Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for June 5, 2022

Sleeping magic awakened. Ancient deities shattering myths. Can one independent woman survive the games of gods?

Audrey Sonoma is bored out of her skull. And though she relishes the autonomy of her freelance career reviewing restaurants, she craves a spicier existence. But when the crazy purple dragon in her dreams spills into reality, she’s stunned to discover she’s endowed with supernatural power… and tasked with saving a goddess.

Teaming up with a cute cop, Audrey struggles to fend off the beasts and demons spewing out from a paranormal disaster. And as nightmares threaten to consume the world, she’s desperate to control her abilities before the deadly whims of Greek immortals claim her life and her only shot at love.

Can she master her mythical gifts and stop the mischievous creatures from destroying the waking realm?

Jess is changing.
Deep inside her, something is stirring – something far older than her, and colder, and unmoved by human feeling.
When her darkest nightmares begin to spill over into her waking hours, 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 – Coming of Age

Alex Barret lives in ‘the Quarters’, a set of broken-down slums surrounding a glittering walled-off city called the First Circle.

Like all kids his age, on his sixteenth birthday Alex is scheduled for Appraisal, an unpredictable medical procedure with the potential to extend his lifespan. In a world where everything else costs, for some reason Appraisal is free.

Over the years, Alex has heard of every Appraisal scenario, but none prepared him for his own experience – abducted, imprisoned, and subjected to brutal medical experiments in a high-tech lab. He escapes and goes on the run, a heartbeat ahead of a ruthless army led by the most powerful man in the world. When he finally pieces together the clues behind his kidnapping, he uncovers a treacherous plot that only he can derail.

But to succeed, he must penetrate the First Circle, the forbidden abode of the ruling class.

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

To be a normal Teenager is all Sadie Cross has ever wanted. Moving to Breathless, it’ll be the last things she finds. Something roams Shephard’s Mountain at night, and it’s hungry. For Sadie and a few courageous friends, time is short. Sadie will need to unleash the extraordinary part of her she’s always denied and use it for them to survive.
Sometimes it takes a monster to fight one…

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Jessica Moore only has five days to catch a killer.

Thanks to a goblin’s curse, Jessica gets a magical high from humanity’s suffering. While the guilt of thriving on misery could bury a girl, she atones by using her power to hunt the bad guys—until one of them frames her for his crimes.

In desperation, Jessica seeks refuge with the one person she trusts—a satyr named Lucen. Like every member of his paranormal race, Lucen uses his lusty magic to control Boston’s human population, and Jessica isn’t immune to his power.

But the murder victims belong to a rival race, and when they discover Lucen is harboring Jessica, dodging the cops becomes the least of her problems.

With time running out, Jessica faces a danger every bit as serious as the brewing magical war—succumbing to Lucen’s seductive power. Will their tenuous relationship survive, or will more misery prevail?

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Something’s wrong with Corbyn Black. Ever since she turned fifteen, she’s suffered from night terrors, sees the dead, and attracts strange animals. Things only get worse when her mom moves them to a remote mountain town. There, she meets Seth, a boy who answers to the same call of darkness, Tala, a beautiful girl cursed to shifting into a werewolf, and Jay, whose instincts to protect Corbyn from the supernatural activity plaguing the town are just as strong as his desire to hunt her down.
But just as Corbyn’s newfound magic unfolds, so does its dark roots — and her connection to the town matriarch and witch who plans to unleash Hell’s demons to ravage the Earth. Uncertain about herself, her allies, and her ability to pass beginning algebra, Corbyn must choose her place in the battle as Hell’s forces are unleashed.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

”I was just a typical sixteen-year-old from North London, when The Colonists arrived and turned our world upside down. They were so beautiful to look at, but They killed all the adults and most of the boys, and farmed us girls like cattle. A year on, I’m being kept as a pet by my teenage Colonist owner, Aggie. I’m safe for the moment, but I’ve been torn from my friends and family and had horrific experiences along the way… It’s enough to get anyone down. But even though I’m locked in a cage and treated like an animal, They haven’t broken me. Somehow, I’ll escape and turn this around: not just for me, but for all of us. My name’s Carabel Caffarelli from Highbury in England. And I’m about to show The Colonists what being human is all about..” Readers have said: ”Inventive, visionary and unforgettable”, ”Gripping from start to finish”, “I loved it!”

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

Sometimes family is there to love you, and sometimes family is there to kill you…

When a man came into my shop in the Great Marketplace at the Crossroads of the Worlds and tried to kill me, it completely ruined my day. Not only did I have to clean up the blood, but disposing of his body made me late to meet my friends for drinks.

A nagging little detail kept bugging me, though. As he died, he said he was hired by my mother’s family—people I hadn’t seen for more than a decade. Then I discovered that assassins had made attempts on my brother and sister as well. As much as I didn’t want to, I decided I should find out who wanted us dead, and put a stop to it.

Talk about stepping out of the pan into the fire…

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban