Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for October 9, 2017

Madison is a smart and witty teen who wants what any teenager wants – to fit in and be accepted. Everything changes the summer before her junior year of high school when her first kiss triggers powers she can’t control, almost killing the unsuspecting boy.

She discovers she is a Berserker, a powerful being chosen to guard the world from ancient creatures brought into our world by magic. These creatures cause destruction and death, but cannot be killed. Only a Berserker’s life-blood can bind or release them. One of the ancient creatures is free and needs Madison’s blood to free another. Instead of being a normal teen, Madison must now work with the Berserkers to master her powers and bind the creature before it kills her.

Oh, and if that weren’t bad enough, it turns out she is the first female Berserker since, well – ever.

Femme fatale turns hard-boiled investigator in this first Eva Thorne novel. Set in a fantasy world where magic and machines can’t stand against the God of Death, humans are on the run from the god’s invasion.

When Eva’s brother is murdered in a city of rude elves and matriarchal dwarves where humans have no rights, she is forced to investigate the crime herself. What she discovers brings her up against a powerful slave-trading cartel, dark gods, and—worst of all—her twin sister. Both her family and the elven authorities want her hushed. She has no money and no magic of her own with which to combat them, but she does have an illegally-freed slave, a senile nanny, and an ex-almost-boyfriend on her side. Even when she nearly loses her job and almost loses her head in a sword fight on the same night, she isn’t deterred. It’s when the nanny goes missing that she really starts to worry.

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Category: Science Fiction – Steampunk

The first real case femme fatale turned private eye, Eva Thorne, has had in months may be more than she can handle. King Rutgard has been kidnapped, only he’s not entirely alive, which makes finding him difficult. What’s more, dwarf men are joining the suffragist movement in droves to win freedom from the matriarchy, and there’s a werewolf terrorist in town causing chaos. Eva needs a case like this to make her reputation, but she has problems of her own. Dark magic is rising in her, the Thorne legacy, and she can’t control it. She has to find a way or risk imprisonment by the jackbooted elf soldiers who are cracking down on illegal necromancy and worship of the Dead God. Worse, the God of Death wants her soul, as does her twin sister, so Eva denies her magic and hides from her family. But some things are impossible to hide from, like the tax collector.

Aggie Anders moves to a deserted homestead cabin in southern Indiana’s Coon Hollow Coven. Although she’s a sun witch from a different coven, what locals say about the Hollow confuses her—witchcraft there lives & breathes through souls of the dead.

At the coven’s Halloween house, she makes friends, especially with sexy, new High Priest Logan. But living there also brings enemies who warn her the homestead is cursed. Local witches, practicing black magic, use evil to drive Aggie and her unusual powers away.

Determined to stay, Aggie learns not only that the cabin is cursed, but she alone is destined to break the curse before Samhain. If she fails, neither the living nor the dead will be safe.

ALL THE COON HOLLOW COVEN TALES NOVELS CAN BE READ AS STAND ALONE BOOKS.

Category: Fantasy – Myths & Legends

On the first morning of quilt artist Garland Durrell’s new life on Cape Cod after a painful divorce, she finds a man and a small boy washed up on the beach, both badly wounded. Garland takes on the care of the mysterious pair who don’t seem to remember what happened to them.

Alasdair does remember. He and his son are the last of the Cape’s ruling family of selkies, locked in a struggle with an ancient evil. He’s not sure if he can trust Garland until he touches one of her quilts and feels the magic she’s sewn into it.

But the evil entity that left Alasdair for dead quickly senses both his presence and Garland’s magic, and is determined to destroy one and possess the other. Only Garland and her quilts can save them all from destruction—if she can avoid being destroyed first.

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Timurud must protect weak and powerless civilizations against ferocious galactic empires. His first mission is to defend the peaceful and unarmed Sferogyl race against the Maggotroll Empire, warlike hominids who come to enslave the Sferogyls and capture their planet.
Fighting is the only solution to stay free, but the Sferogyls have no space warships. How will Timurud help them out?

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Category: Science Fiction – Galactic Empire

Never reap a harvest sown with blood.

150 years ago, in Haven, Kansas, a witch was burned at the stake. This October, in Haven, Kansas, a boy plays a prank on his big sister. Suddenly, crows fill the skies, a female scarecrow plagues the town, and teenagers are dying left and right. Amidst the violence, strange things keep happening. Lora Townsend discovers a secret room behind the wall of her bedroom, in which a dark and foul Book of Shadows has been hiding for over a century. The book belonged to an ancestor who documented the spells and stories of the strange woman he loved…a woman the town later killed for practicing witchcraft.

There are whispers on the wind. The death toll is rising. And Lora and her family seem to be the center of it all. They must call upon Lora’s small knowledge of magic to help them.

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban