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Maddy Dune and the Martyr’s Crown – Available Now

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!

Impossibly Alien — Available Now

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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Quite Possibly Alien – Available Now

One human. Six legs. All hero.

Merchant Academy grad Ciarán mac Diarmuid wants to do well by doing good. But when he rescues a mysterious stranger from foreign assassins no respectable merchant captain will hire him.

On a superluminal mission of epic proportions.

Now Ciarán must apprentice himself to the black sheep of the powerful nic Cartaí clan, a young woman who is almost certainly a pirate, aboard a sentient starship that is almost certainly insane, on a mission that will almost certainly get both him and his cat killed.

Across a galaxy more dangerous than anyone imagines.

Ciarán has no idea he has been chosen. Any competent human may win a merchant’s license. And any interstellar vessel will do. But it will take more than two legs and a pair of opposable thumbs to liberate the galaxy and see justice done.

It will take the heart of a tiger. And of the champion who walks beside her.

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Quite Possibly Final — Available Now

Am I Being Detained?

When pirates capture the vessel he’s traveling on Ciarán mac Diarmuid barges in to deal with the situation. Deal with it quickly. Either he arrives at Unity Station in time for his merchant examination or his career is over, and with it the careers of his captain and his crew.

Forced to travel alone and under an alias, Ciarán must use all of his talents to outsmart his captors, rescue a missing VIP, and stop a hidden plot that threatens, not just the lives and fortunes of his ship and crew, but all life in Freeman space. His only ally? An unemployed geologist, quite possibly a fugitive, and definitely more than she’s letting on.

The clock is ticking. Because there’s only one thing Merchant Guild Master Roche hates more than the man who killed her brother. And that’s a merchant apprentice who shows up late for his own lynching.

Quite Possibly Final? Definitely.

Quite Possibly Fatal? Maybe.

There’s only one way to know for certain.

Read the final chapter in the Quite Possibly Alien series today.

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Quite Possible Allies – Available Now

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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Quite Possibly False – Available Now

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Blood from a Stone

Getting a straight answer from the mysterious Hector Poole is like getting blood from a stone. But once the blood starts flowing there’s no stopping it, not without revealing further secrets best kept hidden.

Senior Captain Maris Solon knows better than to trust Poole twice. But trust him she must, when she’s lured to the planet Sampson by the Queen’s Merlin and forced to choose between darkness and light.

There is more at stake than anyone has imagined and Maris isn’t sure she wants to know.

Will the truth set her free or shackle her to a destiny only a martyr, or a madman, would embrace?

Note: The events of this story take place between books two and three of the Freeman Universe series. (There are spoilers.)

READER WARNING: If you’re the sort of reader that likes to discover the world along with the main characters then don’t read this story. But if you abhor a mystery? Read on.

Fair warning, you will not be able to unlearn what Maris learns.

Book 2.5 in the Freeman Universe series. Available here for loyal readers like you.

Book one, Quite Possibly Alien and book two, Quite Possibly Allies are available in print and Kindle Unlimited.

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Quite Possibly True – Available Now

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To save the living he must wake the dead.

Seanscéal means ‘old story.’ Like a parable, or a fable, but generally more long-winded. It’s like… entertainment, but often with something meant to be learned hidden inside. Not only is it good fun, but sharing a seanscéal is also a way of getting around the not-waking-the-dead custom.

And that’s exactly what Ciarán does, three times, skirting custom to explain:

How he won a posting to the Freeman Merchant Academy.

How he and his cat, the mong hu Wisp, first met.

How he learned the Iron Rule and the enduring cost of that lesson.

It’s no small thing, breaking with custom. But when the price of ignorance is measured in lives?

Someone has to speak up.

Note: The events of this story take place between books one and two of the Freeman Universe series. (There are spoilers.)

Book one, Quite Possibly Alien, is available in print and Kindle Unlimited.

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