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| by Deena | Mar 11, 2009 | Category: Events
Tags: Chocolatier's Wife, Cindy Lynn Speer, free, read an ebook week
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The next book we’re offering is Cindy Lynn Speer’s The Chocolatier’s Wife. This is a large file with decorative chapter titles, so be patient if it takes a little bit. We’re especially pleased to be offering a book of Cindy’s because she edited the anthology, “StereoOpticon: Fairy Tales in Split Vision,” a really great collection of short stories by some extremely talented authors. It will be out next week.

Don’t forget to register first, the link is in the left sidebar near the bottom, and be logged in before you click to download the book. We’re offering all of our free ebooks in PDF this week, but you can also find them in Mobipocket and Microsoft Reader on the website, at Amazon for the Kindle, and on Fictionwise for the iphone. We’ll be offering them in a self-contained HTML file (Windows only at present) next week, and there will be new releases going up this week and next, so be sure to check back.

Tasmin, William’s wife to be, was chosen by a spell, as all wives and husbands are chosen. It’s a nice, tidy way to find a reasonable mate for almost everyone. Unfortunately, Tasmin is from the North, a place of magic and strange ritual, and William is from the South, where people pride themselves on being above the kind of insanity practiced by the Northerners, which has nothing to do with the fact that most people in the South have lost their ability to practice magic.

William doesn’t seem in a hurry to send for Tasmin, for which none of his family blame him. After all, she’s a barbarian. She, on the other hand, would like to know what’s keeping him. When he’s framed for murdering his patron, Tasmin takes matters into her own hands, harnessing the wind to bring her to William’s side. She’s gotten to know Wiliam from his letters. He’s not a murderer and she’s going to help him prove it.

William, incarcerated for a crime he didn’t commit is shunned by his family for the embarrassment, and for giving up the family shipping business for foolishness, and for saddling them with a Hag for a wife, which means he can’t protect Tasmin from his family’s cold dislike of his barbiaran wife-to-be–but that’s not the worst of it.

Someone out there doesn’t like him and is begining to dislike Tasmin almost as much, and that someone isn’t at all averse to making sure William and Tasmin aren’t around long enough to celebrate their wedding.

Tasmin, of course, has other plans.

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About the Author: Deena is the Founder and Creative Director of Drollerie Press, which she juggles along with many other duties, but no geese. She's never stopped reading fairy tales.

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  1. megans
    on March 11, 2009 3:17 pm

    Thank you! This looks like a wonderful read.

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    Deena Replied:
    March 11th, 2009 at 8:48 pm

    You’re welcome. I hope you enjoy it!

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  2. prettydroll
    on March 11, 2009 3:27 pm

    Hi Deena and all at Drollerie Press,

    I love the free give aways – am glued to my computer for the next few days so as not to miss any! I’ve just discovered your site and it’s beautiful. Looking forward to reading the books. Thank you for your generosity with this promotion.

    Pretty

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    Deena Replied:
    March 11th, 2009 at 8:50 pm

    Thanks Pretty! I hope you love the book. It’s one of my favorites.

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