Arminius, Bane of Eagles (War on Rome #1) – Adrian Cole

Swords clash with ancient sorcery in this first volume of ADRIAN COLE’S epic alternative world trilogy.

Set in an alternative Romano-Celtic Europe, ARMINIUS, BANE OF EAGLES opens with the murder of young Claudius, 14 year old brother of Germanicus, during the last years of the reign of Augustus Caesar, ruler of the vast Roman Empire.

In this world, Arminius, the Germanic tribal leader and destroyer of three entire Roman legions in the Teutoburger forest, and Germanicus, ambitious Roman conqueror and potential heir to the Empire, avoid assassination attempts and set out on a course that will eventually see them clash in a war that will shake the foundations of their world.

Their battles and campaigns are brought vividly to life as history twists and turns down ever darker passageways, where sorcery and elemental forces collide with the Roman war machine, and the conspiracies of the Via Tenebrarum, a secret cult dedicated to the elder gods of Old Night and whose web enmeshes a world, weave a corrupt future for humanity.

Set in the forbidding landscape of the Germanic forests, across the northern seas, in the far reaches of Caledonia and mysterious regions of Britannia, to the heart of Rome itself, WAR ON ROME races to a dramatic climax that will determine the history of European generations to come.

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Character Creation (Mystic Seasons Upload #1) – William Myrl

Hollen doesn’t want to die, and that’s weird.

As an Artificial Intelligence operating as the help function for Mystic Seasons: Mythopoeia, the world’s premier Full Immersion RPG, Hollen shouldn’t care that his server is being downsized, but he does. He issues a quest to a new player to find a way to keep him alive, and together they discover hidden aspects of the game. But Hollen isn’t the only AI trying to escape.

Acarus, an in-game god, has developed a virus to infect players and propagate into the real world. Can Hollen find a new host before the server crashes or the moderators delete them all?

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The Futility of Intent (The Anisian Convergence #4) – Mike Wyant, Jr.

To avoid the truth of her origins, Lieutenant Dee Terganon has thrown herself into wiping out the last bastions of demons on Laconia. But the strange, dark power she can harness is changing her. Her nails are falling off, and her skin is growing yellow and scaly like the beasts she hunts.

On the other side of the galaxy, the planet Shiva lays cracked open like an egg, ripe for mining. Ceriat and Eleni, searching for a new home far away from the turmoil, make the last faster-than-light jump in the galaxy. But instead of arriving at Earth as planned, they fall out of FTL around Laconia, amidst utter chaos. Hundreds of ships have all appeared in the same space, and as they crash and fight, Ceriat and his crew ‘escape’ to the surface in a ball of flame.

Meanwhile, seated on a throne of corpses on Laconia’s moon, the genetically modified demon, Argus One, watches the chaos with his eyeless face.

And laughs.

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A Grimm Sacrifice (Grimm’s War #4) – Jeffery H. Haskell

In order to survive, Interceptor must change the rules.

The Consortium is in real trouble. Caliphate Naval forces have stepped up their raids on the border planets and are taking people by the thousands. They can defend the wormhole, or they can defend their planets, not both.

Only the Alliance can help them, but will they?

With the cold war heating up, the Alliance is forced to send light units to help. Lucky for them, the squadron of destroyers they free up includes Commander Jacob T. Grimm.

With Nadia off on a secret mission, and most of his officers reassigned, Jacob must face a new challenge— taking his ship into battle with wet behind the ear ensigns and midships.

From fires in the galley, to surprise attacks, the war is about to start in earnest. Interceptor can be the first casualty, or a sole survivor. For Interceptor to survive, the rest of her squadron must die.

Can Jacob find a way to save his squadron and warn the Alliance? Or will one final sacrifice be required?

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The Other Place (The Glass #1) – Nathan Hystad

When a mysterious invisible barrier appears on a Montana ranch, no one knows what to think of it.

Drake, a retired police detective, receives a call in the dead of night from an alien-obsessed podcaster. He hastily departs for Montana the following morning.

The phenomenon continues all over the globe. What are they? What do they mean?

Britt is on assignment for a digital magazine when she encounters one of the Glass in a tragic boating accident, leaving her no choice but to follow the lead.

Panic ensues as mysterious creatures are sighted.

Will has never left the relative safety of his small town, having begun to accept a life he doesn’t want. Now he must venture into the unknown with the girl of his dreams.

The Glass seem innocuous, until they start to glow…

Ransom, a washed-up Broadway actor and single father, tends bar in the Upper West Side. His daughter shares his knack for knowing things, and they head west as their intuition guides them to the source.

Together they must discover the truth behind the Glass, or risk losing their world forever.

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Star Guardian (Star Guardians #1) – G. J. Ogden

The galaxy’s greatest treasure hunters become humanity’s best hope for survival.

Hudson Powell and Tory Bellona are the galaxy’s top Star Scavengers. Travelling to distant planets, they hunt for valuable artefacts inside the wrecks of giant alien starships that mysteriously lie crashed and broken on every portal world.

It’s a dangerous job, even without having to contend with corrupt police forces, criminal cartels, and the rival scavengers who want to kill them and take their crown. But for Hudson and Tory, an even greater danger lies ahead – one that not only threatens them, but the entire human race.

A tragic attack by a fanatical death cult turns Hudson’s life upside down. The cult’s leader, a deranged zealot called Amelia Ash, claims to have found and resurrected the malevolent AI that destroyed the titanic alien starships millennia ago. The super-powered entity aims to finish what it started eons earlier – to wipe out all sentient organic life in the universe.

Caught in the alien AI’s sights, Hudson and Tory discover that rare alien crystals are the source of the destructive entity’s power – crystals that can only be found deep inside the wrecked ships scattered across the galaxy.

Now the race is on to find and recover these crystal shards before Amelia Ash and her army of zealots can deliver them to the alien AI as fuel for its murderous ambitions.

Failure will mean certain death for Hudson and Tory, but there’s more at stake than just their lives. The fate of humanity itself now rests on the shoulders of the infamous Star Scavengers.

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Planet of the Wage Slaves – J. Manfred Weischel

He didn’t want a job, but the job wanted him, and now he’s going to learn that there’s no freedom beneath the planet of the wage slaves!