There’s a great Audible daily deal today, but before I forget: this weekend there’s a 35% unlimited use coupon at Kobo.com, good on a selection of books. If you use code 35OFF, there are romances, thrillers, boxed sets and other books included, with titles such as Lucien’s Fall by Barbara Samuel, which is a classic I reviewed back in 2006. There’s a lot to choose from – so happy shopping!

Code Name Verity

Code Name: Verity by Elizabeth Wein is the Audible Daily Deal today at $3.95. This is an unabridged audiobook narration of just over ten hours, and is performed by Morven Christie and Lucy Gaskell. If you’ve got travel coming up, this book might be a terrific companion – it has a 4 star average, and many, many readers have adored this WWII story.

Oct. 11th, 1943-A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it’s barely begun.

When “Verity” is arrested by the Gestapo, she’s sure she doesn’t stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she’s living a spy’s worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution.

As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage, failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy?

A Michael L. Printz Award Honor book that was called “a fiendishly-plotted mind game of a novel” in The New York Times, Code Name Verity is a visceral read of danger, resolve, and survival that shows just how far true friends will go to save each other.

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The Mail-Order Christmas Brides Boxed Set

The Mail-Order Christmas Brides Boxed Set is .99 at Amazon and Google:Play – I swear, those two fairies must be exhausted. This boxed set is by Jillian Hart and Janet Tronstad and features…wait for it… historical inspiration romances about mail order brides. At Christmas! Surprise! This boxed set has a few reviews since it came out last month, but all of them are positive. Have you read any of these?

USA TODAY bestselling authors Jillian Hart and Janet Tronstad will capture your heart with stories that celebrate the joys and excitement when you combine Christmas with mail-order weddings. Enjoy three romances of adventure and faith in one great bundle!

A little girl longs for a new mother for Christmas so she convinces her single father to advertise for a mail-order wife, whose arrival offers them the chance to forge a real family.

A would-be bride discovers her intended groom has abandoned her before she even arrives but then she unexpectedly falls for the groom’s brother.

A gruff rancher’s marriage offer to a widowed single mother is based solely on convenience…until it becomes a matter of the heart.

This bundle includes:
MAIL-ORDER CHRISTMAS BRIDES
MAIL-ORDER HOLIDAY BRIDES
MAIL-ORDER MISTLETOE BRIDES

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Her Christmas Earl

Her Christmas Earl by Anna Campbell is 99c right now. This is a Regency holiday novella and it has a 3.9-star average on GoodReads. The heroine goes into the hero’s bedroom to retrieve a letter sent by her sister, and ends up rather compromised. Oh, dear. Readers who liked this story loved that the heroine, who is in the background when her more beautiful sister is around, changes slowly but believably during the course of the story.

No good deed goes unpunished…

To save her hen-witted sister from scandal, Philippa Sanders ventures into a rake’s bedroom – and into his power. Now her reputation hangs by a thread and only a hurried marriage can rescue her. Is the Earl of Erskine the heartless libertine the world believes? Or will Philippa discover unexpected honor in a man notorious for his wild ways?

Blair Hume, the dissolute Earl of Erskine, has had his eye on the intriguing Miss Sanders since he arrived at this deadly dull house party. Now a reckless act delivers this beguiling woman into his hands as a delightful Christmas gift. Is fate offering him a fleeting Yuletide diversion? Or will this Christmas Eve encounter spark a passion that lasts a lifetime?

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