Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for January 1, 2022

“… a well-plotted, smartly paced fantasy novel… The reader will keep turning pages” —The BookLife Prize 2019

Delve into an epic world of sword and sorcery, intrigue and betrayal. The realm of Drinnglennin is poised on the cusp of chaos, for their ailing High King has yet to name an heir. Rumors abound that the Helgrins, their bitterest foes, are preparing their longboats to raid the Isle’s shores, while the roving å Livåri folk, for whom the island kingdom is the last sanctuary, are mysteriously disappearing. And in distant Belestar, the fabled dragons are stirring from their self-imposed exile. Drinnglennin’s hopes lie with the wizard Morgan, who must gather together and safeguard the king’s possible heirs, all three of whom are coming of age. One thing is certain: whoever next sits on the Einhorn Throne will determine the fate of all who dwell in the Known World.

How do you save a world that doesn’t want saving?
As a priestess in a remote temple, Maegwin thought herself safe from the mage-led war engulfing the land. But soldiers attack her temple and when she kills the perpetrators, she is sentenced to death. When she’s given a last-minute reprieve from the gallows by an enigmatic stranger, she realizes her goddess has given her a second chance. But not to atone for her crimes. To take revenge.

Rovann is the King’s Mage. Champion. Leader. The man people look to for succour. And he’s heartily sick of it. Plagued by doubts and full of questions, he hopes the woman he saves from a hanging might hold the key to ending this interminable war. But she is not what she seems and Rovann is not sure he can trust her.

In a battle where failure means annihilation of all they hold dear, can these two unlikely allies learn to trust each before it’s too late?

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Category: Fantasy – Epic

Sealed within a mysterious stone, a flame of untold power burns, waiting to be released, demanding to be controlled…
In a mind-altering fantasy-thriller, two disastrous events thrust Kai Kazami to the depths of despair. Will a third tragedy empower him, or push him to mental collapse?
Hours after his wife’s disappearance, Kai discovers his mother dead, a glowing stone clutched in her fist, and a cryptic message scrawled on the floor.
Experimenting with meditation to overcome grief, Kai harnesses a fragment of power from the stone, unlocking a gateway to unimaginable abilities.
But when a killer learns about the stone, and a brutal attack leaves a friend in a terminal coma, Kai’s only hope is to master his inheritance, and make the magic his own…

Category: Fantasy – Metaphysical & Visionary

Two misfits struggling to craft a better future. A deadly cult intent on making them history.

Europe, 1871. Iris McTavish teeters on the verge of losing everything. After her father’s sudden passing and archaeology schools refusing to admit a female, the brilliant young woman fears her only escape from debt is an odious marriage. So when she’s offered the opportunity to replace her beloved parent on a mysterious expedition to stabilize aether as an energy source, the desperate lady leaps at the chance.

Teamed with a brilliant but anxious scientific genius, Iris travels to Paris in search of clues. But when their airship is attacked by clockwork automatons and her nervous partner is injured, the pioneering adventurer finds herself ensnared in a sinister conspiracy from which the only escape may be death…

Can Iris and her clever counterpart contrive a way out of certain doom?

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Category: Science Fiction – Steampunk

Book One of the Galactic War Series.
The music on the radio suddenly stopped. The announcer came on, “We are bringing you breaking news. Large flying ships have come from behind the moon, out of the sky and are dislodging black clad warriors who are attacking…”
The invasion had begun. A backward society found itself at war against an advanced, space traveling race. The fighting would envelop the whole society tearing nations and families apart.
Pethran and his two sons struggle with a new reality not of their making. One son fights the aliens, the other is captured and forced into the galactic navy. The father struggles to carry life on without them. This is truly the end of the innocent.

Category: Science Fiction – Alien Invasion

An Ancient Prophecy. A Treacherous Emperor. A Fallen Heir.

Cursed and marked for life, a young child is banished to the wilderness along with the mother who bore her. Lost, afraid and escaping certain death, they find sanctuary in a clan. Though two decades later, the source of their condemnation starts targeting the clans for land and slaves.

Now a leader and formidable warrior, Ajeya can fight back; but her mother knows more than she has previously divulged, and sends Ajeya on a quest to confront her past and unlock a mystery hidden from her since birth.

The question remains: is Ajeya strong enough to face the truth ?

Book 1 in the epic Kingdom of Durundal series – a fantasy world of myth and legend, of truths, half truths and rebellions, and a prophecy waiting to unfold.

Category: Fantasy – Historical