Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for February 4, 2021

They created her to kill gods – and then they left her with the Elves.
Deemed unfit by the very wizards who made her, Zelia’s powers slumber, until she is given an ultimatum. Prove herself. Or perish.
Forced to spill the blood of innocents, Zelia faces the darkest of fates. But when the lives of those she cares about hang in the balance, she must confront her makers – or risk losing the one glimmer of hope that has kept her going.
Can she create a new future? Or will she forever remain Cast in Fire?

Raised by a secret league of vigilantes, Mary O’Sullivan knows what it means to be a hero. So when a boring stakeout turns deadly, she defies league protocol to rescue a fire-powered bartender who reminds her too much of her pre-vigilante self. But Mary’s reckless actions incur the league’s wrath when she risks their safety by bringing the girl straight to HQ.

Banished to L.A. to serve time in her heiress secret identity, Mary refuses to let the league sideline her. As she traces her own leads through a web of secrets, Mary dredges up disturbing truths about the league’s past connections to her murdered parents.

With conspiracies threatening to pick her adoptive family apart, Mary must question everything she’s been raised to believe—and what it really means to be a hero.

Alter Ego is a Marvel-style superhero saga—perfect for fans of Umbrella Academy and Watchmen.

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Category: Fantasy – Superhero

After her secretive father dies, Elspeth Quarrie embarks on a quest across the world to discover her unknown Scottish heritage.
Landing in Edinburgh, she doesn’t count on her first day being full of creepy graveyards, several attempted abductions, and nightmarish creatures hiding behind human faces.
When fate catches up with her, a mysterious stranger by the name of Raurich ‘Rory’ Mackenzie is there to help. As shock sets in, Rory reveals she’s a Druid — an elemental supernatural being with the power to distort the very fabric of nature.
Desperate for answers, Elspeth follows Rory into an exciting hidden world where myth is reality and dreams are within reach…but not everything is as magical as it seems.
The Druids are being hunted by the Chimera, a dark sect of Fae warriors who desire power above all else.
And Elspeth may have just blown their cover.

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Depending on who you talk to, Spider King and his cohorts in the infamous Gordian Net are either criminals or revolutionaries in the ongoing struggle against the corporations that have replaced the federal government of the formerly united States.

Arrogant and egotistical, Spider is a veritable rock star of the hacking world. It would be annoying if he wasn’t actually every bit as good as his talk.

Attracted by their reputation, a peculiar client approaches the Gordian Net with an opportunity that could be the score of a lifetime. But what first appears to be a simple hack-and-grab run quickly snowballs into an all-out war with the most powerful tech company in the world.

Spider will have to outthink, outrun, and outmaneuver the most ruthless street operatives in San Francisco without becoming the next victim of a new weapon of unspeakable horror.

Category: Science Fiction – Cyberpunk

It’s a dirty galaxy and someone has to clean it.
Avoiding the wealthy inhabitants on the upper levels of Station Kelly Kornienko is bot-programmer Triana’s number one rule. Well, number two, right after “eat all the chocolate.”

But when one of her cleaning bots finds a dead body, all the rules go out the airlock. A highly connected security agent interrupts her routine with stories of missing bodies, and Triana can’t ignore him; it’s cooperate or find a new job. A girl has to pay the rent, even on a crappy studio compartment.

Triana lends her programming skills to Agent O’Neill’s investigation. Together, they find more victims and evidence of a major cover-up.

The Vacuum of Space is the first book in a complete, humorous sci-fi mystery series.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

Triana Moore, bot technician on Station Kelly-Kornienko, prefers life in orbit where the air is purified, the commute is short, and nature doesn’t get all over you. But when a minor infraction gets her sent to remedial training dirtside, she doesn’t complain. Who wouldn’t enjoy a few days of sitting in the sunshine, eating gourmet burgers, and drinking too much Jager Hula?

When an unscheduled beach weekend uncovers dangerous squatters in her childhood home, the space janitor decides to clean house. She enlists the help of her roommate, Kara, and security agent Ty O’Neill. As they investigate, old friends resurface in suspicious circumstances, and Triana doesn’t know whom she can trust. She’s scheduled to work on Monday, so she must answer these questions before the weekend is over: Who are these infiltrators? What do they want? And when will that pizza finally be delivered?

She’s got a new job running souls for Death. She’s corporeally challenged. She’s trying to have a dating life. What’s a witch to do?

Quinn Devereux is back from the dead, thanks to a deal with Death. It only requires eternal servitude and all. Plus a few pesky issues with semi-corporealness. She’s got to come to terms with her past while also starting her training to escort souls for Death, and unfortunately there’s not a charm in her grimoire for that kind of thing.

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

They were just teenagers, orphaned refugees caught up in the westward migration, fighting against fear and sickness and the abominations unleashed by the end of the world, fighting for their sanity, for each other and the only love they will ever know.

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Category: Science Fiction – Post-Apocalyptic

Jon Bragg never realized all of the changes that would come with his sixteenth birthday. Nothing about this day is normal from the news at breakfast that Grandpa will be staying in his room with him to the lack of any birthday presents. He finds comfort through poetry that seems to be coming true or is it just a coincidence? When he helps his best friend find the strength to face a formidable bully it sparks a sequence of events that unlocks the secret of the blue essence.

Dive into this new realm of Norse Mythology in this series as we explore descendants of Asgardians like Odin, Thor, Balder, Hoder, Hermond, Tyr, Hemdall, Vidar, Vali, Valkyrior, Loki, and of course Bragi. Find out what abilities have been inherited and which have evolved or devolved through the generations.

Learn about the Asgardian Protection Society which exists to protect and monitor descendants of Asgard from being detected and from violating the sacred rules handed down from their forefathers. They are also responsible for guarding against abuses of power that develop from time-to-time especially as heirs ascend and discover their abilities.

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Category: Fantasy – Myths & Legends