Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for March 27, 2025

Hudson Powell thought joining the Relic Guardian Force would turn his life around. Instead, he discovers an alien crystal that awakens a world-shattering force lost in deep space. Together with mercenary Tory Bellona, he must unravel ancient mysteries before catastrophe strikes.

Confirmed bachelor Chip Proctor must combine forces with a Fae warrior princess to protect the four-year-old future queen of the Fae. If you like urban fantasy with action, humor, and a series-long slow burn, then this is for you.

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

After decades of hibernation, Crystal Maiden wakes in a time no longer her own. Injured, captive, her only allies are enemies from the past. Her Creator’s rebellion against the Brethren’s oppressive rule has failed. Compelled to continue the fight, she must learn how to co-exist with those who, for her, were enemies mere days ago. Then somehow overpower their captors. Afterward, they might repair their crippled ship and escape.

But their captors turn out to be former allies of the rebellion. Their plight is dire, as they, too, face annihilation at the whims of the Brethren.

Now, Crystal stands at a crossroads. Join these new friends and continue her Creator’s rebellion—likely doomed to be a short-lived effort. Or return with her rescuer and trust her influence with the Brethren is strong enough to protect her—and turn her back on the very essence of her existence.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

Eight-year-old Peruka hears music no one else hears. Besides causing her pain, it distracts her to the point her life becomes at risk. Isolation and home schooling have helped. Unfortunately, she’s not growing out of the problem, as her doctors have hoped.

When her Mammy falls ill from a chronic disease, Peruka reluctantly joins her pappy as he seeks a new employment contract, meaning a trip to a city… or two, where the population is on edge because of a recent uptick in violence. She promises to behave, to be a good girl. But in certain locations, the music of the city is overwhelmingly loud and discordant.

Then a riot separates her from her pappy, and soon she faces her greatest challenge when into her defenseless mind seeps an alien song, threatening the millions of human lives trapped in Brethren Space…

Few outsiders understand or appreciate the Nawkers’ ways. To the Nawkers, it is simply their way of life. A way of life that has not changed to any appreciable degree in nearly a thousand years. Bound by their code of strict honesty, humility and extreme fondness for being left alone, the villagers live a quiet and most would say boring life. It should therefore come as no surprise the entire village was plunged into chaos when an item of great worth came into their midst, in a most peculiar way.
Now, two naïve lads, Younger and Barrow, are given the simple task of disposing of the item. A simple task, but in the world of the Nawkers, the simplest of tasks can present the grandest of problems. In the world of the big folk, the boys must trust new friends, overcome many dangers, and stay true to their ways if they are to accomplish their task and return home to their simple life.

Category: Fantasy – Myths & Legends

A few decades from now, California allows anyone 81 or older to legally end their life, a.k.a. “cross the bridge”—using the words of the religious movement, the Bridgers. Business is brisk for Ketch Immer and his father, purveyors of state-of-the-art crossing services.

When a renowned academic “proves” life after death, the Bridgers sue for change. The movement’s figurehead, the veiled Jane Go, argues that adults of any age deserve the right to choose. The world watches on broadcast TV as introverted Ketch gets dragged into a cultural crucible. Well-funded Bridgers, well-armed anti-Bridgers, and the mysterious Jane Go pressure him to take a stand.

While confronting his family’s complex history with assisted suicide, Ketch must uncover Jane Go’s hidden motivations and answer the ultimate question: which life is more worth living, here or across the bridge?

Category: Science Fiction – Metaphysical & Visionary

From High School to Fae Queen—Whether She Likes It or Not!

Ophelia Monroe thought magic was just a fairy tale—until a dragon crashes into her Texas school and bonds with her to spite a Fae prince. Now, she’s been thrust into the dangerous world of the Fae, where that bond makes her their new Queen. His Queen.

Prince Corrin insists she must prove her right to the throne by traveling across the realm, but with magic she can’t control, protests against her rule, and a dragon’s voice in her head, Ophelia is in way over her head. Worse, something dark is threatening the Fae’s existence, and uncovering the truth might be even more dangerous than the evil itself.

With the fate of the realm on the line, Ophelia must decide—fight for her throne, or let the realm fall into chaos.

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Category: Fantasy – Epic

A long-lost magic has awakened. A young man named Cymm embarks on a transformative journey to become a holy warrior, a Paladin. His peaceful existence is shattered when marauding dragons descend upon his village, leaving behind devastation and sorrow.
With the loss of his family and friends, Cymm’s world unravels, and his heart is consumed by a burning desire for vengeance. As he treads down a perilous path to avenge his loved ones, his inner struggles and self-doubt threaten to engulf him.
Amid the darkness, there’s a glimmer of hope when Cymm develops a unique and formidable power, but it is cloaked in mystery and the repercussions have the potential to reshape the fate of the world.
During Cymm’s quest to vanquish the responsible dragons, he forges valuable alliances and formidable adversaries. His courage will be tested, and the fate of the world will be determined by his actions.

Category: Fantasy – Epic

A mysterious greyness has descended on Whitehaven. Something has happened to the colour.
Rumours start flying around all over the place. Is something wrong with the sun? Is it because of the chemicals the farmers are using? Mrs Rafferty announces that God is punishing the island because of all the sinful things that people are doing. Everybody has a theory, but nobody knows anything. Nobody except Margie and Henry. A terrifying
adventure begins when Margie and Henry are led to an old mine shaft. What is the significance of the stone? Who is the thief of colours and can he be stopped?

Playwright and screenwriter Stephen Sinclair (Ladies Night, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers) turns his talent for humour, imagination and tension into creating a compelling novel for young adult readers.

“ … a vibrant and imaginative novel for young adults.”—Nelson Mail

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

Unexpectedly thrown to the far side of the universe, can a cat and a squirrel convince their warring crews to work together long enough to survive the voyage home?

When Janessa Carroway finally gets her long-overdue promotion to captain, it comes with unfortunate strings attached. She’s sent on a suicide mission with a barebones crew to commit a war crime. Why, it’s almost a relief for the Norwegian Forest cat captain when everything goes completely wrong, and she finds herself on the far side of the cosmos, trying to befriend her enemy, so they can all get home together.

Follow a crew that includes cats, dogs, squirrels, cyborg rabbits, and even a sentient mushroom as they wrestle with their predicament and try not to wrestle with each other.

Join them as they face impossible odds, perils of space, failures of technology, ethical quandaries, and a fleet of attacking Zakonraptors!

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Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera