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June 17, 2018
Free & Discounted Kindle Books for Sunday
Here’s your listing of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Sunday: for those books listed as being free in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could revert back to paid status at any time!
Promise McNeal Mysteries Vol. 1-3
Author: Morgan James
Genre: Mystery
Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $7.99
Today’s Price: FREE!
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Book Description:
THREE CAPTIVATING PROMISE McNEAL MYSTERIES IN ONE BOX SET
CLUES FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE… AND AN ATTRACTIVE NEW MAN!
Dr. Promise McNeal, retired psychologist, is supplementing her income with a little investigative work for a lawyer friend to whom she never reveals her unconventional sources: the dead. And they have an agenda all their own.
Promise has left her private counseling practice and traded Atlanta’s ghastly traffic for a package deal that included a struggling general store along with a farmhouse and five acres with a creek and mountain views in beautiful western North Carolina. Her “Watson” is her twenty-something, semi-Goth store manager Susan, a Bluegrass musician who performs with her father Daniel.
Promise’s abilities of perception do not, however, extend to reading mountain men, because, no matter how vehemently Promise dismisses the notion, Daniel– an unsettlingly handsome widower– is, as Susan shrewdly observes, very clearly “sweet on her”.
Morgan James’s appealingly human and incisive, fiftyish female sleuth is sure to delight fans of cozies, especially those by Julia Spencer-Fleming and Mary Kay Andrews, as well as the kind with a light sprinkling of psychic suspense; admirers of female amateur sleuths; readers of supernatural suspense and psychic detective fiction, and of other great North Carolina mystery authors like Margaret Maron, Barbara Neely, Elizabeth Daniels Squire, and Vicki Lane.
QUIET THE DEAD (Promise McNeal Mysteries Book 1)
The image comes in a dream: a beautiful woman hanging over a stream, strangled with a red scarf. And with that, Promise McNeal’s hoped-for quiet new life in the North Carolina mountains flies out the window.
But in flies opportunity—along with the mystery surrounding the woman’s murder, a brand new murder, a lucrative consulting job, and an extremely attractive man (in a problematical sort of way). A lot of action for a woman who moved from Atlanta to find peace and quiet!
QUIET KILLING (Promise McNeal Mysteries Book 2)
Amateur North Carolina sleuth (and psychic) Promise McNeal just can’t seem to get a good night’s sleep—someone’s always haunting her dreams. Lately it’s been her great grandfather, January McNeal, and who disobeys their great grandfather?
So she delves back into family history, but when she finds grave robbery in there, she has second thoughts.
Then evil comes knocking.
First someone burns her barn, then the contractor she hires to rebuild it is murdered, nearly at her back door. More fires lead her to a mysterious abandoned child who could be the arsonist– and murderer.
QUIET HEARTS (Promise McNeal Mysteries Book 3)
Lovebirds Promise McNeal and her mountain man, Daniel Allen, have arrived in the historic Golden Isles, Georgia’s barrier islands, for a romantic wedding and honeymoon on nearby Jekyll Island.
As fate would have it, the ruthlessly ambitious Atlanta TV talk show host Aileen Wang has brought her crew for an extravaganza production on a cursed Chinese chair that’s also a World War II relic connected to the secret of a sixty-year-old murder. Just as the wedding party assembles, someone shoots first Aileen and then kills two possible witnesses.
Can this wedding be saved?
Click here to pick up your free copy of Promise McNeal Mysteries Vol. 1-3 in the Amazon Kindle store.
Tobias
Author: Prue Batten
Genre: Historical Fiction
Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No
Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: FREE!
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Book Description:
Tyrian purple, the colour that denotes Byzantine imperial power is embargoed and under close guard in Byzantium. To steal it is punishable by death.
However a Jewish merchant from Venice has sourced an illegal supply and Tobias, a minstrel, and his twin brother, Tomas, begin a dangerous journey to retrieve the dye and deliver it into the merchant’s eager hands.
But is this supply as secret as they had hoped?
Trade is cut throat, money is power, men are expendable and death awaits in a city of icons, swords and shadows.
This is Tobias – the story of a minstrel and a broken life…
Click here to pick up your free copy of Tobias in the Amazon Kindle store.
Escape to Osprey Cove
Author: Luisa Marietta Gold
Genre: Mystery
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: FREE!
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Book Description:
What Doug finds in the secret compartment of his new red Corvette will forever change his life. It will also change Catherine’s. Doug and Catherine come from two different worlds. Catherine’s world is one of privilege and wealth. Doug grew up dirt poor and full of envy of others who had the things that he wanted but could not have. His goal was to one day have all the things he coveted. Their worlds collide when Catherine, VP of a large New York City marketing firm, hires Doug. As soon as Doug learns of Catherine’s wealth, he sees Catherine as his ticket to all the things he covets. After a whirlwind courtship, they are married.
Poor boy meets rich girl should have resulted in “happily ever after” — not exactly. Doug quickly learns he also covets independence. Events begin to unfold in each of their lives. For Doug, it is his mysterious discovery in the secret compartment of the Corvette. For Catherine, it is a business meeting with Alex Droxell at the Osprey Cove Lodge. When Catherine enters the beautiful and serene lodge, it’s as though she is entering another place and time. The lodge is an escape from the nightmare she is living back home. Follow the twists and turns of Book 1 of the Osprey Cove Lodge Series. Follow Doug and Catherine’s story to see if there is a “happily ever after” and with whom.
Click here to pick up your free copy of Escape to Osprey Cove in the Amazon Kindle store.
Drive Thru Murder
Author: Colleen Mooney
Genre: Mystery
Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: FREE!
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Book Description:
FOR NEW ORLEANS STYLE MURDER—TAKE LAUGHS, TWISTS, MIX WELL, AND ADD A BELLE
Colleen Mooney keeps the twists coming as fast as the laughs in her third THIRD funny cozy starring Brandy Alexander, everybody’s idea of the perfect chick lit heroine. Brandy’s blonde, adorable, has a good job, two guys to choose from, and very possibly the poor judgment to pick the wrong one. (Half the fun’s watching to see if she’s ever going to wise up.)
The other half’s watching her life complicate itself in ways that would send the average female sleuth screaming into the night. First, she witnesses a murder at a drive thru joint with the unlikely name of CLUCK IT—CHICKEN BY THE BUCKET. And then it turns out nothing at the scene’s what it seems—or at any rate nobody’s who they seem. Seems CLUCK IT’s not just a place to clog your arteries, but also a transgender hangout. And with that discovery, you know you’re in New Orleans.
The local color never stops as Brandy’s complex Irish Channel family develops the kind of problem that’s a lot more fun on the page than in real life. What to do when your sister gets pregnant with one of the next-door twins who are also the brothers of your lifelong flame—but she doesn’t know which twin? (Be glad it’s Brandy’s problem, not yours.)
She also finds a mysterious box of valuable jewelry under her closet floor, becomes the unofficial caretaker of the Tarot reader across the street who knows the future but can never predict when she’s going to get so drunk she’s going to fall into her own bushes, and develops a strong suspicion about one of her other neighbors, all the while juggling the two Romeos.
Good thing she’s better at solving mysteries than she is at wrangling her boy friends. The reader can rest assured she’s eventually, and in fine style, going to weave together the myriad mysterious strands that confound the police (who happen to count Boy Friend # 1 among their ranks) and present them the solution with all the panache of an old-style detective like Hercule Poirot—yet none of the pretension. You can almost hear her wondering, “Did I do that?”
Click here to pick up your free copy of Drive Thru Murder in the Amazon Kindle store.
If Nobody Listens
Author: Rikard Sommer
Genre: Thriller
Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $0.99
Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:
She does not know them. They know all about her.
A child waits for deliverance. A businessman stands at the edge of success.
When Paul Bild offers millionaire Jeffrey Hughes a chance to save his sick daughter, he and his firm Anybio are about to get their international breakthrough. Paul has dedicated his life to the fight against multi-resistant bacteria, and Anybio Analytics is the best analysis software on the market.
Tom Avild, the programmer behind Anybio Analytics, travels to the branch office in Ukraine to investigate unexplained delays. On arrival, he finds out that one of their staff has gone missing. Tom and his colleague Vasili Romanov are soon in a world where no one can be trusted, and powerful forces are willing to kill for what they want.
When children’s lives are at stake anything can happen.
Click here or type in http://geni.us/nobodylistens into your web browser to pick up your copy of If Nobody Listens in the Amazon Kindle store.
Sweet Montana Sky
Author: Lisa Mondello
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No
Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:
Someone is using superstition to cause trouble on the rodeo circuit. An upside down horseshoe made Tabby Swanson’s skin crawl, but it wasn’t enough to keep her from training her prize horse, Tenterhook, for barrel racing so she could get a sponsorship. When Kasper Dobbs shows up the ranch, she’s intrigued and hopeful. The handsome businessman, and former local hockey star, has deep pockets. It doesn’t hurt that he’s devastatingly handsome and makes her heart pound in her chest more than barrel racing. It almost makes her forget about the strange happenings on the ranch until someone turns up dead, and she and Tenterhook suffer a devastating accident in competition, threatening her rodeo days forever.
Kasper knows Tabby’s fall was no accident. Being told you may never compete again is a fate he knows well. He won’t let Tabby give up and insists on getting her back into training as soon as he can. But how can he know if whoever caused her accident will try again? He calls the Knight brothers to investigate the mysterious death and strange happenings surrounding Tabby so they can catch whoever is responsible before she takes another fall. He wants to believe he’s doing it all in the name of business. But he’s fallen hard for the cowgirl whose sunshine smile makes him want more than just to ride again. He wants the girl for life!
Click here or type in http://geni.us/sweetmontana into your web browser to pick up your copy of Sweet Montana Sky in the Amazon Kindle store.
Ignition
Author: Emma Shelford
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:
Meet Merlin long after Camelot in this Arthurian legend with a twist.
Merlin, the legendary King Arthur’s mysterious magician, is immortal. As Arthur lay dying he promised to return. Merlin is holding him to his word. Forever young, forever waiting, Merlin lives an unassuming life in the city, keeping his identity and abilities secret from his friends. It’s a long and lonely road, but Merlin is a patient man.
It’s now the 21st century and when the earth begins to groan with earthquakes, Merlin knows the situation is anything but natural. An eruption is imminent, but something—or someone—is forcing this volcano to erupt. Merlin must use his concealed talents and practiced charisma to save a town of innocent people before disaster strikes. He has the power to thwart a catastrophe—if time doesn’t run out first.
Click here or type in http://geni.us/ignition into your web browser to pick up your copy of Ignition in the Amazon Kindle store.
Ten Years Gone
Author: Jonathan Dunsky
Genre: Mystery
Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:
She gave up her son to save him.
Now she wants him back.
Germany, 1939 – Henrietta Ackerland, a Jewish mother in Nazi Germany, makes a heart-rending decision. She gives her baby boy, Willie, to a friend who is fleeing Germany to Israel.
Henrietta plans on following soon, but World War II breaks out, stranding her in Europe.
Israel, 1949 – Henrietta finally arrives in Israel but she can’t find Willie. She hires private investigator Adam Lapid to find him for her.
Adam Lapid knows it will take a miracle to find Willie Ackerland. And Adam doesn’t believe in miracles. Not after experiencing the horrors of Auschwitz. Not after losing his family in the Holocaust.
But he can’t refuse to help a mother searching for her lost son.
What Adam doesn’t realize is that this missing person’s case will soon land him in a heap of trouble.
For what started as a hunt for Willie Ackerland will soon turn Adam into prey – and of more than one hunter.
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New Releases on Kindle
Included in this post are relatively new Kindle book releases by independent authors in a variety of genres: I’m certain you will find something to enjoy in the offerings below. Also, similar to what I tell you in the daily posts, while the pricing is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could change at any time!
The Humanarium
Author: CW Tickner
Genre: Science Fiction
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:
Humans are now nothing more than pets.
Orphaned as a child, Harl Eriksson lives an average life as a blacksmith in an ordinary town. However, his ordinary town is inside a terrarium maintained by an alien three hundred times his size.
Trapped and unaware of a life outside their tank, Harl’s people worship the giant alien as a god.
When a deadly accident reveals the truth about his life, Harl is thrust into a surreal world on a titanic scale. He battles to understand what he uncovers as the future of mankind teeters on the brink of extinction.
Can Harl rescue the remnants of humanity or will the artificial god be our downfall?
Read The Humanarium today for a journey you’ll never forget.
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Sunrise Island Mysteries: Books 1-3
Author: Blythe Baker
Genre: Mystery
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $5.99
Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:
The Sunrise Bed & Breakfast: where danger never rests…
When Piper Lane and her sister Page decide to take over a cozy old bed & breakfast on Sunrise Island, they think they know what they’re in for. They’re wrong.
Between the murderous habits of their guests, the long-buried secrets of their neighbors, and the wild rantings of the crazy old lady living in their attic, the Lane sisters are about to discover that island life is no walk on the beach.
Click here or type in http://geni.us/sunriseisland into your web browser to pick up your copy of Sunrise Island Mysteries: Books 1-3 in the Amazon Kindle store.
Sounds Like Obsession
Author: Violet Paige
Genre: Suspense
Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:
I’m desperate for answers.
I gave up hacking and turned a corner. Only, I can’t forget that five years ago AJ Hart shattered me. Since then I’ve tried to put the pieces back together. Finding my birth parents gives me a purpose and keeps me distracted. Focused.
I had no idea I was being shadowed as I traveled the country on the hunt for clues. My every move watched. My every step followed. Until AJ returned. Letting AJ back into my life wasn’t a part of my plans. What’s to keep him from hurting me again?
On our way back to D.C. it doesn’t take long for us to realize something is terribly wrong. AJ swears he’s here to protect me, but I don’t know if I can believe in him again. Even if he claims he works for the FBI. With my life crashing down around my feet, I don’t know if I can forget our past.
But our lives are at stake, and the clock is ticking.
Click here or type in http://geni.us/soundslike into your web browser to pick up your copy of Sounds Like Obsession in the Amazon Kindle store.
Rosehaven
Author: Dorothy Rosati
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:
n her desire for peace and tranquillity, Della Marney gives up her office job in a big city and goes to work in a lovely seaside tea garden. Rosehaven, however, proves to be a hotbed of intrigue, and Della finds life there far more complicated and disturbing than it had been in town. She herself falls reluctantly in love with Brett Harwood, a hard-headed, self-made man of the type she has always hated, since just such a man caused her father’s downfall. And even when she grows to trust Brett, there are more shocks in store for her. . . .
The cruel deceptions, faithlessness, and illicit love-affairs which flourish like evil plants in a beautiful setting distress Della deeply, but before she eventually finds happiness herself she learns the hard lesson that one can never really run away from life’s problems, wherever one may go.
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June 16, 2018
Saturday’s Featured Kindle Book
One More Moon: Goodbye Mussolini!
Author: Ralph Webster
Genre: Memoir / Biography
Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $9.99
Today’s Price: $1.99
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Book Description:
Goodreads Choice Nominee Ralph Webster tells the true story of his grandmother’s desperate journey from her life at the Pensione Alexandra in Naples to America – after Mussolini and the Fascists join with Hitler – and as countries across the world close their doors to Jewish refugees fleeing the spread of Nazi evil.
In 1934, at age fifty-one, Elsa’s comfortable life in Mussolini’s Fascist Italy changes remarkably when she and her husband, Paul, purchase the Pensione Alexandria overlooking the Mediterranean in Naples. Though German Jews, they are embraced by their Italian neighbors, and for the next several years, the pensione flourishes and becomes their perch to observe the world’s events. Travelers from across Europe and America come to the door, each with their own story, mystery, or surprise. Nearly all have been touched in some way by the ominous changes occurring to the north, in Nazi-controlled Germany.
When war breaks out in Europe and Italy sides with Germany, Elsa and her family’s fears are quickly realized. The growing sense that the atrocities in German-occupied lands will soon occur in Italy forces them to give up their pensione and attempt a desperate journey to safety in America. The way seems impossible. Day by day, war makes travel increasingly difficult as countries begin closing their doors to refugees.
Told in Elsa’s words and written by her grandson, One More Moon is the extraordinary story of a woman and her family’s often harrowing experiences in the years before and during World War II.
Click here or type in http://geni.us/onemoremoon into your web browser to pick up your copy of One More Moon: Goodbye Mussolini! in the Amazon Kindle store.
About the Author:
Award winning author Ralph Webster received worldwide acclaim for his first book, A Smile in One Eye: A Tear in the Other, which tells the story of his father’s flight from the Holocaust. Voted by readers as a Goodreads 2016 Choice Awards Nominee for Best Memoir/Autobiography, A Smile in One Eye: A Tear in the Other and his second book, One More Moon, are proven book club selections for thought-provoking and engaging discussions. Whether in person or online, Ralph welcomes and values his exchanges with readers and makes every effort to participate in conversations about his books. Now retired, he lives with his wife, Ginger, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
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Free & Discounted Kindle Books for Saturday
Here’s your listing of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Saturday: for those books listed as being free in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could revert back to paid status at any time!
Killing Plato
Author: Jake Needham
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $5.99
Today’s Price: FREE!
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Book Description:
Jack Shepherd was a politically connected American lawyer until he traded the fierce intrigues of Washington for the quiet life of a college professor in Thailand. Everything had been going pretty well for him there, too, at least it had until the day he walked into a bar on the jet-set island of Phuket and found the world’s most famous fugitive waiting for him.
Plato Karsarkis was an international celebrity straight out of Vanity Fair until a New York grand jury indicted him for smuggling Iraqi oil and charged him with racketeering and money laundering. There’s also the matter of a woman he may or may not have murdered to cover it all up. When Karsarkis fled the United States and disappeared, the world’s media whipped itself into a frenzy searching for him.
Karsarkis is waiting for Shepherd in that Phuket bar because he wants to hire him. He figures a presidential pardon would be his ticket back to America, and he thinks Shepherd’s connections to the White House just might get it for him. But the U.S. Marshals are in Phuket, too, and they need Shepherd’s help as well. The marshals want Shepherd to set a trap for Karsarkis so they can grab him and drag him back to New York. All Shepherd wants is for everybody to go away and leave him alone.
At least he does until he learns a chilling secret that plunges him a violent spiral of friendship and betrayal and pulls him straight back into the life he thought he had left behind in Washington.
The marshals aren’t really in Phuket to arrest Plato Karsarkis.
They’re there to kill him.
Click here to pick up your free copy of Killing Plato in the Amazon Kindle store.
Torch Song
Author: Shelley Singer
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: FREE!
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Book Description:
IT’S 2066. AND YOU CAN’T TRUST ANYBODY…
Rica Marin’s a mercenary—a hired gun, soldier, and spy who answers only to whoever can keep her in the meds she and her only living relative need to survive the plagues that scourge the earth after biological warfare’s wiped out pretty much everything.
It’s a strange world that’s left—composed of tiny city-states like Redwood, Sierra, and Rocky—run with a variety of futuristic machines and broken-down ones. Fancy new cars float as well as roll, but the Internet’s now so glitchy you can’t even blog properly—newspapers have come back! So many machines are in disrepair that a fixer in this world isn’t someone who rigs elections or cleans up after murders—it’s a person who can repair both an elevator and an ancient toilet. But roving bands of bandits, godders, causies, breeders, khakis, and toxies threaten to destroy what’s just been fixed.
Anywhere there are people—however few—there’ll be power plays, and Rica’s current job at the Blackjack Casino is to run interference between the warring clans of Tahoe, in tiny Sierra. But then the city-state of Rocky gets ambitious. And that means war.
Click here to pick up your free copy of Torch Song in the Amazon Kindle store.
Tablet of Destinies
Author: Rob Swigart
Genre: Thriller
Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: FREE!
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Book Description:
JOB DESCRIPTION: DELPHIC ORACLE, CURRENTLY SERVING
TO-DOS: STOP APOCALYPSE. ASAP!
In this action-packed historical thriller, an ancient, extremely dark religion gains terrifying vitality and power, as the pieces of a 3,000-year-old Sumerian jigsaw puzzle fall into place.
A clay tablet turns up, containing a prophecy of demons, a snake goddess, and the birth of a “disruptive” miraculous child. A prophecy so dangerous the tablet was smashed to bits, and the shards scattered to all the cities of the ancient world to prevent reassembling, until a Jesuit scholar’s vision sets the prophecy in motion in Paris, where the pieces have lain for centuries, half a world and three millennia away from their source.
Yet very close to the current home of Lisa Emmer, chosen the Pythia, head of the Delphi Agenda, because of her gift of sight, and trained in ancient world studies by a mentor who promised to “teach you life”; more accurately, he might have said “teach you to save the world from evil.” Prophecy is Lisa’s bailiwick—she’s the modern-day Delphic Oracle, head of a secret organization whose purpose is to protect the world from rogue conspiracies within the Church.
Over the centuries, the Delphi Agenda has prevented the cult of Ophis Sophia from the fulfillment of their doomsday prophecy several times. Now, in a suspenseful race against an alignment of planets and comets that signals the “wondrous child’s” impending birth, Lisa speeds to find and protect the mother and child. If she’s too late, “disruption” will take on a devastating new meaning.
Click here to pick up your free copy of Tablet of Destinies in the Amazon Kindle store.
Count The Roses
Author: Jackie Weger
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:
Betrayed and jilted, Jennifer Dewitt finds solace in New Orleans–that humid, high-stepping city of music and magic on the Mississippi River. A new job. New experiences. Men and marriage are not on her radar. Adrien Merrill’s divorce leaves him bitter and jaded. In Cajun custom, pride rules. Yet Adrien aches for a woman to fill his days with laughter, his nights with passion, and his house with children. He sets his sights on Jennifer and runs right into stubborn, smart and independent. He soon discovers the line between pride and love is as whisper thin as a fine silk thread.
Click here or type in http://geni.us/counttheroses into your web browser to pick up your copy of Count The Roses in the Amazon Kindle store.
Tears of the Silenced
Author: Misty Griffin
Genre: Non-Fiction
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $6.99
Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:
A young Amish woman defies church customs and files sexual assault charges against the bishop of her church. A courageous memoir.
When I was six years old my family started dressing like the Amish, it was the beginning of a nightmare. A few years later we moved to a mountain ranch where my sister and I were subjected to almost complete isolation, sexual abuse, and extreme physical violence.
In my late teens, my parents feared we would escape and took us to an Amish community where we were adopted and became baptized members. I was devastated to once again find myself in a world of fear, sexual abuse, animal cruelty and other crimes. Going to the police was severely frowned upon. Amish sexual predators were merely shunned for 2-6 weeks, a punishment that never seemed to do any good.
A few years later I was sexually assaulted by the bishop of my church. I knew I had to get help and one morning in early March I made a dash for a tiny police station in rural Minnesota. As a result, I found myself plummeted into the strange modern world with only a 3rd-grade education and no form of identification.
Click here or type in http://geni.us/tearssilenced into your web browser to pick up your copy of Tears of the Silenced in the Amazon Kindle store.
Pocketful of Bones
Author: Julie Frayn
Genre: Suspense
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:
Finnegan MacGillivray, red-haired, freckle-faced social pariah, finds solace in his mother’s garden, while she entertains “dates” in his home. When an accident takes the life of a friend, Finnegan buries the evidence amid the purple dead nettle and bougainvillea, and unearths a treasure trove of human remains. Did his house rest atop an ancient burial ground? Or was there a killer tucking him into bed at night?
His fascination with bones grows as fast as his obsession with his mother. She rejects his advances, and he escapes to the other side of the country. Years later, he returns to his childhood home, to the secrets and the guilt and the bones — and to fulfil his destiny.
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New Releases on Kindle
Included in this post are relatively new Kindle book releases by independent authors in a variety of genres: I’m certain you will find something to enjoy in the offerings below. Also, similar to what I tell you in the daily posts, while the pricing is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could change at any time!
Sweet and Sassy Weddings Box Set
Authors: Various
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:
With this ring I thee wed, says the groom, and the bride smiles, always beautiful, always dreaming of a happy future. Whether she is young or not that young, a hopeless romantic or an Ice Queen, a vocalist or an attorney, a mail-order bride or a poker-bet fiancée, a single mom or a stay home mother and widow, our bride dreams of love and passion, and a walk down the aisle.
Celebrate true love and commitment with SWEET and SASSY WEDDINGS, nine breathtaking stories from New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors, all award-winning authors.
MOTHER’S DAY BABIES, Mona Risk, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author: Powerful TV News Director, Lou Roland, is certainly not marriage material, yet he wants Barbara in his arms. Not an easy task when his pretty confidante, a widow from Kentucky, proves so difficult to date, unless he follows her rules.
A KISS BENEATH A STRAWBERRY MOON, Tamara Ferguson, Multi-Award-winning author: Vocalist Marielle McKinnon and composer Drew Kendall find love one magical summer after a Kiss Beneath A Strawberry Moon. But when Drew is injured in Iraq and refuses to contact Marielle, who’s become a star, will their love survive?
SECOND CHANCE BRIDE, Joan Reeves, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author: Constance is the Ice Queen—can Alex find a way to melt the ice around her heart?
NIGHTFALL, Rebecca York, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author: What happens when a macho virgin homesteader meets his mail-order bride?
HOLD ‘EM, Jacquie Biggar, USA Today bestselling author: In the game of love all bets are off. When professional poker player Matthew Shaughnessy wins the pot of a lifetime, he didn’t expect to land himself a fiancée.
THE YOU-CAN’T-MAKE-ME BRIDE, Leanne Banks, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author: [Spicy]. When attorney Jenna Jean Anderson needs emergency orthopedic surgery from her childhood nemesis Dr. Stanley Michaels, unexpected attraction flares between them. But can their passion transform to the forever love of their secret dreams?
HIS SACRED VOW, Susan Jean Ricci, Award Winning, Bestselling Author: Abandoned with a baby on the way, Melanie Kirk swears never again to be taken in by a guy’s superficial words, or allow any other diversions to interfere with her responsibilities – enter Taylor Hutchins, a diversion with a capital D.
FINDING LOVE, Natalie Ann, Award-Winning author: What happens when a hopeless romantic falls for a cynical romance writer? Erik is determined to convince Sheldon that what she’s believed her whole life might actually be false.
THE BRIDE WORE LEATHER, Suzanne Jenkins, Multi-Award-winning author: After Oscar rescued Lisa from a marriage to the wrong guy, they’ll make up lost time together.
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The Beedog
Author: Addie Broussard
Genre: Children & Middle Grade
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:
A picture book about science, bugs and beedogs. Wait….what’s a beedog?
While building a unique sandcastle, Cora and Manny spot a rather curious little insect.
Soon, the intrepid scientists keep a watchful eye on the insect’s movements, while learning about the natural environment along the way. A world of discovery awaits little adventurers in this delightful picture book for children aged 4-8.
A great book for STEM education and home-school projects or just curious little ones who love science. Book extras include fun activities related to scientific classification and research.
Click here or type in http://geni.us/beedog into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Beedog in the Amazon Kindle store.
Celestial Incursion
Author: Eddie R. Hicks
Genre: Science Fiction
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:
Humans, aliens, and dragons. Who will inherit the galaxy?
They said aliens didn’t exist, until they landed on the White House lawn.
They said dragons didn’t exist, until they arrived in the galaxy . . . To turn it into cosmic dust.
A new threat from beyond the galaxy rim has emerged, taking the lives of humans and aliens across the Milky Way. They look like dragons. They sound like dragons. They burn our cities like dragons . . . and apparently our spaceships too.
Captain Rebecca Foster is no stranger to saving the galaxy from mythological beings that shouldn’t exist but do. Dealing with dragons from beyond the galactic rim is a task she and her crew are more than qualified for. The new Earth government, however, disagrees, and sends the Marines instead, grounding Rebecca and her crew until further notice.
And then things don’t go according to plan . . .
Salvation for the galaxy now lies in the hands of Rebecca’s ability to get back into the captain’s chair and show the galaxy how you slay dragons with 22nd century weapons and technology.
Click here or type in http://geni.us/celestial into your web browser to pick up your copy of Celestial Incursion in the Amazon Kindle store.
Saving Worms After the Rain
Author: Paul Nelson
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $0.99
Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:
Deep in the woods of Central Pennsylvania, a beautiful teen girl is missing. The police in the little town of Renfro have no clues. Finally, they must call on a young autistic man, Aspen Winkleman, for help. Aspen has psychic powers. Will he be able to find the girl? If he does find her, will she be alive?
Aspen encounters many adventures in Renfro, and many dark secrets. Most of all, he encounters people who greatly fear change. How will they react to someone like Aspen, a man who eats with toothpicks, always wears a rain jacket, and cleans his sneakers every day?
This story traces the history of an African American farm family. It also includes gangsters, the Klan and Pennsylvania moonshiners. It’s a lively, quick mystery read with a touch of local History added.
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Nine Irresistible Heroes
Authors: Various
Genre: Historical Romance
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $9.99
Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:
This summer, fall into the arms of Nine Irresistible Heroes. This amazing historical collection features these stories from USA Today and Bestselling authors –
Only Forever by KIMBERLY CATES –
When thief-on-the-run Ashleen O’Shea flees famine-stricken Ireland for Texas with four orphans in tow, she must entrust her safety to lone wolf Garret MacQuade. Since the day when outlaws ravaged Garret’s family homestead, he has shunned attachments, but when evil forces threaten, will he ride away or make a home with this patchwork family he’s come to love?
A Knight’s Seduction by CATHERINE KEAN –
When rogue warrior Tye takes innocent Claire Sevalliere hostage, he plans to seduce her, but soon finds he’s the one seduced, for she brings light to his tormented soul. As battle draws near, and he’s at risk of losing her, he must confront his greatest torment—and his destiny changes forever.
The Winds of the Heavens by ANNA MARKLAND –
They were twin warriors who’d always shared everything. But could they share a woman?
The Kincaids – Dallas by NANCY MORSE –
Abducted by the Kiowa as a child, Dallas Kincaid returns home after 22 years to a love he never expected to find. But his attraction to Abby McKenna is threatened by his struggle to define his own identity and by her family’s prejudice that will not permit the attention of a man raised by Indians, no matter how hard he fought for Texas independence, giving Dallas one more battle to fight before he can lay the painful past to rest.
The Bravest of Them All by LAUREL O’DONNELL –
NESSA falls in love with her sister’s betrothed and is willing to sacrifice her own feelings to ensure her sister’s happiness. When LUKE OF BRACKLEY discovers Nessa has been kidnapped by an enemy, he risks everything to save her. Will Nessa be able to keep her love for Luke a secret even as her heart breaks?
To Kiss a Governess by EMMA PRINCE –
Desperate to save his crumbling Highland estate, Edmund, Earl of Kinfallon, sends for English governess Thea Reynolds to serve as a companion for his ailing sister. Yet he never imagines the mysterious beauty will capture his heart under the mistletoe.
My Captive Highlander by VONDA SINCLAIR –
Can unexpected passion and a little ancient magic turn enemies into lovers?
Bewitching the Earl by LAUREN SMITH –
She’s desperate for a future to escape scandal. He’s the man whose life her father ruined. Together their love will heal all wounds.
Brighter than Gold (Rogues Go West, Book 1) by CYNTHIA WRIGHT –
Gold Rush journalist Katie MacKenzie is infatuated from afar with the Griffin, a masked highwayman who robs from the greedy mine owners. But when their paths cross and sparks fly, will a tragic secret destroy their budding, passionate love?
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June 15, 2018
Friday’s Featured Kindle Book
Black Widow Blues
Author: Jeffrey M. Anderson
Genre: Mystery
Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:
In this sequel to Little God Blues rock-front-man-turned-amateur-detective Jim Shalabon travels to Mexico. The danger is palpable even before he arrives. A corpse? Deadly drugs? A kidnapped Englishwoman, now missing? To proceed beyond these flashing lights would take him to Narcoland, a place so dangerous that just an awareness of his existence could prove fatal. A six-day mission turns into a battle for survival as Jim learns the hard way that in Mexico it is almost impossible to play it safe.
Click here or type in http://geni.us/bwblues into your web browser to pick up your copy of Black Widow Blues in the Amazon Kindle store.
About the Author:
Jeffrey M. Anderson was born and raised in San Francisco, and graduated with a degree in Economics and a Minor in Russian Languages from the University of California at Santa Barbara. His passions include science, history, technology, and music. He currently lives in London, England with his wife and guitar.
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Free & Discounted Kindle Books for Friday
Here’s your listing of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Friday: for those books listed as being free in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could revert back to paid status at any time!
The Saint’s Rise
Author: Michael John Grist
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $4.99
Today’s Price: FREE!
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Book Description:
No heroes endure…
Three thousand years ago the world fell into darkness, when the great black mouth of the Rot ravaged the land. Across the glorious library city of Aradabar its dark tongues hammered down, leveling the glass towers of learning and entombing the bookyards in a thick blanket of lava. Only a single child survived the devastation; an infant with a prophecy carved into his skin, promising the rise of a hero powerful enough to slay the Rot for good.
Now that child is a young man, beginning to question the meaning of his many scars…
Now those scars are hunted by a jealous King, ruler of a brutal industrial city, where a thousand bizarre castes toil away like slaves…
Now a dark beast is watching, an Unforgiven, seeking to fulfill a promise made long ago…
And now the Rot has returned, its great black mouth gaping large in the sky, bringing chaos and fear to a world where no heroes endure…
Click here to pick up your free copy of The Saint’s Rise in the Amazon Kindle store.
The Random Series Boxed Set
Author: Julia Kent
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No
Regular Price: $7.99
Today’s Price: FREE!
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Book Description:
It all started with a naked hitchhiker wearing a guitar — and only a guitar.
And turned into a New York Times bestseller.
A random meeting between a rural Ohio chick and a rich Boston musician kickstarted all sorts of random acts of love and lust — and got even more complicated when his bandmate entered the picture.
And never left.
From unconventional love to second-chance romance to your wildest desires, The Random Series Boxed Set will have you giggling, swooning, and fanning yourself to the heart-pounding beat of the sexiest, most daring and irresistible musicians to come out of Boston.
Five band members form the up-and-coming group Random Acts of Crazy–each with a story of his own in this long-running series.
Let these rock stars take you on a CRAZY wild ride, and with a little TRUST, they can fulfill your every FANTASY.
This boxed set contains three full-length novels:
Random Acts of Crazy
Random Acts of Trust
Random Acts of Fantasy
Click here to pick up your free copy of The Random Series Boxed Set in the Amazon Kindle store.
The Templar Map
Author: K.R. Hill
Genre: Mystery
Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: FREE!
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Book Description:
The FBI is searching for it.
Israeli agents are killing people to find it.
The criminal organization that got cheated out of it, is looking for blood.
Into the office of Private Detective Jason Dalton, walks a beautiful widow with a clue to the location of a priceless Templar map.
Dalton had an office in one of those old buildings downtown. You know the type, built in the twenties with a marble staircase, a huge lobby that smelled old and stale, a broken elevator with brass fixtures. Dalton and young Nick, his assistant, were working nickel and dime stuff: missing persons, insurance fraud, and rounding up a fugitive here and there.
Then she arrived. Dalton heard heels clicking on the tile landing, and looked up from his desk. Into his office walked a redhead with an envelope full of cash. As she crossed the room in that tight skirt, his mouth dropped open.
Mrs. Sophie Devonshire had been attacked. Her home had been burglarized. It all started, she said, when she found a photo of an old map among her late husband’s things. Could Mr. Dalton help her find the real map?
But the case seemed too good. Somebody was going to a lot of trouble to get Dalton involved. Could it be a trap? Then he found a tracking devise on his coat, and two military thugs burst through the weapons drawn.
What was Dalton getting into?
Click here to pick up your free copy of The Templar Map in the Amazon Kindle store.
Give the Lady a Ride
Author: Linda W. Yezak
Genre: Romance / Religious Fiction
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $4.99
Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:
Patricia Talbert is a high-class social coordinator from New York.
Talon Carlson is a rugged bull rider from Texas.
He thinks she’s too polished.
She thinks he’s insane.
Opposites aren’t quick to attract when the lady who enters the cowboy’s world is on a mission to sell the ranch. But a box of letters changes her mission-letters of unshakable faith and a love deeper than anything she’s ever experienced.
Soon she finds his integrity appealing. Her spunk draws him in. He has the faith she craves; she may be the love he longs for. But faith and love aren’t achieved in a single weekend.
To buy time to explore the possibilities between them, she issues a challenge: “Teach me to ride bulls.”
From here on, they’re in for the ride of their lives.
Click here or type in http://geni.us/eN5ilM into your web browser to pick up your copy of Give the Lady a Ride in the Amazon Kindle store.
Existential
Author: Ryan W. Aslesen
Genre: Science Fiction / Horror
Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No
Regular Price: $4.99
Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:
It was supposed to be just another mission…
Buried deep in the rugged Alaskan wilderness lies a secret that could alter the future of mankind–a secret that billionaire Elizabeth Grey has invested millions in solving. But when the dig goes silent and all attempts at making contact fail, an elite team of battle hardened military contractors is brought in led by former Marine Max Ahlgren, a warrior haunted by his past.
While the mission to make contact and rescue a team of scientists and engineers working on an “archeological” project seems like an easy payday, Once on ground, the team discovers the grizzly truth that this is no ordinary rescue. Max and his men find themselves in the fight of their lives against a nightmarish enemy like nothing they have ever seen. In what quickly becomes a struggle for survival, the world’s greatest soldiers will encounter the universe’s ultimate terror in a battle that puts all of humanity at stake.
No Backup.
No Escape.
No Hope.
Click here or type in http://geni.us/existential into your web browser to pick up your copy of Existential in the Amazon Kindle store.
Among the Branded
Author: Linda Smolkin
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:
What if a 70-year-old letter from World War II changed the course of your life?
While attending Valor of the ’40s, art director Stephanie Britain stumbles upon a flea market selling letters from the war. She buys a handful, hoping they’ll inspire the redesign for a client’s website at her branding and design firm. At first, she’s drawn by the lost art of penmanship, but soon discovers a hidden treasure nestled inside declarations of love from homesick soldiers.
Stephanie enlists a coworker to translate one and realizes it’s not a love letter after all. When a shocking discovery about a client causes Stephanie to question her principles and dedication to her firm’s business, she’s forced to make a difficult decision—one that could give her peace of mind, yet ruin her career in the process.
Contemporary fiction with a historical touch, AMONG THE BRANDED explores family life, an unexpected friendship, and moral conflicts that make us wonder what’s more important: our livelihood or our beliefs.
Click here or type in http://geni.us/thebranded into your web browser to pick up your copy of Among the Branded in the Amazon Kindle store.
The Heart of Lies
Author: Debra Burroughs
Genre: Mystery
Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:
Book 2 once again brings together sassy private eye Emily Parker, the hunky police detective Colin Andrews, and her close circle of interesting friends for another captivating murder mystery to solve.
One of Emily’s best friends is falling head over heels for a handsome and wealthy man she met on an internet dating site. When he shows up in affluent Paradise Valley trying to raise money for an investment project, all hell breaks loose.
Sweet Maggie wants a husband so badly she’s willing to overlook things her protective friends are not. She’ll have to learn the hard way that sometimes online dating can be murder. Think “Stephanie Plum” meets “Nancy Drew”.
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June 14, 2018
Thursday’s Featured Kindle Book
New Orleans Mourning
Author: Julie Smith
Genre: Mystery
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $4.99
Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:
MURDER, MARDI GRAS–AND MORE SECRETS THAN BEADS…
It’s Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and civic leader and socialite Chauncy St. Amant has been crowned Rex, King of Carnival. But his day of glory comes to an abrupt and bloody end when a parade-goer dressed as Dolly Parton guns him down. Is the killer his aimless, promiscuous daughter Marcelle? Homosexual, mistreated son Henry? Helpless, alcoholic wife Bitty? Or some unknown player? Turns out the king had enemies…
Enter resourceful heroine Skip Langdon, a rookie police officer and former debutante turned cynic of the Uptown crowd. Scouring the streets for clues, interviewing revelers and street people with names like Jo Jo, Hinky, and Cookie, and using her white glove contacts, the post-deb rebel cop encounters a tangled web of brooding clues and ancient secrets that could mean danger for her—and doom for the St. Amants.
Langdon, with her weight worries, insecurities, and yet overall toughness has long been a favorite of those who like their female sleuths bold, smart, and refreshingly human.
Click here or type in http://geni.us/61418 into your web browser to pick up your copy of New Orleans Mourning in the Amazon Kindle store.
About the Author:
I first knew I wanted to be a writer at seven, knew it was mysteries I’d write at 12, was desperate to win the Edgar at 13, but became a journalist to…well…keep from starving till I had the courage to actually try it. I had a great time and learned more than ten colleges could have taught as a reporter for first the New Orleans Times-Picayune and later the San Francisco Chronicle. Finally, I wrote six or seven mysteries (I’ve lost count!) over a period of eight years, to absolutely no avail, and was about to give up when I made my first sale. DEATH TURNS A TRICK was my first published book, and the Rebecca Schwartz series was born. I later added a second San Francisco series, plus two in New Orleans, and guess what? My first New Orleans book, NEW ORLEANS MOURNING, won the Edgar for Best Novel.
So some dreams come true! Boy, it was hard, and it took forever, but mine actually did. I’m still pinching myself. After wanting something so much and finally getting it, who would have thought I’d turn to something else after twenty-one books? (That’s right, twenty-one not counting a non-fiction one on writing itself. So, twenty-two, really.) My whole identity was writing. But along came ebooks! Suddenly a gigantic opportunity opened up. I realized I could be a publisher myself—I could help other people achieve their own dreams. I couldn’t help it, I got the publishing bug. Bad.
In 2010, I founded www.booksBnimble.com, a digital publishing company that focused at first on video-enhanced ebooks, but now not so much enhanced as just great quality—and, as you might imagine, with an emphasis on mysteries. So far, we’ve published eight authors (including me). It’s been a treat to learn to function in another whole world and it’s been incredibly rewarding to be able to help other writers, to bring back people’s backlists, and to discover new, exciting talent.
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Free & Discounted Kindle Books for Thursday
Here’s your listing of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Thursday: for those books listed as being free in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could revert back to paid status at any time!
Dead Smart
Author: Stephen Puleston
Genre: Mystery
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $0.99
Today’s Price: FREE!
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Book Description:
Nobody can hide from the truth …
Eddie Westford is found dead outside the Cardiff City Football ground. His throat has been cut in a cold-blooded attack. Inspector Marco discovers photographs of Westford sitting in various luxury cars and Westford’s connections with the organised hooligan gangs of Cardiff points to a connection with hardened criminals.
Evidence suggesting Westford is a suspect in a drug related inquiry means that Marco faces having to transfer the investigation to another officer. But Marco’s gut instinct believes that Westford’s death may be connected to some powerful people in Cardiff and he resists the attempts from his senior officer to have the murder case allocated to another officer.
Marco embarks on a final last minute attempt to prove his theory with disastrous consequences before he finally identifies Westford’s killer.
Click here to pick up your free copy of Dead Smart in the Amazon Kindle store.
Her Dakota Man
Author: Lisa Mondello
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No
Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: FREE!
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Book Description:
She needed to risk the truth to get a second chance…
Poppy Ericksen had spent the year wondering how all their lives might have been different after hearing the deathbed confession of her childhood friend. She’d left South Dakota years ago because she couldn’t bear to watch the man she loved loving another woman. But now she knows the truth. She’ll keep the promise she made to a friend, but will Logan understand when he learns the truth? More important, can they again recapture the passion that had been between them all those years ago?
He needed to face the past to get the love of a woman he thought he’d lost…
Everyone knows that the Dakotas didn’t get the name Badlands for nothing. Harsh weather and rough living are a way of life. But single dad, Logan McKinnon, had seen more than his share of bad times after the death of his wife a year ago. The last thing he needs is Poppy Ericksen, an old flame and his late wife’s best friend, showing up unannounced to help after devastating floods nearly washed away their hometown. With no place to stay in town, he has no choice but to offer her a bed at his house. But can he live under the same roof with a woman he’d once loved passionately without feeling he’s betraying his late wife?
Click here to pick up your free copy of Her Dakota Man in the Amazon Kindle store.
The Dead and the Missing
Author: A.D. Davies
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No
Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: FREE!
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Book Description:
A brutal international underworld. A lost girl. A PI determined to burn it all.
Former private investigator Adam Park got rich and retired in his mid-30s, living a quiet life of surfing and travel. But when a troubled young woman and her manipulative boyfriend disappear, Adam’s old mentor cuts that retirement short.
Using cutting-edge technology, Adam soon learns both abuser and victim made an enemy of a seemingly small-time gangster, and tracks them from the UK, through the Parisian underworld, and into an international organized crime network that treats human life like a business commodity. To confront criminals on the rise, ruthless traffickers, and corrupt policemen, he must burn down his concepts of right and wrong, and draw upon the darkest corners of his psyche.
But these are facets of himself Adam has long denied exist. Bubbling just beneath the surface, he has kept that anger and violence caged all his life. Because he is a good person.
Isn’t he?
Click here to pick up your free copy of The Dead and the Missing in the Amazon Kindle store.
Secrets at Seaside
Author: Addison Cole
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No
Regular Price: $4.99
Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:
Tony Black is the hottest surfer on the planet. He travels the world throughout the year and spends his summers on Cape Cod with his friends, at the Seaside cottages in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. He’s got his choice of women, but Amy Maples is the one he wants. Fourteen years ago she was his for an entire summer, until a devastating accident changed everything, and what they had seemed like it had never existed—at least for her.
Amy Maples is as consistent as the day is long. She’s spent summers on Cape Cod forever, she always does the right thing, and she’s spent years trying to reclaim the heart of Tony Black, the only man she’s ever loved. She’s back for a summer of fun with her friends at Seaside, only this year she’s been offered the opportunity of a lifetime thousands of miles away, and she’s decided to try one last time to reconnect with Tony. But having a relationship with Tony means dealing with her past—and dealing with her past may knock her to her knees.
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Three Heart Echo
Author: Keary Taylor
Genre: Thriller
Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:
Welcome to Roselock, where the ground bleeds, and the night screams.
After the senseless murder of her fiancé, Iona Faye can’t move on. There was no happily ever after, and no goodbye. Desperate for closure, she goes to see Roselock’s one and only reclusive inhabitant.
Sully Whitmore has lived a life of seclusion, with one hand on the gate to the other side, and a family curse binding him to the town his ancestors founded. When Iona demands he speak to Jack for her one last time, he knows something is wrong. She paints a picture of love and devotion, but Sully sees something else: a story of possession. A story of lies. A story of two faces.
But it’s too late now. Sully has opened the gate. And he will help Iona find the truth about Jack, if it’s the last thing he does.
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A Brush with Vampires
Author: Betsy Flak
Genre: Paranormal
Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $3.99
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Book Description:
Blood. Magic. Boarding School.
Escape from her imploding family. That’s all Lila Lee wants. When her best friend negotiates a last-second invitation for Lila to join her boarding school, Lila leaps at the chance. There she finds impossible classes, mean-girl frenemies, a frosty roommate, and a tongue-tying, mind-muddling crush.
But someone—or something—lurks in the shadows. It stalks Lila’s icy roommate. And her crush. And Lila too. Can Lila unlock the deadly secret before it’s too late?
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June 13, 2018
Wednesday’s Featured (and FREE!) Kindle Book
A Honeybun and Coffee
Author: Sam Cheever
Genre: Mystery
Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No
Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: FREE!
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Book Description:
It was a Good Samaritan thing gone horribly wrong.
She heard two men talking about killing some poor guy named Alastair. She only wanted to warn him–to save his life–but she soon found herself embroiled in his mess.
He might be drop dead gorgeous. She might be forming a real attachment to his dog. But is any man worth this?
Running for her life with a truly delicious hero, the help of his seven equally yummy brothers and one adorable dachshund named Jaws?
Okay, maybe he is worth it.
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About the Author:
The best books yank you into their world, wrap you in a warm gauze of pleasure, and set you free to bobble upon the surface of a rich and immersive story-line. Hopefully, at the end of that experience you emerge energized, satisfied, and ready for more fun. But there are soooo many books to choose from. And you have limited time in your day for reading. You need to choose carefully. So why choose a Sam Cheever book?
Fascinating, three-dimensional characters you can’t help relating to
A unique plot that plays across your mind like a fine symphony
Witty, firecracker dialogue
A distinctive mix of humor, romance and adventure that will keep you turning pages well into the night
So, why don’t you take the plunge? Indulge that adventurous spirit. Treat yourself to a little harmless fun. You’ve certainly earned the right.
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