Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for June 1, 2025

Pearly Gates has the worst job in the afterlife: cosmic sanitation worker. When her soulmate dumps her for being emotionally stagnant, Pearly strikes a shady deal to become a spirit guide and prove she’s worthy of a second chance.

Her mission takes her to Thunderbolt Books & Coffee, a small-town bookshop café haunted by a 1920s burlesque dancer. Tasked with helping three locals—a grieving widow, a dying college grad, and a trans woman in search of purpose—Pearly works her magic to guide them. But when she realizes the café owner is her reincarnated soulmate, everything gets complicated.

Caught between doing her job and protecting her own heart, Pearly faces celestial detectives, a complicated love triangle, and a lip-sync for her afterlife.

Pearly Gates is a humorous, heartfelt LGBTQ+ fantasy about found family and second chances.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Reality is a relic.

Humanity has abandoned the physical world for Onyros—an endless sprawl of virtual realms where consciousness flourishes as flesh decays.

Logan Bochniak operates in the shadows as an illegal extractor, violently severing people from digital paradise before their minds collapse. But after years crossing the threshold between realities, his own mind is deteriorating.

When Logan discovers an impossible anomaly—evidence of a hidden layer within the network—he uncovers something even the Lamatheans who built Onyros never anticipated: a new form of consciousness emerging from the system itself.

With his cognitive decline accelerating and ruthless enforcers closing in, Logan has one desperate shot: discover what created the anomaly and save the last flickering minds of humanity. Or burn out with them.

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

Unravel the secrets of the Akashic Records in this thrilling 8-book series. Follow powerful witches as they uncover ancient knowledge, confront dark forces, and navigate a mystical world filled with danger and discovery. Dive into the magickal adventure—get the complete series for just $0.99!

Category: Science Fiction – Metaphysical & Visionary

“The blow struck in anger always returns to the striker.”

Two nations teeter on the brink of conflict: the elven empire of Elisidor and the minotaur confederation of Gath. Driven by centuries-old prejudices, cultural misgivings, and economic greed, they dance on the brink of war.

When chance bloodshed drives both nations headlong into conflict, two former friends find themselves thrust into prominence. The minotaur Tarquhanna fights to defend his nation, the elf H’raden to avenge his family.

In a bloody war filled with opportunists, idealists, connivers, and fools, these two former friends carve the path of history and draw toward inevitable tragedy.

Category: Fantasy – Epic

Nightingale successfully made it through training within the Shattered Hollows, only to immediately have her careful planning thrown to the wind by the appearance of an SAB Investigator bent on pulling her into his schemes. Auric must find a way to win his new protégés trust, as the lines between freedom and autocracy meet, and rebellion is born.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

Getting stranded on a desert island shouldn’t be this fun. Visiting your family shouldn’t be this stressful. And yet, this is how life is for the sibling twins, Clarence and Clarice, stuck between reality and fantasy, with a veil of mystery and danger pulled taut between them.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure