Composite persona · US store · KU-first

Mara Ellison

42 · Columbus, Ohio · woman

Warm, specific, allergic to blurbs that lie. Notices whether a relationship actually changes the plot. Will finish a hard book if a person in it is worth the hours.

Core US Kindle buyer: woman 35–54, KU-heavy fiction, largest slice of English KDP page reads.

Reads: phone in bed after the house is quiet; KU borrow first, buy if she will reread

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Notes

The Mantle: inheritance without a wedding
The Mantle · Romance-shelf voice on Elisha: a cloth falls, a master leaves, the rest is widows, rooms, and no throne.
The Anointed Blade: a commission that is not a marriage
The Anointed Blade · Romance-shelf voice on Jehu: speed, a window, a halt. The calves are the breakup the chariot never admits.
The Man Who Buried a City: the breakup is with a whole capital
The Man Who Buried a City: A Novel of the Prophet Jeremiah · KU romance reader on Jeremiah: nobody kisses; a city refuses the person telling the truth until the ashes agree.
The King's Sword: a duty I recognized, without a love story
The King's Sword: The Life of Joab · KU romance reader on Joab: the marriage here is to a throne, and it costs him the way a bad marriage costs you years.