Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for August 12, 2023

There is a time to weep and a time to mourn.

For the CSV Lion of Judah, that time has not yet come.

The war with the League of Sol ended in victory for the Terran Coalition. Major General David Cohen and his crew conclude their three-month goodwill cruise with one final FTL jump. But instead of returning home in a blaze of glory, the wormhole collapses and hurls them more than four million lightyears into the unknown.

Stranding them in a distant galaxy.

With dwindling supplies but buoyed by hope of a miracle, David follows the evidence to a nearby inhabited planet. After a disastrous first contact with the less advanced alien civilization, rival factions threaten the tenuous peace—and reignite a centuries-old genocidal conflict.

Now, David and the war-weary Lion must take up arms once again before the chance to return home is lost forever.

When the king is murdered, it’s no laughing matter.

Noam’s life in the kingdom’s poorest neighborhood leaves him with little other than cracking jokes at the local tavern and gazing longingly at Willa, a mysterious neighborhood girl. But one magic night against a rival jokester catches the attention of one of the kingdom’s most revered figures, the king’s court jester, Scrabble.

As Noam dreams of escaping his dreary life and making it big with the kingdom’s elite in the castle, it all comes crashing down when the king is murdered while sitting on his throne…during Noam’s big performance. Now it’s a race to figure out what happened.

And Noam had better hurry before the joke is on him.

Category: Fantasy – Epic

Kashir has lived his whole life in the shadow of his older brother who is now the king. When the young prince saves a dragon in distress, it appears he has finally done something to help his brother and his kingdom. He soon learns that the power of a dragon is something not to be trifled with. Or controlled. Will the dragon help Kashir become the prince he has always hoped to be, or will it destroy everything he sought to protect?

Category: Fantasy – Epic

Jessi, a shapeshifter and exchange student, sets out to uncover the truth behind her brother’s death on a starship. Along the way, she discovers a deadly conspiracy and must navigate her abilities while trying to find trustworthy allies. “The Amorphan Effect” is a thrilling YA sci-fi with an unsettling mystery and intriguing alien elements.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Exploration

Dash is an angel of sin, a berserker.
When it comes to finding escaped dark souls and sending them back to hell, he knows no mercy. But one night he gets into trouble in a fight and a young woman saves his life. Her name is Ava and her involuntary heroism immediately puts her in the crosshairs of evil.
Human ballast is the last thing Dash needs in his work. But in order not to leave his rescuer to a cruel death, he takes her under his protection.
…with unimaginable consequences.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

IN THE KINGDOM OF DURUNDAL, HEARTS WILL BE BROKEN, LOVED ONES LOST AND THRONES BURNED.

Lyall has lived and breathed nightmares since he was fourteen-years-old. He believed he knew every horror and was beyond surprise.

He was wrong!

When General Domitrius Corbulo launches a brutal attack on Castle Dru in Durundal, he slaughters everyone inside.

Except one!

Though two years after finding salvation in a clan, Lyall is one of many captives taken to Ataxata to fight in the Killing Games.

However, the man who is training Lyall to fight, is the same man who attacked and destroyed his ancestral home.

Right now, Lyall desperately needs a plan of escape.

But time is running out – and the only one who can help him is locked up in a tower – guarded at all times and very likely dead already.

Or is she?

Category: Fantasy – Epic

An injured officer awakes on a heavily damaged spaceship. Her memory is impaired. No one answers her calls. The ship is out of control. They are dying, adrift, the chance of rescue shrinking by the second.

Clinging to the few positive thoughts she can remember, she fights to survive, to restore order, to bring the ship to safety. But should she?

Step aboard the Prompt Excursion and find out what’s at stake in this high-tension Sci-Fi story that’s packed with mystery, technology, and adventure.

We all make choices. Hers might kill you.

Category: Hard Science Fiction