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Ride Hard
Ride Hard by Laura Kaye is $1.99! This is the first book in the Raven Riders series, which features a motorcycle club and some suspense elements. Readers mentioned that the first quarter was rather slow, while others loved seeing the heroine grow and find her voice. Have you read this one?
Brotherhood. Club. Family.
They live and ride by their own rules.
These are the Raven Riders . . .
Raven Riders Motorcycle Club President Dare Kenyon rides hard and values loyalty above all else. He’ll do anything to protect the brotherhood of bikers—the only family he’s got—as well as those who can’t defend themselves. So when mistrustful Haven Randall lands on the club’s doorstep scared that she’s being hunted, Dare takes her in, swears to keep her safe, and pushes to learn the secrets overshadowing her pretty smile.
Haven fled from years of abuse at the hands of her criminal father and is suspicious of any man’s promises, including those of the darkly sexy and overwhelmingly intense Ravens’ leader. But as the powerful attraction between them flares to life, Dare pushes her boundaries and tempts her to want things she never thought she could.
The past never dies without a fight, but Dare Kenyon’s never backed down before . . .
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The Secret History of the Mongol Queens
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens by Jack Weatherford is $1.99! This is nonfiction and Carrie gave the book an A:
I found this book to be incredibly interesting despite, or possibly because of, my lack of any previous knowledge regarding the Mongolian Empire. In fact, I really wasn’t all that interested in the Mongolian Empire – I was just sucked in by the idea of a secret history of women. The history is detailed enough that I think it would inform anyone who does have in interest in that part of history, and it’s accessible enough for a newcomer like myself.
The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from The Secret History of the Mongols, leaving a single tantalizing quote from Genghis Khan: “Let us reward our female offspring.” Only this hint of a father’s legacy for his daughters remained of a much larger story.
The queens of the Silk Route turned their father’s conquests into the world’s first truly international empire, fostering trade, education, and religion throughout their territories and creating an economic system that stretched from the Pacific to the Mediterranean. Outlandish stories of these powerful queens trickled out of the Empire, shocking the citizens of Europe and and the Islamic world.
After Genghis Khan’s death in 1227, conflicts erupted between his daughters and his daughters-in-law; what began as a war between powerful women soon became a war against women in power as brother turned against sister, son against mother. At the end of this epic struggle, the dynasty of the Mongol queens had seemingly been extinguished forever, as even their names were erased from the historical record..
One of the most unusual and important warrior queens of history arose to avenge the wrongs, rescue the tattered shreds of the Mongol Empire, and restore order to a shattered world. Putting on her quiver and picking up her bow, Queen Mandhuhai led her soldiers through victory after victory. In her thirties she married a seventeen-year-old prince, and she bore eight children in the midst of a career spent fighting the Ming Dynasty of China on one side and a series of Muslim warlords on the other. Her unprecedented success on the battlefield provoked the Chinese into the most frantic and expensive phase of wall building in history. Charging into battle even while pregnant, she fought to reassemble the Mongol Nation of Genghis Khan and to preserve it for her own children to rule in peace.
At the conclusion of his magnificently researched and ground-breaking narrative, Weatherford notes that, despite their mystery and the efforts to erase them from our collective memory, the deeds of these Mongol queens inspired great artists from Chaucer and Milton to Goethe and Puccini, and so their stories live on today. With The Secret History of the Mongol Queens, Jack Weatherford restores the queens’ missing chapter to the annals of history.
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Under Your Spell
Under Your Spell by Lois Greiman is $2.99 at Amazon, Google:Play, and iBooks! This is a historical romance with paranormal elements (witches). Readers loved the premise, but felt there were too many elements going on that bogged down the romance. Anyone interested?
To London Society, they were a group of well-educated ladies who gather to discuss literature, exchange needlework techniques, and gossip about the bachelors of the ton. But, behind closed doors at the Lavender House, these ladies are so much more.
Ella St. James is worried about her friend who has been having clandestine meetings with a stranger. Then the woman turns up dead, and Ella is determined to discover the truth. But, Sir Thomas Drake seems to be everywhere she turns, and for a woman who believes that love is not only blind but also stupid, Ella’s attraction to him is inexplicable. Thomas has secrets of his own and he cannot afford to become distracted by a young beauty no matter what his heart tells him.
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Beyond the Night
Beyond the Night by Joss Ware is $2.49 or $2.99 depending on the vendor! Joss Ware is another pen name of author Colleen Gleason and this is a post-apocalyptic romance with a doctor hero. Some readers found the setting a bit complicated, while others thought the main characters were well-matched. Other books in the series are also on sale!
A man with no future . . .
When Dr. Elliott Drake wakes from a mysterious fifty-year sleep, the world as he knew it is gone. Cities are now desolate, and civilization is controlled by deadly immortals. Stranger still is Elliott’s extraordinary new “gift”– he has the power to heal, but it comes with fatal consequences.
A woman with a past . . .
Jade barely escaped the immortals and is now hell-bent on revenge. She trusts no one . . . until Elliott. His piercing gaze and tempting touch shatter her defenses, but the handsome doctor seems to have dangerous secrets of his own. Is it safe to trust him with her heart?
If they are to survive in this dark new world, Jade and Elliott must work together to fight the forces that take them beyond danger.
Beyond desire.
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There should be a trigger warning on Secret History of the Mongol Queens. There is so much violence against women depicted in detail after the first third of the book…I had to stop reading.
Is it bad that the one I’m geeking out over is the nonfiction? Mongol Queens. Everything else is just irrelevant after that.
Looks like Harlequin’s having their $1.99 sale again. There’s a ton of ebooks from all the lines available for $1.99. I don’t know if I can do a link, but here’s the Presents:
https://www.amazon.com/s?rh=i:digital-text,n:154606011,p_46:During,p_45:,p_47:2008,p_36:199-199&field-keywords=harlequin%20presents&sort=relevancerank&tag=vglnk-c1204-20
Well, that didn’t work. But you can do a search using this link, setting the price to $1.99 and entering the series you want under the keyword, and it’ll bring up a ton of books:
http://www.jungle-search.com/US/kindle
It really does look like almost everything prior to this year–and some of this year–is marked down.
Happy Friday! I’ve wanted to read the Mongol Queens book ever since you guys reviewed it. Thanks!