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Forged by Magic
Forged by Magic by Jenna Wolfhart is $3.99! We mentioned this one in Hide Your Wallet and on Cover Awe. I definitely purchased this one based on the cover. Did any of you pick it up for that reason?
A heartwarming, feel-good fantasy romance…with a helping of spice and only a pinch of danger.
Trapped in a tower by the emperor who conquered her homeland, Daella yearns for an escape. But as one of the few half-orcs left in the world, she knows she’ll never be free, much less find her own happily ever after.
Destiny takes an unexpected turn when the emperor offers her a deal. To earn her freedom, she must journey to the mysterious Isles of Fable and track down wielders of outlawed dragon magic. Eager to seize her chance, Daella agrees.
When a brutal storm tosses her ship off course, she washes up on the wrong island—right at the feet of Rivelin, a gruff but handsome elven blacksmith, who seems more likely to stab her than help her. To her surprise, he offers her shelter until the next ship passes through in six weeks’ time.
Daella soon realizes he’s hiding something big. It could be the very magic she’s been tasked to hunt down—the key to her long-awaited freedom. But as they bicker over the flames of his forge, her heart kindles with something she’s never felt before.
When his secrets finally come to light, Daella must decide what’s more her freedom from the wicked crown or the desires of her heart.
Forged by Magic is a complete, stand-alone fantasy romance novel set in the whimsical world of Falling for Fables.
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Once Ghosted, Twice Shy
RECOMMENDED: Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole is $1.99! This is a novella and Carrie gave it a B+:
It’s part of the Reluctant Royals series but it works fine as a stand-alone. I loved this ramble through New York City and although the romance is a bit too rushed to be completely plausible, I’m certainly rooting for these two.
Alyssa Cole returns with a fun, sexy romance novella in the Reluctant Royals series!
While her boss the prince was busy wooing his betrothed, Likotsi had her own love affair after swiping right on a dating app. But her romance had ended in heartbreak, and now, back in NYC again, she’s determined to rediscover her joy—so of course she runs into the woman who broke her heart.
When Likotsi and Fabiola meet again on a stalled subway train months later, Fab asks for just one cup of tea. Likotsi, hoping to know why she was unceremoniously dumped, agrees. Tea and food soon leads to them exploring the city together, and their past, with Fab slowly revealing why she let Likotsi go, and both of them wondering if they can turn this second chance into a happily ever after.
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Meeting Millie
Meeting Millie by Clare Ashton is 99c at Amazon! This is book one in the Oxford Romance series and features a friends to lovers romance between two former college besties. I know Tara really loves Ashton’s books.
Oxford – celebrated city of dreaming spires and class warfare – is an ambition come true for lesbian, geeky, upper-middle-class Charlotte and straight, charismatic, working-class Millie.
Against the odds, theirs is an instant, best friendship. Forever.
Exuberant Millie is a breath of fresh air for polite Charlotte and a force of nature within the university’s hallowed walls. And they are going to be the best lawyers of their year and change the world.
But their world changes instead when things go queerly sideways, and they haven’t seen each other since.
Ten years on and Charlotte returns to where it all began. She has a new job at a prestigious law firm and Oxford is as beautiful as ever. She’s a safe distance from her overbearing barrister mother Nicola and three office floors from her snappy college mentor, Olivia.
Then Millie bounds around the corner wanting to be friends again and it’s as if the last decade never happened. Will it be different the second time around? Can they be friends again? Or will love and attraction change things?
Meeting Millie is a sapphic romance about the nature of friendship, how two people change over the years, and how they see themselves and each other.
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Cocaine Blues
Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood is $2.99 and a Kindle Daily Deal! This is book one in the Phryne Fisher Mysteries series and there are later books in the series also on sale. Elyse previously reviewed it and gave the book a B. In summary, she said that while the book was tons of fun to read, there were some things the TV show just did better, namely the costumes.
First in series from bestselling author, Kerry Greenwood
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, now streaming on Netflix, starring Essie Davis as the honourable Phryne Fisher
The London season is in full fling at the end of the 1920s, but the Honourable Phryne Fisher—she of the green-gray eyes, diamant garters, and outfits that should not be sprung suddenly on those of nervous dispositions—is rapidly tiring of the tedium of arranging flowers, making polite conversations with retired colonels, and dancing with weak-chinned men. Instead, Phryne decides it might be rather amusing to try her hand at being a lady detective in Melbourne, Australia.
Almost immediately from the time she books into the Windsor Hotel, Phryne is embroiled in mystery: poisoned wives, cocaine smuggling rings, corrupt cops, and communism—not to mention erotic encounters with the beautiful Russian dancer, Sasha de Lisse—until her adventure reaches its steamy end in the Turkish baths of Little Lonsdale Street.
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Just FYI – all three books that have been released thus far in JENNA WOLFHART’S FALLING FOR FABLES universe are $3.99 (and also available in Kindle Unlimited).
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay is on sale for $1.99. It’s a classic epic high fantasy that has been on my sale watch list for forever. I think this is the lowest it’s ever been.
I’ve only read the Cole from today’s list, but it was good — as was the entire Reluctant Royals series. IIRC, the duo on the cover are an actual couple!
Free:
– Mixed Up In You (The In You Trilogy Book 1) by Sammi Cee
– Playing To Win (Ice Kings Book 1) by Stacey Lynn
– Finally Yours: A Later in Life Second Chance Small Town Romance (Finally Series Book 1) by Elena Aitken
– Uncovering Her Cravings (Big City Small World Book 1) by Rae Shawn
$.99:
– the three m/m Elysian Escapades novellas by Casey Cox–My Best Friend’s Brother, My Boss with Benefits, My Fake Boyfrenemy
– Forsaking the Prize (The Wild Randalls Book 2) by Heather Boyd
– Defending Sophie: A Lynyrd Station Story (Lynyrd Station Protectors – Special Ops Book 2) by PJ Fiala
– Into the Storm (Evidence: Under Fire Book 1) by Rachel Grant
– The Cowboy’s Word: Small Town Romance Books (The Coyote Cowboys of Montana Book 1) by Sinclair Jayne
– Wagers of a Duke’s Daughter: A Mystery Regency Romance (The Duchess’s Investigative Society Book 3) by Samantha Holt
– Holt’s Gamble (Wild Western Hearts Series, Book 1) by Barbara Ankrum
$2.99:
– Lioness Rampant (Song of the Lioness series Book 4) by Tamora Pierce
– the Kit Rocha Beyond series bundles
TO SHAPE A DRAGON’S BREATH by Moniquill Blackgoose, which I’ve seen rec’d multiple times in the comments here, is currently £0.99 Kindle / £1.99 Kobo UK.
@Kir: Yes, go for it if you haven’t already. One of my favorite books last year.
To Shape a Dragon’s Breath: The First Book of Nampeshiweisit by Moniquill Blackgoose is $1.99 on Amazon US–thank you, @Kir.
Like Elyse, I was drawn to the Phryne Fisher books after seeing the series; the books are 10 times better., and particularly richer in plot and characterization. Greenwoodctypically has more than one plot line going in each book, but they all draw together to address a single theme.
Agree that the Phryne Fisher books are more varied and interesting (and Phryne has more love interests) than the TV series, but the TV series had the clothes and the cars. They were almost characters in their own rights and, shallow person that I am, were among the reasons I watched the shows. I thought Essie Davis was perfectly cast except that she was a decade or so too old for the supposedly 28 year old Phryne. This is more common with male actors, who are often significantly older than the roles they play or the actresses who play their romantic partners, but I think it often doesn’t work for them either. An aside, recently saw Davis play the male lead’s warm and loving mother in ONE DAY, and she’s still quite beautiful, even without the striking Phryne Fisher bobbed hair.
I’m another who found TO SHAPE A DRAGON’S BREATH by Moniquill Blackgoose to be an excellent read.
Seconding the Alyssa Cole novella Once Ghosted Twice Shy, the entire series is excellent as the comment above said. I feel a reread coming.
Free:
– Heartache & Playdates (Single Dad CEO Book 2) by Shawna Renae
– Flirting with the Playboy: A Workplace Romantic Comedy (Harbor Highlands Series) by Gia Stevens
– Flirting with the Enemy: An Enemies to Lovers Romantic Comedy (Harbor Highlands Series) by Gia Stevens
– Feisty Red (Three Chicks Brewery Book 2) by Stacey Kennedy
$.99:
– Finn Factor series titles and Finn’s Pub Romances by R.G. Alexander
– Disciplinary Action by Onley James
– Bayside Heat (Bayside Summers Book 3) by Melissa Foster
$1.99:
– To Have and to Hoax: A Novel (The Regency Vows 1) by Martha Waters
– Off the Ice: A Steamy Gay Hockey Romance (Hat Trick Book 1) by Avon Gale, Piper Vaughn
$2.99:
– Maybe in Another Life: A Novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The rest of the Regency Vows series (by Martha Waters) is also on sale for $1.99 each at Amazon.
I grabbed TO SHAPE A DRAGON’S BREATH on sale and joined the #BadDecisionsBookClub with it last night. No regrets! Amazing, stupendous, unputdownable. I now need to squee coherently on GR about it. But words, they’re hard on three hours of sleep.
People, put it in your TBR/wishlist/whatever! At the top! It gave me the same awesome fantasy-world-building-vibes as Meljean Brook’s THE IRON DUKE and Katherine Addison’s THE GOBLIN EMPEROR did. The I’m-not-quite-sure-what’s-going-on-but-I’M-HERE-FOR-THE-RIDE fantasy world-building vibes.