Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for May 13, 2020

The Selection meets Aladdin!

ONE MONTH. ONE PRINCE. FIFTY CONTESTANTS. AN IMPOSSIBLE HEIST.

Just when Adelaide thinks her lonely and dangerous life as a thief is finally over, a witch kidnaps her to a faraway kingdom, to perform an impossible heist. If Adelaide fails, her newfound family would be sacrificed to a beast.

To complete her mission, Ada is forced to assume the role of a noblewoman, and enter a royal competition. The prize is the hand of the elusive Crown Prince. Elimination means certain death.

As the witch’s literal deadline approaches, can Ada succeed with her one last gamble to save the day, and escape to a new life with Cyrus, the mysterious fellow thief who stole her heart? Or will the shocking developments cause everything to fall apart?

Dive into the magic of the internationally bestselling series readers are calling “SPELLBINDING” and “SPECTACULAR”

On the run from her old flame’s criminal family, Sara Jones hides in Billings, Montana. But when people around her start dying, she finds herself trapped between the crime family and a sinister group that uses poisonous spiders to paralyze their victims. Can she escape?

Category: Dark Fantasy

Armed with her newly acquired Tegen abilities, Sara Jones is determined to destroy organized crime families. She has tracked one in Baton Rouge. But before she can fully execute her scheme, she is confronted by an ex-lover and a deadly Tegen, who can’t control unleashing the poisonous venom running through her veins.

THE GODS ARE FUNNY.

Except when you piss them off.

Then they suck.

They really, really suck.

(Really).

Alexander Weiss discovers this tidbit when he inadvertently insults Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, and she casts him away on a forgotten isle filled with statues.

Being marooned is bad enough, but the fact that the island is also the home of Euryale, elder sister to Medusa, makes the situation a touch worse. The only thing keeping Alex from being petrified is the fact that Euryale has taken a liking to the blundering mortal.

For now.

What follows next is a wild, adventurous tale filled with heroes, gods, monsters, love, and war that is nothing short of legendary.

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Category: Fantasy – Myths & Legends

The Sferogyls, ball-shape entities, are a peaceful kind. The Maggotroll Empire, warlike hominids, invade to conquer and enslave them. The Sferogyls do not have even a military force, while the Maggotrolls possess Galactic Battle-Carriers. The Sferogyls ask the cosmic gods for help, and god Timurud is assigned to aid them. As a god, he’s not allowed to fight on anyone’s behalf, but he can help the Sferogyls prepare to defend themselves. Trouble is they have only one year to build up their defenses and learn how to fight a formidable enemy in space and on the ground. This is a David and Goliath epic.

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Category: Science Fiction – Galactic Empire

An age of peaceful exploration has ended.

The centuries old dream of meeting an intelligent, nonhuman species has finally come true, in the form of the people known as the Leyra’an. But the dream soon becomes something darker when the Leyra’an prove to be more than just humanoid. They are like us to a degree that cannot be explained by chance alone. The search for the answer to this mystery will reveal a universe stranger and more dangerous than the crew of the probeship William Bartram could have imagined, and expose both Humanity and the Leyra’an to the threat of extinction.

For better or worse, that search has begun.

Category: Science Fiction – First Contact

While Robert and Alicia MacGregor, survivors of the ill-fated probeship William Bartram, work to rebuild their lives, the Commonwealth seeks a way to end the long, bitter conflict between the Republic and the Leyra’an. But the leaders of the Republic, suspicious of the motives that drive their long-sundered kin and faced with unrest among their own people, resist the changes that must come for peace to exist. And all the while, forces unseen by either side are at work, determined to force Humanity and the Leyra’an to walk the path of war.

New VR tech is supposed to be good. Until it starts making people catatonic.

I’m Ellan Weis, a teen kickboxer. I live in a world where everyone has phone implants. I got zapped, now I can sense disaster before it happens. A conspiracy is among us. My family is in danger. Even with my street smarts and new powers, can I make a difference?

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian