Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for May 24, 2025

They fight the wars nobody else wants to.

The Frontier Corps are the Terran Empire’s repository for failures, malcontents, criminals, and other people with nothing left to lose but to sign their names on the dotted line of a ten year contract for another shot at life.

But flung across the stars to face horrifying enemies, it may as well be a death sentence.

Pari Petrosyan is a grizzled veteran of the Corps. With only a few months left of her contract, she has her mind on her discharge papers. Her easy path on her way to freedom is interrupted when a new commander arrives, ready to launch a large-scale military offensive to finally end the conflict she had spent her entire career fighting.

Caught between the grinding war machines of the empire and the inhuman monstrosities known as the Resh, Pari has to try to survive if she ever hopes to be free.

With a click, the bread fell into the toaster. One circuit fired the heating coils. Others monitored bread temperature and color.

Yet another circuit was quite unlike all the rest—
as exotic as it was sinister;
when it activated, 368 people would die.

In the 22nd century, the justice system is airtight in the domed city of Arcadia. Human error has been removed. Yet somehow, a well-intentioned young kleptomaniac named Rainville falls through the cracks and is wrongfully convicted of mass murder.

He is exiled to Wychwood Prison, a crumbling necropolis beyond the dome where the dead outnumber the living, where the inmates are also the guards. News of the crime follows him, and he becomes a marked man.

Rainville’s only hope for survival is becoming the first inmate in history to escape Wychwood. Can he do it? The fate of Arcadia depends on it.

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Category: Science Fiction – Cyberpunk

THE PAST LIES AHEAD

Bloodied knuckles. Sword cuts. Aching limbs. With each day of training in a mountain temple, Antarna draws closer to the power she’ll need if an assassin strikes once more. Never again will she be helpless.

When magic ravages the temple, the lives of her friends and the future of the congregation hang by a thread. A rare cure for their grave condition offers hope, and so Antarna braves a return to the city she fled as a child.

The journey ahead is fraught with thieves, traitors and tyrants who covet the cure. Lies are as thick as flies. In a desperate race against time, her past may hold vital clues—or offer only deeper peril.

“an epic fast-paced journey that doesn’t miss a beat and will keep you on your toes from start to finish” – Carina Inkdrinker, Goodreads Reviewer & Bookstagrammer (@carina_inkdrinker)

Category: Fantasy – Epic

Stolen twice, freed once—Aleeya escapes slavery only to be caught in a deadly game of prophecy, power, and forbidden love. Can she outwit her captors and find her way home? Perfect for fans of Roman-inspired fantasy, adventure, and slow-burn romance!

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Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

Melody’s life has been a prison, trapped by a ruthless magic harvester who craves her rare and powerful gift. When she escapes, she’s captured by Riven, a fierce fae warrior, and dragged into the shadowy Court of the Two Moons—ruled by the immortal, cold-hearted fallen angel Caryan. As her dormant magic awakens, Melody learns she is bound to an ancient prophecy that could destroy the world. Caught between the scorching attraction to Riven and her dangerous, irresistible pull toward Caryan, she is torn between two powerful men and a fate she cannot escape.

In a realm of forbidden magic, dark alliances, and heart-wrenching choices, Melody must decide who she can trust—and who can kill the immortal angel.

Category: Fantasy – Epic

FROM MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER JASPER T. SCOTT
Born to royalty, raised by corsairs, and bound by vengeance.
His destiny waits to be reclaimed.
Corvus Centauri rises from the ashes of betrayal and loss to carve his destiny among the stars. Once a child of noble blood, now a battle-hardened warrior raised among corsairs, Corvus must navigate a galaxy rife with treachery, ambition, and the haunting echoes of his past.
As he pieces together the mysteries behind his family’s fall, Corvus discovers long-buried secrets that could tip the balance of power in Frontier Space.
But to reclaim his birthright, Corvus must wield more than a blaster or a plasma sword—he must become a wise and cunning leader like his father, one that knows not only how to fight, but who to fight, and when not to. Will he rise to greatness, or sink into villainy in his quest for revenge?

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

A LEGENDARY FLEET
AND A GALAXY ON THE BRINK OF WAR
Corvus Centauri learned who betrayed his family at the same time as he discovered the location of Admiral Aberon Zane’s legendary missing fleet, but he isn’t the only one racing to claim its secrets. A Solari armada is en route to the fleet’s coordinates, while Corvus only has his father’s old, battered starship and his motley crew.

THE STAKES ARE ASTRONOMICAL
The lost fleet holds advanced research that could tip the balance of power in the galaxy. Whoever controls it will gain the ultimate edge in battle. With Corvus and his nemesis both converging on its location, the choices of a few will decide the fate of trillions.

The dark may drown 3 childhood friends in this relentless saga. From small town to galactic empire on the brink, destinies are forged, the fire of war grows, and an ancient force rises. “I like sci-fi space, military, aliens, the whole enchilada. Have been reading space sci-fi for 60+ years. This series is one to write home about.” – Amazon review

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

First contact on a Scottish island? Or something even more unbelievable? When Jake fetches up on the Isle of Elsay, he stumbles upon a secret that could change the world. This SciFi fantasy adventure “has got so much heart, you simply can’t resist being charmed. [It] manages to capture an essence of youth, absurdity and, most importantly, fun.”

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

Apollo, a human-alien hybrid with the otherworldly and unwelcomed ability to kill with a touch, is born and imprisoned in Area 51. A moment of skin-to-skin contact with Apollo instantly turns a person to ash—and creates a massive surge of energy that temporarily ignites other superhuman powers within him. Apollo’s government jailers look to study and exploit him, but he escapes as a teenager and, for a time, finds the simple joys of living as a human before his discovery and recapture.
When dark days threaten humanity’s future, will Apollo play the reluctant hero?
Combining the mystery of The X-Files, the action of Independence Day, and the humanity found in the Superman mythos all rolled into a riveting tale of loss, destiny, and the price of power. Is our protagonist a man, monster, or hero? Perhaps he’s all three?

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure