Your Sci Fi & Fantasy Reading List – 4/24

The Unexpected Queen
Alesha Escobar
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Trixie Black never thought of herself as a princess, but when she inherits the throne to Faerieland, along with a marriage proposal from a dark fae prince, her life becomes a royal pain.

Not only does she have to deal with courtly politics, suspicions that she’s not queen material, and controlling her ever-growing magical powers, but there is also the matter of a pain-in-the-ass prophecy. It is foretold that she will unite with the Unseelie and become an evil tyrant. But she’s been there and done that with the villain thing, and she won’t go down that path again. Trixie must prove to the world that she’s changed.

Thankfully, her sister Raina always has her back, as does her aunt, Queen Gloriana. Life would be grand if most of the Immortal Brotherhood weren’t watching her every move, waiting for her to mess up so they can drive a stake through her heart—both literally and figuratively.

But Trixie is no helpless princess. She’s a fighter. She will fight for her throne, her loved ones, and even her very soul. She just has to disprove the prophecy, uncover the true intentions of the Unseelie Prince Thane who thinks he can just waltz into her palace and marry her, and go toe to toe with Arabella Larkin, the most formidable witch who’s ever lived. No biggy.

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Love Sick: Operation Onward, Book 1
Portia Lewis
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Adventurous psychic Portia Livingston has just returned from an exciting trip around the world. So why is she broken hearted and close lipped about the whole experience? Determined and tenacious Portia will put her sour trip behind her though. After all, she still has real issues in the real world.

Enter Damien. He’s a Dealer Demon. You knoww, those annoying guys that try to steal your soul by offering you the “deal of a lifetime”. Unscrupulous Damien has spotted Portia in the middle of her romantic grief, and he’s just her type. Let the games begin.

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The Pattern Ship
Tobias Roote
FREE

In the year 2020, a landslide off the English coast uncovers an alien Escape Pod that had crashed into a prehistoric swamp. The dormant AI awakens to a very different world it entered millennia previously. Now, it must utilize stored ancient patterning technology to reconstitute its Master. However, this proves no easy mission as it scours this strange new world for essential materials to rebuild its ship.

As a homeless man, Zeke has worked hard to claim a back-alley as his own territory where a restaurant’s staff leave him food scraps. As if things aren’t bad enough Zeke’s escaped a Dark Government agency. He has a partial metal skull, forged from a meteorite and hammered into shape by a Middle-Eastern blacksmith. The strange alloy has irreversibly bonded with his brain and is leaking into his DNA, changing it. Now the DARPA scientists want him back.

When the newly-revived Master discovers that the only source of an essential component for its ship is the foreign material in Zeke’s head, the alien faces a difficult moral dilemma. The Master comes from a species that reveres all biological life wherever it is found, and Zeke will die if the metal cap is removed. It’s left to the AI to find another way?

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