Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for March 15, 2022

For three hundred years, the people of the Five Realms have lived in relative peace, protected by their great leader, the Archon. Yet, far to the north, in the frozen lands beyond the Draegalen Trench, the Ruuk stir, driven by a rising evil, long believed banished from the world. But rumors questioning the Archon’s ability to defend the realms once more, persist.

Elodi, the Lady Harlyn, uneasy in her new role following the death of her father, and Toryn, a farmworker and outsider in his village, must discover a way to fight an enemy that all but defeated their ancestors.

Song of Echoes is the first book in this epic fantasy series.

Book 2, Age of Shadows is out now.
Book 3, Sea of Souls is due out in September 2022.

After failing the military entrance exam, an upstanding young man finds himself responsible for a group of vicious, bloodthirsty mercenaries and a hot-headed noblewoman with a twisted plot at her heels. A coming-of-age fantasy story about people trying their best to survive in a grim, unforgiving world.

Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

Phenomenal power. Cursed for his father’s sins.

Marshal lives in magically-enforced silence, unable to communicate with those around him. When he discovers he’s also heir to immense magical power, he sets out to escape his curse, and maybe find a way to end the corrupt system that gave it to him.

But his half-brother, wanting the power for himself, dispatches a leper assassin to kill Marshal and those he loves.

Seri wants to use the system to become the most powerful mage in history. But her ambitions are disrupted when the earth itself begins to shake. The magic that holds the world together is failing, and the combined power of all the mages is not enough to save it.

Manipulated by outside forces, stalked by murderous foes and monsters, Marshal and Seri each must learn how to use their unique abilities before it’s too late.

Category: Fantasy – Epic

“When one curse is lifted, we will be on a path to the lifting of all curses.”

Though his life has been dramatically altered, Marshal can find no way to advance his new cause. His half-brother Volraag begins a war that could have ramifications for two worlds. Caught up in the fighting, Marshal finds nothing but despair. His best friend, bonded to Marshal since childhood, may be the only one who can save him… from the war and from himself.

Seri searches for Marshal, but suffers a devastating loss almost immediately. Then she meets a mysterious magic-user who wields power unlike any she’s seen before. Who is he and what does his coming mean for the six lands of Antises?

Together, Seri and Marshal may be able to stand against Volraag’s growing power. But they will need much more help if they are to fight against a plot that spans ages…

Wracked by guilt, Cassie Voges travels across a devastated landscape in an attempt to find some meaning to the chaos she has unleashed.

Meanwhile, two mutually opposing forces that will determine the fate of the world prepares for an apocalyptic showdown.

Global leaders unleash their formidable military might as they seek to take back what was lost, while the newly independent communities that were transformed by the alien organism aspire to rid their territories from the last vestiges of state control.

With this inevitable conflict now on the horizon, something is approaching Earth. Will it be a harbinger of peace, or a bringer of untold destruction?

Category: Hard Science Fiction

Sophie Arundel is stranded in history, stuck in a grand house in 1925 England. Thankfully, she has her faithful dog Charlotte with her. Oh, and fellow student Hugo, annoying and charming in equal measure.

Baffled by upper-class rules, courted by boring suitors, Sophie is desperate to get back to the twenty-first century. But the only way home is through a hidden portal — and she must work with Hugo to unlock its secrets.

As one clue leads to another, Sophie and Hugo discover that history is unfolding differently. Mobs rule the streets. And when chaos turns into a deadly revolution, anyone in a grand house is fair game.

Sophie and Hugo are running out of time…

Category: Science Fiction – Time Travel

A thrilling epic fantasy box set! When monsters and dark magic threaten the land, a monk-turned-sorcerer, a fugitive, and an aristocrat band together against the encroaching evil. “Clever and well-written…immediately evoke similarities with the iconic The Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski and the First Law series by Joe Abercrombie.”—Grimdark Magazine

Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

What is Gwen Tells and the House of Shroom?

Well, I’m glad you asked. It’s an epic tale about a young African American girl who wakes up in the middle of the night to her favorite stuffed panda-king teddy bear. He blames her for things she couldn’t possibly have done. After throwing a couple of objects towards the teddy bear and an irritated conversation, she does what most kids would do. She agrees to go on a journey to the Otherworld to get him back to his original body. She believes it’s a dream anyway, so what’s the harm? This magical fantasy fiction story will sweep you away into a whimsical yet eerie portal adventure with an unlikely teddy bear as you meet bizarre creatures and spellbinding places, all while someone or something lurks behind your every step.

Category: Fantasy – Classics

AN ACCIDENTAL TIME TRAVELER AND AN INCREDIBLE BIRTHDAY WISH. In a tale of Be Careful What You Wish For, Michael discovers what’s important in life, & what he’ll give up to save the ones he loves.

20 year old Michael is broke & so are his parents. His dream is for financial security. So what harm can it be when someone from the future shows up to help him out? His life will be perfect, right?
As Michael’s time travelling guide returns each year with information & tasks for him, he begins to learn of past mistakes not yet made. Knowledge of career & love interest waiting in the future push Michael to change fate & take his choices into his own hands.
As time reveals the catastrophic events in his life that started this all, doubt creeps in if he ever really wanted the fame & fortune the universe is giving him, and if he really does have any control over time-loops to give it all back.

Category: Science Fiction – Time Travel

‘I keep going farther into your past, but I think I got them all.’
‘All of what?’
‘Each time you died.’
Following her fathers death, twenty-year old Stella has lived the life of riches to rags.
Alone and pregnant, and taking care of her mother, Stella is tough. But when her own life is in danger, help arrives in the form of a stranger who then disappears into thin air.
When Stella meets a much younger version of the man, David, a PhD physics student, studying time travel, they begin a love affair that will change both their lives.
Will David turn out to be her salvation, or her greatest heartaches? Stella loves him enough to keep their shared devastating future timeline a secret. But to save him, she has to let him go…and risk her past survival.