Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for January 23, 2023

Things not to do when you find out you’re a wizard:
#1 Do not destroy your dad’s apartment with magical fire. You WILL NOT get the security deposit back.
#2 Do not form an alliance with the guy who is trying to murder you.
#3 Do not drag the girl you’re desperately in love with into your wizard mess. You risk her watching you fail miserably.
#4 Under no circumstances should you get in the middle of an epic magical battle.

I found a magic cell phone, opened an app I shouldn’t have, burned down my high school’s theatre, and it was all downhill from there. A seer guarded by the undead is my only hope for keeping my mom alive, and I’m pretty sure the cops are after me for destroying my dad’s penthouse.
But it gets better! Now I’m stuck being the sidekick to the guy who got me into this mess in the first place.
It’ll be a miracle if I survive until Monday.

Mining a tiny moon in a remote star system has its challenges. At the top of the list: If the power dies, the crew dies.

Jericho Jackson looks forward to finishing one last job: a high-risk, high-pay mining gig. A string of disasters throws the operation into life-threatening chaos as his team loses contact with their orbital support station. They will have to use all their specialized training to stay alive.

Shanna Percival, his teammate and one-time girlfriend, keeps their equipment in top shape, but her tendency to tinker and stick her nose where it doesn’t belong turns up a mysterious cache of data that shouldn’t exist.

Knowledge is power. Her discovery could be the ultimate key to overcoming the growing danger, but time is running out …
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If you love a slow burn space opera with a heavy dose of hard science, you’ll love the Polecat Protocol series.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

Jericho Jackson has a ship to build, a sister to find, and a fiancée to marry, along with a priceless store of interstellar jump ship fuel to protect from thieves and murderers. Not bad for a guy who is supposed to be dead.

Shanna Percival has a driving need to not only constantly prove herself a mechanical wizard, but to also meet her mother’s expectations, and to tie the knot with Jericho. She has to do it all without tipping off those who might want her and Jericho to stay dead.

It wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t have to go back to a troubled Earth, the home of both their problems and their goals. At each step, the mission grows more complex and more dangerous as they encounter mystery, intrigue and betrayal.
Through it all, questions surrounding the Polecat Protocol grow. Will it be their beacon of hope, or will it fail them as society crumbles?

Magic. Sailing. A murderer among heroes.

Gravedigger Volke Savan wants nothing more than to be like his hero, the legendary magical swashbuckler, Gregory Ruma. First he needs to become an arcanist, someone capable of wielding magic, which requires bonding with a mythical creature. And he’ll take anything—a pegasus, a griffin, a ravenous hydra—maybe even a leviathan, like Ruma.

So when Volke stumbles across a knightmare, a creature made of shadow and terror, he has no reservations. But the knightmare knows a terrible secret: Ruma is a murderer out to spread corrupted magic throughout their island nation. He’s already killed a population of phoenixes and he intends to kill even more.

In order to protect his home, his adopted sister, and the girl he admires from afar, Volke will need to confront his hero, the Master Arcanist Gregory Ruma.

Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

A simple favor finds Jayne Hart, attorney at law caught in a legal battle between two magical crime lords. As the trial date approaches and the blood begins to flow, Jayne’s deepest secrets are forced into the public eye and her greatest obstacle may be her own dark past. With the help of a mysterious tengu swordsman, Jayne must overcome not only her opponent, but her own dangerous clients, in order to save the sister she thought was dead.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

It’s 1944 and Hitler is desperate, so a monstrous dictator out of time sends commandos to a timeless island that some call Atlantis to steal a super-weapon that may be the lost Ark of the Covenant. The best Nazis must beat the worst monsters of the future or they’re history. The truths they discover are more monstrous than the lies they’ve been told because the island is out of time – and so are they.

Category: Science Fiction – Time Travel

The first time Maddy accidentally killed someone, she passed it off as a freak accident. The second time, a coincidence. But when she’s kidnapped and taken to an underground realm where corpses reanimate on their own, she can no longer ignore her dark gift.

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

BOX SET SALE! OVER 1,000 PAGES OF ACTION. After a disastrous encounter with an alien species, Captain Roc Masters finds himself exiled on a rundown station in the asteroid belt, commanding an ancient starship with a near-mutinous crew. When the aliens return to attack Earth, it’s up to Roc and his lone starship to hold the line. “Action packed adventure that never stops!”

Category: Science Fiction – Military