Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for March 14, 2021

“If you’re looking for political intrigue, magic, adventure, and a hint of romance, look no further!”

Mica Graydier can change her face to resemble anyone. She dreams of using her Mimic skills on daring spy missions in enemy territory. Instead, she’s sent to work for a frivolous young princess in the Windfast Empire’s capital. Infiltrating tea parties and collecting palace gossip makes Mica want to kill someone—preferably the princess herself—but she soon learns there’s more to this world than extravagant parties.

When her fellow Talents start disappearing, Mica gets caught up in a web of courtly intrigues and treacherous secrets. She must use her abilities to uncover the hidden foe lurking in the imperial palace—before she disappears too.

What’s a witch to do when nobody will hire her?

Open her own business, selling enchanted items to a town filled with mortals who are clearly prejudice against witches.
But when the entire second grade class sprouts fluffy tails, the town is quick to blame Ettie and her new business.

Was the tail epidemic Ettie’s fault?
Or is there a different kind of magic hiding in Watersedge?

Read “The Mail-Order Witch, Episode 1” to find out.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Promises, rules, bones; Erin Banks will break them all.

Unscrupulous and lethal, Erin has everything she needs to be an assassin in a world full of mobsters, monsters, and magic.

She wasn’t born with powers, but thanks to her Uncanny Ink—arcane tattoos that transform her body into a magic-fuelled killing machine—she’s more than a match for anyone dumb enough to stand between her and getting paid.

Fresh out of prison, Erin wastes no time getting back to what she does best: running down wanted men and claiming their bounties.

But when a powerful demon lurking in a black cathedral hires her to round up an errant soul, the creature offers a reward far more valuable than money…

He offers Erin the key to unlocking her tragic past. The key to the mystery surrounding her long-lost brother.

Magic, scares, and acid-tongued snark collide in this thrilling urban fantasy series.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

What kind of person does it take to build a civilization from the ground up? In this fun, hard science fiction novel, astronaut Nick Burke will have to learn how to be a leader if he wants humanity to survive on a new planet…even if he is no longer a human himself.
Nick Burke dreams of successfully creating the first sustainable space colony in human history. After a third failed mission on Mars, Nick returns to Earth heartbroken. But during the trip home he has an epiphany caused by a near-death experience on how to truly accomplish his dream. Nick launches a billionaire funded startup company that solves the interstellar travel problem. Transporting people in a spaceship without any people aboard. Fans of Andy Weir’s The Martian and Dennis E. Taylor’s We Are Legion (We Are Bob) will find familiar themes of innovative science fiction ideas with plenty of humor and pop-culture.

Category: Science Fiction – Colonization

Atlan Warlord Jorik guards the Coalition Fleet’s Processing Center on Earth, protecting warriors and brides without mercy or distraction…until he sees Gabriela. She is everything the beast within him craves. He dreams of courting her properly. Danger strikes and his beast takes control—resulting in his immediate removal from Earth. From Gabriela.

Gabriela fell in love with an alien Warlord who fought to save her life, then disappeared, only to learn he was later killed in a battle with the Hive. She moves on with her life as best she can, with one beautiful reminder of their time together. A baby.

When she learns Jorik isn’t dead, but banished to the Colony, she and the baby are sent to find him. The problem? He’s not just contaminated, he’s been newly matched by the Interstellar Brides Program. And not to her.

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Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

Four tests. Seven days. Nine teens.

Only the chosen shall breed.

“This is definitely way up there with the Hunger Games and Divergent!”

Humans now live in a super greenhouse. Seas have risen. Oceans have acidified. And the fight for resources is deadly. To ensure nothing of this magnitude ever happens again, only those with enough intelligence and heart will earn the right to bear children and heal the earth.

Nine teens must face the tests of the Proving to decide who will be Bound to this new order. Four of them will challenge the system in ways even they can’t imagine.
Lovers of Divergent, The Hunger Games, and The Maze Runner series will be blown away by the breathtaking new series from USA Today best-selling author Tamar Sloan and award-winning author Heidi Catherine.

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

Earth is destroyed, our civilization lost.
But humanity has survived!
Resilient, on giant generation ships, venturing to distant planets, searching for a new home. Built by billionaires and visionaries, they carry mankind to the stars – and the weight of our last hope on their shoulders.

23 Generations into the journey of the colonial generation ship “Trappist”, law and order onboard is upheld and executed by a handful of justices. With the powers of police officers, prosecutors and judges combined, they are among the IDs – Indispensables. Respected, feared, and living in modest comfort, they fulfil the Nobles’ will and keep the workforce in check.
Maria Gomez is one of them.

“… with its thrill and the dystopian elements one of the best books I have read so far.”
– THE LIBRARIAN AND HER BOOKS

Category: Science Fiction – Space Exploration

“I am what the Emperor made me. Monster.”

Calidan Darkheart is an Imperator. A self-professed killer, murderer, and adept hunter of the creatures that most citizens of the Empire do not realise exist. But no one is born this way. They are moulded, broken and reforged. This is Calidan’s story, both past and present. A tale of vicious monsters, strange magics and mythical beasts.

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age