Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for August 12, 2016

Jane has always carefully concealed her paranormal abilities: telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis. It’s the perfect defense in a future where such faculties have begun to appear on a grand scale and are not always accepted. The only significant thing that she connects these powers to is a devastating accident that occurred in her childhood.

When Max returns, a long forgotten specter from her past—a non-corporeal entity—he brings with him a warning that stirs memories of hazards long forgotten.

Amid this, a dangerous intruder begins to pursue Jane vigorously. Now, the walls she had so carefully erected around her psychic abilities begin to crumble as an ancient trauma resurfaces and she is forced defend herself.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Fortune twists in the strongest hands. This is no repeat; this is what happens next.

A man, once a legend who bound his soul to his sword as he lay dying, is now all but a boy nearing the end of his acolyte training. Stifled by life in the undersea city of Avalon, Arthur wants to fight side by side with the air-breathing Terrans, not spend his life as servant to the incorporeal sentient known as the Archive. Despite the restrictions put on him by Sanctuary, he is determined to help the surface-dwellers defeat predators whose sole purpose is to ensure their own survival, no matter the cost.

Ashira, War Maid and princess of the surface-world, is ready to sacrifice her life to defend her kin, but when she is betrayed and cast out of the life chosen for her, she must choose whether to die with honor or become one of the creatures her kinsmen fear and loathe.

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

Life isn’t easy out in the Methuselah Cluster, the most remote region humanity ever settled, but when her father abandoned her, 11-year-old Loralynn Kennakris began to learn just how ugly it could get. Within a year, she was sold a brutal slaver captain who took from her the last thing she owned: her name.

Most girls in Kris’s position last a year or two. Kris survived for eight before she was set free.

Unfortunately, eight years growing up in hell prepared Kris for nearly everything but freedom, and her new life isn’t what she hoped. Not only must she find her way in a new society full of bizarre rules, but her rescuers think she’s a terrorist plant, a beautiful celebrity is complicating matters in more ways than one, and now someone is trying to kill her.

But Kris does have one thing going for her: she has no concept of a no-win scenario.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

When a fatal fever nearly wipes out the entire world’s population, the survivors of what became known as “the Dying” believe the worst is in the past. Little do they know…

In the aftermath of the Dying, survivor Jessica Monroe searches for sanctuary in a world unlike any she’s ever known before. As fear and isolation envelop her, Jessica encounters the sensitive and helpful Jace, who she believes is another survivor. But Jace has a past and secrets of his own that’s he not ready to disclose. Soon she realizes that the destruction of humanity might actually be the first step in a larger, more complicated plan — a plan that may very well involve her. Struggling to discover her role in a terrifying new world where everything has changed, Jessica must decide who she can trust. But is the price for that trust just too high?

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Millenia ago, magic flowed through the world like air. Godlike mages ruled, and those without power became slaves, subservient to the whims of magic-users. To right the world, an enchanted barrier was created to form Mageles, a land free of magic. Over time magic slowly returned, and now the Lord Protector wants to return Mageles to an era where magical supremacy will once again dominate.

They are five: reluctant warrior, street rat, aspiring adventurer, conflicted pacifist and pampered noblegirl. Five misfit youths who were never meant to receive the weapons of power. Only together do they stand a chance against the forces arrayed against them. Separated by a continent and pursued by magic-wielding clerics, the weaponbearers must find each other–but first they must find themselves.

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age