Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for October 25, 2020

In a world ravaged by endless cold, Nandor, a gruff nomad from the wildlands, stands to oppose the high lords and ladies of the clockwork cities. Civilization is on the brink of starvation, and its rulers would rather bicker over coin than save their subjects.
An impulsive mystic reluctantly joins Nandor on his desperate quest to bring sanity to the realms. Together, they recruit the haphazard company of a mangy mutt, and a psychopathic Jack-Bot tormented by its human soul.
Duels of fire, clashes of swords, and an uncertain battle await them.
For who can stop a war when the scent of blood is already in the air?

A 97-YEAR-OLD FORTUNE-TELLER DISCOVERS THE MAGIC TO BE YOUNG AND LIVE FOREVER. DIMA, the illegitimate granddaughter of Catherine the Great, is doomed to live in poverty until she steals the four Starostavne Books of Magical Spells, Potions, and Enchantments. Years later in Los Angeles, Dima’s wild, teenage daughter resents a 112-year-old mother who can shapeshift into the same age as she. MEDEA loathes Dima, who loves her 17 cats more than she does her rebellious daughter. Medea despises a mother who claims all witchcraft as her magic and treats her daughter like a slave. In secret, Medea develops her own sorcery.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

The Tie Between Two Powerful Sisters is Tested when Secrets, Lies and Magic is Revealed.

Medea turns into a cat at night, due to her mother’s curse. Her mother, Dima, has a shapeshifting stone. Dima is 130-years-old but appears to be 18, nearly the same age as her two daughters. Nikki works as a maid, rather than in the family witchcraft business of fortune-telling, seances, and other witchery-for-hire. She was born a Marilyn-Monroe lookalike. Despite her beauty, jealousy eats away at Nikki because her mother and sister have magic. Nor is Nikki allowed near the books of spells, enchantments, and potions Dima stole from Russian monks.

Medea is tortured by a secret that can destroy the sisterly tie between her and Nikki. Unknown to her family, Nikki, is developing a magical gift which she cannot control, a sorcery that will threaten Medea and pit the sisters against each other.

Four wolf shifters. Four swashbuckling adventures. Four journeys of fantasy and romance.

Wolf’s Bane: Mai Fairchild will do anything to protect her sister—even if it means accepting a dangerous job with a werewolf who would kill her if he knew her true form.

Wolf Dreams: Olivia has hidden her darker side ever since biting through the lip of her first date. Fourteen years later, her dream of being an archaeologist is unlocked…but her darker side wants out.

Moon Stalked: Honor wraps herself in her pelt to shift to wolf form. But when her cousin’s pelt is stolen, she must team up with her greatest enemy to get it back.

Paradigm Shift: While scouting his new territory, a 15-year-old alpha discovers strange scents wafting up out of a hole in the ground. Are there vampires lurking beneath his turf?

Dive into four tales of bestselling urban fantasy in this series-starter variety pack!

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

There’s no twelve-step program for recovering psychics, but Detroit mechanic Sydney Hoven has been working hard on her supernatural sobriety. Too bad Hell didn’t get the memo.

When Syd meets Devon on her first night back out, she doesn’t have to be psychic to see ‘really bad idea’ written all over his stunningly gorgeous face. He says an Archangel wants her protected. But why?

When one of Lucifer’s lieutenants is sent to kill Sydney, the demon might be too strong for even Devon and the angelic forces he represents. With no true allies, Syd must stand on her own, destroy the demon, and claim her power. Otherwise, staying supernaturally sober might just kill her.

Pledge of Ashes is the first book in the Rise romantic urban fantasy series that features angels and demons, men who have no business looking that good, and a heroine who is learning to wield incredible power.

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Syd Hoven inherited an angelic army. Too bad she has no idea how to lead her soldiers. When the Archangel was in charge, the soldiers had access to all the power they needed to fight Hell’s creatures. Now? Not so much. The power is still there, locked away, but it didn’t come with an angelic decoder ring.

Two of her soldiers have encountered an unknown enemy their weapons can’t kill, and Syd is delivered an ultimatum: give up control of the Guardian Army or watch all her soldiers die.

To defeat the enemy, Syd must figure out how unlock the power of the Pledge and become the captain her soldiers need. But to do it, her own life might the one to be destroyed.

Curse of Ashes is the second book in the Rise romantic urban fantasy series that features angels and demons, men who have no business looking that good, and a heroine learning to wield incredible power.

Save a planet. Sacrifice your future.

For Aurora Hawke, protecting the secret of her half-human heritage has been a lifelong challenge. Taking command of her own starship and the best crew in the quadrant has been her dream. Failing at both is her nightmare.

But the survival of a planet may depend on it.

With millions of lives at risk, she’ll do whatever it takes, even if revealing her unique abilities means spending the rest of her life on the run.

If you like pulse-pounding interstellar adventures, intriguing alien encounters, and otherworldly starships, you’ll love The Dark of Light. Perfect for fans of Star Trek Voyager and The Next Generation. Pick up your copy today!

Category: Science Fiction – Metaphysical & Visionary

Not all cages have bars.

For Captain Aurora Hawke, becoming the de facto leader of an entire race wasn’t part of her plan. Neither was lying to the Galactic Council. Or hiding three hundred refugees on a forbidden planet.

But she’s not about to back down.

Sworn to secrecy, she must use every resource at her disposal to keep one step ahead of a vengeful enemy. She just never expected the threat to become personal…

If you like galactic intrigue, exotic alien worlds, and gripping space battles, you’ll love The Chains of Freedom.

Xander runs a fighting dome with his uncle on the colonized Planet Desra. The fighters are all female and they are all prisoners, purchased from the vile rat-like aliens the Taraquets, who transport them to the prison planet Prismn. They have two choices, either go straight to Prismn and see out their sentences or be sold to Xander, to fight in his dome for their freedom.
Fenolla wakes up on a new planet surrounded by a multitude of aliens, and none of them speak her language – but that is not the biggest surprise. The biggest shock is that she’s being held prisoner by a 7 ft white haired blue alien with a rattling tail, skin bumps that raise with his temper and body bone blades.
He wasn’t the one to abduct her but he sees potential in her to help him get the dome off his uncle.
Will her attraction to her capturer get in the way of her bid for freedom? Will she want to leave?

Captain Iza Sundari comes from nothing, but she’s fought to carve out a life for herself and her eclectic crew. When she discovers a mysterious artifact hidden on her new cargo ship, Iza is caught in a political power-play threatening the Taran Empire. With enemies at every turn, she must risk everything to fight for her freedom.

Set in the internationally bestselling Cadicle space opera universe, the standalone Verity Chronicles series is perfect for fans of Firefly, Dark Matter, and classic space adventure. .

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

Rika and her Marauders have taken control of the Genevia System and reestablished their people’s independence—but the Nietzschean Empire will not give up easily, and forces are already aligned against her.

Battles of a different sort now loom, and if Rika wants to guide her people forward, she’ll need to officially accept the mantle of responsibility.

So long as she can rise to the challenge amidst the war that still rages against Nietzschea….

Category: Science Fiction – Military