by admin | Aug 30, 2025 | Fantasy |
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They want him dead, but he won’t die. He’s too angry, too cursed… and too damn good at killing.
When Venir the Darkslayer finds himself at odds with the corrupt Royals of Bish, they cast him out of their festering cities and into the wastelands. But exile is no punishment—it’s a death sentence. Because in the Outlands, the Underlings are waiting. Patient. Hungry. Endless.
While the Royals drown themselves in decadence, Venir sees the truth—an ancient menace is rising, ready to swarm the surface and wipe humanity from the map. No one else dares to face it. No one else even believes.
But Venir is not alone. Beside him stand a rogue named Melegal and a handful of other killers, outcasts, and warriors—each deadly in their own right, and each with reasons to hate the world as much as he does.
Together, they will carve their way through monsters, mercenaries, and magic. But in the end, Venir knows it will come down to him—the only man savage enough to do what must be done.
? Brutal battles. Dark sorcery. Savage fantasy at its sharpest edge.
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Perfect for fans of: Robert E. Howard’s Conan, R.A. Salvatore’s Drizzt, David Gemmell’s Druss, The Witcher, Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser, and Dungeons & Dragons–inspired fantasy with a darker, bloodier edge.
Includes 6 books of dark heroic fantasy, brutal battles, dangerous magic, twisted gods, and savage survival.
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by admin | Aug 30, 2025 | Paranormal & Fantasy Romance |
Welcome to Rockland Creek, where pack bonds will be tested, friends will butt heads, and love will prevail…no matter the odds.
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They say blood is thicker than water…But what if family’s the source of your pain?
Tristan
I swore I was done with love, after my last failed relationship. Being a soldier means making the tough decisions, all for the good of the pack. So when a little miss full of attitude waltzes in, dragging a shitload of trouble with her, I want nothing more than to make that tough decision and kick her the hell out.
Then she turns those big, feisty amber eyes on me, and my wolf roars otherwise. Mierda, but now I’m screwed…. And her family seriously has a screw loose. As do I, if the nightmares plaguing me are any hint.
But I’m gonna have to put on my big boy pants, cause there’s no way I’m letting her walk out of my life – not when there’s obviously more at stake, our history included.
Daniela
You’d think running away from a psycho family would swear me off relationships for good. Guess what? So did I. In fact, I specifically sought Tristan out because he’s the type I’d never be with. Too much of everything, if you get my gist – attitude included.
So why is it when he starts acting all protector, I can’t help but swoon?
His dark secrets don’t scare me as much as this sudden tornado within me. This was not in the plans… And I just might have to make a run for it before he finds out what I’m hiding and starts hating me.
But when his touch is so sweet, his need for me so obvious, can I really take off again?
More importantly, will he let me?
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*Book II in a completed paranormal shifter series filled with werewolves of all kinds, feisty females who stand up to them, and enough suspense to make it interesting. The romance is a standalone, but reading the whole series will help you enjoy the overarching plot better.*
Tropes: Fated mates, second chance romance, alpha male, ex-military hero, mental health awareness, found family, pack dynamics/rival packs.
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“There are so many twists and turns, secrets, and tons of action (nail-biting action)!!!” – BookDragonGirl Blog
“This series takes werewolves in a totally new direction!” – Amazon Reviewer
“Second to Surrender springs to life from the very first pages, drawing on a rich tradition of cryptid lore and legend, ” – Author JB Richards
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by admin | Aug 30, 2025 | Science Fiction |
A witty Belle-like wanderer meets murderous beasts. The locals can be like that. Welcome to Haell.
Troubled past? Check. Strictly avoiding interstellar travel for the foreseeable future? Check. Shrouded homeless human on an alien planet dodging draven dung and the occasional hawked loogie? Check.
Hi. The name’s Trick. A short female camped out on a brutal planet lying low with my secrets until suddenly I’m not. With a lethal librarian providing backup, I find myself investigating a series of abductions in the city of TreValla while gathering a motley group of allies, sentient murderous books, and an alluring enemy K’Vroken on the way.
When word spreads that ‘undesirable’ citizens are being targeted for their meager ability to harness mahdra, a magic that usually only the elite here on Haell can manipulate, I allow myself to become bait. I mean, as an avatar for the celestial stars themselves, brimming with a world-ending amount of mahdra, it seems fitting that a born reject like me sticks up for those whose voices go unheard. I may have just been remade for it.
Trip the Starlight Sarcastic is a full-length adult novel that focuses on fish-out-of-water hilarity and new-found families to navigate some darker themes that seem to plague Haell and Earth alike. Trigger warning: allusions to assault are made while a thwarted incident occurs later on in the book. That said, chaotic good reigns. Justice is satisfyingly graphic, swift, and quite funny. Adventure, slow-burn romance, and wonder abound, all under the contented feeling of finally being home. In a library. With living books.
Coming Soon…
Star Keeper Novel 2: Tricked Out Turning Drastic
Release date March 7th, 2024
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by admin | Aug 30, 2025 | Horror & Paranormal |
“The Thing in the Vault is a Dashiell Hammett/H P Lovecraft pastiche and done extremely well.” **** – Amazon reviewer T.G Cooper.
A darker shade of Noir: a novella of mystery and terror to delight detective fans and veterans of the Cthulhu Mythos alike.
1927, Chicago: Tough private eye Ed Jones takes on a simple assignment to investigate an eccentric German scientist. But Jones knows there’s no such thing as a simple assignment…and that there’s a lot his client isn’t telling him.
The trail leads to a New England town, where Jones is not the only visitor from Chicago: there are machine-gun toting gangsters, a smooth-talking con artist and an assassin with a garrotte, plus the scientist himself, who is a stranger character than Jones could have imagined. The locals don’t seem to like any of them — but they’re more afraid of the mysterious hooded figures deep in the forest.
Jones is forced to team up with some unlikely comrades, to solve some unsolved murders and tackle a gang like nothing else on Earth…
For those who like their Cthulhu hardboiled, this tale of the roaring Twenties mixes gangland violence with unearthly terror — and some serious sleuthing as Jones puts together the pieces to figure out what’s really going on…
Note: This story is included in the collection The Dulwich Horror & Others
Visit the Shadows From Norwood Facebook page for video trailer, map, reading group guide and extras –https://www.facebook.com/ShadowsFromNorwood
Click on Look Inside, or click on Send Sample Now — and you’ll be drawn into a world of Lovecraftian horror beyond human understanding.
David Hambling is an author, journalist, cat-lover and Call of Cthulhu fan living in South London. He writes for The Guardian, The Economist, WIRED, Popular Science among others.
His cat thinks this is all very strange.
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by admin | Aug 30, 2025 | Dystopian & Apocalyptic |
WINNER: First Place 2023 Writer’s Digest E-Book Awards for for Science Fiction.
Numbers don’t lie. But people do.
????? “If ChatGPT had a villain origin story, this would be it”
Boogie Wu was supposed to be a genius success story: child math prodigy, Stanford PhD, rising star at Magenta Labs. Then she burned out, flamed out, and disappeared.
Now, years later, the trillion-dollar company that cast her aside has launched a startlingly skillful AI. It drives. It cooks. It thinks. It takes more and more jobs from humans. And Boogie’s long-lost proof—the one she cracked in a sensory deprivation tank in rural Japan—might be the code running underneath it all.
As old friends resurface, whistleblowers go silent, and protest turns violent, Boogie is pulled back into a web of ambition, regret, and dangerous invention. She thought solving the math was the hard part. But when your mind is the blueprint for a machine that could reshape the world, Boogie must decide: expose the truth and risk everything, or fight a machine intelligence that knows her better than she knows herself.
Set in a future so near you can touch it, Cloudthinker is a profound and propulsive new thriller that confronts big tech, memory and consciousness, and what it means to be human.
Selected Reader Reviews:
????? “Crackling near-term, hard-SF dawn-of-AGI novel. More ideas per page than any book I’ve read in ages… Rather than worrying about whether AI understands in a way that would satisfy a philosopher, he asks whether they feel in a way that would terrify an ethicist.” – Harry B.
????? “WOW. I always hope but never expect a book to be this good! How much did I ENJOY it?… and on a scale of 1-10 this was 17-19 or something!” – Randy F.
????? “This book will take you down the winding trail of “what ifs” that are fast becoming a reality for all of us. Thrilling and thought provoking. I forgot this was a work of fiction several times.” – Joe S.
????? “In many ways, Cloudthinker feels like a movie waiting for a screenplay.” – Jules K
????? “The timeliness of the AI progression nailed it, I think – everything from Wuhan to the current state of language models felt like the changes were worryingly plausible” – Sean R.
????? “You can read it as a philosophical and ethical journey into some of the most interesting topics emerging in today’s society.” – JT.
????? “I picked it up and read it in a single sitting. And then went back and read it again a few days later. A gripping and engaging story both times!” – Jordan D-M.
????? “This distinctly creative, imaginative, and profound debut novel will delight fans of sci-fi, thrillers/suspense stories, technothrillers, and cyberpunk”. – Terri Stepek for Reader Views
????? “Hits the zeitgeist in a big way.” – Jennifer Hill for Reedsy Discovery
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