Both today and tomorrow, Therese Heckenkamp's Past Suspicion is available as a free Kindle download. I reviewed it here a week or two ago, so give it a look and go get it while it's up for grabs.
And tomorrow is the launch date of Melissa Wiley's The Prairie Thief. You may know Melissa as the author of two series of novels about Laura Ingalls Wilder's grandmother and great-grandmother. The Martha Years and The Charlotte Years were the stuff of my childhood, and I even clearly remember liking Martha better than Laura, though in Charlotte's case it was more of a tie. What I loved about Martha was that she lived in the Highlands and got to listen in on all the legends about brownies and sprites and Tam O' Shanter--and there were times when Martha's active determination to meet the wee folk blurred the edges and you wondered if the series was about to go from Historical Fiction to Historical Fantasy. You knew, of course, that it could never be, this being a straightforward and factually-accurate series published by HarperCollins, but you still couldn't help but hope--was our heroine ever going to befriend a brownie?
Well, in The Prairie Thief, that's exactly what (finally!) happens. I feel as if I'm witnessing something that's been in the cards for a long, long time. Get this book as soon as it's out, because it's probably going to be unlike anything you've ever read before, and you'll want to be in on it first. I'm personally going to be the first in my family to snatch that preorder off the doorstep.
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