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The Lion’s Daughter
The Lion’s Daughter by Loretta Chase is 99c at select vendors! This is the first book in the Scoundrels series and was originally published in 1992. Some readers found the main characters rather difficult to like. However, others say this is a trademark Chase with a little bit of crazysauce thrown in for good measure. Are you a fan?
Gorgeous, stubborn Esme Brentmor, daughter of a disgraced lord, is used to a wild, dangerous life among the tribes of Albania, to whom her father is the legendary, controversial Red Lion whose death she’s courageously vowed to avenge –even if it leads to her own. Instead, her quest finds her rescued by the most unlikely (and very reluctant) hero!
Lazy and spoiled, Lord Varian St. George has gambled away his heritage and lives on his considerable looks, charm and wits. All he wants is the good life, and instead, he finds himself in rough country, with a tempestuous whirlwind of a female who’s as savage as he’s civilized. How did this termagant become his responsibility? And how can he escape?! Yet as he and Esme plunge headlong into even more peril, he may surprise even his own jaded self and become the man that Esme (foolishly) believes he is!
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Every Deep Desire
Every Deep Desire by Sharon Wray is $1.99! This is a romantic suspense and the first in a series. I saw this really great endorsement tweet by author Maria Vale, in which she mentions that the book has “Shakespeare-quoting mercenaries.” Have you read this one?
He’s taking it all back
His honor, his freedom, and the woman he lovesRafe Montfort was a decorated Green Beret, the best of the best, until a disastrous mission and an unforgivable betrayal destroyed his life. Now, this deadly soldier has returned to the sultry Georgia swamps to reunite with his brothers, and take back all he lost. But Juliet must never know the truth behind what he’s done…or the dangerous secret that threatens to take him from her forever.
It took Juliet Capel eight long years to put her life back together after her husband was taken from her. Now Rafe is back, determined to protect her at any cost, and it’s not just her heart that’s in danger. The swamps hold a secret long buried and far deadlier than either of them could have imagined…
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How to Date Your Dragon
How to Date Your Dragon by Molly Harper is 99c at select vendors! This is book one in the Mystic Bayou small town paranormal romance. Harper’s paranormals are often over-the-top and a little goofy. Sometimes I’m in the mood for that. Sometimes I’m not. I’m also pretty sure this is part of the Audible Escape package.
The first book in Molly Harper’s uproariously funny, sinfully sexy new Mystic Bayou series!
Anthropologist Jillian Ramsay’s career has taken a turn south.
Concerned that technology is about to chase mythological creatures out into the open (how long can Sasquatch stay hidden from Google maps?), the League for Interspecies Cooperation is sending Jillian to Louisiana on a fact-finding mission. While the League hopes to hold on to secrecy for a little bit longer, they’re preparing for the worst in terms of human reactions. They need a plan, so they look to Mystic Bayou, a tiny town hidden in the swamp where humans and supernatural residents have been living in harmony for generations. Mermaids and gator shifters swim in the bayou. Spirit bottles light the front porches after twilight. Dragons light the fires under crayfish pots.
Jillian’s first assignment for the League could be her last. Mystic Bayou is wary of outsiders, and she has difficulty getting locals to talk to her. And she can’t get the gruff town sheriff, Bael Boone, off of her back or out of her mind. Bael is the finest male specimen she’s seen in a long time, even though he might not be human. Soon their flirtation is hotter than a dragon’s breath, which Bael just might turn out to be…
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Armed in Her Fashion
Armed in Her Fashion by Kate Heartfield is $2.99! I’m so obsessed with this book’s description and I have to no more, as it seems to have a mix of horror, fantasy, and historical fiction. Hello! However, some readers mention there are pacing issues in the middle.
In 1328, Bruges is under siege by the Chatelaine of Hell and her army of chimeras—humans mixed with animals or armour, forged in the deep fires of the Hellbeast. At night, revenants crawl over the walls and bring plague and grief to this city of widows.
Margriet de Vos learns she’s a widow herself when her good-for-nothing husband comes home dead from the war. He didn’t come back for her. The revenant who was her husband pulls a secret treasure of coins and weapons from under his floorboards and goes back through the mouth of the beast called Hell.
Margriet killed her first soldier when she was 11. She’s buried six of her seven children. She’ll do anything for her daughter, even if it means raiding Hell itself to get her inheritance back.
Margriet’s daughter is haunted by a dead husband of her own, and blessed, or cursed, with an enchanted distaff that allows her to control the revenants and see the future. Together with a transgender man-at-arms who has unfinished business with the Chatelaine, a traumatized widow with a giant waterpowered forgehammer at her disposal, and a wealthy alderman’s wife who escapes Bruges with her children, Margriet and Beatrix forge a raiding party like Hell has never seen.
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I just reread “The Lion’s Daughter” and really loved it more the second time (I’ve owned it for several years). For .99c I say: go for it! Loretta Chase’s family comes from Albania — she was born Loretta Chekani — and she draws on the major early 19th century depictions of the country by Byron and Hobhouse here. I can understand why some readers might dislike the hero — he really is a pointless wastrel at the start of the novel — and the heroine is pretty crazy but always brave. And you can see that Chase is still learning things about how to pace narratives and when to jump forward and when readers need more details filled in to make the transition to the next setting — and, and —
I just loved it, crazy sauce, wastrel redeemed by love, sprawling plot, fierce and slightly crazy heroine and all.
Yep, the entire Mystic Bayou series from Molly Harper is available through the Audible Escape package. They’re not my favorites of Harper’s books, but are a fun easy listen when you’re in the mood for something light.
I also think The Lion’s Daughter is worth reading. It introduces a character who is the hero of a subsequent book.
In The Lion’s Daughter I remember a lot of travelling from town to town, but if like me (and like most of her readers I imagine) you haven’t been to Albania, the significance of going eg from Vlore to Shkoder is rather lost.
But a lot of crazysauce for 99 cents, that’s for sure.
Yes, the Mystic Bayou series is crazy. But it’s also crazy fun, and the narrators are terrific. I snatch them up the moment each one lands on Audible.