Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for December 15, 2021

Mina Sun is dying for life to return to normal.

Still reeling from personal tragedy, what she wants most in the world is to get back to art school and her job at a downtown tattoo shop. Then her roommate suggests a night of dance, drink and distraction.

Facing a mountainous backlog of schoolwork, Mina agrees, and soon finds herself in the arms of a sexy stranger with amber eyes. When she invites him home, she doesn’t realize they’re the eyes of a devil in disguise.

The next morning, she returns to her old life, hangover and all. But plagued by a wicked headache, unusual hungers and a burning desire, she realizes something is very wrong.

As she struggles to figure out what’s happening to her, she’s confronted by a tenacious hunter with tales of hellish creatures and ancient battles. And she’s forced to ask herself: Will life ever be normal again?

The descendant of history’s most infamous soldiers will inherit his ancestor’s war…

Descendants of War is a science fiction action-adventure series set in a vivid, multi-species universe. It’s filled with danger, intrigue and drama played out against the tense backdrop of a looming war versus an ancient and bitter enemy.

The series follow Commander Dalton Reeves, the sole lineal descendant of the two most famous soldiers in the galaxy, credited with saving humanity a millennium ago. Taking command of Concord Station – known throughout the galaxy as “The Abyss” – Reeves finds himself at the heart of an interstellar war that forces him confront his inner demons as well as an ancient enemy with grudge.

If you like action sci-fi with heart and soul, like Babylon 5 and Deep Space 9, this could be the series you’ve been waiting for.

Category: Science Fiction – Military

Fourteen-year-old Abby’s life is thrust into turmoil when a monster crashes through her window one stormy evening, bloodied and carrying a necklace identical to hers. But when she wakes up the next morning, it’s like the night before never happened, except for the new voice in her head telling her to trust the monster as a greater danger is on the way.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

A hero’s daughter-turned seamstress, and the two brothers who find their fate woven with hers, are caught in a war involving a necromantic beast…

Category: Fantasy – Fairy Tales

Daniel grew up as a normal child and nothing had prepared him for the most abrupt and frightening twist in his life.
In the dark of the night, he is kidnapped to the Almanous, a parallel sphere that rules the earth, and whose citizens are human animals with potent totem powers.
Daniel learns that when he reaches the age of 14, he will turn into a hawk totem and the visions he will see, will allow him to save humanity.
But the hawk’s powers are in danger.
The Almanous Council must take a huge risk and perform the forbidden split to defend the Hawk’s powers, but a stranger boy named Jacob comes into the picture unexpectedly.
When his birthday arrives at last, Daniel realizes he is being put to the test.
If he fails—the entire human race will pay the price.
If he makes a mistake—the end of Almanous will be near.
Jacob, however, has other plans…

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

By the year 2032, the U.S. federal debt has surpassed $50 trillion. The American empire is on the verge of collapse.

An entrepreneur named Kade Kapur has an idea for rescuing the debt-ridden United States: the government will issue stock in a company with exclusive mining rights to an asteroid whose orbit will soon bring it near Earth. The asteroid, which contains $10 trillion in valuable minerals, is officially called 2015 RK 16 Maimonides, but it soon comes to be known by another name: Mammon.

Fortunes are made and America seems to have avoided an economic collapse. But when the plan to capture the asteroid goes awry, the sky will fall….

Category: Science Fiction – Post-Apocalyptic

Family secrets, a power that defies science, and one girl’s fight for the truth…

Jes can’t remember anything before she was found at four, barefoot in the headlights of an old Ford. At fifteen, she has adjusted to moving without notice and never fitting in. Her adopted parents insist she hide the truth about that night, but Jes can’t get past how her real parents disappeared without a trace.

When Jes befriends a new student with an amazing power, she discovers he’s from another planet and searching for a missing girl. Could she be this mystery girl and what will it mean for the family determined to protect her?

As Jes learns, truth comes at a cost. Will she give up love to find out?

Category: Science Fiction – First Contact

“Exciting and engrossing, with stories that range across the spectrum of SF and fantasy.” —Publisher’s Weekly

“Hot new talent.” —Locus Mag

28 Award-winning authors and illustrators selected by masters of today.

From dark fantasy to dystopian nightmare, from magical realism to military science, from paranormal urban fantasy to post-apocalyptic power trips and beyond.

Experience the stories that challenge our sense of the world.

Bonus: 3 short stories by bestselling authors and art and writing tips.

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Category: Fantasy – Anthologies & Short Stories

He was going on one last, easy mission then he was going to get out. Until the whole of humanity needed saving. Lieutenant Dasan Sand is about to leave the Legion and become a civilian again — and he couldn’t be happier. But on a last mission, he finds himself facing an army of ferocious aliens fighting a religious war against the human race. Sand no longer wants to leave the Legion; not when he finally understands the meaning of service. The aliens are coming to wipe humanity off the cosmic map, and Sand must put together the band of men and women who will keep them at bay. To do that he must fight the military and civilian bureaucracy to pull together a rag tag group of soldiers to form an elite fighting unit capable of this almost impossible task.

Category: Science Fiction – Alien Invasion