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A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting
A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting by Sophie Irwin is $2.99 and a Kindle Daily Deal! This one was mentioned in a previous Hide Your Wallet, though we don’t have a formal review. Did any of you read it? What did you think?
A whip-smart debut that follows the adventures of an entirely unconventional heroine who throws herself into the London Season to find a wealthy husband. But the last thing she expects is to find love…
Kitty Talbot needs a fortune. Or rather, she needs a husband who has a fortune. Left with her father’s massive debts, she has only twelve weeks to save her family from ruin.
Kitty has never been one to back down from a challenge, so she leaves home and heads toward the most dangerous battleground in all of England: the London season.
Kitty may be neither accomplished nor especially genteel—but she is utterly single-minded; imbued with cunning and ingenuity, she knows that risk is just part of the game.
The only thing she doesn’t anticipate is Lord Radcliffe. The worldly Radcliffe sees Kitty for the mercenary fortune-hunter that she really is and is determined to scotch her plans at all costs, until their parrying takes a completely different turn…
This is a frothy pleasure, full of brilliant repartee and enticing wit—one that readers will find an irresistible delight.
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The Starless Sea
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern is $2.99 and a Kindle Daily Deal! A lot of readers found this to be a highly anticipated release, given their previous love for Morgenstern’s The Night Circus. Aarya reviewed this one and gave it a B-.
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world–a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.
Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues–a bee, a key, and a sword–that lead him to a masquerade party in New York, to a secret club, and through a doorway to an ancient library, hidden far below the surface of the earth.
What Zachary finds in this curious place is more than just a buried home for books and their guardians–it is a place of lost cities and seas, lovers who pass notes under doors and across time, and of stories whispered by the dead. Zachary learns of those who have sacrificed much to protect this realm, relinquishing their sight and their tongues to preserve this archive, and also those who are intent on its destruction. Together with Mirabel, a fierce, pink-haired protector of the place, and Dorian, a handsome, barefoot man with shifting alliances, Zachary travels the twisting tunnels, darkened stairwells, crowded ballrooms, and sweetly-soaked shores of this magical world, discovering his purpose–in both the mysterious book and in his own life.
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Can’t Let Her Go
Can’t Let Her Go by Kianna Alexander is $1.99 at Amazon! Shana mentioned this one on a previous Whatcha Reading. I love all the warm orange tones of the cover.
Friends to lovers? There’s a lot to consider, a lot to hope for, and a lot at risk in a steamy and emotional romance by the bestselling author of Can’t Resist Her.
Peaches Monroe and Jamie Hunt are core members of their Texas friend squad and have so much in common. They’re successful at their careers in personal care. They take Austin’s “Keep It Weird” vibe to heart, each leaning into their own unique talents and sense of style. And they’re both ready to go on to even bigger things. Is pushing past the boundaries of friendship into something deeper one of them? The red-hot fantasy is there…but so is real life.
Jamie’s college dreams will take her far from her hometown. She’s already road-tripping to possibilities from San Antonio to Houston. And Peaches has obligations of her own. Not only is she planning to expand her business, but she’s taking care of her family after her mother’s passing, leaving her overwhelmed and under pressure.
No matter how perfect Jamie and Peaches are for each other, is this the right time for romance? Finding their true selves comes first. Only then can they hope to pursue a future of lasting love—together.
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The Lost Story
The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer is $6.99! This is a little pricier than what we normally feature but it’s still a good discount from the ebook price and it’s a relatively new release (July 2024). I mentioned this on Get Rec’d because I heard it described as “CSI: Narnia.”
Inspired by C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy tale for grown-ups who still knock on the back of wardrobes—just in case—from the author of The Wishing Game.
As boys, best friends Jeremy Cox and Rafe Howell went missing in a vast West Virginia state forest, only to mysteriously reappear six months later with no explanation for where they’d gone or how they’d survived.
Fifteen years after their miraculous homecoming, Rafe is a reclusive artist who still bears scars inside and out but has no memory of what happened during those months. Meanwhile, Jeremy has become a famed missing persons’ investigator. With his uncanny abilities, he is the one person who can help vet tech Emilie Wendell find her sister, who vanished in the very same forest as Rafe and Jeremy.
Jeremy alone knows the fantastical truth about the disappearances, for while the rest of the world was searching for them, the two missing boys were in a magical realm filled with impossible beauty and terrible danger. He believes it is there that they will find Emilie’s sister. However, Jeremy has kept Rafe in the dark since their return for his own inscrutable reasons. But the time for burying secrets comes to an end as the quest for Emilie’s sister begins. The former lost boys must confront their shared past, no matter how traumatic the memories.
Alongside the headstrong Emilie, Rafe and Jeremy must return to the enchanted world they called home for six months—for only then can they get back everything and everyone they’ve lost.
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I just finished listening to the audio version of THE LOST STORY. It’s more Narnia meets The Tracker (CBS TV) and while there is a queen, a princess, a prince, and a knight and a HEA, I’ll leave it to the reader/listener to discover whose it is. The writing is tight and lyrical and sweet and melancholy and I put it on my “Best Book of the Year” shelf on Goodreads. I tend to be an outlier when it comes to books with lots of hype but I’m really glad I followed my instincts on this one. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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“One Night for Love” by Mary Balogh is $4.99 at Amazon, which I think is a sale price.
“Necrobane” by Daniel M. Ford is $2.99 across all platforms. It’s fantasy–newly-graduated necromancer goes investigating a rash of undead in the woods with her companions–with a subtle sweet sapphic romance in amongst the adventuring.
I loved A LADY’S GUIDE TO FORTUNE HUNTING. It is well written, witty, and fun. I enjoyed it so much that I bought Sophie Irwin’s second book from Blackwell’s (UK) because it was available sooner in England than here.
Just for FYI: Meg Shaffer is a new pen name for Tiffany Reisz
The Price of Desire by Jo Goodman (which @flchen1 mentioned above) is my favorite book by Jo Goodman. Be prepared for serious issues.
@Kareni: Yeah, she doesn’t pull her punches. She worked for Family Services IRL, and some of that comes through in her books. I thought I had all of those Goodman’s, but apparently only in paper. Just remedied that. The first three Dennehy Sisters books are also available in a box set for $9.99. I really miss her. It’s been four years since she published anything, and that was a self-pubbed contemporary.
Suzanne Enoch’s Barefoot in the Dark, book 1 of her Sam and Rick series, is 0.99! I have not read this one yet, but it seems to be a continuation of the Samantha Jellicoe series which I loved, so I snapped it up!
@Sandra – There are a lot of authors whom I wish would write at least one more book :-). Or who changed their pen names and I didn’t know. Maybe this could be a new SBTB feature? I don’t wish to pressure them, but it would be nice to know…
I enjoyed A Lady’s guide very much, but I did listen to it on audio
A LADY’S GUIDE TO FORTUNE HUNTING was a hard no DNF from me. I was so utterly irritated by the MMC and his stupid fixation on the FMC’s gold-digging. Like, no shit women have to marry well in your caste – that’s literally their only job. She’s not targeting you so why are you getting yourself involved? Step OFF. ITS NONE YA BUSINESS.