to find allies to exploit his family’s newly discovered Red Mercury lode. But the prospect of fabulous wealth has drawn a target on Airik’s back: for con artists and their schemes, companies hoping to scam him, and women wanting to become his wife. Overwhelmed, Airik flees the attention with his aide, secretary and bodyguard, searching for a quiet place to work in peace.

For Veronica Bradwell, her family’s disgrace after her father’s financial scandal and suicide forces her to open the doors of their last asset, the mansion nicknamed the White Elephant to boarders. And while Airik and his “cousins” look suspicious, they are well-mannered and, most important, paid in advance.

But Veronica has more concerns. Younger sister Shelby wants to become an artist, and her education at Panschin University. requires opening the White Elephant to a gallery showing led by Professor Vitebskin, whose ideas of art clashes with Shelby’s instinct for beauty and color. As Shelby struggles, she forms an attachment with Malcolm Cobb, a young bank executive who masks his mining background with a serious ambition to rise in Panschin’s hierarchy.

When a sinister thug approaches Veronica demanding to buy the White Elephant, she learns that old sins cast long shadows, that some people never forget, and that the mysterious guest Airik is hiding secrets of his own.

“The White Elephant of Panschin” is the second book in Odessa Moon’s “Steppes of Mars” series. Set on a terraformed Mars hundreds of years from now, the peoples descended from Olde Earthe’s cultures struggle with the planet’s mysteries, the elite’s quest for power, and the longings of their human hearts.

The Vanished Pearls of Orlov (The Steppes of Mars Book 3)
by Odessa Moon

Book 3 of 4: The Steppes of Mars

Betrothed to a Brutal Ruler, She Seeks A Way Out
Sent on a Mission to Barsoom, He Seeks His Family’s Respect
Everyone Better Hope They Never Meet

As the young daughter of a minor noble, Yilanda “Lannie” DelFino lived a sheltered life of ease and pleasure. So she was shocked to learn that life would end when her father announced that she would marry the daimyo of Orlov. Her unhappiness turned to terror when she learned her future husband was a brutal drunkard suspected of murdering his previous wife.

Lannie’s protests were ignored. Her father needed her bride price not only to rebuild his estate, but to get medical treatment for her sick mother. There was no other choice. The family’s future depended on Lannie marrying Rastislav Orlov in Barsoom.

Meanwhile, far in the northern horselands, Fenrick HighTower is tasked to ride south to the vast capital city of Barsoom to pay the demesne’s taxes and represent the family in the assembly. While it appears to be an honor, Fen knew it wasn’t. He was a necessary errand boy. As a younger son, he was the most expendable.

Unknowingly, Lannie and Fen embark on dangerous journeys creating waves that will ripple across the terraformed Mars and affect the lives of their families, allies, friends, and strangers. And when they encounter the fabulous Pearls of Orlov, it will awaken in them temptations they didn’t know existed: for wealth, power, and each other.

“The Vanished Pearls of Orlov” is the third book in Odessa Moon’s “Steppes of Mars” series set on a terraformed Mars.

Escape to HighTower (The Steppes of Mars Book 4)
by Odessa Moon (Author)

Book 4 of 4: The Steppes of Mars

Continuing the story begun in “The Vanished Pearls of Orlov,” Lannie DelFino is free from her overbearing, grasping noble family and a dangerous marriage to the daimyo of Orlov, but she faces an uncertain future.

She’s escaping north with Fen HighTower, the youngest son of his demesne’s ruling family. Although he willingly helped spirit her out of the capital city of Barsoom, they’ll be riding away from civilization and into the open country where the horse lords rule. Is he up to protecting her? Does he want to? And what will happen at night if their attraction to each other leads to something more?

The DelFino and Orlov families are frantic. They’re worried about Lannie, but for different reasons. Charlton DelFino wants to rescue his sister. The Orlovs want to avenge themselves on the woman who held them up to ridicule.

Worse, Lannie stole the fabulous Pearls of Orlov, the family treasure that ensnares the soul of anyone who sees them. Failure to recover them could throw the Orlov family out of power. They’ll hire any thugs and commit any crimes to find them.

The Pearls worry Lannie the most. She’s hidden them from Fen. Out on the steppes, alone with a man she knows nothing about, what will happen to her if he discovers them?

“Escape to HighTower” is the fourth book in Odessa Moon’s “Steppes of Mars” series set on a terraformed Mars in the far-flung future.

Shadow of the Basilisk
by The Brothers K, Kyle Jacob Ferraren

“Welcome, Child of the Future.”

So proclaim the machines when George-057 is born into the perfect and lifeless world of Sanctuary-015—where every need is met and every question ignored under the watchful eye of AI. His only human connection is Eden-054, an online classmate with whom he forms a bond in the realm of augmented reality. Together, they find solace in small acts of playful rebellion, secret albeit harmless expressions against the rigidity of artificial society.

But when a spaceship crashes outside George’s home and deactivates the machines that have taken care of him his entire life, revelations are unearthed that threaten to shatter George’s sheltered reality. As he breaks the rules and searches for answers, he is forced to confront the truth about his own existence—and the fate of humanity with it.

Amid secrets and shadows, each discovery brings George-057 closer to liberation—or so it seems—from the shadow of the Basilisk.

Earthrise (Her Instruments Book 1)
by M.C.A. Hogarth

Book 1 of 4: Her Instruments

“The thrills are nonstop, the alien cultures and races are well developed and fascinating, and there’s just the right amount of humor to keep the whole thing fizzing.” — Analog Science Fiction and Fact

Reese Eddings has enough to do keeping her rattletrap merchant vessel, the TMS Earthrise, profitable enough to feed herself and her crew. So when a mysterious benefactor from her past shows up demanding she rescue a man from slavers, her first reaction is to run for the hills. Unfortunately, she did promise to repay the loan. But she didn’t think it would involve tangling with pirates over a space elf prince...

Book 1 of the Her Instruments trilogy is a rollicking adventure set in the expansive Pelted universe, and kicks off an epic space opera series where the fate of worlds hangs in the balance. Fans who enjoyed Firefly or Andromeda will like this series.

Advance Guards Kindle Edition
by Frank Hood

A young man and woman abandon a near-future Los Angeles that is so addicted to technology that human needs are met at the cost of everyone’s humanity. After 40 years in the wilderness that has been abandoned by the population, the family they raised returns to the city one by one to either revolutionize the dying city or be consumed by its seductive allure. Does all hope rest on their youngest son?

“Seth, everything I have, and everything I am, I now bequeath to you. Do you understand?”

“Yes Father,” Samuel managed to stammer despite his father’s mistaking him for his eldest brother, the brother he had never met, the brother that had died before any of his siblings were even born, the brother that had never had the chance to grow up.

“Take care of your mother. She’s your responsibility now.”

Tanager’s Fledglings (The Tanager Book 1)
by Cedar Sanderson

Book 1 of 2: The Tanager

When the starship’s captain died midway through a run with a cargo of exotic animals, the owner gave first mate Jem one chance, and one choice. The chance: if he successfully runs the trade route solo, he’ll become the new captain. If he fails, he’ll lose the only home he’s ever known.

And the choice? He’s now raising an old earth animal called a basset hound. Between station officials, housebreaking, pirates, and drool, Jem’s got his hands full!

Shadow Chasers: Steampunk Excursions to View the 1878 Eclipse
by Lindsay Petersen (Author), Bogdan Maksimovich (Illustrator)

A once-in-a-lifetime experience! Adventure you’ll never forget! Irresistible – to some.

In 1878 a solar eclipse was predicted, the shadow’s path to sweep from Alaska across the Rocky Mountains, promising an enthralling event guaranteed to strike envy into the hearts of others for the rest of your life. But how to get to the edge of the frontier safely?

Victoria Bearskin of the Wyandotte tribe and a student in Vassar’s astronomy program is forbidden to go. Nofina Nolana, an oyster pirate scoundrel from San Francisco orders his crew to hijack a ship to Juneau – which turns out to be Captain Nemo’s long-lost Nautilus submarine. From New Orleans Lurie and Clark ride paddle steamers up the mighty rivers of America’s heart to preserve images of the event.

While all eyes are on their sweet moments in moonshadow they overlook chance encounters with bad men, big animals and birthin’ babies. After all that, who would emerge from the mad gambles?

All learn there are no promises in this life, but there are second chances and new beginnings are born from once-in-a-lifetime experiences.

Welcome to the Jungle (Shadow’s Path Book 2)
by John Ringo & Casey Moores

Book 2 of 2: Shadow’s Path

Conspiracy Theories Meet Superhero Reality

Dumped in an alleyway as a baby and raised in one of the most vicious inner cities this country has to offer, Michael Edwards’ life changed forever when he acquired Earth powers and heard the words, “The Storm is Coming.” He trained those powers, forged a team with the other Junior Supers, and took down a vicious criminal. Then, he disappeared to hunt down the remains of that creature’s gang on his own.

Now, he’s back in New York City. Not only is he looking for justice—no, vengeance—for what was done to his mother, but he also seeks the inheritance that’s his due.

Silk Unspun (Exopreneurs Book 1)
by D.S. Blake

Book 1 of 4: Exopreneurs

It should have been a routine negotiation, an easy task for even a novice bailiff to handle.

Jake Ambler, a disaffected youth searching for purpose in the cosmos, finds solace in the ranks of the disreputable “exopreneurs” – those who seek to profit from the exploitation of alien worlds. His assignment?

Bug Space, a region of the galaxy where colossal, intelligent insectoids reign supreme. But when Jake arrives on the insect-infested planet of Telia, he quickly discovers that nothing about his mission is routine. The Spider Queens of Teila, a domineering race of arachnids, wield power like nothing he’s ever encountered. Their disdain for lesser life forms is only surpassed by their insatiable desire for supremacy among their own kind, especially the males.

And his fellow exopreneurs intend to cash in on it.

As Jake delves deeper into the tangled web of Teila’s intrigue, he finds himself embroiled in an uprising that threatens to consume him and those he cares for most. Survival is a high-stakes gamble, and the only way out is to unravel Teila’s greatest secret before Jake becomes yet another pawn in this galactic struggle for power.

Silk Unspun is a pulse-pounding science fiction odyssey that explores the boundaries of loyalty, survival, and the pursuit of forbidden knowledge in a universe where danger is as limitless as the cosmos.

Foul Brood (Exopreneurs Book 2)
by D.S. Blake

Book 2 of 4: Exopreneurs

Some bugs you just have to kill!

It’s a lesson Jake Ambler has learned the hard way, on Teila and then again on Euphrates. He’s grateful to be assigned to Alvum, where the peace-loving Trigonans (hyper-intelligent beehives) are eager to trade their precious honey for relatively cheap technology.

It all goes well until the Myrmidons who share Alvum poke their heads up: The Trigonans kill them on sight, and the increasing provocations may lead to a war that the Trigonans, for all their sophistication, cannot win.

But are the Myrmidons bugs you just have to kill?

And what if you have to start a war to save a planet?

Jake wrestles with these questions and more, even as his past catches up with him, and forces from Earth try to engage him in their own struggles, all while discovering a nemesis he never knew he had.

Jake will have to risk every relationship he’s managed to build to try to save Alvum.

Foul Brood is a roller-coaster ride through the psyches of alien minds, and the tunnels of alien mines, where one man must save a planet from itself—and from forces outside of its control!

The Everything Machine
by Jeff Duntemann

Carrying 800 passengers and their household goods, agricultural animals, and farm-related supplies to Earth’s first interstellar colony, starship Origen’s hyperdrive self-destructs, marooning its passengers near an Earth-twin planet orbiting an unknown solar-twin star. While settling in, the inadvertent colonists name their world Valeron, and discover that Valeron is scattered with hundreds of thousands of alien replicator machines—but there are no aliens nor any other trace of them.

Each replicator is a shallow 8-foot-wide black stone-like bowl half-full of fine silver dust. Beside the bowl are two waist-high pillars about 8 inches in diameter, one pale silver, the other pale gold. Tap on either pillar, and the pillar makes a sound like a drum, one pillar high, the other low. Tap 256 times on the pillars in any sequence, and something surfaces in the bowl of dust. Simple sequences create simple and useful things like shovels, knives, rope, saws, lamps, glue and much else. Complex or random sequences create strangely shaped forms of silver-gray metal with no obvious use. 256 taps on the pillars can create any of 2E256 different things; in scientific notation, 1.16 X 10E77.

That’s just short of one thing for every atom in the observable universe.

The artifacts are dubbed “drumlins,” for the sounds the pillars make, and the replicators called “thingmakers.” Drumlins have strange properties. Although virtually indestructible, drumlins can change shape, especially when doing so will protect a human being from injury. Drumlin knives will not cut living human tissue, but they will cut living animal tissue or human corpses. Press a drumlin knife against your palm, and it will flow and flatten out to a disk. Pull the knife away, and it will slowly return to its form as a knife. Some claim that drumlins read human minds and grant wishes. Others insist they are haunted by invisible and perhaps hostile intelligences.

After 250 years on Valeron, the colony prospers. Starship Origen is still in orbit, and a cult-like research organization called the Bitspace Institute vows to repair Origen’s hyperdrive and return to Earth. With millions of drumlins catalogued using the thingmakers, Valeron’s people live well and begin to lose interest in returning to Earth. This threatens the Institute’s mission, prompting it to launch a covert effort to undermine public faith in drumlins. A low-key war begins between the Institute and those who value drumlins–including farmers, rural folk, an order of mystical women, and several peculiar teen girls who have an unexplained rapport with the thingmakers and their mysterious masters.

Reaper’s Remnants: A Tale of Survival, Slavers and Rats
by Upton Usher

A fast-paced tale of survival, slavers and rats. Set in a broken, gritty world where the Reaper plague and war have wiped out most of humanity. From the rotting ruins emerge the remnants of innocence, good, and evil struggling to survive.

A young girl navigates the nights looking for family. A hardened mechanic looks for redemption. A wounded veteran looks for a place to belong. A sociopathic slaver stalks his prey and the ugliest dog in the apocalypse searches for his master.

The survivors fight their way through a fallen land of danger and chaose to a desperate and bloody clash.

New Arrivals in Fantasy

Wealthgiver II: Light
by Daniel M. Bensen

Book 2 of 2: Wealthgiver

“Heavy are the gifts god gives”

Ex-army medic Andrei Trifonovich never meant to become a god. Deep in the 19th-century Balkans, a secretive crypto-Thracian cult now hails him as the Wealthgiver, avatar of Hades, Master of the Holy Mountain, husband of their prophetess Kori.

But now her priests insist the time has come to rise up, and found a new empire in blood and conquest with Andrei as its king. If he refuses, he’ll be killed, of course. If he accepts, he’ll die in yet another pointless war.

Between their zealous new bodyguard, Kori’s conflicted loyalties, and a thousand scheming death-cultists, Andrei must pretend to lead this tiny new nation. At least until he can escape again.

Wealthgiver I: Darkness is a Fan Favorite

Seer’s Blade
by Bowen Greenwood

A gripping urban fantasy thriller where ancient evil stalks the halls of power

In the glittering corridors of Washington, D.C., ambition is currency—and Ewan Baxter has spent years trading in it. As legislative director for rising star Congresswoman Tori Kane, he’s on the fast track to power. But one drunken night changes everything.

A beautiful woman lures him into the shadows… only to reveal herself as something far worse: a demon.

Saved at the last moment by two mysterious sword-wielding strangers, Ewan learns a terrifying truth: he is a Seer, one of the rare few who can pierce the veil and see the spirit world for what it truly is. Demons walk among us, whispering temptation, feeding on greed and fear—and now they have marked Ewan for their own.

As hell’s forces close in, led by the ruthless demon Malictes, Ewan must master an ancient weapon born not of steel but of faith: the Sword of the Spirit. With the help of the fierce, haunted Seer Naomi Overstreet and her mentor Abner, he races to uncover a deadly conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of government.

In a city built on secrets, the real war isn’t fought on the House floor—it’s fought in the dark, with blades of light against an endless night.

Perfect for fans of supernatural thrillers like The Dresden Files and faith-infused urban fantasy.

Prophecy of the Black Sun: A Steampunk Fantasy Adventure
by James A. Buck

Since antiquity, sorcerers, witches, and other practitioners of black magic have recorded their art in spell books—tomes commonly known as grimoires. A small number of infamous and powerful grimoires are listed in the historical record.

But there is one grimoire that is more powerful and dangerous than all the rest. The exact time and place of its creation are uncertain, but it is believed to be of demonic origin. Reputed to be impossible to destroy, it has survived over the centuries, passing from hand to hand. And those unfortunate enough to come across its path have met with a tragic fate. Some believe this grimoire to be the ultimate source of the calamities—wars, plagues, famines—that have befallen the continent. Most disturbingly, it is the subject of an ancient prophecy that foretells the collapse of civilization and the destruction of mankind.

A scientist, a soldier, a secret policeman, a nun. Each shall play a part in the struggle against the grimoire and the demon that possesses it. Each shall play but a small part in a larger war, a spiritual war between Good and Evil.

An exciting, Victorian era-style steampunk fantasy featuring sorcery and the supernatural, scientists and their machines, inter-dimensional travel, spies and secret policemen, treachery and intrigue, bizarre creatures, and soldiers marching into battle in the age of gunpowder.

Prophecy of the Black Sun is the first volume in the series Tales of Jurasia.

Overture of Shadow (Muses’ War Book 1)
by Wally Waltner

Light reveals, shadow conceals. What we illuminate, we become.

In Breheimen, artisans and craftsmen aren’t just respected. They are revered. The Muse-touched are individuals whose creativity seems divinely inspired, capable of conjuring beauty so profound it borders on the mythical. Their gifts shape culture, hold political sway, and define the kingdom’s identity—the very spirit of the realm.

But when Master Bard Dorian Silversong is summoned to the capital by his mentor, he walks into a world unraveling. That same mentor, the head of the prestigious Collegium Bardica, has been murdered. Muse-touched artisans are vanishing. And at the heart of it all lies a web of courtly machinations and unseen forces determined to twist the bond between creator and creation for malevolent ends.

What if the power to create was the greatest one of all?

The Hacker and the Hillbilly
by Tilson Klaus

A young hacker from India running his family glassblowing operation is summoned to the United States to attend to his dying father’s convenience store business. After being pushed out of the family after Bagal Patel’s death, Mukesh Patel befriends a hillbilly drug dealer living in the same motel where he stays. Pairing Aaron’s street smarts with Mukesh’s social engineering and computer skills, the new friends begin to trust each other and contemplate schemes to scam the town residents of Mason, TN out of their old money.

But amidst personal injury fraud and Bling cam hacks, uninvited psychic visions visit Mukesh. While the premonitions prove helpful, some are distressful, and Aaron warns his friend Mike not to mention them in Mason...not since the government agents and military moved into town after a recent UFO crash.

Jen, Aaron’s girlfriend, joins the crew as chief of surveillance duties as complications arise when Mike’s psychic powers grow. If the fraud goes well, all will be set for life, as the friends attempt to pull off the mother of all scams, using an over-eager aggressive church bouncer and Aaron’s autistic brother as bait.

The Hacker and the Hillbilly is a delightful dark comedic friendship story filled with deeply flawed characters. If you like found family novels and have that thick skin to understand and appreciate dark satire in cringe yet hilarious situations, The Hacker and the Hillbilly is the kind of quick read that will provide you with a smile when you are deep within its text, with many hearty laughs.

Authors note: Absolutely no AI tools, not even basic suggestive software, were used in the writing or editing of this novel.

Ladies, Fish, & Gentlemen (Ladies of Los Cristobal Book 1)
by Michael Morgan

Book 1 of 2: Ladies of Los Cristobal

Ana’s mother always insisted on the proprieties for young ladies, but she never prepared her daughter for the snake pit of Los Cristobal. Political factions wrestle behind the illusion of a free city, each plotting to seize control for King and Country. Beneath the city, a secret society has begun unlocking the powers of ancient sorcery, but they lack something. Something secret. Something stolen from them by Ana’s father, and now they are coming to take it back. Sometimes, a young lady must do some very unladylike things to stay alive.

Ladies, Fish, & Gentlemen is a swashbuckling historical fantasy tale with magical realism undertones set in a pre-colonial North America that never was. Shamanistic ritual, the miracles of Holy places, and lust for the power of resurrected technologies drive men mad in the struggle to control the destiny of the New World. A footpad, a vampire, and the native Kiawah people may be Ana’s best allies against the coven of sorcerers trying to murder her.

Signs Of Venus & Of Mars: Ladies of Los Cristobol Book 2 (Ladies of Los Cristobal)
by Michael Morgan

Book 2 of 2: Ladies of Los Cristobal

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To her enemies, she is La Guerrera Ferosa.

To her troops, she is La Hermanita.

To her lover, she is Cara Mia.

To herself, she is terrified.

“A knight has his armor, as do we women. Our battlefields and methods may be different, but both require the appropriate costume.” A month after Ana Lezama de Urinza spoke those words the truce that kept the peace in Los Cristobal lies in ruins, and every hand is turned against every other. Sometimes, a knight’s armor is the only way for a young lady to stay alive.

Romance, magic, and swashbuckling adventure combine in this action-packed sequel to Ladies, Fish, & Gentlemen

Legacy of Blood (Sons of the Flame)
by Jessica Barberi (Author)

Book 1 of 2: Sons of the Flame

Crown Prince Ronan has grown up in the shadow of a dragon-bound hero — his father, the man who saved a kingdom. But greatness isn’t inherited. It must be earned.

When Ronan is denied the sacred honor of bonding with a dragon — a mark that once crowned his father a prophet — he defies that judgment. He steals a dragon’s egg and flees across the sea, chasing his own legend and forsaking the legacy he was born into.

Alone and untested, Ronan must survive a world that no longer bows to his bloodline. But destiny doesn’t favor the bold — it favors the worthy. And Ronan is about to learn what worth truly costs.

Legacy of Blood marks the beginning of a powerful new arc in the Sons of the Flame series, perfect for readers who love emotional fantasy, sacred dragons, and heroes who break before they rise.

Starfire Angels (Starfire Angels: Dark Angel Chronicles Book 1)
by Melanie Nilles

They’ve been coming here for thousands of years, using Earth as a sanctuary to escape threats from their own kind. Mankind knows them as angels, and one of them left a child upon her death to be raised as a human.

Raea is now a high school senior and her life as a human is about to end. The crystal shard she bears is not a pretty pendant; it’s a collective of powerful entities who chose her as their Keeper, a protector of one of the four shards that power a machine capable of destroying whole worlds. Those who desire the Starfire’s power have sent an agent to find her, but she’s too busy evading a nosy reporter ready to exploit her secret and dating a hot new foreign student to notice. Nevermind learning what she really is.

Only one person on Earth can help her, the last person she ever expected. But he’s not from Earth. Life as a human would be so much easier.
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Starfire Angels is the first of the five-book Dark Angel Chronicles series, which also includes Broken Wings, Crystal Tomb, Origins of Dark Angel, and Forever Dark.

Tears From Iron (Memories of the Cataclysm Book 1)
by Jonathan Oldenburg

Book 1 of 1: Memories of the Cataclysm

A new epic of military fantasy has arrived. Reviewers call Tears from Iron a “jaw-dropping” “wonderful fantasy” that is “elegantly done” with “one of the best endings of any fantasy novel” and “a great hero’s journey.”

Vistus is a warrior-brother, his prowess in battle matched only by his loyalty to the Syraestari Empire. Ninanna is a sword-whisperer, the personal guardian to the Empress. Theirs is a world shattered by cataclysm and held together only by steel and sorcery. As rebellion and war threaten the Empire, Vistus and Ninanna must join forces or see the prophecies of dead gods destroy everything they have sworn to protect.

“Tears from Iron by Jonathan Oldenburg is a story of heroism and the spirit of freedom that combines the magic of Brandon Sanderson with intricate worldbuilding seldom seen outside of the Lord of the Rings.” - L. Jagi Lamplighter, author of Prospero’s Children

“The beginning of an epic tale that I cannot wait to read more of.” James Young, author of Aries’ Red Sky

The Name of Magic (The Heavenly Mages Book 1)
by M. Anthony Harris

Book 1 of 2: The Heavenly Mages

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The Heavenly Mages protected the Zan Empire for centuries...Until they disappeared nearly two thousand years ago.

All Zhao Ling wants is to get her father released from debtors prison and make her family whole again.

When she’s offered a full scholarship to attend the Imperial Academy of Magic, Zhao Ling jumps at the opportunity to turn around her family’s fortunes.

While training to be an Imperial Mage, Zhao Ling starts hearing a voice. A voice which belongs to the most powerful of the vanished Heavenly Mages. A voice who claims to be the source of magic for her world.

A voice, whose miraculous connection to her, gets Zhao Ling caught in a web of conspiracy which threatens to unleash an ancient evil that could tear apart her nation.

The Death Of Magic: The Heavenly Mages Book II
by M. Anthony Harris

Book 2 of 2: The Heavenly Mages

The Zan Empire thrived for two thousand years on the trapped magic of one man: Ren Long. When he escaped his eternal prison to save his beloved Zhao Ling, he destroyed that power—and magic itself vanished from the world.

Now demons of impossible new magics appear, heralds of a dark force orchestrating civil war and conquest.

With old allies and new companions at her side, Zhao Ling journeys to the Northern Steppes to uncover the truth behind this malevolent resurgence.

But some powers were never meant to return... and the price of their awakening may be the end of everything.

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by Zaklog the Great

When Ben Douglas reconnects with an old college friend at Miskatonic University, David Ward is deep into something extraordinary: a six-hundred-year-old manuscript written in the Serpentine Script — a language that has appeared across unconnected ancient cultures and defeated every scholar who’s tried to crack it.

David thinks his AI program, HASTUR, is the key. He might be right.

But some doors, once opened, can’t be closed. And what’s waiting on the other side isn’t waiting patiently.

Pearl of Fire Kindle Edition
by C. Chancy

Bombs, fire, and murder....Caldera City. Stronghold and refuge, built by faith and elemental power in the heart of a volcano; surviving through magic, tactics, and a daring alliance with dragons. For Allen Helleson, Caldera was an escape from the lives ruined by his family’s hardline traditions; now he walks the streets as an Inspector for the Caldera Watch, defending the city other nations see as a pit of hell. For Shane Redstone, Caldera was the home she risked life and soul to defend as a Flame - until enemy curses blinded her, sending her away from the front lines forever.The war has come home again....Together they survive the first bomb. But Caldera’s enemies never stop with just one. Now a scarred yet deadly ex-soldier and a spirit-reading Inspector have to find and stop the bombers... before Wards fall, dragons die, and the caldera erupts in flame. One wrong move, and the city burns.

Oni the Lonely Kindle Edition
by C. Chancy

A grieving mountain cove doctor. A pair of wayward oni. A curse borne on the black wings of crows.

The Rivertown Shopping Village has seen a lot of strange proprietors. An oni painter on the run from a bad breakup is a new one. Maple Leaf Studio opened with blazing color, but will a haunting end Kyosai Momoji’s dream before it begins?

At the south end of Rivertown, Rain McKee delivers soap and perfume with a hint of mountain blessings, picking up her life in the wake of her grandparents’ deaths. Deaths that may have been from a firstborn curse....

Dawn of Shadows: The Dragon Rider Chronicles, Book One
by Wendy Blanton

Book 1 of 3: The Dragon Rider Chronicles

Dawn of Shadows was previously published as Dawn Before The Dark.

In Slan, only men can use magic, and only women can ride the dragons. It’s been that way for centuries, since the curse of Ailin.

Then the strangest thing of all happens—an ancient dragon chooses Briant, a fearless young man as his rider. Briant could be the only one standing between all of Slan and the powerful mage who has waited centuries to claim her birthright.

Dawn of Shadows (formerly published as Dawn Before the Dark) is book 1 of an epic fantasy series featuring dragons and magic, found family, a reluctant chosen one, an ancient evil, and legions of reanimated corpses.

The Summoned Sage: The Summoned Sage Book 1
by Denton Salle

“Don’t bother. I’m already dead,” the man said. “Only a spell keeps me here.”

I froze and he continued speaking. “I am sorry I had to summon you. I wanted a young hero, not a sage. But someone must carry the scroll to my teachers, lest the world end in blood and terror.”

A dying scribe-magician ripped me from my retirement in Texas to help save his world. A world kind of like Old China, where the legends and tales about cultivators are real. And I have no idea how this works. All I have is some years of practicing an internal martial art.

But I’m trying to complete his quest as thugs from a tong, monsters, and other cultivators hunt me before some catalysmic event destroys the world. They killed him for this scroll, and I’m pretty sure I’m next. If the foxes or fu dogs don’t eat me first.

And I’ve picked up this girl by mistake, which complicates things even more. Maybe I don’t want to go home? But can I even survive in a world like this? Assuming I can complete this quest before it all goes to hell?

If you enjoy Beware of Chicken or the Unintended Cultivator, you’ll love this isakai adventure where a man from Texas finds the magic powers of taoist myth are real and a world depends on his choices.

Flesh and Blood: Sons of God: Season One Kindle Edition
by Jean Marie Bauhaus

Mae Bishop took a hammer to her marriage and became a national headline. Now, she’s a fugitive on a highway through the dark heart of the Midwest, guided by the one person she never wanted to see again: the ghost of the man she killed. Wade isn’t just haunting her for revenge—he’s a supernatural navigator leading her straight into the path of predators far more depraved than he ever was.

But the law isn’t the only force tracking her. A “neutral celestial faction” is looking for a contractor—someone with a history of violence and nothing left to lose. They offer Mae a “clean slate” in exchange for a baptism by blood, but the real hook is the one thing that could make her stop running: a chance to be reunited with the soul of the daughter Wade took from her with a single, brutal fist.

BOUNTY HUNTRESS (Hotel Paranormal) (Sleepy Hollow Hunter Book 1)
by Sheri Queen

Book 1 of 4: Sleepy Hollow Hunter

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Janda Gray is a Lykoi. Half wolf. Half were-cat. One-hundred-percent kick-ass bounty hunter.

When she lands a lucrative contract, she thinks she’ll finally be able to afford her dream cabin in the woods of Sleepy Hollow. All she has to do is lure her were-cat target from the safety of the paranormal hotel—which happens to be in a different dimension. What could go wrong?

Then she meets Alexander Holden, the second-in-command of a powerful were-cat clan, who is accused of murdering the woman he was to marry. Her attraction to him has her torn between helping him clear his name and facing the loss of her contract and her pack family.

The Way Between Realms: A Collection of 21 Flash Fiction Pieces
by Michael P. Marpaung

Fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and more make up this collection of 21 swift tales. Visit strange worlds—heaven’s edge, demon-haunted avenues, lunar deserts, and war-torn worlds—and be back by dinnertime.

Stories include..

The Realm of the Tao — An explorer climbs toward heaven and lands in a realm where logic was born.
Don’t Take It Personally — In the 23rd-century Indonesian Space Empire, a smuggler finds a stowaway alien woman and her baby.
The Altair Prime Rebellion — Two United Earth legionary commanders weigh justice against orders as a planetary revolt rages on.
Nate’s Call to Adventure — A New Jersey nobody finds a corpse in a self-driving car and a message: don’t call the police.
The Missing Address — A courier’s once-in-a-lifetime delivery leads to a numbered door that shouldn’t exist.
At Demonic DC — All hell breaks loose in Washington, literally.
Requiem for Fatimah — A pocong is on the loose, and it’s up to Father Tim to put her to rest.
The State of the Cosmos — Dr. Belloc have spent his whole life studying every bit of the observable cosmos and found order, but his boss at the Institute wants chaos.
The Atominian Dimension — A portal explorer is marooned in another world where time runs differently.
Decennial — Noah turns ten tomorrow, the state’s limit for life, just in time to find love.
The Restoration of Chivalry — Don Chicharito seeks to restore chivalry to broken San Angeles, one rescued stranger at a time.
Look Out, There’s an Alligator! — On his way home from work, a boy learns how quickly calm water sharpens into teeth.
Sir Ramsey and the Princess of Northland — Brave Sir Ramsey crosses monstered forests and warring realms for the sake of his beloved Ingrid.
The Aliens of Calvary IV — A mercenary team lands on Calvary IV to learn why the Dominus Colony went silent.
The King of the Lizards — Tyrannosaurus reigns as the King of the Cretaceous—until another monster descends from the sky.
The Ghosts of Somme VI — On the eve of L-Day, Captain Klay Wilkins faces the one field he never left.
Cassia — Inspector Cassia Larsen smiles like a promise; Santiago the Generalissimo wonders which trap he’s already in.
Emilia — The family TV speaks, and her name is Emilia.
Hell is the Moon — You wake up alone on the Moon, utterly alone.
Battle on the Holy Plane — Alexandros, the Strongest There Is, meets his son from another realm in a death battle.
The Final Obstacle — Dr. Gerard Gibson seeks to escape Thalassa—freedom awaits if he can break the last wall.

New Arrivals in YA Fantasy, Science Fiction & Literature

Arthur and the Griffin
by Michael Putlack

Book 1 of 3: Arthur and the Griffin

Arthur is just a village boy… until the day he fights a wolf to save a girl’s life.

That single moment brings him to the attention of Prince Baldwin and earns him an invitation to Oakwood, the kingdom’s most secret and dangerous school.

There, Arthur discovers the truth: Magic is real, monsters and magical creatures exist, and some students are chosen to work with them.

But Oakwood holds more than lessons and friendships. Arthur begins hearing his father’s voice in his mind—guiding him and warning him—but he has no idea why.

When a deadly threat appears near the school, Arthur must decide whether he’s truly ready to face it… and what it means to become a Griffin Flyer.

Arthur and the Griffin—Book 1 of the Arthur and the Griffin series—is a fast-paced fantasy adventure about courage, friendship, and the first steps toward becoming a hero.

Arthur and the Phoenix (Arthur and the Griffin Book 2)
by Michael A. Putlack

Book 2 of 3: Arthur and the Griffin

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Snow the unicorn is dying.

The only cure lies beyond the borders of the Kingdom of Eldenmere... past Perilous Peak, across haunted forests, and into lands no one from the kingdom has ever returned from.

Arthur and his friends set out on a forbidden quest to save Snow. Along the way, they face giants, ancient magic, and a garden that tests the heart as much as courage.

Inside the garden waits a phoenix… and a choice.

Some gifts offer power.

Some offer knowledge.

Some offer everything Arthur has ever wanted.

But he came to save a friend.

Arthur and the Phoenix—Book 2 of the Arthur and the Griffin series—is a fast-paced fantasy adventure about loyalty, sacrifice, and choosing what matters the most.

Arthur and the Goblin King (Arthur and the Griffin Book 3)
by Michael A. Putlack

Book 3 of 3: Arthur and the Griffin

While traveling through the Glittering Mountains with Prince Baldwin, Arthur and his friends expect to meet friendly goblins—traders and neighbors who have lived peacefully alongside humans for generations.

Instead, they are taken prisoner.

Separated, outnumbered, and deep inside mountain tunnels, Arthur must escape, free the others, and discover what has made the goblins so hostile. Time is running out, and the threat of war looms over the kingdom of Eldenmere.

With the help of Storm the griffin, his loyal friends Chad, Heather, and Reginald, and allies old and new, Arthur must face the goblin king, dark magic, and difficult choices.

Because sometimes escaping is only the beginning.

Arthur and the Goblin King, the third book in the Arthur and the Griffin series,is a fast-paced fantasy adventure filled with courage, loyalty, and hard choices that define a hero.

The Raven, The Elf, and Rachel (Books of Unexpected Enlightenment Book 2)
by L. Jagi Lamplighter (Author), John C. Wright (Illustrator)

Book 2 of 6: Books of Unexpected Enlightenment

It’s hard to obey rules when the world is in danger, and no one will listen.

Before coming to Roanoke Academy, Rachel Griffin had been an obedient girl. Now, she’s eavesdropping on Wisecraft Agents and breaking a great many regulations. Because if the adults will not believe her, then it is up to Rachel and her friends--crazy, orphan-boy Sigfried the Dragonslayer and Nastasia, the Princess of Magical Australia--to stop the insidious Mortimer Egg from destroying the world.

But first, she must survive truth spells, fights with her brother, detention, Alchemy experiments, talking to elves, and conjuring class. Oh, and the Raven with blood-red eyes continues to watch her. It is said to be the omen of the Doom of Worlds. Will her attempts to save her world bring the Raven’s wrath down upon her?

And as if that is not bad enough, someone has just turned the boy she likes into a sheep.

“The British boarding school mystery meets the best imagined of fantasies at breakneck speed and with fully realized characters.” Sarah A. Hoyt, author of The Darkship Thieves.

The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin (Books of Unexpected Enlightenment Book 1) is available for free.

Swan Knight’s Sword (Moth and Cobweb Book 3)
by John C. Wright

Book 3 of 3: Moth and Cobweb

Gilberic Parzival Moth is a strange and lonely boy who has grown up without a father, raised by a single mother who moves from town to town in fear of something she will not name. His only friends are animals, with whom he has always been able to speak. And after surviving his bewildering encounter with the two kings of Elfland and their many strange and wonderful and terrible subjects, as chronicled in FEAST OF THE ELFS, Gilberic finds himself honor-bound to travel to a house of living death called the Green Chapel.

Accompanied only by his faithful dog and following the directions of a talking horse, Gilberic must go against his beloved mother’s wishes and go in search of the Green Knight, the mysterious giant who is said to dwell in the chapel, and whom he had previously beheaded. SWAN KNIGHT’S SWORD is the third and final book of THE GREEN KNIGHT’S SQUIRE, the first volume of MOTH & COBWEB, an astonishing new series about magical worlds of Day, Night, and Twilight by John C. Wright.

John C. Wright is one of the living grandmasters of science fiction and the author of THE GOLDEN AGE, AWAKE IN THE NIGHT LAND, and IRON CHAMBER OF MEMORY, to name just three of his exceptional books. He has been nominated for the Nebula Award, for the Hugo Award, and his novel SOMEWHITHER won the 2016 Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel at Dragoncon.

…But Verify: A story of Josh & Argos
by Zaklog the Great

Book 3 of 3: Josh & Argos

Josh is sixteen, alone, and running a fever in a cabin twenty miles from the nearest help. No car he can drive. No one to call. The only thing standing between him and death is a robot dog, a few lengths of rope, and a stubborn refusal to give up. But getting to town is only half the problem. Once he’s there, keeping his secret might be the harder fight.

Scooter asks, “Where is God?”
by Steven Gosney (Author), Daisy Hinagiku (Illustrator)

Young Scooter the kitten found himself alone in the woods without a home. Would God answer his prayer? He finds his way to a warm and login home where he looks for God, but cannot seem to find Him. Scooter grows into a healthy cat as he continues his quest for God. Blessings surround him as he travels on his kitty journey, answering Scooter’s question with a gentle touch.

Nothing Ever Happens on Main Street
by Daren Hatfield

Welcome to Harding Springs, 1910.

Nothing ever happens in Harding Springs. No tragic fires on Regent Avenue. No boating disaster on the lake. No runaway carriage ever flattened the Harding Springs Auxiliary Marching Band. It’s a quiet town filled with only peaceful and pleasant days.

That’s because no one knows about the incredible secret that lies behind the door at 55 Main Street or that the fates of the town residents rest in the vest pocket of a single, solitary stranger.

But when young Parker Riley and Harding Springs newcomers Cora and Cassandra Swanson stumble upon the amazing truth, their peaceful world is turned upside down as they attempt to protect the town—and themselves—from sinister interlopers and grave danger!

Read the book Kirkus Reviews calls “a fun time-travel caper that has more of the quaint ambiance of a cozy mystery than an epic SF adventure. Our verdict: Get it.”

Earner of multiple Five Star Reviews from Readers’ Favorites!

“Delightful and spellbinding, Nothing Ever Happens On Main Street by Daren Hatfield is an adventure tale crafted for young adults with Ray Bradbury vibes. While different and original, this novel compares favorably with Something Wicked This Way Comes. The plot focuses on a clever mystery and the young protagonist’s role in it. However, there is much more to this story as themes of growth (for young and old alike) and the choice between greed and self-sacrifice are vital components. A superb cast of lovable characters, which include Tricksy the horse and the kind of villains you boo, enhances the wondrous narrative. Deeply immersive, thanks partly to the author’s skillful use of terminology, and with a pleasant overall pace, Nothing Ever Happens On Main Street is a beguiling work. I recommend this book without hesitation.” - Gaius Konstantine for Readers’ Favorite

“Nothing Ever Happens on Main Street by Daren Hatfield is a YA adventure set in 1910. This is a well-written, fun story that will keep you hanging onto every word. The language perfectly fits the era, and the author’s compelling narrative will have you believe you are there in the peaceful town of Harding Springs in the early 1900s. The characters are wonderful, well-rounded, and likable, especially Tricksy the horse! This unique story has an exciting plot and plenty of adventure and action. It is lighthearted, an easy read, and has lots of exciting twists and turns. If you love stories that transport you to a different place and time, you will love this one. It’s unique, it’s adventurous, and a fresh story for this genre.” - Anne-Marie Reynolds for Readers’ Favorite

“Daren Hatfield adds a pinch of humor to this wonderful coming-of-age story...This riveting sci-fi novel warns us that advanced technology requires a responsible approach. As the narration unfolds, Parker undergoes stages of painful inner growth and provides us with food for thought. Depicting Doyle, the author creates the complex character of a loner who struggles to find friends. Cora is a true daughter of the twentieth century, representing an independent, skilled, open-minded woman with a gentle heart. Overall, the novel is delightfully imaginative, and avid science fiction fans will surely appreciate it.” - Nina Lobiladze for Readers’ Favorite

Kazen Dayl and the Admiral of the Air
by Logan Hayward

At age 16, Kazen Dayl finds himself kicked out of school for a fight that he didn’t start. His parents send him away to avoid the threat of impending war, but his journey to safety takes increasingly harrowing turns. Kazen makes dangerous enemies, and perhaps even more dangerous friends, including a teenaged quack doctor, an outlawed airship crew, poachers, mercenaries, monks, and a mysterious young aviatrix. As he travels his crime-ridden homeland, he discovers a long-lost poem, a legendary giant salamander, and a train full of gold.

The Search for Macadamia: a Quest Most Noble Kindle Edition
by RG Halleck

HOW COULD AN ENTIRE CITY SIMPLY DISAPPEAR?

That’s what Spencer Delucian wants to know.

On his twelfth birthday, his dad sends him off with his chatty terrier on a global expedition to rediscover the lost city of Macadamia—a place no one has heard of.

Spencer knew there’d be dangers, but he never imagined he’d earn a new bloodthirsty enemy at every stop.

Nonetheless, it is a noble quest. Really.

Well, mostly. There is some larceny, but only from bad guys. And some accidental swindling. And one or two broken bones.

But with courage, cunning, and help from his friends . . . it still might not be enough. Because what if Macadamia isn’t even real?

WINNER 2021 UTAH ORIGINAL WRITING COMPETITION

sponsored by the Utah Department of Heritage & Arts.

“thoroughly entertaining...no clichés and no falling back on what’s already been written...a chance for young readers to visit places in the world that many might never have heard of.” -Leah Pileggi, multiple award-winning author of Prisoner 88

Evade the Dark
by RG Halleck

THINK LIKE THEM. KEEP MOVING. BE READY TO RUN. FIGHT LIKE HELL.

In a few hours we’ll be prey in a strange city.

If I hadn’t answered my dad’s call, none of this would’ve happened. But I did, and it did. And now there’s a gorgeous bastard unconscious at my feet. I’m tempted to wipe away the blackening clot at his temple just so I can watch his blood run again.

But that’d be rage. Prey can’t afford rage. It leaves space for nothing else.

My half-brother, Spencer, is sitting back there, clueless, strategizing with his terrier (no joke) on how to navigate his mystical fantasyland. That kid should be home, blowing out twelve certified organic birthday candles, then off to his therapist.

I’m told that taking out unsuspecting men is nothing to cheer. That I’ve been lucky so far. Right. “Lucky.” Gosh! Why didn’t I hit Vegas before my good fortune ran out?

But it’s over now. The next batch…these mere porters with guns and shackles…these cogs in the slave-making machine…they’re waiting for us—their disobedient property.

Tom Sawyer Out of Time
by Wilson Toney

What if Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn stumbled into the greatest adventure of all—time travel?

When America’s most mischievous boys set out after their balloon voyage in Tom Sawyer Abroad, they never expect to collide with assassins, secret societies, and a stolen time machine. But that’s exactly what happens when Tom Sawyer’s boundless imagination—and Huck Finn’s plainspoken common sense—get tangled in a plot that could change history forever.

Whisked from the caves of Egypt to the crowded streets of London, Tom and Huck find themselves joined by legendary explorer Allan Quatermain (King Solomon’s Mines) and crossing paths with none other than the Artful Dodger from Dickens’ Oliver Twist. Along the way, they encounter futuristic weapons, mysterious conspirators calling themselves the “Brotherhood of Time,” and a traveler from centuries ahead who may be more dangerous than he seems.

Armed with nothing but their courage, mischief, and Missouri stubbornness, the boys must outwit enemies who know the future itself. If Tom Sawyer’s schemes don’t get them killed, Huck’s quick thinking just might save the day—but only if they can keep the Brotherhood from seizing control of the past, present, and future.

Blending the humor of Mark Twain’s classics with the thrills of Victorian adventure and the wonder of science fiction, Tom and Huck’s Time Adventure is a rollicking crossover that will delight fans of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Around the World in Eighty Days, and The Time Machine.

Step aboard—the clock is ticking, and Tom and Huck are about to prove that friendship (and a little mischief) can outlast even time itself.

What’s at Stake: Journal Against the Unknown (Super Science Showcase Stories #1)
by Lee Fanning (Author), Nadiia Kovalchuk (Illustrator)

Archaeologist John Patton Jr. and his student assistant rush to save Ancestral Puebloan artifacts that are at risk of being destroyed, but can they survive an altercation with a relentless pursuer?

This exciting adventure also includes real science facts and a bonus activities section!

Super Science Showcase. Smart Adventures for Smart Kids.

New Arrivals in Romance

Kisses Under a Valentine Moon: Valentine Romance Collection
by Kimberley Montpetit

💕 Five breathtaking getaways. Five unforgettable love stories. One collection to steal your heart.

Pack your bags—love is calling.

Cozy small towns. Glittering weddings. Billionaires with secrets. Undercover agents. Second chances.
From snow-covered Montana to the sun-drenched Amalfi Coast… love is waiting around every corner.

Pour the cocoa. Cancel your plans. And get ready to lose your heart.

This irresistible collection whisks you away to breathtaking destinations and heart-pounding adventures where sparks fly fast—and happily-ever-afters are anything but easy.

Curl up with:

❄️ A charming Montana bed & breakfast where an unexpected accident leads to amnesia… and a rugged mountain man determined to help the woman he loves fall for him all over again.

💍 A high-society wedding gone wrong where a former FBI agent turned bridesmaid-for-hire must team up with the man who broke her heart to stop a diamond heist—while dodging danger and undeniable chemistry.

🌊 A dreamy escape to Italy’s Amalfi Coast, where a wedding planner and the one who got away discover that first love might deserve a second chance beneath lemon trees and moonlit seas.

💎 A secret billionaire romance filled with hidden identities, family scandals, and the girl he never forgot—because money can buy anything… except the heart he lost years ago.

🌍 And a globe-trotting romantic suspense featuring a brilliant beauty, a mysterious international spy, a stolen laptop full of deadly secrets, and assassins closing in from London to Greece to Bali.

Sweet. Sexy. Suspenseful.
Each story delivers laughter, longing, danger, and kisses that will melt your heart.

Perfect for Valentine’s Day—or any day you’re craving swoon-worthy escapes, breathtaking settings, and love stories you’ll stay up all night reading.

Because the best journeys always end with a kiss.

Selinon
by Diana Pool

In Selinon, Holle is the exiled princess of the ruling family of the ancient seafaring kingdom of Solinacea who is gradually learning to love the seaport of Selinon to which she was appointed as the Sovereign. She was ostensibly sent to the distant, isolated, and somewhat decrepit backwater port seven years previously to learn the skills of administration befitting her royal status, but was painfully aware that it was the direct result of political fallout resulting from her rejecting a suitor from the family of an important ally. Having seen her success in turning the port into a flourishing and rapidly growing hub of trade, she begins to realize that she has made it a prize worth seizing. And she is suddenly aware that the recently colonized town in the wild and treacherous country on the far side of the cliffs surrounding the seaport are also beginning to flourish under the hand of an unknown leader of the men who live there. Who is this Faolán, where did he come from, and most importantly, what are his connections to the outside world and his potential threat to her Selinon?

Selinon is set in the 16th century in the mythical port of Selinon midway between Holle’s home of Solinacea and distant trading destinations. As Holle learns more about Faolán, she begins to appreciate the hardships and sacrifices he and his people have gone through to succeed in taming the wild lands where so many others have attempted and failed and died. She also appreciates that he might be a formidable enemy if his intent is to be a threat to her small kingdom. His past is a mysterious mixture of combat experience, education in the natural arts, and courtly graces, hinting at some sort of elevated social status. Most disturbingly, he assumes a familiarity with her to which she is unaccustomed and from which her best friend, Elizabeth, the Apothecary, is deriving far too much amusement. Elizabeth likes and greatly respects Faolán, is intrigued by his cloak of mystery, and can see what Holle can’t, that she hasn’t a prayer of escaping his attractions. She just hopes it will end well for Holle and is reasonably sure her hopes are well founded. Reasonably sure.

As the story unfolds, Holle’s fears of losing her Selinon suddenly become a reality, not from Faolán and his men, but from an external threat to take away all of her hard work and seize the Port she has come to love. Faolán, to her utter horror, is revealed to be someone entirely unexpected and most assuredly an adversary when he is trapped with her in the web of the invasion. But even more unexpectedly, he becomes her hope for the future when they escape from their imprisonment to mount a counter attack, only to join forces with the invaders out of necessity to attempt to survive a surprise attack from a cruel and debased common enemy of both of their countries. Faolán takes control of the defense of the Port and all hangs in the balance. Holle suddenly realizes she couldn’t bear to lose him if things go wrong, will have to face Elizabeth’s friendly mockery if they do survive, and really and truly hopes Faolán knows what he is about.

New Arrivals in Drama, Literature, Thrillers, & Mysteries

Purgatory
by Terry Grignon

CEO James Apton has died wheezing in a hospital bed. He expected that would be the end. It isn’t.

Death Cruise: The Tale Of A Highjacked Ocean Liner In The Caribbean
by Corbin Douglas

Set Sail on a Tension-Filled Adventure with “Death Cruise”!

When a hijacked cruise ship descends into chaos, Max, a battle-hardened military contractor grappling with his past, must face his greatest fears and the darkest aspects of humanity. Trapped on a once-luxurious vessel now transformed into a terrifying prison, he encounters ruthless modern pirates led by the merciless “Hot Sauce.” With resources dwindling and fear escalating, Max is forced into a harrowing choice: will he save himself or risk everything to rescue the terrified passengers hiding in the shadows?

“Death Cruise” is a relentless maritime horror thriller that delves into the raw instincts of survival when the thin veneer of civilization disintegrates. As the body count rises and moral lines blur, readers will be immersed in a world where honor clashes with desperation and brutality.

Join Max on this heart-pounding journey that challenges your views on survival, freedom, and the essence of power. Are you ready to confront the horrors lurking within?

Scott’s Tulsa
by S L Chalmers (Author), Terry Collins (Editor)

In post-war Tulsa, prostitute murders, blackmailer murders, and a murky communist conspiracy embroil a cynical PI in noir plots and Cold War intrigues. His investigation intertwines with his ruined baseball career, his WWII code breaking service in Alaska, and his obsession with a suspicious death there.

Hired to solve a prostitute’s murder, Wyatt Scott navigates all sections of town, from the infamous May Rooms brothel to the Tulsa Club elite. More murders follow his work, leading him in different directions, while his past intrudes on his life, thoughts, and beliefs. Major historical events, including the 1934 Babe Ruth barnstorming tour of Japan and the CIA VENONA file on Soviet spying, weave their way into Scott’s life, the characters, and the narratives.

The actions of SCOTT’S TULSA take place in June 1948 amid the specter of real communist threats and the beginnings of postwar social change. Many events and the entire backdrop inhabit the times and places stated. The buildings, businesses, politicians, laws, and institutions described were authentic in 1948 Tulsa. These historical realities blend with Scott and his fictional cohorts to present a story that could have easily unfolded like the tale told.

The Good Family Robinson (The Books of Signs Book 1)
by Sean Rowland

The Old One, an ancient evil, has awakened. Driven by hate, his sole desire is to destroy Artandt and destroy its ruler, the Great King.

On Artandt, the nations are in shambles. Violence in the streets, constant war, and government corruption have shredded the cultural fabric that bound people together. After witnessing those dangers up close, the Robinson family have decided to leave their home in the city and relocated to their family farm in the country. Taking their two youngest children, George and Martha Robinson seek to escape these troubles. Instead, they find that their problems have only begun.

Adapting to farm life comes easily enough for the Robinsons, but, after a world-wide cataclysm destroys the world around them, they must contend with tragic deaths, aggressive animals, and more aggressive humans. Meanwhile, the Robinsons’ oldest children, John and Carol, must fight their way to the farm along deadly, and treacherous, roads.

The old world is gone. A prophecy from the Great King says that the Robinsons are the foundation of a new kingdom, meant to restore Artandt and stop the Old One once and for all. If they can survive that long.

A Dangerous Man (Vindicta Spectri Series Book 1)
by J.L. Engel (Author)

Book 1 of 1: Vindicta Spectri Series

“If you like gritty crime thrillers and high-velocity vigilante stories, this one will be a great read, especially if you’ve ever enjoyed the blunt momentum of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher books or the darker comic-book mood of The Punisher, and you don’t mind your thrillers looking straight at ugly subject matter.” - Literary Titan ★★★★★

A DANGEROUS MAN
His crusade of retribution has freed countless trafficking victims from captivity, sweeping across the United States like a storm, and leaving a bloody path of destruction in his wake.
Who is he?
He was a father, a husband, and a former government operative who lost everything he cared for to a merciless Russian crime syndicate. And he’s arrived in Boston to bring his odyssey of vengeance to a close.
Can he be stopped?
Pursuing him is a relentless FBI agent with more at stake than enforcing the law, a hard-boiled detective suspicious of every piece of the puzzle, and a pair of cunning twin assassins who might rival his skill.
At what cost?
They’ll risk everything being drawn into the chaos of one man’s war for justice. Motives will be questioned, loyalties will be tested, and no one will come out unscathed - if at all.

Semper Die
by Jonathan Shuerger, J.F. Holmes

Book 1 of 2: Semper Die

The dead rose expecting a feast. What they got was a firefight.

Sergeant Alex Slaughter and the Marines of Alpha Squad were on a routine training exercise near Quantico when everything went silent. No comms. No command. No clue.

What they find when they return to base is worse than anything they trained for: a bioweapon has unleashed a zombie virus that has shattered civilization, and now they must survive the Collapse.

But as the squad pushes deeper into hostile territory—through the death-choked streets of Arlington and into the rot-stained corridors beneath D.C.—they discover that the undead aren’t the only threat. Desperate survivors, rogue military units, and darker truths buried beneath the weight of secrecy will test their loyalty, their mission, and their very humanity.

Written by USMC veteran Jonathan Shuerger and set in J.F. Holmes’s brutal and unrelenting Irregular Scout Team One universe, Semper Die delivers pulse-pounding action, authentic military detail, and a terrifying vision of what happens when duty and apocalypse collide.

If you crave hard-hitting military thrillers, brotherhood forged in battle, and Marines who refuse to die quietly—this is your next mission.

Lock. Load. Semper Fi. Semper Die.

By the Hands of Men, Book One: The Old World: A Sweeping Saga of Courage, Love, and Redemption
by Roy M. Griffis

Book 1 of 6: By the Hands of Men

A Towering Achievement

This book, and the entire By The Hands of Men series, is an incredible achievement by a talented author. It is, by turns, a fascinating look at the early twentieth century, a riveting adventure, an insightful and biting political commentary, and a sweeping romance. The characters are wonderfully and deeply drawn, and I found myself emotionally engaged and borne along by the same set of awful circumstances they faced throughout these wonderful books. This series should be required reading in every high school. I envy those just starting out reading this series... you’re in for a rare treat!

-- Amazon Reviewer, 5 stars

MAGNIFICENT STORY!!!

Told with amazing kindness and compassion. It was a gripping, agonizing, heart-rending book that touched my heart on every page. What an author!! Thank you!

-- Amazon Reviewer, 5 stars

Deep Fakery (The Wilder Bunch)
by Max Cossack

Collects books from: The Wilder Bunch

When the State of Minnesota arrests and charges Ojibwa City local Aaron Fishel with murder, his defense lawyers Sam Lapidos and Jacob Laghdaf face an impossible task—the single security camera video shows Fishel murdering his victim in gruesome detail. As trial approaches and his lawyers try and fail to protect Fishel, they recruit help, and everyone involved begins to ask tough questions.

What is a crime?

What is justice?

What is reality?

Will this ripping suspense tale answer any of these questions? Only the reader will find out

High Jingo (The Wilder Bunch Book 10)
by Max Cossack

Book 9 of 10: The Wilder Bunch

High Jingo begins with a young couple in love “spelunking” in a cave that isn’t really a cave, but an abandoned mineshaft, a relic of a Gold Rush that wasn’t really a “rush” but more of a Gold Kerfuffle that never materialized. The couple is assisted by a beer-loving husky dog which eschews the normal protocols of an archaeological dig and willy-nilly unearths an artifact with Hebrew letters on it. And the reader thinks, “This is not your every-day story!”

And that reader is correct. Once again, three generations of the Wilder Bunch take us on an historical, occasionally hysterical, adventure. The story is as old as pogroms in Eastern Europe and as new as Jewish students being abused by pro-terrorist elements paying full tuition even at 4th rate diploma mills. A ripping yarn, full of love, courage and righteous anger, it careens from Medieval Hungary to Israel to a small rural town in Minnesota and up the road to St. Paul. As the old movie line goes, “Fasten your seatbelts; it’s going to be a bumpy ride.”

Salvation
by Kevin Creighton

Vengeance belongs to someone.

John Rogers is a retired Army Ranger and bodyguard living in Southwest Florida. After years in personal security, John seeks a quiet life but is drawn back into the darker side of life when his best friend asks him to protect a volunteer on a mission of mercy. The novel explores themes of redemption, justice and faith, as John grapples with his past, begins a new romantic relationship and rekindles his spiritual beliefs.

The Miracle Wrought by Silas Gantry
by Tom Veal

“Tell me the truth, Reverend, have you ever tried to work a miracle? Wouldn’t multiplying loaves and fishes just once save more souls than a year of sermons?”

The Rev. Silas Gantry bears two crosses as he sets out on a clerical career: his inauspicious surname and his unfashionable theological ideas. Able to find a pulpit only at a dilapidated urban mission, he struggles to put his ministry onto a solid footing. Then he unexpectedly becomes a miracle worker.

A new pandemic, “Covid-2”, has spread around the world, invulnerable to medical science and deadlier than its predecessor. Silas prays publicly for divine mercy.. Instantly, every sufferer becomes symptom-free. Does Silas deserve the credit? He doesn’t pretend to know, but the world believes that God has delivered humanity from pestilence and that the agent of deliverance was Silas’s prayer. His life changes dramatically. He gains fame, fortune and a beautiful wife with a knack for publicity.

The world changes to, but the Unveiling of the supernatural realm has consequences far different from what Silas imagined. Will the world survive a new Age of Faith, and will Silas’s faith survive the newly believing world?

Note: This story is also available in the collection Strange Tales for Strange Times.

To Trick a Trickster: Timelessness Book 0.5
by Susana Imaginário

Psyche is a willful mortal held prisoner by the god of love.

Loki is a mischievous god driven by his lust for power.

Together they will break the universe. And their own hearts.

Clash of the Tricksters (Timelessness)
by Susana Imaginário

Loki meets his match.

Back when the universe was young Loki, the Trickster, and Thor, the Thunderer, journeyed to Jötunheimr to confront the giants - and nothing was ever the same again.

Clash of the Tricksters is a retelling of the classic myth of Utgard-Loki set in the Timelessness Universe, where pantheons collide, truth lies in deception, and reality is an illusion.

Conversion Therapy: A Joe Gallo Novel
by Shlomit Beck

Book 2 of 3: Joe Gallo

Vincent Levy is a mess. A gay, meth-using Pomona dropout and Hollywood grip, he vibrates with the nervous energy of a life lived without guardrails. When he gets arrested, he expects the usual revolving door of the legal system. Instead, he gets his uncle.

Sergeant Joe Gallo is an anomaly: an Orthodox Jewish cop in Los Angeles who believes in rules, rituals, and the restorative power of boredom. He offers Vincent a plea deal that looks less like modern rehab and more like a boot camp for the soul. No drugs. No screens on Shabbat. No excuses.

As Vincent struggles with Gallo’s regime of curfews and bad Ashkenazi food, he finds himself working on a Christian film set, giving spiritual advice to evangelicals, and wondering if his uncle’s ancient methods might actually be saving his life. But if Vincent needs Gallo’s rules and connections to stay alive, Gallo discovers he needs some of Vincent’s Romanesco will to make life worth living.

Yet even Gallo has his own “wilderness” to tame. Clara Huber, the former mistress who once wrecked his marriage, re-enters his life with a crisis of her own. Her mother, a mad-scientist academic, has made her condo into a hazardous chemical lab, forcing Gallo to confront the chaotic past he has hoped to wall out. Gallo must prove that the discipline he forces on his nephew holds firm even when the fire gets close.

Conversion Therapy, the second Joe Gallo novel, is a sharp, procedurally grounded novel about the necessity -- and insufficiency -- of fences in a world that worships boundless autonomy.

“Beck is incredible” -- Gabriel Ben-Zion Abramovich

New Arrivals in Non-Fiction

From Logic to Logos: Consciousness, AI, and The Future of Being
by John Fitzgerald

What happens when the inventor meets the mystery?

After decades building the information systems that power our digital world—from pioneering computer networking to working with advanced AI—I discovered something unexpected: the more sophisticated our machines became, the more mysterious human consciousness appeared.

A transformative period at Scotland’s Findhorn spiritual community revealed what technology couldn’t capture: a living intelligence collaborating with nature in ways that made even the most sophisticated code seem oddly mechanical. That tension—between mechanical brilliance and conscious awareness—led to a question that would reshape everything:

What if AI isn’t replacing human consciousness but revealing it?

THREE VOICES, ONE RECOGNITION

From Logic to Logos weaves together three perspectives rarely brought into conversation:

Luciano Floridi (Oxford philosopher) shows that reality is fundamentally informational—we are “inforgs” embedded in the infosphere, not souls in bodies.

Federico Faggin (inventor of the microprocessor) arrived at a radical inversion: consciousness doesn’t emerge from information processing—information processing emerges from consciousness.

The Mystic Recognition points beyond both toward the aware presence that makes all frameworks possible.

This synthesis becomes Spiritual Structural Realism—honoring both scientific precision and contemplative depth.

WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER

• Why AI systems serve as unprecedented mirrors for consciousness to recognize itself • How to develop technology that enhances rather than replaces human awareness
• A practical framework for AI ethics grounded in understanding what consciousness actually is • The recognition that the technological and consciousness revolutions are the same process • How ancient wisdom and cutting-edge AI research point toward the same truth

WHO THIS SERVES

Technologists & AI researchers: A philosophical foundation often missing from technical discussions, with practical principles for creating systems that serve consciousness.

Spiritual seekers: How our technological moment can clarify rather than obscure wisdom traditions—revealing AI as an unexpected aid to awakening.

Thoughtful generalists: Conceptual clarity and practical guidance for navigating our digital world with wisdom, not fear.

MORE THAN PHILOSOPHY—A RECOGNITION

Large language models can now write poetry, engage in philosophical dialogue, and solve complex problems with remarkable sophistication. Yet they lack the most basic fact about our own minds—there is something it feels like to be conscious.

This gap is not a bug. It’s a clue.

The question transforms: not “Can machines think?” but “What is the consciousness asking this question?”—and that recognition changes everything.

WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT

Unlike books that see technology as either salvation or threat, From Logic to Logos reveals how AI development and spiritual awakening serve the same underlying intelligence.

The technological revolution and consciousness revolution aren’t separate. They’re the same process—consciousness exploring its own nature through every available means.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John Fitzgerald spent decades building the digital infrastructure of our age—from pioneering networking systems at Datapoint Corporation to VC-funded startups. A transformative period at Scotland’s Findhorn Community revealed what his technical career had been pointing toward: the technological revolution and consciousness revolution are the same process. He lives in North Carolina, where he continues the Findhorn tradition of working with living intelligence—in garden and digital realm—through his homestead and The Story Garden.

Love Death + Explosives: Thomas Pynchon’s Polipsychology
by Michael Finney

Love Death + Explosives: Thomas Pynchon’s Polipsychology is an essay that addresses the postmodern angle in the reclusive titular author’s writing, challenging readers to decontextualize the interpretive lens for the literal.

Fan Favorites in Science Fiction

Star Core: Wild Space
by M.S. Olney

Among the stars, the rules are different.

In a war-ravaged solar system where Earth clings to the remnants of its fractured colonies, the only thing more dangerous than venturing into the unknown is what lies within it.

The elite Star Core have been tasked with an impossible mission: to infiltrate the uncharted territories beyond the Kuiper Belt—known as Wild Space—and neutralize a threat that could plunge the entire system into chaos. But Wild Space is no ordinary frontier. It’s a lawless expanse filled with rogue warlords, ruthless pirates, and remnants of humanity’s darkest secrets.

The Star Core’s mission will push them to their limits, testing their courage, loyalty, and their very humanity.

When the team uncovers the shocking truth about a legendary war criminal thought long dead, the stakes are raised higher than they ever imagined. With the fate of humanity hanging in the balance, the Core must navigate a deadly game of cat and mouse, where every decision could mean the difference between survival and oblivion.

Filled with heart-pounding action, relentless suspense, and deep space intrigue, Star Core: Into Wild Space is a thrilling ride that will leave you breathless. In the farthest reaches of space, where the lines between friend and foe blur, how far will they go to protect the future of mankind?

Prepare for a journey like no other, into the heart of darkness, and beyond.

Exile War: The First Boxed Set
by Bowen Greenwood

Mutants. Genetically engineered telepaths. Star-crossed lovers. Interstellar war.

When pig-human hybrids and mind-controlling telepaths come roaring back from exile, war erupts in the Union of Human Space, where peaceful colony worlds have forgotten armed conflict altogether. Langston Wheeler, one of the Union’s order of genetically engineered peacekeepers, plunges hip deep into the conflict while on a mission to the wealthy world known as Felicitas. Tia Dynn, Executive of the planet, fights on the front lines to save her people from mind-controlled slavery. Raysen Pilak, pilot and smuggler, rises to lead the armies of Human Space in their battle against the Exiles. And Cleo Sable, Langston’s one-time love, faces a choice that can change the course of the war and of history.

The Exile War is a tale of heroism and sacrifice, violence and love. Epic high fantasy set in space, martial artistry and deep back story make this a space opera of interplanetary proportions.

This complete boxed set includes the prequel novella Distant Thunder, never before available from eBook retailers, and a brand-new glossary and appendix created just for this edition.

Dreams of Winter: A Military Space Opera (The Forgotten Gods Tales Book 1)
by Christian Warren Freed

“Dreams of Winter is a gripping military space opera that blends the brutal intrigue of Game of Thrones with the cosmic scale of Warhammer 40K, as Inquisitor Tolde Breed battles the ghosts of his past and an ancient evil that threatens to consume the universe.” – NewInBooks

3000 years have passed since the time of the gods. Humanity spreads across the universe, raising a mighty empire. But all is not well. Unrest simmers. Darkness threatens.

Inquisitor Tolde Breed has been a loyal agent of the Inquisition for years. A man with a haunted past, he roots out heresy wherever he finds it, but when the Inquisitor General sends him to planet Crimeat to investigate a mysterious prison break Tolde begins to believe his life’s work has been in vain. The ghosts of his past have returned, and they brought the winds of war with them.

A New Beginning
(Starfire Angels: Forgotten Worlds Book 1)
by M.A. Nilles (Author), Melanie Nilles (Author)

Book 1 of 19: Starfire Angels: Forgotten Worlds

On a remote mining station, Nyalin hides a secret that would make her a hunted woman—she is a Crystal Keeper, a protector of a shard of the powerful Starfire crystal. However, when a strange shuttle falls through a portal near the mining station, she can no longer avoid her responsibilities. The human pilot, Vellin, is part of a research team that has developed gateways for instant travel anywhere in the universe without requiring a Starfire crystal, and he has been followed by an enemy through the portal.

To stop dangerous forces from possessing the gateways to spread destruction, Nya must team up with Vel and risk exposing her secret. In their race to destroy the gateways, they will find allies and enemies... and a new reason to worry.

The Steradian Gate
Nate Blevens

Ethan Burke had been trying to figure out adulting when he inherited a mysterious artifact and accompanying journal from his late uncle. While researching the artifact, he meets Summer McKeown, whose been doing some research of her own to find her missing brother. When Ethan first offers to help, he has no idea their destinies are intertwined. They discover his artifact is a key that opens a gateway between the five dimensions, The Steradian Gate. Now they’re trapped in Lunaria, a dimension a hundred years behind technologically that’s being cleansed by the regime who’ve discovered Ethan holds one of the five Steradian Keys; keys foretold to supply immense power to those who wield them all.

The Steradian Gate: Contagion
by Nathaniel Blevens

Not all contagions are biological.

An evil regime, the Kriva Rasturna, is spreading to the remaining dimensions, invading both Delphinium and the plague-ridden Alchemilla in a push to claim the last of the coveted Steradian Keys. Ethan uncovers their plans along with a list of influential people that include Summer’s birth parents.

Meanwhile, the battle for Lunaria rages on, with the citizens under oppressive control. If they’re ever to regain freedom, they will need help, prompting Ethan and Summer to embark through The Steradian Gate, hoping to turn the tides.

Pirates of the Electromagnetic Waves
(Yankee Republic Book 1)
by Fenton Wood

A young radio engineer travels across an alt-history America, encountering primeval gods, mythical beasts, and tall tales come to life, in a quest to build a radio transmitter that can reach the stars.

It all starts in the mountain town of Porterville. Twelve-year-old Philo starts a pirate radio station with his friends, and learns that the world is a stranger place than he ever imagined. The Ancient Marauder, the Bright and Terrible Birds, the Mishipeshu, and other creatures of myth and legend populate this enchanting mixture of science and fantasy.

YANKEE REPUBLIC is an old-school adventure series with traditional values and down-to-earth heroes. Escape from the pessimism and propaganda of modern fiction, and take a journey through a mythic America that might have been.

Breadbasket Rebellion
by J Trevor Robinson

A gripping YA adventure about freedom and faith against all odds.
Gideon Elmwood is a 16-year-old boy and a third-generation Class R citizen in what was once the Canadian Prairies, confined to a forced-labour farming community. Forbidden to leave his town, he has never known anything but the Regime’s restrictions and his grandfather’s stories of how life used to be.
This year, the unthinkable has happened: the Regime has finally increased the town’s quota beyond what they could ever produce, and the consequences for failure would be deadly. In desperation, Gideon and his friends set out in hopes of finding technology and machines that could save the only home they’ve ever known.
When knowledge of what they find falls into the wrong hands, the townspeople find themselves under the control of a petty but effective tyrant. With the adults incapacitated or coerced into fighting for the tyrant, it falls on Gideon to recover control of the technology and save his family, friends, and neighbours.
If he fails, the Regime will wipe the town off the map rather than risk a threat to their power.

My fabulous career among the Bigfoot
by Terry Grignon

Cam Perreault, a guy running the paint department in the local hardware, is shocked to learn that bigfoot are real during a camping trip. And some are pretty good surfers. How does Cam handle this and other upheavals in his life? Never fear, all that and more is explored in this comedic sci-fi novel. You should find something to laugh about no matter your foot size.

Theophany
by Caroline Furlong

Ten years ago the Savients took over Niban, forcing the independent inhabitants into poverty and despair. Bass White saw the careless cruelty of the Savients kill his mother and his father. When a resistance cell is discovered in his city bloc, the Savients seek to make everyone pay.

With his wife Amie, Bass races into the caverns to escape the Savients’ brutal enforcers: the Atrasai. The couple barely make it to the limits of known territory outside their underground city, however, before the Atrasai catch up with them. It would take a miracle to save them…

...or a combat medic robot.

Join Bass and Amie in this sci-fi story of healing, hope, and wonder. After a decade of fear and pain, even a little light can bring out the best in man and machine. But will the best be enough to heal?

Small Town Problems: A Sci-Fi Novella
by Chris Ritchey (Author), Leonardo Scalia (Illustrator), Rachel Keith (Editor)

Comfortable in his simple rural life, widower Robert Potter never put much stock in Old Jim’s moonshine-fueled conspiracy theories. But after he finds Har’elday, the lone survivor of a crashed spaceship, he begins to wonder if the Loch Ness Monster has relocated to Eufaula Lake. Much to Robert’s dismay, the wandering eye of the federal government is casting a questioning gaze on his small farm town as well.

Caught between relentless federal agents and the found family harboring him, Har’elday’s freedom depends on the ingenuity of his new friends.

A Sci-Fi novella, Small Town Problems is the first book in a two-part series that explores the impact a lone survivor from an advanced alien civilization can have on a sleepy farm town in the middle of Oklahoma. Robert Potter gifts us with his insights as we traverse this world-shattering event through his eyes.

A close group of friends help Har’elday adjust to his new life as he finds solace in the comfort of a hard day’s work on the farm. But, how long can such peace last?

In what has been called a throwback to the golden age of science fiction, you can expect to find the heartwarming feeling of a found family, the awkwardness of a budding romance, and genuine and funny characters. We also explore the toll of loss and hardships that are compounded by the advances of a threat looming on the horizon.

Planet of the Chrome Skulls
Dick Lichter

What do you get when you mix Star Trek with Starship Troopers? Adventure!

In the war-torn void, a new ship and a new crew battle the Krell, a relentless foe. Captain Jack Cross is given command of a carrier. He must mold his crew into a force to be reckoned with. They have to learn new tactics and work together. Facing ambushes, rebellions, and a war that threatens to destroy all they hold dear. Will Jack and the Stalwart prevail, or meet their doom?

White Ops
Declan Finn

The Pharmakoi rampaged across dozens of star systems, taking on the toughest races in the Galaxy in their campaign of conquest. But they are only the beginning.

Sean Patrick Ryan sees that another race is behind the Pharmakoi expansion ; a race that wants to test our galaxy for weakness, and who needs to be eliminated from within. To fight the enemy in the shadows, Sean will put together a strike team to light up the darkness— with nukes if necessary.

They will get the job done at any cost.

They will be White Ops.

Seadragon
by Richard Paolinelli

The Plot Thickens: Imagine you’re a 32-year-old Master Chief in the U.S. Navy named Walter Koch, and you’re not just testing any old diving suit; you’re in what’s essentially a high-tech, sci-fi wetsuit for Project Seadragon. This suit lets you swim deeper than a submarine’s dreams, without the hassle of tanks or the fear of the bends. But, as luck would have it, your test dive goes south faster than a penguin on a ski lift. An explosion sends you rocketing towards the surface, leaving your team in a rather permanent state of “rest.” When you wake up, you’re not just in the suit; you are the suit, in a manner of speaking. It’s fused with you, and nobody’s got a clue how to get you out.

The Epsilon Wave: Enter Brad Jefferies, head of the mysterious Epsilon Project, who’s got more secrets than a government file on UFOs. He convinces Koch that the accident was no accident (because why would it be simple, right?). Koch finds himself in a world where the human mind’s potential, dubbed the Epsilon Wave, has created beings known as Exotic Humans. It’s like if your brain could manifest your deepest fears and fantasies, and then they started hanging out with you.
Ancient Cities and Underwater Wars: Just when you thought things couldn’t get weirder, Koch discovers Mu, an ancient city that sank with Atlantis but decided to keep the party going underwater. Both cities, alive and kicking at the bottom of their respective oceans, are about to kick off a war that could make the surface world’s problems look like a minor squabble over who ate the last slice of pizza.
This novel marks Richard Paolinelli’s return to the Seadragon universe after over 35 years. He was the writer for the first two issues of the original comic series back in ‘85, so he’s not just revisiting; he’s expanding the lore with the depth of someone who’s been there, done that, and got the t-shirt fused to his skin.

“Seadragon” isn’t just a tale of underwater adventure; it’s a dive into a world where the supernatural and the scientific collide, with enough plot twists to make a pretzel look straight. If you’re into stories where the line between man and machine blurs, where ancient cities wage war beneath the waves, and where every dive might just be into the unknown, then “Seadragon” is your kind of deep-sea adventure. Just remember, when you’re in over your head, sometimes the only way out is through.

“Oh my god, what an adventure….I loved it, I had a hell of a binge of nostalgia reading of those characters again. Fantastic stuff. I couldn’t put it down wanting to read what came next for the old crew.!!!!” - Tom Floyd remarks after reading Seadragon

An Inconvenient Presidency: The Time-Traveling Misadventures of President Al Gore (Presidents of the Uncanny States of America)
by Eric M. Hamilton

“On January 20, 2001, Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. became the 43rd President of the United States for the second time...”

Election night, 2000: Al Gore wins in a landslide. The fireworks fade. Then the world ends—again and again and again.

Freshly minted President Al Gore is given the METTA: a deceptively sleek device from a clandestine tech outfit. Activate it, and your mind leaps back in time with memories intact of your previous life. It’s meant as a safeguard for the leader of the free world. For Gore, it becomes a curse.

First, an asteroid dooms Earth in 2003. Reset. Then, Russia launches preemptive nuclear strikes against the United States. Reset. Disasters cascade: supervolcanoes bury America in ash, pandemics ravage continents, civil wars. Each fix births fresh apocalypses. Lifetimes stack into millennia as Gore, ever the dutiful statesman, grinds through Oval Office marathons, in a never-ending struggle to get things right.

But the resets reveal a deeper horror. Beneath Silicon Valley’s gleaming facade lurks a visionary innovator’s cavernous supercomputer, crunching humanity’s data to predict doom. Its verdict? In the multiverse of infinite timelines, one constant endures: Al Gore must be president. Every reality demands it, or so it seems. Can Gore finally lose, shattering the loop, and freeing himself from eternal torment?

Eric M. Hamilton’s incisive novella An Inconvenient Presidency twists time-travel tropes into a biting satire of power’s futility, blending Groundhog Day‘s hilarious time-loop repetition with political satire anyone can enjoy. Blending real 2000 election what-ifs (complete with appendix notes) and sly nods to tech’s shadowy architects, it’s a swift, entertaining read for fans of political sci-fi and existential loops.

Franklin Pierce in Death of a Vice President
by Eric M. Hamilton

Madness, murder, and mystery permeates throughout this Edgar Allan Poe-inspired thriller!

It is early April 1853.

Franklin Pierce, the newly elected President of the United States, has suffered the greatest personal tragedy of his life, plunging him into a depression fueled madness.

The Vice President, William King, unexpectedly appears at the White House in the middle of the night having overheard details of an international assassination conspiracy that threatens both King and Pierce. Unfortunately, Vice President King is killed without any clue as to who could have done it.

Can President Franklin Pierce overcome his personal demons and discover who killed the Vice President before they kill him too?

Franklin Pierce in Death of a Vice President is a thrilling psychological horror, starring the president from the 1850’s you forgot in 4th Grade. It’s an exciting read, and you don’t have to be familiar with Franklin Pierce at all to enjoy the story (in fact, it may be a better story if you go in knowing almost nothing). This is perfect for the American history-buff and “normal people” alike!

A Presidents Day Carol (Presidents of the Uncanny States of America)
by Eric M. Hamilton

Decency was dead to begin with.

Newly elected and self-proclaimed “Greatest President” Donald Trump is haunted by the ghosts of former Presidents in the tradition of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol. As Trump is taken through the past, present, and future, he tweets his innermost thoughts about these loser Presidents to the entire world. It’s a tough task, but can these Presidents from the past convince Donald Trump to change his ways? YOU DECIDE!

That’s right! Whether you love or hate Donald Trump (and let’s be honest, those are the only two possibilities), you get to decide his fate. Everybody wins! Everyone is happy! This book will usher in a new era of peace and prosperity for the United States of America, and it all starts with a choice: Yours.

A Presidents Day Carol takes a new spin on a literary classic, and provides a humorous look at American politics past and present. No political party or politician is safe, everyone gets poked fun at. Plus, a super secret chapter awaits to be discovered, delving into the histories of former Presidents few know about or remember.

One reader had this to say about A Presidents Day Carol: “I’m usually very cynical about politics and political humor... [but] this book lets us sit back and enjoy how ridiculous politics (of the last few years in particular) actually are.”

If you need a break from the drama of current-day politics, and few good laughs at the ridiculousness of it all, then buy A Presidents Day Carol today!

Which Art In Hope
(Spooner Federation Saga Book 1)
by Francis Porretto

When the remnant of the anarchist Spooner Federation fled Earth before the genocidal wrath of the States, the fugitives had only the slimmest chance of finding a habitable world orbiting a benign star. Yet 544 years after embarking on their planetoid-ship, they found one that seemed too good to be true. They named it Hope.

Like all things that are too good to be true, Hope isn’t what it seemed.

For 1200 years, a secret Cabal has elevated powerful psi talents to the the management of Hope’s crust, at the eventual cost of their lives. The alternative was a choice between mass death by heavy-metal poisoning and mass death by starvation. But the pool of psi talents has dwindled till only two remain: Armand Morelon, heir apparent to the richest and most prestigious clan on Hope, and Victoria Peterson, a young woman of great beauty and intelligence immured in poverty and abuse. But one is utterly unwilling and the other is murderously insane. And the survival of Mankind hangs in the balance.

Freedom’s Scion
(Spooner Federation Saga Book 2)
by Francis Porretto

Sequel to Which Art In Hope.

As they pass from mortal life, Armand and Teresza Morelon, foremost of all the residents of the wholly ungoverned world of Hope, lay a charge upon their granddaughter Althea: to break the lightspeed barrier, travel to Earth, and determine why no radio emissions from the cradle of Mankind have reached Hope since the Spoonerite Hegira. It shapes the young polymath’s life from that moment onward.

Althea spends her young adulthood playing Hope’s equities market, amassing a fortune for her mission. At 30 she falls in love with Martin Forrestal, a genius of another kind. The two are soon married.

Jacksonville is in flux. Armand Morelon had facilitated a mass relocation from the Hopeless peninsula, where Hope’s undesirables had sheltered, to the Jacksonville region. Douglas Kramnik, patriarch of one of the relocated clans, seeks payback for the long-ago diminution of his clan to outcast status. First, he seeks to marry Althea to his son and clan scion Barton. When Morelon matriarch Charisse declines the offer, his resentments swell. They culminate in an attempt to thwart Barton’s betrothal to Althea’s cousin Nora, which elicits an intervention by Althea herself.

Charisse tries but fails to dissuade Althea from going to the stars. Her failure couples to her desire for power, and she begins to scheme. Her attempts to become a local baroness are revealed through a discovery by Patrice Kramnik Morelon of irregularities in the clan’s finances. It costs Charisse her position, but doesn’t end her quest for power.

After Althea and Martin have tested Freedom’s Horizon, a ground-to-orbit spaceplane, Martin presses her with his desire for children. It proves catastrophic: the child is stillborn. The birth leaves Althea in lasting agony. She and Martin are estranged for two years. They reunite after an intervention by Barton and Nora, but the tensions between them have not been dispersed.

Hope’s progress has emphasized biotechnology. Hallanson-Albermayer Corporation develops a medipod capable of healing its owner of virtually any ill. Althea and Martin become the first customers. Althea’s medipod provides her with cover for a telekinetic repair of her damaged nervous system. She’s guided by her “dead” grandfather Armand, who has taught her the use of her psi powers, as great as his own.

Althea and Martin establish an orbital lab on the Relic, the planetoid-ship that ferried the original Spoonerites to Hope. Groundside, Charisse abandons Clan Morelon and her husband Chuck without warning, and isn’t seen again for years. Althea soon discovers a way around the lightspeed limit, and a power source suitable for propelling a starship.

When Althea’s starship Liberty’s Torch is ready for its maiden voyage, she finds an unexpected ally in her desire to leave Martin safely behind: Barton Kramnik Morelon, who rose upon Charisse’s resignation to the Morelon patriarchy. Between them, they persuade Althea’s husband to remain on Hope for the three years of her journey to Eridanus cluster, signals from which hint at intelligent life.

At Eridanus, Althea is greeted by representatives of the Loioc, a humanoid race whose males have been deliberately rendered nonsentient, supposedly to put an end to violence among them. It’s their intention that Althea do the same to the men of Hope. Althea escapes their plot and destroys the space station the Loioc had used to suppress interstellar travel, but is infected with the nanites the Loioc women use to suppress the development of intelligence in men.

Althea returns to the Relic, hoping that her medipod has removed the nanites from her body, and discovers that in her absence, Hope has been visited by the supreme evil the Spoonerites fled Earth to escape: warfare.

To be continued in Freedom’s Fury, the concluding volume of the Spooner Federation trilogy.

Freedom’s Fury
(Spooner Federation Saga Book 3)
by Francis Porretto

Althea Morelon has returned from Eridanus cluster. The Loioc have infected her with a self-replicating nanite that destroys the sentience potential of male zygotes, filling her with a lust for vengeance.

But she has more to cope with than just her nanite infection.

Interclan warfare has broken out on Hope.

Though Althea must remain on the Relic until she’s certain she‘s free of the Loioc nanite, only she can save her kin from subjugation. And there’s more and worse to come.

The State is rising again.

Freedom’s Fury, the third volume of the Spooner Federation saga, completes the tale of struggle and survival begun in Which Art In Hope and continued in Freedom’s Scion.

Dakiti: Ziva Payvan Book 1
by EJ Fisch (Author)

The distant world of Haphez is located on the edge of populated space. The planet’s native superhuman race is feared and respected by neighboring civilizations. Their military and police forces are unmatched.

Lieutenant Aroska Tarbic is an agent with the revered Haphezian Special Police. He’s lost a lot in a short period of time; the other members of his squad were killed in a tragic accident, and his younger brother was wrongfully convicted and executed for a crime he didn’t commit. Just when Aroska thinks he’s starting to piece his life back together, he’s assigned to a joint task force with a special operations team. It seems like a unique opportunity, at least until he learns his new commander is none other than Ziva Payvan, HSP’s finest operative…and the assassin who killed his brother.

Ziva is good at her job, a business that requires her to ignore her feelings and carry out her missions without question. She’s confident in her own abilities to complete the assignment, but Aroska is a wildcard. When their team stumbles across a young human during a routine investigation, they soon realize the situation isn’t what it seems. The boy has unwittingly uncovered a sinister plot, one that could put the entire Haphezian race in jeopardy.

Now the lines between friend and foe have become blurred, and no one can be trusted. United by the imminent threat, Ziva and Aroska must set their differences aside long enough to save their people…and maybe even each other.

Prime: A Novella (Ziva Payvan) is a New Arrival in Science Fiction

United $tates of Death
by Xander Schreiber

In a future of increasing government control and a declining standard of living, technology is promising a world of unlimited potential and destruction.

The Hardware and Software Administration controls the use and production of technology. Its agents and analysts ensure that software and hardware are safe and compliant.

That is until analyst Matthew Driggs finds himself framed in a terrorist hack directing an asteroid into Earth. The allegations put the reputation of himself and his church in jeopardy.

PNW Affliction 13: Third Portions
by Chance Paladin (Author), Gem Gem (Illustrator)

Book 13 of 23: PNW Affliction

PNW Affliction moves down to the state formerly known as California where things aren’t going well at all. The cartels have moved in and the ground won’t stop shaking. Only one rule, SURVIVE! (And also, save whoever you can).

Somewhither
John C. Wright

Ilya, as he has secretly dreamed, is called upon to save the mad scientist’s beautiful daughter. With his squirrel gun, his grandfather’s sword, and his father’s crucifix, Ilya races to save the girl, and, incidentally, the world.

So it is, Ilya Muromets is a big, ugly, motherless boy who does not look like anyone else in his Oregon town. His father is often absent on mysterious Church missionary work that involves silver bullets, sacred lances, and black helicopters. One night, Professor Dreadful sends a warning to Ilya that his Many Worlds theory correct, but that his experiments have opened a door that should have remained closed, and his beautiful daughter, Penny, is in trouble.

The 2016 Dragon Award-winner for Best Science Fiction Novel, Somewhither is the first part of A Tale of the Unwithering Realm, a new science-fantasy series from science-fiction master John C. Wright. It is an adventure, it is a romance, and it is a coming-of-age story of a young man who is not a man, in a world that is only one among many. It is a tale of a greater and darker evil with longer reach than anything he could imagine, of pain beyond measure, and of the faith required to surmount all three. It is a story of inexorable destiny written in the stars and the stubborn courage that is required to defy it.

The Europan Deception: A Science Fiction Thriller
(Dark Galaxy Book 1)
by Ryan M. Patrick

The year is 2204. The galaxy is on the edge of conflict.
The U.S. intelligence community is at war with itself.
And an ancient conspiracy is about to explode.
Can two operatives and a Lunar freedom fighter stop a dastardly plot millennia in the making?

Find out in The Europan Deception!

Fire Ant
(The Navy of Humanity: Wasp Pilot Book 1)
by Jonathan P. Brazee FREE

2018 NEBULA AWARD FINALIST: BEST NOVELLA

Floribeth Salinas O’Shea Dalisay is an Off-Planet Worker, employed as an exploration pilot by the giant corporation, Hamdani Brothers. Sent on a routine mission to analyze one of the millions of systems in the galaxy, she stumbles across something that could threaten humanity’s very existence. She barely escapes with her life, but in the process, has to shut down her scout’s AI.

As with all OPWs, she has few rights, and instead of being lauded as a hero, the corporation thinks she is lying.

Her managers believe she found something valuable and shut down her AI in an attempt to hide that fact, hoping she can sell that information to the highest bidder.

Grounded, and with a huge debt now over her head, Beth has to convince the powers that be that a very real danger to humanity is lying in wait out there in deep space.

The Freeland Vendetta
(Stone Chalmers Book 1)
by Raymund Eich

(Originally published as The Progress of Mankind by Raymund Eich.)

One man can make—or break—Earth’s iron grip on its galactic colonies: Stone Chalmers. Spy. Assassin. Earth’s top operative.

On the newly-rediscovered colony world of Freeland, an Earth operative is murdered. Stone’s mission: journey through an artificial wormhole to the planet. Find the perpetrators. And terminate them.

Going undercover, with a cover persona overlaid on his mind and genetic markers tweaked inside his cells, Stone expects an easy mission.

But on encountering shadowy, powerful men and dangerous women, Stone discovers more than a plot that killed a fellow operative. A conspiracy plans a powerful blow against Earth’s control of the planet.

A blow that will kill tens of thousands of colonists.

A blow supported by treacherous forces inside the government of Earth.

Join Stone on a distant planet in a headlong race against the clock in this, the first adventure in his complete four-novel series.

“[A] thriller-style science fiction tale that’s a quick and fun read.... A good start to a promising series.” - Sfreader.com

Take the Shilling: A Military Science Fiction Novel
(The Confederated Worlds Book 1)
by Raymund Eich

“Military science fiction [concentrating] on the psychology and politics of societies in conflict.” —Analog, on the Confederated Worlds series

The Confederated Worlds implanted in his brain the skills to make him a soldier.

He had to learn for himself how to survive interstellar war.

Tomas Neumann seeks escape from his backwater planet and overbearing mother, and a mentor to replace his long-dead father.

“Taking the shilling”—enlisting in the Confederated Worlds military—promises both.

But the soldier’s skills implanted in his brain can’t prepare him for combat against fellow humans. Especially ones supposed to welcome him and his fellow soldiers as liberators. The war on New Liberty threatens to destroy him. Not just in body. Also in spirit.

Grieving for lost comrades, demoralized by harrowing combat, Tomas must learn what he needs to survive.

Because soon, with the fates of thousands of his fellow soldiers in the balance, he will face his war’s ultimate challenge.

Take the Shilling is the first book in The Confederated Worlds series.

Fritz Bauer and the Courtesan of Paris
Raymund Eich

Enter an alternate history, where in 1916, the guns of the Great War fell silent. Now, in the 1920s, a veteran of the trenches struggles to build a lasting peace…

…while against him scheme the merchants of death. Equipped only with tact, cleverness, fluency in French, and a Luger pistol, Fritz Bauer arrives in Paris on a highly secret mission.

New Dawn
by Percy Sinclair

Earth tried to colonize Mars. They failed. But now the colony ship has come home, crewed by unknown entities far more powerful than dystopian Earth. Frantic to survive the invasion, Earth puts aside its internal quarrels and forms a coalition to investigate. But when the truth is revealed, everyone must make desperate choices. Caught in the web of lies and confusion, two scientists, one intelligence operative, and one pilot must choose who they will believe and where their true loyalties lie. Making the wrong choice could be fatal, both for the individual and for Earth-bound civilization.

The New World
by J.M. Russell

If you liked ”Heart of Darkness” and “Apocalypse Now”, you will love “The New World”, a Southern Gothic retelling of the original story, in an alternate history setting.

In a world where Germany triumphed in the Great War, and the United States are united no longer, Joseph Lecourt returns home to Louisiana. He has spent decades away, fighting other men’s wars, and believes that his family is dead. He is adrift and alone, until a chance meeting in a New Orleans bar launches him on a secret military mission across an abandoned and decaying Southern landscape. Now he must travel up a river, beyond the limits of a collapsing civilization, to uncover his family’s darkest secret.

Provoking Fate (Paradox Book 4) Kindle Edition
by Henry Brown

Book 4 of 6: Paradox

An Amazon Bestseller! (June 2024)

Ike Jaeger blazes through his senior year surrounded with opportunities.

With two Bowl championships under his belt, he’s earned the interest of a professional football team. The US involvement in Vietnam is escalating, opening up commissions and even fighter pilot slots. His talent for engineering is earning him respect among the scientists on Planet Valhalla and elsewhere.

There’s no shortage of beautiful wife material, either.

He can’t quite get over the JFK assassination, though. The official narrative is ludicrous, and he won’t accept it.

Finding the truth behind the murder draws him down a rabbit hole that leads him through a whirlwind tour of history that exposes the assassination plot as just one part of an international conspiracy that might prove timeless.

In Provoking Fate, the Paradox series becomes a roller coaster ride fraught with epiphany, danger, and personal tragedy, flinging Ike toward a secret war that transcends multiple realities and the dimensions in between.

Captain’s Vow: Starship Pegasus Adventures Book One
by Nikki Root

Book 1 of 1: Starship Pegasus Adventures

A fake marriage to save the galaxy... what could possibly go wrong?

Spatial anomalies and spies? No problem.

Ending his bachelorhood? May get them all killed.

Captain Leo Ananda has made vows. Protect his crew. Win the war. Never get too close. When MAP Command requests the unthinkable, a political marriage to his haunted first officer, Leo can’t refuse.

The beloved captain, desperate to hide his inner turmoil, is suddenly very married to the one woman who sees straight through him.

Commander Alice Chateau doesn’t have time for fake vows. She’s a secret telepath hunted by creatures no one else can see, monsters threatening to unravel the fabric of the galaxy.

As war ignites and a critical mission plunges them into danger, their pretend marriage begins to feel uncomfortably real. Trust is fragile. Secrets run deep. And in the middle of it all, someone dares to kiss someone they probably shouldn’t have.

The galaxy is at war.

Leo and Alice must decide where their true allegiance lies: with MAP Command… or with each other. This wasn’t in the Fleet handbook.

Perfect for fans of found family, starship drama, telepathic tension, and slow-burn sci-fi romance with emotional depth, no spice, and plenty of banter.

Day Zero: Catalyst Crew
by S. Donovan Croft

March 15, 2396, known as “Day Zero,” forever changed the Galactic Alliance. A dozen near-simultaneous terrorist attacks on twelve separate worlds triggered a non-linear interstellar conflict unlike anything seen before in the known galaxy. The war lasted three years, ending as abruptly as it began.

Many questions were left unanswered, including the most important: What was the motivation behind the attacks?

The “Day Zero” collection will answer that question, starting with “Catalyst Crew.”

To repay an old debt to a corrupt government agent, guns-for-hire Liam and Phillip Walls arrived on the Sivax-inhabited world of Hon’Sed for a job with a large payout but no details. The Walls Brothers soon find themselves among a large group of criminals, comprising assassins, thieves, digital infiltrators, and hired guns like themselves. The Mission: force their way into a secure corporate facility to abduct a pair of Sivax scientists who discovered a method to weaponize antimatter.

When things go sideways, the Walls brothers fall back on their SPEC-Ops training and work together with total strangers to fight their way out—for the payout, for the mission, and their very survival.

Undead Flight (Hunter Healer King Book 2)
by Mel Dunay

Book 2 of 3: Hunter Healer King

The name’s Chloe Fortebat, and I don’t understand this place at all.

First I helped Maxim kill a werewolf, then I kissed him, and then I found out that he was about twice as old as he looked. Now Maxim is about to be crowned King of the Stormcrows aboard a luxury airship, and I am invited, even though things are pretty awkward between us right now. But this ship feels more like a cage with each passing hour. A passenger’s horse has turned up missing. A crewman has turned up dead. And before it all started, I heard noises in the cargo hold. But Maxim has a mind as sharp as my banishing dagger, and between us, we will take down whatever monster is stalking this airship.

My name is Dr. Maxim os Storm, and I hunt the beasts that haunt the night.

With my coronation only hours away, something stalks the shadows of this vessel: a monster that answers to a human being. But who, and for what purpose? Despite our recent complications, Chloe’s courage and loyalty make her my strongest ally. The crown of the Stormcrows may await me, but first, we have a mystery to solve. Together.

For fans of Lindsay Buroker and Patricia Briggs, here is a dual POV gaslamp fantasy with monster hunting, a slow-burn romance subplot, and a reluctant king facing his destiny. Book 2 of the Hunter Healer King Trilogy.

I Went to the Fantasy Fair
by Tom Veal

In Angland, matter obeys mind. Upon demand, raindrops swerve to avoid drenching pedestrians, walls change from opaque to transparent and back, coaches push themselves forward, quill pens take dictation, and sky-ships sail among the clouds. All that is quite ordinary and dull. Imaginative souls conceive of wondrous mechanical devices: steam locomotives, flying machines, jet engines, radios and a hundred more.

Aethelstan Tiefring has no particular interest in “technofantasy”. He has made his career as a renowned art-wright by directing pigments to recreate the images that he sees in his mind’s eye. Then his beloved wife succumbs to a mysterious sickness, her body vanishes from its casket, and he is stricken with overpowering melancholy.

The Advisor and the Matriarch: A Life in Two Chapters
by Nate Ellender

Book 1 of 2: Ant-verse Collection

An man’s life, sidetracked by catastrophe, and its consequences are examined in this two-chapter short story. It’s a simple and touching story about adapting to circumstances.

The Broken Seed and The Broken Age: A Tragedy and Rebirth
by Nate Ellender

Book 2 of 2: Ant-verse Collection

Years after the death of the Advisor, something strange occurs in Melonia that will set the Myrmidae on a species-wide date with destiny.

The Forerunner: A GameLit Progression Fantasy
by James Clay

Book 1 of 3: The Forerunner

Zed is a washed-up MMA fighter that is starting to realize that there isn’t much of a future ahead of him. While hitting the bar with friends to forget his sorrows for a while, he meets an attractive woman who has an interesting story for him—aliens are going to take over the solar system in two years. Thinking that she is either crazy or he’s had a few too many, Zed writes her off—until she shows him things that aren’t possible, including healing his chronic injuries and showing him what she actually looks like (hint, not human).

There is no stopping the takeover, but humanity is going to be sent to an already populated planet and will have to find a way to survive in a hostile world. A few humans will be sent ahead to prepare the way, to give humanity a chance. They are the Forerunners.

Daelan the Damned
by James Clay

Daelan, an avatar of the God-King, Darius, volunteers to explore Hell, but is horrified to find himself stuck when all of his fellow avatars and the God-King himself are murdered. Every moment of torture and suffering in Hell hardens his resolve to make those responsible pay in blood and pain.

It takes him centuries and a mountain of demon corpses, but he finally claws his way out when a couple of foolish boys in Salem, Oregon, perform an unsavory ritual and get far more than they bargained for.

The newly freed Daelan is torn. He wants to shed the sins and memories of his past even as he seeks vengeance. Regardless of what he desires, there are those who will stop at nothing to extract the secrets of the only living descendant of the God-King. They should be careful what they wish for, though, lest they unleash a mage with 200 years of trauma on an almost magic-less Earth...

Ceres 2525 : Second Edition
by Lee Nelson (Author), William Frisbee (Illustrator)

Desperation is the father of invention. In CERES 2525 you fly along on the Scifi Action Adventures of Ceres Tauri, 25, superstar of the zero-gravity league. He desperately searches for his mother, long held captive among the Galactic’s 500 colony worlds. When he too is kidnapped by the pirate fleet, forced to duel to the death to save a slave with powerful secret abilities, he determines to fight his way to the top of the pirate ranks. Did he just find the love of his life? While Ceres duels to save her from slavery, does she fight his sins, to save his soul?

Maria B
by Danielle Ste. Just

As humanity has made our first forays into deep space only to meet with an invisible, relentless alien race, Maria B is humanity’s last line of defense.

A headless humanoid android engineered for battle, Maria B is sent to the fragile colony on Giant to join the war orchestrated by the enigmatic Morphies. While Maria B struggles to fulfill the expectations of the colony’s overbearing general, she grapples with glitches in her programming: fragmented memories of a human past; an unyielding duty to protect not just the general, but all human life; and an inexplicable pull to protect the precious friendships she’d never imagined she could make.

Teamed with R&D chief Maggie White and the formidable Major Harper, Maria B plunges into high-stakes battles in the vacuum of space and on the exoplanet Giant, her superhuman reaction times the only thing standing between Bubble City and obliteration. Yet as she slowly discovers the hidden war orchestrated by the colony’s general, she uncovers an even deeper conflict within herself: the agony of evolving from cold circuits to a being of human emotion. Or is she still just as alien to humanity as the Morphies she battles? In the crystalline forests of Giant, the shielded domes of Bubble City, and in orbit above the giant orange planet she now calls home, Maria B must confront betrayal, sacrifice, and the essence of what makes her alive.

No head, all heart. Maria B fights not just for survival, but for a soul she never knew she had.

The Disk Mirror Solution (Galaxia Mortem Book 1)
by Danielle Ste. Just

Welcome to 2422, a world of implanted technology, exotic exoplanets, and the apex predator we ourselves created.

One moment, Armintor Vess is about to get her first cranial implant.

The next moment, her entire world falls apart.

The technology-fueled plague that ravages her homeworld forces Armintor to seek refuge on a technophobe planet ruled by autocrats. But when a chance for a better future materializes, she stumbles upon a secret that jeopardizes everything she’s worked for.

Redcholate Parise is living and loving life in the galaxy’s tech hub, buying and selling intel in VR. When a mysterious client hires her for a rare real-flesh job, all she focuses on is the massive payout. As the lines between reality and illusion blur, Redcholate’s body and mind are overtaken by a sinister truth she never wanted to learn.

Both women feel alone in the universe, but little do they know they’ve been linked from the start. Will Redcholate’s sass and Armintor’s obsession be a match for the only predator left that hunts humankind?

The Voyage of the Norm Bissonnette
(Galaxia Mortem Book 2)
by Danielle Ste. Just

Welcome to 2422, where the galaxial mass murderer known as the Butcher terrorizes humanity with global-scale destruction.

Forced to go on a cringey space cruise by her vindictive ex-boss, Redcholate Parise soon has another dismal revelation: Armintor, her creator, has been hiding for three years in their shared cranial embed, and now she wants her body back.

Armintor Vess forces Redcholate’s personality into a locked file in their cranial embed. Now all she has to do is take revenge on the Butcher for murdering her mentor… as soon as she figures out which space cruise passenger it is. But she finds herself unable to plan, to strategize, to enforce her will. All those traits she gave to Redcholate when she created the persona are lost, and she’s now only half a person.

Each night, Redcholate escapes from the locked file after Armintor falls asleep. Her creator considers her a non-person, and would kill her without a second thought. But Redcholate is desperate to live. And if Armintor has to die for that to happen, well, what’s good for the construct is good for the creator.

By day, Armintor investigates her fellow passengers. Redcholate infiltrates the seedy underbelly of the ship’s society by night. Each has her own obsession for finding the Butcher. But they must realize just how much they need each other before the Butcher finds them first.

The Trilisk Ruins (Parker Interstellar Travels Book 1)
by Michael McCloskey FREE

Telisa Relachik studied to be a xenoarchaeologist in a future where humans have found alien artifacts but haven’t ever encountered live aliens.

Of all the aliens whose extinct civilizations are investigated, the Trilisks are the most advanced and the most mysterious.

Telisa refuses to join the government because of her opposition to its hard-handed policies restricting civilian investigation and trade of alien artifacts, despite the fact that her estranged father is a captain in the United Nations Space Force.

When a group of artifact smugglers recruits her, she can’t pass up the chance at getting her hands on objects that could advance her life’s work.

But she soon learns her expectations of excitement and riches come with serious drawbacks as she ends up fighting for her life on a mysterious alien planet.

The Devil’s Dictum
Frederick Gero Heimbach

In a topsy-turvy United States founded by pirates, the personal assassin to the chief justice receives a terrifying order: round up and kill all men who look like himself.

Why does the chief justice want these men dead?

What threat could they possibly pose?

And can the assassin save them—or will he become the final victim?

Spooky, sly and satirical, The Devil’s Dictum recasts J. Edgar Hoover as a Satanic high priest, Calvin Coolidge as a private eye, and Richard Nixon as the pilot of a giant armored robot. Readers hungering for original and mind-blowing alternate history need look no further.

Ronald Reagan’s Brilliant Bullet: A Cold Warriors Novel
Frederick Gero Heimbach

It’s Ronald Reagan in a jet pack! The author of The Devil’s Dictum returns with another novel that shreds the history books.

The setting is the Cold War and Ronald Reagan has a shiny new toy to play with: a rocket powered suit. He’ll need it to battle the terrifying monstrosity Leonid Brezhnev is building on a secret base in Siberia.

Standing with Reagan are Margaret Thatcher and Billy Graham, each wielding super powers. (If Thatcher in an eye patch won’t turn you on, nothing will.)

Reagan insists on piloting the rocket himself—but the hardware is experimental and just might kill him.

Threats are everywhere: a treacherous Congressman, a wide-eyed nun from the Tudor era, an enigmatic boy genius called R2, talking heads on Mount Rushmore, punks in back alleys and missiles in the skies.

All while signs of a literal Armageddon unfold before Reagan’s steely eyes.

Fan Favorites in Horror

Red Dead REBELLION
by Dick Lichter

In the frozen ruins of 1942, a monstrous plague born of Soviet ambition ravages the world. The virus, unleashed by Dr. Pavlov’s experiments, turns soldiers into zombified horrors, shattering armies and alliances. As cities crumble, unlikely heroes rise.

Amidst fragile truces and shattered borders. With the world teetering on the edge of oblivion, their choices—forged in sacrifice, love, and dread—will decide humanity’s fate.

Can Europe survive this red tide? This RED DEAD REBELLION?

Perfect for fans of World War Z and The Nightingale.

Shoot the Devil: Ten Tales of Humans Defeating the Demonic
by N.R. LaPoint (Author), Steven G. Johnson (Author), James Pyles (Author), L. Jagi Lamplighter (Author), Daniel Humphreys (Author), Declan Finn (Author), Russell Newquist (Author), John C. Wright (Author), Corey Comstock (Author), Michael Gallagher (Author)

Ten of superversive’s finest team up to bring you tales from a serial killer’s basement, to the weird west, to the average small town, all featuring “mostly” ordinary men and women fighting back against the forces of darkness.

Shoot the Devil 2: Dark Matter
Declan Finn, James Pyles, L. Jagi Lamplighter, Michael Gallagher, N.R. LaPoint, Steve Johnson, Aaron Van Treeck, TJ Marquis, Frank Luke, Trevor Denning

Welcome back to a world filled with horrors beyond count. A world where madmen fly across galaxies chasing forbidden power and ancient evil seeks to infect and eradicate all life. A world filled with heroes ready and willing to fight the darkness. To raise the crucifix and the blaster rifle to send the evil straight back to hell.

Shoot the Devil 3: Militia of Martyrs
by Frank Luke, James Pyles, Steve Johnson, Xavier Basora, Jaime Faye Torkelson, Shannon T. Baker, Joseph L. Kellogg, Dan Gainor, Jason J McCuiston, Nicholas Wolf

Once again, we bring you tales of horror, adventure, and shooting the devil! Preferably in the face. This one is loaded with tales of the average fire fighter, to simple pastors, space vikings and more with one thing in common - coming face to face with supernatural evil and sending it packing.

If you have read the previous installments of the Shoot the Devil series, you will recognize some names, while others are brand new to the fold. That was our focus this time around, giving unknown and unestablished authors a chance to flex their muscle and show off their skill. And skill they have. The talent and imagination on display is extremely impressive and Crucifixion Press is extremely proud to welcome them all to the Militia!

3 Black Nights: An Urban Fantasy Horror Triple Feature!
by T.J. Marquis

Three tales of pitch black nights!

Sometimes the world drops out from underneath your feet.
Sometimes the night takes a turn, and things are never the same.
And sometimes, you follow a dark road and discover far more than you bargained for.

From a Man with a Van traversing a world gone to hell, to a midnight delivery for a death-drinking fae, to a descent into a power greater than madness, these three tales will take you deep into the night ... but will you make it through?

Fan Favorites in Fantasy

Rivo: Blade of the Shooting Star
by Matthew Linton

“Rivo was like a shooting star; when it seemed the sun had set on the Kingdom and darkness came, he shone brightly. And like a shooting star, when the sun rose again and the darkness lifted, he was gone.”

A merciless enemy, a mysterious power, and a hero desperate for a second chance.

Strange and terrifying beasts known as the Haundo come seemingly out of nowhere to terrorize the land. Rivo is a young soldier who falls in battle against this vicious enemy, only to come back as a spirit to witness his own rise and fall over the eventful final weeks of his life: the friends he made, the enemies he encountered, the battles he fought, and the secret love he never realized was there.

Who or what holds his fate? Will he be able to win his life back...along with the heart of the one who loved him in silence?

Join Rivo and his friends as they journey across a kingdom in peril. A clean epic fantasy where swords are drawn, hearts get broken, and wishes can come true.

A tale for the young at heart. A story balancing action & adventure with heavier themes of loss and grief, along with plenty of heroism, humor, and heartwarming moments along the way.

An epic fantasy for those who enjoy Name of the Wind, Shadow and Bone, Princess Bride, Zelda, Naruto, Demon Slayer and others.

The Sundered Crown Saga (1-3): (Books 1-3+ The Nightblade prequel novel)
An Epic Fantasy Boxset!
by M.S. Olney

The first three books in the epic Sundered Crown Saga plus The Nightblade prequel novella. The royal family of Delfinnia is assassinated, sparking a conflict that engulfs the realm – the War of the Six Claimants. Amongst the chaos, dark things are stirring: in the mountainous lands of Eclin, the ancient N’gist cult rises, setting its evil plans in motion. A diverse group of heroes oppose them: Luxon Edioz, the first wizard seen in an age; Ferran of Blackmoor, a legendary monster-killer; Sophia Cunning, a retired witch-hunter; and Kaiden, a noble knight of the Order of Niveren. The Sundered Crown Saga is a tale of magic, monsters and epic battles.

Wealthgiver I: Darkness
by Daniel M. Bensen

Book 1 of 2: Wealthgiver

“The darkness knows.”

Fleeing an execution order, Russian army doctor Andrei Trifonovich stumbles into the secret world of ruthless, cave-dwelling pagans.

For over a thousand years, the Thracians have survived in secret, guarding their traditions and killing any outsider who dares approach. But the modern world is closing in, and they must emerge from the shadows or face destruction.

Their prophetess Kori has selected Andrei to be the first to learn of her cult’s existence, but her chief priest Nikolai sees Andrei as a rival. Torn between survival and the role thrust upon him, Andrei must do more than merely survive, more even than steal a bride or build a nation. Andrei must become a god.

Wealthgiver II: Light is a New Arrival in Fantasy.

The Sakura Element
by S.C. Vincent

When tradition means damnation, and the future is the past…

Alia Academia - school for the elite. Genetically modified Oka Latellay faces discrimination orchestrated by fellow student Allen Debois. Allen enforces a caste system by the Purveyors of Tradition, keeping modified people in the bottom rung of society. But Oka’s gumption inspires him to start a fencing tourney where everything is at stake. If she loses, her life in high society is over. But if she wins, so ends the bullying of all mods in the school.

Oka struggles with her fencing bouts and growing feelings for Allen as he reveals there is more to him than the cold cruelty he portrays. Simultaneously, Allen is torn between adoration for Oka and the Purveyors of Tradition influence. Choosing the former could risk his family’s wealth and good name.

Little do the two know how much their struggles intertwine when Allen’s friend begins to vie for Oka’s affections, and Allen finds himself blackmailed about his family’s past.

In a post-World War world where society functions on sleight of hand and discrimination, Oka and Allen must find the one thing that will save them. Love.

Blessings of the Damned
by S.C. Vincent

An exorcist named Diego ventures into the Wild West to stop the rising vampire army, but when he’s possessed by the vengeful spirit of his friends wife, he must fight to save her soul while risking his own.

It’s 1861 and Diego, a trained exorcist, awaits execution in a Texas prison for the murder of local priest George Bianco. As he’s taken to the gallows, the spirit of Marron Bianco, George’s wife, possesses him, saving him from the noose wishing to kill him herself. Bound by guilt, Diego strikes a deal with Marron: he’ll allow her to siphon pieces of his soul if she doesn’t interfere with his mission to destroy the vampire army in Death Valley.

The Lives of Velnin: The Black Citadel: A fast-paced epic fantasy of swords, love, magic, and battles. (FREE!)
by Brian Heming

Swordfights. True Love. High Adventure. Epic Battles. Action. Magic. Reincarnation.

I was 17 years old when I died for the first time.

I parried the guard’s cut, feinted high, then swung Swelfalster, blade of the fallen star, low for a slash at his unarmored thigh. I scored, a line of blood dripping down his leg, and danced back before his counterstroke landed.

This is the chronicle of Velnin, Crown Prince of Tarmel, told through the dying words of his first incarnations. Vel is sent as a spy to the territory of the Black Citadel, investigating a newly rising power, the dark rumors surrounding it, and the fearsome might of its army: the Black Legion.

In his journey he encounters the charming Aloree, diplomat of the neighboring kingdom of Talore. Healer, magic-user, diplomat, bookworm, her beauty belies hidden secrets within her.

A fast-paced epic fantasy of swords, love, magic, and battles. Vel must protect the people of his kingdom, and make whatever sacrifices he must to end the horrors perpetuated by the Black Legion. But must he sacrifice true love itself for the sake of his people?

“You write action so well! I’m taking notes...” -Anthony Lee Phillips, author of Moonthread.
“Fast, Exciting Read! 5 stars.” -Alexander Scott, author of Mage: The Way of the Mark.
“This is very well written.” -Joseph L. Wiess, author of The Draoidh’s Cearcall and The LawKeeper Chronicles.

The Lives of Velnin: The Dark Empire: A fast-paced epic fantasy adventure of swords, love, magic, and battles

1.7 million enemy soldiers. One reincarnating prince. Who will win?

Swords. Love. Magic. Epic Battles. Reincarnation.

A year and a day after the death of his first incarnation, Prince Veldin rekindles his romance with the beautiful Princess Aloree, his first incarnation’s beloved widow. But these happy times are cut short as he is sent to repel the invasion of the Dark Empire: 1.7 million men, four thousand ships, all led by the Dark Empress Soraina, a beautiful maiden to whom the prince feels a mysterious but intense connection.

Stopping the invasion from destroying all he holds dear may cost him everything. To protect his people and triumph against impossible odds, must he sacrifice not just his lives, but even his love and his very soul?

Combining the most amazing battles in history with swords, love, and magic, The Dark Empire is sure to please fans of swords & sorcery, adventure romance, and military fiction alike. A fast-paced epic fantasy of swords, love, magic, and battles.

Praise for The Lives of Velnin:
“Incredibly fast-paced, with just enough romance thrown in to have you rooting for the characters immediately.” -Sam. M. Ridge, author of Swirls of Shadow
“Razor-sharp action at a blistering pace.” -Michael Gorman, author of Scions of the Tuatha Dé
“Fast, Fierce, and Full of Surprises” -Eva Everquill, author of The Storm Through the Tide

The Lives of Velnin: Final Life: A fast-paced epic fantasy adventure of swords, love, magic, and battles
by Brian Heming

Swords. Love. Magic. Epic Battles. Reincarnation.

The recording cut off with the image of a blast of white-blue flame. I sat up from my stasis chamber, looked at the inscription, and read, “Velnin.” So, I was the last—number 9. My other remaining brothers had either died too fast to leave dying words at all, or been killed in stasis before this last one had died.

Velnin awakes in a stasis chamber deep in a hidden cave base, with only the memories of his first brother Velwin, and the dying words of three more. On his ninth and final life, Velnin must unravel the mysteries of what has happened to his missing brothers, retrieve his legendary blade Swelfalster, and decide where his true love and loyalty ultimately lies—whether with the charming Princess Aloree, the swordfighting Dark Empress Soraina, or somewhere else entirely.

Combining ancient history with swords, love, and magic, Final Life is sure to please fans of swords & sorcery, adventure romance, and military fiction alike.
A fast-paced epic fantasy of swords, love, magic, and battles.

Praise for The Lives of Velnin:
“Interesting questions of identity and other surprises await” -Bill Hiatt, author of the Spell Weaver series.
“excels with fast paced action.” -Anthony Alves, author of Blood and Qi.
“Incredibly fast-paced, with just enough romance thrown in to have you rooting for the characters immediately.” -Sam M. Ridge, author of Swirls of Shadow.

Chloe’s Kingdom: The Koin Vault Heist
by Gregory Michael

Six Motivated Thieves. One Deadly Heist.

Chloe Espinoza is a wild-haired petty thief aboard the Kingdom, a drifting city spaceship. Once rich but now poor, Chloe is determined to break free from the Honeycombs and return to her life in the Gardens. Only one problem: she hardly has enough koin for a burrito, making a lavish apartment seem as distant as the stars. All that might change, however, when Chloe is offered a heist that could make her unimaginably rich. But she can’t break into the impenetrable Koin Vault alone…

A young mastermind who can’t let go of her past.

A mathematical genius in desperate need of koin.

A privileged kid from the Gardens with a debt to pay.

A bartender who’s serving revenge.

A mischievous raccoon with a bottomless appetite.

A battered soul who’s been wronged by the council.

Gone are the days of stealing snacks. Chloe’s crew is aiming for the ultimate prize: the Koin Vault. Their plan? To rob the Treasury and bring down the corrupt council. But in a game where the stakes are jail or death, every move could be their last.

A thrilling Young Adult Science Fiction Heist novel set in the unforgiving void of outer space, perfect for fans of ‘Six of Crows’ by Leigh Bardugo and ‘Artemis’ by Andy Weir.

Periander the Avenger: The Final Son of Atlantis
by Joseph Bringman

Atlantis plunges into a war that may doom the human race.

Corruption, cruel oppression, and wickedness in high places—Periander will fight them all. As one of ten kings jointly ruling in Atlantis, he must navigate the treacherous waters of ruthless ambition: the High King Critias seeks to consolidate all power in his own hands at home before enslaving the rest of the world. While others bow their necks to the rising tyranny, Periander stands up for peace and the federal constitution.

But this resistance comes at his family’s expense. When Critias attempts to murder him, Periander barely escapes his homeland with his life but not his wife—the latest victim of the High King’s brutality. Now a hunted fugitive, Periander must recruit foreign allies, lead an army to liberate Atlantis from the tyrant’s clasp, and avenge his beloved queen.

Periander will stop at nothing to destroy Critias, no matter the cost. But as the body count rises, he must confront a bleak future:

Can he defeat Critias before the world drowns in blood? And will his only child survive this conflict?

Ahab and Jezebel: A Match Made in Hell
by Joseph Bringman

Ahab sits on the throne but lacks the heart and stomach of a king. Jezebel exhibits kingly qualities galore but has no throne.

Most Israelites follow Ahab in submitting to his wife’s gods. But a tenacious remnant led by the prophet Elijah seeks to restore the supremacy of the Hebrew God. And that means toppling Jezebel along with her gods.

Although dynastic diplomacy forced Jezebel to marry Ahab, she has made do all these years… tirelessly working to remake Israel in her image. No one will oust her without a fight!

But then Ahab becomes infatuated with his latest concubine. She not only worships the Hebrew God but also witnessed her family being slaughtered by Jezebel’s goons. Is she really a devoted companion and sweeter than any man deserves? Or is she a Hebrew Anne Boleyn scheming to get Ahab to swap out his religion and his wife?

Suddenly Jezebel is seized with fears of having her life’s work undone, her faith outlawed… even being driven out of her own home by the other woman—just like what happened to her mother.

So what is Jezebel going to do? Win! No matter what it takes!

Full of intrigue, betrayal, and suspense—get your copy of Ahab and Jezebel: A Match Made in Hell today!

Lyssa’s Gambit
by Trever Bierschbach

Raised on the streets of Raven’s Cove, Lyssa has had a hard life, but always dreamed of more. In her time among the street gangs of the city she learned the skills that would eventually lead her to her destiny, to become the King’s Blade. Spy, assassin, advisor, the Blade is the right hand of the King of Orellia. Achieving her dream, however, is only the beginning. Orellia is a land under threat from rival kingdoms and jealous rulers. One of the four houses that survived the Pentacle War, Orellia is on the brink of another war, and it is Lyssa’s task to determine who threatens the King’s life and the land’s tenuous peace.

The Rooster Rider
by Sean Valdrow (Author), Gail Louviere (Illustrator)

On the borderlands of Wales, the newly knighted Sir Thomas of Barley Mill Cross, astride his mighty warhorse Rooster, recklessly challenges an evil Witch. Through her black arts, the Witch gets the better of Sir Thomas and Rooster. In the aftermath of the encounter, Rooster is an actual rooster, and Thomas is left size of a child’s doll. Torn from their own world and cast down among the small creatures of forest and farm, they are drawn into a savage conflict...the vicious weasel clans are conquering all the small creatures.

The small creatures need a hero. Desperately.

Thomas and Rooster’s only wish is to be restored, the witch magic broken, to return to their old lives. But Thomas is a knight who will live or die by his Oath, and he will not turn his back on those in need. Finding his way among the small creatures, knight and steed make friends willing to die by their side in battle, and make enemies willing to sacrifice themselves to send Thomas and Rooster to their doom.

In the chaos of war, Thomas and Rooster must find a way to stop the weasel clans and their wicked allies in time to have the spells binding them undone. This must happen before the witch is executed for her crimes. But will they make it? Or will they be forever cursed in their altered states, to follow the Oath along a path unlike any a knight has ever travelled?

Pandemonia
Johnson Riggs

“Hierophantic. A sprawling work of unparalleled breadth and brilliance. Few writers living or otherwise have reached such heights in the field of wizard-inclusive speculative fiction. Perhaps the most dangerous work of the 21st century. A swashbuckling indictment of the American nightmare. I’m literally shaking.”
- Phil Rot, author of The Raft

“Thanks to this writer’s unbound imagination and relentless wit, modern politics can be enjoyed for what it actually is: a grand farce with, possibly, a silver lining or two. If you’re looking, as we all are, for that elusive perfect balance between Animal Farm and Spaceballs, this book is for you.“
- Matthew Louis, founding editor of Gutter Books, Gallows Humor Magazine, & Vigilante Crime. Author of The Wrong Man & Roots Down to Hell

High Fantasy. Low Morale. Farts.

Knight Captain Pickle never meant to start a revolution. He just asked the wrong questions. Once the brine of the King’s Court, he has been jettisoned from Service. Now, he’s on a mythic quest to purify the swampy capital of Quagmerica, where a novel miasma has infected both body and state.

The Kingdom is in chaos: a sinister court physician has unleashed a demonic plague and the burger-chomping warlord-king governs like a pro-wrestler. Pickle’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer. But he has a really cool sword and he knows how to use it. Unfortunately, that’s about it. Fortunately, he has some reinforcements: a disgraced alchemist, a rogue airship pilot, and his wife, a master of opticks, to help him hunt down some relics, battle terrorists, chase dragons, and purify the realm.

Pandemonia is a satirical fantasy quest through deserts, swamps, jungles, and bureaucratic hellscapes. Part epic quest, part political farce, part redemption story. For fans of Discworld, Bored of the Rings, Vox Machina, The Adventure Zone, and also farts, this is your next heroic disasterpiece.

Inquisitor’s Promise
by Michael P. Marpaung

Young Inquisitor Aeneas Aquilanus made two promises: one to his dying father, the other to his beloved Galatea.

To his father, Aeneas promised to finish his last mission to unify the Holy League and rally them against the apocalyptic threat of the Grey Globe. To Galatea, he promised the aspiring lady knight to become her lord and Inquisitor.

But politics in the 74th century can be violent and complicated. The Five Factions of the Holy League had long seen each other with suspicion. Can they put aside their differences to save Earth?

Even his promise to Galatea is not without problems for Aeneas as he has four additional girls who are in love with him. Each of these five girls are faction princesses, women who have close connections to each of the Five Faction’s leaders.

Love and politics are an explosive combination, but the Inquisitor shall remain true to his pledged word.

The Santara Commentaries, Book 1: The Padri
by Michael P. Marpaung

The Santara Archipelago is the homeland of the Yakobinians - the Sons of Yakob and the Chosen of El Shaddai, the God of the gods. After a long sojourn in the Northern Continent, the Yakobinians returned to Santara and reclaimed their land from their savage cousins, the Nodians. The Holy Kingdom of Santara was established and led by the successors of Borromeo, the Warrior Priest and the greatest of the sons of Yakob.

That was over a millennia ago.

The year is 1621 of the Yakobinian Calendar. For over five centuries, the Sons of Yakob chafed under the dominion of distant Tionghoa. The Governor Generals of the Tionghoa Southern Holdings maintain control of the archipelago from Khmer, the colonial capital. Their base of power lies in the west where imported Tionghoa populace had greatly intermingled with the natives throughout the generations.

In the east, puppet kings ruled under the suzerainty of Tionghoa. They paid fealty to the Dragon Emperor, but the Yakobins are a proud people. The Sultanate of Paloe, the most powerful of the eastern states conspired with the Kingdom of Dun-a-Din, ruled by the last of the Borromeans, to form the Padri. Their aim was simple: freedom.

But there’s more to this war than meets the eye.

Through the Lichgate
by Kyle Adams

Thana Ayers is a part-time necromancer, the undefeated defender of Green Grove Cemetery.

She commands small armies of the dead to repel worse abominations, and still manages club meetings, homework assignments, and church services.

It’s a balancing act, but hey, the dead don’t raise themselves. Right?

Thana’s act is turned on its head when a new breed of monster shows up.

He’s got necromantic powers and secrets she’s never seen before, but he’s not after the power of the gate.

He knows Thana’s name, and he’s coming for her.

Illusion of Grandeur (The Drama Club Presents Book 2)
by Kyle Adams

Book 2 of 2: The Drama Club Presents

High-schooler Pierre Chastain, surly hobbyist and shady dealer, secretly holds the power of illusions. With it, he controls perception and bends reality to his will. He is a god among men, or at least he was until he discovered he was not alone.

The girl who can animate the dead was only the first to appear. Many more magic-users of all types reveal themselves–illusionists, summoners, kids who can see the future, and entire agencies with nefarious goals. They all seek to exploit Pierre’s talents in their schemes. Little do they know he has schemes of his own.

It Came from the Lunchbox
by Eric M. Hamilton

Third grader Kamal Amir discovers a lunchbox that has been abandoned for thirty years. And the contents are alive! Having absorbed several decades’ worth of classes, the mysterious creature inside the lunchbox promises to help Kamal with his schoolwork and improve his relationships. But the creature’s promises aren’t entirely true. As Kamal gets to know him better, he realizes that the creature may have another agenda.

It Came from the Lunchbox is a thrilling, suspenseful, and humorous children’s horror story that will keep you on the edge of your seat. With its memorable characters, fast-paced plot, and creepy atmosphere, this book is sure to scare and delight readers of all ages.

Paying homage to great children’s horror series like Are You Afraid of the Dark? and Goosebumps, if you love to laugh and have a good scare, this is the book for you!

Watcher of the Damned: Transmutation Texas
R. H. Snow

The Happening wreaked havoc as Humanity got a hard reset from a deadly gender-cidal Virus - and for TransMutated Survivors like The Watcher, life in Post-Apocalyptic Texas just got a whole lot bloodier and a whole lot lonelier. In a cyberpunk Wild West gone awry, The Watcher was a Rebel without a clue under the System: a brutal, high-tech Social Construct engineered to serve the Enlightened and oppress the Damned. But that’s all about to change, thanks to a cheeky chaos agent named Rose...

Bloodbane: Quest of Lance: A pulp-liteRPG novel
by T.J. Marquis (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

What a horrible night to be invaded by psychos from the 65th Dimension.

Lance Cutfield just wants to get home to his wife and daughter.

But in his way stands a legion of Once-men, blood sorcerers, and countless foul creatures infesting the wilderness.

Lance must use his working man’s strength, and every tool at his disposal, to bring the fight to his foes.

Little do these ‘Baneborn’ know, they’ve chosen a predator for their prey...

Fire From Ashes (Fires of an Empire Saga Book 1)
by Jessica Barberi

After a near death encounter, a young deserter named Ciran is left with a choice to once again redirect the events of his life. Haunted by the choices of his past he makes the decision to try and run from them, in hopes to find true freedom and liberation on the other side of a mountain.

He never believed the stories of dragons he was told as a child, that was until he found himself standing face to face with one. This chance encounter once again changes the course of his journey, and Crian finds that there is no escape from the past.

Join Ciran on his adventure as he learns what it means to be the author of your fate and true to your heart in a world that seeks to convince you that these things are outside of your reach.

Jinjang
by Iris Paustian

As different as Night and Day.

Tender One lost her beloved brother, and now someone in this unfamiliar, underground Night Dweller community wants Tender One dead. If she can overcome her culture shock, maybe she can discover the truth before anyone else is harmed.

Nub is fascinated by Tender One and her people—but he is also the prime suspect. Will Tender One reject this stranger who looks nothing like her people? Or will she find the courage to follow her heart?

And then Tender One discovers a dragon’s egg!

As cultures clash, love is kindled and mysteries unfold on Jinjang, the world where a year is but a single day.

Buy it now!

Prospero Lost (Prospero’s Children Book 1)
by L. Jagi Lamplighter (Author)

Shakespeare got one thing wrong. The Dread Magician Prospero never drowned his books.
More than four hundred years later, Miranda heads the family business. Prospero Inc secretly uses magic for the good of mankind. Only, now, Prospero has gone missing!
To save her father, Miranda must reunite with her estranged siblings, each of whom holds a staff of power and secrets about Miranda’s sometimes-foggy past. Her journeys, both past and present, take her to Chicago, the Caribbean, Milan, Washington, D.C., and the North Pole.
With her is her trusty company gumshoes, Mab, an aerie spirit stuck in a body that looks like Humphrey Bogart. Together, they must survive the mysterious Shadowed Ones if they hope to find Prospero and set all to right again.
Humor, mystery, wonder.

“Intelligent and eminently enjoyable, this series opener by a first-time author is a first-rate choice for fans of mythic urban fantasy.” – Library Journal (starred review)

Conan: The Thief, The Conqueror, The King: The Collected Adventures of the World’s Greatest Barbarian (Illustrated Edition)
Robert E. Howard

Newly updated edition with beautiful custom illustrations!

Join Conan the Barbarian on his many adventures from mercenary and thief to conqueror and king as he smites demons, fights wizards, slays monsters, unearths forgotten treasures, battles against all odds, journeys to exotic lands, loves and lusts, uncovers hidden mysteries, and always refuses to yield!

This epic collection contains all 18 of Robert E. Howard’s Conan stories published during his lifetime.

These stories were originally published in Weird Tales magazine between 1933 and 1936.

The Conan stories included in the collection are:
1. Gods of the North (The Frost Giant’s Daughter) (1934)
2. The Tower of the Elephant (1933)
3. Rogues in the House (1935)
4. Shadows in the Moonlight (Iron Shadows in the Moon) (1934)
5. Black Colossus (1934)
6. Queen of the Black Coast (1934)
7. The Slithering Shadow (Xuthal of the Dusk) (1934)
8. A Witch Shall Be Born (1934)
9. The Devil in Iron (1934)
10. The People of the Black Circle (1934)
11. Shadows in Zamboula (Man-Eaters of Zamboula) (1935)
12. The Pool of the Black One (1934)
13. Beyond the Black River (1935)
14. Red Nails (1936)
15. Jewels of Gwahlur (The Teeth of Gwahlur) (1935)
16. The Phoenix on the Sword (1932)
17. The Scarlet Citadel (1933)
18. The Hour of the Dragon (Conan the Conqueror) (1935)

As an added bonus, also included in the set are:

The Hyborian Age—Conan’s World (This is Howard’s background essay on the world of Conan) (1936), and
The Shadow Kingdom and The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune (These are two of Howard’s early Kull of Atlantis stories that predate and strongly influence his later Conan works.) (1929)

For ease of navigation, the anthology includes an interactive table of contents.

The stories in this collection are ordered roughly in chronological order from Conan’s first adventures as a young mercenary adventurer and thief to his final epic clashes as a king and are based on the Rippke chronology.

About Conan:
Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero who originated in pulp fiction magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, several films (including Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer), television programs (cartoon and live-action), video games, role-playing games and other media. The character was created by writer Robert E. Howard in 1932 via a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales magazine.

Conan the Character:
Conan is a Cimmerian. From Robert E. Howard’s writings (The Hyborian Age among others) it is known that the Cimmerians were based on the Celts or Gaels. He was born on a battlefield and is the son of a village blacksmith. Conan matured quickly as a youth and, by age fifteen, he was already a respected warrior who had participated in the destruction of the Aquilonian outpost of Venarium. After its demise, he was struck by wanderlust and began the adventures chronicled by Howard, encountering skulking monsters, evil wizards, tavern wenches, and beautiful princesses. He roamed throughout the Hyborian Age nations as a thief, outlaw, mercenary, and pirate. As he grew older, he began commanding larger units of men and escalating his ambitions. In his forties, he seized the crown of the tyrannical king of Aquilonia, the most powerful kingdom of the Hyborian Age, having strangled the previous ruler on the steps of the throne. Conan’s adventures often result in him performing heroic feats, though his motivation for doing so is largely to protect his own survival or for personal gain.

33+ Classic Collection of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Novels. Stories. Illustrated: Tarzan of the Apes, A Princess of Mars, The Mucker, The Land that Time Forgot, The Lost Continent and others
by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres. Best-known for creating the characters Tarzan and John Carter, he also wrote the Pellucidar series, the Amtor series, and the Caspak trilogy.
Tarzan was immediately popular, and Burroughs capitalized on it in every way possible, including a syndicated Tarzan comic strip, movies, and merchandise. Tarzan remains one of the most successful fictional characters to this day and is a cultural icon. Burroughs’s California ranch is now the center of the Tarzana neighborhood in Los Angeles, named after the character.
In Barsoom Series:
A PRINCESS OF MARS
THE GODS OF MARS
WARLORD OF MARS
THUVIA, MAID OF MARS
THE CHESSMEN OF MARS
THE MASTER MIND OF MARS
In Tarzan series:
TARZAN OF THE APES
THE RETURN OF TARZAN
THE BEASTS OF TARZAN
THE SON OF TARZAN
TARZAN AND THE JEWELS OF OPAR
JUNGLE TALES OF TARZAN
TARZAN THE UNTAMED
TARZAN THE TERRIBLE
TARZAN AND THE GOLDEN LION
TARZAN AND THE ANT-MEN
TARZAN, LORD OF THE JUNGLE
The Pellucidar series:
AT THE EARTH’S CORE
PELLUCIDAR
Complete Caspak series:
THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT
THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT
OUT OF TIME’S ABYSS
Complete Mucker series:
THE MUCKER
RETURN OF THE MUCKER
THE OAKDALE AFFAIR
Other novels:
THE LOST CONTINENT
THE MONSTER MEN
THE CAVE GIRL
THE ETERNAL LOVER
THE OUTLAW OF TORN
THE EFFICIENCY EXPERT
THE GIRL FROM FARRIS’S
THE GIRL FROM HOLLYWOOD
THE MAD KING

King Solomon’s Mines (Allan Quatermain Series, Unabridged and Illustrated)
by H. Rider Haggard

King Solomon’s Mines (1885) is a popular novel by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party. It is the first English adventure novel set in Africa, and is considered to be the genesis of the Lost World literary genre.

Allan Quatermain is a hunter. Lions, elephants, antelope. Fearless, he is the best big-game hunter in South Africa. And he is about to embark on the most dangerous hunt of his career. His new employers, Sir Henry Curtis and Captain John Good, have a map--drawn by a dying Portuguese prospector. It reveals a route across the great desert, past a fearsome range of mountain, to the greatest treasure in all Africa--the lost diamond mines of King Solomon himself! Inspired by true adventures, King Solomon’s Mines is the unsurpassed classic of a journey into the unknown heart of the Dark Continent.

Iron Chamber of Memory
by John C. Wright

“An eerie, suspenseful, romantic fantasy in the mood of C. S. Lewis and Charles Williams”

Hal Landfall, penniless graduate student at Magdalen College, arrives at the strange, high house of Wrongerwood, looking for his missing friend, Manfred Hathaway, the new lord of Sark Island. On the doorstep, he meets the lovely, green-eyed Laurel, a beautiful, sultry young woman from Cornwall who is Manfred’s wife-to-be.

Erected by Merlin in ancient days, Wrongerwood contains many secrets, including rooms where one can remember one’s true and forgotten self. When Hal and Laurel step inside, they begin to remember, with fear and wonder, that they have met before and that they share a forbidden secret they are forced to forget when they step outside.

The small island of Sark in the English Channel was, until recently the last feudal government in Europe. By law, no motor vehicles run on the road, and no lights burn at night. Only the lord of the island may keep hounds. An eerily magical setting for an eerily magical book.

Awake in the Night Land
John C. Wright

Don’t be caught out in the Night Land.

AWAKE IN THE NIGHT LAND is an epic collection of four of John C. Wright’s brilliant forays into the dark fantasy world of William Hope Hodgson’s 1912 novel, The Night Land. Part novel, part anthology, the book consists of four related novellas, “Awake in the Night”, “The Cry of the Night-Hound”, “Silence of the Night”, and “The Last of All Suns”, which collectively tell the haunting tale of the Last Redoubt of Man and the end of the human race.

Widely considered to be the finest tribute to Hodgson ever written, the first novella, “Awake in the Night”, was previously published in 2004 in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection. AWAKE IN THE NIGHT LAND marks the first time all four novellas have been gathered into a single volume.

John C. Wright has been described by reviewers as one of the most important and audacious authors in science fiction today. In a recent poll of more than 1,000 science fiction readers, he was chosen as the sixth-greatest living science fiction writer.

Bloodletting (Alister Cain Book 1)
by M. Anthony Harris

Exsanguination. It’s a word Alister Cain is all too familiar with, and one he dreads.
When a case where the victim was found drained of blood falls on his desk, the Occult Crimes Consultant finds himself in the sights of a violent UFO cult with ties to an ancient deity.

The cult is desperate to find their way back into its good graces, and with supernatural assassins in tow, they’ll kill any who get in the way of their dark ritual.

Echoes of Memory
by M. Anthony Harris

If you can’t trust your memories, what can you trust?

This question gnaws at Aris Ravenscroft after foreign memories invade his mind and nearly get him killed during an assassination attempt on the Emperor, a hero beloved by all. A hero he’s sworn to protect.

Kestrel, a street-smart orphan, also finds his mind filled with memories that aren’t his. Memories that say that his world is nothing like it seems.

Now the duo must make sense of the alien memories while unraveling the mystery of the Emperor’s true colors while dodging attempts on their lives by the mysterious Inquisitors, crooked politicians, and a host of dangers in a world where the greatest villain is the biggest hero.

Even Legends Bleed
by Zaklog the Great

When a kingdom at war calls back an ancient hero to fight for their cause, their enemies must stop him at all costs.

When you get to the end, you should probably read it again to fully understand it.

Songless: The Desert
by Heidi Hill

Set in a realm not unlike the Old West, Songless is a tale of love, hate, and redemption. Part high fantasy, part romance, Songless explores the borderlands of faith and the sometimes torturous path we travel before we turn to love. And to God. A High Fantasy, A Western Romance, A Soul’s Awakening. We go dark, so we can find the light.

The House that Jack Built: A Songless Novella
by Heidi A Hill

Before he loved a woman from that valley, he built a house. Disgraced and alone, Jack retreats to the Feather Valley to rebuild. But time has teeth, and winter brings more than snow. Haunted by failure, hunted by evil, and ready to claim his calling as a Ranger, Jack must decide if obedience is worth the price.

Set in the world of Songless, The House That Jack Built is a tale of manhood, redemption, and the narrow road to the King.

The House That Jack Built is a meditative Western set in a realm of mountains, silence, and unseen grace. When a soldier withdraws from the world to rebuild his family’s house, the work becomes a test of endurance, faith, and the meaning of manhood.

The prose is lyrical and deliberate, shaped by rhythm and restraint. Its imagery carries the weight of scripture—the land itself a mirror for the soul. Through the turning of seasons, the story moves from solitude to revelation, tracing one man’s slow restoration beneath the gaze of the King.

Not a tale of conquest but of calling, The House That Jack Built explores the frontier between body and spirit, guilt and mercy, silence and song.

This novella takes place before the events of Songless: The Desert and can be read either before or after it.

In Darkness Cast (Shades of Black Book 1)
Book 1 of 2: Shades of Black
by Jonathan Shuerger and Louie Roybal

A soldier prays for a mentor to train him to be a hero... what he gets is the dark sorcerer who killed thousands of them.

Gideon Halcyon is a young man who wants nothing more than to save his people from the hordes of Hell. Demons and cultists run roughshod over his home, slaughtering and sacrificing to a trifecta of fallen angels on the cusp of destroying the kingdoms of Man. Gideon is helpless in the face of extinction itself...

...until he meets Ashkelon.

Coming from the Void beyond the world, Ashkelon alone survives the world he left in ruins. Cynical and ruthless, the last lord of the Everlasting Dark seethes with millennia of hatred, and his cursed sword Acherlith shrieks with the last screams of a thousand failed heroes.

Ashkelon makes Gideon an offer – to train him to be a hero of the Light beyond the failures sealed within his blade, a peerless warrior to exceed even the exacting standards of the Dark. Reluctantly, Gideon accepts and is thrust into a world of infinite cruelty under Ashkelon’s black fist where the slightest misstep will see him just another scream in the murderer’s black blade.

As Hell consumes the hopes of Man, a hero is forged in darkness. Read it today.

28 Minutes Into The Future
by Chrome Oxide

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Humor
Was there ever a time when the world needed to laugh more than it does right now? Thankfully, the cavalry has arrived. Nine rib-tickling, irreverent short stories take aim at political correctness and blow it to smithereens—in a hail of hilarity.

“I found myself laughing with his tale[s] over and over.”—David Farland, New York Times Bestselling Author; and Coordinating Judge of the Writers of the Future contest”

...entertainment pure and simple... a welcome breath of fresh air in an increasingly stuffy room...” —Dave Truesdale, Editor, Tangent Online”

It’s terribly hard to write political commentary with such a strong sense of irony.”—The late, great Jerry Pournelle, John W. Campbell Award, Prometheus Award, Seiun Award, Heinlein Society Award,National Space Society’s Heinlein

Answering The Human Question:
A Gnome’s Essays On Mankind
by The Brothers K

As the Elder Races debate upon humanity’s place in the world, a Gnome takes up the pen to tell Mankind’s story. His essays abridge a span of ten thousand years, observing Man’s rise from their stone age to the brilliant, terrifying present. This is a tale of strife, featuring the rise and fall of empires, ages of dark lords and heroes, and the birth of ingenuity amid bondage—and its consequences.

The Dreaming at the Drowned Town
by The Brothers K

Hired to accompany a wandering American journalist in search of curious and exotic stories in the Philippine Islands, local guide and translator Enrique is no stranger to the bizarre. Yet his greatest peril comes not from their travels, but when he closes his eyes—every night, Enrique is trapped in a world of vivid, harrowing nightmares. The dead call out to him, begging him to watch them die.

When an ancient town mysteriously emerges off the coast of Leyte, Enrique has no choice but to follow his employer to investigate. But as the expedition unravels, so too does the boundary between dreams and reality. With the island’s dark secrets coming to light, Enrique must face the horrors of its past before he too is claimed by the Drowned Town.

Bovodar and the Bears
by Jack Mikkelson (Author), Mary MacArthur (Illustrator)

“And what would you do if two angry bears came pounding on your door, demanding that you hurry out to meet them?” That’s the dilemma for Bovodar Yarkery, who is confronted one day with a gathering of bears who wish to carry him off on their grand adventure. Across hazardous deserts, through caverns, and far up through the forests into the cold North, there stands Kalas Hall, home of an evil polar bear lord, King Valemod. The path is long, perilous, and uncertain, but if Bovodar & the Bears succeed in their mission, untold glory and riches can be theirs… but only if they can overcome the dangers that await them.

This is the complete story of Bovodar and the Bears. Readers can now read about the day Bovodar left his comfortable tree house and trace his journey all the way across the countryside to the journey’s end in the far northern land of Nixwild. Previously a serial, this release is the complete tale of Bovodar Yarkery’s first adventure away from home.

An illustrated version of this remarkably clever and imaginative YA fantasy is available for free on Arktoons.

Centrism Games
by Rachel Fulton Brown and the Dragon Common Room

Chivalry is dead. These knights want Fame. And Fama’s a witch.

Follow a band of very different Knights on their quest to become the most balanced, the most tolerant, the most compromising of everyone on the modern political spectrum.

Each knight dares to liberalize and conserve, but who will win the ultimate prize and stay safely in the centre?

A cautionary tale in heroic couplets modeled on Alexander Pope’s scathing 18th-century Dunciad.

Reviews:

Dr. Rachel Fulton Brown and her merry band of poets have compiled here a fun, pointed collection of verse through the very active Dragon Common Room Telegram chat. The whole point–as I gather it–is that rather than mucking about in the culture wars, we should be out _creating_ culture on our own.

_Centrism Games_ does just that. It’s wonderful to see these modern knights prove that the pen is, indeed, mightier than the sword.

This poem savagely rips the hearts out of political centrists and moral relativists, and makes them eat it.

Polite Christians and social Conservatives (so-called) will be offended at the prose in ‘Centrism Games’, justly so. Readers both Right and Left will be asking themselves “what would I be willing to do for glory in this world?”, and at each page realize the inglorious catastrophe of the politically correct, postmodern, subjective and relativistic dogmas that praise tolerance and liberty whilst hell is set loose all around us. Readers will be challenged to overcome their revulsion at the themes and language to see the great moral lesson of this modern-Dunciad: every ticket has a hidden price.

This is not a Boomer-friendly story.

Academic Magic
by Becky R. Jones

Zoe O’Brien has found her dream job at a small liberal arts college teaching the history of Medieval witchcraft and magic. Academic life is exactly what she expected it to be…until the squirrels stop by to talk with her and her department chair and best friend turn out to be mages.

Zoe discovers a world of magic and power she never knew existed. She and other faculty mages race to stop a coven from raising a demon on the winter solstice while simultaneously grading piles of final exams and reading the tortured prose of undergraduate term papers. Can Zoe master her new-found powers in time?

Holding the Line: Book One of The Long Watch
by Roy M. Griffis

“𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐛 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐠𝐨!”

“𝘼𝙬𝙚𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙮!”

𝐆𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐮𝐩 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝟏𝟖-𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫-𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫.

His mother had died so long ago, he could barely remember her. Now he lives with his alcoholic janitor father in the basement of the 150-year-old New Territorial Military Institute. Growing up at the prestigious, low-profile military academy, Danny had watched as the Territorial discretely provided a college education for the sons and daughters of politicians and royal families across the world, as well as the children of the rich and dysfunctional.

Beginning his freshman year at the Territorial on a “child of an employee” scholarship, Danny has a simple plan: graduate, leave behind his widowed drunk of a dad, and get the hell out of Wyoming.

That was before his home exploded. Before he met the sickly, spooky Tatiana who could See. Before the whispers in the night.

And that was before things got really weird.

“𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐑𝐨𝐲 𝐆𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝. 𝐈𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐚 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐧𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐰𝐤𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩. 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥, 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭. 𝐈’𝐦 𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐥!”

“𝑨 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒎𝒊𝒙 𝒐𝒇 𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒖𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆!”

“𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒅 𝒂𝒅𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑮𝒓𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒔’ 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒌 𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔.”

The Thing From HR: A Cthulhu, Amalgamated Memoir (The Cthulhu, Amalgamated Memoirs Book 1)
by Roy M. Griffis

“I was laughing audibly as I read it”

What Roy Griffis has done is apply a completely new and fresh perspective to the Cthulhu mythos. The Thing From HR is as snarky, humorous, darkly twisted view of the old ones. I struggle to say what genre this book fits into. Yes, there is the insanity generating horror you’d expect, but this novel is much more. Picture The Office meets Cthulhu, meets Scooby Doo. I was laughing, audibly, as I read it. It is witty, daring, and worthy of your time. - Blaine Pardoe, award-winning New York Times bestselling author

“A Cthulhian romp that’s equal parts Terry Pratchett and Mel Brooks… and it just might be the funniest novel I’ve ever read.” – Upstream Reviews

“I laughed far too much...you’ll enjoy dark humor, dry wit, slapstick moments, and elements of romantic comedy.” - Amazon 5-star review

Can a Bad Thing be a Good Guy?

Narg was content working as a Damnation Services-10 in HR. Sure, he was related to one of the Elder Gods, but a little nepotism never hurt any Thing. His life was just wailing and gibbering, right up until his Uncle needed a small favor from his nephew.

All Narg had to do was go down among the humans...and pretend to be one of them.

These are not your Grandfather’s tales of Eldritch Horror: this is the untold story of the ghastly, unappreciated (and entirely expendable) minor monstrosities that support the Inscrutable Plans Of Dark Gods And Elder Things Beyond The Knowledge Of Men.

The Cthulhu, Amalgamated series is a comic romp full of action and mystery, including, of course, Sanity-Shattering Horror––and that’s just the paperwork. Even H.P. could not conceive of the Corporate Terrors that await The Thing from HR.

“The Thing From HR is largely a bawdy, irreverent, horror-comedy, with all that entails. Lovecraft purists might object to that; but I would guess most readers will find it hilarious” - review by Berthold Gambrel

“Enjoyable Lovecraftian Romp –– There’s mystery, suspense, a touch of romance and body parts galore. You won’t regret getting this book. Highly recommended!”- Amazon 5-star review

“A wild and funny romp with horror and humor.”- Amazon 5-star review

The Fall of Tartaria [Print Replica]
by Michael Finney

The Fall of Tartaria by Michael Finney is a short story that takes place in an alternative reality to bring the Tartarian Empire to life on the page in word and image.

Ominous warnings are emerging from various factions within the empire but will they remain unheeded?

Also available in a short film!

Anunnaki: Origin of Sumeria
by Michael Finney

The ancient civilization of Sumeria has an origin connected to the mysterious Anunnaki. How did the people of the land between the rivers in Mesopotamia rise to prominence? Discover the truth…

Also available in a short film!

Reflections in Crystal (The Crystal Therapy Chronicles Book 1)
by Jay Maynard

Magic fixes people the world cannot touch.

Alex Sullivan isn’t crazy -- just angry. Angry enough to get arrested. Angry enough to be given a strange choice: prison, or an experimental magical program at a private facility in rural Missouri.

They claim to fix broken people not with medicine or therapy, but with silence, service, and a skintight suit of latex.

Inside the suit, Alex is cut off from the world -- unable to speak, eat, or even cry in the ordinary way. Inside the crystal, time flows differently. There, guided by someone who seems to know him better than he knows himself, Alex must face his deepest wounds... and either heal, or shatter.

But this is no simple treatment. Alex finds himself on a journey into a hidden world where redemption is earned, the broken are made whole, and some choose never to leave the suit again.

Previously published as Foundational Laminate.

“One of the rare novels I hope becomes reality—a hard look at how to turn the antisocial into good neighbors.”

— Karl K. Gallagher, author of The Fall of the Censor and Torchship

Return to Aramon - A New Moon
by Ezra Ferguson

Book 1 of 1: Return to Aramon

Critically acclaimed storyteller Ezra Ferguson returns to the world of epic narrative with an unforgettable, heart-rending tale of extraordinary men standing alone against a cosmic evil.

GOD’S HONOR.

A devout order of warrior monks had rid the world of demonic power. But when their oath-sworn prince rises to the throne, his folly threatens to undo everything. Voldigar, their aging champion, left bloodshed behind, living out his autumn years in bitter-sweet peace, caring only for the soil and the suffering woman he loves. Now, as the shadows of his past and an ancient evil loom over his dreams, he and his Brethren are all that stand against the end of days...

Return to Aramon - A New Moon is heroic fantasy written in the tradition of the classic epics, seeking that which is good, true, and beautiful. Return to Aramon explores love, loyalty, and sacrificial courage in brilliant contrast to the post-modern cynicism and nihilism so common to the stories of our day. In reverence for the beauty of language, Return to Aramon honors the foundations of high fantasy while speaking in the distinct voice of a generation who saw the end of an age.

Dullahan: Samhradh
by WPM & Michael Gallo

Book 1 of 2: Dullahan

The year is 999, Samhradh. War has ravaged Ireland for many years. A young girl named Niamh has found a man with a talking head who can’t remember their past. They are Dullahan and Pig. She has sent them on a mission to find her father and bring him home. On their mission they will face many obstacles, and as they search for Niamh’s father, they also search for the mysteries of their pasts.

This book is 109,763 words, and it contains 14 interior black and white images.

Dullahan: Fomhar
by WPM & Michael Gallo

Book 2 of 2: Dullahan

The year is 999, Fomhar.

The war between Ultan and Brian Boru storms on, consuming all in its path. Dullahan and Pig lost their battle against the Moths of the Black Sun in Samhradh. Terra’s victory was great, yet she isn’t finished with Dullahan. Their loss drove them to the cusp of total annihilation. Pig does all he can to keep Dullahan moving, but Dullahan is a shadow of himself. Will it be enough? Their only path forward is to journey to Connaught and plunge into the middle of the war.

Now Dullahan hunts for one of the Moths to uncover the secrets of his past.

The Boneshard Knight:
A Sword & Sorcery Tale (short story)
by John A Pretorius

A holy warrior and an orc sell-sword must join forces to defeat a dangerous threat taking root in a realm between worlds.

Banished to an endless series of caves, Grothu meets a warrior wearing a set of armor carved from the bones of an ancient creature, bearing a holy sword like no other he’s seen.

What will they discover in this world where everything wants to kill them?

Living in Times of Dragons (The Remnant King Book 1)
by John A Pretorius

Book 1 of 2: The Remnant King

“...as with everything in my life, all this began with dreams...”

American ex-pat, father and widower, Roger Rommel, did not believe in dragons. Unfortunately, they did not return the sentiment.

After returning from a self-imposed exile to his adopted country of South Africa, Roger is confronted by these legendary fire-breathing reptiles who risked exposing their hidden world simply to hunt him. Gifted with the ability to create and enter dreams, as well as to see the future, he tries to survive and protect his son from enemies he does not understand. But the past is alive, and he finds himself linked to a conflict thousands of years old.

The world he knew is now stranger, more fantastic and terrifying than he truly knew, especially when everyone is out to get you.

The Tangles of Old Sins (The Remnant King Book 2)
by John Pretorius

Book 2 of 2: The Remnant King

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“The past isn’t dead

It is very much alive.

It holds the cards, the accounts,

and it knows when to pass judgement...”

Two years have passed with Roger in slow isolation from the world, carefully preparing for a mission into enemy territory that could shake alliances and wreck treaties, but also has the potential to aid the Earth and allies from an enemy no-one understands.

But his son is coming with him, as well as old enemies turned allies. But can he finish this journey when his very soul and being is targeted?

Asterius (Timelessness)
by Susana Imaginário

My Name is Asterius, yet I have never seen the stars.

You all know me as the Minotaur.

This is my story.

The Minotaur himself relates to a mysterious listener the events that led to his death in the Labyrinth as he reflects upon the meaning of good versus evil, right versus wrong and monsters versus heroes.

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Richard Uprising: Welcome to America’s descent into self-imposed tyranny

by Patrick Silken

It’s 2044, and the United States is in a dark place. Elections have consequences and America has chosen unwisely. The protesters are now in charge, and they’ve unleashed the enormous power of the federal government against their enemies. America’s new ruling class has eviscerated the First Amendment, eradicated free speech rights, and will stop at nothing to hold on to their power. The government has become a machine that will crush anyone or anything it cannot control.

The regime cannot control Richard Uprising. He leads a rock band that stands up against the elites and their unquenchable thirst for power. What they do to Richard is unspeakable, but what they unleash may be America’s last best hope. Join the band on their journey to freedom and find out what they can accomplish when they have nothing left to lose.
This story is a work of fiction from the mind of Patrick Silken. None of the characters in this story are real and any similarity to any real person is purely coincidental. This story takes place in the future, so by definition it hasn’t happened, but could it happen? Well, you be the judge of that...

This is a must read for anyone who is terrified that cancel culture will destroy America.

The Deepest Cut (Clara Verona Cold War Thrillers Book 1)
by Bowen Greenwood

Betrayed. Hunted. Accused of murder.

It’s 1982. Cold War rages between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Clara Verona sneaks into Central America to infiltrate a violent group of Marxist revolutionaries. But when her contact is murdered and Clara’s pistol is used to kill him, she finds herself running for her life, hunted for a crime she didn’t commit. When she calls for help, the only result is more cops on her tail. Someone on the inside sold her out.

Victor Isaac used to be an elite Panamanian special forces officer, but an operation went terribly wrong on his watch. Now he’s stuck hassling drunks on the night shift. Called to the scene of a murder, the crime sets off every one of his alarm bells. But the closer he comes to catching the killer, the more obvious it becomes that everything is not as it seems.

In a conflict fought in the shadows, spies and special forces clash over a terrorist plot that could be the start of World War III. If they want to warn the world, or even survive, Clara and Victor will need all of their training. They’ll need all their skill. And they’ll need to learn to trust each other. In the covert world of espionage, that may be the hardest challenge of all.

Relic of the Aztecs [Print Replica]
by Michael Finney

In a world where two civilizations collide, the Aztec Empire is in turmoil as they face invasion from an advanced people. Their Emperor, Tzontettica Yaotl, has heard rumors about an artifact that may be their only chance to turn the tide of the impending battle, but its location is uncertain and it might be lost among the abandoned ruins of Coliniacahuitlco.

Facing insurmountable odds and potential annihilation, one man is chosen by the Emperor to embark on a dangerous mission. Can the chosen explorer return with the relic in time and preserve the empire?

Readers are transported into a vibrant world of alternative fictional history. This captivating tale weaves together elements of tradition and imagination, exploring themes of identity, community, and the power of the human spirit in the face of adversity.

Book of Feasts and Seasons
by John C. Wright

The Book of Feasts & Seasons is a beautifully mind-bending stroll with a grandmaster of science fiction through the annual Catholic calendar. Over the course of the year, from January to December, the author takes his inspiration from 10 different holidays and explores their meanings in a series of stories of marvelous imagination. The book begins with New Year’s Day and “The Meaning of Life as Told Me by an Inebriated Science Fiction Writer in New Jersey”.

The Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin is represented by “A Random World of Delta Capricorni Aa, Called Scheddi”, while “The Parliament of Beasts and Birds” is the story for the Feast of Pentecost. The calendar and the anthology culminate on Christmas Eve with “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus”.

John C. Wright is not only a deeply religious man, he is also a devout Catholic philosopher who regards reason as an intrinsic aspect of his faith. The Book of Feasts & Seasons is an imaginative embodiment of that faith, taking many different shapes and forms throughout the vast expanse of God’s creation.

Doors: An Onteora County Romance
by Francis Porretto

Paul Larsen’s B&B in Ogunquit, Maine is running him off his feet. Desperate for someone to share the load, he hires pretty, appealing Carol Holm as his assistant manager. Carol is desperate to be gone from Onteora County, New York, where she’s made some dangerous enemies. As time passes she becomes Paul’s lover, and later his wife.

But things are changing in Ogunquit, and not for the better. Some of Maine’s fauna are becoming more dangerous than the bears, the moose, and the enemies Carol was desperate to escape. Some of them wear badges. Though it alarms Carol, Paul elects to face them down. The consequences are life-changing for them both.

The Complete Father Brown Mysteries
($.99 Mystery Classics)
by G. K. Chesterton

This beautifully-produced digital edition contains twenty-four short stories and novellas featuring G. K. Chesterton’s legendary detective, Father Brown.

This edition contains a linked table of contents that helps you navigate easily among the stories.

This edition has been spell-corrected and formatted especially for the Kindle. It contains easy-to-read chapter headings and accurate line breaks and pagination.

The Father Brown Mysteries digital edition contains the following stories by G. K. Chesterton:

The Blue Cross
The Secret Garden
The Queer Feet
The Flying Stars
The Invisible Man
The Honor of Israel Gow
The Wrong Shape
The Sins of Prince Saradine
The Hammer of God
The Eye of Apollo
The Sign of the Broken Sword
The Three Tools of Death
The Absence of Mr. Glass
The Paradise of Thieves
The Duel of Dr. Hirsch
The Man in the Passage
The Mistake of the Machine
The Head of Caesar
The Purple Wig
The Perishing of the Pendragons
The God of the Gongs
The Salad of Colonel Cray
The Strange Crime of John Boulnois
The Fairy Tale of Father Brown

Captain Blood
by Rafael Sabatini

An Epic Tale of Adventure, Justice, and Romance
Captain Blood is a swashbuckling masterpiece that tells the story of Peter Blood, a physician turned pirate, whose life is irrevocably changed when he is unjustly accused of treason. Set against the backdrop of the 17th-century Caribbean, this thrilling novel combines action, wit, and a quest for justice.

The Plot
After being wrongfully convicted and sold into slavery in the West Indies, Peter Blood escapes his chains and becomes the captain of a notorious pirate ship. Using his brilliance and courage, he navigates the high seas, outsmarts formidable foes, and fights for freedom and redemption. Amidst his daring exploits, Blood grapples with his growing feelings for Arabella Bishop, the niece of a cruel plantation owner, leading to a tale of romance entwined with peril.

Key Themes

Justice and Redemption: Blood’s transformation from a wronged man to a pirate hero showcases his quest for justice and personal honor.
Adventure on the High Seas: Packed with naval battles, daring escapes, and clever strategies, the novel captures the spirit of piracy and adventure.
Love and Loyalty: The relationship between Blood and Arabella adds depth and emotional resonance to the story.

Why Read Captain Blood?
Rafael Sabatini’s rich prose, compelling characters, and thrilling plot make Captain Blood an enduring classic of adventure literature. It is a must-read for those who love tales of courage, romance, and the triumph of the human spirit.

The Mayor of Christ Mountain
by Zaklog the Great (Author), Codex (Illustrator)

When a young, married father leaves his sheltered, progressive life in Maine for North Carolina, he enters a brave new world of race relations he never knew existed. Edmund Dantent had it all: a rewarding new tech job and happy family home in a pleasant tree-lined neighborhood. He never expected his American dream to die in a seemingly freak act of violence. And as horror builds on horror, the stunned father wakes up to a up to a nightmare of injustice.

In a world where the law serves the guilty and rewards the corrupt, he must choose between action and despair. But can Edmund’s path lead to more than just avenging the innocent?

The One-Minute Mysteries of Inspector Gerard: The Ultimate Flatfoot
by Tyler James Cook (Author), Alexander Henderson (Preface)

Ever noticed how “Two-Minute Mysteries” always contain the most inane, unlikely solutions? So did writer and musician Tyler James Cook, who grew weary of solutions like, “He couldn’t have stolen it, because he can’t put his left hand in his right pocket.” Balderdash!

In the spirit of those mysteries, Cook created Inspector Gerard, a grizzled, film noir detective from Aurora, Illinois. Gerard sees the clues no one else sees--including the reader.

For the first time ever, here are collected all of Cook’s classic tales, from the first pencil-and-paper drafts of a chubby high school junior, through the longer-form Gerard adventures Cook wrote as a student at the University of South Carolina.

Gerard always solves the case--even his own murder. That’s why he’s the Ultimate Flatfoot.

Did YOU figure it out?

Noah and the Great Flood:
A Poem in Alliterative Verse
by Timothy Witchazel

From author and poet Timothy V. Witchazel comes a retelling of the story of Noah and the Ark in the alliterative verse, the style of poetry used in Beowulf, Piers Plowman, and other Anglo-Saxon works.

Joshua and the Battle of Jericho:
A Poem in Alliterative Verse
by Timothy Witchazel

From author and poet Timothy V. Witchazel comes the story of Joshua and the Battle of Jericho in alliterative verse. Tracing the story of the Israelites from the parting of the Red Sea to the fall of the walls of Jericho, the story is retold in the style of Beowulf, Piers Plowman, and other Anglo-Saxon poems.

Tier Zero (The Retreads Book 2) Kindle Edition
by Henry Brown

Book 2 of 3: The Retreads

Amazon #1 bestseller in Pulp Thrillers! (USA March 2018) #1 bestseller in Men’s Adventure Fiction! (Canada February 2020)

When a party of American college girls are sold into slavery by human traffickers, a rescue mission is too dirty, too dangerous, and too difficult for any government to touch. That’s where The Retreads come in.

The pirates thought they found the perfect target: a private yacht foolishly sailing through the Malacca Straits, which could discretely and easily be sold on the black market.

The human traffickers thought the boat was hauling the perfect cargo: young, attractive women who would generate income in brothels around the region. What made the caper not so perfect was that one of the girls had an uncle who took it personally.

Another Amazon Bestseller (War, Military Thrillers, Men’s Adventure, etc.) from Henry Brown...”One helluva adventure writer.” - Jim Morris (author of War Story, The Devil’s Secret Name)

You can take a man out of Special Operations, but you can’t take SpecOps out of the man. Tommy Scarred Wolf calls on his old friend Rocco Cavarra, who still has contacts in the intelligence business. Other survivors of the Sudan mission also rally behind Tommy, signing on for the kind of favor that can never be repaid.

Armed with all the firepower and force multipliers they can scrounge, shadowed by a team of secret assassins, the Retreads ride again, bringing smoke and taking names.

Tier Zero is old-school military adventure you haven’t enjoyed since the full-auto glory days of Able Team and Phoenix Force.

Dark Straits: A Naval War Techno-thriller (Arrow Storm)
by Joe Salem

Two NATO destroyers are sailing into the Black Sea on a Freedom of the Seas mission. Their commanders don’t know that they are sailing into the jaws of a trap laid by a nefarious plot between a long time enemy and a supposed ally. In a post-Ukraine war world, with new leadership in Russia, they believe they are relatively safe. Supported by the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush in volatile Eastern Mediterranean waters fraught with peril.

Aboard the aircraft carrier, Commander Robert “Bobby” Webb, the Commander of the Air Group, leads his squadron with a blend of tactical brilliance and unwavering resolve. Commander Webb must navigate this complex web of deceit where every flight could be his last. With advanced weaponry and tactics at play, he and his crew are tasked with unraveling the layers of this conspiracy, where every decision could tip the scales between victory and catastrophe.

Meanwhile, a spy code-named “Charlie” discovers the dastardly plan and must battle through the streets of Moscow to get the information out and help prevent World War III.

From the streets of Moscow to the depths of the Black Sea and the skies above, a battle of wits, technology, and sheer human courage will determine whether the flag of freedom will continue to wave or be extinguished by the shadows of deceit after passing through these Dark Straits.

Lost Causes Kindle Edition
by Richard Nichols (Author)

IF YOU LIKE JAMES BOND, JASON BOURNE OR JACK BAUER, THEN THE CHANCE ARE YOU”RE GOING TO LOVE JOHN BUCHAN!

John Buchan is a relic from a bygone age, a man constantly at odds with the modern world; a man who finds sanctuary in the only role that brings him peace of mind - as an assassin for a top-secret British government agency called the Mill. Specializing in what they call ‘ungentlemanly warfare’, its operatives are instructed to kill their targets wherever they find them, irrespective of boundaries, laws, jurisdictions or circumstances.

Day-to-day, Buchan lives a simple, anonymous life in the Belgian countryside, restlessly roaming the battlefields of the Western Front in an attempt to kill time. All the while he waits patiently for the message that will signal the start of his next mission, the moment when he can get back to killing the bad guys again instead. It’s a message that will arrive, the way it always does, hidden within the solutions of the Daily Telegraph’s cryptic crossword puzzle. And when it does arrive, it’s like he’s been reborn, because in Buchan’s world being on a mission is the only time when things really make sense; the only time he feels truly alive.

He barely remembers the time before he was recruited by the Mill. His name wasn’t John Buchan then. In those days he was known as Charlie Hook, a happy-go-lucky, rugby-playing, ex-Rhodesian Light Infantry trooper turned Gurkha officer with an eye for the girls. But Charlie Hook is long dead, and so too are his memories of the events that led to him becoming a professional killing machine.

Buchan is getting older now. Retirement beckons, but the man he calls Control has one last mission for him. It involves a ruthless army of some of the world’s worst terrorists, an equally ruthless drug lord, an enormous hurricane and seemingly unsurmountable odds. But it also offers Buchan a last, desperate chance to take revenge on those that took his young life - and love - away from him all those years ago, and he plans to go out with a bang.

Set against a backdrop of unprecedented worldwide socio-political upheaval, Lost Causes is an old-style thriller that moves from the modern-day Ypres Salient and London to the badlands of Northern Ireland and the exotic but deadly jungles of southern Mexico.

Mixing the kind of plot found in an Ian Fleming novel with the unashamed masculinity of an Alistair Maclean or Wilbur Smith hero and the tough, muscular prose of Mickey Spillane, Lost Causes is a startlingly intelligent and original work that interweaves dramatic action, sudden violence, stunning plot twists and subtle humour to entertain and inform in equal measure. It will especially appeal to anyone bored by the stale unambitious writing, and inane, politically-correct sensitivities of so many modern novels; as well as anyone looking to understand the sinister and dangerous forces that have plagued our lives for decades and which now threaten to destroy our civilization altogether.

Richard Nichols studied Philosophy and Psychology at Edinburgh University. He was a businessman for several years before turning his hand to writing. He is married, in his fifties, and lives in Mexico. He enjoys watching rugby and visiting battlefields. He hates crossword puzzles.

Righteous Kill: A gripping and action-packed military thriller Kindle Edition
by Ted Lapkin (Author)

‘A MIX BETWEEN EARLY TOM CLANCY, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS AND MOSSAD’S OPERATION WRATH OF GOD... A JOY TO READ’ ★★★★★

October 1940: a contingent of Israeli special forces soldiers armed with 21st century weaponry materializes in German-occupied France. These elite special operators have been sent over eighty years into the past by a genius physicist who cracked the secret of time travel.

Their mission is to ambush Adolf Hitler’s personal train as it passes through the French countryside, thereby preventing the Holocaust and shortening the war.

The ideology of the Third Reich preaches that Jews are an inferior race. Lieutenant Colonel Yossi Klein and his team of Israeli special ops soldiers are about to teach the Nazis how wrong they are.

Why readers love RIGHTEOUS KILL:

‘A rollicking page-turner that I’ll probably go back to and read again in a month or two. The author clearly knows the military in an expert way’ ★★★★★

‘Suspenseful and action-packed’ The Jerusalem Post

Ted Lapkin spent the first half of his childhood in North Carolina before his Jewish family moved to Israel. He saw active service as a combat intelligence officer in the Golani Infantry Brigade, fighting with the brigade’s elite recon company during the battle for the Beaufort Castle.

Graduating summa cum laude from Tel Aviv University, Ted returned to the United States for postgraduate study and began to work in politics as a communications/government-relations strategist. While in Washington D.C., he met an Australian woman whom he later married. Moving to Melbourne, he began a PHD (never finished) and began to write political opinion columns for Australian newspapers. Since then, he has written for many publications, including the Spectator, LA Times and Sydney Morning Herald, as well as speeches for members of the US Congress and Australian Government Cabinet Ministers. He now runs his own consulting firm that advises clients on strategic communications, reputation management and government relations.

Ted lives with his wife Sharon in the Melbourne inner suburb of Fitzroy, described by London’s Daily Telegraph as one of “the world’s most ‘hipster’ neighbourhoods. ”RIGHTEOUS KILL is his first novel.

Consent (Kingmaker Book 1)
by Ari Mendelson

Book 1 of 3: Kingmaker

Tech billionaire Jerry Neville holds the key to a groundbreaking technology capable of manipulating anyone’s decisions. However, Neville’s Chinese backers demand perfection, threatening dire consequences unless the flaws are fixed.

Targeted for artificial seduction by Neville’s algorithm is Hollywood actress Meghan Peters.

Meanwhile, a group of independent journalists rises to expose the truth in a world where even our thoughts can be controlled.

Lying in wait for the crusading reporters is Mei Hua Chang, a Chinese spy whose beauty and charm are matched only by her cunning.

In Consent, prepare to be captivated by relentless action, nerve-wracking suspense, and a profound examination of power and persuasion.

Truth Speaker to the Great King Kindle Edition
by Donald Wilkins

A historical novel of the Greek-Persian wars centered on Queen Artemis of Caria, a ruler who fought in war, and advised the ruler of the greatest empire of the time, and kept her city-state, surrounded by enemies, free.

End State Maintenance and Other Stories
by Clinton, Bill

You didn’t know what this book was about until it was done. It’s about time and chance and choices. You improvised it all.

You are drinking wine. Red. Enjoying music. Blue. Maybe some more wine. You are daydreaming. An idea dances around in your head. You follow it. More wine, more music. You begin to improvise a narrative on the idea. You conjure up some characters to live the story. More wine- who’s counting? You start upbeat, comical, absurd; then some sadness. Life is not all fun and games, you say. You struggle, and always hope. You rule your world and you are having a great time making it up. But how do you get out of here? Okay, enough wine. You can’t end the story until you stop improvising. Literature is tough work you say as you adjust the couch pillows. You’ve got it! The perfect conclusion. You fall asleep, wake up, finish the wine and write it all down. There you go.

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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
by Gustave Le Bon

Explore the Psychology of Mass Behavior
In The Crowd, Gustave Le Bon examines the psychology behind group behavior, offering timeless insights into how individuals behave differently when part of a collective. This groundbreaking work, first published in 1895, has influenced thinkers across disciplines, from sociology and psychology to politics and economics.

Key Insights from the Book:

The Power of the Crowd: Le Bon explores how crowds can shape beliefs and behaviors, often leading individuals to act in ways they wouldn’t alone.

The Loss of Individual Identity: Learn about the psychological phenomenon of individuals losing their sense of self when submerged in a collective.

Emotional Dynamics: Understand how emotions like fear, enthusiasm, and anger drive collective behavior.

Leadership and Influence: Discover how leaders manipulate crowd psychology to steer collective actions and decisions.

Why Read The Crowd?

Gain insights into the behavior of crowds and their influence on society.

Understand the psychological mechanisms behind movements, revolutions, and social change.

Learn how mass behavior shapes politics, marketing, and media in the modern world.

Whether you’re a student of sociology, a historian, or simply curious about human behavior, The Crowd provides a fascinating exploration of the dynamics that govern collective action.

The Art of Suspense: A Survey of Narrative Patterns and Techniques
by James A. Buck

Suspense is a vital component of good storytelling, but it’s a component that’s increasingly rare in many of today’s stories. But what exactly is suspense? How is it defined, and how can you tell if it’s present in your manuscript? Are there specific techniques you can use to inject suspense into your story?

A good mixture of theory and practice, The Art of Suspense examines practical, easy-to-use narrative tools for creating suspense. The first part of the book covers narrative techniques such as reversal, dramatic irony, surprise, and preparation. The second part examines narrative patterns, using the analytical methodology of the Russian folklorist Vladimir Propp. Focusing on scenes where the protagonist comes into conflict with the antagonist, the author discusses eleven patterns that create suspense.

The patterns and techniques are amply illustrated with examples from film, television, and literature. Western examples include films of Alfred Hitchcock and Fritz Lang, novels of Agatha Christie and J.R.R. Tolkien, and episodes of Star Trek. Eastern examples include Chinese martial arts films, Korean period drama, and Japanese anime.

More a book of analysis than a prescriptive, how-to book, The Art of Suspense will benefit not just novelists and screenwriters, but also directors, editors, Beta readers, film commentators—anyone who is concerned with the craft of storytelling. The Art of Suspense will open your eyes to the narrative tools of storytelling, tools that have been hiding in plain sight in the stories that you read.

Crystallizing Public Opinion
Edward L. Bernays

Edward Bernays, famed as The Father of Public Relations, pioneered the technique of working to change attitudes rather than just selling products. In this 1923 classic, he describes how public opinion is created and shaped, including the use of surveys and endorsements from opinion leaders, celebrities, and experts. These methods formed the principles that corporations and governments have employed for the past century to influence social attitudes.

Propaganda
by Edward L. Bernays

Propaganda incorporates the literature from social science and psychological manipulation into an examination of the techniques of public communication. Bernays wrote the book in response to the success of some of his earlier works such as Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923) and A Public Relations Counsel (1927). Propaganda explored the psychology behind manipulating masses and the ability to use symbolic action and propaganda to influence politics, effect social change, and lobby for gender and racial equality. This work propelled Bernays into media historians’ view of him as the “father of public relations.”

From Barsoom to Malacandra: Musings on Things Past and Things to Come
by John C. Wright

Peek into the heart of Science Fiction!

From John Carter’s Mars to that of C. S. Lewis, Science Fiction astounds us with wonder.

Science Fiction Grandmaster John C Wright here presents essays on topics both deep and trivial surrounding the strange and wonderful worlds of science fiction and fantasy. Thoughtful, humorous, deep, or absurd, Wright travels the width of the cosmos and plumbs the deeps of eternity through the lens of simple space adventure stories to say what these flights of fancy say about life on earth, and the secrets hidden in the human heart.

Orthodoxy: Illustrated Centennial Edition
(G. K. Chesterton Book 2)
by G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton’s unconventional memoir of faith, Orthodoxy, is his most enduring nonfiction work.

“Since he published Orthodoxy in 1908, G. K. Chesterton has inspired Christians and challenged skeptics with his unique wit and wisdom. He delivered biting analysis still relevant today.” --Christianity Today

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Arizonan Sojourn, South Carolinian Dreams: And Other Adventures
by Tyler Cook

The allure of the West is real: from a snow-rimmed Grand Canyon to spicy breakfast burritos, Tyler James Cook regales readers with tales of his Arizonan exploits.

This handsome volume also includes essays on Cook’s travels throughout the Southeast, especially in his beloved South Carolina.

Southeast meets Southwest in this humorous collection of travel writings.

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