Bargain (Kindle/Nook/Sony) Tooth and Claw (Fantasy) $2.99

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Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton, a fantasy with dragons and "the result of wondering what a world would be like if the axioms of the sentimental Victorian novel were inescapable laws of biology" is just $2.99 (from $9.99) for the Kindle, Nook, Sony.

Product Description
A tale of contention over love and money—among dragons

Jo Walton burst onto the fantasy scene with The King’s Peace, acclaimed by writers as diverse as Poul Anderson, Robin Hobb, and Ken MacLeod. In 2002, she was voted the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

Now Walton returns with a very different kind of fantasy story: the tale of a family dealing with the death of their father, of a son who goes to law for his inheritance, a son who agonizes over his father's deathbed confession, a daughter who falls in love, a daughter who becomes involved in the abolition movement, and a daughter sacrificing herself for her husband.

Except that everyone in the story is a dragon, red in tooth and claw.

Here is a world of politics and train stations, of churchmen and family retainers, of courtship and country houses...in which, on the death of an elder, family members gather to eat the body of the deceased. In which society’s high-and-mighty members avail themselves of the privilege of killing and eating the weaker children, which they do with ceremony and relish, growing stronger thereby.

P.S. The Prize in the Game (the author's first book) was released under creative commons license and is free

[Nahgem]

I've read Tooth and Claw and it was fantastic. Thanks for the heads-up.

[birdbrainbb]

Wow, this looks really good! And I have Amazon gift cards from Christmas presents. Yay!