Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for January 4, 2021

“Sometimes it feels like everything caught fire at once. The world took a wrong turn somewhere.” What if you discovered the world really did take a wrong turn? If you were offered a way out, would you take it? … And at what cost?

2021. The good news is that the pandemic never happened here. The bad news … well, it’s not great. The unthinkable happened. He won, again. And now there are tanks in the streets. Amid the spiraling chaos, one man is given a chance to escape his dystopian nightmare. But what will he find on the other side?

Readers are calling Branches “The Man in the High Castle for the age of doomscrolling.” The novel is a fast-paced mystery that combines the history-bending intrigue of Philip K. Dick and the science fiction thrills of Michael Crichton with a sharp sense of humor and takes readers on a deeply personal journey through fear, grief and redemption.

He was sent to protect her.
She held a power she didn’t understand.
I’d spent the first twenty years of my life following my overprotective father’s rules, working at the family business, fighting the urge to rebel. After my mother’s death, he couldn’t handle losing me, too.

I did what I was asked, killing time by reading my horoscope and obsessing on the hot guy that came in every day, but all that changed the day of the accident. When I touched him and the vision flooded my senses. That’s when I learned Liam Caldwell wasn’t just a mysterious, handsome man.

He was more.

And when we touched, I discovered that I was more, too.

Unfortunately, Liam wasn’t the only one I was tied to, and they were coming for me, dead or alive.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

A charming Regency romance with a hint of magic! Cursed by a faerie, Theodora Ettings has become prone to scandal — though she’s determined to help her cousin make a good match. Mysterious Lord Elias Wilder says he can help her… but is he also her other half?

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Category: Fantasy – Historical

Everly Jax wants one thing: to know who her parents are. Raised with other repo kids, she has pinned her hopes on Reunion Day, the annual event where 16-year-olds can meet or reunite with their parents. Everly must decide what she is willing to sacrifice to learn her biological identity; & deal with the unanticipated consequences of her decisions.

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Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

Mythical creatures are real, the world knows & a pair of demonic pint-sized familiars are bound to her shoulders.

Theo Apollonia has one last job before she’s debt free. But stealing from a banished demigod rarely goes well.

As punishment, he demands her familiars battle in a Mythical Fight Club.

First rule of Fight Club: Everyone dies.

Category: Fantasy – Myths & Legends

The Emperor of the galaxy has fallen, slain at the hands of his own son.

Forced into exile, Katrijn was tasked with a mission sent to her by her father from beyond the grave: free the people of the Andlios Republic. Her biggest hurdle? First it’s the assassins sent after her by the emperor. After years alone on the fringes of the galaxy, who will be there to help her dethrone the mad emperor and reclaim the throne. Then, it’s dealing with her brother…

The Mad Emperor himself.

Katrijn must carve her own path forward, forging new alliances and swallowing her pride to take whatever help she can find along the way, no matter how… unconventional that help seems, even from sworn enemies.

If dethroning her deranged brother isn’t hard enough, she’s not the only one gunning for the throne, making it a deadly race to save the people of Andlios in this action-packed space epic.

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Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

In the year 2432, humans think they are alone in the universe. They’re wrong.

Commander Noa Sato plans a peaceful leave on her home planet Luddeccea … but winds up interrogated and imprisoned for her involvement in the Archangel Project. A project she knows nothing about.

Professor James Sinclair wakes in the snow, not remembering the past twenty four hours, or knowing why he is being pursued. The only thing he knows is that he has to find Commander Sato, a woman he’s never met.

A military officer from the colonies and a civilian from Old Earth, they couldn’t have less in common. But they have to work together to save the lives of millions—and their own.
Every step of the way they are haunted by the final words of a secret transmission:

The archangel is down.

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Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

Shapeshifters exist. Monsters are real. And no good deed goes unpunished.

Nursing student Ellie St. James didn’t mean to get involved in a war between rival gangs of shifters, but saving the life of a local mob boss’s child has dragged her into one. When Ellie’s life is threatened because of her involvement, she’s forced to go on the run, protected by Carter Ballis, head of security for the mobster’s family, and a lethal shifter himself.

Blood, fire, and warfare weren’t part of Ellie’s plans, but even if she survives, her life will never be the same. The world is more than she knew, and she’s seen too much. People capable of morphing into deadly creatures from legends and folklore around the globe are coming for her.

The cost of staying alive means trusting Carter to defend her, and he’s every bit as frightening as the creatures that want her dead…

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban