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The Land of Painted Caves is the sixth in Jean M Auel's Earth's Children series. It's £0.99 right now at Kindle UK...

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004LX0DEA

Spoiler:

The triumphant finale in the Earth's Children series, Jean M. Auel's internationally bestselling reconstruction of pre-historic life, when two kinds of human beings, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, shared the earth.

Ayla, Jondalar, and their little daughter, Jonayla are home. Yet Ayla struggles to find a balance between her duties as a new mother and her training to become a Zelandoni - one of the Ninth Cave community's spiritual leaders and healers.

Once again, Jean M. Auel combines her brilliant narrative skills and appealing characters with a remarkable re-creation of the way life was lived thousands of years ago, rendering the terrain, dwelling places, longings, beliefs, creativity and daily lives of Ice Age Europeans as real to the reader as today's news.

Set 25,000 years in the past, yet utterly relatable today, The Land of Painted Caves is an epic tale of love, identity and the struggle to survive, rich in detail of language, culture, myth and ritual.

[library addict]

Weekly Report:

Read:

• Ghostly Game (GhostWalkers #19) by Christine Feehan (C+/3 stars)

Also finished my complete Psy/Changeling series reread.

Purchased:
none

[sufue]

Most of Shannon Mayer's Desert Cursed series is on Kindle Countdown in the US/UK at $0.99/£0.99 each for a few hours more. (For some reason, probably just a mistake ), the seventh one, Den of Thieves, isn't on Countdown...) Oh, and the first two are free!

Here are links to the series pages:

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07959PPD6
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07959PPD6

And, of course, if you paid attention to @apesmom's previous post, a year-and-a-half ago, you already have the first three!

Originally Posted by apesmom

Another Shannon Mayer freebie!

The Desert Cursed Series Boxset (Books 1-3)

Spoiler:

Witch's Reign (Book 1)

They think her an underdog against impossible odds… And she will fight tooth and nail to prove them wrong.

The Witch’s Reign…a land of eternal, unnatural winter ruled by the Ice Witch. In turn, she is guarded by three supernatural creatures who wander her lands hunting for unwary souls, killing any who cross their paths.

To get to the Witch’s Reign, you first must pass through the Dragon’s Ground. Full of dragons, who for the record, do not like trespassers.

This is where I am headed, though my mentor has forbidden me.
My best friend was sent with a team into the Witch’s Reign to recover a powerful jewel that belongs to our mentor, and they are long overdue to come back.

That leaves me, Zamira “Reckless” Wilson to go after my friend. Forbidden or not.
Somehow, I get saddled with a human male tagging along for the ride. A human that is as weak and useless as my own shifting abilities.

Throw in a sentient magical weapon that tries to kill me every time I touch it, and a small dragon that has a penchant for Shakespearean insults, and you’ve got my journey in a nutshell.

May the sands of the desert swallow me whole because this is going to be a damn bumpy ride.

Dragon's Ground (Book 2)

Dragons and danger and magic collide... And it's only Monday.

We survived the land of the Witch’s Reign, that much is true. But our arrival home is far from welcome.

My idiot brother has taken it upon himself to ride off in search of a mythical healer, someone who might help him walk again. Assuming she doesn’t eat him first. Because said healer is a dragon and happens to reside in the deepest reaches of the Dragon’s Ground. Like I said, idiot.

I’d go after him myself, but his leave-taking is not the only problem I face. My mentor has yet again forbidden me to leave the safety of the Stockyards. Her reasoning?

That I am too weak to weather the coming storms.
With my pride wounded in more ways than one, I must gather the few allies’ I have left. My ex-husband's new girlfriend at the top of the list and a goat bleating, oversexed Satyr.

FML.

If I’m lucky I’ll find a small dragon and a Jinn whose blue eyes still haunt my dreams along the way.

Buckle up, buttercup, this ride is about to take a seriously unforeseen twist.

Jinn's Dominion (Book 3)

There was nothing that could have prepared me for Dragon’s Ground. And I thought that nothing could be worse than what I faced there.

Just my black cat bad luck, the world is set to prove me wrong.

South lies the Jinn’s Dominion and within it the members of my Pride who need my help. The further south we go, the more danger comes not only from outside our group but from within.

Ishtar’s new hunters.

Marsum leader of the Jinn.

And the Emperor himself.

All three want something from me. All three claim they can give me the world on a silver platter, to give me my deepest desires.

Color me cautious, but I think all three are lying. Or so it seems until I reach the Jinn’s Dominion and discover the truth…
About who I really am.

And what that means for my fate and the fate of those I love.

[library addict]

Weekly Report:

Read:

• Tempting Acquisitions (Boardrooms and Billionaires #1) by Addison Fox (C+/3 stars)
• Merger to Marriage (Boardrooms and Billionaires #2) by Addison Fox (B/4 stars)
• The Billionaire’s Demands (Boardrooms and Billionaires #3) by Addison Fox (B/4 stars)
• The Girl in the Hard Hat (Barnes Inc #2) by Loretta Hill (A-/5 stars)
• Secret Crush Seduction (The Heirs of Hansol #2) by Jayci Lee (B+/4 stars)

Purchased:
none

[cfrizz]

G. A Aiken's The Heretic Royal is on sale for $1.99

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-heretic-royal

[sufue]

I just tried at Kobo US, and it's back up to $10-ish. Ouch! But luckily still on sale at Kindle US for $1.99: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09KP4Z1CW

But I suspect you need to grab it fast if you want it...

Thanks, @cfrizz

Originally Posted by cfrizz

G. A Aiken's The Heretic Royal is on sale for $1.99

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-heretic-royal

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by cfrizz

G. A Aiken's The Heretic Royal is on sale for $1.99

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-heretic-royal

For what it's worth, my wife wanted it so I had Kobo Canada price match Amazon Canada. No problems with doing so except I've added another $10 Cdn to my store credit.

As for the ebook itself? Why do some people insist on using <div> for paragraps?

[apesmom]

Freebies!

Laws of Physics (Hypothesis #2) by Penny Reid

Spoiler:

One week.
Home alone.
Girl genius.
Unrepentant slacker.
Big lie.
What’s the worst that could happen?

Mona is a smart girl and figured everything out a long time ago. She had to. She didn’t have a choice. When your parents are uber-celebrities and you graduate from high school at fifteen, finish college at eighteen, and start your PhD program at nineteen, you don’t have time for distractions outside of your foci. Even fun is scheduled. Which is why Abram, her brother’s best friend, is such an irritant.

Abram is a talented guy, a supremely gifted musician, and has absolutely nothing figured out, nor does he seem to care. He does what he feels, when he feels, and—in Mona’s opinion—he makes her feel entirely too much.

This is the bundled version of the 'Laws of Physics' trilogy and includes parts 1-3 (MOTION, SPACE, and TIME)

Speakeasy (True North #5) by Sarina Bowen

Spoiler:

Did you hear the one about the girl who walks into a bar and catches her live-in lover kissing someone else? No? You’re the only one in town who missed it.
Luckily Alec is there to wrap me up in strong arms and carry me out the door before things get too ugly. And that’s not all Alec is good at. Our unexpected chemistry makes him the perfect rebound guy.
Alec
I should know better than to hook up with my rival’s little sister, but the fiery look in May’s eyes really turns my crank. She needs cheering up, and I’m just the guy for the job.
It’s not like I’ll fall in love. Not even after a string of scorching hot trysts, and the realization that we’re good at the same things: wild nights and familial disappointment. I don’t do love, never have, never will. So this is the perfect arrangement, for both of us.
Nobody would approve, but nobody has to know…

This is a stand-alone novel set in the True North world.

White Lady's Lion (Warrior #1) by Lara Adrian
Previously published by Ivy 2001 under name Tina St. John

Spoiler:

A dark knight on a scoundrel's mission kidnaps the bride of his enemy, unaware that the beauty he's stolen is the sweet young girl he adored as a boy. With a bounty on her capture and his tarnished honor put to the test, what will he choose? Read this full length standalone medieval romance for FREE in Kindle Unlimited for the first time!

She was promised to another, but her heart belonged to him alone . . .
Abducted on the way to her wedding, heiress Isabel de Lamere is unaware that the scoundrel planning to use her for his own gain is the cherished champion on her childhood: Griffin, the White Lion. Yet even as she discovers his treachery, Isabel cannot deny that Griffin lingers in her dreams, awakening the passion in her steadfast heart.

Then a twist of fate puts a price on both their heads, embroiling them in a life-and-death chase that will force Griffin to choose between his own freedom and his fierce desire for the woman who would redeem his noble spirit. But to reclaim his lost honor, the White Lion could lose Isabel forever. . .

[sufue]

If you've missed the Alphabet Regency Romance Complete Box Set, which collects the twelve books in this series by Kasey Michaels, when it's been on sale, now two of the individual titles are free - one via conventional retailers, and one via Bookfunnel for subscribers of Michaels' newsletter. And there's also another title free for new subscribers to the the newsletter. Some of these have been posted before, but it's been quite a while, so....

The Tenacious Miss Tamerlane
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004XWPOAC
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004XWPOAC
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...ss-tamerlane-1
Nook US: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/110...=2940151841405

And for the other two, I don't want to short-circuit her newsletter, but you can sign up for it here: https://www.kaseymichaels.com

And then you'll receive Moonlight Masquerade, which is also part of the Alphabet Series, and Stuck in Shangri-La, which is not.

I had a review copy of Michaels' 2019 book, Shall We Dance?, a while back, and enjoyed it a lot. But haven't gotten around to trying any of these free books yet...

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Originally Posted by sufue

If you've missed the Alphabet Regency Romance Complete Box Set, which collects the twelve books in this series by Kasey Michaels, when it's been on sale

For what it may be worth, Kobo Canada and Amazon Canada have the set on sale for $9.99 Cdn which works out to ~83 cents per book. Likely elsewhere as well.

Amazon.CA:
Alphabet Regency Romance Complete Box Set

Kobo.CA: Alphabet Regency Romance Complete Box Set

[apesmom]

Freebie!

Ink (Love Stories on 7th and Main #1) by Elizabeth Hunter

Spoiler:

It’s everything but business as usual

Emmie Elliot hadn’t expected to come back to Metlin, California. She definitely didn’t expect to stay. She returned to her childhood home with a mission: sell the building that housed her grandmother’s bookstore and move on with her life.

But life doesn’t always go according to plan.

To reopen her grandmother’s bookshop, Emmie will need a hook. She’ll need a strategy. She’ll need an… Ox?

Miles Oxford doesn’t have much interest in quiet bookstore owners. He’s a tattoo artist without a space to work, and the last thing he wants is to get involved with anyone after his last disaster of a relationship. Work and pleasure don’t mix for Ox, but since he doesn’t have any interest in the cute girl with the bold business proposal, he should be safe from any awkward complications, right?

She sells ink. He tattoos it. Unusual? Yes. But a bookshop/tattoo studio might be the ticket for both Emmie and Ox to find success on their own terms. As long as they keep their attention focused on business.

Just on business.

Book lovers will enjoy Emmie's literary swoons, while those who thrill to bad boys will enjoy Ox's blunt talk and big heart.

[sufue]

It also occasionally goes on sale for even less - it was $0.99, which was basically free IMO , back in Jan 2022, and drops to $2.99 maybe every couple of years, per eReaderIQ. So it's all in how patient one is! Me, $0.83 per book sounds pretty good - but it can get better - a lot better!

Originally Posted by DNSB

For what it may be worth, Kobo Canada and Amazon Canada have the set on sale for $9.99 Cdn which works out to ~83 cents per book. Likely elsewhere as well.

Amazon.CA:
Alphabet Regency Romance Complete Box Set

Kobo.CA: Alphabet Regency Romance Complete Box Set

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by sufue

It also occasionally goes on sale for even less - it was $0.99, which was basically free IMO , back in Jan 2022, and drops to $2.99 maybe every couple of years, per eReaderIQ. So it's all in how patient one is! Me, $0.83 per book sounds pretty good - but it can get better - a lot better!

I remember picking it up for my wife when it was $2.99.

[sufue]

Today's Big Deal at Kindle UK is nine Mary Stewart titles for £0.99 each, including three of my four favorite titles of hers: Madam, Will You Talk?, This Rough Magic, and The Moon Spinners. But I like pretty much all of her books ...

link to the Deal webpage: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?node=4725112031

Oh, and the other six are: Rose Cottage, Airs above the Ground, Thornyhold, Nine Coaches Waiting, Stormy Petrel and The Ivy Tree...

[library addict]

Weekly Report:

Read:

• Small Town, Big Magic (Witchlore #1) by Hazel Beck (A/5 stars)
• Identity by Nora Roberts (B/4 stars)
• Dragon Bond by Ruby Lionsdrake (B/4 stars)
• Jingle This! by Stephanie Rowe (F/1 star)
• Ghost of a Chance by Caridad Piñeiro (D-/1 star)

Purchased:
none