Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for April 27, 2022

An empire in flames. A prisoner of war. An unbreakable will to escape.

At just fifteen Eskara Helsene was forced to fight in the greatest war mankind has ever known. She lost. There is only one place her enemies would send a Sourcerer as wild and dangerous as her. The Pit. A prison sunk so deep into the earth the sun is a distant memory.

Betrayed by her best friend, Eska finds herself stripped of her magic, surrounded by thieves and murderers. And there are far worse things that call the deep darkness their home. In order to survive she will need to make new allies, play the inmates against each other, and survive the darkness long enough to find a way out. Her enemies will soon learn Eskara is not so easily broken.

Rordan of Duvall thought his destiny was already determined. As sworn temple knight and supposed heir to the master, his chosen path forbids any sort of relationship with a woman. So when he fathers a beautiful child with the king’s daughter, the furious monarch demands the warrior’s head.

Escaping the axe at the last moment, Rordan and his bold lover venture out into the dangerous world with no supplies and little defense. But his mission to build a free brotherhood of fellow rejects draws him away from his wife’s side just as their pursuers set a deadly trap in motion.

Will Rordan’s decision to walk a new road lead to tranquility or down a dead end?

The Paladin’s Sin is the sword-slashing first book in The Paladin’s Sin fantasy series. If you like engaging characters, thrilling adventures, and a dash of romance, then you’ll adore Jessica Kemery’s battle for atonement.

Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

An assassin with no rival meets a magic he cannot defeat. The Chain Breaker Series begins.

Trained to kill from a young age, Gavin Lorren finally escaped that life. No more killing innocents. No more working alone. The jobs are still dangerous, but at least he can choose.

Now an old friend has invited him to the city of Yoran where the work is plentiful. The Roasted Dragon tavern is rough but cozy. The regulars are seedy but welcoming. The owner Jessica is fond of him. It’s almost too good to be true.

His good fortune is fleeting. Gavin finds himself facing a new enemy, fast and deadly El’aras warriors—an ancient race with innate magical talent. By the time he learns sorcery is involved, he’s in too deep. To succeed, he’ll have to uncover parts of his past that he’d hoped to forget.

It will take an assassin without equal to survive.

It will take the Chain Breaker.

Category: Fantasy – Epic

It appears out of nowhere—one moment the sky is empty, the next, there’s a rent in the fabric of space itself. And nothing in the system will ever be the same.

In the far reaches of the Rim Mountains, itinerant field-scientist Aran Romeu is searching desperately for the cure to an incurable disease—one that’s slowly killing his best friend. He’s sworn to do whatever it takes to find it. But when the portal opens, and something comes through, he realizes that ‘whatever it takes’ will involve travelling into the uncharted space beyond the portal. And he’s not the only one after the cure, and willing to do whatever it takes to get to it first …

No one knows what’s beyond the portal. And in uncharted space, with no idea who is an ally and who is an enemy—it’s an open question if Aran will live long enough to find out.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

He’s lost his girl and now his mind. Jed Strait survived the war, but will his homecoming be the death of him?

Jed Strait made it through the war unscathed. Or at least, that’s what he thought. But now that he’s home, he’s not so sure, because he’s plagued by horrifying flashbacks. Only, they’re visions of events that never occurred.

All he wants is to reconnect with the woman he left behind and get on with his life, but according to the visions, that’s the worst thing he could do. If he follows Annabelle to LA, his nightmares could actually become real, but staying in New York with no Annabelle and no explanations will surely drive him mad.

Damned if he goes and damned if he stays, the only path forward is the one leading west, to the final crescendo of either marriage, misery or madness waiting for him at the end of a road that’s paved with The Blacktop Blues.

Category: Science Fiction – Alternative History

Graduate student Jayson Reilly can’t help but feel there’s been a mistake after he is chosen to join a select group of top-tier scientists to save the planet. But when he discovers he is being groomed for a genocidal mission in a parallel world, he must decide how far he’s willing to go to stop it.

Recruited by billionaire tech entrepreneur Anton Kamaras to join his Center for Sustainability Research on the island of O’ahu, Jayson and the other idealistic young scientists have an unlimited budget to address the world’s most pressing environmental problems. What they don’t realize is that Kamaras has no intention of saving the planet – he wants them to steal another one for him instead.

Category: Science Fiction – Time Travel

Jared Bridger is a former Army Ranger living off the grid when he finds it … the portal.

It transports him to another world full of dark magic creatures. Orcs, mimics, beast-kin, dragons — they’re all real.

When The Adventurer’s Guild in this other world offers Bridger a job, he accepts. He agrees to hunt orcs for them in exchange for being given his own plot of land.

Ascend the tower. Slay the orcs. Collect the rewards.

Join Jared Bridger and his companions on this action-packed portal fantasy adventure today …

Category: Dark Fantasy