Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for September 23, 2019

Will you be fast enough?

A fifteen-year-old girl with a gift for violence and nothing left to lose, Constanter is running. To escape the farm she grew up on in a remote part of the Western Lorian empire. To forget the family and the life she can never return to. She runs east, toward the distant war she knows only from the tales of travelers—a twenty-year long conflict, opposing the Western and Eastern halves of the empire.

Mistaken for a boy after she stole the gear of a dead soldier, she is captured and drafted by a band of mercenaries whose leader recognizes her innate speed and agility. Her face hidden under a mask, Constanter surrenders to the anger she wears like a second skin and becomes Silverlegs, a legendary killer, an uncontrollable weapon in the hands of power-hungry rulers and religious fanatics.

As the Western empire spirals into madness in the name of the One God

Jancie learns a local witch in Coon Hollow Coven might wear the griever’s moonstone locket, which allows whoever can unlock its enchantment to talk with the dead. Determined to find that locket and say goodbye to her departed mother, Jancie goes to the coven’s annual public carnival in her small southern Indiana town of Bentbone. This opposes her father’s strict rule—STAY AWAY FROM WITCHES.

But she’s an adult now and can make her own decisions. She meets Rowe McCoy, the kind and handsome witch who wears the moonstone. He agrees to let her try to open the locket, but they’re opposed by High Priestess Adara and her jealous desire to possess him. Desperate for closure with her mother, Jancie persists and cannot turn away from a perilous path filled with magic, romance, and danger.

Category: Fantasy – Myths & Legends

In the Dark Ages, the Frank kingdom is threatened by enemies and traitors. To save all he loves from destruction, a young knight must be willing to sacrifice everything!

“The Silver Horn Echoes” pays homage to “La Chanson de Roland” by revisiting an age of intrigue, and a fateful decision in the shadows of a lonely mountain pass – Roncevaux!

“The writing throughout is bright and crisp, integrating action with history in a way that is informative without slowing down the story… The Silver Horn is an excellent historical tale driven by action and heart-pounding heroism.” Clarion Review

Category: Fantasy – Historical

A thousand specially selected people left a troubled Earth for a new start on a virgin world.
Their ship is state-of-the art and entirely automatic; it’s passengers safely sleeping through the journey – but something has gone wrong – something no one expected.
AL CLARK wakes to begin a new life, alone on a crippled starship with no memory of what transpired to place him there.
It is the beginning of a quest that will take him to places he could not have imagined, manage feats he would not have thought possible, and teach him the true value of friendship.
(Book One of Four)

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

Strap in and hold on!

For pilot Natasha Orlov, a starship buried in a sea of sand is her ticket to freedom and independence. Sure, restoring the ship won’t be easy, especially when the Feds figure out she’s running an illegal salvage operation, but she’s never shied away from hard work. Or challenges. Good thing, too. Because she’s on a collision course with her competition.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

Meet Arthur “The Hat” Salzman. Gangster. Wizard. Screwed.

When I was killed for the fifth time, and before breakfast, I knew for sure I’d made a terrible mistake.

It was meant to be a simple job. Steal item, deliver said item to my posh broker, get paid. Easy peasy wizard squeezy.

Blame it on the insomnia, my own greed, or maybe just stupidity, but I swear on my wand I didn’t know what was in the bag. If I had, I’d never have got involved.

Soon, every gangster, spook, and magic abuser in the city wanted what I had. But they went too far, broke the Code. Backed up by my faery godmother, and a Stepford mom who’s main goal in life was to be my sidekick, the body count escalated as the truth was revealed. And they all forgot one important thing.

The Hat’s a goddamn Wildcat Wizard!

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban