Today's Kindle Daily Deal is 20 novels for adults and teens by top romance authors for just $1.99 each (two are only $0.99).- Risky Business, by Nora Roberts
- Big Sky Mountain, by Linda Lael Miller
- Catching Fireflies (The Sweet Magnolias), by Sherryl Woods
- All He Ever Needed (The Kowalskis), by Shannon Stacey
- Wicked Nights, by Gena Showalter
- The Unholy (Krewe of Hunters), by Heather Graham
- Playing Dirty, by Susan Andersen
- Undone by Her Tender Touch, by Maya Banks ($0.99)
- Within Reach, by Sarah Mayberry ($0.99)
- Real Men Will, by Victoria Dahl
- Lakeside Cottage (The Lakeshore Chronicles), by Susan Wiggs
- The Wrangler, by Lindsay McKenna
- Secrets of the Lost Summer (A Swift River Valley Novel), by Carla Neggers
- Dreams of Forever: Seduction, Westmoreland Style\Spencer's Forbidden Passion, by Brenda Jackson
- The Iron King, by Julie Kagawa
- The Goddess Test, by Aimée Carter
- Pushing the Limits, by Katie McGarry
- The Immortal Rules (Blood of Eden), by Julie Kagawa
- Speechless, by Hannah Harrington
- Forever Buckhorn: Gabe\Jordan (Buckhorn Brothers), by Lori Foster
Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is Touch of Power ($1.99), the first title in the Avry of Kazan series by Maria V. Snyder.Book Description
Laying hands upon the injured and dying, Avry of Kazan absorbs their wounds and diseases into herself. But rather than being honored for her skills, she is hunted. Healers like Avry are accused of spreading the plague that has decimated the Fifteen Realms, leaving the survivors in a state of chaos.
Stressed and tired from hiding, Avry is abducted by a band of rogues who, shockingly, value her gift above the golden bounty offered for her capture. Their leader, an enigmatic captor-protector with powers of his own, is unequivocal in his demands: Avry must heal a plague-stricken prince—leader of a campaign against her people. As they traverse the daunting Nine Mountains, beset by mercenaries and magical dangers, Avry must decide who is worth healing and what is worth dying for. Because the price of peace may well be her life….
The Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK is three titles for £0.99 each (~80% off).Swimming Home (Main/UK), by Deborah Levy (US edition $8.53)
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012.The Firemaker (Main/UK), by Peter May US edition $7.99)
Swimming Home is a subversive page-turner, a merciless gaze at the insidious harm that depression can have on apparently stable, well-turned-out people. Set in a summer villa, the story is tautly structured, taking place over a single week in which a group of beautiful, flawed tourists in the French Riviera come loose at the seams.
A burned corpse is a disturbing mystery for Beijing Detective Li Yan, until he enlists forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell. Having abandoned a broken life in Chicago for her work, she’s as determined as Li to ask difficult questions about the man’s death. But some questions have answers that they’d rather not hear; facts that others are desperate to conceal.The Eagle of the Ninth Chronicles (Main/UK), by Rosemary Sutcliff (US edition $8.99)
Peter May is the author of The Blackhouse, The Lewis Man and The Chessmen. The Firemaker is the first of his China thrillers. He lives in France.
The Ninth Legion marched into the mists of northern Britain-and they were never seen again. Four thousand men disappeared and their eagle standard was lost. It's a mystery that's never been solved, until now . . . So begins the story of The Eagle of the Ninth, set against a backdrop of Roman Britain and featuring a young soldier, Marcus Aquila, who sets off into the unknown north to find out what happened to the lost legion. Following on from this are The Silver Branch in which two young soldiers uncover a plot to overthrow the Emperor, and The Lantern Bearers which is set at a time when the Romans are leaving the shores of Britain and tells of Aquila who, having served in the Roman army, is now returning home to his farm-but when he gets there everything he knows and loves has been destroyed and so he sets out to seek revenge. To have three such exciting stories in one volume is a treat for fans old and new.
The Shoemaker's Wife ($7.99 Kindle, $1.99 B&N), by Adriana Trigiani, is the Nook Daily Find.Book Description
The fateful first meeting of Enza and Ciro takes place amid the haunting majesty of the Italian Alps at the turn of the last century. Still teenagers, they are separated when Ciro is banished from his village and sent to hide in New York's Little Italy, apprenticed to a shoemaker, leaving a bereft Enza behind. But when her own family faces disaster, she, too, is forced to emigrate to America. Though destiny will reunite the star-crossed lovers, it will, just as abruptly, separate them once again—sending Ciro off to serve in World War I, while Enza is drawn into the glamorous world of the opera . . . and into the life of the international singing sensation Enrico Caruso. Still, Enza and Ciro have been touched by fate—and, ultimately, the power of their love will change their lives forever.
A riveting historical epic of love and family, war and loss, risk and destiny, inspired by the author's own family history, The Shoemaker's Wife is the novel Adriana Trigiani was born to write.
