Stormy Seas in This Snippet of The Para-Military Agent Book 1
The Ship that Never Sank: The Para-Military Agent Book 1
From stormy seas to explosive surprises, trouble is brewing!
Rain lashed the VW Citi Golf’s windshield. Maria Meintjies downshifted. Kick-ass though it had been in the eighties, its engine was tiny. It toiled against the ocean gale.
Maria stomped on the gas. “Let’s go, Gogga.”
Glossy mansions towered on either side. They gave way to open space as Maria steered into the parking lot.
On a summer’s day, there would be no space here. Big Bay was one of Cape Town’s most popular beaches. This was no summer’s day. The sea was the color of iron, and the wind whipped its swells into massive waves.
Maria grinned.
You would have to be either exceptionally skilled or completely batshit to go surfing in weather like this. Maria Meintjies was both.
She slipped out of her North Face jacket and shivered in her wetsuit after exiting the vehicle. Her surfboard was comically large on the tiny car’s roof. Maria plucked it from its rack, fastened the leash around her ankle, and tucked it under her arm.
Sand blasted her face as she ran across the beach.
Rain and mist cloaked the iconic Table Mountain. There was nothing but turbulent water in every direction. Even Robben Island hid behind the silver haze.
The way Maria liked it.
She ran into the bitterly cold water. Her feet had turned numb before it grew deep enough to paddle.
Her strokes were swift. She didn’t have much time before work. Enough to catch a few waves and forget the bullshit at home.
Charlton would be pissy that she hadn’t made breakfast.
She gripped the surfboard and duck-dove beneath an oncoming wave. It rolled over her head in a churning cylinder. Fish flashed above the sandy bottom. Maria surfaced in the splattering rain.
This was no time to think about Charlton, about any of it. It was only her and the ocean.
Three more duck-dives brought her beyond the breakers. She sat on the board, barely out of breath from the hard paddle. Although the swells were enormous, the rain had smoothed out the chop. Her board barely moved on silky water.
Maria tipped her head back and let the rain fall on her face. The wind brushed her loose curls aside.
When she was little, her mom used to call her meerminnetjie. Little mermaid. Maria remembered wishing she was a mermaid. She could never spend enough time splashing in the waves.
She trailed her fingers in the water, wondering if such creatures lurked in the deep.
The swell shifted. Without looking, Maria knew the next set was coming. She paddled toward the wave.
When it broke, she was ready for it.
The takeoff propelled her forward. Maria popped to her feet and set her rail. Her board skimmed along the gray water. The world darkened as the wave’s foaming lip curled overhead.
She laughed. This was everything she needed—speed, energy, and unity with the ocean.
A fast bottom turn carried her back to the clean shoulder. She dropped into the stillness on the other side, breathless with delight.
Screw Charlton. Nothing mattered but this.
Maria paddled out for another set, hoping it wouldn’t make her late for work.
Then something torpedo-shaped and colossal zipped beneath her with unthinkable speed.
Maria sat up. A black shape split the water nearby, then vanished into the murky gray.
She grinned. “Hello, boys.”
An orca surfaced mere feet from her board. The rain glistened on his black-and-white skin. His dorsal fin drooped to one side. To the left, Maria noted. This was Port.
“Where’s your brother?” she asked him.
A blowhole huffed on her other side. Maria laughed. The other orca’s fin listed to the right, which had given him his name—Starboard.
“Morning,” she called.
The orcas circled her. Maria dangled her feet in the water, her pulse accelerating.
In her day job at Two Oceans Aquarium, she saw orcas every day. These were different. They were more than wild. They were notorious.
Port and Starboard did many things that made no sense, but showing up in Big Bay almost every time Maria surfed was on top of the list.
The swell rocked her board as another set rolled in.
Maria laughed. “Here we go, boys!”
The orcas sliced the water on either side as she paddled hard for the next wave. She rose and sped along its face, slicing a pale wake.
The orcas disappeared.
Maria looked around, careful not to disturb her balance. “Hey, where did you guys— Oh!”
The orcas burst from the wave’s lip and soared over her head. Maria whooped. They splashed into the water feet away from her. She lost her balance in distraction. Her board vanished beneath her.
She kicked it away and dove seamlessly into the water.
The wave took her. Maria let it. There was no use arguing with the ocean. Her only choice was to go with it. The wave spun her a few inches from the sandy bottom, then spat her out.
She had plenty of air as she kicked for the surface. It escaped in a stream of bubbles when the orcas reappeared.
They circled her, their tails working up and down. Their clicks and whistles were as intricate as language.
Blowholes huffed on either side as she surfaced and shook her hair from her face.
“Your breath smells like fish!”
Port rolled, slapping the surface with one fin. Maria laughed.
Her board bobbed about twenty feet away. Maria reeled in the leash hand-over-hand. She checked the board’s fins and scrambled on.
“Ready for another one, boys?”
As one, Port and Starboard swiveled toward the open sea. They hung motionless in the water, as if listening to something Maria couldn’t hear.
“Boys?”
The orcas took off with astonishing speed. Their surge sent her board skidding backward. Maria clutched it. Their dorsal fins left foaming wakes as they sped away, faster than Maria had ever seen them move.
Were they hunting? Was there a white shark nearby?
Maria squinted at the horizon. Mist blurred the line where sky met sea.
A shadow moved in it.
Maria’s breath caught. This was impossible. She rose to her knees, straining forward.
A horseman stood silhouetted against the mist. He sat tall on a steed that should have moved on land, not water.
She saw him for less than a second, long enough for the impression to burn into her memory.
Then the wind changed, and the gathering storm swallowed orcas and horseman alike.
***
Maria stayed out as long as she could, but the horseman and orcas had vanished.
Finally, she caught a wave to shore.
Sodden and shivering, she ran across the beach with her board under her arm. The wind blew even harder now. Her Golf rocked violently as she wrapped herself in a towel and scrambled inside.
She turned on the windshield wipers and peered at the sea. It was raining too hard to see beyond the breakers.
Maybe she had imagined all of it. Especially the way the orcas had rushed toward the horseman, as if he’d summoned them.
The Golf’s dash clock had given up. Maria fished her phone from the bag under the seat.
She would make it to work on time if she left right now.
Instead, she swiped to her messaging app and tapped on the group chat near the top.
Her fingers flew over the screen.
>I saw him while I was surfing again! I think Port and Starboard know him!
There was no time to wait for an answer. Maria started the Golf. She raced along the waterfront, heading for Two Oceans.
***
Agent Damian Radu had had better Fridays.
Alone in the elevator, he leaned against the back wall. His hand ached from the endless forms he’d filled in, laboriously, in pen and ink. Certain species refused to digitize. Parchment could be a bitch to write on, too.
This wasn’t what he’d signed up for when he joined the Official Para-Military Agency years ago.
He glared at his reflection in the elevator’s shiny steel. “You heard the captain. Not much longer.”
The elevator halted on the ground floor. With a spring in his step, Damian walked across the New York City headquarters.
The cafeteria smelled delicious, but Damian didn’t pause. He worked the night shift, so leaving now meant missing the morning traffic headed to Brooklyn. Sitting in traffic was the last thing he needed after a day like this.
His car wasn’t the type for traffic. It hankered for the open road, the same as he did.
The parking garage was only half-full. Damian nodded greetings at colleagues heading to their vehicles.
“Marvin,” he muttered.
A young man paused at the door to his carriage. “Morning, Damian. Plans for the weekend?” He’d harnessed the carriage to eight…horses? They had fire where their eyes should be.
Damian pretended not to hear over the hoofbeats.
He passed a rack of magic carpets, a sleigh, and numerous black SUVs before reaching a stall containing a gray stallion with eight legs.
Sleipnir pinned his ears as Damian approached.
“I’m not Merritt. I don’t have any sugar for you,” Damian grumbled.
Sleipnir snapped his teeth.
“Bite me, Slippy.”
The stallion kicked the wall.
Scowling, Damian pawed through his trench coat’s pockets and found a breath mint. He unwrapped it and tossed it into the straw, to Sleipnir’s glee.
“I’m such a sucker.” Damian turned to his car.
He ran a hand over the polished roof. The 2023 Audi R8 was bright red with black detailing that added to its aggressive look. Its sleek lines screamed “supercar” even before Damian started the engine.
Then it screamed like a supercar. Damian savored the snarl of the tremendous V10.
“Let’s go home, Fast Red Thing.”
Embarrassment flooded him as he backed the car out. His best friend, Merritt Vale, was rubbing off on him. She’d insisted on giving his car a name, even if that name was Fast Red Thing.
Damian considered this ultimate disrespect.
He left the NYHQ campus, then stomped on the gas. Six hundred horsepower brought the FRT from zero to sixty in about three seconds.
Damian leaned back in the driver’s seat with one hand on the wheel and one on the shifter. His muscles relaxed as they roared across Staten Island.
This was always the best part of his day.
He cut in front of a truck and ignored the honks as they swept onto the freeway. Ignoring the speed limit, Damian cruised at a comfortable pace of a hundred miles per hour.
When he noticed the Lamborghini, it was because he admired it.
The aggressive black car was one of the FRT’s few rivals. With a single glance in the rearview mirror, Damian recognized the 2025 Temerario. He wouldn’t be caught dead in a hybrid, but this one packed a V8 that could reach ten thousand RPM without missing a beat.
He slowed to check it out, assuming it would continue away when he took the intersection.
Instead, the Lambo followed him onto I-278. Most traffic from Staten Island to Brooklyn would take this route to the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.
Tingles started in Damian’s gut and spread to his hands. His front teeth itched. His fingernails grew an inch.
Damian reined in his tension. The last time he’d allowed himself annoyance, he’d ripped the FRT’s steering wheel.
They reached the bridge. Only a couple of other vehicles marred the two-and-a-half miles of straight asphalt.
Damian casually put his foot down.
The FRT responded with a ten-cylinder bellow. Acceleration pinned him in his seat. The speedometer jumped. One-twenty, one-fifty. Around one-seventy-five miles per hour, Damian glanced at the rearview mirror.
The Lambo was gaining on them.
Damian didn’t care if this was a dangerous situation or a dick-measuring contest. He accelerated. They zipped down I-278 into Brooklyn.
Damian took the first exit and gunned the FRT into the maze of streets.
This was his territory, the narrow streets and avenues squeezed between tall buildings. It looked tidy on paper. In person, trees, cars, and dumpsters crowded the way.
When a red light flashed ahead, the Lambo was on his heels.
Damian tapped the brakes at the light. Metal kissed metal as the Lambo’s hood met the Audi’s fender.
This guy didn’t care about showing off his car. He was attacking.
The light remained red, but the intersection was empty. Damian dropped gears and spun the wheel.
The FRT plunged down an even narrower avenue. Run-down businesses flashed by on either side. The Lambo pursued with a shriek of hybrid energy.
Damian might not be able to outrun them, but he could outmaneuver them.
He cornered hard. The Audi stuck to the road and wasted no time drifting.
The Lambo snapped past, unable to react in time.
Through a cloud of white smoke, a familiar face stared at Damian from the passenger’s seat. Black hair whipped around pale cheeks. Fangs protruded beneath the upper lip.
Leo Accardi. One of the OPMA’s most wanted.
The Lambo vanished. Rubber screamed as its driver tried to backtrack. Damian laughed. He took two rights and a left in the time it took the Lambo to turn around.
They would never catch him now.
He eased to a more respectable pace as he approached his home, where Eiravel Stonehold cast a fearsome shadow. Not even Leo Accardi would venture into Little Avalon.
He would figure out what Leo’s problem was, and preferably put him behind bars. For now, Damian’s priority was dinner.
He drove into the gas station at the entrance to Little Avalon. A dwarf with a splendid copper beard filled his SUV at a nearby pump.
The dwarf waved. “Morning, Damian.”
“Morning, Callum.” Damian parked the FRT outside the grocery store beside the gas station.
Jackson Roott stocked the best pork pies. They came via brownie portal from the Iron Hills, so fresh they steamed despite their interdimensional journey. Damian smacked his lips.
He gazed at the store, tapping his fingers on the wheel. Should he grab two?
Would Tess be home today?
For the first time since leaving work, worry twinged in his gut.
Pull yourself together, Radu. Two it is. One can go in the fridge if she’s not there.
He was thinking of Tess and pork pies when he exited the car. Otherwise, he would have noticed the explosive device earlier.
Beep. Beep. Beep.
His attention snapped toward the ominous sound. The beeps sped up.
An amulet clung to the FRT’s fender. Runes glowed on its surface. They flashed red at ever-shortening intervals, matching the beeps.
Callum strolled toward the store, pawing through his wallet.
“Get back!” Damian yelled.
The dwarf looked up. “Huh?”
There was no time for another warning. Damian flung his arms around the dwarf, throwing them to the ground.
His elbow hit the asphalt with searing pain.
“What the—” Callum burst out.
The explosion rattled Damian’s fangs. He curled himself protectively around Callum. Fire rolled overhead. Everything smelled of smoke.
Heat, sound, and impact filled the world. Then, only a ringing in his ears.
Callum squirmed, panicking. Damian released him. He couldn’t hear the dwarf’s cries, but horror covered Callum’s face as he stared at the FRT.
What was left of it, anyway.
It blazed like a bonfire. Flames licked over the warped and naked metal. All that remained of his beloved Fast Red Thing.
Damian threw his hands up. “Again?”
Will Damian uncover who’s trying to kill him? And will Maria discover the truth behind the mysterious horseman on the waves? Find out on October 16th when
The Ship that Never Sank: The Para-Military Agent Book 1 is released. Until then head over to amazon and pre-order it today.
Which of this week’s three new books is already calling your name?
The oldest surviving handwritten manuscript in the world dates back over 1,600 years and was preserved against every odd imaginable. Stories have always found a way to survive. This week, the ones waiting for you are brand new—fresh, unread, and entirely yours for the taking.
I have 3 amazing books launching this week, and the first new release is already here. That’s pretty sweet for a Monday!
This Week’s New Releases
Title: Enter the Living Veil
Series: Atlantis University Book 4
Release Date: 10/12/2026
Somewhere in the walls of Atlantis University, it is raining on a street that does not exist.
Wet asphalt. A cracked curb. A kid in a yellow raincoat stomping a puddle in rain that fell on the world Jackson Bach left behind. No Memory Echo behaves like that. The diagnostic glass has started calling him something the school has no category for.
The artifact hidden in his jacket answers before he asks it anything. Two words hold steady in the wreckage of a broken language: BOUNDARY REQUIRED. Behind a wall the university insists is architecturally complete, an ancient system fails by inches, bleeding one world into another, hunting for a single hand willing to take its chair.
It wants an operator. Someone to sit down, hold the authority, and make everything obey.
Jackson has been someone else’s file, someone else’s asset, someone else’s decision. He knows what a leash feels like when it is offered politely.
Does he refuse the chair and let the locks fail? Or take the power and become the thing
Does he refuse the chair and let the locks fail? Or take the power and become the thing his squad cannot survive? Pick up Enter the Living Veil and find out what it asks for—and what it costs to refuse.
Title: Songbound
Series: The Saltmarsh Circle Book 4
Release Date: 10/15/2026
It’s the third winter since Wren Baker came home to Saltmarsh, and it’s a hard one. The great oak at Saltmarsh’s heart is dying by quarters. A dropped limb, a browning crown, an illness no tree doctor can name, and everything worth keeping standing in her shade.
Against that fear, Cora Asbury runs Saltmarsh Island the way the tide runs the marsh. Everywhere at once, on schedule, and without asking permission. She’s managed hurricanes, developers, lawsuits, and a lifetime of town meetings. She’s never once managed to tell the man she loves what she is.
Graham Lanier gave up a career paving coastlines for a table by the window and the mayor’s smile. He knows she’s keeping something. He’s a patient man, with no idea that the woman he means to marry is also the chestnut mare he admires at the tree line.
Some secrets end a love story. This one has to begin with a walk to the tree line at dusk, and a woman brave enough to show him everything.
The Song is coming back. Hear it first in SONGBOUND.
Title: The Ship that Never Sank
Series: The Para-Military Agent Book 1
Release Date: 10/16/2026
Somebody blew up Damian Radu’s car. Again.
Four thousand miles later, the OPMA vampire agent is bleeding on a Cape Town dock, snapping guns out of gangsters’ hands. That’s the easy night. Beneath the waves, two drowned kingdoms have waged war since the age of sail, and their storms are taking the city apart. Rivers burst. Ships vanish. The body count climbs with every full moon.
Damian goes down after them with a borrowed cutlass and a team of four. Great whites hunt him in the dark water. A hanged pirate captain drags sacrifices into a canyon deeper than anything on land, feeding a thing that has been eating sailors for thousands of years. Above it all, a cruise liner packed with tourists sails into the storm’s teeth.
Board the ship. Stop the sea.
Can one vampire end a two-hundred-year war before the wave hits? Or does Cape Town go under with him? The war ends on the seafloor.
One-click The Ship that Never Sank and dive in.
Brewing up New Deals This Fan Pricing Saturday, October 10, 2026
A witch’s brew of new deals!
Fan Pricing Saturday, October 10, 2026
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Wicked Wild Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Wicked good deals!
Wild Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Each week we bring you a list of books from not only LMBPN authors but also friends of ours, that are on sale! Here’s a fantastic opportunity to discover some new authors or some exciting books you may not have seen yet.
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An Oriceran Warrior Witches Collection: Two Complete Series:
Heroes aren’t born; they’re made. But so are villains.
Raine Campbell never knew she was special until her dormant magic unleashed to protect her friends.
Winland Underwood has been running her whole life. Today, she stops to stand her ground!
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Black Pearl Freelancers Complete Series Boxed Set:
Expelled from the Naval Academy for her unyielding sense of justice, Madison forges her own path as a freelance mercenary. But the void is vast and unforgiving. To find her father, the elusive captain of the Gypsy Rose, Madison must prove her mettle in a realm where morality is a luxury few can afford. Harassed by rivals and entangled in the schemes of a ruthless commander, she fights to keep her conscience intact. As mutiny brews and treachery lurks in every corner, Madison must summon all her strength and cunning to survive.
Will she reunite with her father and find the sense of purpose she craves? Or will the unforgiving universe consume her, body and soul?
Hilo Dome:
Two hundred years in the future, the isolated domed city of Hilo, Hawaii is one of the few cities to have survived the Great War, a global nuclear holocaust. Nathan Ohana, a teenager living in Hilo, is having trouble fitting in at his school. He doesn’ t look like anyone else, and he is unable to speak. He does, however, possess a special sensory capability similar to ESP. A blessing and a curse, this ability enables him to discover a disturbing and possibly dangerous plan by the government of Hilo, one that would threaten the existence of the Ferals, the people who survived the radiation and are living outside the dome. When it becomes evident to others that Nathan knows something he should not, he is pursued by the Hilo police and is accidentally swept away by the Wailuku River into an alien and frightening existence outside the dome. Kayli Pahinui, a Feral, rescues Nathan and brings him home with her to the village of Honoli’i. Puzzled by what he sees at first, Nathan comes to find he belongs in this very different world. However, a peaceful existence in a beautiful village is not to be.
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Laramie Davis: The Complete Western Series:
They call him Legend. He’s earned every letter of it. Laramie Davis rides into trouble the way other men ride into town, with both guns ready and no illusions about how it ends. Laramie has left a trail of dead outlaws, broken posses, and restored order behind him. Every job costs him something. He keeps riding anyway. But when he’s framed for murder and forced to run, when his young partner is gunned down in cold blood, when gunrunners arm the Apache for war and the law itself turns crooked—the legend isn’t enough. What it takes is the man behind it. Calloused hands, twin Remingtons, and a jaw set hard against a world that never stops testing him.
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Set six hundred years before the founding of the League of the Iroquois, The Peacemaker’s Tale is a sweeping eight-book saga of prophecy, war, and spiritual power in the shadowed forests of ancient North America. It begins with the kidnapping of two children by a witch known only as Gannajero the Trader. War Chief Koracoo and her husband, Deputy Gonda, will stop at nothing to bring their children home. But this rescue sets in motion a greater destiny. As the children grow into warriors they must face a far deadlier threat.
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Two new releases this week – which one will you finish first?
The average book contains between 70,000 and 100,000 words. The average reader will finish one in about six hours. Six hours of complete immersion, total escape, and zero notifications. This week we have several options ready to claim those six hours—and your full, undivided attention.
I have 2 amazing books launching this week, starting on Tuesday.
This Week’s New Releases
Title: The Rising Grounds
Series: Slaughter Grounds Book 3
Release Date: 10/06/2026
Nobody climbs out of the Slaughter Grounds whole.
The voice telling Lucian Chevalier to abandon his people sounds exactly like his own. He and five wounded survivors are crossing a crystal wilderness, following a scholar’s trembling needle toward the last way out. Then they find the camp. Bedrolls still laid out. A kettle over cold ash. Four armed people gone without a sound, and the thing that took them has a name.
The survivors call him the Collector, a condemned noble who drains Ether through touch. Chasing is beneath him. He waits. When he slips inside Lucian’s head, he doesn’t threaten. He reasons.
The whispers make one offer. Leave the wounded. Cross the ridge alone. Lucian learned on the border where to put the knife so the cut looks like mercy, and the Collector knows exactly where that wound sits. Daylight won’t end it. The world above has a name for what climbs out of the dark, and nobody says it kindly.
Can Lucian carry all six of them into the light without becoming the thing that hunts them? Or will the Grounds get what they always wanted, one more man who chose to live? Grab The Rising Grounds and decide for yourself where mercy ends.
Title: The King’s Decree
Series: The Anchor’s Inheritance Saga Book 4
Release Date: 10/07/2026
Survival keeps him alive. Helpful just cost him everything he can’t afford to lose.
Survival has one rule for Nick Vance: never get attached to what can be taken from you. Helpful has a different rule: everyone deserves a sky. When a source node broke open and dropped six strangers into his hands, Helpful started winning.
Now the Guild wants its property back—and it isn’t alone. Kaela keeps her tether light and her draw lighter, bleeding herself dry so Nick doesn’t have to. Ashlen is drafting paperwork fast enough to keep the Crown from claiming what he risked everything to save, all while the calendar ticks toward a royal wedding that will make his choices hers to answer for. Then a foreign seal turns up on a Guild ledger—proof the enemy he knows was never working alone.
Nick built his barony on one law: no one touches what hasn’t said yes. He’s about to find out what that law costs when the people counting on it outnumber the teeth he has to protect them.
Can he hold the line for six strangers, two women, and a crown that’s watching—or does someone get left in the dark to save the rest? Pick up The King’s Decree today!
Fall-tastic Fan Pricing Saturday, October 3, 2026
October is finally here, fall is in full swing!
Fan Pricing Saturday, October 3, 2026
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Still Waters
The Hound Affair
The Accord Complete Series Boxed Set
Feral Forever
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S’more Deals This Wild Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Sit around the campfire with a s’more and a new deal!
Wild Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
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The Accord Complete Series Boxed Set:
He wanted to end his bloodline. Instead, he awakened it. Cast out and looking for a shameful death, Isaak Rothschild found something worse in Nexus’s neon underworld. Now ancient hunger burns in his veins and a syndicate wants what he’s become. His transformation was no accident. He’s the missing piece in something monstrous.
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An Oriceran Cozy Urban Fantasy Collection:
Magic is real, but the world isn’t ready to know it. Lucy Heron is a mom with three kids, and a baker with a happy marriage in sunny Echo Park. She’s also Silver Griffins Agent 485. She has to balance family life, PTA meetings and her secret agent duties. She has a wand and a mission. Can she get it all done? Say the right words in just the right way, and step through a mirror into Mana Valley. A pocket dimension hidden on Oriceran. Something dark is stirring under Mana Valley and what it wants could transform the world in terrible ways. Grab two complete series—16 books and more than 4,500 pages of urban fantasy cozy mystery—with this collection!
Omega’s Folley:
Unleash forbidden power, confront ancient gods, and face the price of destiny. A cursed prince. A goddess reborn. A zealot’s crusade. As the fractured world teeters on the edge of ruin, Omega is determined to storm the Tower of Irkdale and seize the Goddess Amulet from the enigmatic Faulk. Joined by allies old and new, Omega’s choices carry deadly consequences, especially for those he loves most. Each step toward the truth of his identity only deepens the shadows around him.
Meanwhile, Silla—reincarnation of the goddess Hespa—pursues the elusive Goddess Ring, her path diverging from Omega’s but no less perilous. Traveling with Jack, the fiery Guardian, and Thompsel, the empire’s Crown Prince, Silla faces trials that force her to mature and question the destiny she’s been handed. Every decision brings her closer to a fate she may not want to claim.
The Tragic Memoir of Prince Katsu Shibayama:
Prince Katsu Shibayama has always lived between two worlds. Raised in Japan’s imperial court yet drawn to the culture of Britain, he carries both traditions in his heart. As a young man, he serves honorably in the Royal Navy during World War I—but the next great war forces him into an impossible conflict of loyalty. When Japan strikes Pearl Harbor, Katsu must decide: follow his duty to the Emperor, or remain true to the Western ideals that shaped him. Bound by an arranged marriage to Princess Ume and tested by the brutal realities of naval warfare and aerial combat, his struggle becomes more than a fight for survival—it is a battle for identity, honor, and love.
Sam Raven:
Sam Raven is the operative they call when there’s no one else left to call. Former CIA, no fixed address, no tolerance for the kind of evil that hides behind power and gets buried by politics. Drawn into danger by a personal code that won’t let him walk away, Raven operates in the shadows—hunting conspiracies, dismantling cartels, and going toe-to-toe with enemies that governments are too afraid to face. From the streets of San Francisco to the killing fields of Afghanistan, from Colombian jungles to the shadowy underworld of the Balkans.
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Stonecroft Saga Volume One:
After a bloody duel leaves one man dead, Gabriel Stonecroft—along with his life-long friend, Ezra—are determined to leave town and journey to the far wilderness of the west. As one man from a prominent social standing and the other with a life of practical experience stand off against bounty hunters, river pirates and renegade Indians, they find themselves enjoying the danger, excitement, and never-ending adventure. But with every turn, they meet a new hurdle. And just when they think they’re on their way into the uncharted wilderness, they encounter a new challenge—the likes of which they never imagined.
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Is your next favorite book hiding in this week’s three new releases?
In 1752, Benjamin Franklin founded one of America’s first lending libraries so that people who couldn’t afford books could still access them. Over 270 years later, the spirit of that idea lives on—this week, we’re making sure great books land in as many hands as possible, at prices Franklin himself would appreciate.
I have 3 amazing books launching this week, That’s pretty sweet for a Monday!
- Feral Forever
- The Hound Affair
- Watershed – Not on preorder
This Week’s New Releases
Title: Feral Forever
Series: The Feral Princess Book 9
Release Date: 09/29/2026
A hydra attacks. A dragon returns. Tetra’s done playing nice.
Tetra’s got this whole duchess thing under control. Mostly. Sure, she forgot her kid at school again, and sure, a hydra just tore through Caerleon during the biggest event the city’s ever hosted but the opening ceremony went great, so, you know. Wins.
The trail leads straight back to Jahalzabel, the dragon Tetra thought she’d already handled. This time, Jahalzabel’s not just holding a grudge—she’s blackmailing a desperate athlete and daring anyone in Caerleon to get in her way.
Between covering for a champion who can’t stop lying to her, running interference on a corrupt police commissioner with a body count,Tetra’s stress levels are doing just fine, thanks for asking.
When Jahalzabel goes to ground in the tunnels beneath New York, it’s Tetra who follows her into the dark. She built this city. She’s not letting a dragon burn it down.
But can she outrun a grudge four years in the making? Grab Feral Forever and watch the fae who runs Caerleon hunt a dragon through the bones of the city.
Title: The Hound Affair
Series: Penelope Covens Mystery Book 5
Release Date: 09/30/2026
Nobody steals a champion they can’t sell. Somebody did it anyway.
Bougie is a grand champion standard poodle, and anybody who can afford him knows his face on sight. The night his owner tells a dinner full of breeders he’s done breeding him, Bougie vanishes from a shut yard in Crimson Canyon, and the kid who walks every dog on the lane goes down at dawn with a fractured skull and an empty key clip.
Penelope Covens should have heard it.
Now five motorhomes of dog people have buried her senses under diesel and coat spray, and the HOA president is lining her doorway with iron.
They took his keys and left his phone. Whoever came down that path wanted a door. Penelope has a murder board with no murder on it, a three-hundred-year-old with opinions about her hair, and a row of motorhomes that won’t all let a vampire in.
Can she find who put the boy down before her senses come back? Did somebody at that dinner take the dog to reach something worth a boy’s skull?
Every door on the lane is on that ring. Grab The Hound Affair and find out which one it opens.
Title: Watershed
Series: The Mermaid Detective Book 3
Release Date: 10/01/2026
Mermaids have problems. Candy Lovelace gets paid to fix them.
Tracking down a missing magical, chasing a bail skip across Austin, or convincing someone twice her age and half her size to stop swinging their fists at her.
Fool around and find out, mermaids have mad skills.
But something ugly is working its way through the city, and Candy keeps finding pieces scattered in odd places. Bluebell can smell the magical residue everywhere. The local magicals are acting squirrelier than usual. And the answers Candy is digging up are starting to circle dangerously close to home.
At least Oscar Portnoy keeps bringing tacos.
The bail bondsman is also becoming considerably harder to file under just a friend. Detective Peter Nelson isn’t making that any simpler.
Dark magic. Bad secrets. Complicated men.
And Candy’s hardest case yet. One missing mermaid who needs to come home, dead or alive.
Just another week at Last Chance Investigations.
Hello Fall, Hello Fiction, Fan Pricing Saturday, September 26, 2026
Fall is about getting cozy and grabbing a new book.
Fan Pricing Saturday, September 26, 2026
Note: We requested the price changes from Amazon on Friday afternoon. Unfortunately, they don’t change all of the prices at one time. Please double-check the price before clicking “Buy”.
All of these new releases are 99c for one day only!
And they are also available for FREE in Kindle Unlimited!
Grab them today before the prices go up!
Wildbound
Legends are Made Complete Series Boxed Set
Broken Accord
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Fall is Here This Wild Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Cooler temps are on the way, and the deals are here to stay!
Wild Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Each week we bring you a list of books from not only LMBPN authors but also friends of ours, that are on sale! Here’s a fantastic opportunity to discover some new authors or some exciting books you may not have seen yet.
Most of these books are FREE in Kindle Unlimited, but all are on sale today.
Please remember to double-check the price before you one-click.
Legends are Made Complete Series Boxed Set:
Sofia has completed her duty as a guard and is anticipating the freedom that comes with reaching her majority. However, fate has more in mind for her than a life filled with the simple pleasures she and her friends are hoping for. A mysterious stranger appears in Shadonwren and shares almost-forgotten tales of the Great War with Sofia and her friends. Weaving her magic with words, Cirrus opens a window looking 1500 years into the past, to a time when the dragons stood as Champions and closed the gates between dimensions to end the war with the Outer Ones. All but one were lost, and their legend faded into myth. Visions of the sleeper take root in Sofia’s mind and unlock the terrifying truth. The Outer Ones have grown strong again, and they are preparing to reignite the war.
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Feral in the City:
She bit off a gangster’s thumb. That was the easy part. Port Smogdale is where hope goes to die—poisoned river, corrupt cops, gangs fighting over scraps. Perfect for a faerie duchess with a taste for chaos and a vision everyone calls impossible. Tetra Dupont’s plan is simple: buy the abandoned buildings, import magical contractors, and build Caerleon—a sanctuary where humans and paranormals can thrive together. But someone is systematically poisoning the water, and they reallydon’t want her succeeding. Armed with caustic faerie dust, terrible fashion sense, and surprising allies—a haunted selkie seeking refuge and a bitter police captain seeking redemption—Tetra declares war on whoever’s turning the neighborhood toxic. The deeper she digs, the more she realizes the corruption isn’t just in the water. Someone powerful needs Port Smogdale to stay broken. Someone who knows exactly what Tetra is and how to hurt her.
The Ella Bloom Mysteries Complete Boxed Set:
Ella Bloom can see magic no one else can, and it’s leading her straight to a killer… When Ella accepts a mysterious job in the picturesque town of Gloamington, all she wants is six months away from the noise of the city and a quiet place to call home. Instead, she finds herself assistant to Malcolm Fawkes, a renowned paranormal detective with no memory of hiring her—or much of anything else. When magic that only Ella can see leads her to a murder, she discovers Gloamington isn’t the quaint small town it appears to be. Five years ago, it was a magical haven until something went terribly wrong. Now the town’s dormant wellspring—the Gloaming—is stirring again, awakening with Ella’s arrival.
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Conscientious Objector:
Capernica is invaded. Locals are conscripted into the militia. How can a conscientious objector carry a rifle and still uphold his convictions?
Capernica has welcomed the Taymon family, refugees who follow the teachings of St. Francis of Assisi. First and foremost is that Assisians will not take another life.
When the planet is invaded, Harris Taymon is conscripted into the planetary militia against his will. He knows he owes a deep sense of loyalty to the planet, but can he bear arms against the enemy with intent to kill?
And if he doesn’t, can he survive his own side where desertion and cowardice are punished by execution?
POG:
Brand new boot Second Lieutenant Cel Wysoki is home on leave while awaiting logistics officer school when her home planet is invaded. She has no unit yet and not a clue as to how the Army functions. More than that. She is a POG, a “Person Other than Grunt,” a “desk-jockey-in-training.”
What now?
Link up with the local garrison 100 klicks away? Surrender and wait out the war? Hide out in the mountains and hope for the best? The Army doesn’t care that she has no training. They have one code: soldiers always prosecute the war to the best of their abilities.
Does she even have the capability to attempt that?
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Veteran:
Old soldiers are supposed to sit in the bar, drink with their buddies, and tell war stories. But when invaders invade, veterans do what they’ve got to do.
Master Sergeant Lester Arceneaux (Retired), a disabled vet, is long into his golden years, too old even to be conscripted into the planetary militia.
But when the enemy rolls over the local forces, he must run to the sound of gunfire if his wife and neighbors can have even a small chance to survive.
His heart and mind are willing, but are his old bones up to the task?
1453: Constantinople and the Immortal Rulers:
Witness the fall of an empire through the eyes of those who lived it. Emperor Constantine Palaiologos stands atop the legendary Theodosian Walls, facing Sultan Mehmed II’s massive army. With just 7,000 defenders against 120,000 invaders, the emperor must rely on an unlikely coalition: Giovanni Giustiniani’s Genoese warriors, Grant the Scottish engineer, Captain Michalis’s fierce Cretans, and Theodora, his trusted emissary racing against time. As Orban’s colossal cannons thunder against walls that have stood for a millennium, the fate of East and West hangs by a thread. Billy Cotsis brings the siege of Constantinople to life with vivid, human detail, blending historical accuracy with the grit, fear, and courage of those who fought for civilization itself. Through the perspectives of both Christian and Muslim combatants, including the intimate chronicles of George Sphrantzes, the novel explores loyalty, faith, and the price of empire while capturing the technological revolution reshaping medieval warfare.
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Champion of the Republic:
When a modern scientist is thrust into the heart of ancient Rome, his knowledge could save the Republic—or destroy it. Blending history, science, and high-stakes intrigue, Champion of the Republic is a thrilling collision of worlds where the fate of empires hangs in the balance.
A brilliant scientist. A ruthless empire. When ancient Rome collides with modern technology, one man’s choices will reshape history forever. Jay Robison’s epic tale of power, ambition, and destiny.
In the depths of a secret research facility, Owen Kosciuszko’s warnings about multiversal fracture go unheeded. When reality itself splinters, he finds himself thrust into a world where ancient Rome meets cutting-edge technology. Now, alongside Julius Caesar and a cast of historical figures, Owen must navigate political intrigue, forbidden love, and the weight of knowing too much about humanity’s future.
Grizzly Killer Books 1-10:
The Uinta Mountains, 1824. A grizzly kills Zach Connors’s father on their first winter trapline, and leaves a green Kentucky farm boy alone in country that kills careless men. Just him, the cold, and a winter mean enough to take the skin off his hands. Then a starving, two-hundred-pound dog walks out of an abandoned camp, and Zach has a partner. He learns the land the hard way, and slowly earns the trust of the Shoshone and Ute people he was raised to fear. When he kills a second grizzly with nothing but a knife, the watching warriors give him a name that sticks for life: Grizzly Killer.
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Anything Rae Touches:
They met on the worst day of their lives. One kiss. One goodbye. And then, ten years of silence. Now fresh out of rehab and desperate for a clean slate, Rae lands in Golden Bay Beach with two goals: stay sober and outrun the ghosts of her past. With a sharp tongue and a guarded heart, she’s not looking for connection—especially not with him. But fate has other plans. Miles, with his golden-boy charm and relentless optimism, is the last person Rae expects to see again. He’s everything she’s not—and everything she doesn’t want to need. But when their paths collide, old wounds resurface, and long-buried feelings begin to stir. As they navigate the wreckage of their pasts, Miles is determined to show Rae that maybe—just maybe—they were always meant to find each other again. But healing isn’t linear, and love doesn’t come easy. Can Rae risk her heart for a second chance, or will she choose the pain she knows over the future she deserves?
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