Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for October 11, 2026

At dawn and dusk, the open sky becomes a killing ground.
Power fails. Cities vanish. Strange phenomena burn anyone caught outside at the edges of daylight. With the radios silent, survivors learn the rules by watching people die.
Mike and Amelia O’Connell turn their secluded home into a refuge. Every newcomer brings another pair of hands—and another mouth to feed. For Mike, being needed offers a way back from the bottle. For Amelia, it means deciding whose safety she can afford to risk.
Nearby, Duggan gathers frightened survivors with promises of protection. Obedience is the price. As his following grows, the Hollow becomes something worth taking.
Keeping their children alive may mean teaching them to kill.

Bryen spent ten years fighting for his life in the Pit. But now he faces a new challenge. Bryen is compelled to become a Protector and charged with guarding the Lady of the Southern Marches. Some threats are known while others lurk in the shadows. Find out why fans call Peter Wacht’s stories “fun, diabolical, exciting, and a pleasure to read!”

As a paladin of the Dark Goddess, sworn to protect humanity against the Goddess’s evil sister the Bright One, Ginnevra has dedicated her life to fighting monsters, especially the werewolves who are the pinnacle of the evil goddess’s creation. But when a fatal confrontation seems to put her under the Goddess’s condemnation, Ginnevra must leave her paladin company to discover why.

Readers’ Favorite 5-Star Review Ryan Walker can see fragments of the future—and change them. But every alteration has consequences. When he witnesses a catastrophic event he cannot stop, Ryan must learn to live in the cataclysm he was powerless to change.

A broken-down freighter arrives at a dusty mining world. Brecca Vereen’s father reveals their smuggled cargo – a mysterious artifact. A hostile fleet darkens the sky. Brecca jumps into an escape pod and drops to the war-torn surface.

An explosive, standalone Elysia Dayne sapphic action fantasy short novel.

No good deed goes unpunished.

When a young, carefree Elysia Dayne first strode into Titan City, she never expected her goodwill would cost her everything. In a split second, she loosed a single arrow to save a peasant father and his young daughter by killing the leader of the Black Guard, the most feared criminal syndicate in the region. Luckily, she escaped with her tail between her legs.

Eighteen months later, after slaying a dragon in nearby Redwood Village, the now widely celebrated Azurian is invited back to Titan City by her spymaster friend, Kailin, to buy her a much-needed horse.

So, return to Titan she does. Unknown to her, a cunning and obsessive enemy has waited patiently in the shadows, hungry to destroy the Azurian once and for all.

Old blood debts are about to be paid in full.

Written by a Former Senior Intelligence Officer and Distinguished Fellow in Artificial Intelligence

A story told for the first time by anthropomorphized satellites in low Earth orbit

Munsell’s deep technical expertise in geospatial intelligence, remote sensing, computer vision, geodesy, and the ethical challenges of AI alignment provides The Shadow Ephemeris with a level of chilling authenticity that few others could achieve. Having led some of the world’s most critical artificial intelligence systems for the Department of War, his career has been spent directly at the intersection of automated logic and lethal consequence—giving him a profound, firsthand understanding.

Orphaned as a child and surviving as a thief on the streets, Kael has spent his life protecting himself and the forgotten children no one else will help. But when a forbidden flame awakens in his blood, he becomes the target of kings, priests, and ancient forces determined to control or destroy him. Branded Ashborn and hunted for a power he can barely contain, Kael must learn to master the fire within before it consumes him. As ancient towers awaken across the world and devils stir in the shadows, a cycle thought long dead begins anew.

Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery