Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for May 4, 2021

What would you do if you found someone else’s personality abusing your mind? In Claire’s case, the decision is not for her to make. She has no choice but to look for the most powerful artifact in human history: Moses’ Biblical staff.

The staff is hidden in the Arabian Desert, but to find it Claire must race ruthless fanatics who want to get to it first.

Claire’s quest takes her around the globe and with the help of Dan Ze’evi, an Israeli engineer, she unravels the clues that lead to the staff.

Meanwhile, Dan must find a way to get rid of the usurper of Claire’s mind before it’s too late.

Treachery. Betrayal. Death. Peace takes a brutal toll on the world.

A generation after a savage civil war, Mata rules as Prince Regent. But the festering wounds of the past remain. The Realm’s ancient religion wanes. A new creed rises. Treacherous lords lurk in the shadows, waiting for an opportunity to strike.

The Realm’s uneasy peace shatters when a foolish young noble rides against Mata in open rebellion. The wearied ruler must once more rouse his old body to defend his family, his people, and his right to rule. But in the red mist of battle, Mata’s distinction between justice and evil blurs.

If he can push back the usurper, Mata will usher in a new era of peace. But if he fails, he will condemn his people to more vicious bloodshed.

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Category: Fantasy – Epic

In the aftermath of an interstellar war with an alien race, Captain James Drake is unjustly court martialed. But Drake won’t go down without a fight. Rather than surrender, he’ll lead his loyal crew into the frontier worlds to repair and rearm. Fighting the treacherous Lord Admiral Malthorne, Drake makes alliances with aliens and smugglers to clear his name and defeat treason in his beloved homeland.

The bestselling STARSHIP BLACKBEARD and SENTINEL series, now in a complete compilation for the first time, is 1,500 pages of space battles, alien wars, and interstellar politics.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

Flying at the helm of a powerful battle cruiser, former pirate Catarina Vargus leads a collection of colonists, miners, engineers, and navy personnel to establish an outpost far beyond the frontier. The Royal Navy needs a forward operating base in their war against the alien race known as Apex, who has vowed to exterminate all sentient life in the quarter.

Catarina’s expedition soon draws the attention of Scandian marauders, driven from their home worlds by plague and war in search of plunder. Enraged by the intrusion into their territory and greedy to seize her fleet and supplies, they mount a fleet of star wolves to destroy her base before it can get a toehold.

Star Wolf Super Box, now in a complete compilation for the first time, contains over 1,400 pages of space battles, alien wars, and interstellar politics.

*A PERFECT SERIES FOR STAR WARS FANS ON MAY THE 4TH*

The distant world of Haphez is located on the edge of populated space. The planet’s native superhuman race is feared and respected by neighboring civilizations. Their military and police forces are unmatched.

Haphezian operative Ziva Payvan is a skilled assassin who takes pride in her ability to leave the past in the past. When she’s forced to face the brother of a man she killed, her world is turned upside down. Aroska Tarbic is angry about his brother’s death and has spent two years waiting to exact his revenge. But when Ziva’s team uncovers a deadly plot that could put the entire Haphezian race in jeopardy, she and Aroska must set their differences aside in order to save their people…and maybe even each other.

Dakiti and its sequels are just 99¢ each from all retailers until May 31.

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Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

Two months have passed since the mission to Dakiti that brought Ziva Payvan and her special operations team face-to-face with death, and life has essentially returned to normal. But when a Haphezian dignitary is found murdered in his private residence, Ziva is shocked to find herself at the center of the investigation. The mark of a professional killer. The irrefutable evidence. Even the motive. All of it seems to point directly to her. There’s just one problem: she didn’t do it.

Hunted by a ruthless agency captain, Ziva must go on the run from the very people who taught her everything she knows. As a skilled assassin who has been trained to be invisible, evading her pursuers seems like an easy task, but her own skills can only take her so far. Desperate to clear her name and find the real killer, Ziva turns to the last person she ever planned on asking for help…

Homeless, hunted, and desperate to escape a bitter storm, Keira takes refuge in an abandoned groundskeeper’s cottage. Her new home is tucked away at the edge of a cemetery, surrounded on all sides by gravestones: some recent, some hundreds of years old, all suffering from neglect.

And in the darkness, she can hear the unquiet dead whispering.

The cemetery is alive with faint, spectral shapes, led by a woman who died before her time…and Keira, the only person who can see her, has become her new target. Determined to help put the ghost to rest, Keira digs into the spirit’s past life with the help of unlikely new friends, and discovers a history of deception, ill-fated love, and murder.

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

With the Bow of Hart in hand, Athson is hunted by his enemies. His mistakes haunt him as much as his past. Hastra the Withling reveals Eloch will send an arrow for the bow. But when the arrow arrives, it is from an unexpected source and lands in unforeseen hands. Events twist like an arrow in flight.

Category: Fantasy – Epic

Archibold Stormblood is the greatest hero in all of Visseria. He has spent his 221-year life training and fighting. But now that the Mad King is dead and the Demon Lord is defeated, all he wants is a well-deserved vacation living as a simple tavern keeper.

But despite his best efforts to avoid conflict, trouble keeps finding its way back into his life.

Will Arch be able to hide his true identity as The Stormblood and maintain his peaceful existence running the Tipsy Pelican Tavern? Or will he be sucked into the new dangers brewing around him?

Most troublingly, how will he protect himself now that his powers have been sealed away?

Category: Fantasy – New Adult & College

After spending her life bouncing around between foster homes, eighteen-year-old Sofia signs onto a new TV reality show in hopes of winning enough money to shed the “loser” foster kid stigma. But as Sofia and two fellow contestants, Zach and Liv, race to the finish line, it becomes clear the game show is rigged and the billionaire tycoon behind it only wants Liv. Before the three realize what’s going on, they are whisked away to Egypt, and Sofia and Zach find themselves with a mysterious man who claims to be an alien from the planet, Pleiades.
As Sofia and Zach search for Liv and struggle to distinguish friend from foe, truth from fiction, and alien from human, they come to realize this is no longer a game. But will they discover the true danger they’re in before it’s too late?

Category: Science Fiction – Alien Invasion

The 92-year-old Pope is Pregnant. Was it a medical intervention, self-cloning, mutation, Immaculate Conception, or Satan’s work?
In the year of Satan, 2066, the structure of the physical world is cracking, and inexplicable paranormal forces are interfering with humanity. Claire, Travis, and Prescott, the members of the Capuchin Trinity Team are tasked with uncovering the truth about this unusual case and resolving the mystery of whether the Pope is carrying the new Messiah or the Antichrist, and who did it. Their job is to go beyond the physical world into the mind and spiritual realm, discover a thousand-year-old connection, perform an exorcism, and fight the devil Zepar, while evading the villains who keep trying to assassinate them.

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban