Happy Wednesday, fellow reading addicts!
It is the last Wednesday in August. Can you believe the month is at an end next week and Setpember starts next Wednesday? Time sure is flying this year. It doesn’t seem like I was in texas three weeks ago either, but here I am.
If you were saving your money to see what books we had for you at the end of the month, let me tell you we have boxed sets, series sales, short stories and novellas, individual books, and more. There is a lot of reading available this week across a variety of genres! Be sure to check them out!
Enjoy and happy reading!
This Week’s Special Deals
Bloodlines and Boulevards: Two Complete Oriceran Series
($1.99)
Two magical cities. Two young women who didn’t ask for this fight — but are absolutely ready for it.
In New Orleans, Cali thought she had life figured out until three revelations hit at once: an escaped prisoner exposes her city’s dangerous underbelly, she uncovers the secret her murdered parents hid about her magic, and two rival gangs decide she and her friends are a problem that needs solving. With a mysterious stranger, a Dwarven bartender, and a canine-sized dragon at her side, Cali is the French Quarter’s unlikely new champion.
In Magic City, Ruby Achera just wanted a quiet drink at her family’s casino when explosions start tearing through the floor and someone declares war on everything she loves. Now she’s caught in a battle for control of the city, and her own secrets may be the most dangerous thing in the room.
Grab this collection to get two complete urban fantasy series in the Oriceran Universe!
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Scions of Magic
Justice in New Orleans has a new champion and she’s packing magic. Meet Cali, a not so average college student and her crew.
A mysterious stranger, a mild-mannered Dwarven bartender and the magical creature who’s adopted her.
Cali had life all figured out till three revelations change everything.
One. An escaped prisoner shows her the underbelly of her city.
Two. She discovers the secret her murdered parents hid about her magic.
Three. Two competing gangs target her and her friends.
Is her band of magical outsiders enough to keep New Orleans safe? Just how weird can magic get in the old French Quarter?
It’s up to Cali to keep the underground tensions from blowing up while she eludes the detective who’s got a suspicious eye on her.
Included in this collection:
- Magic Street Boogie
- Mystical Alley Groove
- Bewitched Avenue Shuffle
- Bermuda Triangle Blues
- Spell Street Swing
- Sorcerer’s Waltz
- Enchanted Twist
- The Last Dance
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Magic City Chronicles
Ruby Achera just wanted a nice, quiet drink at her family’s casino in Magic City. The Mist Casino sits just above a kemana with an interior that would make a ghost feel right at home. Of course it does.
After all, Magic City has to compete with nearby Vegas. A different kind of magic.
Ruby is just back from University for the summer, catching up with an old friend when everything changes with a BANG!
A series of small blasts are exploding all around her. Chips are flying through the air. Someone wanted to announce their arrival in town. But who?
Ruby is about to get drawn into a battle for control of Magic City. They just made the fight personal. Is the Ebon Dragon Casino next?
Will Ruby’s secrets get in her way?
What waits at the end could change her life forever, if she survives the journey.
Included in this collection:
- A Defender Rises
- A Magical Alliance
- A Flush of Diamonds
- Showdown in Magic City
- A Hunt in Magic City
- Law and Disorder
- Darkness Ascends in Magic City
- All or Nothing in Magic City
For action, magic, snarky banter, martial arts, mystical creatures, and high intrigue, pick up this collection today!
The First Beaufont Complete Series Boxed Set
($1.99)
It’s time for a Medieval dragonrider to fix the modern world.
Six-hundred years ago, Genevieve Beaufont stole a dragon egg and buried it. Now it’s time for that egg to finally hatch. It’s time for Gen Beaufont to be the rebel she always dreamed of.
Gen, a resident of 15th-century England, finds herself stuck in modern day America—all because she was overly curious and followed strangers through a time travel gate.
Two things have always gotten Gen in trouble: her curiosity and defiance. But times have changed, quite literally. Those traits could save her life.
In modern times, crime is out of control. Only one person can fix it—someone who doesn’t play by the rules. Someone from the Medieval era.
Genevieve was one of the first Beaufonts—the most powerful magical family to ever exist. The Founders of the House of Fourteen. The ruling forces over the magical world.
Gen always knew that she’d inherit her father’s legacy, she just didn’t know it would happen quite like this.
Can Gen Beaufont take the reins on a magical world established by her family centuries before but now entrusted to this timeless vigilante? Or will the modern world break this Medieval warrior?
Included in this boxed set:
- The Timeless Vigilante
- The Lost Empress
- The Misplaced Warrior
- The Medieval Misfit
- The Primal Instigator
- The Altruistic Crime Lord
- The Untamed Fighter
- The Revolutionary Rider
- The Ancient Catalyst
- The Primitive Menace
- The Untraditional Outlaw
- The Last Hope
I, Soldier Series Sale
(Books 1-2, 99c, Books 3-8, $2,99) :
U.S.: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F7LX4RFX
U.K.: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F7LX4RFX
Long live the soldiers!
Engage the enemies of mankind. Prevent aliens from breaching the line. Keep them far from Earth.
Travel to the stars where you’ll fight to keep your families safe. Fight for all humanity.
The alien races must be driven back. They are too close. Only the soldiers can protect Earth. Only you.
The only thing the aliens understand is respect. Without it, humanity dies. We die as a race! Earn their respect through your strength.
Bring glory and honor to yourself through your prowess in battle. Trust your section leads. Trust your battle planners. And win.
Win and recover to your ships. Lose and no one will come for you because there will be no one left. We will fight to the last.
By order of Janus Seven, Leader of Humanity
For fans of Starship Troopers, Halo, Battleship Leviathan, and other military science fiction.
Second Battalion, Ninth Marines, is on Saint Hollis as a show of strength but saddled by the diplomats with a restrictive ROE that keeps them from actually fighting. The battalion’s Marines are bored, and bored Marines are trouble waiting to happen.
When Lance Corporal Ryck Lysander and his fire team are sent on an observation patrol, they stray a little . . . maybe a lot . . . beyond their mission parameters and . . . well, things go haywire quickly, thrusting the planet to the brink of a hot war.
Can they avert the war and keep themselves out of the brig when all is said and done?
This short story takes place early in Ryck Lysander’s notable career.
War came to Capernica on a beautiful Landing Day . . .
Mario Despiri was the son of Capernica’s most famous veteran, and he wanted nothing more than to follow in his late father’s footsteps. But physically disabled as a victim of Moriori Syndrome, that just wasn’t in the cards for him.
When the Wolvic attack the planet, most citizens are hastily conscripted to fight the invaders. But not even then is Mario given a weapon and told to march to the sound of gunfire.
Mario is determined to do his part to help throw off the enemy. But ignored and shunted aside, what can he do?
Orignally published in The Expanding Universe 7, “Maelstrom” is a short story in the Call to Arms: Capernica universe.
Corporations settle disputes on military reservations, broadcasting the battles to the addicted public.
For the mercenary miltechs who fight the battles, win and get a bonus. Lose and get paid the minimum . . . unless wounded, and the medical fees are deducted from their pay. Die on the field of battle? The United Alliance of Military Workers makes a one-time payoff to the family.
Surrender and lose their union cards, never to work again.
The miltech grunts are mere pawns, shuttled around the reservation in a never-ending attempt to outmaneuver the foe.
Jorge, Tasha, and Isaac are employed by PrimeMil, assigned to a light infantry chasseur company. Cut off from the rest of the platoon, a paycheck is the least of their worries. They need to survive the battle.
But with someone else pulling the strings, is there anything pawns can to flip the board? Read the story and find out.
“Checkmate” is a novelette of approximately 9,000 words and was originally published in The Expanding Universe 4 anthology.
When stripped of her military tech, can a wounded combat engineer survive an enemy killer bot?
Private Tia Deogracia had a three-year service obligation after the St. Alban’s Army paid for her education. Sure of her abilities, she was marking time until she could get out and become a highly paid, successful engineer.
But the gods of war don’t care about a lofty education or anything else, and when the fortunes of war turn against her, it’s time to soldier on …
… or die!
“Down to the Bone” is a short story originally published in THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE 8.
The enemy is winning the fight.
The Spire Bridge has to come down before the enemy reaches the river, or they will sweep through, and all is lost.
That’s when the combat engineers get the mission.
But when an enemy sniper takes out his sergeant, Lance Corporal Troy Sifuentes has to take charge of his team and take down the bridge . . . but the sniper has other ideas.
Time is running out, the sniper has the team pinned down, and the mission has to be accomplished no matter the cost.
But how?
Download “The Bridge” for an exciting ride.
This novelette is dedicated to Colonel John W. Ripley, a real US Marine hero who had his own bridge to bring down.
A bold reimagining of Eve’s journey after Eden, set in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond, for readers who crave feminist myth retellings and spiritual exploration.
Exiled to a desolate and harsh New Earth, in this Paradise Lost retelling, Eve faces relentless toil, pain, and the resentment of Adam, who blames her for shattering their Paradise.
But even in this barren world, Eve’s curiosity only grows. When Eve and Adam discover a thriving civilization in the fertile valleys of Mesopotamia, Adam is able to find peace, while Eve fights an irresistible pull further. She yearns to understand why she was created, to understand the god that made and abandoned her.
Can Eve find contentment with the vestiges of Eden that remain? Or will she dare to taste the fruit forbidden to her, once more?
In the end, Eve seeks to know the limits to her own power, to sate her hunger, once and for all. Navigating loves, betrayals, and the duties of motherhood from Nippur to the coastal city of Canaan and across the Aegean Sea to Cyprus, Eve will go as far as it takes.
But how many Edens will she forsake, along the way, to discover who creates them?
Will Eve cross the threshold from dust to divinity, at last? Or will she return to the river valley, empty-handed, a fractured family left in her wake?
For who before Eve has known the minds of the gods?
A tense psychological sci-fi thriller for adult and crossover readers, set on an alien world where a father’s mission to save his daughter uncovers terrifying secrets.
Austin thought bringing his daughter on a routine mission would be a chance to reconnect after years apart. But their deep-space expedition to the uncharted planet Paphos is anything but routine.
Buried within the planet’s forests lies a sprawling, crumbling alien compound—and they are not alone. A creature capable of seizing control of any host stalks them, turning their expedition into a desperate fight for survival.
With their escape pods sabotaged and radios destroyed, hunted by an intelligence that hides among them, Austin must forsake all others to keep his daughter safe. The only way home is forward—deeper into the facility, deeper into the unknown.
Perfect for fans of sci-fi thrillers, this pulse-pounding novel explores the limits of survival, the mysteries of first contact, and the unbreakable bond between a father and his daughter.
Hall of Famer, Don Coldsmith, brings a revamped collection of the critically-acclaimed Spanish Bit Saga—a compelling and masterfully penned historical tale of an audacious conquistador-turned-Native American warrior, set in the American frontier.
When Juan Garcia embarks on an exploration of a continent steeped in mystery, a fateful incident leaves him injured and lost. As his journey takes an unexpected turn, he encounters a Native American society that offers him a whole new way of life.
Thus begins Garcia’s extraordinary transformation from a proud conquistador to an integral member of an Indian tribe. His significant contribution? The Spanish Bit—a talisman that forever reshapes their society.
As Garcia teaches his adopted people to harness the power of the horse and ignites a revolutionary change, a newfound ability to ride and fight transforms the tribe from timid folk to the indomitable lords of the American Great Plains.
Step into a world where the American frontier collides with native Indian culture, witness the transformative power of understanding, courage, and unity, and experience the compelling narrative that brings historical American life to your doorstep. It’s time to embark on an adventure you will never forget.
“Coldsmith does his usual solid job of bringing this historical culture to life.” —Publishers Weekly
The Spanish Bit Saga, Volume One includes Trail of the Spanish Bit, The Elk-Dog Heritage, Follow the Wind, Buffalo Medicine, and Man of the Shadows.
Bloody Joe Mannion: The Complete Classic Western Series
WITH THE DUSTY TREAD OF WELL-WORN BOOTS, A ROUGH ‘N’ TOUGH HERO IS PRIMED TO UNLEASH HELLFIRE IN THE NAME OF WESTERN JUSTICE.
“Bloody” Joe Mannion is a town tamer of great renown—his temper just as famous. Recognized as the most uncompromising lawman on the Western frontier, he’s a town marshal in the heart of Colorado Territory.
From bringing law to unruly towns in Kansas and Oklahoma to taming the wild streets of Del Norte, Mannion faces down outlaws, corrupt ranchers, and the darkest corners of the frontier.
But as the noose steadily tightens around Mannion’s neck and bullets draw nearer, he reacts the only way he knows how—with a storm of bloody violence.
In this heart-pounding Western collection, follow along as one ruthless cowboy fights to keep the flame of justice alive.
“The next Louis L’Amour.” —USA Today bestselling author Roseanne Bittner on Peter Brandvold
This complete nine-book collection includes Bloody Joe, Revenge at Burial Rock, Saints and Sinners, To Make a Man, All My Sins Remembered, Kicked Out with a Cold Shovel, Drawn and Quartered, Battle Mountain, and Bloody Joe’s Last Dance.
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