Cannonball Read 18

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Why Would Anyone Prefer Yorkshire to Greece?

Bride's Lace by Violet Winspear

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Two years after Bliss’s family home is sold to Paris, she must petition him to save her brother from jail – and the only thing he’ll offer mercy for is her hand in marriage. I’m not entirely convinced that a family that would name their son Justin would name their daughter Bliss, but go off, Harlequin Presents. This has your usual Winspear trademark dark, rich, and apparently sinister hero paired with an innocent heroine rather down on her luck. There’s lots of drama between the […]

He went abruptly still. “Would you rather I stay dressed?” “Please don’t,” I blurted.

All The Hidden Paths by Foz Meadows

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“Slyly I said, “So you do like him.” Markel’s expression was pained. “He’s a familiar sort of stupid, that’s all,” he signed. “Like you at eighteen, but with better hair.” ― Foz Meadows, All the Hidden Paths All The Hidden Paths picks up a few weeks after the end of A Strange and Stubborn Endurance. Still grieving after the events of the first book, Cae and Velasin are summoned to the capitol by the Asa, Tithena’s queen. Cae is the unwilling heir of his grandmother’s […]

You’re not paranoid if everyone is actually trying to kill you.

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles Book 1) by Foz Meadows

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I felt a sudden, furious rush of sympathy for every Ralian woman who’d ever been the subject of marital bartering; I was ashamed of my prior indifference to the phenomenon, and wondered, with a certain, sick fascination, if being raised in expectation of such a fate made enduring it any easier. ― Foz Meadows, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance I bought this book a couple of months ago as it was on my “MUST ACQUIRE” list. However, I cannot remember how I heard about it […]



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