Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for May 23, 2017

“It’s everything I love in a novel: scientific speculation, stunning action, and characters that leap off the page. But best of all, it combines all of the above into a seamless, thrilling story. Don’t miss this debut!”
— James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Labyrinth

“Even those who aren’t fans of science fiction will find themselves caught up in this original and compelling story. The author walks a fine line between what is ordinary in this world and what could actually become nefarious and chilling. It’s unnerving … that’s what makes it a page-turner.”
— FOREWORD REVIEWS

“An interesting premise…not your typical action oriented sci-fi adventure.”
— SFFWORLD

For fifty years the Human Alliance and the Krokator Star Empire have been locked in a cold war, neither side willing to return to the open conflict that raged for decades. Though uneasy, the peace has been amicably maintained–until terrorist attacks against both powers, leaving the Alliance’s capital shattered and the Emperor dead, threaten to reignite hostilities.

The dual investigations of a human intelligence officer and a krokator soldier lead in the same direction, forcing an unwelcome cooperation as they try to disrupt the network of a common enemy – the shadowy and powerful group known only as the Forbidden Army.

Well organized and commanding resources that suggest the support of insiders on both sides, the conspirators plotting an even deadlier attack will do anything they can to render their investigators ineffective – or dead.

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Nook | Smashwords

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

Miss Maddie Hatter, renegade daughter of a powerful Steamlord, is scraping a precarious living as a fashion reporter when the story of a lifetime falls into her lace-gloved hands.

Baron Bodmin, an adventurer with more failed quests than fingernails, has vanished in circumstances that are odd even for him.

While he is supposedly hunting the fabled Eye of Africa diamond in the Nubian desert, his expeditionary airship is found adrift off the coast of England. Maddie was the last reporter to see the potty peer alive. If she can locate the baron or the Eye of Africa, her career will be made.

Outraged investors and false friends complicate her quest, and a fiendish figure lurks in the shadows, ready to snatch the prize . . . at any price.

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Kobo

Category: Science Fiction – Steampunk

Feared and reviled, the fierce, winged creatures known as Jeguduns live in the cliffs surrounding the Taakwa valley. When Malia discovers an injured Jegudun in the pine forest of the valley, she risks everything — exile from the village, loss of her status as clan mother in training, even her life — to befriend and save the surprisingly intelligent creature. But all of that pales when she learns the truth: the threat to her people is bigger and more malicious than the Jeguduns. Lurking on the edge of the valley is an Outsider army seeking to plunder and destroy her people. It’s only a matter of time before the Outsiders find a way through the magic that protects the valley — a magic that can only be created by Taakwa and Jeguduns working together.

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Category: Fantasy – Epic

Malia returns home the hero of a war she can’t remember. The valley burning under the Maddion’s invasion, the fate of her late husband, the way she resolved the long-time distrust between the Taakwa people and the wolfish, winged Jegudun creatures—all of it has been erased from her memory. Malia hopes to resume training as her village’s next clan mother, but when the symbiotic magic that she and the Jeguduns used to repair the valley’s protective barrier starts to consume more and more of her mind, she’s faced with the threat of losing herself completely.

A king obsessed with conquest, armies, magic, and monsters powered by the souls of the dead – the legendary General of Valendo defended his kingdom from them all and taught his grandson, Prince Cory, everything he could. But the worst is yet to come.

Cory’s life is changed forever after the general’s death when their enemy strikes at the heart of their Kingdom. Confronted by his grandfather’s world of warriors and magic, and with the lives and souls of all in his kingdom at stake, Cory must do the one thing the old general never could.
End the war.

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The General’s Legacy – Part One: Inheritance is the first book in The General of Valendo gripping epic fantasy series that features lifelike characters, magic, romance, horror, and the pace and excitement of a thriller novel.

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Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery