Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for January 29, 2021

She’s trained to kill. But is her prey the man she’s ordered to eliminate… or the one who sent her?
Princess Lien reserves her loyalty for her uncle, the emperor. Groomed as his secret assassin after he took her in, her first target is the khan of the barbarians responsible for her parents’ murder. But her supernatural speed is no help when the monarch betroths her to the man she’s meant to slay.

Waking naked in the enemy camp far from the palace and her pet dragon, Lien is horrified to find she’s imprisoned by the ruthless tribe—and they know her true mission. Refusing to believe her uncle betrayed her, she vows to become his spy. But as evidence that she’s on the wrong side mounts, it will test her fidelity and honour.

Can Lien unravel a web of deceit in time to stop the real traitor?

The Assassin’s Gift is the first book in the riveting Emperor’s Conspiracy fantasy series.

Astronomers from around the world watch in awe as an extrasolar comet approaches Saturn, being drawn in by its immense gravity. When the comet grazes the planet rather than plunging beneath the clouds, speculation is rife. With the comet now on course to collide with Jupiter, even the most skeptical scientists can no longer deny what’s happening—an alien spacecraft has entered the solar system and is using the gas giants to slow its approach to Earth.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

Matteo’s lands are steeped in theological doctrine. The prophesies speak of red rains and gargoyles and days where up is down and down is up, but only the most faithful believe.
The Truthseeker is an ambitious apprentice, eager to become a learned Sandalier. He unwittingly unearths a deadly secret that undermines his faith. He is cast out and Marked.
The Traitor is a precocious princess, sent away as a political pawn to entreaty with their most vile historical enemy. But her heathen ways lead to betrayal, and she is also Marked.
The Imbecile is the son of wealthy mining magnate, but also a half-wit. He dishonorably flees his regiment and defies the venerable monks, and is also Marked.
The infidels have no choice but to band together with heathens and criminals to survive, but in so doing, they discover a hidden tapestry that underlies a great threat to their world.

Category: Fantasy – Epic

Kira Moore is a zero—she can’t read thoughts in a mindreading world. When she accidentally controls her best friend’s mind and nearly kills him, Kira tries to hide her frightening new ability, but she’s quickly dragged into a hidden world of mindjackers.

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Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

WINNER of the B.R.A.G. Medallion for Fantasy

WINNER of the New Apple Literary Award for Fantasy

Coffee Pot Book Club’s Pick for 2020 Reading

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.

Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

A sultan’s daughter. A pretend prince. Can a genie make all their wishes come true?
Once upon a time…
When Princess Maram and street rat Aladdin meet in the marketplace, sparks fly, and Aladdin swears to move heaven and earth in order to make the lovely courtesan his wife. He steals a magic lamp with a genie inside, thinking all his troubles are over…only to find they have barely begun.
Can Aladdin win the princess’s hand without losing his head?

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Category: Fantasy – Fairy Tales

When eight-year-old Abbie Brown discovers a quiet pool of water while wandering through the woods behind her Oregon home, she wades out into it and discovers she’s not alone. A wild-haired boy in green stares at her from the other side of the water. Mesmerized, Abbie reaches down to him, and is yanked underwater.

She emerges on the other side as an unwelcome visitor to the Otherworld, the land of the Fae, with only the boy Foster to guide her. Back in Oregon, a changeling lookalike has taken her place, bonding with her mother while her father, hiding a secret of his own, views the “girl” with suspicion.

In the courts of the Fae a truce has long been in place between Winter and Summer. What havoc might a human child wreak in the careful machinations of beings older than time? And to what lengths will Abbie’s father go to get her back?

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Category: Fantasy – Fairy Tales

The past haunts him. Now he must face it.

When postal worker Martin Briar is invited to partake in a secret time travel opportunity, he jumps at the chance to leave his dull life and step into the past. But he also has his own motivation for going back in time: the disappearance of his 12-year-old daughter two decades ago.

Traveling to Denver in 1996 to investigate, he finds the world brimming with a different vibe: fewer skyscrapers, laid back people, a return to the life he once knew–a city on the verge of explosive growth. At first, Martin welcomes the trip down memory lane, but when he falls in love with a woman he met in the past, he must choose whether to continue the pursuit of his long-lost daughter, or finally let her go and start a brand new life.

Category: Science Fiction – Time Travel