Daily Deals: YA steampunk, post apocalyptic YA, Inspie historical, and a twitter friendship
Armored Hearts by Pauline Creeden+Melissa Turner Lee. $ .99
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When a crippled young lord rescues a girl falling from a tree, it reveals a secret about himself and his mother’s side of the family that could put him at the center of a war with beings he thought only existed in fairy tales.
Tristan Gareth Smyth lived his entire life stuck at home at Waverly Park and left behind while his Grandfather makes trips to London, all because of his blasted wheelchair.
Then an American heiress falls in his lap, literally, and he must find a way to keep her at a distance to protect not only his secret, but everyone around him from an assassin sent to kill him.
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Halo by Frankie Rose. $ Free
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She has no name.
She has her knives. Her training. Her halo.
The first and second give her the ability to defeat the opponents she is pitted against each month. The third frees her from pain and fear. From any kind of emotion at all. Everything is as it should be. Everything is as it should be, until…
Fear… Pain… Anger… Happiness… Desire… Guilt…
Love.
When a newly named Kit escapes the Sanctuary after killing her best friend, the last thing she needs is another knife in her hand. Or Ryka, the damaged, beautiful blond boy, whom she refuses to let save her. The sights and sounds of Freetown are new, yet one thing is familiar: the matches. The only difference? Where the blood in the Sanctuary landed only on the Colosseum floor, Kit will quickly learn that a river of red runs through Freetown’s very streets.
Without her halo, the inhabitants of Kit’s new home consider her saved, but is that really the case? The reality of her old life is paralyzing. Would she be better off free of the guilt associated with all the blood on her hands, or is the love of one boy worth living through all the pain?
The rumbling chant for fresh blood, the demand for sacrifice, echoes in Kit’s ears. The Colosseum is behind her. The fighting pits await.
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The Tenderfoot Bride by Cheryl St.John. $ 2.99
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Secrets and lies made poor references, Linnea McConaughy knew. But her survival depended upon keeping her past hidden, especially from her employer, rancher Will Tucker. True, he’d shown her kindness, even tenderness, but could he ever accept her shameful past-and another man’s baby?
Will Tucker did not like surprises, and Linnea McConaughy was not the sturdy, past-her-prime widow he’d expected to manage his household. Instead, she was a tiny slip of womanhood desperately seeking a place to belong. Yet much to his growing surprise, that place seemed to be in his home-and his heart!
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The Twitter Diaries A Tale of 2 Cities, 1 Friendship, 140 Characters by Georgie Thompson+Imogen Lloyd Webber. $ 1.99.
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The Twitter Diaries tells the story of pen pals for the 21st century. Two parallel lives separated by an ocean but united over a social network.
Tuesday (@Tuesday Fields), a sports reporter and Stella (@StellaCavill), a men’s shoe designer, are Brit 30-somethings who are introduced in NYC on NYE by a mutual friend, a notorious transatlantic TV presenter. They strike up an instant bond.
Over the next 365 days, @TuesdayFields and @StellaCavill put the world to rights, one tweet at a time. From Melbourne to Monaco to Magaluf, the girls flirt and fall out with sportsmen, movie stars… and TV presenters. And then there’s their mothers…
December 31st of the same year and @TuesdayFields and @StellaCavill meet again, for the first time since the last time. A lot can happen in a year. It turns out just 140 characters can change everything.
The Twitter Diaries is an instantly recognisable yet fictitious tale all generations can relate to, whether they are one of the world’s 140 million and counting transfixed Twitter users or not. Accessible, funny and heart-warming, it’s this summer’s must read.
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LOL at the ‘expert knife thrower.’ Reminds me of the heroine in The Lion’s Lady by Julie Garwood.
That particular Cheryl St. John title was published by Harlequin Historical. She’s since gone on to publish some with Love Inspired Historical – which makes me think that’s why this older title got filed under “inspirational.” She tends to write “gentle” but not “preachy” and her love scenes in her HH titles tend to fall around PG-rated. It’s been years since I’ve read Tenderfoot Bride, but I do remember liking it quite a bit – which means I probably rated it somewhere in my personal “B” range. It wasn’t a keeper, but still enjoyable.
Heads up ~ Laura Kaye’s new East of Ecstasy and her Hearts of Anemoi Bundle of 1-3 are up for pre-0rder at $0.99 each. That is such a deal. I learned about it on FB and I don’t know how long the prices are good for. Whole series for 1.98 :-)
Blue Skies by Tamara Allen is .99 – according to SBTB it’s only on sale until tomorrow.
@cleo: Sold! Thx for the heads up :)
Getting Real by Ainslie Paton is on sale for $0.99. I think it’s a publisher sale, so it should be at all the bookstores, not just Amazon.
@JenM: Unfortunately I can only find it on Amazon!
@cleo: I’m halfway through Blue Skies and really enjoying it.
@Glittergirl: Thanks for the suggestion! I love a good bargain!