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Streetcab Seshjack

If you borrow a body, there is no going back.
Aedan Namakoto cares about one thing: saving humanity from being enslaved by an addictive virtual reality controlled by the adtech industry.
He’s also a man torn between two lives.
Online, he is the respected founder of a nonprofit VR network promising virtual worlds free from invasive ads and surreptitious surveillance.
Offline, he’s a guilt-ridden single father in poor health, working obsessively to escape the past.
But when a mysterious hacker pulls off an impossible crypto crime, Aedan is left broke and his network on the brink of bankruptcy.
The only one who can help him now is his estranged brother, the powerful CEO of an adtech network. But an enemy is a dangerous ally. And when Aedan does the unthinkable, borrowing a body against the will of its owner, he is betrayed in the worst possible way.
Set in a tug-of-war between IRL and VR as the main reality of humanity, Streetcab Seshjack is the story of a man forced to sacrifice one half of himself to save the other.

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Silver and Salt: A Mythos Novella

Aran always had his secrets, things he didn’t feel like sharing until his younger brother finally got up the nerve to ask about the past he never mentioned.
At least until a few days in mid September after an early morning swimming lesson.
Until asked, he never spoke of the family had before being adopted by their parents or some of his own past. It was his own until Tristan’s curiosity made him finally tell the story.
Alternating between the present day and the years prior to his time in Seattle.

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Frostfire: Book One of the Dark Inbetween

For centuries, the people of Tennebrum have been plagued by demons that crawl from the shadows of their very homes. Yet to Kyran, these demons and the hunters that fight them are naught but Isleish fireside tales, until one night in Tennebrum, Kyran wakes to the sounds of screams and flames. Born as a mage with rare magical talent granted by his curse-wrought blood, Kyran rushes into the inferno to find the demons are more than simple stories.
Kyran does not stand alone-Barrett, a fire-wielding demon hunter haunted by guilt and regret, rides out of the black of night, sweeping Kyran into the once in a lifetime opportunity to join the tumultuous and deadly life of a Guild-sanctioned hunter. But it doesn’t take long for Barrett to sense Kyran isn’t telling him everything about his stay in Tennebrum, and Kyran must decide whether to stay shackled by his secrets or chase the chance of becoming a Hunter. As Kyran struggles to choose, a powerful demon from Barrett’s past returns to stalk the mage, threatening to devour Kyran as it had his former partner. Barrett fights desperately to keep Kyran safe against the fate that he swore to never allow anyone to suffer again even as the noose of Kyran’s secrets tighten around his neck.

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Petals in the Hail, Volume 1

Princess Nebati Dar Rasheba must chart her first steps as an adult while a horrific rakshasa brings more death to her already warlike world. At first, she is only her parents’ conflicted pawn for a political marriage. As allies around her fall, though, Rasheba embraces a path to real power and her first real lover, Lyrabei: stubborn, sensuous, and primal. Then, given the chance to turn the tide against evil, Rasheba strikes like a storm, but it may not be enough. Unseen enemies want the fires of slaughter to keep burning.

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So You Survived the End of the World: 3

Bandits are deadly, but the past is a jerk…
Two things Sebastian Yun never in a million years would have put on his bucket list: Sneaking into the Bandit Queen’s stronghold and dredging up his less-than-awesome past. And yet here he is.
It’s just his luck that his rushed heist coincides with an unusual bandit competition. But when he’s caught mid-theft, inserting himself into their fierce contest may be his only chance of escaping this mess with his head still attached to his neck.
But while cut-throat raiders are scary, it’s confronting a blast from his past that he’d bend time and space to avoid. Because there’s only one person with the power to decimate him, and she’s determined to see him again…