Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for August 17, 2018

Lizzie’s day job is dangerous but straightforward.

Use her magic to stop fires. Bombs. Guns.

Her night job is entirely different.

She must hunt and kill evil creatures—shifters set on devouring her. Vampires that drain their victims’ blood before consuming them in flame.

And without the Shade Amulet, it’s impossible.

Unfortunately, she doesn’t have the Amulet yet.

She isn’t the type to sit and wait, though. Luckily, neither is her partner.

Abel’s past is dark, his motives unknown. He’s secretive. Attractive. Powerful. Very powerful. And he’s willing to help. But will he destroy them both in the process?

The Shade Amulet will thrill you to the core. It will keep you up late into the night, devouring its pages. Grab it now.

In a town where the monsters don’t always have claws, someone has to look out for the little guy. That’s where I come in.

They call me cunning man, conjurer, wizard, but mostly they call me Ozzy. If a witch is throwing curses your way, or there’s something scary scratching at your window in the night, I’ve got just the charm for you.

Mostly, though, I find things. Lost treasures, missing loved ones, doesn’t matter. If you want something found, I’m your guy. For a nominal fee, of course.

So when a grieving father hired me to track down a stolen family heirloom, I was happy to help. Trouble is, what started out as another garden-variety stolen property job just ended in attempted murder. Mine.

They made a mistake, though, when they put a bullet in my stomach and left me for the worms.

They didn’t bury me deep enough.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

In Lost Falls, nothing ever stays buried.

Look, I’m a reasonable guy. When the ghoul came to me, shaking and sweating and claiming that he’d been cursed, I did what I could to help. After all, as Lost Falls’ resident cunning man, breaking curses is my specialty.

But when the ghoul took advantage of my good nature to steal some very valuable equipment from under my nose, I stopped being such a nice guy. Now I’m hunting his ass down.

Except I’m not the only one. Because the ghoul awakened something deep beneath Lost Falls. Something old. Something better left buried.

And now it wants revenge.

When puberty brings on her first Shift, Missy goes into the mountains for two years until finally learning to Change back. She can Change from fully human in one instant to a mountain lion in the next. Everyone assumes her two year disappearance was because she’d been kidnapped by a sexual predator that she managed to kill.

She keeps her werecat nature a secret. There is no pack, no pride of other werecats and no alpha. She’s a girl with fantastic abilities growing up and learning to do great things in today’s world, amongst humans. She only has her instincts to guide her and those drive her to train herself to extremes. She must control those instincts; dampening the wild predator is often necessary. Her raging hormones and enhanced senses require very strong controls; she explores what happens when those controls are relaxed.

Category: Fantasy – New Adult & College

Gilead Tan and Andrea Fielding survived their stint in the military, got married, signed up to emigrate to a terraformed colony world, and went into cold sleep for the journey from Earth. While they slept, the starship went through the wrong fold in space and settled for a different world, a wild world. Three centuries after the founding of a colony on the uncharted planet, Gilead awakens to find humanity slipped back to medieval tech and a feudal structure. Worse, the king who wants Gilead awake won’t let Gilead awaken his wife.

Category: Science Fiction – Colonization

The worldwide computer network called Central can provide almost anything anyone could want, and thanks to advanced medicine, humans on 24th-Century Earth can live essentially forever–if they choose to.
The Futurist, understand that if nothing is done, humans on Earth will soon go extinct.
With Central’s help, they conceive a desperate plan: reach into the past, select individuals that might have the drive and determination that humanity has lost. Then subject them to the ultimate test, to winnow out the real survivors. Bring the survivors or their heirs to 24th Century Earth, to replace the qualities that future humans have lost.
On Darwin’s World, only the fit and the lucky survive.
The challenges include starvation, storms, giant predators–and predatory humans.
Some have turned to slavery…

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

The fate of a kingdom rests on the shoulders of three young wizards who couldn’t be more different.

Bakari is a brilliant scholar wizard who’s more at home in a library than a battlefield.
Alli is a beautiful young battle wizard whose grace in battle is both enchanting and deadly.
Roland is a counselor wizard with a seemingly limitless depth of untapped power — and the ego to match it.

As the magical barrier protecting the kingdom of Alaris from dangerous outsiders begins to fail, and a fomenting rebellion threatens to divide the country in a civil war, the three wizards are thrust into the middle of a power struggle.

When the barrier comes down, the truth comes out. Was everything they were taught about their kingdom based on a lie?

Will they all choose to fight on the same side, or end up enemies in the battle over who should rule Alaris?

Category: Fantasy – Epic