Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for July 13, 2021

When a deadly virus sweeps the country, Vivian sets out for California in hopes of seeing the daughter she gave up for adoption. Then her car breaks down and she’s faced with a choice: give up or accept a ride from brothers, Angus and Axl. She knows getting in the car with strangers is a risk, but with time running out, she’s willing to do whatever it takes to reach her daughter.

The virus is spreading, and by the time the group makes it to California, most of the population has already been wiped out. When the dead start coming back, Vivian and the others realize that no electricity or running water are the least of their concerns. Now Vivian must learn how to be a mom under the most frightening circumstances, cope with Angus’s aggressive mood swings, and sort out her growing attraction to his brooding younger brother, Axl.

The starship Freedom is just a museum ship. Until the aliens attack!

Battlestar Galactica meets Starship Troopers in this sci-fi adventure from Daniel Arenson, the USA Today bestselling author of Earthrise.

The starship Freedom was once a mighty warship. Today she’s a museum.

James King commands the Freedom. He hates his job. He was a real soldier once. Back when the Freedom was a real warship. He never imagined himself running a tourist trap. Right after Christmas, he plans to retire.

Then, on Christmas day, the aliens attack. They devastate Earth’s military. Millions die.

So much for retirement.

The aliens spare the starship Freedom. After all, she’s only a tourist attraction. But not to Commander King. He will get his beloved starship battle-ready. He will enter the fight. The Freedom will fly to war again!

Category: Science Fiction – Military

Earth is dying, the PAC are invading, and Gabriel will do anything to protect his family.

The plan was simple: Evacuate the city, enlist in the Tactical Armor Corps, and stop the invasion. Easy, right?

Things rarely go according to plan.

When his city falls, Gabriel discovers how unprepared he truly is.

Recruited into the Reclaimer project, Gabriel must survive a brutal selection process. Deadly traps lurk around every corner, and survival comes at a steep price. One threatening to break him.

When success marks him for death, Gabriel fears he’ll become another statistic…

Experience the first kickass, action packed story in the Legacy of a Dying World series, a gritty, military sci-fi epic set upon an apocalyptic Earth. Perfect for fans of Scott Moon, JN Chaney, and Rick Partlow

Category: Science Fiction – Military

Left for dead in the wastes, Gabriel embarks on a desperate march.

Raiders and a deadly desert stand between him and The Crucible. But hope glimmers as aid is offered from an unlikely source.

You can trust a Deadman right?

Surviving the journey may be more of a curse than a blessing. High casualties forge a jagged alliance and tensions run high as dark secrets rise to the surface.

As Gabriel fights to survive, he discovers strange powers he does not comprehend. Can he bring these powers to bear on his enemies, or will he lose control and be consumed by them?

Locked in a battle for survival, the body count climbs, and Gabriel’s running out of options.

The epic military sci-fi action continues in the explosive second installment of Legacy of a Dying World. Perfect for fans of Scott Moon, JN Chaney, and Rick Partlow

For three hundred years, the people of the Five Realms have lived in relative peace, protected by their great leader, the Archon. Yet, far to the north, in the frozen lands beyond the Draegalen Trench, the Ruuk stir, driven by a rising evil, long believed banished from the world. But rumors questioning the Archon’s ability to defend the realms once more, persist.

Elodi, the Lady Harlyn, uneasy in her new role following the death of her father, and Toryn, a farmworker and outsider in his village, must discover a way to fight an enemy that all but defeated their ancestors.

Song of Echoes is the first book in this epic fantasy series.

Category: Fantasy – Epic

They’re stranded beyond the known stars. Will his treacherous mission on an unforgiving world end in death?

Twenty-year-old Peter Dawe has learned to keep his mouth shut around his father. So the super-strong, genetically modified, human hybrid keeps his focus on his strict parent’s bidding to recover his family’s weapons. But after barely escaping a manhunt, Peter encounters real trouble when he runs into his self-indulgent brother.

Forced to take the vain and reckless fool back into danger with him for a second attempt to retrieve the remaining blasters, Peter fears his sibling’s undisciplined ways will get them both killed. But as the colony begins its descent into tyranny, treachery and betrayal could be far deadlier enemies…

Can Peter survive a desperate plan that puts a target on his back?

Simple Service is the first book in the immersive Martha’s Sons science fiction series.

Category: Science Fiction – Colonization

What if everything you knew about the world around you was a lie, and the very people you were taught to fear were your salvation, your escape? Meet Amelia, raised in the safety of a Replenisher compound, a protectorate for the few Alliance females who can bear children. In two months, she will leave the compound to begin her new life and fulfill her noble purpose. Except it doesn’t happen like that. When she witnesses a Zoriner boy fall over the wall of the compound, the very wall designed to keep those like her safe from those like him, the injured boy becomes her burden, and maybe, if she lets him, her escape from the life she is meant to have, and the key to unraveling of the many secrets and lies on both sides of this conflict.

This is the very beginning of their journey!

Escape is Book One of the Five Book Dystopian Series.

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

How far would you go to save the girl you love? Would you sacrifice your best friend if it could get her out of prison? When Riley is reunited with his best friend after years of not knowing if he were still alive, instead of a long awaited hug, he’s staring down the barrel of the gun. After all these years, Riley is taken captive by the one person he loved more than anyone. Can he forgive his friend for risking his crew once he knows what’s at stake for him and can his friend forgive himself for what he had to do to save Trina?Full of unexpected twists, Book Two of the Alliance Series will keep you guessing at every turn. It is a heartbreaking journey of self discovery, forgiveness and redemption you don’t want to miss.

Tane Carver can’t use magic, and he doesn’t trust it. But he understands it better than most, even in a city of elves and dwarves and sprites and mages. So when an impossible murder is committed on the campus of a warded magical university, he’s called in to consult.

The only problem is, it’s the same university he was kicked out of for lying about his ability to use magic. And the lead investigator is an old flame who isn’t so fond of him anymore. And then there’s the half-crazy half-orc who insists she’s his partner, whether he likes it or not. Oh, and the masked mage who keeps trying to kill him.

So there are a lot of problems, really.

Now, Tane’s life depends on the one truth that has never failed him. The flaw in all magic that those who have it like to ignore: the mage.

Outsmart the mage, and you outsmart the spell.

And outsmarting mages is what Tane does best.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

A killer walks among the rich and powerful. Who can the Magebreakers trust?

Someone is killing the non-magical members of Senate houses–those who might one day be named Protector of the Realm. And that same someone is leaving behind messages for the Magebreakers beside symbols of the shadowy organization known as the Knights of the Emperor. Under suspicion from the constabulary, Tane and Kadka are drawn into the investigation to prove their innocence.

What they find is that Audish politics are as dangerous as any Porthaven back-alley. Suddenly, they’re surrounded by the most powerful figures in the Protectorate, every one with a different agenda. Telling allies from enemies has never been harder, but Tane and Kadka will have to find someone to trust if they’re going to bring the killer to justice.

Their lives–and the future of the Protectorate–depend on it.