Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for April 25, 2023

She spent a lifetime hunting monsters, but can she stop her prey from exposing the supernatural community one bloody corpse at a time?

When the supernatural lurks in the shadows of the mundane, hunting monsters requires unique skills, like those of Raine McCord. After a series of deaths threatens to reveal the Kyn community and forces her to partner with the sexy Gavin Durand, will they be able to unravel the knot of betrayals and uncover the emerging threat before it’s too late?

To find out, dare to step off SHADOW’S EDGE, the first in Jami Gray’s Kyn Kronicles, a suspense-filled, dark urban fantasy series.

In a future world ruled by warring mega-corporations, cyborg Nephilim believed she was fighting a righteous cause.
As a powerful, cybernetically enhanced elite soldier her job is to do all the dirty work for the mega-corporation she belongs to. She and her elite cyborg squad are deployed on the most dangerous missions – to protect Olympias from threats outside and inside at any cost.

One day, a malfunction in her implants separates her from the all-controlling grid. For the first time in her life, Nephilim is free.

She learns that everything she has believed in all her life is a lie and decides to defend her newfound freedom.

But Metatron, the leader of her unit, has very special plans for her future and won’t let her get away.

Soon, Nephilim finds herself hunted by the killer squads she once belonged to. She’s the best of them but will her skills be enough to survive?

Category: Science Fiction – Cyberpunk

The Staff of Life was meant to unite the peoples of the Free Lands in peace. Instead it brought pain, suffering, and war. For ever are the hearts of men easily corrupted.

Unrest spreads across the Free Lands. The High Council, once all powerful, is diminished, allowing wicked forces to break free from their prisons once again. The betrayal begins in the northwest where the Black Imelin betrays his oath and bond and sets out to find the lost Staff of Life. With it he will bring the Free Lands to their knees. The only thing standing in his path is a young Aron Kryte, a warrior of promise and the unknowing heir to a past best left unremembered and to the promise of a better future.

Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

Sophie just wants to get through high school without drawing attention to herself. But, when an angel visits her and tells her she’s not human but a Viator–a warrior with incredible angel-like powers–any chance of normal flies out the window. Her powers have matured, and now she needs to learn how to use them. However, she doesn’t have long because Lucifer’s General Damian is after her, along with his army of evil Malum. Damian also targets other Viators, and Sophie holds the key to finding and freeing them.

Category: Science Fiction – Metaphysical & Visionary

The daughter of a werewolf hunter will become so much more.

Thirteen-year-old Mercy Pinkerton thought her days of cleaning house, fixing the barricade, and wiring electric prongs were over. She would finally get to train to be a werewolf hunter, what she has always wanted.

She doesn’t know that there are worse monsters in Kanta than the werewolves that plague Kanta each night. Danger lurks around every corner. She’ll have to avoid her father’s temper and follow his orders, even if it means risking her life.

It is supposed to be Mercy’s big day, but will take a drastic turn for the worse. She’ll have to keep her wits about her, remember her training, and prepare for the ultimate test of bravery if she hopes to survive.

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Category: Dark Fantasy

Interstellar con man Rex Nihilo has a price tag on his head.

Railroaded into smuggling a shipment of contraband to a planet short on food, Rex finds himself on the run from an insidious corporation named Ubiqorp, which reaps obscene profits by keeping the planet dependent on shipments of synthetic rations. When Rex and his long-suffering robot companion Sasha are sentenced to work as slave labor on a massive Ubiqorp plantation, they learn the terrible secret behind the corporation’s products. Well, maybe not so much terrible as mildly unnerving.

To escape, Rex and Sasha team up with a mis-programmed combat drone and an intelligent mutant plant to lead a rebellion against their merciless corporate overlords.

Out of the Soylent Planet is a novel-length prequel to Starship Grifters, the book NYT bestselling author Hugh Howey called “one of my favorite space romps of all time.”

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

The wild animal meat market in Wuhan just started its 3rd pandemic, except this virus fries neurons, turning people into mindless brain suckers. China acts decisively, after the contagion spreads worldwide. As kids’ brains rewire burnt synapses, the youngest children become the smartest zombies. Unlike dumb zombie adults, they’re dangerously zombie-ish.

Category: Dark Fantasy