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More Free & Discounted Kindle Books for Friday

Here’s your second group 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!

I Spy, I Saw Her Die
Author: Ian C.P. Irvine

Genre: Thriller

Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars

Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $2.99

Today’s Price: FREE!
Click Here for Your Free Copy!








Book Description:

In a race against time, it’s Ray Luck against the world!

When Ray Luck – a top cyber security expert – accidentally stumbles upon a devastating secret while surfing the web, he knows immediately he is in way above his head and soon he is being hunted by both Mossad and the British Security Services.

Alone, desperate, with only three days to live, Ray is a man with not one, but several missions: to save the life of his girlfriend who has been kidnapped by the security services; to prevent a terrorist cyber attack destroying London; to save the Middle East peace process; and to bring one of the most powerful men in the world to justice for the savage killing of an apparently innocent woman, a murder certain powerful people in the British Government are determined to cover up at all costs.

Only Ray can stop them all.

But as the clock starts to tick, he discovers that nothing is as it seems. Who is the real enemy? And who can he trust? Unless he finds out soon, will Ray’s luck finally run out?

Click here to pick up your free copy of I Spy, I Saw Her Die in the Amazon Kindle store.








The Patient Killer
Author: Sean Campbell and Daniel Campbell

Genre: Mystery

Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99

Today’s Price: FREE!
Click Here for Your Free Copy!








Book Description:

Bodies begin to pile up, the victims seemingly random. At first it seems that the only thing connecting the crimes is that each murder was meticulously planned and executed.

When DCI Morton discovers that the latest victim, Primrose Kennard, was already at death’s door, he has to ask:

Who would bother to murder a dying woman?

Click here to pick up your free copy of The Patient Killer in the Amazon Kindle store.








The Feedback Loop
Author: Harmon Cooper

Genre: Science Fiction

Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Regular Price: $3.99

Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:

Quantum Hughes is the type of guy who doesn’t back down from a fight.

Trapped in a virtual world with a limitless inventory list, Quantum lives his days on repeat, fighting the same killer NPCs and hashing out the same dark and gritty story lines again and again.

But everything isn’t fun and games for Quantum Hughes.

He receives a message from an actual human player, his first message from a real person in years, which sparks an epic adventure across multiple online fantasy worlds. Suddenly Quantum is being hunted by a murder guild known as the Reapers; suddenly he’s no longer the toughest guy on the block; suddenly, his real world body is no longer safe.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/feedbackloop into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Feedback Loop in the Amazon Kindle store.








A Sudden Gust of Gravity
Author: Laurie Boris

Genre: Women’s Fiction

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

Free via Kindle Unlimited: No
Regular Price: $3.99

Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:

Christina dreamed of becoming a magician like her father, but real life made her fantasy disappear. Now a twenty-five-year-old waitress in Boston, she passes the local magic store and can only imagine what might have been. One day, compelled to step inside, she captures the attention of a charming street performer, who hires her as his assistant. Christina has no desire to make a career out of holding some guy’s props, but maybe Reynaldo the Magnificent could be her ticket to something bigger. When his dark side threatens everything she’s worked for—including the troubled young doctor who has become one of her fans—she questions if the opportunity for a second chance is worth the price of admission.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/gustofgravity into your web browser to pick up your copy of A Sudden Gust of Gravity in the Amazon Kindle store.

It’s our biggest giveaway ever – enter to win a new Fire tablet, Kindle Paperwhite, and more! Just click here or point your web browser to http://geni.us/1117giveaway and enter away!

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Free & Discounted Kindle Books for Friday

Here’s your first group 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!

When You Got A Good Thing
Author: Kait Nolan

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars

Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $4.99

Today’s Price: FREE!
Click Here for Your Free Copy!








Book Description:

She thought she could never go home again. Kennedy Reynolds has spent the past decade traveling the world as a free spirit. She never looks back at the past, the place, or the love she left behind—until her adopted mother’s unexpected death forces her home to Eden’s Ridge, Tennessee.

Deputy Xander Kincaid has never forgotten his first love. He’s spent ten long years waiting for the chance to make up for one bone-headed mistake that sent her running. Now that she’s finally home, he wants to give her so much more than just an apology.

Kennedy finds an unexpected ally in Xander, as she struggles to mend fences with her sisters and to care for the foster child her mother left behind. Falling back into his arms is beyond tempting, but accepting his support is dangerous. He can never know the truth about why she really left. Will Kennedy be able to bury the past and carve out her place in the Ridge, or will her secret destroy her second chance?

Click here to pick up your free copy of When You Got A Good Thing in the Amazon Kindle store.








Maia and the Xifarian Conspiracy
Author: S.G. Basu

Genre: Young Adult

Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars

Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $4.99

Today’s Price: FREE!
Click Here for Your Free Copy!








Book Description:

What if everything you believe is a lie?

Maia has spent most of her life trying to run away from her past. When a chance encounter lands Maia in a dubious peace initiative, she has to walk down a road she had hoped never to tread. Little does she know that the real truth about her long-dead mother is somewhere down this path.

But before she gets to that, Maia will discover true friendship, face an unimaginable evil, and fight her deepest fears to save the world she loves.

A planet on the brink of extinction. An enemy from the dark-side of the universe. Only one girl and her secret stands between them.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Maia and the Xifarian Conspiracy in the Amazon Kindle store.








Hush
Author: Carey Baldwin

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99

Today’s Price: FREE!
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Book Description:

Secrets never die…even when they’re six feet under.

Charlie Drexler has come home determined to make amends to those he’s wronged and unearth the truth about what happened one terrible, rainy night in the woods outside of Tangleheart, Texas. He’s also looking to reconnect with the girl he left behind.

But Anna Kincaid is more than just a turned-down page corner in the book of Charlie’s life. While he was away fighting his battles, she stayed behind to deal with the wreckage–and she’s built a life of her own. Now Charlie wants a second chance, and his timing couldn’t be better…or worse. When Anna’s big sister and her baby disappear, Charlie offers to help. Soon they’re dodging bullets and racing against the clock to bring mother and child home safely. But can Anna trust the man who turned his back on her before?

Click here to pick up your free copy of Hush in the Amazon Kindle store.








The Handfasting
Author: David Burnett

Genre: Contemporary Romance

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:

I will find you.

Before they parted, Steven and Katherine had joined hands in the ruins of the old abbey church and pledged their love to each other. It was the summer of nineteen sixty-seven, and they were going in different directions, to different schools, to different countries.

How could Steven make such a promise?

Perhaps if they’d had today’s internet with its email, online databases, and social media, if they’d had cell phones with international calling, his promise would not have been so foolish. In nineteen-sixty-seven, though, once you lost track of someone, picking up the trail could easily be impossible.

Through ten years of separation, Katherine clung to Steven’s words, hoping and praying he would keep his promise. When he finally finds her, they fall in love once more and plan to marry. Together, again, what could stand in the way of their happiness?

Steven is not Katherine’s only suitor. Bill Wilson – arrogant, selfish, sexist − has known Katherine since they were in high school. He has long assumed he would wed her, telling everyone she would be his, telling everyone except Katherine. When Steven appears, he decides he must formally stake his claim.

A loveless marriage to a man she despises versus marriage to the love of her life? The choice seems obvious.

When Katherine rebuffs Bill’s proposal, his courtship turns violent. What will she risk to find the strength to follow her heart and embrace the future she truly wants?

If you enjoy stories about strong women who fight to overcome the odds to obtain what they want, then you will enjoy The Handfasting.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/handfasting into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Handfasting in the Amazon Kindle store.








Soul Breaker
Author: Clara Coulson

Genre: Paranormal

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:

There’s a dangerous monster loose on the streets of Aurora, Michigan, and Detective Cal Kinsey is determined to stop it…or die trying.

Two years ago, Cal Kinsey was an up-and-coming cop in the Aurora Police Department. But during a fateful nighttime stakeout in search of a prolific killer, Cal witnessed the darkest corner of his dreams come to life: a rogue vampire slaughtered his partner and introduced Cal to the supernatural world he never knew existed in the shadows.

Now, Cal is a newly minted detective at the often mocked Department of Supernatural Investigations. By day, the agents of DSI are called “Kooks” by local law enforcement. By night, they’re known as “Crows,” reviled by the supernatural underworld.

Mere weeks out of the academy, Cal catches his first real case, a vicious murder at a local college. An unknown sorcerer has summoned a powerful creature from the Eververse, a realm of magic and mayhem that borders Earth, and set it on a warpath through the city.

With the bodies piling up and the danger of public exposure growing critical, Cal must find a way to stop the Eververse monster and send it back to the hell it came from…preferably before Aurora, Michigan runs out of coffins for the dead.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/soulbreaker into your web browser to pick up your copy of Soul Breaker in the Amazon Kindle store.

It’s our biggest giveaway ever – enter to win a new Fire tablet, Kindle Paperwhite, and more! Just click here or point your web browser to http://geni.us/1117giveaway and enter away!

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Need an Amazon Gift Card?

The following is a revision of a post I first posted about in August 2014. The number of people reading this blog has grown since then (and I hope some of that is attributable to folks thinking there is some value to the blog), and I thought it appropriate to repeat it: I was reminded of this post as I’ve got another big jar of coins I gathered at home and I’m thinking of needing some Amazon gift cards for this upcoming Christmas.  If you are reading this post on the blog’s website or Facebook page , I would appreciate a “Like” or “Share” so your friends and family can be notified of this tip, also!

Kindles and other eBook readers have some costs to them: by the time you purchase the Kindle and other related accessories (cover to protect it, maybe an extra charger, etc.) can certainly add up. However, you’ve made your initial investment in the Kindle hardware, and there is enough free content out there for you to read the rest of your life without buying another book. Forever.

Forever is a long time.

While I do read a lot of the free books I talk about here in the blog I still enjoy certain authors and will purchase a lot of books. Some of them are inexpensive offerings from independent authors and some are from your mainstream “big name” authors, and I don’t care what the price is – I’ve gottagetitnow. Well, I do care what the price is but I may just wait until it gets below $10 unless it’s a new one by Harlan Coben or David Baldacci. I’m sure there are offerings by favorite authors you want to buy, too.

So, what’s my point with this post? Great question because, as in real life, I am getting long-winded.

You have a source of “free” money you can spend in the Amazon store and you probably don’t realize it as it is right under your nose. I’m talking about your loose change.

Most of you have seen the change conversion machines in grocery and other stores, and a lot of you have used them: you take in your coffee can of loose change, dump it in the hopper, the machine counts it and then spits out a receipt you take to the cash register to redeem for paper currency or a credit in the store. The one main drawback to these machines, to me, is a lot of them take a 10% or more commission / cut of whatever you brought in as their profit. For example, at an 10% commission rate you would need to bring in $11.11 worth of change to receive a $10 bill. Some people will say “so what” and accept that as a cost of doing business vs. rolling the money yourself and either turning it in to a bank (if they accept the change these days – my local branch of Bank of America does not) or taking it to a convenience store who needs it and having everyone behind you steam as you and the convenience store clerk count out a bagful of pennies.

That’s really a stupid effective interest rate for a three day loan, assuming they empty the machine every three days.

The grocery store usually splits the fee earned 50-50 with the owner of the equipment, but even if the grocery store is providing a three day loan to the equipment maker until they are reimbursed, that is one heck of a money maker (why didn’t I think of that?)!

I’m sure some of you are still wondering what my point is with this post. I’ll get to it, I just had to set the stage.

Coinstar is one of the largest providers in the USA of this equipment to stores; they are also the parent company behind the Redbox DVD rental machines you seem to see everywhere. They have partnered with Amazon to not charge you a fee for the change you bring in if you bring in a minimum of $5.00 worth of change, but they will give you a gift card eligible for 100% of the change you bring in to be used at the Amazon website; I am assuming Amazon is paying the 8% commission fee as a customer acquisition cost.

That’s actually a huge benefit for you and me as we feed our Kindle book addiction or shopping habits on Amazon.

Using my earlier example, if you brought in $11.11 worth of change and selected the Amazon gift card option, you would get a $11.11 Amazon gift card as your receipt. You would then enter the gift card details on your Amazon account on your computer (or Kindle, if the wireless feature is on with the browser pointed to the Amazon website). You can then use those funds now applied to your account and buy not only Kindle books but anything else on the Amazon website.

You also don’t have to roll the coins yourself or, if your house is like mine, have a couple of containers here and there full of spare change. You’re also not giving up any of your money as a commission just for someone to accept your spare change. I hope that’s change you can believe in (pun intended).

Coinstar has partnered with other companies in addition to Amazon to offer gift cards with no fee to you – you turn in $11.11 worth of coins, you get a $11.11 gift card to the Amazon store or to the other store(s) participating in the program. While Coinstar is one of the largest providers of this equipment to stores in the USA, they are not the only one so don’t assume your local grocery store is a Coinstar machine.

To find a Coinstar machine, you can point your web browser to https://www.coinstar.com/findakiosk and do two things from this page: (1) enter your zip code in the middle of the page to find a Coinstar machine near you, and (2) see a list of companies that have signed up for the gift card promotion by clicking “details” under the name of the store / retail location. When I just did the same for a location near me, in addition to an Amazon gift card my selections were to lots of major retailers.  You can also donate the change to eight different charities vs. taking a gift card, and the charity will receive 100% of the proceeds.

My old quart-sized Mason Jar I use to hold my change is almost full of silver coins, so it’s off to the Coinstar machine!

Hope that helps!

Michael

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Thursday’s Featured (and FREE!) Kindle Book

Dead Red Mysteries Box Set

Author: R.P. Dahlke

Genre: Mystery

Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $7.99

Today’s Price: FREE!
Click Here for Your Free Copy!

 

Book Description:

Michael’s note: R.P. Dahlke is one of the independent authors supporting our big giveaway (see the bottom of this post). Be sure to download this five-book box set today while it is free!

A DEAD RED CADILLAC (1st in the Dead Red Mystery Series)

When her vintage Cadillac is found tail-fins up in a nearby lake, the police ask Lalla Bains why an elderly widowed piano teacher, who couldn’t possibly see beyond the hood ornament, is found strapped in the driver’s seat.

A DEAD RED HEART (2nd in the Dead Red Mystery Series) When a troubled, homeless veteran covers her vintage Cadillac with paper snowflakes, Lalla decides a showdown is needed, but that doesn’t mean she wants the man to drop dead at her feet—with a pair of blue handled scissors sticking out of his chest.

A DEAD RED OLEANDER (3rd in the Dead Red Mystery Series):Her beloved great aunt wants to barbecue dad’s side-kick, Bruce the goat, her man-hungry cousin has her sights set on her top pilot, and her new hire is really a CPA hiding from a vicious Las Vegas hitman. Then things really start to get messy.

Bonus Books: 2 in a Romantic Sailing Mystery Trilogy:

A DANGEROUS HARBOR: When Katrina Hunter takes a required leave of absence from the SF police department to sail to Mexico, she discovers a floater close to her first port-of-call. Doing her civic duty brings her into the Ensenada police station where she comes face-to-face with her unfortunate past, and perhaps the love of her life.

HURRICANE HOLE: Marooned in Baja, Mexico, a Chechen arms dealer is waiting for the right diver to retrieve the deadly cargo on the bottom of the Sea of Cortez. But when the Queen of daytime drama, Leila Hunter Standiford, happens to admire a beautiful vintage Alden and its handsome captain, she doesn’t realize that the boat will soon burn to the water line, or that a dead body will be found below, or that the captain has been targeted as a sacrificial diver.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Dead Red Mysteries Box Set in the Amazon Kindle store.

 

About the Author:

I write humorous mysteries about an annoyingly tenacioustall, blonde and beautiful, ex-model turned crop-duster who, to quote LallaBains, says: “I’ve been married so many times they oughta revoke my license.” Iwanted to give readers a peek at a not so-perfect -life of a woman who is notafraid of chipping her manicure because she doesn’t have time for a manicurewhat with herding a bunch of recalcitrant pilots and juggling work orders justto keep her father’s flagging business alive.

You can visit R.P. Dahlke’s Amazon author page if you click here.

It’s our biggest giveaway ever – enter to win a new Fire tablet, Kindle Paperwhite, and more! Just click here or point your web browser to http://geni.us/1117giveaway and enter away!

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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 – many of these authors are supporting the giveaway we’re conducting (see the bottom of this post to learn more), so please be sure to check their offerings out!

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!

Behind the Altar

Author: P.C. Zick

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99

Today’s Price: FREE!
Click Here for Your Free Copy!








Book Description:

A tattoo artist on a Harley. A do-gooder beauty. A forbidden passion.

Leah Bryant lives a quiet life helping others. When her future mother-in-law, Geraldine, threatens her causes, she’s left confused by the hypocrisy and befuddled by a stranger who roars into town on a Harley.

Dean Davis never wanted to return to his hometown. But when his father dies, he knows he must return and faced his mother, Geraldine, and his ugly past. When Leah discovers the stranger is the brother of her fiancé who she’d been told was dead, she’s drawn to him and furious about the deception. Both are bowled over by an intense attraction to one another. The magnetic pull draws them into a passionate embrace within minutes of meeting.

Leah’s controlled life and Dean’s emotional barriers both shatter and force them to examine their lives. Leah must choose between her safe engagement to Dean’s estranged brother, Jacob, and a dangerously passionate affair with Dean. And Dean must confront the demon from his childhood, his mother. Dean’s fear of loving and Leah’s need for security pull them together, rather than apart.

But none of it will matter if they can’t stop Geraldine, an unhinged woman on a destructive course to abolish everyone who opposes her thirst for power. When Dean and Leah, along with Jacob, threaten her, she goes on a rampage to destroy them all.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Behind the Altar in the Amazon Kindle store.








Foolproof
Author: A.J. Lape

Genre: Mystery / Thriller

Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99

Today’s Price: FREE!
Click Here for Your Free Copy!








Book Description:

Jon Bradshaw needs a girlfriend stat. When he convinces Darcy Walker to be his wingman at a speed-dating event, one debacle leads to another, and before you know it, they’re the proud new owners of a dead body. Problem is, the body has a tie to Darcy…making her a person of interest in a murder.

Things quickly jump from bad to worse when someone hijacks the name of Darcy’s alter ego, framing “Jester” in a Hitchcock-like blend of crimes that leaves her head spinning.

In FOOLPROOF, Darcy battles an adversary who tests her IQ while she navigates the daunting worries of a high school senior. Add on the emotional fallout of her latest caper, a cop breathing down her neck, and a hot but stubborn boyfriend, and she’s at her wit’s end.

Can she find her zen and unmask the real murderer? Or get used to a life of prison orange?

Click here to pick up your free copy of Foolproof in the Amazon Kindle store.








Vampire’s Quest
Author: Alexa Dare

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99

Today’s Price: FREE!
Click Here for Your Free Copy!








Book Description:

A Vampire’s Quest. A Healer’s Destiny. Her beauty rivals the glow of the sun. To a vampire, elusive, desirable, forbidden.

A vampire’s quest leads him to his greatest challenge, a defiant traveling Appalachian nurse targeted for her supernatural healing abilities. In the middle of his final mission, Ryderholt Judson’s desire for the sexy healer burns deep and fierce. Yet, as his duty to the Dark Knights comes to an end, the last person he wants anything to do with, despite centuries of celibacy, is a potential fated mate.

Hidden away in the Appalachian mountains, Jess Willowbrook shares her supernatural abilities. No time for romance, she struggles to stay under the radar as the news of her success in healing supposed untreatable illnesses spreads. Danger on her heels, she encounters an injured man whose true nature defies reality.

Passion entwined with peril, Jess must join forces with Ryder to battle the unexpected evil that plagues the mountain community.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Vampire’s Quest in the Amazon Kindle store.








Forty Days at Kamas
Author: Preston Fleming

Genre: Thriller / Suspense

Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $3.99

Today’s Price: FREE!
Click Here for Your Free Copy!








Book Description:

An American Gulag

Kamas, Utah, 2024. America has become a totalitarian dystopia after the Unionist Party’s rise to power. The American West contains vast Restricted Zones dotted with ghost towns, scattered military garrisons and corrective labor camps where the regime disposes of its real and suspected enemies.

A former businessman from Pittsburgh, Paul Wagner, arrives at a labor camp in Utah’s Kamas Valley. He is unaware that his eleven-year-old daughter, Claire, has set off to Utah to find him. By an odd quirk of fate, Claire has traveled on the same train that carried her father into internal exile.

The Inmates Seize Control

Only after Wagner has renounced all hope of survival, cast his lot with anti-regime hard-liners and joined them in an unprecedented and suicidal revolt does he discover that Claire has become a servant in the home of the camp’s Deputy Warden. Wagner is torn between his devotion to family and loyalty to his fellow rebels. On the eve of an armored assault intended to crush the revolt, he faces an agonizing choice between a hero’s death and a coward’s freedom.

Chillingly realistic

Forty Days at Kamas is both a stirring portrait of a man determined to survive under the bleakest of conditions and a nightmare vision of what America could become if political extremists rise to power.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Forty Days at Kamas in the Amazon Kindle store.








Full Slab Dead
Author: EM Kaplan

Genre: Cozy Mystery

Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99

Today’s Price: $0.99
Click Here to Buy!








Book Description:

Trouble down in Texas… When snarky food critic, Josie Tucker, heads to Austin, Texas, to wax philosophical about the local barbecue joints, she stumbles on to a decades’ old missing person case. With the help of a local reporter, a Goth ghost hunter, and a bunco-playing transvestite, she tries to unravel the heart-tugging, hidden history before the whole place goes up in smoke.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/fullslabdead into your web browser to pick up your copy of Full Slab Dead in the Amazon Kindle store.








Pineapple Port Mystery Box
Author: Amy Vansant

Genre: Mystery

Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars

Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $2.99

Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:

When a giant inflatable Halloween witch goes missing in the Pineapple Port retirement community, Charlotte’s eager to nab the culprit. Before she can lift a fingerprint, someone threatens to kill a new neighbor who looks like an adorable Pomeranian but possesses a disturbing talent for revenge. Moments later, a stranger demands the return of a mysterious wooden box… or else.

Charlotte’s boyfriend, Declan, isn’t having a great morning either. His calculating ex-girlfriend has returned to claim she’s the rightful owner of his pawn shop. She’s livid he’s found a new lady, too.

Eh. Things could be worse. At least Charlotte doesn’t know that a mojito-swilling killer who fed his grandmother to a cat is on his way to Pineapple Port…

Click here or type in http://geni.us/pineapple into your web browser to pick up your copy of Pineapple Port Mystery Box in the Amazon Kindle store.








Captain Sinbad
Author: Graham Diamond

Genre: Fantasy

Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $3.99

Today’s Price: $0.99
Click Here to Buy!








Book Description:

His greatest adventure, and greatest test…

Nearly two centuries before Marco Polo’s travels to Cathay, there lived in the fabled city of Baghdad the famed rogue and adventurer Sinbad.

Tales spoke of the mighty Captain Sinbad: adventurer, soldier, poet, and mariner.

When Sinbad washes up on the shores of Pansa, it is surely a good sign for the young women of the village. As the handsome and mysterious stranger recovers, he is begged of a particular beauty to recall his adventures and what led him to this point.

But his travels have not been without trouble.

Driven from home and the arms of his beloved Scheherazade, Sinbad has become an outlaw voyaging across the Seven Seas.

The corrupt Caliph of Baghdad has taken Sinbad’s love to be his wife, and now Sinbad must flee for his life.

But soon, he learns of a magical flower, the Red Dahlia, that grants a wish to the person who crushes it.

What follows is a daring journey as Sinbad sails from Jaffa to Damascus on his quest to find the mythical Red Dahlia. With a cast of crewmembers aboard his ship, Captain Sinbad must make his way through hell or high water, and on his adventure he will encounter things he never thought possible…

Nothing will stand in his way.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/captainsinbad into your web browser to pick up your copy of Captain Sinbad in the Amazon Kindle store.

It’s our biggest giveaway ever – enter to win a new Fire tablet, Kindle Paperwhite, and more! Just click here or point your web browser to http://geni.us/1117giveaway and enter away!

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Wednesday’s Featured (and FREE!) Kindle Book

The Sheriff’s Woman

Author: Jackie Weger

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $4.99

Today’s Price: FREE!
Click Here for Your Free Copy!

 

Book Description:

Michael’s note: Jackie Weger is one of the independent authors supporting our big giveaway (see the bottom of this post). Be sure to download her book today while it is free!

Rachel Cameron prefers to lick her wounds and protect her children from gossip and shame in isolation on a small homestead in the Ozark Mountains. But life-long bachelor and ex-Marine, Sheriff Garrett Stark has other ideas. Drawn to Rachel, he wields all the power and charm he can muster to insist Rachel return to town for her safety and that of her children. Exasperation and anger rule on both sides. Rachel balks, but does not anticipate the raft of dizzying emotions stirred by the Sheriff’s relentless attention. The moment Garrett takes her into his arms Rachel knows she has to make a choice: Honor the truth and face her fears or live forever as an outsider.

Click here to pick up your free copy of The Sheriff’s Woman in the Amazon Kindle store.

 

About the Author:

Jackie Weger has been writing romance novels off and on for thirty years. When she’s writing, she’s anchored in a tiny room with a desk, a chair and an annoying cat. When not writing, blogging or chatting with fans, she’s traipsing around the Internet searching for recipes, but much prefers to travel the good earth by foot, boat, bus, train, plane or pickup–but usually only gets as far as Walmart.

You can visit Jackie’s Amazon author page if you click here.

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Free & Discounted Kindle Books for Wednesday

Here’s your listing of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Wednesday –many of these authors are supporting the giveaway we’re conducting (see the bottom of this post to learn more), so please be sure to check their offerings out!

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!

Grand Master’s Pawn
Author: Aurora Springer

Genre: Science Fiction/Romance

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $4.99

Today’s Price: FREE!
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Book Description:

One young woman challenges the secret rulers of the galaxy, and risks a perilous love.

Violet dreams of exploring exotic planets as a Grand Master’s pawn. When life-threatening cracks appear in the teleportal web, Violet is tasked with investigating the disruption. Suspicions point to the twelve Grand Masters, and she must penetrate their curtain of secrecy to identify the culprit. Her challenges escalate when she meets the enigmatic man behind the griffin avatar. Armed with only her erratic powers and a mishmash of allies, she must challenge the most powerful beings in the galaxy.

Reminiscent of the science fiction stories of Andre Norton, Violet’s perilous adventures are sweetened by romance and a sprinkle of laughter.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Grand Master’s Pawn in the Amazon Kindle store.








The Governor’s Daughter
Author: Jerri Hines

Genre: Historical Romance

Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $3.99

Today’s Price: FREE!
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Book Description:

Cathryn Blankenship has no desire for a season in London! Why on earth would her father want her to leave her home in Charles Town? Upon Cathryn’s steadfast refusal, Governor Blankenship is forced to assign a young lieutenant to watch over Cathryn on the journey and ensure his daughter’s appearance in London. Cathryn finds Lieutenant Jake Pennington the most aggravating, maddening man she has ever met…a man Cathryn soon admits she is in no hurry to see leave.

But fate has other plans for her in a world she is ill prepared to enter. She descends into a place where love and betrayal go hand and hand, where greed and treachery are second nature, but moreover the threat her father believes he has sent her is awaiting her arrival. When fate tears her apart from her Lieutenant, Cathryn finds herself desolate and alone. Soon, Cathryn makes fateful decisions that will send her back to her home.

A home far different than the one she left. A war rages. Soon, she discovers her life is in danger and the only one that can save her is the one who left her heartbroken.

Click here to pick up your free copy of The Governor’s Daughter in the Amazon Kindle store.








Forever by the Sea
Author: Traci Hall

Genre: Romantic Comedy

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:

Sinead Monroe and Christian Sharp have been in love since kindergarten. They are soul mates, kindred spirits who are now ready for marriage. They have planned the wedding of the year and things get worse from there. One unfortunate event begets another as wedding after wedding is cancelled. Will the ceremony they both want so much be the end of their relationship—or will the trials create a love to last forever?

Click here to pick up your free copy of Forever by the Sea in the Amazon Kindle store.








Following His Heart
Author: Donna Fasano

Genre: Romance

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $2.99

Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:

Sara Carson is a 30-something widow with a busy life. Two fun-loving best friends, a caring mom who needs her, and a thriving sweet shop. What more could a woman want? But when the ancient plumbing in her shop springs a leak and a gorgeous, dark-eyed stranger rushes to her rescue, hilarity unfolds—and Sara quickly sees exactly what she’s been missing.

Something most peculiar draws Landon Richards to Ocean City, Maryland—and to the lovely Sara. This woman touches his heart like no other, and the two of them explore the heady attraction that pulses between them. But haunting dreams have a way of encroaching on reality, and the strange phenomenon that brings these two together will also threaten to tear them apart.

This is the first book in the Ocean City Boardwalk Series, where life for three enterprising women, Sara, Heather, and Cathy, isn’t just fun in the sun—love is waiting on those sandy shores!

Click here or type in http://geni.us/oceancity into your web browser to pick up your copy of Following His Heart in the Amazon Kindle store.








Beneath the Shady Tree
Author: Piper Templeton

Genre: Women’s Fiction

Rating: 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:

Payton Montgomery wishes she could remember her early childhood; Joel McIntyre wishes he could forget. Payton is excited about restarting life in New Orleans, but she is plagued by sketchy nightmares and two child abductions that pervade the community and her inner psyche. As she tries to cobble her life together after a string of bad choices, she falls hard for Joel, a veterinarian struggling with his own memories. Could their shared early past reveal secrets that will set them free?

Click here or type in http://geni.us/shadytree into your web browser to pick up your copy of Beneath the Shady Tree in the Amazon Kindle store.








The House Next Door
Author: Darcy Coates

Genre: Horror

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:

I live next to a haunted house.

I began to suspect something was wrong with the gothic building when its family fled in the middle of the night, the children screaming, the mother crying. They never came back to pack up their furniture.

No family stays long. Animals avoid the place. Once, I thought I saw a woman’s silhouette pacing through the upstairs room… but that seems impossible; no one was living there at the time.

A new occupant, Anna, has just moved in. I paid her a visit to warn her about the building. I didn’t expect us to become friends, but we did. And now that Marwick House is waking up, she’s asked me to stay with her.

I never intended to become involved with the building or its vengeful, dead inhabitant. But now I have to save Anna… before it’s too late for the both of us.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/housenextdoor into your web browser to pick up your copy of The House Next Door in the Amazon Kindle store.

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Tuesday’s Featured Kindle Book

House of Enchanted
Authors: Multiple

Genre: Fantasy

Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $3.99

Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

The Kingdom of Virgo has lived in peace for thousands of years…until now.

The humans from Terran have always been real assholes to the witches of Virgo. Now a silent war is brewing, and the timing couldn’t be worse. Princess Azure will soon be crowned queen of the Kingdom of Virgo.

In the Dark Forest a powerful potion-maker has been murdered.

Charmsgood was the only wizard who could stop a deadly virus plaguing Virgo. He also knew about the devastation the people from Terran had done to the forest.

Azure must protect her people. Mend the Dark Forest. Create alliances with savage beasts. No biggie, right?

But on coronation day everything changes. Princess Azure isn’t who she thought she was and that’s a big freaking problem.

Welcome to The Revelations of Oriceran.

A magical world tied to Earth, and nothing like it.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/111417 into your web browser to pick up your copy of House of Enchanted in the Amazon Kindle store.

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Free & Discounted Kindle Books for Tuesday

Here’s your listing of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Tuesday: 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 Wind Guardian

Author: Frank Scozzari

Genre: Thriller

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:

In California, one of the largest nuclear centers of the United States is targeted by terrorists. Aided by an inside man, the extremists plan to seize the reactor and scatter radiation to the winds, wreaking havoc to the world.

Standing in their way are two misfit security guards, whose romantic escapade temporarily takes them off the terrorists’ radar. After realizing what is happening in the power plant, they find themselves in a battle against time and overwhelming odds.

A sudden resurgence of duty has them taking up arms and committing beyond the point of no return. But has their call to action come too late?

Exposing the vulnerability of the nation’s power plants, The Wind Guardian is a powerful thriller from four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Frank Scozzari.

Click here to pick up your free copy of The Wind Guardian in the Amazon Kindle store.








All My Love, Detrick
Author: Roberta Kagan

Genre: Historical Fiction

Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $3.99

Today’s Price: FREE!
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Book Description:

All My Love, Detrick is the story of a forbidden love that thrusts two families, one German, one Jewish, into a spider web of danger during the terrifying years of the Third Reich.

Detrick was born with every quality that would ensure his destiny as a leader of Adolph Hitler’s coveted Aryan race. But on his 7th birthday, an unexpected event changed the course of his destiny forever. As the Nazis rose to power, Detrick was swept into a world filled with secrets, enemies, betrayals, and alliances. But even in the midst of darkness, Detrick would find a single flicker of light. He would discover the greatest gift of all, the gift of everlasting love…

Click here to pick up your free copy of All My Love, Detrick in the Amazon Kindle store.








Time and Again
Author: Deborah Heal

Genre: Mystery

Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99

Today’s Price: FREE!
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Book Description:

An old house + A new computer program = The travel opportunity of a lifetime…to another century.

Abby Thomas is spending the summer in a run-down old house with a bratty pre-teen named Merrideth she is supposed to tutor. It’s not her idea of a dream job, but it does come with perks.

There’s John Roberts, a devastatingly attractive neighbor who is almost too wonderful to be real.

And then there’s the virtual trip to the 19th century she gets to take via a strange computer program called Beautiful Houses—also too amazing to be real! No one knows how it works, but with the program, Abby can rewind and fast-forward the lives of all the people who ever lived in the house, including that of young Charlotte Miles.

In 1858, Charlotte’s house is a train stop on the Alton & Chicago Line. And she is stuck there serving meals to the passengers, wondering if she’ll ever get to have any fun. But then she meets two travelers who change her life forever.

There’s James McGuire with whom she falls in love. And there’s his boss, a young Springfield lawyer named Abraham Lincoln. His debate with political opponent Stephen Douglas catapults him onto the national stage and leads to his presidency during the dark days of the Civil War. Hearing Abraham Lincoln pour out his heart on the debate stage inspires Charlotte Miles to take up the cause of abolition and to turn her house into a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Abby and Merrideth gain new perspective on their own lives as time and again they see God’s plans to bless Charlotte Miles and the other inhabitants of the old house unfold on their computer screen.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Time and Again in the Amazon Kindle store.








The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver
Author: Shawn Inmon

Genre: Science Fiction

Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $3.99

Today’s Price: FREE!
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Book Description:

All Thomas Weaver wanted was death. What he got was time travel.

In 1976, Thomas accidentally killed his brother. Forty years later, he gave up and took his own life.

Then he opened his eyes in his teenage bedroom and body, all memories intact, and his brother very much alive.

Given a second chance, Thomas sets out to make things right. But, being a middle-aged man in a teenager’s body, facing a classmate destined to become a serial killer, navigating a new romance, and trying to remember what a quadratic equation is, makes even a second life a challenge.

What would you do, if you could do it all again?

The second Middle Falls Time Travel Novel – The Redemption of Michael Hollister – is now available. The third book in the series – The Death and Life of Dominick Davidner – is available on presale and will be published in December 2017.

Click here to pick up your free copy of The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver in the Amazon Kindle store.








The Son of A Soldier
Author: Eleanor Meyers

Genre: Historical Romance

Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars

Free via Kindle Unlimited: No
Regular Price: $3.99

Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:

Can a woman be born a harlot?

Lady Nora Leverton was. At least, that was what the ton believed.

Born to a countess with an astonishing past, Nora never stood a chance when it came to the marriage market … until the day she is approached by a gentleman who sees her plight and offers her a way out.

In exchange for her help, he promises her marriage to a man with the power to silence the false rumors about her forever.

She wants her innocence more than anything else, but soon she wonders… at what price?

Before Nora realizes it, she finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy that would have burned her alive!

Literally.

If it weren’t for the man who’d come out of the cold and carried her to safety.

Sir Lucas Seton manages to save Nora from the flames of a burning palace just in time, but she doesn’t know how they are connected.

And the one obstacle that keeps them apart is that Lucas can never give her what she wants most.

Freedom from the rumors.

Will Nora ever be free of her mother’s shame?

Will love be enough?

Click here or type in http://geni.us/sonofsoldier into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Son of A Soldier in the Amazon Kindle store.








The Red Sword
Author: Michael Wallace

Genre: Fantasy

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:

Markal, an apprentice wizard, is thrust unexpectedly to the head of his order when his master is decapitated by a gray-skinned assassin. The order’s walled gardens have the power to restore their dead master to life, but only if the apprentices can protect his body long enough for their sanctuary to work its magic.

When a barbarian warrior named Bronwyn invades the gardens wielding a soul-binding sword and accuses the order of harboring a powerful sorcerer, Markal thinks she is another assassin come to finish the job. But Bronwyn is a paladin, a holy warrior from across the mountains, and her presence is a harbinger of a greater threat than Markal had imagined, a necromancer with the power to command the dead.

Together, they must join forces before the necromancer destroys Markal’s order and overruns Bronwyn’s homeland.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/redsword into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Red Sword in the Amazon Kindle store.








Afflicted: Patient Zero
Author: Derek Shupert

Genre: Horror

Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars

Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $2.99

Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:

Hunger. Terror. Survival.

Captured and held against his will, Mike finds himself on the receiving end of genetic experiments. Tortured by injections and left to live in subhuman conditions, Mike and his fellow test subjects struggle to survive in a scientifically engineered hell-on-Earth.

The virus they have been exposed to has caused varied yet brutal effects on those exposed. With most succumbing to the ravenous flesh-eating hunger of a twisted inhuman being, the underground testing facility in which they are held has become a battleground for survival. Even with his elite military training, veteran Mike knows that the virus will destroy him too unless he finds a way to hold on to his humanity and escape this living nightmare.

With the aid of those left to linger, Mike and his companions must find their way deep into the heart of the facility and escape before it’s too late. With the poison in their veins dragging them into the depths of depravity, every second counts in their pursuit of freedom.

Is there enough humanity within to keep the virus at bay and return to the light? Or is the world at large in danger of this horrific, mutating scourge?

In Afflicted: Patient Zero, the struggle for survival drives one man close to the brink–and the fight for humanity begins…

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Phantom Limb
Author: Lucinda Berry

Genre: Thriller

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99

Today’s Price: $0.99
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Book Description:

Emily and Elizabeth spend their childhood locked in a bedroom and terrorized by a mother who drinks too much and disappears for days. The identical twins are rescued by a family determined to be their saviors.

But there’s some horrors love can’t erase…

Elizabeth wakes in a hospital, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak. The last thing she remembers is finding Emily’s body in their bathroom. Days before, she was falling in love and starting college. Now, she’s surrounded by men who talk to themselves and women who pull out their eyebrows.

As she delves deeper into the mystery surrounding Emily’s death, she discovers shocking secrets and holes in her memory that force her to remember what she’s worked so hard to forget—the beatings, the blood, the special friends. Her life spins out of control at a terrifying speed as she desperately tries to unravel the psychological puzzle of her past before it’s too late.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/phantomlimb into your web browser to pick up your copy of Phantom Limb in the Amazon Kindle store.

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Monday’s Featured Kindle Book

The Tide
Author: Anthony J. Melchiorri

Genre: Science Fiction

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99

Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

An unearthed scientific secret will bring humanity to its knees.

Aboard a clandestine ship with unparalleled technology, Captain Dominic Holland commands a crew of skilled covert operatives and talented scientific personnel dedicated to fighting biological and chemical warfare. Their missions have taken them all over the globe to combat sinister plots and dangerous adversaries. But a new assignment leads them to a genetic engineering laboratory on an abandoned oil rig where they discover the most disturbing threat to mankind they have ever seen.

Back in the United States, CIA analyst Meredith Webb exposes a frightening connection between the agency she has devoted her life to and the abandoned oil rig. Her investigations are short-lived when terror spreads across the country. Something is turning humans into nightmarish creatures hell-bent on destruction.

Dominic and Meredith face impossible odds in a perilous effort to fight the impending apocalypse. But will their efforts be enough to turn the tide—or is humanity’s fate already sealed?

Click here or type in http://geni.us/thetide into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Tide in the Amazon Kindle store.

 

About the Author:

Anthony J Melchiorri is a scientist with a PhD in bioengineering. Originally from the Midwest, he now lives in Texas. By day, he develops cellular therapies and 3D-printable artificial organs. By night, he writes apocalyptic, medical, and science-fiction thrillers that blend real-world research with other-worldly possibility. When he isn’t in the lab or at the keyboard, he spends his time running, reading, hiking, and traveling in search of new story ideas.

You can visit Anthony’s Amazon author page if you click here or type in http://geni.us/melchiorri into your web browser.

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