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The Scent of Lies

January 31, 2014 by Michael Gallagher 1 Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is The Scent of Lies, by Debra Burroughs, and is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 191 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

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

OVERVIEW of The Scent of Lies:
• A smokin’ hot lady P.I. with a close circle of friends
• A wife wrongfully accused of her husband’s death
• A sexy new police detective in town
A captivating and exciting story, The Scent of Lies is Book 1 in the Paradise Valley Mystery series. Twenty-eight-year old Emily Parker’s world is flipped upside down when her dashing private-eye husband is killed, and she begins to unravel clues that maybe he wasn’t who he claimed to be.

With the help of her closest girlfriends and the sexy new police detective in town, Emily takes over her late husband’s business and searches for answers to his murder. When another woman’s husband turns up dead, Ms. Parker is hired to find the real killer before the wife is sent to prison, putting Emily’s own life in danger.

A story overflowing with friendships, murder mystery, romance, and intrigue–think “Sex and the City” meets “Nancy Drew”.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/4g733y into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Scent of Lies.

About the Author:

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Debra Burroughs can be found most days sitting in front of her computer in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, dreaming up and writing about strong women, their relationships with men (good and bad), involved in exciting, mysterious, and romantic situations.

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

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More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

January 31, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

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

Steal Me, Cowboy, by Kim Boykin, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today 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: Romance

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

Unbeknownst to her boyfriend, Sassy South Carolina hairstylist, Rainey Brown, is headed to Missoula, dead set on giving her minor league baseball player boyfriend of four years an ultimatum. Either put a ring on it or let her go, preferably not the latter.

When Rainey’s piece of crap car dies in the middle of Nowhere, Montana, she’s sure she’s a goner, until gorgeous restaurateur Beck Hartnett stops to help. Beck falls hard for Rainey, and knows she would admit she’s fallen for him too, if she wasn’t too stubborn to admit it. Beck has five days before the car is repaired to steal Rainey away from a boyfriend who doesn’t deserve her. Five days before she’s gone for good.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/m2ntss into your web browser to pick up your copy of Steal Me, Cowboy .

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The Color of Light, by Helen Maryles Shankman, is regularly $5.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 74 customer reviews.

Category: Women’s Fiction

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

At the American Academy of Classical Art, popular opinion has it that the school’s handsome and mysterious founder, Raphael Sinclair, is a vampire. It is a rumor Rafe does nothing to dispel.

Scholarship student Tessa Moss has long dreamed of the chance to study at Rafe’s Academy. But she is floundering amidst the ups and downs of a relationship with egotistical art star Lucian Swain.

Then, one of Tessa’s sketches catches Rafe’s attention: a drawing of a young woman in 1930s clothing who is covering the eyes of a child. The suitcase at her feet says Wizotsky. Sofia Wizotsky, the love of Rafe’s life, was lost during the Holocaust. Or was she? Rafe suspects Tessa may be the key to discovering what really happened.

As Rafe finds excuses to interact with Tessa, they quickly discover they cannot deny their growing attraction to one another. It is an attraction forbidden by the Academy Board and disapproved of by anyone familiar with Rafe’s playboy reputation and Tessa’s softhearted innocence. But what if fate has other plans for Tessa and Rafe? What if they break all rules to succumb to a passion that defies history

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/5b2291 into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Color of Light.

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It Started with a Whisper, by A.W. Hartoin, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 27 customer reviews.

Category: Young Adult

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

Wishes are powerful things, if you belong to the MacClarity clan. You can ask Grandpa for anything and he’ll make it come true, even though he’s been dead for nearly a hundred years. Ernest MacClarity doesn’t take the rumors about Grandpa too seriously. But when he’s had enough of his teacher’s harassment, Ernest asks Grandpa to take care of Miss Pritchett for him. Grandpa does and family secrets start to surface like magic. During a summer filled with both fear and fun, Ernest begins to realize that Grandpa isn’t the only special thing about his family, and their oddities aren’t just skin deep. Too bad he didn’t know sooner.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/vjj4s4 into your web browser to pick up your copy of It Started with a Whisper.

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Faery Worlds: Six Complete Novels , by Elle Casey, JL Bryan, Tara Mya, Anthea Sharp, Jenna Elizabeth Johnson and Alexia Purdy, is just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 85 customer reviews.

Category: Fantasy

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

A stunning sampler collection featuring the first books in six fan-favorite series by six bestselling, award-winning fantasy authors! Discover the many worlds of Faerie in these novels filled with adventure, love, and – of course – Fae Magic. NOTE: Together, these books have over 570 5-star reviews on Amazon!
(Best for readers 14 and up)

THE UNFINISHED SONG (Book One): INITIATE – TARA MAYA
Dindi longs to become a Tavaedi, one of the powerful warrior-dancers who secret magics are revealed only to those who pass a mysterious Initiation. The problem? No-one in Dindi’s clan has ever passed the Test. But Dindi has a plan.

WAR OF THE FAE: BOOK 1 (THE CHANGELINGS) – ELLE CASEY
Jayne Sparks, a potty-mouthed, rebellious seventeen-year-old, and her best friend, shy and bookish Tony Green, have a typical high school existence – until, along with a group of runaway teens, they are hijacked and sent into a forest where nothing is as it seems. Who will emerge triumphant? And what will they be when they do?

FAIRY METAL THUNDER – JL BRYAN
A teenage garage band steals instruments from the fairy world and begins enchanting crowds, but their shortcut to success soon turns them into enemies of the treacherous Queen Mab.

FEYLAND: THE DARK REALM – ANTHEA SHARP
Faeries. Computer games. When realms collide, a hero from the wrong side of the tracks and the rich girl he’s afraid to love must risk everything to defeat the dangerous fey.
What if a high-tech computer game was a gateway to the perilous Realm of Faerie…

FAELOREHN – JENNA ELIZABETH JOHNSON
Meghan has been strange her entire life: her eyes change color and she sees and hears things no one else can. When the visions get worse, she is convinced she has finally gone crazy. That is, until the mysterious Cade shows up with an explanation of his own.

EVER SHADE (A DARK FAERIE TALE #1) – ALEXIA PURDY
A dark twist on faeries. For Shade, a chance meeting with a powerful Teleen Faery warrior who wields electrical currents and blue fires along his skin, has her joining him on a treacherous mission for the good Seelie Faerie Court across the land of Faerie. Magic and malice abound and nothing is what it appears to be .

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/faeryworlds into your web browser to pick up your copy of Faery Worlds: Six Complete Novels.

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Lessons in Love , by Victoria Sinclair, 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 23 customer reviews.

Category: Romance

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

Emily Peterson finally has the chance to begin her business degree after working for years to support her younger brother and sister, who were left in her care after their mother passed away. There she meets the infuriating but devastatingly attractive Nicholas Cavanaugh, lecturer and successful businessman.

Unfortunately, they get off on the wrong foot, and although there’s a definite attraction between them there are just too many obstacles that stand in their way. Or are there?

Despite their professional relationship, Emily and Nicholas find it hard to stay apart, even when everything in their lives seems destined to drive a wedge between them.

Can Nicholas and Emily overcome their differences and find true love, or will they miss out on their one chance to find happiness?

Click here to pick up your copy of Lessons in Love .

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Ocean of Fear, by Helen Hanson, 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 6 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery & Thrillers

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

Meet Baxter Cruise. Gifted robotics student. Spammer for hire.

His cozy world of lattes and free wi-fi explodes when a hippie professor disappears, and Baxter discovers a lady professor’s warm corpse on campus.

With his secretive lifestyle, he hasn’t cultivated any real friends. When a student asks for help with a class assignment, Baxter figures it’ll throttle his funk. But the guy blackmails Baxter into programming narcotics delivery vehicles for a notorious cartel. Working for drug lords rattles the needle on Baxter’s errant moral compass, but it’s better than a bullet in the head.

Beautiful FBI agent Claudia Seagal tracks the professor’s brutal assassin, but every angle of her investigation leads to Baxter. He’s hiding something and in far too deep to cooperate with the law. Baxter ignores the cartel’s depravity until he watches someone die. When he wakes up to the truth, it’s too late for remorse.

In bed with dangerous allies, the cartel requires Baxter’s talent until the robots are complete. Then, he and thousands of others face certain death unless Baxter can find a way to escape.

Click here to pick up your copy of Ocean of Fear.

Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

January 31, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

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

The Peregrine Prophecy , by Daren T. Patrick, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 13 customer reviews.

Category: Fantasy

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

Named one of the “Best Indie Fantasy Books Worth a Read” on Goodreads
It’s been almost two months since Karsen Morgate fled Aystin, and he’s still running for his life. Colored with loss, death and betrayal, his journey has intersected with the nefarious Shroud and the deadly Fashwei, an ancient martial brotherhood trained in stealth and brutality.

With danger at every turn, Karsen does the only thing he knows to do: he keeps going. He still carries the Cloudstone carving bestowed upon him by Adept Noxyn, and is determined to deliver it to Adept Ghyre as he promised. The only problem is that Adept Ghyre is nowhere to be found—if he even still lives.

As Karsen slowly puts the pieces together, he comes to realize that his mission is more intricately tied up with the history of Tholann than he ever could have imagined—and more shockingly, it somehow involves the disappearance of his sister, Elysse, six years earlier. For it appears that Karsen himself is playing a central role in fulfilling an ancient prophecy, one that will bring him face to face with an unimaginably powerful evil, and lead him to the greatest mystery of them all:

The Rithhek Cage.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/si2m7q into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Peregrine Prophecy .

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Rise to Power (The David Chronicles), by Uvi Poznansky, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 14 customer reviews.

Category: Historical Fiction

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

Here is the story of David as you have never heard it before: from the king himself, telling the unofficial version, the one he never allowed his court scribes to recount. In his mind, history is written to praise the victorious—but at the last stretch of his illustrious life, he feels an irresistible urge to tell the truth. In the first volume, Rise to Power, David gives you a fascinating account of his early years, culminating with a tribal coronation. Rooted in ancient lore, his is a surprisingly modern memoir.

In an era of cruelty, when destroying the enemy is deemed a sacred directive, the slayer of Goliath finds a way to become larger than life. His search for a path to power leads him in ways that are, at times, scandalous. Notorious for his contradictions, David is seen by others as a gifted court entertainer, a successful captain in Saul’s army, a cunning fugitive, a traitor leading a gang of felons, and a ruthless raider of neighboring towns who leaves no witnesses behind.

How does he see himself, during this first phase of his life? With his hands stained with blood, can he find an inner balance between conflicting drives: his ambition for the crown, his determination to survive the conflict with Saul, and his longing for purity, for a touch of the divine, as expressed so lyrically in his psalms and music?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/13slf9 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Rise to Power (The David Chronicles).

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The Man Called Bowdry, by Van Holt, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 33 customer reviews. I read this one a couple of months ago and rated it a 4 out of 5 stars in my review: you can check out that review if you click here. If you think the review was helpful, I would appreciate a “Yes” vote just underneath the review on the Amazon website.

Category: Western

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

Not much is known for certain about the man called Bowdry. The bare facts are as follows. Sometime around 1880 he rode into Gray Buttes, Nevada–a long forgotten town–stayed for a time at the Pollard shack out in the hills and, after the old man was killed, made relentless war on the neighboring 3-Bar outfit which was run by the Wadley clan, known thieves and rustlers. Then he disappeared, to be seen no more, nor was he ever heard of again.

He was the only one who knew how so many men ended up dead in the boulder-strewn hills around the old Pollard shack, and he never told anyone, unless it was the wild and beautiful redheaded woman named Lucy Reardon.

There were those who doubted if his real name was Bowdry. Some even suspected that he was really old man Pollard’s long-lost son and that his name was Will Pollard, a mysterious gunfighter who roamed the early West. But before the stranger appeared it had never occurred to anyone that old man Pollard might have a son, and most would have laughed at the notion that he was related in any way to the legendary gunfighter who happened to have the same last name.
No one knew very much about the old man. No one even knew what his first name was. The people of Gray Buttes just called him old man Pollard or old Pollard, and smiled in a certain condescending way when they mentioned him.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/bowdry into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Man Called Bowdry.

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The Laughing Policeman: My brilliant career in the NZ Police, by Glenn Wood, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 36 customer reviews.

Category: Memoirs and Biographies

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

The Laughing Policeman: My Brilliant Career in the New Zealand Police is the hilarious account of Glenn’s adventures as a police cadet from the time he first thought of the idea as a naïve teenager who hoped the uniform might attract girls, to his first nervous and calamitous months on the beat.

A multitude of disasters accompany Glenn during his testing year at police training college. No-one is more surprised than he is to survive, relatively intact, the physical, intellectual and emotional challenges of such a rigorous course and to emerge as a highly-trained, competent police constable. Well, more or less…

This is a warm and funny book that was a best seller in New Zealand but will appeal to anyone who loves a laugh.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/d592qz into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Laughing Policeman: My brilliant career in the NZ Police.

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Blood of the King , by Bruce Blake, 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 38 customer reviews.

Category: Epic Fantasy

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

A kingdom torn by war. A curse whispered by dying lips. A hero born against his
will.

Khirro never wanted to be anything more than the farmer he was born to be, but a Shaman’s curse binds him to the fallen king and his life changes forever.

Driven by the Shaman’s dying words, Khirro’s journey pits him against an army of the dead, sends him through haunted lands, and thrusts him into the jaws of beasts he wouldn’t have
believed existed. In one hand he carries the Shaman’s enchanted sword, a weapon he can barely use; in the other he holds a vial of the king’s blood, the hope of the kingdom. His destination: the Necromancer’s keep in the cursed land of Lakesh. Only the mysterious outlaw magician can raise the king from the dead to save them all from the undead invasion, but can Khirro live long enough to deliver the vial?
Can a coward save a kingdom?

Book 1 in the Khirro’s Journey epic fantasy trilogy.

Click here to pick up your copy of Blood of the King .

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Running Stupid , by Morris Fenris, James Kipling and Ezra White, 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 42 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

Running Stupid is an intense, slick thriller with a liberal dose of comedy and an injection of suspense. It is a roller coaster of emotions, taking the reader on a high octane journey as the hapless, apathetic protagonist encounters serial killers, sociopaths, liars and fraudsters before finding himself face to face with the ultimate test of fortitude.

Matthew Jester is a lucky man. He has cruised through life on a tide of fortune, succeeding in every aspect of his existence. Now he wants to test his good fortune, to push it to the extreme, and his luck is about to run out — his world is about to unravel. He becomes the chief suspect in a high profile murder case and discovers that he is public enemy number one. The country hates him, they want him dead, and no matter how far he runs, no matter which direction he takes, he keeps finding himself in the clutches of the darkest and most depraved elements of society. He thinks his luck has finally run out, that his life has hit rock bottom, but what he doesn’t know is that things are a lot worse than they seem.

Click here to pick up your copy of Running Stupid .

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The Writer’s Conference

January 30, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is The Writer’s Conference, by Marian D. Schwartz, and is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just $1.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 18 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Fiction

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

Laura Belmont has finished writing her first novel, and she hopes it will change her life.

Laura quits her job, ends the ten-year affair she’s had with her married boss, and heads off to The Clymer Workshop, one of the oldest writers’ conferences in the country, where she wants to make a connection with one of the famous staff authors or a well-known literary agent to help her get published.

The conference is in a picturesque setting, but the atmosphere is anything but tranquil. From the moment Laura arrives, she feels the intensity of two hundred people who have come for the same reason she is there. The male writers on the staff are more interested in having sex with her than in her manuscript. Anxiety builds with each day as her hopes dwindle, leading Laura to think that she’s made the wrong choice in wanting to be an author. Then something extraordinary happens that makes her change her mind.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/13014 into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Writer’s Conference.

About the Author:

I was born and raised in Buffalo, New York. Reading was my escape from the legendary Buffalo winters and probably contributed to my becoming a writer.

The seed for the novel The Writers’ Conference was an experience I had at a writers’ conference. I had never been in an atmosphere that intense. It was a shock! When I came home, I started working on the book. I wanted to capture that intensity.

The Writers’ Conference took me over thirty years to write. I worked on it every five years while writing my other books, then put it away again until I felt I had captured it. My goal was a fast, entertaining read that pulled the curtain back on a world most readers will never see.

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

Free Kindle Book from Phoenix Publishing

January 30, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Phoenix Publishing offers one free eBook each month in a variety of eBook formats, including the Kindle; I’ve picked up a couple of really good science fiction novels from them for free that they simultaneously have for sale in the Amazon Kindle store for prices up to $9.99. This month’s free pick is called The Garden of the Stone, by Victoria Strauss, which you should be pleased to note while this book costs $4.99 in the Amazon Kindle website, you can get it for free if you follow the instructions below. This book is also rated 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 16 reviews on the Amazon website.

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

Point your web browser to www.ppickings.com
Scroll down about 900% of the way on the right-hand side of the web page until you see the The Garden of the Stone title under the author header “Strauss, Victoria>” – this page is a little “busy” with lots of text and images.
Click on the “FREE EBOOK of the Month” text immediately under the book’s cover.
Your computer will next open up a new web browser, which asks you for a coupon code. The code for this month is: 9991387
Once you type in the coupon code, click the “submit” button.
You have the option of signing up for their free eBook newsletter. That’s your choice (I obviously signed up), and you do not have to sign up in order to receive the free eBook.
Make your choice and click the appropriate button.
At the next screen, scroll all the way down where you have a choice in what eBook format you would like to receive the eBook; you want to choose the “Mobi” version as that is the one most compatible with your Kindle.
You will next have the option of opening or saving the file. Let’s choose “save” and make sure you save it to a location on your computer you will remember.
As a final step, you will need to transfer the eBook from your computer to your Kindle: that’s a fairly easy process. If you don’t know how to do that, you can click here or type in http://smarturl.it/xfer into your web browser to read my free guide on how to transfer content to your computer. This is the same guide I charge 99 cents for in the Amazon Kindle store, but you get it for free.

Here is the book’s description:

It was a living entity of power beyond understanding—not even by the men who had used its energies to control the unGifted masses, ever since the wrenching cataclysm that shattered the union of Hand and Mind and split the world centuries ago. Then came Bron, his arrival long foretold, destined to restore the balance between Hand and Mind. But Bron had other plans. He stole the Stone…and vanished.

Now Bron’s daughter Cariad, a powerful empath and skilled assassin, must follow the footsteps of a father she has never known, into the depths of the same Fortress. Waiting there is Jolyon, her father’s deadly enemy, a man whose thirst for domination is matched only by his taste for blood…and who possesses the power to satisfy both appetites. Cariad must learn the secret of Jolyon’s strength before it is too late. For just as her father’s arrival was prophesied, so too is his return. And this time Jolyon is ready—for Bron to die.

Enjoy!

Michael

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More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

January 30, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

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

Lies of the Dead , by Shauna Bickley, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars based on 8 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

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

What would you risk to find the truth?

How well do we know those closest to us? When Liam kills himself, his older brother Tom needs to know why suicide was the only solution.

Tom and his sister Andi search for answers but don’t know who they can believe. Are Liam’s friends and associates the people they claim to be? Tom and Andi are propelled into a world where their ideas of right and wrong don’t exist, and where people demand what neither of them possesses.

Liam’s legacy of deceit is dangerous, and when Andi and her twin daughters are threatened, Tom realises that truth may have too high a price.

What would you risk for the truth?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/81yrl1 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Lies of the Dead .

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Becoming Lola, by Harriet Steel is regularly $1.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 9 customer reviews.

Category: Memoirs and Biographies

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

Becoming Lola is a biographical novel based on historical fact. It brings to vibrant life the true story of Eliza Gilbert, the daughter of an obscure Ensign in the British Army and his cold Irish wife. When she grew up, Eliza changed her name to Lola Montez. She was a dancer, a courtesan, a bigamist, the mistress of a king and the nineteenth-century’s most notorious adventuress. Blazing like a female firecracker across the stages and courts of Europe and beyond, she was, for a while, second only to Queen Victoria in fame.

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

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Keeping Score, by Jami Deise, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 48 customer reviews.

Category: Women’s Fiction

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

#3 Best Seller and Recipient of the Crowned Heart Award from In’Dtale Magazine!
When her 9-year-old son wanted to play summer travel baseball, Shannon had no idea the toughest competition was off the field….

When her son Sam asks to try out for a travel baseball team, divorced mom Shannon Stevens thinks it’ll be a fun and active way to spend the summer. Boy, is she wrong! From the very first practice, Shannon and Sam get sucked into a mad world of rigged try-outs, professional coaches, and personal hitting instructors. But it’s the crazy, competitive parents who really make Shannon’s life miserable. Their sons are all the second coming of Babe Ruth, and Sam isn’t fit to fetch their foul balls. Even worse, Shannon’s best friend Jennifer catches the baseball fever. She schemes behind the scenes to get her son Matthew on the town’s best baseball team, the Saints. As for Sam? Sorry, there’s no room for him! Sam winds up on the worst team in town, and every week they find new and humiliating ways to lose to the Saints.

And the action off the field is just as hot. Shannon finds herself falling for the Saints’ coach, Kevin. But how can she date a man who didn’t think her son was good enough for his team … especially when the whole baseball world is gossiping about them? Even Shannon’s ex-husband David gets pulled into the mess when a randy baseball mom goes after him. As Sam works to make friends, win games and become a better baseball player, Shannon struggles not to become one of those crazy baseball parents herself. In this world, it’s not about whether you win, lose, or how you play the game… it’s all about KEEPING SCORE.

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

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Family Magic, by Patti Larsen, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 92 customer reviews.

Category: Young Adult Paranormal

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

Her mom’s a witch.
Her dad’s a demon.
And she just wants to be ordinary.

I batted at the curl of smoke drifting off the tip of my candle and tried not to sneeze. My heavy velvet cloak fell in oppressive, suffocating folds in the closed space of the ceremony chamber, the cowl trapping the annoying bits of puff I missed. I hated the way my eyes burned and teared, an almost constant distraction. Not that I didn’t welcome the distraction, to be honest. Anything to take my mind from what went on around me.

Being part of a demon raising is way less exciting than it sounds.

Sydlynn Hayle’s life couldn’t be more complicated. Trying to please her coven, starting over in a new town, and fending off a bully cheerleader who hates her are just the beginning of her troubles. What to do when delicious football hero Brad Peters–boyfriend of her cheer nemesis–shows interest? If only the darkly yummy witch, Quaid Moromond, didn’t make it so difficult for her to focus on fitting in with the normal kids. Add to that her crazy grandmother’s constant escapes driving her family to the brink and Syd’s between a rock and a coven site. Forced to take on power she doesn’t want to protect a coven who blames her for everything, only she can save her family’s magic.
If her family’s distrust doesn’t destroy her first.

Click here to pick up your copy of Family Magic.

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The Enemy We Know, by Donna White Glaser, 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 159 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

Book One in the Letty Whittaker 12 Step Mystery series – a mix of suspense and humor with deadly consequences.

Psychotherapist Letty Whittaker, a professional secret keeper, has a secret of her own. When one of her clients slips free from an abusive boyfriend, Letty becomes the target of his violent rage. Wayne invades Letty’s life, slithering his way past the barriers erected between her personal and professional lives, leaving gifts of dead rats, mutilated dolls, and freaky Shakespearian sonnets.

Worst of all, Wayne uncovers Letty’s deepest shame, infiltrating her AA group and threatening to expose her to the state licensing board. And then–good news–Wayne is murdered. The bad news? The police suspect Letty. Worse yet, the sonnets and bloody souvenirs keep coming. Someone else has been watching Letty. Someone eager to drop bodies at her feet like a cat offering dead mole trophies to his mistress.

Someone willing to kill again.

Click here to pick up your copy of The Enemy We Know.

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Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

January 30, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

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

The Cloudstone Key, by Darren T. Patrick, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 19 customer reviews.

Category: Fantasy

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
In the remote mining village of Aystin, Karsen Morgate secretly longs to explore the world outside the town walls; but instead dutifully spends his nights protecting the precious Cloudstone tiles – mined by his father, and engraved with mystical symbols and lore by the reclusive Adept Noxyn. When his half-brother, Petr, commits a gruesome crime, Karsen is forced to flee his home, carrying with him a tile depicting a unique artifact–the Ennae–entrusted to his care by the Adept himself. Alone, ailing, and on the run, Karsen must find help, find his way, and decipher the true meaning of the Ennae. For he soon realizes that he is being pursued by the dark brotherhood of the Shroud, and that he has somehow become an unwilling pawn in an ancient conflict.

The Shroud is stirring.
The world of Tholann is in danger.
And Karsen Morgate is in the middle of it.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/cloudstone into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Cloudstone Key.

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The Waiting Room, by Piper Punches, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 20 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Fiction

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

Waiting rooms tell stories. They are a medical purgatory. Some sit in the waiting room for hours to be shone the light, graced with blessings. For others this is the final holding room before they are delivered into hell; facing uncertainty, despair, sadness, even death.

When Charlotte receives a note on the day of her mother’s funeral containing a cryptic message, she is confused and intrigued. Although she knew that waiting rooms told stories, she never realized that part of her own story resided in this seemingly neutral environment. But, then again, why should she be surprised? Her mother had secrets. Charlotte knew this. She just didn’t know how life-altering those secrets could be. . .

A stunning debut novel from Piper Punches, The Waiting Room weaves a tale that reveals the complexities of family, the invisible bonds that connect people, and the pain that can reverberate through the choices we make. Told from several points of view the story becomes clearer and clearer with each turn of the page that the secrets we keep aren’t always ours to take to the grave.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/t7m9bk into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Waiting Room.

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Bullet Catch: Smoke & Dagger Book 1, by Scott Jenkins, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 28 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

Bullet Catch is the first novel in the Smoke & Dagger series where the worlds of espionage and illusion collide.

• A Russian killing machine escapes his handlers in Dubai.
• CIA operatives are targeted in Berlin.
• A horrifying murder in a quiet suburb.

How are they connected?

Steve Watson, son of famous television magicians Mike and Nora Watson, accompanies his parents on a trip to Berlin for one last show. But Mike and Nora’s secret past of working with the CIA comes back to haunt them, and they vanish into thin air when a hit squad attacks.

Now CIA operative Dana Fox and the Berlin Police think Steve’s the key to unraveling the killings.

Unfortunately for him, he is.

And Steve’s greatest trick will be to figure out the connection before it’s too late…

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/ulseq0 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Bullet Catch: Smoke & Dagger Book 1.

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The Fiction Writer’s Handbook, by Shelly Lowenkopf, is regularly $7.99 but has been discounted to 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 15 customer reviews.

Category: Non-Fiction

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

ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Finalist

The Fiction Writer’s Handbook is the definitive volume to explain the words and phrases that writers and editors use when they talk about a work. In the highly competitive publishing world, today’s writers need to stay ahead of the competition and make every sentence count. This book will help new writers who need an understanding of the writing process, and seasoned writers will find this an energizing refresher course with new angles.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/7251 into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Fiction Writer’s Handbook.

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Anathema, by Megg Jensen, 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 158 customer reviews.

Category: Fantasy

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

Forget prophecy. Make your own destiny.

Sheltered from the outside world with no hope for escape, slave girl Reychel dreads her fifteenth birthday – when her master’s symbol is burned on the back of her bald scalp. Her best friend disappears the night before, leaving her to face the branding ceremony alone. She soon discovers nothing is as it seems when people desperate for freedom beg for Reychel’s help.

Can Reychel learn to believe in herself?

Click here to pick up your copy of Anathema .

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Yellowstone Heart Song , by Peggy L. Henderson, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 116 customer reviews.

Category: Time Travel Romance

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

“I am not good with words, but you make my heart sing, Aimee…”

Nurse and avid backpacker Aimee Donovan is offered the opportunity of a lifetime. She encounters a patient who tells her he can send her two hundred years into the past to spend three months in the rugged Yellowstone wilderness at the dawn of the mountain man era. The only requirement: she cannot tell anyone that she’s from the future.

How did a white woman suddenly appear in the remote Rocky Mountain wilderness? Trapper Daniel Osborne’s first instinct is to protect this mysterious and unconventional woman from the harsh realities of his mountains. While he fights his growing attraction to her, he is left frustrated by her lies and secrecy.

Daniel shows Aimee a side of Yellowstone she’s never experienced. She is torn between her feelings for him, and exposing a secret that will destroy everything he holds as truth. As her three months come to an end, she is faced with a dilemma: return to her own time, or stay with the man who opened her eyes to a whole new world. When the decision is made for her, both their lives will be changed forever.

Click here to pick up your copy of Yellowstone Heart Song .

A Legacy of Light

January 29, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is A Legacy of Light, by Daniel Arenson, and is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 63 customer reviews.

Category: Fantasy

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

“We live in a time of darkness. Requiem lies cloaked in shadows. Tonight we say: We will fight. We will keep our light blazing.”

A Legacy of Light (The Dragon War, Book One) — a new fantasy trilogy for fans of A Game of Thrones and The Lord of the Rings

The people of Requiem, an ancient kingdom, can grow wings and scales, breathe fire, and take flight as dragons. For years, Requiem’s holy stars have blessed the kingdom with light and magic. But now a darkness falls.

General Cadigus, traitor to the crown, has captured the throne. Bloodthirsty and cruel, he rules with an iron fist. He crushes his own people under his heel. He burns all foreign lands. The noble kingdom of Requiem fades; a dark empire rises.

In the wilderness, a small light kindles. Rebellion brews. The rebels are haggard, outnumbered, and desperate. They hide in forests and ruins. They fight for the memory of Old Requiem, for a legacy of light.

The Resistance is small, but its cry is loud: “The tyrant must fall.”

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/12914 into your web browser to pick up your copy of A Legacy of Light.

About the Author:

Daniel Arenson is a bestselling author of epic fantasy.

Three of his trilogies–Song of Dragons, Dragonlore, and The Dragon War–are set in Requiem, a world where humans can turn into dragons. He’s also the author of Moth, a series about a world torn in two–its one half always in sunlight, the other always dark. Several of Daniel’s novels have hit Amazon’s overall Top 100 bestsellers list; one has hit the Top 20. In total, his books have sold nearly 300,000 copies.

Raised on Dungeons & Dragons, Lord of the Rings, and scratchy Star Wars VHS tapes, Daniel still consumes–and tries to contribute to–geek culture. He lives in Canada with his wife and pet birds.

For news about new books and deals, join Daniel’s mailing list at: DanielArenson.com/MailingList

Website: DanielArenson.com
Facebook: Facebook.com/DanielArenson

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

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal & Free App of the Day

January 29, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Each day, Amazon sponsors the Kindle Daily Deal and the Free App of the Day.

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

Amazon’s free App of the Day can be utilized on a Kindle Fire and Android-based smartphones and tablet computers, and the app can be a game, utility, or who knows? Each app is offered free for 24 hours and, after that period is over it goes back to paid status and a new app is the Free App of the Day.

Kindle Daily Deal

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for adults is My Notorious Life, by Kate Manning, and this book was $9.99 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle Store but has been discounted to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 103 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Teen Daily Deal is The Softwire, by PJ Haarsma, and this book was $7.99 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle Store but has been discounted to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 56 customer reviews. While this one is now being marketed to teens, I read this one a little over two years ago – and the rest of the books in the series – and really enjoyed it and rated it a 5 out of 5 stars in my review. You can read the short and sweet review I wrote if you click here or typing in http://smarturl.it/swireinto your web browser; if you think the review was helpful, I would appreciate a “Yes” vote just underneath the review on the Amazon website.

Today’s Science Fiction / Fantasy Daily Deal is The Gift, by Dave Donovan, and this book was $9.99 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle Store but has been discounted to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 334 customer reviews.

Today’s Romance Daily Deal is Bittersweet, by Noelle Adams, and this book was $9.99 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle Store but has been discounted to just $0.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 137 customer reviews.

Today’s Pets Daily Deal is 51 Puppy Tricks: Step-By-Step Activities to Engage, Challenge, and Bond with Your Puppy, by Kyra Sundance, and this book was $18.99 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle Store but has been discounted to just $2.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 48 customer reviews.

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

Here is the My Notorious Life book description from the Amazon website:

A brilliant rendering of a scandalous historical figure, Kate Manning’s My Notorious Life is an ambitious, thrilling novel introducing Axie Muldoon, a fiery heroine for the ages. Axie’s story begins on the streets of 1860s New York. The impoverished child of Irish immigrants, she grows up to become one of the wealthiest and most controversial women of her day.

In vivid prose, Axie recounts how she is forcibly separated from her mother and siblings, apprenticed to a doctor, and how she and her husband parlay the sale of a few bottles of “Lunar Tablets for Female Complaint” into a thriving midwifery business. Flouting convention and defying the law in the name of women’s reproductive rights, Axie rises from grim tenement rooms to the splendor of a mansion on Fifth Avenue, amassing wealth while learning over and over never to trust a man who says “trust me.”

When her services attract outraged headlines, Axie finds herself on a collision course with a crusading official—Anthony Comstock, founder of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. It will take all of Axie’s cunning and power to outwit him in the fight to preserve her freedom and everything she holds dear.

Inspired by the true history of an infamous female physician who was once called “the Wickedest Woman in New York,” My Notorious Life is a mystery, a family saga, a love story, and an exquisitely detailed portrait of nineteenth-century America. Axie Muldoon’s inimitable voice brings the past alive, and her story haunts and enlightens the present.

You can pick up your copy of My Notorious Life by clicking here or typing in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser.

Here is the The Softwire book description from the Amazon website:

Thirteen-year-old Johnny Turnbull has always known there was something different about him. It turns out he’s the first-ever human softwire —- able to enter and communicate with computers with his mind. Now that JT and two hundred other orphans have been put to work in alien factories on the first ring of Orbis, things are going very wrong. The “perfect” central computer is malfunctioning, and suspicious eyes are turning to JT. Could he be the one responsible?

You can pick up your copy of The Softwire by clicking here or typing in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser.

Here is the The Gift book description from the Amazon website:

When high-level governmental programmer Sam Steele is called into his office on his day off, he quickly finds himself at the center of a battle for humanity itself. An alien entity is heading straight for Earth, and an elite team of specialists has been assembled to attempt to make first contact. But despite Steele’s expertise, Colonel Eric Web, his superior and longtime thorn in his side, makes it clear he doesn’t want him there.

The aliens that arrive represent a long-dead race and say they’ve come to help humans defend themselves against an imminent threat, but their help will come with a price. Now the future of humanity hangs in the balance between two men: Web, the regimented, hubristic military man, and Steele, a brilliant man broken by loss and tragedy.

As the team races the clock to try to divine their visitors’ complex instructions, they struggle with infighting and, ultimately, the question of what it means to be human.

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

Here is the Bittersweet book description from the Amazon website:

Love is the last thing on Zoe’s mind. Widowed at only twenty-six, she’s just trying to get through one lonely day at a time as she grieves her late husband, and finds the energy to take care of her infant son.

As Zoe bravely tries to hold herself together, her husband’s cousin and business partner, Adam, offers his support and friendship. Shattered by her loss, Zoe is distant and resentful at first, but Adam gently persists, and Zoe’s reserve soon begins to crumble…

Adam knows that Zoe needs time to heal but finds himself more and more attracted to her. He knows he must not act on these forbidden feelings, but they just won’t go away…
Noelle Adams’s Bittersweet is a poignant, fearless exploration of friendship, loss, new beginnings, and the healing power of love.

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

Here is the 51 Puppy Tricks: Step-By-Step Activities to Engage, Challenge, and Bond with Your Puppy book description from the Amazon website:

51 Puppy Tricks gives puppy owners the tools they need to teach behaviors and tricks to their puppy through step-by-step instructions and photographs. Most other puppy training books focus on curbing bad behavior. Some have training, but only the most basic tricks. Kyra’s curriculum differs from that of 101 Dog Tricks in that the instructions are geared for the less mature dog. Young puppies are not yet well-tuned to humans, and respond better to a clicker than to a voice. Also, young puppies have so few skills that everyone benefits from a technique called “shaping” which breaks a behavior into minute steps for easier learning. And, of course, puppies receive extra gentle care when we teach, focused more on instilling a love of learning and a communication pathway rather than accomplishing the goal behavior.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of 51 Puppy Tricks: Step-By-Step Activities to Engage, Challenge, and Bond with Your Puppy .

Free App of the Day

Today’s Free App of the Day is iMarble Marble Solitaire Pro , and this app is normally $0.99 in the Amazon App Store but is free for today only.

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

iMARBLE Pro Marble Solitaire / Peg Solitaire / Brainvita / Solo Noble Board Puzzle – 8 of the best boards with full SOLUTIONS! Just clear marbles, balls, fruits etc from the board. Welcome to the world of iMarble!

Thousands of customizable HD themes. No ads, no permissions, kids friendly. Scoreboard, Resume, Undo, Hints, Animation, Sounds, 3D & board-less layouts and more…

The game was invented by a French aristocrat in the 17th century, leading to the name Solo Noble. The game is known simply as Solitaire in the United Kingdom. It is also referred to as Brainvita (especially in India). The most popular names though are Marble Solitaire and Peg Solitaire. It is similar to the Card Solitaire game that is played alone and involves removing cards one by one. Here you need to remove marbles or pegs or other small objects.

You can remove a marble from the board by jumping an adjacent marble over it into a hole by moving it horizontally or vertically. Diagonal moves are not allowed.

Consecutive moves with the same marble is called a sweep and is counted as one move. You should try to solve the board in minimum number of moves to get a higher score.

You can pick from 8 different boards:
1. English Board
2. European (French) Board
3. Wiegleb’s (German) Board
4. Asymmetrical (Cross) Board
5. Continental Board
6. Diamond Board
7. Square 6×6 Board
8. Square 9×9 Board

The Board Themes maker allows you to create your own layout in a few seconds. It features 80 marbles, 80 board styles and 80 screen backgrounds offering over 500 thousand unique layouts. You surely will find many that you like!

Hints allow you to see the valid moves. In case you want to challenge yourself by not seeing this hint, just disable it using the HINTS button. The game also features unlimited UNDO.

The game is easy to master and promises hours of fun. With no ads or other spam ware, you can safely give it to your children and they would like the colorful fruit and ball shaped marbles and the numerous backgrounds.

Happy gaming!

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More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

January 29, 2014 by Michael Gallagher 3 Comments

Immortal, by Pati Nagle, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 12 customer reviews.

Category: Romance

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

What do you do if the most gorgeous guy you’ve ever seen asks for your help?

No brainer. Len Whiting is smitten from the minute she sees the stranger’s amazing eyes. She agrees to help Caeran find the healer he’s been seeking in rural New Mexico. What Len doesn’t know is that neither Caeran nor the healer is human: they’re immortal ælven, and they’re locked in an ancient struggle with the vampires who are their kin. Len wants Caeran’s love, and wants to help the healer find a cure—but first they must cope with the bloodthirsty vampire who’s got his sights set on them all

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

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Magic of Impromptu Speaking: Create a Speech That Will Be Remembered for Years in Under 30 Seconds, by Andrii Sedniev, is regularly $3.97 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 56 customer reviews.

Category: Advice & How-To

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

Magic of Impromptu Speaking is a comprehensive, step-by-step system for creating highly effective speeches in under 30 seconds. It is based on research of the most powerful techniques used by winners of impromptu speaking contests, politicians, actors and successful presenters. The book is entertaining to read, has plenty of examples and covers the most effective tools not only from the world of impromptu speaking but also from acting, stand-up comedy, applied psychology and creative thinking.

Once you master the system, you will grow immensely as an impromptu public speaker, become a better storyteller in a circle of friends and be more creative in everyday life. Your audience members will think that what you do on stage after such short preparation is pure magic and will recall some of your speeches many years later.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/ 0q0yz2 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Magic of Impromptu Speaking: Create a Speech That Will Be Remembered for Years in Under 30 Seconds.

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Deadly Fun, by Pamela M. Richter, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 19 customer reviews.

Category: Romantic Suspense

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

Working in disguise and undercover with an assumed identity, Lo uses her unusual beauty to collect information on lawbreakers. She works for an independent agency associated with the FBI. Her boss knows she has a checkered past, but she’s also smart and independent. Lo has a reputation–she always gets her man.

Her new job involves a cruise to the Bahamas with her boss to investigate an enforcer for the Mob. But this one will prove to be like no other. By the end of the voyage she has chased suspects through the tropical islands, been in physical confrontations with knife, fist and firearms; the deck is awash in blood. Can she survive the deadly fun cruise–and her boss, who may prove to be more deadly than the Mafia men she uncovers?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/ 9jb76y into your web browser to pick up your copy of Deadly Fun.

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The Forever Ones, by Majorie DeLuca, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents 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.

Category: Young Adult

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

Paige is nineteen and genetically altered to stay that age forever. She lives with other “Forevers” like her in the secret IdunaCo. compound, a place where age reversal and immortality has been perfected and the only rules are to live in the moment. Enjoy every minute to its fullest. Be what you want to be for a while and when you get sick of it – be something else.

It all seems perfect until Paige realizes her friends are disappearing. The official word is they’ve been kidnapped by criminals on the outside who want to use them as feeders. Feeders have a short and brutal life – kept in captivity and sucked dry of all their youth cells so the Crime Lords can stay young forever.

When Paige has a breakdown she’s rescued from the Psych Centre by her mysterious but attractive friend Junius who involves her in a daring escape from the compound. Their purpose is to infiltrate the IdunaCo organization and find out what’s really happening to the missing “Forevers”. Paige’s journey is complicated by charismatic musician, Chale, a Keener whose attraction to Paige is flattering but causes tension between her and Junius.

When Chale is slated to disappear Paige and Junius save him in the midst of their escape.
Once outside they learn more about their own special powers, reveal clues to their real identity but also realize the extent to which humans will go to achieve immortality. The mission becomes so dangerous Paige is forced to the limits of her endurance and has to make tough decisions about who she can trust – Junius or Chale.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/448kac into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Forever Ones.

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The Enemy We Know, by Donna White Glaser, 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 156 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

Someone willing to kill again.

Click here to pick up your copy of The Enemy We Know .

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Officer Jones, by Derek Ciccone, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 439 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery & Thrillers

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

As the fearless international correspondent for GNZ News, JP Warner has always risked his life to beat the competition to the story, and received all the notoriety and riches that comes with it. But an event makes him realize that there’s no end to the chase, and the further he runs, the more he loses himself. So he decides to leave the jaded industry, and returns to the idyllic Connecticut town he grew up in, hoping to rediscover the person he once was.

But any chance to find peace shatters when he looks into the eyes of local policeman Kyle Jones. JP sees the same look he’s seen in the many fanatics he’s covered over the years. And soon finds himself on a collision course with Officer Jones, while also battling the forces within himself, as he races to cover the biggest story of his life.

Click here to pick up your copy of Officer Jones .

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