Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for December 11, 2023

Radyn likes to juggle blades and sleep beneath the stars. But when dark clerics slaughter his circus family and kidnap his foster father, his life is shattered. As he brushes aside his pain for a daring rescue attempt, Radyn has no idea that an ancient prophecy of a forgotten god has made him the real target.

Kyna is eager to prove herself within the mystical Alakyte order. When her magic shockingly fails far from home, she uncovers a deadly conspiracy. Acting against orders, she takes on the enemy with the help of an orphaned acrobat who might just be the key to saving the world.

Aided by a surly demigod, the unlikely duo must find a way to stop an ancient evil from taking down mankind’s last magical defense.

Can Radyn and Kyna fend off the darkness before the Hollow World awakens?

The world of Skyfall will die unless Moira finds the lost immortals.

Seventeen-year-old Moira is haunted by the accidents that claimed her family. When she is attacked by a strange boy who seems to know too much about her past, Moira fears death will come for her a third time. Saved by twins Airi and Bel, she is taken to their world and safety.

Or so they thought.

Skyfall is dying, the land destroyed during a supernatural war. Those who had protected it, the lost immortals, have gone missing and the land has decayed beyond redemption unless their magic can restore it. Armed with a mysterious talisman Moira, Airi, and Bel must find a journal left by the twins’ dead mother that will tell them how to find and free the Immortals known as The Unknown Sun.

Deeper, darker, secrets unravel around them when the journal reveals shocking information…because everything has a price.

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Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

Alex Barret lives in ‘the Quarters’, a set of broken-down slums surrounding a glittering walled-off city called the First Circle. Like all kids his age, on his sixteenth birthday Alex is scheduled for Appraisal, an unpredictable medical procedure with the potential to extend his lifespan. In a world where everything else costs, for some reason Appraisal is free.

Alex has heard of every Appraisal scenario, but none prepared him for his own experience – abducted, imprisoned, and subjected to brutal medical experiments in a high-tech lab. He escapes and goes on the run, a heartbeat ahead of a ruthless army led by the most powerful man in the world. When he finally pieces together the clues behind his kidnapping, he uncovers a treacherous plot that only he can derail.

But to succeed, he must penetrate the First Circle, the forbidden abode of the ruling class.

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

In a post-apocalyptic world devastated by The Great Shift, humanity struggles to survive in the wake of a brutal new reality. The balance of power has shifted drastically, with women now relegated to the status of property, their existence reduced to a commodity to be bought and sold. It is within this sinister world that the notorious Carnival Diablo reigns, a traveling spectacle of terror and enslavement, ruled by the enigmatic and malevolent Ringmaster.

Amidst the cruel confines of the Carnival Diablo, the dream of freedom torments Ava and her fellow sisters, until their paths cross with the paragons of Dollet, the last hope for a better world. But as they navigate the treacherous landscape of their confinement, Ava and her sisters must grapple with the ultimate question can they truly break free from the clutches of their captor, or will the shadows of Carnival Diablo consume them

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Category: Science Fiction – Post-Apocalyptic

It’s not the family you’re born to. It’s the Family you join.

Blood

Caesar Augustine has survived on it for millennia, but his only chance to walk in sunlight again is finding a cure.

Magick

Dr. Bebe Zachary has feared and mistrusted vampires since the night she witnessed them brutally murder her parents. When Caesar Augustine comes to her with an insane story about her grandmother’s research, she doesn’t believe him. Except somebody definitely wants her dead too, and Caesar is the only the person standing between her and the grave.

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Caley, a small-town sheriff, found the job much like any other small-town law enforcement officer. Crater Stumble is primarily a peaceful farming village. The town is unlike any other in one regard. It sits on an alien planet. Within the town that sits on the edge of a mysterious water-filled crater, a culture of competitive knife-tossing females has developed. Since the women outnumber the men, the competition is sharp. Caley’s only problem at one time might have been the wacky inventions her sister came up with, but her creations helped in the fight to save the planet. When Caley’s hometown found itself in the middle of an alien war, she had to organize and arm a community of farmers with alien weapons. What was once a serene community will become a battlefield for the residents of Crater Stumble.

Category: Science Fiction – Alien Invasion

Elika always knew there was no escaping the deadly Blight, knew even that her life would end when she was finally forced to step foot on the bridge to the Dedlands. The cursed bridge that had taken her parents, and the lives of more poor fools than she could count. Even were she one of the few to make it across, what’s there for them anyway on the other side of the great chasm but more suffering and death?

Besides, there was always hope. They just need to destroy every echo of magic, the source of the Blight. Or so she thought, until she discovers that the biggest echo of magic is hiding inside her, and through her it seeks to enact the will of its own. She must race to find a way to purge herself from magic’s hold. But as time runs out for the city and her magic only grows in power, can she sacrifice herself to save the last of humanity and those whom she loves?

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Category: Dark Fantasy