What’s Up?
First of all! Congratulations to Susana Perez, who won a $10 Dreamspinner Gift Card from the Prodigal cover reveal on Boy Meets Boy!
If you missed the big tah-dah, then here you go. The absolutely freaking gorgeous cover for Prodigal by TA Moore, which is out Feb next year but can be pre-ordered now.
It’s the first in the three book Lost and Found series.
Before Prodigal, however, we have….drum roll please…Swipe, which is out on Dec 31. The blog tour has just been finalised, so check it out below! (If it isn’t there, I forgot to grab my laptop at lunchtime and load the graphic. Don’t judge!)
Let’s see. What else. I’ve got nothing, unless you want to hear the details about my upcoming asthma check up? Even that isn’t very exciting. I just have to blow into a tube while the nurse tells me I can ‘do better than that’. Let me tell you, there’s little more deflating in the world than being told you’re flunking breath.
Book Rec of the Week
The Art of Possession
by Cari Z
There is little I love more in the world than A: capers and B: Treasure hunt capers. I was glued to Hooten and the Lady, I devoured the Vicky Bliss and Amelia Peabody series by Elisabeth Peters, and basically any pulp novel that contained the words ‘disgraced’ ‘treasure’ or ‘archaeologist’ in any combination.
So…Cari Z might as well have written this for me.
When a treasure-hunting black ops soldier and a disgraced, reckless archeologist team up in search of a priceless artifact, they might get more than they bargained for.
Ever since leaving the Green Berets to work in private security, Alex Tucker has longed for some excitement—and he’s about to get his wish.
Archeologist Malcolm Armstrong needs the chance to prove he isn’t a fraud. Along with Alex, he’s hired to track down and authenticate a valuable scepter, in a hunt that turns deadlier than either of them imagined as they search dangerous locations across three continents and try to stay ahead of the factions who want the treasure for themselves—and Malcolm and Alex dead.
Just as they realize the feelings between them transcend convenience and the thrill of the chase, a rival reemerges, threatening everything.
In case you were wondering.
This makes me want to hunt out all my own Shadowrunner books.
Deal of the Week
Get the eBook of His Cursed Prince by Ryan Loveless for $1. Sale ends November 18, 2019 at 11:59 PM ET
Three facts about Tuckington Belle:
1. Given the choice between illegally scaling the royal castle’s walls to steal flowers for a client at his family’s dress shop or going on a date with a girl his brother set him up with (“He’s fertile, and he can sew!”), Tuck will scale the wall like a spider after a fly.
2. If, upon knocking himself unconscious when he falls off the wall, Tuck wakes up bruised, blindfolded, and inside the castle, where—based on the unearthly wails heard nightly—the prince no one has seen in ten years is probably a ghost, Tuck would still choose this over a date with a girl.
3. Tuck thinks it’s time to admit he’s gay.
Three facts about Prince Frederick George Deor (Read and approved with great reluctance by Lord “Protocol is Protocol. Stop Being a Pain About It” Todd):
1. He brought a curse upon himself and now bears the skin of a snake.
2. He can’t take his eyes off the injured thief recovering in the castle.
3. Friendships born from lying and insisting the other person wears a blindfold can blossom into true love—which he needs to break the curse.
This is why we don’t pick up hitchhikers, Rhys! Also why we don’t hitchhike, since why does the guy driving that car make his wife and child sit in back? EASE OF STABBING is probably the answer.
This is so good. I often wish I could Art, but even if I could draw it would never be this good.
Recover by David Ambarzumjan. Check out the rest of his work here.
Must Read of the Week
This is a fascinating read. Marie Allen Wilmerding doesn’t sound like she made a lot of good decisions, but she definitely deserved better treatment than she received.
Meet Marie Wilmerding, the Vanderbilt Heiress Who Was Involuntarily Institutionalized After Drinking and Smoking Her Way Across Europe
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a young woman in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a committee of older men to lock her up in a sanitarium against her wishes and take control of her estate. That’s part of the sad story of Marie Wilmerding, a Gilded Age society belle who was sent to the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum in White Plains, New York after selling some of her estate at a loss to fund a manic whisky-and-absinthe-fueled visit with her dying father in Capri in 1898.
So wrong, but so impressive! Happy Thanksgiving!