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Heart of Obsidian by Nalini Singh $ 1.99
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Step into New York Times bestseller Nalini Singh’s explosive and shockingly passionate Psy-Changeling world…
A dangerous, volatile rebel, hands stained bloodred.
A woman whose very existence has been erased.
A love story so dark, it may shatter the world itself.
A deadly price that must be paid.
The day of reckoning is here.
Only Enchanting by Mary Balogh $ 1.99
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In the fourth novel of New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh’s Survivors’ Club series, Flavian, Viscount Ponsonby, finds salvation in the love of a most unsuspecting woman…
Flavian was devastated by his fiancée’s desertion after his return home from the Napoleonic Wars. Now the woman who broke his heart is back—and everyone is eager to revive their engagement. Except Flavian, who, in a panic, runs straight into the arms of a most sensible yet enchanting young woman.
Agnes Keeping has never been in love—and never wishes to be. But then she meets the charismatic Flavian, and suddenly Agnes falls so foolishly and so deeply that she agrees to his impetuous proposal of marriage.
When Agnes discovers that the proposal is only to avenge his former love, she’s determined to flee. But Flavian has no intention of letting his new bride go, especially now that he too has fallen so passionately and so unexpectedly in love.
Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation by John Carlin $ 1.99
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Beginning in a jail cell and ending in a rugby tournament—the true story of how the most inspiring charm offensive in history brought South Africa together.
After being released from prison and winning South Africa’s first free election, Nelson Mandela presided over a country still deeply divided by fifty years of apartheid. His plan was ambitious if not far-fetched: use the national rugby team, the Springboks—long an embodiment of white-supremacist rule—to embody and engage a new South Africa as they prepared to host the 1995 World Cup. The string of wins that followed not only defied the odds, but capped Mandela’s miraculous effort to bring South Africans together again in a hard-won, enduring bond.
His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik $ 0.99
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Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britain’s defense by taking to the skies . . . not aboard aircraft but atop the mighty backs of fighting dragons.
When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes its precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sweeps Capt. Will Laurence from his seafaring life into an uncertain future–and an unexpected kinship with a most extraordinary creature. Thrust into the rarified world of the Aerial Corps as master of the dragon Temeraire, he will face a crash course in the daring tactics of airborne battle. For as France’s own dragon-borne forces rally to breach British soil in Bonaparte’s boldest gambit, Laurence and Temeraire must soar into their own baptism of fire.
I was “meh” on SLAVE TO SENSATION, so never continued the series; but so many folks I trust rave about the Psy-Changeling books that I’ve been thinking I should give them another try. But I suspect that HEART OF OBSIDIAN is *not* the place to jump back in?
@hapax – Loved HEART OF OBSIDIAN (probably my favourite of that entire arc of books; I bought it full price, and thought it worth every penny), but I don’t think it will mean much without the lead up into it. Also, if you didn’t like SLAVE TO SENSATION, I doubt that Psy-changeling series will do much for you.
I agree the lead up to Heart of Obsidian is necessary to getting the most out of it. If you want to give the Psy / Changeling series another shot, I recommend Caressed by Ice as an entry point because it’s my favorite in the series, and only the third book. It was a turning point in my appreciation of the series, too.