Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for August 5, 2021

Reese Eddings, a jaded space trader from Mars, is busy captaining her ship when she’s asked to rescue a space elf prince… and winds up in an adventure involving pirates, aliens, and a civil war. Can’t a woman run cargo in peace!

Cora Blake never realized the danger. As an Arcane Agent for a black ops team, she was trained to never get caught. With her magic, stealing information was easy, quiet, and harmless. That was before she knew they had crossed Lucius, the most powerful dragon in the world.

With her entire team dead, Cora begins a desperate race against time. In a foreign land with no support and her own government on her tail, she must know the secret of what they stole. What is Project Phoenix?

Her every move is watched. There’s no dark alley Lucius’ eyes can’t reach.

Is he an ally or her worst enemy?

Category: Fantasy – Alternative History

Piloting drone fighters from the fleet’s most durable ships, drone pilots wage space battles thousands of kilometers away. For years they have held the invading Baranyk at bay. But when the alien enemy develops a new weapon that renders the fleet’s drone fighters inoperable, humanity is on the verge of destruction.

Callan “Coda” O’Neil joined the Terran Fleet Academy with dreams of becoming a prestigious drone pilot and restoring honor to his disgraced family. Fleet Command has other ideas.

To counter the alien weapon, Commander Chadwick Coleman, a legendary pilot from the early days of the Baranyk War, is assembling an experimental new squadron that will place real pilots in the cockpit of real starfighters.

With the enemy pressing in, and forced to train under impossible conditions, Coda and his fellow wingmen must learn to fly as one. Failure means the end of humanity.

Category: Science Fiction – Military

For six months The Forgotten have been humanity’s last line of defense against a terrifying alien invasion. Their success is marveled, their bravery unmatched. But they can only hold the enemy back for so long.

Callan “Coda” O’Neil has fought impossible odds to begin restoring honor to his family name, but with his squadron’s numbers dwindling, he fears he won’t be able to finish the job.

Commander Coleman, the leader of the Forgotten, counts down the days until reinforcements arrive. Using his training curriculum, the fleet’s flight academies have been revamped to train new pilots and first wave of graduates will arrive soon.

When the enemy mysteriously retreats, surrendering hard fought systems, Fleet Command has questions. Stationed aboard the advanced SAS Redemption, The Forgotten are ordered to investigate. Their discovery will shake the Sol Fleet to its very core.

Deep in the Far Outworlds, a derelict space station holds the bones of a long-dead people—and a beautiful young woman locked in cryofreeze. When the star-wandering brothers Isaac and Aaron Deltana find the sleeping girl, they soon realize that they are her only hope for rescue. If they don’t take her, then slavers certainly will.

With no way to revive her, they set a course for the New Pleiades in hopes of finding someone who can help. But a storm is brewing over that region of space. After a series of brutal civil wars, the Gaian Empire has turned its sights outward. A frontier war is on the verge of breaking out, and the brothers are about to be caught in the middle of it.

They both harbor a secret, though. Somewhere else in the Outworlds is another derelict station—one that they used to call home. That secret will either bind them together or draw them apart.

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Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

War has come to the Outworlds. An Imperial expeditionary force has taken the frontier systems and threatens to strike at the heart of the New Pleiades. The only thing standing in their way is a ragtag flotilla of starfarers and merchanters, their motives as varied as the stars from which they hail.

Aaron Deltana can barely speak the same language as his Outworld comrades, but he isn’t about to let that stop him. Though he has no military training or combat experience, he’s determined to prove his valor. Besides, the Imperials have taken something very dear to him—something that he has sworn to take back.

He isn’t the only one with a score to settle. Mara Soladze, the only other Deltan in the Flotilla, has vowed revenge on the Imperials for killing her father. Where Aaron hopes to prove himself, though, Mara fully expects to die—and her fate is tied to his.

The city of Atlas hides from the outside world behind vast walls. A hive of politicians and accountants, it is continually looking inward. Nobody leaves. Nobody questions what lies outside. It is a place where nothing ever changes and the citizens like it that way. All of them that is, except a young man named Fred Banks.
Fred has questions. What lies beyond those ever-present walls? Is the outside world really a wasteland populated by blood-thirsty marauders?
When an aging professor reveals the truth, Fred learns that the mystery is far from over. His search for answers will take him beyond the walls and deep into the unknown world of Risiva, a land of wanderers and nomads, of desert pirates and kings. Freed from the walls that blinded him, Fred will learn it is not just his curiosity that sets him out from the rest — he was born for this. Destiny awaits…

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

When Helsing XII, latest in the long line of badass vampire hunters, dies, no-one would have expected his magical Ring of Power to be handed down to an idiot – least of all said idiot, Brian Trelawney, the most hapless car salesman in the whole county of Cornwall!

Lanky, awkward, and without a courageous bone in his body, Brian must take up the mantle of heroic doer of derring and face-off against the dread creatures of the night that, for some reason, seem to plague this far-flung, sleepy corner of the British Isles.

This collection contains the first three novels in the Brian Helsing series:

Mission One – Just Try Not to Die.
Mission Two – Surf’s Up.
Mission Three – Howlin’ Mad.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Hit-Mob puddles, gangs of frogs, and a government coverup.

Dan the Weatherman witnesses rain drench a woman, and she flattens like a Halloween costume. Puddles seems to run away from the scene of the crime. Dan screams out on live TV that Planet Earth is fighting back by killing some people with deadly rain. The network fires Dan. The government’s answer to a runaway climate change is free medical marijuana for everyone; but they didn’t bargain on Dan and his crew of science misfits, who suspect a coverup.

Lazy, partying, Dan never thought of himself as the stuff heroes are made of. He mostly wants his dog back from his ex-wife, an FBI forensics agent who just happens to be married to the Coroner of New York City.

Category: Hard Science Fiction