Enjoy more new releases in the worlds we love!
We have a surprise in the form of a very early release for you this week. If you were impatiently awaiting the next book in the Judge, Jury, and Executioner series to release in July, it released early and comes out later this week! So if you preordered it, it will arrive Thursday. If you didn’t preorder it, you still have time.
If you thought we were done with new series coming, we’re not. Another new series sneaks in next week just before the calendar changes to March. So keep an eye out for that next week and the preorder is below!
I have 6 amazing books launching this week and one of them is out now! That’s pretty sweet for a Monday! The rest of the books are on preorder!
- Terminal Fates
- Hard Hand
- Witch With A Cause (Oriceran)
- The Mob (Kurtherian)
- The Titan’s Empire
- Sector Force (Kurtherian)
This Week’s New Releases
Title: Terminal Fates
Series: Chooser of the Slain Book 7
Release Date: 02/20/2023
Valerie Kearie has a new plan, a new company, and more problems.
Unfortunately, you can’t solve some problems without money and lots of it.
Just because you want to start your own black operations group doesn’t mean the world opens its arms to you.
An Important senator from Mexico needs protection to put away a cartel boss, and he has come to Viking for help. Viking needs to step away from any political fallout should it occur.
They offer it to Valkyrie, Inc. as its first paid mission.
Can they keep the senator alive? More importantly, can they afford to travel in the fashion to which they have become accustomed?
Hawk isn’t happy with Kat, so she has to deal with his leftovers in the technical closet.
Jacob is in the crosshairs of an assassin. Will he survive the first mission?
Can Valerie keep her friends safe and her sanity intact, and also satisfy Reginlief, who is asking to sacrifice a goat for Christmas?
When the Chooser of the Slain is on the job, everyone needs to look out for danger.
Title: Hard Hand
Series: Incidental Inquisitors Book 4
Release Date: 02/21/2023
Quadras is seeing major changes, which means major headaches for the Inquisition.
As the humans roll into the city, they need places to live and work. Infrastructure expansion comes with a whole lot of money changing hands.
It sounds simple enough, but things in the four-faced city are never that easy.
There are the usual shady contractors, corrupt inspectors, and greedy politicians to contend with. Not to mention the anti- and pro-integration activists clashing over their ideals.
In short, it is a recipe for disaster.
The only thing standing in the way of tensions bubbling over are the brave Inquisitors.
Who gets the call when things heat up with a dead clan rep, a missing goblin, and enough political pressure to stop an ogre’s heart?
None other than resident heroes, Inquisitors Doughas and Vor.
But even our heroes are going to have their hands full as sinister undertones to their investigation emerge and the specter of a new threat to the city arises.
How it will pan out is anyone’s guess, but it is certain that Quadras will never be the same again.
Can Doughas and Vor overcome the odds stacked against them and save the city yet again?
Title: Witch with a Cause
Series: Witch Warrior 11
Release Date: 02/22/2023
Cait Keane’s life hangs in the balance.
The Chemist has made his play, choosing the less likely of his two targets. If Cait’s dragon partner Aza or her extended family can’t help her, she could wind up dead from his attack.
All around her, things are coming apart.
The shifters have a new leader, vicious and bloodthirsty.
The Dragons have brought in outside help with their own agenda.
The Thorns are changing strategies, which spells danger for Yoshino and Cait.
And then there’s the mysterious Victor Huff. A top-shelf criminal who needs to get involved in what’s going on around town.
Even if Cait survives this attack, can she keep herself and her people safe?
Sabrina’s juggling tasks as she looks into Perpetuity and Huff and will have to do something she detests – ask for help – in order to figure it all out.
And Aza’s family is in imminent danger as the wizard who’s been plaguing them makes his play.
The US Marshal with something extra wouldn’t have it any other way.
For action, magic, snarky banter, martial arts, mystical creatures, and high intrigue, join Cait Keane on her new adventure!
Title: The Mob
Series: Judge, Jury, Executioner
Release Date: 02/23/2023
The Mob.
But a new mob, with leaders that Rivka hadn’t run across before. Decentralized control. Like rats in a station’s bilge, they reared their ugly heads both near and far.
Rivka needs to uncoil the tendrils and rip off the heads of the hydra. while others hunt the underlings to take down the top and middle layers, leaving the drug trade in a shambles. That’s the plan, anyway.
Who is stepping up to help? A blast from the past, someone Rivka isn’t sure she trusts.
They’re not partners and they aren’t friends, but they have to slip into the dark alleys to find a way to the top of the mob.
Rivka goes undercover in the latest case that is certain to drive Red into an apoplectic fit.
Magistrate Rivka Anoa is the legal eagle you want on your side. No better friend. No worse enemy.
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Judge, Jury, & Executioner is within the Kurtherian Gambit Universe, but you don’t need to read those to enjoy these. Start with You Have Been Judged and enjoy the stories of Rivka and her team. Just lock in your seatbelt, grab your favorite drink, and be ready for your socks to be blown off.
Title: The Titan’s Empire
Series: Heinous Crimes Unit Book 6
Release Date: 02/23/2023
Luke Titan: Esteemed collegiate professor. Genius scientist. Incisive psychiatrist. Brilliant FBI agent.
He was all of these things, until he paralyzed one of his FBI partners and tried to gut the other.
Being a fugitive hasn’t reduced Titan’s capacity for seeing farther than everyone else.
After waging war on the US government and killing thousands, Titan has driven his ex-partner, Christian Windsor, to the brink of insanity.
Titan is still on the run, and Christian will stop at nothing to catch him.
Then kill him.
But is Luke running, or is he putting the final touches to his masterpiece?
Christian continues his pursuit, unaware or uncaring that Titan is baiting him so he can finish what he started years ago.
Turning Christian into a killer with no conscience.
Can Christian find Titan and deliver justice? Or is his psychotic genius nemesis still a step ahead?
Only one of them can walk away from this. Who will it be?
Title: Sector Force
Series: Lone Wolf Squadron Book 4
Release Date: 02/24/2023
Tardex is safe and the Marshals of Lone Wolf Squadron stand down for some much needed rest and relaxation.
Needless to say, the frontiers of the Etheric Federation don’t stay peaceful for long.
The growing squadron must battle sinister forces threatening their part of the frontier.
A delegation arrives from a neighboring system to request aid from Commander Beau Ward and his pilots. The powerful corporation that owns their contracts is cheating the people into owing the company more than they earn.
What will it take to help them gain their freedom from indentured servitude?
Beau must hold onto the gains he’s made in Tardex while extending the squadron’s protection over another star system.
It won’t be easy for our favorite collection of misfits. But when you live life on the edge, nothing ever is.
A Long Weekend and a Ton of Deals, Fan Pricing Saturday, February 18, 2023
Enjoy some deals this holiday weekend.
Fan Pricing Saturday, February 18, 2023
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Dragon Defying
Lead
Eight if By Choice
War for the Vampire Throne
The War Machine Complete Series Boxed Set
Game of Serfs: Book Three
Werewolf Quarry
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Today is a Good Day for a Deal, Wild Wednesday February 15, 2023
Today is a good day for a deal!
Wild Wednesday, February 15, 2023
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.
War Machine Complete Series Boxed Set:
An alien race decides humanity’s fate: Eradication. They didn’t count on someone rising to challenge their decree.
Constantine had forsaken his family name and birthright. At 28 years old, he’d escaped Earth to help terraform Mars. An empire’s heir went missing just as the universe’s greatest threat announces itself. War Games will decide who represents humanity in this extinction-level struggle. Constantine is summoned. With little training but abundant talent, can Constantine win these games? If he does, will he be a force in the coming war? Or is it already too late for humanity? Let the games begin.
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Wicker City:
In a post-apocalyptic Chicago ruled by warlords, a young woman named Elena must stay one-step ahead of the violently shifting political landscape to protect her family and save her city. For years Elena searched for a way back into the walls of Wicker City. She was forced into exile when her parents were killed and the blame put on her. When she works her way back in, she discovers that nothing is as it seems and that the warlords are fighting for a mysterious power with the potential to upend everything. As she finds her true allies and enemies, she’s forced to choose between keeping her humanity or seeking justice.
The warlord who holds Wicker City holds the power. But when the source of power is a mystery, those in charge have to stay alert at every turn.
The United Federation Marine Corps: The Ryck Lysander Trilogy:
From Book 1: Recruit
Desperate to escape a life of poverty on his desolate home planet, Ryck Lysander enlists in the United Federation Marine Corps, hoping to make a better future for himself. However, Ryck soon discovers that the Corps is more than a means of escaping his former life as he is pushed beyond the very limits of his strength and willpower. From bootcamp brawls to skirmishes with galactic pirates, Ryck’s new life presents him with unimaginable adventures and forces him to prove his mettle as he forges his new identity and fights to earn his place as one of the Brotherhood of Marines.
Captain:
As a captain, Ryck Lysander is given one of the most sought-after billets in the Marines: an infantry company commander. His new battalion commanding officer, however, is not impressed with Ryck’s past accomplishments, and Ryck finds himself struggling to fulfill the CO’s expectations. Used to his “hero” status within the Corps, his new position of having to prove himself grates on him. Now, as his company marches to the sound of gunfire, Ryck must find it within himself to be an effective combat commander.
The United Federation Marine Corps: Book 5-8 (.99¢):
From Book 5: A Marine major is one of the orphan ranks, too senior to command a line company, but too junior to command a battalion. Newly promoted to major, Ryck reports for duty as the assistant naval attaché to the Confederation of Free States, the same government whose troops he’d recently fought in the Telchines. Ryck isn’t happy about the assignment, but he buckles down for a long and boring tour of duty. But action seems to follow Ryck, and this is no exception.
From the diplomatic post on New Mumbai to leading one of the newly-formed Raider special ops companies, Ryck continues his eventful career as a United Federation Marine.
Scarlett:
When book-worm Scarlett is accused of murder, she has no choice but to take up sleuthing and find a way to clear herself of suspicion. Her efforts are further thwarted by having no recollection of the night in question, and to make matters worse, weird things keep happening around her. Like, seriously weird.
Meanwhile, the military police are closing in on her, and what she uncovers in her investigation is far more sinister than she could ever have imagined. Can Scarlett figure out what’s going on before other elements catch up to her?
If you like your protagonists quirky and hilarious, your mysteries confounding, your vampires secretive, and weres dashing, you’re going to love everything in the A Very British Witch series.
Two Sides of Truth:
A fateful decision spurs a perilous journey to save a life…
It’s 1932, and America’s Great Depression is ravaging the nation through poverty, starvation, and homelessness, but frankly, more important things are happening in the small town of Coaldale, Arkansas. Sixteen-year-old Sooze Williams and her family are barely eking out a living on their inherited family farm in Western Arkansas. Many less fortunate families have already lost their homes and farms to the banks, the drought, and the times. When older brother Henry reveals to Sooze a secret plan, she makes a fateful decision in an effort to keep her family close. A twist of fate–and a desperate lie–sends Sooze on a perilous journey to save someone dear to her. Dangerous as the journey may be, Sooze discovers that, in the end, few things in life matter more than love, hope, and trust.
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Robert Vaughan’s The Chaney Brothers Western Adventures The Complete Series:
They Came from one Missouri family, but Lance and Buck Chaney had been fighting on opposite sides of the war—until they were brought together by a shipment of gold dust. Fighting for the Confederacy, Buck had been ordered to hijack the gold his brother’s Union troops were bringing north to Jefferson City. By the time the skirmish was over the shipment of gold was missing. Now the former enemies have joined together again—to hunt down the man who had taken the gold from them both in an act of treachery and bloodshed. The pair find more trouble than they care to. From Indians, to outlaws, their trail is dotted with violence. In the end it’s only the law that counts. Their law. Chaney Law…
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Eight new releases you’ll love this week!
Love is in the air this week. Or maybe it’s the smell of chocolate. Chocolate is love after all, right? And, of course, you know what the best day is this week? The day after Valentine’s Day when it’s half-priced chocolate day. Now THAT’S a holiday I can get behind. It means I can replenish all of my chocolate stores for the coming year.
However, there are many candies unique to this holiday. What is your favorite Valentine’s Day candy?
Another new series comes your way this week and we have a sneak peek for you below!
I have 8 delightful books launching this week and one released this morning. That’s pretty sweet for a Monday!
- Eight If By Choice (Oriceran)
- Werewolf Quarry
- Dragon Defying
- Game of Serfs: Book Three
- War for the Vampire Throne
- The Rogue Regiment (Oriceran)
- The Uncivilized
- Magicae: Power Dawning (Empowered World)
This Week’s New Releases
Title: Eight If By Choice
Series: Chronicles of Winland Underwood Book 8
Release Date: 02/13/2023
In East Calico Rock, there’s always one more emergency to be handled by Winland Underwood.
Unfortunately, this time the emergency is her mother.
Just when Winland thought her mom was starting to settle into life in the refugee town, danger strikes once again. This time, Winland and the crimson heart are strong enough together to deal with it themselves.
But are the consequences of Winland’s new power too much for Leeland to handle?
When Leeland disappears in the middle of the night—like she did a hundred and sixty years ago—Winland now has the friends and resources to track her mom down again…hopefully before it’s too late.
Leeland’s dark past is a threat to everyone, and Winland has only one chance to save her mom’s life and her own.
The battle between dark and light inside Winland makes it hard to know just how far she’ll go to make good-intentioned ends justify horrible means.
Can those who’ve made terrible mistakes, even Winland, still be redeemed?
Title: Werewolf Quarry
Series: The Origin Story of Monsters Book 2
Release Date: 02/14/2023
Monsters don’t just change themselves. And someone out there is using blood magic again. The kind that hasn’t been seen for thousands of years.
It’s time Halsey and Brigham to travel back to where the changes all began—the Cliffs of Moher, Ireland. At the very least, the monster hunters should be able to find out what happened to the stolen silver coffin if they follow the clues in person, right?
If you have to get something done, sometimes you have to do it all yourself. Even if that means operating outside your Council’s orders without permission.
The Ambrosius cousins seem to hit one dead end after another. But when one magical door shuts, another always opens.
Halsey and Brigham just didn’t expect that the next door they opened—asking another elemental family for help—would only point back to their own Clan.
Did their last mission in Ireland only make things worse?
Now if Halsey and her cousin want help from the Emerald Isle’s elemental Clan, they have to do a little more monster-hunting of their own first—unsanctioned and unapproved by their family militia.
Turns out the silver-back alpha is more of a menace than they realized—and more of a threat to the Ambrosius Clan’s well-preserved secrets – keeping Halsey and all other elementals uncomfortably in the dark.
Can the Ambrosius cousins look past the lies to help new friends clean up the mess they unwittingly made? Can Halsey look past the consequences of breaking her one and only monster-hunting rule to find one very special monster within the history of her own family?
If her Clan Council won’t come clean, Halsey Ambrosius will just have to go after the most deeply buried answers herself, and the monsters will follow.
Title: Dragon Defying
Series: Dragon Apparent Book 5
Release Date: 02/14/2023
Two heirs to one throne. Who will take the crown?
Will power or allies be the deciding factor over the future?
After months of building proof that she is the heir to the throne, someone Scarlet thought was an ally shows up with another red dragon.
Does the newcomer want the throne, and does she care if he takes it?
Leading two races to safety and securing their future is not what Scarlet would have chosen for herself.
She had accepted her duty to dragons and humans alike. The new arrival throws everything into question. Can she sit by and let another take a throne they’ve not earned simply because of the color of their scales?
Is she any more worthy than he is?
The answer comes, but not the way Scarlet expects.
The world is starting to take notice, and an enemy who is growing stronger is threatening to break out of his underground prison.
Can Scarlet and her rival work together to stop him?
Title: Game of Serfs: Book Three
Release Date: 02/15/2023
Not everyone is happy with what Benjy and Marty are building. Or rather, they’re unhappy that they’re not the ones in charge.
The birth pangs of a new community are hard enough to navigate, but what happens when jealousy leads to a rivalry that could strangle this newborn wonder?
While others scheme, Benjy and Marty have a kingdom to establish, mouths to feed, and shelter to provide. There are raiders to repel, secrets to uncover in the dungeons below, and subjects to appoint to the kingdom’s offices.
The right royal mason will raise strong walls, but the wrong one could send them crumbling with one fell stroke of hammer on chisel.
The crown may be heavy, but that doesn’t mean one man must bear it all alone.
Trusting people is a necessary vulnerability, and they must choose wisely. The dragons have changed the world forever, and now they are searching for dominions to claim as their own.
Benjy’s and Marty’s experiment in self-government looks like a tasty treat to snatch up while it is still so young and tender.
Can our heroes protect the safe haven for humanity they’ve created? Or will the overwhelming odds of internal plotting and fire-breathing enemies at their door prove too much to handle?
Title: War For the Vampire Throne
Series: Supernatural Criminal Investigations Book 5
Release Date: 02/15/2023
Supernatural crimes are on the rise and evil forces are gathering. A band of powerful beings must put aside their differences to save all supernaturals from extinction.
Kat has earned the loyalty of the werewolves. Now, she must fight her way to the top of the vampire hierarchy and become their queen.
Can she fulfill the witch ancestors’ prophecy about her destiny to defeat the looming darkness?
War is inevitable, and there’s another problem.
Her newly restored magic is volatile and unstable.
Kat must prove herself worthy of the vampire throne, but Cain Abrams’ renegade faction sense her powers are unpredictable and use it to their advantage. She must learn how to control her magic and use it safely or risk being destroyed by it.
She’s not alone in the fight.
While the SCI team is growing stronger and improving their chances for victory, their supernatural investigation skills will be put to the test. They must stop the dark witches before they destroy Kat and the rest of the supernatural creatures.
Will Kat rise to the challenge and be crowned the ultimate queen? Or will evil prevail in the epic battle for supernatural supremacy?
Title: The Rogue Regiment
Series: Pixie Rebels Book 1
Release Date: 02/16/2023
Z Thornbrook and her cousins are like any other Oriceran pixie on Earth. Mischief is their middle name, and for the last hundred and fifty years, that’s been their game.
But what happens when a gang of rogue pixies takes the troublemaking just a little too far?
They get noticed. By the U.S. Army. And playtime is over.
Now that they’ve been caught, it’s time for Z, her cousins, and the entire pixie gang to face the music, and they only have two choices. Sign their lives away to enter an experimental new program for magical Army soldiers – or accept a one-way ticket back to Oriceran for good.
For any other pixie, this would be a no-brainer. They don’t back down, and they definitely don’t take orders from anyone, even other pixies. But for Z and her eccentric cousins, returning to their home planet is a fate worse than death.
It’s time to lace up their boots and stand at attention—or not.
Because the Thornbrook pixies are heading off to magical Bootcamp run by humans, and the Army had no idea what they were getting themselves into.
Z, Domino, and Echo must find the acceptable middle ground between being who they are, in all their chaotic pixie glory, and following the terms of their magically binding contract.
But training three Army pixies is no joke—if it’s even possible at all.
Can Z and her cousins learn to rein in the chaos as new magical Army recruits, or will they take it too far and be shipped off to Oriceran, where an even darker menace awaits?
Title: The Uncivilized
Series: Skharr Deatheater Book 10
Release Date: 02/16/2023
Thou shalt not put a sword in a baby’s hand…
It’s a good way to piss off your wife.
There are issues all over Skharr’s lands that he must deal with, including a kingdom to the east that is pushing into his sister-in-law’s lands.
Micah has come to ask for a favor from the emperor.
Skharr must head back to the capital to help the empire with a delicate political situation.
Will he be able to solve the problem without cutting off a head or two? Can he do it without getting into a barfight?
In a word, no.
Skharr needs to be in three places at the same time all while dealing with Throk Anvilforged, who is besotted with an elven blacksmith ruin.
Skharr was successful in handling “diplomacy” with a kingdom on his borders before. What happens when he has to do it again?
It’s Skharr DeathEater, back doing what he does best.
Are you ready for it?
Title: Magicae: Power Dawning
Series: Chronicles of an Urban Elemental Book 2
Release Date: 02/17/2023
Watch out Montreal. You’re in for a fiery ride.
Life’s pleasures used to be so simple: a fast ride on my motorcycle, a backyard barbeque with my siblings, and taking down criminals to safeguard Montreal’s citizens.
Sadly, those days ended the moment my fiery side emerged.
I’m a fire elemental. Mind blown.
The deadly Poreskoro family wants to feed on my fae essence. Rude.
And if they succeed, they’ll gain the strength to rebuild their army of evil. Terrifying.
Demons, drug lords, and deception I can handle, but when a dark storm of danger falls over my family, things have gone too far.
With evil brewing, enemies running rampant, and fae criminals gunning for me and my family, I widen my stance and get ready for the hits. Who’s manipulating things behind the scenes? Who’s coming after the people I care about? And who the hell is stupid enough to think I’d let it happen?
Jules continues her journey to becoming the fiery female she’s meant to be in book two of the Chronicles of an Urban Elemental series, Magicae: Power Dawning. Don’t miss a moment of this rollicking ride.
A pixie crime family that has made robbery their day job, and nothing can stop them. Until they get caught.
Love, Books, and Fan Pricing Saturday, February 11, 2023
It’s all love, books, and deals, this Valentine’s weekend.
Fans Pricing Saturday, February 11, 2023
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Fatal Depths
Sophie Briggs and the Guardians of the Tree
The Exiled Mark
Top Gun: Ice
Dead Evil Mercenary Corps Complete Series Boxed Set
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Another Day at the Office in This Snippet of Pixie Rebels Book 1
Pixie Rebels Book 1: The Rogue Regiment
A pixie crime family that has made robbery their day job, and nothing can stop them.
The Rogue Regiment snippet –
The Key Bank was as dark and empty and securely shut down for the night as every other building at 11:27 p.m. in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Just not securely enough.
If anyone had bothered to take a closer look, they would have seen flickering lights inside the bank lobby that didn’t look like the normal blinking lights from security cameras and silent alarm systems. They would have seen a flash of movement here, a streak of color there, and the doors to the cash and safe deposit vaults slowly opening on their own.
If anyone had bothered to take a closer look, they wouldn’t have been able to make sense of what they saw happening inside this Key Bank branch. But no one bothered to look because half an hour before midnight, there was no reason for anyone to think anything was wrong.
This was just another night for the gang of pixies that was pulling off one hell of a bank heist.
“How’s the security system looking, Marv?”
“A freakin’ joke, just like the last one.”
“Bill! These humans are idiots! Look at all these bags they left us. Like they’ve just been waiting for someone to come along and rob the crap outta them.”
“What’re you waiting for, Kilder? Use the bags and fill ’em up.”
“Hell, yeah!”
“Hasher, what did I tell you about tagging the walls like that when we’re on a job?”
“Aw, come on, Calinda. I was just—”
“What did I say?”
“That humans freak out when they see it.”
“Because?”
“Because they panic and think it’s blood and don’t know any better.”
“So, quit tagging the walls and get back to work.”
“Aw, man. I was almost done with this one!”
“Okay, everybody, hurry up. Ten minutes to take whatever you want and trash the rest. Then we’re outta here.”
A cash drawer at one of the teller windows pinged open, and a lime-green flash of light darted down from the ceiling and hit the open drawer with a jingle. A squeaking grunt of frustration rose from behind the counter. “Seriously? I finally get the thing open, and all they put in here are rubber bands and paperclips!”
“The bank’s closed, Syd. They keep all the money over there by the… Well, look at that. Vernon got into the tellers’ cash safe.”
“Guys. Hey, guys!” Loose bills shot up from the open safe under the drive-through teller window, then fluttered all over the place in a rain of rustling green. “Look, it’s snowing!”
“That can be your cut, Vernon.”
“What? She said to trash the rest.”
“Whatever you want, man. It’s your cut.”
“Has anyone seen the triplets?”
Snorts and high-pitched snickers filled the bank’s lobby.
“I saw ’em headed for the safe deposit vault, so they’re probably wings-deep in another crazy haul like last time.”
“Yeah, they’re good at that, aren’t they? Let’s get a move on, pixies. We don’t have all—” A high-pitched bark of laughter echoed across the bank lobby. “What am I saying? Of course, we have all night! There’s nobody here!”
The other pixies flittering back and forth across the lobby and behind the teller windows erupted in laughter, holding themselves around the middle and falling all over each other as they cracked up and kept trying to shove cash into bags at the same time.
Three pixies in Calinda’s gang—affectionately called “the triplets” by the others—were too far away to have heard everyone in the front of the bank laughing. It was hard for Z Thornbrook to hear much of anything beyond the click and scrape of the cylinder in the lock housing moving with agonizing slowness as she pushed it with both hands—from inside the lock.
“They sound like they’re wasted,” her cousin Domino muttered. “Think we should wrap it up pretty soon?”
Z grunted and doubled down on her efforts to push the mechanism’s tiny pieces into place without having the key. “After I get this one open first. I have a real good feeling about what’s in here.”
Domino, who was standing in front of the vault’s single long table, didn’t flinch when a box beside Z’s popped open with a metallic clang. A flash the color of dull steel darted out of the box, zipped over, and stopped beside Domino with a soft pop.
The next second, his sister Echo stood next to him in front of the table. She’d taken on the larger human size occasionally needed for bigger jobs when a pixie’s natural tiny stature wouldn’t cut it.
As she folded her glittering black wings against her back, Echo leaned toward her younger brother. Her straight black hair fell over half her face like a thick curtain as she whispered in his ear.
Domino relayed, “She says that’s what you said about the last three boxes. On the last three jobs.”
“Well, Echo, you’re not wrong.” Sighing, Z double-checked how far she had left to push. “And technically, I didn’t not find really good stuff inside all of them.”
Domino snorted and folded his arms, and his golden-brown wings twitched against his back. “At this point, I honestly care more about getting out of here before Bill and Hasher start kicking each other’s asses again. Still not sure why you’re into all the useless crap humans think is so special they have to lock it up in a building they can’t even get into whenever they want.”
“It’s not just humans,” Z retorted with another grunt of effort. “Probably. I mean, yeah, any smart magical would hide their super valuable stuff where they can get to it easily, like, in a safe inside their house or an enchanted drawer or something. A genius would keep their important stuff hidden in plain sight.”
“Oh, right. In a human bank without wards or protective spells, so any magical can break right in and take whatever they want.”
Z leaned sideways against the cylinder and smirked. “Not just any magical, Dom. Us.”
Echo leaned toward her brother again to whisper in his ear.
Domino playfully rolled his eyes. “She says if you don’t use magic to open that lock, she will.”
“That’s against the point.”
“She says you’re wasting—”
“Yeah, yeah. I get it.” Pushing away from the cylinder, Z stood up inside the lock, glared at the mechanism that shouldn’t have been so difficult to push into place, and flicked her finger at it.
A bolt of bright blue light burst from her fingertip and clanged against the metal cylinder. The last millimeter of metal slid into place the way she wanted, and the deposit box’s lid sprang open. Z looked through the keyhole at her human-sized cousins, giants compared to their natural pixie dimensions. “I pushed it most of the way there.”
“Uh-huh. What was that?” Domino looked at his wrist and the nonexistent watch on it. “A whole five minutes? Woohoo!”
“Hey, I’m trying to be a little more disciplined.” Z jumped off the box, and her shimmering blue wings, which were the same hue as her short hair, carried her up and over the table toward her cousins. With a soft pop, she grew to human size as well and appeared on the other side of Domino.
All three pixies stared at the open box.
After studying Z for several seconds, Echo whispered in her brother’s ear again.
Domino snickered. “She says forget five minutes. Do you have any idea what a zap could’ve done in five seconds?”
Z leaned forward to peer past him at his sister. “We’re the only ones in here, Echo. You don’t have to keep—”
“Yeah, but the others could walk in here at any second,” Domino interrupted. “She’s not gonna talk.”
Z glanced at the open door of the vault and shrugged. “I do know what a fun little zap can do, by the way. I’m just trying to spice things up. You know, add a challenge every once in a while.”
Her cousins choked back their laughter with poorly muffled snorts.
She fixed them with a deadpan stare. “You think that’s funny.”
“You don’t need a challenge, Z.” Domino’s voice trembled in his attempt not to laugh at her. “You need a life.”
“I have a life. I spend it keeping you two ingrates alive and out of Trevilson.”
Echo whispered in her brother’s ear again, and his attempt to keep a straight face failed. “She says you need a hobby, so add that to the list.”
“Oh, yeah. Thanks. Screw you too.” Smirking while her cousins snickered, Z nodded at the deposit box Echo had opened. “Find something useful in that, huh? Domino, you doing another one?”
“Nah.” With a grimace of distaste, he adjusted his hands on the large duffel bag he’d been holding open for the women the whole time. “I like it right here where it’s easy. You don’t want me crawling into any more locks anyway. I’d just end up showing you how it’s really done.”
“Uh-huh. Keep talking.” Shaking her head, Z stepped toward the deposit box she’d opened. Echo rounded the table to sort through hers. Z rubbed her hands together before holding them over the open box, fingers twitching. “Gimme something good.”
After she’d pulled the lid of the box back and let it ping against the table, she was disappointed. “Another watch? Seriously?”
“Think it’s real?” Domino asked.
“That’s not my area of expertise, dude.”
“Well, toss it in the bag. If it’s junk, I’ll wear it.”
The jingling and clinking of gemstones and metal filled the vault as Echo pulled a gaudy necklace dripping what looked like diamonds and rubies from her box. She shook the thing and grinned.
Domino barked a laugh. “Sure hope those are real.”
Echo tossed the ridiculously valuable necklace into the duffel bag with everything else they’d scored in this room. Z tossed the possibly fake Rolex over her shoulder, and Domino jerked the duffel bag forward to catch it.
“Personal documents,” she muttered, pulling papers out of the box and tossing them across the table in a scattered mess. “More personal documents. Who does this guy think he is, huh? The King of the Humans?”
Domino cleared his throat. “Echo says there’s no such thing—”
“It’s a figure of speech.”
The siblings shared a confused look, then Domino wrinkled his nose. “Says who?”
What could go wrong for Z and the gang? Find out on February 16, 2023, when Pixie Rebels Book 1: The Rogue Regiment is released. Until then head over to Amazon and pre-order today.
Love is in the Air This Wild Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Valentine’s Day is on the way, the best time to treat yourself to some great deals!
Wild Wednesday, February 8, 2023
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.
Dead Evil Mercenary Corps Complete Series Boxed Set:
Have you ever been sick of being the low man on the totem pole? A trio of mercs feel your pain. Chill, Ivan, and Kortez have been slaving away as mercenaries for years but enough is enough and they are done putting up with being an afterthought. Striking out alone is a risk, but mercenary work is not exactly in short supply…
In the depths of a mine-riddled world, the Swarm is stirring. Chitinous hordes boil up from the depths, claiming lives and resources.Never let a good crisis go to waste, they say. So what is our intrepid trio to do? Lock and load for thunderous action and the antics of a batch of ne’er do wells with more firepower than good sense!
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Faeries and Fangs:
For the first time, one of my spells backfired. I was trying to trap a sorcerer in a blood prism… He was too powerful. It was the only option. When the spell reflected back on me, I found myself somewhere else. The folk here are small, but they’re powerful.
The Faerie King doesn’t take kindly to intruders to his realm.
If they’ll teach me their power, though, it might be just enough to stop the sorcerer. There’s one problem with that plan… How do I even get out of here?
Chasing Tomorrow 15 Sci-fi Books Boxed Set:
Chasing Tomorrows explores classic sci-fi themes through a contemporary lens.
Continuing the legacy of decades gone by, these fast-paced standalone stories offer wondrous settings, philosophical sci-fi questions, and twists that pack a punch.
From alien invasion to space exploration…
From time travel to technological dystopias…
There truly is a tomorrow for everyone.
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Hunter’s Curse:
Dark elves and air elementals should never work together. They’re supposed to kill each other.
Their bloodlines make them mortal enemies.
He dwells underground. She thrives in the sky.
But together Eryn and Larcen become a nearly unstoppable powerhouse.
They must join together as assassins with the Delta Underground Operatives to take on a supernatural villain no one else can stop…
Glory:
One last chance for Glory. One last hope for humanity. A ship pulled out of mothballs by the original crew, sent to fight a war humanity was losing. Glory barely survived its last battle twenty years earlier. Captain Drake resigned rather than face court martial. But the enemy is back. Humanity needs everything that can fly. Maybe it’s not the ship at all, but the crew. Drake rallies old and young alike to comply with orders so secret, even he wasn’t allowed to see them until after the ship left the junkyard. The core hadn’t been fired in twenty years. The smell of decay filled the massive ship’s corridors. The stench of death lingered, the death of Drake’s crew, a nightmare from long ago. The Paragon have weapons that humanity couldn’t contemplate. But here they were, suing for peace. The people of Earth jumped at the carrot. The end of war! Could it be too good to be true? Drake had his orders from an admiral who knew too much. Glory must launch. And with it, the fate of humanity rested on the shoulders of a broken crew, carrying a weapon like no other, hoping for one clear shot.
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Harold Robbins Thriller Collection:
Dive into four page-turning thrillers full of flawed and complicated heroes – ambitious and dynamic Brad Rowan, Vietnam veteran Gareth Brendan, two ruthless daughters, and Diogenes Alejandro Xenos who quickly becomes an outlaw in his own country.
Harold Robbins captures our external desires vividly in these enduring parables of success and struggle. In these tales, morality and decency mean nothing in a place where respect is gauged by the size of your expense account…and everyone follows the golden rule: sex sells.
The Western Adventures of Cade McCall Boxed Set:
In the West, legends aren’t born. They’re forged in gunpowder and grit…
As long as he’s lived, Cade McCall has had to fight through hell to survive. Long nights in a Yankee P.O.W. camp left the soldier bruised and bloodied, but it’s a shock close to home that cuts closest to the bone. Forced to start over again, Cade thinks his luck has turned around when he meets a beautiful woman. He should’ve known the encounter was a trap…
Follow Cade as he rides the Chisholm Trail, searches for justice, gets caught up in Dodge City, and defends himself against Indians.
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All You Need is Love … and Books $50 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway
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You will LOVE these new releases!
I’m having a case of the Mondays. Why? Well because it’s Monday and we actually don’t have a new release for you today – but there is one for every other day of the week. No new release today makes me a little bit sad, but sometimes that happens and I know, I know, you need a slower week to catch up on your reading. Well, I think this might be one of those weeks. 🙂
We have 4 terrific books launching this week.
Learn about this week’s releases below!
This Week’s New Releases
Title: Sophie Briggs and the Guardians of the Tree
Series: The School of Roots and Vines Book 5
Release Date: 02/07/2023
Sophie Briggs has made it to her junior year at the School of Roots and Vines, but it isn’t all fun and games for the Defenders.
Change is coming. Some good and some… not so much.
Friends are breaking up – will Sophie have to take sides?
Sophie and Marcus are struggling, too. Marcus is pushing Sophie and the rest of the gang away, worried that being a Templeton will put them all at risk. He thinks he needs to do this by himself.
Does he have to go it alone?
Both Sophie and Marcus have taken on jobs at the EBI, unbeknownst to each other, hoping to help mend a bruised heart. Fate might just have a different plan in store for them.
Something dark is brewing again in Mammoth Cave. We’re pretty sure it’s going to take more than Marcus to put an end to it.
Can Sophie convince Marcus and the rest of the Defenders that they are better together so they can prevent another disaster?
Title: The Exiled Mark
Series: Great Lakes Investigations Book 8
Release Date: 02/08/2023
What’s it going to take for Maggie to get a moment alone with her thoughts?
Usually, when you squabble with a sibling, they aren’t stuck inside your head. But that’s how things are for Maggie and Matt, and it’s becoming unbearable.
Not that they have time to focus on a solution.
Maggie has shifter packs from all over the world hunting her, and she can’t stay on the run forever.
The question is, how does she get a bunch of shifters who think the only known female shifter is an abomination to just…leave her alone? And how does she get the covens who want to study her to just…leave her alone?
Maggie has no idea, so she does the next best thing. Or, not the next best thing. A ridiculous thing.
She sets out to find the father who abandoned her and her brother and get the answer to why.
Title: Lead
Series: Para-Military Recruiter Book 4
Release Date: 02/09/2023
With the possibility of a royal war on the horizon, Julie and Taylor are under pressure to step up their recruiting efforts.
Captain Kaplan orders Julie to complete her training. Now she has the full story, Julie has a better idea of the consequences if OPMA isn’t brought back to its full strength.
But three heads are better than one, even if one of their team doesn’t technically have a head.
Hat has an idea that takes the team deep into Avalon in their search for paras who are willing to stand up and fight for the right to live in peace.
While Julie and Taylor are working the recruitment angle, the heads of the seven families are preparing for the eventuality that the unrest rippling through the para world will erupt into violence.
Their presence at Julius Nox’s war council is all the inspiration the team need to put everything into their recruitment drive.
Taking one for the team doesn’t always turn out to be painful…
Julie is pulled back into her human life on their return when tragedy strikes.
In her absence, their enemies make their move, leading to a surprise discovery for Julie.
Can Julie, Taylor, and Hat save the heirs before disaster befalls the para world? How will it change her relationship with Taylor?
Title: Choir Practice
Series: Brew City Blues Book 3
Release Date: 02/10/2023
Officer Michael Collins passed probation and is now an official member of district five late shift.
But not everyone in this unbreakable group of cops is welcoming him with open arms.
Collins is still a rookie in the eyes of many of his peers. He is constantly trying to prove himself worthy. He is, however, gaining allies, including two new officers he bonded with and a few sergeants who have his back.
A new partner who is going through her own struggles and the ghost of a previous fling give Collins has a renewed optimism about his job and his shift.
That optimism could be misplaced…
Collins almost doesn’t survive his first New Year’s Eve on late shift in the most violent part of town.
The rookie cop comes within a few feet of becoming the victim of a blue-on-blue shooting and is pushed to breaking point during a hostage situation involving a small child held at gunpoint.
Off-duty, Collins’ love life is heating up with the nurse he has fallen for.
Their future is looking rosy until a mistimed gesture of affection that is misunderstood threatens to derail their newfound relationship.
Between the ghosts of his past, the nonstop pressure of his job, and the start—or maybe sudden end—of his love life, will Collins have what it takes to achieve balance and stay the course?
Get your copy and join Officer Collins as he battles to survive the unforgiving streets and keep his love life on track!
Note: This book contains profanities and situations not for the faint of heart. There is also dark, or what some call ‘gallows humor’ that police officers, and most other first responders use to deal with the ugliness that is thrown their way on a regular basis. This book is as realistic as it gets. Unless you are riding around in a squad car, now that’s real.
Six More Weeks of Winter Fan’s Pricing Saturday, February 4, 2023
Punxsutawney Phil says there are six more weeks of winter on the way, more time for staying indoors and reading!
Fan Pricing Saturday, February 4, 2023
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!
Wendigos in Washington
No Country For Old Agents
Deep Roots and Home Truths
Glitter and Kindling
Opus X Fleet of One Complete Series Boxed Set
All You Need is Love… and Books $50 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway
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Hello February and Wild Wednesday February 1, 2023
The perfect way to start a new month is with awesome deals!
Wild Wednesday, February 1, 2023
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.
Opus X Fleet of One Complete Series Boxed Set:
When the discovery of the ancient artifact is interrupted with surprising violence, the government becomes convinced the finding could unlock the long-lost knowledge of a powerful and ancient extinct alien race. It’s up to tough xenoarchaeologist Cyrus and newly-minted spy and ex-soldier Kat to save humanity. One is obsessed with science and the other with duty. The team must learn to work together with the help of an AI ally who isn’t fond of intelligences limited by such quaint restraints as flesh and blood. But they’re not the only ones interested in the discovery. A dark threat swirls in the shadows, hidden among the smugglers, pirates, and insurrectionists who have grown bolder in the recent years of chaos. He will uncover the lost knowledge, no matter the risk. She’s prepared to defend humanity from all enemies. If they can survive their first mission, they might have a chance.
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The Vilokan Asylum of the Mentally Deranged Omnibus Books 1-9:
Welcome to the Vilokan Asylum of the Magically and Mentally Deranged. I’m Doctor Cain. I’ll be supervising your treatment plan. Yes, before you ask, I am that Cain. I’ve come a long way since I became the world’s first murderer. I’m now a licensed psychiatrist. What is it you just asked? You heard that I was cursed? Yes, I’m also the world’s first werewolf… But don’t worry. I have it under control.
It won’t interfere with your progress at Vilokan Asylum.
The Sprite Who Came in From the Cold:
She’s not from this world…but she’s the only one who can save it. Dai is a perfect weapon–strong enough to bend steel and trained by the best ex-ACE in the business. She can take down almost any Terror Earth has to throw at her…or so she thought. After a botched mission lands them in hot water with an angry Italian Elf, Dai wakes up in the clutches of a mad scientist, who runs a lab designed for one thing–breaking her. It won’t matter how fast she is, how strong, she can’t fight this. Or so they think. Book Three of the Sorcerer Spy series, The Sprite Who Came In From the Cold is a race against the clock adventure with the fate of the world at stake. Heroes will be pushed to cross their moral lines and confront the demons that haunt them as they strive to do what’s right. Harry Dresden meets Mission Impossible, the Sorcerer Spy Books will make you laugh, make you think, and above all will make you keep turning the next page.
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Sign Your Fears Away:
Norah Wintry is a Witch with a dream job. A Hollywood agent getting magical actors’ parts in blockbuster films. It’s a niche field with unique problems. Somebody gets shrunk down to toadstool size and suddenly everyone’s upset. Welcome to L.A. No worries. Norah will fix it. She has a great family, a crackerjack assistant, and her business is taking off. Until things start going wrong. Actors are being injured, magic is causing accidents, and someone is hunting down former Silver Griffin Agents. Which makes it her business. Her parents are Silver Griffin agents in hiding. Norah never intended to get involved in her parent’s line of work. Whole other kind of agent – with real weapons and injuries that are harder to fix. But someone is muscling in on her business and maybe her life. Can Norah figure out who’s hurting magicals in Hollywood, reverse a curse on her roommate, and save her company? How about just stay alive?
Shadow Over Telis:
I was soon to take my rites as a priest of Varuda, the One God. Most of the time, the journey would take acolytes to find some peculiar treasure of the natural world or perhaps end a dispute in a far-off village. It was my Vahami, ‘my blessed path’. If I had only known before my journey what the truth was.
For myself, it seemed simple. The Western seaside city of Telis has ceased its offerings of fresh fish and spices. While there had been some scrolls sent back and forth, the answers received from the Lord of Telis were short and vague. It had seemed simply that something was afoot in the city.
That was then. Before they came…and I can only say that my recollection of these events might indeed trouble the most stalwart of warriors but it was as I scribe. I just hope someone reads this so they can save their own world for there may no longer be time for my own.
Florida Man: The Complete Series:
In Florida Man, Gary Duba’s having a bad day. There’s a snake in his toilet, a rabid raccoon in the yard, and his girl Krystal’s in jail for getting naked at a Waffle House and licking the manager. Gary’s a redneck living in a trailer by the swamp. But he’s got dreams, big dreams. Every time he tries to get ahead, fate deals him a low blow. But then he gets lucky… With his best friend, Floyd, Gary sets out to sell his prized Barry Bonds rookie card to raise the five hundred needed for bail. But things always find a way of getting out of hand.
Skills to Kill:
Lovers, spies, killers. Steve Dane & Nina Talikova make the world their playground, but the exotic lifestyle of these former operatives conceals a higher purpose. From the canals of Venice to the streets of Moscow and all points in between, Dane & Nina follow their own moral code to serve justice where there is none, one bullet at a time.
This collection includes Skills to Kill, Another Way to Kill, Live to Kill,and the never-before-published Mine to Avenge, four action-packed thrill rides that will leave you on the edge of your seat and gasping for more!
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All You Need is Love … and Books $50 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway
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