DAILY DEALS: Three classic historicals and one contemporary big, blonde, tattooed bad ass
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Keeper of the Dream by Penelope Williamson $ 0.99
From the Jacket Copy:
Scarred by a past of denial and mistrust, Raine, the Black Dragon, rides toward Castle Rhuddlan and toward a conquest of the castle and its inhabitant–Lady Arianna.
Whisper His Name by Elizabeth Thornton $ 0.99
From the Jacket Copy:
Breaking the code to her heart…
Independent and stubbornly unmarried, Abbie Vayle has always been a little too smart for her own good. But she may have gone too far when she starts her own rare-book business–and accidentally acquires an antique book in Paris with a mysterious code scribbled in the margins….
Someone wants the book back–and is willing to kill to get it. The only trouble is, Abbie no longer has the book. It’s locked away in the customs house in Dover. Now it’s a race against time as Abbie stays one step ahead of her pursuers. The last person she wants to confide in is her best friend, Hugh Templar, whom she knows only as a formidable scholar who shares her passion for Roman antiquities.
But as Hugh keeps turning up where she least expects him, a few things begin to dawn on her….Not only is Hugh surprisingly–in fact incredibly–handsome without his glasses on, but he’s strangely “professional” in how he handles her mysterious enemies.
Hugh is clearly not what he seems. And soon Abbie realizes that neither is she…as she discovers what it means to love with all her heart and soul.
Beneath This Ink by Meghan March $ 0.99
From the Jacket Copy:
I’ve always known she was too good for me, but that never stopped me from wanting her.
And then I finally had her for one night.
A night I don’t remember.
I figured I’d blown my shot.
But now she’s walked back into my life, and this time, I have the upper hand. I want my second chance.
Will she be able to see the man beneath this ink?
Hades’ Daughter by Sara Douglass $ 1.99
From the Jacket Copy:
From one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes the first stunning instalment of the troy Game, an epic spanning 3000 years and the history of one of the world’s greatest cities – London. After the trojan wars, Brutus and his people wandered homeless for many years. So when the goddess Artemis offers him a future, he does not hesitate to take it. Brutus is the last of the Kingmen, one of the few who, with the Mistress of the Labyrinth, can play the troy Game. His arrival with his fellow trojans in Llangarlia (south-east Britain) is part of a larger plan that Genvissa, the Llangarlian High Priestess, and Asterion the Minotaur (though barely alive) are manipulating -and all of them have their own agenda. As a new city is founded, the troy Game comes into its own. Evil is locked in the heart of the labyrinth, and once the Game is restarted, it will be hard to control.the future will be a battleground born of legend and myth, and the dark heart of the labyrinth may be more than anyone, even Brutus, has bargained for.
Is that lower-case “troy” and “trojan” (along with capitalized “Game”) just an artifact of cut-and-paste or an actual affectation of the text?
Because no matter how much I love Douglass, it drove me bonkers in the blurb, and I suspect would make the book itself a wallbanger.
“Keeper of the Dream” wasn’t my favorite but for $0.99- sold! If any other ebooks by Penelope Williamson go down in price, I am all over them.
Standard capitalization is followed in The Troy Game. For my money it’s not as good a series as Wayfarer Redemption, but it’s worth reading. The movement of the characters through history is a good device.
I wish she had had time to write more books. :(
@SonomaLass: Even second-best Douglass is so much better than many of the Big Fat Fantasy Series being peddled these days.
Thanks for the info!
@hapax – copy and paste I hope?