Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for November 8, 2018

Astrid assumed all dragons should be killed – until she met one that changed her mind.

In the medieval Northlands, a dangerous family seeks power.
They slaughter all who get in their way.

Children’s rhymes hint at what’s to come, but no one recognizes the danger at hand.

Astrid doesn’t know she holds the key to this power.
She’s just a blacksmith who makes swords for dragonslayers.

But Astrid has a dark secret …
A dragon once chewed her up and spit her out.

She hides the old scars covering her body through shapeshifting.

But the time for hiding is over.

Two thousand years ago, the Sorrow Bringer destroyed the First World. Now, She stirs once more, and Her armies answer Her call.

Into this world is born Rukh Shektan, a peerless young warrior who has trained since birth in the way of the sword. But to defend his home against the Sorrow Bringer, he will require more than just mastery of the blade. Rukh must instead master his terrifying new Talents, abilities others name evil but which may also be the only means to save his world.

. . . a story that’s fundamentally an Eastern epic . . . it totally reminded me of Brandon Sanderson’s The Stormlight Archive.
Geekritique

Category: Fantasy – Epic

Welcome to Ordshaw. Don’t look down.

Pax is one rent cheque away from the unforgiving streets of Ordshaw. After her stash is stolen, her hunt for the thief unearths a book of nightmares and a string of killers, and she stands to lose much more than her home.

There’s something lurking under her city.

Knowing it’s there could get you killed.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

A supervillainous tale of grief, rage, guilt, and violence. Also, of humanity rediscovered.

For more than two decades, the sight of Doctor Fid’s powered armor has struck terror into the hearts of hero and civilian alike. But when a personal tragedy motivates Doctor Fid to investigate a crime, a plot is uncovered so horrific that even he is taken aback.

Haunted by painful memories and profound guilt, the veteran supervillain must race against time if he is to have any hope of confronting the approaching threat. Every battle takes its toll…but the stakes are too high for retreat to be an option.

In the end, it may take a villain to save the world from those entrusted with the world’s protection.

Fid’s Crusade has been selected as a finalist for the 2018 BookLife Prize.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

Everyone heard the UFOs arrive.
Some thought the noises in the sky were jets.
Others thought it was thunder.
Only one person knew the truth.
Giant islands in the sky, hovering over the tiny California town.

Everybody feared what would happen next. They had good reason.

Terrible beams, red and green. Birds falling from the sky. People’s lives thrown into chaos as the town’s darkest secrets are revealed.

Murder, death, destruction.

Then the vanishings.

The town is destroyed.

Out of the carnage, a handful of survivors emerge. A sheriff desperate to protect. A traumatized ten-year-old boy and his black Labrador. A feisty redheaded girl with an attitude.

Can they find safety?

Can they figure out what this advanced alien race wants?

Can they get their people, and their planet, back?

Category: Science Fiction – Alien Invasion

War rages between the Confederation and the Union. Shattered fleets watch each other warily across a war torn frontier. Both sides are licking their wounds, gathering strength to continue the fight. Captain Tyler Barron and the crew of Dauntless are finally enjoying the rest they’ve earned while their aging battleship Dauntless gets the repairs and refit it desperately needs. But their respite will be short-lived: in the Badlands, deep in the haunted vastness of pre-Cataclysmic space, a new discovery threatens to upset the balance of power.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

Meet Alice. Private Investigator of the Supernatural.
The first time Moses Murphy’s granddaughter killed on his orders, she was six years old.

For twenty years, she was a prisoner of an organized crime syndicate, forced to use her magic to make Moses the most powerful and feared man on the East Coast. To escape his cruelty, she faked her own death and started a new life as Alice Worth. As a private investigator specializing in cases involving the supernatural, Alice walks a precarious line between atoning for the sins of her grandfather’s cabal and keeping her true identity hidden.

Hired to investigate the disappearance of a mysterious object of power, Alice enlists the help of Malcolm, a ghost running from a past as nightmarish as her own. It soon becomes clear the missing object was taken by someone with a dangerous secret and an unknown agenda.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban