Free (nook/Kindle/iTunes/DRM-free) Blood Oath [YA 1140s England Adventure Mystery]

[ATDrake]

Blood Oath by award-winning Australian author Felicity Pulman (ISFDB, Wikipedia) is the 1st in her Janna Chronicles (or Janna Mysteries, depending on which set of listings you look at) series of YA historical mystery adventures (Wikipedia) set in medieval England during the 12th century civil war (Wikipedia) between Empress Matilda & King Stephen, as the eponymous heroine goes on a quest to track down her father in the wake of her mother's death and encounters and thwarts/solves crimes along the way, free courtesy of publisher Pan Macmillan Australia's Momentum imprint, who are e-printing it from its 2005 Random House Australia edition originally out under the title Rosemary For Remembrance.

This is apparently being made free to promote the re-release under the Momentum aegis of the further installments in the series.

Currently free @ B&N UK (will likely also drop in the main store eventually), Amazon (available to Canadians & in the UK), Kobo & iTunes (both available to Canadians and DRM-free at Kobo), and directly from the publisher's webstore (DRM-free ePub/Mobi bundle available worldwide).

And this has been the (late!) selected 3rd (non-repeat) free ebook thread of the day.

Because mystery, history, and adventure all rolled into one, with an intelligent-seeming feisty protagonist set in medieval England by an award-winning YA author who Did The Research™ and available DRM-free worldwide to boot. I'd have probably loved this when I was 10 or 12 and going through my Tudor and events-prior-to phase, and even now it looks potentially awesometastic to me, so

Enjoy!

Description
Love, revenge, secrets – and murder – in a medieval kingdom at war.

A young woman, left alone and destitute after the mysterious death of her mother, plants a sprig of rosemary on her grave and vows, somehow, to bring the murderer to justice. But who can Janna trust with the truth? Even the villein Godric, who wants to marry her, and Hugh, the dashing nobleman, have secrets that threaten her heart and her safety.

In a country torn apart by the vicious civil war between King Stephen and the Empress Matilda, Janna needs all her wits and courage to stay alive as she comes closer to those who are determined to silence her forever.

[ATDrake]

Now also free @ B&N main (linkage in OP) & Google Play (available to Canadians).

Incidentally, this is now the iTunes Canada & UK store's featured Free Book of the Week.