Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for October 18, 2016

In 2021, a worldwide Competition of seven billion people — every man, woman and child on earth — begins. In strange…often comic…sometimes frightening…ultimately lethal Events, participants battle against each other.
M would love to give up. After 300 years of desperately trying to survive the crazy, always surreal Events, he is finally done. The only thing that has sustained him until now is the dream of being reunited with his beloved wife and two young children, whom he hasn’t seen since the Competition unexpectedly began. But slowly he has come to realize this is pure fantasy.
Now in his 45th Q&A Event, he is ready to give the wrong answer to the random, obscure question and take a dive.
But then Jonathan appears. A stranger, who’s really not a stranger at all, prevents M’s fatal exit from the Competition. Jonathan’s relationship to M began long before the start of the Competition.

Private investigator RB Kendrick makes her living nailing cheating spouses, digging up other dirt to help in a divorce, finding long-lost relatives, and occasionally sniffing out criminal activity and fraud.

When she takes a job to find a missing girl, she has no idea she is headed for the most dangerous case of her career. Usually, her ability to read minds gives her an edge. But when the people she’s hunting are also telepaths, that advantage is limited.

The search takes her into the dark underbelly of telepathic society, where anything, and anyone, is for sale. She discovers that telepathic women and girls are being trafficked as the ultimate sex slaves.

With people trying to kill her, she’s on the run, not knowing who she can trust. Will she find the missing girl, or become a victim herself?

Category: Science Fiction – Metaphysical & Visionary

When Librarian Liberty Cutter’s library goes up in flames, the town relocates the library to an abandoned academy. Liberty feels eyes watching her from the derelict structure’s gothic windows, but never imagines the truth is stranger than fiction – until she meets a talking dog.

The dog tells her a pack of book-burning werewolves cursed the building. Plus, beneath the library an ancient race of dog-shifters work to protect the world’s knowledge. Funded by internet giant Zoogle, these dog-shifting scholars enjoy their Starbarks coffeehouse as they research their way to freedom. Until the public library’s zany librarians move in…and things begin to shift.

Werewolf restauranteur Sybilla itches to become pack alpha and stoops to adding wolfsbane to her husband’s tea and using werewolf genre readers to infiltrate Liberty’s library.

Chronus, the Old English Sheepdog headmaster, must persuade Liberty to believe in him and his world because Liberty holds the key to the dog-shifters’ freedom – and his heart.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

When ruggedly handsome English Mastiff Cynerik discovers an ancient Ohio mound that may hold answers to their dog-shifter history, he teams up with Chocolate Labrador Retriever Library Director Godiva Anglesey to prevent power-hungry werewolves from slicing off their mound to build a golf course.

While sexy cowboy wolf Blaze tries to blow up the mound and tempt Diva from her dead end crush, werewolf alpha Sybilla challenges Diva to a Survival Test, Quadrathlon, and cook-off. Busy running her library, she has her hands full with a terrorist book-worm infestation and Sybilla’s attempts to censor anthropomorphic books. And just when things couldn’t get any worse, Diva learns family tradition dictates she marry by Summer Solstice… to a Druid.

Diva and Cyn must work together to defeat the wolves to save their libraries. And protect the most important archeological site in dog-shifter history – and, just maybe, find love.

Thousands of years after the jewelry’s destroyed, the sword reforged, the dragon ridden, and the indecipherable prophecy translated into a recipe for sugared biscuits, the dwarves turned to that final frontier: space. And along came the elves, orcs, gnomes, trolls, ogres, and those vermin-like upstarts, humans.

Dwarves in Space is Tolkien merged with Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in a horrific transporter accident.

The Elation-Cru is not the flashiest ship, nor the newest, or even has all of its bolts attached; but she can fly. Well, sort of wade through space, and that’s when all the parts are working. She supports a sugar addicted dwarven pilot, an elven engineer, an orcish doctor, a silent djinn, and the lone human trying to hold the entire thing together with duct tape. Variel, the captain, has been hiding from a secret for the past five years and time’s finally run out.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure