Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for August 10, 2023

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.

Holed up in a quiet city that has outlawed magic, Gavin finds himself drawn into dangers unlike any he’s ever faced before. Each job tests him more than the last, and each tied to the kind of magic he’d hoped to avoid.

It will take an assassin without equal to survive.

It will take the Chain Breaker.

The Council for Exploration Into Worlds Unseen believed there was more to reality than the Empire had taught them—but when they came a little too close to the truth, tragedy ended their work, leaving the terrifying and beautiful world behind their own still hidden.

Forty years later, one of the last Council members entrusts an ancient relic to the orphaned young woman Maggie Sheffield: a scroll that reveals the truth. Along with Nicolas Fisher, who hears things no one else can, Maggie sets out on a journey across the Seventh World to deliver the scroll to those who can use it.

But the price of truth may be too high: for Maggie and Nicolas are tearing at the Veil between the seen and the unseen, good and evil, forgotten past and treacherous future. Monstrous forces are already on their trail.

And when the Veil grows thin enough, it’s anyone’s guess what may come through.

Category: Christian Fantasy

Ro McKinlay has lived on a Scottish island her entire young life. It’s a simple, uneventful life. Until the day a parcel arrives on her doorstep.

A parcel that wasn’t meant for her.

A parcel containing three exotic hatchlings…who soon display abilities Ro can only think of as supernatural.

Hatchlings that someone powerful and dangerous is willing to kill for.

Ro doesn’t want to use the d-word about these wee creatures (they can’t possibly be that!). But to protect her island from disaster—and to protect them—she’ll have to take them across Europe to their rightful custodian: the mysterious woman known only as The Keeper…

That’s if the people chasing them don’t kill her first.

File under: fire-breathing, invisibility, magic battles, secret societies, and yes the d-word (dragons!).

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

The once wondrous land of Hutanya, now starved of water by an evil sorcerer, is headed for complete extinction. Its fate may rest on the shoulders of Sarah Clare, who stumbles through a greenhouse door into this near-desert world~a world that those who have awaited her believe only she can save. But in order to do this, Sarah must call upon powers of which she has no memory, nor any idea how to harness. If she is to rescue what little life remains in Hutanya, she must embark on a dangerous quest to confront a dark magic and unlock the secrets of her past… and of her heart.

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age