Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for June 15, 2017

Being the sole survivor of humanity’s first bloody encounter with the alien Vacra had cost Gant Maker his military career. However, upon the Vacra’s return, Maker is reinstated and ordered to hunt this enemy down on a distant world.

Assisted by a band of military rejects (including a blind sharpshooter, an unstable psychic, and a genetically-engineered killing machine who refuses to fight), Maker’s only counter to the Vacra’s superior weapons and technology is an audacious plan that just may level the playing field – if it doesn’t get everyone killed.

Over-achiever U.S. Army Ranger Michael Keller is caught in the gears of greed, thrust into the corporate fueled Star Rust conflict of 2074. Despite his wits, he never comes home from war, leaving his fiancée, Vala, behind.

Suspicious, Vala begins a trek through a world stricken with debilitating technological diseases, alien salvage mercenaries, and ruthless corporate tycoons to reveal the truth about his disappearance.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

The gods resurrect Tim Andrus from the dead. To his surprise he finds out that he is a god himself, and his name is Timurud.
But, the life of a god is not all heavenly. Timurud must protect weak and powerless civilizations against ferocious galactic empires. His first mission is to defend the peaceful and unarmed Sferogyl race against the Maggotroll Empire, warlike hominids who come to enslave the Sferogyls and capture their planet.
Fighting is the only solution to stay free, but the Sferogyls have no space warships. How will Timurud help them out?

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

Between Light and Dark, Ember finds a world where truth and knowledge are power and no one can be trusted. But her survival depends on finding out the truth about herself. In her pursuit, she is forced between love and destiny and good and evil, even when the differences between them aren’t always clear. At worst, she will incite a war that could destroy both worlds. At best, she will not only lose her heart but her life and everyone she loves. Once the truth is out, however, there will be no going back. And she’ll definitely wish she could.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

It’s been four weeks since Ember Brycin witnessed what her powers are capable of. The Electrical Current Storm has turned Seattle, Washington into a natural disaster zone. The death toll is in the thousands with countless others homeless and hungry.

With a price on her head and a Dark Dweller on her ass, she is constantly on the move. Both Light and Dark are hunting her for their own purpose to use her as a weapon or a pawn in the war between the Unseelie King of the Dark and the Seelie Queen of the Light.

Between Light and Dark there is Ember, the fire. She will either light the way or burn it all to ash.

Lana can draw arcane powers from gemstones. When she started reading the folklore, it sounded farfetched. She should have closed the books right then and walked away. Special abilities are nothing but trouble. Someone always wants you to do something impossible. Or dangerous. Usually both. Like going through a portal to save an oppressed race in another world. In this case, gnomes, whose ruler happens to be a gem master, with gem powers that dwarf the ones in the folklore books. Never mind about the gem master’s goblin-like servants, or the flying serpents, or the mutant insects. When you’re in this deep, because you just couldn’t say no, what’s a few more unthinkable horrors?

Beware of Sentient Spell Books!

It took teamwork and a clever plan to defeat the gnomes’ gem master queen. And now, Lana and her allies face more dangers. Shadow is an ecological disaster. Monsters roam the land. And when Lana and her companions search the castle, they learn Sheamathan has a sentient spell book–with a bad attitude and instructions for revenge.

Imprisoned and bitter over her defeat, Sheamathan eagerly awaits the coming disasters that will punish her enemies, both human and gnome. She believes that even if they survive, there’s little chance the gnomes will discover their history, or learn the secrets she’s kept for generations.

But the spell book will surprise them all, changing everything.

Category: Fantasy – Myths & Legends