The first title in Jennifer Estep's relatively new Crown of Shards series was on sale a little while ago, and I sort of got hooked by the first couple of sentences in the sample:
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The day of the royal massacre started out like any other. With me doing something completely, utterly useless.
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So I snagged it, read it, and enjoyed it. Although at its heart it's kind of "trope-y", with a minor royal who is forced to flee, face the real world, learn a lot, deploy some of her "useless" skills learned at court in interesting ways, and then come back to have it out with the wicked royal who forced her out, I thought Estep did the trope quite well and found it to be engaging and fun. (There's a reason tropes are tropes...)
All of which is a long way of explaining why I was happy to see the second book in the series,
Protect the Prince, go on sale at Kindle UK for £1.99 - probably, although I haven't verified it, as part of the new monthly sale. Here's the link:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07CRDFG8H
Oh, and BTW, the first book,
Kill the Queen, is still on sale for $1.99 at Kindle US, although it's been on sale for quite a while, so if you want it, I'd snag it fast. Link:
https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Queen-Cr...dp/B0756FHNV7/