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This Week’s New Releases
Title: The Mystic’s Price
Series: The Excommunicated Witch Savant Book 6
Release Date: 11/26/2025
Power always demands sacrifice.
Josephine Locket never wanted her grandmother’s legacy—only her freedom. Cast out from her coven for refusing to submit, she built a school where magic means liberation, not chains. Where students learn to trust their gifts instead of fearing them.
Then the deaths began.
First, a teacher she loved like family. Then entire covens, erased in a single night. Someone is collecting magical bloodlines, and they’ve saved Josephine’s for last. Her mother emerges from decades of hiding with a terrible truth: their family guards a mirror that shows secrets worth killing for.
The school at Mount Shasta draws power from seven converging ley lines, making it both fortress and target. Strange figures watch from the forest edge. Students report nightmares that feel like memories. The boundary between the living and dead grows dangerously thin.
Three women, three generations, three different paths to power—Josephine and her family must unite against an enemy whose reach spans centuries. Someone who believes fear is the only way to control magic. Someone who has been watching, waiting, preparing.
Will Josephine’s defiance save her students or doom them all? Can she protect tomorrow’s witches from yesterday’s sins?
The earth remembers everything. The mirror reveals everything. And everything has a price.
The epic conclusion to the Excommunicated Witch Savant series—where family bonds are tested, ancient powers awaken, and the cost of freedom may be higher than anyone imagined.
Title: Verdict of Steel
Series: The Dreadnought Court Book 1
Release Date: 11/28/2025
When justice has teeth, someone always bleeds.
Stripped of rank but not her oath, former military judge Lyra Givens crashes into a frozen wasteland—and discovers something that shouldn’t exist. Something massive. Something waiting.
The AI calls itself JUDGEMENT. It recognizes her authority. It obeys her verdicts.
In a world where the Meridian Corporation controls life through elevator licenses and oxygen quotas, one woman holds the key to a weapon that fires only when the law allows. Someone buried this warship for a reason. Someone powerful enough to rewrite history itself.
As corporate death squads close in and the body count rises, Lyra must decide: Is she liberating justice or unleashing judgment?
Will she become the arbiter the oppressed need—or the executioner the powerful fear?
Download now to discover what verdict a warship renders when law meets tyranny.
When justice has teeth, someone always bleeds. Stripped of rank but not her oath, former military judge Lyra Givens crashes into a frozen wasteland—and discovers something that shouldn’t exist. Something massive. Something waiting. The AI calls itself JUDGEMENT. It recognizes her authority. It obeys her verdicts. In a world where the Meridian Corporation controls life through elevator licenses and oxygen quotas, one woman holds the key to a weapon that fires only when the law allows. Someone buried this warship for a reason. Someone powerful enough to rewrite history itself. As corporate death squads close in and the body count rises, Lyra must decide: Is she liberating justice or unleashing judgment? Will she become the arbiter the oppressed need—or the executioner the powerful fear?
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Justice Served in This Snippet of The Dreadnought Court Book 1
The Dreadnought Court Book 1: Verdict of Steel
When justice has teeth, someone always bleeds. Stripped of rank but not her oath, former military judge Lyra Givens crashes into a frozen wasteland—and discovers something that shouldn’t exist. Something massive. Something waiting. The AI calls itself JUDGEMENT. It recognizes her authority. It obeys her verdicts. In a world where the Meridian Corporation controls life through elevator licenses and oxygen quotas, one woman holds the key to a weapon that fires only when the law allows. Someone buried this warship for a reason. Someone powerful enough to rewrite history itself. As corporate death squads close in and the body count rises, Lyra must decide: Is she liberating justice or unleashing judgment? Will she become the arbiter the oppressed need—or the executioner the powerful fear?
Josephine’s father used to say America’s greatest magic trick was convincing people the robber barons ever left.
They hadn’t. They had just rebranded.
Rockefeller became a board of directors. Carnegie became a Meridian subsidiary. By the time the nation-states collapsed and the mega-towers rose, nobody remembered there’d been a difference between government and corporation. The corporation rebranded into the Meridian Authority when it became the government.
The government didn’t go down without a fight. But they did lose.
Fort Benning survived because it was already Meridian property when the Constitution stopped being worth the paper it was written on. Turns out military infrastructure’s useful when you’re running a corporate oligarchy pretending to be civilization.
Military procurement standards hadn’t improved in two centuries, nor had the world’s issues with itself. In the twenty years since the mega-corps granted themselves nearly unlimited ‘legal’ authority, life for people with ethics had gone downhill.
This is the story of a person with ethics.
Mountains in old North America
Josephine Givens looked around her temporary lodging.
The aircraft’s interior was as cheerful as a morgue. Gray washed-out paint peeled from the bulkheads that had seen better decades, and the whole airframe groaned like it resented being airborne.
She sat shackled to a bench seat that smelled faintly of disinfectant and fear, hands cuffed in front of her because apparently even the military prison system bought from the lowest bidder.
Thank god for government procurement standards.
In front of her on the other bench were guards for the Meridian Authority.
She’d been working the cuffs since takeoff, patiently feeling for the weak point in the locking mechanism. The trick was patience and leverage, not brute force. Her fingers traced the edge of the lock cylinder, searching for the sweet spot where cheap manufacturing met stressed metal. She’d seen these exact cuffs fail during a transport exercise in Kandahar. She’d kept that little factoid to herself at the time.
Probably should have mentioned it to someone, but too late for regrets.
“Says here you qualified Expert Marksman at Fort Benning.” The guard reading her file had the kind of voice that suggested he found this personally offensive. “That’s unusual for a JAG prosecutor.”
Josephine didn’t look up from her hands. “What can I say? I’m multi-talented.”
“Smart ass.”
“Only when the situation calls for it.”
The guard flipped another page. His name tag read Morrison. Not her Morrison from the Academy—just another guard who happened to share the name. The universe had a sick sense of humor sometimes.
“Ranger School qualification. Six months embedded with SEAL Team Seven in Kandahar.” He looked up. “What the hell were you doing in Kandahar? JAG prosecutors don’t go to combat zones.”
“Well, this one did.”
She tested the shackle mechanism again, but it was still locked. She kept her expression neutral and focused on Morrison’s face, letting muscle memory handle the lock picking.
“Why?” Morrison seemed genuinely curious now. “You prosecute war crimes from behind a desk in some air-conditioned office. That’s the whole point of being JAG.”
Josephine shifted her weight, using the movement to cover another attempt at the lock mechanism. “Can’t judge violence if you don’t understand it.”
“That supposed to mean something?”
“It meant something to General Hadley.”
Six years earlier at the JAG Academy, in Captain Morrison’s office.
“A prosecutor who wants Ranger School?” Captain Morrison was laughing, but not unkindly. The man had seen action in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan, and wore his combat scars like credentials. “That’s for combat lawyers prosecuting war crimes in-theater, Givens. You’re telling me you want to do this? You want to get shot at while prosecuting cases?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Why?”
Josephine had thought about this answer for months. “My father was in the service. Twenty-three years, Special Forces. He had stories about JAG officers who prosecuted good soldiers for doing their jobs under impossible circumstances. Called them JAG-Offs.”
Morrison snorted. “I’ve heard the term.”
“I don’t want to be one of them.” She met his eyes. “I can’t fairly judge violence from behind a desk. I need to understand what my cases actually lived through.”
Morrison studied her for a long moment. “You know what you’re asking for?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Ranger School will eat you alive.”
“I’ll manage.”
“And if you make it through that meat grinder, you want deployment? Actual combat zone prosecution?”
“That’s the whole point, sir.”
Morrison leaned back in his chair. “I’m putting in the paperwork. But Givens? If you wash out, don’t come crying to me about unfair standards.”
“Wouldn’t dream of it, sir.”
She graduated from Ranger School fourth in her class. Morrison sent her a bottle of whiskey with a note: Told you it’d eat you alive. Congrats on the indigestion.
Four months later, in General Hadley’s office at Fort Bragg.
The general was the kind of man who looked carved from granite and bad decisions. His office walls displayed more combat ribbons than Josephine had seen outside a museum.
“Captain Givens.” He didn’t look up from her file. “Captain Morrison speaks highly of you. Says you’re either crazy or committed.”
“Probably both, sir.”
That got her a smile, a small one, but she’d take it.
“You want to embed with a SEAL team in Kandahar and prosecute cases under hostile fire.” He finally looked at her. “Explain.”
“I’m going to prosecute soldiers who operate in the worst conditions humanity can create. I need to understand those conditions. Can’t do that from climate-controlled offices in Virginia.”
“You could get killed.”
“Yes, sir.”
“Why does that not bother you?”
“Didn’t say it doesn’t bother me, sir. Said I need to do it anyway.”
Hadley closed the file. “I’ll approve the transfer on one condition. You don’t screw around in some solid, well-defended base. My people need someone who truly knows the heat. You get into the thick of it, or you come home. Deal?”
“Deal, sir.”
“Good. Try not to die. Paperwork’s a bitch when lawyers get killed in combat zones.”
Six months in Kandahar Province, embedded with SEAL Team Seven.
The compound smelled like dust, sweat, and gun oil. Josephine had been in-country for three weeks and already had two active prosecution cases running while conducting combat operations with the team.
Turned out, prosecuting war crimes while people were actively shooting at you required a certain kind of multitasking.
“Contact left!” Ramirez’s voice cut through the radio chatter.
Josephine dropped behind the low wall, her M4 coming up automatically. Three insurgents were moving through the alley, AK-47s at the ready. Not great odds, but she’d dealt with worse.
“I got left side,” she called.
“Showoff,” Ramirez muttered. “Take your shot, Counselor.”
She squeezed the trigger twice, aiming for center mass. The first insurgent dropped. The second spun behind cover.
“Nice grouping,” Mitchell commented from her right. “You bill the government by the round?”
“Only on Tuesdays.”
“Thought lawyers were allergic to actual work.”
“Special exception for JAG officers who failed the bar exam.”
“You didn’t fail the bar exam.”
“Shh. Don’t ruin my excuse.”
The third insurgent made the mistake of breaking cover. Ramirez dropped him with a three-round burst.
“Clear,” Mitchell called.
“Clear right,” Ramirez confirmed.
“Clear left,” Josephine added, then keyed her radio. “Actual, this is Legal Six. Compound secure. Three enemy KIA. Rules of engagement followed.”
“Legal Six, Actual copies. You good?”
“Still breathing, Actual.”
“Try to keep it that way. Command gets pissy when lawyers die on a mission.”
“Roger that.”
Mitchell grinned at her as they moved to secure the compound. “Legal Six? Really?”
“Supply Officer was Legal One through Legal Five. I got stuck with Six.”
“Could be worse. Ramirez is stuck with ‘Mother Hen’ because he keeps a first aid kit.”
“Mother Hen’s going to kick your ass,” Ramirez called from the entrance.
“Mother Hen has to catch me first!”
Two months later, with the same team, but in a different firefight.
They’d been pinned down in a drainage ditch for twenty minutes while Taliban fighters tried to flank them from two directions. Josephine had fired more rounds in twenty minutes than she’d used in the previous month combined.
“Reloading!” she called, dropping the empty mag.
“Covering!” Chen’s SAW opened up, laying suppressive fire across the ridge.
She slapped a fresh magazine home and charged the weapon. “Up!”
“How many you got left, Counselor?” Chen asked without taking his eyes off the ridgeline.
“This mag plus two more.”
“Gonna need to be more conservative with your spending.”
“I’ll send the Taliban an invoice for wasting my ammo.”
“You do that. Maybe include court costs.”
An RPG whistled overhead, impacting fifty meters behind them.
“Getting closer,” Mitchell observed.
Far too calm, as if the man had ice water for blood.
“Noticed that,” Josephine replied. “Recommendations?”
“Don’t get hit.”
“Solid tactical advice. You should write a manual.”
“I’ll dedicate it to you. ‘For Counselor Givens, who complained about the accommodations.’”
“I never complained.”
“You said the drainage ditch lacked ambiance.”
“It does lack ambiance. Also, it smells like dead fish.”
“That’s Davis. He hasn’t showered in four days.”
“Screw you, Mitchell,” Davis called from their left position.
Another RPG hit, this one closer than before.
The concussion from the blast rattled her teeth.
“Air support’s two minutes out,” Ramirez reported. “Try not to die before then.”
“Two whole minutes?” Josephine aimed at movement on the ridge, fired twice, then missed. She fired again, and that one connected. “I can think of six ways we die in the next ninety seconds.”
“Only six? I’m at nine.”
“You’re counting the meteor strike again.”
“Always count the one you can’t see coming.”
The A-10 Warthog came in low and angry, thirty-millimeter cannon turning the ridgeline into a debris field. The distinctive BRRRRRT of the GAU-8 was the most beautiful sound Josephine had ever heard.
“Clear!” Ramirez called as the last of the Taliban fighters either died or retreated. “Legal Six, you still tracking your cases?”
Josephine checked her tactical notebook, somehow still intact despite being soaked in drainage water. “Three pending prosecutions, two evidence collections, one tribunal next week.”
“How are you going to testify about rules of engagement when you just violated half of them?”
“I followed every rule. That A-10, however…” She grinned. “That pilot’s getting a strongly worded memo.”
“You’re writing a memo about the guy who saved our asses?”
“Procedure is procedure.”
Mitchell shook his head. “You’re the weirdest lawyer I’ve ever met.”
“I’m the only lawyer you’ve ever met who can outshoot you at qualifications.”
“That was ONE time.”
“Scoreboard doesn’t lie, Mitchell.”
Back in the transport, in the present day.
The guard was still staring at her. “You prosecuted war crimes while getting shot at?”
“More or less.”
“And you think that makes you better than other JAG officers?”
“No. It made me a fairer one.” She felt the cuff mechanism shift another millimeter, which was definite progress. “When I prosecuted a soldier for excessive force, I knew what excessive force actually looked like. When I defended a soldier for making a split-second call, I knew what split-second decisions felt like. It made a difference.”
Morrison grunted, though whether in agreement or dismissal was hard to tell. The memory was sharp, the phantom smell of cordite and Afghan dust a ghost in the recycled air of the transport. It had been a different life.
“So what happened?” The younger guard spoke up. His name tag read Rivera. He couldn’t be more than twenty-three. “Says here you’re convicted of treason and destruction of government property. That’s a long way from combat prosecutor.”
That was the real question, wasn’t it?
Eight months ago at JAG Headquarters, dealing with the case that ended everything.
The file was clear. Thirty-seven dock workers at the Norfolk Naval Base, all charged with terrorism, espionage, and conspiracy. All based on classified intelligence that Josephine wasn’t cleared to see, but was expected to prosecute anyway.
“Just make the case,” Colonel Bradley had told her. “Intelligence is solid. These workers were passing information to foreign assets.”
“What information?”
“That’s classified.”
“Which foreign assets?”
“Classified.”
“What’s the evidence?”
“Classified.” Bradley’s expression was stone. “Captain Givens, I’m not asking you to investigate. I’m ordering you to prosecute. The intelligence community has vetted this thoroughly.”
Josephine had looked at the dock worker files. Average age fifty-two. Average time in service: twenty-three years. Family men. Veterans. Not one of them matched any profile for espionage or terrorism.
She’d memorized one file in particular. Thomas Williams, age fifty-four, Navy veteran with three kids. His youngest daughter had just been accepted to engineering school on a full scholarship. The file photo showed him at her graduation—his smile wide enough to light up the entire frame, one arm around his daughter, the other giving a thumbs-up to whoever held the camera.
That man was facing execution for noticing accounting irregularities.
She’d done it anyway, started building the prosecution, interviewed the workers, and reviewed what little non-classified evidence existed.
And she’d found nothing, or worse than nothing—the whole case smelled wrong.
Three weeks in, a junior intelligence analyst had dropped a file on her desk. No name. No explanation. Just a file folder marked EYES ONLY and a handwritten note: They’re innocent. Disposal operation.
The file contained the real story. The dock workers had discovered accounting irregularities, missing equipment, and falsified manifests. Someone high up the chain was running a smuggling operation, and the dock workers had stumbled into it. The terrorism charges were fabricated to eliminate witnesses.
Josephine had sat in her office for six hours reading that file.
Then she’d made her choice.
At the tribunal, which marked the end of her career.
“Captain Givens, you’re refusing to prosecute this case?” The tribunal judge sounded more confused than angry.
“Yes, sir. The charges are fabricated. The defendants are innocent.”
“You’ve seen the classified intelligence?”
“I’ve seen intelligence that contradicts the classified assessment. The dock workers discovered smuggling operations. They’re being silenced, not prosecuted.”
“That’s a serious accusation.”
“It’s the truth, sir.”
Colonel Bradley stood. “Captain Givens is operating on unverified intelligence from an unknown source. The classified briefings…”
He trailed off, and Josephine finished that thought for him.
“Are lies, sir.” She met Bradley’s eyes. “Respectfully, the colonel knows they’re lies. This tribunal knows they’re lies. We’re being ordered to send innocent men to execution to cover up corruption.”
The judge’s expression was careful, too careful.
“Captain Givens, you’re dangerously close to contempt.”
“I’m already there, sir. I won’t prosecute this case.”
“Then you’ll be charged with refusal of orders, destruction of government property…”
“The files I destroyed contained evidence of the real crimes, yes, sir.”
“…and treason.”
“Because sending innocent people to die was clearly the path to career advancement,” Josephine said quietly.
The room went silent.
The judge leaned back. “Captain Givens, you understand what you’re doing?”
“Yes, sir. I’m refusing an unlawful order.”
“The tribunal will find your order lawful.”
“Then the tribunal is wrong, sir.”
“You’ll be convicted.”
“I know, sir.”
“Sentenced to execution.”
“I know that too, sir.”
The judge studied her for a long moment. “Why?”
“Because I can’t judge violence if I don’t understand it, sir. And I understand enough to know this is wrong.”
Back in the transport again.
Rivera was staring at her like she’d grown a second head. “You destroyed your career to save dock workers?”
“Yes.”
“That’s…” Rivera trailed off, unable to find the right word.
“Stupid in the extreme,” Morrison finished for him. “You got yourself killed for nothing.”
“Not for nothing,” Josephine said quietly.
The cuff gave another fraction of movement, and she was almost there.
“The case fell apart without a prosecutor. They dropped the charges. Thirty-seven innocent men went home to their families.”
“And you’re going to Nightveil Processing Center for execution.”
“That’s the deal.”
Morrison shook his head slowly. “Was it worth it?”
Josephine smiled, a small smile, but it was real. “Ask me after the execution.”
The transport lurched hard enough to rattle everything loose.
Josephine’s head snapped against the bulkhead.
“What the hell?” Morrison grabbed a handhold.
Looks like someone is trying to stop Josephine’s grand plan. Find out what on November 26th, when Verdict of Steel: The Dreadnought Court Book 1 is released. Until then head over to Amazon and pre-order it today.
Serving up Books This Wild Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Fresh books served on a platter!
Wild Wednesday, November 19, 2025
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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Dreamweaver’s Pact Complete Series Boxed Set:
Illusions can’t hide true love. Elara is just a simple seamstress struggling to survive in the Tapestry Guild until her needle begins to glow with mysterious power. When her magical thread creates a connection to Prince Caelum—trapped for five years in an enchanted sleep by the treacherous royal advisor Malakar—Elara discovers she’s a dreamweaver with the rare ability to enter dreams and shape reality. She wants nothing more than to free Caelum from his curse and explore the powerful connection growing between them. Malakar’s dark illusions are everywhere, manipulating the court and feeding on the prince’s imprisoned consciousness. To save Caelum, Elara must master her untamed dreamweaving powers and uncover the ancient runes binding the prince before Malakar completes his ritual and permanently merges the dream realm with reality.
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Unlikely Guardian:
When an unprepared bachelor finds himself with custody of magical orphans, can he navigate a Faerie noble, an evil witch, and parenting a toddler?
Charles Henderson “Chip” Proctor’s life is filled with cash, supermodels, and success. Enjoying the fast lane of the wealthy elite, the prominent NY investment executive can’t believe it when his brother and sister-in-law die in a car crash that makes him guardian of their children. And it just gets worse after he discovers his four-year-old niece and six-month-old nephew are the secret half-Fae heirs to an enchanted throne.
Max Collins Volume One:
Legendary lawman Eliot Ness goes solo…
In 1929, Eliot Ness put away Al Scarface Capone and became the biggest living legend this side of law and order. Now it’s 1935. With The Untouchables and Prohibition behind him and the Great Depression falling darkly across the nation, Ness arrives in Cleveland to straighten out a crooked city. An anonymous ring of bent cops is dealing in vice, graft, gambling, and racketeering, overlorded by a mysterious top cop known as the outside chief. But between corrupt politicians, jealous colleagues, a parasitic reporter, and two blondes with nothing in common, Ness has big troubles pulling the sheets off the bed of blue vipers.
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Card, Kill Them All:
In 1875, sixteen-year-old Card Jordan returns from his first solo hunting trip to discover a nightmare—his family brutally murdered by a ruthless gang. Scrawled in the dirt beside his mother’s body are the words that will forever change his destiny: CARD, KILL THEM ALL. Fueled by vengeance and armed with his father’s Cavalry hat, Card plunges headlong into a relentless western adventure. He must leave his innocence behind and become a force for frontier justice, tracking the killers through the wilds of North Texas and Indian Territory. Along the way, Card endures heartbreak, illness, and the unforgiving challenges of the Old West, sharpening his skills as a gunfighter with every step. As Card closes in on the gang’s vicious leader, Ned Black, his quest for retribution becomes a test of courage, resolve, and the true meaning of justice. Will avenging his family bring him peace—or only more pain?
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Four brand-new books arrive this week – Here’s what you need to know
Happy Monday! Guess what next week brings us? Not only Thanksgiving, but five days of free books! Following up after that will be our Cyber Monday Deals! Who doesn’t love discounted books on Cyber Monday? So you know what that means? You’ll be getting extra emails from me next week and the following week! Woohoo!
But, you probably want to learn about this week’s releases! I have 4 exciting books launching later this week!
- Summons and Visitation
- Foul Play
- The Reforged Marine – Not on preorder
- Christmas Kringle: Boots and a Pistol that Shoots
This Week’s New Releases
Title: Summons and Visitation
Series: Psychic Sidekick Book 1
Release Date: 11/18/2025
The dead won’t stay dead. The living may never be safe.
John Thompson’s life as sidekick to psychic Jacob Daniels just got complicated. Strangers are delivering urgent messages they don’t remember giving. A telepath with shattered mental barriers is hearing voices from across the city. Something that feeds on psychic energy is getting stronger.
What starts as helping one person spirals into encounters with abilities John never knew existed and threats that turn ordinary people into unknowing pawns. Each supernatural incident reveals new layers of a mystery that stretches back generations.
When ancient forces begin moving through modern lives, John must choose between the safety of observation and the danger of action. Because the network of psychic phenomena he’s spent years trying to understand isn’t just real—it’s under attack.
And the enemy has been searching for a weak link.
Some doors should never be opened. Others open themselves. Will John be ready when something steps through?
The forces are gathering. The doors are opening. And John Thompson’s investigation is about to become a fight for survival. Read SUMMONS AND VISITATION now—before the dead decide you belong to them too.
Title: Foul Play
Series: Spellbound Games Book 2
Release Date: 11/19/2025
He was supposed to be her rival. Now he’s running out of time.
Avery Quinn’s punishment for surviving revolution is performing in Skyhold’s Continental Championship—a gilded cage where every glance gets monitored and every touch becomes ammunition. Her only anchor is Caz Wolfe, the infuriating champion whose teasing smile makes her forget they’re both prisoners.
Something’s wrong with his magic. Each match steals more of his fire, and she can feel it through the bond that connects them—a tether that started as strategy but became something dangerously real.
Their handler orchestrates their every move. Her twin sister plays for the enemy. Secret meetings in forgotten corridors lead to desperate plans. Every kiss is rebellion. Every touch is traced by invisible eyes. Every use of power brings him closer to burning out completely.
Three matches left. Maybe less.
She’ll break any rule to save him—even if it means channeling her chaotic storm magic directly into his failing heart. Even if it means becoming the weapon their enemies want. But in a game designed to destroy them, their connection might be the most dangerous thing of all. Someone powerful wants to forge them into something unprecedented, and their growing need for each other plays right into those hands.
When winning means watching him fade away and losing means losing him forever, how much will she risk for a boy who makes her believe in tomorrow? Can love survive when the game itself feeds on their bond?
Fall into this heart-stopping romance where every heartbeat is borrowed and every kiss could be their last.
Title: The Reforged Marine
Series: Quantum Cultivation Book 1
Release Date: 11/11/2025
THE PRICE OF SAVING THE WORLD: EVERYTHING.
Tom Hudson’s consciousness transfer to Hexen was supposed to be Earth’s salvation. With his home world facing civilizational collapse from resource depletion, he volunteered for a one-way mission to gather intelligence on energy manipulation techniques that could save billions of lives.
The transfer succeeded—barely. Now Tom has 60 days to master cultivation techniques that others spend lifetimes perfecting, all while his advanced military HUD marks him as an outsider in a world where tradition and mystical power rule supreme. His hybrid approach works, but it terrifies those who see his rapid advancement as impossible and heretical.
Someone wants him stopped before he can complete his mission. Coordinated attacks grow deadlier. Ancient powers wake in response to abilities that shouldn’t exist. Every breakthrough Tom achieves paints a larger target on his back while the countdown to his deadline continues.
Earth is dying. Tom signed away his life to save it. The enemies closing in would rather see both worlds burn than allow his methods to succeed.
Join the ultimate sacrifice mission. Click now and follow Tom’s desperate race to master impossible power before time runs out for everyone he left behind.
Title: Boots and a Pistol that Shoots
Series: Christmas Kringle Book 6
Release Date: 11/21/2025
They wanted peace on earth. Someone declared war instead.
Kris has been many things: soldier, killer, guardian, husband. He thought he’d left the battlefield behind when he chose to protect the Workshop and its people. He was wrong.
The explosion that shattered their Christmas celebration was just the beginning. Now ancient magic is failing, trusted allies are disappearing, and every shadow might hide an enemy who knows their every weakness.
Someone is systematically dismantling everything the Workshop represents, targeting the very heart of their power. Someone who understands their world from the inside. Someone who once called this place home.
Claudia knows they’re running out of time. Kris knows they’re running out of allies. What neither knows is whether they can survive a war against an enemy who learned to fight from watching them.
The fate of Christmas magic hangs in the balance. The season of hope has become a season of fear.
In this explosive sixth installment of the Kringle saga, every alliance will be tested, every relationship pushed to its breaking point, and every hard-won victory threatened by the ultimate betrayal.
Will Kris and Claudia’s partnership survive when mercy becomes their most dangerous weakness? Or will saving their enemy cost them everything they’ve spent five books fighting to protect?
No one wants to believe in the supernatural. John is determined to prove it exists
Feast on These Deals, Fan Pricing Saturday, November 15, 2025
Feast before the feast!
Fan Pricing Saturday, November 15, 2025
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All of these new releases are 99c for one day only!
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Cargo and Catitude
The Waif of The Sphinx
Akio Revelations Complete Series Boxed Set
In The Kitchen
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Stuff Your Shelves With Deals, Wild Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Stuff your selves with books!
Wild Wednesday, November 12, 2025
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.
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Akio Revelations Complete Series Boxed Set:
An isolated police report about an island overtaken by feral, red-eyed creatures savaging humans spurs Akio to investigate. The local police are good at their job, but they’re not well-equipped to handle things that go bump in the night. Especially not the ones terrorizing this once-peaceful island paradise. While dealing with the incursion, Akio discovers new information. The situation is escalating—and all evidence points to enemies from his past. A dangerous science he’d thought was destroyed. The Forsaken are rising to take their place as the alpha predators. Now, it’s a race against overwhelming odds as Akio unravels long-laid complex plans and takes the fight to those who threaten the last bastion of civilization on post-apocalyptic Earth. Can he stop this evil before it enslaves humanity? Or will the Forsaken succeed in taking over the world?
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Queen of the Flightless Dragon Complete Series Boxed Set:
Have you ever been minding your own business at work and then were stabbed, and started leaking magic? Willow Jenkins is about to find out that was her best day that week. Family secrets, old grimoires, dragons in Texas, taco trucks, portals through keyholes, a search for a lost love, and finding out you’re on the most wanted list of an evil empire. That gets her to Thursday. Want to see how her weekend went? Get the box wine and Pepsi and pour yourself a kalimotxo and get ready for an epic battle in three parts, a love story, gamers to the rescue, wizards and dark magic, dragons and mayhem in an effort to save Willow’s world. Save the alchemist, save the world. All Willow wants is to go back to her taco truck in East Austin with her dog and hang out at the game shop for magicals behind Pinata World. Is that even possible anymore?
Yakima Henry: Volume One:
It’s not easy being a half-breed on the western frontier. Belonging to neither race, Yakima finds himself at odds with both. Often fleeing a hangman’s rope, the lonely Yakima roams the mountains and plains, looking for…what? Hell, not even Yakima knows. A home, maybe? The love of a good woman? He finds both for a time only after having hell to pay to get them… But for a man like Yakima—with a reputation as one of the most formidable gunfighters on the entire frontier who’s left a trail of dead men in his wake, as well as a few broken hearts—none of the usual comforts are his for long.
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China Bohannon The Complete Mystery Series:
SMART AND SASSY 1890S BOOKKEEPER TURNED SLEUTH CHINA BOHANNON IS A MAGNET FOR DANGER.
When China flees a bad situation and decides to start her life over as a strong, independent woman in the wild and wooly town of Spokane, Washington, she takes on the role of bookkeeper at Doyle & Howe detective agency, along with her uncle and his handsome partner, Gratton Doyle.
Spunky and determined, China is always one step ahead. Too bad she can’t help herself from getting involved in every mystery—with the help of her trusty dog, Nimble, of course.
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Ghost Hunting in This Snippet of Psychic Side Kick book 1
Psychic Sidekick Book 1: Summons and Visitation
No one wants to believe in the supernatural. John is determined to prove it exists
Wednesday
John Thompson sat in the Student Center of Anoka Ramsey Community College, where he was a high school senior participating in the Post-Secondary Enrollment Options program. He was picking at a cinnamon roll from the school cafeteria and reading The Lovely Bones when he detected movement in his peripheral vision.
He raised his head to see a girl about his age standing in front of him. She was pale, with a blank gaze. A tear slid down one cheek. “She needs help.”
“Who needs help?” John asked.
“He needs to hurry.” She walked away.
He watched her go, then realized other people were staring at him.
A faculty member strolled by, carrying a cup of coffee. “He needs to get to her soon. Before more trouble finds her.”
“What are you talking about?” John muttered.
The faculty member continued walking like he and John had not had an exchange.
“What the hell is going on?” John shook his head and reached for his phone.
CHAPTER TWO
John’s Journal
New event, new notebook. Not that I had a choice. My last notebook is in my closet. The door is covered with shielding, and I have a guest occupying my bedroom, so it’s impossible to retrieve at this time.
I found this one in my mom’s stuff. I’ll probably have to replace it, although I’m not sure why she needs a notebook. I’m the student and scientist. Maybe she does budgets or writes about her feelings. If she does, she hides those notebooks well. This one was blank and in plain sight. She wasn’t home to tell me I couldn’t borrow it.
I should probably be more formal in my documentation, but it’s not like I’m conducting an experiment. I am recording what happened, what I saw, and what I remember. An affidavit, if you will. I’m sure I make a more reliable witness than most people, but what I’m recording is still anecdotal in nature, and anecdotal evidence probably isn’t permissible anywhere. Especially in court.
But in parapsychology, is there any way to truly prove anything? It’s like religion. The faithful believe, but they can’t prove God exists. Yet their faith is enough for them.
I know the paranormal exists, that the other side is real. Still, I can’t properly document what I know. My faith will have to be enough.
I’ve been staying close to Jacob Daniels since he first rescued me from the school bullies du jour. I had heard about him and his exploits and was searching for him. In the end, he found me. He became my friend, my test subject, and the psychic in my life most willing to be studied.
Mom won’t talk about her abilities, won’t allow me to question her. That was true even before Rachel died. She is also selective about what family history she shares or allows to be shared with me. I know she has psychic ability. I’ve seen it in action more than once. But without background information and context, what I know and saw proves nothing.
Trish Carrington has allowed me to interview her a few times, hook her to the high school version of an electroencephalograph and a lie detector, and record physical attributes. The readings I recorded when she was resting set the baseline.
Those I recorded when she was using her telekinesis were barely different, as if using her abilities required no effort. Even having the measurements synced to the video only confirms a blip in her mental activities. Does that mean her abilities are working all the time, but objects aren’t flying? If only I had better equipment. Or could read her aura.
It was fascinating to be there as objects floated around the room, knowing she was responsible. It was still anecdotal evidence that could be construed as fraudulent. Again, so cool…
I’ve asked, but Trish has not told me of any occurrences where she used her ability to move objects to protect herself or another person the way she did the night she met Daniels. And again the night she and Daniels and Cindy Maldonado rescued her mom from a wannabe drug cartel.
She has not shared further about those experiences, either. I only know about them because of Daniels. As a result, there is no anecdotal evidence of use outside a controlled environment.
Daniels continues to demonstrate his abilities, but never in a controlled situation. He never has an episode when I have him hooked up. Almost as if turning on the machines turns off his brain. There should be something sarcastic I could add here.
It’s been a little over two years since he had a major event. Or episode. Or adventure. Those descriptions make it sound like something is wrong with him. There probably is, but that’s for a different branch of psychology.
He located dogs, cats, a bicycle, and some jewelry. Nothing exciting or newsworthy. I’m not sure he even remembers all of it, but it required no effort on his part. I’ve been with him at the grocery store, saw him read the little sign or poster on the wall, and watched him call people.
Some of them didn’t answer and let it go to voicemail. He’d say, “I saw your sign. Your dog is at…” or “Your ring is…” and he’d tell them the Humane Society or the neighbor’s house or under the back seat of their car or behind the drawer, and I’d know he was right. We didn’t even attempt to find out if their items were successfully recovered.
I probably should have collected the cards at the stores and had him read them after I had him wired up. Maybe then, I’d learn something.
But today’s experience was like nothing I’ve seen. Or even imagined.
Wednesday is cinnamon roll day in the school cafeteria. The cream cheese croissants on Thursdays are my favorite, but the cinnamon rolls are a close second. I was reading while savoring mine when a girl stopped in front of me.
My time with Daniels has taught me the need to be observant. Fortunately, I have an excellent memory. She was about five foot four, I’d estimate a hundred and ten pounds. Her oversized Anoka Ramsey sweatshirt made guessing difficult. She wore jeans and sandals, and she carried a trigonometry text. I was familiar with the book, unfortunately.
She had obviously experienced something traumatic right before she came to me. She was pale, her whole body might have been trembling, and a tear slid down her right cheek.
If only one tear falls, does the eye that releases it correspond to the dominant eye? Another course of study.
She started with, “She needs help.”
I asked, “Who needs help?”
She told me, “He needs to hurry,” and walked away.
I thought about chasing her down, grabbing her, and making her talk. There are ways. I’m not even sure she knew she was talking to me, though. And other people were staring at me. Or her.
Her walk wasn’t purposeful. It was more like a drift. She had delivered her message, and whoever sent her was done with her. Thinking back, it was creepy.
Will one creepy encounter with an entity be enough to set John on a course to prove the paranormal is real? Find out on November 18th when Psychic Sidekick book 1: Summons and Visitations is released. Until then head over to Amazon and pre-order it today.
This week’s book launches – 4 exciting new releases inside
It’s the start of another week and one of the few weeks left in 2025. Two weeks from this Thursday will be Thanksgiving. There’s so much good food for Thanksgiving. Pies, turkey or ham (or both), mashed potatoes, dressing, and everything else that goes with the day. There’s food for days. What do you prefer for Thanksgiving: ham or turkey?
I have 4 outstanding books launching this week. None are releasing today, but two release tomorrow, so you have a day to catch up on unread books!
- In the Kitchen (Not on preorder)
- The Reforged Marine (Not on preorder)
- Cargo and Catitude
- Quick and the Dead
This Week’s New Releases
Title: In the Kitchen
Series: Pickled Hearts Book 2
Release Date: 11/11/2025
Two women. One court. An impossible choice.
Widowed novelist Jack Harrington can’t write, can’t sleep, can’t escape the memory of his wife Anna. When pickleball gives him a reason to leave the house, he discovers an unexpected gift for the game and an undeniable connection with Iris, his fierce and beautiful partner.
Something strange happens every time he plays. Strategies appear in his mind. Opponents’ weaknesses become visible. A familiar presence seems to guide every crucial point. The better he and Iris play together, the more insistent the mysterious interventions become.
As they advance toward nationals, Jack finds himself torn between the woman helping him heal and a force that won’t let him go. Every match brings him closer to a truth that will challenge everything he believes about love, loss, and second chances.
In a sport where partners must move as one, Jack discovers that some connections transcend explanation.
Grab In the Kitchen and discover what happens when the heart refuses to stay in bounds. Will Jack step into the kitchen with Iris and risk it all? Or will the rules of the past keep him serving from the baseline forever?
Title: The Reforged Marine
Series: Quantum Cultivation Book 1
Release Date: 11/11/2025
THE PRICE OF SAVING THE WORLD: EVERYTHING.
Tom Hudson’s consciousness transfer to Hexen was supposed to be Earth’s salvation. With his home world facing civilizational collapse from resource depletion, he volunteered for a one-way mission to gather intelligence on energy manipulation techniques that could save billions of lives.
The transfer succeeded—barely. Now Tom has 60 days to master cultivation techniques that others spend lifetimes perfecting, all while his advanced military HUD marks him as an outsider in a world where tradition and mystical power rule supreme. His hybrid approach works, but it terrifies those who see his rapid advancement as impossible and heretical.
Someone wants him stopped before he can complete his mission. Coordinated attacks grow deadlier. Ancient powers wake in response to abilities that shouldn’t exist. Every breakthrough Tom achieves paints a larger target on his back while the countdown to his deadline continues.
Earth is dying. Tom signed away his life to save it. The enemies closing in would rather see both worlds burn than allow his methods to succeed.
Join the ultimate sacrifice mission. Click now and follow Tom’s desperate race to master impossible power before time runs out for everyone he left behind.
Title: Cargo and Catitude
Series: Starship Cat Book 2
Release Date: 11/12/2025
A cat’s curiosity. A crew’s loyalty. A conspiracy’s dangerous web.
Princess doesn’t mean to uncover conspiracies. She’s just chasing adventure through Charette Station when a stranger’s desperate dive saves her life. His blood on the deck. Her crew’s gratitude. It should have ended there.
Instead it’s only the beginning.
The stranger who saves Princess from disaster should be a hero. So why is he hiding? Why are armed men searching every corner of Charette Station? And why does a routine repair stop feel like walking into a trap?
Jack Caddigan and the crew of the Amiira Yasmine wanted repairs and rest. Instead, they’re marked. Followed. Threatened. Their only clue: something Princess found, small enough to hide, important enough to kill for.
In the station’s endless corridors, hunter becomes hunted becomes hunter again. Friends vanish. Warnings multiply. And somewhere in the chaos, a secret that could save—or doom—them all remains hidden.
When security itself might be the enemy, when not one but two ship’s cats hold the key to survival, when ordinary spacers must choose between safety and justice…
Pick up Cargo and Catitude now to discover how one mischievous cat with a nose for trouble might upend a conspiracy against the League, if she can survive long enough.
Title: Quick and the Dead
Series: Hellhound Academy Book 6
Release Date: 11/13/2025
Robin Sullivan has been dead before. The problem is, Death remembers her name.
When a recalled cadet vanishes from under the Academy’s nose and ghost-signatures start flaring across Austin, Robin’s team is ordered to stand down. But standing down has never been her style. The Hellhounds go rogue—again—chasing a trail that leads from abandoned railyards to the underbelly of Lady Bird Lake, where something ancient is rewriting resurrection tech into a weapon.
Now the boundary between the living and the dead is breaking for good.
With her sister Wren caught between worlds and Phoenix marking new graves in frost, Robin must choose between protecting her squad or finishing the job Death gave her. Every anchor has a price, and this time the universe is collecting with interest.
The quick can fight.
The dead can rise.
Only one side gets to keep its soul.
Grab Quick and the Dead today and dive into the next heart-pounding Hellhound mission—where loyalty burns hot, death never stays buried, and the fight for the living has just begun.