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Finder's Keeper
She can find anything … except the heart she couldn’t keep.
In the walled desert city of Petrichor, Kettrin makes a living by using her unique magical talent to find missing objects and people for anyone who can pay.
The one person she won't look for is her childhood friend and former lover Mirsagh, a thief who stole Kett's heart—and then broke it.
But when Mirsagh shows up wanting to hire her to find someone lost in the desert, Kett can't say no.
Even though, for city girl Kett, it means venturing into a perilous wasteland where her very survival depends on a woman she still cares for—but isn't sure she can trust.
In the walled desert city of Petrichor, Kettrin makes a living by using her unique magical talent to find missing objects and people for anyone who can pay.
The one person she won't look for is her childhood friend and former lover Mirsagh, a thief who stole Kett's heart—and then broke it.
But when Mirsagh shows up wanting to hire her to find someone lost in the desert, Kett can't say no.
Even though, for city girl Kett, it means venturing into a perilous wasteland where her very survival depends on a woman she still cares for—but isn't sure she can trust.
77 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 16, 2021
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About the author
Mar Delaney
4 books13 followersMar Delaney is a lesbian romance pen name for Layla Lawlor, who also writes fantasy and science fiction under her own name, straight paranormal romance as Lauren Esker, and contemporary romance as Liz Harman (co-written with her sister). She sometimes worries that she may be juggling too many pen names, but everyone needs a hobby collecting something.
She lives on the highway in Alaska, north of Fairbanks, enjoying nearly 24-hour sunshine in the summer and -40F darkness in the winter. (For certain values of enjoying.) She is also an artist and cartoonist who formerly ran the local newspaper’s layout department and is now a full-time writer.
She lives on the highway in Alaska, north of Fairbanks, enjoying nearly 24-hour sunshine in the summer and -40F darkness in the winter. (For certain values of enjoying.) She is also an artist and cartoonist who formerly ran the local newspaper’s layout department and is now a full-time writer.
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November 13, 2022
FINDER'S KEEPER was a quick little sapphic novella featuring childhood friends and one time lovers who are reunited when Mirsagh asks Kett to use her magical talent for finding missing people. I liked the setting for this one and I loved how tough Kett was, even when she was doing things outside her comfort zone.
However, I found the romance to be a bit on the sparse side; the MCs former friendship and lingering feelings are doing all the heavy lifting to make you believe their relationship; there's nothing that happens to show them falling back in love with each other. As such it felt more like this was a book about Kett and her journey rather than a book about both Kett and Mirsagh.
Content Warning: references to past bullying from the MCs time at an orphanage that required them to work at a mill
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It was love pure and simple, love no less meaningful for their youth and inexperience. She had loved Mirsagh before she had known what love was.
However, I found the romance to be a bit on the sparse side; the MCs former friendship and lingering feelings are doing all the heavy lifting to make you believe their relationship; there's nothing that happens to show them falling back in love with each other. As such it felt more like this was a book about Kett and her journey rather than a book about both Kett and Mirsagh.
Content Warning: references to past bullying from the MCs time at an orphanage that required them to work at a mill
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Favorite Quotes:
It was love pure and simple, love no less meaningful for their youth and inexperience. She had loved Mirsagh before she had known what love was.
June 7, 2022
I have never seen barren wastelands and after this book... I am grateful for the oven in my kitchen, the central air in my home, and the clothes on my back.
First world things aside... every time I read a book by this author I'm always transported to another time and place that makes me open my eyes a little wider to this big world I live in. The love introduced in the novel, it grows and matures, it's flawed and needs, it's beautifully real. There's no rich heiress on a white horse swooping in to save the day- it's two women, in the mud, slogging through life to pave a future and it's a fabulous quick read.
First world things aside... every time I read a book by this author I'm always transported to another time and place that makes me open my eyes a little wider to this big world I live in. The love introduced in the novel, it grows and matures, it's flawed and needs, it's beautifully real. There's no rich heiress on a white horse swooping in to save the day- it's two women, in the mud, slogging through life to pave a future and it's a fabulous quick read.
October 28, 2022
2 stars. Had potential and the writing wasn't bad but this was so boring. 77 pages have never felt longer and I didn't find any of the characters to be interesting. I'll check out something else by this author but this wasn't a good place to start.
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