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Originally Posted by pisceschick
I just thought I'd update since I mentioned it before that indeed the Texas Lily book is unrelated to the other three books in the series, except by the "Texas" theme. I just finished the Rose book, and characters from it appear in the description for one of the later two books and the hero for the other book is a sibling not yet introduced.
Lily is set during the Texas Revolution (in fact, the Alamo battle is a plot point and several historical figures appear) in the mid-1830s, and the other three books take place a few years after the Civil War (1860s).
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Thanks for the heads up! So Lily is a stand alone. This ePublishing Works! seems to thrive on sneaky tactics like adding a series together that really isn't. It's my understanding that many authors are going with them because they handle pretty much everything even price sets. To me they do good formatting and a nice pretty cover then rechange the title or add it to a series and sell the book for a higher price. I saw some old Harlequins being sold for $3.99 from them today.
The other Lily books are over $4. They were $4.99
Sharon Ihle who I complained about in last month's thread about retitling her books and then selling them again after deleting the old versions forcing customers to rebuy to get fixed copies is with them now. I then found Patricia Rice doing the same thing and went and did some investigating. I found out it isn't so much the authors who are to blame for this but this particular publishing company they are going with. So be careful when buying from them. It's possibly you may have the book already or it's a small book for a high price like a Harlequin for near $4.
I suppose you could look at it like the books should contain no errors and be near professional quality for the price paid for a backlist title. Still it irks me that they are not using the same AISNs So I guess the only one who loses money here is us.