📚 New Year, New Reads- Day 1 of 7 📚 It’s that delightful time in between Christmas and the new year where fully loaded gift cards are in hand and you’ve (hopefully) got some free time to start thinking ahead to 2023. We are featuring a title every day until it’s 2023 that you should preorder, aka gift your future self. Day 1 is a historical fiction novel about a legendary Chinese pirate queen, need we say more?!?!?! Go preorder this immediately. 🌊 DEEP AS THE SKY, RED AS THE SEA by @rche_types, on shelves June 6th, 2023 🌊 For readers of Outlawed, Piranesi, and The Night Tiger, a riveting, roaring adventure novel about a legendary Chinese pirate queen, her fight to save her fleet from the forces allied against them, and the dangerous price of power. When Shek Yeung sees a Portuguese sailor slay her husband, a feared pirate, she knows she must act swiftly or die. Instead of mourning, Shek Yeung launches a new plan: immediately marrying her husband's second-in-command, and agreeing to bear him a son and heir, in order to retain power over her half of the fleet. But as Shek Yeung vies for control over the army she knows she was born to lead, larger threats loom. The Chinese Emperor has charged a brutal, crafty nobleman with ridding the South China Seas of pirates, and the Europeans-tired of losing ships, men, and money to Shek Yeung's alliance-have new plans for the area. Even worse, Shek Yeung's cutthroat retributions create problems all their own. As Shek Yeung navigates new motherhood and the crises of leadership, she must decide how long she is willing to fight, and at what price, or risk losing her fleet, her new family, and even her life. #deepastheskyredasthesea #datsrats #ritachangeppig #historicalfiction #books #bookworm #tbr #toread #amreading #bookstagram #bookish #tbrpile #fiction #debutauthor #newbooks #bookrecs #bookrecommendations