HERE BE NEWS for Monday April 21, 2025

 

 Monday April 21, 2025 

Welcome to HERE BE NEWS, where each monday we bring you all the latest from the fantasy romance authors at Here Be Magic:

 

Now Available as an Audiobook!

ANOTHER BATTLE LORD'S FURY

Book 11 of The Battle Lord Saga

Sci-Fi/Futuristic/Post-Apocalyptic Romance

by Linda Mooney

Word Count: 78.6K

$4.99 e / $16.99 p / $19.95 a

Narrated by Daniela Acitelli

Length: 8 hrs, 35 min

Hear a Sample: https://amzn.to/4ipzXh1 

A life for a life. When one is gone, another is promised to take its place.

Unexpected visitors with an invitation to a horse sale and auction from an unknown battle lord piques Yulen D’Jacques’ interest. The opportunity to renew their horses’ bloodlines is too good to pass up, although he knows the trek will be long and dangerous.

Yulen worries Atty isn’t yet up to the trip, but she refuses to let him go without her, even if that means leaving the children behind. The decision is a hard one, but they won’t risk Mattox and Mistelle’s lives along with their own. Although Bloods are still a threat, along with any number of other creatures, they plan to make a few stops and hopefully pick up some allies along the way, both Mutah and Normal.

The scenes they stumble upon along the way are vicious. Entire settlements have been slaughtered, soldiers mutilated. And just when the group think they’ve made it to the safety of the compound for the sale, they learn that Normals can be more brutal than Bloods. The new battle lord is anti-Mutah, and when his plot to take advantage of his visitors comes to light, Yulen won’t stand for it.

Ghosts from Yulen’s past also resurface, bringing a secret to light. Can Yulen and Atty work through it? Will he be able to step up and do what’s right? Of course he will. It’s what a good battle lord would do. And it’s time to teach everyone else that lesson.

Warning! Contains lessons in swordplay, a bet, deliciously prepared lizard, blame, lessons in cookie dunking, rigged games, blood and Bloods, and a love sorely tried that grows and becomes stronger.

Excerpt and Buy Links: https://lindamooney.com/BattleLord.htm 

Now Available as an Audiobook! ANOTHER BATTLE LORD'S FURY, Book 11 of The Battle Lord Saga by Linda Mooney

 

Now Available as an Audiobook!

ANOTHER BATTLE LORD'S FURY

Book 11 of The Battle Lord Saga

Sci-Fi/Futuristic/Post-Apocalyptic Romance

by Linda Mooney

Word Count: 78.6K

$4.99 e / $16.99 p / $19.95 a

Narrated by Daniela Acitelli

Length: 8 hrs, 35 min

Hear a Sample: https://amzn.to/4ipzXh1 

A life for a life. When one is gone, another is promised to take its place.

Unexpected visitors with an invitation to a horse sale and auction from an unknown battle lord piques Yulen D’Jacques’ interest. The opportunity to renew their horses’ bloodlines is too good to pass up, although he knows the trek will be long and dangerous.

Yulen worries Atty isn’t yet up to the trip, but she refuses to let him go without her, even if that means leaving the children behind. The decision is a hard one, but they won’t risk Mattox and Mistelle’s lives along with their own. Although Bloods are still a threat, along with any number of other creatures, they plan to make a few stops and hopefully pick up some allies along the way, both Mutah and Normal.

The scenes they stumble upon along the way are vicious. Entire settlements have been slaughtered, soldiers mutilated. And just when the group think they’ve made it to the safety of the compound for the sale, they learn that Normals can be more brutal than Bloods. The new battle lord is anti-Mutah, and when his plot to take advantage of his visitors comes to light, Yulen won’t stand for it.

Ghosts from Yulen’s past also resurface, bringing a secret to light. Can Yulen and Atty work through it? Will he be able to step up and do what’s right? Of course he will. It’s what a good battle lord would do. And it’s time to teach everyone else that lesson.

Warning! Contains lessons in swordplay, a bet, deliciously prepared lizard, blame, lessons in cookie dunking, rigged games, blood and Bloods, and a love sorely tried that grows and becomes stronger.

Excerpt and Buy Links: https://lindamooney.com/BattleLord.htm 

HERE BE NEWS for Monday April 14, 2025

 

 Monday April 14, 2025 

Welcome to HERE BE NEWS, where each monday we bring you all the latest from the fantasy romance authors at Here Be Magic:

Thursday April 10, 2025: Nicole Luiken entertains us with her post:  Ways I've Marked My Page in a Book -- Rated From Good to Bad

 New! 

REDEMPTION

A Contemporary Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Romance
by Linda Mooney
Word Count: 46.7K
$3.99 e / $10.99 p

Nurse Ivy Domberg, along with the rest of the world, watched as the Magellan spacecraft launched into space for a top-secret mission to the moon. She would miss her husband while he was gone, but he’d be back before she knew it. 

No one expected those two short weeks to turn into years.

The day the spaceship disappeared, Earth was hit with a blinding light, and life hasn’t been the same since. Every female is now sterile, human and creatures alike. Insects, reptiles, fish, and birds are becoming extinct. Same for all animals as none of them are able to reproduce. Meat, eggs, and milk, as well as grain and vegetable crops, are growing scarce. It’s only a matter of time before the world’s population is completely wiped from the face of the Earth, either from starvation, old age, or both. 

During this time, Ivy refused to believe her astronaut husband Skeet was dead. But when the Magellan inexplicably returns with its crew somehow alive, is it a coincidence alien ships are spotted on the same day? Were the aliens responsible for their disappearance, as well as the chaos on Earth?

Even as a possible interstellar war looms on the horizon, Ivy’s nurse instincts kick in when she discovers a lone creature lying near a road. A creature not from Earth. A creature who appears to have just given birth. Seeing the infant, Ivy can’t ignore the alien’s plight, no matter the species. Regardless of the devastation they may have brought to the planet, a mother’s love for her baby is universal. 

And it just might save the world.

Warning! Contains a jar of eggs, a devastating loss, plant-based meat, paying in cash, fake hot chocolate, and two people whose love and resilience gives them the hope and faith they need to survive.

Excerpt and Buy Links 

New! REDEMPTION, a Contemporary Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Romance by Linda Mooney

 New! 

REDEMPTION

A Contemporary Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Romance
by Linda Mooney
Word Count: 46.7K
$3.99 e / $10.99 p

Nurse Ivy Domberg, along with the rest of the world, watched as the Magellan spacecraft launched into space for a top-secret mission to the moon. She would miss her husband while he was gone, but he’d be back before she knew it. 

No one expected those two short weeks to turn into years.

The day the spaceship disappeared, Earth was hit with a blinding light, and life hasn’t been the same since. Every female is now sterile, human and creatures alike. Insects, reptiles, fish, and birds are becoming extinct. Same for all animals as none of them are able to reproduce. Meat, eggs, and milk, as well as grain and vegetable crops, are growing scarce. It’s only a matter of time before the world’s population is completely wiped from the face of the Earth, either from starvation, old age, or both. 

During this time, Ivy refused to believe her astronaut husband Skeet was dead. But when the Magellan inexplicably returns with its crew somehow alive, is it a coincidence alien ships are spotted on the same day? Were the aliens responsible for their disappearance, as well as the chaos on Earth?

Even as a possible interstellar war looms on the horizon, Ivy’s nurse instincts kick in when she discovers a lone creature lying near a road. A creature not from Earth. A creature who appears to have just given birth. Seeing the infant, Ivy can’t ignore the alien’s plight, no matter the species. Regardless of the devastation they may have brought to the planet, a mother’s love for her baby is universal. 

And it just might save the world.

Warning! Contains a jar of eggs, a devastating loss, plant-based meat, paying in cash, fake hot chocolate, and two people whose love and resilience gives them the hope and faith they need to survive.

Excerpt and Buy Links 

Ways I've Marked My Page in a Book -- Rated From Good to Bad

GOOD

#1/ A book mark, of course. Like many readers I have a collection of these, ranging from handmade to glossy and pretty to bookstore handouts. I need more than one because I often have more than one book on the go--and I'm always misplacing them.

 

#2/ A ribbon or string. Best are those books with built-in ribbons for marking your place but I've also used hair ribbons or bits of string.

 

#3/ The dustcover on a hardcover can be tucked in to hold one's place. I use the front for the first half of the book and then the back fold for the second half.

 

#4/ Receipt. You just bought a new book, what's handier than the receipt when you dip into it?

 

#5/ Random scrap of paper. Anything will do.

 

#6/ Memorize the page number. Alas, this only works if you have a good memory and can lead to inadvertent spoilers if you remember incorrectly. 

POOR

#7/  Another book inserted into the first one. This is only for emergencies.

 

#8/ Turning book facedown. Warning this is only acceptable with the sewn-in leaf type bindings and is apt to damage a book with stiff glue binding.

 

#9/ Pen. (Capped of course, I'm not a heathen.) This is again only used temporarily in emergencies as the pen won't stay in most books for long.

 

BAD

#10/ Dog-eared page. I don't do this anymore, I swear! But it is something I did as a child.

 

HERE BE NEWS for Monday April 7, 2025

 

 Monday April 7, 2025 

Welcome to HERE BE NEWS, where each monday we bring you all the latest from the fantasy romance authors at Here Be Magic:

Redemption 

by Linda Mooney 

 

Buy Links: https://www.lindamooney.com/Redemption.htm

 

Nurse Ivy Domberg, along with the rest of the world, watched as the Magellan spacecraft launched into space for a top-secret mission to the moon. She would miss her husband while he was gone, but he’d be back before she knew it.

 

No one expected those two short weeks to turn into years.

 

The day the spaceship disappeared, Earth was hit with a blinding light, and life hasn’t been the same since. Every female is now sterile, human and creatures alike. Insects, reptiles, fish, and birds are becoming extinct. Same for all animals as none of them are able to reproduce. Meat, eggs, and milk, as well as grain and vegetable crops, are growing scarce. It’s only a matter of time before the world’s population is completely wiped from the face of the Earth, either from starvation, old age, or both.

 

During this time, Ivy refused to believe her astronaut husband Skeet was dead. But when the Magellan inexplicably returns with its crew somehow alive, is it a coincidence alien ships are spotted on the same day? Were the aliens responsible for their disappearance, as well as the chaos on Earth?

 

Even as a possible interstellar war looms on the horizon, Ivy’s nurse instincts kick in when she discovers a lone creature lying near a road. A creature not from Earth. A creature who appears to have just given birth. Seeing the infant, Ivy can’t ignore the alien’s plight, no matter the species. Regardless of the devastation they may have brought to the planet, a mother’s love for her baby is universal.

 

And it just might save the world.

The Battle Lord Saga

by Linda Mooney

Buy Links: https://lindamooney.com/BattleLord.htm

Their love would spawn a dynasty.

Three hundred years in the future, mankind still is trying to survive the Great Collision that changed the earth forever. People live in pockets of civilization called compounds, battling the elements and the mutations which have developed over the centuries, trying to live and survive day by day.

Yulen D'Jacques is the Battle Lord of Alta Novis. His duty is to keep his compound and his people safe, which means yearly sweeps of the area to remove any mutated men and animals from encroaching.

Atrilan Ferran is Mutah, a mutant warrior and huntress trained to protect and defend her home from Cleaners, the “normals” who invade the forests to slaughter everything and everyone who gets in their way.

They never anticipated the day when their hearts would collide, challenging and changing everything they thought was the truth. Leading them to the day they would have to prove their love for each other to man and mutant alike.

Warning:  Contains intense cruelty, an avaricious mother-in-law, unbelievable hunting abilities, mutant animals, silken tents, dungeons, denial, and a love that would spawn a dynasty.

April Box Set

The BATTLE LORD Saga
(blurbs and excerpts)

Now Available! THE BATTLE LORD SAGA, Books 1 - 3 Box Set by Linda Mooney

Their love would spawn a dynasty.

Three hundred years in the future, mankind still is trying to survive the Great Collision that changed the earth forever. People live in pockets of civilization called compounds, battling the elements and the mutations which have developed over the centuries, trying to live and survive day by day.

Yulen D'Jacques is the Battle Lord of Alta Novis. His duty is to keep his compound and his people safe, which means yearly sweeps of the area to remove any mutated men and animals from encroaching.

Atrilan Ferran is Mutah, a mutant warrior and huntress trained to protect and defend her home from Cleaners, the “normals” who invade the forests to slaughter everything and everyone who gets in their way.

They never anticipated the day when their hearts would collide, challenging and changing everything they thought was the truth. Leading them to the day they would have to prove their love for each other to man and mutant alike.

Warning:  Contains intense cruelty, an avaricious mother-in-law, unbelievable hunting abilities, mutant animals, silken tents, dungeons, denial, and a love that would spawn a dynasty.

April Box Set

The BATTLE LORD Saga
(blurbs and excerpts)