Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for July 3, 2017

From Kirkus Award Winning Author Cidney Swanson:
Jessamyn’s legendary cool in the cockpit makes her piloting royalty on the human Mars colony. When disaster threatens the colony’s survival, she and her brother undertake a desperate raid on ex-ally Earth, landing her brother with treason charges under Earth’s powerful Chancellor. Things get worse as Jess starts falling for the Chancellor’s rebellious nephew, and she’s forced to choose between saving her planet or rescuing her brother.
“I can’t recommend this story highly enough.” Nathan Lowell

A close encounter at an RAF Base in the north of England.
Strange objects seen in the skies above Great Britain.
A mysterious stranger with the ability to see the future.
A tense standoff between Russian and American warships in the North Sea.

When Cambridge physicist Professor Ralph Frederick is summoned to the office of wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill he is given a very unusual task.
Frederick is put on a top secret committee Codenamed Angel whose role it is to investigate flying saucer sightings which have been happening up and down the United Kingdom. Frederick’s world is turned upside down, as a diehard sceptic is soon turned when he encounters beings from another world.

Codename Angel is a cold war paranormal thriller that has its roots in factual eyewitness accounts with the unknown.

Category: Science Fiction – First Contact

One young man is caught between warring intergalactic powers. He flees across post-invasion earth, running from cannibalistic aerobics instructors, alien death machines and sadistic human collaborators. He’s stolen off the planet by an alien ship fed up with serving her pirate crew. They argue their way across space, struggling to repair the ship while vying against pirates and slavers. His quest to fix the ship and save his friends may plunge the galaxy into an even deeper war.

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Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

He was only eight when a bloodied sorcerer tutored him on the perils of questing in the Cave Maze…
…The craving to enter has tormented ever since.

The Wizard Talhoffer stocked the underground labyrinth with a murderous assortment of beasts, traps, gold, and personal magic items worth dying for. And treasure hunters did die for them.

Not Raff Jenkins. He planned to survive.

After losing the scholarship for the questing university, sword whiz Raff takes drastic measures to earn tuition. With the help of his hustling cousin Dread and a party of rag-tag locals…he heads into the maze as a newbie. What he discovers inside is more than just treasure, bloodthirsty hags, or crotch-masticating hellhounds – he learns that a link to his past is tied to the fate of his kingdom.

Will he return in time to pay off the death-threats awaiting him at home? Will he return at all?

Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

Blossom Frane is only weeks away from her transformation. On her 18th birthday, she’ll find out her branch of society and her totem, the animal form she’ll have for the rest of her life. Like her brothers, she’s expected to be a brown bear of the religious branch known as Terra.

In the Alderwood forest, Blossom’s bear blood is a valuable asset. Any day now, a rival clan leader will step forward for her hand in marriage. Blossom can do nothing more than sit back and wait to be traded to the highest bidder.

Determined to spend her last weeks exploring the Alderwood, Blossom sneaks away and manages to find Kaide Landel. Known for his violence and disregard for the Terra branch, he’s all wrong for the bear clan’s prized daughter. But when the politician uses his wealth and influence to secure her hand, Blossom has no choice but to leave her family and marry him—if she lives that long.

Category: Fantasy – Fairy Tales

Exiled by his family. Claimed by thieves. Could his dark ability be the key to his salvation?

Rsiran is a disappointment to his family, gifted with the ability to Slide. It is a dark magic where he can transport himself wherever he wants, but using it will only turn him into the thief his father fears.

Forbidden from Sliding, he’s apprenticed under his father as a blacksmith where lorcith, a rare, precious metal with arcane properties, calls to him, seducing him into forming forbidden blades. When discovered, he’s banished, sentenced indefinitely to the mines of Ilphaesn Mountain.

There someone far more powerful than him discovers what he can do and intends to use him. He doesn’t want to be a pawn in anyone’s ambitions; all he ever wanted was a family. But the darkness inside him cannot be ignored – and he’s already embroiled in an ancient struggle that only he may be able to end.

Category: Fantasy – Epic