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Wednesday’s Featured (and FREE!) Kindle Book

May 31, 2017 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Liquid Cool

Author: Austin Dragon

Genre: Mystery / Science Fiction

Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

How Much is One Life Worth?

In the sci-fi/cyberpunk detective series, author Austin Dragon shows why you never want to meet a cyborg in a dark alley. Liquid Cool is a cross between Blade Runner and the Maltese Falcon. There is plenty of gritty action, suspense, thrills, and even a few laughs.

It’s cyberpunk reimagined—an ever-rainy world of colossal skyscrapers, hovercars, flashy neon streets, and futuristic mechanization. Metropolis isn’t a bad place, but it isn’t a good one either. Uber-governments and megacorporations fight for control of the fifty-million-plus super-city, but so does crime.

We meet Cruz, our private eye (and unlikely hero), in this super-city with a million victims and perpetrators. Watch out for tech-tricksters, analog hustlers, and digital gangsters—psychos, samurais, and cyborgs aplenty. Visitors have a way of becoming permanent attractions.

Welcome to the high-tech, low-life world of Liquid Cool.

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

About the Author:

Austin Dragon is author of the After Eden Series, including the After Eden: Tek-Fall mini-series, the classic Sleepy Hollow Horrors, and the cyberpunk detective series, Liquid Cool. He is a native New Yorker, but has called Los Angeles, California home for the last twenty years. Words to describe him, in no particular order: U.S. Army, English teacher, one-time resident of Paris, political junkie, movie buff, campaign manager and staffer of presidential and gubernatorial campaigns, Fortune 500 corporate recruiter, renaissance man, and dreamer.

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

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Five Free Kindle Books for Wednesday

May 31, 2017 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here’s your listing of free Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Wednesday: 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!

Land

Author: Theresa Shaver

Genre: Science Fiction / Young Adult

Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $0.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

Click Here for Your Free Copy!

Book Description:

Five go by Land – Five go by Sea
A group of teens on a class trip to Disneyland are left stranded. An EMP over North America has destroyed everything electronic. No cars, no planes, no phones, no electricity. Refusing to wait for someone else to help them, ten courageous young people take charge of their future and choose to begin the long journey home. 1,500 miles of adventure and lawless country await. Will their determination be enough?

Alex, Quinn, Josh, Cooper and Dara – setting out on foot with nothing more than some soon to be worthless cash and a little advice from a trusted teacher, they walk through a burning city that has come to a halt. The devastation they see as they make their way out of the city is a small part of the horror that the nation will become. As the days go by with no food deliveries and no water flowing from taps, civilization will start to crumble and it will be survival of the fittest. With five States and half a Province to cross they will need to plan well, count on each other and pray for a little luck. Even with that, chances are slim of getting home when you are Stranded.

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

No Good Deed

Author: M.P. McDonald

Genre: Thriller

Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $4.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

Michael’s note: I’ve read this one, and rated it a 5 (that’s rare for me). You can read the review I wrote if you Click here. If you enjoy a good thriller, I would grab this one while it is free!

Seeing the future comes at a price. What price would you be willing to pay to save thousands of lives?

Mark Taylor knows his actions scream guilty—but he was only trying to stop the horrible terrorist attack. Instead of a thank you, the government labels him an enemy combatant and throws him in the brig with no rights, no trial, and no way to prove his innocence. He learns first hand that the CIA can do anything they want to him—anything at all.

Mark’s just a regular guy—a photographer—who finds himself in an extraordinary situation when an antique camera he buys at a dusty Afghanistan bazaar produces photographs of future tragedies. Tragedies he’s driven to prevent.

His frantic warnings about September 11th are ignored but put him in the government cross-hairs where he learns what being labeled an ‘enemy combatant’ really means…

Click here to pick up your free copy of No Good Deed in the Amazon Kindle store.

Back to Lazarus

Author: Judy K. Walker

Genre: Mystery

Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

Why would a man hang himself twenty-four years after murdering his wife?

Tallahassee PI Sydney Brennan crisscrosses north Florida to reconstruct a tragic family history when she’s hired to investigate a murderer’s prison cell suicide. But by following in his murdered wife’s footsteps, does Sydney risk sharing the woman’s fate?

The first book in an exciting new series, Back to Lazarus introduces Sydney Brennan, a Florida private investigator with a knack for getting into trouble who doesn’t know when to quit.

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

Winter Homecoming

Author: Lyn Cote

Genre: Historical Romance

Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

Catching a freight train out of Chicago is no way to spend Christmas Day.

But Will Gustafson has run out of options. The Depression has cost him everything—his classy wife, executive job and high society life. Now he’s heading home to the northwoods of Wisconsin to face the “I told you so’s” he deserves. On the freight train a homeless little boy attaches himself to Will like a lost puppy. Who is the boy and why is he alone? On the day after Christmas in her Model T, Cass Newton picks up Will and the boy and takes them home with her. Is she crazy? But a new widow, she needs a handyman to help her weather the winter in her isolated cabin. She’s concealed her “delicate” condition from everyone but can’t deceive Will. A baby is coming and Will wonders how he’ll handle this—when his lady boss refuses to see a doctor. Why not for heaven’s sake? He fights his growing attraction to this good but stubborn woman—so unlike the wife who divorced him. The three of them become an unlikely “family.” Yet what will happen when the snow melts and all their secrets are revealed?

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

Dirty Blood

Author: Heather Hildenbrand

Genre: Young Adult

Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

I killed a girl last night…

I did it with my bare hands and an old piece of pipe I found lying next to the dumpster. But that’s not the part that got me. The part that scared me, the part I can’t seem to wrap my head around and still has me reeling, was that when she charged me, her body shifted-and then she was a wolf. All snapping teeth and extended claws. But by the time I stood over her lifeless body, she was a girl again. That’s about the time I went into shock. And that was the moment he showed up.

Now, all I can do is accept the truths that are staring me in the face. One, Werewolves do exist. And two, I was born to kill them.

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

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Tuesday’s Featured (and FREE!) Kindle Book

May 30, 2017 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Polarity in Motion

Author: Brenda Vicars

Genre: Young Adult

Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $4.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

Fifteen-year-old Polarity Weeks just wants to live a normal life, but with a mother diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, that’s rarely easy. Her life gets exponentially more disastrous when her sixth-period history classmates start ogling a nude picture of her on the Internet. Polarity would never have struck such a shameless pose, but the photo is definitely of her, and she’s at a complete loss to explain its existence.

Child Protective Services yanks her from her home, suspecting her parents. The kids at school mock her, assuming she took it herself. And Ethan, the boy she was really starting to like, backpedals and joins the taunting chorus. Surrounded by disbelief and derision on all sides, Polarity desperately seeks the truth among her friends. Only then does she learn that everyone has dark secrets, and no one’s life is anywhere near normal.

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

About the Author:

Brenda Vicars has worked in Texas public education for many years. Her jobs have included teaching, serving as a principal, and directing student support programs. For three years, she also taught college English to prison inmates.

She entered education because she felt called to teach, but her students taught her the biggest lesson: the playing field is not even for all kids. Through her work, she became increasingly compelled to bring their unheard voices to the page. The heartbeat of her fiction emanates from the courage and resiliency of her students.

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

Free & Discounted Kindle Books for Tuesday

May 30, 2017 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

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

Alibi Aficionado

Author: Harvey Church

Genre: Thriller / Mystery

Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

Click Here for Your Free Copy!

Book Description:

How far will a man go to keep a secret?

Edwin Burrows, CPA, is about to find out how far he will go to cover up an alibi for his firms biggest client. The problem is that Edwin Burrows, can’t do anything right.

So when he’s tasked with constructing an alibi for the firm’s biggest client, everyone has low expectations.

In Alibi Aficionado, Edwin Burrows is an accidental investigator, an accountant without tact or a filter, or any kind of interest for investigations. A cross between Myron Bolitar and Archy McNally, Edwin says, does and behaves in the strangest manner.

Cursed with an investigation that’s doomed from the start, Edwin knows that everyone expects him to fail.

But when the police arrest the all-important client, tensions rise at the firm and the stakes get as big as they’ll ever be. Edwin must decide whether he will use his knowledge to be the hero that helps a guilty man avoid prosecution, or be a zero by telling the truth and burying the firm.

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

The Jaguar King

Author: Anna McIlwraith

Genre: Urban Fantasy

Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $0.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

Magic is real? Big deal. Bills still gotta be paid.

Especially when you’re heading into vet med. Emma Chase is nothing special – if anything, with a roomie who turns into a jaguar on a regular basis, she’s the sidekick, not the heroine. Her superpowers have more to do with acing her finals and overworking herself. Knowing her best friend’s secret makes it easier to justify her own inclination to keep people at a distance, but it doesn’t change her life.

Until others like him show up on her doorstep, convinced she’s the fated savior of their race, telling her she’s destined to command the magic of – well, Emma doesn’t quite catch that part, she’s too busy getting her ass the hell out of there.

What she does know? The Jaguar King is after her, his rivals want her dead, and she doesn’t have to believe in prophecy to believe they’ll stop at nothing to catch her.

Violence. Magic. Inappropriate humor. Step into a world of wonder and savagery in a gritty urban fantasy with an unlikely heroine, sizzling heroes, and complicated villains. The Jaguar King is a full-length read and the first in a series, and all the books have satisfying resolutions as well as a series-spanning story arc. Definitely no cliff-hangers – just bad-ass shifters with one goal: claim the prize. Claim the Caller of the Blood.

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

MacFarland’s Lass

Author: Glynnis Campbell

Genre: Historical Romance

Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $4.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

SCOTTISH LASSES…Meet the lasses in the world of Mary Queen of Scots…Like the Scottish thistle, they’re lovely yet tough, beautiful yet prickly, and only the strongest and wisest heroes are able to elude their thorns to discover the tender blossom within.

MacFARLAND’S LASS:

A woman on the run…a man on the hunt. He has forty days to earn her trust. She has forty days to win his heart. They have forty days to outwit their enemies.

When Florie Gilder, the once-respected jeweler to Queen Mary, claims sanctuary in an abandoned church for a crime she didn’t commit, huntsman Rane MacFarland, a local hero of the common folk, vows to protect her. But when his overlord charges him with preventing the fugitive lass’s escape, Rane finds himself torn between duty and desire when he begins to fall for his spirited captive. And when powerful foes conspire to turn Rane and Florie against each other, they need courage, wits, and, most of all, love, to survive.

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

Against The Odds

Author: Mara Jacobs

Genre: Mystery

Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $4.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

My name is Anna Dawson, and I’m a gambler.

And like any gambler will tell you, sometimes that’s good, and sometimes…not so much. And sometimes it’s an outright problem.

I love Vegas, and I love the life I’ve built, but when one of my friends is murdered, and another one shot at, I know I need to take a serious look at myself. And I need to call in the big guns. Even if that means teaming up with Detective Jack Schiller, a man who’s dealing with his own demons.

Right now I’m just trying to juggle protecting my friends, helping Jack while not letting him get too close, and finding a murderer. And, oh yeah, no one can learn about my gambling.

Or this will be the last hand I’m dealt.

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

Cozy Mystery 7 Book Set: Cats, Cupcakes and Killers

Author: Sylvia Selfman & Leigh Selfman

Genre: Mystery

Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

MULTI-AUTHOR BOX SET: 7 COZY MYSTERIES, 3 SERIES, 2 AUTHORS & RECIPES! Almost 400 four and five star reviews on Amazon!

IZZY GREENE COZY MYSTERY SERIES
1-MURDER SHE TYPED
2-MURDER BY THE BOOK
3-MURDER TAKES A HOLIDAY
4-MURDER OVER MIAMI

THE ROSIE KALE CULINARY MYSTERY SERIES
1-NOTHING BUNDT MURDER
2-ECLAIR CASE OF MURDER

THE GHOST COZY MYSTERY SERIES
1-HAUNT FLASHES

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/h8yq1i into your web browser to pick up your copy of Cozy Mystery 7 Book Set: Cats, Cupcakes and Killers in the Amazon Kindle store.

Sailor Ray and the Darkest Night

Author: Alex Villavasso

Genre: Paranormal

Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

I suppose I chose this life, but often times I wonder if the choice was really my own. My name is Sailor Ray, and I’m a demon hunter. There are others like me but we all do what we do for our own reasons. Some want to make the world a better place, while others want balance. I just want revenge.

On the day my father died, I made a pact with a devil, Alfonse. In exchange for saving me from the same fate as my father, I promised him my body as a vessel, and once my revenge is obtained, my soul will also be claimed by him.

I was only using him, and he was already using me. Neither of us planned to keep our end of the deal. When our pact was first made, he was weak, a dying spirit. Now, as he heals within me, I can feel his presence growing stronger with every passing day. I’m not stupid, though.

He plans to take over, and I plan to kick him out.

There’s a new lead on the demon who killed my father. First I kill him, then Alfonse.
Easier said than done.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/nx06mg into your web browser to pick up your copy of Sailor Ray and the Darkest Night in the Amazon Kindle store.

Free & Discounted Kindle Books for Monday

May 29, 2017 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here’s your listing of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Monday: 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!

Maniacal

Author: C.M. Sutter

Genre: Thriller

Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $4.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

Click Here for Your Free Copy!

Book Description:

Maniacal is a police procedural thriller fueled by the drive of Detective Jade Monroe to apprehend the bad guy and bring him to justice—no matter what the cost.

Dime reached into his pocket and felt the cold steel. He thumbed the release on the switchblade as he pulled it out. He reached from behind and, with a hand on Morris’s forehead and a quick, silent swipe, it was over. Dime breathed a deep sigh and shrugged. “Sorry, man, it wasn’t personal. I just needed the practice—it’s been a while. You’re a means to an end, I guess one would say.”

Sleepy little North Bend just woke up.

The newly promoted Sergeant Jade Monroe, and her partner, Detective Jack Steele, have just been informed of an unidentified male body found at a local lake. The town is in an uproar. The victim was nearly decapitated, and murder simply doesn’t happen in North Bend.

As more bodies turn up, the single connection between all of the victims becomes clear—it’s Jade, herself. With each new victim getting one step closer to Jade, time begins to tick away. She must find the person responsible before her loved ones, or herself, are targeted next.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Maniacal: A Detective Jade Monroe Crime Thriller Book 1 in the Amazon Kindle store.

Fire and Sword

Author: Dylan Doose

Genre: Fantasy

Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

Condemned to hang for their crimes, they’ll march instead to perish as heroes, or live as free men.

A broken nation in need of a savior – ravaged by plague, decimated by dark magic, infiltrated by a foreign evil seeking to dominate from within. Three will rise to save the beleaguered land. But will they be enough?

Three men condemned to die: Aldous Weaver, a heretic monk turned sorcerer, imprisoned for accidentally incinerating the leader of his order. Kendrick the Cold, an infamous crusader turned fugitive, is a villain who knows he can never be a hero. Theron Ward, an aristocrat with a penchant for slaughtering monsters, and a legend in his own mind.

When the kingdom of Brynth is threatened by a far greater evil, the unlikely trio must make a choice — seek to escape this land that cries for their execution, or find the true heroes within themselves. And then, armed with fire and sword, march together against the forces of darkness. But can three such disparate warriors ever prevail?

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

Mindjack Box Set

Author: Susan Kaye Quinn

Genre: Science Fiction

Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $7.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

Open Minds, Closed Hearts, Free Souls

In a world where everyone reads minds, a secret is a dangerous thing to keep.

Sixteen-year-old Kira Moore is a zero, someone who can’t read thoughts, leaving her no chance with Raf, a regular mindreader. When she accidentally controls Raf’s mind, Kira hides her frightening new ability. But lies tangle around her, and she’s dragged into an underworld of mindjackers… where mind controlling everyone she loves is just the beginning of the deadly choices before her.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/rd0uoe into your web browser to pick up your copy of Mindjack Box Set in the Amazon Kindle store.

Duel of Fire

Author: Jordan Rivet

Genre: Fantasy

Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

Dara Ruminor is a competitive duelist about to take the kingdom of Vertigon by storm. In a world where swords are used for sport and athletes live like kings as long as the crowds love them, all she needs is a wealthy patron to help her achieve dueling glory.

Instead, she gets Prince Siv, the heir to the throne.

She’s supposed to train with him, but it isn’t as easy as it seems. Handsome, charming, and utterly infuriating, he refuses to take the sport—or her—seriously.

But Prince Siv might not be learning the sword just for fun. As threats emerge from the shadows, with the careless prince as their target, Dara will have to raise her sword to protect him—but even her skill might not be enough to keep them both alive.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dueloffire into your web browser to pick up your copy of Duel of Fire in the Amazon Kindle store.

The Kingdom

Author: Amir Or

Genre: Historical Fiction

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

Encounter King David – a man of many secrets who wishes to reveal all…

David’s official history already appears in the Bible, but he wishes the “true story” of his life to be known. The Kingdom portrays King David as a real flesh and blood man: ambitious renegade and strategist, boundless lover, tormented father, politician, poet, and despot.

Power, passion, love, and adventure in a remarkable rendering of the biblical story

It’s the 11th century BC, and David struggles to establish a Hebrew empire in what had been the Canaanite lands. Gods, men, kings, women, and heroes are thrown into a whirlpool of passion, adventure, and the struggle for power.

Search your soul through this biting satire on contemporary reality

Not only a historical novel, The Kingdom is also a satire on contemporary reality with a critical view of the Jewish national story. It offers a stinging inditement of modern Israeli politics.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/0wz59d into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Kingdom in the Amazon Kindle store.

Breaking Gravity

Author: Mitty Walters

Genre: Science Fiction

Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $4.99
Today’s Price: $1.99

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Book Description:

It was just a hoverboard. Nobody was supposed to die.

Dale Adams has worked hard to leave his troubled past behind for a brighter future at Emory University. But when he makes a discovery that will change humanity forever, avoiding the spotlight becomes the least of his concerns.

Small experiments have attracted big attention. And not all who notice want Dale to be successful. Or even alive.

As Dale’s world collapses around him, his fate intertwines with that of a girl he hardly knows. Their only hope for survival is to disappear into Atlanta’s seedy underbelly, the very place Dale has tried so hard to leave behind. Time is running out, but if they can survive long enough science will be rewritten by the most unlikely of authors.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/xakm1v into your web browser to pick up your copy of Breaking Gravity in the Amazon Kindle store.

Free Kindle Book from Phoenix Publishing

May 29, 2017 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Phoenix Publishing offers one free eBook each month in a variety of eBook formats, including the Kindle; I’ve picked up a couple of really good science fiction novels from them for free that they simultaneously have for sale in the Amazon Kindle store for prices up to $9.99. This month’s free pick is Sweeter Than Wine, by L. Neil SMith, which you should be pleased to note while this book costs $4.99 in the Amazon Kindle website, you can get it for free if you follow the instructions below.

You can pick up your free copy if you follow these instructions:

Point your web browser to http://smarturl.it/ppick
Scroll down just a little bit and click on the “ADD TO CART” icon immediately to the right of the book’s cover.
Your computer will next open up a new web browser, leading you to a checkout page. Change the price underneath the “Amount” column to 0.00, as this is a pay-what-you-want offering.
Click the “Update Cart” icon.
Click the “Checkout” icon.
Enter your name and email address. You have the option of signing up for their free eBook newsletter. That’s your choice (I obviously signed up), and you do not have to sign up in order to receive the free eBook.
Make your choice and click the “Complete Free Checkout” icon.
At the next screen, choose and click the “MOBI” version of “Click here to download”as that is the one compatible with your Kindle.
You will next have the option of opening or saving the file. Let’s choose “save” and make sure you save it to a location on your computer you will remember.
As a final step, you will need to transfer the eBook from your computer to your Kindle: that’s a fairly easy process. If you don’t know how to do that, you can click here or type in http://smarturl.it/xfer into your web browser to read my free guide on how to transfer content to your computer. This is the same guide I charge 99 cents for in the Amazon Kindle store, but you get it for free!

Here is the book’s description:

With just one tiny exception, J Gifford is an ordinary, decent, small-town kind of guy. He pays his bills on time. He waters his lawn. He treats his neighbors and the folks with whom he does business with kindness and respect. He’s good to children and small animals.
The tiny exception? He’s a vampire.
Born in 1920, and “brought over” shortly after D-Day in a little French village, 90-year-old Gifford still looks and feels 24. He has friends, a place in the community, a thriving business, and a big orange tabby cat named Fiddlestring. He knows where all the good restaurants are. He’s very tidy about that “tiny exception” and has never killed anybody. All he lacks in his life is the beautiful girl who made him what he is today — and then mysteriously vanished.
Now, suddenly, after sixty-five years, she’s back and needs his help. But is she his long-lost love or a serial-killing fiend? Only time and blood will tell.

Enjoy!
Michael

Looking for more – or a more reliable – source of free books for your Kindle? You can check out my book, Free Kindle Books and How to Find Them, if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/fkb into your web browser!

Protect Your Kindle!

May 29, 2017 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

It’s been a while since I have sent out a tip – in this case, I didn’t think of this one but it was sent to me by long-time blog reader Penny Parker. Here is what she had to say about how to protect your Kindle if it is lost or stolen where you can provide the information prominently with the hope that whoever finds it will consider returning it:

I created a “collection” called “00 please read this if you find this Kindle”. By putting “00” in the front of this title it will automatically go to the first item in the list of contents. Then I sent myself a personal document called “read this” to the email address for my Kindle Paperwhite and had it converted to Kindle format (by putting “convert” in the email subject line). The message simply said that I own this Kindle, my name, how to reach me by email or mobile phone, and that I would gladly pay a reward for its return. And I close with “thank you.”

Thank you, Penny for passing this on! If you have a tip you think others would find helpful, please send it on to me (michael at fkbt dot com) and it may appear here on the blog!

Michael

Featured Kindle Book for Sunday

May 28, 2017 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

No Shoes, No Shirt, No Spells

Author: Rose Pressey

Genre: Mystery

Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: ~~$2.99~~
Today’s Price: $0.99

Click Here to Buy!

Book Description:

Elly Blair welcomes the chance to escape her ex-fiance and job from hell when Grandma Imelda, ready to retire to sunny Florida, calls for her to take over her little southern cafe.

Elly has no idea her grandmother has baked up magic for the unsuspecting townsfolk for thirty years-and now Grandma Imelda insists that Elly use her own hitherto unsuspected magical powers to carry on the family tradition.

But Elly’s new at this stuff. Her dishes don’t turn out as full of smidgens of enchantment and dashes of wishes come true as she’d hoped. When handsome customer Rory Covington takes a bite of the wrong burger, he ends up capturing the attention of every woman in town. Elly doesn’t know if her feelings for Rory are true or based on her magic gone awry.

Tom Owenton is an investigator the National Organization for Magic sent to look into the magical mishap. Unless Elly can reverse the spell, the cafe will be closed permanently. Tom is more than willing to help Elly out of this magical pickle, but she’s not sure she should accept his offer.

Elly only has forty-eight hours to find a way to reverse the spell, or she’ll lose the cafe and never discover if her feelings for Rory are real.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/nsnsns into your web browser to pick up your copy of No Shoes, No Shirt, No Spells in the Amazon Kindle store.

About the Author:

Rose Pressey is a USA TODAY bestselling author. She enjoys writing quirky and fun novels with a paranormal twist. The paranormal has always captured her interest. The thought of finding answers to the unexplained fascinates her.

When she’s not writing about werewolves, vampires and every other supernatural creature, she loves eating cupcakes with sprinkles, reading, spending time with family, and listening to oldies from the fifties.

Rose lives in the beautiful commonwealth of Kentucky with her husband, son and three sassy Chihuahuas.

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

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Free & Discounted Kindle Books for Sunday

May 28, 2017 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

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

The Red Sea

Author: Edward W. Robertson

Genre: Fantasy

Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $3.99
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Book Description:

When Dante Galand was just a boy, his father Larsin sailed away to make his fortune. And never returned. Since then, Dante has become a great sorcerer. A ruler. A destroyer of kings. And he’s just learned that his father is living on a forbidden island at the edge of the known world.

Where he’s dying of a mysterious plague.

In the company of his friend, the swordsman Blays, Dante travels to the island. There, his magic can do nothing for his father. As Dante and Blays quest for a cure—beset by strange beasts, angry spirits, and violent coastal raiders known as the Tauren—Dante falls sick, too.

To save his father and himself, he’ll have to rediscover the island’s long-lost magic. But the hunt for its secrets leads Dante on a crash course with the Tauren—and island-wide civil war.

And as he’s away, an old threat begins to move against his homeland.

Set in a USA Today-bestselling world, THE RED SEA is the first in a trilogy of warfare, sorcery, and friendship through the darkest times.

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

Snowman Paul at the Winter Olympics

Author: Yossi Lapid

Genre: Children & Middle Grade

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

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Snowman Paul dreams of becoming a Winter Olympics champion. Dan is surprised by how well his snowman is doing in competition. But then Dan becomes suspicious. Is Snowman Paul competing fairly? Or is he perhaps, enjoying some unfair advantages?

Written in rhyme, the Snowman Paul book series celebrates the joy of winter through the evolving friendship between a young boy and his mischievous snowman.

Children will fall in love with Snowman Paul! He is energetic and playful, he has big dreams and he is not afraid to be different.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Snowman Paul at the Winter Olympics in the Amazon Kindle store.

Bowl of Fruit (1907)

Author: Panayotis Cacoyannis

Genre: Literary Fiction

Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

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A room, a fantastical talent, and the gift of becoming oneself…

Leon’s past is a labyrinth of truths, half-truths and untruths – not one story but many different stories at once, which Leon has been trying to put behind him. But ghost-writer Anna Tor knows much more about his history than he does, and when Leon reluctantly agrees to meet her, as they begin to trace together the two converging courses of their separate lives since their birth on the same September morning in 1973, the devastating secrets of the past are revealed one by one to bind them ever closer together.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Bowl of Fruit (1907) in the Amazon Kindle store.

Cursed City

Author: William Massa

Genre: Horror

Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

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My name is Mike Raven. I hunt monsters.

For two decades I’ve studied the occult and traveled the world fighting nightmares. Vampires. Shifters. Demons. Ghosts. I’ve faced them all. But my biggest challenge lay ahead…

From the moment Celeste stepped into my office, I knew she was in trouble. Black magic trouble. Her father had promised her soul to a powerful demon on the day she was born. Now, twenty-one years later, the forces of darkness were gathering to collect their long-awaited prize.

Guess who’s about to pick a fight with the Devil himself?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/idasr7 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Cursed City in the Amazon Kindle store.

On Deadly Ground

Author: Susan Vaughan

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

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A desperate sister
Museum director Kate Fontaine made two promises to her dying father—protect her ne’er-do-well brother and return a stolen statuette of the Maya god of earthquakes to its temple. But when her brother is kidnapped and the price to save him is the priceless artifact, keeping one promise means breaking the other. In a no-win situation and facing a dangerous trek through the jungle, Kate is forced to rely on a guide she doesn’t trust… yet whose touch makes her yearn for so much more.

A cynical guide
The only person Max Rivera can truly count on is himself. That’s why he prefers to work alone. Unfortunately his Devlin Security Force assignment to guide and protect Kate includes covertly finding proof her kidnapped brother has sold black-market antiquities. And sticking close to this delectable and vulnerable woman proves more dangerous to Max than all the threats in the jungle.

A race against time
While following the kidnapper’s instructions, Max and Kate must outrun black-market smugglers and a predicted earthquake in a race that takes them from Washington to England and into the Costa Verde jungle. But as perilous as their quest becomes, when desire flares between them, risking their lives seems simple next to risking their hearts.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/ondeadlyground into your web browser to pick up your copy of On Deadly Ground in the Amazon Kindle store.

New Releases on Kindle

May 28, 2017 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Included in this post are six relatively new Kindle book releases by independent authors in a variety of genres 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 is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could change at any time!

The Laird of Duncairn

Author: Craig Comer

Genre: Historical Fiction

Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $4.99
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The year is 1882 Scotland, and the auld alliance betwixt king and fey has long been forgotten. Men of science, backed by barons of industry, push the boundaries of technology. When Sir Walter Conrad discovers a new energy source, one that could topple nations and revolutionize society, the race to dominate its ownership begins. But the excavation and use of this energy source will have dire consequences for both humans and fey. For an ancient enemy stirs, awakened by Sir Walter’s discovery.

Outcast half-fey Effie of Glen Coe is the Empire’s only hope at averting the oncoming disaster. Effie finds herself embroiled in the conflict, investigating the eldritch evil spreading throughout the Highlands. As she struggles against the greed of mighty lords and to escape the clutches of the queen’s minions, her comfortable world is shattered. Racing to thwart the growing menace, she realizes the only thing that can save them all is a truce no one wants.\

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/v5qodp into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Laird of Duncairn in the Amazon Kindle store.

The Empress of Ventra

Author: Melissa E. Beckwith

Genre: Fantasy

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99
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Looking for clues to a past she cannot remember, Rhiannon stumbles into a dangerous new world. Can she survive the evil that hunts her long enough to fulfill her destiny?

Suffering from vivid nightmares, Rhiannon Kossi is sure that she’s been lied to about her childhood. Seeking the answers to long forgotten questions, she is mysteriously taken from her quiet, simple life on a Montana cattle ranch and thrust into a new, violent world where she is forced to either fight or die. In her quest for answers to her past Rhiannon must accept hard truths that will forever change the course of her life…that is, if she can stay alive.

Get lost in this fantastic journey through a breathtaking world of legendary battles, dangerous quests, an ancient prophecy, forbidden love, and brutal self-discovery in book one of the new page turning epic fantasy series.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/hvhu7j into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Empress of Ventra in the Amazon Kindle store.

Death Call

Author: Wendy Cartmell

Genre: Mystery

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99
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In a life or death situation your first instinct is to ring 999, but will you be making a life saving call? Or a death call?

When Crane is convinced there is someone hacking into the 999 emergency call centre in Winchester, he has to convince Anderson and the rest of the team that he’s not imagining things. There really is a killer on the loose and Crane has to find him. Not only in the pursuit of justice – but because this time it’s personal.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/deathcall into your web browser to pick up your copy of Death Call in the Amazon Kindle store.

Toric’s Dagger

Author: Jamie Edmundson

Genre: Fantasy

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99
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Toric’s Dagger is just another religious relic, until it’s stolen. Belwynn and her twin brother, Soren, volunteer to lead a team tasked with its retrieval. Drawn into a world of danger and treachery, they must rely on Soren’s magical abilities, and on the telepathic bond they share.

Now, as kingdoms and empires start to fall, the twins confront the dark forces that threaten them. They must not let the Dagger fall into the wrong hands. But when mercenaries, zealots and sorcerers are all hunting for the same weapon, who should they trust?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/toricsdagger into your web browser to pick up your copy of Toric’s Dagger in the Amazon Kindle store.

Huntress

Author: Julie Hall

Genre: Young Adult

Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $2.99
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Book Description:

Death was only the beginning…

No one’s afterlife is as dispiriting as Audrey’s-at least that’s what she believes after waking up dead without her memories and being promptly assigned to hunt demons for the rest of eternity.

She’s convinced God’s made a cosmic mistake; after all, she’d rather discuss the color of her nails than break them on angelic weapons. It doesn’t help that her trainer, Logan, is as infuriating as he is attractive. And just when Audrey and Logan appear close to developing an amicable relationship, a decision made under duress will push their hearts in a direction neither of them saw coming.

Despite her sub-par fighting abilities, an ancient weapon of unparalleled power chooses Audrey as its wielder, attracting the cautious gazes of her fellow hunters and the attention of Satan himself. With Satan’s eyes now fixed on Audrey, a battle for the safety of the living looms in the shadows.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/uct2lz into your web browser to pick up your copy of Huntress in the Amazon Kindle store.

Soul Source

Author: Charles Vella

Genre: Science Fiction

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $8.99
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Book Description:

Would you go back in time and undo the worst thing you’d ever done if you knew there was a one percent chance it would kill everyone involved? Two percent?

When Agnes is asked to send someone back to expose her darkest secret she knows she has to prevent the mission. But Homeland Security’s watching and the only other person who knows what happened that day is scheming and Agnes ends up like a pilot flying a damaged airliner full of people in a bad storm.

But what if she doesn’t stop the mission? What if she stops the crime, leaving a lifetime of crushing guilt behind? But stopping the crime means teaming with Sarah, and Sarah’s the one who lost the most from Agnes’s mistake all those years ago. Does Agnes have any right to ask her to take the risk? Can she live with herself if it costs Sarah even more?

As the body count starts to rise Agnes ends up in a poker game where she’s forced to push more and more chips out onto the table with every lost hand. And these chips aren’t just human lives, because the models say that some possible paths of this mission trigger End Game. And you know what that means.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/soulsource into your web browser to pick up your copy of A Shining Star in the Amazon Kindle store.

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