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Augustine Montgomery is an Illusion Prime who owns a premier PI corporation and alters his appearance with magic. The people who have seen Augustine’s real face can be counted on the fingers of one hand. The people who witnessed the full extent of his power are dead. The illusion isn’t just the brand of his magic. It’s become his lifestyle.
Show as little as possible. Make them think that illusion is all you have. Your life depends on it.
Augustine lives by this creed. He’s cold, rational, and calculating. He doesn’t get emotionally involved. Then one day Diana Harrison walks into his office and asks for his help. Diana is a Prime, an animal mage who bonds with animals through her magic and prefers their company to humans. Something precious has been stolen from House Harrison. Something Diana must recover at all costs.
The two Houses are allied through a friendship pact. Assisting Diana is simply good business. And yet, there is something about her that disturbs the careful balance of Augustine’s inner world.
Neither of them is who they appear to be. Both would die to keep their secrets. But the enemy they face is more powerful than either had imagined, and saving the life that hangs in the balance will demand the ultimate price neither Augustine nor Diana ever anticipated to pay – complete honesty.
Le Admin:
What all is in Beast Business?
- Augustine Montgomery and Diana Harrison (Cornelius’ older sister and Head of House Harrison) adventure novella
- Arabella Baylor new POV short story
I’m duty-bound to say: don’t read this first. Arabella is my favourite, I know we all want her books, but it lands much better after Augustine and Dian…oh, you’re already midway through it. Sigh. At least I tried.
- Beloved Hidden Legacy blog extras, for the first time in a published book. Free from dangerous archiving! A Misunderstanding, The Cool Aunt, Marty, and the FrInnterviews of Augustine and Arabella.
Formats, woman, which formats?
Epub – see above. It will be available everywhere you usually get self-published Ilona Andrews books from – please search the retailer catalogue if it’s not included above.
Print – paperback PODs are starting to populate. For now just on Amazon but soon to appear on other retailers, as soon as the internal systems finish checks. If you wish to buy from your local indie booksellers, they can place order through Ingram with the book’s print ISBN 9781641973724.
Audiobook – a few months down the line, we will of course keep you updated.
It doesn’t have a cover on Amazon.
It does now. You may have to sync your device or redownload your file in order to see it on your Kindle.
Thank you so much for your patience while we dealt with the bug that ate @helena.illustrated‘s beautiful cover art.
I’m leaving up the links to Amazon Canada and Amazon India, in case people still have issue finding them.
Zoom? Release Q&A?
Not this weekend, but maybe the next one if you’re interested. Let us know!
When does Beast Business happen, chronologically?
About 2 months after the Baylors buy their new compound, so in the gap between the prologue and main body of Ruby Fever.
Is. There. KISSY FAAAAACE??? Are we officially sailing the good ship Panthercakes?
There’s a spoiler comment section below, why don’t you check?
*walks off whistling sea chanties*
From Ilona: A quick note to those who are participating in the No-Buy day: go for it and please don’t worry about us. The book will be there for later purchase, and it’s not going anywhere. We had to put it out now, because delaying it would be cutting into Tor release window, so this was a no-choice type of deal – it was now or summer. We’ve gotten a couple of concerned emails, and I want to assure you that absolutely no stress, the lists are not important for this release and even if they were, standing up for causes you believe in is more important.
I am having the most difficult time stepping away from this book and going to work today. LOVE. Thank you!!!!
Yo ho ho, and a First bottle of rum!
So glad you love it 🥰
Well this is a banner day. New HL book and a personal message from The Notorious M.R. I’m floating. Cheers!
Notorious M.R.G. lmao. I had a chuckle in between pasting links for Indian readers 😀
You need to put that on a t-shirt and wear it for all future Q&As.
Thank you very much 🥰
So much deliciousness! Wonderful way to wake up on a rigid Friday! Thank you, thank you, thank uou!
i think any morning that is greeted with “rigid” is a good day. 😉
Frigid, not so much.
🤣
Stay warm. (Although the rigid might help with that)
😊
I just had a mental image of Andrea’s (Aunt B’s) group wearing tshirts saying:
Have a rigid day 😊
Read Beast Business last night. It’s wonderful, stupendous and a great addition to the Hidden Legacy series.
Thank you so much Ilona and Gordon.
And yes to Zoom and Release Q & A.
Just bought it, but reading this is my reward after doing necessary errands before snowstorm tomorrow
Oh but I just want to curl up in front of my woodburning stove and leave the world behind!!!
Thank you House Andrews
Was able to get it last night from Amazon.
Made me so happy.
Thanks so much 🙏
Excellent additions to Hidden legacy!!
Loved it!!
I’m so happy Arabella is finally assembling her squad. You have the person who can hide her appearance/change her face so she looks different before she goes beast mode, and then one of the few people who also grow big and hit things who has anger issues too.
I now have odd head cannon of them being called into the office and the principal saying “Why is it always you three.”
I can totally see Augustine doing this!
LOLOLOL Augustine chanelling McGonagle!
I was able to get Beast Business with the front cover from Barnes and Noble. For those of the Horde who don’t want to buy from Amazon, and you have a Nook, it’s there. I think B&N wants the Horde to work for this novella and all the POVs and short stories. However, you will find it!
Now, I’m off to read the new deliciousness that is Beast Business and Arabella’s POV. Whistling sea shanties are optional. 🤣🤣🤣🤣😉
Only Amazon has eaten the cover, as I specified above 🙂
All other retailers show up correctly.
Yeah, but we both know the Horde may not read everything you say above. 😂
Just heading the Horde off from all the questions about other retailers and the cover.
What’s weird is that if I close the ebook, the cover briefly flashes, but when looking at it in the library view, it doesn’t have the cover. I think it was also there when I went to the cover page but didn’t close the book. So it’s just the thumbnail image that is missing.
I’ve just bought it directly from you, everything works perfectly. Thank you!!!!!
First time commenting just to say that the direct buy option is SO fabulous, as someone who is trying to break out of walled big tech gardens. I popped into the store and picked up the whole Innkeeper series as well. Please keep this option for anything you’re able to distribute this way!
+100
+100
I love that I could buy it directly from House Andrews.
I could kick myself! I really wish I wouldn’t have been the creature of habit that I always am and bought direct!! Some days I feel like Kindle owns my soul…
Haha, it is somewhat automatic. I bought the book on Amazon, remembered the store, promptly returned the first one and then bought the book from their store.
So did I. I’ve not had any problems when using Book Funnel across multiple authors, and plan/hope to do all my HA book buying this way rather than lining Amazon’s pockets.
Yes to Zoom Q&A. It IS a delicious cover, but that’s NO excuse for Amazon keeping it to itself!
The greed is sickening 😛
Didn’t even finish reading the post, had to go and buy it, thank goodness for immediate delivery of ebooks. This will be a lovely rock smashing my plans to work today, thank you so much for it!
*(in case it sounds like sarcasm, it’s not — I was very much not looking forward to work, I’m very appreciative of the rock smashing it)
It has been a rough week. A new House Andrews release will definitely help my mental health!
Love love love this novella. Truly impressive depth in so few pages. Thanks House Andrews!
I think I snagged a book before the announcement came up and it has been a very very unproductive work day for me so far 🐵 so I guess I’ll stay longer today, but it was so worth it. LOVED LOVED Loved returning to the world of Hidden Legacy and getting glimpses of all the beloved characters. I know a series with Arabella as MC is not in the planning right now, but one can certainly dream about it (a lot 😇). Thaaaank you for the wonderful and lively surprise, it was truly amazing!
Is the audio going to be Amazon exclusive at first or will all retailers get it at the same time?
That’s a question for a few months in the future 🙂
Ok will try to keep an ear out and enjoy what I have today 😊
Thank you for answering
PANTHERCAKES!!!! which is more important for existence? ? ? ? Kissy face or Arabella story? Argh!
“Panthercakes” made me cough on my coffee. 🤣
cough *out* my coffee
OMG YES! Panthercakes! I love it.
+1000
ALL OF THE ABOVE PLEASE!
Squeingle bells, SQUEEEEEE-ing all the way! 🥰
+3,000 !
Yay!
Book voucher yesterday from my fitness app for hitting my October goals spent on the book!
What a perfect example of a healthy mind in a healthy body, Sonson!
Thank you, House Andrews, for making it accessible in so many formats, including epub through your store and BookFunnel!
I started refreshing my amazon “Beast Business” search after midnight until it showed up 😀 So it was a no sleep for me night but I loved every word I read! Then read through a second time cuz I loved it so much💕
W.iting for the Kobo 🙂 Amazon and your site doesn’t allows buying the ebook in our neck of woods sadly
Wait no longer 🙂 https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beast-business?sId=69d800c6-4dae-4296-8678-cd9531767d94&ssId=__7KQQ8qLN5-9XvbQGg1k&cPos=5
just bought it 🙂 thank you
*Wails*
I must w*it for the print editions… why retailers why?!
I will hold this wonderful news close to my heart as I go through the day, w*iting patiently. Or I may just lose all self control and buy both the digital and the physical… could go either way
Am with you here… I’ll just get the print when it’s out… for now, digital edition here I am
Hehehe!!!! 😈
Lovely news.
You made my day. Now I have something to read while I’m knitting socks.
Thanks.
All The Freaking Squeeing In The World! Thank you House Andrews and ModR!!! It has been a ROUGH week and I needed this. I literally have tears in my eyes. So much love to y’all <3
This was sooooo good! I already loved Augustine but to get to read his thoughts… amazing.
Please tell me there will be a sequel? You simply cannot leave it like that!
I could kick myself, with all the other open story lines (Hugh 2, Julie 2, Wilmington years, Inheritence 2, Innkeeper finale, Arland and Maud, Sanctuary 2) it simply did not cross my mind that this could not finish Augustine’s and Dianas story but I should have known! A Novella is too short for it to be completed. And now I have to wait for propably 5 years or so to know how their story ends because all the other stories come first. If there even will be a sequel. Why did I not prepare my heart??? I have no one but myself to blame *sob*
Just finishing re reading Blood Heir (got the Arcane Society Edition) and I was JUST thinking/wailing that there is no date in sight for Julie 2!!!!!!
But alas, we must heed our AuthorLords and WA**T 👀
Well, you can take comfort in knowing they sorted out any immediate issues. Remember, at Bern’s wedding – which takes place after the novella – Augustine was sitting with Diana and Cornelius. 🙂
what?!?! Bern’s wedding? how did I miss that???!
At the end of Ruby Fever 🙂
Can I read this over my lunch hour? Sure, sure, I can read fast. Or can I covertly read this at my desk while ‘working’? Hmm. Decisions, decisions.
Happy book birthday, Andrews’.
I couldn’t wait for Kobo this morning & bought it directly from your shop! Well worth the extra steps to download!
A wonderful way to start off Friday!!
Thank you, House Andrews! You just made my day.
Now I need to survive until the end of the workday to jump into this book.
Just showed up in Kobo’s Canada store! Bought & downloaded. Thank you!
Amazing! Thank you so much for the news! Off to find the link
OMGess, and I actually have time to devo… er… I mean read it! Yes!
It’s my actual IRL birthday today and I took the day off work… gaming can wait till later. Novella first.
Happy birthday! Hope you have fun in the HL world! 🎂
That’s three of us Birthday Folks in the January 30th comments – go us!! 🎉
devouring beast business has set me back today but it was expected and inevitable.
it was great! would love a zoom!
now for the re-reads.
I searched for Beast Business last night on Amazon, just in case, and saw the book there with no image. I double checked that it wasn’t some hoax or fake story that would sucker me in, then I bought it and was so so so happy to delve into Augustine & Diana’s storyline.
I am happy to report that the cover image is fixed and properly drool-worthy whenever I pull it up on my Kindle.
So yeah, the story is fantastic as expected and always leaves me wanting more!
I love Panthercakes!!!!
You guys make me laugh and brighten up all my days.
Thank you thank you thank you!!!
And yeah, I’m dying for Panthercakes 2 and Arabella’s storyline!!
Please please please don’t forget them!!
I’m now gonna reread everything IA repeatedly until the next snippet and new release!
I’d be thrilled with one book about both. Perhaps Arabella might spend some time deciding which Michael should be her escort/date to which wedding?
Baylor-Sagredo, Montgomery-Harrison. Bear of Kamchatka? Ghoul of Record Keeper? Door number three? A former employee of a company she had to bother for payment who’s dancing along the line between smitten and stalker? So many Michael’s. So little time!
This novella made me really like Diana – I was unsure about her because Cornelius had so little support from his family when White Hot happened, but she is now a proper character with good insight into her, and I approve! Panthercakes sails!
So glad to see Arabella, too. *pitches a tent* The Baylors are such an interesting family. *sets up a box* It’s like ointment for our darkened souls to see the Baylors build up their support network and find new friendships. *takes out a giant banner*. Now, I wonder if any future works could perhaps feature more of the other family members, too? *waves ‘MORE LEON, OUR KING OF THE URBAN JUNGLE’ banner*
What a pretty banner!
Would you like to join our small but friendly cult of The Leon King, The Myth, The Legend, The Headache? We have plenty of spaces available, and we serve apple pithivier on Thursdays (you just missed one, it was very delicious).
I’m a founding member 😀
I was there when the deep magic was written lol
This is why I read the comments!
+100 MORE LEON!!!!!!!
Oh! Oh! Me! Me! I wanna join! * wave hands enthusiastically *
I’ll be over here in the Leon-should-narrate-all-the-things corner. I have fun imagining him narrating his own PI adventures, film noir style. 🙂
Yes to Q&A. Thanks for the heads up about the cover, I came here to check to make sure that it would be a legit House Andrews purchase and not some thefty random when I saw no cover on the listing.
Yay!!!! Thanks also for providing the direct link to the boon on Amazon.ca because it still doesn’t come up in the search. So excited 📚🎉
I saw this drop last night and have GORGED on it. Oh, Augustine, Diana and Kitty’s story is so WONDERFUL!
It brought me absolute joy and a huge smile today.
Thank you so much!!!
I woke up at 1:30 am checked the blog WOOHOO there it was. Did my fast read and finished before I went to work. Wow, just wow. So much new information on the houses. I love it!! Panthercakes 🙂 So the question is….. when is the next one LOL
Happy Birthday, Happy Friday…. a wonderful slow re-read tonight to savor the tidbits.
This book was a great way to start the morning! I loved Arabella’s POV. It was definitely worth the wait. 😉
Mod R wrote that spoilers are allowed but still… SPOILER WARNING
I love Diana so much! I knew i loved Augustine but I was unprepared for how much I would love her. She really cares for the ones she loves so much and is so fiercly protective. She would do anything for them.
And her reaction to seeing Augustine’s real face was everything, it was so beautiful.
I need more of those two!
SEQUEL!
SEQUEL TO EVERYTHING!
SEQUEL TO THE SEQUEL!
+ 1E6
Absolutely, how about a whole trilogy. I’ll even be very patient, I am prepared to wait a whole week 🤣😇
I all honesty, it is just that they are such fantastic authors. Lately I was so often dissapointed by books I picked up but House Andrews NEVER dissapoints. Sure, I love some stories more than others but all are excellent and so much above everything else that is out there. That is why I am so eager for every story that comes out because I am sure I will love them!
Yes to all of the above.
Joining the SEQUEL chant!🎉
Downloaded it from IA’s store first thing this morning CET, had to w*it till after work + just binged it. Feeling slightly book hungover now but will probably start the reread later tonight.😅
Last but not least:
THANK YOU House Andrews!
I feel like ” insatiable” is a BDH requirement. MORE! is our catchphrase.
CAME HERE TO SAY THIS. Now I need Cornelius AND Arabella’s stories, and I hope Tia (and maybe Verena?) gets more time. Loved it all. I am ever so chalant. I have literally been talking my family’s ears off about first the extended preview of Maggie and then this. 😂😂😂😂
Yes Please?
Squee
It’s a slow day at work and guess who just downloaded Beast Business 😈😈😈
SO EXCITED!!! Why, oh why, am I on a family trip without the means to binge read?!?! Might have to wait(!) until Sunday
Dearest Mod R, when you get a minute, can you please remind those of us with holes in our memory how to directly purchase Panthercakes from House Andrews? TYVM
especially the downloading to book reader part…
There is an email associated with your e-reader account, you just need to send yourself the file 🙂
Or you can send it old-school, with a data cable and a program like Calibre.
You’re not specifying which ereader you have so I cannot provide more details unfortunately. But a quick “how do I send files to my [insert ereader brand]” search in your preferred search engine should do the trick 🙂
Detailed instructions are provided on the website on the Beast Business page 🙂 https://ilonaandrewsstore.com/products/beast-business
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I read the info about the ten minute delay. I had the email and bookfunnel by the time I finished the order. Maybe 30 second delay.
Many thanks!
I’m in the middle of another book so, although I purchased last night, I can’t dive right in. Thank you in advance for another wonderful ride.
Also, that Standard Visitor Notice is the most amazing hook. If it was the first thing I saw related to House Andrews I’d click on buy-now and then circle back to browse the rest of the website. Nicely done!
GAHHH! Purchased immediately and I can’t wait for the POD edition! I am definitely shipping Panthercakes!
+1
Diana, goddess of the Hunt. Loved her. And the Arabella segments were just chef’s kiss. Had so much fun with it this morning.
I couldn’t wait for Kobo and don’t do Amazon anymore but Apple Books came through and I see the Kobo link is active now. It’s also in Kobo Plus if anyone wants to read it that way.
Happy Book Birthday! Yes please to a Zoom Q&A (and any spoilers Gordon wants to share 😉).
Also, I just downloaded it from Amazon and the lovely cover showed up!!
I bought the wonderful book! I will read this tonight. It is my reward for doing adult things today before the cold snap this weekend. Another cold snap! I live in the south to avoid colder temperatures. Sigh!
Can you believe they are predicting 20 degrees in Central Florida?!!!!!
Well, hot chocolate and Beast Business make for a lovely combo for tomorrow!
Yes yes, I decided against binge reading at work and I save my precious BB. I will savor it with delicious hot chocolate
Its my birthday today, so yeahhh.
Thank you House Andrews
Happy Birthday to us!