Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for August 19, 2023

If Paige isn’t careful, her new job could land her in an early grave.

Paige Turner’s zero-balance bank account demands she take on a new job, but she never expected it would be as Shadow Harbor’s newest librarian. Now the unlucky orphan is learning it’s not books she’ll be shelving…but magic. Dark, dangerous, deadly magic.

Her new position requires she keep the supernatural subworld at bay while retrieving and archiving magical artifacts from around the globe. If she fails, the world may just be doomed…but even trying could get her killed.

Teaming up with a snarktastic teacup dragon doesn’t seem to be helping, either. Paige still struggles to master magic and shelve supernatural secrets. And when her first assignment involves massive multiplication of a group of wayward werewolves, she fears the world may not survive her tenure as librarian.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Helena Davies just wants a job that will get her out of her parents’ basement. Instead, by the end of her first day at Abernathy’s Bookstore, she has a dead boss in the basement and the news that she is now a part of an endless magical war.

Abernathy’s is the world’s only living oracle, and Helena is now its custodian. Without any training, she must navigate her new world and find a place for herself within it. But there’s still a murderer on the loose—and Helena might be next on his list.

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Welcome to the Vessel Games—where men fight to the death to claim a Vessel wife.

After the Great War devastated the lands, birth rates sharply declined, and the world descended into anarchy. The Monarchy seized control, creating a stranglehold over the land and the few women left who can bear children.

Now, only men who are strong enough to survive the Vessel Games can win themselves a Vessel, but Princess Chloe is determined to stop the bloodshed. Working in the shadows against her father, she teams up with a doomed criminal and a Traitor Caste girl. But death isn’t limited to the arena.

With her enemies closing in, Chloe must unlock the secrets of the games before her dangerous plot, and even more dangerous secret, costs her her life.

If you love dystopian novels like The Hunger Games, and The Selection, but want something grittier (and spicier) this is the book for you!

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

Everyone knows magic isn’t real.

Alien invaders? Ha!

But something destroyed an entire skyscraper in a never-before-seen implosion. Can one skeptical security guard stand between monsters and magic that threaten the world?

Disillusioned with her military career, Red Hernandez crawled back to civilian life as a second tier security lead for an engineering marvel meant to cram more people into the tiny island of Manhattan. She expected her biggest struggles to be integrating back into a society where social media and closet space reigned supreme. But when mysterious forces destroy a building similar to the one she’s chartered to protect, in an implosive blast never before seen, all notions of a cushy retirement job go up in smoke.

Can one woman save the world, or will disbelief be her undoing?

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Monsters bleed into our world through an open wound in the fabric of reality, and we’ve lost our only means to draw out and destroy them.

But if others can travel to our world, why can’t we go to theirs?

To fight the Infected, the Guardians must take them on in circumstances of their own choosing. That tactic ended with the destruction of the Mana’thiandriel, enchanted artifacts used to gather the Infected, in a battle which not only convinced the world the problem was real, but also sealed the fate of humankind.

One of their crew believes he can trace the magic of the alien interplanetary travel, and return the Guardians to the origin of their one-way trip. “Return the Guardians, get more Mana’thiandriel, save the Earth… easy peasy.”

Can the ragtag gang overcome their pasts, navigate a web of deceit, and find a means to save the Earth?

Jonathan McKenzie is the last human being on earth and he likes it that way. A mysterious disease has killed everyone so quickly that no governments could react, no news organizations were even aware it was happening. It was all over in less than a day. Now he is alone. He must fend for himself and adjust to the changing conditions of an absent civilization using only his considerable skills and wits. Then, just as he is comfortable and happy in being utterly and completely alone, his curiosity and thirst for information leads him on a journey to find answers as to what happened to humanity. Join him in his travels through a dangerous new land.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

War breaks out. This time, nature fights back…

A failed effort to weaponize animals awakens their intellects. The military responds by creating death camps to exterminate infected animals. Moon Shadow, an Arctic white wolf, unites with White Claw, a polar bear king, to form Animus Nor, the first animal republic, to negotiate peace. The uneasy peace is broken with the rise of Azaz, lord of the grizzly bears. Azaz attacks human settlements, considering humans an invasive species that wreaks havoc on bears and the environment. A world war breaks out as animals face humans and each other to see who will become the true apex species.

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Category: Science Fiction – Military