Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for November 29, 2022

Chilling, dark fantasy with a heavy dose of Sherlock Holmes in this new series of twisty mysteries in fantasy worlds.

Pale moths haunt an icy frontier. Beneath the shadow of a drowned death god, a frozen body is unearthed from the snow.

Investigators arrive to a superstitious island to solve a brutal crime. Among them is a lowly slave desperate to prove her worth and a soldier with dark dreams. Neither are prepared for what they find.

Death City is a strange and violent frontier, and no one who survives comes back clean.
First though, Thora and Diem must survive.

Welcome to the Red Kingdom.

The Red Kingdom is a new series of dark mysteries in fantasy worlds that delve into a land of vicious crimes, strange lore and Purge House zealots.

The new girl is dark, mysterious, and morbid. Her strangeness and boney body make her an easy target. Yet everyone who bullies her ends up hurt or dead.
Augie can’t figure out why anyone would date her, but they do, and it never ends well for them. When she takes an interest in Augie, he finds himself stuck in a relationship he doesn’t want, and as far as he can tell, the only way out is death.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

The entire bestselling Extinction New Zealand trilogy.

Would you risk it all to save your family?

Living in New Zealand, Jack Gee thought he was safe. The beautiful, isolated country had always provided a sense of security. When a virus begins to spread across the globe he is on a hiking trip in the mountains, blissfully unaware. A desperate message from his wife Dee alerts him to the viral threat that turns humans into apex predators with one purpose–to kill.

The country collapses as Jack races to get home, and when he finally does make it out of the mountains he finds his peaceful life has been shattered. Banding with other survivors, they all must quickly learn how to survive in this new world.

In the fight stay alive, friendship and family will be tested and new alliances formed. But dangerous new enemies emerge in the war for the future of the country, and the world.

Category: Science Fiction – Post-Apocalyptic

Seattle native Matti Puletasi has the strength of a bear, the stamina of an ox, and a magical hammer left to her by her dwarven mother.

She’s happy renovating homes and occasionally thumping bad guys until she’s framed for murder. To complicate matters, there’s a mysterious artifact hidden under the house she’s working on, and everybody from humans to orcs to werewolves wants it.

The only person interested in helping her is a haughty elf assassin from another realm. He’s handsome, powerful, and deadly, but he’s got an agenda of his own. She dare not trust him—or be attracted to him.

But if she can’t clear her name, the assassin will be the least of her worries.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Ruby Palmer finds herself on an entire planet surrounded by the things she hates the most: robots. Besides taking everything she says way too literally, the robots have problems of their own. A myriad of technical glitches are, on the cosmological scale, quickly destroying them. Ruby has the programming knowledge and skills that matter to them, but can she overcome her fears and find it within herself to help? Her survival, along with the survival of all of humanity and robot kind, depends on it.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

Arraleen Caze’s rage knows no bounds. Quick to feed enemies to her pet panthers, the wealthy spymaster’s daughter is appalled when fools call for the destruction of her missing father’s land and the deaths of their people. So when her parent reappears, the arrogant assassin whisks him away from the impending carnage to plan their bloody revenge.

Gujun the Slayer’s options are rapidly shrinking. On the run after offing the vile emperor that hired him, the killers on his trail leave little room for rest. And with his hopes of an easy retirement now well out of reach, he has no qualms accepting a bounty for the infamous spymaster’s decapitation.

Escaping into neutral territory with her father in tow, Arraleen is incensed when they are double-crossed and given up to a powerful sorcerer. And the closer Gujun draws to his quarry, the more he wonders if he’s on the side of good or evil.

Category: Dark Fantasy

A story of courage, love, and determination. Kaylee’s dreams ended when the huge, furless Langons ordered her to marry Ralaf or work in the mine with the other disposable Cadorie. Kaylee runs away, searching for a mythical land called Freedom Hold, where Cadorie live free. But escaping isn’t enough. Kaylee intends to free her world.

One hundred twenty years ago, Langons invaded Cadorie. Although the League of Free Cadorie established an alien free zone called Freedom Hold, much of the world is under the thumb of the Langons. In the mining colonies, Cadorie are little more than slaves.

Kaylee meets Gillis, son of the head of the League of Free Cadorie. Together they plot to free their world. But that brings the wrath of the Langons down upon them.

Category: Science Fiction – Alien Invasion