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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


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If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

Cry of Metal & Bone by L. Penelope

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Also by L. Penelope:

Brutal Fortress, March 2024
Trade Size / e-Book
Beastly Kingdom, May 2023
Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
Savage City, April 2022
Trade Size / e-Book
Requiem of Silence, March 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
Under a Winter Sky, November 2020
e-Book
Cry of Metal & Bone, August 2020
Trade Size / e-Book / audiobook
Whispers of Shadow & Flame, October 2019
Trade Size / e-Book
Song of Blood & Stone, May 2018
Hardcover / e-Book

CRY OF METAL & BONE
By: L. Penelope

Earthsinger Chronicles #3
St. Martin's Griffin
August 2020
On Sale: August 11, 2020
496 pages
ISBN: 1250148111
EAN: 9781250148117
Kindle: B07ZMS8VDP
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Fantasy

L. Penelope's stunning epic fantasy Earthsinger Chronicles continues with Cry of Metal & Bone.

The Mantle dividing Elsira and Lagrimar has fallen. As the two kingdoms struggle to unify, one threat stands above them all.

As desperate Lagrimari flee their barren land for a chance at a better life in Elsira, a shadowy group with ties to the Elsiran government launches an attack on their own soil. With threats of more violence, an unlikely crew is assembled to investigate. Among them are Lizvette Nirall, a disgraced socialite seeking redemption for past mistakes, and Tai Summerhawk, a foreign smuggler determined to keep a promise he made to a dead man.

It’s a race against time in this world of deadly magic, secret agendas and court intrigue to discover those responsible before the next assault. And in another land a new enemy awakens--one that will strike terror into the hearts of gods and men.

Earthsinger

Song of Blood & Stone
SONG OF BLOOD & STONE
#1.0 β€’ May 2018
Whispers of Shadow & Flame
WHISPERS OF SHADOW & FLAME
#2.0 β€’ October 2019
Cry of Metal & Bone
CRY OF METAL & BONE
#3.0 β€’ August 2020
Requiem of Silence
REQUIEM OF SILENCE
#4.0 β€’ March 2021