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Don't Forget to Enter to Win a New Kindle Fire!

July 31, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

If you are reading this post on the blog’s website or on the blog’s Facebook page, please give this post a “Like” or a “share!”

Here’s a quick reminder – if you haven’t entered already, or if you haven’t referred a friend, you have less than one week to put your name into the hat for a chance to win a new Kindle Fire!

How do you enter? It’s pretty easy (and fast): just click here or go to http://smarturl.it/firemeup and input your email address. That’s about all you need to do, and should take you less than 30 seconds…

While you’re there, why not check out some of the Kindle Tips I’ve posted over the years? Just go to the home page www.fkbooksandtips.com and look at the left-hand menu under the word “Categories;” from there, just click on the “Kindle Tip” option and start surfing away. If you click the link, you will see the last five tips I’ve posted; click on the name of the post to have it expand, and once you get to the bottom of the screen just click the “Previous” icon located at the middle-left side of the screen at the bottom.

Don’t forget to enter, and good luck!

Michael

More Discounted & Free Kindle Book Offers

July 31, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here are an additional four discounted and free Kindle book offers 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!

A Shade of Vampire, by Bella Forrest, 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 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 648 customer reviews.

Category: Young Adult / Romance / Fantasy

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

On the evening of Sofia Claremont’s seventeenth birthday, she is sucked into a nightmare from which she cannot wake.
A quiet evening walk along a beach brings her face to face with a dangerous pale creature that craves much more than her blood.

She is kidnapped to an island where the sun is eternally forbidden to shine.
An island uncharted by any map and ruled by the most powerful vampire coven on the planet. She wakes here as a slave, a captive in chains.

Sofia’s life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn when she is the one selected out of hundreds of girls to join the harem of Derek Novak, the dark royal Prince.

Despite his addiction to power and obsessive thirst for her blood, Sofia soon realizes that the safest place on the island is within his quarters, and she must do all within her power to win him over if she is to survive even one more night.

Will she succeed? …or is she destined to the same fate that all other girls have met at the hands of the Novaks?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/94avra into your web browser to pick up your copy of A Shade of Vampire .

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The Advocate, by Teresa Burrell, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 181 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery & Thrillers

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

For Sabre Orin Brown, life is good; she has it all…or would have, if only she could solve the mysterious disappearance of her brother. The search for her brother and her career as a Juvenile Court Attorney collide when she defends a nine-year-old whose father will go to any length to obtain custody.

Sabre finds herself immersed in a case with too many unanswered questions. Her quest for the truth takes her coast to coast and five years into the past. Confronted with mysterious clues and strange occurrences, Sabre is threatened by someone wanting to make her suffer the unbearable anguish of losing everything–including her life.

As Sabre’s passion to find the answers intensifies, she discovers a twisted history of desperation, deceit, and revenge. And she discovers how obscure and treacherous the truth can be.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/6l146x into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Advocate.

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Challenging Andie, by Sally Clements, 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 14 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through August 2nd.

Category: Contemporary Romance

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

Jaded war correspondent Ryan Armstrong reports terrible events without letting them pierce the armor covering his heart. When his colleague Emily Harte is murdered, he feels responsible for her death, and travels to England to return Emily’s effects to her daughter.
Bereaved, primary school teacher, Andie Harte has set herself a list of challenges to prove she can be as brave as her recently murdered mother, but when she’s hounded by the press the need to escape means she must accept help from Ryan. During their time in seclusion, attraction blossoms into an affair. Their relationship was only supposed to be a fling. When the time comes for Ryan to return to Bekostan, can she risk loving a thrillseeker, or is that a challenge too far?

Ryan avoids love, knowing the pain losing it can bring. A life without Andie is sensible, but is it possible?

Heat rating: spicy

Click here to pick up your copy of Challenging Andie.

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Confessions of a Transformed Heart, by Nancy D. Sheppard, 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 36 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through August 4th.

Category: Religion & Spirituality

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

When Mark and Nancy Sheppard began missionary service in Liberia, Nancy had no idea what God would ask of her. Their idyllic first term was followed by the Liberian Civil War and a nightmarish year working among Liberian refugees in the Ivory Coast. Conditions were difficult, expectations overwhelming and the tensions of the war at their doorstep. Fear, self-pity, resentment and depression haunted her. God used Nancy’s difficult decision to follow her husband’s leadership and remain in refugee work to begin an amazing spiritual journey—one that led to a clearer understanding of biblical womanhood as well as a deeper relationship with the Lord and with her husband.

The book chronicles Nancy’s journey to true peace in the midst of very difficult circumstances. As God teaches her about genuine service, submission, sincere prayer, reverence and humility, she is totally and completely transformed. The scenarios are unique to Nancy, but every seeking Christian can fully identify with the spiritual lessons.

A unique reading experience, this interactive eBook contains many full color pictures as well as links to pertinent YouTube videos. This Kindle edition of “Confessions of a Transformed Heart” will not disappoint!

Click here to pick up your copy of Confessions of a Transformed Heart.
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6 Discounted & Free Kindle Book Offers

July 31, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 2 Comments

Here are six discounted and free Kindle book offers to start off your morning 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!

Legally Undercover, by Rachel Kall, 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 12 customer reviews.

Category: Romantic Suspense

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

Attorney Alex Popov’s dream of partnership is put to the test when she’s pulled into a top-secret investigation involving arms dealers and one of her clients, Rodrigues Capital. The only good part about her association with the secretive organization is her client contact, Pedro Martín. She’s drawn to him, but he’s hiding something.

When Jacob shows up as a new attorney at Alex’s firm, it’s clear Pedro isn’t the only one with secrets. As Alex tries to determine Jacob’s true identity, she’s drawn closer to Pedro and deeper into the mystery of Rodrigues Capital and its shadowy networks.

Everyone has an agenda. In a world of lies, where no one is what they seem, Alex puts everything — even her dreams of partnership — on the line for love.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/9qu7bu into your web browser to pick up your copy of Legally Undercover .

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Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation: 31 Bible Verse on Love, by Gloria Coleman, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 9 customer reviews.

Category: Religion

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

Bitesize Inspirations of God’s Love For You!
This essential Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation tool will help you experience God’s Unconditional Love for you starting with 31 Key portions of Scripture featured in full text in 4 popular translations (The King James Version, The Message, The Amplified Bible and The New American Standard Bible).
It includes an introduction, a note of encouragement,what is scripture meditation and the benefits of scripture meditation.
From Day 1 to Day 31 you have your Daily Scripture Reading On Love in 4 translations, Thought for Today and Prayer for each day! There is one set of Biblical Meditation Tips that have been included on each day’s page for ease of reference.
This eBook has been written to provide the motivation,framework and confidence you need to begin practicing the reality of God’s love for you using the Word of God!

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/qvocob into your web browser to pick up your copy of Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation: 31 Bible Verse on Love .

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The Girl from Long Guyland, by Lara Reznik, 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 out of 5 stars based on 229 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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Talion, by Mary Maddox, is just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 46 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

Meet Rad Sanders, the most terrifying serial killer you will ever encounter, in a thriller unlike any you have ever read…

Lu Jakes lives with her alcoholic father and abusive stepmother, Norlene, at Hidden Creek Lodge in the Utah mountains. When the beautiful Lisa is sent by her protective parents to stay at the lodge for the summer, Lu makes her first real friend – dangerously unaware that Lisa’s is not the only new face at the resort.

For Lisa has been followed by Rad Sanders, a sadistic killer who has plans for the girls – sick plans that will drag them and their families to the very brink of hell. Rad stalks Lu and Lisa, waiting for his moment, certain that his deadly plan cannot fail.

But unknown to Rad, Lu has a secret. She can see things that nobody else can see: the spirit Talion and his companions. But are these spirits real or a trick of the mind? And will Lu’s special gift help her and Lisa as the killer closes in…

TALION is a gripping, intense tale of friendship, family and dark desires, that blends Thomas Harris with Stephen King. It is a book that will make you want to sleep with all the lights on – if you can sleep at all.

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

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Undaunted Love, by Jennings Wright, 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 10 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through August 2nd.

Category: Historical Romance / Religious Fiction

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

Hugh Byrd, the cold, ambitious patriarch of Byrd’s Creek, is used to getting what he wants. And what he wants is the Colton’s prime land and the destruction of the Colton family. What he doesn’t count on is his own daughter falling in love with Rafe Colton.

Ripped apart by the Civil War, the young couple must find a way to keep their secret love alive. The end of the War should mean a joyous reconciliation, but when Rafe is accused of a terrible crime, he runs away, leaving Livvie behind once again. Will this finally break their bond, or will their love survive?

A sweeping romance set in the South, Undaunted Love is a tale of faith, hope, patience and the redemption of God’s love.

Click here to pick up your copy of Undaunted Love.

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The Bank on the River, by Michael Richan, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 9 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through August 1st.

Category: Horror

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

Steven is anticipating a quiet sabbatical at a new home. Instead, knockings and grisly apparitions begin to haunt him, relentlessly tormenting him at night. With a recent divorce and a son in college, he is left alone to deal with the ghosts lurking in the shadows of his house.

Steven is determined to find a rational explanation. His father Roy offers to help, and soon Steven discovers Roy has dormant supernatural skills. Steven’s natural skepticism clashes with Roy’s “gift,” but soon Steven finds himself assisting Roy as he battles the forces inside his home. Together they unearth something much more sinister and evil than either expected.

The Bank of the River is a fast-paced and thrilling horror novel that explores supernatural gifts, a father’s rediscovery of those gifts, and a son’s destiny to accept them.

Click here to pick up your copy of The Bank on the River.
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CIA Fall Guy – Today's Featured Kindle Book

July 31, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is CIA Fall Guy: A Spy Thriller, by Phyllis Zimbler Miller, and this book is just $3.07 in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 38 customer reviews

Category: Thriller

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

When Beth Parsons is summoned to CIA headquarters for the bogus purpose of identifying someone from her past, she realizes she must find out what is really going on. Forced to partner with the man who may have been responsible for her husband’s death, she has to unmask the real traitors or end up as the fall guy.After the CIA driver who brought her to D.C. is shot and killed, Beth escapes her CIA “babysitter” and sets off to discover why she is suddenly once again in the world of spies and double agents.

Her quest takes her to Europe and then back to the U.S., and pairs her with a mysterious man who may or may not be on her side.

If you like espionage stories and tales of intrigue — especially ones with a dash of romantic suspense, CIA FALL GUY is for you!

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/k8641l into your web browser to pick up your copy of CIA Fall Guy: A Spy Thriller.

About the Author:

Phyllis Zimbler Miller was raised in Elgin, Illinois, and majored in journalism at Michigan State University, where she met her future husband, Army ROTC cadet Mitchell R. Miller, on the State News editorial staff.

In May of 1970 Mitch went on active duty at Ft. Knox, Kentucky, and Phyllis tagged along with him. Her women’s friendship novel MRS. LIEUTENANT is inspired by the nine weeks they spent at Ft. Knox. From September 1970 to May 1972 Phyllis and Mitch were stationed in Munich, Germany, where Mitch served with the 18th Military Intelligence Battalion.

Phyllis eventually got a security clearance and worked as a civilian with the 66th MI Group. Her romantic suspense spy thriller CIA FALL GUY is partially based on knowledge she learned on this job (reports she typed went to the Munich office of the CIA).

After Mitch’s military service, while living in Philadelphia, Phyllis was an editor and reporter for the Jewish Exponent before earning an M.B.A. at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Her Wharton experience is the starting point for her Los Angeles-based cozy mystery CAST THE FIRST STONE.

Phyllis and Mitch moved to Los Angeles in 1980, and Phyllis held positions at TigerAir and Max Factor. She then worked as a marketing consultant while their two daughters were young, and she was the founding president of the Los Angeles Chapter of Sisters in Crime.

In 1992 Perigee, an imprint of Putnam, published the Jewish holiday book SEASONS FOR CELEBRATION that Phyllis wrote with Rabbi Karen L. Fox. Years later, after helping her daughters get into college, she worked with other students applying to college and graduate school. This work forms the basis of her three-book HOW TO SUCCEED series for teens and young adults.

In 2008 Phyllis co-founded an online marketing company at the same time she self-published her novel MRS. LIEUTENANT, which was selected as a 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award semifinalist. Phyllis dove into the world of blogging, social media, and online book marketing. These activities form the basis of her TOP TIPS online marketing books.

Phyllis and Mitch have maintained an interest in military intelligence, and Mitch is a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers and the U.S. Naval Institute. Together they wrote the thriller LT. COMMANDER MOLLIE SANDERS. They now live in Beverly Hills, where Phyllis is busy working with online marketing clients as well as writing more books and blogging about author topics at www.PhyllisZimblerMiller.com

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

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10 Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

July 30, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here are ten discounted and free Kindle book offers to start off your morning 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!

Dangerous Desires, is a five book box collection by C.J. Lyons, Debra Webb, Vicki Hinze, V.R. Marks, Peggy Webb, Regan Black, and Kathy Carmichael, and has been discounted to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store through July 31st.

Category: Mystery & Thrillers

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

Seven bestselling authors…five full length edge-of-your-seat novels…two killer novellas…one thrilling ride!

Don’t miss the summer’s best collection of romantic suspense, mysteries and thrillers from masters of the genres!

Chasing Shadows by CJ Lyons
Dirty by Debra Webb
Mind Reader by Vicki Hinze
The Informant by Vr Marks
Witch Dance by Peggy Webb

With BONUS novellas!

In the Interest of Security by Regan Black
My Favorite Corpse by Kathy Carmichael

Chasing Shadows by CJ Lyons
Going undercover, playing the part of a disgraced former Marine, is easy for Chase Westin–until a Christmas Eve mission takes him back to his hometown and face to face with his estranged brother. When KC, an undercover FBI agent, flies into Chase’s life with her Doc Martens, purple, punk-rock hair, and Hollywood-hype leather and chains, Chase realizes that falling in love is more dangerous than catching bullets.

Dirty by Debra Webb
Jackie Mercer can’t abide deception. A woman who single-handedly built the Mercer Detective Agency from the ground up has a right to expect honesty in a relationship. Tell that to the creep who, only this morning, she thought might be Mr. Right. Wrong! Her day only gets worse when an ominous message arrives accompanied by the photo of a man she hasn’t seen in ten years: You were the last one to see him alive. She’s in real trouble when a second message, this one including a dead body, drops into the mix. Jackie does what any smart Texas woman would do: she kicks butt and takes names, while the mystery spiraling around her long lost lover and her attraction to Derrick Dawson plunge her into a tangled web of shocking secrets and deadly deceptions.

Mind Reader by Vicki Hinze
Caron Chalmers is an empath. A mind reader cursed with imaging only victims. She sees what they see, feels what they feel, endures what they endure. But even with all the sensory perception and insights, sometimes she fails to save victims in time. Sometimes she interprets the signs wrong–and a year ago, she did exactly that. She messed up and a victim died. Caron nearly died with her. Her “gift” shut down. Now it’s back. There’s another victim–this time a child–and because of the shut-down, her police contact, though aware of her many successes, isn’t willing to stake his career on her. Yet he can’t dismiss her and calls in help from a private investigator, Parker Simms: a man with a past as bleak as Caron’s and a specific agenda of his own: proving Caron Chalmers is the fraud he believes her to be. In a hostile alliance, Caron and Parker seek the truth . . . and discover a labyrinth of lies and deceptions…

Witch Dance by Peggy Webb
Kate came to Witch Dance to practice medicine. She expected to fall in love with the tribal lands of Oklahoma and its people. She never expected resistance and hostility to her clinic. And she certainly never expected death threats. But something evil is stalking Kate and the Chickasaw children. Only one man can stop the deadly enemy – Eagle Mingo, son of the Chickasaw governor, destined by blood to follow in his father’s footsteps and by fate to fall in love with a forbidden woman. Eagle will do anything to save Kate except shun the traditions that hold him fast to duty. But can he stop the evil spreading through his land and find a killer who calls himself the Avenger? Can he find a way to have the woman of his heart without breaking the heart of a Chickasaw nation?

The Informant by Vr Marks
A dead body is no way to start the day… a fake marriage makes it a special brand of hell.

When her witness is murdered, DEA Agent Hannah Thalberg knows she’s the next target. The only way she can stay close to the case is to lie about getting married and hope her one-time lover goes along with the deception.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/ptit80 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Dangerous Desires.

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Arctic Wargame, by Ethan Jones, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 62 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

ARCTIC WARGAME is the first book in the wildly popular Justin Hall spy thriller series, hitting the Amazon’s Top 10 Best Sellers lists in 2012 and 2013.

Canadian Intelligence Service Agent Justin Hall–combat-hardened in operations throughout Northern Africa–has been demoted after a botched mission in Libya.

When two foreign icebreakers appear in Canadian Arctic waters, Justin volunteers for the reconnaissance mission, eager to return to the field. His team discovers a foreign weapons cache deep in the Arctic, but they are not aware that a spy has infiltrated the Department of National Defense.

The team begins to unravel a treasonous plan against Canada, but they fall under attack from one of their own. Disarmed and stripped of their survival gear, they are stranded in a remote location. Now the team must race against time not only to save themselves, but their country.

ARCTIC WARGAME is an action-packed spy thriller in the bestselling tradition of Portrait of a Spy, Rules of Betrayal and The Bourne Identity. Readers will enjoy a great tale of courage, fear and betrayal.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/gq8n9k into your web browser to pick up your copy of Arctic Wargame .

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In the Blood, by Steve Robinson, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store and has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 860 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

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

Family history was never supposed to be like this…

When American genealogist, Jefferson Tayte, accepted his latest assignment he had no idea it might kill him. But while murder was never part of the curriculum he is kidding himself if he thinks he can walk away from this one.

Why can’t I trace them? What happened to them?

Driven by the irony of being a genealogist who doesn’t know who his own parents are, Tayte soon finds that the assignment shares a stark similarity to his own struggle. Someone has gone to great lengths to erase an entire family bloodline from recorded history and he’s not going home until he’s found out why. After all, if he’s not good enough to find this family, how can he ever expect to be good enough to someday find his own?

Set in Cornwall, England, past and present, Tayte’s research centres around the tragic life of a young Cornish girl, a writing box, and the discovery of a dark family secret that he believes will lead him to the family he is looking for. Trouble is, someone else is looking for the same answers and they will stop at nothing to find them.

The Jefferson Tayte Genealogical Crime Mysteries. What secrets are in your family history?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/intheblood into your web browser to pick up your copy of In the Blood.

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Space Viking Legacy: The Loki Gambit, by Dietmar Wehr, is just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 11 customer reviews.

Category: Science Fiction / Space Opera

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

High tech raiders, from the feudalistic Sword Worlds cluster, have driven thousands of colonized planets, in what used to be called the Federation, into a state of low tech barbarism. All except a handful of planets, that have retained FTL technology and are able to fight back. With a surging Space Viking Empire now committed to total domination of the Old Federation, can Prince-Protector Simon of Marduk pull off a daring and risky plan to ambush the largest fleet of Space Viking battleships ever assembled? Little does he know that the Space Vikings have prepared some surprises of their own. The Loki Gambit and The Tanith Gambit are sequels to H. Beam Piper’s classic epic novel Space Viking. ALL three novels, including Piper’s Space Viking, are contained within this ebook for the convenience of first time readers. Learn why H. Beam Piper was considered to be in the same league as Asimov and Clarke before his untimely death in the ’60’s. Best known for his highly popular Little Fuzzy novels, Piper’s Space Viking is thought by many to be the finest example of serious space opera from that time and the Space Viking Legacy series was written as much as possible in the same style as Piper’s.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/v6ubhn into your web browser to pick up your copy of Space Viking Legacy: The Loki Gambit.
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Never Buried: Volume 1, by Edie Claire, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 427 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery & Thrillers

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

The truth about what happened in 1949 went to Paul Fischer’s grave… Too bad his body didn’t!

Advertising copywriter Leigh Koslow doesn’t pack heat–just a few extra pounds. And she doesn’t go looking for trouble. When she moved into her cousin Cara’s refurbished Victorian house, she wasn’t planning on discovering a corpse–certainly not one that had been embalmed ten years before. But as anyone in the small Pittsburgh borough of Avalon could tell her, her cousin’s house has a history attached. A history dating back to two mysterious deaths in the summer of 1949.

Someone wants Leigh and Cara out of the house–someone who has something to hide. But that someone doesn’t know Leigh’s impetuous cousin, and when Cara digs her heels in, Leigh looks to her old college chum, local policewoman Maura Polanski, for help. But the answers the trio find only point to more questions. Were the scandalous deaths of fifty years ago really an accident and a suicide? Or were they murder?

The nearer the women get to the truth, the more desperate someone becomes. Because some secrets are better off kept. Especially when they hit close to home!

Click here to pick up your copy of Never Buried: Volume 1.

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Cooper’s Revenge, by T.L. Williams, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars based on 13 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

Navy Seal, Logan Alexander, is trying to put his life back together following a career-ending injury in Afghanistan, when he learns that his younger brother, Cooper, has been killed in an ambush while on patrol with his Ranger unit in Iraq. As Alexander delves into the circumstances leading to Cooper’s death, he learns of the role that the secret arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Qods Force, plays in exporting terror. Alexander vows to avenge his brother’s death. With the financial backing of a Kuwaiti billionaire, and a group of like-minded Special Forces operatives, Alexander conceives a plan that takes his team to the Sonora Desert, Europe, and the Middle East, where he comes face-to-face with the man responsible for Cooper’s death.

Click here to pick up your copy of Cooper’s Revenge.

6 Discounted & Free Kindle Book Offers

July 30, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 2 Comments

Home Wrecker 1, by Brenda Perlin, 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 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 27 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Romance

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

When Brooklyn meets Bo, their lives are instantly turned upside down.
Brooklyn and Bo, each unhappily married to someone else, have to decide whether to stay with their spouses or give up everything for each other. Find out what Brooklyn’s husband and Bo’s soon-to-be ex-wife do to break them up.

Home Wrecker is the first book in a three part series that follows the main character, Brooklyn throughout her childhood, adult life and then what seems like an “endless” journey towards redemption.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/homewrecker into your web browser to pick up your copy of Home Wrecker 1.

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31 Simple Lunch Recipes, by Jenny Collins, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 13 customer reviews.

Category: Cooking / Advice & How-To

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

Would you like some simple yet delicious lunch recipes?

31 Simple Lunch Recipes is full of tasty recipes you and your family will love!

If you want to make sure that your family are eating a well balanced healthy diet then this book has some fantastic recipes that are easy to follow and prepare and don’t take hours to cook.

All the recipes are prepared with fresh ingredients that are available everywhere.

Below is a selection of some of the recipes:-

Cheesy Vegetable Quesadillas
Chicken Noodle Soup
Homemade Fish Fingers
Perfect Homemade Pizza Every Time
Fresh Vegetable Lasagne
Creamy Linguine with Ham and Mushrooms
Slow Cooked Chicken Stew
Cauliflower and Chickpea Curry
Simple Fish Kebabs
Sweet and Sour Chicken Stir Fry
Cold Store Cupboard Tuna Pasta Salad

Enjoy!

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Fourth and Forever, by Bert Carson, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store and has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 21 customer reviews.

Category: Literary Fiction

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

After a loss you give up or you start over.
Josh fell in love with Kathy on the first day of sixth grade in Valley Head, Alabama. Eleven years later they graduated from high school, Josh received his draft notice, and they were married. Eighteen years later, Josh was winding up his Army career. Bobby, their only child was about to graduate from high school, and Kathy died unexpectedly – no accident – no long sickness – she was just gone.

Josh and Bobby were devastated. Finally Josh realized they had to go on with their lives regardless of the pain. After many late night discussions, that usually ended with both of them crying, they decided to leave Fort Rucker, Alabama and find a school far away from anything that would remind them of their loss. A few weeks later they enrolled at the University of Montana in Missoula.

Bobby tried out for the football team and thanks to the skills he had acquired in long practice sessions with Josh, made it as a wide receiver. The Grizzlies coach, Brent Jenkins, had seen Josh working out with Bobby and asked if he would work with the team’s punter, explaining that their field goal kicker had just dropped out of school for personal reasons.

A 44 year-old college football quarterback! Are you kidding me?
The punter had no desire to kick extra points and field goals. Josh explained that to Brent and before he realized what was happening, Brent convinced him to be the kicker. A week later the coach talked Josh into becoming the backup quarterback, after assuring him that the Grizzlies starting quarterback, Jeff Samuelson, had never been injured.
Samuelson’s three-year injury-free streak ended in the third quarter of the Grizzlies first game. Seconds after the starter went down with a broken collarbone, Josh found himself, at age 44, the quarterback of a college football team.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/chbqk3 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Fourth and Forever.

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Restore Your Marriage & Fall in Love Again, by Krystal Kuehn, is just $5.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 4.2 stars based on 20 customer reviews.

Category: Non-Fiction

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

Do you have marriage problems and are in need of some marriage help? Well, you are not alone! Couples with marriage problems that seek marriage help are more likely to stay together, learn from the difficult times, and discover renewed love for one another. If you have decided that marriage problems will not keep you from believing that your marriage can be restored, this book is for you.

In Restore Your Marriage & Fall in Love Again you will discover how to build a strong and successful marriage. Each chapter contains relationship building tools and empowering ways to apply them. In this highly effective and engaging approach, you will be encouraged to make positive differences in the way you relate to one another. You will work through marriage problems and discover successful solutions. With tools, applications, insights and inspiring reflections, you will embark on a lifelong journey to better communication, unconditional love and understanding, and genuine demonstrations of affection and heartfelt gratitude.

Restore Your Marriage & Fall in Love Again can provide the marriage help you need to overcome marriage problems and to bring true hope, new life, and true love back into your marriage again!

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/9u6jdl into your web browser to pick up your copy of Restore Your Marriage & Fall in Love Again .
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Cat’s Paw, by L.A. Taylor, 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 96 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through July 31st..

Category: Fantasy

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

Miranda Glivven’s husband left home months ago on a secret assignment for the Governor and has not returned. Even his letters have stopped. With no news and no idea what has happened to him, Miranda goes on a search for her missing husband, accompanied only by a stray cat. On reaching her husband’s last known location, she finds the local authorities uninterested in helping to find him. Worse, some of the local citizens suspect Miranda of using magic, a treasonous offense, because of the unusual cat that has followed her on her quest. Although Miranda has always believed that magic is superstitious nonsense, she finds the circumstances of her beloved husband’s disappearance growing more and more mysterious….

Click here to pick up your copy of Cat’s Paw.

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Arizona Guy, by Raymond Spitzer, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 20 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through July 31st.

Category: Mystery

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

Ted White, a high school band director from California, comes to Ajo, Arizona to house-sit for his aunt and uncle, hoping to get some space from a failed relationship.

But something isn’t right. Ted’s relatives, not scheduled to leave until he arrived, are gone. They left no note, no key, they don’t answer their phones. And no one in this small town seems to know where they are.

As Ted works with the local police to unravel the puzzling mystery, an unknown enemy sabotages his every move. Someone wants Ted to leave town. But why?

Click here to pick up your copy of Arizona Guy.

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Speed Dating with the Dead – Today's Featured Kindle Book

July 30, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is Speed Dating with the Dead, by Scott Nicholson, and this book is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 94 customer reviews

Category: Supernatural Thriller

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

For fans of Stephen King, Joe Hill, and James Herbert. A paranormal conference at the most haunted hotel in the Blue Ridge Mountains goes haywire when ghost hunters accidentally stir up demons.

SPEED DATING WITH THE DEAD

When Digger Wilson brings his paranormal team Spirit Seekers International to the White Horse Inn, he is skeptical that his dead wife will keep her half of the bargain. He doesn’t believe in ghosts, and just before she died, she promised to meet him there.

But when one of the conference guests channels a mysterious presence and an Ouija board spells out a pet phrase known only to Digger and his wife, his convictions are challenged.

And when guests start to disappear, Digger and his daughter Kendra must face the circle of demons that view the hotel as their personal playground. Because soon the inn will be closing for good, angels can’t be trusted, and demons don’t like to play alone . . .

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/xv6fj3 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Speed Dating with the Dead.

About the Author:

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I believe the writer only creates half the story, and that you complete it by bringing your imagination, experience, and heart to the tale. I am happy to share the journey with you.

I’ve written more than 20 novels, about 80 short stories, four children’s books, some comic books, screenplays, and a couple of non-fiction books, as well as five collaborations with J.R. Rain. Many of my tales are based on supernatural legends from the Southern Appalachian Mountains, and I also write mystery and suspense thrillers that are most often compared to the work of Stephen King and Dean Koontz.

I’ve also published Liquid Fear and Chronic Fear with Amazon’s Thomas & Mercer imprint, as well as a number of audiobooks and foreign translations. I love hearing from you, because you’re the reason I do this, so let’s connect! More at http://www.hauntedcomputer.com.

Learn more about his work at www.AuthorScottNicholson.com

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

Enter to Win a Kindle Fire!

July 29, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here’s a quick reminder – if you haven’t entered already, or if you haven’t referred a friend, you have less than one week to put your name into the hat for a chance to win a new Kindle Fire!

Good luck!

Michael

More Free & Discounted Book Offers for Monday

July 29, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here are six additional 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!

Swan, by Katherine Hole, 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 90 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Romance

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

ROMANTIC, FUNNY AND A LITTLE MYSTERIOUS …

Read the wonderful modern fairytale readers and reviewers describe as “Funny,” “Heart-warming” and “Too cool for words!”

From the beginning Madeline’s life was a narrative of disappointment and broken dreams. Plump, plain and past her sell by date, happiness and hope were no longer part of her vocabulary. But one day like a bolt from the blue, destiny delivers a massive dose of compensation in the form of David Powell, her strange and elusive neighbour. From the moment they meet, Madeline is plunged into a world of excitement and intrigue where nothing is what it seems. This classic reversal of fortune tale reminds us that ultimately life is a mystery, perfectly able to demolish and reconfigurate even the most hopeless situations.

Please note: This romance contains steamy scenes and is recommended for readers 18+

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

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The Fallen Angle, by Glenn G. Thater, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 11 customer reviews.

Category: Fantasy

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

In The Fallen Angle, Glenn G. Thater transports you to a time of legendary heroes, armored knights, spectacular duels, courtly intrigue, otherworldly evils, and ancient, forbidden magics. Though it can be read as a stand alone tale, The Fallen Angle is the second story in Thater’s Harbinger of Doom series and picks up shortly after the events chronicled in Gateway to Nifleheim.

Claradon, the young Lord of House Eotrus, stands accused of murder and treason by his family’s political rivals while on the trail of the chaos lord that slew those dearest to him. Claradon has recruited the mysterious knight of mystical power called Angle Theta to aid him is his quest. But Claradon has bought far more than he’s bargained for, when his comrade Ob discovers the terrifying secret of Angle Theta. A secret so horrifying as to shatter a man’s mind and call into question the very nature of good and evil. ________________________________________

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/nr23xi into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Fallen Angle.

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Deadly Memories, by Pamela M. Richter, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store and has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 82 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

DEADLY MEMORIES – What she can’t remember might kill her…

“She doesn’t remember a thing,” Rolph snapped into the phone.

Andrea froze. His back was turned away from her. He didn’t know she was there, listening.

“It’s been six months, for God’s sake. If you harm one hair on her head, I’ll contact the authorities. My father would be disgraced, but that will not deter me.”

Now Andrea couldn’t move. There was no doubt Rolph was talking about her. She wondered how his father, the French Ambassador, could be disgraced.

His voice modulated to a threatening whisper. “This is the end. Otherwise she goes directly into protective custody, and I spill my guts. You’ve lied to me, made me into a damned traitor, and I’m angry enough to do it out of spite.”

Now Andrea knew there were secrets he was keeping from her. What did he mean about protective custody? Was she in danger? The one blank spot in her mind was a mysterious car crash. She didn’t know how she had landed at the bottom of a cliff in the Santa Monica mountains of Los Angeles. She remembered the fabulous party in Beverly Hills that night, but try as she might, she couldn’t remember the sequence of events leading to the accident.

Rolph’s last words chilled her, “I have nothing to lose. I’m a dead man.”

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/r4c7lq into your web browser to pick up your copy of Deadly Memories.

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Fairwood , by Eli Yance, is just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 18 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery / Thriller / Suspense

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

From the bestselling author of House 23 and Consequence, Fairwood is a noir thriller where crime, punishment and retribution take centre stage.

The Bleak and Bright bandits (a.k.a Dexter and Pandora) wanted money and fame, even though the latter came purely by accident. A modern day Bonnie and Clyde, in it for the adrenaline rush with no intention of murder — that came by accident as well.

Max Cawley is tired of his miserable life, made even more miserable by his succubus wife, his sadistic boss and his retiring partner, but his detective instincts are as switched-on as ever and finding the bandits soon becomes an obsession.

Fairwood is a dark, twisted, suspense story. An intricate, noir thriller with a mystery twist. Not for the faint hearted.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/fairwood into your web browser to pick up your copy of Fairwood.
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Resisting the Bad Boy, by Violet Duke, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 66 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through July 30th.

Category: Romance

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

Abby Bartlett is the quintessential nice girl. Between teaching, volunteering, completing her PhD, and helping her best friend raise his daughter, Abby never gets the chance to be anything but nice. That is, until the all-wrong-for-her man she’s only ever known from afar starts daring her to simply take that chance for herself. His sage advice? Try something wild and fast.

Preferably him.

An unbridled, hotshot attorney with a not-so-little black book, Connor Sullivan has earned himself quite the bad boy reputation. But in his defense, he’s a very conscientious one. He knows far too well that sometimes in life, love isn’t enough…or worse, not even a factor at all. To avoid that misery–and repel the drama–Connor always makes his one and only rule crystal clear right from the start. Absolutely nothing more than a month.

Turns out, a whole lot can happen in one month.

Click here to pick up your copy of Resisting the Bad Boy.

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Tipping Point, by Simon Rosser, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 12 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through August 1st.

Category: Action & Adventure / Thriller

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

TWO DEAD CLIMATOLOGISTS

When eminent climatologist Dr Dale Stanton – in the process of studying the Atlantic Ocean’s Thermohaline Circulation – is found dead in his London apartment, environmental lawyer Robert Spire is given the task to administer a large legacy left to global warming organisations. The job should have been straightforward, until a second climatologist, Dr Jack Bannister drops dead on the other side of the Atlantic.

AN INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY

Spire’s client – suspicious of her son’s death – asks him to travel to San Francisco to investigate Dr Jack Bannister’s death. Whilst there, he meets French Climatologist Professor Francois Trimaud who is working on a geoengineering project to seed the Arctic Ocean with an experimental substance – the aim, to prevent, or at least slow the Arctic’s melting ice. Spire soon discovers that someone has other plans for the region and wants the climatologists dead at all costs.

A LOOMING ECOLOGICAL DISASTER
As evidence of increased glacial melt in Greenland and reduction in the Arctic ice mounts, Spire becomes determined to join Trimaud on the research vessel, Mercure Blanc on a joint US/French expedition to the Arctic. He soon finds however, that the lives of all on board are in peril as he discovers a plan that threatens to push the Arctic to its tipping point and the Earth to disaster…

Click here to pick up your copy of Tipping Point.

8 Discounted & Free Kindle Book Offers

July 29, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

To start off your Monday, here are eight 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 Dream Jumper’s Promise, by Kim Hornsby, is regularly $5.99 but has been discounted 83% 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 123 customer reviews.

Category: Paranormal Romance

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

Nominated for BEST INDIE FIRST BOOK by Indie Rom/Con
Amazon Bestselling Author Kim Hornsby
A husband presumed dead, a grieving widow, haunting dreams–enter a former lover who possesses a strange ability that could save her life, if she can trust he’s telling the truth and let him into her subconscious.

Maui Scuba Shop owner, Tina Green is worse off ten months after the presumed surfing death of her husband and doesn’t know why she can’t move on. When an old boyfriend, Jamey Dunn, walks back into her life dreams of her husband Hank have Tina questioning her sanity and Jamey toys with revealing his secret. While Tina leans heavily on Hank’s best friend Noble, her life takes a strange turn. Her dreams appear to be telling her Hank’s whereabouts. Jamey and Noble clash at every turn, both desperate to help Tina. Suspecting that the dreams hold clues to Hank’s disappearance, Jamey reveals his ability to enter dreams. For Tina, trusting the man who betrayed her years before doesn’t come easily. As the hula dancer, the wife and the dream jumper decipher the mystery of Hank’s disappearance, danger sets in to reveal that one person is flirting with insanity, one is a traitor, and one is an impostor.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/jdtjqv into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Dream Jumper’s Promise.

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Parallax View, by Allan Leverone, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 42 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

If you’re a fan of Mitch Rapp, brought to life by the late Vince Flynn, or of the Brad Thor patriot Scot Harvath, meet your newest hero, Tracie Tanner:

It’s spring, 1987, late in the Cold War, and CIA clandestine operations agent Tracie Tanner is tasked with what should be a relatively simple mission: deliver a secret communique from Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

After smuggling the document out of East Germany, Tracie believes she is in the clear. She’s wrong. A shadowy cabal is work, people who will stop at nothing to prevent the explosive information contained in the letter from reaching the White House.

Soon, Tanner is knee-deep in airplane crashes and murder, paired up with a young Maine air traffic controller and on the run for their lives, unsure who she can trust at CIA, but committed to completing her mission, no matter the cost…

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

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Sloane Monroe Series Boxed Set, is a three book boxed set by Cheryl Bradshaw, is regularly $5.99 but has been discounted 83% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store and has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 199 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

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

How to Be Motivated is Vol. 2 of a series about personal transformation. It is part of a set of books that will help you to achieve long lasting change and success in your life in a wide variety of areas.

It is meant to be a blueprint to help you to discover ways that you can increase your daily motivation, which will then lead to a higher success rate when it comes to achieving your goals.

This book, like all the others in the series, is a quick read (from a very real perspective) that can be read on its own or along with the others to build a foundation in your quest to create change in your life.

If you’re ready to be more inspired in your own life, then “How to Be Motivated: A Blueprint for Increasing Your Motivation” is for you!

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/q1ovnj into your web browser to pick up your copy of Sloane Monroe Series Boxed Set.

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The Geronimo Breach , by Russell Blake, is regularly $4.59 but has been discounted 82% to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 147 customer reviews. I’ve read and enjoyed several of Russell’s books, and this one is on my Kindle to be read, so if you like a good thriller I’d recommend giving him a try!

Category: Thriller / Action & Adventure

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

The Geronimo Breach is an adrenaline-fueled 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 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, 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.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/q4eq2s into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Geronimo Breach.
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Widow, Virgin, Whore, by Deanna Lynn Sletten, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 63 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through July 31st.

Category: Contemporary Fiction / Women’s Fiction

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

Three very different women – one house – one devastating diagnosis.

When recently widowed Katherine Samuals purchases a home to share with her son, Christopher, and her best friend, Denise Richards, the last thing she expects is to include Denise’s outrageous sister, Darla Richards, into the household. But Katherine agrees because she adores Darla’s daughter, Chelsea, and feels this is a good opportunity to give the young teen a real home.

Living with Darla is not easy. She parties too much, sleeps around, and speaks her mind without apology. To conservative Katherine, and shy Denise, Darla’s behavior is intolerable. Then, Darla is diagnosed with AIDS, and the household is turned upside-down. Katherine finds herself thrown into Darla’s life, first as her caregiver, then as her companion as she explores the devastating lives of AIDS sufferers. Katherine’s fledgling writing career flourishes as she shares the experiences of Darla’s AIDS support group in newspaper articles across the country. And Denise finds true love for the first time, but struggles with the inappropriate timing of her personal happiness. Surprisingly, Darla also finds love – real love – in a time when she needs it the most.

As the household struggles with the stress of living with a terminal illness, Katherine, Denise, and Darla learn just how strong their bond of friendship, and sisterhood, is.

If you are a sister or a best friend, you will love this story.

Click here to pick up your copy of Widow, Virgin, Whore.

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The Adventures of Blue the Very Happy Dog: Blue Gets His Magic Collar, by Ronnie James and Pamela Page, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 13 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this is the last day this book would be free.

Category: Children

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

The Adventures of Blue. The Very Happy Dog: Blue Gets His Magic Collar

Once upon a time in Wibbleton there lived a lovely happy dog called Blue, he lived very happily with his family in a pretty country cottage. He was such a good dog he was allowed to go out on Walks all by himself.

Every day the gate was opened and off Blue went on another adventure. Across the field he’d run, through the long grass until he reached the big wooden gate that led to the land of adventures…

Everyday a new and exciting thing was about to happen…

This is the very first one in the Adventures of Blue children’s book series. Blue needs a new collar and it’s the strange old man in the vet shop that hands over the collar that is believed to be magic.

Well, Blue sets off on another adventure to see just what magic this new collar can come up with.

This book and others in the Adventures of Blue series, make excellent bedtime reading as Blue gets up to a new magical adventure every time. They are short stories so don’t take long to read but they pack plenty of adventure in at the same time. Although there are plenty of children’s books about dogs and lots of other animal books on Kindle, this one is slightly different. Not only does each adventure entail magic of some kind, the character Blue is based on the Authors real dog, also called Blue!

..And now you can meet him!

That’s right; in the book there’s a link to a page with lots of pictures of Blue and his lovely younger brother Bailey (They’re both Golden Retrievers) as well as a chance for your child to appear in a future book or story!

Click here to pick up your copy of The Adventures of Blue the Very Happy Dog: Blue Gets His Magic Collar.
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