Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for December 12, 2022

Governments have fallen. Corporations control the world. Now their eyes are on Mars. But Benjamin Drake is about to ruin everyone’s plans.
Earth is no longer made up of countries and nations. Every bit of land is owned by five big corporations. Life is hard, and people are struggling. Crime is rampant, and they send serious offenders to Mars.
Benjamin Drake is a happy-go-lucky truck driver, hauling cargo, until a run of bad decisions leaves him without work. Desperate for a contract, he makes a decision that he instantly regrets. As Drake gets caught in a tug of war between a mining mogul and the world’s most ruthless security force, he finds himself with a truck full of stolen cargo, and decisions need to be made.
Set in the near-future, Hauler is the first book in the Benjamin Drake adventure series, filled with witty dialogue, flawed heroes, and plenty of bad decisions.

Five hundred years ago, the world shattered, banishing the gods from the Sister Continents and stealing the memories of the mortal peoples in an event known as the Great Forgetting. In seventeen days, the stars will align, and a religious cabal will summon the gods back to the realms of men. In the far north, priests search the Steaming Lakes, a place tormented by the Wakened Dead. Deep in the mountains, demonic shadows assail priests at a holy shrine. In the south, the clans know something foul is afoot and dispatch warriors to seek answers, but instead, they find horrors.

A young priestess named Eliles stands in the heart of this conspiracy; on her shoulders rest decisions that could prevent a holy war or demonic genocide. Through lies, manipulation, and murder, everyone is on a seventeen-da march to fulfill or defy prophecy; the world will end or begin anew come the Eve of Snows.

Category: Fantasy – Epic

A queen raised in the shadows.
First she will save the kingdom,
Then she’ll steal it.

The sole heir to the kingdom is destined to sleep for a hundred years. To hide this liability, the queen left her cursed daughter in the care of a trusted lord, while taking his son as her own. Rowan grew up hating the boy who had her crown and vowed to one day reclaim her place as queen.

But when a neighboring king threatens a war they won’t survive, Rowan must work with the fraud prince to save Elenvérs. She pledges herself as his spy in the enemy court and lives in the heart of danger. If she can’t save her kingdom before the curse hits, there may be nothing left to wake up to.

The first in a duology! (I’ve had issues with amazon marking it as the third, because it is the third fairytale set in the same world as my others, but is the FIRST in a duology. Heir of Roses is second.)

Category: Fantasy – Fairy Tales

A modern “the Moon is a Harsh Mistress.”
As a world-class empath, Jackdaw Speaks-with-Stones was supposed to follow his father to become Speaker for the Whales. Unfortunately, he is going blind at sixteen. Under the Articles of Submission, Earth isn’t permitted the technology to help him. A fateful encounter leads him to the Moon where he can restore his sight and attend a prep school for the corporate elite. In a valley where the sun never sets, he discovers corruption and conspiracies that threaten the foundations of Lunar civilization.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

A day at the ren-faire becomes more of an adventure than Keltia ever imagined . . .
Keltia has a normal seventeen-year-old life. Except that she was found on the steps of a police station when she was a baby. And she was born with green hair. And no one knows why.
A fun day takes a fateful twist after a group of ren-faire barbarians who actually seem dangerous start chasing her across the grounds. When she follows a handsome jouster, Emerson, into a hollow tree to hide, she finds herself in a fantasy land of giants, killer unicorns, powerful faeries . . . and dryads.
Can Emerson help her find the key to return home? Or will Keltia be swallowed up by this impossible land?

Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

Solve a murder, save her mother, and stop the apocalypse?

No problem.

She has a foul-mouthed troll on her side.

Dive into the Oriceran Universe with the series that started it all, The Leira Chronicles, with this special 2-book starter pack!

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Waking Magic:

For Austin homicide detective Leira Berens, happy is running down bad guys and solving crimes.

And she’s damn good at it.

Which is why when the Light Elf prince is murdered, the king breaks a centuries-old treaty and crosses between worlds to seek her help.

Wait a minute. An Elf? Like from Lord of the Rings or something?

Yeah, Leira has a hard time accepting that.

But it doesn’t matter what she believes.

Magic is real, and it’s coming back with a bang.

The prince’s death was only the beginning. Tracking down his killer is about more than just justice.

It’s saving the world.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban