Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for February 17, 2019

Oren Hart has only ever known life within the domed colony of New Arcadia. But when his parents are executed by the tyrannical Patriarch, he must escape into the desolate wasteland beyond. Heartbroken and weary, he discovers a secret resistance group and begins his training under a blademaster who hints at impossible powers. Determined to prove his worth, Oren turns his gaze east—back toward the tyrant who destroyed his old life.

When Clementine’s best friend vanishes without a word, she vows never to forgive him. With her home life in tatters, she soon finds herself stealing to survive. Against her better judgement, she infiltrates the Patriarch’s headquarters and uncovers a secret so dangerous, she too must escape into the wasteland. When she and Oren again cross paths, they must come to terms with years grown apart, and a monstrous new threat endangering everyone they left behind.

What starts off as a dreadful murder in London soon becomes a race against time to save humanity.

The receipt of an ancient parchment with an imprint of black-hand is only the beginning of something more terrible than Carter and Stella ever imagined. As Carter attempts to figure out the meaning of the strange parchment, he is thrust into a bizarre plot involving a billionaire’s child bride, a Scotland Yard Inspector, an eccentric academic, various thugs and his murdered friend’s adopted child.

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Category: Fantasy – Myths & Legends

Voted Best Contemporary/Urban Fantasy of 2017 by eFestival of Words
Libby is a mutant, one of the top burglars and assassins in the world. For a price, she caters to executives’ secret desires. Eliminate your corporate rival? Deliver a priceless art masterpiece or necklace? Hack into another corporation’s network? Libby’s your girl.

Climate change met nuclear war, and humanity lost. The corporations stepped in, stripping governments of power. Civilization didn’t end, but it became less civilized. There are few rules as corporations jockey for position and control of assets and markets.

In the year 2200, the world has barely recovered the level of technology that existed before the ice melted and the subsequent wars. Corporate elites live in their walled estates and skyscraper apartments while the majority of humanity supplies their luxuries. On the bottom level, the mutants, the poor, and the criminals scramble every day just to survive.

Category: Science Fiction – Metaphysical & Visionary

When Scarlett is accused of murder, she has no choice but to take up sleuthing and find a way to clear herself of suspicion.

Her only choice is to find the killer before she is arrested.

Her efforts are further thwarted by having no recollection of the night in question, and to make matters worse, weird things keep happening around her.

Meanwhile, the military police are closing in on her, and what she discovers in her own investigation is far more sinister than she could ever have imagined.

If you like your protagonists quirky and hilarious, your mysteries confounding, your vampires secretive, and weres dashing, you’re going to love everything in the Very British Witch series!

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

When a real estate agent unexpectedly dies right in front of her, Scarlett is thrust headlong into another twisted plot where she is suspected of murder.

As if that weren’t dramatic enough for our budding new witch, her favorite vampire seems to be going through some kind of psychotic break, and her almost boyfriend also finds himself a suspect in what is turning out to be a murder.

Couple that with trying to get to grips with the casting part of being a witch and Scarlett more than has her hands full.

Looks like it’s turning out to be just another Tuesday in Bicester…

Call of Duty meets Diablo in this fast-paced, action-packed novel from the author of The Wasteland Saga.

Gamer PerfectQuestion fights for ColaCorp in WarWorld, an online combat sport arena where mega-corporations field entire armies in the battle for real world global advertising-space dominance. Within the immense virtual battlefield, players and bots are high-tech grunts, using drop-ships and state-of-the-art weaponry to wipe each other out.

But times are tough and the rent is due, and when players need extra dough, there’s always the Black, an illegal open source tournament where the sick and twisted desires of the future are given free rein in the Westhavens, a gothic dungeon fantasy world.

And all too soon, the real and virtual worlds collide when PerfectQuestion refuses to become the tool of a mad man intent on hacking the global economy for himself.

Category: Science Fiction – Cyberpunk

As leader of the Vampire Enforcement Agency, Roric’s job is to find and capture the vampires who betray humans’ recently-earned trust. Until one human woman tempts him to break all the rules.

When Roric intercepts a rogue vampire attack and finds Caroline dying, he can’t resist her blood or her beauty, and in a moment of passion, he does the unthinkable. But Caroline despises the monsters who killed her parents, and she’d rather die than be a vampire.

With vampire attacks at an all-time high and Caroline resisting him at every turn, Roric’s job, his family, even his life is at risk. Worse, Caroline’s attacker wants her just as bad as Roric does, and he knows Roric’s secret. Roric will do anything to earn Caroline’s trust, but can he keep her safe long enough to convince her that life as a vampire isn’t a death sentence?

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban