Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for December 14, 2024

Details of the sea witch’s banishment have been exaggerated. The body count that preempted it was not. Once an illustrious princess, her hands and tentacles were stained with the blood of thousands. No one could comprehend how the hooks of madness dragged her down from her life of privilege.

Born Princess Vanessa of Atlantica, the ambitious young royal was one of two children born to the great King Poseidon. She and her brother, Triton, were groomed from birth to rule. Yet only one would ascend that coveted throne. While carefree Triton flits through his training with a cavalier demeanor and beguiling charm, Vanessa’s hunger for her father’s acceptance drives her to push herself to the limits of magic, and combat to become a leader worthy of her people. When war against the humans ravages their once regal kingdom, political sides are chosen. Factions from the seven seas challenge the

Ever since Mable was a young elf, all she’s wanted is to be a star.

Her parents would have been happy if her deepest desire was to become part of a constellation. Alas for them, Mable has her sights set on becoming an actress.

How…mortalish.

Mable’s yearning for the spotlight drives her to leave home. She ventures into the human world to chase her dreams, but finding stardom among the mortals comes with unique challenges.

Grab this complete series boxed set and join Mable on her adventures in Hollywood and discover the challenges she encounters in the “human world.”

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Alex Barret lives in ‘the Quarters’, a set of broken-down slums surrounding a glittering walled-off city called the First Circle. Like all kids his age, on his sixteenth birthday Alex is scheduled for Appraisal, an unpredictable medical procedure with the potential to extend his lifespan. In a world where everything else costs, for some reason Appraisal is free.

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

Joining the task force of magical vigilantes, AKA Shade, was supposed to help Rebecca Bloodshadow keep her head down and hide in plain sight. Sweeping criminal garbage off the streets shouldn’t have been the greatest threat to her plans. When a mission goes awry, her first mistake is to react. Swept up in the coup, she gets voted in as Shade’s next leader. That was not the goal, but she can’t refuse the position if she wants to hide her past—and her identity as the Bloodshadow Court’s elven heir—from all of Chicago. Not so easy thanks to Maxwell Hannigan, the distrusting shifter determined to dig up the truth of her past. Blocking his attempts, Rebecca tangles in a battle of wills with the shifter—and the hot-and-cold attraction between them. When duty and prophecy come knocking, Rebecca must define her own destiny, but can she pull it off no matter how much blood winds up on her hands?

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Sentinels have been watching Earth for a century. Their mission: block human advancements that enable travel to the stars with forbidden weapons. To accomplish this, the Sentinels suppress Earth’s technological development and infiltrate social networks to provoke murderous hatred toward neurodivergent humans with an emerging ability to reach across space with their minds.

In 2055, physicist Scott Anderson joins a research project to find and capture primordial black holes, which are the size of protons but could power human interstellar travel and planet-killing weaponry—the same physics exploitations the Sentinels are tasked with prohibiting.

While Scott fights against the technological limits placed on Earth, Robby, Scott’s nine-year-old autistic brother, fights his own battle as one of the targeted neurodivergents.

Category: Hard Science Fiction

Young prince, Gereinte Andolin, defies destiny in a riveting story of power and ambition. Surviving assassination attempts, securing alliances, and wielding a mystical blue sword, Gereinte’s journey takes unexpected twists and turns as the kingdom is plunged into uncertainty. An epic tale promising a blend of courage, magic, and political intrigue.

Category: Fantasy – Historical

I’m Heck McTyre, necromancer and voluntary insomniac.

It’s been 60 hours since I slept–four since my last cup of coffee. I’m jittery as a crack-addled raccoon when the sheriff hires me for a séance over an unmarked grave and sanctions a live unboxing. But instead of seeing me talk to a corpse, my audience watches me pry open an empty coffin and a hundred-year-old mystery.

It’s a race against the clock as insomnia scrambles my brain like a morning fry-up, and my hometown plots to bury me and its secret alike.

This is the first part of a trilogy and ongoing series, wrapping up the main story but leaving plot threads dangling for the future.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Centuries after the now-extinct human race left behind exploratory robots tasked solely with reviving the human race, the first human ever birthed and raised by a robot is created – Jacey-one. Raised in the mechanical image of his robotic mother, he must grapple with the nature of his existence, and learn if he could miss something he’s never had.

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Category: Science Fiction – Genetic Engineering

“But what are we without dreams?”
What if all you have been taught as good and right turns out to be the hand of darkness that has been holding you down?
The Children of Darkness is about a society devoid of technology, the result of an overreaction to a distant past where progress had overtaken humanity and led to social collapse. The solution—an enforced return to a simpler time. But it’s also a coming of age story, a tale of three friends and their loyalty to each other as they struggle to confront a world gone awry. Each searches for the courage to fight the limits imposed by their leaders, along the way discovering their unique talents and purpose in life.

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Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

David seems like an ordinary teenager, living in a small town in Kentucky. His biggest worries are the upcoming homecoming game and whether his new girlfriend thinks he’s giving her enough attention. But those concerns are just a front, a way for David to hide the truth: he’s half-dragon, sent away from his home realm to protect him from an army that wants him and five other half-bloods dead.

A prophecy foretold the birth of six noble half-bloods, their human blood tying them to Earth, and their mystical heritage connecting them to Qotan. David was supposed to be left alone until he turned twenty, but the Orc King had other plans.

Now, David is thrust into Qotan, the realm of his dragon ancestry, alongside a disgruntled half-demon princess and a half-fairy prince. Together, this ragtag group must navigate the dangers of the land of their mystical heritage while seeking a way back home.

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Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

A wheelchair-bound gamer escapes into her favorite VR world—now hacked and deadly. With the Dungeon Master down, enemies closing in, and real bodies on the line, she must find six hidden pillars and outsmart ruthless forces. Can she outlevel the evil and prevent game-over for everyone?

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

In the six kingdoms of Paikmeriz, the peace between elves and humans is threatened by the return of an ancient evil. Engerahin Lovdiena, a vengeful swordsman with newly awakened sorcery, must rise above his quest for revenge to save the kingdoms from impending war and destruction.

Category: Fantasy – Epic