Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for October 17, 2025

When Elara fled to the wilderness to raise her magically gifted daughter, she thought she had turned her back on the civilized world forever. With famine and pestilence plaguing the land, the most she dares to hope for is a lonely life on her homestead, protecting her daughter from the evil men who want to exploit her gifts.

But Elara knows that they cannot hide forever. She also knows that when the evil men find them, she’ll need help to protect her daughter from them. So when a grizzled and world-weary veteran wanders across their homestead, she opens up her heart and takes a chance on him, even though it means risking everything she has sacrificed and worked for.

With her gift for clairvoyance, her daughter foresees a time when hope will return to the land. But with the dark powers hunting her, which of them will live to see it?

When a nebulous cloud stops all electrical devices from working, the people of Seahaven know they are in trouble. They seek Nelson’s help, a retired engineer. Despite his reluctance, he helps the town survive but at the risk of losing his most precious treasure. Can he pull the town through the crisis, saving his family and self-respect?

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Category: Hard Science Fiction

The gods aren’t dead. They’re imprisoned. My job is to break them out… for a price.

A secret war rages in the hidden wilderness of our world. I’m Leonidas Rex—exiled heir and mind-magician—I manipulate human consciousness while living off the grid with my sharpshooting friend.

You would think a mind-reader might have seen the threat coming. I didn’t.

Now I’m blackmailed into a suicide mission: breach a prison guarded by treasure-obsessed djinn. With my childhood sweetheart at my side, I face an impossible choice. Free this prisoner and risk unleashing what he carries or fail and watch as the hidden world erupts into civil war.

Consequences? Certainly. Survival? Unlikely.

If you liked the worlds of Jim Butcher, Benedict Jacka, Shayne Silvers, RL King, Sarah J. Maas, Kevin Hearne, Steve McHugh, Michael Anderle, Ilona Andrews, Patricia Briggs, or Shannon Mayer check this one out!

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Scarred and cursed with the ability to recognize when dragons are near, Mina has no choice but to use her unique gift to serve a dragon-hunting lord… Will Mina risk everything to reclaim her freedom and discover a new destiny?

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Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

In the distant reaches of the Nexus system, humanity has carved out its place among the stars—but not without bloodshed. The United Terran Command (UTC) is locked in a brutal struggle against a growing rebel insurrection, each side desperate for control over the future of Earth’s interstellar empire. Then the impossible happens. A massive alien vessel —ancient, silent, and bristling with unknown technology—drifts into contested space. No life signs. No power. No explanation. DERELICT is the explosive first entry in a gripping military sci-fi series packed with high-stakes combat, alien battles, and edge-of-your-seat suspense with cliffhanger endings!

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Category: Science Fiction – Military

Red Rising meets Hunger Games in space. Onboard a long lost, ring-shaped colony spaceship, a repressive order rules the seven sections of the massive ship, each with an earth-modelled ecosystem. Simon, the son of a propagandist for the Order of Higher Angels, is wrongfully convicted of a crime and sentenced to death – or he may compete in the “Ascent of Angels.” He will do so as part of The Fallen; a team made up of criminals and outcasts. But the competition, supposedly a demonstration of the ship’s meritocracy in choosing new participants in the ruling class, is rigged. And The Fallen are meant to die in the first round as a demonstration to the Gen Pops that deviance leads to destruction.

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

In the small-town quiet of Gryphon, Alabama, Murphy Blackwell keeps the world at bay. Wards wrap her old Victorian house like iron chains, holding back the power she can’t control. A chaos witch doesn’t get second chances—and Murphy already knows what happens when she slips.

As secrets about her magic unravel, Murphy discovers the high priestess who raised her may not have told her the whole truth. And the more she learns, the less certain she is of where the chaos ends—or if the town of Gryphon will survive it.

The chaos was only the start of the disaster to come.

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Blessed with a magic she doesn’t understand, Ukrah must find her way in a world that doesn’t always embrace her and her gifts. Accompanied by a talking bird and a strange young man who took her in, she must find the legendary dragon rider who saved the world from the Blight. Can Ukrah escape from those who would enslave her, or worse, and find the only person who can help her realize her destiny?

Category: Fantasy – Anthologies & Short Stories

A false god rules the world. A fallen archangel has lost his wings. And a faithless girl is caught between them.

In a futuristic dystopia where technology and divinity blur, Lucifer has risen—not as a demon, but as a biotech mogul manipulating humanity from the shadows. He controls everything.
But a prophecy speaks of a challenger.
Michael, a once-powerful archangel, has escaped decades of imprisonment, but without his wings, he is lost. Sixteen-year-old Cydney, stolen at birth and raised under Lucifer’s control, is desperate to break free—but the secrets hidden in her past may decide the fate of Heaven itself.
With war looming between celestial forces and mankind, their choices will determine who ascends, who falls, and whether Heaven will ever be reclaimed

Category: Fantasy – Myths & Legends

Vera DeSoto runs a cafe in Marfa, Texas in 1968. The cowboys and truckers who come in hope for a chance with her, but she enjoys living alone and isn’t ready to settle down with anyone.

Vera collects strays—wayward people looking for second chances. A 14-year-old girl, two hippie boys, and a young artist find their way into her life and suddenly, Vera is joining them in a search for buried treasure in the badlands of Southwest Texas. Each will discover what finding treasure really means.

Egenes gives us a mismatched group of characters that explores themes of family and redemption, with varying interpretations of “treasure”. Offbeat and character-driven, we’re taken from hippie culture to desert adventure, with giant cloned cows and a psychic raven, as the novel balances whimsy with real emotional stakes.

Author of the award-winning “Man & Horse: The Long Ride Across America”.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure