Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for July 31, 2020

A boy untested undertakes a quest, the stakes of which are far more than he could guess… Can his need to prove himself overcome the odds against him?
Powerful sorcerers send their agents to vie in the shadows for a holy artifact. Meanwhile, the fate of a people hangs in the balance. A mighty knight is needed… but a boy answers the call. Will his courage hold?

In Stratvs, swords, once pledged to justice, now rust on the altars of the self-righteous. When two spies escape during young Roland’s watch, they begin a chain of events not intended by Fate that may threaten a kingdom. Roland is driven by his shame to take up his axes and track them down. Raised on the rural edges of Gallhallad, can he survive the dangers of the road ahead? Can his ideas of right and wrong weather the complexities of the path before him?

An Earth Queen desperate to wake her magic.

An elven royal fighting a ruthless betrayal.

Together they must create magic the world has never seen.

A flood is coming. The Sea Queen has a mad plan to drown the world, and only the magic of the Earth Queen can stop her. Vahly, the last human, was born to fill that role and wield the power necessary to battle the rising oceans and save the dragons and elves.

But Vahly is the world’s biggest disappointment. She possesses no magic whatsoever.

When she finds an ancient scroll that mentions a human power ritual conducted deep in the homeland of the elves, she gathers her dragon allies and journeys to see the king of that great, forest-dwelling race.

Welcomed by a handsome royal cloaked in dark magic, will Vahly find answers or will a twisted and powerful elven lord destroy her chance at saving the world?

Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

20 years ago the Hangman’s Owl disappeared.

Hero. Villain. Monster. Fiend.

The mysterious creature has had lingering effects on the beleaguered nation, long since at odds with its own oppressed people. Without its omniscient avenger, crime runs rampant in the streets, and the country crumbles before foreign besiegers. The downtrodden and mighty alike have nowhere to turn.

20 years later, ironclad destroyers take to the seas and unmanned autonomous airships blanket the sky. The continent is charged for a coming world war when someone has finally come looking. Who, or what they will find when they finally run the Owl to ground, is another matter entirely…

The Hangman’s Owl brings to life a Steampunk Superhero in a dark near-modern Age. It is the story of costumed superpowers when confronted with the strange, weird, and downright magical.

Category: Science Fiction – Steampunk

The war between angels and demons has a new player.

An eighteen-year-old female is going to stick by the rules, right? Particularly when a strict warrior archangel governs her. Wrong.

Caught between her forbidden past life and her new life as a fledgling angel, abiding by the rules proves impossible. Especially when her human soul mate is about to be demon-possessed. Not even her kindhearted trainee friend with his gorgeous blue wings and eyes to match can work magic to stop her.

Things get tricky when the paranormal force of the slippery gatekeeper comes into play.

To protect her love ones, this young human turned angel will trudge through hell—even face banishment from the angels.

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

The Circuit knows everything about you…because they are you.
Ascension Eve. Jake Montana waits for the letter every eighteen-year-old receives on their birthday. It’s the one from the Circuit. It’s the one that determines the rest of your life. Your life partner, job, home, and crucially, your importance factor, all selected for you. In the year 2054 your ‘importance factor’ is everything, but it’s not random. It’s based on a detailed assessment of every thought, emotion and memory you’ve ever stored in your Memory Cloud since the day you first received the implants. Your fate, the Circuit insists, is always yours. But the future that Jake wants most won’t be inside his letter. It can’t be. His childhood sweetheart, Christie, won’t reach her Ascension Day for months so it’s impossible that her name will appear. He’s right, but there are bigger surprises in store for him.

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

Three power-hungry secret societies desperately want the crazy girl who sees angels.

For what? Beats me.

Hi, I’m Lucy and I just discovered I’m not normal.

After my brother’s disappearance, I enrolled in the super-elite academy where he was last seen on U.S. soil. Now two totally gorgeous secret society guys are fighting over which club I get to join. Seriously? As if I want anything to do with the people who banished my brother.

But I need to play nice to get anyone from the Three Societies to talk to me. One problem. I’m too good at my job. When the Nexis Society president accidentally spills a little-known family secret, I’m left scrambling to figure out who I really am.

I’ve always known my family was special, but now I’m about to find out why.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban