Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for May 21, 2020

Myths and heroes may be reborn, but the whims of the gods never change.

If you crave the mythological adventure of Clash of the Titans, and historical fantasy fiction by Madeline Miller, Bernard Cornwell & SJA Turney, you’ll love this captivating tale of revenge, honor, and betrayal…the first in a series that brings the legends of Ancient Greece to life as you’ve never seen them before.

Convicted of three heinous murders, Herc Dion is sentenced to a series of trials that will pit him against formidable monsters, push his physical and mental endurance to the limit, and deliver him to the edge of Hades.

Throughout these ordeals, Herc endures the brutal cruelty of Hera, the goddess whose hatred has blinded her to the near ruin of her realm and to plans that will spell the end of her existence. Realizing Hera has done everything to destroy him, will Herc risk his life to protect hers?

Twenty-two-year-old Lyndall Huxley wakes to find herself thousands of years into the future. Something went wrong with the programme for which she volunteered – a programme that employs Einstein’s laws of relativity to send travellers forward in time. The ruins overrun by green woodland in which she wakes are a far cry from the urbanised world she left behind in the 2200s. Lyndall embarks upon a journey that will leave her questioning her very identity. She must choose between the new life that beckons and the old life from which, even thousands of years later, she cannot escape. She will discover that the mission was never about sending people into the future. Much more is at stake.

Category: Science Fiction – Time Travel

Honor, duty, and family mean everything, but he’ll risk it all to prove his worth.

For Reslo, the elven guardian of the forest road, upholding his father’s oath means serving a usurping, foreign king and spending his life as an outsider. He wants nothing more than to do his duty and be home in time for dinner, but he instead finds himself embroiled in a battle against old enemies. To make things worse, two young, bungling knights are on a quest to find their lost champion and he must keep them alive or end up starting a war. Reslo risks his life and puts all he loves on the line to fulfill his father’s oath and save his forest homeland for the very people who shun him.

Fans of epic fantasy, tabletop gaming, Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, and Warhammer will love this action-packed, fast-paced adventure.

Category: Fantasy – Epic

Death stalks the abbey at Tranquility Bridge… Only, Justicar Jhee, a magic-wielding sleuth can stop it.
On their way to the Imperial capital, Justicar Jhee’s polygamous household must halt for repairs at a secluded abbey. There is more to the abbey than meets the eye. Trapped by circumstances and with no way for help to arrive, can she uncover the truth before she or her spouses become the next victims of the dark forces that lurk just out of sight?

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Death never takes a holiday… Justicar Jhee, a magic-wielding sleuth, must work with local law enforcement to answer Galleon City’s cries for justice before tensions explode.
Galleon City is the central point in the Empire; the place where the Storm Shield protects the Blessed Isles from the wrath that surrounds them. But it is also a city that is being ripped apart by restless factions and swamped with refugees, the destitute and the unwanted.
Justicar Jhee arrives for vacation in the city in the midst of this chaos, but it isn’t long before intrigue strikes once more, in the form of illness and death at the nearby mine.
Now the unanswered questions are piling up. Why is Jhee’s wife Mirrei suddenly unwell? Why would someone plot to destroy the Storm Shield? And is it the blessing that they once thought it was?

In March 1896, Evaline “Evvy”Amstel has been left with a tremendous debt―before he was murdered, her husband had promised to build and deliver a revolutionary airship, The Empress of the Clouds, to Erasmus Marchand, a Southern millionaire who resents the fact that the Yankees won the Civil War. Now that Amstel is dead, no one in Joplin, Missouri, a mining boomtown, knows where the aircraft is. Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin also has a stake in finding it. He’s accused Evvy’s husband of stealing the original designs and is determined to recover the Empress for Germany. Evvy takes over her husband’s failing airship company and it thrives. But Marchand is fanatical in his quest to find the Empress―to arm it with a weapon of mass destruction and instigate anarchy. It’s up to Evvy and local deputy Sean McTavish to find the airship first, because the future of the United States is in peril.

Category: Science Fiction – Steampunk

She kills for a demon overlord until a conscience turns her traitor. Now she’ll take one final stand for the living.

Undead Commander Lady Dread wages war without mercy. Until the spellbinding eyes of an enemy youth warms her rotted heart. Defying her demon overlord, Lady Dread steals away with the child in search of safety.

Lady Dread is a pulse-pounding dark fantasy novel. If you like grisly battles, spine-tingling suspense, and unflinching journeys of redemption, then you’ll love John Patrick Kennedy’s tale of honor, horror, and war.

Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

It was such a good plan: to steal from the most ruthless crime lord in the galaxy. What could possibly go wrong?

Yan and his band of rogues are intent on plundering their way across the galaxy. When they stumble across the score of a lifetime, they quickly go all in for one last job. With everything on the line, there’s no way they can fail. At least that’s what they’re hoping.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

In a desperate world…

…nobody can be trusted.

Can one scavenger make a difference?

Cloudhawk learned early on that to survive, one must be cautious. People would as soon kill you for dinner as say, “Hello.” All but the strongest die young. He’s made it to fourteen and intends to keep fighting, because he dreams of more.

It was only a story.

Told by a crazy old man.

Could the Elysian lands be real?

The Wastelands, a post-apocalyptic nuclear desert, where friendships are few and battles for even the most meager of supplies, are to the death. Cloudhawk must cross a land of meta humans, mutants and beasts to reach the old man’s mythical land. A fool’s journey, if he hadn’t found the stone.

What are its powers?

Will it keep him alive?

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure