Archives for September 2014

The Golden Dice

September 30, 2014 by Michael Gallagher 1 Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is The Golden Dice, by Elisabeth Storrs, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 68 customer reviews.

Genre: Historical Fiction

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

In The Golden Dice, sequel to The Wedding Shroud, three women follow very different paths to survive a ten year siege between Rome and the Etruscan city of Veii:

Caecilia forsakes Rome to return to her Etruscan husband, Vel Mastarna, exposing herself to the enmity of his people and the hatred of the Romans who consider her a traitoress…

Semni, a reckless Etruscan girl, becomes a servant in the House of Mastarna, embroiling herself in schemes that threaten Caecilia’s children and her own chance for romance…

Pinna, a tomb whore, uses coercion to escape her grim life and gain the attention of Camillus, Rome’s greatest general, choosing between her love for him and her loyalty to another…

Historical Fiction at its best, this second volume in the Tales of Ancient Rome series explores the lives of women in war while giving a glimpse into the religion and politics of Roman and Etruscan cultures, two great civilizations in ancient history.

The Golden Dice was judged runner-up in the international 2013 Sharp Writ Book Awards in general fiction, and was named as one of the top memorable reads of 2013 by Sarah Johnson, the reviews editor for the Historical Novels Review.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/goldendice into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Golden Dice.

About the Author:

Elisabeth Storrs has long had a passion for the history, myths and legends of the ancient world. She graduated from University of Sydney in Arts Law, having studied Classics. Her curiosity piqued by an Etruscan sarcophagus depicting a couple embracing for eternity, she discovered the little known story of the struggle between Etruscan Veii and Republican Rome and the inspiration to write the TALES OF ANCIENT ROME series.

Her debut novel, THE WEDDING SHROUD was published by Pier 9 Murdoch Books in Australia and New Zealand in 2010. It is the first novel in the series. When Pier 9 was taken over in 2012, Elisabeth chose to retain all rights to THE WEDDING SHROUD and independently published digital and paperback editions globally. She has since independently published the sequel, THE GOLDEN DICE. Both books have been judged runner-up in the Sharp Writ Book Awards in 2012 and 2013 respectively. CALL TO JUNO, the third book in the series, is currently being written. DYING FOR ROME: LUCRETIA’S TALE is the first story in her new short story collection.

Researched and written over a period of fifteen years, THE TALES OF ANCIENT ROME vividly describe the world of Etruria, a fantastic civilization ultimately destroyed by Rome but which heavily influenced its conqueror’s culture from republican into imperial times. There have been very few novels that have explored the world of the Etruscans and the early Roman Republic which makes the series unusually engrossing reads for historical fiction lovers.

Elisabeth lives with her husband and two sons in Sydney, Australia, and over the years has worked as a solicitor, corporate lawyer and corporate governance consultant. She is one of the founders of the Historical Novel Society Australasia, and a director of the NSW Writers’ Centre. Feel free to contact her at elisabeth@elisabethstorrs.com.

You can visit Elisabeth’s Amazon author page if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/storrs into your web browser.

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Book Reviews – Why I Write Them

September 30, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

As A Blog Publisher, Why Do You Write Book Reviews?

That’s actually a nicer way of summarizing some of the emails I’ve received over the last few years!

Yes, I do write reviews for the books I read, and starting in 2011 I started to make a point to write a review for most things I read.

Why do I write reviews? Well, I do read what others write for reviews, and those reviews do influence my decision to (a) first try out the free Kindle sample, which a lot of the time leads me to (b) purchasing a book. I appreciate the time and effort complete strangers took to write a review to tell me the good and the bad, and common courtesy tells me I should do the same. If I liked it, I’ll tell you – if I didn’t like it, well, let’s just say I’ve been told my professional career has been limited a time or two for being too honest (i.e., blunt).

If you’re like me, you look at the customer reviews in order to see if you want to investigate a book further – while my general cutoff is a book needs to be at least a 4 out of 5 stars, I also read the text of the review: things that may make a reviewer dislike a book might be favorable to me and, things a reviewer absolutely loved (and mentioned in the review) could be a complete turnoff to this grey-haired guy.

I also look to see if a review on the Amazon website is from an “Amazon Verified Purchase,” which tells me the person writing the review actually purchased the item from Amazon; if the reviewer purchased the item from the Amazon website, and didn’t “uncheck” the box to label it as an Amazon Verified Purchase, you will see that notification just below the title of the review and right above the main text of the review.

Why do I look for an Amazon Verified Purchase? I’ve been burned too many times by friends and family of the author, or shill, reviews – ones that immediately rate things a five star, only have about one sentence of commentary, and are generally marked by it being the one and only review a person has ever written on the Amazon website; these are typically reviews done in order to inflate a book’s overall rating. Another good indicator is a book will have a flurry of reviews around the same day, are short and all five stars, and the reviewers are from the same general location in the USA.

If you’ve read as many reviews on the Amazon website like I have over the years while looking for books to promote on the blog, you learn to spot the friends and family reviews pretty quick.

The “star” rating on Amazon can be broken down like this:

5 stars – I love it
4 stars – I like it
3 stars – it’s ok
2 stars – I don’t like it
1 star – I hate it

As far as the reviews I write, I try to write an honest assessment if I liked something or not without providing a spoiler: why write a spoiler and ruin the ending for everyone?. I also think your and my taste regarding the likes and dislikes of a particular book are more honest than a paid book reviewer a major publishing house contracts with to have in a book’s advertising materials. My motto is to keep it short and sweet on your likes and dislikes without providing a Cliff’s Notes version of the book.

There are also very few things I “love” in terms of reading as well as very few things I “hate” as both, to me, are very extreme ends of the spectrum. Not to sound too hokey, but love and hate are permanent things and very few things qualify for either emotion.

Some people think I shouldn’t be writing reviews because I have this blog, and due to the blog’s popularity it could influence people’s behavior, especially if I “give” it a bad rating – every once in a while I will have a rather interesting dialogue with a few folks regarding the same; remind me to tell you over a beer sometime about how bestselling author Joseph Finder had a public forum / social media temper tantrum on a short story I thought was pretty bad. My response to those type of comments is my – and anyone else’s – review of a book reflects my opinion only and I don’t “give” out anything: your opinion on a book or item may vary, and we probably won’t agree on everything. For example, something I really liked you may absolutely detest and puke all over it.

The same could be true for something you thought was outstanding and I may question why it was published in the first place. When I read reviews I don’t put that much weight into the “star” rating, but I look at the comments, mainly to see if they are substantive to back up the rating as well as to see what the reviewer’s pluses and minuses are with the book. If you look at those written comments, sometimes they match up to the “star” rating and sometime they do not.

I also discount reviewers who rate everything a 5 star, and I imagine most others do, too.

If you would like to read the reviews I have written, you can click here or type in http://smarturl.it/mgreviews into your web browser. As I type this post, I have 19 books I need to review but you will see just about everything I’ve read over the last four years – you’ll see I do read a lot of the free book offers, and you’ll also see I have been on a science fiction and thriller kick for a while.

You can vote on the individual reviews on the Amazon website if you think they were helpful or not with a simple “Yes” or “No” vote – you can click on those voting options immediately below the text of each review. The more “Yes” votes you get in proportion to the overall votes – as well as some super-secret factors Amazon won’t divulge – you will move up in the review ranking scale (yes, Amazon ranks the reviewers). Right now, the #1 Amazon reviewer is Ali Julia: she has held that position for quite some time now and has written 2,620 reviews (about 1,000 of them over the past year), has received 20,272 “Yes” votes for the reviews’ helpfulness, and has 27 people following her reviews.

So, yes, I will continue writing reviews and I hope you will do the same! After all, if you can’t share your opinion on a blog what else can you do?

Anyway, that’s all I can type about for now. Have a great rest of your week!

Michael

More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

September 30, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here’s your first group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Sunday: for those books listed as being free or discounted in this post – while the pricing of the free and discounted 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 its normal status at any time!

The Unveiling, by Tamara Leigh, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 138 customer reviews.

Category: Historical Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

12th century England: Two men vie for the throne: King Stephen the usurper and young Duke Henry the rightful heir. Amid civil and private wars, alliances are forged, loyalties are betrayed, families are divided, and marriages are made.

For four years, Lady Annyn Bretanne has trained at arms with one end in mind—to avenge her brother’s murder as God has not deemed it worthy to do. Disguised as a squire, she sets off to exact revenge on a man known only by his surname, Wulfrith. But when she holds his fate in her hands, her will wavers and her heart whispers that her enemy may not be an enemy after all.

Baron Wulfrith, renowned trainer of knights, allows no women within his walls for the distraction they breed. What he never expects is that the impetuous young man sent to train under him is a woman who seeks his death—nor that her unveiling will test his faith and distract the warrior from his purpose.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/theunveiling into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Unveiling.

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Moonbeak and Jacob Adventure Book 1-Sunny’s First Flight, by Ronald Rogers, has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 12 customer reviews.

Category: Children and Middle Grade

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Moonbeak and Jacob adventure book series are about the adventures of two close friends-Moonbeak the Owl and Jacob the Ape.

Moonbeak is wise, prefers to be quiet and likes to help when asked. He can also fly stealthily and can scout ahead to assess the situation.

Jacob is adventurous and fun loving. He is also very resourceful and enjoys making tools with his hands.

They love to help other animals in distress. Together, they can accomplish what they cannot do alone. This is a story of friendship, service and teamwork. There are a lot of pictures to illustrate the story so your child can imagine the scenes as they take place. This book is suitable for children age 3 to 8.

In this book, Sunny the baby bird is learning to fly. She makes many attempts and fails. One day, she meets Moonbeak and Jacob. How will they help Sunny in her first flight?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/moonbeak into your web browser to pick up your copy of Moonbeak and Jacob Adventure Book 1-Sunny’s First Flight.

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Romance Super Bundle II : Second Chances, an eleven-book box set collection by Dale Mayer, Donna Marie Rogers, Stacey Joy Netzel, Amy Garnet, Edie Ramer, Lois Winston, Pamela Fryer, Georgina Lee, Kate Kelly, Wendy Ely and Lyndi Lamont, is regularly $5.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 51 customer reviews.

Category: Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

USA Today bestseller!
Eleven romances from New York Times, USA Today and bestselling, award-winning authors.

The blockbuster box set with more than 100,000 copies sold is back for more! We’ve got a lonesome cowboy, a spurned bride-to-be, a heartbroken widower and an unexpected pregnancy, along with a tasty smattering of intrigue, murder and suspense. Almost half a million words and two thousand pages of strong heroes and daring heroines who’ll do anything for a second chance at love.

Second Chances–Dale Mayer

Go ahead. Take Charge of your life. Move forward…if you can…

Changing her future means letting go of her past. Karina heads to a weekend seminar and comes face to face with the man she can’t forget. But she soon realizes bigger issues are facing her… And one of them is deadly…

The Perfect Blend–Donna Marie Rogers

Carrie is on the verge of bankruptcy when Matt walks in and offers her unwanted business advice. The rich playboy fled L.A. for the anonymity of small town life and quickly falls for the local coffee shop owner–who’s as infuriating as she is beautiful.

The Heart of the Matter–Stacey Joy Netzel

Heartbroken she can’t have kids, Allie keeps her distance when Rick moves home with an adorable four year-old son who’s as hard to resist as his father. Does she dare take a chance on an impossible dream, or will his desire for more kids devastate their future?

Meghan’s Wish–Amy Gamet

Meghan O’Connor returns to the family she ran away from as a teenager, afraid they won’t forgive her for leaving town with Liam Wheaton, the boy they tried so hard to keep her away from and the father of her baby. She never expected to find Liam living there, looking sexier than ever and mad as all hell.

Mo’s Heart–Edie Ramer

Mo Vincent did the right thing in New Jersey, and it cost him his son, his wife, his restaurant. Now he’s found a home in Miracle, Wisconsin. He should be content…but his heart wants what he can’t have…

Hooking Mr. Right–Lois Winston

A failure at relationships, Thea Chandler is secretly a bestselling romance advice guru. Luke Bennett, New York’s most eligible bachelor, thinks he’s finally found an honest woman, but Thea’s got more secrets than the CIA. Can a butt-ugly cat named Cupid play matchmaker?

The Lost Finder–Pamela Fryer

The first halfway decent guy to come along in eons…and he’s from another planet. Private Investigator Brooke Weaver hopes she can slip into her Oregon hometown, find her client’s missing teenage daughter, and be on her way again before anyone notices. Not likely.

Cape of Secrets–Georgina Lee

Marika Host lands a dream summer job helping renowned archeologist Sir William write his memoirs, exposing years of secrets. His son Derrick adds romance to her summer, but when Sir William is murdered, Marika realizes some secrets are best kept buried.

Shattered–Kate Kelly

Failing to save his sister’s life, Jay Rawlings insists he be left alone to live the lonesome cowboy life. But when the woman he once loved returns to his ranch with a killer and the police in hot pursuit, Jay has to face the demons from his past.

In His Embrace–Wendy Ely

When life’s glow threatens to die, love guides the way. Tori expected an ordinary Friday. It wasn’t. Ben’s hand rested on her hip a little longer during their goodbye. Then her tests came back abnormal. Scared and alone, she wishes for Ben’s hand to hold. Can he make it back to her in time?

How To Woo…A Reluctant Bride–Lyndi Lamont

A marriage of convenience, nothing more…until darkly handsome Evan Channing and demure Lydia Blatchford meet. The rules are simple for such an arrangement. No expectations, no illusions of anything more. But the rules are about to change…

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/71414 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Romance Super Bundle II : Second Chances.

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Confederado do Norte, by Linda Bennett Pennell, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 10 customer reviews.

Category: Historical Fiction

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

October, 1866

Mary Catherine is devastated when her family emigrates from Georgia to Brazil because her father and maternal uncle refuse to accept the terms of Reconstruction following the Confederacy’s defeat. Shortly after arrival in their new country, she is orphaned, leaving her in Uncle Nathan’s care. He hates Mary Catherine, blaming her for his sister’s death. She despises him because she believes Nathan murdered her father. When Mary Catherine discovers Nathan’s plan to be rid of her as well, she flees into the mountain wilderness filled with jaguars and equally dangerous men.

Finding refuge among kind peasants, she grows into a beauty, ultimately marrying the scion of a wealthy Portuguese family. Happiness and security seem assured until civil unrest brings armed marauders who have an inexplicable connection to Mary Catherine. Recreating herself has protected Mary Catherine in the past, but this new crisis will demand all of the courage, intelligence, and creativity she possesses simply to survive.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/confederado into your web browser to pick up your copy of Confederado do Norte.

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One Day The Invitations Will Stop Arriving, by Marlayna Glynn Brown, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 23 customer reviews.

Category: Memoir

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Marlayna had been a single parent for fifteen years when she felt she had nothing left of herself to give. Drained and empty, she writes, “I’d reached a point in my life where something had to give, and it could no longer be me.”

Selling all she owned, Glynn Brown embarked on a journey to save herself. Deeply personal, at times painful yet quirky, One Day The Invitations Will Stop Arriving: A Travel Memoir recounts her journey through fourteen countries and their people. Glynn Brown takes readers from Texas to Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia/Herzegovina, Montenegro, Ukraine, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Belgium and finally The Netherlands.

In this honest memoir, Marlayna shares vignettes from the first six months of her journey, learning age really is just a number. Readers will enjoy the not-always-easy journey, finding hope in this true story that teaches the wisdom of creating and receiving miracles when you start accepting invitations.

Click here to pick up your copy of One Day The Invitations Will Stop Arriving.

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Gemma Rules, a new three-book box set collection by Mel Curtis, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based 2 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
GEMMA RULES contains a series of three novelettes in Mel Curtis’ Hollywood Rules series: VALENTINE RULES, WEDDING RULES, and BRIDE RULES.

VALENTINE RULES Gemma Kent has become famous as a sexy mystery woman with the Twitter handle @GlitterfrostGem. Randy Farrell, the man Gemma can’t get out of her head, wants a date with @GlitterfrostGem, but the real Gemma is nothing like her twitter alter-ego.

WEDDING RULES Gemma Kent Rule’s and Randy Farrell’s romance has moved beyond the Twittersphere into real world Hollywood. Can their budding relationship survive Hollywood gossip, out of control starlets and big time dreams?

BRIDE RULES Randy loves Gemma. Gemma loves Randy. That should be enough to guarantee a happily-ever-after, but Gemma has experience being the roadblock to someone’s dreams and it’s not a role she’s eager to reprise. She won’t stand in the way of Randy’s NBA dreams, even if it means setting him free on the side of L.A.’s busiest freeway.

Click here to pick up your copy of Gemma Rules.

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Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

September 30, 2014 by Michael Gallagher 1 Comment

Here’s your first group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Tuesday: for those books listed as being free or discounted in this post – while the pricing of the free and discounted 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 its normal status at any time!

The Hell Of Osirak, by Jaye Rothman, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 23 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

The year is 1981. The Osirak nuclear facility will become operational in a few weeks. Can British spy Nikki Sinclair stop an Armageddon of unimaginable horror and destruction from engulfing the Middle East?

Sinclair is sent on a mission that will be fraught with danger, deception and betrayal. Unexpectedly she encounters her ex- lesbian lover, Dvora Bar Zahavi who is an agent for the Mossad. Is this a coincidence? Or are dark forces gathering around Sinclair? Sparks fly again, and Sinclair’s emotions are twisted and torn, can she trust Dvora? Can she trust her own side? Or perhaps no one at all?

Sinclair begins to understand that she is little more than a pawn in a dangerous, international political game of physical intimacy.

This high stakes action packed, grand panoramic espionage thriller is set in five countries and over three continents. Loosely based on a true story, code named Operation Opera by the Israelis, this thrilling book by Jaye Rothman will intrigue and entertain you.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/hellofosirak into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Hell Of Osirak.

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The Awakening, by K.A. Madison, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 10 customer reviews.

Category: Science Fiction

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Read the story that started it all: The Awakening is the first book in K.A. Madison’s The Nether Chronicles trilogy.

The year is 2051: Humanity’s pursuit of ever more powerful computer technology has finally created a new reality: machines are self-aware and are ruthless.

The human race has been reduced to a fraction of its former self. A war to end all wars has changed the world forever. As people slowly slip away, drawn into a seductive, artificial reality created by the bots, Aiden tries to fight back. But even he is powerless to stop them.

Until he discovers that man is not alone in the Universe.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/d9c4cq into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Awakening.

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70 Public Speaking Tips, by Boomy Tokan Business, is regularly $3.49 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 10 customer reviews.

Category: Advice & How-To

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
“70 Public Speaking Tips” Has been written to give individuals the tools and techniques to overcome the fear that limits them from delivering great speeches. Boomy Tokan reveals the how-to’s of effective Public Speaking, and reveals how anyone can learn and implement them.

For all who need to make presentations in the workplace, at school or an event and expects someone to listen, 70 Public Speaking Tips provides an insider’s guide on how to present effectively.

You will receive the exact steps needed to create a speech that will keep your audience engaged. The book is easy to follow, inspiring to read and designed to motivate you to become the best speaker you never thought you could be!

Topics covered include:

– Why You Need This Skill

– Why some people have the fear of speaking in public. – It’s origin and development

– Psychology of public speaking (Part 1) – The internal dialogue of the person that hates public speaking.

– Psychology of public speaking (Part 2) – The internal dialogue of the ‘Successful’ public speaker

– How to overcome fear, stage fright and shyness of Public Speaking

– Public Speaking exercises that will change you into a great speaker forever

– 10 Tips that will help you captivate an audience

– The Ultimate Public Speaking Preparation ‘The 7 Most Do’s’ – How to prepare

– How to choose an engaging topic and incorporate relevant stories

– Foods which aid better Public Speaking

– The Biggest Secret is the ‘Secret of Practicing’

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/70 into your web browser to pick up your copy of ”70 Public Speaking Tips”.

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Serendipity Falls, by Patrice Wilton, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 106 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Serendipity Falls is the first book in a sexy new romantic comedy series by Patrice Wilton. Romance blooms in the small town of Serendipity Falls in the foothills of Mammoth, California. There’s a wedding a month and divorces are non existent. Out-of-towners are flocking in on weekends to visit, and perhaps find love, speculating on whether it’s the natural spring water or something in the air. Whatever it is, they hope to find it.

Tara Reynolds is a new pastry chef for the mountain resort, and love is the last thing on her mind when she arrives for the winter, but the handsome Olympian skier who owns a local bar has become quite irresistible. Can the mysterious forces in this town unite this couple who are fighting it every step of the way?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/xvqf4x into your web browser to pick up your copy of Serendipity Falls.

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Spunky Twins – Ms. Hinkle and the First Day of School, by R.E. Maurice, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 5 customer reviews.

Category: Children’s

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Kris, Kate and Leila are thrilled to go to the third grade. Kris has her new outfit, Kate has her new boots and Leila has a cool new hairstyle and together they’re rockin’ the show! Finally turning eight years old and ready to make new friends, the Spunky twins and Leila are most of all anxious to meet their new third grade teacher!

Summer vacation was incredible! Especially after hearing the awesome news that the meanest third grade teacher, Ms. Hinkle, has left Pleasantville Academy. There is no doubt that this is going to be an awesome school year!

Suddenly, at the end of the summer a new rumor has surfaced that Ms. Hinkle may not have left after all. What a bummer?! Could this be true? Will this be the best or worst school year of their lives? Will they be doomed forever?

Read the Spunky Twins- Ms. Hinkle and the First Day of School to find out how it all turns out!

Click here to pick up your copy of Spunky Twins – Ms. Hinkle and the First Day of School.

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Maternal Harbor, by Marie F Martin, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars based 306 customer reviews.

Category: Suspense / Thriller

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Teagan O’Riley was pregnant and alone when she met three single mothers at an OB clinic. A few weeks later, two of them are dead and the third is close on Teagan’s heels, intent on a campaign of twisted murder and insanity. Teagan cannot risk entrusting the three infants to the police with her finger prints all over one crime scene and her foot print smeared into blood at another. She flees with the babies to a wilderness cabin belonging to her lost love’s grandmother, but is even this remote location safe?

Click here to pick up your copy of Maternal Harbor.

Sand Dollar

September 29, 2014 by Michael Gallagher 4 Comments

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is Sand Dollar: A Story of Undying Love, by Sebastian Cole, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 472 customer reviews.

Genre: Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

An Amazon #1 Bestselling Romance Fantasy and winner of 7 literary awards, including the Beverly Hills Book Award winner, ForeWord Reviews Book Of The Year Award bronze winner, Feathered Quill Book Award silver winner, USA Best Book Awards finalist, International Book Awards finalist, National Indie Excellence Book Awards finalist, and ForeWord Firsts debut literary competition finalist.

Noah Hartman has it all, or so it seems. Groomed since childhood to inherit his family’s fortune and business empire, the effect of living the life set down for him by controlling parents has left Noah out of touch with his inner self. Enter Robin, who — in direct contrast to Noah — is a vivacious, free spirit with no material possessions to speak of. Robin’s love saves Noah by inspiring him to stand up to his parents and reclaim his true identity at all costs. But Robin harbors a secret that could devastate their lives forever. Is it enough for two soul mates to find each other, or are the forces that would tear them apart too great to overcome?

Many years later, Noah lies in a hospital bed recounting his life of love and loss, only to discover a far greater truth about the past, present, and future. And the one certainty that remains unchanged in Noah’s heart — true love never dies.

Looking for the next great love story? Look no further: read SAND DOLLAR: A Story of Undying Love!

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/fg6dzy into your web browser to pick up your copy of Sand Dollar: A Story of Undying Love.

About the Author:

Sebastian Cole never intended on being a writer. He graduated from Brown University in the 80s, then worked briefly in New York before returning to Rhode Island to work in his family’s business. Nineteen years later, he took a leap of faith and left the company to pursue his dreams, which has led him to where he is now: a novelist of romantic fiction. Cole writes from the heart, believing in true love, love at first sight, and finding that one person in life you’re meant to be with.

Cole’s debut novel, SAND DOLLAR: A Story of Undying Love, was emotionally inspired by his own personal life experiences. SAND DOLLAR has won numerous awards, including being a winner of the Beverly Hills Book Award, a bronze winner of ForeWord Reviews Book Of The Year Award, a silver winner of the Feathered Quill Book Award, a finalist in the USA Best Book Awards, a finalist in the International Book Awards, a finalist in the National Indie Excellence Book Awards, and a finalist in ForeWord Firsts debut literary competition for first-time authors. Many have compared Cole to his favorite author, Nicholas Sparks, whom Cole cites as his inspiration for becoming an author. Whether or not he ever achieves that kind of success, touching the lives of others through his writing has been the single most gratifying thing he has ever done.

For more information, please visit Sebastian Cole’s website at SebastianColeAuthor.com

You can visit Sebastian’s’ Amazon author page if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/scole into your web browser.

More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

September 29, 2014 by Michael Gallagher 2 Comments

Here’s your next group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Monday: for those books listed as being free or discounted in this post – while the pricing of the free and discounted 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 its normal status at any time!

Love Edy, by Shewanda Pugh, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 100 customer reviews.

Category: Young Adult

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

When Edy Phelps falls hard for her best friend, she knows nothing can come from it. Forget actual chemistry, or the fact that she cherishes his mother more than her own; centuries of tradition say that Hassan will grow up, marry the girl his parents pick, and forget his best friend: the dancer with the bursting smile. Except he can’t. In a world erupting with possibilities for the boy with a body of steel and dreams of the NFL, everything seems promised while nothing at all is; when he’s denied the girl he wants most.

Two hearts. Two families devoted through generations of friendship. Could Edy and Hassan really risk all that? And yet … how could they not?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/2cqsqs into your web browser to pick up your copy of Love Edy.

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Shadowline Drift, by Alexes Razevich, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars based on 15 customer reviews.

Category: Fantasy

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Jake Kendrick is a brilliant negotiator, even though—or maybe because—he’s only three and a half feet tall. When a substance is discovered which holds the promise to end world hunger, Jake seems the perfect person to secure the rights from the Amazonian chief who claims to hold the only supply.

In the rainforest, reality and illusion collide. The chief is not what he seems, nor is the substance. Blocking Jake’s escape to warn civilization are a mysterious group of indigenous people who may or may not exist; a dangerous teenage sorceress; a beautiful anthropologist – and madness.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/haf8he into your web browser to pick up your copy of Shadowline Drift.

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Ulterior Motives, by Mel Parish, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 14 customer reviews.

Category: Suspense

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Kidnapped while on vacation in the Philippines, expatriate Jake Cornish struggles to retain his dignity in the face of the humiliating circumstances imposed by his captors. As his wife’s chilling silence to the ransom demand continues, Jake’s futile attempts at escape and defiance are met with a degree of hostility and brutality that suggest his chance of survival is grim—until his captors suggest another use for him. Their outrageous new demand not only pushes him to unparalleled levels of despondency, but also causes cracks in their unity, laying bare ulterior motives and revealing the true nature of the kidnappers themselves.

A story of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, Ulterior Motives tells of life stripped bare of daily comforts, where desperation drives motivation, and loyalty and love may lead not to happiness but unimaginable consequences.

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Battle Scream, by Mark Romang, has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 40 customer reviews.

Category: Religious Fiction

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

To whom much is given, much is expected. Discharged war hero Andrew Maddix learns this lesson firsthand. The ex-SEAL thought he’d put his civilian life in order when he agreed to become the pastor of a small church in Utah. But all hell breaks loose when he discovers demons living inside the church building. Worse, Maddix learns he’s been chosen by God to lead a resistance against Satan. Armed with a flaming sword given to him by the archangel Gabriel, and a pouch of manna that enables him to see the spirit world, Maddix will fight back against the darkness smothering the world.

But behind every great man is a great woman. Sara Kendall will come alongside Maddix and join the resistance. Once an Olympic kayaker and now a wilderness guide, Sara will lead Maddix into the mysterious slot canyons of Southwestern Utah and straight into a demonic stronghold where few have made it out alive, and those that have couldn’t be recognized. But the Father of Lies will not go down easily. Convinced the Rapture is imminent; Satan floods the churches of Earth with demons in a desperate attempt to stymie the spreading Gospel. And soon the entire world wants to arrest Andrew Maddix and Sara Kendall. It will take a SEAL’s courage and skillset, and a wilderness guide’s knowledge to enable them stay free long enough to help usher in mankind’s most anticipated event: the Rapture.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/battlescream into your web browser to pick up your copy of Battle Scream.

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The Gray and Guilty Sea, by Scott William Carter and Jack Nolte, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 473 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery / Thriller

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

A curmudgeon. An iconoclast. A loner. That’s how people describe Garrison Gage, and that’s when they’re being charitable.

After his wife’s brutal murder in New York, and Gage himself is beaten nearly to death, the crippled private investigator retreats three thousand miles to the quaint coastal town of Barnacle Bluffs, Oregon. He spends the next five years in a convalescent stupor, content to bide his time filling out crossword puzzles and trying to forget that his wife’s death is his fault. But all that changes when he discovers the body of a young woman washed up on the beach, and his conscience draws him back into his old occupation – forcing him to confront the demons of his own guilt before he can hope to solve the girl’s murder.

Click here to pick up your copy of The Gray and Guilty Sea.

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The Academy, by Robert Dugoni, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based 37 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery / Thriller

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Quitting her job as a high school science teacher to join the Seattle Police Department was an easy decision for Tracy Crosswhite. Years earlier, what should have been one of the happiest days of her life instead became her worst nightmare when her younger sister, Sarah, disappeared. After the murder trial, while her family disintegrated, Tracy turned her heartbreak and her lingering questions into a passion for justice.
But people don’t just become world-class detectives. If Tracy wants to uncover the truth about what happened to her sister, first she must be forged in the fires of the Police Academy, where not everyone wants her to succeed.

Click here to pick up your copy of The Academy.

Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

September 29, 2014 by Michael Gallagher 1 Comment

Here’s your first group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Monday: for those books listed as being free or discounted in this post – while the pricing of the free and discounted 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 its normal status at any time!

Life First, by R J Crayton, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 36 customer reviews.

Category: Suspense

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

~ A 2014 B&P Reader’s Choice Award Nominee ~
~ BRAG Medallion winner ~

Strong-willed Kelsey Reed must escape tonight or tomorrow her government will take her kidney and give it to someone else.

In this future forged by survivors of pandemics that wiped out 80 percent of the world’s population, life is valued above all else. The government of “Life First” requires the mentally ill to be sterilized, outlaws abortions and sentences to death those who refuse to donate an organ when told.

Determined not to give up her kidney, Kelsey enlists the help of her boyfriend Luke and a dodgy doctor to escape. The trio must disable the tracking chip in her arm for her to flee undetected. If they fail, Kelsey will be stripped of everything.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/lifefirst into your web browser to pick up your copy of Life First.

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Hush Now Baby, by Cheryl Bradshaw, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars based on 60 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

On a crisp, fall night, Serena Westwood wakes to the faint stirs of her crying baby. Bottle in hand, she tiptoes to the other side of the house, sneaks up to the crib, looks in. A wave of panic grips her as her real nightmare begins. Inside the crib, there is no baby.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/r2qst8 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Hush Now Baby.

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Justice Calling, by Annie Bellet, has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 69 customer reviews.

Category: Fantasy

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Gamer. Nerd. Sorceress.

Jade Crow lives a quiet life running her comic book and game store in Wylde, Idaho. After twenty-five years fleeing from a powerful sorcerer who wants to eat her heart and take her powers, quiet suits her just fine. Surrounded by friends who are even less human than she is, Jade figures she’s finally safe.

As long as she doesn’t use her magic.

When dark powers threaten her friends’ lives, a sexy shape-shifter enforcer shows up. He’s the shifter world’s judge, jury, and executioner rolled into one, and he thinks Jade is to blame. To clear her name, save her friends, and stop the villain, she’ll have to use her wits… and her sorceress powers.

Except Jade knows that as soon as she does, a far deadlier nemesis awaits.

Justice Calling is the first book in The Twenty-Sided Sorceress urban fantasy series. Readers who enjoyed The Dresden Files or The Iron Druid Chronicles will likely enjoy this series.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/zvzjer into your web browser to pick up your copy of Justice Calling.

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Come Away With Me, by Ruth Cardello, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 131 customer reviews.

Category: Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

NY Times & USA Today Bestselling Author!

Gio Andrade:
Rich, powerful, sexy. A man who thinks he has everything . . . until he meets Julia.

Julia Bennett:
Sweet, spontaneous, and desperate to sell her jewelry line in New York City. She takes a job as a night security guard to pay the rent.

Sparks fly when she mistakes her boss for an intruder.

He can’t get her out of his head. She can’t find the strength to deny him.

Will lies bring them together or tear them apart forever?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/jj4j8h into your web browser to pick up your copy of Come Away With Me.

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Where Is My Home?, by Tali Carmi, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 134 customer reviews.

Category: Children

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

There is no place like home!

Terry Treetop books: Adventure & Education series (Animal Habitats)

This fun children’s picture book is about a boy with red hair and freckles named Terry, yet everybody calls him Terry Treetop because he loves climbing trees.

Terry is chasing a beautiful butterfly and wants to go back home.

But where is Terry’s home?

• And how can he find his way home?
• Does the rabbit in the borrow know?
• Does the beaver in the lodge know?
• Maybe the fawn’s mother knows?
• Or can Susanne the squirrel help him?

Do your kids love to listen to stories about the habitat and environment of different kinds of animals?

Do your children like beautiful picture books?

Where is my home? is a sweet children’s book written especially for you and your aged 3- 8 children with 18 colorful illustrations.

The story is suitable as a read aloud book for preschoolers or a self-read book for beginner readers.

Click here to pick up your copy of Where Is My Home?.

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Invisible, by Lorena McCourtney, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based 1,180 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery / Suspense

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

She’s not your average crime fighter!

Ivy Malone has a curiosity that sometimes gets her into trouble, and it’s only aggravated by her discovery that she can easily escape the public eye. So when vandals romp through the local cemetery, she takes advantage of her newfound anonymity and its unforeseen advantages as she launches her own unofficial investigation.

Despite her oddball humor and unconventional snooping, Ivy soon becomes discouraged by her failure to turn up any solid clues. And after Ivy witnesses something ominous and unexplained, she can’t resist putting her investigative powers to work again. Even the authorities’ attempts to keep Ivy out of danger and her nosy neighbor’s match-making schemes can’t slow her down. But will the determination that fuels this persistent, quirky sleuth threaten her very safety?

Click here to pick up your copy of Invisible.

Shadow of Eden

September 28, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is Shadow of Eden, by Louis Kirby, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 176 customer reviews.

Genre: Thriller

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

A call for a physician on board a 747 awakens Dr. Steve James. He is ushered into the cockpit where he finds an unconscious copilot and a delusional captain. Moments later, he is the only conscious person in the cockpit as it plunges headlong toward Washington DC…

Secretary of State Linda Strahorn and President Robert Dixon watch in horror as China’s army ruthlessly kills 30,000 peaceful worshippers in Hong Kong, broadcast by a sole, but ill fated TV camera crew.

Dr. James is confronted by the puzzling and relentlessly progressive brain illness of the 747 Captain and a young woman, an illness that may be the forerunner to thousands more getting the invariably fatal illness.

The Secretary of State and the White House Staff become alarmed as President Dixon becomes increasingly erratic in his management of the escalating military confrontation with China.

With his deep medical experience and his highly placed political and military informants, Kirby delivers a smart, devastatingly intense, and jaw-droppingly realistic medical and political thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the last riveting page.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/shadowofeden into your web browser to pick up your copy of Shadow of Eden.

About the Author:

Louis Kirby is an internationally recognized neurologist who specializes in neurodegenerative diseases, chiefly Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Throughout his life he has always been drawn to writing. While in medical school he published two of his stories, one landing him in hot water with the Dean of Medicine.

While in clinical practice, Dr. Kirby founded Pivotal Research Centers in Phoenix, a research facility that specialized in human drug testing. Pivotal rapidly grew into one of the nation’s largest medical research centers of its kind. During this time, Dr. Kirby served as principal investigator on nearly 400 clinical trials. He frequently gave presentations at national and international conferences on drug development and consulted for the government and the pharmaceutical industry.

After selling Pivotal Research Centers to a publicly held company, he served for a year as Chief Medical Officer for Provista Life Sciences, a biotech firm working with Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr. Kirby currently serves on the scientific advisory boards of the Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center, and the Arizona Alzheimer’s Association. He is a scientific advisor for several companies, including the Critical Path Institute, a non-profit organization working with the FDA in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. He consults for biotech and pharmaceutical companies on a part time basis and regularly speaks at scientific gatherings. These activities still leave him plenty of time to research and write his next book.

Dr. Kirby enjoys the wide-open skies (and dry heat) of Phoenix with his wife and daughter.

You can visit Louis’ Amazon author page if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/kirby into your web browser.

Don’t Forget to Enter!

September 28, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

If you haven’t entered the giveaway the blog is hosting for the just announced Fire HD, you still can – just click here or type in http://smarturl.it/1014kf into your web browser and enter away! I’m also 100% certain your family and friends would like to enter, also, so please pass the sign up information to them.

Also, once you’ve entered (or maybe you have already entered), why not click around on a couple of the links and see what free and discounted Kindle book offers you may have missed – you can either click the “Home” button on the top left-hand side of the blog’s website after you’ve signed up, or click here. You can always check out past tips on how to maximize your Kindle use if you click here.

Good luck!

Michael

More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

September 28, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here’s your next group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Sunday: for those books listed as being free or discounted in this post – while the pricing of the free and discounted 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 its normal status at any time!

Just Sophie, by Susan Marmo, has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 19 customer reviews.

Category: Historical Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Of all the things Montana rancher Bryce Fontaine expected to find hiding in his hayloft, a disheveled, beauty with sensuous freckles and blazing red hair, was not one of them. The terrified, yet feisty girl was obviously running away from something. Bryce ignores his past demons and listens to the undeniable and unsuspecting pull of his heart toward Sophie. He takes charge of protecting Sophie from the man she claims murdered her family and is threatening to force her into a marriage bordering on sexual slavery.

The love they find for each other proves to be stronger than the uncertainties of their future as they bind together to defeat the monster that pursues them.
Surprises abound in this fast paced love story that will keep you spellbound until the last page.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/justsophie into your web browser to pick up your copy of Just Sophie.

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The Courage to Kill, by Ron Argo, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 18 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

NOW COMES VENGEANCE FOR A CHILDHOOD OF UNSPEAKABLE EVIL!

A killer on the loose. A father murdered. A girl molested …

The young UC graduate went to her father’s beachside condo the night he was murdered, but she doesn’t remember shooting him. Janice Parrish had plenty reason to hate her father after recalling the horrible memories of the sexual abuse as a child some 20 years ago. But even as she’s booked on murder charges, she knows there was someone else at his house that night. So begins Janice’s dark journey through a tortuous psychological wasteland of false memory and real murder.

San Diego ace crime reporter Ray “Magic” Myers digs up evidence that turns the story into a media event and at once makes both him and Janice targets of a psychopath on a grisly pursuit of revenge.

In a race against time to save Janice as well as his family, Myers must stop the stalking psychopath whose murder spree has only begun.

A psychological mystery, THE COURAGE TO KILL is a superb portrayal of the fallacies of the malleability in the treatment for repressed memory, a controversial subject whose impact has most fixated the mental health profession since Freud.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/bz581g into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Courage to Kill.

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Krokodil, by Dustin Stevens, has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 27 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Five years ago, an unspeakable tragedy brought an early retirement to Jeremiah “Hawk” Tate’s career as a DEA agent. Without looking back he retreated from the desert sands of the southwest to the rugged wilderness of Montana, intent to live far from any connection to his previous life.

His solitude is shattered when a client shows up at the door of his Yellowstone guide service asking him to help her track down her brother, lost somewhere in the Park. Against his better judgment Hawk accepts the job and is shocked to find the man they were seeking wasn’t her brother, but someone linked to a life he thought he had left behind long ago.

Narrowly escaping with his life, Hawk is forced back into a world he hasn’t been a part of in five years. Calling on allies both old and new, he plunges forward on a case that will take him from California to Baja to Russia…and ultimately home again.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/krokodil into your web browser to pick up your copy of Krokodil.

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Justice in an Age of Metal and Men, by Anthony W. Eichenlaub, is regularly $5.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 8 customer reviews.

Category: Action and Adventure / Science Fiction / Western

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Small town sheriff Jasper Davis Crow has an arm forged of Texas Army-issued black metal, chews snuff manufactured from real tobacco extract, and wields a six shooter made before neural implants were even a thing. In an age when Texan independence, neglect, and technology have ushered in a new age of lawlessness, J.D. holds strong the line of justice in the town of Dead Oak.

Longhorns trample a rancher in what appears to be a brutal accident. The new deputy from Austin is convinced that it’s murder and J.D. is inclined to agree when their investigation uncovers a bizarre conspiracy. With a megastorm brewing and a mysterious stranger tracking their every move, they need to work fast before time runs out and the storm wipes everything clean.

Can J.D. unravel the conspiracy? Will he be able to bring a sense of closure to the rancher’s wife and kids? Will there be Justice in an Age of Metal and Men?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/qqudv8 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Justice in an Age of Metal and Men.

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No Place for a Lady, by Maggie Brendan, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 512 customer reviews.

Category: Historical Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Crystal Clark arrives in Colorado’s Yampa Valley amid the splendor of a high country June in 1892. After the death of her father, Crystal is relieved to be leaving the troubles of her Georgia life behind to visit her aunt Kate’s cattle ranch. Despite being raised as a proper Southern belle, Crystal is determined to hold her own in this wild land–even if a certain handsome foreman doubts her abilities.

Just when she thinks she’s getting a handle on the constant male attention from the cowhands and the catty barbs from some of the local young women, tragedy strikes the ranch. Crystal will have to tap all of her resolve to save the ranch from a greedy neighboring landowner. Can she rise to the challenge? Or will she head back to Georgia defeated?

Book one in the Heart of the West series, No Place for a Lady is full of adventure, romance, and the indomitable human spirit. Readers will fall in love with the Colorado setting and the spunky Southern belle who wants to claim it as her own.

Click here to pick up your copy of No Place for a Lady.

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Diamonds and Cole, by Micheal Maxwell, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based 214 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

An emotional pile-driver, that goes from the windy streets of Chicago to the California heat

Cole Sage, a once brilliant journalist, has just about reached rock bottom. Haunted by the longing for the woman he lost, Cole is jarred to a crossroads when a hostage negotiator is killed in front of him. Later, Cole is stunned to receive a one line cry for help from his one great love. Face to face with his past, and an uncertain future he tries to find her estranged daughter.

The path to keeping his word is blocked at every turn by the husband who abandoned her, his shady real estate deals, violent con men, street thugs and the lure of a fortune in diamonds that unite them. The anger, sorrow, and crippling guilt of twenty years fires Cole’s drive to keep a promise, that in the end, will heal and return the soul to the great journalist.

Beaten, bloody but determined, Cole Sage conquers greed and hatred with a strength that only love and a will as hard as diamond can achieve.

Click here to pick up your copy of Diamonds and Cole.

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