Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for May 31, 2023

Fraud. Lies. Deceit.

It was everything that Princess Andrea’s life was built on when she finds out she was not the King and Queen’s legitimate daughter.

A warrior to the bone, she demands to ride across the kingdom and retrieve the real heir, determined to make sure he has what it takes to rule a kingdom.

But things go wrong as she and the troop of soldiers sent to protect him get decimated by assassins. Now it’s up to Andrea alone to protect Prince Gavin in the journey to the palace. However, he seems just as determined to avoid the throne as she is to get him on it, and the kingdom is no longer the same as when she left it.

With a grand cast of characters weaving the story together, King’s Imitation is a spell-binding read that will leave you on the edge of your seat, keeping the pages turning until you devour every last word.

Solace may seem like just another sleepy town, but the easily forgotten community is a haven for vampires, witches, werewolves, and other supernatural outcasts. Little can newcomer Eloise imagine the secrets the locals are desperate to protect…

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

In a world of greed, gods, and monsters, paladins are chosen to do what no mortal human can. Granted divine attributes of their chosen deity, they protect the broken fragments of human civilization from any and all threats. Often from necromancers, those born with the ability to speak with and raise the dead. Such a power inevitably corrupts and turns each and every necromancer evil.

Right?

Jinua has just received her first assignment as paladin: to execute a necromancer terrorizing a small town with an undead army. But what should be a straight-forward mission turns complicated when another necromancer reveals himself as an ally, flying in the face of everything Jinua’s ever heard about his kind. Can she trust him to help her on her quest, or is he an even greater threat?

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Category: Fantasy – Epic

When a dragon bulldozes through a portal and into the grounds of her Texas school, Ophelia Monroe can barely believe her eyes. Dragons and magic are just fairy tales, right?

Then the dragon bonds with her to spite a Fae prince, and suddenly Ophelia is dragged into a different realm: a world of Fae intrigue and deception where, as Prince Corrin informs her, her dragon bond has made her Queen of the Fae.

His Queen.

Ophelia’s always wanted to make a difference, but nothing could have prepared her for magical powers she can’t control, a dragon’s voice in her head, and subjects protesting her right to be queen. Or the infuriatingly handsome Fae prince who won’t leave her side.

Now Ophelia must validate her claim to the throne by traveling throughout the magical realm, accompanied by Prince Corrin. But the journey reveals danger and a dark secret lurking in Charassi…

Category: Fantasy – Myths & Legends

Finalist in the Readers’ Favorite 2018 International Book Awards.
Winner Top Shelf Awards 2020
Book Excellence Awards Finalist
N.N. Light’s Book Heaven Award 2023

At the edge of humanity’s reach, a small planet finds itself at war…

When scientists from Paludis share a technological breakthrough with Mother Earth, peace swiftly turns into deadly conflict. The local aliens, downtrodden for centuries, seize their chance, and a desperate human cult plans a mysterious agenda of its own.

Law enforcement officer Stefan Lattanzis must team with two strangers, a botanist and a mysterious seer, and combat the malevolent forces that threaten to destroy their home world. Not only must they battle a power-hungry Paludis leader seeking world domination at any cost, they must also find a way to defeat the military might of Earth.

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Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

They hacked her brother’s brain.

Then sent him into the simulation.

Sky must now get to him first… the future of reality is at stake.

“An absolute blockbuster of a tale…”
-Pikasho Deka for Readers’ Favorite – 5 stars

Earth’s ecological collapse is avoided when most of the world population agrees to permanently upload into a simulated reality called Replika. But the stability of the system is threatened when a group of neuroscientists hack their brains to interact with the simulations in unforeseen and dangerous ways.

Sky devotes her life to rebuilding the real world left in the shadows of Replika. But when she learns her brother, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances. She must find him first, the future of reality is counting on her.

Don’t miss this edge of your seat and thought-provoking cyber thriller.

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Category: Hard Science Fiction

Young Feldregor “Slaga” Boyden is a mim, a military indentured man, in a backwater army post in Stheara. As he and his friend Floort try to pawn a mysterious watch, he learns painfully that he was born with a condition called sharna macha, in which contact with magic makes him violently ill, but can’t kill him. Just as Floort is about to be unjustly hanged, the fort is attacked by a fierce band of uplanders and something more sinister: a wizard storm controlled by a powerful, unseen mage. Slaga escapes with Floort and a former enemy, Major Dietrick. They go in search of Bill Skye, the Master Witch Warden. He alone can train Slaga to tame the sharna macha and turn it to his advantage. On the road they encounter bandits, dodge cavalry and bounty hunters, meet a wayward airship and more, while Slaga learns what he can do to magic and what magic can do to him.

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

NEW RELEASE (Appropriate for ages 13 and older)

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Abandoned by his derelict father, a grieving boy moves from Florida to his grandparents’ farm in Upstate South Carolina. There, he rediscovers his passion for life in a most unexpected place—a magical world hidden deep in the forest.

In the real world, Charlie is a nerdy 13-year-old picked on by bullies at his new school. But in the fantasy world, he becomes a wizard who wields high magic.

Eventually, reality and fantasy blend into one.

“Dark Circles” is an adventure of epic scope. Only those with a hero’s heart will dare to stand at Charlie’s side as he battles fantastical monsters led by an evil being of immense power.

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age