Karen Perkins Free Weekend Special

Introduction To Karen Perkins

As many of you probably know, I'm a big fan of karen perkins- writer of swashbuckling pirate adventures and most recently a creepy gostly take that will give you the heebie jeebies!
Well lucky for you she's having a promotion on her pirate adventures this weekend, with the first in the tale 'An Ill Wind' being FREE and the second in the series 'Dead Reckoning' being on sale. So go pick yourself up a bargain. She's also sharing with us her brand new  fabulous covers!

Karen Perkins lives in Yorkshire, where she spends her time writing as well as editing and formatting as proprietor of LionheART Publishing House. She has been a keen sailor since childhood, competing nationally and internationally until the day she had both National and European Ladies Champion titles – and a terminally bad back.

She has written one novella (Ill Wind) and one full-length novel (Dead Reckoning – long-listed in the Mslexia Novel Competition 2011, and a number one bestseller in Sea Adventures on Amazon.co.uk) in the Valkyrie Series. A further Valkyrie novel, Look Sharpe! will be published at the end of 2013, followed by Ready About! Both books follow the fortunes of Henry Sharpe, a character we have already met in Ill Wind and Dead Reckoning. Relationships are turned upside down and secrets revealed.

Karen Perkins has also written the novel, Thores-Cross. A dark, haunting tale set in the North Yorkshire Moors about isolation, superstition and persecution, Thores-Cross follows the stories of Emma, a present day writer, and Jennet, an eighteenth century witch. Thores-Cross is a number one bestseller in British Horror on Amazon.com.

See more about Karen Perkins on her website:

http://www.lionheartgalleries.co.uk/Karen--KA--Perkins.html
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 https://www.facebook.com/ValkyrieSeries
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 @ValkyrieSeries
 @LionheartG
So lets take a look at Ill Wind and Dead Reckoning

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Ill Wind (Valkyrie Series 1) Blurb

Gabriella Berryngton is an unhappy and oppressed fourteen-year-old girl living in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1683. She dreams of escaping her bitter, ambitious stepfather and sailing off into the unknown.

Her dreams come true when her stepfather sells her into marriage.

Aboard the Freyja, she is hopeful that her new life in the Dutch West Indies will be an improvement – a hope that dies when she is given a slave, Klara, and a whip. She discovers that her soon-to-be father-in-law is a ruthless slave trader in league with pirates, and her fiancé is cold, unfriendly and disinterested in Gabriella. She is little more than a vessel to provide the next generation of van Eckens.

Largely ignored and desperately unhappy, she and Klara develop a friendship which makes life bearable – at first. Once married, Gabriella’s life takes a turn for the worse and she descends into a world of horror and abuse until tensions finally explode. Life will never be the same and she has no choice but to take fate into her own hands.

Ill Wind is available from:

Amazon: http://viewbook.at/B009Z1MK9O

FREE Saturday 19th October and 20th October 2013!!

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Dead Reckoning (Valkyrie Series 2) Blurb

Dead Reckoning is a historical adventure of piracy, love and revenge in the Caribbean in the seventeenth century.

Leo is born in Spanish Panama in 1659. When he is twelve years old he witnesses the violent rape and murder of his mother by three of the Caribbean’s most feared pirates: Tarr, Blake and Hornigold, and swears revenge at all costs.

Gabriella is trapped in an abusive marriage to a ruthless Dutch slave trader, who is in business with the same English cut-throats. She risks all to escape with her life.

Leo and Gabriella meet aboard one of the most horrific ships in the Caribbean – a slaver – and join forces against their common enemy. They face a number of challenges as they battle not only the dangers of a life at sea, including storm, drowning, and being cast adrift in a crippled ship, but also repeated attacks by Blake and Hornigold.

But their biggest threat proves to be each other. Can they reconcile their hearts in time for the fiercest battle in their quest of revenge, and survive the gallows?

Dead Reckoning was long-listed in the 2011 Mslexia Novel Competition.

Dead Reckoning is available from:

Amazon: http://www.viewbook.at/B009PR2MZK

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/244590?ref=LionheartPH

£0.99 / $1.49 Saturday 19th October and 20th October 2013

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As always...

Happy reading!

Claire ♥