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Bold Fortune
RECOMMENDED: Bold Fortune by M.M. Crane is $1.99! Thank you to everyone who let us know about this sale! Lara reviewed this one and gave it B+:
I’m delighted to have discovered this series, and so pleased to have traveled and spent time with a character who reminded me of, well, past me. While the conflict upon reflection was a little sparse, I am very much looking forward to book two.
Opposites burn hot enough to melt the snow and ice of an Alaskan winter in this all-new series from USA Today bestselling author Megan Crane.
Quinn Fortune is the official protector of all the unspoiled beauty in Lost Lake, Alaska, as the head of the community trust. A rugged frontiersman through and through, he doesn’t do soft. But he can’t help his fascination with the pink-clad professor who shows up in Lost Lake seeking his approval for her cheerful outsider’s proposal about land that isn’t hers. Still, he agrees to consider it–if she can handle a month of good old-fashioned Alaska living. He’s betting she’ll head back to the safety of the Lower 48 within the week.
Violet Parrish is a thinker, not a doer, but desperate times call for extraordinary measures–like taking on the Alaskan wilderness. In January. Off the grid. With a mountain man hot enough to melt a glacier. The frozen Alaskan tundra should be no match for Violet’s determination, but the sheer immensity of the Last Frontier takes her by surprise–as does her attraction to gruff, impossibly handsome Quinn, and the unexpected heat that burns between them during the freezing Alaska nights…
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The Body in the Garden
The Body in the Garden by Katharine Schellman is $1.99! This is the first book in a historical mystery series and it also looks like book two is on sale. If you’re looking for a new series to start and have exhausted all the usual suspects, pick this one up!
Perfect for fans of Tasha Alexander and Rhys Bowen, Katharine Schellman’s debut novel is sure to delight.
London 1815. Newly widowed Lily Adler returns to a society that frowns on independent women, but she’s no stranger to the glittering world of London’s upper crust. She’s back in town and eager to have a renaissance with friends, particularly with Lady Serena Walter–from their school days–determined to create a meaningful life for herself even without a husband. She expects scandal, gossip, and secrets. What she doesn’t expect, as she’s visiting Lady Walter is a dead man laying in her garden.
Lily happened to overhear the man just minutes before he was shot: young, desperate, and attempting blackmail. When she finds out Lord Walter bribes the investigating magistrate to drop the case, Lily is worried, and becomes the only one with the key to catching the killer.
Aided by Navy Captain Jack Hartley and heiress from the West Indies Miss Ofelia Oswald, Lily sets out to discover whether her friend’s husband is mixed up in blackmail and murder. The unlikely team sets out to conceal their investigation behind the whirl of London’s social season, but the deceased knew secrets about people with power. Secrets that the powerful have desire and influence to keep hidden. Now, Lilly will have to uncover the truth, before she becomes the killer’s next target.
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The Librarian and the Orc
The Librarian and the Orc by Finley Fenn is FREE! We’ve mentioned this at some point on the site because it was already in our book repo. I also know I have it sitting on my Kindle, collecting dust. Seems a little dark and bonkers, which I know is perfect for some of you (sending up the signal for DiscoDollyDeb!).
He’s a fierce, ferocious, death-dealing beast. And he’s reading a book in her library…
In a world of recently warring orcs and men, Rosa Rolfe leads a quiet, scholarly life as an impoverished librarian — until the day she finds an orc. In her library. Reading a book.
He’s rude, aggressive, and deeply terrifying, with his huge muscled form, sharp black claws, and cold, dismissive commands. But he doesn’t seem truly dangerous… at least, until night falls. And he makes Rosa a shocking, scandalous offer…
Her books, for her surrender.
Her ecstasy.
Her enlightenment…Rosa’s no fool, and she knows she can’t possibly risk her precious library for this brazen, belligerent orc. Even if he is surprisingly well-read. Even if he smells like sweet, heated honey. Even if he makes Rosa’s heart race with fear, and ignites all her deepest, darkest cravings at once…
But surrender demands a dangerous, devastating price. A bond that can’t easily be broken. And a breakneck journey to the fearsome, forbidding Orc Mountain, where a curious, clever librarian might be just what’s needed to stop another war…
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A dark, angsty, full-length fantasy romance. Comes after The Heiress and the Orc, but also reads as a standalone. Happily ever after guaranteed.
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Tempests and Slaughter
Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce is $1.99! Pierce is an auto-buy author for a lot of the Bitchery and this is the start to a new series, though it’s definitely related to her Tortall books. The second book was supposed to come out a couple years ago, but it looks like it’s on hold.
The highly anticipated NEW Tortall Legend from TAMORA PIERCE, the #1 New York Times bestselling author who is legend herself, is a must-read for any fantasy lover!
Arram. Varice. Ozorne. In the first book in the Numair Chronicles, three student mages are bound by fate . . . fated for trouble.
Arram Draper is a boy on the path to becoming one of the realm’s most powerful mages. The youngest student in his class at the Imperial University of Carthak, he has a Gift with unlimited potential for greatness–and for attracting danger. At his side are his two best friends: Varice, a clever girl with an often-overlooked talent, and Ozorne, the “leftover prince” with secret ambitions. Together, these three friends forge a bond that will one day shape kingdoms. And as Ozorne gets closer to the throne and Varice gets closer to Arram’s heart, Arram begins to realize that one day soon he will have to decide where his loyalties truly lie.
In the Numair Chronicles, readers will be rewarded with the never-before-told story of how Numair Salmalín came to Tortall. Newcomers will discover an unforgettable fantasy adventure where a kingdom’s future rests on the shoulders of a talented young man with a knack for making vicious enemies.
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“Dark and bonkers”?? Gimme, gimme…
Dark, bonkers, and free! Can’t beat that.
For the Tamora Pierce book, she had turned in book 2 in the spring, and while working on book 3 decided she had to restructure book 2 so she took it back… so we might get book 2 next year? Hopefully?
Kimberly Kincaid’s Skin Deep is free; Deep Burn is $.99. These are the first two in her Station Seventeen RS series.
Oh god I have been boycotting Amazon forever but this is free so it doesn’t count right only I’d still have to give them my information and sign their ghastly privacy agreement but it has librarians AND orcs which are independently irresistible to me -and it has both. Combined! Gah!
@kkw relateable!! I did keep an Amazon account for when authors do kindle only releases… but that’s my internal rationale-only if I can’t pick it up elsewhere
Thanks, @Katie for the Tamora Pierce update — I was hoping that this sale meant book 2 was on its way! Sad eyes.
(From the blurb BODY IN THE GARDEN:) “What she doesn’t expect, as she’s visiting Lady Walter is a dead man laying in her garden.”
The only thing that I can imagine “laying” in a garden is some sort of egg producing fowl, not a man, and even less a dead man. I’m with Lily Adler in truly NOT expecting a dead man laying in her garden.
Alternatively, I find the blurb for THE LIBRARIAN AND THE ORC utterly enchanting and am off to get it on my e-reader STAT!
@Qualisign
Maybe he was laying bricks before his demise? Hard to do that once one is dead.
Hard no on any writer who makes stupid, basic grammatical errors, particularly while trying to perpetrate a pastiche of a more formal prose style.
Another fan of Bold Fortune here. It was one of those rare books that I read through at breakneck speed then immediately reread because it was that good. Quinn vs Violet takes on almost biblical proportions. The woman holding nothing back out of sheer determination to do the right thing is one of my favorite story lines. Quinn tries again and again to write her off without engaging. The warmth and cohesiveness of the Alaskan community is a tonic in these contentious times. I had M.M. Crane’s next book in the series, Reckless Fortune, on preorder the moment it went up.
Burning Bright (The Extraordinaries Book 1) is on sale for $0.99 on Amazon US; Regency-era fantasy featuring a woman who can control fire who joins the Royal Navy. I’ve seen it mentioned here before though I don’t know if it was reviewed.
I think I mentioned this a couple of days ago, but for anyone who may not know, M. M. Crane (BOLD FORTUNE) is an alternate pen name of Megan Crane/Caitlin Crews. It’s amazing how prolific that woman is—and the quality of her work is always very high.
I lay some blame on the editor who didn’t catch that, as well.
Can definitely say as someone who didn’t know I needed orcs in my life, Finley Fenn converted me. I mean, yeah there’s the monster fucking, the kink, and the crazy amount of *ahem* good orc seed. But also really good world building and badass heroines. All good things, really.
Book number 2 in the Body in the Garden series is also on offer on Amazon UK, with a similar price…
So, there’s seriously a book in which the hero is a big dude, in Alaska, named Quinn?
I’ve not seen nothing like the Mighty Quinn!
But, now that he’s gotten here, everybody jumps for joy, huh?
@Amy!: well, when Quinn gets here, everybody’s gonna want a dose. Not sure of what.
@Amy! @ DDD: Just tell me where it hurts and I’ll tell you who to call.
Now, we’re showing our age. I must really be getting old. I had forgotten Bob Dylan wrote that. Manfred Mann only covered the best.
I remember doing a mixtape of Dylan covers and getting a lot of surprised “he wrote *that*?” as well as “wow, didn’t know [insert artist here] had covered Dylan.”
@Amy!,@Sandra, and @Susanna: sometimes I will enter the name of a (relatively) well-known song into the Spotify search box and be amazed at the number of cover versions that exist. Recently, I plugged in “Stoney End” (which was written by Laura Nyro and was a big hit for Barbra Streisand in 1970). I was surprised by how many covers of the song there were—including one by Linda Ronstandt! I had no clue she’d recorded a version.