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Sin Bin (Carolina Comets) (affiliate link)
Contemporary Romance
I should stay away.
Emilia Anderson is the team’s social media manager, and there are strict rules about not fraternizing with the staff. It doesn’t matter that we already accidentally broke them—we can’t let it happen again.
Besides, my time in the league is winding down, and this is my last shot at winning the Cup. I need to focus on the game, not some girl I have no business chasing.
She’s ten years younger than me.
She’s the assistant coach’s niece.
And she works for the team.
She’s off-limits…and too hard to resist.
I know better than to play this game…
But it looks like I’m heading to the sin bin.
999 Basic Tactics (affiliate link)
Drawing on the games of mostly amateur players, it describes more than 30 core tactical motifs, from pins and skewers, to deflection and interference.
Perfect for beginners, but also suitable for intemediates, the book includes precisely 999 exercises, to hone your skills, plus another 200 or so in the preceding explanations. At the end of each chapter, a handy recapitulation is provided.
The carefully picked examples, detailed explanations and comprehensiveness of motifs illustrated certainly make this volume a nice starting point on the path to becoming an expert chess tactician.
Beneath the Dragoneye Moons: Ranger’s Dawn (affiliate link)
Epic Fantasy
Let the bodies hit the floor!
Ranger Academy is famously hostile to its attendees. From the weather shifting from hail to tropical storms in minutes, to lethal rocks fired inches from the trainee’s heads, bad food and salty water, to profanities yelled by the Drill Instructors and whispers of failure at night, everything on the island is designed to make the trainees quit.
At the same time, the classes are fascinating. Wilderness survival. Team tactics. Gladiatorial combat vs dinosaurs. Flying. And the dozens of other classes, designed to forge the Trainees into the elite special forces of Remus – Rangers.
Naturally, Elaine wouldn’t be anywhere else. She needs to prove herself. For Julius, and his faith in her. For Artemis, so she won’t be disappointed. Most of all, for herself, for her own freedom and independence.
Beneath the Dragoneye Moons: Adventures in the Argo (affiliate link)
Epic Fantasy
An Ideal Society? What is this, a fantasy novel?
Elaine has been field promoted to a full Ranger, while at the same time developing her new Celestial healing and Fire magic. Yet Kerberos, her fiancé who’ll stop at nothing to get her back, casts a long shadow. Society as a whole would love nothing more than to grind her down, to remind her that she’s a girl, and a second-class individual. Endless dinosaurs roam, looking for tasty, pint-sized teenager snacks. Finally, Perinthus is devastated by a deadly plague, killing hundreds every day.
Elaine must fight the plague with every point of mana she has, while getting used to the horrors of being a Fire mage, breaking free from Kerberos’s grasp, and getting to the bottom of things.
If she’s lucky, she might even find some delicious mangos.
Reporting is Murder (Evangeline Moon Reporting Book 1) (affiliate link)
Paranormal Cozy Mystery
When Evangeline, a determined television reporter, is called to cover the story of a man found murdered in the grand and mysterious Heathcliff House, she quickly realizes that there’s more to the case than meets the eye.
As she digs deeper, she discovers the victim had a secret past which could very well be linked to his demise.
Along the way, Evangeline also discovers that Heathcliff House is haunted by the ghost of a golden retriever named Lucky, who is insistent she follow him into the woods…
What’s that all about?
With the help of her beloved cat, Samson, Evangeline works to solve the crime and bring the killer to justice.
Hometown Space Pirate (Viraquin Voyage Book 1) (affiliate link)
Humorous Science Fiction
Ben Roberts hears voices…alien voices.
When word of his abilities spreads through the galactic grapevine, Ben ranks number one on an A.I.’s most wanted list to become their cybernated slave. A bleak prospect, but what if they offered him everything he ever dreamed of in exchange?
A headstrong spaceship, with an intelligence of its own, shows up to help Ben, but he doesn’t know if it can be trusted. When he discovers a powerful alien has taken refuge on Earth, Ben makes it his mission to rescue it from the race of A.I. beings.
If he can’t find a way to survive, the balance of power throughout the universe could be altered forever.
Awakening (Covenant College Book 1) (affiliate link)
An incoming freshman at Covenant College, Zoe is excited to meet her roommates and attend classes. There’s only one problem: Covenant College isn’t all it’s purported to be.
First off, there are attractive — yet mysterious — men skulking around every corner. Then there’s that persistent professor that thinks he knows some secret about her past that even she isn’t aware exists.
Then there are the rumors. You know the ones. The ones that say Covenant College is home to more than just humans — but vampires and werewolves, too.
Not only is Zoe going to find herself in the middle of madness — but she’s going to have to try and pass finals while she endeavors to solve the mystery of what a monster really is.
PERFECT TARGET (Shadows of the Rockies) (affiliate link)
Christian Romantic SuspenseA burned-out Minneapolis cop must deal with a stubborn Montana rancher…but if she claims her inheritance, will he claim her heart?
Maybe…except someone is lurking in the shadows, planning to ensure that she’ll find no happy endings in her new life.
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