Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for October 30, 2020

I was innocent, and they called me a monster.

Maybe a monster is exactly what the earth needs. ​

My name is Sara Slick, and I was an average teenager. I worked hard. Followed the rules. Took care of my family. But normal dissolved the night that the hidden world of The Far showed up to accuse my dad of heinous crimes against the magical community.

To protect the ones I loved, I took the blame and the sentence of ten lifetimes in The Deep.

No human had ever been sent to this paranormal prison.

They didn’t think I’d last the night.

They couldn’t have been more wrong.

I survived by becoming the kind of human the magical world feared. Now, a decade later, I need to escape from hell before the home I sacrificed everything for meets its end at the hands of a maniacal, master wizard and his army of fanatics.

What’s one army against the heinous Sara Slick?

No one said escaping her bloodthirsty fated mate would be easy.

Half-fae half-wolf shifter Tavi Alderidge’s only chance to dodge a dangerous and disturbing arranged marriage is to attend the Fae Academy for Halflings. There’s just one problem: shifters aren’t allowed.
Her hope comes in the form of a potion to suppress her shifter half while she works to earn her ticket to Faerie, the cost steep but one she’s willing to pay for a chance to escape. However, surviving the Academy’s cullings meant to weed out the weak students isn’t all it’s cracked up to be when a murderer begins taking out the top students.
Soon, Tavi finds herself doing the one thing she swore she would never do: falling for another student. And when she discovers he’s the Crown Prince of Faerie, she realizes the one person she thought she could trust is the last person who can ever learn her secret.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

I’m Paige Harper and I clean up supernatural messes. But my personal life is something I can’t seem to straighten out.

I accidentally married a fae, and even though we’ve been divorced for years, Jax still manages to land me in hot water. Like, putting my house on the table at a high stakes poker game type of hot.

Now, he’s been arrested for murder and the cops want to pin a series of vampire killings on him. I don’t know if he did it or not. But I do know he needs to be at that poker game or else my house is gone.

In order to get Jax out, I turn to Nico, a one-eyed werewolf private detective, for help. Nico is a handsome, dangerous, ladies man and I have no intention of falling prey to his charms. Although, that’s easier said than done as the two of us begin crawling through the dirty underbelly of the supernatural world…

It’s a good thing I brought my broom.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

They thought this was just another salvage job. They thought wrong.

An AI overseer and a human crew arrive on a distant planet to salvage an ancient UN starship. The overseer is unhappy. The crew, well, they’re certainly no A-team. Not even a C-team on the best of days.

And worse? Urmahon Beta, the planet, is at the ass-end of nowhere. Everybody expects this to be a long, ugly, and thankless job.

Then it all goes disastrously wrong. What they thought was an uninhabited backwater turns out to be anything but empty. Megafauna roam the land, a rival crew with some terrifyingly high-powered gear haunts the dig site, and a secret that will change humanity forever is waiting in the darkness.

Stuck on this unmapped, hostile planet, lacking resources, and with tech built by the cheapest bidder, the salvage crew must engineer their way to payday…

Category: Science Fiction – First Contact

He’s out of shape… sort of misanthropic… and carrying his cat.

Rick Grimes he ain’t.

When the zompoc hits New Orleans, Joe has only one goal in mind: to reach his wife, Clare, who’s hopefully safe at her mother’s house, 80 miles away in Baton Rouge. To get there, he must battle through undead hordes and, worse, idiotic humans in the French Quarter, snag his tricked-out zombie-proof van, and haul ass down the zombie-infested highways and byways of southern Louisiana. With any luck, he’ll survive the mayhem, make it to Clare in time, and keep his disgruntled kitty, Azazel, alive.

Category: Science Fiction – Post-Apocalyptic

When a scientist running a $2 billion energy project is diagnosed with cancer, his company proposes cloning him as a way to maintain his life. Then, to ensure the produced clone is a perfect replica, the scientist will have to befriend and evaluate it. His verdict will determine which one will stay alive and which one will die.

Remaking Martin is an existential thriller as well as a story of enlightenment and awakening. For fans of such authors as Vonnegut, LeGuin, Atwood, Orwell, and likewise…

Category: Science Fiction – Genetic Engineering

Buried away for centuries, a forgotten magic lurks…waiting to return

They tell Unchosen, “Accept your fate and you’ll be rewarded in the next life.”
The threat of execution is their recourse.

Rejecting his role as an outcast, Brock risks his life and obtains a false rune, marking him a member of the Empire’s ruling class. Under a veil of deception and backed by natural talent, he then schemes his way into a school where the Empire’s future leaders are trained.
Can he maintain this charade?

Within an academy of magic, science, and combat, he discovers secrets kept from society, among which is a forbidden magic he is able to wield.
He is determined to tame his frightening new abilities. One misstep could destroy him.

Category: Fantasy – Epic

“A gripping sci-fi plot that spans a vast universe. Combining exciting adventure with political intrigue, the plot is fast paced and sprawling… [Imperial Knight] features strong writing…echoes classics like Dune…original and unique.”
– The BookLife Prize from Publishers Weekly

A THRILLING STANDALONE NOVEL IN A NEW SEQUENCE INSPIRED BY THE GALACTIC EMPIRES OF ASIMOV’S “FOUNDATION” AND FRANK HERBERT’S “DUNE”

ROBOTS, ALIEN WARS, TERRORISM AND IMPERIAL INTRIGUE IN THE FAR FUTURE!

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure