Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for August 4, 2022

The past isn’t over, it’s an opening. The future isn’t hidden, it’s a trap.
If she ever wants to see him again, she’ll have to take the risk.

Think The Andromeda Strain meets Back to the Future with a dollop of Dirty Dancing.

“Nothing is unconquerable; even our gods can die.”

Brennus is destined from birth to become a warrior, despite his farmer’s life. But when the Hillmen kill his family and annihilate his clan, he now has the opportunity to avenge those who he loved.

Brennus must survive endless hordes of invading Hillmen and magic-wielding sidhe, aided by only a band of shifty mercenaries, and an ancient bronze sword.

Failure means his family and clan go unavenged. Victory will bring glory to Brennus and his ancestors.

Hag of the Hills is a historical fantasy novel set in 200 B.C. on the Isle of Skye, steeped in Celtic mythology and culture.

Category: Fantasy – Historical

6 books and 2000+ pages of shifters, vampires, witches, and slayers fill this complete urban fantasy boxset.

Slaying vampires… and looking good doing it.
Book 1: Scared Shiftless

A stiletto heel through a vampire’s heart…
Who ever said you had to sacrifice fabulous for functional?
Eventually I’d find her, the one who stole my abilities.
Now I was stuck like this… in a human body… a male body…
I was scared shiftless.
I’m out for more than vengeance. I want my life back.
But even if I catch her, even if I kill the vampire who ruined my life… can I even take my shapeshifting abilities back?
Or, am I destined to stay like this forever?

Also Included: Bath Shift Crazy, No Shift, Sherlock, Shift for Brains, Shift Happens, and Shift on a Shingle!

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

An interplanetary crime syndicate.
A debt, long overdue.
An assassin gone rogue.
Love. Revenge. Betrayal.

Although he knows it will mean the end of his relationship with both the Crime Syndicate and his long-time lover, Captain Victoria Maruska, Damian can’t let sleeping dogs lie. After overcoming his captain’s well-intended efforts to hold him back, Damian sets off to exact his revenge on the man who once left him to die on the barren wastelands of Earth.

Victoria may not know where to look, but she knows she has to find him. Following Damian’s disappearance and the not-so-mysterious murder of one of his superiors, the Syndicate has called Captain Maruska’s loyalty into question. As a result, she has been assigned the unenviable job of leading a task force to hunt him down.

On the outs with his lover and on the run from trained killers, Damian DuFonte is an assassin marked.

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

On planet Turaset, seventeen-year-old Celeste leaves her country home to find excitement, but the snazzy city folk who befriend her have their own reasons to cozy up. Celeste’s small-town family holds an ancient genetic power, created centuries ago on long-dead Earth. This power threatens the rising force of industrialization, and now, the titan behind that force wants her family dead.

Category: Science Fiction – Colonization

Jancie learns a local witch in Coon Hollow Coven might wear the griever’s moonstone locket, which allows whoever can unlock its enchantment to talk with the dead. Determined to find that locket and say goodbye to her departed mother, Jancie goes to the coven’s annual public carnival in her small southern Indiana town of Bentbone. This opposes her father’s strict rule—STAY AWAY FROM WITCHES.

But she’s an adult now and can make her own decisions. She meets Rowe McCoy, the kind and handsome witch who wears the moonstone. He agrees to let her try to open the locket, but they’re opposed by High Priestess Adara and her jealous desire to possess him. Desperate for closure with her mother, Jancie persists and cannot turn away from a perilous path filled with magic, romance, and danger.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Sniffing out the galaxy’s most hardened criminals was Harcan’s calling card. The Wolfman was a legend, a genetically engineered bounty hunter that had seen it all – slavers, smugglers, and murderers.
But the Badlands Bounty would prove to be a different beast entirely. He would need to enlist the help of some of the most dangerous killers and scoundrels on this side of the outer worlds. And before it’s over, a revelation will shake Harcan to his core and alter the state of the galaxy.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

Three billion people died the day the Veech appeared.

Forced to reconcile with the world-shattering fact that humanity isn’t alone in the cosmos, the resulting war for the future of mankind shaped humanity’s destiny and challenged it to grapple with its place in the universe.

For the men and women who survived Invasion Day and the devastating war that followed, their stories paint a picture of the everyday struggle and experiences of the regular folk who carved out a living at a time when the very future of our species was uncertain.

Delve into their stories. Through riveting interviews with ordinary people from all walks of life, Invasion Day explores the human experience and how humans found the strength to keep going when everything they loved was at stake.

These are their stories.

Category: Science Fiction – Alien Invasion