Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for November 19, 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.
But 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.

First in a series: After the murders of her werewolf fiancé and her mentor, witch Jenna B. Good retires from the Department of Preternatural Affairs to run a shop selling magical artifacts. But when an assassin arrives in search of her apprentice, she returns to the fray to save Maya from a powerful vampire organization.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Still on the trail of the Tome of Time, novice Mage Jack Wartnose is confronted by another spectre of his past – Margaret Stormgale, his estranged & vengeful daughter. When she’s not hounding him with her razor-tongue wit, she’s hunting him with her mother’s razor-sharp spear!
But if grappling with the sins of his past wasn’t perilous enough, the disdainful eye of the Inquisition draws down upon him & his quest. And who should be at the tip of the Inquisition’s spear but yet another of Wartnose’s former “acquaintances.”
With all eyes bearing down upon him, can Jack Wartnose continue his quest for not only the Tome of Time, but for atonement? Or will he fall victim to one of the many foes set against him: his estranged daughter, a jilted Inquisition lover, his suspicious superiors at the Mage Council, a sinister figure now shadowing his quest for the tome, or his none-to-pleased wife?

Category: Christian Fantasy

As a novice Mage, Jack Wartnose’s life was already difficult enough. But when a chance encounter with his long-lost childhood sweetheart – and the consequences of his youthful wayward actions – leaves him duty-bound to fulfill a promise long since forgotten, he’s left with no choice but to take his fledgling family with him on his dangerous quest for the Tome of Time: a legendary artifact rumored to have started the last world-ending cataclysm.

As if his luck wasn’t bad enough, there are also revenant assassins from his past hunting him down. If his family hopes to stay together this time, they’ll need more than just quick wits and spells to survive bloodthirsty monsters, vengeful revenants, mutinous party members, the needs of his wife versus his empty coin purse, and a son unfortunately following in his wayward footsteps.

A hero with big expectations. A daughter who doesn’t want to live in his shadow.

Siti Kassis joins her father, the “Hero of Darenti Four,” on his last assignment: to find and explore the deserted homeworld of mankind. But what awaits them is beyond everyone’s expectations. Get the first three books in the CEC series.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

The 1st novel in the Claus Universe. The stories you never heard…

In the early 1800s, Nicholas Santa discovered an ancient race of elven.

Short, fat and hairy, they have lived peacefully on the North Pole since the Ice Age but Nicholas is quickly swept into the colony’s first and only fracture. The elven known as the Cold One has divided his people. His name is Jack. And Jack’s tired of hiding. Why should they live in a shrinking ice cap when humans occupy the rest of the world?

It’s just not fair.

There’s no stopping Jack from world domination until Nicholas Santa, the only human to enter the elven colony, joins helium-bladder reindeer, artificially-intelligent snowmen, and a merry band of big-footed elven to bring peace back to the North Pole.

And becomes a legend.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

The 2nd novel in the Claus Universe. The Jack Frost you never knew…

Sura is sixteen years old when she meets Mr. Frost.

He’s a strange man. Very short, very fat. And he likes his room cold. Some say inhumanly cold.

Mr. Frost’s love for Christmas is over-the-top and slightly psychotic. He’s made billions of dollars off the holiday and, according to Mr. Frost, a holiday he invented. Rumor is he’s an elven, but that’s silly. Elven aren’t real. And if they were, they wouldn’t be in South Carolina.

Sura takes a job at Frost Plantation that’s strange and magical and, for the first time in her life, a place where she feels like she belongs. She’ll uncover the mystery of what really happens at Frost Plantation and who’s making all the toys. She’ll discover the biggest secret of all—Mr. Frost hates Christmas.

Really, really hates it.

Time travel epic based on the concept music by ELO’s 1981 album called TIME. This is part 1 of a 10-episdoe series after completion. Currently has 4 episodes. 2095 is the story of Nick Devereaux and his daughter, Sephora, the military pilot and hero of the futuristic version of Space Force. A scifi odyssey that will blow you away with time travel action, heroics and high adventure!

Category: Science Fiction – Time Travel

What if Cinderella was a thief, the fairy godmother evil, and the prince only wanted to marry to get revenge?

Vanya turns to thievery to repay her debts to her stepfather. Her task? Steal the glass crown at the crown prince’s betrothal ball before midnight, and she’ll finally break free. But when he mistakes her for his missing bride–

“Unputdownable”
“So much more than a Cinderella retelling”
“A dark and twisted fairytale world”

A dual pov, enemies to lovers, mistaken identity, slow burn romantasy duology in the gothic City of Bones and Roses.

Category: Fantasy – Fairy Tales