Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for September 5, 2018

Downtown. Coffee shop. 2 AM.
One minute, Josh is firing off sarcastic remarks at his best friend Marc – the next, they’re running from shape-shifters. Apparently, even best friends don’t share all their secrets.
Now Josh is in danger. He can see the monsters among the humans.
When Marc is kidnapped, Josh finds himself pulled into the schemes of the fae courts, and throws in his lot with Marc’s allies: the lovely Larae, a human named David, and the fighter, Eliaster. But what began as a rescue mission becomes something much more involved…
And all Josh wants to do is get out before it’s too late.

Prince Aidan Gairden’s life was planned out for him before he was born. On his sixteenth birthday, he will take up Heritage, the magical sword wielded by his mother and generations of Gairden ancestors, and lead the kingdom of Torel into a new golden age of peace and prosperity.

But in a shocking moment, in front of his parents and the entire kingdom, the sword rejects Aidan, leaving Torel without an heir.

While Aidan struggles to find his place, an ancient evil awakens and provokes a war between Torel and the warrior tribes of the west. Thrust upon a bloody trail of deception and corruption, Aidan is forced to make a desperate choice: lead Torel in a war he does not believe in, or be banished from his home and family forever.

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Category: Fantasy – Epic

Everyone talks to animals. Some do it every day, although very few stop to listen for a reply.

Lizbet Wood does, and this is just one of the things that set her apart. She really doesn’t understand how different she is until violence shatters her solitary existence.
While Lizbet seeks to understand why mother sought refuge on a deserted island in the Pacific Northwest, she comes face to face with the dangers her mother tried but failed to escape. When her mother is gravely injured, Lizbet is forced from the island and thrust into a world even more complex and threatening than she could have ever imagined. A world where the animals have no say…or do they?

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Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

Jamie Hawkins became a swashbuckling space-pirate to fight tyranny.
When Jamie Hawkins saved the lives of women and children who were caught in the cross-fire of war, he fell squarely in the cross-hairs of avenging soldiers and was unfairly convicted of treason.

Sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor in an infamous penal colony on a faraway planet, his courage won him the admiration of his fellow convicts. While plotting his escape, an enemy attacked the planet–giving this daring warrior his chance. Together with his fellow prisoners, he launched a bold assault and high-jacked the enemy spaceship.

From then on, Captain Jamie Hawkins and the Indefatigable fought against a corrupt government–only to discover a mysterious alien presence behind the war.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

Ships are disappearing on the frontier . . .
Two powerful human enclaves have dispatched their battle fleets . . .
One captain and one ship is the only hope to prevent a war to end all wars.

Commander Aaron Rayne of the United Fleet is eager to prove himself, but there are those within the Fleet who question his suitability to command. A fateful encounter near the Border Worlds draws him into the brewing conflict where he will have to make a choice: stay true to his ideals or question everything he’s known his entire life.

A space opera, action adventure novel told through the eyes of a captain and his crew. Journey through this fast-paced novel as it explores the ideals of loyalty, honor and sacrifice. It is a unique bond, that kinship, which is formed in the face of adversity.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

An Existential War

In the 22nd century, the Lazarus Society unlocked the secrets to transcendent cloning. After a catastrophic war United Earth outlawed the practice. If humankind unlocked the secrets to immortality, the fundamental question was: what would one do with forever?

The Society’s survivors fled and took refuge among fledgling human colonies in the Outer Rim.

The Outer Rim

While on a covert assignment, the United Fleet ship Endeavor commanded by Avery Alvarez is attacked by a ship claiming to be from the Outer Rim and vanishes.

The action and adventure continues in this fast paced science fiction space opera series. If you enjoy a small dose of military scifi, space opera, great characters, ripping space battles mixed with a dab of good natured light humor, then you won’t be disappointed by this sequel.

Ruthless commander. Cunning thief. Deadly blademaster.

Narra is a second generation thief raised in the Guild by her iron-fisted father. Growing up, she dreamed his death would free her, but when he shows up dead in the wreckage of a train destroyed by the Revolution, the happiest day of her life is ruined by one word: traitor.

Her father is accused of betraying the only thing she thought he ever really loved; the Thieves Guild. To prove his innocence, and remove the stain from her name, Narra will go to darker places than she ever thought possible and be forced to work with people she doesn’t dare trust.

If she fails, she’ll lose more than her sanity or her life.

She’ll lose the Guild.

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Category: Dark Fantasy