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The Sundering Blade: A Thousand Li World Novel

by Tao Wong

A blade cuts both ways

Newly minted an Elder of the Verdant Green Waters sect, sword prodigy Elder Cheng Zhao Wan - the Sundering Blade - is forced to leave the sect to fulfil an old obligation. A benefactor from the past is injured and has demanded Elder Cheng locate his assailant.

Forced to listen to the ramblings of a dying old man, amidst a small and unfamiliar sect, who Elder Cheng can trust is unknown. Was the injury nothing more than happenstance, or is som... more

The Tale of Christian Z. Wattson

by Andrew Zellgert

The banquet invitation sent... Seven tests must be completed... Cold, twisted, iron bent.... The tasks cannot be cheated... Christian Z. Wattson, a nine year old aeronaut, must journey through the dangers of outer space and face great evils to make his way back to his father. Guided by faith alone, will he brave the pitfalls of humanity? Or will he fall deeper down into the empty black of space? Readers young and old will enjoy this exciting allegory exploring spiritual pe... more

Your Blood and Bones

by J. Patricia Anderson

Kill the monsters when they’re found.

No matter who they used to be.

The girl with secret feathers in her skin and strange bones jutting out beneath her clothes is resigned to her fate. Her deformities mark her a monster and the stories say monsters must die.

When her family finds out and turns on her, a village boy saves her and leads her on a frantic escape. The girl believes her death has merely been delayed—... more

The Limits of My World

by Gregory Coles

In the distant future, two human societies live side by side without acknowledging one another's existence. Anyone who speaks the language of one human race is considered a traitor by the other human race. When a twist of fate brings these communities crashing together, two unlikely friends find themselves racing unwillingly towards treason: one with his mind, the other with her legs. The more they learn about the history of their human race, the more they wonder if they've ever truly been human... more

Danje

by Gitte Tamar

In a small Louisiana Bayou town during mid-September 1965, Albert Gilly frantically prepares his family's fishing store for an impending hurricane. Amid the chaos, he notices Adonis, a drifter, lying motionless on the street. With the wind raging and debris swirling violently around them, Albert's mind is consumed with thoughts of his family and their dependence on him as the sole breadwinner. Knowing that they would be destitute without him, he makes the painful decision to prioritize his own s... more

Life in Continuum

by Kirk Ward Robinson

Two ambassadors from the future, two warrant officers and a gangster, and a bereaved widower must each struggle with the dangerous, bizarre, and often terrifying ramifications of time travel. In In Whose Time, Sha’raelon, the beautiful and mysterious ambassador from the future, must do battle with her counterpart from another timeline and defend herself against unidentified incursions all while trying to convince the world to choose the destiny she was born to create. In Life in Continu... more

As Born to Rule the Storm

by Cate Baumer

A novella for fans of Divine Rivals and This is How You Lose the Time War. Cadet Charlotte Amsel will trade her life to win a war- but not all at once. As part of an elite group of experimental soldiers, she can move through time, with each jump taking months from her own fated lifespan as she struggles to prevent the cold war from boiling over into an apocalypse. With her own side just as untrustworthy as the enemy, the only thing she cares about is keeping her best friend and fellow soldier... more

Sonya: Journey to the Center and Back

by Daniel K. Seward

Sonya is an unassuming high school student who is invited on a journey to the galaxy's center by a classmate she hardly knows. They travel with counterparts from four other races and go through a spiritual awakening when they get to the center of everything. Along the way she falls in love with her classmate who dies on the way back. The middle part is about a problematic ambassadorship she has with Earth, and the end is a raucous tale of her role in saving the galaxy.

Dystopomart: Survivorium Maxi Catalog

by Ryan Patrick

The book is a fictional catalog of a post-apocalyptic lifestyle brand — luxurious goods for survivors. And the "company" (housed inside the remains of NORAD, now repurposed into the Dystōp-o-Mart Survivorium), is a recreational & immersive shopping complex for the remnant population of a ravaged world, still scouring the planet for consumer bargains. Why leave your hunger, defense, and home library to fate? SHOP NOW

Ruthless Sky

by D.K. Broadwell

A risky mission-- A disastrous accident-- The crew’s struggle to get home-- In the merciless void of space, love and survival intertwine as two marooned astronauts battle impossible odds. It’s 1989, and Dr. Catherine Riley, a NASA astronaut who overcame all challenges to live her dream, sees her first mission turn into a fight for her life. As the space shuttle Intrepid launches, an explosion propels Cat and her fellow astronauts into a treacherous journey. NASA’s efforts to save their c... more

When The Stars Alight

by Camilla Andrew

WHEN THE STARS ALIGHT is a gothic romantasy about a star princess who must use her wits to survive the court of a heartless demon king whilst caught in a deadly rivalry between his two sons. For fans of Angela Carter and The Vampire Diaries.

Nephilim

by Marc Arginteanu

Denny is a PhD student whose side hustle takes on a life of its own when his machine merges with a twenty-something waiter named Sean.

Before long, all the wrong people start to notice:

-A secret religious order, The Urialites, prophesy the dawning of the New Age of Nephilim.

-A clandestine unit of Chinese commandos believe they’ve stumbled upon an invincible weapon.

-Sean isn’t sure he wants any part of t... more

DEZUN

by DANIEL HOU

n the annals of an inconceivably distant age, humanity is scattered amongst the stars, branching off into new, distinctive forms of society. Centuries have passed since Earth was reduced to nothing more than a sheen of crumbling dust, its remnants slowly drifting apart through the dead expanses of space. First to rise from the ash anew is the civilization of Stolis, boasting the power of an artificial star that defies the very principles of mankind's existence. It radiates immense energy but ... more

Stranger in the Valley

by Gregory Haley

As a former soldier, A.J. is used to seeing dead bodies, but he's never seen the kind of mutilation of a dead sheriff he discovers while hiking through this rural Oregon valley. Being suspected of murder is the least of his new problems, though. To gain his freedom, A.J. must find the true killer, but nothing about Mystic Valley makes sense. His main suspect is a crooked werewolf, the beautiful town doctor is nearly 700 years old, and there's a suspicious young Dwarf who seems determined to cut ... more

EMA

by Aian D. Grey

EMA is futuristic fable illustrating the potential impact of artificial intelligence on our lives and society.

Cleo McCarthy Time Travel and Other Impossible Things

by Mike Poeltl

The first time Cleo feared for her life was when she was diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson’s at 23. The second time is when she discovered she could travel back in time at 24. While she is offered guidance from fellow time traveler Franklin, she is plagued by a fragmented message transmitting through white noise. Cleo’s best friend Bobby, a physicist, is recruited to help her and Franklin make sense of what’s happening, but despite their successes, Cleo’s constant jumping backward in time... more

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