Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for January 2, 2024

When a mysterious entity grants a man who died a chance to be a hero in another life in a fantasy world, he cannot believe his luck. The one condition: he must fight the demon king if he shows up during his new iteration.

He accepts and…

Wakes in the body of a young female wolf beastkin named Lucia haunted by the memory of orcs ravaging her town. Not the rebirth he was hoping for.

He soon learns that beastkin are not looked upon kindly in these parts and, because Lucia is an orphaned beastkin, she is drafted into the military. But this new body has its perks as well as its drawbacks. She possesses a hot temper, an incredibly youthful and strong body, and claws. However, the longer he is in this body, the willpower of his former life begins to yield to Lucia’s overwhelming primal instincts.

They came from deep space. They came to destroy us.

Fifty years ago, bloodthirsty aliens devastated the Earth. Most of humanity perished. We fell into darkness.

But now we rise from the ashes. Now we fight back.

Marco Emery was born into the war. After his mother is killed, he joins the Human Defense Force, Earth’s ragtag army. Emery must survive basic training, become a soldier, and finally face the aliens in battle.

Against the alien onslaught, Earth stands alone. But we will fight. We will rise. We will win.

If you loved Ender’s Game, Starship Troopers, and Old Man’s War, you’ll love Earthrise, a new military science fiction series. From a USA Today bestselling author.

Category: Science Fiction – Military

Earth burns.

We call them the scum. They came from deep space. Creatures of claws and endless malice, they ravage the world.

As the war flares, as cities crumble, Private Marco Emery and his platoon blast into space. They won one battle on Earth. Their next battle must be fought in the darkness.

The scum will not rest until the last human is dead. Marco and his friends must defeat them. They must win. Or Earth will fall.

Brigid is a high school teacher who has worked hard to fashion a predictable, ordinary life after an anything but ordinary childhood. When scientists turn on the Large Hadron Collider, Brigid, inexplicably, becomes the co ruler of, well, everything.
She quickly realizes that not only must she learn the ropes of a new and not particularly welcomed job, she must also try and work out just which of the apparently multitudinous dark forces that surround her is trying to plunge the planet into an eternal pit of torment.
With the assistance of her new age parents, an officious spectral administrative executive and a regretful warlock with a deep and abiding interest in 80s cafe food, Brigid uncovers secrets about the liminal worlds that exist above our own and try to save the universe.

Category: Fantasy – Myths & Legends

Prophecies foretell of a great demon who will someday emerge to destroy the world. Only one man possesses the power to stop it.
And he has no idea.
In the lawless land of Tarmerria, only the strong survive. Eric, the simple son of a blacksmith, learns this awful lesson the day his village is attacked by horrific black-winged monsters. But the monsters aren’t simply wreaking havoc. They’re searching …
For him.
Surrounded by enemies on all sides, Eric must place his trust – and his life – in the hands of a mysterious girl who may be his only chance to fulfill his destiny. If they can survive long enough.

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Category: Fantasy – Epic

Why don’t more 60-something-year-olds get to have fun magical adventures?
Delia Spark is caught in a maelstrom. Her former life as a London theatre director is on the brink of implosion amid a scandalous divorce, a tarnished reputation, and, for reasons she cannot fathom, things keep spontaneously combusting around her. Her sixties were supposed to be peaceful, but now even her grown daughter won’t return her calls. Escape is the only option.

In the remote village of Myrtlewood, she seeks solace, not suspecting that in this quaint haven, far stranger adventures await than the urban chaos she left behind. Delia is oblivious to the undercurrent that her arrival stirs. Amid whispers of magic, she finds herself on the precipice of an extraordinary transformation…

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

The Federation made three mistakes:
Leaving Quinn to die
Framing Quinn for treason
Taking Quinn’s kids
She could get over the first two.
With her friend Tony, a man of surprising connections and mysterious family, Quinn rescues herself and the other “inconvenient” spouses left to die on the abandoned asteroid outpost. When Quinn launches her campaign to retrieve her children, the Federation will realize taking children from their mother is the biggest mistake of all. Because Quinn will do whatever it takes to get them back–even start a revolution.

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Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

Dags Jourdain never asked to be an angel. He calls it “The Change.” After a night of hallucinogens in the California desert, he crashed through the balcony windows of his crap apartment with honest-to-god wings on his back. No one warned him about the chaotic mess of powers he’d inherit. Or that he’d black out every time he flew, waking up naked in random places. Or that he’d randomly start fires. Or that every time he picked up a weapon, there was a good chance someone dies. Now Dags works as a P.I. in Hollywood, California. He also hunts demons. Thanks to a particularly nasty one on Hollywood Boulevard, Dags accidentally saves the life of a movie star, and it turns his life upside down.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

A million stars, but no friends.

Plus-size teen Haley grew up friendless on a space station thinking she’d never fall in love. She spends her time with her robot dog Nano, dreaming of the day she’ll leave the remote station and become an intergalactic pilot.

Haley’s plan shatters when Jorden, a boy on a suicide mission, drags her into his lethal scheme.

Jorden Lund isn’t the chosen one, he’s the guy who volunteered.

Raised by his controlling father in an eco-terrorist cell on Earth, Jorden volunteers for a mission to save the planet. He has four months to travel to the space station, build a bomb, and blow up a spaceship.

Falling in love is definitely not part of the plan.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

Can you forgive the unforgivable?
And how do you go on when you’ve lived past your expiration date?

It’s time to rebuild. But sometimes the hardest thing is living with the results of your choices. How can I move on when the past is staring me in the face?
Life doesn’t wait for us to heal as it forces us to participate in a race against time, across a dying planet, chased by unimaginably powerful forces, with no resources except each other.
There is only one hope.
To return home, even if the home isn’t what we remember.