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It’s time for your daily reminder….don’t forget to enter to win a brand new Kindle Paperwhite! If you missed the original post describing the giveaway, or need to visit it again, you can click here or type in http://smarturl.it/julykindle into your web browser. Remember, it is free to enter!
How about passing this link on to your friends and family? I’m sure they would like to win a new Kindle Paperwhite!
Good luck-
Michael
Here are five discounted and free Kindle book offers for your consideration from highly-rated independent authors who have discounted the pricing for a limited time just for members of the blog. 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 change at any time!
Still Fine at Forty, by Dakota Madison, is normally $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 10 customer reviews.
Category: Romance
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
It all started with a Girl’s Getaway Weekend in Sedona, Arizona…
It’s been a year since Jennifer Ellis’s ex-husband left her for a much younger woman and Jennifer still hasn’t dated. Now turning 40, Jennifer wonders if she’ll ever find love again. So Jennifer’s best-friend, Melanie Malone, books them on a Girl’s Getaway in picturesque Sedona, Arizona in hopes of inspiring Jennifer to have a vacation fling.
Jennifer gets more than she bargained for when she meets the ruggedly handsome 29-year old tour Jeep guide, Cody Miller, and the two begin a passionate romance. What Jennifer doesn’t know is that Cody has a secret past that not only threatens to destroy their new love but also expose a tragic event from Jennifer’s past that she has tried desperately to forget.
Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/q5c2mg into your web browser to pick up your copy of Still Fine at Forty.
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Legend of the Dawn, by J.R. Wright, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 16 customer reviews.
Category: Historical Fiction
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
After eleven years of marriage, Léa Laurier knew her husband. Knew how he could take on responsibility for a world-famous restaurant, a wife, and her two teenage siblings at nineteen years old and never falter, never tire. Knew his drive and his ambition, that took him to the stars. Knew how brilliant his gray eyes looked when they met hers for just one moment across a host of cameras. She didn’t know why she was so tired. She didn’t know why she needed to just get away. For a while. Maybe a week or two. A month. She’d be back.
After eleven years of marriage, international superstar chef Daniel Laurier knew his wife. Knew how she could lavish caring on everyone, her siblings, his staff, and most especially him. Knew the way her face lit up when he won yet another television contest, and the way she hugged him for it.
Having been drawn to the wild for a number of years, young Luke McKinney is forced to leave 1839 St.Louis for the North Country even sooner than he expected to go. At seventeen, along with a female companion and an elderly father figure, he is literally running for his life.
With the Law pursuing him and the wilderness unforgiving, he finds himself caught up in a survival system that has nothing to do with civilization or laws.
Then the unthinkable happens, the only love of his life is taken from him. It is during the pursuit of her captors that Luke finds a strength and determination that will shape his moral existence for the remainder of his life.
This is the first book of a trilogy that spans the lives of Luke McKinney and Breanne Bruyere, their undying love, through hell and high water, for over fifty years.
Daring, thrilling, romantic, historic. What else is there? ‘Unforgetable!’
Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/986ull into your web browser to pick up your copy of Legend of the Dawn .
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Human Plus, by David SImpson, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 57 customer reviews.
Category: Science Fiction
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
The Post-Human Trilogy is done, but the Post-Human series is just heating up! Human Plus is Book 4 in the smash hit science fiction series. Not exactly a sequel, not exactly a prequel, Human Plus will defy expectations. No matter what you thought was coming next, you’re in for a surprise!
JUST ONE CAUTION: When you’re finished, you’re going to want to share the surprises with everyone online…Please don’t! Please respect future readers and let them enjoy the surprises just as much as you did!
Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/humanplus into your web browser to pick up your copy of Human Plus.
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Tollesbury Time Forever, by Stuart Ayris, is just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 93 customer reviews.
Category: Literary Fiction
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
The first book in the award winning FRUGALITY Trilogy.
Tollesbury Time
Nothing is real
And there’s nothing
To get hung about
sing the children…
In September 2008 I accompanied the police as they entered a house in Tollesbury. I was a psychiatric nurse at the time. The owner of the house was one of my patients. He had not been seen for two weeks – neither had his wife or his son.
What I saw that evening will stay with me forever. On the walls of the lounge, in tiny, neat black writing, were thousands and thousands of words. The torch beams picked them out as if they were groups of well-ordered flies. The words continued up the stairway, onto the landing walls and into the main bedroom. I had been in the house before and had seen some of the writing upstairs. Still I was mesmerised.
What you are about to read are the words that I saw on those walls…
Tollesbury Time
Nothing is real
And there’s nothing
To get hung about…
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The Reverent Surrender, by James W. FInster, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 5.0 out of 5 stars based on 40 customer reviews.
Category: Non-Fiction / Memoir
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
My father chose to end his own life.
That is the elephant in my room…
So begins The Reverent Surrender, James Finster’s deeply touching memoir about his father’s suicide. It’s a brutally honest perspective, but it’s also refreshing, skillfully avoiding an angry, self-pitying position on this painful and often taboo subject.
Everyone dies, it’s a truism in this life, yet many choose to go on their own terms. Is there not some form of honor to be found within this selfish act?
When he first set out to write his memoir, Finster’s goal was to help others who’d experienced the same heartbreak, but as the book evolved, he realized that everyone faces death with a different perspective, and each person’s response to suicide–and their grieving process–is unique. Ultimately, this beautifully written book is dedicated to the memory of his father. It encourages the survivors of suicide to reflect on the life lost and embrace their loved one’s memories–while learning to let go of anger or blame and ultimately changing the underlying core of grief to one of acceptance…and healing.
My father’s time on this earth was but mere seconds in the scheme of the world. A small pivotal role played out on a stage for a select few. His life encompassed comedy, romance, satire, and tragedy. All the genres to have made for a beautiful performance. And therefore as my reflection ends and the curtains set on that stage, I shall rise from my seat, applaud vigorously, and shout “encore.”
Click here to pick up your copy of The Reverent Surrender .
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Here are eight discounted Kindle book offers for your consideration from highly-rated independent authors who have discounted the pricing for a limited time just for members of the blog. Take a look around, and maybe you will find a new favorite author!
Boreal and John Gray, by Chrystalla Thoma, is actually five novels in one box set collection, and is normally $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 9 customer reviews.
Category: Urban Fantasy
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
Dangerous Shades, magical portals, sexy elves and a spunky heroine. Now on special offer for a limited time – five books over 400 pages for the price of one!
Read the complete First Season of the series Boreal and John Grey, books 1-5 (The Encounter, The Gate, The Dragon, The Dream and The Truth) at a special price with an Author’s Note at the end.
Centuries ago, they nearly conquered humankind. But their Gate to our world closed, leaving them out. Now the elves have found a way back.
Ella Benson, agent of the Paranormal Bureau, fights the Shades when they cross into our world, keeping everyone safe. But increasingly dangerous creatures are slipping into her city, her work partner has just gone missing, and a mysterious – and, quite frankly, hot — guy saves her life. His name is Finn and, as it turns out, he’s a natural when it comes to fighting the Shades.
When the Gates between the worlds start opening and the elves make a comeback, Ella needs a new, temporary partner. Enlisting the mysterious Finn is a no-brainer, until she realizes he is guarding dangerous secrets of his own.
Together with Finn, and the fate of the world on her shoulders, what’s Ella to do but grab her weapons and figure it all out, one way or another.
Warning for profanity and adult sexual situations.
Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/l6ujmo into your web browser to pick up your copy of Boreal and John Gray .
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I, Minion, by Lewis Dix, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 12 customer reviews.
Category: Fantasy
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
This is the tale of a skeletal warrior with no name and no future, raised from the dead to serve only one purpose – to fight and die on the front lines of battle. This is all he has known for centuries, but all that’s about to change. For he will come face-to-face with the Dark Lord’s greatest enemy, a young witch named Kora. As the leader of the rebellion, she is the very person he has been sent to kill. And yet, she will awaken feelings in him long dead, setting him on a path that threatens to change the course of the Empire forever.
Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/gphnd0 into your web browser to pick up your copy of I, Minion.
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The Griffin Cryer, by Julia Hughes, is regularly priced at $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 56 customer reviews.
Category: Young Adult
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
Frankie Shaunessy’s friends are out of this world!
It’s an easy mistake to make – instead of whistling and calling for her dog, fifteen year old Frankie accidentally summons a griffin and his rider from another world. The Rider is tall, blond and extremely rude. On the other hand, Balkind is the sweetest, most lovable griffin Frankie’s ever met, and Frankie is determined to help the Rider and his griffin find a way back to their own world.
Dealing with parallel universes, disgruntled warriors, and hungry griffins is the easier part of Frankie’s life. At school, Frankie learns friends can become enemies, teachers aren’t always right, and the boy of your dreams can be all too human. Told in approximately 53,000 words, suitable for young adults, and all those who’ve ever dreamed of riding a griffin.
This summer, you can return to Ella-Earth. An exclusive extract from “The Griffin’s Boy” follows this edition of “The Griffin Cryer”.
(If you already have “The Griffin Cryer” on your kindle, you can go to settings, and download this latest version.)
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The Girl in the Italian Bakery, by Kenneth Tingle, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted 40% to just $2.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars based on 245 customer reviews.
Category: Thriller / Women’s Fiction
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
Life didn’t do Kenny Tingle any favors. In The Girl in the Italian Bakery, follow his journey from childhood in a tough housing project north of Boston, the abduction and disappearance of a childhood friend, to the complete destruction of a family. His introduction to crime and the years he spent in foster homes. The poor choices he made in high school and the startling climax on prom night. Although he never has trouble meeting girls, the one girl he longs for always seems out of reach. The Girl in the Italian Bakery is the remarkably true story of always keeping hope, even when there is little left to hope for. This is a story of surviving through extreme adversity, and, ultimately, redemption.
Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/ciqafb into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Girl in the Italian Bakery.
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Check out my other blog, Bible Verse of the Day on your Kindle – 100% of the proceeds are donated to charity, with over $9,000 donated to The Nehemiah Center of Houston since 2010! You can check out the two-week free trial if you type in http://smarturl.it/dailyverse into your computer’s web browser and click on the “Subscribe now with 1-click” button on the right-hand side of the page.
Today’s Featured book of the Day is The Good Lawyer , by Thomas Benigno, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 1,030 customer reviews. This book is just $2.99 in the Amazon Kindle store.
Category: Thriller
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY
A young, ambitious lawyer is eager to prove he is better than the father who abandoned him and worthy of the devoted mother who raised him beyond the siren call of the mobster dominated family he grew up in. Working as a Bronx Legal Aid Attorney he learns how to twist the system, how to become an unbeatable defense lawyer, and he his peacock proud of his perfect record-not a single conviction. But it’s 1982. The Spiderman rapist is on the loose and New York City is a city in fear. When an outraged rape victim commits suicide right before his eyes, searching for absolution, he grabs the headline case of a teacher’s aide accused of molesting three students. Armed with a firm belief in his client’s innocence, he knocks the pegs out from under the prosecution’s case. When one of the children turns up dead, he discovers that his client may be strangely connected to the Spiderman. Digging deeper, horrifying revelations about his family’s past collide with the true identity of the sadistic sociopath behind the Spiderman’s rampage. In the process, this good lawyer comes face-to-face with his greatest conflict and deepest fear: to win, really win-save the city and even the woman he loves-must he sacrifice every principle he believes in and embrace his family’s mafia past to become judge, jury, and executioner?
Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/sgez5z into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Good Lawyer .
Thomas Benigno is a practicing attorney on Long Island, N. Y. After graduating Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in Manhattan in 1979, at the behest of his Criminal Law Clinic Professor, Barry Scheck (who later obtained fame for representing O. J. Simpson) he was fast-tracked to a position as Associate Attorney with the New York City Legal Aid Society in the Bronx. While there he sought out and tackled the grittiest of cases, even representing the infamous Spiderman Rapist. If you ask him why he repeatedly took on the defense of child molesters and rapists, he’ll sound off two reasons: 1) no other attorney would take these cases, and 2) he was young and out to prove himself. The year before he left Legal Aid to go into private practice he was featured in a two page spread in the New York City Legal Aid Society’s Annual Report for his success in winning what seemed like an unwinnable case-a teacher’s aide charged with molesting three of his students. At a party held in his honor he was handed a beautiful plaque commemorating his court victory-a plaque he never hung up or put on display ever. Two years later he left Legal Aid, and within eighteen months after that, left the practice of criminal law behind forever having never lost a trial. Currently he practices real estate and business law, enjoys acting in staged productions on Long Island, appeared as an actor in two movies, one an award winning short film, and even produced (along with others) a Broadway show (Burn the Floor and its U.S. tour). He is married to the same beautiful woman since shortly after graduating law school and has three adult children. THE GOOD LAWYER is a novel inspired by real events while he was working as a Legal Aid Attorney in the Bronx.
You can visit Tom’s Amazon author page at Amazon if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/benigno into your web browser.
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It’s time for a reminder….don’t forget to enter to win a brand new Kindle Paperwhite! If you missed the original post describing the giveaway, or need to visit it again, you can click here or type in http://smarturl.it/julykindle into your web browser. Remember, it is free to enter!
How about passing this link on to your friends and family? I’m sure they would like to win a new Kindle Paperwhite!
Good luck-
Michael
Here are four discounted Kindle book offers for your consideration from highly-rated independent authors who have discounted the pricing for a limited time just for members of the blog. Why not give each one a look as, who knows – you might find a new favorite author!
Taken By Storm, by Danelle Harmon, is normally $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 5 customer reviews.
Category: Historical Romance
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
Ex-naval captain Colin Lord has had his fill of hot-headed adventure. Now, he wants nothing more than to put his tragic past behind him and pursue his career as a London veterinarian. Heiress Lady Ariadne St. Aubyn is on the run. She wants nothing more than to get the last of a rare breed of racehorse safely away from her wastrel brother before he and every reward hunter in England can catch her. But when the fiery noblewoman convinces the reluctant veterinarian to oversee the health of her equally temperamental stallion, both Colin and Ariadne find themselves caught up in a wild chase across Regency England in which love, passion — and the Fastest Horse in the World — are all part of the stakes. A treat for animal lovers everywhere!
Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/5j3lss into your web browser to pick up your copy of Taken By Storm.
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The Many and the One, by Donald Wells, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 48 customer reviews.
Category: Romantic Suspense
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
When Lindsay Parker catches her boyfriend Derek Stern cheating, she wants only one thing–Revenge!
Knowing of Derek’s hatred for Jason Reynolds, she begins dating Jason simply as a way to hurt Derek.
However, something happens that Lindsay didn’t count on. She falls in love. Derek schemes to get Lindsay back into his life, however, his obsession goes too far, and leads to a violent and life-altering confrontation with Jason.
When Derek’s beautiful, but conniving mother Charlotte enters the fray, the stakes escalate into a decades long struggle that tests Lindsay and Jason’s bond, while redefining the boundaries of love.
THE MANY AND THE ONE is Book One Of THE REYNOLDS FAMILY SAGA
Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/j55zxa into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Many and the One .
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Edgewood, by Karen McQuestion, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 143 customer reviews.
Category: Young Adult / Paranormal / Science Fiction
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
Wandering the dark streets at night is Russ Becker’s way of dealing with his relentless insomnia and the angst of life. But that changes forever the night he witnesses a strange astronomical event, then discovers he’s developed incredible superpowers.
And he’s not alone. Three others in his town—sexy Mallory, arrogant Jameson, and mysterious Nadia—have had the same experience and acquired intriguing powers of their own. As if Mallory isn’t special enough with her good looks and high IQ, now she can control peoples’ minds. Jameson thinks he’s the coolest because he moves objects with his thoughts, and shy Nadia struggles to understand her new empathic abilities.
At first the four secretly relish their newfound gifts while keeping them hidden. However, things get serious when they learn they’re being hunted by an organization that wants them for its own nefarious purposes. Russ has always picked his battles wisely, but when the bad guys threaten his family, they’re about to find out they messed with the wrong teens. What transpires will change all of them in ways they never imagined.
Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/6cmpjq into your web browser to pick up your copy of Edgewood .
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Brainrush, by Richard Bard, is regularly $9.99 but has been discounted 70% to just $3.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 758 customer reviews.
Category: Action & Adventure / Thriller
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
Before he slid into the MRI machine, Jake Bronson was just an ordinary guy with terminal cancer. But when an earthquake hits during the procedure, Jake staggers from the wreckage a profoundly changed man, now endowed with uncanny mental abilities.
An ocean away, Luciano Battista wants a piece of Jake’s talent. Posing as a pioneering scientist, the terrorist leader has been conducting cerebral-implant experiments in a sinister quest to create a breed of super jihadist agents…and Jake’s altered brain may be the key to his success. But Jake refuses to play the pawn in an unholy war—and when an innocent woman and autistic child are taken hostage to force his cooperation, he embarks on a jihad of his own. Jake and his band of loyal friends are thrust into a deadly chase that leads from the canals of Venice through Monte Carlo and finally to an ancient cavern in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan—where Jake discovers that his newfound talents carry a hidden price that threatens the entire human race.
Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/brainrush into your web browser to pick up your copy of Brainrush.
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Check out my other blog, Bible Verse of the Day on your Kindle – 100% of the proceeds are donated to charity, with over $9,000 donated to The Nehemiah Center of Houston since 2010! You can check out the two-week free trial if you type in http://smarturl.it/dailyverse into your computer’s web browser and click on the “Subscribe now with 1-click” button on the right-hand side of the page.
Here are six discounted and free Kindle book offers for your consideration from highly-rated independent authors who have discounted the pricing for a limited time just for members of the blog. 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 change at any time!
The Girl from Long Guyland, by Lara Reznik, is normally $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 188 customer reviews.
Category: Psychological Suspense
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
MEMOIR MEETS THRILLER:
Laila Levin enjoys a successful marriage and a thriving career as an I.T. executive in Austin, Texas, but she can’t quite shake her lifelong sense of not truly belonging anywhere.
When her company announces a major layoff, Laila finds herself caught between an unscrupulous CEO and her promiscuous boss. Then news of her college roommate’s suicide stirs up a dark secret involving three devious friends from her past. One has betrayed a vow, another wants to rekindle their romance, and the third is out for revenge.
Suddenly for Laila, it’s 1969 again. She’s only seventeen, and she’s left her sheltered home in Long Island for college in Connecticut. Amid protests of the Vietnam War, she’s tempted by the sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll that rule her generation. Laila gets swept up in a deceptive love triangle with two older locals and initiated into their unethical hippie family. Too late she realizes her search to belong has led to tragedy.
Laila must now juggle the demands of her perplexed husband and her baby boomer past forcing her to make choices that endanger her survival and challenge her conscience.
She learns that the lines between right and wrong are often blurred, and sometimes you have to risk everything to be true to yourself.
Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/2h92qu into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Girl from Long Guyland.
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Mason’s Daughter, by Cynthia J. Stone, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 108 customer reviews.
Category: Women’s Fiction / Family Saga
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
Sally Mason’s teenage son Colton is headed for a major meltdown, and she’s desperate to avert another disaster by proving her husband’s recent death was an accident, not the suicide determined by the coroner. Everyone in town, even Colton, seems to know something particular about Jack’s last days, but no one in Mason’s Crossing can help her put all the pieces together.
On the morning she discovers secret notes in Jack’s appointment book, she finds something else to convince her she’s right. But the more she digs for the truth, the more destructive Colton’s behavior becomes, until Sally is left with one choice: ask her father what really happened.
The problem: Sally hasn’t spoken to him in fifteen years.
Includes a Reading Group Discussion Guide
Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/grmqqs into your web browser to pick up your copy of Mason’s Daughter .
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For You, by Mimi Strong, is regularly priced at $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 116 customer reviews.
Category: Romance
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
Lydia Kalila, the Princess Royal of Mishnah, is forced into marriage with the son of her country’s mortal enemy for the sole purpose of producing an heir. Duty comes before personal choice for a princess especially when her country has been at war for more than a thousand years. Lydia’s pregnancy removes her brother and new husband from their respective lines of succession placing her yet unborn infant at the head of the both queues. No one is happy about this, especially Lydia who dies during childbirth from wounds caused by the talon-like toenails of her very strange newborn son.
Grief stricken at the loss of his daughter, the Mishnese King hastily sends Senya, his infant grandson off to a decrepit inner city orphanage with the intent to retrieve him much later when things got sorted out. At the orphanage, Senya is protected by the invalid Sister Meri who instantly falls in love with the little fellow. She’s not bothered at all by his strange telekinetic and telepathic powers, flickering pupil-less silver eyes or wicked clawed toenails. The House Father takes a shine to the lad too and when Senya is six years old, he is summoned to the Father’s chamber. The Father ends up in flames forcing Meri and Senya out into a snow storm running for their lives.
Thus begins the tale of Senya, a prince created to be king of a planet but then tossed aside until his twelfth birthday when Lt. Taner, a Royal Guard detective is sent to retrieve him. It is unclear to all whether Senya is the product of something good or something evil but in either case, it is very apparent that he is something more than just Lydia Kalila’s son.
*** Note to readers- This title contains graphic language, sexual situations and some violence. It is not intended for children or young teens.
Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/ck8th4 into your web browser to pick up your copy of For You.
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New Orleans Mourning, by Julie Smith, is just $1.99 in the Amazon Kindle store and has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 67 customer reviews.
Category: Mystery
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
It’s Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and civic leader and socialite Chauncy St. Amant has been crowned Rex, King of Carnival. But his day of glory comes to an abrupt and bloody end when a parade-goer dressed as Dolly Parton guns him down. Is the killer his aimless, promiscuous daughter Marcelle? Homosexual, mistreated son Henry? Helpless, alcoholic wife Bitty? Or some unknown player? Turns out the king had enemies.
Enter resourceful heroine Skip Langdon, a rookie police officer and former debutante turned cynic of the Uptown crowd. Scouring the streets for clues, interviewing revelers and street people with names like Jo Jo, Hinky, and Cookie, and using her white glove contacts, the post-deb rebel cop encounters a tangled web of brooding clues and ancient secrets that could mean danger for her–and doom for the St. Amants.
Langdon, with her weight worries, insecurities, and yet overall toughness has long been a favorite of those who like their female sleuths bold, smart, and refreshingly human.
Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/2jond4 into your web browser to pick up your copy of New Orleans Mourning.
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Shadow of Time, by Jen Minkman, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 57 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through July 2nd.
Category: Young Adult / Paranormal Romance
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
Where is the best place for a psychopath to hide? Within the penal system, where he serves justice one death sentence at a time.
This Book is part one in a three part trilogy.
All Hannah needs is a nice and quiet vacation after her first year of teaching French at a high school. She joins her brother Ben for the summer in their mom’s log cabin in Arizona. There, she meets Josh again, Ben’s childhood friend from the Navajo reservation. The little boy from the rez has grown up fast, and Hannah can’t help but feeling more for him than just friendship.
But fate apparently has something else in store for her. And it’s not peace and quiet. Night after night, Hannah is plagued by strange nightmares about the past of Navajo Nation and terrifying shadows chasing her. They seem to come closer – and why is Josh always present in her dreams?
Sometimes, the past has a way of catching up with you.
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Ring of Fire, by Bill Cokes, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 18 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through July 1st.
Category: Suspense / Humor
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
Seeking refuge from a corporate scandal, Wally Gibbs trades his corner office in Chicago for a tweed jacket with elbow patches in a quaint college town. He soon realizes he wasn’t meant to teach marketing; he was meant to reinvent it. And the timing is right. To Wally’s perverse delight, the economy has brought consumers everywhere to their knees. In Wally’s own words, “people are so desperate to lop thirty cents off a cantaloupe, they’d give a urine sample at the checkout.” During a routine colonoscopy, he envisions a new hyper-efficient marketing vehicle, which he labels “Project Argus.”
As Wally ensnares his unsuspecting students in the beta test, Project Argus catches the attention of eight-fingered frustrated campus policeman Nick Pappas. Sensing a connection to an unsolved student death, Nick becomes obsessed with exposing the scheme, even “deputizing” student cartoonist Zak Dawson to do the digging he can’t. The pair follows Wally to a tiny Greek island, where he acquires a rare exotic gem that he smuggles back home and turns over to a local jeweler. Within a few days, the hottest-selling graduation ring in the school’s history is quietly collecting data–and claiming lives.
Ring of Fire is a quirky suspense full of wry social satire, combining offbeat characters, a contemporary twisted plot and a setting that’s equal parts academia and Aegean Sea. Those who appreciate the offbeat characters and unconventional plots of Carl Hiaasen, Marshall Karp and Bill Fitzhugh should thoroughly enjoy Ring of Fire.
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Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is Encrypted, by Lindsay Buroker, is regularly $3.95 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store; this book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 93 customer reviews.
Category: Fantasy
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
Professor Tikaya Komitopis isn’t a great beauty, a fearless warrior, or even someone who can walk and chew chicle at the same time, but her cryptography skills earn her wartime notoriety. When enemy marines show up at her family’s plantation, she expects the worst.
But they’re not there to kill her. They need her to decode mysterious runes, and they ask for help in the manner typical of a conquering empire: they kidnap her, threaten her family, and throw her in the brig of their fastest steamship.
Her only ally is a fellow prisoner who charms her with a passion for academics as great as her own. Together, they must decipher mind-altering alchemical artifacts, deadly poison rockets, and malevolent technological constructs, all while dodging assassination attempts from a rival power determined the expedition should fail. As if the situation weren’t treacherous enough, this new “ally” may turn out to be the last person Tikaya should trust. Those runes cloak more than mysteries, however, and he’s the only one who can help her unravel them before their secrets destroy the world.
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I’ve been writing fantasy novels and short stories since I was seven. I’ve been finishing them since… well, that’s a more recent development.
I’m a professional blogger for my day job, and I live in the Seattle area with two vizslas who are as spoiled as most people’s kids. Occasionally they let me leave the house to play tennis, visit the coffee shop, take a yoga class, or plot with co-conspirators on how best to take over the world. (One of those items may be untrue, but I won’t tell you which.)
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The Advocate’s Betrayal, by Teresa Burrell, is normally $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 117 customer reviews.
Category: Mystery / Suspense
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
The Killer left nothing behind but a rosary, a kitchen knife, and a dead man. but the dead man is a friend of Sabre Orin Brown. When his unsuspecting wife is accused of the murder, Sabre will stop at nothing to uncover the truth, even if it means unearthing chilling secrets.
From a San Diego jail to the shady Chicago nightlife, Sabre’s search for the true killer forces her to face the question: What do you do when the ones you trust the most are the ones with the most to hide?
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Turning Up the Heat, by Laura FLorand, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 16 customer reviews.
Category: Contemporary Romance
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
After eleven years of marriage, Léa Laurier knew her husband. Knew how he could take on responsibility for a world-famous restaurant, a wife, and her two teenage siblings at nineteen years old and never falter, never tire. Knew his drive and his ambition, that took him to the stars. Knew how brilliant his gray eyes looked when they met hers for just one moment across a host of cameras. She didn’t know why she was so tired. She didn’t know why she needed to just get away. For a while. Maybe a week or two. A month. She’d be back.
After eleven years of marriage, international superstar chef Daniel Laurier knew his wife. Knew how she could lavish caring on everyone, her siblings, his staff, and most especially him. Knew the way her face lit up when he won yet another television contest, and the way she hugged him for it.
Knew how her hair smelled when he sank into bed exhausted at one in the morning. He didn’t know what to do when he came home from a consulting trip to find she’d disappeared to remote South Pacific island: I just needed to get away for a little while. A week or two. I’ll call you.
As the whole solid world under his feet turned into a sandcastle in the tide, Daniel knew only one thing: whatever was wrong with his marriage or his wife, he wasn’t losing her. So as a top chef, he did the one thing he always knew how to do: turn up the heat. (A novella of 30,000 words or approx. 120 pages.)
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Startling Connections, by Peter M. Leschner, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted 80% to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 13 customer reviews.
Category: Thriller
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
Has a single defining moment ever led to a chain of events that dramatically changed your life forever?
Larry lived an uneventful life as a commodity trader in New York City until a sudden tragic incident during a routine dinner with a friend connected him to Sofia, the beautiful and intriguing woman of his dreams.
Their ensuing relationship unravels a sequence of life-changing events. Sofia is mysteriously abducted by a global terrorist organization about to launch an attack of unprecedented dimensions. Though ill prepared for such a journey, Larry’s love for Sofia and his fear of losing her force him to embark on a dangerous quest filled with thrilling non-stop action as he travels to the ends of the earth to try to find Sofia, get her back and thwart the terrorist organization’s diabolical plans.
Startling Connections is more than just a page-turning thriller filled with twists and turns. It reminds us that terrorism is a tragic plague that must be confronted and defeated not only by force, but also through victories over the minds of its perpetrators.
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Crazy Love, by Nicola Marsh, is just $3.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars based on 19 customer reviews.
Category: Contemporary Romance
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
CRAZY LOVE is a 2012 ARRA finalist!
All’s fair in love…and matchmaking!
Sierra Kent doesn’t do love.
While she embraces the quaintness of her home town Love and delights in matchmaking
her clients through her Internet dating agency Love Byte, she doesn’t trust her
intuition when it comes to the one emotion that has repeatedly let her down.
City-slick Marc Fairley, CEO of LA’s premier acquisition company,
doesn’t have time for Love.
From the minute he enters the kitschy town he can’t wait to hotfoot back
to LA with his deranged mother in tow. Instead, he gets roped into the town’s
Love Fest hoopla, investigates the shady farmer his mom is engaged to, berates
his butler for a mad crush on a brash Aussie waitress, and finds himself
falling for the brazen red-head who continually baits him.
His life couldn’t get any crazier. Until he discovers in exacting
revenge on his father and achieving his lifelong goals, he may lose the one
thing he values most…
Can Sierra and Marc create enough sparks to send Love up in flames?
And prove that winning isn’t everything in the love stakes, it’s how you
play the game.
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Wired, by Douglas E. Richard, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars based on 993 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through July 1st.
Category: Science Fiction / Thriller
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
Kira Miller is a brilliant genetic engineer who discovers how to temporarily achieve savant-like capabilities in all areas of thought and creativity. But what if this transcendent level of intelligence brings with it a ruthless megalomania?
David Desh left the special forces after his team was brutally butchered in Iran. Now he has been reactivated for one last mission: find Kira Miller, the enigmatic genius behind a bioterror plot that threatens millions. But when Desh learns that the bioterror plot is just the tip of the iceberg, he is thrust into a byzantine maze of deception and intrigue, and he becomes a key player in a deadly game he can’t begin to understand. A game that is certain to have a dramatic impact on the future course of human history. . .
WIRED is a smart thriller crammed with breakneck action, unexpected twists, mind-expanding science, and intriguing concepts readers will be contemplating long after they’ve read the last page.
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Come the Night, by Christina Skye, is normally $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 14 customer reviews.
Category: Mystery
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
Deadly secrets unfold on the lonely English heath where a highwayman pursues his dangerous vow of revenge.
Silver St. Clair has vowed to reclaim her family birthright at any cost, but the precious formula for a rare fragrance coveted by all of fashionable London is lost, hidden somewhere in the misty lavender fields of her Norfolk estate. Now Silver must risk her reputation and her life, striking a wanton bargain with England’s most notorious highwayman, whose price will be her unconditional surrender, her unbridled passion – and her stubborn heart.
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Notorious Angel, is a re-release by international best-selling author Jennifer Blake, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store.
Category: Historical Romance
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
All is fair in love…
Eleanora returns home to New Orleans as heroine of an ill-fated military invasion of Central America, angel of mercy to the wounded Americans in Nicaragua, and widow of a Spanish grandee. She is wealthy, a privileged condesa. But in the war-torn land she left behind, she was the mistress of an officer who thought her a camp follower, one who must never guess the secret she holds in her heart.
Colonel Grant Farrell learned respect for tempestuous, red-haired Eleanora the hard way, by losing her to a man who valued her more. Though the lady has reason to despise him, he will follow her into the jaws of hell to taste her kiss one last time….
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Savage Deception, is a “new” re-release by best-selling author Lynette Vinet, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store.
Category: Historical Romance
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
Diana Montaigne is promised to another man, but the moment she sets eyes on Briarhaven’s overseer, the highborn beauty is aflame with uncontrollable desire.Tanner’s muscled arms make her want to be held, his lips make her hungry for his kiss. But then she learns he’s her fiance’s unacknowledged half-brother. Ashamed, she swears she’ll hate him forever for making her disloyal to the man she’s supposed to love and plans to marry.
When the half-breed Tanner caressed Diana in a moon-dappled grove, his joy knew no bounds. Here was a woman who didn’t care about his ignoble birth, who would respond to his demanding kisses. But when Diana suddenly shuns him and marries his brother, Tanner is consumed with rage. Storming off the plantation, he vows to return to conquer the two-timing vixen. Then in a lifetime of passionate nights and wanton days he’s determined to reap the rich rewards of her savage deception.
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No More Wasted Time, by Beverly Preston, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted 25% to just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 251 customer reviews.
Category: Contemporary Romance
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
After losing her husband to a sudden heart attack, Tess Mathews escapes to Bora Bora to lay her husband and sorrow to rest. What she doesn’t expect is a new beginning.
Tom Clemmins is an A-list actor whose life revolves around work and an onslaught of women. He travels to Bora Bora for a much-needed break. Tom has a few ideas of how he’ll enjoy his vacation, but love isn’t one of them. Until he sees Tess.
Reserving a private shark-feeding excursion to scatter her husband’s ashes into the lagoon, Tess is furious when Mr. Hollywood bribes his way onto the boat, leaving her no other choice but to share the boat ride.
Tess is torn between tremendous guilt and zealous lust when their boat ride turns into a week full of romance and desire neither thought imaginable. Utterly smitten with a woman for the first time in his life, Tom casts his commitment phobia aside and whisks Tess off to Malibu where he introduces her as his “girlfriend” on the red carpet.
As the paparazzi besiege, can Tess survive the media blitz that ensues in order to find her second chance at love?
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Daughter of Time: A Time Travel Romance, by Sarah Woodbury, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 278 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free in definitely.
Category: Historical Romance / Fantasy
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
Daughter of Time is appropriate for readers from young teens to adults and is a prequel to the After Cilmeri series:
A medieval man with an uncertain destiny, Llywelyn, the Prince of Wales, faces treachery and deceit at the hands of friends and foes alike …
A modern woman with a troubled past, Meg’s life is in tatters when she slips through time and into medieval Wales …
Only by working together can Meg and Llywelyn navigate the shifting allegiances that threaten the very existence of Wales–and create their own history that defies the laws of time.
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