Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for April 15, 2022

After suffering a devastating loss, Allan Blackwood and his best friend Edgar need a fresh start. Together, they rent an aging Victorian home in a small town near Boston, eager to start their careers and to put the past behind them. But the house has had its share of new tenants in the past, and strange occurrences have the residents of the town talking. As the two of them settle into their new home, it becomes clear why they received such a good deal on the rent.

Haunted by memories he can’t suppress, Allan treads a dark and dangerous path; a path which leads him to reexamine his own life and to take risks he’d never have fathomed. When Allan starts to experience intense episodes from his past, his visions take a deeply sinister turn.

Now, he must discover the truth about his new Victorian estate before he loses his mind; or his life.

In the future, nanochips in human brains control emotions in order to maintain world peace. When the chip’s developer plans a lethal update that will return Earth to ‘the garden,’ a young woman with a faulty chip is the only one who can stop him

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

Cutter Dunn was born a ghost.

Unchipped and unregistered, he exists as a nonperson, living off-the-grid, unrecognized by the facial recognition software built into every smart glass device that provides everyone with everything they want and need. According to the official system, he doesn’t even exist.

He has the skills and out-of-the-box perspective to design the nuts-and-bolts mechanism for the next generation of driverless shipping vehicles. He’s also the kind of person that a massively wealthy and corrupt corporation can exploit and make disappear without a trace. For good measure, they also erased his home settlement of Amenity, bulldozing the dwellings, scattering the residents. And that was their big mistake.

Because Cutter knows they can’t track what they can’t trace. And they won’t know what he’s planning until it hits them.

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Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

Gunner Banaburer, a sword for hire and a tired veteran of The Great War has a debt of honor to repay. A mythical badass with a greatsword, he has his own inner demons and a dark secret. While three beautiful young daughters of the famed dwarven general, “Groodmaer” are to be smuggled back to a dwarven stronghold under The Belshar Mountains to be married for a dowry of a king’s ransom… But these dwarven females are no angels! All three with secrets and scandals. Little do they know very powerful forces seek their ruin. Adraile a powerful elvish lord with vengeance in his heart for the seed of Groodmaer. Grimgar the defiler, the champion of the Orcians, is sent to end Groodmaer and his daughters. And Malek the half orc and his men plan to cash in on the dwarven booty. Not to mention the beautiful, young, elf Aerin who is perplexed with her unconsummated new marriage.

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Category: Dark Fantasy

A nation’s elite warriors vanished overnight. A throne in jeopardy on the heels of murder. War fanned to fury by a shadowy cabal of ancient magic. And the five friends who can stop it, banished as traitors.

Accused of treason, veteran Kingsman Elohl seeks the truth of a betrayal that caused the Kingsmen to vanish a decade ago. Inked with the Blackmark and despised for it, Elohl must give everything to shatter a hidden sect that usurps power from the throne. A bloody war will be reaped in the shadows that will burn nations and bring kings to their knees.

“A masterpiece of dark and gritty storytelling. A rightful comparison to G.R.R. Martin, Joe Abercrombie, and Patrick Rothfuss.”

Category: Fantasy – Epic

Seventeen-year-old Merry has mucked up another chance to get into the University of Magecraft, so she doesn’t have time to deal with shape-changing creatures bent on stealing memories from the people of Woodshire. That’s her father’s job. But when an outlaw mage mistakes her for a damsel in distress on a drenched train platform, she’s dragged into a fight with the monsters and a sheriff mad enough to use them.

She’d never admit it out loud but the mage is actually kind of fun to work with – when she doesn’t want to run him over with her chair. And he’s exactly the ally she needs when the monsters go after her father’s memories. But with bad guys who can look like friends and friends who look like outlaws, Merry has to decide who to trust and whether returning the stolen memories of those she cares about is worth giving up her dreams.

Category: Fantasy – Fairy Tales

With great burrito comes great responsibility.

Pete’s food truck at the University of New Mexico isn’t going well. Seniors dare freshman to eat his burritos. Frats use them for pledges and pranks. Rumors fly around campus that they are chupacabra ground up with rat.

Pete needs a change, and it comes in the form of a physics experiment gone awry. After being sucked into the past, he stumbles across an ingredient that goes great in one of his creations.

First, there was Marty McFly. Then there was Bill and Ted. And now Pete—

Category: Science Fiction – Time Travel