Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for September 8, 2016

Mara Lantern doesn’t believe in metaphysical powers and alternate realities. That’s about to change.

After a jetliner plunges into the Columbia River near Portland, Oregon, everyone survives. So why do crash investigators have a hangar full of bodies, one for each passenger except Mara? Before the plane goes down, she glimpses a new reality, one with scales and snouts, fangs and gills. She sees a boy running down the aisle carrying a ball of blue light, chased by a girl who could be her clone. By trying to help, she unwittingly unleashes dozens of creatures on an unsuspecting world and sparks a series of events that threatens her life, her family and everything she believes. To save them, she has to embrace a power she cannot comprehend.

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND LIBRARY JOURNAL—AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Esquire • U.S. News & World Report • NPR/On Point • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • BookPage

An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival, The Passage is the story of Amy—abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girl and risks everything to save her. As the experiment goes nightmarishly wrong, Wolgast secures her escape—but he can’t stop society’s collapse. And as Amy walks alone, across miles and decades, into a future dark with violence and despair, she is filled with the mysterious and terrifying knowledge that only she has the power to save the ruined world.

“Enthralling . . . You will find yourself captivated.”—Stephen King
“Magnificently unnerving . . . The Stand meets The Road.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Great entertainment . . . [a] big, engrossing read.”—The Dallas Morning News
“Mythic storytelling.”—San Francisco Chronicle

The story of Amy continues in The Twelve, coming soon. Look for a special preview in the back of the eBook.

Category: Science Fiction – Post-Apocalyptic

Two Universes, One Soul Divided…
What if the extinction of the dinosaurs hadn’t occurred? An alien stranded on Mars is determined to find out by sending human astronauts back in time to rewrite Earth’s past. But a female astronaut, through a strange twist of fate, survives the change in the space-time continuum. After finding herself in a dinosaurian body, she must race against time – and the formidable alien – to restore the universe to its rightful course.

Category: Science Fiction – Time Travel

Leah Fox was born into the plush surroundings of Manhattan society, but one social misstep rips away her comfort in one fell swoop. A witch deems her “too aggressive” and sends her to the Bosch Rainforest to reform. Leah is suddenly the outsider for the first time, and while coming to grips with her sentence she complicates her life further by falling in love with a humble gnome.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Leah Fox was left for dead atop the rainforest canopy, and now she just wants things to return to normal. Her life couldn’t be further from thanks to a conniving fairy and her mentally unstable griffin. It’s bad enough that a witch dumped her in the Bosch rainforest, but then a large-breasted fairy tried to have her killed! Leah refuses to live in fear. She’d rather continue starring in the most popular play in Bosch, despite how vulnerable she may be in the spotlight. At least she’s got the love of a good gnome, and he’s said he’d rather die than watch Leah in pain anymore. Hopefully it doesn’t come to that…

Flight. Hyperspeed. Clairvoyance.

These are some of the powers gifted to the Rhodi, an ancient sect of assassins who defend Crescentia, a dystopian world with a dying hope.

Dyliana Fairsson is one of them. After losing her parents to a suspicious accident, she and her twin brother, Devin, join the Rhodi to avoid starvation. Under the direction of her master, Dylan struggles to learn the strength of her magic …as well as hide the growing scars on her wrists. Can Dylan become the warrior, the hero, she’s destined to be? Or is she fated to fall from the light into the darkness?

The first installment in the epic fantasy series by bestselling author Megan Linski, Rhodi’s Light is an action-packed thrill ride that will leave readers begging for more.

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age