Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for June 13, 2020

Chandra never asked to rule Kensrik, but fate took a strange course. Known as a usurper and sorceress by most and traumatised by all that has transpired, she is forced to make use of the few loyal allies she has in order to hold together her restless empire. In an attempt to identify and defeat the conspirators who inadvertently landed her in power, Chandra risks putting the lives of many in mortal danger, as well as her own.

Derek is an aimless wanderer – the youngest in a lineage that has long fallen from nobility. He finds himself summoned by tradition to serve a family historically considered his bitter enemy. As he journeys down the same path a fateful ancestor once travelled, he struggles with personal demons and begins to reconsider his loyalty to the mission.

Duke Lenn found one true cause in love and it cost him everything. His legacy shaped the present in which Chandra and Derek find themselves. Now their choice will shape the future of Kensrik…

Where do you run, when what you fear most is the darkness inside you?
In the small town where she lives, Jess has always been considered a bit of a freak. The outsider with the strange hair. The psycho who beat up the biggest boy in school. The sad weirdo who can’t get over her mother’s death.
Over the years she’s worked hard to fit in. To make some friends. To control her grief and her rage. To be just an ordinary girl.
But at the start of her senior year, things begin to unravel.
Deep inside her, something is stirring – something older than her, and colder, and unmoved by human feeling.
When she learns that she’s the last descendant of an ancient bloodline controlled by an ominous secret Order, Jess doesn’t know who to trust. At school, a group of boys is planning to humiliate her. At home, nobody is quite what they seem.
Least of all herself.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Explore worlds of light and dark, where magical whimsy and grim tidings alike are painted across the tapestry of human experience.
Indulge in tales of the fantastical where enchantments are bought and sold at the local corner store, your morning latte gives you special abilities, and you might just adopt a murderous, vampiric cat. Your child might be stolen away in the night and replaced with an ancient, evil creature of the fae, waves of plague-ridden vermin consume everything, and only a saint could hope to turn the tide.
These stories and more await you, if you dare to turn the page…

Category: Fantasy – Anthologies & Short Stories

It’s 1916, in the heart of World War I. The eve of the Battle of the Somme. During a perilous night mission in No Man’s Land, Lieutenant Rafael Forrester witnesses a peculiar light followed by a vast explosion.

Wounded and delirious, Forrester finds himself shipped home to England, to the country house hospital of Sherston, where he learns he may face a court-martial for the deaths of the men under his command. Yet in the strange environs of Sherston, where any act of rebellion seems impossible, Forrester soon comes to fear for more than his freedom: haunted by hallucinatory dreams of his time at the front, he suspects he may be losing his mind.

Little does he realize that Sherston conceals its own incredible secrets. Ones with the potential to change not only the course of the war, but all of human history.

Category: Science Fiction – Alternative History

Two full-length SF novels for .99c

WALLS OF WIND
What if males and females were two separate species? Within their shared city-state, the Ghen and Bria struggle to live together. But when Briarris learns the terrible secret at the heart of their civilization, everything changes. The attacks on their city walls take on a sinister new meaning.

“If you read no other “alien” authors this year, don’t miss WALLS OF WIND.” ~ Bookreporter

THE OCCASIONAL DIAMOND THIEF
Kia’s father was never the same after he returned from lock-down on Malem, a planet ravaged by a lethal form of coronavirus. Haunted by nightmares and recurring fevers, he refuses to speak about Malem. The only way Kia can discover what happened to her father during the epidemic is to visit Malem—but what if her vaccination doesn’t protect her from the virus?

Winner of the 2016 Book Publishers Award for Science Fiction.

Category: Science Fiction – Metaphysical & Visionary

Bathed in Dragon’s fire, Vera Sandrinas has stared into the jaws of death and lived.

With her dying breath she pleaded with the Allfather for her life, and it was granted.

But when war breaks out in heaven, the magic dividing the realms of the living and the dead is torn asunder.

As the undead rise, Vera learns that divine mercy always comes at a price.

Can Vera seal the rift between realms in time? Or will her debt cost her everything?

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Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

There is a universe beyond our own, known as the Merge.

A young locksmith called Archibald Lox is about to cross worlds and explore it.

As he learns about these lands of wonders, he will have to face cold-blooded killers, rivers of blood, hell jackals and more…

Book one of the Archibald Lox series, a new YA fantasy series by Darren Shan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cirque Du Freak and Lord Loss.

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Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age