Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for August 17, 2023

Seventeen-year-old Kallum has life all planned out: pass his simulation test, snap up a job on the upper rung, and ask the girl of his dreams out. No more working at the bakery.
But life has a funny way of ruining plans.
Not only does he get reassigned to a hermit, but his hallucinations also make him fear that he’s turning into his worst nightmare: becoming one of the Crazies.
Worse still, the aetherium, an energy stone bestowed by the alien race called the Aeternas, is failing. And, according to the hermit, it’s all Kallum’s fault. Without the dome shield protecting Levitor, the Reavers and beasts roaming the land outside are bound to invade.
Levitor’s fate rests upon Kallum’s shoulders. But the Aeternas are hunting him down, and he’s running out of time.
What will he sacrifice for the greater good?

Two worlds. Two adventures for the ages.

Taming a new world isn’t easy.

But making a new world?

Well, only the bravest would even try…

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Worlds Away is a new collection of two novels, previously published as Terradox Reborn and Terradox Beyond, as well as the prequel story Terradox Zero: Before The Crash.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Exploration

A young outcast’s survival lies with a band of treasure hunters traveling to a forgotten ruin. But what dangers lurk in the shadows of the past?

Category: Fantasy – Epic

Esme’s life has been filled with secrets. Her mother says she’s destined to be a queen, but she won’t say when. Or how. Or who Esme’s father is.
When Esme is imprisoned by the evil fairy godmother, she only has more questions. Who is the young man guarding her? Why is he so interested in her father’s identity? And can she convince him to help her escape before she’s forced to marry whichever self-absorbed prince with a hero complex turns up to rescue her?
The Rogue and the Peasant is a fun, fairytale adventure that blends Hamlet with Rapunzel to make something completely new.

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Category: Fantasy – Fairy Tales

A strange signal interrupts a simple prospecting job. A group of POWs lost behind enemy lines.

The authorities may not be able to offer aid, which means a private citizen with nothing to lose will have to do the unthinkable.

Form a team, cross the border, and save the people himself.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Exploration

When she falls through a portal into her own abandoned fantasy novel, 16-year-old Olive finds herself in a world in peril. Double suns scorch the planet, the brutal Prince Burnash seeks supreme power, and her protagonist, Coseema, has gone into hiding. Bringing back her heroine might be Olive’s only hope of finding her way home, but when her attempt to summon Coseema goes horribly wrong, it’s Olive who must flee for her life. Together with her friends — a bold and powerful poet, a handsome but cursed musician, a renegade soldier with a troubled past, and an adventurous girl from the desert — Olive must face her deepest fears to escape Burnash’s tyranny and find the hero in herself.

The Twin Stars is an engrossing portal fantasy in the spirit of the Wizard of Oz and Narnia, with a dash of Star Wars and a sprinkling of Dune.

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Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

After narrowly escaping Coseema with her life, Olive and her friends head for a distant planet in search of the legendary starship the Wave-Rider, which may be the only hope for the doomed people of Lyria. But the voyage there is littered with obstacles—the tyrannical ruler of a dying colony, a mysterious spacefarer, the ever-present threat of Coseema, and Olive’s own obsessive fears. Back on Lyria, Olive’s allies face obstacles of their own as they vie with the cruel emperor Burnash, while Burnash himself chafes under Coseema’s control. Olive, armed with her omniscient journal, finds comfort in reading along with her friends’ adventures. But when time runs out, she must embark on a risky collision course with her former heroine, one that may force her to give up what she treasures most.

When Nathan Stryder is abducted from Earth and thrown headfirst into an interstellar war, it shatters his world.

Freed from his captors by the Meraki Dominya, Nathan learns his sister was also taken and strikes a deal to rescue her. Enlisting in their military, he meets Arista, a skilled commando who has been trained to kill first and not ask questions later. But soon, he discovers that under her hardened exterior, there is a kindred soul. As the risks around them escalate, he must determine if she is truly friend or foe.

Meanwhile, Nathan is drawn into the middle of an expanding conflict driven by an alien prophecy.

With the future of an entire planet and possibly the galaxy hanging in the balance — is he in over his head?

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

I’m a witch.

Yes, I know. It tends to make most people uncomfortable, but I don’t go around announcing it to just anyone.

Truth is, I didn’t even know I was a witch until my estranged uncle came and took me from my home in North Carolina to a gothic castle in Scotland…and started teaching me magic.

I thought that was as exciting as it was going to get…

Until I met the five princes of the Society of Magic, and learned I’m the key to protecting the human and fae realms from the darker side of magic.

The House of Exiles.

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Category: Fantasy – New Adult & College