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Summary: When your greatest enemy is your own sister, can you save a nation without losing your soul? In the epic conclusion to Lynette M. Burrows' The Fellowship Dystopia Series, Miranda must find a way to break the theocratic Fellowship’s iron grip on 1965 America while protecting her real identity. But Miranda wants more than the end of the Fellowship—she wants justice for the deaths of her first love and her beloved mentor. Meanwhile, her sister Irene, uses deception, threats, and the Angels of Death behind the scenes to regain her status as wife of the Fellowship’s Prophet. Unless she is stopped soon, she will lead the country more ruthlessly than any before her. And When I Wake is a searing exploration of whether the fight for justice and for freedom can coexist when everything you love has been taken from you. If you love morally complex female leads and freedom-from-tyranny stories with deep emotional stakes, you won't want to miss it. If you love morally complex female leads and freedom-from-tyranny stories with deep emotional stakes, you won't want to miss the final book in the trilogy!
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Summary: 2nd Edition. Imagine an alternate steampunk history where ghosts and demons are a normal part of life. Families known as the Great Houses control the economy of the Great States of America and the middle class and the lower class Irish sole purpose is to not only to serve them, but to rid their lives of supernatural beings. Discover the life of Medium and Spirit Photographer, Andrew O’Sullivan, before he went to work for ex-Pinkerton detective, Samuel Hunter in "The Devil Within." Search for demons (human and otherwise) alongside Granville Woods in "The Demons of Liberty Row." And learn why Caitlin O’Sullivan must hide who she is from those closest to her in "The Secret of Kage House." Compiled together for the first time are seven stories based on the popular comic Boston Metaphysical Society. The collection also includes "Steampunk Rat" and "The Secret" in addition to the short stories," The Clockwork Man" (published in eSteampunk Magazine) and "The Way Home" (previously published in the A1/Atomic Press Anthology). All stories are prequels to the comic and do not contain any spoilers. The book also includes line art by Emily Hu.
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Summary: The second book in the Post Host cozy fantasy series: Dana Everet’s peaceful retirement is collapsing faster than an over-mixed souffle. A visiting army legion is quartering soldiers in Starwatch, forcing the magical-artificer-turned-postmaster to deal with messy, unwanted guests in her workspace. But the situation reaches a boiling point when Tarban, the meringue-loving minotaur, is accused of murdering a centurion with an artificer’s weapon. Because the military investigators refuse to work with the local sheriff, Dana starts sleuthing on her own. She uncovers a mystery going back decades. And with a dangerous plot brewing, food supplies running short, and the Sapphire Knights snooping around her doorstep, Dana may be on a collision course with the proverbial frying pan and fire. Can Dana uncover the real killer, save her friend, and keep herself out of hot water, or will they both end up in the soup? Desserts for the Deserter is the enchanting second novel in the Post Host Cozy Fantasy Series. If you like charming characters, warmhearted stories, and foodie fun, then you will love J.S. Ruff’s delightful tale.
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Summary: Life in 1960 Fellowship America is tenuous. High school senior, Ian Hobart, dreams of becoming a star reporter. Until one symbol changes his life forever. One fall day in 1960 Fellowship America, Ian rides his bike home after his shift as copy boy. He is dreaming of the day he is a star reporter and can afford his own car, but all his dreams vanish at the sight of the Fellowship shield burned into the family’s front door. He can’t believe it. Doesn’t want to believe it. The Fellowship’s Angels of Death Took his parents and older brother. And that can mean only one thing—he and his siblings will be next. Pursued by Fellowship agents, Ian gathers his younger siblings and what supplies they can carry. They flee into the wilds of the Blue Ridge Mountains, where they rely on Ian’s savvy and survival skills. But life in the mountains is brutal and unforgiving. Resources are limited. Food is scarce. And winter is coming. They won’t survive without help. With no one else he can trust, Ian turns to his best friend. And puts all their lives in danger.
Word Count: 68,760
Summary: Return to Kell Shaw's Vestiges of Magic world in a knife-edge sequel. Lukie's father is trapped in the Underworld and it's all her fault. Twenty years after her murder, Lukie has returned to life and is ready to go home, but her father isn't willing to believe his beloved daughter is back from the dead. Before she can reconcile with him, a supernatural predator steals her father's soul. One that she's led straight to his door, after foolishly ignoring the signs that something was amiss. To get her father back, Lukie must uncover the true nature of the ancient horror haunting Thunderhead Ward before a spectral hunt of bestial ghosts is unleashed upon the world. And she only has until midnight on New Year's Eve, when the borders between the dead and living lands seal, or her father will be lost forever…
Word Count: 32,180
Summary: Lukie’s been murdered. And she needs answers. She’s cut a deal with the Underworld to return to the living lands. But when Lukie returns as an undead revenant, twenty years have passed. Her former sleepy beach-side town is now a roaring tourist hot-spot. Her memory is full of holes and she doesn’t know which of her old friends to trust. Worse, a monster hunter is stalking her. Lukie has to stay one step ahead, or return to the Underworld without knowing who killed her, and why….
Word Count: 90,840
Summary: Kell Shaw returns with a harrowing tale of strained friendship and murder in the Vestiges of Magic universe. Lukie and Tamlyn are searching for their client’s lost relatives, but their efforts only turn up a single name: a proprietor of the remote Brindlebranch Hotel. Lukie hopes their fragile partnership can survive the journey, as she suspects Tamlyn is hiding elements of his past while she still grapples with the events of her own murder. Neither of them expected the hotel to be home to a vengeful spirit, bound up with the dark magic of a fallen occult cabal. When Tamlyn is hurled into the past, forced to confront the horrifying origins of the curse, Lukie is propelled into a race against time to save the hotel’s innocent guests. With a malevolent spirit on a deadly rampage, Lukie and Tamlyn must confront their painful history and bridge the chasm that has grown between them. Their survival, and the lives of countless others, hinge on their ability to mend their broken bond and overcome the weight of two decades of anger and secrets. Can they conquer their demons and unite against a relentless evil? Discover the answer in this gripping new chapter of the Kell Shaw’s Revenant Records saga.
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Summary: Miranda has built something pure: a boat, a mission, a life spent pulling fugitives from the Fellowship's jaws. She won't let her family corrupt it. Then two letters force her hand. Her sister, now the Prophet's wife, promises peace—if Miranda will negotiate. Her brother sends a desperate plea: rescue me or let vital intelligence die with me. Choose her sister, and Miranda abandons the rebels who need that intelligence. Choose her brother, and she shatters any chance of ending the war without more bloodshed. The Angels of Death are hunting. Her safe harbor is gone. And the violence Miranda escaped threatens to become the only tool she has left.
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Summary: A remote resource planet. A mysterious illness. And a rescue team frighteningly out of their depth. It was supposed to have been an easy job: go in, kidnap or kill his mark, get out. Shine's done plenty of jobs like this before, no problem. But when it all goes suddenly wrong, he has only one option left to save his skin. He finds himself an unwilling volunteer on a medical mission to a remote resource planet. It sent in a distress call a week earlier, and then promptly went silent. No one knows why, and no one can contact them to find out. And, Shine is increasingly beginning to realize, every person on this mission is politically unimportant--a perfect crew of disposables. Their mission is to go in and figure out what happened, and save whoever they can. But he's smart enough to realize that anything that could cause an entire mining colony to go silent is probably not something accustomed to leaving its victims alive. And after meeting the rest of the crew, he's not sure that they're any safer than what's waiting for him out on the planet ... Set in the world of The Devil and the Dark, Inhuman is the first book in R.M. Olson's gripping new space-horror series, The Dark Between Stars.
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Summary: Miranda has three days until an arranged marriage erases her existence forever. Unable to bear a loveless marriage in a nation where wives surrender all rights, Miranda escapes. Freedom costs more than she imagined. In 1961 Fellowship America, obedience is enforced by genetically-identical female assassins called the Angels of Death. Angels who pursue her across a country where trust is fatal and truth is treason. Miranda uncovers her father's unforgivable acts and her mother's lies. The aunt whose funeral she attended? Alive and a scarred warrior of the resistance. When her supposedly dead aunt agrees to train her, Miranda seizes the chance to fight back. She'll risk everything to prove she's more than the naive girl who fled marriage. Book One of the Fellowship Dystopia trilogy: One girl's escape fuels a war. What would you sacrifice to keep your soul? “a chilling but inherently fascinating read from start to finish.” —Jim Cox, Midwest Book Review “Intense and gripping”… “strongly recommended”—K.C. Finn for Readers' Favorite Now Miranda faces an impossible choice: retreat to the suffocating safety of her old life, or join a resistance that could cost her not just her independence, but her family, her future, and possibly her life. My Soul to Keep is a powerful exploration of resilience, identity, and the courage to chart your own path in a world determined to dictate your destiny. In a world where conformity means survival, what would you sacrifice to keep your soul?
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Summary: A cozy high fantasy full of food, fun, and friendship. Here is the official blurb: Cooking, magic, and scandal. When a good deed boils into a mystery, can this talented artificer keep an innocent from going down for the crime? Dana Everet is loyal to a fault. Moving to a remote village to help a good friend make a fresh start, the celebrated magical inventor is certain her grannie’s cookbooks contain the perfect formula for delighting the locals with treats. But the surefire plan turns out half-baked when a search of her late grandmother’s old restaurant turns up nothing but crumbs. Suspecting the town innkeeper of the theft, Dana grows frustrated when the woman denies the charges and the local sheriff refuses to get involved. And with her supernatural power running low, the resident gossip vanishing, and her pal’s buried secret landing her on the suspect list, she scrambles to find the real culprit before it’s too late. Can Dana serve up justice, or will she be left with burnt offerings? Recipes for the Copper Snake is the charming first book in the Post Host cozy fantasy series. If you like big-hearted protagonists, quirky townsfolk, and chasing down clues, then you’ll love J.S. Ruff’s smorgasbord of fun.
Word Count: 109000
Summary: It appears out of nowhere—one moment the sky is empty, the next, there’s a rent in the fabric of space itself. And nothing in the system will ever be the same. In the far reaches of the Rim Mountains, itinerant field-scientist Aran Romeu is searching desperately for the cure to an incurable disease—one that’s slowly killing his best friend. He’s sworn to do whatever it takes to find it. But when the portal opens, and something comes through, he realizes that ‘whatever it takes’ will involve travelling into the uncharted space beyond the portal. And he’s not the only one after the cure, and willing to do whatever it takes to get to it first … In the weighty halls of government, Chief Justice Alba Espina is preparing a political gamble that could change the shape of the system itself. The appearance of the portal shatters her carefully-laid plans and hands her political rival a weapon he could use destroy her—unless she can delay him with the promise of a diplomatic mission through the portal. But the stakes of the mission are higher than just her personal ambition. If her diplomatic mission doesn’t succeed, it might just spell the end of humanity itself. In a remote spaceport, Savina Moya, the system's most talented assassin-for-hire, is on the run again after her latest murder. But when a deadly government agent is sent after her, with instructions to bring her back dead or alive, the diplomatic mission heading into the portal may hold the key to Savina’s survival—if she’s brave enough, or desperate enough, to take it. No one knows what’s beyond the portal. And as the three of them are drawn inexorably together in uncharted space, with no idea who is an ally and who is an enemy—it’s an open question if any of them will live long enough to find out.
Word Count: 70,000
Summary: What is the price of Vengeance? Kell Shaw's Vestiges of Magic universe gets a new hero in this thrilling, stand-alone adventure. Her name is Vex and she has it all: the greatest boyfriend in the world, and a golden future as an athlete and top university student. Then it's all ripped away from her in a brutal, senseless attack. As she's dying, a demon makes her an offer: vengeance in exchange for service. Vex doesn't think twice. Newly alive and filled to the brim with demonic power, Vex is ready to kill the men who murdered the boy she loved. Pity finding them will mean descending into a world of supernatural cults, predatory monster hunters, dark magic, and fell secrets. Even worse, the boy she sold her soul to avenge might not be the man she thought she knew… Reflections Upon the Anniversary of My Descent is the first book in the Cambion Chronicles, a series of adventures exploring the demonic underworld of the Vestiges of Magic universe.
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Summary: When torn between love and duty, even broken shards can kill. The year is 2293, and the Truth no longer exists. In this future, there are many truths, giving rise to many worlds—but each must be kept separate. Born to protect these truths, Axton Bryce patrols the New Worlds Star System—to observe, participate, and report. But as she learns the rules of each world, she must also hunt those who defy them: the Outliers. While stationed on a nearby planet, Axton meets the charming Ambassador Bray Wilde, sparking memories of a love she thought lost forever. When the ambassador proposes a daring rescue mission, Axton faces a second shot at first love—and an impossible choice between lifelong allegiance . . . and the chance to claim a truth of her own. A blend of Black Mirror and 1984—but with hope—this gripping, heartfelt dystopia will captivate fans of Ancillary Justice and Becky Chambers’ Wayfarers series.
