Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for October 19, 2022

Jake Rogers, full-time grad student and haunted artifact collector in my spare time. That’s right, I’m a collector–even when that means collecting artifacts someone else currently owns.

I used to be a Sentinel, but after what happened to my brother, I just don’t have it in me anymore to monitor all the paranormal beings of the Underworld.

But then the killings start. Killings that shouldn’t be possible. Now the Police are on my case to solve the case before the magical murderer strikes again and reveals the Underworld to all the unsuspecting humans.

On top of it all, ghosts suddenly seem to have made it their sole mission to turn me into one.

Unfortunately for them, I’ve just ordered a few ice-cold cans of Whoop-Ass–and these phantoms are looking awful thirsty.

Jane Shackle is a young maid haunted by visions who is tapped to protect the queen by Fayte Guardians, a shadowy group of castle servants that claim a powerful ally from the fae realm.

But is she really hunting a killer, as she’s been told? Or is she merely a pawn in their plot?

Jane must use her wits and master her abilities—with help from a magical dragonfly—to uncover the truth, save the crown, and ultimately confront a devilish dark fae driven to destroy them all.

DRAGONFLY MAID is the start of a thrilling dark fantasy adventure series that weaves captivating magic and mystery into the hidden corners of history. If you like clever heroines, beastly villains, and a slow-burn romance tangled up in magical realms, then you’ll love this enchanting series from best-selling author D.D. Croix.

Category: Fantasy – Myths & Legends

Together, they are the keys to mankind’s original blueprint.
Apart, they must communicate through the pages of time.
Can their spirits rejoin in the physical realm and save humanity from oblivion?
A metaphysical and visionary tale of romantic suspense, and a journey of the alchemy of the soul.

“The unusual blend of romance and enlightenment creates a story that blossoms with inspiration and meaning. It’s especially recommended for spiritual readers who enjoy fictional accounts of journeys towards enlightenment.” – Midwest Book Review

“Spiritual, morally and emotionally complex ‘novels’ are exceptionally rare, but Ekstasis is just such one. If the thematic blend of love, reality, and spiritualism piques your interest, you will most likely love this massive work by Dugast.” -AuthorsReading.com

Category: Fantasy – Metaphysical & Visionary

BEHIND THE MASK OF DUTY AND POWER, NO ONE IS WHO THEY SEEM…
Centuries after the Forgotten Wars ravaged the world and turned it to ash, the Houses of Pilar, Darakai, Boreal, and Bastiion forged an accord with the royal line of Thoarne, founding a Quadren of advisory to the throne of Orynthia. Every generation, a single haidren from each of the four Houses is appointed to this coveted chair.

Upon her Ascension to adulthood, Luscia Tiergan takes her seat at court as al’haidren to the House of Boreal and is quickly drawn into a maze of political traps and dark secrets. As she adjusts to her new life, Luscia uncovers a pattern of forgotten children, slain in the streets of Bastiion.

Raised on superstitious rumors about Boreal’s penchant for sorcery, Zaethan Kasim, al’haidren to the House of Darakai, inevitably clashes with Luscia when she arrives in Bastiion. But when his position is

Category: Fantasy – Epic

When a starship from an Earth thought long dead appears in orbit over her ice-bound world, head peace officer Anya Savelova imagines an explosion of possible futures, offering her people alternatives to the hostile planet they’d believed was their last refuge. In the starship’s crew, Anya finds creativity, diversity, innovation-all things the colony has had to inhibit to survive.

Seeing her world through the eyes of the starship crew makes Anya look closer at her city’s inconsistencies, oddities she’s always been told to ignore. But the harder she pushes at the pieces that don’t fit, the more her government perceives the strangers as a threat. There are secrets in Novayarkha, hiding in plain sight, that the strangers can’t possibly understand-and Anya’s drive to uncover them risks shredding the fragile web holding together everything she’s ever known and loved.

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Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

These days, even the humans are built by robots.

Charlie7 is the progenitor of a mechanical race he built from the ashes of a dead world—Earth. He is a robot of leisure and idle political meddling—a retirement well-earned. Or he was, until a human girl named Eve was dropped in his lap.

Geneticists have restored Earth’s biome and begun repopulation. But primate cloning is in its infancy; human cloning is banned.

Far from a failed genetics experiment, Eve is brilliant, curious, and heartbreakingly naïve about her species’ history. But Eve’s creator wants her back and has a gruesome fate planned for her. There is only one robot qualified to protect her. For the first time in a thousand years, Charlie7 has a human race to protect.

A.I. didn’t destroy humanity.

It didn’t save us, either.

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Category: Science Fiction – Genetic Engineering

The year is 1944…

Seventeen-year-old Phee Swensson, a gifted pianist who lives in Algona, Iowa, is stressing about her senior year of high school while caring for her family after her mother’s death. When her pastor father takes her to visit the nearby prisoner of war camp, the last thing she expects to find is friendship with a German POW who shares her passion for music.

After she is recruited as the accompanist for the POW choir, Phee begins to spend more time with her new friend who she initially considers “the enemy.” But their friendship strengthens, and inevitably, they fall in love, a forbidden love. But Phee is a pastor’s daughter, and her conflicting feelings torment her. Can she set aside her conditioned beliefs and follow her heart? And if she does, what will be the result?

Category: Fantasy – Historical

A censured sorcerer is pulled out of retirement to investigate a possible world-ending emergence from the third Hunger and is forced to work with his ex-wife in the process.

Category: Dark Fantasy

An alien revolution, forged by a timeless legacy, threatens to stop mankind’s galactic expansion dead in its tracks…

Stefan Lattanzis never expected his planet to become a battlefield, but when researchers from Paludis share a scientific breakthrough with Earth, peace escalates to the brink of war in a hurry. Adding fuel to the fire, the local aliens have a mysterious and devastating agenda of their own, and a desperate human cult has its own plans to exploit the remarkable new technology.

To save his precious home world, Stefan must team with two strangers, a botanist and a mysterious seer. They must trust in each other to prevent newly-emerged forces from destroying Paludis and creating a dystopia from which they will never return. But how can they defeat the might of Earth?

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera