by admin | Oct 4, 2025 | Dystopian & Apocalyptic |
Welcome to Mind Over Ship, the Endeavour Award-winning sequel to David Marusek’s stunning debut novel, Counting Heads, which Publishers Weekly called “ferociously smart, simultaneously horrific and funny.”
The year is 2135, and the international program to seed the galaxy with human colonies has stalled as greedy, immoral powerbrokers park their starships in Earth’s orbit and begin to convert them into space condos. Ellen Starke’s head, rescued from the fiery crash that killed her mother, struggles to regrow a new body in time to restore her dead mother’s financial empire. And Pre-Singularity AIs conspire to join the human race just as human clones, such as Mary Skarland and her sisters, want nothing more than to leave it.
At the Publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
by admin | Oct 3, 2025 | Teen & Young Adult |
A storm is coming. Soon, every wizard will burn.
In the modern nation of Euryma, magic is as common as bottled water. Witches and wizards lead normal lives, using extraordinary powers to do ordinary things. Here, everyone can do magic.
Almost everyone.
Seventeen-year-old Declan Moore knows he’s not the chosen one. While his friends apply to magical colleges and promising futures, Declan is left to be the school groundsman’s apprentice. His only wish is an inkling of power to escape the disappointment of being a LAMP—one Lacking All Magical Potential.
Then the world falls apart.
Overnight, thousands of witches and wizards vanish from their homes, leaving the non-magical populace to pick up the pieces. But as Declan searches for his parents, he discovers something he does not dare to believe.
Declan isn’t helpless, he is dangerously powerful.
And using that power to save his parents could kill them all.
Shortlisted for the 2023 Aurealis Award’s Best Young Adult Novel, The Non-Magical Declan Moore is perfect for fans of Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, and Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy.
Buy now and discover the magic of the Winterthorn Saga.
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by admin | Oct 3, 2025 | Fantasy |
Magic. Mayhem. Drunken faeries.
Archeologist Taryn St. Giles has spent her life mining the ruins of the elves who vanished from the Four Kingdoms a thousand years ago. But when her patrons begin disappearing too—and then turning up dead—she finds herself unemployed, restless, and desperate. So she goes looking for other missing things: as a bounty hunter.
Tracking her first fugitive—the distractingly handsome and strangely charming Alric—she unearths a dangerous underworld of warring crime lords, demonic squirrels, and a long-lost elven artifact capable of unleashing a hell on earth.
Chased, robbed, kidnapped, and distressingly low on rent money, Taryn just wants one quiet beer and to catch her fugitive. But there’s more to Alric than his wicked grin—is he a wanted man or the city’s only hope? With menacing mages in pursuit and her three alcoholic faery sidekicks always in her hair, Taryn’s curiosity might finally solve the mystery of the elves… or be the death of her and destroy her world.
The first book in a six-book completed series!
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If Lara Croft, Tomb Raider, invaded Stephanie Plumb’s Jersey and fell into a raucous, twisted Middle Earth, they might find Taryn St. Giles already waiting for them in this high action fantasy caper.– Jessa Slade, award-winning author of QUEEN OF STARLIGHT, Sheerspace Book 1
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by admin | Oct 3, 2025 | Fantasy |
A cozy romantic fantasy that will delight fans of Legends and Lattes, Practical Magic, and The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches.
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A murder, a mystery, and a not-so-overactive imagination…
Eccentric heiress Maida Westabrook treasures her peaceful, “ordinary” life in California—morning strolls along the beach, warm evenings by the fire, and losing herself in her beloved library of myths and legends. Yet Maida can’t shake the nagging feeling that there’s more to her story than she’s been led to believe. Strange and inexplicable occurrences have always surrounded her, dismissed as nothing more than her overactive imagination.
When a distant relative mysteriously vanishes, a body is discovered, and Maida’s lifelong dream of owning an enchanted bookshop suddenly comes true she realizes her “wild” imagination might not have been so far-fetched after all.
There’s just one hitch: the sentient bookshop has gone into hiding and it’s up to Maida to coax it back. To claim her inheritance, she must step out of her safe, predictable world and embrace a reality where magic is not only real—it’s woven into the very fabric of everyday life. That handsome neighbor? He might be a shapeshifter. And the barista who runs the local café? She’s likely brewing more than coffee.
As Maida unravels the secrets of her past, she’s forced to rethink everything she once held true. Saving the bookshop—and protecting her newfound magical family—will require more courage than she ever thought possible, including risking her heart.
What readers are saying:
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Editorial Reviews
“In The Mudpuddle Manual of Natural Magic, the first enchanting volume of the Natural Magic series, Maida Westbrook, an eccentric heiress, finds her tranquil life disrupted by the vanishing of a distant kin and a dark murder. This whimsical tale brims with intrigue and heart, drawing readers into a realm where myths breathe and the extraordinary lies just beneath the surface. With charming characters and a richly woven narrative, this book beckons those who dare to believe in magic.” —NewInBooks
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by admin | Oct 3, 2025 | Dark & Urban Fantasy |
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I expected to start normal college, but instead… I wound up sprouting fur.
The one thing about growing up an orphan was that life sucked, but at least it was my kind of sucky. It was simple, ordinary… predictable.
Until the night I woke up naked in a dark forest, surrounded by a trio of powerful shifters who plucked me from my miserable existence to tell me I’m some sort of supernatural monster.
Now I’m taking a crash course in Werewolf 101 at some freaky, secret academy. Not to mention I can’t get my mind off an infuriating, yet gorgeous (and off-limits) lion shifter who loves yoga and calling me “poodle”.
If I can’t get my shift together in this world of underground societies and scandal, I’m going to be up a creek without a doggy-paddle. Especially when a rare ability emerges within me. The last shifter who had this so-called gift wound up dead, and if anyone finds out I possess it, so will I.
Now wolfy and I must step up our game and quit tripping over our own tail.
Life is never going to be normal again.
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