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Book: Double Life
Author: S. Usher Evans

Description:
Piracy is a game. How much are you worth?

Since she was a little girl, everyone - from her father to the Great Creator himself - told Lyssa Peate the same thing: she's worthless. But when she becomes the pirate bounty hunter Razia, she can see the price tag on her own head. Employed by one of the four pirate syndicates, she uses bank transactions and her considerable wits to capture rival members. At least, she would be if Razia's boss ever gave her a chance. It's a man’s world, and all she’s allowed to hunt are purse snatchers while she languishes on probation.

To pay the bills, she's stuck in her old life as Lyssa, discovering and analyzing distant planets and selling them for cash. She's doing just enough to stay out of trouble, pretending to be continuing her father's mysterious research while away for long periods of time. Her slimy boss is always asking questions and even assigns one of her younger brothers, Vel, to intern with her. Already struggling to keep the balance between her double lives, she tries everything to rid herself of the kid...

...until the universal police mistake Lyssa’s intern for Razia's hostage.

Available on
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Double-Life-Raz...

Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...

Cassandra Giovanni
In Between Seasons
In 2021 the world as we know it changed. The government collapsed, and the worst characteristics of human nature were shown as the world fell into ruins. Years after The Fall, the Tribes that were established are still at war. They still fight to keep what they pillaged, and most of all they fight to keep their lies a secret. In a world filled with deception, nothing is as it seems.
I was born into this world.
Hunter Marks was molded into this world; a General— a person cold and harsh. A person meant to kill me.
We were told to just believe.
We were taught to never question.
We’re supposed to be robots and accept our roles in this altered society.
Too bad Hunter and I don’t follow the rules.
And we’re a hell of a lot stronger than they ever thought possible.
They’ve been searching for the world’s deadliest weapon.
It’s me.
And I’m not following the leader any more.

 

Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Between-Seasons...
Barnes and Noble -http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/in-be...
Kobo - http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/eboo...
Google Play - https://play.google.com/store/books/d...

S. Usher wrote: "Book: Double Life
Author: S. Usher Evans

Description:
Piracy is a game. How much are you worth?

Since she was a little girl, everyone - from her father to the Gre..."


This sounds SO GOOD!

The Legacy: Fate
G.G. Atcheson

Blurb:

LX (or Alex for us Earthlings) is a Navigator. From the moment of his birth until he became of age, he prepared for his calling. On a routine exploration mission that shouldn't have taken more than a few months, an incident propels his spaceship light-years away from his destination, leaving him stranded on the third planet from a star called Sol.

The laws of survival are strict; he must not fraternize with the natives. However, an encounter with Mellie changes everything. She has speed and strength unknown to Earthlings yet strangely similar to his own species. This new discovery compels him to learn more about her and those who call themselves vampires. For her, he will break rules, his people's rules, until there is no turning back.

Meanwhile, mysterious storms are devastating cities. When they learn of their origin and the humans fail to see the threat, he, and his new friends, might be their only chance, but to save them and the one he loves, he may have to break his primary Oath: the vow never to take a life.

(While The Legacy: Fate leans toward Science-fiction, its sequel The Legacy: Destiny is more of a Dark Urban Fantasy)

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E...
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
Barnes and Nobles: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-l...
Kobo: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/book...
Also can be found on iTunes.

Book: Absent Hero
Author: Z.T. Burian

In the middle of Denver lies the most extraordinary building on Earth: Finnegan’s Wonder. Inside, a theme park unlike any other, full of mechanical men, pirates, airplanes, and monsters. It’s a place that seventeen-year-old Wendy and her friends have dedicated their lives to experiencing and documenting. But when the visionary creator of the Wonder, Clayton Ferris, is usurped, the place Wendy loves so much is in jeopardy. It’s up to her and her friends to unravel secrets, brave out-of-control robots, and face down the richest man on the planet to save Finnegan’s Wonder.

Absent Hero is the first episode of Gone To Wonder, a series that explores the not-too-distant future when make-believe becomes real.

It is available on Amazon at this link, or you can head over to my website, Bearded Bards, to learn how to get a copy for free.

Dawn of Steam: First Light
by Jeffrey Cook, with Sarah Symonds

In 1815, following the end of the Napoleonic War, a pair of England's wealthiest lords place a bet regarding the truth or fiction of the works of a popular writer who claims to be a world explorer. Each hires a crew to explore the unknown corners of the world and come back with evidence to support their claims.

Former aide-de-camp and war reporter Gregory Conan Watts documents the journey aboard the Dame Fortuna, owned by inventor and war hero Sir James Coltrane, and crewed by Sir James's equally accomplished sister and their cousin, Scottish rifleman Edward McBride (Eddy to his friends), an American frontiersman (who turns out to be a frontierswoman) and a pair of carnies as they venture out into the unknown, opposed by the elements (including the Year Without a Summer of 1815-1816), politics and powers that aren't quite ready for the war to end, and an opposing crew who will stoop to any means to stop them.

The Dawn of Steam series is a steampunk/alt-history series written in Regency style, via letters and journal entries from the characters.

(book 2, Dawn of Steam: Gods of the Sun is also out, brand new as of 8/31/2014, but will make more sense if read in order.)


Available at:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/149427650X/

(book 2, in case: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1500848271/ and http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N5D9BK4/ )

Title: Nica of Los Angeles (Frames, #1)
Author: Sue Perry
Genre: Speculative fantasy detective
Thumbnail: You've never read anything quite like this. When rookie private eye Nica takes on a mysterious case, she enters a world of multiple dimensions called Frames, where buildings and lawn chairs can be sentient, where a stray cat has great powers, where books can be killers, and clouds can be spies. At home, Nica tackles missing persons cases, while in the larger reality of the Frames she is swept into an escalating battle between good and evil.

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Title: Fall of Venus
Author: Daelynn Quinn
Genre: Dystopian adventure/romance

In the aftermath of a virus that has obliterated ninety-three percent of the population, Pollen McRae, a young woman plagued with a tragic past, finds herself scarred and abandoned in the wilderness, unable to remember the previous weeks. There she meets Marcus, a mysterious man with a similar plight. Together they are determined to escape a trio of bounty hunters and rescue Pollen’s niece, Evie from her imprisonment at the Crimson Survivor Refuge, a refugee camp which serves as a cover for a much more sinister plot.

Meanwhile, a renegade environmental organization is recruiting survivors for a mission that will change the course of human existence forever.

Amazon page
Smashwords page

If you enjoy Fall of Venus, there are two sequels: