Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for December 26, 2024

Embers of an Old War stir. A Forgotten Warrior Hides His Head in the Sand. But can he Stand by and Watch the Innocent be Slaughtered?

Tag wanted nothing more than to live in peace. That’s why he buried his weapons along with his most violent secrets twenty years ago when his side lost the war. But when old enemies return to threaten an innocent town, Tag gets his hands bloody.

Pursued by a power-hungry General and his dark magical creature, Tag takes his family on the run. But with every turn Tag encounters enemies and old allies alike enticing him to rejoin a war he is desperate to avoid.

Will Tag take up arms against evil again or will he and his family be destroyed by the impossible menace of an endless war?

Forced to become a spy for the rebellion, Caitlin must unravel the truth of the powers behind the throne, or the revolution will fail and she will become the pawn of an enemy far more dangerous than the tyrannical king.

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Category: Fantasy – Epic

Ethan dreams of reaching the stars, but everything has a price… After developing a warp bubble drive and building the prototype spaceship, he sets off to collect fuel to power the drive from Saturn. They detect another spaceship and he sees his life-long goal slipping from his grip. Is Ethan’s dream ending before it even begins?

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Category: Hard Science Fiction

All Adrian Blacklion wanted was a normal life, away from the magical world he hated. But a haunting dream shatters that hope when it reveals his long-missing father’s in danger. With his friend Meilianna and armed with a spellcasting Focus, Adrian is thrust back into the world of magic — a realm where cities run on spell-based crypto and you need a license to teleport. But this isn’t just a journey to find his father; it’s a battle against ancient evils resurfacing. Primeval gods still live…and one wants to free a crazed Blood Goddess trapped for millennia. His father isn’t the only one in danger. They’re coming for Adrian too. To survive, Adrian has to navigate treacherous mazes, magical gladiator matches, and bizarre creatures from legend and myth. Because to stop that crazed Blood Goddess, Adrian and Meilianna need to find the key to her prison…the Stiamaq Emerald.

Category: Fantasy – New Adult & College

In a last-ditch effort to fulfil her dreams and make tuition for her first year at MIT, Sofia Kaye goes against her better judgement and accepts an invitation to compete on a new TV reality show. But as Sofia and two fellow contestants, Zach and Liv, race toward the finish line, it becomes apparent the game show is rigged and the creepy billionaire tycoon behind the show is only interested in Liv. Before the three can figure out what’s going on, the tycoon whisks Liv away to Egypt, and a mysterious man, who claims to be an alien from the planet Pleiades, persuades Sofia and Zach to let him help get Liv back.

As Sofia and Zach search for Liv and struggle to distinguish friend from foe, truth from fiction, and alien from human, they come to realize this is no longer a game. It’s a fight for their lives, as well as a fight for Earth.

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Category: Science Fiction – Alien Invasion

A homeless prince, a grueling mission, an unlikely hope

An unspeakable tragedy leaves Prince Jack with one desire: vengeance. Living in exile, Jack perfects his talent with the sword. He’s sent to the desert for assassin training, dreaming of the day he’ll drive a dagger into that usurper Ingvar’s heart.

Jack plunges into training and finds a new family of sorts, whose morally gray members rid the city of vile criminals. But as the desert Lord Anwar readies for battle, allegiances shatter, blood runs in the streets, and the shadow of death looms near. During a last effort to complete his seemingly impossible mission, Jack chances upon a slave girl with a Northern accent and eyes so familiar that he makes a hasty vow.

He always thought he’d defeat his nightmares by becoming one. Could that nightmare fade into a new dream? And could that strange slave girl be at the heart of it all?

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

When an unexpected wedding invitation arrives, Anno packs her family up for a trip across the stars.

There’s a lot of fun, touristy things to do on Crossroads Station, including spacewalks, cloud surfing on New Jupiter, and enjoying the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a place that’s home to many dozens of different species of alien. But there’s also a reckoning to be had with her larger family, who Anno hasn’t seen in eight years. She was born and raised in the cult of Xeno-Nativity, and most of her dozen siblings — each of a different species — are still enmeshed in the myrmecoidal matrons’ talons.

Can they forgive her for leaving them behind? And can she save them from staying trapped there forever?

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Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

Tasked with helping secure the future of the town of Sanctuary, four young adventurers soon discover that armies of orcs and hobgoblins are far from the only threats to peace on the frontier. Ancient evils stir. Deals must be brokered. But can everyone be trusted?

Category: Fantasy – Epic

For the first time in thousands of years, the human race faces a foe strong enough to oppose it. Now a cold war is brewing in the distant Hourglass Galaxy. But even as the Solar Empire, and the Interstellar Combine moved inexorably toward war; both are unaware that they are trapped in a conspiracy older than either nation. Five people must navigate the treacherous times ahead. The Solar Winds are blowing, and many will not survive.

Category: Science Fiction – Galactic Empire

After their recent adventures in Florida, Gabriel, Sheila, and Orson are due for a vacation. But their dreams of beaches are interrupted by an urgent cry for help. Sheila’s aunt, the witch who first taught her magic, has hidden herself away in snowy Maine. Now she’s being targeted by a radical environmental group that’s demanding her help… or else. They’ve mastered an ancient native magic and are going to use it to destroy anyone who gets in their way. And they have a nasty habit of controlling animals… including Orson. It will take all of Sheila’s magic and Gabriel’s skills to stop them, and it might tear them apart before they’re through. But if they fail, it could be the darkest night of all.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban