Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for August 24, 2023

When mercenaries tear through her home, failed witch Tuesday Larson is shocked to be saved by a werewolf — and even more surprised that her own abilities have finally emerged. After learning she’s part of a hunted race, can she use her powers to outrun her enemies?

When a friend goes mysteriously missing, a group of New York actors find themselves confronted by figures from myth and legend when they attempt to bring him safely home. They travel from the bustle of Manhattan to The End of Long Island, Montauk, facing danger at every step, and discovering depths to themselves they never suspected. Myths, urban legends, and folklore prove to be all too real. And all too dangerous.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Even death can not stop a boy’s love for his dog.

When his grandpa gave him a mysterious gift on the worst day of his life, Adam didn’t believe it would make a difference. But it did.
Through a dream, he is transported to the magical world of Tipping. With a little, old gnome as a guide, Adam must cross the perilous land in pursuit of his best friend, Arrow. He battles goblins, an evil specterhound, and time itself for a chance to see Arrow before he crosses the Eternal Bridge.
A tale of love, perseverance, and magic. Journey with Adam today!

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

After his wife’s mysterious disappearance Jake is struggling to pick up the pieces of his shattered life. When the opportunity arises to guide a millionaire and his family on a hiking trip into the Idaho wilderness, Jake reluctantly takes the job. While in the mountains, Jake decides it’s time to start living again. But when his client’s daughter vanishes, Jake’s life is once again thrust into chaos. Swamped by guilt, he vows to search the four corners of the earth to recover the missing teen. Aided by Brooke, a headstrong life flight nurse, Jake unlocks the other-worldly nature of a mysterious object. The couple soon discovers the earth has a fifth corner, a secret, ancient world, protected by people, who will do anything to remain in the shadows. Jake and Brooke find themselves caught up in an adventure they never bargained for, a perilous journey from which there may be no return.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

In an instant, everything stops. No lights. No phones. No transportation.

When an EMP attack wipe out the nation’s power grid and communications, college freshmen, Maddie Langston, is forced to run for her life. Stranded in a Chicago airport when the lights go out, Maddie and Emma are in a race against time.

According to her father, she doesn’t have long before the city descends into chaos. She must leave the airport before it is too late.

Although she knows she must flee the Windy City, Maddie’s first battle is to overcome her fear of the violence she knows is coming. She’s a fighter; she just doesn’t know it yet.

The perilous journey out of the city becomes even more difficult when Maddie takes responsibility for an orphaned ten-year-old girl. Together, as chaos fills the streets, they must fight to survive in a Turbulent new world.

Would you have what it takes to survive?

Category: Science Fiction – Post-Apocalyptic

A new threat emerges from an unexpected source.

Lives hang in the balance.

As Maddie, Zack, and their team race against time to fortify their haven, the wider community is thrown into chaos. In this new world, stripped of law and order, the mysterious disappearance of a young girl sends shockwaves. But as they wade through treachery and bloodshed, Maddie discovers that evil wears many faces.

Trust is a luxury they can’t afford.

When past foes resurface near their hideout, a choice looms large—hunker down in anticipation or confront the lurking danger head-on.

Haunted by overwhelming grief and remorse, Maddie strives to persevere and adapt. But as the body count rises, can she shoulder the weight of such loss?

As Beth journeys to reunite with Maddie and Zack, her path takes a sinister detour. Yet, not even the most deviant group can deter her from her ultimate goal: safeguarding her

She never paid much heed to the land’s gods—until one took notice of her.

When thirteen-year-old island girl Pae imagines a creature designed to defeat a plague of mice-like scavvers, her musings catch a passing god’s attention. It tricks her into a collaboration to bring her draglin into existence. If she fails, it will turn her into a draglin. To prove it means business, it transform one of her fingers into a draglin’s claw through fire and excruciating pain,

Suffering but determined, Pae has five chances to lay a clutch of eggs, hoping one will survive. But island superstitions run deep, friends fall to violence, and tragedies bring ruin at every turn. Even new allies from the Tower, where Sisters and Mothers dedicate themselves to the land’s gods, seem insufficient to help her overcome her tormentor’s intent to complete her terrifying, agonizing, and fatal transformation…

Category: Dark Fantasy

Hunted by a warlord, and in hiding for their inability to die, Madh and Sadjah are offered an impossible choice to save themselves and change the world of Terrin forever

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Category: Fantasy – Epic

When the Department trained Reliance to catch criminals, she never dreamed she’d become one.

A year ago, Reliance shot her partner in self-defense. Even though she was cleared of wrong-doing, her coworkers never believed her. She left the Department but couldn’t stop wondering why her partner turned on her.

Her best friend offered to help, but Reliance discovers he’s been brutally murdered. When an officer finds her standing over his body, blaster in hand, she knows it looks bad. She doesn’t trust them to investigate further—not when she’s the prime suspect. Her only option is to run. She’ll have to stay one step ahead to solve Jarrett’s murder and clear her name. Doing so will require every trick the Department taught her—and a few she learned on her own.

Click to find out what mystery Jarrett uncovered and what Reliance will do to bring his killer to justice.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera