Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for May 8, 2023

An ordinary girl. A rare power. A deadly game.
Lie low.
Don’t draw attention to yourself.
Fifteen-year-old Asha Olinger has abided by her sister’s rules her entire life. Every day, she works relentlessly as a cleaner to put food on the table, scrambling in the dredges of Althuria. Every day, she wonders about a life where she no longer struggles for a few measly coins. After discovering she wields a rare and destructive power, her quiet life is turned upside down. What is this darned ability of hers? Why does everyone keep telling her to stay away from the Queen of Althuria? And more importantly…
Who the heck is murdering girls at the Academy?
If she doesn’t find out soon… she might just be next.
Designed to thrill with its magic, mystery, and murder, Smoke and Spells is the first installment in the Althuria Chronicles coming-of-age fantasy series.

She controls the seas. Her sister controls the flames.

Together, they rule as god-queens over their island nation. No mortal army can stand against their power. But what happens when civil war erupts between these goddesses?

Namaka turns the fury of the sea on her sister, wreaking untold devastation on the land and under the sea, earning the ire of the mer kingdoms.

Their answer: turn Namaka into one of them. Possessed by a mermaid spirit, she is drawn into battles in their alien world.

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Category: Fantasy – Myths & Legends

Requiem. A forbidden word. The name of a lost kingdom, the homeland of dragons. Yet there are some who remember Requiem, who will fight to see it rise again . . .

This bundle includes all three novels in Requiem for Dragons, an epic fantasy trilogy about myth, memory, and dragonfire.

BOOK 1: DRAGONS LOST — The kingdom of dragons is all but forgotten. The Cured Temple now rules over the ashes of that lost realm. Yet some still carry the dragon magic. Some still whisper the forbidden word: “Requiem…”

BOOK 2: DRAGONS REBORN — The last dragons in the world, only a handful of souls, bind together. They fly again. They fight the Cured Temple. They cry out in the open sky: “Remember Requiem!”

BOOK 3: DRAGONS RISING — The Cured Temple’s armies swarm across land, sea, and sky. The world’s last dragons fly to face them… vowing to defeat the Temple and see Requiem rise again.

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Category: Fantasy – Epic

**An action-packed sci-fi thriller! Dakiti and its sequels are just 99¢ each until May 31**

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 team up with 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 long enough to save their people…and maybe even each other.

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Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

In the future, you can become anyone else.

All it takes is an injectable bead that dissolves within a few hours. In the meantime, you can walk around in another person’s skin, see through their eyes…and kill with their hands.

When Ray Thomas is hired to find the daughter of his sworn enemy, the private detective soon learns there’s more to the illegal bio-implant technology known as proxy than body-swapping.

Proxy dealer Elijah wants to know who’s trying to kill him, and how it’s connected to a new kind of proxy that’s hit the streets.

What they each discover on the streets of a near-future London crippled by multiple pandemics has the potential to change the course of civilisation…so long as they can stop the wrong people from getting their hands on it first.

Cyberpunk-laced future noir from the author of Stealing Light, Extinction Game and Echogenesis.

Category: Science Fiction – Cyberpunk

Damien Flynn, once a conscientious politician, is now facing execution for supporting the cause of an oppressed people, the Ricchans. Betrayed by his peers, Damien now understands that while bleeding hearts don’t make for good politics, he values his convictions more than ever. And those convictions have clashed against those held by the only world he’s ever known, leaving Damien forced to make a choice between his past and his future—a decision he figures he’ll never have to make. After all, the future is a luxury that dead men rarely enjoy.

But when Victoria Montgomery, the reluctant leader of an army consisting of little more than ragtag criminals and vagrants, realizes that she needs a catalyst to bring about the full-scale rebellion her people need to flourish, Damien’s fortunes change.

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Category: Fantasy – Historical

In times of revolution, the cost of war is paid by both the tyrant and the terrorized, those fighting for freedom and those whose ambitions exceed their morals. When Damien Flynn is forced to reckon with cruelty committed in the name of justice, he sees the lines blurring even further between the two factions.

What began as a revolt pitting oppressed Ricchans against despotic Braitons has evolved into a voracious storm that threatens peace the globally Aspiring conquerors, greedy opportunists, and desperate souls all rush in to profit from the chaos of war, creating more problems for Damien and the Ricchans than they ever bargained for.

Damien isn’t the only one who’s struggling with the cost of war; Victoria Montgomery, the de facto leader of the Ricchan revolt, confronts the consequences of her actions and finds that they’ve cost her not only the love of her life but also her wil