Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for September 30, 2018

In a mysterious forest, residents spend their nights hiding from the monsters that lurk beyond their cellar doors. The Magpie King keeps them safe – but soon, ostracized Lonan begins dreaming of their protector’s downfall…

This twelve story collection is centered around the theme of being altered by a situation. In the acclaimed How to Win a War, a soldier experiences a strategy for ending wars which might just work. In The Patriotic Amnesiac, a mother voluntarily gives up her ability to form new memories with far-reaching consequences. A Queen and a Prime Minister plot against a President in Sever-Reign. The Legend of Legend is a light-hearted caper about an egg which contains a universal truth. In the dystopian The Second Fear a ministry attempts to produce fear in someone who is incapable of feeling it. In the closing story, Devilish Tricks, a deal with the Devil changes Casimir Hendrix’s life, but is it for the better?

The collection has been praised by Sarah Stuart (author of the Royal Command series) for its “wicked twists” and “grippingly readable” stories.

Category: Science Fiction – Classics

Book One in the Spellsmith & Carver Trilogy

An estranged son. An adopted heir. A magical attack that forces them to work together.

The disappearance of Auric Spellsmith’s mother has strained his relationship with his father to the breaking point. Now, after five years away at the Magicians’ Academy, Auric returns home, determined to prove himself to his father and claim his birthright.

Apprentice Jericho Carver has held Spellsmith Manor together in Auric’s absence. Now his master’s son is back, and if he can’t get rid of Auric, Jericho will forfeit his career and lose all hope of wooing the master’s enchanting daughter.

Neither man intends to back down.

But then Master Spellsmith vanishes into the mysterious Fey Lands. With Fey magic threatening the mortal realm, Auric and Jericho must work together to save the man they both see as father.

Category: Fantasy – Historical

Book Two in the Spellsmith & Carver Trilogy

Auric Spellsmith and Jericho Carver saved the world—but the world is less than pleased.

Accused of causing a magical energy crisis and of “conduct unbefitting magicians,” the pair travels to the big city to defend their case, Rill and Jaspyr in tow. But they soon find themselves embroiled in a world where everyone has an ulterior motive. Politics are a web of deception, more dangerous than Fey magic.

Then Auric discovers Lotta, an attractive but eccentric engineer whose invention could solve the Republic’s energy crisis—if they can survive long enough to test her theories. The mysterious assassin who is after her now hunts Auric and Jericho too.

At odds with the law and criminals alike, Spellsmith and Carver will need every drop of wit and magic to survive.

Children of Orion, the secret protectors of mankind, trained Nadira in the ancient art of demon hunting. Since then, Nadira built herself a fearsome reputation by banishing every demon she has encountered and killing the strays who transgressed against humans. Then, she died in battle.

Now, Nadira has been resurrected in present day New York, where demons have apparently made peace with humans. Forced to rejoin the endless fight for the souls of mankind, Nadira is told by the Children of Orion that she is their weapon in the fight to expose the demons as the hellspawn they are.

Can Nadira remain a beacon of light for other paranormal hunters, even with her mysterious, post-resurrection blackouts? Or is she a few bad deeds away from losing her humanity and tarnishing Children of Orion’s reputation for good?

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

TRANSIENT is in development with Voltage Pictures (The Hurt Locker, Dallas Buyers Club) to become a feature film!

The year is 2578 and immortals control the world. Brutal wars and endless genocide have reduced mankind to a handful of mountain tribes. In order to survive, humans infiltrate the eternal society as transient spies, hoping to uncover a means to regain control of the planet.

Jonas is a young transient deep undercover in downtown Seattle. He lives underground, works at night, and drinks his daily blood rations, just like any normal eternal. He is a model spy, but also an apostate among extremists, torn between ideologies (as well as lovers) from either side.

Allegiances are strained to the breaking point when Jonas bears witness to a violent death that rocks the eternal civilization to its core.

Category: Science Fiction – Post-Apocalyptic

Cabot Layne is a trader, through and through. Some might call him a pirate, but he never breaks the law. He only bends it. One thing’s for sure–he’s certainly not the hero type. But for some reason a certain BlackOps officer seems to think he is, and sends him off on a mission only a trader can pull off. He’ll still need some help, in the form of his long-time best friend and his best friend’s sister–who just happens to be Cabot’s ex-wife. They didn’t exactly part on good terms, and Nagali is the kind of girl who brings in a tank when a simple knife would be sufficient.

Half the job is going to be keeping her from doing something terrible.

The only thing more terrifying than Nagali at her worst is Nagali trying to do something good.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure