The Kiss of Deception
The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson is $2.99! This is a YA fantasy with romantic elements and sounds pretty awesome. A princess bails on her wedding day and tries to start a life elsewhere under another identity. Some readers felt that nothing truly happened in the book, while others loved the writing and detail. Anyone interested?
A princess must find her place in a reborn world.
She flees on her wedding day.
She steals ancient documents from the Chancellor’s secret collection.
She is pursued by bounty hunters sent by her own father.
She is Princess Lia, seventeen, First Daughter of the House of Morrighan.
The Kingdom of Morrighan is steeped in tradition and the stories of a bygone world, but some traditions Lia can’t abide. Like having to marry someone she’s never met to secure a political alliance.
Fed up and ready for a new life, Lia flees to a distant village on the morning of her wedding. She settles in among the common folk, intrigued when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive—and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deceptions swirl and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets—secrets that may unravel her world—even as she feels herself falling in love.
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Daughters Unto Devils by Amy Lukavics is $2.99! This was definitely a book on my radar when I attended Book Expo America a couple years ago. It was described to me as “The Exorcist meets Little House on the Prairie.” There were some issues on whether this should be described as horror, since some readers found the scary stuff to be more psychological. But many said it was still pretty creepy.
When sixteen-year-old Amanda Verner’s family decides to move from their small mountain cabin to the vast prairie, she hopes it is her chance for a fresh start. She can leave behind the memory of the past winter; of her sickly Ma giving birth to a baby sister who cries endlessly; of the terrifying visions she saw as her sanity began to slip, the victim of cabin fever; and most of all, the memories of the boy she has been secretly meeting with as a distraction from her pain. The boy whose baby she now carries.
When the Verners arrive at their new home, a large cabin abandoned by its previous owners, they discover the inside covered in blood. And as the days pass, it is obvious to Amanda that something isn’t right on the prairie. She’s heard stories of lands being tainted by evil, of men losing their minds and killing their families, and there is something strange about the doctor and his son who live in the woods on the edge of the prairie. But with the guilt and shame of her sins weighing on her, Amanda can’t be sure if the true evil lies in the land, or deep within her soul.
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‘Til Dragons Do Us Part by Lorenda Christensen is 99c! If this cover looks familiar, that’s because it was featured in Cover Snark! Readers loved the dragon thief heroine, but found the romance and action a little rushed. This is third book in the Never Deal with Dragons and you can get the whole series for less than $8!
Savannah Cavenaugh became a top art thief thanks to a secret ability—a dragonmorph, she can literally fly away from the scene of the crime. Next up: stealing a priceless painting out from under the snout of Lord Relobu, North America’s fearsome dragon ruler. True, she’s never had to work in the midst of Earth’s most polarizing wedding before. Keeping her true identity hidden will demand she get creative, to say the least.
Cameron Shaw has one last chance to prove himself. As Lord Relobu’s interim head of security, he needs to ensure the world’s very first interspecies wedding happens without a hitch. That means keeping an extra close eye on the wedding planner’s pretty young assistant. She’s adorable, but something’s not quite right…
Fumbling her way around bouquets and linens turns out to be the least of Savannah’s problems. Crushing on Relobu’s hottest human henchman was not part of the plan, and neither was revealing her—achem—ferocious side. But when her archrival shows up to nab the very same painting she’s after, all bets are off…
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Ghouls Rush In by H.P. Mallory is $1.99, and since this is an Amazon Montlake book, that price is only available there. This is a paranormal romance with a bit of mystery, and the first in the Peyton Clark series. This book has a 3.7-star average on GR, and readers really enjoyed the humor and the heroine, who is a divorcee who left her controlling husband to move into a haunted Antebellum mansion in New Orleans with the intention to restore it.
Savannah Cavenaugh became a top art thief thanks to a secret ability—a dragonmorph, she can literally fly away from the scene of the crime. Next up: stealing a priceless painting out from under the snout of Lord Relobu, North America’s fearsome dragon ruler. True, she’s never had to work in the midst of Earth’s most polarizing wedding before. Keeping her true identity hidden will demand she get creative, to say the least.
Cameron Shaw has one last chance to prove himself. As Lord Relobu’s interim head of security, he needs to ensure the world’s very first interspecies wedding happens without a hitch. That means keeping an extra close eye on the wedding planner’s pretty young assistant. She’s adorable, but something’s not quite right…
Fumbling her way around bouquets and linens turns out to be the least of Savannah’s problems. Crushing on Relobu’s hottest human henchman was not part of the plan, and neither was revealing her—achem—ferocious side. But when her archrival shows up to nab the very same painting she’s after, all bets are off…
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I can’t remember if it was posted or not previously, but Maggie Shayne’s Wings in the Night: Reborn series #1 book is free on Kindle.
Anne Gracie’s “A Perfect Rake” is 2.99 on amazon. This is the first book in her Merridew series.
Jenny Colgan’s book, “Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery” is also on sale on amazon for 1.99. It is a sequel to Little Beach Street Bakery. Her books are usually 9.99 here in the U.S., so this is a very good deal.
Quick heads-up/trigger warning for Daughters Unto Devils–it is very definitely “Little House on the Prairie meets The Exorcist”, and it is super dark and scary and full of blood and horror. It’s really good if that’s what you want! But I wasn’t prepared for how dark it went, and literally had to go sit in the sun with a cup of tea and a purring cat after I finished it so I could quit shuddering.
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes is the Audible Daily Deal.
I really enjoyed Never Deal With Dragons, so thanks for the reminder that this series exists! Now I just either have to decide to pay full price for the second one or stalk it until the price goes down…
@Marci: Thanks so much. I’ve had the ebook in my wish list for awhile waiting for a sale, so I clicked on that $4 audiobook in a flash.
And, thanks to @Anne for the heads up about the Colgan book.
Between Amanda’s post and the comments, I had quite the shopping excursion today. 🙂
Devil Unto Daughters was available digitally from my library, so I grabbed it there. I’m kind of glad I did, since it felt… pointless? It’s rushed in some places, dragging in others, and a complete lack of characterization made it hard to care about what was happening, and to whom. The final few big scenes felt completely random, like a mishmash of scary/gory madlibs, no explanations or anything given, and with the way the book ended, it didn’t feel like any of the events leading up to it had mattered at all. I kind of get what the author was going for in terms of some of the themes and metaphors, but it’s so muddled and mangled by the pacing and navel gazing it reads like, I don’t know, bad, self-indulgent fan-fiction. Not for me, and I was really hoping for more.