Free Books - Bel Dame Apocrypha (DF)

The final volume of Kameron Hurley's Bel Dame Apocrypha trilogy, Rapture, is being officially released on 11/6 and the publisher, Night Shade Books, wants you to be ready. Send them an email and you'll get the first two books in the series free (and DRM-free, in the format you desire). You'll get an email back almost immediately, with the link and username/password needed for the download (let your browser save it when you enter it the first time and you won't have to re-enter it after the first download).

In anticipation of the forthcoming release of Rapture, Kameron Hurley's bone-shattering conclusion to the epic Bel Dame Apocrypha trilogy, that's exactly what Night Shade Books is giving away. We don't want you to miss out on any of the "smart, dark, visceral and wonderfully, hectically entertaining" action of this trilogy! So we are giving away the first two titles in the series, the 2012 Nebula Award-nominated God's War and the awesome Infidel, absolutely free!

Don't believe the hype? Find out FREE for yourself. Just send an email to Beldamegiveaway@nightshadebooks.com. Night Shade will return fire with an email giving you the info you need to download the files for God's War and Infidel. Both Epub and Mobi files are available.

I already have the first in the series, from Night Shade's Book Club freebie early last year. Those that missed it, though, now can catch up along with me. Best of all, we don't even have to wait on the third book, as it's already been released in the Kindle store. If you buy it at the current $10.39 Kindle price, that still works out to under $3.50 per volume; but wait - if you buy it over at Baen Books, it's only $6!

For those that like to check out the synopsis first, I've included the entire series below, along with links to Amazon so that you can check out the reviews.

God's War (Locus Best of 2011)

Nyx had already been to hell. One prayer more or less wouldn't make any difference...

On a ravaged, contaminated world, a centuries-old holy war rages, fought by a bloody mix of mercenaries, magicians, and conscripted soldiers. Though the origins of the war are shady and complex, there's one thing everybody agrees on--

There's not a chance in hell of ending it.

Nyx is a former government assassin who makes a living cutting off heads for cash. But when a dubious deal between her government and an alien gene pirate goes bad, Nyx's ugly past makes her the top pick for a covert recovery. The head they want her to bring home could end the war--but at what price?

The world is about to find out.

Infidel

Nyx is a bodyguard in Mustallah, the capital city of Nasheen. The centuries-long holy war between Nasheen and Chenja is taking its toll, with shortages and rationing causing the Queen to lose power and popularity. While protecting the daughter of a Ras Tiegan Diplomat, Nyx is attacked by a group of assassins. Nyx survives, but begins to suffer from a strange, debilitating condition that nobody can identify. Caught up in a whirl-wind of intrigue involving Bel Dam Assassins plotting against the Queen, Nyx must learn who the rouge Bel Dam is, and find a cure for her illness, while avoiding the wrath of the queen she is trying to protect. The danger that swirls around her may have finally become to much, and Nyx's colleagues and friends began to die. Will Nyx be next?

Rapture

After years in exile, Nyxnissa so Dasheem is once more a bel dame, part of a sisterhood of elite government assassins trained to a cut a target’s head off without remorse. But the end of a centuries-long war has thrown her native land of Nasheen into turmoil. A huge influx of unemployed–and unemployable–young soldiers have brought Nasheen to the brink of civil war, even as an alien spaceship stations itself in orbit above the capital.

With aliens in the sky and revolution on the ground, Nyx figures it’s a good time to get the hell out of Nasheen, so she assembles a team of renegades, shape-shifters, magicians, and mercenaries to rescue a missing political leader who may be the difference between peace and bloodshed.

Just one problem: the politician is an old enemy whom Nyx once left to die in a ditch....