Category: Book Highlights and Prompts
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Wizard of Ends by Vanessa Finaughty
A powerful sorceress wants the Queen of Ends dead – revenge for the king’s refusal to hand over his crown. Believing the Land of Ends to be rightfully hers, the sorceress conjures creatures of darkness to hunt the queen. She is not expected to survive the night. Only the wizard Lashlor Leaflin can protect Queen…
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The Snows of Khione by Lisa K. Stephenson
Four centuries ago, after a devastating AI war nearly led to humanity’s extinction, scientists proposed an alliance with the Modiri—mysterious sea beings, to create human or hybrid offspring that might ensure survival. Present day, Fiona, a courageous half-breed born of a human mother and hybrid father, navigates a society where hybrids are seen as abominations.…
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NEVADA by Xavier McClean
Fifty years after the Second Corpo War, the Solar States, against all odds, reigns as a leading global power. A new country forged from the festering corpse of the United States, it carries from the rest of the world, a desire of sustainability and proposes a new path. The winds of climate change have ushered…
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Full Circle by Vered Neta
When Russians invade Prague, a young medical student kills a soldier in self-defense. As authorities hunt for her, she is smuggled beyond The Iron Curtain sneaks across borders to reach the USA, where, twenty years later, she shares her story of struggle and hope with her daughter. When the Berlin Wall falls in 1989 and…
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Coyote by Ashley Brandt
Beware the man of many faces… Eighteen-year-old Raven Thatcher is a coyote shapeshifter and newly promoted pack warrior. On the eve of her first duty assignment, Raven is attacked by her boyfriend Jonathan, who has turned feral. Rescued by a beautiful stranger in the forest, Raven immediately becomes infatuated with the man in tribal art,…
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Shadow City: A Futuristic Noir by Michael Robbins
In a metropolis engulfed by shadows, Jack Harper, a former detective haunted by their own past, becomes embroiled in a conspiracy that stretches to the highest echelons of power. Jack’s path intertwines with a diverse cast of characters, each carrying their own secrets and motivations. Together, they navigate a treacherous landscape of deception, corporate greed,…
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Faders and Alphas Series: 2nd Edition
Dear Reader, As you probably know, I’ve spent the past couple of years writing and publishing the Faders and Alphas two-book series that also includes two short story serials. Well, with the release of the second edition covers, my co-author (Lornett B. Vestal) and I have finally reached the end of our journey with the…
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Existence Parallel by Patricia M. Muhammad
Two worlds exist. One tangible, and the other intangible. Only the elders of the first world know the secrets of the other. This is what they believe. For many years Queen Udelilia conspires against Princess Valera because of her destiny and the gifts the Great Powers bestowed upon her. The princess escapes the watchful eye…
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Macbeth’s Spinners by Justine Johnston Hemmestad
Macbeth’s Spinners begins in Eleventh Century Scotland with the supernatural transformation of the three Greek fates, but witchcraft only serves as a cover for their true mission. To thwart their ancient nemesis, the Greek god Apollo, they consolidate their power to help the warlord Macbeth, though Apollo is aware and tries to crush Macbeth in…
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McMinnville by Derrick McCartney
Two photographs taken on a spring evening in 1950 that seem to show the impossible—we are not alone. A thirteen-year-old girl disappears the same evening, but returns thirty years later without aging a day. A dying detective on the hunt for the answers to one mystery falls afoul of a more profound mystery that calls…
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