Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for April 11, 2023

Age Level: 9 and up Grade Level: 4 and up.

Her Mother’s Missing. More than one friend will betray her. Good thing this new girl in school has a magic necklace.

Allie thinks she’s a normal kid with normal problems on her first day of seventh grade. She hopes for a fresh start despite her mom being overseas with the Army, again.

But none of that matters when she discovers that her mom has gone missing.

On the same day of her mom’s disappearance, Allie finds the necklace her mom was never without. When the necklace magically teleports her along with new friend Daniel, she learns that her necklace contains an ancient magic and might be the key to finding her mom.

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Apple Books | Nook

Three generations held the power of the Wolf Stone. Now, its latest wielder must unlock her hidden abilities to save the world.

Nineteen-year-old Jennifer Greywolf is still grieving her mother’s death when she inherits her dad’s mysterious talisman. And when she learns the strange heirloom has mystical powers, and a history stretching back to her ancestors. she starts searching for clues to the secret life of the man she never knew. But when she accidentally triggers the return of a forgotten hero, her father’s legacy puts her in the sights of a super-powered killer.

Attacked by her dad’s old enemy and captured by the US military, Jennifer must team up with the god-like sentinel to escape. But even with his help, if she can’t unleash her amulet’s buried magic, the world could fall to her father’s sinister foe.

IMMORTAL is the electrifying first book in The Wolf Stone Saga.

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Category: Fantasy – Superhero

A family cursed with a supernatural gift. A demigod suddenly murdered. An undying evil waiting to strike again.

Jennifer Greywolf has barely scratched the surface of her new weapon’s formidable powers. But when a bullet fashioned from another potent talisman is used to assassinate the world’s first superhero, she refuses to believe her friend is truly gone. Hoping her heirloom can bring him back, she embarks on a hunt for his killer… and uncovers a deadly secret that could lead to her doom.

Tracking the late hero’s mysterious origins, Jennifer lands in the crosshairs of a savage hit team. And as she dodges the attempts on her life, she’s plunged into a battle with the same malicious mastermind her grandfather faced eight decades ago.

Is Jennifer’s destiny a path to victory, or a legacy of chaos?

It sucks to die screaming in fire. Trust me. Now I’ve got to master my Phoenix powers before I’m killed again. Can I trust the sexy stranger who pulled my body out of the ashes? Either way, I’m learning that Fire may burn—but now so do I. Fans of Karen Chance will love this series from an author Chance called a “brilliant talent.”

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Plenty people have deadbeat parents, but how many have telepathic fathers who keep showing up to kill them? I already control Fire, but that’s not gonna be enough to stop him. If only I can master my own telepathic abilities, we might stand a chance.

I’m about to show Daddy Dearest he messed with the wrong daughter. Failure’s not an option, because it means that everyone I love will be mind-controlled minions of my father–or dead beyond saving.

A simple job delivering freight to the asteroid belt leads a ship’s crew to discover an explosive secret that threatens to ignite a system-wide war.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

If the asteroid that exterminated dinosaurs was half as big, only dinos in the Americas would have died. Mammals would have evolved without dinos on South America Island. Their descendants may have ruled the world when modern humans first encountered dinos in North America, triggering an existential war between ancient people and smart raptors.

Category: Science Fiction – Alternative History

I’m done with Sol. The system is rotting, and I want out.

The Terran Space Force has tried to hold onto me, but even they can’t deny the people behind the largest colony ship ever made. The GSS Intrepid can house millions of colonists, and its leaders have selected me as one of them.

I finally have a way out of Sol. Except…there’s a catch. I mean…of course there is, right?

A secret organization is doing their damnedest to destroy the Intrepid. My background in military intelligence puts me in charge of the investigation, which means I’m going to have to work for my passage.

Not that I mind, Angela—my rather sassy internal AI—and I are used to going up against impossible odds to get the job done. The only problem? We don’t know who our adversary is.

Either way, they’d better look out. Nothing’s going to stand in my way.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

From a young age, Marcus Aurelius has been groomed to become a protector to the royal family of the island kingdom of Iber. As he is coming into his command of ‘gift,” – incredible mental powers over the elements and others’ minds – he learns he has an affinity for all forms of gift. This makes him a master-mage, the first in 1200 years. It’s also an identity he must conceal since fear of the last master-mage led to war and the destruction of an entire kingdom.
Marcus makes rapid progress in his training with weapons and gift, but he’s forced to grow up fast when a dark mage arises. Despite the threat of assassins plotting in the shadows, Marcus will do anything to protect his kingdom. But it will take him years to fully master his vast array of new powers that if unveiled, would warrant his execution.
What’s a young man to do and the princess he loves?

Category: Fantasy – Epic

With a bounty on his head, young Master Mage Marcus Aurelius flees the capitol. With nowhere to call his home, his only hope is to make it to Holtsclaw Academy — the one place he will be safe and where he can learn to better master his gift.
In order to reach the academy, he’ll have to cross a rugged mountain range in winter, find passage across a treacherous sea, and cover over 2,000 leagues on foot. Even with a horse, a mule and a hound as his travelling companions, surviving this harsh adventure will be no easy task.
Along the way he’ll have to use his gift often, to heal, to repel bandits and thieves, and even to dig wells. In addition, he’ll have to continuously deal with the bounty on his head, while doing what he can to save the kingdom of Iber from financial collapse. All the while, he’ll be racing against the clock to make it in time before the academy’s registration closes.