And now for this week’s covers!
First up – we have the YA, Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood which looks fantastic.
Everybody knows Cate Cahill and her sisters are eccentric. Too pretty, too reclusive, and far too educated for their own good. But the truth is even worse: they’re witches. And if their secret is discovered by the priests of the Brotherhood, it would mean an asylum, a prison ship—or an early grave.
Before her mother died, Cate promised to protect her sisters. But with only six months left to choose between marriage and the Sisterhood, she might not be able to keep her word . . . especially after she finds her mother’s diary, uncovering a secret that could spell her family’s destruction. Desperate to find alternatives to their fate, Cate starts scouring banned books and questioning rebellious new friends, all while juggling tea parties, shocking marriage proposals, and a forbidden romance with the completely unsuitable Finn Belastra.
If what her mother wrote is true, the Cahill girls aren’t safe. Not from the Brotherhood, the Sisterhood—not even from each other.
Sabrina Jeffries, A Lady Never Surrenders which looks fun!
When the youngest Sharpe sister hatches a plan to gain marriage offers, the straight-laced Bow Street Runner Jackson Pinter knows he’ll do whatever it takes to ruin her scheme…
Lady Celia Sharpe hopes that if she can garner offers of marriage from several eligible gentlemen and show her grandmother she is capable of gaining a husband, she can convince Gran to rescind the marriage ultimatum for her. And if that plan doesn’t work, at least she’ll have a husband lined up. But Bow Street Runner Jackson Pinter seems determined to ruin her plans by disapproving of every suitor she asks him to investigate. It’s only when she and Jackson work together to solve her parents’ murders, plunging them both into danger, that she realizes why—because the only man he wants her to marry is himself!
And I really really am looking forward for these two books. Courtney Milan’s Unravelled and Jennifer Ashley’s The Duke’s Perfect Wife.
And finally we have Nadia Lee’s upcoming book slated for release this December from Carina:
Ashera del Cid is a talented demon hunter, but when she kills a demigod’s pet dragon, the hunter becomes the hunted. Her only potential ally is Ramiel, a sexy-as-hell demon. Now the two must work together to battle dragons and demigods…and the chemistry crackling between them.
Ramiel has his own reasons for offering Ashera his protection. He knows her true identity and the real reason the demigods want her dead. What he can’t predict is how she’ll react when she discovers he knew who she was all along…
Ashera is shocked to discover that she is the only daughter of the last slayer. To claim her destiny, she and Ramiel must join forces to face down danger and outwit their enemies. Only then will she be able to truly accept her legacy…
If it's true that Penguin is going to try to sell old Regencies and backlists at $6.99 for the ebook copy, they really do deserve to fail. They just keep shooting themselves in the foot and they have no one to blame but themselves when the inevitable happens and they are driven out of business. I would NEVER buy one of these books at that price.
I'm looking forward to the books by Jeffries, Milan and Ashley. Thanks for posting the covers.
The new Kobo certainly looks interesting!
Thanks for posting the covers.lov the dragon 1
I stopped reading at "when she kills a demigod's pet dragon…"
KILLS the dragon? Travesty! I've lost all interest in the Hearstone Trilogy.
At least I managed to get Harlequin to let me download the ebooks I bought years ago before they close down the format. Now, if only they would remove the DRM, then I can convert the ebooks with calibre to a format I can use in my Kindle.
Also, if Amazon is not going to use mobi anymore, what am I to read on my Kindle? pdf is horrible on Kindle. At times like this, I'm glad for my paper books.
And I won't pay $6.99 for an ebook, no matter the size of the file.
Not to be too grumpy, but I'm bummed that Sabrina Jeffries' "A Lady Never Surrenders" has a woman by herself on the cover. The rest of the series have at least a guy (and a couple of them were Paul Marron).
Upside (and a great upside it is), I'm looking forward to "The Duke's Perfect Wife" – topless Paul Marron in a kilt! Woohoo!
Thanks for these updates! Ditto than Penguin is out-pricing themselves into shutting down that line of business.
Personally, I'm thrilled to see the mobi file format go. There are already way too many, and god help you if you want to change devices. That's the reason I'll only buy pdf editions since I have no problems switching them between my Sony ereader and my iPad.
A bit of book news to share with you: Former head editor with Aspen Mountain Press goes public with the implosion of an established publishing house and brings to light the plight of the authors stuck there. I'm personally not involved with AMP, but definitely found this info important to know: http://kaantira.blogspot.com/2011/10/breaking-my-silence-on-aspen-mountain.html
Thanks again for posting this!
Smiles!
Lori
Sheree…THANK YOU for putting a name to that body. :o)
-New Paul Marron Fan
On another note, I guess Im not understanding the whole mobi closeout. As another poster mentioned, what the deuce else are we supposed to use on a Kindle (outside of the proprietary AZW)? I buy a lot of books on from other sites (direct from publisher when possible), so hopefully that will work out. I love my Kindle, but I refuse to be 100% locked in to the device.