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ONE GIRL. ONE HELLHOUND. ONE CHANCE TO SAVE THE WORLD.

A map. A riddle. And her first job in the city. Maddy Dune possesses everything she needs to search for Tan, her soulmate and missing heir to the throne. Everything, until the dragon arrives and shreds her plans to tatters.

Taking control of the city’s police, Tan’s scaly southern cousin butts in, forcing Maddy’s adoptive family to scarper off to a rural town where ancient magic rules. And where an inexperienced but hard-working half-hellhound enchanter has zero chance of tracking down her misplaced prince.

Maddy’s new backwater home-in-exile has nothing. No magical wards, no magic amplifying fog, no friends in low places, no allies in high positions. And surprise, the townspeople hate her enchanter father and loathe her foreign-born mother. Things can’t get worse until they do. It’s almost as if someone planned to stop her from finding Tan. Plotted to make her and her family suffer. Schemed to poison all joy while destroying everything and everyone Maddy loves.

Which is absurd. Maddy isn’t important enough to have an enemy like that. Besides, no one is that clever. That powerful. That connected. Not even a dragon could arrange all that. It would take a cabal, and everyone knows dragons work alone.

Don’t they?

Maddy Dune and the Martyr’s Crown is the third volume in the Fogbound Realm gas lamp fantasy series by Patrick O’Sullivan. If you like your fantasy more Edwardian than Victorian, your magic more alchemy than steam, and your supernatural neighbors more folkloric than shifty you’re in the right neighborhood.

The adventure continues. Explore the unexpected world of the Fogbound Realm and Maddy Dune and the Martyr’s Crown today!

We do not come in peace.

Hired to follow in the reckless footsteps of a madman, Ciarán mac Diarmuid and the crew of Quite Possibly Alien agree to cross the Alexandrine on their way to a shattered Earth no explorer has set eyes on in six thousand years.

Tricked into taking on fugitive passengers, the ship and crew find themselves entangled in a universe-spanning web of lies centuries in the spinning. And when a hidden conflict simmering beneath the surface of the League erupts into bloody civil war their options narrow until a single path remains. Forward, into the unknown.

Pursued by relentless enemies, racing toward the limits of known space, they plot a perilous course toward a solitary gateway, where a deathless enemy awaits. And where every lie will be answered, not with another lie, but with a revelation that will unite humanity. Or purge it from the stars.

Impossibly Alien is book five in the Freeman Universe space opera adventure series by Patrick O’Sullivan. If you like unconventional characters, plots that twist and turn, and cat-friendly heroes that talk as fast as they shoot then you’ve come to the right launch pad.

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They can only hang him once.

Associate Engineer Macer Gant doesn’t want much from life. A brew or two, pretty girls, three square meals and an honest job working the big iron, pushing a big load, in a big sky. There’s no in-system tug bigger than Truxton’s Tractor Four Squared, and no better gig than propulsion engineer. Life isn’t just good. It’s great.

Great, until a plague ship tears into Trinity space, a dead hull arrowing straight for the nic Cartaí shipyard and the thousands living and working there. Only Four Squared can stop it. But the captain won’t, not just because he hates nic Cartaí, but because doing so would reveal what Four Squared can really do. 

Macer must choose between hanging for failing to render aid or hanging for mutiny. Which has to be the easiest choice in the world. No way is he dangling before lighting up Four Squared’s hidden monster, and without at least whispering the ageless war cry of his wrench-wielding tribe. 

Hold my beer. I got this.

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