Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for August 10, 2019

A thousand years ago, on the world of Claire-Agon, a war raged between men and dragons.

After an expedition of elite warriors kills an ancient nemesis, Seth the Sword Slayer, one of Agon’s most feared assassins, finds himself in the middle of a mysterious string of killings targeting the members of his elite group.

As the Kesh wizards call a conclave of Agon’s most powerful realms to Balax, the capital of Balaria, Seth attempts to set a trap and kill the rogue assassin in his homeland with the help of the governor’s troops, the thieves’ guild and his own assassin’s order. Seth must not only save his city from a new threat of destruction, but also navigate the politically deadly waters of high intrigue from the gathered realms.

Seth soon discovers that, in the world of Claire-Agon, when dealing with a Blue Dragon, sometimes appearances can be deceiving.

In 2067, the zomb-augs rule the world.

They were human, once, until a virus corrupted the global augmentation server, killing then resurrecting billions. Now the undead infest every nation, slaughtering anyone who crosses their path.

Augmentation was criticized by the technophobic when introduced in the early 2060s, but most of mankind signed up anyway. Desperate not to be rendered obsolete by the advances of AI, billions had their bodies & brains implanted with circuitry & operating systems. The augmented were, for a while, faster, stronger & better than their AugFree counterparts.

John is an engineer, a problem-solver. His skills have kept him alive for the last 2 years, though everyone else in his crew is dead. Lonely & angry, he wants to know who is responsible for the murder of everyone he’s ever known.

Will he dare leave his refuge in New Jersey to find other survivors in NYC?

Category: Science Fiction – Post-Apocalyptic

Beauty and the Beast, but not how you remember it…

Deep in the forest, a castle hides. No one knows who lives there, but rumors of a beast keep people away.

Cloaked in shadows, hidden from view, a prince destroyed by a curse shuts himself away from the world, ashamed of the beast he’s become.

And in the village, a beautiful girl with her nose in a book, yearns for something more.

True love is the only thing that can break his curse. True love is the one thing she’s looking for, but how can they find true love when neither knows the other exists?

Find out if love really can defy all odds in this set of thirteen captivating retellings of the classic fairytale, filled with love, hope and the strength of two people willing to do whatever it takes…

One click now for your happily ever after.

Category: Fantasy – Fairy Tales

And when a cantankerous bureaucrat sends poor Michael to be quartered in the ruins of Cahir Mullach, he has no choice but to obey…and neither does his host. For the King’s law is clear and any subject must make welcome a soldier who holds an official billet in hand…to include a subject now eight hundred years dead.

Category: Fantasy – Historical

Tamerlan has just five days to save his sister or she’ll be sacrificed to a legendary dragon at the height of the Summernight Festival.

Marielle has just five days to catch a thief of magic or the fate of her city will be sealed. As a Scenter – a branch of the City Watch with the magical ability to smell magic and emotional residues – everyone is counting on her.

But if one of them succeeds, the other will die.

Category: Fantasy – Epic

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The universe is expanding, and so is humanity’s reach

Years after clean energy ended the world’s reliance on fossil fuels, a lull of peace encompasses all of humanity. Some think we should travel to the distant corners of the galaxy, others oppose the idea, thinking that the harnessed singularity reactors are unnatural.

When a terrorist group attacks the Lunar colony, members of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force are divided as a result of the incursion.

Years later, Lieutenant Commander Kyle Torres comes face to face with old friends, as he’s thrown into an assignment that could change everything: a reconnaissance mission with huge implications for humanity and science alike.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Exploration