Join fellow Natchitoches readers excited about our morning book club, Literary Lagniappe. August’s book is UPON A STARLIT TIDE by Kell Woods with discussion guided by Marné Deranger. A lifelong reader, Marné works with authors and publishers, reviewing new releases and helping her followers find ideal books and audiobooks. She called this book a “wholly original, fast-paced, and thrilling fantasy full of magic, betrayal, secrets, and seduction, and I was smitten from the very first scene.” Follow her as ReaderByTheWater on Instagram and Facebook.
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INCLUDES THEMED DINNER
Your Price: $24.95 (just bring your book and your thoughts; we’ll provide everything else).
Book Info:
UPON A STARLIT TIDE is a dark and enchanting historical fantasy combining elements of "The Little Mermaid" and "Cinderella" into a wholly original tale of love, power, and betrayal.
Saint-Malo, Brittany, 1758. To Lucinde Léon, the youngest daughter of a wealthy French shipowner, the high walls of Saint-Malo are more hindrance than haven.
While her sisters are busy trying to secure advantageous marriages, Luce spends her days secretly being taught to sail by Samuel, her best friend—and an English smuggler. Only he understands how the waves call to her. Then one stormy morning, Luce rescues a drowning man from the sea.
Immediately drawn in by the stranger’s charm, Luce is plunged into a world of glittering balls and faerie magic, seduction and brutality. Secrets that have long been lost in the shadowy depths of the ocean begin to rise to the surface, but as Luce wrestles with warring desires, she finds that her own power is growing brighter and brighter, shining like a sea-glass slipper.
Or the scales of a seamaid's tail.
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