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Megan’s Cure

June 30, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is Megan’s Cure, by Robert Lowe, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 31 customer reviews.

Genre: Mystery

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

“Another engaging thriller in the Enzo Lee series.” – Kirkus Reviews

When 10-year-old Megan Kim disappears from her school on the Alabama Gulf Coast, it has all the signs of a child abduction. However, a more complicated story soon emerges. The action follows Megan and a brilliant but troubled scientist across the South on a desperate mission to evade their pursuers. Big Pharma is intent on burying Megan and the secret she carries.

Meanwhile, reporter Enzo Lee is trying to save his gravely ill grandmother and embarks on a search for a cure. That quest leads him to the fugitive pair. Together, they must confront the wrath of the entire drug industry armed with the deadly tools of organized crime.

On small rural roads, in historic Savannah and on the cold Pacific waters beyond San Francisco Bay the unlikely allies fight to stay alive and bring to light the scientific breakthroughs that will cost the drug companies
billions in lost profits.

Megan’s Cure is an action-filled story played out in the labs and boardrooms of Big Pharma as well as along the rural byroads of the Deep South. This is the third novel in the Enzo Lee mystery thriller series By Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert B. Lowe.

“Gripping…with compelling characters.” – Kirkus Reviews, commenting on Robert B. Lowe’s last novel, Divine Fury.

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About the Author:

Robert B. Lowe is a Pulitzer-prize winning author whose fiction is based in San Francisco, his adopted home. His past experiences – a 12-year career in investigative journalism and a Harvard Law School degree – enable him to write gripping mystery thrillers in both the legal and journalistic fields. Lowe draws his inspiration from John Grisham, Dick Francis and Lee Child and adds his own San Francisco twist. Readers will enjoy his references to the city’s landmarks such as Chinatown, North Beach and Pacific Heights and the Bay area’s foodie culture. When Lowe isn’t writing he enjoys a day at the golf course and spending time with his wife and daughters.

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More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

June 30, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here’s your second group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Monday: for those books listed as being free or discounted in this post – while the pricing of the free and discounted 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 its normal status at any time!

Black Magic Academy, by Emily Martha Sorensen, 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 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 12 customer reviews.

Category: Fantasy

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

Mildred doesn’t like black magic. But her mother was once valedictorian of Black Magic Academy, so her aunts insist she needs to follow in her footsteps and become one too.

Mildred doesn’t want to be part of the popular crowd. Nor does she care about her “death-enemy.” And she certainly has no interest in murderous spells. But if the teachers catch on that she’s actually a good witch . . . well, they don’t react well to that kind of ignominy.

What’s the only good witch in a school of wicked witches to do?

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The Reluctant Hero, by Jackie Weger, 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 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 18 customer reviews.

Category: Romance

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

Parnell Stillman, ace pilot, is man to the bone in a lackadaisical kind of way. He has the ability to fly through anything except solid mountain. He lives alone because people are not to be trusted—especially women. Flying is his high road until one sleet-filled morning–it isn’t. Mischance forces his plane down in a frozen wilderness. He can survive, but his live cargo is another matter–an annoying social worker and five orphans–the most irksome freight he’ has ever hauled in his life.

Rebecca Hollis is determined to force the obnoxious, disagreeable, self-centered pilot to do whatever is necessary to insure the survival and rescue of the orphans…Even if it means making the noble gesture of keeping her mouth shut—or other womanly things. But the pilot isn’t having it. No way. No how. No time. He’d rather dance with a grizzly or wrestle a puma than give his heart over to a conniving, wily do-gooder. Heroics is not his thing. Rebecca Hollis has other ideas—lots of them! All artful and disingenuous—one of which is bound to work… She hopes.

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Harbinger of Doom, a new three-book box set collection by Glenn G. Thater, is regularly $9.99 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 6 customer reviews.

Category: Fantasy

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

GATEWAY TO NIFLEHEIM

While investigating a mysterious fog and otherworldly howling, Claradon’s father, the lord of Dor Eotrus, went missing, along with all his men, heroes all. Now it’s up to Claradon to take up the banner of his noble house and hold back a tide of darkness that threatens to overrun Midgaard and destroy all that he holds dear.

THE FALLEN ANGLE

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

KNIGHT ETERNAL

Lord Theta, Claradon Eotrus, and Ob the gnome battle fanatical monks, deadly bounty hunters, and otherworldly fiends whose slightest touch is death, in their relentless pursuit of Korrgonn, Lord of Nifleheim. Meanwhile, Korrgonn stops at nothing to acquire the fabled Orb of Wisdom, that ancient talisman that can return Azathoth and his kingdom to Midgaard. But the fate of the world turns when Claradon faces DeBoors, the ancient sword-master who has sworn to slay him.

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Mark Cuban: The Maverick Billionaire, by Sean Huff, 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 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 11 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

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

Mark Cuban sits in one of the most high-profile chairs in entertainment. He’s comfortable. Exactly where he wants to be.

A few hundred people in the room have their eyes affixed on him. Several cameras record his five minute interview, which will later be beamed to millions of TV viewers. On either side of him sit two A-list celebrities paying him their undivided attention.

This is Mark Cuban, the energetic, passionate technology genius who turned two companies into billions of dollars of personal wealth before he became a household name when he acquired the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks.

Entrepreneur, media mogul, celebrity and the ultimate sports fan… Mark Cuban is one of the most colorful and controversial billionaires of our time. A self-made man who has inspired millions to follow their own dreams.

“Mark Cuban: The Maverick Billionaire” is the first in the Modern Moguls series of biographical profiles, spotlighting the men and women who shape our modern business landscape.

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Crash, by Michael Robertson, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars based on 46 customer reviews.

Category: Post-Apocalyptic / Horror

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

Chris’ life of luxury is gone, devastated by the collapse of the European economy. Gas, water, and electricity are all cut off. Food is running out. Even his wife and daughter have gone. Huddled in the smallest room of their lavish house with his petrified and dirty eight-year-old son, Chris has made the decision to stay put. A small army of psychotic scavengers is outside, hell-bent on making the once-privileged pay. Chris now knows that not leaving when he had the option was the worst decision of his life.

Cowering in his home, he watches as his neighbours are dragged into the street and brutally executed. The scavengers have one more house to go, and then it will be his turn. He has to act fast, or he and his son will meet the same fate.

Driven by the need to survive, Chris has decided to keep secrets from his son. Secrets that will make all of the events up until this point seem trivial. Secrets that, one way or another, will come out before the day is done.

*** Warning – This is a horror book and contains scenes that may be upsetting for some readers. ***

Click here to pick up your copy of Crash.

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Spirit Me Away, by Aaron Lazar, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based 8 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

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

Boston, Massachusetts: It’s the summer of ’69—the parks are flooded with flower children and a hot new band called Led Zeppelin is set to appear at the Boston Tea Party. But for one newlywed couple just beginning their lives together, there will be no peace.

In the cradle of sex, drugs, and rock ’n roll, Gus and Elsbeth LeGarde are music students attending the New England Conservatory of Music, after a wedding kept secret from their families. When they discover a bruised and sobbing teenage girl on the Boston Commons who can’t remember who she is, or how she got there, the couple decides to “adopt” her to help find her identity.

But Gus and Elsbeth aren’t prepared to be plunged into a violent world of rape, abuse, and a ring of white slave traders who’ll stop at nothing to take back their property—or to acquire new flesh in the form of Gus’s beautiful young bride.

At times nostalgic, heart-stopping, and breathlessly dramatic, Spirit Me Away is a thrilling romantic mystery set against the colorful backdrop of the sixties—with an unforgettable conclusion at the greatest rock festival of all time.

Click here to pick up your copy of Spirit Me Away.

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Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

June 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 to start your Monday: 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 Iron Locket, by Samantha Warren, 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 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 19 customer reviews.

Category: Paranormal

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

She was raised to hunt faeries. He was raised from the dead.

Aiofe Callaghan comes from a long line of faery hunters. Hired by one of the faery queens, they protect the human world from chaos and destruction. But when Aiofe stumbles through an open door into the land of Faery, she discovers the job isn’t as simple as it seems, and neither is she.

Arthur Pendragon spent centuries in blissful nothingness, until the day the four queens banded together to raise him from the dead. Along with his twelve most talented knights, he leads the warring armies of Faery against the greatest enemy they have ever known: one of their own.

Can they overcome their differences to confront the greatest challenges either of them have ever faced?

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Against Her Will, by Peter Martin, 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 23 customer reviews.

Category: Suspense

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

Rape is every woman’s worst nightmare, an act so vile, so devastating, it robs the victim of any sort of dignity, leaving scars that can last a. lifetime. Having family and friends rally round can make all the difference in the world. But without this support the victim may never fully recover.
Donna is such a victim. When she is brutally raped, her life comes crashing down, bringing with it memories of an unhappy childhood. Having lost everything dear to her, she almost succeeds in making the ultimate sacrifice, but for a young male nurse, who slowly helps her come to terms with the past. Just when she thinks she’s over the worst, she makes a horrifying discovery that puts her in mortal danger.

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Somebody Tell Aunt Tillie She’s Dead, by Christiana Miller, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 388 customer reviews.

Category: Paranormal

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

A little magic can go a long way — to really screwing up a girl’s life!

Mara is having the worst month of her life. At least, that’s what her cards tell her and they’ve never been wrong. She’s evicted from her apartment, loses her job and is banned from Beverly Hills. So when the tarot cards predict her imminent demise, she uses a little magic to make her world right.

Suddenly, an aunt she’s never met dies, leaving Mara as her sole heir. But when Mara moves into her inherited home, she discovers Aunt Tillie never moved out. She’s still one pissed-off old lady, even post-mortem, and she blames Mara’s magical meddling for her death.

When Mara accidentally releases a demon and awakens the spirit of the most powerful witch in history, Tillie’s ready to kill her — literally. It’s the only way she can think of to save the girl from herself.

The witch and the demon, however, have other plans for Mara’s body!

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Elusive, by Sara Rosett, 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 291 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

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

Zoe Hunter loves living on the edge. Free-spirited and spontaneous, she’s built a life stringing together various freelance gigs that keep her bank account barely in the black.

But when her ex, Jack, goes missing along with several million dollars from his business and the FBI zeros in on her as a person of interest, Zoe’s life goes from delightfully unpredictable to downright frightening.

Plunged into a world of fake identities, deception, and murder, she’s afraid to trust anyone. Zoe impulsively skips town in a search for answers that takes her from Las Vegas to Italy, but instead of tracking down answers, she only uncovers more questions.

Who was Jack? Is he dead or did he fake his disappearance? And, what was he mixed up in—art theft, the mafia, espionage, or all three?

Click here to pick up your copy of Elusive.

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Fire at Twilight, by Lila Ashe, 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 123 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Romance

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

Grace is a fixer. She’s good at it, too. In her acupuncture practice, she fixes the community of Darling Bay, and in her personal life, she’s rescued her sister too many times to count. Her love life, though . . . Grace doesn’t think she needs help, especially not from a man whose very nickname is unhealthy.

Tox Ellis is the hazmat expert at the Darling Bay Fire Department, and he knows about harmful substances. He knows what gases to keep apart to prevent explosions. Why, then, can’t he seem to stay away from Grace, the woman who seems to think he needs fixing?

Is Darling Bay ready for the chemical reaction Grace and Tox generate whenever they’re in the same place at the same time? And who will be standing by to put out the flames?

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A Husband by Midnight

June 29, 2014 by Michael Gallagher 4 Comments

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is A Husband by Midnight, by S. Alini, 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 16 customer reviews.

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

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

A respected book editor, terrified of getting old, has to find her soulmate and marry him on her birthday.

Betty Sallas is having a crisis. Her 40th birthday has just snuck up on her. She’d been so busy with the career she hadn’t had time to mentally prepare. But as appalling as it is to turn forty, doing so unmarried and single is intolerable. So when an elderly gypsy reveals that today is the day Betty finds her husband, she wonders what if? What if there’s something to this psychic hokum? And she dons a wedding dress and sets out to find her soulmate and marry him.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/62914 into your web browser to pick up your copy of A Husband by Midnight.

About the Author:

S Alini is a simple mouse trying to find the next cheese. His hobby, and perhaps his greatest skill, is procrastination. He’s really good at it. He loves independent films, particularly east European ones. And he’s not sure why exactly. He writes when a story grabs him.

He can be found loitering at this spot: http://alinibooks.blogspot.com/
Or reached at www.facebook.com/san.alini/about
Twitter: @SanAlini
Email: aliniyuli2011@gmail.com

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More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

June 29, 2014 by Michael Gallagher 1 Comment

Here’s your next group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Sunday: for those books listed as being free or discounted in this post – while the pricing of the free and discounted 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 its normal status at any time!

Shell and Shadow, by Susan J. McLeod, 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 6 customer reviews.

Category: Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
The sea holds many secrets…and psychic Lily Evans is about to stumble on one of them. In paradise with her boyfriend Kent, their idyllic vacation takes a turn for the mystical when Lily finds a shell…and hears much more than the sound of waves.

What is the ocean telling her? Who will she meet in the moonlight?

A story of love, past and present.

This is a novella of about 23,000 words.

All profits go to Zara’s Center, a home for AIDS-impacted youth in Zimbabwe.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/shellshadow into your web browser to pick up your copy of Shell and Shadow.

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Winner Lose All, by William F. Brown, 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 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 90 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

A historical suspense thriller set in the closing months of WWII, as one war grinds to an end in the rubble of Nazi Germany, all eyes turn to the next ‘cold’ one. The Americans, the Russians, and the British all know that the future belongs to whomever can grab the new rockets, jet fighters, long-range bombers, synthetic fuels and other ‘wonder weapons’ that Hitler unleashed upon them. Those will shape the balance of world power for decades to come. It is also the story of the torrid but impossible romance between Ed Scanlon, a brilliant, young, American OSS agent and Hanni Steiner, the gritty, street-smart leader of the communist resistance cell in Leipzig. They now find themselves on opposite ends of an international tug of war over the plans for Germany’s revolutionary Me-262 jet fighter and the scientists who designed and built it. To succeed, they must not only outwit each other, they must stay one-step ahead of Otto Dietrich, the sadistic Gestapo Chief of Leipzig, who has plans of his own. The stakes in this suspense and mystery thriller could not be higher. Once-bitter enemies are tomorrow’s allies, old friends cannot to be trusted, and lies, double-dealing, action and adventure, spy versus spy, and treachery are the norm. Driven by the uncompromising dictates of historical characters such as Josef Stalin, Lavrenti Beria, Allen Dulles, Heinrich Himmler, and Winston Churchill, it is succeed or die, and the winner will indeed lose all. Combining the best of action romance and World War II historical fiction, this fast-paced murder mystery will resonate.

If you like good fiction books, put this new fast-moving, action adventure mystery thriller in your Cart. It is from the author of The Undertaker, Amongst My Enemies, Thursday at Noon, and his newest, Aim True, My Brothers. Enjoy!

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The Scarlet Crane, by J. E. Hopkins, is $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 16 customer reviews.

Category: Fantasy

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

The Scarlet Crane is the first volume in the Transition Magic series. The second volume, The Saffron Falcon, is also available on Amazon.

Transition. The one-month period during early puberty when all children have the power to perform magic. But with a monstrous catch. The magic must be unique and flow from the true desire of the child, and no one else, or the child dies. Few take the risk. Almost all who do, perish.

Rumors have surfaced of a rogue Chinese program that circumvents Transition’s deadly restrictions. The year is 2014 and the Chinese are seeking to exploit magic for geopolitical domination, using kidnapped children as disposable pawns. An agent for the US Department of Transition Security investigating the reports has been found murdered in his Hanoi hotel room.

Dr. John Benoit is ordered to take any action necessary to protect the US from magical threats. John and Stony Hill, his pierced and scarlet-haired young partner, race to pick up the bloody trail, following it to Bangkok, Zurich, Shenyang, and ultimately to a confrontation on the snow-swept plains of North Korea.

Against this global pursuit, the seductive terror of Transition is brought to vivid life by glimpses into the lives of five children:

–Thanna, sold to the Chinese, wants to use magic to free Crane’s children.
–Anya believes Transition can save her from the winter streets of Moscow.
–Isa confronts Transition as part of an ancient African puberty ritual.
–Sarah, terrified of magic, feels compelled to use it to stop her friend’s sexual abuse.
–Jonah is convinced he’s found a unique way to cure his sister’s cancer.

An American nuclear aircraft carrier is destroyed by Transition magic; hundreds of lives are lost. Civilization teeters on the edge of an immutable metamorphosis as John races to find Crane and shut it down.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/76umna into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Scarlet Crane.

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And He Healed Them All, by Jeffrey McClain Jones, 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 11 customer reviews.

Category: Christian Fiction

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

When James Wolfer goes to visit his old friend Walter Schrader in a nursing home, he expects to find his former professor as depressed as the last time he visited. He also hopes to get a chance to talk to Jillian Moore, the attractive psychiatrist at the nursing home, about Walter’s condition.

Instead of a dour Walter, mourning the disabilities left him by a recent stroke, James finds his friend excited to tell him about a compelling dream he had the previous night. In that dream, and many dreams that follow, Walter believes he is seeing a day in the life of Jesus. And it was a day in which a great multitude came to him, with a whole range of physical and spiritual ailments, and he healed them all.

For Walter this means a new reason to live. For both Jillian and James the dreams become a fascinating revelation of the unbounded grace and mercy of the one who perfectly reflected the image of a loving heavenly Father.

That revelation challenges James to break out of his self-sufficient life without church or the faith of his childhood. With Walter and Jillian by his side he has to navigate the meaning of the dreams as well as the condition of his own soul.

Click here to pick up your copy of And He Healed Them All.

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Toxin, by Rob Swigart, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based 6 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

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

Toxin is the SECOND book in Rob Swigart’s Thriller in Paradise series.

DOES A SATELLITE CRASH ON KAUAI COUNT AS TROUBLE IN PARADISE? HOW ABOUT A SIMULTANEOUS PLANE HIJACKING?

Hawaii police lieutenant Cobb Takamura and molecular biologist Chazz Koenig return in this tale in which the murder of an unpopular real estate developer leads to the inner circles of international defense.

On the same day that Victor Linz is shot during an early morning jog, reports filter in that an out-of-orbit satellite may land on Kauai. A reporter tailing an intelligence officer from the mainland is found near the remote site of the satellite crash; he is comatose and suffering from severe skin and internal ailments. Panic follows when a rumor spreads that the satellite carried a deadly toxin.

Cobb must conduct the murder investigation and maintain calm on the island all while negotiating with one of the murder suspects who is hijacking a commercial airliner. Meanwhile, Koenig races the clock to control the effects of the toxin.

Click here to pick up your copy of Toxin.

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Altar of Pearl, by Robert Snow, 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 12 customer reviews.

Category: Literary Fiction

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

Guil Somerset needs to believe in something beautiful, no matter how unlikely it may be. He travels the back roads of Tennessee selling to small-town jewelry stores scattered across the region. It’s decent money, but his life is a shambles. A fresh scar on his cheek and eight stitches in the back of his head are throbbing reminders of bad decisions. Near the bottom of a frightful spiral, he finds the beguiling Annaquette Freneaux. She offers a tale mystical and radiant, impossible to believe but for her bewitching air and Guil’s own need. The light of her story gives hint of a crack in Guil’s reality, a crack that becomes the path out of his decline.

Click here to pick up your copy of Altar of Pearl.

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Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

June 29, 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 Sunday: for those books listed as being free or discounted in this post – while the pricing of the free and discounted 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 its normal status at any time!

Since Tomorrow, by Morgan Nyberg , 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 4.0 out of 5 stars based on 39 customer reviews.

Category: Science Fiction

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

An old man rides a workhorse through the night, across mudslides, past stores abandoned for decades, past the rotted corpses of automobiles invisible under mounds of blackberry. Rain courses from his rabbit skin poncho. He carries a sword and a spear. He knows where to find the murderer. He will face him alone.

SINCE TOMORROW is a novel of a world in the remaking. The old man, Frost, remembers the “good times”. Those who live on his “farm” among collapsed warehouses and the foundations of vanished houses struggle to maintain human values. But when others in this makeshift world are driven only by greed and the need for power, all values must ultimately be replaced by the simple instinct for survival.

In this full length novel Morgan Nyberg takes the reader to the West Coast of Canada, where the city of Vancouver has been transformed by climate change, pandemic, economic collapse and earthquake into “Town”, a squalid, lawless place inhabited the desperate, the diseased and the dying. Taking advantage of this state of affairs is the formidable Langley, who grows poppies to produce “skag”, a crude form of opium. Langley has amassed enough power to control a small private army. Now he is determined to acquire Frost’s farm for himself. Recklessly opposing Langley is Frost’s fearless but impulsive granddaughter, Noor.

SINCE TOMORROW demonstrates that there is room in the post-apocalyptic genre for exceptional writing. Morgan Nyberg tells nothing – he shows everything. In clear, sensuous prose free of commentary or explanation – prose as addictive as Langley’s skag – he leads the reader toward that climactic night with Frost on his horse, and farther, to the threshold of a new, perhaps happier, era.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/h757ou into your web browser to pick up your copy of Since Tomorrow.

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Rockfall, by Diane Winger, 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 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 29 customer reviews.

Category: Suspense

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

Two horrified witnesses watch as a mountainside crumbles, crashing down on a party of hikers. Searchers find no signs of life. Three missing, all presumed dead. Three families begin the difficult process of grieving.

But one of the missing is alive. Alone, injured, and terrified, she struggles to survive, hoping against all odds that someone will find her … before time runs out.

Emotionally charged and engrossing, Rockfall is a novel that plumbs the depths of tragedy and celebrates the resiliency of the human spirit.

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Silicon Man, by William Massa, 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 82 customer reviews.

Category: Science Fiction

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

A global pandemic has cut the human population in half. An android workforce fills the void left by the devastation. But some of the AIs have grown tired of being slaves. Some want freedom. An underground movement of runaways has sprung up and wages a shadow war with a simple objective — equal rights for artificial people.

Enter Commander Cole Marsalis, head of the AI-TAC first response team trained to deal with the rogue robots. Now he has been tasked with the ultimate undercover mission – infiltrate the android underground. But to do so, he will have to become that which he hates the most… A machine!

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Broslin Bride (Gone and Done It), by Dana Marton, is just $2.99 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: Romantic Suspense

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

Luanne Mayfair might have killed her boss a little… A brand new humorous, sexy romantic suspense from NY Times bestselling author Dana Marton.
The worst time to be charged with murder is:

A, When you have no alibi for the night in question.

B, When you have no memory of the night in question.

C, When you told people you hated the victim.

D, When the detective is the 1st guy you ever slept with–which didn’t end well.

Check all of the above for Luanne Mayfair. If it wasn’t for bad luck, she wouldn’t have any luck at all. Okay, maybe a little luck. As it turns out, Detective Chase Merritt doesn’t hold grudges.

He still looks at Luanne just as he did in high school, except he’s grown some serious ‘hot cop’ muscles–very distracting when Luanne is trying to avoid the very law Chase represents.

Is she the killer? Is she being framed? Is she the next victim? As Chase and Luanne race to find some answers, danger and heat ratchet up in this fast-paced romantic mystery that will stop your heart one second, then steal it in the next.

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Seductive Lies, by Colleen Connally, 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 11 customer reviews.

Category: Historical Romance

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

From the author of a #1 Amazon Historical Romance Kindle Bestseller, BROKEN LEGACY, comes Seductive Lies!

Only love can heal a heart betrayed…

Harriet Burke has long been haunted by a family scandal. Abandoned by her mother as an infant, she has grown up in the shadows of the events that led up to that scandal. But all changes when she meets the future Viscount of Daneford. The dashing young Lieutenant Arthur Hammett defies his grandfather. Professing his undying love, he proposes to Harriet. Harriet quickly learns that all is not what it seems. Secrets, lies, and betrayal shatters Harriet’s life, leaving Harriet little choice. She has to begin life anew…

They were destined to be together but fate had other plans…

Lord Arthur Daneford made a rash decision years ago that cost him greatly…his biggest regret. Now, though, his past has reemerged. Chilling information has been called to his attention that Harriet’s life is endangered. He will stop at nothing to ensure her safety, but will she accept his help before it’s too late?

ABOUT:

Family scandal…Forbidden love…Ghosts and Curses

Harriet Burke has been cursed or so says her grandfather. In her youth, a gypsy’s blessing gave Harriet the ability to disregard the boundaries of death. Lord Arthur believes it is total nonsense, but he cannot deny there is no explanation for her knowledge. Haunted by visions of wrongs once done, Harriet fears there will be no escape.

Click here to pick up your copy of Seductive Lies.

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Galapula, by Hadas D Hayot, 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 25 customer reviews.

Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy

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

Did you ever think that using your imagination can make things happen?

Maybe you believed you can, yet was afraid to try?

“Galapula” is about Anishi, an unusual boy who was born with a heart bigger than normal size, and therefore always carries it in a pouch attached to his belt.

One day, Anishi discovers two major things that turn his world upside down. One: his beloved grandfather, an astrophysics professor who mysteriously disappeared eight months beforehand, has turned into a roach while attempting to make contact with extraterritorial creatures.

Two: a blue electric creature, a Galapalian by the name of Circula needs his help.

Anishi’s has never left his house nor helped a blue electric creature saving the planet. But Anishi has one skill he learned from his grandfather, to use his imagination.

When reading the book you will learn about the ancient knowledge of the Mayan calendar, in a simple text. You will learn that your imagination is the most powerful tool exists and that your weakness can become strength. You will discover the power of humanity and the power of connection, and you will realize why this book is called by audience a “battery book”.

Galapula is an electrifying adventure about thoughts and their manifestation.

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The Sum of His Worth

June 28, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is The Sum of His Worth, by Ron Argo, is regularly $5.85 but has been discounted to just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 15 customer reviews.

Genre: Historical Fiction

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

An acclaimed novelist goes back to his childhood growing up in supremacist-dominated Alabama in this non-fiction novel of the bloody Civil Rights Movement, a novel Kirkus Reviews calls ” … profound [and] unpredictable … An engrossing, heartbreakingly real novel of the South.”

In an Alabama town held captive under Jim Crow laws and ruled by the blind hatred of the KKK, free-spirited teenager Sonny Poe is heedless to the suppression of blacks in his town–until he witnesses a lynching in the midnight woods. Then everything in his life changes. This beautifully written novel pulsates in epic fashion with violence, betrayal, humor and love on a narrative transporting us into one of America’s most pressing historical moments before arriving at the story’s shocking and heartbreaking climax. Sonny befriends a progressive doctor who’s helping local blacks fight against police brutality in their community. The headstrong teenager commits himself wholly to Doctor Joe and his cause even as both suffer betrayals, beatings, arrest and finally exile in a story that can only end in tragedy–and hope. The Civil Rights Movement forms the backbone of The Sum of His Worth, but its strength comes from the lyrical voice of its young narrator, and its strongest theme lies in the caveats of moral reckoning in a free society.

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About the Author:

Ron Argo, a prize-winning journalist and decorated war veteran, served as an army combat correspondent in Vietnam in 1969-70. He is the author of the widely acclaimed novel, Year of the Monkey (Simon & Schuster), a book painting a comprehensive and human canvas of the Vietnam War that applauded him with writing one of the best war novels of the last century. His other books include The Sum of His Worth, another historical novel that drops us off in Alabama in 1958 where an impoverished white boy finds meaning defending his black friend against the Ku Klux Klan. The Courage to Kill, first in the Ray Myers series of mystery thrillers, features the reporter bringing down a deranged serial killer, and his forthcoming novel, Baby Love (2015), second in the Myers series, is a ribald adventure/thriller involving the crime reporter on a deadly story into the activities of a syndicated baby-smuggling ring operating out of Baja California. Argo holds three advanced university degrees. Awarded a Sigma Delta Chi 1st Place award for Investigative Reporting, he has been a prize-winning photographer, a newspaper editor and reporter, carpenter, guitarist, old house remodeler and now lives with his second wife Mary and cattle dog in San Diego.

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

More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

June 28, 2014 by Michael Gallagher 1 Comment

Here’s your next group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Saturday: for those books listed as being free or discounted in this post – while the pricing of the free and discounted 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 its normal status at any time!

Ten Brides with Ten Heroes , a new ten book box set collection by Theresa Ragan, Donna Fasano, Patrice Wilton, Rebecca York, Helen Scott Taylor, Rita Herron, Mona Risk, Annie Jones, Alicia Street and Mimi Barbour, is just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Romance

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

Ten Brides for Ten Heroes– A 10-book bundle featuring novels by New York Times, USA Today, and National bestselling authors at a bargain price. Get ready to toss the bouquet and say, “I do!” as ten brides risk it all to find their happy ever after.

Here Comes the Bride by Theresa Ragan, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. Samantha Johnston, a reporter for the LA Beat, attends the wedding of one of America’s hottest actors in hopes of learning the identity of his mystery bride, and ends up saying, “I do.”

Return of the Runaway Bride by Donna Fasano, USA Today bestselling author. Savanna returns to her hometown to explain why she fled on her wedding day, but she never imagined how her escape all those years ago changed Daniel. Can she make him understand and forgive?

Wedding Fever (Serendipity Falls Series) by Patrice Wilton, National bestselling author. Can a jaded bridal consultant and a cynical news reporter uncover the true mystery of Serendipity Falls without being swept away in the madness?

Destination Wedding (The Decorah Security Series) by Rebecca York, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. After a billionaire’s daughter, Camille Norland, is kidnapped by a Russian mobster bent on matrimony, Decorah Security agent Nick Cassidy is her best hope of rescue. Nick’s never admitted his feelings for Camille. Now he’s desperate to save her before the wedding night.

The Army Doctor’s Wedding (The Army Doctor’s Series) by Helen Scott Taylor, Award-winning and National bestselling author. Major Cameron Knight throws himself into the danger of battlefield medicine to forget his past mistakes. Can an injured charity worker and an orphan newborn baby give him a chance to redeem himself and find love?

Single & Searching by Rita Herron, National bestselling author. A woman looking for love… A reporter looking for a story… A mad rush to find a criminal… When the truth comes out and danger strikes, will they succumb to the passion burning between them?

Wedding Surprise (Holiday Babies Series) by Mona Risk, Award-winning and National bestselling author. Two weeks before the big day, Claire and David receive some startling news that can destroy their relationship. Is their love for each other strong enough to turn the worst wedding surprise into the best?

Summer of Love by Annie Jones, Award-winning and National bestselling author. Brides, Beehives and Barbecue! Can mother daughter mayhem be far behind? Bless her heart, it’s 1967 and a determined southern bride isn’t sure love is really all she needs.

Tomboy Bride (The Dance ‘n’ Luv Series) by Alicia Street, Award-winning and National bestselling author. Kendra returns home for her brother’s wedding determined to get her age-old crush to finally see her as more than a tomboy. But will her game of making him jealous with a hot and handsome faux-beau make him fall for her–or backfire and leave her in ashes?

Love Me Tender (The “Elvis” Series) by Mimi Barbour, National bestselling author. How could Anne go back to Texas knowing that her son would be meeting a father and grandmother who never even knew he existed? But how could she stay away when a woman who’d been the only mother she ever knew was dying and needed her?

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The Broken Angel Series Boxed Set, a three-book box set collection by L. G. Castillo, is regularly $7.99 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 10 customer reviews.

Category: Paranormal

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

A fallen angel.
A forbidden love.
A decision that dares to test the hands of fate.

LASH (Book 1)

Decades after being banished from Heaven for saving a life he shouldn’t have, Lash is given a chance to redeem himself. His mission: protect Naomi Duran, a young woman who has lost faith in herself. The assignment proves to be anything but simple when his superiors, the Archangels, withhold key information about Naomi and refuse to restore Lash’s powers.

When an unexpected source reveals centuries-old secrets, his trust is shaken to the core, and he begins to doubt those whom he had once considered to be his greatest allies.

Determined to avoid anything that would risk his chances of returning to Heaven, Lash struggles with the greatest obstacle of all–his growing feelings for Naomi. But when her life is threatened by an unknown source, Lash questions the wisdom of the Archangels and his ability to keep her safe.

Soon, Lash will have to choose where to place his faith–in the home he has fought so hard to regain or in the forbidden love he can’t bear to lose.

AFTER THE FALL (Book 2)

There’s a Spanish proverb that says, “From the thorn and the pain, a flower is born.” Naomi Duran never really understood what that meant until she became an archangel.

Finally reunited with the love of her life, Naomi thought she had everlasting love and happiness in Heaven. Even with the rebellious Lash by her side, she learns that life as an archangel isn’t easy.

When secrets of the past are finally revealed, tempers flare, brother is pitted against brother, and Naomi and Lash face the greatest threat to their relationship: choosing among love, family, or duty.

BEFORE THE FALL (Book 3)

Lash remembered what Naomi’s grandmother once told him long ago: “There is always light where there is love.”

He kept those words close to his heart because they meant that the love between him and Naomi was destined. With the binding ceremony behind them, Lash and Naomi have even more questions about their past lives as memories resurface and they discover that they were kept apart by the one person they had thought was their greatest ally–Archangel Raphael.

When the other archangels finally reveal the mystery of their ancient past, they uncover a story of lust, envy, betrayal, loss and descent into darkness.

In the wake of these revelations, will love be enough to keep their family together?

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Sanctuary, by Pauline Creeden, 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 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 83 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

Left Behind for the Hunger Games generation

In a heart-racing thriller described as Falling Skies meet The Walking Dead, Jennie struggles to find a safe place for what’s left of her family. But it seems as though there is no place sacred, no place secure. First the aliens attacked the sun, making it dimmer, weaker, and half what it used to be. Then they attacked the water supply, killing one-third of Earth’s population with a bitter contaminate. And when they unleash a new terror on humankind, the victims will wish for death, but will not find it…

When the world shatters to pieces around her, will Jennie find the strength she needs to keep going?

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Lord of the Abbey, by K. R. Richards, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based 85 customer reviews.

Category: Historical Romance

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

Confirmed spinster, Lady Rowena Locke, seeks aid from Harry Bellingham, the Earl of Glaston and head of the renowned Avalon Society, a historical and paranormal Society, to find the lost Glastonbury treasures. Harry is not only interested in the treasure hidden by the last Abbot of Glastonbury before the dissolution of the Abbey, but he is also interested in Rowena.

When Harry and his fellow Avalon Society members step in to assist Rowena and her aunt on their quest, dangerous and mysterious men in brown coats and hats appear in Glastonbury. They are also searching for the lost Abbey treasure. It’s a race against time as the mysterious ‘Brown Coats’ seem to always be one step ahead of them. The Society finds more clues, treasures, letters and holy secrets. Will they discover who the ‘Brown Coats’ are and why they are after the treasures? Can Harry convince marriage wary Rowena to trust in love and marry him?

Click here to pick up your copy of Lord of the Abbey.

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Her Dakota Man, by Lisa Mondello, 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 71 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Romance

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

From USA Today Best Selling Author Lisa Mondello – A new contemporary western romance series DAKOTA HEARTS

She needed to risk the truth to get a second chance…

Poppy Erickson had spent the year wondering how all their lives might have been different after hearing the deathbed confession of her childhood friend. She’d left South Dakota years ago because she couldn’t bear to watch the man she loved loving another woman. But now she knows the truth. She’ll keep the promise she made to a friend, but will Logan understand when he learns the truth? More important, can they again recapture the passion that had been between them all those years ago?

He needed to face the past to get the love of a woman he thought he’d lost..

Everyone knows that the Dakotas didn’t get the name Badlands for nothing. Harsh weather and rough living are a way of life. But single dad, Logan McKinnon, had seen more than his share of bad times after the death of his wife a year ago. The last thing he needs is Poppy Erickson, an old flame and his late wife’s best friend, showing up unannounced to help after devastating floods nearly washed away their hometown. With no place to stay in town, he has no choice but to offer her a bed at his house. But can he live under the same roof with a woman he’d once loved passionately without feeling he’s betraying his late wife?

Click here to pick up your copy of Her Dakota Man.

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The Gauguin Connection, by Estelle Ryan, 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 426 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery / Thriller

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

Murdered artists. Masterful forgeries. Art crime at its worst.

As an insurance investigator and world renowned expert in nonverbal communication, Dr Genevieve Lenard faces the daily challenge of living a successful, independent life. Particularly because she has to deal with her high functioning Autism. Nothing – not her studies, her high IQ or her astounding analytical skills – prepared her for the changes about to take place in her life.

It started as a favour to help her boss’ acerbic friend look into the murder of a young artist, but soon it proves to be far more complex. Forced out of her predictable routines, safe environment and limited social interaction, Genevieve is thrown into exploring the meaning of friendship, expanding her social definitions, and for the first time in her life be part of a team in a race to stop more artists from being murdered.

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Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

June 28, 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 Saturday: for those books listed as being free or discounted in this post – while the pricing of the free and discounted 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 its normal status at any time!

Tougher than the Rest, by Shirleen Davies, 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 82 customer reviews.

Category: Romance

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

A passionate, fast-paced story set in the untamed western frontier by an exciting new voice in historical romance.

Niall MacLaren is the oldest of four brothers, and the undisputed leader of the family. A widower, and single father, he is focused on building the MacLaren ranch into the largest and most successful in northern Arizona. He is serious about two things—his responsibility to the family and his future marriage to a goal of a wealthy, well-connected widow who will secure his place in the territory’s destiny.

Katherine is determined to live the life she’s dreamed about. With a job waiting for her in the growing town of Los Angeles, California, the young teacher from Philadelphia begins a journey across the United States with only a couple of trunks and her spinster companion. Life is perfect for this adventurous, beautiful young woman, until an accident throws her into the arms of the one man who can destroy it all.

Fighting his growing attraction and strong desire for the beautiful stranger, Niall is more determined than ever to push emotions aside to focus on his goals of wealth and political gain. But looking into the clear, blue eyes of the woman who could ruin everything, Niall discovers he will have to harden his heart and be tougher than he’s ever been in his life…Tougher than the Rest.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/a02a4v into your web browser to pick up your copy of Tougher than the Rest.

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The Lighthouse of Asaph: Unforgettable Christian Reflections, by Roberto Ornan Roche, is 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 17 customer reviews.

Category: Religion

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

Some years ago I wrote a series of stories. I wrote them without thinking about publishing them, much less to share this set of stories with so many people; I only experienced that with my closest friends and some relatives.

Little by little those stories were increasing, not only in number but also concerning the amount of personal feelings and creative and fancy options that were able to get out of my own heart. Then a Pastor from the Dominican Republic, who placed on me his confidence, prayers and support, encouraged me to continue writing them, with the fact that they could be good to help others.

My life was full of sadness. I could see people everywhere receiving apparently undeserved miracles, but my miracle seemed to be completely impossible, without understanding that a miracle was also happening to me. The sort of facts that I was waiting for, events of the past thought to be dead that could revive again in the present, never really happened, but outstanding things did, so I could change my life and see many other good things.

Then, one day I gathered all those stories into a book which I entitled “The Lighthouse of Asaph”, because I like lighthouses a lot, and the name of Asaph due to a man of the Bible who was sad and discouraged. That biblical name had been engraved on my mind when one night one of the young people of my church came to visit me accompanied by others. He wanted to encourage me spiritually and used an illustration based on Asaph. I used to visit lighthouses of Cuba and made reports for pleasure; and as the lighthouses are generally associated with the guide of Jesus for us, I made the decision to use that allegory.

Every year, when arriving the terrible and threatening hurricanes of the Caribbean, I lose sleep and the happiness, fearing that the strong winds could pull up the trees that my father planted almost forty years ago; some of them are already rootless, but there are still many in foot and this fact is one of the best memories that I have of him. Many times my mother and I were praying next to the door while the wind blew irresistibly outdoors. When I think of something like that, I also imagine that our faith can be considered as trees which are looked after by other people, new ones can be planted as renovated reasons and good actions and ideals to be fed, comparable with lovely kept seeds of those old demolished trees. A new way to rescue the faith from the mean of the pain that exists around us may be thought as well.

Many times my memories and thoughts transformed into dry leaves, then they were gathered as ashes, but one day, miraculously, all those ideals began to hold testimonies, varied texts and memories that could be good for others to begin again. It was not a simply personal game of learning how to use words but of reviving myself when using them.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/qyttq9 into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Lighthouse of Asaph: Unforgettable Christian Reflections.

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Five Bestselling Travel Memoirs, by Victoria Twead, Tony James Slater, Joe Cawley, Savannah Grace and Alan Parks, 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 4.9 out of 5 stars based on 26 customer reviews.

Category: Memoirs and Biographies

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

These five, full length, bestselling travel memoirs describe experiences as wide as breeding alpacas in Spain, helping at an animal refuge in Ecuador and back-packing in the Gobi Desert. And for foodies, there are some Spanish recipes to try.

Already downloaded over 200,000 times, these books have more than 1,800 reviews between them, at an average of 4.5! The authors include a New York Times bestselling author and an award-winning travel writer.

This box set is guaranteed to keep you engrossed and laughing, so sit back, put your feet up, read on, and enjoy!

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/q3ba8i into your web browser to pick up your copy of Five Bestselling Travel Memoirs.

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Serial Thrillers: 4 Novels, by Rebecca Forster, is regularly $6.99 but has been discounted to just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 28 customer reviews.

Category: Romance

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

A psychopath terrorizes his own attorney; sister is pitted against sister and murder isn’t the only thing between them; a young lawyer gets a shot at Beverly Hills glitz only to find fool’s gold; and relationships are shattered by a militia bombing and ambitions that stretch the boundaries of the law. Serial Thrillers is a bundle of 4 complete novels for the thriller lover.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/serialthrillers into your web browser to pick up your copy of Serial Thrillers: 4 Novels.

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The Eden Plague, by David VanDyke, 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 87 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

Book Zero of the bestselling techno-bio-thriller military action-adventure series, with a sci-fi twist.

When special operations veteran DJ Markis finds armed invaders in his home and it all goes sideways, he turns to his brothers in arms to fight back. On the run from the shadowy Company, soon he finds himself in a war for possession of a genetic engineering secret that threatens the stability of the world. But who is behind it all – and are they even human?

Beginning in the world of today, Eden Plague is a technothriller in the mode of Michael Crichton, which launches the Plague Wars/Stellar Conquest series that eventually spans hundreds of years of ground and space warfare, from hand-to-hand combat and covert actions, to Space Marines and interstellar battles.

PG-13 for language, violence and adult situations (non-explicit)

Click here to pick up your copy of The Eden Plague.

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Between Then and Now, by Zoe York, 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 47 customer reviews.

Category: Romance

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

Fall in love with the Wardham series: modern, sexy small town romances

Their story didn’t start with a fairytale romance…
Romance is the last thing on Ian’s mind. He’s juggling two jobs, his kids are crazy and every time he gets close to his wife, she snaps at him. Communication has never been their strong suit, and now their physical connection is fizzling as well.

Their marriage wasn’t chosen for love…
Carrie knows she’s being too hard on her husband, but eight years ago she had a one-night stand that turned into a lifetime of diapers and dinners. She can’t shake the feeling that she wants more. Too bad she has no idea what that might be.

But they still chose each other…time and again

Click here to pick up your copy of Between Then and Now.

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New Releases on Kindle

June 28, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Included in this post are several relatively new Kindle book releases by independent authors in a variety of genres. Many of these authors have been featured on the blog before and can tell a good tale that will entertain you for hours. Each of the books have been significantly discounted in connection with this promotion, and I’m certain you will find something to enjoy in the offerings below.

Petectives: Under Fire, by Robert J. Smith, is regularly $1.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Mystery

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

It’s the 4th of July and the Petectives are feeling the heat! In the midst of a sweltering heat wave, feline detectives Yoshi and Gatsby get word that an old enemy is back and running a protection racket in their neighborhood. When an attack lands Gatsby’s girlfriend in the veterinary hospital, he gets hot under the collar but it may take Yoshi’s cool logic to shut down a gang of animal criminals and clear a dog from a horrible accusation. The Petectives are back and there’s going to be fireworks!

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/x7zes3 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Petectives: Under Fire.

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The Lost Centurion, by Monica La Porta, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Paranormal

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

Marcus has sworn to avenge his wife’s death—even if it takes an eternity to hunt down the vampire who murdered her. Once a Roman Centurion, Marcus is now immortal and, for the past two thousand years, impervious to human emotions. Until the night he rescues Diana…

Diana knew nothing of the paranormal world until her transformation into a vampling, a newborn vampire entirely reliant for survival upon the distant and seemingly emotionless Centurion, who found her in the throes of changing. Her protector turned her without her consent, but at his untimely death, she becomes the distant and cold immortal’s responsibility.

The entire vampire community is determined to kill Marcus as he protects one of their own. While Marcus and Diana travel the Italian countryside, being chased by their enemies, Marcus must choose between avenging his dead wife or saving Diana from the same vampire who ruined his life. Will the power of love win over his desire for revenge? Bewitched by the Amalfi moon, he soon discovers life might still surprise him.

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Rings On Her Fingers, by ReGina Welling, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Romance

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

Will she marry the wrong man?

Julie Hayward was looking forward to a better year. Newly engaged with a photography career just starting to take off, her life is almost comfortable. The only thing she lacks is enough money to repair the family home. But, when her best friend, Gustavia, drags her to a visit with a psychic thinking it will be a fun engagement gift, things get really crazy.

A ghostly encounter provides a cryptic clue to the location of the lost family fortune and a warning that her fiance is not what he seems. Launched on a wild adventure, Julie must learn to listen to her heart and her intuition to solve the mystery. Journalist, Tyler Kingsley gets drawn into the search. What red-blooded male could resist a treasure hunt? The idea gets his blood pumping and so does Julie. When he realizes that her fiance might be dangerous, he decides to protect her at any cost, even if he loses his heart.

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Final Hours, by Cate Dean, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Romantic Suspense

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

Book One of an exciting new romantic suspense series.

One man’s death will change the future.

Only two people can save him – if they have the courage to trust each other.

Elizabeth Barritt fought hard for the life she has, finally putting the ugly memories of a childhood trapped in the foster care system behind her. She has the chance to move forward, to reach out for a new, exciting future, surrounded by the art that is her passion. All she has to do is take the first step.

Enter Jackson Kane, who bursts into her life, literally out of thin air. He is a time traveler, on the hunt for a rogue agent. Colliding with Elizabeth is not on his agenda, as much as she intrigues him.

When Kane is injured protecting Elizabeth from that agent, she makes a decision that will change her life, in ways she can’t even begin to grasp. She takes him home.

Once he is healed enough to travel, Kane goes after the agent, chasing him back to war-torn London. But his journey back takes a sideways turn, forcing Elizabeth to make another choice. She follows him into the past, to help him stop one man from changing their future.

Together, they learn to trust. What they don’t expect is the connection between them – a connection so strong they can’t fight it, even as they try. Because how can it work, when their lives are centuries apart?

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Awaken, by Skye Malone, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Paranormal

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

Running away from home was never Chloe Kowalski’s plan. Neither was ending up the target of killers, or having her body change in unusual ways. She only wanted a vacation, someplace far from her crazy parents and their irrational fear of water. She only wanted to do something normal for once, and maybe get to know her best friend’s hot stepbrother a bit better at the same time.

But the first day she goes out on the ocean, strange things start to happen. Dangerous things that should be impossible. Things to which ‘normal’ doesn’t even begin to apply.

Now madmen are hunting her. A mysterious guy with glowing blue eyes is following her. And her best friend’s stepbrother seems to be hiding secrets all his own.

It was supposed to be a vacation. It’s turning out to be a whole lot more.

~ Book One of the Awakened Fate Series ~

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Remembrance of Times Gone, by Bill McCoy, is regularly $2.99 but is discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Contemporary Fiction

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

Banished from the city he loves, Soren Davidson isolates himself in his mother’s basement. There he tries to resurrect his spirits the only way left open to him–by writing a novel in secret.

When successful Monet Bryant learns her childhood sweetheart is back in town, she is intrigued. But there are things about Soren that she doesn’t know. Will Monet risk her reputation–and heart–for a man shadowed by scandal? But Soren has bigger worries, when his Caucasian stepfather is found suspiciously dead he is charged with his death.

Intriguing, romantic, and tragic, Remembrance of Times Gone, is a masterpiece of suspense–but one that leaves us shaken and changed.

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