Marines, houndsmen, alchemists, and combat frames. All arrayed against the cunning threats found in this week’s new releases.

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Alchemist Mastery (The Alchemist #6) – D. K. Holmberg and Dan Michaelson

The discovery of a strange new power leads Sam to buried truths.

Now that Rasan Tel has escaped, Sam works with others within the Academy to make preparations for the coming war. Increasing attacks on the outskirts of Olway raise the urgency to learn when and where the next attack will come, but Sam is caught between fighting the war and his new responsibilities to the Academy.

A dangerous new form of magic leads Sam and Tara toward a discovery that will shake the foundation of what they believed about the war—and about how to stop it. If they fail to learn the truth in time, more than Olway will suffer an impossible fate.

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Battle Orders – Toby Neighbors

Some people are born for battle…

Some people have war in their blood…

Moss LeFer is a Marine in a bad situation.  The battle for Elon Station is a lost cause, but he doesn’t know the meaning of surrender.  His dream of completing a full term of service with the Western Forces Marine Corps seems as far away as the stars overhead.  But if he can survive long enough, he wants to start a new life far away from fighting and conflict.  But for some people, war seems to follow them wherever they go.

When things go from bad to worse for his platoon, Moss will take matters into his own hands.  He may not get out alive, but he’s determined to take as many enemies out before he’s killed as possible.  One Marine, in the fight of his life, could be just what’s needed to turn the tide in a war spanning a galaxy.

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Combat Frame XSeed Roleplaying Game – Brian Niemeier

Ripped from the hit novels, the Combat Frame XSeed Roleplaying Game puts you in control of history’s ultimate weapons.

Stage hit-and-run strikes across the FMAS-Coalition border in your trusty Grenzie. Defend the L1 Colonies from ZoDiaC incursions in your bleeding edge Ein Dolph. Or play a soldier of fortune raiding desert trade routes in your junkyard Grenzmark I.

The post-future is up to you. Forge your legend in a world of brutal mech combat.

Play the Combat Frame XSeed Roleplaying game now!

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Hell Gate (Dungeon Heart #3) – David Sanchez-Ponton

Hell hath come and the horde rides in its shadow!

In the high stakes world of dungeon keeping, the price of success is the avarice of your peers. Smit has defeated those who would take over his home, and all he wants is a bit of peace and quiet with his family. But alas, fate has other plans in store. A demonic lord from the deepest pits of the underworld is ready to unleash every corrupted spirit and demon at her disposal to capture him.

Forced to fight an ancient entity that weaves plans within plans, Smit will have to use all his inventiveness and cunning to lure the demonic horde into a trap. By pushing himself to his core’s limit, he might convince others this rock is too tough to crack, but if he fails, an eternity of darkness and servitude awaits.

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The Houndsman #2 – J. Pal

The walls might be high, but are they enough to protect the pack, his land, and its people?

Flint thought over a decade in the Iron Army’s Building Division gave him enough experience to complete the life quest. He was wrong. Restoring the Slumbering Fort and awakening proved no challenge for a man of his talents. However, protecting it and Lea’s Slumber from looming threats is an entirely different story.

The first two attacks were minor. Now more formidable threats are on the way.

Fortunately, Flint has his pack and the Woodson Council by his side. When the Iron Army returns and the Wyld inevitably arrives, they’ll need to work together. However, every faction has its own agenda and interests.

Flint must learn where to give ground and where to draw the line. Otherwise, if external threats don’t doom the Champion of Equilibrium’s future, someone on the inside will.

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The Last Ditch (The Exiled Fleet #5) – Richard Fox

Betrayed by allies, Commodore Gage and the Exiled Fleet must break free before the Daegon strike.

The Cathay Empire holds Gage responsible for a sneak attack on its forces. A crime Albion’s last fleet did not commit. While Gage rots in the prison cell, the Daegon hunter Tiberian comes to collect him. Tolan, the Faceless spy, hatches a plan to smuggle Gage out of captivity, but risks an all-out war in the process.

With the Reich and the Daegon closing in, Albion’s Exiled Fleet must walk a narrow and dangerous path to free Gage and strike at the source of the invasion before all hope is lost.

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Sharp Steel – William Alan Webb

He was exiled into a world of monsters, evil wizards, and mad gods…and they’d be well advised to stay out of his way!

What 21-year-old swordsman would choose the cloistered life of a priest over one of sharp steel and high adventure? Not Alden Havenwulf. As Prince of Corland, the mightiest kingdom on Reven, his world is driven by ancient traditions and rigid obligations.

Instead of the twisted politics of the Royal Court, though, Alden chooses exile, wandering the world in search of enough riches to buy his own estate. Along with his giant friend Dexter—and Dexter’s enormous axe—the Corlandishman leaves a wake of dead wizards, broken monsters, and angry gods.

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Sunkiller: Legacy – J. N Chaney and Rick Partlow

They know the secret to saving humanity…if they can just live long enough to use it.

Chase Weston was a mercenary. Angel Cortez was an archaeologist. Neither one of them expected to be recruited to save the Earth by an ancient alien AI.

But a doomsday machine, the Sunkiller, is heading for Earth at close to the speed of light, and unless they gather the lost alien artifacts needed to destroy it, humanity will be extinct.

Unfortunately, those artifacts represent unlimited power–the kind that nations and corporations will kill to possess–and the next one they have to find just happens to be right in the middle of enemy territory.

With threats on all sides, the future of the galaxy rests on their shoulders. All they have to do is survive.