Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for April 18, 2024

Who are “The Apex?” And What do they want with us?

The Earth has been discovered by a mysterious alien race known only as “The Apex.” People have begun disappearing at random from all over the world, transported against their will and forced to participate in a lethal series of tests to determine their intelligence, stamina, and will to survive. Most will never leave the testing grounds.

Leon Alvarado is one of these unfortunate souls, trying to navigate challenges he does not understand for reasons he cannot comprehend. All he wants is to live long enough to go home. But the outcome of his performance in the tests will determine more than his own survival. It may decide the fate of an entire world.

Testing Grounds: Book #1 of the new On Dangerous Grounds series by G. Allen Wilbanks.

Alex Warner thinks he is solving a murder when he arrives on Caerus. But, not only is the case much more complicated than he first thinks, he meets a woman he can’t stop thinking about. And now he must save her people before it’s too late. A science fiction crime thriller you will enjoy to the very last page.

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Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

Farad Ibn Istel died. Only, that wasn’t the end of his story, it was only the beginning… Placed in a magical crystal by his old friend, a powerful wizard, Farad awakens to find himself inside the mind of a dying boy. His duty, to save him. His goal, to keep this child alive long enough for him to become a man.

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

Ranger’s life as a typical 9th grader is upended when he discovers he is the newly appointed Guardian of Lebanon’s famous Cedar Forest and a demigod in training. This revelation comes with the inheritance of a magical axe, a relic steeped in history and power. The very same axe was once wielded by the legendary demigod Gilgamesh—yes, the “hero” from the ancient epic—who used it to clearcut the forest, causing a Great Flood.
As Ranger grapples with his newfound identity, he, along with his sister Milly and cousins Art and Kara, are thrust into an unexpected adventure. They find themselves in a secret spaceship school, learning to navigate the cosmos as part of the Phoenician Merchant Marine. But their training is cut short when Gilgamesh resurfaces. After a violent struggle, Ranger vanquishes the crazy demi-god and even though there were no witnesses to his triumph, he takes the win.

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

Where magic is known among the universe. Few individuals can harness the aether that lies dormant within them, known as invoking. Michael Weller, an Earthling, finds he is an invoker and that there is an organization of magic users from across countless worlds. Pursued by a technologically-advanced race, Michael and his new allies must use their wits & powers if they are to survive.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

A mysterious signal from deep space. Mischief and murder at a military base.

When Sam receives a strange letter drafting her into the Great Alliance for Interplanetary Affairs as a matter of international security, she expects to get answers. But instead of receiving a warm welcome, she finds that most people under the surface are distant, cold, and have built walls of silence. While grappling with her unique power and the consequences of her actions, she learns that the organization she’s supposed to serve has a chilling past and guards a dark secret.

As Sam desperately navigates a maze of lies, dark secrets, and finds herself at the heart of a dangerous journey, she discovers that it will take much more than her courage and power to save humanity.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

For seventeen years, Maia, a promising acolyte of the Goddess of Light, has hidden her unholy ability to conjure flames. But when she performs in the temple’s Summer Solstice ceremony, the Emperor’s envoy, Lord Quei, tells her he knows her secret. Quei threatens to enslave Vane, the young man Maia loves, and execute her as a demon unless Maia recovers coins that were stolen from him. He claims these will reveal Maia’s true nature and restore their memories of who he and Maia were in previous lives.

To save herself and Vane, Maia goes against her principles and resorts to deceit and thievery in her search for both the coins and the truth about her fire. But if what Quei says is true, the coins will destroy her beliefs about who she is, the nature of her world, and even worse, Vane’s trust and love.

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age