Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for September 14, 2022

Game night will never be the same again for Terry, Jewel, Mandy, and Morgan.

The role-playing gamers thought they were getting together for a gaming session. Now they’ve been summoned into another reality.

One that looks and feels an awful lot like the games they’re used to playing.

But this is no game, and the Power that brought them here has plunged the players into a life or death battle. They must defeat their enemies and escape the dungeon, or die trying.

When the game becomes all too real, it’s time to roll the dice and play for keeps.

Can they forge a strong enough team to win through the challenges to come? Or will the Tomb of Malevolent Evil destroy them and doom this new world to darkness?

“Euphonia Gumboot is the daughter of my oldest friend. You will oblige me by marrying her at once.”
When Aunt Hypatia arrives on Cyril’s doorstep with the horrifying Euphonia Gumboot in tow, Bentley suggests an escape to New York in the company dirigible. Alas, the cat finds its way out of the bag and the dirigible becomes a kind of flying ark filled with friends, enemies… and Miss Gumboot. It will be a miracle if Cyril returns from America unbetrothed!

Category: Science Fiction – Steampunk

Jed Strait made it through the war unscathed. Or at least, that’s what he thought. But now that he’s home, he’s not so sure, because he’s plagued by horrifying flashbacks. Only, they’re visions of events that never occurred.

All he wants is to reconnect with the woman he left behind and get on with his life, but according to the visions, that’s the worst thing he could do. If he follows Annabelle to LA, his nightmares could actually become real, but staying in New York with no Annabelle and no explanations will surely drive him mad.

Damned if he goes and damned if he stays, the only path forward is the one leading west, to the final crescendo of either marriage, misery or madness waiting for him at the end of a road that’s paved with The Blacktop Blues.

Category: Science Fiction – Steampunk

When a strangler stalks the city, a stranger must take him down. But will catching the killer cost his life?

A chance encounter with a burlesque dancer drags Jed Strait into the sleazy alleys of Los Angeles, where he finds the police following a string of murders. Soon he realizes that the cops are on a path that will lead them straight back to Jed’s robot assistant. Now he’s torn between loyalty to Carmelita and the need to prevent future killings.

Jed’s efforts to unravel the truth and clear Carmelita’s name are frustrated when his witnesses keep turning up dead. He worries that the killer may be onto him or that Carmelita is playing him for a fool. It’s all on the line as Jed races to find the killer–whoever it is–before he himself becomes the sour note at the end of The Double-Time Slide.

No power. No law & order. No safety net. The world as everyone knows it is over.

Laurel is stabilizing a patient in the ER when the power goes out. As she struggles to keep her patients alive, she faces an ugly truth—the world as everyone knew it is over. The smart thing to do is run and try to survive, but Laurel refuses to leave her patients behind—least of all her sick mother. There’s only one choice to make. She’ll have to stay and fight.

Bear is done fighting. War and PTSD have cost him everything—his job, his self-respect, and his wife – Laurel. But when he can no longer deny the old world is gone, he gains a new purpose. Laurel is hundreds of miles away from his mountain cabin, but he knows she needs him.

The highways are clogged with dead cars. Frantic survivors want his truck, his tools, his supplies. He’ll face treachery, desperation…

Category: Science Fiction – Post-Apocalyptic

I’m Maddie, and I was just your typical supermom in a minivan,. But now I’m a super powered woman riding shotgun on the back of a hot demigod’s motorcycle. How is this my life?
It started on the night my husband died, which is when I also found out he was married to two other women! Even worse, the cheater left me to deal with a magic globe that’s given me strange powers.
Suddenly I can split in two…or even three! It’s weird and exciting, but also good timing. I need all the extra hands I can get. Goons are invading my house, determined to get the artifact no matter who they have to hurt.
There’s also the sexy demigod, Aden, who tells me that our fates are intertwined. Even though he acts like I get him all hot and bothered, I’m sure he just wants to get his hands on the artifact. But what if I’m wrong…is it possible this superpowered hottie actually wants me – boring old Maddie?

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

I’m Helena and my high-powered lady-lawyer life has always been enough for me…until I found my one-night stand dead in my bed.
Now, I’m suspected of murder, and the horns that have sprouted from my head have marked me as a supe, even though I’m not one. My career is in shambles and my reputation ruined—all because of a billionaire tech genius who wants the magical artifact that’s landed in my lap—even though I never wanted it in the first place.
Then there’s my attraction to Ford, the hot incubus professor. I can banter with him all day, but I won’t allow things to go any further than a battle of wits. I don’t need anyone else, and I’m not going to succumb to his charms. Even if he smells like gingerbread and makes me think all kinds of sexy thoughts.

Tinker Bell, banished from her homeland for doing the unthinkable, selling the hottest drug in Neverland—pixie dust—wants absolution.

Determined to find a way home, Tink doesn’t hesitate to follow the one lead she has, even if that means seducing a filthy pirate to steal precious gems out from under his…hook.

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Category: Fantasy – Fairy Tales