Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for January 20, 2025

First in a page-turning series: Phoenix has kept her magical identity under wraps while living among humans in Dublin. But when a mysterious werewolf arrives on her doorstep and speaks of a disastrous prophecy, Phoenix must learn to embrace the supernatural and save the world!

As Rory proposes to Ingefaer, the Elvish Shrine they’re visiting is set ablaze. She is jailed and threatened with hanging. Rory hunts for clues, but is hounded by soldiers at every step. While Ingefaer searches for ways to defeat the prison’s sigils, the Shrine’s Chief Healer vanishes in a puff of smoke.

Through Rory, Ingefaer gets her hands on a vial of invisibility and sets a ruse to escape. But she and Rory are fugitives. They paint themselves green and don hoods and return to the scene of the crime. Rory and Ingefaer receive help from the healer’s superior in the form of a letter of introduction, which they use to question suspects. They pursue a twisting tale that reveals the Chief Healer’s troubled past and her association with a fire mage. The climax is the duo battling the true arsonist and kidnapper.

Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

In the year 3045, lies 18-year-old Justin Steele, mentored for the past decade by his grandfather in combat and the intricacies of the animal kingdom. Seeking recognition from his father, Noah, the top protector of their country Ignacia, Justin strives to forge his own path by surpassing the difficult trials of the Wildlife Training Program (WT). Each member is awarded an animal partner, and the pair are reintroduced into a select part of the country depending on the assigned animal. Justin’s journey unfolds as he is partnered with Coco, a South American coatimundi.

Empowered by his grandfather’s teachings, Justin discovers he possesses an ancestral metallic strength within. Justin and Coco must navigate their newfound abilities to shield Ignacia and contest the menacing members of the AFA, an organization determined to undermine everything the WT has built.

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Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

In a war-torn kingdom, young Tomi must protect his home after his father is summoned to battle, plunging him into a brutal world of loss, treachery, and war. Armed with Pathos, a mysterious gift that may hold the key to survival, Tomi’s journey through violence and sacrifice will shape the man he is destined to become.

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

In the Society, everyone is happy.

Drea Young has grown up living in the shadow of the wall. She knows it’s there to protect the citizens of the United Society of the Reestablishment, but that doesn’t stop her from feeling trapped. Why? Everything in her world is perfect. There’s no more struggle, no war or crime, no conflict.

No choice.

Drea has always thought she was alone in her blasphemous thoughts, but then she gets to know Jerrick Carter and realizes she couldn’t be more wrong. Quiet and Brooding, Jerrick helps her understand not just the world around her, but herself as well, and the more Drea learns about the Society, the more desperate she becomes to break free.

But after a lifetime of being controlled, she isn’t sure if she’s strong enough to leave everything she knows behind…

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

With hundreds of thousands of views on Royal Road, this Noir CCG Litrpg is Sin City meets MTG, and is perfect for fans of Goblin Summoner, Card Mage, and All the Skills.

It’s Drop Night, the one night every decade when the gods hand out cards to a lucky few.

If you get a deck, you’re a deckbearer capable of wondrous feats within the Great Game system. You can control powerful monsters and summon mantles that let you fight alongside your beasts.

Tonight, Ethan Wolfe, top enforcer for the Grimm family mob, received a deck. A gifted deck from Cerberus, whose divine mandate is to send those who are evil to be trapped in the Infernal Realms.

Unfortunately, when Wolfe doesn’t have time to celebrate. The rival street gang has six deckbearers and they’re cutting in on the Grimm family’s trade, and killing all their lieutenants.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Dragons in Texas? Sure.
Interdimensional demons? Why not.
All she wants is her taco truck back.

“A Discovery of Witches” meets “Stranger Things” with lots of nerd humor.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban