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The Disposable Soma: Book 1 of the Disposable Soma Trilogy

The year is 2164 and politics has become unrecognizable. Democrats have become conservative, Republicans have become liberal, and an upstart party called the Empathy Party blames all the world’s ills on sociopaths. An assassination leaves the Empathy Party’s candidacy wide open and a clown car of candidates vies for the nomination. One, hotel heir and failed comedian Jim Liu, stands out from the others when he chooses a genetically modified, super-intelligent, opium-addicted parrot as his running mate. This book follows his quest to become the Empathy Party’s nominee for the 2164 presidential election. His campaign takes him through an America where most days are public holidays, psychedelic drug use is widespread, and the last uncontacted people on Earth are the unknowing subjects of a reality show whose fans have tuned it into a new religion.

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Shadows of the Dark Realm

Worlds like kingdoms rise and fall. Some fade into decay. Others are brought to ruin.
When the elder dragon Draka Mors, steals the Darkstone from the peaceful kingdom of Parisia, the entire realm is threatened.
A group of unlikely heroes must cross hostile lands, survive enemy armies, and unspeakable monsters.
To save the realm, the Seekers must steal back the stone before time runs out. To do som they first have to survive each other.
“By five, may your journey thrive. By five, may you return alive.”

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Sinta, Sorceress-Detective: Tales from Ondiran, Book Three

A magical murder mystery, complete with medieval mayhem!
Poison in the prince’s pork tenderloin claims the life of his hapless taster. A dagger to the heart slays the sleeping court sorcerer, tasked to investigate. With courtiers seemingly falling like ninepins, the prince’s chancellor turns to Mistress Sinta, a gifted freelance sorceress, to assume the role of detective.
With the aid of Sir Othir, her dashing man-at-arms, Sinta plunges into the murk of the princely court, where—while enjoying some tasty meals—she soon finds that spells alone will not uncover the answers she seeks.
Can our inquisitive young heroine crack the case before herself falling victim to the killer?

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Being: Being Saga, Book I

When you desire something so much that you’d do anything for it, even bargain with the devil, that’s when a human becomes a Void.
But for Caiden Waters, someone who was born cursed, she’s the only exception.
Unlike the Blackhearts, the humans that made the exchange, she has the burden of living with the weight of this world on her shoulders. That comes with having an empathic ability, her own emotions reflected in the changing color of her eyes, and a conscious glowing heart in her chest.
Exposed to the outside world for the first time on her own, Caiden finds herself being pursued by zealous Blackhearts who discover her unique secret. With the aid of the Argenta, her cryptic guardians, and a mysterious Archangel, she sets out to find the reason for her being.
Fast-paced, thought-provoking, and darkly alluring, Kedi Daniels’ debut YA urban fantasy, Being, thrusts you into an intriguing universe that you’ll never want to leave.

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Paladin and Necromancer

Seven years ago, a Paladin married a Necromancer. It didn’t seem like a big deal back then, seeing as the world was ending.
For better or worse, humanity survived. The extraplanar enemy was repelled, and the rifts in the Multiverse were patched up.
In the ruins of the realm’s devastation, humanity recovered and rebuilt. Stuck in an uneasy marriage, Kassander and Silver couldn’t be less enthusiastic about the prospect.
Perhaps it’s for the best that a noble house is slaughtered in what looks like a wine-soaked demonic ritual. At least solving crimes gives Kass and Silver something to do.
Together, they uncover a conspiracy that threatens to tear apart the multiverse and its deities – and, most importantly, their already fragile marriage.
A dark fantasy mystery-romance.

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The Secret Order of the Scepter & Gavel

Vanderough University prepares its graduates for life on Mars. Herbert Hoover Palminteri enrolls at VU with the hope of joining the Martian colony in 2044 as a member of its eleventh graduating class. He thinks if he just keeps his head down and gets his studies done, he’ll get the marks he needs to join the esteemed engineer corps on the red planet. But then Herbert is tapped to join a notorious secret society: The Order of the Scepter & Gavel. As a new pledge, Herbert has to prove himself in a series of dangerous initiation rites, even if it means risking his life and the lives of his friends.
Many years later, when Herbert thinks the scandals of his youth are finally dead and buried, a murder occurs in the Martian colony, and Herbert starts to suspect it is linked to the secret Order of the Scepter & Gavel of his past.