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MILK-BLOOD

January 31, 2015 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day, MILK-BLOOD, by Mark Matthews, 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 out of 5 stars based on 87 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Genre: Horror

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

Lilly is ten years old, born with a heart defect, and already addicted to heroin. Her mother is gone from her life, and there are rumors that she was killed by her father and buried near the abandoned house across the street. The house intrigues her, she can’t stay away, and the monstrous homeless man who lives there has been trying to get Lilly to come inside.

For her mother is there, buried in the back, and this homeless man is Lilly’s true father, and both want their daughter back.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/milkblood into your web browser to pick up your copy of MILK-BLOOD.

About the Author:

Mark Matthews has worked in the behavioral health field for over 20 years. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, a licensed professional counselor, and lives near Detroit with his wife and 2 daughters.

His novel “On the Lips of Children,” from Books of the Dead Press, was nominated as a semi-finalist for the 2014 Best Kindle Book Awards. It is based on a predawn run on a dark San Diego trail just as described in the novel.

The follow up to this novel, MILK-BLOOD, is set within the urban blight of Detroit and is also based on a true setting and some true circumstances. STRAY was his first novel, and takes place at a substance abuse treatment center with an animal shelter right next door within barking distance.

Matthews is an avid runner, and his second novel, The Jade Rabbit, is the story of a woman, adopted from China, who is raised in Detroit and runs marathons to deal with lingering trauma. A non-fiction book on running and addiction called “Chasing the Dragon: Running to Get High” is also available on amazon.

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

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New Releases on Kindle

January 31, 2015 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Included in this post are several relatively new Kindle book releases by independent authors in a variety of genres. Many of these authors have been featured on the blog before and can tell a good tale that will entertain you for hours. Each of the books have been significantly discounted in connection with this promotion, and I’m certain you will find something to enjoy in the offerings below. Also, similar to what I tell you in the daily posts – while the pricing of the 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!

Breaking Braydon, by MK Harkins, is $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Contemporary Romance

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

Playboy billionaire Braydon Decker changes women more often than designer ties. Scarred and humiliated as a teenager, he pledged long ago to never trust a beautiful woman again. But then he never imagined meeting one quite like Jain Parker.

Jain, a dedicated medical research scientist, learned early in college that her good looks were a hindrance and she’d have to tone down her beauty to be taken seriously, thus, Plain Jain was born, and men were no longer an issue. Of course, she didn’t count on running into Braydon Decker.

A successful venture capitalist, Braydon holds the key to whether Jain’s research company sinks or swims. When the two are forced to work together on a fundraising campaign, they’re instantly drawn to one another, despite their individual vows to remain unattached. As they navigate unchartered waters, their inability to trust wages war with their desire to love.

Hearts are broken and trust is shattered when betrayal and lies are revealed. Will the truth bring them healing and forgiveness, or will it be too late?

Breaking Braydon offers readers an emotional, compelling story filled with heartwarming humor, romance, heartbreak and love.

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

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The Highwayman Incident, by Kristy Tate, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Fantasy

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

Celia Quinn’s business lies in ruins at the hands of Jason West, the latest in a long line of scoundrels. As she seeks to restore her family’s livelihood, Celia stumbles upon lore about the local Witching Well, whose water is said to cause hysteria and psychosis. When a mysterious stranger slips Celia water from the well into her drink, she’s transported to Regency England. Her timeless adventure spans miles and centuries from modern-day New England to Merlin’s Cave in Cornwall, England. Only Jason West can save her.

But Celia and Jason must tread carefully, as what happens in the past can reverberate through the ages. Their lives, hearts and futures are caught in time’s slippery hands.

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

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The Fine Art of Holding Your Breath, by Charity Tahmaseb, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Young Adult

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

Secrets–like war–have their own casualties

MacKenna’s mother died when she was a baby, a casualty of the first Gulf War. Now seventeen, MacKenna has spent her life navigating the minefield of her dad’s moods, certain of one thing: she is destined to follow in her mother’s combat boots. But when she pursues an ROTC scholarship, she finds herself at war before even enlisting.

Her father forbids her from joining the military, inexplicable considering he’d raised her to be a “warrior princess.” MacKenna turns to her grandmother–who arms her with an ammo crate containing her mother’s personal effects from the war. Hidden in the crate’s false bottom is a journal, one her mom stashed there hours before her death.

While MacKenna untangles the secrets of her parents’ tragic love story, her own life unravels. Dad’s behavior becomes erratic, her best friend grows distant and even hostile, and a boy from her past returns–with a life-threatening secret of his own.

If ever a girl needed her mother, it’s now.

The pen might be mightier than the sword, but are a mother’s words strong enough to slice through years of hidden pain? Can those words reach through the battlefields of the past to change MacKenna’s future?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/holdingyourbreath into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Fine Art of Holding Your Breath.

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Dance to a Tangled Web, by Sheila Mary Taylor, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Contemporary Romance

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

A tale of love, deception and forgiveness …

After only one triumphant night of dancing Giselle, an unexplained injury forces Alana to withdraw temporarily from the dance company and relax her body on the Mediterranean beaches of Menorca. She falls madly in love with a married man, whose young daughter is inspired by her, but whose past is inextricably connected to hers in ways that will forever haunt her.

A mesmerizing tale built teasingly around the underlying story of the ballet, Giselle, as Alana dances towards her fate in the throes of two overwhelming passions – for her lover and for her art – a fate she will re-interpret in a startling way for all those whose lives she has touched.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dancetangledweb into your web browser to pick up your copy of Dance to a Tangled Web.

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Fly by Night, by Laurinda Wallace, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Mystery

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

Murder, mayhem, and a liberal dose of humor are part of this third Gracie Andersen mystery.

Environmental concerns ignite an ugly controversy in Gracie Andersen’s hometown. Add in the mysterious lights seen hovering in the night skies and it’s no wonder the folks of Deer Creek are on edge. Politicians and environmentalists, steeped in questionable motives, are converging and facing off in the small village. After violence erupts at a protest event, the local UFO fanatic discovers a body on his property. The killer can’t be an alien, but there are plenty of earthly suspects on kennel owner, Gracie Andersen’s list.

Haley, Gracie’s Labrador sniffs out some evidence that seems to lead to a dead end and Gracie’s annoying cousin unintentionally helps out in gathering up the suspect pool. What’s the real motive for murder? Is it politics? Money? Personal? Or all of the above?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/flybynight into your web browser to pick up your copy of Fly by Night.

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#4 Create a Masterpiece, by Lillianna Blake and P. Seymour, is just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Women’s Fiction

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

I’ve decided to make my mark on life. I don’t need fame, fortune or the way I’m going—notoriety. I just need to create one little ripple that people will appreciate for years to come.

So I joined an art class and learned how to paint. I have visions of grand vistas, beautiful lilies, and stunning portraits pouring from my overly manicured hands. Hours and hours I’ve spent splashing colors on a series of canvases and in the end I learned one outstanding life lesson. Never, ever volunteer.

Avert your eyes if you ever see me in public—some things should not be seen. I’ll never get a boyfriend now.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/pv099f into your web browser to pick up your copy of #4 Create a Masterpiece.

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Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

January 31, 2015 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here’s your listing of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Saturday: for those books listed as being free in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could revert back to paid status at any time!

My Highland Love, by Tarah Scott, 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 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 51 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Historical Romance

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

Voted Indie Romance Convention Readers Choice Award’s best historical romance of 2013

How does a woman tell her betrothed that she murdered her first husband?

Shipwrecked in the Scottish Highlands, American heiress Elise Kingston quietly plans revenge for the deaths of her daughter and the brother who sacrificed his life to save her.

When Marcus MacGregor, Marquess of Ashlund, returns to his Highland home to discover a stunning American woman has been taken in by his clan, his attraction is instant and he resolves to make her his—no matter what secret she’s keeping.

Elise is shocked by her need for Marcus and, too late, discovers that her feelings make him a target of her enemy—a man powerful enough to destroy even a Scottish nobleman.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/highlandlove into your web browser to pick up your copy of My Highland Love.

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Chased by Fire, by D.K. Holmberg, 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 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 14 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Fantasy

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

An ancient artifact that must be found…
Terrifying creatures from dark and dangerous Incendin…
And long-forgotten elementals again unleashed on the world.

As an earth senser, Tan is tasked with helping guide the king’s servant through the dangerous mountain passes in search for the artifact before Incendin can reach it first. But after losing his father to the war, Tan wants nothing to do with the king’s demands. When everything he knows is lost, he is forced to risk himself to save the one person who can find the artifact, a beautiful girl who has lost as much as Tan. In doing so, power the world hasn’t seen in nearly a thousand years is awoken, and a warrior long thought dead returns to claim the artifact for himself.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/chasedbyfire into your web browser to pick up your copy of Chased by Fire.

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Zaremba, or Love and the Rule of Law, by Michelle Granas, 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 20 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Contemporary Fiction

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

Cordelia is disabled and painfully shy but none of that matters when a stranger desperately needs her help. Shaken out of a routine that centers on caring for her odd family in Warsaw–her father is an academic with no life skills, her brother never leaves the villa, and her mother has dementia–she is forced to act. Zaremba, a wealthy businessman, is fleeing arrest when he stops to save her father’s life. He claims to be innocent and wants a favor as he seeks to turn the tables on the authorities. Cordelia is grateful but wary. Is he truly being persecuted or is he deceiving her? Her reluctant agreement to aid him plunges her into new realms of emotion. It is when he disappears, however, that she must gather all her courage and pursue the truth. Touching on human rights issues and real events in Europe, this is primarily a love story, intended for readers who enjoy language, conversation, and human relationships. It contains no graphic sex or violence.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/zaremba into your web browser to pick up your copy of Zaremba, or Love and the Rule of Law.

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The Jake Fonko Series: Books 1 – 3, by B. Hesse Pflingger, is regularly $7.99 but has been discounted to just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 14 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Action and Adventure

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

Jake Fonko M.I.A. (Book 1): Jake Fonko’s first adventure finds the former Army Ranger on loan to the CIA in the waning days of the Vietnam War. His mission? Make contact with a CIA asset in Cambodia.
Only problem is, no one’s heard from this asset in over two years…and the Khmer Rouge have taken over the country.

Fonko on the Carpet (Book 2): In Jake Fonko’s second adventure, Jake now works as a freelance gun-for-hire. Soon enough, Jake finds himself whisked away to Iran, to protect none other than the Shah. But as Iran teeters on the edge of civil war, keeping the Shah safe might be pretty damn difficult…

Fonko’s Errand Go Boom (Book 3): Jake Fonko’s third adventure sees our hero taking a trip to Northern Ireland during the time of the Bloody Troubles. A certain carmaker has a mysterious gig at the DeLorean factory and Jake Fonko might just be the man for the job. But everything might not be on the up and up, and Jake soon finds himself water so hot that the Troubles might be the least of his problems.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/jakefonko into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Jake Fonko Series: Books 1 – 3.

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Marvin in the Kooky Spooky House, by Lord Toph, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 8 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Children’s Book

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

Young Marvin is getting ready for a big scare.
When the time is right, he strikes out late in the night, to visit that spooky house up there.
You’re in for a treat when you read to find out how Marvin gets tricked out of being frightened,
once he bravely enters the Kooky Spooky House!

Is it an old haunted house with kooky spooky looking creatures? Or will he return empty-handed after his inspection?

This picture ebook title features vivid, full-color layouts with Kindle Text Pop-Up

Click here to pick up your copy of Marvin in the Kooky Spooky House.

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Make Me a Real Girl (Witches of The Demon Isle Book 1), by Rachel Humphrey – D’aigle, 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 on 71 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Fantasy

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

Witches of The Demon Isle- A Little Bit Funny, A Little Bit Romantic, and Around-the-Clock Supernatural Trouble… Rated Similar to TV 14, for mild language, some violence and implied sexual situations.

The Howard Witches, three siblings charged with protecting The Demon Isle…

Charlie, the werewolf.
Michael, the empathic death reader.
Melinda, living under self-inflicted house arrest. Her gift: prophetic dreams of people about to die.

Their mentor, the four-hundred year old Vampire, William Wakefield. Charming, ridiculously handsome, and walking a dangerous line between sinking into darkness and living in the light. In constant temptation to declare his love for the one witch that could be his undoing.

The story begins with an unsolved murder. One that will change everything…

Come stalk the streets of The Demon Isle… you’ll go up against witches, vampires, werewolves, demons, guardians, shapeshifters, ghosts, ghasts, mermaids, faeries and a host of other devious supernatural creatures waiting to wreak havoc on The Demon Isle. Where fans of the paranormal come to vacation and immerse themselves in fantasy. Where magic comes to life, mysteries abound, and you might just find yourself laughing, crying, and most definitely, falling in love.

In Volume One:

Melinda Howard is the Demon Isle’s weird girl. The one that’s been holed up in the Howard Mansion for the last four years. Why? No one knows the truth except her family… a long line of witches charged with protecting the Demon Isle, along with their mentor, the four-hundred year old Vampire, William Wakefield.

Another reason Melinda doesn’t mind her self-inflicted imprisonment. She gets to spend her days with the charming vampire, who also happens to be her best friend. Only now, she’s spending her night’s with him too. He just doesn’t know it…

Any other girl would enjoy the nightly thrill of her vampire crush invading her dreams. But not Melinda as her dreams have a tendency to come true. Although typically, they don’t include the handsome vampire she’s crushing on, but rather horrifying visions of people about to die.

But she cannot stay under self-inflicted house arrest forever. And if her brothers or William get their choice in the matter, Melinda will be out of the house partying with her friends, giving her affections to a human, not a vampire, and digging into her role as a witch.

A role her eldest brother Charlie lives for and a role her second brother Michael would rather live without. Nevertheless, when duty calls, usually from the local sheriff needing help with some tourist who’s gotten themselves into trouble, life screeches to a stop, and duty takes over.

Such is the case when the sheriff needs help with an unsolved murder investigation; one she fears has a supernatural cause. To assist her in the case, she calls upon the skills of The Howard Witches.

However, what they learn might be more than any of them can deal with, or accept. Worse yet, they fear what this discovery will do to Melinda, as it returns them all to the core of her self-imprisonment.

Back to the lives, she could not save…

Click here to pick up your copy of Make Me a Real Girl (Witches of The Demon Isle Book 1).

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Waiting for Jimmy Dean, by Bob McDermott, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 19 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Humor

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

A humorous short story.

Things looked pretty bleak for Buddy in the Fall of 1961. His aspirations to be a cattle baron dashed by his parents’ refusal to let him enter the calf scramble, he didn’t think life could get much worse. And then it did.

A poignant and often hilarious tale of growing up in a simpler time.

Click here to pick up your copy of Waiting for Jimmy Dean.

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Lord of the Sea

January 30, 2015 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day, Lord of the Sea, by Danelle Harmon, 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 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 98 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Genre: Historical Romance

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

A Sea Devil Who’s Reckless At Heart. . .

Captain Connor Merrick’s thirst for danger has brought him fame and fortune as one of the most brazenly successful privateers of the War of 1812. But deep beneath his swagger, derring-do and charm, the handsome American captain is hiding a devastating secret, and he’ll go to any lengths to protect it . . .

A Beauty Who Gets More Than She Bargained For. . . .

Rhiannon Evans has longed for an adventure — and a mysterious, dangerous man to sweep her off her feet. While enroute to the tropical paradise of Barbados, she never dreams that her heart will be captured by the dashing American privateer who rescues her from bloodthirsty pirates. Only Rhiannon can see beneath Connor’s reckless façade to the man beneath. But when tragedy strikes, can Rhiannon’s love save Connor from himself? Or will the secret he guards so carefully, end up being the undoing of them both?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/lordofthesea into your web browser to pick up your copy of Lord of the Sea.

About the Author:

“One of my all-time favorite authors!” — Julia Quinn, NYT Bestselling Author

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Danelle Harmon has written many books, previously published in print and distributed in many languages throughout the world. Though born and raised in Massachusetts, she and her husband, a native of southwest London, were married and lived in England for several years. These days, Ms. Harmon and her husband make their home in New England with their daughter Emma and numerous animals including three dogs, an Egyptian Arabian horse, and numerous pet chickens.

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

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More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

January 30, 2015 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

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!

The Lake House Secret, by Debra Burroughs, 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 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 192 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Mystery

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

With her life going from bad to worse, reporter Jenessa Jones is drawn back to her small hometown by a death in her family. When human remains are discovered not far from town, Jenessa is assigned the story, throwing her into the thick of town drama.

Caught between her old boyfriend, with whom she shares a sordid past, and her new love interest, who offers her something she has desperately been wanting, Jenessa is embroiled in a homicide investigation that ends up pointing the finger at someone she cares very much about. Can she uncover the truth of this murder before it destroys her family and any chance she has for a happy life?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/z2fr04 into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Lake House Secret.

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Sunset Rising, by S.M. McEachern, 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 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 198 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Young Adult

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

February 2024: Desperate to find refuge from the nuclear storm, a group of civilians discover a secret government bio-dome. Greeted by a hail of bullets and told to turn back, the frantic refugees stand their ground and are grudgingly permitted entry. But the price of admission is high.

283 years later… Sunny O’Donnell is a seventeen-year-old slave who has never seen the sun. She was born in the Pit, a subterranean extension of the bio-dome. Though life had never been easy, lately it had become a nightmare. Her mom was killed in the annual Cull, and her dad thought it was a good time to give up on life. Reyes Crowe, her long-time boyfriend, was pressuring her to get married, even though it would mean abandoning her father.

She didn’t think things could get any worse until she was forced upstairs to the Dome to be a servant-girl at a bachelor party. That’s where she met Leisel Holt, the president’s daughter, and her fiancé, Jack Kenner.

Now Sunny is wanted for treason. If they catch her, she’ll be executed.

She thought Leisel’s betrayal was the end. But it was just the beginning.

Sunset Rising is Book One of a series.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/3d7e7n into your web browser to pick up your copy of Sunset Rising.

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Reduced, by Robin Tidwell, is just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store and this book has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 34 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Science Fiction

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

A devastating biological agent is about to be released, to be tested in remote areas. Rumor has it, though, that there is more to this than meets the eye. One group makes plans to hide out, and survive, in case that rumor proves to be truth. Meeting at an abandoned summer camp near St. Louis, Missouri, a dozen old friends gather after the alarm is raised.

Life becomes more precious, more tenuous, as time passes. Government controls tighten, people are herded into the city…or killed. Towns are obliterated. And soon, the enemy agenda becomes obvious.

Abby, like the rest, has special skills – each member of the group was chosen not only because of past ties, but also for their unique training and abilities. She will come face-to-face with death, bear the responsibility for a young girl, and endure the severing of childhood relationships in the most terrible way imaginable.

From mere concealment to reconnaissance to aiding a rebellion, where will it end? Will the entire region be decimated, and who will be left alive to know?

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

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Four Mothers: A Short Story Collection, by RJ Crayton, 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 10 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Literary Fiction

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

Four stories. Four mothers. Four crises. One great read.

Sometimes, a mother’s flaws are dangerous.

Nobody is perfect at being a mother, and that is especially true for the mothers featured in this short story collection. In each story, we meet a mother as she deals with a real or perceived crisis and her flaws emerge. In Almost Perfect, Bitsy’s flaw causes her to take a truly horrendous action, proving that it’s not just stepmothers who are wicked. Tilda, the mother we meet in As Luck Would Have It, exudes luck from every pore, but she has flawed expectations that may end up shaping her daughter’s reality. Felicity is relishing her overbearing husband’s absence on a business trip, when her Two-Day Break suddenly turns into a nightmare. In The Beads, Iram is living a nightmare — a child in a coma after nearly choking to death — when something happens that affects her entire outlook. Also included in the collection is a bonus story, Lynch Party, about a mother who has a different perspective on what makes a great party activity.

Click here to pick up your copy of Four Mothers: A Short Story Collection.

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Love Psalms A Christian Love Story, by Pastor Joey Bauer, 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 16 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Christian Inspirational

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

This just may be one of the best inspired, Christian love stories to date. In the classic romance novel you will find a non fiction type of writing paired up with it because it explores the true life story of a man who lost love, lost faith, but found them both while walking along life’s path.

Pastor Joey Bauer really poured his heart out in this one. He has tried to mix a non fiction feel with a warm tug on the heart that Christian romance novels give you. He has tried to tell his stories, show that Christian love can have a happy ending, even if the beginning is devastating to say the least. You will find in this book some strength and motivation as you read how Pastor Joey in the form of Adrian, lost his one true love to a horrific disease, but God saw him through it all. Through it all he learned to trust in Jesus, in the high times and in the low times, on the mountains and in the valley.

Pick this book up today and be touched by its Christian love inspired message of hope. God’s grace is sure to speak to you in any situation you might be going through while reading the words off of this page. Accompanied by the book of Psalms you will find that even in bad times, Gods warm embrace is right around the corner. Don’t believe us? Check it out for yourself.

Click here to pick up your copy of Love Psalms A Christian Love Story.

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25 Years in the Rearview Mirror: 52 Authors Look Back, by Stacy Juba, RP Dahlke. Mary Anna Evan, Laura DiSilverio, Vicki Delany, Donna Fletcher Crow, Darcia Helle, Cheryl Kaye Tardif, CJ Lyons, Gwen Mayo, Cara Lopez Lee and Elaine Raco Chase, 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 4 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Motivational / Memoir

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

This collection of poignant and uplifting essays is the perfect book to enjoy over your morning coffee. The stories will warm your heart, raise your spirits and compel you to examine your own life. As a tie-in to her bestselling mystery and romantic suspense book Twenty-Five Years Ago Today, novelist and award-winning journalist Stacy Juba invited her author colleagues to answer the question “What were you doing 25 years ago?” Read about school days, quirky jobs, romance, raising a family, hard times, the writing journey, and find out what makes your favorite characters tick. This 30,000-word book will help readers to discover new authors for their to-read list, and inspire them to reflect upon the small defining moments that have shaped their own lives.

Publishing credits of the contributing writers include New York Times bestselling, USA Today bestselling, and Amazon bestselling. They also include recipients of the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award, Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award, Mississippi Author Award, Benjamin Franklin Award and Eppie Award, as well as nominees of the Pushcart Prize, Agatha and Shamus Awards, to name a few of the many honors. The following sections are included in the book:

School Days: Literary Friends by Stacy Juba, The Red Man by Maria Savva, Rocking in the ’80s by Susan Helene Gottfried, Seniors are Wimps by Matthew Dicks, Prom Night by A.W. Hartoin, Friend in Need by Alina Adams, A Life-Changing Decision by CJ Lyons, Oldest Campus Editor Looks Back by Sharon Love Cook.

The Jobs That Shape Us: Lieutenant Pink Shoes by Laura DiSilverio, Training the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers by Gwen Mayo, The Biggest Job Shift Ever by Ann Littlewood, Long Live Rock by Loni Emmert, The Cost of Doing Business by Stephen D. Rogers, Life as a Singing Telegram by Monica M. Brinkman, The Pipe Bomb by Kenneth Weene, School for Sleuths by Carole Shmurak, Driven Bats by Sarah E. Glenn, Can One Beer Change Your Life? by Mike Bove.

Remembering the Romance: A Special Anniversary by Steve Liskow, California Magic by Mike Angley, Drummer and Dumber by Cara Lopez Lee, Paving the Road to Conscious Living by Lillian Brummet.

The Ups and Downs of Family Life: The Elephant in the Living Room by Mary Anna Evans, Baby Steps by Tracy Krauss, Finding the Right Balance by Barbara Ross, Climbing the Mountain of Single Parenthood by J. R. Lindermuth, The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same by Donna Fletcher Crow, A Busy Mom’s Dream by Deanna Jewel, Family Fun at the Dinner Table by Maryann Miller.

Hard Times: Finding the Right Direction by Michele Drier, The Scent of Lives Changed Forever by Beth Kanell, Surviving the Killer Tsunami by Cherish D’Angelo (Cheryl Kaye Tardif), Christa’s Legacy by Jaleta Clegg, Weathering the Storm by Red Tash.

The Writing Journey: Unit-Lessons in Composition by Stacy Juba, Traveling Down the Writing Path by Patricia Gulley, Sticking With It by J.E. Seymour, Detecting the Humor by Marja McGraw, Never Give Up by Karen McCullough, An Early Computer by Velda Brotherton, Choosing My Destiny by Peggy Ehrhart, The Tuesdays by Bonnie Hearn Hill, Cropdusting the Way to a Series by R.P. Dahlke.

Characters Have Pasts, Too: Diana’s Promise by Stacy Juba, The Sandbox by Darcia Helle, An Empty Nest by Suzanne Young, Misfortune’s Daughter by Mary Deal,The White Widow by Norma Huss, The Policeman by Vicki Delany, Miranda’s History by Leslie Wheeler, Meeting Sam Fullerton by Ellis Vidler, The Gas Chamber by Douglas Corleone, Storm Shadow Eyes by Caitlyn Hunter.

Further Back in Time: A Long Look Back by Norma Huss, The Ghost of Mr. Stetson by Darcia Helle, Finding My Voice by Stacy Juba.

Click here to pick up your copy of 25 Years in the Rearview Mirror: 52 Authors Look Back.

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Rose’Alynnia: Egg and the Hameggattic Sisterhood, by Robert Iannone, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based 12 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Children’s Fantasy Adventure

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

Egg and the Hameggattic Sisterhood is a girl-empowering fantasy adventure story for ages six through eleven. This edition contains the series prequel plus book 1- Flying Girl.

Rose’Alynnia (series prequel)

Nestled in the constellation Taurus, trillions of miles from Earth, is a group of stars called The Seven Sisters. One of them is Alcyone . . . home to the planet Aerianna. It is a unique world . . . populated with not one, but three, intelligent species – Humans, Dragons and Sea Serpents.

Under the benevolent rule of King M’earth, harmony, prosperity and tranquility are enjoyed by all his loyal subjects . . . be they creatures of the air, land or sea. Sadly, someone threatens the serenity of Aerianna. It is the King’s eldest daughter. The Princess Rose’Alynnia is beautiful, intelligent, resourceful and adventurous.

She is also a free spirit who simply refuses to abide by the rules.

Flying Girl (book 1)

Our story continues in Flying Girl when Egg (our heroine) is given a
flying suit and three mysterious pieces of jewelry by her grandmother.
Unbeknownst to either, with these gifts, a desperate plan, set in motion a
thousand years before, begins its final chapter.

Click here to pick up your copy of Rose’Alynnia: Egg and the Hameggattic Sisterhood.

Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

January 30, 2015 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Betrayal, by Tim Tigner, 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 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 63 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Thriller

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

Presumed dead after an attack blamed on Al-Qaeda, FBI agent Odysseus Carr is running for his life with the missionary doctor who rescued him in Iran. As Odi unravels a devious plot of profound political manipulation and global consequence, the hunted becomes the hunter, and then the real terror begins….

Written by a former Green Beret and Military Counterintelligence Specialist, Betrayal is the brilliant follow-up to Tigner’s critically acclaimed Coercion.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/zd1rvi into your web browser to pick up your copy of Betrayal.

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Daisy McDare And The Deadly Legal Affair, by K.M. Morgan, 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 79 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Mystery

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

Welcome to Cozy Creek, a quaint tourist town nestled along the Pacific Coast.

Daisy McDare is busy nursing a broken heart, trying to build up her interior decorator business, and baking cookies when murder strikes Cozy Creek.

At first she leaves the investigation to Chris Crumple, the local bumbling police detective. But when Crumple arrests the wrong suspect, Daisy takes the investigation into her own hands.

Cracking the case won’t be easy. She’ll need help from her pastry-baking best friend Samantha, her wise-cracking Granny Annie, and her trusty West Highland Terrier Shamus.

It’s up to Daisy McDare to find the murderer in Cozy Creek before they strike again.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/daisymcdare into your web browser to pick up your copy of Daisy McDare And The Deadly Legal Affair.

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Sacred Spring, by DiVoran Lites, 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 22 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Christian Fiction

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

Sacred Spring, by DiVoran Lites, is a contemporary Christian romance novel with an environmental theme.

Elaine Donovan’s forebears have owned the Sacred Spring campground in Central Florida for generations, and Elaine has become an environmentalist because of her love of nature and of the property. Duty weighs heavily on the twenty-three-year-old Elaine, as she now finds herself responsible not only for the decrepit campground, but for her young brother and aging grandfather as well. When she meets developer Hank Schaefer, she senses he may have answers for her, but discovers that his scheming female partner, Reva North, has other plans for the property. Elaine is then compelled to find her own inspiration that will preserve and fulfill her hopes and dreams.

Click here to pick up your copy of Sacred Spring.

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AMP Messenger, by Stephen Arseneault, 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 363 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Science Fiction

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

In a distant galaxy, Humans are on the run…

The first book in the AMP series. In a distant galaxy, humans are on the run. For a thousand years they have fled from an enemy that is bent on their annihilation. The only real defense is their home, a great station called the Grid with a faster than light drive that is unmatched for speed. Don is a Messenger not a hero. But ordinary men sometimes have a way of rising to the occasion. War is coming and fate will place him smack in the middle. Is Man ready for the 43rd Milgari war? Don Grange doesn’t think so!

Click here to pick up your copy of AMP Messenger.

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Outview, by Brandt Legg, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 477 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Fantasy

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

OUTVIEW, the best selling first book of the Inner Movement trilogy – A mystical fantasy thriller.

There is a secret so powerful that, once known, the world will never be the same. For centuries they have died to protect it.
Nate found it. They know he did. Across time and dimension they are after him . . .

Four years ago, his father died. Two years ago, Nate’s mother locked his brother in a mental institution. One year ago, horrific visions began to torture him. Now, a clandestine group, wielding overwhelming power, wants him silenced. Nate is only sixteen.

Nothing is what it appears and the tragedies of his life are all connected to the secret, a secret so unimaginable that it will decide whether our modern society becomes a utopian or dystopian world.

Nate embarks on a breathless quest to save his brother and unravel the mystery of their father’s death. His desperate flight takes a stunning turn when, along with three school friends, he encounters mystics who teach forgotten skills and lost wisdom and reveal an extraordinary destiny.

A fantasy thriller, set in present day Oregon and California, will appeal to more than young adult fans. Outview, the first book of the Inner Movement trilogy, combines mystics, metaphysical magic, psychics and reincarnation to push this new age conspiracy beyond the realm of the Celestine Prophecy and the Paulo Coelho’s Alchemist.

Click here to pick up your copy of Outview.

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Just This Once, by Rosalind James, 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 919 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Romance

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

Everyone needs to be rescued sometimes.

Everyone but Hannah Montgomery, that is. She just needs a vacation. Three weeks in New Zealand to sort out her life, figure out what she wants, seems just right. Oh, and to relax. She should definitely put that on the agenda. She certainly isn’t looking for a sexy fling with a professional rugby player, no matter how attractive he is. Hannah doesn’t do casual. But maybe just this once …

As much as he’s shared with Hannah, Drew Callahan has kept one very big secret. And learning the truth, now that she’s back home again, has made Hannah warier than ever. Drew knows that she’s right for him. But how can he convince her to let down her guard enough to explore what they could have together?

Note: This romance, like New Zealand, contains some steam. If that isn’t your cuppa, you may want to visit another country … er, book.

Click here to pick up your copy of Just This Once.

The Millionaire’s Proposal

January 29, 2015 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day, The Millionaire’s Proposal, by Janelle Denison, 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 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 56 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Genre: Romance

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

Grace Holbrook believed she couldn’t have children, but now she was pregnant after just one night with sexy, bad boy Ford McCabe. She was delighted by the news, but not so thrilled when Ford insists they get married, especially when his recent return to Whitaker Falls after eleven years away is shrouded in secrets.

Ford has always wanted Grace. Even back when he was the town rebel and should have known better — until he was blamed for the death of her brother and was shunned by the community. Now a millionaire businessman, he’s back to claim what is rightfully his . . . including Grace and the baby they’d created together.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/12915 into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Millionaire’s Proposal.

About the Author:

Janelle Denison is a USA Today bestselling author of over fifty sensual contemporary romance novels who has written for Harlequin Blaze, Kensington Brava, Berkley and St. Martin’s Press. She is a two-time recipient of the National Reader’s Choice award, and has also been nominated for the prestigious RITA award.

Originally a California native, she now calls Oregon home. She resides in the Portland area with her husband and daughters and can’t imagine a more beautiful place to live. When not writing, she can be found exploring the great Northwest, from the gorgeous beaches to the amazing waterfalls and lush mountains.

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

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More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

January 29, 2015 by Michael Gallagher 1 Comment

Here’s your second group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Thursday: for those books listed as being free in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could revert back to paid status at any time!

8 Weeks, by Bethany Lopez, 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 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 64 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Romance

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

Is eight weeks enough time to earn back the love of someone you’ve betrayed…the only one you’ve ever loved?

Shelly has been in love with Cal since they started dating in eleventh grade. Despite everyone saying that the odds were against them, they got married after graduation and built a life together. Now, six years later, she is faced with the ultimate betrayal. Devastated, her first instinct is to call it quits…

After a drunken binge at his best friends’ bachelor party, Cal betrays the one person who has always been there for him, his wife, Shelly. Terrified and realizing she might divorce him, Cal must come up with a way to prove to her that his love is true…

Cal asks Shelly for eight weeks. Eight weeks to convince her that their marriage is worth the fight. Will Shelly be able to trust him again, or will their marriage end the way many others do when faced with opposition… In divorce?

This story is meant for readers 18 and older.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/vi2fhn into your web browser to pick up your copy of 8 Weeks.

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Murder Caribbean-Style, by Diane Rapp, 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 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 28 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Mystery

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

When Kayla Sanders accepts a free Caribbean cruise aboard the Aurora, she gets sucked into a modern-day mutiny culminating in the murder of her ex-lover, Patrick MacIntyre. When Kayla was denied a well-deserved promotion, she resigned. Kayla’s shipboard friends applauded her bravery, but she knew the truth. Reeling from the painful humiliation inflicted by an unfaithful lover, Kayla welcomed an excuse to run home and hide. Living like a hermit in Colorado she worked days as a typist and wrote a Caribbean guidebook at night.

Four years later, Kayla arrives onboard her old ship and savors the VIP treatment afforded a published author—until Patrick falls dead at her feet. Plunging into a frenzied investigation to discover the killer before police arrest her friends, Kayla bumps into Steven Young every time she uncovers a clue. They soon join forces to unravel the mystery and spark a fledgling romance. Like a tightrope walker balancing between passion and peril, Kayla risks her life to unearth the truth behind Patrick’s death and free herself from his memory. Should she trust Steven and risk another broken heart—or worse?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/au3q2b into your web browser to pick up your copy of Murder Caribbean-Style.

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The Lupane Legacy, by Darby G. Holladay, 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 53 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Thriller

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

Ghosts of a Revolution

Patrick Khumalo was only five when his entire village was massacred before his eyes. For twenty-nine years the desire for justice has burned inside him . . . but now it’s lit a fuse.

The Lupane Legacy is a story of tangled family ties, of love, betrayal, and revenge. From the halls of power and intrigue in Washington, DC, to the dark secrets of postcolonial Africa, this international thriller will pull you into a world where nothing is black and white, and everyone has something to hide.

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

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Down Dog Diary, by Sherry Roberts, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to 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 17 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Mystery

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

DOWN DOG DIARY
One man has died for it.
Now it’s Maya Skye’s job to protect it.
Can a yoga teacher hunt a killer and still find inner peace?

In yoga, the Downward Facing Dog Pose turns your world upside down, and that is exactly what the Down Dog Diary does to yoga teacher Maya Skye. First, her mentor, a former Hell’s Angel turned shaman, is killed for the book of secrets. Now Maya has it, and trouble is stalking her. When the mystical journal is stolen, Maya learns just how elusive inner peace can be at the point of a gun.

Down Dog Diary is set in small Gabriel’s Garden, Minnesota, not far from the Twin Cities. It’s a mystery told with humor and drama, but it is also an exploration of the battle for inner peace that rages inside all of us. We may try to follow the path, but life isn’t all Minnesota nice.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/downdogdiary into your web browser to pick up your copy of Down Dog Diary.

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Crash Gordon and the Mysteries of Kingsburg, by Derek Swannson, 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 35 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Coming-of-Age; Satire

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

EASTER SUNDAY, 1973: Just before dawn in Kingsburg, California, six-year-old Gordon Swannson, asthmatic boy genius, gets his ass kicked by a spectral Easter Bunny—an event that sends his already hyperactive imagination spiraling toward paranoia. Gordon becomes convinced that ghosts and other weird entities inhabit a daimonic reality that can interact with our everyday world. He starts seeing mystery and danger everywhere in his isolated farming community. He even thinks his best friend, Jimmy, might be possessed by demons….

JUNE 7th, 1979: Reality catches up with Gordon’s worst imaginings on the day after his thirteenth birthday, when his father dies by crashing a Cessna into the living room of their house. Gordon sets out to discover whether the plane crash was an accident or something far more sinister. Before he finds the answer, he’ll experience puberty, Pink Floyd, trout fishing, lesbian vampire movies, and midnight cliff-diving with the Hells Angels—all while learning to cope with the trauma-induced narcolepsy that inspires his nickname, Crash Gordon….

HALLOWEEN, 1982: Gordon meets Jimmy’s Uncle Lloyd, an obscenely rich insurance broker to the rocket industry who makes Woodward and Bernstein’s Deep Throat look like a low-level bureaucrat. With Lloyd acting as their demented mentor, Gordon and his friends embark on a road trip to the Esalen Institute in Big Sur. Along the way, Lloyd lectures them about such diverse topics as hypnotism, assassination theories, MKULTRA, COINTELPRO, and the kidnapping of Patty Hearst; serial killers, satanic sacrifices, interdimensional energy portals, and the remote viewing program at the Stanford Research Institute; shamanism, ayahuasca, Terence McKenna’s tryptamine-fueled encounters with the Logos, and the role “future causality” plays in the world’s current fate. And that’s only a prelude to Lloyd’s startling explanation of how Gordon and Jimmy have become unwitting participants in a CIA mind control experiment known as Project MONARCH….

Click here to pick up your copy of Crash Gordon and the Mysteries of Kingsburg.

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Her Heart for the Asking, by Lisa Mondello, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 361 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Contemporary Romance

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

From New York Times and USA TODAY Bestselling author, Lisa Mondello, a Contemporary Western Romance Novel

Mandy Morgan swore she’d never step foot in Texas again after Beau Gentry left her for life on the rodeo circuit eight years before. But now her uncle’s heart is failing and she has to convince him that surgery will save his life. She never dreamed the first thing she’d see when she stepped off the plane would be her biggest nightmare…the one man she’d never stopped loving.

Beau Gentry had the fever for two things: the rodeo and Mandy Morgan. But for Beau, loving Mandy was complicated by his father’s vendetta against her uncle. This led him to make the hardest decision of his life and he can still see the bitterness and hurt on Mandy’s face. All these years it has killed him to think Mandy had forgotten him and moved as far away as possible from him. But now they’re back in Texas, and he’s going to do all he can to win back her love.

Click here to pick up your copy of Her Heart for the Asking.

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Once a Killer, by Martin Bodenham, 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 9 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Thriller

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

Michael Hoffman has come a long way from his deprived childhood in Chicago’s south side. Now he’s a young, successful partner in a major New York law firm, handling some of its clients’ most prestigious M&A deals. With a beautiful wife, and two young daughters who look up to him, he has built the perfect life. But Michael has a secret: one that goes back to his childhood; a secret so dark it could destroy his family and brilliant career. Discovered by the wrong people, it would certainly get him killed.

There is only one person who knows about his past, and he is a career criminal who manages a low profile hedge fund, bankrolled by Eastern European mafia money. Michael is safe, but only for as long as he agrees to feed details of his firm’s deals to the fund so it can make millions from insider trading.

Click here to pick up your copy of Once a Killer.

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The McCall Initiative Episode 1.1: Deception, by Lisa Nowak, 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 20 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Young Adult

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

What if the Pacific Northwest seceded from the United States? In 2063, it has.

The climate change that’s devastated all but the Northwest corner of the U.S. has been around since before Piper Hall was born. She doesn’t spend much time thinking about it, the secession that created Cascadia, or the closed border, erected to keep out climate refugees. All she wants is to get through high school and earn a medical degree so she can pull her family out of poverty. Piper’s sure her little brother’s stories about poor people vanishing are just rumors–until she comes home to an empty house. Losing her future, her family, and her freedom and forced into hiding, Piper has to find a way to get to the bottom of the disappearances. But the only one who can help might be the very boy whose family has displaced her own.

Click here to pick up your copy of The McCall Initiative Episode 1.1: Deception.

Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

January 29, 2015 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here’s your first group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Thursday: for those books listed as being free in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could revert back to paid status at any time!

Torch Song, by Shelley Singer, 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 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 33 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Thriller

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

Fans of Lisbeth Salander of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Katniss Everdeen of The Hunger Games will love Rica Marin, a new kickass, gunslinging heroine.

IT’S 2066. AND YOU CAN’T TRUST ANYBODY…

Rica Marin’s a mercenary—a hired gun, soldier, and spy who answers only to whoever can keep her in the meds she and her only living relative need to survive the plagues that scourge the earth after biological warfare’s wiped out pretty much everything.

It’s a strange world that’s left—composed of tiny city-states like Redwood, Sierra, and Rocky—run with a variety of futuristic machines and broken-down ones. Fancy new cars float as well as roll, but the Internet’s now so glitchy you can’t even blog properly—newspapers have come back! So many machines are in disrepair that a fixer in this world isn’t someone who rigs elections or cleans up after murders—it’s a person who can repair both an elevator and an ancient toilet. But roving bands of bandits, godders, causies, breeders, khakis, and toxies threaten to destroy what’s just been fixed.

Anywhere there are people—however few—there’ll be power plays, and Rica’s current job at the Blackjack Casino is to run interference between the warring clans of Tahoe, in tiny Sierra. But then the city-state of Rocky gets ambitious. And that means war.

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

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#Tokyo45: The Final Days of World War II, by Philip Gibson, 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 out of 5 stars based on 21 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Historical Fiction

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

What if there had been social media during World War II?

This is not a book written in the usual book format. It is the compelling story of the final days of World War II told in the form of Twitter feeds and actual statements by the main participants.

The story begins with the capture of the strategic Japanese island of Okinawa and follows the thoughts and actions of the main participants through planning the invasion of mainland Japan, the Japanese defense, the Manhattan Project, the first atomic test, the Kamikaze defense, the Potsdam Conference, Churchill’s election defeat, the decision to drop the atomic bombs, the attempted palace revolt and the eventual Japanese surrender.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/tokyo45 into your web browser to pick up your copy of #Tokyo45: The Final Days of World War II.

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Thirty Days Hath, by Chautona Havig, 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 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 80 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Religious Fiction

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

Blind Dates Are for Wimps!

At least, that’s what Adric Garrison thinks.

Can you blame him? Thanks to his sister and brother-in-law, Adric is about to embark on a year of month-long, chaperoned, blind dates. Awkward.

He didn’t ask for it. But Adric still finds himself living what seems more like a bad TV reality show than a new life in Fairbury.

Once an ordinary (if prematurely gray and vertically challenged) guy, Adric is now Fairbury’s newest “most eligible bachelor,” and dreams of permanent bachelorhood loom on the horizon. Will he call it quits before the year is out, or will one of his “girls of the month” change his mind?

One man, twelve women, one happily ever after.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/pmbhhm into your web browser to pick up your copy of Thirty Days Hath.

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Lost Library, by Kate Baray, 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 54 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Paranormal

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

Lost Library brings together a mysterious, magical book and a quirky heroine to create the adventure of a lifetime!

John Braxton arrives unannounced on Lizzie Smith’s doorstep looking for answers she doesn’t have. She may have a magical book, but she hasn’t a clue what to do with it–or even how to read it. And John’s revelation that he’s a Lycan isn’t making the job any easier.

Before the code to the book can be cracked, Lizzie and John stumble into the middle of a power-hungry mastermind’s plan. Caught up in one man’s search for power, Lizzie soon begins to uncover surprising secrets about her past and powers. Can she and John put a stop to their new found enemy’s plans?

Take a romp through the life of the quirky and well-meaning Lizzie as she discovers magic, creatures that go bump in the night, and maybe love.

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

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Strange New World, by K. P. Alexander, 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 11 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Fantasy / Science Fiction

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

Opening your coat closet and unexpectedly discovering a portal into another world can be a slightly jarring experience.

Spotting a dragon staring back at you through said portal should have sent any sane person running for the hills.

Good thing John was still a bit hung over.

Realizing that the dragon didn’t harbour any nefarious designs, John decided that a change of scenery was in order, and opted for a vacation to the exotic city of Iathera.

Befriending an enigmatic green-skinned woman and a wizard with a penchant for bathrobes, his impromptu holiday is cut short by news of an unprovoked attack on an allied nation.

Having trekked across an entire ocean to wage war, the nation of Kierd had laid siege to the Nebar Cluster for reasons unknown. With Kierd wielding devastating weapons never before seen in that world, the surrounding region is rapidly thrown into unrest.

Still not exactly sure if there was a reason that he was brought here, he finds that his unique insights into this strange new world could be the key into tipping the conflict back in the Cluster’s favour.

Click here to pick up your copy of Strange New World.

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Unlocking the Mystery, by Eden Baylee, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 13 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Romance / Mystery

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

A mysterious key provides the clue to a woman’s heart.

Shortly after moving to an affluent California community, real estate mogul, Evelyn Sutton finds an antique key in her bedroom closet. Unable to fit the key anywhere in the house, she inquires with a neighbour. To Evelyn’s amazement, the woman knows why she is there and presents her with a mysterious box.

Upon returning home, Evelyn unlocks the box and is shocked by the contents inside—letters from an Irishman addressed to Caroline Kent, the previous owner of her house before she passed away. Enticed by the secret romance, Evelyn feels compelled to make a trip to Ireland to seek out the writer of the letters.

UNLOCKING THE MYSTERY is a unique story that gives power to words and shows how love can transcend both time and distance.

Click here to pick up your copy of Unlocking the Mystery.

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The Camelot Kids: Part One, by Ben Zackheim, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars based on 14 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Fantasy

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

What would you do if an odd girl in a hooded cloak said, “You know you’re a descendant of King Arthur’s knight, Lancelot, right?” You’d probably do the same thing 14-year-old orphan Simon Sharp does: back away nice and slow. The difference is Simon’s Camelot-obsessed parents recently died under mysterious circumstances.

But he learns the truth about their fate and his heritage after he’s kidnapped by a drunk troll, rescued by a 7-foot elderly man named Merlin, and thrown into training with 149 other heirs of the Knights of the Round Table. Can Simon survive a prophecy that predicts the world will be saved through its destruction? Can he do it while clues keep popping up that his parents are alive?

The Camelot Kids is about one boy’s struggle to solve a mystery and make it to tomorrow in a world both real and fantastic.

Click here to pick up your copy of The Camelot Kids: Part One.

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31 Powerful Prayers – Guaranteed To Make Tremendous Power Available and Avail Much!, by Gloria Coleman, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based 30 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Prayerbooks

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

31 Powerful Prayers Based On The Word of God!

This powerful but simple prayerbook will help you pray when you find yourself in circumstances where you need God’s Divine Intervention!

It will also help you to develop a consistent prayer life if you do not already have one and encourage you to keep praying and making tremendous power available daily!

Click here to pick up your copy of 31 Powerful Prayers – Guaranteed To Make Tremendous Power Available and Avail Much!.

Clarity – The Complete Series

January 28, 2015 by Michael Gallagher 1 Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day, Clarity – The Complete Series, a three-book box set by Loretta Lost, 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 4.9 out of 5 stars based on 22 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Genre: Romance

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

This bundle contains all three books in the Clarity series.

Her world has always been dark, but he might be able to change everything…

Fiercely independent Helen Winters was born completely blind, but she vowed never to let her disability keep her down. She did not expect a traumatic event to devastate her life and force her to drop out of college. Disillusioned by the cruelty of people, Helen retreated from society to live by herself as a reclusive writer in the woods–where no one could ever hurt her again.

When a brilliant young doctor shows up on her doorstep, promising her that his new research can give her the ability to see for the first time, Helen stubbornly refuses. She has learned not to trust anyone, and to rely only on herself. But Dr. Liam Larson will not take no for an answer. He makes it his personal mission to rescue Helen from her loneliness, and bring joy into her world once more–the joy she has denied herself for so long.

When Helen’s demons come racing back into her life, threatening to rip her apart and destroy the strength she has carefully rebuilt, Liam is the only one who might be able to save her. Can he reach the broken girl in time, helping her to heal and see the world in a different light? Or will Helen’s grief send her spiraling out of control, lost to him forever?

Clarity 2:

Helen Winters was living a lonely existence when the charming Dr. Liam Larson coaxed her out of solitude with the promise of healing her sightless eyes. She was hopeful at the prospect of gaining vision for the first time and being reunited with her family. She was also growing somewhat fond of the persuasive young doctor. For the first time in years, she was being magnetically drawn to a new friend…

Then everything came crashing down.

Plunged into a hellish nightmare, Helen is forced to face the same evils she ran away to escape so long ago. She is unprepared to have her hopes crushed and her peace destroyed. She finds herself living in constant terror and drowning in fear–and Liam’s voice is the only thing that can keep her afloat. His comforting touch becomes the only light in her pitch-black darkness. Helen has always been a tough girl who relied only on herself. But this time, she can’t survive alone. Due to the horrors of her past, Helen has promised herself not to trust anyone. When her life becomes unbearable, how can she trust Liam enough to let him save her?

Clarity 3:

After many years of darkness, Winter never thought that she’d be happy or safe again. Her whole world changed when she met Liam Larson, a charming young doctor determined to be her knight in shining armor. When a brutal night unleashes vicious reminders of her past, Winter must struggle to hold on to the little bit of happiness she has found.

When everything begins to fall apart, Liam’s strength and kindness might not be enough to save her. Battling with the betrayal of her family, terrifying nightmares, and frequent reminders of her enemy that make daily life difficult, Winter’s first instinct is to run away. She is tired of being the victim and living in a cruel, crowded city where she doesn’t feel like she belongs.

But Liam promises her that if she only trusts him, he can change everything. And that’s exactly what he attempts to do, starting with an operation to heal her eyes, and then her heart…

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/cseries into your web browser to pick up your copy of Birth of an Assassin.

About the Author:

Loretta Lost writes for the same reason that you read: to experience all the love and excitement that can often be lacking from real life. She finds it therapeutic to explore her issues through the eyes of a different person. She hopes to have a family someday, but until then, her characters will do nicely.

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

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