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Magic is real. Monsters are hungry. And Zoe Frost is already
marked.
The Key Keeper’s
Secret
The Zoe Frost Chronicles Book 1
by Edgar Thorn
Genre: Urban Fantasy
A Shadow demon tried
to kill me. Now it’s master wants to finish the job…
I was just supposed to be going to the annual Magicians’ Winter Charity Ball.
But pretty soon I was neck-deep in a world of murderous monsters, secret
societies, and time-travelling lunatics.
And if I can’t figure out the truth, everyone I love is going to die.
With BFF Courtney by my side and boyfriend Blake showing his true colours, my
quiet weekend turned into a total nightmare. And somehow, it’s only the
beginning…
The Key Keeper’s Secret kicks off The Zoe Frost Chronicles — a 13-book
series of fast, funny, magical short reads packed with danger, adventure, bad
guys, and monsters.
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The Radical Realism of Jesus explores how Christ’s life and teachings confront the assumptions of our modern world. From rationalism and empiricism to pragmatism and nihilism, Jesus’ words intersect with philosophy, science, and contemporary culture—offering a lived, transformative faith that challenges, inspires, and equips readers to live fully in the 21st century.
When the shadows come alive, Ava and Caleb discover the only safe place is in each other’s arms.
But the closer they get, the darker the
truth becomes.
All the Shadows We
Become
by Dustin Blackwall
Genre: YA Romantasy Thriller
Caleb Ward is trying to forget the night he almost died.
Ava Lin is trying to understand why he survived.
But Hollow Creek isn’t letting either of them move on.
What starts as a strange blackout spirals into a trail of
eerie clues, shifting shadows, and a connection between Ava and Caleb that
grows hotter and more undeniable with every new secret uncovered.
Something happened
that night.
Something dangerous.
And it’s waking up.
But the second Caleb stepped out of his
hoodie, every ounce of training she’d ever had tried to evaporate at once.
Under the thin lantern light, he looked
unreal – like someone carved him in secret and forgot to tone it down for real
life. Broad shoulders, smooth lines of muscle, a chest that rose and fell in
slow, steady waves. Even the long cut of his waist looked sculpted, defined by
a faint shadow that dipped beneath the band of his shirt.
She swallowed hard. Professional. She
had to stay professional.
“Sit… sit still,” she said, though her
voice wavered.
Caleb obeyed, but the motion only made
things worse – muscles shifting under his skin like a quiet ripple, arms
flexing as he rested them on his knees. There were faint veins along his
forearms, subtle but impossible to ignore, and his hands… strong, warm-looking,
capable.
Ava’s fingers hovered before she touched
him.
Focus. Just focus.
But then she wrapped the blood pressure
cuff around his arm, and her fingertips brushed the heat of his skin – the kind
of heat that wasn’t just temperature. Caleb drew in a breath, low and
surprised, and she felt it like a pulse of electricity between them.
“You okay?” he asked softly.
“Yeah,” she lied instantly.
His eyes flicked to her mouth for half a
second – half a second – and her heartbeat misfired so hard she nearly fumbled
the stethoscope.
Get it together, Ava.
She leaned closer, pretending she needed to
hear his pulse better, but really just trying to anchor herself. Caleb smelled
faintly of clean soap and something warm, something masculine that made her
knees weaken.
“Your heart rate’s elevated,” she murmured.
His voice dropped: “Yours too.”
Her hands trembled.
Professional. Right. Any second now.
Light Years to
Midnight
by Dustin Blackwall
Genre: SciFi Thriller
When data itself begins to speak, who decides what it’s trying to say?
Light Years To Midnight — a globe-spanning thriller where science, faith, and
code collide in a race against a countdown written into the fabric of reality.
The wind whipped dust across the plateau as Jonas crested
the ridge, breath burning in his throat. Below him, the satellite dishes of the
abandoned relay station stretched into the dark like a field of frozen giants.
Their metal frames groaned under the rising storm, each bent toward the same
invisible point on the horizon.
He wasn’t alone.
A faint beam of light—too controlled to be an
accident—flickered between the dishes. Jonas crouched, heart thudding, watching
as a woman stepped into view, her silhouette sharp against the skeletal
machinery. She moved with the alertness of someone who had been running for far
too long.
Elena.
He had seen her face in files, in encrypted packets, in the
warnings that had chased him across continents. But seeing her here, in the
flesh, felt unreal—like walking into a photograph he wasn’t meant to
understand.
Before he could speak, a second figure emerged from the
opposite end of the array. Maya paused only when she spotted Elena, recognition
flaring across her face. They had never met, not really, but the anomaly had
braided their paths tightly enough that the moment felt inevitable.
Jonas stood and lifted a hand, but movement in the distance
froze him mid-step.
Engines.
Low, tactical, deliberate.
A convoy approached from the north, its headlights dark, its
tires crunching through gravel like muffled gunfire. Special
operations—unmarked, unhurried, confident. Not hunters, but collectors.
Maya stepped closer, her breath sharp in the cold air. “Does
it matter?”
Something pulsed beneath the earth—three beats, a pause,
three more—vibrating up through the metal frames of the dishes. The sky above
them shimmered, faint but unmistakable, as if answering the rhythm.
Jonas swallowed hard.
“No,” he said. “It doesn’t matter anymore. It’s already
found us.”
Dustin is a lifelong fan of science and speculative fiction,
blending his fascination with astronomy, technology, and the unknown into
stories that explore the edge between logic and wonder. When he’s not writing,
he’s reading, stargazing, or chasing trails on his dirt bike — always searching
for what lies just beyond understanding.
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Magic happens and
sparks fly in the small town of Havers-By-the-Sea when a sassy warlock with
oodles of style crosses paths with an angsty shifter.
Wards and Warlocks
Star-Crossed Chronicles Book 2
by AK Nevermore
Genre: Spicy M/M Small-Town Paranormal Romance
Karma can kiss it.
When Felix Simms took over the position of mayor in the
small town of Havers-by-the-Sea, he had no idea he’d inherit so many problems.
Between the town of Fayet suing them for magical appropriation, a looming
budget crisis, and the butt cheek bandit’s reign of terror, the last thing
Felix needs is to be saddled with his delinquent sister’s urchins over the
holidays. And he certainly doesn’t have time to deal with Liam Montgomery
trying to make amends for suggesting the disastrous “polycule proposal” that broke
Felix’s heart senior year.
But Liam is desperate to prove he and Felix are meant to be
together. Unfortunately, Liam’s pending divorce has taken a nasty turn, and
juggling that and the Havers’s rumor mill is seriously affecting his mental
health.
Meanwhile, a new threat is rising, putting all of Havers in
danger. To face it, Felix and Liam have to put their differences aside. Because
if they can’t, it’s not just the town that’s in jeopardy, it’s everyone they
love, and Jena and Chase will be the first to fall.
Magic happens and
sparks fly in the small town of Havers-By-the-Sea when a sassy warlock with
oodles of style crosses paths with an angsty shifter. WARDS AND WARLOCKS, a
spicy standalone slow burn M/M paranormal romance novel in the Star-Crossed
Chronicles series by AK Nevermore.
✦ Grumpy Warlock MMC Who’s
Totally Over It
✦ Mechanic Shifter MMC With Baggage
✦ Witchy Bestie With Ride-or-💀
Vibes
✦ Enemies-to-Lovers
✦ LGBTQ+ Rep (M/M Romance)
✦ Second Chance Romance
✦ Slow Burn
✦ Small Town
✦ Chosen Family
✦ Messy Ex Drama
✦ Mental Health Rep
✦ Dark Secret
✦ Identity Crisis
✦ Emotional Scars
💋
𝑺𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒆
𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥
= 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Explicit Scenes ~ Very Hot
What readers are
saying:
If you want a romance with family drama and magic then
this is the book to read. – Sandra, Goodreads
Weres and Warlocks was everything I hoped it would be. My
sweet baby Felix finally got his happily ever after after all, not that there
wasn’t some bumps along the way.
Such a great little holiday read. It has a little bit of everything in it. Some
spice, some yearning, a little bit of magic, found family, and I love a good
animal sidekick. I stayed up until 2am this morning to finish it because I
couldn’t go another day without knowing how it ends.
-In a world of ink, Goodreads
I highly recommend reading this, especially if you like
magic/paranormal books – Kerry Batchelor
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Weres and Witchery
Star-Crossed Chronicles Book 1
Karma’s a witch.
When witch Jena
Seymore returns home to Havers-by-the-Sea to care for her dying aunt, old town
politics and prejudices are rekindled. Between the local Westside Pack’s
vendetta against her family and the coven pressuring Jena to become guardian of
the magical node outside of town, she has enough problems without adding Chase
Montgomery to the mix. Especially after he broke her heart by starting the
devastating rumor that sent Jena running from town in the first place.
But Chase has
plenty of problems of his own, and how to make amends with Jena and win her
heart is at the top of the list. Unbeknownst to his pack, Jena is his fated
mate, and after her leaving town the first time almost killed him, he’s not
letting her get away again—no matter what the backlash might be.
And meanwhile, the
node is turning wild, jeopardizing Havers-by-the Sea’s existence as tensions
threaten to tear it apart from within. Deep-seated small town secrets could
hold the key to its future—but only if they’re discovered before Samhain, when
the blue moon rises.
Magic happens and sparks fly when a sassy witch with
curves for days crosses paths with an irresistible alpha shifter. WERES AND
WITCHERY, a standalone spicy small town romance by AK Nevermore.
✦ Curvy Witch FMC With Sass for Days
✦ Irresistibly Bossy Alpha Shifter MMC
✦ LGBTQ+ Bestie With Ride-or-💀 Vibes
✦ Enemies-to-Lovers
✦ Small Town
✦ Fake/Forced Marriage
✦ Fated Mates
✦ Chosen Family
✦ Rejected Mate
✦ Knots/Knotting
✦ Fae Hijinx
✦ Warlocks and Witches
✦ Unknown Power
✦ Secret Identity
✦ Chosen One
✦ Unique Magic
💋 𝑺𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥 = 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Explicit Scenes ~ Very Hot
What readers are
saying:
“I loved this
story! It has everything I like in a good book, angst, anger, laughter, tears,
fun, heat, love, loyal best friend, quirky side characters and an HEA. It
doesn’t get any better than that. The storyline is solid, engaging, the world
building is multi-dimensional and once you start you won’t want to put it
down.” – @sunshinewhispers
“Wow, what a
cracking book this is. Twists, turns and lots of magic so what’s not to like. I
couldn’t put it down till I’d finished it, I was completely engrossed. I loved
it.” – @sbanacek
“I started
reading this book at 9pm and read straight through to 4am. … FOUR. A. M. Crazy,
right?! Let me tell you, this book had me hooked from the start with its humor,
drama, character chemistry, character personalities, drama, romance, banter,
action, and spice. ‘Weres and Witchery’ is among one of the best escapes I’ve
had in a while.” – @Morally_Gray_Nola
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AK Nevermore
enjoys operating heavy machinery, freebases coffee, and gives up sarcasm for
Lent every year. A Jane-of-all-trades, she’s a certified chef, restores
antiques, and dabbles in beekeeping when she’s not reading voraciously or
running down the dream in her beat-up camo Chucks.
Unable to ignore
the voices in her head, and unwilling to become medicated, she writes Science
Fiction and Fantasy full time.
She pays the bills
editing, wielding a wicked hot pink pen and writing a column on SFF. She also
belongs to the Authors Guild, is a chapter treasurer for the RWA, teaches
creative writing, and on the rare occasion, sleeps.
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Curl up with the best of both worlds: modern-day romantic twists on your
favorite holiday classics, now available in cozy audiobooks!
Avoiding My Merry
Birthday
by Sonja Gunter
Genre: Contemporary Holiday Romance, Magical Realism
What would life be like to share your birthday with millions
of people?
Gloria White was born on December 24th—Christmas Eve—and is celebrating her
35th birthday when things go terribly wrong. Single and with no love interest
in sight, she leaves work only to find her car won’t start. The arrival of the
tow truck brings Nick Klaaws, who she has known since grade school, as the
driver.
Shocked at seeing him, she loses her balance, falls and hits her head. This
brings on a visit from a ghost resembling her boss, Mr. SC Rouge. They travel
back in time, where he shows her that her soulmate has been in front of her the
whole time and takes her to two possible futures.
Once back in real time, will fate allow Gloria to make the right choices for
love?
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Who’s Been Naughty or
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by Sonja Gunter
Genre: Contemporary Holiday Romance, Magical Realism
Northern Polar Printing Company’s President, Zane Ashcroft,
is in love with the Vice President, Annie McGrath. From their first encounter,
both knew they were destined to be together. At the annual Christmas party,
Zane, who dresses up as Santa, intends to propose to Annie after dinner. A
recent argument concerning Nick, the janitor, and a shocking development
thwarts his intentions.
Will Annie get that long awaited chance at love and happiness and risk being on
Santa’s naughty and nice list?
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“There’s no need for you to come inside. We need a break from each other—time to think about our relationship.”
He heard her choke over the last words. She still didn’t look at him.
She unbuckled her seatbelt and left the car. He watched her walk to the front door where she paused. He held his breath as he waited for her to turn, but she didn’t. She opened the door and went inside, closing it behind her.
Zane hit the steering wheel. Granting her request was the hardest thing he’d done in a very long time. Light snow began to fall as he drove across town to his home. Several ideas came to him on how to resolve their argument.
Flowers? No, too predictable. Box of Norman Loves Chocolate? No, too cheesy.
More things came to mind, but as the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas” played on the radio, it triggered a plan. He’d use cards as the twelve days before his proposal. The numbers would work if he started tomorrow. He’d have to swing by Walgreens before work.
His two-story brick house loomed in front of him. It was not his home any longer. He’d been spending so much time at Annie’s and making her home theirs. Opening the door, cold greeted him. He cranked up the thermostat and went into the kitchen, starting the Krups’ coffee machine. It spitted and hissed. He reached for a coffee cup as the doorbell rang.
“Coming!”
Spilling the coffee he’d just poured, he hurried to the front door, unsure who it could be.
“Mr. North?” Zane eyeballed a red limo parked in the street. It stood out like a beckon against the grayness.
“Zane, I hope I’m not disrupting anything.”
“No, no. Come on in.” He held open the door. “Sorry about the chillness, I turned up the heat.”
“A little cold isn’t going to hurt me.”
“I don’t have much in the house to offer you. I haven’t been grocery shopping in days. I just made coffee, would you like a cup?”
“That works for me.”
Zane led him into the kitchen. It wasn’t the first time Mr. North had shown up at his doorstep, but tonight of all times was odd. He poured another cup of coffee and wiped up the earlier spillage from the counter top.
“I know it’s late, but I flew here right after concluding business with Mr. Moonracer. I felt not everyone was happy at my announcement.”
“You’re right. Annie… Ms. Ashcroft, didn’t like being kept out of the loop,” Zane confessed and sat in one the high back chairs.
“Oh, I see.”
Leaning on one elbow, Zane rested his head on his hand. “As a matter of fact, she’s fuming.”
Mr. North laughed and went to the refrigerator. He took out a carton of cream and poured some into his coffee.
Zane wondered when he’d gotten that. He hoped it was still good.
“She’ll understand soon. She’s been on my Nice List for a very long time. I’ve kept an eye on her.”
Zane straightened his shoulders. “A Nice List? I’m not a kid. This whole day has been peculiar from the start. Now it’s ending even weirder. I’ve appreciated everything you’ve done for me, but now isn’t the time for your—”
“Zane, the time has come for you to know the truth.”
Mr. North pushed his glasses back to the bridge of his nose and laughed as he pulled his earlobe.
A delightful smell of cookies flooded the kitchen. Zane inhaled and stared wide eyed at him.
I was born and raised in the cold and beautiful Minnesota,
but I escaped to Illinois for seventeen years to raise my two boys, and now I
call Florida home. My husband Andy, who’s always been my hero, has put up with
my late night computer typing and endless stacks of papers with my stories on
them. We have one furry friend as family: Chip, a sixteen year old ragdoll cat.
Life has been full of ups and downs, but I’ve made it
through the hard times. I love to travel and go to Disney World to trade
pins. I’ve been a bowler for many years,
and you can catch me writing my next novel at the lanes.
I encourage you to check out my web site, www.sonjagunter.com for more info and
don’t be surprised if I let my Norwegian heritage come through in my stories.
Go Vikings! You betcha!
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High Couch of Silistra, first of the notorious
Silistra Quartet, brings us to a realm where thought alters probability, where
creativity is inextricably linked to the urge to own and dominate, and where
the universe itself is amenable to a focused mind.
Rooted deeply in humanity’s mythic past yet unaware
of the planet Earth, High Couch of Silistra begins one woman’s mythic quest for
self-knowledge – with surprising results.
High Couch of
Silistra
The Silistra Quartet Book 1
by Janet Morris
Genre: Dystopian Epic SciFi Fantasy Romance
Biology shapes reality…
One woman’s mythic search for self-realization in a distant tomorrow…
Her sensuality was at the core of her world, her quest beyond the civilized
stars.
Aristocrat. Outcast. Picara. Slave. Ruler.
“Engrossing characters in a marvelous adventure.” – Charles N. Brown,
Locus Magazine
“The amazing and erotic adventures of the most beautiful courtesan in
tomorrow’s universe”
– Frederik Pohl
“The best single example of prostitution used in fantasy is Janet Morris’
Silistra series… Estri’s character is most like that of Ishtar who describes
herself as “‘a prostitute compassionate am I'” because she
“symbolizes the creative submission to the demands of instinct, to the
chaos of nature …the free woman, as opposed to the domesticated woman”.
Linking Estri with these lunar and water symbols is not difficult because of
the moon’s eternal virginity (the strength of integrity) links with her changeability
(the prostitute’s switching of lovers). […]
Morris strengthens the moon imagery by having Estri as a
well-keepress because wells, fountains, and the moon as the orb which controls
water have long been associated with fertility, […] In a sense, she is like
the moon because she is apparently eternal, never waxing or waning except in
her pursuit of the quest; she is the prototypical wanderer like the moon and
Ishtar. She is the eternal night symbol of the moon in opposition to the
Day-Keepers […]
At her majority (her
three hundredth birthday), she is given a silver-cubed hologram letter from her
mother, containing a videotape of her conception by the savage bronzed
barbarian god from another world. […] If Estri’s mother then acts as a bawd,
willing her lineage as Well-Keepress to her daughter, then Estri’s
great-grandmother Astria as foundress of the Well becomes a further mother-bawd
figure when she offers her prophetic advice in her letter: “Guard Astria
for you may lose it, and more. Beware of one who is not as he seems. Stray not
in the port city of Baniev …look well about you, for your father’s daughter’s
brother seeks you”. Having no brother that she knows of does not stay
Estri from undertaking the heroic quest of finding her father.”
– Anne K. Kaler, The
Picara: From Hera to Fantasy Heroine
I
am Estri Hadrath diet Estrazi, former Well-Keepress of Astria on the planet
Silistra. I have begun three times to tell this story, and three times I have
been interrupted. This, then, the fourth attempt, will surely prove successful.
Perhaps
you have heard of Silistra, the planet that was catalyst to the sexual
revolution in the year twenty-two thousand, seven hundred and four Bipedal
Federate Standard Time, or of the Silistran serums that lengthen life and
restore vitality in virtually any bipedal life form, or perhaps you have at
some time contracted the services of a Silistran telepath, or a precognitive,
or a deep reader. It is possible that you have in your own home the
scintillating, indestructible web-cloth woven by our domestic arachnids, or
have seen holograms of our golachits, those intelligent builder-beetles who
exude from their mouths a translucent, superhard substance called gol and
create from this gol, under the guidance of the chit-guards, the formidable and
resplendent structures in which we live and work.
And
perhaps you have seen no web-cloth, no gol, never been ill, and are not
interested in sex. If so, you may never have heard of Silistra.
I
carry Silistra in my mind’s eye, here under this alien sun. In my mind alone
can I look out the east window of my beloved exercise hall in Well Astria and
see the sun’s rising burst upon the jewel-like towers and keeps of the Inner
Well and a thousand rainbows arc and dance in the greening sky.
Best selling author Janet Morris began writing in
1976 and published more than 30 novels, many co-authored with her husband Chris
Morris or others. She contributed short fiction to the shared universe fantasy
series Thieves World, in which she created the Sacred Band of Stepsons, a
mythical unit of ancient fighters modeled on the Sacred Band of Thebes. She
created, orchestrated, and edited the Bangsian fantasy series Heroes in Hell,
writing stories for the series as well as co-writing the related novel, The
Little Helliad, with Chris Morris. She wrote the bestselling Silistra Quartet
in the 1970s, including High Couch of Silistra, The Golden Sword, Wind from the
Abyss, and The Carnelian Throne. This quartet had more than four million copies
in Bantam print alone, and was translated into German, French, Italian, Russian
and other languages. In the 1980s, Baen Books released a second edition of this
landmark series. The third edition is the Author’s Cut edition, newly revised
by the author for Perseid Press. Most of her fiction work has been in the
fantasy and science fiction genres, although she has also written historical
and other novels. Morris has written, contributed to, or edited several
book-length works of non-fiction, as well as papers and articles on nonlethal
weapons, developmental military technology and other defense and national
security topics.
Janet said: ‘People often ask what book to read
first. I recommend “I, the Sun” if you like ancient history;
“The Sacred Band,” a novel, if you like heroic fantasy; “Lawyers
in Hell” if you like historical fantasy set in hell;
“Outpassage” if you like hard science fiction; “High Couch of
Silistra” if you like far-future dystopian or philosophical novels. I am
most enthusiastic about the definitive Perseid Press Author’s Cut editions,
which I revised and expanded.’
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The Christmas Cardinal, written by Aïda Juodis, is a soft and whimsical tale that was gently crafted to help provide children who have lost a loved one with comfort and warmth during the holiday season.
