Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for March 8, 2025

In the vast reaches of the Eternal Empire, Kaelan Verellian, heir-apparent of the Great House Verellian, finds himself ensnared in a web of betrayal and political intrigue. Falsely accused of treason by the Eternal Emperor, Kaelan is condemned to a life of hardship in a distant mining colony on Helios V.

Unbeknownst to him, he is but a pawn in a ruthless game of power. Facing an impossible choice, Kaelan’s father abandons him to the clutches of the Emperor, sparking a relentless drive for survival within Kaelan. With the aid of unlikely allies, Kaelan starts a rebellion, against his own family, and against the Empire itself.

As the rebellion unfolds, unforeseen twists and turns alter the course of destiny, forcing Kaelan to make impossible choices and confront the true nature of the Eternal Empire.

Magic isn’t real—until it’s staring right at her.

Detective Leira Berens prides herself on handling facts, not fantasy. Her job is chasing suspects, not ghosts. But when her mother’s wild tales of hidden worlds start surfacing, she’s forced to confront an unsettling truth…

Magic exists—and it’s coming for her.

A young prince from another realm has been murdered, and the prime suspect is hiding in Leira’s city. As she unravels an ancient conspiracy, she finds herself tangled between two worlds.

One is filled with gritty crime scenes; the other with shimmering portals and creatures from beyond.

A mysterious relic, pulsing with unearthly power, may be the key to it all. But its secrets are deadly, and time is running out.

Can Leira save her world before magic consumes it? Or will her disbelief cost her everything she holds dear?

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Caught robbing the Governor’s mansion, two thieves have a sole chance to evade execution: they must disguise themselves in the palace of a rival nation and steal the crown jewel. But can they salvage a future together, or will the cruelties of the Fletch court tear their friendship apart?

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Category: Dark Fantasy

” … Readers who like their stories steeped in a different form of post-apocalyptic flavor will find City of Locked Doors nicely developed in this compelling blend of horror, fantasy, and survival story.”
A plague befell the world that warped the bodies of all organic things and drove both man and beast rabid during the night.
A convoluted semblance of civilization began, aided by the magic of Necromancy, to raise those butchered in the night, and Hemomancy, to heal their injuries.
The TYRANTS that rule over this civilization wanted his brother’s necromantic power, so they killed him. Noir plans to rectify this, but first he must find the killers.

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Category: Dark Fantasy

Teenager Josh Driscoll lives in the Station, a city constructed a kilometer beneath the surface of a frozen, lifeless earth, its origins lost in the mists of time. Decrypting an ancient journal, Josh learns that a complex sealed off after an asteroid strike may hold the key to the city’s past, and may be all that can save them from annihilation.

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

If not for the intervention of the insectoid T’lack, the Faceless War would have ended with the extinction of Humanity. That intervention came at a great cost for the T’lack. No one knows or understands Humanity’s debt to the T’lack better than Jan Costa, who paid his own terrible price at the end of that war. Now the T’lack are themselves in danger, threatened by a mysterious race of beings on the far side of T’lack space. Jan Costa leads a multi-species expeditionary force into the unknown, seeking to save his alien friends from the new threat they have aroused. What he discovers out beyond the frontier will change everything, with the very existence of the T’lack hanging in the balance.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

A fantastic and serious premise with characters to match, slathered around it is enough mayhem and hyperbole to make you laugh as you ponder the unthinkable. A cautionary tale served with heart, humour, and great humanity. A great read for people who ponder the future, the role AI is going to have, and the questions we should ask ourselves.

Category: Science Fiction – Colonization

Centuries ago, Ember Steele made the impossible choice to go into stasis, hoping to be revived when a cure for her terminal condition was found. But when she awakens, she’s on board a spacecraft, far from Earth, with five other people — and they have only a short time to identify a habitable planet, or all of humanity could be doomed.

Category: Science Fiction – Colonization

A reclusive New Zealand Paleontologist. A renowned international Human Geneticist. Can they stop the deadly plan of rebel Time Scientists going back in time to alter the genetic memories and instill aggression into our Paleolithic ancestors, changing the face of history as we know it? Will they succeed in combatting the plot to dramatically increase the survival instincts in modern humans through the instincts embedded in our shared Neanderthal DNA.

Category: Science Fiction – Time Travel

What happens when three college freshmen accidentally wake a cursed vampire?
Veronica, Kyle, and Cy thought their Sunday archaeological excursion would be just another extra-credit adventure—until they accidentally crack open an ancient crypt and summon vampire Kane Spencer, setting him free. He’s tall, dark, and terrifying… but also cursed, hunted, and in desperate need of Veronica’s help. Giving him her blood was meant to save him, but now she’s tied to a world of danger she never imagined.
Kane’s past is coming for him—deadly vampires, cryptic prophecies, and a string of modern-day serial murders that might be connected. Now, between dodging bloodthirsty immortals, unraveling cryptic prophecies, and dealing with Kyle and Cy’s nonstop sarcastic commentary, they are in way over their heads.
If Veronica and her friends can’t unravel the mystery, Kane won’t be the only one in danger…

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban