Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for March 30, 2022

A sword-wielding Cinderella. An enchanting Beauty. A villain who might not be so bad after all… Once upon a time, before the Brothers Grimm, when fairytales were romantic fantasies for entertaining adults and frightening children… Three twisted tales inspired by the classic fairytales…for adults who still love reading fairytales, though they’re a little darker now, making that happily ever after so much sweeter.

Abby’s life is getting weirder by the moment: talking patients with no heart beat, living shadows, creepy morgue workers; all on top of coming to grips with being a werewolf. Yet through it all she’s managed maintain the pulse of a normal paramedic life, until a dying patient asks her to take care of a cute little girl who is definitely not human. Now mortally bound by her word, a terrible killer stalks them both.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

In the land of the great red sun, dogs sing, wolves kill, humans serve, and wolf-shifters rule with magic and menace. Pietre is a human boy who has spent the last thirteen years afraid of the sunset, the Blødguard, and the wolf-shifting masters who rule his world. Wittendon is a werewolf prince who has spent the last nineteen years afraid of his father, his inability to do magic, and the upcoming tournament he’s sure to lose. But when Pietre finds an orphaned pup in the woods and Wittendon is forced to arrest the boy’s father soon after, both of them begin to realize that keeping the rules might be just as terrifying as breaking them. Now serf and master must learn to cut through their own prejudices and work together in order to turn their world before it turns on them. Grey Stone is a story of dogs who talk, wolves who kill, and a stone that-for better or worse-can change all that.

Category: Fantasy – Epic

FACADE
Aliens, telepathy and political intrigue. A human spy and his horned, alien partner encounter a new species that’s been incognito for centuries. They discover a level of psi-skills that borders on magic and endangers the people they love.

CHARADE
As Elaan learns about who she is and what her species can do, the galactic government pressures her for more information on their enemy. Hunter and Trash want to reconnoiter the enemy’s territory, but they have to find it first..

DILEMMA
Tensions rise as Elaan begins a delicate dance between the UCFS’s demands and her people’s needs. Hunter has to deal with the new revelations about his origins, the trial and the resulting repercussions. Trash gets a chance to rescue a brother in need and add him to the Embassy’s staff.

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Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

A program designed to protect them. A malfunction that could obliterate them all.

When the United States comes under attack from an AI program its government built in secret, IT specialist Terre Hoffman learns firsthand how deadly the program can be; with one strike, the machines decimate Terre’s entire family. As Terre comes to terms with the loss, he is assigned to investigate the AI anomalies and bring the bots back under human direction.

Under pressure and under attack, the two experts only have one shot at success—override the network and shut down the Guardian Program.

With everything on the line, Terre must overcome the pain of losing his loved ones in order to stop the war machines. If they fail, it means handing over complete control to the the machines bent on killing them all.

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Category: Science Fiction – Military

Finalist, Young Adult Fiction category, 2015 National Indie Excellence Book Awards.

Shade: Girl on a hero’s journey, going from smart-ass to badass.

Thanks to her offbeat mother, Shade’s full name is Galactic Shade Griffin. Having a name like that while being the new girl in school is pretty much catnip for bullies. When her best friend goes missing, Shade faces the question of whether or not she has what it takes to become a hero. With help from a ghost haunting her house, she finds out that she’s capable of more than she ever thought possible. Although this novel deals with a number of serious issues—drug and alcohol abuse, cutting, and disturbing world events—it’s primarily a novel about a teenaged girl finding out who she really is and that she’s capable of so much more than she ever thought possible.

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Semi-Finalist, Young Adult category, 2019 Kindle Book Awards.

As if being a ghost whisperer in a trailer park isn’t weird enough, skinwalkers take things to a whole new level of strange.

Running away from her demons rather than facing them, Shade’s mother moves them once again to a new place—this time a trailer park on the outskirts of Roswell, New Mexico. Hiding in plain sight among UFO festivals and rumors of alien abductions, paranormal creatures live there by their own rules.

Shade accepts her destiny as a ghost whisperer with the help of her new best friend, Kai Zahnii. An empath and healer with the potential to become a Navajo shaman, Kai must break free of her dysfunctional family. This dysfunction goes far beyond anything Shade has ever known.

In Roswell, Shade is thrown into a world inhabited not only by ghosts, but also by witches, faeries and shapeshifters.

When their tourist ship is stranded in Antarctic sea ice, Britt, Jun and Abbie think boredom will be their only problem. But after a terrifying and mysterious enemy attacks the ship, they must journey across shifting ice floes, battling cold and exposure, to find safety and learn the truth about the brutal adversaries that are determined to slaughter the ship’s passengers… adversaries that seem to have emerged from within the ice itself.

Category: Science Fiction – Alien Invasion