Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for February 22, 2022

A rollicking adventure!
A clever thief, a determined acrobat, and a troubled dwarf are joined by an old storyteller as they attempt the impossible: Assassinate a wizard lord.
Their slim hope relies on the enchanted amulet, the Eye of Obscurance.
These unwitting pawns are embroiled in a contest of wizards.
The stakes: The fate of the world.

Can a new world heal an old wound?

Nina Carson is a part of a health & safety team and wants nothing more than to curl up with a bottle of wine to drown out the voice of her long-dead twin brother.

But when the team’s helicopter hits a mysterious storm and falls through a hole in the sky, it crashes on an alien world ruled by insects, and everything changes.

Survival in this alien world requires more than finding water & shelter. It also means Nina must learn to trust her own instincts — even when they go against all she’s ever learned. Because something in this strange world is trying to make a mental connection with her, and its intent is unknown.

Category: Science Fiction – First Contact

Political propaganda would have us believe vampires are our friends. Fanged teddy bears misunderstood thanks to archaic lore. Activists picket for them to be welcomed into our society.

They claim vamps don’t kill.
They preach we are safe.
They … are dead wrong.

One year ago a hive slaughtered my family and left me for dead. Found by a team of scientists with their own agenda, I was forged into an unstoppable weapon.

I possess their strength, with none of their weaknesses.
I can move among them free from their crippling hunger.
I am their greatest threat.

Armed with this arsenal, vengeance will feed my desire to penetrate the seedy underbelly of their fetishized lifestyle and expose them for the monsters they truly are.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

One hundred thousand colonists can’t disappear. Ethan Walker is a freighter captain carrying a payload of med-tech and passengers to Starlight Colony. When they arrive, they discover everyone has vanished. No bodies. No evidence of an attack. They are just gone. To find out what happened, he must take a risk that may cost his crew everything.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

King Markon of Montalier is at the end of his tether. His son, Prince Parrin, is afflicted with a rather nasty curse that slaughters, maims, or brutally attacks any woman with whom he so much as flirts. After the rumour that sweeps around the kingdom, promising that any woman breaking the ‘curse’ will be eligible to marry the prince, there is no shortage of willing volunteers. Unfortunately, there is also no shortage of bodies piling up.

Markon needs to do something, but what? Can a visiting enchantress from Avernse help, or is she simply another accident waiting to happen? And will Markon be able to give her up to his son if she does break the curse?

Twelve Days of Faery is the first novella in the Shards Of A Broken Sword novella trilogy.

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Category: Fantasy – Fairy Tales

Reed Lavender is Death’s nephew, a mostly human detective with the uncanny ability to hear the final words of the dead – and something is not right in his city. Yet he’ll need more than his usual tricks to uncover the truth behind upheaval that starts with the murder of a teen runaway.

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

“After learning he has only months to live, Gemini Fowler is granted one shot to cheat death when a billionaire game-developer offers to transfer his consciousness into a virtual realm using a technology that could end death as we know it.
The catch:
The only current VR with the capability to receive him is the unreleased video game, Enora Online, and Gemini must survive until level ten or be completely wiped from the servers… and existence.
Welcome to Enora Online, where virtual is reality.”

Category: Fantasy – Epic

The Martian meets Lord of the Flies in this character-driven sci-fi novel. It is the year 2063 and the Mars Colony is now ready to receive the first wave of civilian colonizers. But, through the dark gulf of space, a threat is approaching. A threat that no one could have foreseen…and suddenly all of humanity is at risk of extinction.
Soon the struggle for survival becomes the primary focus and the line between right and wrong and between good and evil becomes very, very thin…

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Category: Science Fiction – Colonization