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Today's Kindle Daily Deal

January 29, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deal is a one-day only offer where a specific Kindle book for adults, one for young readers (children or young adults), a romance, and a science fiction / fantasy title have been hand-selected by the editors at Amazon and significantly discounted for today only.

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for adults is Gaudy Night , by Dorothy L. Sayers, and this book was $14.99 yesterday but has been discounted 87% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 93 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! , by Bob Barner, and this book was $11.99 yesterday but has been discounted 83% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 19 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Daily Deal is Pure , by Julianna Baggott, and this book was $9.99 yesterday but has been discounted 80% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 178 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Heart of Lies , by Jill Marie Landis, and this book was $14.99 yesterday but has been discounted 87% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 34 customer reviews.

You can check each of them out if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser.

Here is the Gaudy Night book description from the Amazon website:

Back at Oxford for her reunion, Harriet Vane, Lord Peter’s beloved, finds herself in mortal danger

Since she graduated from Oxford’s Shrewsbury College, Harriet Vane has found fame by writing novels about ingenious murders. She also won infamy when she was accused of committing a murder herself. It took a timely intervention from the debonair Lord Peter Wimsey to save her from the gallows, and since then she has devoted her spare time to resisting his attempts to marry her. Putting aside her lingering shame from the trial, Harriet returns to Oxford for her college reunion with her head held high—only to find that her life is in danger once again.

The first poison-pen letter calls her a “dirty murderess,” and the ones that follow are no kinder. As the threats become more frightening, she calls on Lord Peter for help. Among the dons of Oxford lurks a killer, but it will take more than a superior education to match Lord Peter and the daring Harriet.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dorothy L. Sayers including rare images from the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College.

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

Here is the Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! book description from the Amazon website:

Pretty ladybugs, fluttering butterflies, creepy daddy longlegs, and roly-poly bugs are some of the familiar creatures featured in this whimsically illustrated insect album. Complete with an actual size chart and bug-o-meter listing fun facts about each bug,-áBugs! Bugs! Bugs!-áwill inform and entertain curious little bug lovers everywhere.

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

Here is the Pure book description from the Amazon website:

We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . .
Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather, she thinks about what is lost-how the world went from amusement parks, movie theaters, birthday parties, fathers and mothers . . . to ash and dust, scars, permanent burns, and fused, damaged bodies. And now, at an age when everyone is required to turn themselves over to the militia to either be trained as a soldier or, if they are too damaged and weak, to be used as live targets, Pressia can no longer pretend to be small. Pressia is on the run.

Burn a Pure and Breathe the Ash . . .
There are those who escaped the apocalypse unmarked. Pures. They are tucked safely inside the Dome that protects their healthy, superior bodies. Yet Partridge, whose father is one of the most influential men in the Dome, feels isolated and lonely. Different. He thinks about loss-maybe just because his family is broken; his father is emotionally distant; his brother killed himself; and his mother never made it inside their shelter. Or maybe it’s his claustrophobia: his feeling that this Dome has become a swaddling of intensely rigid order. So when a slipped phrase suggests his mother might still be alive, Partridge risks his life to leave the Dome to find her.

When Pressia meets Partridge, their worlds shatter all over again.

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

Here is the Heart of Lies book description from the Amazon website:

Raised in a tribe of street urchins, Maddie Grande was taught to be a thief and beggar on the streets of New Orleans. But Maddie doesn’t know her real name or where she came from.Raised by Dexter Grande, Maddie and her twin ‘brothers’ have recently left New Orleans and moved to the bayou. The twins are rarely there, but Maddie has come to love the swamp. She has learned to fish and trap and sell pelts at the local mercantile.Maddie longs to change her life but knows that her brothers will never give up their lawless ways. When they kidnap the daughter of a wealthy carpetbagger, the twins force Maddie to hide the precocious eight-year-old while they return to New Orleans to wait for notice of a reward. Pinkerton agent Tom Abbott is assigned to the kidnapping case in which Maddie has become an accomplice. In a journey that takes them to Baton Rouge, a mutual attraction becomes evident, but Tom and Maddie cannot trust each other. Will Maddie ever discover who she is? Will her real family ever find her? Will Maddie and Tom listen to their hearts? Or will they choose honor over love?

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

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6 FREE Kindle Book Offers

January 29, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 3 Comments

Here are six FREE Kindle books in a variety of genres for your Tuesday morning consideration: as of this posting, each of the books was free on the Amazon website but please make sure you check the pricing before you smack the “buy” button as the pricing can (and does) change at any time!

Evie’s Knight by Kimberly Krey has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 52 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 31st.

Category: Paranormal Romance

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

Romance that’s clean without losing the steam.

When Evie falls in love with Calvin Knight, their young, virtuous romance conjures a truly wicked spell.

Evie always thought her eighteenth year would be magical, but so far it’s not what she hoped for. Her best friend has gone wild, her love life is void, and she misses her mom more than ever. But life for Evie is about to change. Calvin Knight, the object of her fascination, is about to fall madly in love with her. Just one problem: Their love conjures a murderous woman from beyond the grave who wants Evie dead. The same demon who has haunted the Knight men for over four generations. Soon Calvin is forced to make a choice: Set Evie free and hope to evade the wrath of The Raven- haired Ghost, or use his newly gifted strengths to fight against her. If he chooses to fight and wins, Calvin will free the Knight men of this demonic witch. If he loses, Evie will become her next victim.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/h94u32 into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Speak Swahili, Dammit! by James Penhaligon has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 46 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this is the last day for this book to be free.

Category: Autobiography / Non-Fiction

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

An inspiring biographical account of a young boy’s chaotic life in a remote, wild, corner of East Africa.

Born in Africa, James’s childhood is spent on an isolated gold-mine near Lake Victoria, Tanganyika, with just his sister and mother; his father tragically dying through injuries sustained from World War II. His upbringing is mainly left to a tribal ayah called Amina and an elderly Swahili man, and he learns to speak Swahili before English.

In this unusual setting he soon discovers some stark facts about life through tragedy and danger, but it is the local watu, imbued with kindness and irrepressible humour, that save him from despair, and with whom he learns to fish with home-made lines, eat insects and famously abuse the European hierarchy in real Swahili!

Known as ‘Jimu’ to his friends, he marks out his own country with a Sukuma boy named Lutoli, falls deeply in love with the beautiful, but older, German girl Gretchen and throws himself out of the back of a bus to avoid being sent away to school.
Once at school, in Arusha, James tends to mix with other non-conformers and presents a dilemma to teachers – he is a white boy with a ‘black spirit’. His gang gets up to nefarious enterprises, bringing them into a state of permanent conflict with the system.

James is fascinated with the history of Tanganyika back to the time when it was a German Colony until 1918. The unparalleled courage of the German leader Paul von Lettow Vorbeck against the British is a beacon to the young boy of what can be accomplished against adversity

Above all James discovers the world, and life, a little by education, a lot by accident, but overwhelmingly by fate and happenstance, in circumstances few people in the developed world have experienced.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/02bpme into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Play Dead by Anne Frasier has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 94 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 31st.

Category: Thriller

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

Her USA Today bestseller, SLEEP TIGHT, was called “compelling and real – a great read,” by Andrea Kane. “Guaranteed to keep you awake at night,” raved Lisa Jackson. With her newest novel, Anne Frasier will really take your breath away… Watch your back, Elise. No one understands the dark side of Savannah better than homicide detective Elise Sandburg. As an infant, she was thought to be the daughter of a famous root doctor-and was abandoned in an ancient Low Country cemetery. Growing up, she was haunted by her possible connection to the local Gullah culture-with its spells and voodoo. Now, however, there’s a twisted killer on the loose, and the city is gripped by terror. Someone is using a substance that leaves its victims in a state that mimics death. As their bodies slip into an irreversible paralysis, their minds remain fully, shockingly awake. Before you wake up dead. Step by step, Elise’s relentless chase for the killer draws her straight back into the world she most fears. And now, to stop a murderer, she must confront the truth about her own past in ways she never could have imagined…

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/playdead into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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The Pattern by J.T. Kalnay has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 40 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 30th.

Category: Thriller

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

Has one programming error killed hundreds of people in airplane crashes? A handful of west coast computer geeks know the answer. After reading The Pattern, you will too. Follow auto-pilot programmer Craig Walsh and his beautiful engineer girlfriend Stacey “Jack” Horner as they create, and then confront, a malicious computer virus that seems destined to destroy air travel as we know it…

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/vldeal into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Photographing Children – Tips, Tricks, and Ideas! by Dan Eitreim has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 19 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through February 1st.

Category: Reference

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

Revised and expanded edition!

Once you have digested this easy to read and easy to understand “On Target Photo Training”, you will be well on the way to shooting the amazing photos of children! Ones that win photo contests!

Or bring tears to the eyes of parents… isn’t that what you got into photography to do?

Within about an hour – you will not only understand all the photo theory – but you will know how to apply it as well!

This volume of the “On Target Photo Training” series, is not just about photographing children but, various types of light and light manipulation. These are key elements that affect most every shot and that most of us will encounter on an almost daily basis.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/mjrhu2 into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Dreamscape by Carrie James Haynes has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 7 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 31st.

Category: Paranormal Suspense

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

Haunting dreams have come before for Ramona Damsun, but night after night, a vision pulls her, calling her back into the world she’d prayed she’d never have to face again. When the body of a brutally murdered young woman is found, Ramona is forced to once again walk and fulfill her destiny as a ‘Dream Walker’. Reluctant, Ramona is thrown into the middle of a serial killer investigation.

With no viable suspects or evidence, Chief Douglas Thorpe responds an anonymous tip which sends him into the eye of a storm to thwart an attempted abduction by the killer. The tip leads Thorpe back to Ramona. At first skeptical about any paranormal source of information, Thorpe is thrown into Ramona’s world. A world he has no idea exists; a world where Ramona can walk through dreams, walk a soul back from the brink of death, and a world that holds untold terrors and hellish demons.

Together they have to find a way to track down a demon-possessed killer. The time has come for Ramona to face her fear, her past, and walk the path destiny has chosen for her.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dreamscape into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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5 FREE Kindle Book Offers

January 28, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 23 Comments

Here are five FREE Kindle books in a variety of genres for your Monday afternoon: as of this posting, each of the books was free on the Amazon website but please make sure you check the pricing before you smack the “buy” button as the pricing can (and does) change at any time!

One Blood Qwantu Amaru has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 124 customer reviews.

Category: Horror

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

Breaking News: One Blood was named to Kirkus Reviews Best of 2012 List!

About One Blood:

Prepare to lose sleep as you journey through this award-winning horror/thriller with an ending you won’t see coming!

Description:

For Every Action…

Lincoln Baker, born a ward of the state, has gone from orphan, to gang banger, to basketball superstar, to lifer at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in the space of eighteen years. During his prison term, he meets Panama X, a powerful and mysterious father figure who gives him a
reason for living – he must assassinate Randy Lafitte, the sitting Governor
of Louisiana.

There is an Equal and Opposite Reaction…

In order to force a pardon, Lincoln orchestrates the kidnapping of Karen Lafitte, Randy’s only daughter. But Randy Lafitte is a man who built his fortune by resurrecting a family curse from slavery to kill his own father. A curse that may or may not have been responsible for his son Kristopher’s death in the gang crossfire that sent Lincoln to prison for life. Randy will stop at nothing to save his daughter, even if it means admitting the curse is real. Even if it means committing greater atrocities.

Too Bad for Anyone Stuck in the Middle.

Three days after Karen’s kidnapping, an explosive cocktail of revenge, manipulation, serendipity, fate, truth, and redemption detonates throughout Louisiana. When the dust settles, the ending is as unexpected as it is illuminating. There are secrets sealed in our blood, you see. The best answers, as always, lie within.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/440qu6 into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Thirty Days Hath… by Chautona Havig has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 32 customer reviews.

Category: Religious Fiction / Romance

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 receive your free copy.

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Super Soldier – The 7 Top Health & Fitness Secrets Used by the World’s Toughest Commandos To Kill Joint Pain, Heal Injury, Digest Scar Tissue, And Burn Disease Right Out Of Your Body by Captain Chris has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 83 customer reviews.

Category: Health / Advice & How-To

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

Super Soldier – The 7 Top Health & Fitness Secrets Used By The World’s Toughest Commandos To Kill Joint Pain, Heal Injury, Digest Scar Tissue, And Burn Disease Right Out Of Your Body . . .

They leap, sprint, and attack with ultra-human strength and speed.

They take out other well-trained, super-strong, world-class enemy combatants — often with their bare hands.

They endure long hours, bitter cold, brutal heat, disease-ridden backwaters, chemical-laden sites, and unimaginably filthy conditions — without getting sick.

They overcome excruciating pain, endure endless torture (without buckling), and heal-up with mind-bending speed — as though all they had was a hangnail.

Our stealth-secret commandos have to be this fit.

The question is…

How the Hell Do They Do It?!

Inside this amazing report, you’ll learn:

How elite Special Forces troops EAT: Dietary secrets your momma or the cafeteria lunch room lady never knew — ways to strengthen your body and your immune system, release your brain to work better, and improve results in the sack, too…

SLEEP secrets applied by elite troops — who don’t have the benefit of your comfy mattress, four walls, and a 9-to-5 schedule…

Key WORKOUT principles that make these guys stronger, quicker, and able to endure whatever conditions get thrown at ‘em…

What nutritional SUPPLEMENTS work, which don’t, and why this is such an important part of the everyday mix…

And plenty more…

Captain Chris reveals the never-publicly-released secrets that the world’s toughest commandos swear by to stay healthy, strong, and disease-free.

Grab your copy now.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/k1xcpo into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Riversong by Tess Thompson has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 160 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through February 1st.

Category: Romantic Suspense

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

When Lee Tucker’s husband commits suicide, he leaves her pregnant and one million dollars in debt to a loan shark. Out of options, she escapes to her deceased mother’s dilapidated house located in a small Oregon town that, like her, is financially ruined, heartbroken and in desperate need of a fresh start. Lee’s resilience leads to a plan for a destination restaurant named Riversong, to new chances for passion and love, and to danger from her dead husband’s debt as her business blooms.

Author Tess Thompson (formerly known as Tess Hardwick) assembles a colorful cast of endearing small-town characters and takes you on a journey that will make you believe in the possibilities of life – even in the face of overwhelming adversity and unimaginable grief. Lee Tucker is the kind of woman you find yourself rooting for long after the last page is read.

A surprising mix of romance, humor, friendship, intrigue and gourmet food – Riversong entertains while reminding you of life’s greatest gifts.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/sc5573 into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Dead of Winter by P.J. Parrish has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 36 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery & Thrillers

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

In the quaint tourist town of Loon Lake, Mich., a killer is taking his vengeance. One by one, the bodies of cops are found, brutally executed, with mysteriously coded death cards placed with each corpse – the gruesome signature of a psychopath. And the only sound louder than doors being locked against evil is the sound of hearts beating in terrors. Louis Kincaid came north looking for refuge, a place to forget his past. But now he’s landed in the middle of an investigation that’s a terrifying journey through a town’s fiercely protected heart of darkness.

2001 Edgar Award Finalist

Please note this book is available for free in the USA only. Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/gdz6hv into your web browser to receive your free copy.

Today's Free App of the Day

January 28, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Each day, Amazon offers a free Android App of the Day that could be a game, utility, or who knows? Each deal lasts for just 24 hours and, after that period is over it goes back to paid status and a new app is the App of the Day. In addition to your Kindle Fire, these apps will also work with your Android-based smartphones and tablet computers.

Today’s Free App of the Day is Wubbzy’s Space Adventure and this game is normally $1.99 in the Amazon App Store but is free for today only.

Here is the app’s description from the Amazon App Store website:

Blast off with Wubbzy, Walden, Widget and Daizy on an out-of-this-world space adventure! With this fun-filled app, inspired by the Emmy® Award Winning Nick Jr.® TV series Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!®, kids will explore space, meet kooky aliens and finally wake up the sleepy Man in the Moon so he can see the sun rise.

Hi parents! Cupcake Digital is so excited to share this deluxe story experience with you and your child. We know you will be delighted. We care about your kids and their safety, so there are a few things we think you should know. This app contains gated links, ensuring that only adults have the ability to access social networking sites, send e-mail to contact us for help or feedback, and get into the app stores. The gated links are available within the Help section or in the Main menu page, and are not placed within the story, which is designed to be just for kids. We also want to make you aware that a pixel is embedded in our app. The pixel collects anonymous data only to help us understand downloads by device. We never collect personal or in-app behavioral data.

You can pick up your free copy of Wubbzy’s Space Adventure by clicking here or typing in http://smarturl.it/appdeal into your computer’s web browser.

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Today's Kindle Daily Deal

January 28, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 4 Comments

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for adults is Island , by Richard Laymon, and this book was $7.99 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle store but has been discounted 75% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 109 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Kids Daily Deal is The Little Squeegy Bug , by Bill Martin and Patric Corrigan, and this book was $4.99 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle store but has been discounted 60% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 13 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Daily Deal is The Knife of Never Letting Go , by Patrick Ness, and this book was $9.99 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle store but has been discounted 80% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 210 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Romance Daily Deal is The Reluctant Debutante , by Becky Lower, and this book was $4.99 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle store but has been discounted 80% to just $0.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 18 customer reviews.

You can check each of them out if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser.

Here is the Island book description from the Amazon website:

Wight people set out on a Bahaman cruise but are shipwrecked and stranded on a deserted island, where there’s a maniac on the loose.

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

Here is the The Little Squeegy Bug book description from the Amazon website:

Once upon a time there was a little squeegy bug. No one knew where he came from. He wasn’t an ant. He wasn’t a cricket. And he certainly wasn’t a flea. What was he? Follow along with lovable bug that tries to discover his true identity.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Little Squeegy Bug .

Here is the The Knife of Never Letting Go book description from the Amazon website:

Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him — something so awful Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple, loyal voice he hears too. With hostile men from the town in pursuit, the two stumble upon a strange and eerily silent creature: a girl. Who is she? Why wasn’t she killed by the germ like all the females on New World? Propelled by Todd’s gritty narration, readers are in for a white-knuckle journey in which a boy on the cusp of manhood must unlearn everything he knows in order to figure out who he truly is.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Knife of Never Letting Go .

Here is the The Reluctant Debutante book description from the Amazon website:

In 1855 New York, Ginger Fitzpatrick has absolutely no interest in taking part in the newest rage in America—the Cotillion Ball. Instead, Ginger would rather be rallying for women’s rights—at least until she meets her brother’s best friend from St. Louis, a dark mysterious man named Joseph Lafontaine, who ignites her passion and makes her question if love and marriage is such a ridiculous notion after all.
What she and the rest of New York’s high society don’t realize is that Joseph is half Ojibwa Indian, and therefore, totally unsuitable for marriage to a fine, cultured young lady.
In this Edith Wharton-meets-Julia Quinn tale, a young woman rebels against high society and opts for a life in which she creates her own set of rules.

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

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Five FREE Kindle Book Offers

January 28, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 5 Comments

Here are five FREE Kindle book offers for you to start off your Monday morning: as of this posting, each of the books was free on the Amazon website but please make sure you check the pricing before you smack the “buy” button as the pricing can (and does) change at any time!

Promise by Kristie Cook has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 199 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free indefinitely.

Category: Fantasy / Paranormal Romance

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

Alexis Ames has a life full of promise…but not all promises can be kept.

When Alexis Ames is attacked by creatures that can’t be real, she decides it’s time she learns who she really is, with or without the help of her mother, who guards their family’s secrets closely. After meeting the inhumanly attractive, multi-talented Tristan Knight, however, Alexis retreats behind her façade of normalcy…until she discovers he’s not exactly normal either. Then their secrets begin to unravel.

Their union brings hope and promise to her family’s secret society, the Angels’ army, and to the future of mankind. But it also incites a dangerous pursuit by the enemy – Satan’s minions and Tristan’s creators. After all, Alexis and Tristan are a match made in Heaven and in Hell.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/24ym6r into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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The Annihilation of Foreverland by Tony Bertauski has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 85 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 30th.

Category: Science Fiction

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

When kids awake on an island, they’re told there was an accident. Before they can go home, they will visit Foreverland, an alternate reality that will heal their minds.

Reed dreams of a girl that tells him to resist Foreverland. He doesn’t remember her name, but knows he once loved her. He’ll have to endure great suffering and trust his dream. And trust he’s not insane.

Danny Boy, the new arrival, meets Reed’s dream girl inside Foreverland. She’s stuck in the fantasy land that no kid can resist. Where every heart’s desire is satisfied. Why should anyone care how Foreverland works?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/ugnuta into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Morning Goodness: Tasty Low-Calorie Breakfast Recipes by Joan Holcomb has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 7 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 29th.

Category: Cooking

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

The importance of a good breakfast cannot be overstated. Breakfast fuels your body for the day and reduces feelings of hunger for the rest of the day (especially if the breakfast includes protein). Studies have shown that people who eat breakfast are healthier than those who don’t.

The key to a great, healthy breakfast is to find foods that you love, which are also low-calorie and easy to make. This cookbook contains recipes for a wide variety of foods, for just about every taste. All are under 250 calories per serving. To make a more hearty meal, you could add one (8 oz.) glass of skim milk and a half glass (4 oz.) of orange juice, if desired.

All recipes include calories, fat, fiber, carbs, and protein content per serving.

Important note: this is not a cookbook with zero calorie (or near-zero calorie) recipes. The very nature of these recipes and their ingredients mean that the calorie count will never be zero, or even close to it. Those looking for minimal calorie recipes are advised to seek commercial preparations specifically made for very low calorie diets.

Also, these recipes are not necessarily low-carb. With healthy ingredients such as fat-free milk and fruits, they often include GOOD carbs.

Disclaimer: The contents of this cookbook may not be construed as a medical diagnosis, treatment, advice, claim, or substitute for a physician’s care and/or a nutritionist’s advice. Consult a physician or other health care professional before starting a weight loss or exercise program. Joan’s results are not typical, and she cannot guarantee you will have the same results. Your results are up to you!

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Mark Taylor: Genesis by M.P. McDonald has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 23 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 30th.

Category: Thriller / Suspense

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

In this prequel to M.P. McDonald’s Kindle Bestseller, No Good Deed, find out how Mark Taylor was gifted with powers to change destiny. What drove him to risk his life for others, and why did everything go so wrong on that fateful September day?

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Playing Nice by Rebekah Crane has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 35 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through February 1st.

Category: Young Adult

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

Martina “Marty” Hart is really nice. At least, that’s what people think.

It’s Marty’s junior year at Minster High. Minster’s a small town where making great grades, smiling pretty, helping old people, running the new-student Welcoming Committee, and putting up decorations for all the dances–including the totally awful Hot Shot fall hunting celebration–gets you … what? Marty’s not sure. Instead of dreaming about a sororities-and-frats future at nearby University of Michigan, she’s restless, searching for a way out of the box her controlling mother and best frenemy Sarah have locked her in. When Lil–don’t call her Lily!–Hatfield transfers to Minster, Marty gets her chance. Lil’s different. She smokes, wears black, listens to angry punk records, and lives in a weird trailer with her mother. Lil has secrets–secrets that make her a target for all the gossiping and online bullying Minster can muster. But so does Marty. And Marty sees something different in Lil. Something honest. Something real.

Playing Nice is the achingly real story of a girl who’s been following the rules for so long she’s forgotten who she was when she started. It’s about falling in love with the wrong people and not seeing the right ones, about the moments in life when you step out of line, take a chance … and begin to break free.

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7 FREE Kindle Book Offers

January 27, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 22 Comments

Here are seven FREE Kindle book offers for you on a Sunday night: as of this posting, each of the books was free on the Amazon website but please make sure you check the pricing before you smack the “buy” button as the pricing can (and does) change at any time!

Post Human by David Simpson has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 350 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 29th. I read this book around this time last year and liked it and bought the other books in the series. I rated it a 4 out of 5 stars in my review, and you can read that review if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/nf72b2 into your web browser; if you think the review was helpful, I would appreciate a “Yes” vote via the voting button just underneath the review on the Amazon website.

Category: Science Fiction

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

The future should have been perfect. Microscopic robots known as nans could repair any damage to your body, keep you young by resetting your cellular clocks, and allow you to download upgrades like intelligence, muscle strength, and eyesight. You were supposed to be able to have anything you wanted with a simple thought, to be able to fly without the aid of a machine, to be able to live forever. But when a small group of five terraformers working on Venus return to Earth, they discover that every other human in the solar system has been gruesomely murdered. Now, James Keats and his four companions must discover what happened to the rest of humanity and fight back if they wish to avoid the same, horrifying fate. Welcome to the post-human era.

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The Candle Star by Michelle Isenhoff has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 10 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free indefinitely.

Category: Young Adult / Historical Fiction

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

Boxes aren’t meant to be lived in, but that’s exactly where Emily Preston’s parents are stuffing her. For thirteen years she’s been indulged on her parents’ plantation. Suddenly they expect a proper, marriageable young lady. After a moment of high spirits, a “tantrum,” her mother called it, Emily is sent to stay with her iron-willed, inn-keeping uncle in Detroit. There she meets Malachi, the son of freed slaves, who challenges everything she’s grown up believing. Slowly, with plenty of bumps and humor, their abrasive relationship develops into respect, then friendship. But when Emily stumbles upon two runaways hidden in her uncle’s barn, she finds that old ways die hard. And Mr. Burrows, the charming Southern slave catcher, is only yards away, lodged in the hotel.

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He Loves Me Not by Christine Kersey has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 136 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free indefinitely.

Category: Romantic Suspense

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

Stay away from him. When college student Lily Jamison receives the ominous note, she convinces herself it’s a mistake. After all, she’s barely met the two men it could be referring to. But as she begins to fall for the man with the striking blue eyes, the disturbing messages increase.

Refusing to believe warnings from an anonymous sender and trusting her own heart, Lily presses forward with her relationship, eventually coming to understand the meaning behind the messages as she fears for her life.

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Scarlette by Davonna Juroe has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 74 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through February 5th.

Category: Paranormal / Historical Fiction

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

Ninety years before the Brothers Grimm penned their version of Little Red Riding Hood, a historic, gruesome series of events would shock all of Europe. In 1765, an unidentified wolf-like animal ferociously mauled dozens of peasants in the Gévaudan region of France.

Whispered rumors of unnatural creatures blended with age-old superstition, causing mass hysteria, and a werewolf was blamed for the carnage. Alarmed, King Louis XV sent his best huntsmen to rid the province of the beastly scourge, but this legendary massacre had only just begun.

Scarlette, an 18-year-old peasant, lives under this dark threat, knowing the nightmarish monster lurks in the surrounding forest. A poor seamstress, she labors to make ends meet and is skeptical of supernatural gossip.

Until her grandmother survives an attack.

Scarlette learns her grandmother is infected by the bite of the animal. Desperate to save her, Scarlette begins to uncover the dark secrets of her village and finds there are those who wish to keep their pasts hidden. As time grows short, Scarlette is befriended by a local nobleman and a woodcutter who share an eerie history with the wolf.

To save her grandmother, Scarlette must unravel the mens’ connection and solve a long-forgotten crime. But as she pieces together the clues, Scarlette finds herself torn between the two men, both of whom desire more than friendship and together hold the key to the cure.

Based on both the traditional Grimm and Charles Perrault versions of Little Red Riding Hood, this dark YA is set against the Beast of Gévaudan attacks, blending history with fairy tale and gothic romance. Unique to the genre, the novel revives the French fable of the girl-in-the-red-cloak with a new, shockingly real existence that blurs the line between folklore and reality.

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Across the Creek by Jeremy Asher has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 73 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 28th.

Category: Contemporary Fiction

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

Life only gives you one first kiss.

And when Jesse Malone kissed Sarah Ramsey, he thought his life would change, but not in the way that it did. An unlikely childhood romance between a poor boy and a wealthy girl began the day Jesse decided to do the impossible and cross the creek. A love was born, one that would become their shelter, protecting them from the storms of their lives, until the day Jesse witnessed his mother’s murder, forcing him to leave his childhood home…and first love.

Ten years later, life has finally gotten better for Jesse. He has a loving family, a charming pet shop to run, and one semester left before graduating with a degree in architecture. Everything is great, until the day fate intervenes and his long-lost love walks into his shop and back into his life.

Sarah, engaged to a budding attorney, is struggling to keep everything together. Her father, diagnosed with terminal cancer, is running out of time. Sarah races to build their dream business while planning her wedding in time for her father to walk her down the aisle.

Their brief encounter starts a series of events that neither Jesse nor Sarah expects. After a decade of running, Jesse is now forced to face the demons from his past, while Sarah has to choose between her handsome attorney and her first love.

Just when they think love has given them a second chance, Jesse is faced with an impossible decision, one that will change their lives forever.

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On Unfaithful Wings by Bruce Blake has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 53 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 28th.

Category: Urban Fantasy

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

To some, death is the end; to others, a beginning. To Icarus Fell, it should have been a relief from a life gone seriously awry.

But death had other plans.

Icarus doesn’t believe that the man awaiting him when he wakes up in a cheap motel room is really the archangel Michael, or that God’s right hand wants him to help souls on their way to Heaven. Icarus doesn’t believe there’s a Heaven, so why should they want his help?

But the man claiming to be the archangel tempts him with an offer he can’t ignore–harvest enough souls and get back the life he wished he’d had.

It seems Icarus has nothing to lose, until he botches a harvest and the soul that went to Hell instead of Heaven comes back to make him pay by threatening to take away the life he hoped to win back.

To save the wife and son he already lost once, Icarus will have to become the man he never was. Somehow, he will have to learn to believe.

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How to Manage Your Money When You Don’t Have Any by Erik Wecks has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 45 customer reviews.

Category: Business & Investing / Advice & How-To

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

Unlike many personal finance books, How to Manage Your Money When You Don’t Have Any was specifically written for Americans of all income levels who struggle to make it on a monthly basis. It provides both a respectful, no-nonsense look at the difficult realities of life after the Great Recession and a hope-filled, easy to follow path toward better financial stability for even the most financially strapped households. Created by a financial expert who hasn’t struck it rich, How to Manage Your Money When You Don’t Have Any offers a first hand story of financial survival in the face of rough times. Rather than emphasizing wealth creation, How to Manage Your Money When You Don’t Have Any teaches readers to do the best they can with their income no matter its size. Content rich, personal, and jargon free, the book is opinionated and at times humorous. Full of current everyday references, it is meant to be a quick read which will appeal to the average reader just struggling to make ends meet.

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6 FREE Kindle Book Offers

January 27, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 7 Comments

Well, I got a little bit later start than normal – don’t think I forgot about you – but here are six FREE Kindle books for you in the Amazon Kindle store: as of this posting, each of the books was free on the Amazon website but please make sure you check the pricing before you smack the “buy” button as the pricing can (and does) change at any time!

Individually Twisted – A Teen Conspiracy by David Pickering has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 26 customer reviews. I received a note from the author this book would be free for today only.

Category: Young Adult

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

Individually Twisted – A teen conspiracy. A tall tale for grown-ups.

Warning: A get-rich-quick fable that parents better warn their kids about. ASAP.

Rick and Drew and Beverly and Fo grow up in Knotty Oaks, a wealthy suburb north of Chicago. In seventh grade they decide they don’t want to end up working their adult lives away like their parents. In an effort to prevent that, the Crew boldly creates and develops a prosperous underground enterprise that earns them millions by senior year.

Join the Crew on this lucrative escapade.

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Chosen by Jolea M. Harrison has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 80 customer reviews. I received a note from the author this book would be free indefinitely.

Category: Fantasy / Paranormal

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

Chosen is a fantasy adventure – location; Hell, Purgatory, the Demon’s Lair, and Hell is everything it’s cracked up to be when you’re sixteen and running for your soul.

Dynan Telaerin finds himself on a corpse-strewn hillside, uncertain if he’s dead or alive, charged with saving his ancestor, the most powerful telepath to ever exist. Dynan has telepathic powers of his own, only he doesn’t know how to use them. With monsters and minions hunting him down, the demon’s lair isn’t the place to learn anything – except how to run and how to hide. Will courage alone be enough to face the greatest evil to exist? Will he lose his soul to save everyone else?

The running starts, and doesn’t stop to the end of this action packed adventure of a young man coming to terms with his life while he’s barely a spirit, through horrors he thought existed only in dreams.
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Shot in the Dark by Jennifer Conner has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 12 customer reviews. I received a note from the author this book would be free through February 2nd.

Category: Romantic Suspense

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

Every night Detective Devan Burke drives through the Naughty Latte espresso bar. Bikini barista, Luci Lombart, gives him what he wants, coffee poured into a rich fantasy life. Her innocent smile reminds him of a time before he used a cane to walk. When her latte stand is robbed, the suspect escapes but takes her purse with her personal info with him. Devan fears he may come after Luci and complete the interrupted attack.

Luci is careful not to let anyone get too close, especially not the handsome detective in a violent profession. But Luci’s drawn to Devan, a wounded soul with a big heart. Committed to always be self-reliant, to never be under anyone’s control, Luci is determined to finish her medical degree with or without her barista job. With her holistic training, is she the one who can heal Devan inside and out?

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Mistletoe Mischief by Stacey Joe Netzel has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 201 customer reviews. I received a note from the author this book would be free indefinitely.

Category: Contemporary Romance

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

Christmas recipe for love–combine a matchmaking Santa, lots of mistletoe, one iron-clad rule, fated hearts; mix and stir. The Riley siblings don’t stand a chance.

Mistletoe Mischief

Christmas in July at the zoo is the last place single parents Eric Riley and Marissa Wilder expect to find love. Thanks to some mistletoe mischief in the form of their two young daughters and Santa, they discover mistletoe rules were not made to be broken.

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Altdorf by J.K. Swift has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 34 customer reviews. I received a note from the author this book would be free indefinitely.

Category: Historical Fiction

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

“Re-imagining the William Tell legend–without William Tell.”

At the end of the thirteenth century, five hundred orphans and second sons are rounded up from villages in the Alpine countryside and sold to the Hospitaller Knights of St John. Trained to serve as Soldiers of Christ, they fight in eastern lands they know nothing about, for a cause they do not understand.

Thomas Schwyzer, released from his vows by the Grandmaster of the Hospitallers, returns to the land of his birth a stranger. Once a leader of men, and captain of the Order’s most famous war galley, he now settles into the simple life of a ferryman. He believes this new role to be God’s reward for years of faithful service fighting the Infidel in Outremer.

Seraina, considered a witch by most, a healer by some, is a young woman with a purpose. A Priestess of the Old Religion, and the last Druid disciple of the Helvetii Celts, she has been gifted by the Great Weave to see what others cannot. Her people need her guidance and protection now more than ever. For Duke Leopold of Habsburg, in his efforts to control the St. Gotthard Pass, builds a great Austrian fortress in Altdorf. Once finished, the Habsburg occupation will be complete, but the atrocities visited upon her people will have just begun.

Set in medieval Switzerland, ALTDORF, a novel of The Forest Knights, is the first book in a two-book series.

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Sweet Dreams by Aaron Patterson has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 171 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery & Thrillers

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

Mark Appleton is living the American Dream. Beautiful wife, loving daughter, and a high paying job in New York City. But when his family are killed in a accident he must reinvent himself. A year later in the midst of putting his life back together, Mark finds out that his family was killed and it was…No accident. Mark will stop at nothing to hunt down the men responsible for the death of his family and what he finds will change his life forever.

Kirk Weston is a Detroit detective. He hates his job, his ex-wife, and his life. He is hand selected to help the FBI on a high profile case and just when he thinks things could not get any worse…

They do.

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This Week's Informal Poll – Your Input Requested!

January 26, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 100 Comments

Last week, I thought I would try something different and have an informal poll where you could interact and share your ideas via the comments section of the blog. I thought it would get a few responses, but I was blown away at the level of participation – over 1,100 comments, and it has been the most viewed page (of all the pages) of the blog, ever.

If you missed the question in that post – do you read one book or multiple books at a time – you can click here or type in http://wp.me/p2b82w-3VL into your web browser to answer the question and interact with the other blog members.

For those of you who don’t know, I went to Texas A&M for school and there’s a phrase there (among many) to summarize says if you do it once it becomes a tradition. Well, seeing as how a lot of people enjoyed the last informal poll question, I am going to try a few over the next few Saturdays and see how it goes. If you are reading this post on your e-Ink Kindle or received the post via email, you can always see this week’s poll question if you click here or type in http://wp.me/p2b82w-3XZ into your web browser.

So, here’s this week’s informal poll question courtesy of blog reader Stacey Gates: “which model of Kindle do you prefer?” Let us know in the comments section just below this post and give us some commentary / details behind your answer as you see fit!

I’ll start it off: after several years of primarily using my trusty Kindle Keyboard, with a few reads on my Kindle DX because I really like the larger screen, over the last two months I have been exclusively using my 8.9” Kindle Fire tablet with 4G. Why? Primarily because I can pop over and get a few rounds of Words with Friends or another game in, check my email real fast, then switch back over to my book all without leaving my easy chair or switching devices.

What about you? Please answer away in the comments section below this post on the blog’s website. If you are reading this post on your e-Ink Kindle or received the post via email, you can always see this week’s poll question if you click here or type in http://wp.me/p2b82w-3XZ into your web browser.

Have a great rest of your weekend!

Michael Gallagher

5 FREE Kindle Books

January 26, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 3 Comments

Here are five FREE Kindle books in a variety of genres for your Saturday afternoon: as of this posting, each of the books was free on the Amazon website but please make sure you check the pricing before you smack the “buy” button as the pricing can (and does) change at any time!

Admissions of Guilt Roxanne Winkler has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 14 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 30th.

Category: Contemporary Fiction

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

Alexa Kincaid is living the American dream. She is married to David Cooper, a handsome pediatrician, has a successful criminal law practice, and a beautiful home on the Chesapeake Bay. But her dreams are soon shattered when she finds out that the woman she’s representing in the biggest trial of her career, Rachel Mills, reveals a secret that threatens her marriage to David. It will take all of Alexa’s strength to set aside her personal feelings for a woman she so desperately wants to hate, in order to successfully defend her in court.

Along the way, Alexa learns some powerful lessons about love, guilt, and jealousy. Upon
searching the depths of her own soul to find the true meaning of forgiveness, she receives a gift from Rachel that changes her life forever.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/7auoas into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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SPiritied Away – A Novel of the Stolen Irish by Maggie Plummer has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 91 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 28th.

Category: Historical Fiction

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

It’s May 1653. When young Frederica (Freddy) O’Brennan and her sister Aileen trust a stranger on an empty beach in western Ireland, they inadvertently place themselves in the crosshairs of Cromwell’s notorious Reign of Terror. Freddy awakens in the crammed hold of a slave ship bound for Barbados. She and Aileen endure the gruesome voyage only to be wrenched apart when purchased at auction by sugar plantation owners from different islands. Freddy is left alone to face the brutal realities of life as a female Irish slave on a seventeenth century Barbados plantation. As she struggles to survive the ordeal, Freddy’s harrowing experiences paint an intimate, compelling portrait of 1650s Irish and African slavery in the Caribbean.

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Dangerous Talents by Frankie Robertson has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 33 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 28th.

Category: Fantasy

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

A WORLD OF MAGIC, LOVE, AND BETRAYAL

Celia Montrose has been trained to deal with any emergency–except being thrust into another world. Nothing has prepared her for meeting the Viking descendants of the lost Vinland colony, or coping with kidnapping, murder, and magic.

Lord Dahleven is trying to avert a war when he rescues a strange and beautiful woman in the drylands. Though he fears Celia may be Fey-marked, Dahleven can’t resist the powerful attraction he feels for her. But is Celia in league with the enemy, or will she provide the key to saving his people?

Alone and off-balance, Celia finds herself falling for Lord Dahleven. But dangerous forces are at work, and one of them is offering Celia a way home–for a price.

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The Geronimo Breach by Russell Blake has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 77 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery & Thriller / Action & Adventure

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

The Geronimo Breach is a breakneck-paced thrill ride that pits the world’s most unlikely protagonist against the deadliest adversaries on the planet. From the corridors of Langley to the sweltering jungles of Panama, from the hills of Pakistan to the cocaine trails of Colombia, a clandestine scheme to preserve a terrible secret goes horribly awry, plunging a reluctant hero down a deadly rabbit hole of deceit and betrayal, while raising disturbing questions about the media, the war on terror & its linkage with the war on drugs, & the nature of reality in an age of sound-bites and photo ops.

Albert Ross is a malingering misanthrope – a boozing, chain smoking philanderer; shifty, lazy, cowardly, going to fat, & more prone to doing the wrong thing than any man alive. His purgatorial existence working for the State Department in Panama gets shattered when a routine errand becomes a race against the clock, battling adversaries for whom no price is too high to protect a secret that could topple the world order. As the body count climbs in a struggle without rules, Al must face his own demons, as well as the myriad very real ones intent upon destroying him. The unexpectedly shattering conclusion of this richly drawn thriller is both topical & chillingly plausible, making for a roller-coaster action/adventure without parallel.

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The Undertaker by William Brown has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 59 customer reviews.

Category: Action & Adventure / Mystery & Thrillers

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

Pete Talbott is a California native and harried Boston computer wonk still grieving over the death of his wife Terri, when he found himself at the wrong end of Gino Parini’s .45 reading his own obituary torn from that morning’s newspaper. Talbott figured it was all a big mistake
until Parini showed him his wife’s obituary too, and this was a mystery Talbott couldn’t leave alone. From a funeral home in Indiana, to car chases on the Dan Ryan, a bloody Back Bay townhouse, snipers in New York City’s Washington Square, sleazy lawyers, corrupt County sheriffs, mafia hit men, the FBI, an army of Chicago cops, and that unforgettable scene in the upper berth of an Amtrak Train, The Undertaker is a thrill ride with a touch of humor and romance. Someone with a penchant for sharp scalpels and embalming tables is planting bodies under other people’s names; and if Talbott doesn’t stop them, he and his quirky new
girlfriend, Sandy Kasmarek, will be next on the Undertaker’s list.

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