Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for February 25, 2020

The start of an epic fantasy adventure…

Of a game played between gods where the playing field is the world itself and the pieces, living beings. A young man is caught unwittingly between, in a strange world, without allies or help, and must battle for survival using his wits and magic alone.

Pawn or Player…his fate is his to decide…which will he prove to be?

Accidentally summoned from Earth to the world of Myelad, Kyran becomes embroiled in an eons-old war between the gods. Earning their ire, he is sentenced to die. To escape the gods’ trap, Kyran must become a player in their game that even the gods would learn to fear…

For those who enjoy epic tales of fantasy, this is a coming of age story of Kyran Seversan, a young man from Earth, stranded in another world where magic not only exists, but is part of an elaborate game between immortals.

Cities fell, the lands were scorched and then the sickness came.
No-one knows why, but one man is about to find out.

Ethan is a ranger, sworn to protect the scattered settlements that rose up after the Fall. The rangers fight savage roamers, twisted by a sickness known as the Maddening, and scout the wastelands for the resources they need to survive. No-one knows what caused the devastation or the Maddening, but Ethan is determined to get answers. He’ll wish he never asked.

Trapped in space for generations, two factions of the advanced pre-Fall civilization are still locked in a bitter war. To end it, they must find a planetsider. When Captain Maria Salus and Commander Chris Kurren crash to the planet’s surface and beg for Ethan’s help, he agrees to go with them. In return he’ll learn the truth. But the reality is darker than he ever imagined.

They say ignorance is bliss. But you can’t unlearn the truth. Now Ethan has no choice but to fight, not only for those he loves, but for the very future of life itself, planetside.

Category: Science Fiction – Post-Apocalyptic

New magic in Old America.

Welcome to Souls Well, Colorado—a place of buried secrets where the dead never sleep. When black magic comes to town, Sheriff Tiberius Tibbetts will race against time to save his neighbors from the horrors walking the streets at night. His only chance of survival: embracing the ancient art of alchemy, an arcane power that can lead him to his victory… Or to his doom.

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Category: Fantasy – Historical

Blood magic as bitter as a blade of ice.

The dead of winter just got deader. A wave of gruesome murders is shaking Souls Well to its core. Once again, Sheriff Tiberius Tibbetts will put his detective skills to the test to find the killer hiding in the shadows. Even if that means facing a lethal supernatural foe ready to hunt them one by one until there’s nobody left to see the upcoming spring. But how to succeed when alchemy and blood magic are at play?

Trapped in the game. Forced back to level 1. What’s next, permadeath?

Sky Realms Online is the largest and most popular Virtual Reality MMORPG ever made. Set amongst the mystical, floating islands of Hankarth, it’s played and enjoyed by millions every hour. Until something goes wrong.

Unable to log out, players find themselves reduced to level one, and in the starting zones. They receive a cryptic message from the developers stating that for unknown reasons, they are trapped in the game and may have to live out their lives within the virtual world.

Hall is one of the those trapped in the game. He’s been playing Sky Realms Online as a spear-wielding Skirmisher ever since the beta. And instead of panicking as many do, he decides to make the most of it; to play the game and live his new life, all while quietly hoping the developers will find a fix.

Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

So far I have two possible fates: die in my dorm or end up as a vampire’s slave.

There is no escape out of Nocturnal Academy’s prison school. Being here means I’ve lost my mother, my best friend, and my freedom.

Now, Nocturnal Academy plans to make me into a courtesan for the vampires. My only hope out is topping the Placement Tests and becoming the 1 out of 100 fae who gets to shape her own fate.

But between a mysterious vampire guard confusing my feelings, my nemesis circling in on me like a viper, and a teacher who hates my guts, all my plans are falling apart. If I’m not careful, I won’t even end up as a courtesan, but as dead meat.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

An intense thrill-ride in the tradition of Alien, with heart-stopping moments of sheer terror, Unnatural Selection is a twisted tale of life and death in the cold vacuum of outer space.

When Paul Freeman’s ex-girlfriend sends him an SOS from her bio-mechanical research station off Saturn, he doesn’t hesitate to answer the call.

Once he boards the station, Paul learns that Lena’s team has discovered intelligent life in the solar system. This new-to-humans life form is completely contained, and it doesn’t appear to be hostile.

Yet.

But an unexpected chain of events changes everything, and suddenly, Paul and his friends are fighting for survival. Their enemy seems almost invulnerable, and time is running out for the team—and for the station itself. Can they outwit a being that’s hell-bent to destroy them before it’s too late?

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure