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Today's Featured Kindle Book

October 31, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is The Brightest Moon of the Century, by Christopher Meeks, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 29 customer reviews.

Category: Literary Fiction

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

“A truly great novel in the tradition of Charles Dickens and John Irving.” –Marc Schuster, Small Press Reviews

In his fourth award-winning book, Christopher Meeks offers a comic and compassionate coming-of-age novel. A young Minnesotan, Edward, is blessed with an abundance of “experience”–first when his mother dies and next when his father, an encyclopedia salesman, shoehorns Edward into a private boys school where he’s tortured and groomed. He needs a place in the universe, but he wants an understanding of women.

Edward stumbles into romance in high school, careens through dorm life in college, whirls into a tornado of love problems as a mini-mart owner in a trailer park in Alabama, and aims for a film career in Los Angeles.

In nine chapters, the reader experiences Edward’s life from ages 14 to 45. This novel follows Meeks’s highly acclaimed collections of short stories, The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea and Months and Seasons.

Carmela Ciuraru wrote in the Los Angeles Times Book Review of Meeks’s first book, “This idea resonates throughout the collection: Meeks’s characters seek happiness in the small things because they have no choice … [The stories] are poignant and wise, sympathetic to the everyday struggles these characters face.”

Author and humorist Sandra Tsing Loh has said, “Christopher Meeks’s quirky stories are lyrical and wonderfully human. Enjoy.”

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/qcq2q9 into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Brightest Moon of the Century.

About the Author:

Christopher Meeks was born in Minnesota, earned degrees from the University of Denver and USC, and has lived in Los Angeles since 1977. He’s taught English at Santa Monica College, and creative writing at CalArts, UCLA Extension, Art Center College of Design, and USC. His fiction has appeared often in Rosebud magazine as well as other literary journals, and his books have won several awards. His short works have been collected into two volumes, “The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea” and “Months and Seasons,” the latter which appeared on the long list for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. He’s had three plays produced, and “Who Lives?: A Drama” is published. His focus is now on longer fiction. His first novel is “The Brightest Moon of the Century,” and his second, “Love At Absolute Zero.”

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

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Enter to Win a New Kindle Paperwhite!

October 31, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here’s a short and sweet reminder – don’t forget to enter to win a brand new, Kindle Paperwhite! Time’s a wastin’ so please make sure you have entered, and how about passing this information on to your friends and family so they have an opportunity to win, also?

One thing I want to point out – you have more chances to win if you sign up for the blog’s email delivery option (although it is not a requirement): please make sure you reply to the confirmation email if you choose this option to (a) confirm your subscription, and (b) to make sure your additional ten chances to win are registered.

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Good luck!

Michael

More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

October 31, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Included in this post are more free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres: for those books listed as being “free” in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could change at any time!

Perfectible Animals, by Thomas Norwood, 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 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 10 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

THE NEXT STAGE IN HUMAN EVOLUTION IS ALMOST HERE… BUT WILL HOMO SAPIENS SURVIVE?

READ PERFECTIBLE ANIMALS RIGHT NOW TO FIND OUT.

It’s 2065. Environmental and social chaos are poised to disrupt all life on Earth.

Michael Khan, a geneticist struggling to save his wife from a deadly virus, is recruited by a secret organization to engineer the next stage in the evolution of Homo sapiens: highly immune to disease and extremely cooperative.

When the military learns of his research, they force him to help create a bio-weapon to be used against invading forces.

Desperate to save humanity before they wipe themselves out, Michael genetically modifies over one hundred children. Ironically, though, they start to breed diseases that are deadly to Homo sapiens, and he is arrested for bio-terrorism.

Now, Michael isn’t only fighting for the life of his wife, but for himself, his modified children, and millions of civilians about to be wiped out by diseases he is responsible for creating.

The problem is — he can’t save them all.

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

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Sunbolt, by Intisar Khanani, is regularly $1.99 but has been discounted 50% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars based on 19 customer reviews.

Category: Fantasy / Young Adult

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

The winding streets and narrow alleys of Karolene hide many secrets, and Hitomi is one of them. Orphaned at a young age, Hitomi has learned to hide her magical aptitude and who her parents really were. Most of all, she must conceal her role in the Shadow League, an underground movement working to undermine the powerful and corrupt Arch Mage Wilhelm Blackflame.

When the League gets word that Blackflame intends to detain–and execute–a leading political family, Hitomi volunteers to help the family escape. But there are more secrets at play than Hitomi’s, and much worse fates than execution. When Hitomi finds herself captured along with her charges, it will take everything she can summon to escape with her life.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/sunbolt into your web browser to pick up your copy of Sunbolt.
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Samson’s Deal, by Shelley Singer, is regularly $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 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 8 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

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

Murder, politics, and strange bedfellows…

Ex-Chicago-cop Jake Samson is tired of the rat race. He’s living in laid back Oakland, California with a couple of cats and just enough savings to eat canned oysters and accept collect calls from his bemused parents, when an old friend–a progressive political science processor–calls with an enticing offer. Seems the professor’s wife was found dead in the backyard of their Berkeley home, and he wants to pay Jake ten thousand dollars (plus expenses) to figure out whodunit.

The police pick up the usual leads; jealousy, dirty politics, and an estate worth killing for. Naturally, since the professor is the dead woman’s spouse, he’s the primary suspect. Samson doesn’t like the guy much, but the case heats up—quite literally–when the professor’s office is set afire by a radical right wing activist group, of which, it turns out, the wife was a member.

With his sidekick Rosie, and her justice-dispensing two-by-four, Samson follows a twisted trail leads through the Bay Area’s bizarre cultural labyrinth; from pop meditation ashrams to neo-Nazi rallies, to the startling, but all too human truth.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/756 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Samson’s Deal.

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Red Mountain, by David Thayer, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted 40% to 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 8 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

The identity of every undercover cop in New York City is in the hands of a murderer.

After the chief of NYPD’s Intelligence Division is murdered veteran detective Mickey Reidel is assigned to investigate. Walt Bergman’s body has been found in a house no one knew he owned. During a harrowing night Mickey races to avert a catastrophe. His bosses believe it was a terrorist act but Mickey suspects Walt’s wife, Michelle, a woman with whom he shares a dark secret.

RED MOUNTAIN is the second book to feature Armand DiPino and Mickey Reidel but the book is a standalone thriller and can be read as such.

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

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Creepspace: The Witch Game , by E.C. Crawlie, 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 9 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this is the last day for this book to be offered for free.

Category: Children / Young Adult / Horror

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

For his twelfth birthday, Joshua Wright gets just the gift he had hoped for: a laptop computer. But his joy fades when he discovers a strange game included on the laptop. Joshua soon finds himself haunted by the game and plagued by visions of witches, vultures, and graveyards. Is his imagination playing tricks on him, or are these horrors real? Read Joshua’s story – if you dare – and see whether he and his friends can survive . . . The Witch Game!

Click here to pick up your copy of Creepspace: The Witch Game.

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Asterion, by Kenneth Morvant, 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 16 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through November 1st.

Category: Science Fiction

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

The world of the near future. Dictatorships still exist. One such place is America. The America of the past is not the America of the future.

Fear and uncertainty has led to a leader for life who has taken control of everything. Every business, private organization and even religion is under his control. The common apathy has led to austerity. Control is tenuous at best, but it will be maintained, at any and all costs.

Taylor Scott, scientist desires to turn his experience creating military technology into an ambitious humanitarian project that will alleviate the shortages and improve life for the citizens by creating a semi-intelligent beast of burden capable of performing agricultural tasks. Plentiful food, better quality of life for the citizens and reduced fossil fuel consumption are the benefits.

However, the leader for life has another plan, a sinister purpose for the beasts. His operatives on the inside modify the experiment and steal Taylor’s intellectual property to create a beast that is battle ready and can wield the power of the leader without reservation and with no remorse.
Miscalculation?

No, cold calculation.

Mistake?

No, total domination of the populace is within grasp.

Taylor continues the experiment with the help of fellow scientist, Christine Summers who shares his interests and their interest in each other grows. Unknown to them, their subject will not be the work beast they intended. No, he will be much more.

The experiment is a success, and their creation is not alone.

Taylor and Christine must now destroy what they have created. Pursued by their experiment and the leader, they join forces with the freedom fighters and help them win their liberty from tyranny and its unfeeling beasts of war.

Playing God has its consequences.

Asterion blends science fiction into a political techno-thriller set in a dystopian world that while still distant, is on the horizon of time.

Click here to pick up your copy of Asterion.

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Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

October 31, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

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

Creative Spirit, by Scott Nicholson, is regularly $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 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 56 customer reviews.

Category: Horror / Supernatural

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

Book #1 of the Black Shuck thriller series featuring former IRA volunteer turned American patriot, Declan McIver!

A modern Gothic thriller

When artists gather at a remote Appalachian estate for a retreat, they are unaware that their energy is feeding something unwholesome. Sculptor Mason Jackson and dying parapsychologist Anna Galloway must uncover the dark secrets of Korban Manor before their spirits become trapped forever.

After parapsychologist Anna Galloway is diagnosed with terminal cancer, she has a recurring dream in which she sees her own ghost. The setting of her dream is the historic Korban Manor, and she’s compelled to face the secrets of her soul.

Sculptor Mason Jackson has come to the manor to make a final, all-or-nothing attempt at success before giving up his dreams. When he becomes obsessed with carving Ephram Korban’s form out of wood, even Anna can’t divert his bizarre passion.

The manor itself has secrets, with fires that blaze constantly in the hearths, portraits of Korban in every room, and deceptive mirrors on the walls. With an October blue moon looming, both the living and the dead learn the true power of their dreams.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/8qak6p into your web browser to pick up your copy of Creative Spirit.

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Shameless, by Jennifer Blake, 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 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 65 customer reviews.

Category: Romantic Suspense

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

Check out Steel Magnolia Press’ selection of 99¢ Romances — including Jennifer’s WILDEST DREAMS, also from her Contemporary Collection — at www.smarturl.it/99c
(Just copy the url into your address bar — it goes to a page right here in the Amazon store.)
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SHAMELESS

Whispers, lurid gossip, rampant suspicion — Camilla and Reid give their small town neighbors something to talk about…

It’s been years since Camilla saw Reid Sayers, her accepted blood enemy in a local feud going back generations. She barely recognizes the warrior who returns to their small town, an ex-military, multi-decorated hero with pain in his eyes. But the battle between them has just begun.

A takeover bid is pending for the local paper mill. Camilla swears to stop the sale, rallying the town behind her on environmental issues. Reid, as operating owner, is concerned for the workers. Added to the mix is Camilla’s almost ex-husband who wants her back — mainly because he believes a loophole in the law may make her the beneficiary of millions from the buyout.

But hate and love are close kin, and daytime combat between Reid and Camilla gives way to nighttime desire. That is, until Camilla’s estranged husband turns up dead. As the town erupts with gossip about the convenience of his passing, she and Reid are faced with a choice. They can join forces to unmask the killer — or allow the murderer to drive them apart forever.
• Doubleday Book Club Featured Selection, Literary Guild Alternate Selection
• Best Contemporary Romance Award, Affaire de Coeur, 1993
• Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award, Best Contemporary 1993-1994

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/shameless into your web browser to pick up your copy of Shameless.
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The Tiger’s Lady, by Christina Skye, 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 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 5 customer reviews.

Category: Historical Romance

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

A rajah’s prize or a dark entrapment?
In the shadowy pall of gaslit London streets, Barrett Winslow is stalked by a ruthless enemy in search of a confidence she can never reveal. When fate tosses her into the arms of an exotic stranger, she’s swept away to a steamy paradise that hides deadly secrets and forbidden passions.

Fierce protector or dark betrayer?
To London’s rich and powerful he is Deveril Pagan, Viscount St. Cyr, envied by all men and desired by all women. But in the mist-covered emerald hills of Ceylon, he is called the Tiger Sahib, and he is haunted by the curse of a priceless, fabled ruby — whose blood-red facets pulse with a savage power that drives men to unquenchable greed and women to unspeakable desire.

Lovers bound by darkest destiny.
From the glittering corridors of London’s elite to the wind-swept shores of colonial Ceylon, Barrett and Pagan flee the fierce fate that throbs in the crimson heart of the legendary jewel … driving them to stolen passion and unthinkable evil in the sultry, tropical nights. Only one man stands between Barrett and the darkness … and he might be the greatest threat of all…

Originally published by Dell under the title THE RUBY.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/349 into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Tiger’s Lady.

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Dictionary of Witchcraft, by David Pickering, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted 60% to just $1.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 17 customer reviews.

Category: Non-Fiction

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

Available for the first time as an ebook, this acclaimed 180,000-word A-Z dictionary is a comprehensive and highly readable guide to witchcraft, revealing the historical reality beneath the popular stereotypes of old hags, broomsticks, and black cats. Complete with biographies of notorious witches and descriptions of their covens, familiars, spells and practices, it also contains colourful accounts of infamous trials and all the associated paraphernalia of witch-hunting, torture and persecution across Europe and colonial America. A first-class source book for the historian, folklorist and casual reader alike, it shows in vivid and bloody detail how witchcraft hysteria swept the western world in the post-medieval period and has continued to resurface into modern times.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/oc7qt5 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Dictionary of Witchcraft.

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From Pain to Parenthood: A Journey Through Miscarriage to Adoption, by Deanna Kahler, 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 9 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through November 2nd.

Category: Non-Fiction

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

Follow one woman’s incredible and heartfelt journey from the pain of miscarriages to the joy of becoming a parent through adoption. Witness the many struggles that can permeate your life in the aftermath of pregnancy loss. Take a glimpse at the overwhelming desire some women have to become a mother. Celebrate the joy of overcoming adversity and achieving your dreams. Filled with honest, raw emotions and helpful coping tips, “From Pain to Parenthood” promises to touch your life with a real story that shows the power of the human spirit and the beauty of a mother’s love.

Click here to pick up your copy of From Pain to Parenthood: A Journey Through Miscarriage to Adoption.

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Old World, by Oliver Kennedy, 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 12 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through November 2nd.

Category: Horror

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

Great Britain, 2014. Civilisation as we know it has been torn apart by war. This once peaceful nation has been transformed into a melting pot of chaos and desolation.

Death stalks the land. The towns and cities are home to the dead who have learned to walk again, driven by a single desire to consume the flesh of the living. The countryside is the abode of marauders, lawless men driven by starvation, fear and evil.

There is talk of worse to come, dark fiends inhabiting the irradiated lands of the south, beings who have risen up from the radioactive ashes of war.

Here and there dwell pockets of innocence, good men and women whose daily mission is living to see another dawn. But the dark tide has not receded, and the dawns are certainly numbered. Welcome to the Green and Pleasant Land.

The Green and Pleasant Land; Old World is a short introductory book that follows the fate of the Locklear family as they deal with the unfolding crisis. Forced to flee the cities they must traverse a nation sliding into Armageddon, along the way they are confronted by cadavers, mutants and even darker horrors that are emerging in the post apocalyptic world.

Click here to pick up your copy of Old World.

Boyfriend from Hell – Today's Featured Kindle Book

October 30, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is Boyfriend from Hell, by E. Van Lowe, and is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 56 customer reviews.

Category: Young Adult

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

Fifteen year-old Megan Barnett and her single mom, Suze, have a special relationship—they are friends, close friends, who do almost everything together.

“But come on, guys, she’s my mother… Can I really tell her that while we’re snuggled up on the sofa watching Spider Man Three, I’m secretly undressing James Franco with my eyes? Of course not…”

The special bond takes a turn for the worse when Suze decides to start dating again. She hasn’t had a man in her life since Megan’s father left ten years ago.

Enter two mysterious young men, Megan’s new classmate, sinfully attractive bad boy, Guy Matson, and the dangerously handsome art dealer, Armando. Before long Megan and Suze both wind up in steamy relationships. But neither of the handsome pair is quite what he seems. In fact, one of them is Satan, with his sights set on a new bride. Megan has precious little time to figure out how to stop him. If she doesn’t, either Megan or Suze are quite literally going to HELL.

“Boyfriend From Hell” is the first book in the Falling Angels Saga from the author of the gruesomely hilarious, “Never Slow Dance With A Zombie.”

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/elgpqo into your web browser to pick up your copy of Boyfriend from Hell.

About the Author:

Hi there! I’m E. Van Lowe, an author, television writer, screen-writer, playwright and producer who has worked on such shows as “The Cosby Show,” “Even Stevens,” and “Homeboys In Outer Space.” I have been nominated for an Emmy and an Academy Award. My first YA novel, ” Never Slow Dance with a Zombie, is a zombie horror novel with a comedic twist. It was a selection of The Scholastic Book Club, and a nominee for an ALA Award.

My YA paranormal novel Boyfriend From Hell, the first book in the Falling Angels Saga, came out September 2011 and has received mostly 4 and 5 star reviews. Earth Angel, the second in the saga, came out in December 2011 with equally good reviews. The third book, Heaven Sent, came out December 2012 and is continuing the trend of rave reviews.

The first book in my Hollyweird series, The Zombie Always Knocks Twice, is now available as well. It’s another humorous zombie story, this time taking place in the world of Hollywood California. Another zombie story??? Yep. I’ve got zombies on the brain.

I write just about every day. I write all over the house, but my favorite spot is the dining room. It puts me closer to the food. In fact, I’m in the dining room right now (*munch, munch*). Please visit me at my blog, E’s blog, where I hold contests and giveaways, and share tid-bits as well as advice from my life as a writer. www.vanlowe.blogspot.com

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

More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

October 30, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Veil of Civility, by Ian Graham, is regularly $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 27 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

Book #1 of the Black Shuck thriller series featuring former IRA volunteer turned American patriot, Declan McIver!

NOTHING CAN STAY HIDDEN FOREVER…

During the Soviet-Afghan War an elite team of operatives were trained in the mountains of Afghanistan. Loyal to the Provisional Irish Republican Army, they were known only by their codename, Black Shuck.

In the years that followed — betrayed from within by the internal power struggles of the IRA — the team members were hunted down. Three survived, fading into the turbulent streets of Northern Ireland. To this day, their identities remain a mystery — but nothing can stay hidden forever.

For years, Declan McIver has lived under the radar — married to a beautiful woman and operating a successful business — but that life is about to change. When a planned meeting with an old friend goes horribly wrong, Declan finds himself on the run from a shadowy conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep their evil intentions a closely guarded secret.

To survive, he’ll have to rely on long dormant training and reach deep within himself to a place and time he’d hoped to never return. As his past is laid open for the world to see and events spiral further out of control — who will win and at what cost?

Weaving well-documented facts and speculative history, Veil of Civility combines Soviet Special Forces, the Irish Republican Army, American politicians and Chechen terrorists into an explosive modern day thriller! From the countryside of suburban Virginia and the powerful halls of Washington DC to the rocky coast of Wales and the moors of Scotland, Declan McIver struggles to stay one step ahead of the conspiracy that has made him a wanted man!

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/1noq4o into your web browser to pick up your copy of Veil of Civility.

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Marines, by Jay Allan, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted 80% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 227 customer reviews.

Category: Science Fiction

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

Book one of the bestselling Crimson Worlds series…

Erik Cain joined the marines to get off death row. The deal was simple; enlist to fight in space and he would be pardoned for all his crimes.

In the 23rd Century, assault troops go to war wearing AI-assisted, nuclear-powered armor, but it is still men and blood that win battles. From one brutal campaign to the next, Erik and his comrades fight an increasingly desperate war over the resource rich colony worlds that have become vital to the economies of Earth’s exhausted and despotic Superpowers.

As Erik rises through the ranks he finally finds a home, first with the marines who fight at his side and later among the colonists – men and women who have dared to leave everything behind to build a new society on the frontier, one where the freedoms and rights lost long ago on Earth are preserved.

Amidst the blood and death and sacrifice, Erik begins to wonder. Is he fighting the right war? Who is the real enemy?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/fel5n1 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Marines.
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Big Easy, by Eric Wilder, 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 35 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

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

When someone begins killing New Orleans street people, it affects the City’s tourist trade just beginning to recover from Hurricane Katrina. More than just simple acts of murder, voodoo is involved, the killer likely an actual Vodoun deity. Homicide detective Tony Nicosia seeks the help of gumshoe, and Big Easy insider Wyatt Thomas. Wyatt enlists Mama Mulate, Tulane English professor, and actual voodoo mambo. Together, they try to unravel the strangest mystery to hit the venerable City since the era of Marie Laveau.

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

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Deadlocked – Complete First Series, by A.R. Wise, 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 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 60 customer reviews.

Category: Horror

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

This is a collection of the entire first series of Deadlocked, books 1 – 4.

Deadlocked: David is forced to travel home to his family through the zombie apocalypse. In his struggle, he will put into motion events that will eventually help to reveal the secret to how the plague began.

Deadlocked 2: Laura struggles to protect her daughters with the help of a young boat captain. She will be forced to endure unthinkable ordeals in her journey to protect those who are most important to her.

Deadlocked 3: Billy heads into the zombie infested city to search for his mother. Along the way, he encounters a member of the military and two new friends to help him learn the truth about what happened to the last living member of his family.

Deadlocked 4: The characters of the series are faced with their greatest challenge yet as the most innocent among them are in mortal danger. The plague’s origin is uncovered, and the people responsible reveal themselves in this final story of the Deadlocked series.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/oyd2gb into your web browser to pick up your copy of Deadlocked – Complete First Series.

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Uneasy Lies the Crown, by N. Gemini Sasson, 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 133 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through November 1st.

Category: Historical Fiction

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

The story of Owain Glyndwr, the last Welsh Prince of Wales.

In the year 1399, Welsh nobleman Owain Glyndwr is living out a peaceful gentleman’s life in the Dee Valley of Wales with his wife Margaret and their eleven children. But when Henry of Bolingbroke usurps the throne of England from his cousin Richard II, that tranquility is forever shattered. What starts as a feud with a neighboring English lord over a strip of land evolves into something greater–a fight for the very independence of Wales.

After a harrowing encounter on the misty slopes of Cadair Idris, the English knight Harry Hotspur offers Owain a pact he cannot resist.

Peace, however, comes with a heavy price. As tragedies mount and temptations loom, Owain questions whether he can fulfill the prophecies and lead his people to freedom without destroying those around him.

For centuries, the bards have sung of King Arthur’s return, but is this reluctant warrior prince the answer to those prophecies?

Click here to pick up your copy of Uneasy Lies the Crown.

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Impact Point, by Jennifer Gilby Roberts, 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 72 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through November 3rd.

Category: Action & Adventure / Thriller

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

Just after 7 AM on June 30th 1908 a massive air blast occurred over Tunguska in Siberia – the Tunguska event – caused by a meteorite or comet fragment. The blast released the same amount of energy as 185 Hiroshima nuclear bombs. The object is thought to have been around 120 feet in diameter. It will happen again, it’s just a question of where and when…

Robert Spire, environmental lawyer, newly recruited to the UK’s GLENCOM – Global Environmental Command – Unit is propelled into a roller coaster adventure through London, America and the Bahamas as he searches for the cause of some mysterious whale deaths. As the clues unfold, nothing can prepare him or the world, for the cataclysm that is about to unfold.

Roberts Spire’s greatest adventure may be the world’s last…

MYSTERIOUS WHALE DEATHS…

When the World’s largest ever creature – a blue whale – dies in front of Robert Spire on his local Welsh beach, the UK’s Department of the Environment and local population are ill prepared. When a second whale washes up dead on Myrtle Beach on the opposite side of the Atlantic, the scientific community starts asking questions.

A QUEST FOR METEORITE FRAGMENTS…

Environmental lawyer Robert Spire; newly recruited to the UK’s Global Environmental Command Unit – GLENCOM, flies over to South Carolina to investigate. Whilst there, he teams up with marine biologist Dr Sally Rivea, also assigned to the case. Meanwhile, ex-marine Travis Dexter is on the run in Nevada after he discovers the body of his employer – philanthropist Julian Smithies – murdered in his home. The only object missing; a recently discovered, rare and valuable meteorite.

A FUTURE GLOBAL CATACLYSM…

On the island of Exuma In the Bahamas, four sport divers make a startling discovery at the bottom of Mystery Cave blue hole. Sixty miles offshore in the Caribbean Sea, drilling on the Proteus oil rig turns to disaster as the drill penetrates something hard on the ocean floor. Dr Rivea, at a loss to explain the high levels of the mineral olivine discovered in the whale’s tissue samples, accompanies Spire to the Caribbean in search of answers, but what they discover doesn’t bear thinking about…

Click here to pick up your copy of Impact Point.

Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

October 30, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

If you are reading this on the blog’s website or Facebook page, I would appreciate your clicking the “Like” or “Share” button so your Kindle-owning friends and family can take advantage of the Kindle offers, also!

Wolf Hook, by Michael Wallace, 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 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 26 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller / Historical Fiction

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

Jim Heydrich is the Canadian-born nephew of one of the most feared men in the Gestapo. When his family returns to Germany just before the war, Jim arrives in the Third Reich as a young, sensitive theater student, both protected by and encumbered by his famous relation. Resisting an invitation to join the Nazis, he instead finds himself a member of an English-language theater troupe working in Occupied Europe. Unbeknownst to Jim, the leaders of the theater troupe, Nigel Burnside and his sister Margaret, are not the English fascists they appear, but members of the British Secret Service, using the theater troupe to recruit spies from among the Anglophile German officers who come to their productions.

Disillusioned with both sides of the war, Jim is trying to defect to neutral Ireland when he stumbles into one of Nigel and Margaret’s most closely held secrets–a Hungarian physicist they are smuggling out of Europe. While trying to extricate himself from this unwelcome knowledge, he both manages to draw the attention of the Gestapo and to convince the British Secret Service that he is a Nazi spy, a threat to their plans who must be eliminated.

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

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Night Prey, by Carol Davis Luce, 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 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 83 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

Roberta Paxton had a pleasant, challenging job, a man who loved her, and a host of good friends, but anxiety gnawed at her, at the back of her mind, at the edge of her vision, something was threatening her. . . something or someone. She tried to talk about it, but nobody wanted to listen, not even her thirteen-year-old sister, Tobie. Roberta had had these premonitions before, Tobie reminded her. She was just being paranoid.

But there was someone watching. Deep in the Tahoe forest, emerging only to stalk his prey, to watch and listen, to plot his final move, a vicious killer waited. Each glimpse of Roberta fired his need, but still he waited.

Until he saw Tobie. . .

On 11/21/11, an edited version of NIGHT PREY was upload on Amazon. This version is cleaner and, hopefully, “oops” free.

*To past customers, you may activate the content update button in MYK (Manage Your Kindle).

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/nightprey into your web browser to pick up your copy of Night Prey.
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De Novo Syndrome, by Jim Buckner and David Mark Brown, is regularly $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 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 21 customer reviews.

Category: Science Fiction

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

When Jim Buckner’s daughter is kidnapped, his obsession shifts from discovering the lost genetic sequence for awakening human immortality to discovering who took her and how to get her back.

The journey reveals a hibernating side-effect of his research, telekinesis. At the heart of a secret war raging for over a century, Buckner discovers he’ll do anything to get her back–including evolve.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/denovo into your web browser to pick up your copy of De Novo Syndrome.

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Black Diamond Death, by Cheryl Bradshaw, 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 64 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

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

“IN A PANIC I GASPED FOR AIR, BUT THERE WASN’T ANY. I TRIED TO CRY OUT, BUT I WAS ALONE, AND IN MY HYSTERIA IT HIT ME. I HAD FELT A SIMILAR FEELING BEFORE––LIKE MY BODY WAS GIVING OUT ON ME, AND I KNEW WHAT IT MEANT. I WAS DYING.”

Enter the world of Sloane Monroe in Black Diamond Death…

A SKIER CRASHES

On the slopes of Park City, Utah’s newest ski resort a woman is found dead. At first glance, it has all the makings of an accident. The victim, Charlotte Halliwell, collided with a tree as she schussed her way to the bottom of the hill. But what if her death wasn’t an accident at all––what if she was murdered?

A SISTER IS ON A MISSION

In Black Diamond Death, Audrey Halliwell faces a problem: finding someone who believes her story.

Enter Private Investigator Sloane Monroe.

When Audrey marches into Sloane’s office with claims her sister’s death was no accident Sloane is skeptical at first, but agrees to take the case. With little to go on, she questions the people in Charlotte’s life and discovers Parker Stanton, a jilted ex-fiancé with plenty to hide, and as the son of a prominent businessman, he will go to any lengths to protect his secrets.

A SECOND BODY IS FOUND

Just as Sloane feels she’s close to solving the case she stumbles on another dead body and is forced to re-examine the clues from the beginning, but she must tread lightly. With the killer aware that Sloane will stop at nothing to find him, her life is in danger and her every move is being tracked. Will Sloane uncover the truth before he strikes again?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/7584 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Black Diamond Death.

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SEVERED – A Tale of Sleepy Hollow, by Dax Varley, 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 20 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through October 31st.

Category: Young Adult / Paranormal

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

Katrina’s still haunted by her encounter with the Headless Horseman – the night he beckoned to her. Now he has risen again, slashing heads and terrorizing the quiet countryside.

Her only joy during this dismal darkness comes when Ichabod Crane, a gorgeous young man from Connecticut, moves to Sleepy Hollow and their attraction turns to romance.

When the Horseman marks Ichabod as his next victim, Katrina, despite dangerous efforts to save him, sees no other choice than for them to flee.

But the Horseman awaits. Now it’s up to her to sever the horror and alter the Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Click here to pick up your copy of SEVERED – A Tale of Sleepy Hollow.

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The Dr. Pepper Prophecies, by Jennifer Gilby Roberts, 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 72 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through October 31st.

Category: Romantic Comedy / Women’s Fiction

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

“Sometimes I think how much nicer it would be if my life were a movie. Although I’d prefer it to last longer than two hours.”

25-year-old Mel Parker has a few tiny problems:
* Her job is terrible
* She’s been dumped yet again
* Her ex is now her boss
* Her parents think she’s a loser compared to her perfect younger sister
* All her efforts to improve her life seem doomed to failure
* There just isn’t enough chocolate in the world to make up for the above.

The one good thing in her life has always been her best friend Will, who has seen her through every crisis from lost toys to pregnancy scares. But his girlfriend (who’s prettier, better-dressed, more successful and secretly evil) is determined to replace Mel as the woman in his life and how is Mel supposed to compete?

So what do you do when you’ve pretty much given up on your own life? Help others, of course!

After all, what’s the worst that can happen?

Click here to pick up your copy of The Dr. Pepper Prophecies.

Enter to Win a New Kindle Paperwhite!

October 29, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 7 Comments

So I’m sitting here at my keyboard when a thought struck me: why not have another giveaway? It sounds like a great idea, so why not have a giveaway for a new Kindle Paperwhite?

In order to win the Kindle Paperwhite, here are a couple of rules for this giveaway:

The time period is between now and 10:00 p.m. Central Time November 4th (that’s this coming Monday).
You can enter more than once with several options to win as explained below.
In addition to having a little fun with the blog, I’m also attempting to increase the blog’s email subscription option (you don’t have to sign up for the email delivery option to enter); if you do sign up for the email delivery option you can always unsubscribe at any time. The email subscription option will put your name into the hat with ten chances to win.
You can also have more chances to win if you refer a friend, tweet about the giveaway once a day, “Like” the blog’s Facebook page, follow the blog’s Pinterest board, or follow the blog on Twitter (see the options below).
You don’t have to be a resident of the USA to enter – in other words, you can live anywhere in the world.

To enter:

Just scroll down to the Enter to Win section of the box a little further down on this page.
For 10 chances to win, click on the “Join the Kindle Books and Tips Blog Mailing List” option. Click on the “I would like to subscribe” option that certifies you are over 13 years old, then click the green “Enter” icon. PLEASE make sure you reply to the confirmation email you will receive to prove we are not spamming anyone (and you can cancel at any time).
For an additional 18 chances to win (or, three per day), you can tweet about the giveaway if you click that option. You can do this once each day for three chances to win per day, or a maximum of 18 chances to win.
For an additional chance to win, you can “Like” the blog’s Facebook page or follow the blog on Twitter or Pinterest by selecting the appropriate option. If you are already doing that, click the option anyway as the raffle software will give you an extra entry. Please note if you have previously “Liked” the Facebook page or are following the blog on Twitter, you MUST click the option as the software doesn’t automatically put everyone into the drawing.
For an additional 10 chances to win, you can refer the giveaway (and the blog) to a friend – one additional chance per friend up to a maximum of ten friends. After you have entered via the method above, a box will appear right below “Enter to Win” titled “Share This” that will give each entrant a unique URL you can share with your friends. For each friend that enters the giveaway, you will receive +1 entry into the giveaway: each entrant can refer up to 10 people. It’s pretty easy as you can tweet, share on Facebook, or email your friends a unique link.

In return, here is what I will do:

Randomly draw one winners from all of the entries.
Promptly order a new Kindle Paperwhite and have Amazon ship it to the winner. If you live outside the USA, and Amazon does not ship the new Kindle Paperwhite to your country, I will send you an Amazon gift card for the same value as the price of a new Kindle Paperwhite.

The last giveaways have been fun, and generated a lot of excitement. Seeing as how there are non-Facebook / non-Twitter option to enter, I’m hoping the number of entries will be a lot more than last time.

If you’re reading this on your Kindle and not the actual blog page, you can go to your computer’s web browser and type in http://smarturl.it/nov4 and enter away!

Website Owners / Authors

Several people have asked me on previous giveaways how they can have their web visitors, blog readers, and friends join in on future giveaways: the more the merrier! There are two ways:

Just link them to the giveaway page on the blog – just tell them to go to http://smarturl.it/nov4 on their web browser.
You can embed a widget just like the one I have on this page to your website or blog page. Just click here and follow the easy instructions (if I can figure it out as an accountant, it has to be easy). All entries will go into the same hat!

That should do it – and good luck to everyone!

Michael

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Today's Featured Kindle Book

October 29, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 1 Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is Helga: Out of Hedgelands, by Rick Johnson, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 17 customer reviews.

Category: Children & Middle Grade

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

Twelve-year-old Helga has more danger in her life than most beasts her age—Wrackshee slavers after her, a vicious attack by bandits that nearly kills her, a race against dragons pursuing her, and leading a daring rebellion to save her life and rescue friends and family from the insidious WooZan. And that is just the beginning. But what do you expect when you are a young beast who just can’t see the stupid rules of the world making any sense? Helga can’t accept things as they are and ends up taking on not just one, but two all-powerful, supreme tyrants in two different realms.

Helga never intended to lead a revolution. It just sort of happened because she wouldn’t go along with the “rules of normal” that keep tyrants in power and entire societies enslaved. Beginning on a dangerous quest to solve some mysteries in her own past, Helga leads her quirky comrades on a journey that will not only forever change them, but upset ancient civilizations.

As an author, I’m drawn to eccentric, unexpected characters: those who surprise because they hear a distant galaxy, see a different music, create their own fragrance rather than get hooked on a soundtrack; the child who has her own ideas about how the emperor is dressed; the lunatics and rebels who tell stories on the boundaries. Helga’s unusual story will take readers to worlds they never imagined—definitely a whole new ride.

Time and again, the unconventional heroine and her eccentric comrades overcome ominous tyrants and black-hearted slavers, not by battling to the last beast standing, but by being the first beast to think differently.

Helga: Out of Hedgelands is divided into three books which introduce the epic saga of the Wood Cow clan and their role in overturning centuries of slavery and tyranny. This story will continue in additional volumes of the Wood Cow Chronicles now in development. Over the series of current and future volumes, the entire history of the Wood Cow clan, the fall of Maev Astuté, and the coming of Lord Farseeker to the Outer Rings, will be told.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/helga into your web browser to pick up your copy of Helga: Out of Hedgelands.

About the Author:

I am a native of the Great Plains, having grown up on a farm in the Platte River Valley of western Nebraska. I love the wild beauty of the Plains and nearby Rocky Mountains–the too hot, too cold, too empty, too full of life extremes. Typically, the awesomely diverse and the awesomely stark are much the same, even as they are different. Although I have lived in Michigan, North Carolina, and British Columbia, the western plains, mountains, and desert are in my heart.

As my day job, for over thirty years I have been a faculty member and administrator in higher education. Teaching broadly in the liberal arts, including creative writing, my professional publications include educational materials, poems, and 28 stories for young readers. During my spare hours, I have also collected and carefully studied the records of former times upon which the Wood Cow Chronicles are based. It is my privilege to bring this astonishing saga to light.

The Wood Cow Chronicles have been researched and written with the irreplaceable assistance of Barbara, my beloved wife of more than thirty-five years, and our children. Indeed, the essential research into the history of the Wood Cows has been conducted during the odd hours of family reading and storytelling “around the campfire” as we say–even when there is no campfire! This research continues and grows richer as our family expands across generations and continents.

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

More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

October 29, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Included in this post are more free and discounted Kindle book offers to start your Tuesday: for those books listed as being “free” in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could change at any time!

Magic After Dark, a six-book box set collection by Deanna Chase, Dannika Dark, Marie Hall, S.M. Reine, Kate Danley, and Danielle Monsch, is regularly $9.99 but has been discounted 90% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 11 customer reviews.

Category: Urban Fantasy / Paranormal Romance

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

Dive into six different worlds of vampires, demons, fae, fairy godmothers, mages, and all things magic. Prepare for a wild ride, whether you’re looking for nail-biting drama, mystery, intense action, humor, new breeds of paranormals, or passionate romance. Indulge in this amazing boxed set from six bestselling urban fantasy authors:

SM Reine – Sacrificed in Shadow
Marie Hall – Crimson Night
Deanna Chase – Influential Magic
Danielle Monsch – Fairy Tales and Ever Afters
Kate Danley – Maggie for Hire
Dannika Dark – Sterling

SACRIFICED IN SHADOW by SM Reine
Lincoln Marshall is a small-town deputy with a very big problem. Six members of his church have been found dead, killed by a rogue werewolf. He’ll have to make a deal with the Devil to save victims that have gone missing — maybe literally. Elise Kavanagh, preternatural investigator and exorcist, is the expert when it comes to violent deaths at the jaws of evil. She’s also among the most powerful demons that Hell has spawned. Elise jumps at Lincoln’s case, and it’s not just because of his down-home charm. Someone’s laid a trap for her in Northgate, and she wants to find out who….

CRIMSON NIGHT by Marie Hall
Welcome one and all to Carnival Diabolique- my name is Pandora, and I’m a Nephilim. What does that mean? I’m half demon, what’s my other name? Lust. But I’m not all bad. I fight for light, for goodness and truth. But people are starting to disappear and lately I’ve felt a dark presence lurking around me. I think it might be a death priest and that’s really bad. This should have been easy, me killing fanged freaks, getting rid of my pesky priest problem, but I’m about to be betrayed by the one person I thought I could trust with my life and before the night is through I’ll be covered in crimson… -Dark Urban Fantasy

INFLUENTIAL MAGIC by Deanna Chase
Welcome to the Crescent City, the home of Willow Rhoswen, faery and magical baker extraordinaire. While fighting for her life, Willow is caught between two gorgeous men as she navigates the corruption of a powerful vampire organization and her own supernatural government agency.

FAIRY TALES AND EVER AFTERS by Danielle Monsch
If you like your fairy tales just a little twisted, this is the series for you! Three tales follow our fairy godmothers as they figure out ways to help the damsels – and mansels – in distress, all the while making sure every couple gets their happily ever after.

MAGGIE FOR HIRE by Kate Danley
When monsters appear on earth, Maggie MacKay is on the job. No one is better at hauling the creepy crawlies back where they belong… no one except her dad, who disappeared mysteriously in the middle of an assignment. When an elf named Killian shows up with a gig, Maggie finds herself at the center of a plot to turn the earth into a vampire playground. The only hope for survival is tracking down two missing statues and a secret that disappeared with Maggie’s father.

Warning: This book contains cussing, brawling, and unladylike behavior. Proceed with caution.

STERLING (MAGERI SERIES: BOOK 1) by Dannika Dark
Follow the journey of a young woman’s claim to immortality and her own identity. Zoë Merrick’s human life ends when she is brutally attacked by a Mage who gives her the gift of immortality. She soon discovers they are not magicians, but powerful beings who can manipulate energy. Justus De Gradi steps forward to act as her Ghuardian, teaching her how to fight to protect the light within her. Will she learn to accept her fate and trust those around her? Urban Fantasy Romance Series.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/432 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Magic After Dark.

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Origins, by Mark Henrikson, 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 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 86 customer reviews.

Category: Action & Adventure

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

Dr. Holmes was thoroughly bored with his psychiatric profession until he met Hastelloy. The man is named after a durable metal capable of surviving under high-stress service where more common materials fail; ironic considering he’s an insane asylum patient.

Hastelloy is convinced he’s locked in a battle for the survival of mankind with the mysterious species Alpha. This conflict supposedly began when Hastelloy and his alien crew crashed on Earth during the time of ancient Egypt. Dr. Holmes listens with understandable skepticism to the patient’s story about his involvement with building the Great Pyramid and Sphinx, bringing about the rise of Pharaohs, and even assisting Moses with the slave exodus to the Promised Land. Is Hastelloy crazy, or is it crazy to ignore him?

Meanwhile, a group of archeologists make new discoveries in the Giza plateau. While investigating previously unknown chambers found inside the Great Pyramid and Sphinx they come face to face with elements intent on preserving those secrets. Egypt’s recorded history, and Hastelloy’s true mental state, are drawn into question by what they find.

All the while a National Security Agent grapples with NASA amid the launch of a new deep space probe capable of broadcasting a message that will be heard by others. Is this threat a product of NSA paranoia or an attempt by alien influences on Earth to phone home? Both sides will stop at nothing to further their cause.

Mankind’s past present and future are revealed in this gripping thriller that does not let go for a single page, and has enough twists and turns to test even the most sturdy safety harness. The Origins of all will be revealed.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/267 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Origins.
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Dogschwitz, by Kim Cano, is regularly $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 4.9 out of 5 stars based on 18 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Fiction

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

When a basset hound named Rory survives the animal control gas chamber and becomes an internet celebrity, he attracts the attention of Anita, a just-dumped-by-her-boyfriend, luckless burger flipper, who travels cross country to adopt him.

Spurred by an online group called Animal Warriors, Anita then embarks on a mission to improve animal rights. Along the way, Rory brings Anita true love and financial success through a chance encounter with America’s 1%, proving her spontaneous rescue of Rory was the best decision of her life.

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

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True Ghost Stories: Jim Harold’s Campfire 2, by Jim Harold, is just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars based on 95 customer reviews.

Category: Paranormal

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

70 Spooky Stories of REAL PARANORMAL ACTIVITY That Will Keep You Up At Night!!! 60+ Five Star Reviews!

-A Walking Ouija Board
-A Ghost Nanny Who Helps Out With The Baby
-An Answering Machine Message From The Dearly Departed
-A Man Who Experienced The Plot Of A Horror Movie, 20 Years Before It Was Made!
-A Haunted Recliner That Terrorizes Those Who Are Unfortunate To Possess It
-PLUS 65 More TRUE, Gut Wrenching Stories of Real Paranormal Activity From The Popular Campfire Podcast

WARNING: DON’T BUY THIS BOOK IF YOU ARE EASILY FRIGHTENED!!!!
Jim’s book editor said, “I’m glad I am finished editing your book. Your stories freaked me out! I couldn’t sleep at night!!!”

FREE Audio Download With Purchase
On this special audio Campfire, exclusively created for readers of TRUE GHOST STORIES: Jim Harold’s Campfire 2, Jim replays the audio of his 5 favorite stories from this compilation.
You will hear the original retelling of these stories by actual Campfire callers. It is a paranormal countdown in the spirit of the old Top 40 radio shows.

Using the link EXCLUSIVELY SHARED WITH CAMPFIRE 2 READERS IN THE BOOK, you’ll be able to download or stream this BONUS content to the device of your choice. It is Jim’s special thank you gift!

10 Million Downloads Can’t Be Wrong!
Jim Harold’s paranormal podcasts have been downloaded over 10 million times since 2010, and the program that gets the most response is his popular Campfire show. In this book, TRUE GHOST STORIES: Jim Harold’s Campfire 2, Jim shares 70 of the best stories ever featured on the program. You’ll read REAL PEOPLE’s experiences with ghosts plus some UFO, cryptid and angel stories added for flavor.

REAL WORLD PARANORMAL ACTIVITY
If you like The Conjuring, The Amityville Horror or The Exorcist you’ll love the real thing! BUY TRUE GHOST STORIES: Jim Harold’s Campfire 2 TODAY!

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/1112 into your web browser to pick up your copy of True Ghost Stories: Jim Harold’s Campfire 2.

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IMPOSTER: The Protectors Series — Book One, by Karen Fenech, 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 October 31st.

Category: Romantic Suspense

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

THE PROTECTORS: Though they work independently and at times are oceans apart, their ties to each other remain strong. They’re related by blood or bond – this group of men and women in law enforcement, government intelligence, and the military who do what others cannot to serve, defend, and protect.

IMPOSTER: The Protectors Series – Book One

Chemist Dr. Eve Collins, wrongly accused by the CIA of developing and marketing a chemical weapon, learns she has been set up as a scapegoat by someone seeking to hide his own guilt. That “someone” wants her dead. Her life depends on making no mistakes – like trusting the Central Intelligence agent assigned to her case, a man she’s falling in love with.

CIA Operative John Burke doesn’t believe her claim of innocence. When an attempt is made on her life, he believes her accomplice has turned on her. But something doesn’t add up about Eve and her role in this crime she’s accused of. Burke has too many questions, including – has his judgment been compromised by his fierce attraction to her?

It’s a question Burke asks himself again and again but when he learns Eve’s would-be assassin is close, he goes on the run with her. It’s a temporary solution – running will not keep her safe. Burke must find the assassin – or die trying.

Click here to pick up your copy of IMPOSTER: The Protectors Series — Book One.

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Perilous, by Tamara Hart Heiner, 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 58 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free for today only.

Category: Suspense

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

Jaci Rivera joins her best friends Callie, Sara and Amanda for a night of pizza and shopping. But an evening at the mall turns into a terrifying twist of events that drive Jaci and her friends 2000 miles across the Canadian border. The girls find themselves alone and running from unknown enemies on all sides, and not even the police can be trusted. . . . Detective Carl Hamilton is called out on a homicide case where the partially decayed body of an unidentified teenage girl is found along a remote highway. He is drawn into a life and death race to stop the killers before they strike again.

Click here to pick up your copy of Perilous.

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