Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for January 30, 2023

A savage predator emerges after a mind-altering virus sweeps the world, creating telepathic abilities and a hive-mind in the undead. What could go wrong for CIA agent Will Reisner and his team who must track down the origins of the virus before humans become an endangered species? For fans of The Puppet Masters, World War Z and I am Legend.

Jason is a modern-day teenage surfer in San Diego, California, raised by his single father. When he happens upon an ancient boat dock lantern high up in Sunset Cliffs, he’s transported to the year 1858. Confused and trapped in this new time period, his adventure begins, the magic lantern guiding the way.

He’s naturally drawn to the ocean where he crosses paths with a vicious pirate lord and his greedy crew as they attack a ship. As it sinks, Jason thinks he sees his mother on board—his mother who mysteriously disappeared around the time of his birth.

What is going on here?

When he’s captured and imprisoned on the pirates’ ship, his only hope of escape may be to befriend the captain’s daughter. Against all odds, can Jason muster the courage to thwart the savage pirate lord who’s killed hundreds of sailors over the years as well as piece together what happened to his mother

Category: Fantasy – Historical

Growing up. Shifter style. Vardon knows why Lorelei dreams of the sea. But how do you tell the girl you like she’s not human?

Lorelei’s dreams would keep anyone up at night. But other than nightmares, her biggest worries are AP Calculus tests and whether her team will make the state swimming championships. Oh, and the boy who offered study help, with a certain expression in his eyes that said it wasn’t about studying at all.

Life is good.

Until she finds out what she is.

That revelation is thanks to the boy with the hungry eyes. The only one she can trust now.

And then there’s the stranger, the shadow who seems to be everywhere Lorelei is. Even in her mind and dreams.

Her identity turned upside down, the surprises show no sign of slowing yet…

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

In the centuries old struggle for territory between selkies and finfolk, Lorelei is something new. Can she survive the novelty?

Crestfallen is the second book in the Water Rites fantasy trilogy, where there’s more to sea storms and the ocean’s depths than we mere human mortals understand. Where the legends live on, some of them hiding in plain sight, in your town and mine.

Secrets, once uncovered, can change everything.
With her finfolk powers blooming and her sealskin lost, Lorelei must find a different way of living. One that challenges all she knew about herself, humanity…and fear.

But trouble is coming. Selkies and finfolk are enemies for a reason, and Lorelei’s very existence is forcing change.

Fighting through the storm may be the only way to forget the “normal” girl she left behind and face the woman she’s become.

A supernatural swarm. A treacherous scheme. A tinker’s apprentice may be the village’s only hope…

Jacob has yet to meet a gadget he couldn’t fix or an adventure he could resist. With trade routes to his remote Lowlands town cut off, Jacob must exchange his boyhood adventures for petty theft. After all, his wages at the tinker shop aren’t enough to pay for his father’s medicine.

But it soon becomes clear why few merchants brave the nearby roads as a plague of terrifying creatures descends upon the town. With the Lowlands under siege, Jacob and his friend have no choice but to run for their lives. When their escape uncovers a terrible secret, Jacob learns there are those who’ll stop at nothing to make sure the teen takes the scandal to his grave…

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Category: Science Fiction – Steampunk

Two teenagers find a frozen corpse in the middle of the woods and decide to bring it back to town. They have no idea they just sparked the zombie apocalypse.

Category: Science Fiction – Post-Apocalyptic

Homicidal monsters hunt her. Paranormal power awakens within her. Can she master her power in time to prevent the apocalypse?

Shutterbug Allison Lee is trying to survive high school while suffering the popular girl’s abuse. Her life is often abysmal, but at least her green hair is savage. Her talent for photography is recognized by the school paper and the judges of a photo contest. While visiting her friend Joe, a homeless vet, Allison’s life irrevocably changes after an attack leaves her blind. All her dreams as a photojournalist are dashed as she realizes she’ll never see again. Despair sets in until she is offered an experimental procedure to restore her vision. But there are side effects, or are they hallucinations? She now sees dragons accompanying some of the people she meets. Can she trust her eyes, or has the procedure affected her more than she can see?

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban