Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for December 31, 2020

Her name is Silver, an immortal assassin traveling through time for thousands of years. A tool of mysterious gods who assign her missions to shape humanity, death is impossible and she endures wars, ancient kingdoms, greedy rulers, plagues, and human desperation.

They send her to Silicon Valley. Known for innovation and technological wonders, it’s also the hunting ground for Silver to carry out her mission. As a tech giant is about to reveal its crowning achievement — a friendly Artificial Intelligence designed to take humanity to new heights — the CEO is assassinated before the project is unveiled. But why?

Silver soon realizes things aren’t what they seem. The AI is a lethal technology called a Mind, putting mankind and the multiverse at risk in ways Silver could never have imagined. Can she annihilate the bloodthirsty Mind before it’s too late?

A battle-elf, gladiator and super genius walk into a bar… Actually, there’s no punch line.

But you can guarantee someone’s getting decapitated.

Anabella is a supermodel with a secret. She’s really an elf. And she’s bored, bored, bored. Born and bred as a warrior, Anabella wants nothing more than to trade her tiara for a dagger and a gun.

Careful what you wish for…

When orcs invade Earth, will Anabella have her chance?

Abby is a robotics engineer and certifiable genius (as well as simply certifiable). When Abby’s father is killed by the orcs, she plans on using her intellect to avenge him.

Terra is the toughest person in Kansas. Too bad she’s not in Kansas anymore. She was kidnapped by orcs to fight in their sick and twisted battle games.

These three warriors didn’t start the war…but you can be damn sure they’re going to try to finish it. Will they succeed?

Category: Fantasy – Superhero

Sixteen-year-old Parrish Sorrows is nothing special. She lives in the shadow of her prodigy sister, ignored by her parents and shunned as an outsider at her private school.
But today, everything changes.
Today, on the other side of the country, a portal to another world opens. A man and a witch step through, both tied to Parrish in ways she never could have imagined.
Because of these strangers, an ancient evil awakens, spreading a virus that will kill millions in a matter of weeks. When the dead begin to rise, survivors must battle an enemy they can’t even begin to comprehend.
But as the world is dying, a mysterious power inside Parrish is reborn. A power that proves she was special all along. A power that shows she’s the key to saving what’s left of the world.
…and she’s not the only one.

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

FROM OUTLAW TO BOUNTY HUNTER TO VIGILANTE
Cade Korbin became a bounty hunter because he knew what it was like to be hunted. What he didn’t know was who he’d end up hunting.
Cade was a Paladin, a member of the Coalition’s elite special forces. He did their dirty work and cleaned up their messes. Until his dark ops went public, and Cade was drummed out of the service with a dishonorable discharge.
Forced to the fringes of society by his service record, Cade broke the law just to survive. Then the Enforcers caught him, and he served his time. Sick of the hypocrisy in the supposedly utopian Coalition, he made a life among his former enemies in the Free Systems Alliance. Now he hunts the galaxy’s worst lowlifes, for a fee, and the only orders he takes are his own.
But when his past catches up with him, Cade is forced to fight for more than just credits.
This time, he’s in it for revenge.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

Get ready to enter the dark, disturbing waters of a dystopian sci-fi world in this widely-praised, mind-bending trip to An Other Place, where time and space are fluid, where the moon changes colour and savage beasts run wild, where teeth are used as currency and love-making is a perilous proposition, where strange sandmen offer sanctuary in times of danger and a mysterious Alchemist rules over all.

When Newman Riplan’s flight into the unknown turns into a nightmarish slide between worlds, he must explore an unnamed city where unpredictable terrors are the norm. By the end of his first day adrift, his life has spun completely out of his control. As he desperately searches for meaning and a way out, he starts to realise that perhaps only madness can provide him with the answers, while surrender might offer him his only true hope of escape…

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

What if everyone in the world was granted three wishes on their seventeenth birthday? Fame, fortune, superpowers, the girl or boy of your dreams—you can have it all if you just wish for it, right? Wrong. The Jinn have other plans. Every wish comes with a price—a sick, twisted price. The Jinn have waited an eternity to rise and take their rightful place as rulers of Earth. Now they finally have their chance.

Clover Grimwood finds out just how warped the Jinn, known as genies in the Western world, can be. On her older sister’s seventeenth birthday, Razul, one of the most powerful genies in existence, appears in Clover’s living room. He violently rips away everything she loves, destroying her family and leaving her desperate and broken.

The only key to her salvation, and the means to breaking the genie’s wretched curse, may be a legendary object of power, lost to the ages long ago. To find it, Clover must undergo a series of trials and reach deep inside her very soul to discover the hero she never knew existed. For in her hands rests not only the fate of her family but that of the entire world.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

A little mermaid. A prince to save. Only silence can break the spell.
Once upon a time…
The mermaid Margareta saved Prince Erik from a shipwreck. Wanting to see the prince again, Margareta strikes a bargain with the Master of Beacon Isle. If she saves his sons from a terrible curse, he will reunite her with Prince Erik. All she has to do is stay silent until the curse is broken.
Silence is a virtue…until Prince Erik arrives early, searching for the mermaid who saved his life.
Can two hearts speak louder than words?

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Category: Fantasy – Fairy Tales

Drix is ecstatic, his clan are reviving an outlawed female hunting game. But when the clan’s leader reveals a mixed group of females he’s disappointed by the offerings – especially with the small pathetic unknown species with translucent pale skin. She repulses him the most.
Yet, something in her fragility stirs emotions in him, and he has carnal thoughts of her – thoughts he can’t ignore.
Marcella can’t believe what’s happening. One minute she is out running and the next she is tied up with a group of terrified alien women on a spaceship.
But when they are all dumped in a strange forest, it’s not the terrifying shrieking coming from the forest depths that frightens Marcella, it’s the huge purple alien who has horns jutting from his shoulders and elbows, a chest covered in scars, and a look of disgust in his eyes whenever he rakes them over her body – he gives her shivers!

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure