Daily Deals: Old school historical, New school paranormal
Untamed by Elizabeth Lowell. $ 1.99
From the Jacket Copy:
Returning home triumphant from the Crusades, Dominic le Sabre is determined to claim the bride promised to him by the king, but the high-born Celtic beauty is equally determined to resist him.
A hero of the Crusades, Dominic Le Sabre has returned to Scotland in triumph to claim the beautiful Saxon bride awarded to him by the conqueror King. But Lady Margaret cannot yield to the bold Norman invader. The beloved daughter of a sacred tribe of Celtic mystics, she fears an ancient curse.
The Scent of Shadows by Vicki Pettersson. $ .99.
From the Jacket Copy:
When she was sixteen, Joanna Archer was brutally assaulted and left to die in the Nevada desert.
By rights, she should be dead.
Now a photographer by day, she prowls a different Las Vegas after sunset—a grim, secret Sin City where Light battles Shadow—seeking answers to whom or what she really is . . . and revenge for the horrors she was forced to endure.
But the nightmare is just beginning—for the demons are hunting Joanna, and the powerful shadows want her for their own . .
Possess by Gretchen McNeil. $ 2.99
From the Jacket Copy:
Fifteen-year-old Bridget Liu just wants to be left alone: by her over-protective mom, by Matt Quinn, the cute son of a local police sergeant, and by the eerie voices she can suddenly and inexplicably hear. Unfortunately for Bridget, the voices are demons-and Bridget possesses the rare ability to banish them back to whatever hell they came from. Literally.
Terrified to tell her friends or family about this new power, Bridget confides in San Francisco’s senior exorcist, Monsignor Renault. The monsignor enlists her help in increasingly dangerous cases of demonic possession, but just as she is starting to come to terms with her freakish new role, Bridget receives a startling message from one of the demons. And when one of her oldest friends is killed,…
I enjoyed the Petterson series. Unfortunately it ended up not being a romance after all.
Oh my gawd I LOVED that Elizabeth Lowell series!! Off to purchase ‘immediately’!
Oh, I adore Elizabeth Lowell’s early work. Thanks for the link!
Help! Elizabeth Lowell untamed is showing up as 799 through Barnes & Noble.
@LisaCharlotte: Pettersson’s series is actually dark urban fantasy, not really romance.
@Stephanie- one always hopes! ;-)