Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for January 2, 2023

In the garden
Nothing is as it seems

When sixteen-year-old Shaleigh Mallet is kidnapped by a creature who carries her atop a flying bicycle into another world, she realizes this wasn’t the escape she wanted.

In a kingdom known as the Garden, where minotaurs pull carriages and parties are held in hot air balloons, Madam Cloom and her faerie servant, Teagan, rule over the land with incredible but terrifying magic. Shaleigh must prove that she is the reincarnation of a long-dead ruler, not because she believes it, but because it’s her only chance to survive. With the help of a trespassing faerie, a stoatling, and a living statue, Shaleigh hopes to outwit everyone. She aims to break the bonds of servitude and finally make her way home. What she doesn’t realize, however, is that she’s playing right into the hands of a far worse enemy.

A young creature embarks on a voyage through Mighnd’s Infinite Expanses in search of his estranged mother. He crews aboard merchant ethoships as a wayfarer bound to the mercy of psychopathic skippers, liars, thieves, cheats, and pirates. The dilapidated alien ports between voyages are owned by soul slavers, sex predators, blood-sucking frauds, and gangs of child-eating monsters. The wayfarer finally ends his journey years later, completely emaciated, with a horrendous truth as his final testament.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

In an ancient world of sand and splendor, an empire awakens.

Aelar, a mighty nation, spreads its tentacles. Its oared galleys storm the seas, and the waters run red with blood. Its legionaries swarm desert ruins, smiting barbarian hordes. Its crosses line the roadsides, displaying the dying flesh of heroes.

Sweeping from snowy forests to cruel deserts, from bazaars of wonder to fields of war, here is a tale of legionaries and lepers, priests and paupers, kings and crows. Here a girl travels across endless dunes, seeking magic; a cruel prince struggles to claim a bloodstained throne; and a young soldier fights to hold back an overwhelming host. As the empire spreads, the fate of all civilization stands upon a knife’s edge, for under the storm of war, even the greatest nations are but kingdoms of sand.

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Category: Fantasy – Epic

Fall into a world of deadly machines, strange creatures, and sinister secrets. Fall in love with the crew of treasure hunters risking their hearts to uncover the truth … During her final year at the academy, Isaline, an orphan and warrior-in-training, discovers that her mysterious necklace is far more than a simple trinket. As shadowy figures and dangerous beasts seek to claim the powerful item for their own, Isaline is caught in a fight for survival. First in an addictive fantasy adventure series.

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Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

In 1843, when the Millers steal a secret gold mine in New Mexico, everyone wants to kill them — especially Geronimo. Hatred here is a way of life, but war with Mexico looms. In a lawless time, in a brutal land, where murder is just a popular career, Jack Miller will do anything to take what he can and kill who he must.

Category: Science Fiction – Alternative History

In the depths of space, aliens fight over worlds unknown to the people of Earth. Join Robin on her quest to stop a local conflict from becoming an all-out war that just might engulf an unsuspecting Earth.

Robin hopped aboard the alien spaceship expecting a great adventure. After they were in space, and it was too late to turn back, they told her that only she had the skills to stop an intragalactic war. Robin must learn to use her psychic skills to communicate with the Marauders before they kill everyone.

The Marauders of Sazile is a fast-paced space adventure with an enthusiastic female protagonist. Robin meets every challenge with her unique brand of skepticism and chutzpah.

“I’m Robin Mayfield. This is the story of my first great adventure, or how I stopped an intragalactic war.”

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

As a Breaker, she was destined to live a hard life serving the whims of galactic corporations. As an Earth Alliance Marine, she has a chance to change the balance of power in the galaxy.

Category: Science Fiction – Military

There’s deadly alien technology in the hands of an evil megacorp intent to make money at any cost, and the galaxy’s only hope is a rag-tag group of Earth Alliance Marines.