Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for January 30, 2022

Romance. Magic. Danger. Impossible odds.

Enter When Worlds Begin, and dive into four full fantasy novels.

A boy whose love is stronger than magic. He’ll save the girl who holds his heart, no matter the cost.
An assassin with the courage to topple kingdoms. They shouldn’t have let her live. She will be the one to end them all.
A girl who clings to hope at the end of the world. She didn’t know the safety she lived in was a lie. The monsters are the only ones she can trust.
An orphan finds adventures that reach new realms. She knew she was a witch. No one warned her that magic would force her into battle.

All of these adventures wait for you.

If you need romance, crave adventure, and aren’t afraid to leap into a new world, When Worlds Begin is the four-book collection for you.

When Worlds Begin includes Ember and Stone, Girl of Glass, The Tethering, and The Girl Without Magic.

Briar can curse with the flick of a paintbrush. Her paintings maim, bewitch, and—most effectively of all—destroy. But Briar doesn’t want to hurt people anymore. She has fled her family’s deadly curse business to start a new life peddling nonlethal jinxes and petty revenge.

Briar’s destructive powers catch the eye of a charismatic young outlaw called Archer, who hires her to help him save a kidnapped friend from a ruthless baron. Briar thinks this is her chance to make amends for her crimes, but the family business won’t let her go so easily.

When her violent past jeopardizes Archer’s rescue mission, Briar must confront the dark arts she left behind—and decide what she’s willing to destroy in order to be good.

Category: Fantasy – Fairy Tales

The first dragon rider in over a hundred years has been born. And it’s a girl.

Never before has a female been chosen to ride a dragon. Join Sophia as she conquers evil, as the dragon riders should have been doing for centuries with the first 12 books in The Exceptional Sophia Beaufont series!

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The Elite, a guild comprised exclusively of dragon riders, is dead according to most. No one has seen a rider in decades. The problems they used to fight overwhelm the world. Dragons are thought to be near extinction.

However, the Elite aren’t dead…

It’s just that a bunch of crusty, old men who do nothing that benefits the world.

Sophia Beaufont is about to change all of that.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Stranded 225 million kilometers from home on Mars Station, cousins Jake O’Brien and Lorina Murphy are drawn into a fledgling effort to help the hundreds of abandoned street children who call the station home. Jake becomes a medical apprentice in an outreach clinic, while Lorina volunteers at a juvenile shelter. They soon discover that their efforts may be in vain because something much more serious than poverty plagues Mars Station.

Also stranded on Mars Station, ship’s captain Danae Shepherd faces the difficult task of hiring replacement crew after an alien virus claims the lives of four in her employ, including her husband. She stumbles upon the same problem that has Jake and Lorina stumped: why are homeless children disappearing without a trace?
The Orphan Ship was awarded a 2012 silver medal from Children’s Literary Classics.

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

Captain Danae Shepherd returns to Mars Station with her crew of the Ishmael, fully aware that she is walking straight into a trap. But Danae isn’t going to let a little thing like being wanted for murder keep her away, not when her ally Dr. Erik Sorensen is stuck in jail; and not when evidence is desperately needed to end police chief Acheron’s depraved side business of abducting homeless children and selling them as slaves.
Danae’s nervous crew agrees to her daring plan, which is based more on luck than strategy, but her clairvoyant helmsman Marco Ting raises the level of tension with two chilling premonitions: the Captain’s plan will unravel once they reach Mars Station, putting all their lives in danger, and someone close to Lorina Murphy is going to die.

Steven Spielberg meets Dan Brown in a thrilling cross-continental sci-fi adventure around the world and to the stars, as high school seniors, Logan West and Emma James, unfold an ancient mystery embedded in their history project, one with powerful implications for the present day. As they embrace the adventure they’ve stumbled upon, and a growing romantic attraction to each other, Logan and Emma find themselves caught up in a dangerous, high-stakes race across the globe to decipher mankind’s past in order to save humanity’s future, not to mention their very own lives, with a mystery that just might reach towards the stars…

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

Only a fool would target the deadliest order of assassins in the galaxy. Apparently, the galaxy had no shortage of fools.

An interstellar adventure with deadly assassins, epic space battles, vampiric energy-sucking killers, power-hungry warlords, and snarky space pirates.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

All they wanted to do was save the kingdom…

Now Logan Walker finds himself on the run for a murder he did not commit.

Corbin Walker has been charged with capturing his fugitive brother and bringing him to justice.

Elise Ivarone has been thrust into the role as village leader during dark times. She will give everything to keep her people united and shelter them from the coming storm.

Together they will be forever changed as they uncover the lies, deception, and brutality of their world.

And So the Fourth Age of Acadia begins…

Ages long past, forced to abandon the surface, mankind descended inside the core of their planet, fleeing an impending xenocide at the hands of the mighty jotnar invaders. There they built a new homeland among the deep forests and wide caverns of Vanidriell, under the light of the Great Crystal Baetylus.

Category: Science Fiction – Post-Apocalyptic

With red eyes, white hair, and no memories, Viola must discover who and what she is before her enemies catch her. She doesn’t know who or what she is. The only thing she knows is that everyone wants a piece of her.

With no memory of her past and no way to survive on her own, Viola is forced to live as a slave to a man she despises. Her life of involuntary servitude is all she’s ever known.

But everything changes the day she is followed home and captured by Lord Alaric. With her red eyes and white hair, Viola draws the attention of Liam, the town mystic. He’s determined to solve the mystery of her bloodline. But the more Viola learns about her past, the more danger she discovers. Her only hope is to trust Liam and the infamous, brutal Demon Hunter as she searches for the truth while running for her life. The world can be so much greater – and crueler – than she has ever imagined.

Category: Fantasy – Epic