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Eternity's Echo
Eternity's Echo
Surly teenager Ellie Sullivan is dead. She also has become a soul reaper. As far as Ellie is concerned, this is the worst job ever - and she's stuck for eternity! But then the world ends. Much as Ellie hates her job, she can't just sit back as her fellow reapers begin demolition of planet Earth. Not when her family will die with everything else... Armed with a pocket-watch that travels through time, Ellie decides to cancel the apocalypse. Except maybe she'll have the chance to change the past. What would it cost to become alive again? Ellie is desperate to find out, and yet the question remains: Can the world even be saved at all? View the video trailer here: https://www.facebook.com/104062704302057/videos/162624685551881
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Eternity's Echo
Isle of Apples
Isle of Apples
"A new twist on time traveling and the power to love and forgive." --Edward Maher, Amazon Reviewer Bridget's future depends on helping the boy who wants to kill her. The Isle of Apples is a breathtaking, wonderful place. It's lush and green, full of white magic and perfectly safe. Well, except for dangerous mythological beasts, enchanted streams, and the fact that there is no sun and no time. And all Bridget has to do to solve an unsolvable, four-thousand-year-old paradox involving the boy who wants to kill her is go there and fulfill a promise she made to the Goddess. Bridget and her best friend Celena use an otherworldly portal to delve deep into the past for answers of exactly what to do. What is "The Forever Tree" and what do mysterious clay tablets reveal about their quest? How can they find the one person they need to complete the ancient magic when he has disappeared - and is he still in Wales, or has he vanished into ancient Celtic Britain for the same artifacts Bridget seeks? Bridget learns that sometimes pieces of the puzzle are found in the most unexpected ways - and from the most unexpected people. In an uncharted realm governed by different rules, she witnesses trust, magic and faith overcome adversity as a painful history draws to a close. Isle of Apples is a story of friendship, time travel, and haunting adventure in ancient Wales.
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Isle of Apples
The Priestess Trials
The Priestess Trials
When hunger strikes her village, Tala, a war orphan thought marriage was her ticket out of slavery. But her desperate move only leads to desperation. Soon, she’s forced to run from her fiancé to escape the same fate as his three dead wives. The priestess trials may provide the cover she needs and will prevent another disastrous marriage, but it’s not as easy as she thought it would be. Her competitors are years ahead of her in skills and social class. Her dark skin and short hair mark her as a slave, and that makes her a target of their ire. Will she endure the cruelty to save herself and become a priestess or will she abandon her plans altogether and spend the rest of her life in dire straits? The Priestess Trials will delight fans of The Poppy War and An Ember in the Ashes. This new adult Asian fantasy contains elements of violence, abuse, and detailed descriptions of war.
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The Priestess Trials
The Duke's Daughter (Wyld Magic #0)
The Duke's Daughter (Wyld Magic #0)
Korinna is the daughter of the duke’s mistress. She and her mother were sent to a farming estate in the country to avoid political complications for her father. Her mother hopes that someday, the duke will bring them to the capital and marry her at last, but he keeps putting them off with excuses. But he has his own plans to arrange a marriage for Korinna when she comes of age. When a magical plague threatens the countryside and her mother’s life, Korinna takes up the responsibilities of leading the estate. She begs the duke for help, but none comes, leaving her with difficult choices to save her mother and her people. She must sacrifice many things to survive: the safety of her childhood friend who is now a handsome squire in her guard, her mother’s most cherished possessions, maybe even her own life. Being the duke’s daughter won’t be enough to save her now. Can she find the strength to be something more? This novella is a prequel to A Flight of Marewings. It can be read as a standalone or an introduction to the Wyld Magic series.
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The Duke's Daughter (Wyld Magic #0)
The Summoner and the Seer - Preview
The Summoner and the Seer - Preview
Radcliff was widely known as the most ruthless wizard of all time. Nicknamed Destroyer, his brutal actions forced even the most recalcitrant kingdoms to surrender. When the west defied him, he immolated their entire city and thousands died. But this action was the last straw for many. Betrayed by his lover, stripped of power and memory by his mentor, he was locked up and tortured for one thousand years. Amira’s seer talent has always been unpredictable but accurate. So when it shows her the wizard responsible for slaughtering her friends and family is the key to saving the world, she has no choice but to rescue him. But Radcliff is no longer who he was and certainly not what she expected. It isn’t long before she regrets her part in his sentencing. Radcliff doesn’t know he’s the most reviled person in history. In fact, he doesn’t know anything because when he wakes up each morning, he forgets his past. A journal lets him relearn basic spells, but it can’t help him build a relationship, and he’d really like one with his beautiful traveling companion. Together, they must evade their enemies and restore Radcliff’s memory before the world is consumed in darkness. But bringing back the Destroyer may not be wise. It may also break Amira’s heart.
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The Summoner and the Seer - Preview
The Fall of Vaasar
The Fall of Vaasar
Everyone loves a festival in Vaasar. The town is peaceful and the townsfolk relish a good show. But shy Tamza is not enjoying herself. Her father, a celebrated bear tamer, is stepping down and the time has come for Tamza to take his place and perform on her own. Tamza is determined to make her father proud. Before she can reach the stage, the crowd’s cheers turn to screams as Vaasar is brutally invaded by a bloodthirsty force hellbent on destroying everyone and everything in its path. Only Tamza has the magic powerful enough to save her people and her beloved bears – but first she must find the courage to use it. Set 2,000 years before the epic fantasy novel Melokai, Book One of the In the Heart of the Mountains trilogy, prequel novella The Fall of Vaasar tells of the event that sparked a bitter, bloody feud between two countries – a deep wound which, thousands of years later, is still festering. This adult fantasy novella can be read as a standalone story, no prior knowledge of Melokai is required.
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The Fall of Vaasar
The First Overlord
The First Overlord
Dauria is young and idealistic, but bored. When a Celt from the west comes to ask her for aid against a rampaging wyrm, she leaps at the chance. But all is not as it seems in Gaul. The young, misguided dragon she expects to find does not exist. Instead, she faces a challenge unlike anything she could have imagined. And her own life is not the only one hanging in the balance. How can she overcome this challenge when she has no idea what it is she's facing? The First Overlord is the earliest tale in the story of the dragons of Earth, presented for the first time exclusively for members of the author's mailing list.
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The First Overlord
Alter Mind Synth
Alter Mind Synth
In the not-too-distant future, a diner is suspended in time set off by a technological malfunction. Fears, dreams, and subconsciousness meld and mingle in one inescapable alternate realm.
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Alter Mind Synth
Curse of the Drakku: Origins
Curse of the Drakku: Origins
A thousand years before the events of The Blood Stone, a dark ritual between man and dragon binds the two races together. In a bid to save her father, the young dragon Etain reluctantly joins with a novice from the Order of Eschar to create a power she doesn’t understand. Curse of the Drakku: Origins is a prequel novella set within the world of a new fantasy series from author Jason J. Nugent. Grab your copy of Curse of the Drakku: Origins today!
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Curse of the Drakku: Origins
Wizard Island (a Magic of Nasci story)
Wizard Island (a Magic of Nasci story)
Ina is a neophyte shepherd of Nasci, the goddess who inhabits the center of our world. Like her fellow nature wizards, Ina commands the basic elements—fire, air, earth, and water—directly from her fingertips. Her sigils keep the mythical beasts that stalk the Earth at bay. In this Magic of Nasci prequel, Ina must banish a crustacean cryptid to save endangered animals at Crater Lake. Can she put aside her headstrong ways long enough to avoid the wrong end of a vaettur claw? If you ever felt magic deep in the woods, this nature-based fantasy series is for you.
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Wizard Island (a Magic of Nasci story)
Guild of Tokens: Trainee
Guild of Tokens: Trainee
It's been 10 years since Beatrice Taylor discovered the Quest Board and her life changed forever. The rules of the Board are simple: Complete a Quest, get a token. The harder the Quest, the more tokens you earn. Get enough tokens, and you level up. Except the Quest Board isn't in a video game. It's real. Beatrice has worked her way up from the bottom, grinding out Quest after Quest, and racking up tokens and experience along the way. With a new baby and a marriage teetering on the brink of collapse, she'll need an apprentice who's worth their weight in gold if she ever hopes to take on the Guild and live to tell about it. But after a string of failures, is Beatrice's new trainee finally the one she's been looking for?
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Guild of Tokens: Trainee
Frozen To The Core
Frozen To The Core
Evil personified finds itself captured and encased in ice, trapped beneath the harshest environment on the planet with absolutely no way out, until, that is, a chance encounter with an inquisitive member of an ancient race unlocks the key to escape. Dastardly dark deeds set off a chain reaction that will have dire repercussions for the whole world as, against all odds, evil conquers good. Can a psychotic leader’s twisted plan be stopped? And will a mother’s love prevail? Find out how the malevolence began in this bone chilling prequel.
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Frozen To The Core
Wyoming Refuge
Wyoming Refuge
If you instantly had to leave your entire life behind to save your family, could you survive? Sam and Georgia Mitchell are visiting their third-grade twins' school for Career Day. All is going well…until it’s not. The calm dissolves into chaos as they are suddenly thrown into an active-shooter situation. They’re able to stop the gunmen, but all is not as it seems. The Mitchell family must flee their small Wyoming town or risk death. But disappearing in today's world isn't as easy as it sounds. And hiding out is even more difficult when you don't know exactly who is hunting you. Just when the Mitchells are beginning to feel safe, things take a drastic turn. Do Sam and Georgia have what it takes to keep their family alive? Wyoming Refuge is a prequel to the Havoc in Wyoming Christian Futuristic series, set just before the Havoc beings. If you like mysterious events, fast-paced adventure, and plausible situations, then you’ll love this page-turning series. Download today and discover why readers love this twist on the Post-Apocalyptic genre! The Havoc in Wyoming series has been described as “Cozy” Apocalypse and contains no profanity, gratuitous sex scenes, or overly detailed gruesome death scenes. However, it does contain conservative family values and references to God, prayer, scripture, and Christianity.
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Wyoming Refuge
Careers for Magical Creatures
Careers for Magical Creatures
Follow this immortal’s downward spiral to toilet fairy. Will she embrace goodness and light or is a darker path in her future? This is a funny short story in the same Unseen Realm of WRATH OF THE TOOTH FAIRY.
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Careers for Magical Creatures
Winter of the Gods and Other Stories
Winter of the Gods and Other Stories
"So which danger are you, grandmother? Wolves? Snow? Hunger? Or something other?" "Something other, my dear." Classic Russian fairy tales are reimagined in this subversive collection of stories set in the matriarchal world of Zem’. Precursors to the award-winning novels of The Zemnian Series, these stories, part fantasy, part literary fiction, present a world where women are powerful rulers, warriors, and workers of magic, but nature is more powerful still. For fans of The Mists of Avalon and other female-oriented fantasy, as well as metaphysical/visionary writing.
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Winter of the Gods and Other Stories
Vitrian Secrets - The Healing Mendez
Vitrian Secrets - The Healing Mendez
Wanda Troms barely escaped death as a two-year-old infant when the onslaught started among the Vitrians. Now, almost fifteen years later, she is thought to be The Chosen child, but she has no Vitrian powers to fight because her mother kept her away from the Vitrian lifestyle. With her gift so obvious, she has become the primary target. However, she needs to find solace and trust in someone who can protect her, but there are so many secrets. Who can she trust? Can she even trust her own parents? Is Wanda truly The Chosen Child? Can she find The Healing Mendez and save herself and her family? The Vitrian Secrets is a spellbinding and captivating novel. It will keep you on edge till the end...
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Vitrian Secrets - The Healing Mendez
Days Since... Tyler: Day 378
Days Since... Tyler: Day 378
A virus devastated the world and humanity lies in ruin. Tyler was abandoned during the outbreak - his mental illness deemed a liability by his only surviving relatives. A year later, Tyler lives under a highway overpass, unmedicated and drowning in delusions. He’s convinced he’s the last healthy survivor. Everyone else? The remnants of the U.S. Government out to get him. All he wants is to be left alone, but their attempts to capture him grow by the day. He’s fed up. It’s time to fight back. But if it's all a delusion, who sits in his crosshairs? Days Since… Tyler: Day 378 is a post-apocalyptic short story of the Almawt Virus Series and contains a FREE preview of Days Since… Thomas: Day 758, book one in the series.
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Days Since... Tyler: Day 378
The Quick Dead Fox
The Quick Dead Fox
Darcie Rose is used to unusual summons back to Earth from Hell. But this time, she’s not the only dead not resting peacefully. When a bet lands Darcie in the middle of a graveyard mystery, it’s up to her and her loyal-beyond-death pet to unearth the truth. But a zombie celebrity and a reanimated taxidermy fox in LA draw as much attention as the missing bodies. They’re hens in a fox-den. Can they fix the error before they garner their own attention? And will Luci be the first to notice, damning her further into the lower circles of Hell? ***The Quick Dead Fox is a short story in the supernatural urban fantasy Loan Soul series, which is provided free to all subscribers to L.B. Carter’s newsletter. Chronologically, it takes place after Four Poor Souls but can be read as a standalone at any point. Read the full comically hellacious trials of Darcie Rose and her undead fox via the book links at LBCarter.com.
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The Quick Dead Fox
Haloband, by L. Laserre &
Haloband, by L. Laserre &
Darkweb. Holograms. Implants. Lies. I'm Ellan Weis, a teen kickboxer. Something happens to me, where I can sense disaster. Before it happens. I live in a world where everyone has a com chip in their wrist...where the only truth of the past lies in the darkweb. The schools are rough, bullies walk the halls, gangs work the streets. My mother’s a key player in rolling out the new haloband, a smart-VR headgear technology at Starcom. My brother’s a hacker working at the same company. A conspiracy is among us. Something to do with the haloband. My family is in danger. Even with my street smarts and these newfound powers, can I save those who mean most to me? Don't miss this gritty coming-of-age technothriller...
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Dirk Goes to Church - A prequel to the Kathaldi Chronicles
Dirk Goes to Church - A prequel to the Kathaldi Chronicles
"Look, I think we can all agree that sometimes having friends is a real pain in the ass. They want you to do all sorts of things for them. Help them move. Kill a guy. Hide a body." - Dirk “The hero is a sarcastic, anti-social jerk, which is why he’s perfect." Dan Gookin, international bestselling author. "If David Eddings, Joe Abercrombie and Douglas Adams had their brains sucked out and blended together then reanimated they would write a book like this." RK Billiau, author of Primeverse. Dirk is a thief and a scoundrel but his friend, a priest of the god of war, needs his help. Join Dirk as he tells his story and helps set the stage for the events of the fantasy series the Kathaldi Chronicles: Children of Kathaldi, Assassins of Kathaldi and Destroyers of Kathaldi, all either available now or coming soon to Amazon.com and Kindle Unlimited. ***** A thief with dreams of adventure. An eternal battle against the Gods. Free drinks and grateful women. Dirk is a scoundrel. Some would say a jerk. He’ll admit it. But his ambition only goes as far as his next heist. It’s not that he’s against noble causes or grand adventures. To hear him tell it, he’s had a few. As long as there’s something in it for him. But when a childhood friend shows up with an unbelievable tale, Dirk must decide if he really is up for adventure worthy of the songs of bards. The last time the Kathaldi battled the Gods, they nearly destroyed the world. Can Dirk and his companions can prevent the world from sliding into chaos once more? If women and treasure await, he’s going to give it his best shot. Come explore a richly detailed world of madness, monsters and mayhem, and help write the next chapter of The Kathaldi Chronicles.
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Dirk Goes to Church - A prequel to the Kathaldi Chronicles
Spliced
Spliced
The ability to shapeshift comes with many temptations. For Tyler, robbing a bank is as easy as transforming into a branch manager. He’s funded his comfortable lifestyle with ease, but not without notice. Tyler is intrigued by his shy but gorgeous new neighbor Ella. When she pops up in the last place he expects, he’s not sure she can be trusted. As tensions rise around the safety of the general population with regard to “enhanced” individuals like Tyler, a secret organization called OCEI forms, but their motives are questionable. Can Tyler escape capture by the OCEI? Will he uncover the mystery of Ella?
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Spliced
Mercerian Tales: The Call of Magic
Mercerian Tales: The Call of Magic
For so long she tried to resist... but the woods call, beckoning her with their secrets. Never one to shy away from adversity, Albreda grew up the day her mother died. Now, her courage is put to the test when she finds herself lost in the mysterious and dangerous Whitewood, fighting for her life. Discovering there is so much that she does not understand, she embarks on an adventure that will change her life forever. Mercerian Tales: The Call of Magic, is the origin story of the Witch of the Whitewood, Mistress Albreda. It can be read at any time but is best when read between books four and five of the Heir to the Crown Series. Grab your copy today and learn how a wild mage unleashes the magic within! New to the series? Meet Gerald Matheson, the steadfast warrior in Heir to the Crown: Book One, Servant of the Crown, available in eBook & Paperback.
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Mercerian Tales: The Call of Magic
Disciples of Trikaal
Disciples of Trikaal
YOU GET COMPLETE STORY HERE - NOT A SAMPLE Aru must choose... ...use his powers to protect his family... ...or give up his life to save millions of strangers. Aru and Nemi together summoned Trikaal, an ancient time traveler, who agreed to be their Guru. Nemi chose to master time travel, and Aru to read the future. But their lives took a sharp turn when paranoid Nemi imprisoned Aru and his pregnant wife. Aru, who considered Nemi his brother, never saw it coming and now languishes in a tiny jail cell. While Nemi travels back and forth in time, wreaking death and destruction. Traveling to the distant future, Nemi aims to decimate the last survivors of humanity. Aru reads this future and has a plan to end it all. But the price of doing the right thing is too high. Will Aru escape and save his family or stay and save the world?
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Disciples of Trikaal
Not All Dragons Breathe Fire
Not All Dragons Breathe Fire
Despite his best efforts, Fintan has never been an ordinary dragon. Breathing fire, battling knights, and kidnapping humans just aren't his strengths. But when he crosses paths with a princess one day, he's surprised when she begs him to kidnap her. Now Fintan finally has a chance to prove himself a real dragon, but he'll soon find that being a real dragon may not be everything he always wanted...
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Not All Dragons Breathe Fire
Lisa's Mystery
Lisa's Mystery
The mission to the recently terraformed planet of Lisa should be nothing to worry about for the special unit of the Federation Galactic Military. But there are no straight forward missions that deep in the outer rims, and even the simplest of tasks can be fatal. And no matter how much they train and what their experiences might be, some things space marines can just not account for..
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Lisa's Mystery
Will it Fly
Will it Fly
It took Tom more than two years to built a starship that should have been safe for his family to use as they run away from the deadly claws of corrupted and oppressive government. Yet, their first firing engagement in deep space against aggressive force might just be their last.
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Will it Fly
Dark Communion
Dark Communion
Ayla carries a death sentence in her womb. Minotaurs have enslaved her people for generations, using women as breeding stock. Ayla cries out to her long-dead mother to save her, but it is a dark Goddess who answers. Offered the power to free her people at the price of her soul, Ayla becomes the Goddess' first chosen in a century -- the Harbinger of the Dark Queen. But when the slavers hear of her fomenting revolution, will her faith be enough? With only her Goddess and with the woman she loves by her side, she'll raise an army...or die trying. In a world where good and evil are in the eyes of the beholder, discover what happens when the heroes of Light reign supreme, and those left behind are forced to turn to the darkness for freedom. Will you take the Dark Communion?
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Dark Communion
The Stolen Element
The Stolen Element
Renn Quill is a SpiritSinger working for the Carran army. He is hungry for power, purpose, and money, and he has the village of Riordan in his sights. Kaelen Kirk is a single mother of two precocious twins, each with different elemental magic. In a country where being of the Blood can get you killed or enslaved, Kaelen must make an impossible choice when a SpiritSinger and his band of slavers come calling.
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The Stolen Element
First Earth
First Earth
Agnes Ann Cavanaugh was always different from the other girls. Not just because of her scars, or the nerve damage to her legs... She can sense when people are lying, just by looking at them. And she can read almost any language, even ones she doesn't speak. Things get even stranger when Agnes interns with a professor of ancient texts. She is assigned to translate an ancient tablet, written in a dead. But before she can decipher its mysterious markings, a horde of monsters and a librarian with a ghostly aura attack from the shadows! Rescued by an old man named Temnon, and his shapeshifting cat, Agnes is whisked away to a magical world known as First Earth. Lost and afraid, the teenage girl is thrust into a magical conflict, centuries in the making. But as the forces of good and evil clash, she discovers a darker power lurking behind the scenes, manipulating events for its own fiendish desires to steal her magic. Can Agnes find the strength to summon her inner light, and defeat this demonic entity once and for all? Or will both earths fall before it's terrifying power... Journey to a world of strange creatures, heart-racing adventure, and wondrous magic. Fans of J.A. Andrews and Lucia Ashta and Brigid Kemmerer will love this coming of age fantasy series.
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First Earth