Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for December 28, 2024

The world lies in ruins, with the remnants of humanity crushed beneath the iron heel of the Chainkeepers, enforcers of the God of Tyranny. But in the shadows of oppression, rebellion spreads unseen.
Senn, a former slave turned rebel leader, defied the tyranny of the Chainkeepers but lost the woman he loved. Now as the blessed Herald of the God of Greed, betrayal lurks in every shadow, as enemies and allies alike plot his downfall. Can he live long enough to get his revenge?

As the gods awaken and their machinations are laid bare, Senn and those he cares for will become their pawns, with the fate of humanity at play. Yet even pawns can topple kings.

Draoideachta is the Gaelic word for magic in Ireland, a place of mystery, mists, and old gods, the Tuatha Dé Danann. Long ago, the magic practitioner Saint Patrick in a takeover bid banished the Tuatha and locked away all magic, but today his church is dying, hemorrhaging magic.

In a comeback play, the old gods send forward in time a man cursed by the Morrigan. Padraic O’Duibh is the long-haired, woad-tattooed son of an Irish god and a human mother. Personally, he’d rather be in hell than champion for the cute-hoor Irish gods.

Never take money from a fairy. Mealla O’Conner, a Métis by birthright, half Irish, a descendant of the White Witch Biddy Early, and half Native American from Canada has a website, Trainingintotemism dot com As an entrepreneur not a believer, she now has to learn what she is and what she has to bring to the magic fecking free for all.

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Saving Human Patients is Easy! Probie paramedic Dean Flynn bit off more than he can chew when assigned to the paranormal paramedics at Station U. With patients most would consider monsters, Dean learns the ropes while treating werewolf diabetics, vampires with allergies, and a host of other mythological creatures in this Urban Fantasy romp.

Category: Fantasy – Myths & Legends

Julie Meadows is down on her luck when she receives an e-mail drafting her into the Official Para-Military Agency.

With the help of Taylor and a snarky mystical artifact, Julie races against the clock to avoid a killer mind-wipe.

Should she succeed, her place at OPMA will be secure. If she fails, avoiding her mom’s insistence on the health benefits of aloe vera juice won’t be a problem anymore.

Get the complete best-selling Para-Military Recruiter series to find out why fans are enjoying it so much!

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Palace of Sunderland. Paradise to the peasants. Princess Anna can never escape the castle’s cold walls and scorning disapproval of her father and his brute royal counsel, Seamus. She’ll always live in the shadow of her late mother.

A riding accident lands Anna in the hands of traders who sell her as a slave in distant Kasdod to none-other than her father’s enemy, Lord Anwar. After overhearing a dangerous plot to conquer Sunderland and kill the royal family, Anna must escape and warn her father, even if it means facing her greatest enemy.

With time running out, Anna is approached by a dangerous-looking man in the dark. He claims to want to help her, but can she trust him with her secrets? The perils of the journey ahead will push Anna to the limit and answer the one question that has always plagued her.

Will she ever be enough?

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

A finalist in Hugh Howey’s SPSFC#2—delivers epic space opera! Danny Andela, once the Empire’s fiercest warrior, lives in exile until secrets of betrayal draw her back into the galaxy’s perilous web of power. Action, intrigue, and unforgettable twists await!

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Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

Humanity’s last stand can’t stand each other
What do you get when you mash zombies with robots and an AI apocalypse? A complete cluster****, obviously, as well as the new novel Zambies! An AI Apocalypse Horror/Comedy for the Ages.

Award-winning author Matt J Pike’s latest book takes the sweeping technological changes just hitting us a few years into the future where the world wakes up to find a dream abundant future shattered. Anyone plugged into technology has been mind-fried and is out for the blood of those who remain. And these zambies are just the first wave of terror takedown of humanity controlled by a mystery evil.

A dysfunctional multi-generational cast of strangers try get out of dodge before it’s too late. Action. Gore. Laughs. Betrayal. Gore. Zambies. Robots. AI. Dogbots. Drones. Gore. Retro Cars. Quality vinyl. And a final gush of gore.

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

Indiana Jones meets Stargate in this epic historical science fiction/fantasy adventure. Louisa Sophia, a jaded thief, and Dr. Benjamin McGehee, an idealistic archaeologist, team up to solve an eons old mystery that sends them on an extraordinary journey from 1880s Egypt to a distant planet where aliens and magic are all too real.

Category: Fantasy – Alternative History

The cursed bridge has stolen everything from Elika—her parents, the man she loved, and any hope for a future beyond the brief time left to them. As the deadly Blight advances, consuming their world and threatening humanity’s last stronghold, the priests vow that only by erasing magic can they save mankind.

But Elika harbors a dangerous secret: the most powerful echo of magic lives inside her, and it has a will of its own. Long-buried truths about her past emerge, unraveling everything she thought she knew.

Now, as her power grows uncontrollably and time runs out for the city, Elika must make an impossible choice: sacrifice herself to save humanity or fight for a destiny she never wanted.

Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

Brilliant physicist Zeke Travers is on the brink of a scientific breakthrough… and a nervous breakdown. So after the beta test of his interdimensional drive goes off without a hitch, he breathes a sigh of relief. But when an alien warship materializes out of nowhere with guns blazing, Zeke and his team must risk using their invention to jump to a parallel universe.

Uncertain how to return to their native continuum, Zeke’s nerd squad must blind-hop across the omniverse from high-tech galaxies to magic-powered medieval planets. Hunted by ridiculously persistent and savage attackers, Zeke suspects the pursuers are only puppets of a far more shadowy evil. And with every roll of the interstellar dice, he fears they’re falling deeper into its sinister clutches!

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

Zeke Travers is pulling his hair out. As if the strain of leading his crew wasn’t already overwhelming, he has to blind-jump his spaceship through dimensions in search of a fix for their broken drive. And while salvaging a derelict alien vessel for repair materials, the stressed-out captain is horrified to discover the other ship’s inhabitants were murdered by… his own team?

Attacked themselves by the vicious carbon copies, Zeke and the band barely escape with their lives and crash-land in a nearby star system. But stranded on the strange planet with trust and tempers fraying, they find out the hard way that their doppelgängers have already been there and now everyone wants the Slagmasters dead.

Will Zeke and his ragtag buddies conquer the monstrous mirror-image threat?

Imagine if we were offered a new, uncontaminated planet and a fresh start, how would you wish to see humanity move forward…?

Now, armed with some knowledge of the complex relationships that exist between both fauna and flora – all life with whom we share this incredible planet – what lessons have we learned?

This is a story about a new beginning…

Anu has a gift: her personal vibration is in perfect harmony with the natural world.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure