Posts Tagged ‘author publicity’

First Chapter: The Ark by Laura Liddell Nolen

Title: The Ark Author: Laura Liddell Nolen Publisher: HarperCollins Pages: 239 Genre: YA Scifi Format: Paperback/Kindle/Nook There’s a meteor headed for Earth, and there is only one way to survive. It’s the final days of earth, and sixteen-year-old Char is right where she belongs: in prison. With her criminal record, she doesn’t qualify for a place on an Ark, one of the five massive bioships designed to protect earth’s survivors during the meteor strike that looks set to destroy the planet. Only a select few will be saved – like her mom, dad, and brother – all of whom have long since turned their backs on Char. If she
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Let’s Talk About Tickling Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Veronica Frances’ LET’S TALK ABOUT TICKLING virtual book tour June 1 – September 30! Title: Let’s Talk About Tickling Author: Veronica Frances Publisher: Blue Note Books Pages: 240 Genre: Relationships/Nonfiction/Self-Help Format: Kindle Let’s Talk About Tickling is an honest, straightforward discussion about tickling. Discover the many different aspects of tickling—the fantasies, the realities, the many paradoxes of the tickling fetish and how to come to terms with ones own sensuality. A refreshing and very welcome find, Let’s Talk About Tickling is for anyone who wishes to expand their awareness of tickling and other related fetishes. This book will be of
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Pump Up Your Book Presents You Won’t Remember This Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kate Blackwell’s YOU WON’T REMEMBER THIS virtual book tour June 1 – 26! Title: You Won’t Remember This Author: Kate Blackwell Publisher: Bacon Press Books Pages: 232 Genre: Short Stories/Southern Fiction Format: Kindle The twelve stories in Kate Blackwell’s debut collection illuminate the lives of men and women who appear as unremarkable as your next-door-neighbor until their lives explode quietly on the page. Her wry, often darkly funny voice describes the repressed underside of a range of middle-class characters living in the South. Blackwell’s focus is elemental—on marriage, birth, death, and the entanglements of love at all ages—but her gift
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Unexpected Rain Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jason LaPier’s UNEXPECTED RAIN virtual book tour June 1 – 26! Title: Unexpected Rain Author: Jason LaPier Publisher: HarperCollins (HarperVoyager) Pages: 350 Genre: SciFi Format: Paperback/Kindle/Nook In a domed city on a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, a recently hired maintenance man named Kane has just committed murder. Minutes later, the airlocks on the neighbourhood block are opened and the murderer is asphyxiated along with thirty-one innocent residents. Jax, the lowly dome operator on duty at the time, is accused of mass homicide and faced with a mound of impossible evidence against him. His only ally is Runstom, the rogue police
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Core Attraction Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ashlinn Craven’s CORE ATTRACTION virtual book tour June 1 – 26! Title: Core Attraction Author: Ashlinn Craven Publisher: Crimson Romance Pages: 201 Genre: Contemporary Romance Format: Kindle Living with her dad and single since the Ice Age, Fiona Halpin’s plan is to get a promotion, a swanky house, and a boyfriend—strictly in that order. So when Dr. Declan MacCarthy and his protest leaflets turn up outside the power plant where she handles public relations, she’s almost too busy doing damage control to notice how gorgeous he is. Almost. Declan has returned from Japan to settle in his Irish hometown and
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  • May 2, 2015
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Angels, Angels, Everywhere Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Michelle Beber’s ANGELS, ANGELS, EVERYWHERE virtual book tour June 1 – August 28! Title: Angels, Angels, Everywhere Author: Michelle Beber Publisher: Balboa Press Pages: 30 Genre: Juvenile Fiction/Children’s Picture Book Format: Paperback/Kindle/Nook Angels, Angels, Everywhere is a non-denominational, multiracial book written in delightful rhythm and rhyme and accompanied by charming illustrations.  The themes of constant support and unconditional love are designed to help children deal with everyday experiences in life. By developing children’s faith in knowing that they are not alone and building their trust that they are consistently watched over, cared for, and loved, children will become empowered to
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Loss Angeles Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mathieu Cailler’s LOSS ANGELES virtual book tour May 4-29! Title: Loss Angeles Author: Mathieu Cailler Publisher: Short Story America Press Pages: 217 Genre: Short Stories Format: Hardcover Set in the glamorous city of Los Angeles, California, LOSS ANGELES skips the shine and celebrity the city is known for and instead dives deeply into the lives of ordinary Angelenos. In each of the fifteen stories in this collection, author Mathieu Cailler examines the private lives of a diverse mix of characters. This collection of stories showcases the rawness of real life, the complexity of navigating personal challenges and internal conflicts, and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Grey Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Christi J. Whitney’s GREY virtual book tour May 4 – June 26! Title: Grey (The Romany Outcasts Series, Book 1) Author: Christi J. Whitney Publisher: HarperCollins/HarperVoyager Pages: 400 Genre: Young Adult (Urban Fantasy) Format: Paperback/Kindle Sebastian Grey always thought he was a fairly normal teenager – good friends, decent grades, and a pretty sweet job in his foster brother’s tattoo shop. But when strangers arrive in town, Sebastian soon realizes that his world is nothing at all what it seemed. Secretive gypsies surround him, shadowy figures stalk him, and the girl he’s been dreaming about turns up at school. Now
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{Southern Fiction/Women’s Fiction/Short Stories} You Won’t Remember This Blog Tour Sign Up

Kate Blackwell will be touring June 1 – 26 with her collection of southern fiction/women’s fiction short stories, YOU WON’T REMEMBER THIS! We are looking for: Reviews (paperbacks – US only please/ebooks) Interviews Guest Posts Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Title: You Won’t Remember This Author: Kate Blackwell Publisher: Bacon Press Books Pages: 232 Genre: Short Stories/Southern Fiction Format: Kindle The twelve stories in Kate Blackwell’s debut collection illuminate the lives of men and women who appear as unremarkable as your next-door-neighbor until their lives explode quietly on the page. Her wry,
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{Fantasy/Horror} Shaytan: A Journey Into Evil Blog Tour Sign Up

David S. Arthur will be touring June 1 – 26 with his fantasy/horror novel, SHAYTAN: A JOURNEY INTO EVIL! We are looking for: Reviews (paperbacks – US only please) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Title: Shaytan: A Journey Into Evil Author: David S. Arthur Publisher: Brighton Publishing LLC Pages: 395 Genre: Adventure/Thriller India – 1947. In the heart of the jungle, death stalks the night. The authorities claim it is a man-eating leopard. The natives believe it is something far more terrifying—a creature that by day wears
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  • April 14, 2015
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Twist of Fortune Book Publicity Tour & Win Prize!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mike Martin’s A TWIST OF FORTUNE virtual book excerpt tour May 4-29! Title: A Twist of Fortune (Book 4 of the Sgt. Windflower Mystery series) Author: Mike Martin Publisher: Booklocker Pages: 278 Genre: Mystery Format: Paperback A Twist of Fortune is the fourth book in the Sgt. Windflower Mystery Series and it continues the adventures of Sgt. Windflower as he tries to solve crime and experience the joy and the sadness of life in a small maritime community. Follow along as he feels the sometimes bitter taste of an east coast winter and the unique culinary delights of this part
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Ark Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Laura Liddell Nolen’s THE ARK virtual book tour May 4 – June 26! Title: The Ark Author: Laura Liddell Nolen Publisher: HarperCollins Pages: 239 Genre: YA Scifi Format: Paperback/Kindle/Nook There’s a meteor headed for Earth, and there is only one way to survive. It’s the final days of earth, and sixteen-year-old Char is right where she belongs: in prison. With her criminal record, she doesn’t qualify for a place on an Ark, one of the five massive bioships designed to protect earth’s survivors during the meteor strike that looks set to destroy the planet. Only a select few will be
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  • April 10, 2015
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Anzard Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Christopher Conroy’s ANZARD virtual book tour May 4-29! Title: Anzard Author: Christopher Conroy Publisher: CreateSpace Pages: 154 Genre: Children’s Fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle Author Christopher Conroy has just released a book for kids aged 8-12 called ANZARD. Teachers, parents, producers…take note!  This appealing and well-written book would give Lewis Carroll (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) reason to worry.  As a matter of fact if you mixed in one part Harry Potter, with one part Pinocchio then added a generous helping of Alice in Wonderland…you’d get Anzard! ANZARD tells the story of how a young boy named Justin Cavell learns to listen to
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Ticktock to Triumph Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon GC!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Betty Wyatt’s TICKTOCK TO TRIUMPH virtual book tour April 20-May 1!     Title: Ticktock to Triumph Author: Betty Wyatt Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Religion Format: Kindle/Paperback Ticktock to Triumph presents a unique collection of prose and poetry written by author Betty Wyatt over the course of fifty years. It is her legacy of soul songs that offers her homespun wisdom captured in God moments, the love of nature and personal insights. She hopes her writing may comfort and give hope to people who are living with life’s daunting challenges, found in the pain of sorrow and loneliness. To Purchase Ticktock to Triumph Journaling
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Pump Up Your Book Presents No Crystal Stair Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon GC!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sarah Smith Ducksworth’s NO CRYSTAL STAIR virtual book tour April 20-May 1!   Title: No Crystal Stair Author: Sarah Smith Ducksworth Publisher: Trafford Genre: Poetry Format: Kindle Each poem in this collection is a reflection upon the author’s personal life or is a response to her vicarious interactions in the lives of characters she has met in real life or in books. Through the critical lens of poetry, she has looked for deeper meanings inside those experiences. Though the writer ends with an understanding that her life has not been a “crystal stair,” alluding to the hardships the titular character in Langston
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Principium The Stone Prophecy Series Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon GC!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Alexandra Lamarre’s PRINCIPIUM The Stone Prophecy Series virtual book tour April 20-May 1!   Title: Principium: The Stone Prophecy Series Author: Alexandra Lamarre Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Fantasy Format: Kindle Ever since her mother’s death twelve years ago, fourteen-year-old Kiarra Johnson wonders if she is a good witch or if she is doomed to a lifetime of evil. Her life is anything but mundane as she lives in a rented room in her father’s home in the village of Kiamika, a magical society hidden from mortals who would persecute them for their gifts. For many years, Kiarra has lived across the lake from
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Correcting Misconceptions Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Rev. Dr. Hazel Ann Gibbs Depeza’s CORRECTING MISCONCEPTIONS virtual book tour April 20-May 1!   Title: Correcting Misconceptions Author: Rev. Dr. Hazel Ann Gibbs De Peza Publisher: Partridge Publishing Genre: Education Format: Kindle The book, a research paper, reveals and analyzes misconceptions about the Spiritual Baptist Faith, an indigenous religious expression of Christianity in Trinidad and Tobago. It highlights the academic bias to the Faith, which is maligned and misunderstood because of its humble beginnings amidst ex-plantation slaves of African descent and its history of persecution and prosecution by the colonial authorities of the early 20th century.The research provided answers to some
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Bookwright Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you George R. Dasher’s BOOKWRIGHT virtual book tour April 20-May 1! Title: Bookwright Author: George R. Dasher Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Science Fiction Format: Kindle/Paperback/Hardcover With his ship crippled and his crew dead, Jarl Hawkins fights for survival in space as his dying spaceship, the Cassiopeia, drifts out of control. But there is nothing he can do, and his own death is certain. Oddly enough, rescue comes in the form of an old wizard named Kvasir, who offers Jarl his chance at a new life on Vanir, a planet unlike anything Jarl has ever encountered. There, the King fights his rivals for control of his
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Day Before Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Liana Brooks’ THE DAY BEFORE virtual book tour April 28 – May 15!   Title: The Day Before Author: Liana Brooks Publisher: Harper Voyage Impulse Pages: 304 Genre: Thriller Format: Kindle A body is found in the Alabama wilderness. The question is: Is it a human corpse … or is it just a piece of discarded property? Agent Samantha Rose has been exiled to a backwater assignment for the Commonwealth Bureau of Investigation, a death knell for her career. But then Sam catches a break—a murder—that could give her the boost she needs to get her life back on track. There’s a snag,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sacred Relationships Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon GC!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dr. Kate Pola Brooks’ SACRED RELATIONSHIPS PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE SOUL virtual book tour April 20-May 1!     Title: Sacred Relationships Author: Dr. Kate Pola Brooks Publisher: Xlibris Genre: Psychology/Relationship Format: Kindle/Paperback/Hardcover Everything You Want To Understand About Relationships “Sacred Relationships: Psychology for the Soul”, is designed to define the inter-relatedness of everything and everyone. It gives clarity to the functioning of the mind, the psyche and the heart. “Sacred Relationships” defines the patterns of our thinking, understanding, ‘knowing’ and loving capacities. This book clears up misunderstandings and misinterpretations around our connection to this world, our Selves, and others, within the Universal
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Quantum Level Zero Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ted Grosch’s QUANTUM LEVEL ZERO virtual book tour May 4-29! Title: Quantum Level Zero Author: Ted Grosch Publisher: Double Dragon eBooks Pages: 287 Genre: SciFi Format: Kindle/Nook Winston Churchill stated that history is written by the victors. Germany terrorized Britain’s civilian population with V1 and V2 rockets. The Nazi historians would have a legitimate rational for that had they won the war. Quantum Level Zero takes place in a dystopian society of the near future Earth, where fanatics are about to win the war on terror for the good for the people and the good of society. Their leader, Matteen
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Jack of Souls Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Stephen C. Merlino’s THE JACK OF SOULS virtual book tour May 4-29! Title: The Jack of Souls Author: Stephen C. Merlino Publisher: Tortoise Rampant Books Pages: 352 Genre: YA Fantasy Format: Paperback/Hardcover/Kindle An outcast rogue named Harric must break a curse laid on his fate or die by his nineteenth birthday. As his dead-day approaches, nightmares from the spirit world stalk him and tear at his sanity; sorcery eats at his soul. To survive, he’ll need more than his usual tricks. He’ll need help—and a lot of it—but on the kingdom’s lawless frontier, his only allies are other outcasts. One
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Ghostcrow Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you M.K. Theodoratus’ THE GHOSTCROW virtual book tour May 4-29! Title: The Ghostcrow: A Tale of Andor Author: M.K. Theodoratus Publisher: Smashwords Pages: 55 Genre: Supernatural Fantasy Format: Kindle/Nook Seeing ghosts has plagued Dumdie Swartz since early childhood. Afraid that ghost guts might stick to her if she stepped through them, thirteen-year-old Dumdie Swartz still cringes when she encounters them. Her strange attempts to avoid spirits create a lonely life. Her sisters constantly mock her strange behavior, her parents are clueless, and her social life is zero. Dumdie finds solace working in a shared garden with her elderly neighbor, Mr. Carson.
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Pump Up Your Book Presents An Oath Sworn Cover Reveal!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you the cover reveal for AN OATH SWORN by Diana Cosby on April 13! Title: An Oath Sworn Author: Diana Cosby Publisher: Lyrical Press A man of honor. A woman of spirit. As the new castellan, Sir Nicholas Beringar has the daunting task of rebuilding Ravenmoor Castle on the Scottish border and gaining the trust of the locals—one of whom wastes no time in trying to rob him. Instead of punishing the boy, Nicholas decides to make him his squire. Little does he know the thieving young lad is really…a lady. Lady Elizabet Armstrong had donned a disguise in an attempt to free
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Once Beloved Cover Reveal!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you the cover reveal for ONCE BELOVED by Amara Royce on April 7! Title: Once Beloved Author: Amara Royce Publisher: Lyrical Press Once, Helena led a charmed life. After eloping with the charismatic Captain Chase Martin, she left behind her childhood country home for a blissful life in London. Devastated by the death of her husband during a labor riot, she has spiraled into depression and agoraphobia, which she now combats solely for the sake of her children. When her grandmother summons Helena to her deathbed, terror at the thought of such a trip clashes with her sense of duty and affection toward
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Logic Bomb Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Scott Richard Lord’s THE LOGIC BOMB virtual book tour April 6-30! Title: The Logic Bomb Author: Scott Richard Lord Publisher: The Logic Bomb Pages: 264 Genre: Thriller Format: Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle Fiction collides with fact with frightening prescience in Scott Lord’s ripped-from-the-headlines techno-thriller, THE LOGIC BOMB. In his exciting debut as a novelist, Lord, a practicing lawyer, mixes shady financial deals, organized crime, and the real-life threat of cyber warfare into an unlikely but always entertaining blend of high drama and comedy. Scott Turow, author of the bestselling legal thriller PRESUMED INNOCENT, hails Lord as “a terrific writer. Read THE LOGIC BOMB.”
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Queen of Sparta Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you T.S. Chaudhry’s THE QUEEN OF SPARTA virtual book tour April 6-30! Title: The Queen of Sparta Author: T.S. Chaudhry Publisher: Top Hat Books Pages: 383 Genre: Historical Fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle Author T.S. Chaudhry offers a new spin on Spartan history in his novel, THE QUEEN OF SPARTA. In the book, Queen Gorgo, the wife of the courageous Spartan leader, Leonidas, surreptitiously organizes the Greek resistance against the invasion of the mighty Persian king, Xerxes, and his massive army. Although founded on the writings of historian, Herodotus, Chaudhry’s revision of the 480 B.C. invasion challenges readers to imagine the brilliant and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Brass Giant Virtual Book Publicity Tour – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Brooke Johnson’s THE BRASS GIANT virtual book tour April 27-May 15!   Title: The Brass Giant Author: Brooke Johnson Publisher: Harper Voyager Impulse Genre: Steampunk Format: Kindle Sometimes, even the most unlikely person can change the world Seventeen-year-old Petra Wade, self-taught clockwork engineer, wants nothing more than to become a certified member of the Guild, an impossible dream for a lowly shop girl. Still, she refuses to give up, tinkering with any machine she can get her hands on, in between working and babysitting her foster siblings. When Emmerich Goss–handsome, privileged, and newly recruited into the Guild–needs help designing a new clockwork
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Desert Rising Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kelley Grant’s DESERT RISING virtual book tour April 13-30!   Title: Desert Rising Author: Kelley Grant Publisher: Harper Voyage Impulse Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy Format: Kindle “It frightens me, knowing the One has called up two such strong individuals. It means that there are troubled times in our future, and you must prepare yourselves.” The Temple at Illian is the crown jewel of life in the Northern Territory. There, pledges are paired with feli, the giant sacred cats of the One god, and are instructed to serve the One’s four capricious deities. Yet Sulis, a young woman from the Southern Desert, has
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Apex Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Aer-ki Jyr’s APEX virtual book tour April 6-30! Title: Apex Author: Aer-ki Jyr Publisher: Harper Voyage Impulse Pages: 368 Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy Format: Kindle A new dawn is coming. It’s been eons since Humans controlled the universe, after their defeat by a mysterious enemy. With their downfall came a virtual dark age in which culture and technology stagnated. But now trade is once again flourishing as Human artifacts resurface throughout the galaxy, resurrecting long-forgotten advancements. And one such discovery may very well alter the course of the future forever. An epic space adventure, Aer-ki Jyr’s Apex is a breathless race to the ultimate
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