Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for March 9, 2022

A radical religion dismantles democracy, changing America forever.
Some citizens fight to keep their civil liberties…
…but the doom preachers aim to extinguish all hope, no matter who must die.
Thirty interconnected stories illustrate a hellish vision of the future. The Church of the American Way, a criminal supergroup claiming to have God on their payroll, commits endless atrocities against humanity. Leaders lock up the innocent, wipe out entire populations, and poison water supplies – all in the name of piety.
But it takes more than an evil system to extinguish the will of the victims. The dynamic characters who manage to survive this waking nightmare have more love and courage than their oppressors can imagine. But do they have what it takes to defeat the all-powerful combination of church and state, or are they destined for an unimaginable hell on earth of man’s creation?

Proving her worth means going against the gods, and facing Odin’s wrath.

Wingless Valkyries are useless to the future of Asgard-that’s what is drilled into them at Valkyrie Academy. Determined to break the mold and help reap warriors for Valhalla, Kara breaks the rules and finds herself in the most dangerous position yet-facing the wrath of Mistress Sigrun and Odin.

Or that is what she thinks until she realizes a dragon is stalking her.

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

Orphaned and alone, Conor Archer comes back to his hometown to find himself the center of attention. With the help of new friends, Jace the captain of the football team and Beth, his twin sister, along with a strange Labrador Retriever named Troubles, Conor has to discover who he really is and how he is tied to the mystery of the ‘Dark Ones’. They are the children the town is protecting from an ancient river demon and a shapeshifter in the nearby Indian Burial mound. Into the midst of Conor’s hunt for the truth comes DIOGENE, a biogenetics company with a scientist willing to do anything to unravel the mystery of the ‘Dark Ones’. Conor finds himself caught in a web of lies where myth and science war for humanity’s soul. In the midst of rising terror and horror, courage and heroism shine out through the darkness in this epic paranormal fantasy.

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

RUMORS OF MAGIC AND MURDER hung over the tragedy at Tinker’s Grove which destroyed a town and killed some fine people. Aunt Emily thought sending Conor Archer to Ireland to see his godmother was the solution to keep him safe and out of harm’s way.

Conor went, and immediately got himself in trouble with a local landowner, a Japanese war criminal, and a bunch of Otherworld things that wanted to destroy him. Not everyone was an enemy. There were the secretive Travelers–the Tinker folk with legends that tended to come true. Of course, the Roan were there, the People of the Sea, promising to watch over him. But there was something more–an ancient being camped out on the mysterious Skellig Islands, intent on protecting him and the land.

Good thing he had his shapeshifting powers. But would his new found abilities be able to defeat the Dark who wanted him dead?

Evanar Hostric dreams of being a Guardian, but his magic is not like the others at the Temple. It is darker, hungrier, and comes at a terrible cost.

His comfortable life is upended by a group of new students which leads to a dreadful encounter and Evan doubting his dream. He resolves to leave it behind in favor of a more peaceful path when an attack on all he loves forces him to choose: Let them die or become the monster he was meant to be.

Aspected is the first installment of The Emperor’s Conscience series by Michael K. Combs. If you like dark magic and conflicted antiheroes, you’ll love this introduction to the world of The Emperor’s Conscience, where sometimes a monster’s morality is your only hope.

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Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

A neighborhood is turned upside down when an alien lands on a New York rooftop.

In this charming debut we meet the residents of an East Village block whose lives are thrown into turmoil by an extraterrestrial visitor. There’s a wanna-be rock star, his eccentric rabbit-loving neighbor, a cursed superintendent, and a ghost-obsessed old woman, along with a remarkable cat. Their intersecting paths are all drawn up towards the otherworldly creature lurking overhead.

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Category: Science Fiction – First Contact

Revenge failed her…

After slaying the former empress, Lo vowed to never kill again. But when her path crosses with a mysterious thief, she begins to work as a vigilante—and to develop forbidden feelings—leaving her with an impossible choice.

Revenge fuels her…

Since her mother’s death, Jalie has been a hopeless prisoner in her own palace. Until a goddess grants her a brutal gift that could be the key to her freedom…if she can get past the soldier tasked with guarding her. As tension brews between them, he challenges everything she’s ever believed about her enemies.

Category: Fantasy – Epic

He was going on one last, easy mission then he was going to get out. Until the whole of humanity needed saving.

Lieutenant Dasan Sand is about to leave the Legion and become a civilian again — and he couldn’t be happier. But on a last mission, he finds himself facing an army of ferocious aliens fighting a religious war against the human race.

Sand no longer wants to leave the Legion; not when he finally understands the meaning of service

The aliens are coming to wipe humanity off the cosmic map, and Sand must put together the band of men and women who will keep them at bay. To do that he must fight the military and civilian bureaucracy to pull together a rag tag group of soldiers to form an elite fighting unit capable of this almost impossible task.

He must win the biggest of all wars if he is to save the human race.

Category: Science Fiction – Military