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Cyber Dawn

November 30, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day, Cyber Dawn, by M.L. Adams, 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 78 customer reviews. My wife read this one and thought it was great – it is on my reading list based on her recommendation!

Genre: Young Adult

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

Ben survived cancer. That was the easy part.

After losing his leg to cancer and spending six years as a prototype in a top-secret cybernetic research program, seventeen-year-old Ben Raine is ready for a normal life. Now a junior in high school, it seems as though normal is just what he’s going to get. He’s met new friends, made the varsity football team, and even scored a date with the school’s head cheerleader. But just as life is starting to look up, Ben hears four words that will change everything —

You never had cancer.

Determined to find out why, Ben hires Sarah — a classmate who moonlights as a hacker — to help him hunt down the truth. But when they get too close, they soon find themselves on the run from the police, the FBI, and a team of ruthless assassins. Caught in the middle of a murderous conspiracy, Ben and Sarah tap into the one thing that may save them — Ben’s cybernetic brain. But will it give them the advantage they need? Or cost them both their lives?

Cyber Dawn is the first book in a new series featuring Ben Raine. Look for book #2 later in 2014!

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

About the Author:

M.L. Adams was born in the Midwest and raised in Colorado. His parents, both avid readers, instilled a love for books at an early age. His 3rd and 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Watson, encouraged a passion for writing. Cyber Dawn includes many of his experiences as a childhood cancer survivor and amputee. He still lives in Colorado with his wife and two children.

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

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New Releases on Kindle

November 30, 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.

The Trouble with Christmas, by Kaira Rouda, has been discounted to just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Contemporary Romance

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

At 35-years-old, Cole Stanton is burned out. His high-paced, uber-successful career has left him yearning to start over. He finds Indigo Island, buys a restaurant and settles into an uncomplicated life. But Christmas is a mess. He has over-committed the small restaurant’s resources again, and is over his head. He finds himself longing for everything he has left behind, until a chance encounter with gorgeous Lily offers a spark of salvation to his business and, perhaps his life.

Beautiful pastry chef Lily Edmonds is thirty years old and heartbroken. It’s just before Christmas and she’s just been dumped by via telephone by her fiancee. Her best friend Avery Putnam invites her to Indigo Island, hoping to add joy back into Lily’s life. A chance encounter with the sexy owner of a local restaurant makes Lily feel an attraction she thought she’d never feel again, and offers her a business challenge to keep her mind focused on something other than her broken heart.

Cole Stanton and Lily Edmonds are both starting over. Will the joy of the holiday season bring them together or will the troubles with Christmas push them apart?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/979acd into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Trouble with Christmas.

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Braving Fate, by Linsey Hall, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Romance

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

As chaos looms, a warrior queen is reborn
Bookish academic Diana Laughton has been having terrible dreams. Dreams of battle, dreams of blood… dreams so vivid she’s living them day and night. When demons invade her quiet life and she flees to Scotland, she wonders if she’s going mad. Or if perhaps she’s remembering a past life she had no idea existed…

In the midst of betrayal, he must protect her
Mythean Guardian Cadan Trinovante loved and betrayed Britain’s warrior queen Boudica two millennia ago. Now he’s tasked with protecting mortals whose lives affect the fate of humanity. His latest assignment is Boudica herself, reincarnated as a woman with no idea of her past or her fated future. Though in the irresistible form of Diana Laughton, it’s possible Cadan has once again met his match…

To succumb to seduction could prove fatal
Thrown together in a shadowy world that exists alongside our own, Diana and Cadan must fight not only the demonic forces that want Diana dead, but a past and a passion that have lasted centuries. Their desire could be deadly. But as evil from the underworld unites against them, their only hope could be each other.

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

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The Eschaton Tales: Vol.1, by Kieran Marcus, has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Science Fiction

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

In the great cosmic lottery of extinction level events, Earth is about to hit a double jackpot. Join the adventure as the only home humankind has ever known is hurtling towards disaster.

The Eschaton Tales is a series of interconnected science fiction novelettes and short stories that can each be enjoyed individually and out of context but collectively reveal a bigger picture. Vol.1 contains the following stories:

1.1 The Burst
The Conways are a happy little family like millions of others; maybe even a little happier than most. Life presents its challenges as it always does, but by and large, things are good—until on a calm spring night in 2079 it turns out the fault is quite literally in their stars.

1.2 Dixon Can Do
With disaster looming in the dark and a bunch of clueless advisors at hand, maybe it takes a mad scientist to encourage the leader of the free world to boldly go wherever humanity’s future lies.

1.3 Meitner²
Huxley is only twenty-two years old when he stumbles upon two of the most important discoveries he’ll ever make. One will change his life. The other will change the world.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/eschatontales into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Eschaton Tales: Vol.1.

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Clear as Glass, by Lynn Kellan, is just $5.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Romance

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

Poised to become her overbearing father’s right-hand man, Jaye Davis is tired of being a faceless drone, writing software. She’d rather help real people—like her clients who own a struggling glassblowing factory. While she’s there, she might even discover who she really is.

Mitch Blake and his father keep butting heads about expanding Blake Glassware, and now Mitch has to deal with his father’s consultant, Jaye. She claims online marketing will boost sales, but Mitch insists broadening their product line will increase revenue. Arguing with this doe-eyed woman makes one thing perfectly clear: she has the power to shatter his safe but lonely life.

Jaye is caught between the father counting on her to run their business in the future, an ex-boyfriend who understands her past, and the solemn glassblower who wants her now, just as she is. Is she strong enough to be honest about what she really wants?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/clearasglass into your web browser to pick up your copy of Clear as Glass.

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Seeing the Light, by E. C. Bell, is regularly $6.99 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:

Marie Jenner has never had much luck. Her job sucks. Her apartment — the one with the unbreakable lease — has a ghost. And worst of all, her mother won’t let up about her joining the “family business.” Since that business is moving the spirits of the dead on to the next plane of existence and doesn’t pay at all, Marie’s not interested. She wants a normal job — a normal life. That’s not too much to ask, is it?

Apparently, it is. Even when she applies for the job of her dreams, Marie doesn’t get what she wants. Well, not entirely. She does get the job — but she also gets another ghost. Farley Hewitt, the newly dead caretaker of the building, wants her to prove his death is not an accident, and she’s pretty sure he’s going to haunt her until she does.

All she wants is normal. She isn’t going to get it.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/seeingthelight into your web browser to pick up your copy of Seeing the Light.

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Helix: Blight of Exiles, by Pat Flewwelling, is regularly $6.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Science Fiction

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

Perfected by nature. Twisted by science. A miracle cure gone very, very wrong.

An abandoned forest resort should have been paradise for a creature like Ishmael. Isolated from civilization, so far removed from human eyes, Ishmael could have reveled in his true nature without threat of discovery.

But he had been abducted, drugged and marooned there without a word, sent into exile by the cryptic Wyrd Council. And he’s not alone.

In this unholy quarantine, Ishmael is just another mouth to feed.

And he’s no longer the apex predator.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/helixblight into your web browser to pick up your copy of Helix: Blight of Exiles.

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Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

November 30, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here’s your listing 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!

Diamonds in the Sky, by M. A. Harper, 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 32 customer reviews.

Category: Romance

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

A LOVE STORY WITH GEMSTONES– AND UFOs!

When struggling artist/shoe clerk Caddy Keyhoe stumbles across what may be a lost and untraceable diamond, her first reaction is down-to-earth: Maybe I can sell it. But how odd to be finding it in the gutter now, after last night’s dream of a UFO scattering bright gemstones. Research via Google leads her to the website of melancholy Alec Rix, semi-failed writer and newly-minted UFO authority—courtesy of his published interview with octogenarian Hatchell T. Beckham Sr., retired from farming and strangely eager to discredit the new crop circle on the Beckham property. The crop circle perpetrated by a neighborhood hoaxer. Or by those blazing diamond-shaped UFOs that just about everybody in Hopkins, South Carolina—except Hatch—claims to have seen…?

As Caddy’s art career takes a magical turn for the stratosphere, Alec’s friendship with Hatch deepens through the old farmer’s tale of his long-lost family. Could there be a book in this? the blocked author has to wonder. But when pursuit of the story sends him blundering into radiant Caddy on the biggest night of her life, priorities immediately change. Because what can it really mean, to “follow a star”? And what does Hawaii have to do with it?

A feet-on-the-ground story with its head in the clouds, Diamonds In The Sky reports from the Unknown with quiet wit, endearing characters, and the speculation that love just might be forever—even if not all diamonds are.

A beautifully written love story that will be appreciated by lovers of literary fiction as much as romance readers. It’s also paranormal, in the sense that it asks you to open your mind to what might be—and might be possible!

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/ps1okz into your web browser to pick up your copy of Diamonds in the Sky.

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Mistletoe Kisses, a new eight-book box set by Janet Tronstad, Lisa Mondello, Lenora Worth, Margaret Daley, Camille Elliot, Pamela Tracy, Lacy Williams and Cheryl Wyatt, 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 11 customer reviews.

Category: Religious Fiction / Romance

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

A new collection from some of your favorite inspirational authors:

From USA Today bestselling author Janet Tronstad, a new retro romance The Day Gina Rossi Lost Her Yet:

Gina Rossi has dreamed of being Marco Scaglia’s sweetheart for as long as she can remember. But just when it looks like her dream might come true, her life gets crazy.

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lisa Mondello, a new contemporary romance The Gift:

When Allison Jones finds a small envelope on the ground, CEO Derek Holden accuses her of stealing the money that was supposed to be inside. Knowing what the envelope means for a little girl, Allison is determined to not only fulfill the gift herself, but to prove to Derek that there is more to life than just money. Derek didn’t need the simple conventions of life…until he met Allison. He soon learns that a bank account full of money is no match for a heart full of love…

From New York Times bestselling author Lenora Worth, a contemporary romance A Palm Tree Christmas:

When an overworked, heartbroken Atlanta nurse takes a holiday on the Gulf coast, she meets a widower with two adorable children and rethinks what love really means. Together, Clara and Hank rediscover Christmas and maybe the beginning of something more.

From Amazon bestselling author Margaret Daley, a new romantic suspense Deadly Holiday:

Tory Caldwell witnesses a hit-and-run, but when the dead victim disappears from the scene, police doubt a crime has been committed. Tory is threatened when she keeps insisting she saw a man killed and the only one who believes her is her neighbor, Jordan Steele. Together, can they solve the mystery of the disappearing body and stay alive?

From Carol Winner and CBA Bestselling author Pamela Tracy, a new historical romance Two by Two:

In 1880’s Arizona Territory, Frank Barlett, a Yuma prison guard, heads to the mining town of Bisbee in order to bury his younger brother Jasper and see that his widow has safe passage home. The widow isn’t who or what Frank expected and doesn’t have a home to be escorted to. Emmaline Bartlett has a secret or two and every time Frank uncovers one, it’s just one more reason he’s got to protect her.

From award-winning author Camille Elliot, a new Regency romance The Spinster’s Christmas:

Spinster Miranda Belmoore and naval Captain Gerard Foremont, old childhood friends, meet again for a large Christmas party at Wintrell Hall. Miranda is making plans to escape a life of drudgery as a poor relation in her cousin’s household, while Gerard battles bitterness that his career was cut short by the injury to his knee. However, an enemy has infiltrated the family party, bent on revenge and determined that Twelfth Night will end in someone’s death …

From fan favorite author Lacy Williams, a new contemporary cowboy romance Mistletoe Cowboy:

After suffering a career-ending injury, bull rider Justin Michaels has stalled out. At twenty-seven, he’s back in college to try and find direction for his life. Valri North is a few credits away from completing her pre-med degree. She’s got her life planned out, until a disastrous assignment in class and a distracting cowboy threaten to derail her carefully-ordered plans.

From award-winning author Cheryl Wyatt, a new contemporary romance A Refuge Christmas:

Refuge police officer Connor Stallings is facing the challenge of his career: new mayor Adrianna White, who wants to restructure his beloved town upside down. Adrianna’s heart is in the right place, but as she and the handsome police officer clash, they grow close enough to glimpse on their horizon a partnership of vows beyond helping the quirky but close-knit town.

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

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The Body in the Bungalow, by A. L. Jambor, 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 11 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

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

My name is Nick Dandino. I’m a private detective and heaven is my beat. I help lost souls seeking closure. I solve unsolvable mysteries. I love the dames and they seem to like me, too. I have an assistant named Pris who keeps the clients happy while I investigate. I hate her boyfriend, Eddie, but she insists I leave him alone.

The day she walked in I looked at those legs and wished I were alive, or at least in one of my Earth suits. Her name was Dee and she’d been murdered. She couldn’t remember who’d done it, which is the case with murder victims. They make up 99% of my business. She was young – 22 – and she wore her skirt so high I could almost see her scanty panties, as my mother used to say. When she sat down and crossed those legs, mama mia! I was pissed. I’d died in the forties. If this is what the sixties are like, damn.

Dee had died while on vacation at the boardwalk in Point Pleasant, NJ. NJ. My old stomping grounds. I’d followed the goodfellas to the Pinelands for years, watched them dump a body, and then would always stop at Jenkinson’s on my way home for a hamburger. Fried onions. Geez. It had been a long time. Dee was staying in a bungalow. Nice cozy setup. She’d had a fight with her husband. He’d left her alone. Schmuck. I’d never leave a nice piece like this alone. In a bungalow on the boardwalk no less. She didn’t remember anything after that. And she made it clear she didn’t want me talking to her husband. Of course, I’d talk to him.

I went home and got into my Average Joe. That’s the suit I wear when I go to Earth. One of them anyway. I have others that look like movie stars. Paul Newman and Jimmy Stewart, etc. Pris likes Paul Newman. Most of the dames do. I use it when I want to get close to them. Not this time. I wanted to go in and out anonymously. I caught the tram back to town and went through the reception center to the elevators that will send me to Earth. I landed in-between two buildings. The door opened and the air hit me like a love letter from home – salty air and fried onions.

Click here to pick up your copy of The Body in the Bungalow.

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Only Time Will Tell, by James Kipling, 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 10 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller / Mystery

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

An unknown woman is murdered and detectives Pierce Carson, Chelsea Madden and a new recruit, Dean Weston, are assigned to the case. Their search for the killer leads to several dead ends and a suspected drug connection as more people are killed. In the process of helping to solve the first murder and those that follow, Chelsea realizes that she is walking a very thin line between personal revenge and professional responsibility. She too has suffered at the hands of murderers who brutally snuffed out the life of her parents, giving her a reason to join the police force.

To complicate matters, she finds herself attracted to Dean, about whom she knows very little, only that he was an undercover agent elsewhere. Normally a loner, she finds him easy to talk to as she unburdens herself of a past that she had kept secret for years. As the case becomes more complicated and passions are stirred, questions arise about a mole in the force and Dean is on the list of possible suspects. Chelsea is torn between trust and doubt, fear and love, and her desire for revenge and letting the law take its course.

The strands of the plot become intertwined with unexpected twists and turns, and Chelsea finds herself caught in a life and death struggle from a most unexpected quarter. Only time will tell whether she survives to right the wrong or to find a new direction for her life.

Click here to pick up your copy of Only Time Will Tell.

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Where the Joys Are: Bertha’s Guided Journal, by Jane Carroll, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 15 customer reviews.

Category: Non-Fiction / Journal Writing

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

Joys are like stray cats…the more you feed them…the more you get! That’s Bertha’s philosophy and she has found a delightful way to feed them – journaling. Bertha has the perfect outfit to match each journaling adventure and often does battle with the cat in the process.

Click here to pick up your copy of Where the Joys Are: Bertha’s Guided Journal.

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Blame the Mistletoe

November 29, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day, Blame the Mistletoe, by Dani Collins, 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 47 customer reviews.

Genre: Romance

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

Liz Flowers has never enjoyed Christmas, but this one is shaping up to be the worst by far. She let her ex take her daughter to Mexico while she stays behind in a strange town, sitting her former mother-in-law’s high strung little dog. It’s an opportunity to meet new people, but this California girl doesn’t have much in common with the ranchers in small town Marietta.

Blake Canon perks up with male interest when he sees a new face at his friend’s Christmas cocktail party. His son is away and a light affair would take his mind off his financial troubles. Then he realizes he knows Liz. She was once married to the brother of his ex-wife.

Their children might be cousins, but Blake and Liz do the kissing—under the mistletoe. It’s the beginning of a new view of Christmas for Liz, but when their children arrive home unexpectedly, and family secrets are revealed, Liz isn’t sure she’ll stay in Marietta for Christmas after all.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/112914 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Blame the Mistletoe.

About the Author:

*Winner of 2013 Reviewer’s Choice Award from Romantic Times Book Reviews*

Before making my first sale to Harlequin Mills & Boon in 2012, I spent two decades writing and submitting to every publisher with a transom while holding down a day job and raising a family with my high school sweet heart. Since then, I’ve gone to contract on twenty books.

While Harlequin Presents remains my first love, I also write romantic comedy, medieval fantasy romance, erotic romance, and small town contemporary romance for Montana Born. In fact, I write just about anything, so long as it’s romance.

Want to know what’s next? Sign up for my newsletter at danicollins.com or email me at dani@danicollins.com. You can also follow me on Twitter @DaniCollinsBook or visit my Facebook Page: DaniCollinsAuthor.

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

More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

November 29, 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 Saturday: 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!

Playing the Game, by Stephanie Queen, is regularly $3.99 but is 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 39 customer reviews.

Category: Romance

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

2013 International Digital Award Winner!
Best Contemporary Novel

The “Priest” of basketball, superstar Barry Dennis, needs to get knocked down a peg and so-called “black widow” Roxanne Monet is the woman to do it–if she can keep herself out of jail after being accused of murdering her wealthy husband.

Since her disastrous marriage ended, Roxanne Monet has sworn off serious relationships with men. She has more important things to worry about, like no money, no job and accusations of murdering her wealthy husband. But when she meets superstar Barry Dennis and he challenges her to a game of seduction, she decides to play ball. When the game turns serious, she unintentionally exposes the legend to be a flawed man.

Barry Dennis picked the wrong woman to play games with when he decides to flirt with the enigmatic Roxanne. Being the best takes all he has. He can’t afford to let anything or anyone interfere with his first and only priority–Basketball. But as the attraction between them heats up, he finds himself losing sight of his life’s game plan.

While the sports world’s microscope is trained on Barry’s game and the media hounds Roxanne about her husband’s mysterious death, the stakes are ratcheted up even higher when Barry’s young daughter, Lindy is injured. Roxanne gives Lindy the attention she needs while Barry struggles to cope with the demands of his new priorities.

Can Roxanne rely on Barry to do more than play ball? She takes the risk and gives him the last thing she owns–her heart.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/apk8pf into your web browser to pick up your copy of Playing the Game.

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The Forever Ones, by Marjorie DeLuca, 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 15 customer reviews.

Category: Young Adult

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

Paige is a forever, genetically altered to stay nineteen forever and live in the secret Iduna Corp compound, a place where age reversal and immortality has been perfected. Forevers are told to live for the moment. Be what you want to be for a while and when you get sick of it – be something else.
But when her friends start disappearing Paige suspects there’s a darker side to their luxurious prison. 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 enjoy eternal youth.

Her friend Junius involves her in planning a daring escape from the compound so they can infiltrate the IdunaCorp organization and find out what’s really happening to their missing friends. They’re joined by the charismatic and musical Chale, a Keener whose attraction to Paige causes tension between her and Junius. What will they find on the outside? How has the quest for immortality changed humanity?

The journey becomes so dangerous Paige is forced to push herself to the limits of her endurance and 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 Tegan Cave, by Inge-Lise Goss, 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 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 39 customer reviews.

Category: Romantic Suspense

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

After running from her boyfriend’s powerful organized crime family, Sara Jones starts a new life in a new town. But when people around her start dying from poisonous spider bites after she receives a mysterious package with a spider concealed inside, she worries that the family has found her. Life takes an even more bizarre turn when she seems to be not only immune to the spider venom, but also surrounded by a sinister group of people using spiders to incapacitate their prey. Even her new boyfriend starts acting suspiciously. Just who can she trust?

Then to make matters worse Sara’s twenty-fifth birthday approaches, and her dark heritage begins to emerge. She is forced to make a life-or-death decision. And somehow, she must find a way to deal with the crime family.

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

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Rippler, by Cidney Swanson, 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 257 customer reviews. My teenage daughter and her friends started reading this series a couple of years ago and love it!

Category: Young Adult

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

Samantha Ruiz has a freak gene that makes her turn invisible, or ripple. She can’t control it, and it’s getting worse. Afraid of becoming a lab-rat, Sam keeps her ability secret, until fellow runner Will Baker sees her vanish into thin air. Will promises secrecy and help, and Sam begins to fall in love.

Together, the two discover there are worse things than being a scientific curiosity. Someone’s been killing people who possess Sam’s gene. A mysterious man from France sends letters that offer hope for safety, but also reveal a sinister connection with Nazi experiments.

The more time Sam spends with Will, the less she can imagine life without him. When Sam uncovers secrets from her past, she must choose between keeping Will in her life or keeping Will safe.

Click here to pick up your copy of Rippler.

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The MacKinnon’s Bride, by Tanya Anne Crosby, 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 877 customer reviews.

Category: Historical Romance

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

Descended of the powerful sons of MacAlpin, Iain MacKinnon refuses to bow to the English. But when his young son is captured, the fierce Scottish chieftain vows to stop at nothing to secure the lad’s return. Retaliating in kind, he captures the daughter of his enemy, planning to bargain with the devil.

FitzSimon’s daughter has lived her entire life in the shadows of the man she called father—yet never would she have imagined he would deny his only daughter. Even as Page blames her captor for welching on a contract with her father, she suspects the truth… the shadows hold secrets. Now only the love of her reluctant champion can save the MacKinnon’s Bride.

This book begins the Highland Brides series.

Click here to pick up your copy of The MacKinnon’s Bride.

Check out Amazon’s Black Friday Deals – it is extending over the weekend! You can check out the deals if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/amazonbfriday into your web browser.

New Releases on Kindle

November 29, 2014 by Michael Gallagher 1 Comment

Himalayan Hump, by John Robert McCauley, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Suspense

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

Inspired by true stories during World War II, the Air Transit Command and its heroic flyers and crews were the savior to end the war against the Axis powers. Without their courage, dedication, teamwork and valor and flexible thinking, World War II would not have ended in 1945. This story focuses on how a baseball player’s life was dramatically changed by the forces of fate. Follow Bucky’s dangerous missions into Africa, India, Burma and China, which are filled with suspense and intrigue and experience his close encounters with death to save millions of lives from the German and Japanese invaders.

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

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The Missing Year, by Belinda Frisch, is just $3.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Romance

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

Thirty-four-year-old Blake Wheeler was everything Lila had ever wanted. A rising-star surgeon with his whole life ahead of him, Blake gave Lila ten perfect years of marriage before plunging her into the hardest year of their lives.

When a late night shooting leaves Blake in a coma, Lila is faced with a difficult decision: continue life support or let him go.

One year later, Lila remains unwilling to speak, in a private mental health facility where she refuses to move on.

Dr. Ross Reeves knows firsthand about loss, having spent the better part of five years burying himself in his work. Tasked with the challenge of breaking Lila’s silence, Ross investigates Lila’s past and her husband’s death, finding more to Blake’s murder than meets the eye. A series of mysterious coincidences has Ross wondering if Lila is acting out of grief … or guilt.

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

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The Sadness of Angels, by Jim Williams, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Science Fiction

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

Lord T’ien Huang controls the universe through poetry, telepathy and the violence of his insane Angels. His subjects consider him to be God. Emperor of a universe ruled by the Ch’ang, immortal but not invulnerable, his interest is aroused by Sebastian, a novice monk on the remote and wasted planet of Lu, who can see and speak to God. Should he destroy the boy or toy with him?

Sebastian is rescued from the Lord T’ien Huang’s avenging Angels by Mapmaker, an ancient Old Before the Fall with a forgotten history of betrayal, and they journey to the snowbound north. They are accompanied by Velikka Magdasdottir, a girl belonging to the Hengstmijster tribe of warrior herdswomen who maintain a veiled harem of husbands.

In the frozen wastes they encounter the remains of the Ingitkuk who rebelled against the Ch’ang in antiquity and lost their witch princess, She Whom the Reindeer Love. Mapmaker knew her when she died half a millennium ago as Her Breath Is Of Jasmine.

Will Mapmaker lead Sebastian, the Hengstmijster and the Ingitkuk to their doom against the Ch’ang? Can Sebastian master his own powers? How will they survive against the Angel Michael, thawed and frozen more times than he can recall, with his power to destroy humanity by the billion?

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

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Love Match, by Claire-Dee Lim, is regularly $3.9 9but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Romance

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

Jessica Durrell has it all figured out. As San Francisco’s most successful matchmaker and owner of Love Match, she’s been helping the lovelorn go from “Single to Soul Mate in 30 Days.” Her longtime marriage to the man of her dreams is living proof that she practices what she preaches.

Then out of the blue, disaster strikes. Her world is thrown into chaos and the future of Love Match is now at stake. As Jessica scrambles to save the business, she finds herself making a dicey deal with Hayden Korr—a former rock star on the comeback trail with his own agenda.

Just when it seems that Jessica’s wacky scheme might succeed, her growing attraction to Hayden complicates matters. Worse yet, her nemesis has crawled out of the woodwork to make sure Love Match goes down in flames. Through outrageous obstacles and hilarious twists and turns, our Queen of Hearts is forced to reexamine her views on relationships, romance, and what it really takes to win in the game of love.

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

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The Road to Hope, by Crissi Langwell, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Contemporary Fiction

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

A story that touches on themes of homelessness, poverty, teen pregnancy and child loss…and finding the light in times of darkness.

Jill Johnson and Maddie Russo are two mothers who experience the earth-shattering impact of separate tragedies. Both 35-year-old Jill and 16-year-old Maddie fall victim to their personal circumstance, succumbing to a life neither of them plans for herself. But a brief encounter between the two of them forces the path of their lives to change course, offering light to their despair, and setting a journey where hope leads the way.

In The Road to Hope, Crissi Langwell paints a portrait of grief and affliction, opening the wounds of life’s calamities. But with a glimpse of a possible new direction, Langwell reveals the emergence of strength, and the beauty that exists when hope prevails.

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

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All Your Nights, by Shirleen Davies, is just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Romantic Suspense

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

“Romance, adventure, cowboys, suspense—everything you want in a contemporary western romance novel.”

Kade Taylor likes living on the edge. As an undercover agent for the DEA and a former Special Ops team member, his current assignment seems tame—keep tabs on a bookish Ph.D. candidate the agency believes is connected to a ruthless drug cartel.

Brooke Sinclair is weeks away from obtaining her goal of a doctoral degree. She spends time finalizing her presentation and relaxing with another student who seems to want nothing more than her friendship. That’s fine with Brooke. Her last serious relationship ended in a broken engagement.

Her future is set, safe and secure, just as she’s always planned—until Agent Taylor informs her she’s under suspicion for illegal drug activities.

Kade and his DEA team obtain evidence exonrating Brooke while placing her in danger from those who sought to use her. As Kade races to take down the drug cartel while protecting Brooke, he must also find common ground with the former suspect—a woman he desires with increasing intensity.

At odds with her better judgment, Brooke finds the more time she spends with Kade, the more she’s attracted to the complex, multi-faceted agent. But Kade holds secrets he knows Brooke will never understand or accept.

Can Kade keep Brooke safe while coming to terms with his past, or will he stay silent, ruining any future with the woman his heart can’t let go?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/allyournights into your web browser to pick up your copy of All Your Nights.

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Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

November 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 Saturday: 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!

Raw Justice, by Diane Capri, is regularly $4.99 but is 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 54 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

Three unlikely events explode thrusting young lawyer Jennifer Lane into the abyss of her family’s secret history.

Bio-Medical researcher Gilbert Irwin is killed when his car is forced off the Sunshine Skyway Bridge by an unidentified driver in a dark blue Jaguar. Ronald and Lila Walden’s daughter disappears from her Tampa apartment. Jennifer Lane is mysteriously plucked from obscurity to represent Russell Denton, Tampa’s most successful mogul, to retrieve a stolen drug formula worth billions.

Unraveling the connections, Jennifer falls into a disastrous romance with Blake Denton, Russell Denton’s nephew and heir. A bewildering maze of betrayal, intrigue, and murder, put Jennifer’s license to practice law, her heart, and her very life on the line.

Judge Wilhelmina Carson watches while Jennifer rescues herself from Annabelle’s attack.

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

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Bertha-Size Your Life!, by Jane Carroll, 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 60 customer reviews.

Category: Non-Fiction

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

Bertha-Size Your Life! Is a book of personal transformation that reads like a series of entertaining and humorous stories. Bertha, a zany redhead, mysteriously appears in the narrator’s life during a walk in the park. Quicker than a man can hand off a baby with a dirty diaper, she has moved into the narrator’s empty nest and the fun begins.

You never know what Bertha will think up next from flying a hot air balloon to singing to her begonia, she’s always up to something. Bertha delights in standing on her soapbox while dispensing down-home wisdom and perky advice, explaining The Law of Attraction in a refreshing, humor-filled, practical way that has the reader going aha! instead of humph!

Throw in a conniving nemesis, an antagonistic cat, lime green spandex and high-heels and you’ve got a book that’s sure to tickle your funny bone and leave you wearing your thinking cap as you read and reread each vignette.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/berthasize into your web browser to pick up your copy of Bertha-Size Your Life!.

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Camp Follower: A Mystery of the American Revolution, by Suzanne Adair, is regularly $5.99 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 34 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

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

A deadly assignment. A land poisoned by treachery and battle. She plunged in headfirst.

Late in 1780, the publisher of a loyalist magazine in Wilmington, North Carolina offers an amazing assignment to Helen Chiswell, his society page writer. Pose as the widowed, gentlewoman sister of a British officer in the Seventeenth Light Dragoons, travel to the encampment of the British Legion in the Carolina backcountry, and write a feature on Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton. But Helen’s publisher has secret reasons for sending her into danger. And because Helen, a loyalist, has ties to a family the redcoats suspect as patriot spies, she comes under suspicion of a brutal, brilliant British officer. At the bloody Battle of Cowpens, Helen must confront her past to save her life.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/campfollower into your web browser to pick up your copy of Camp Follower: A Mystery of the American Revolution.

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Hilly Finds Her Quiet Place, by Meytal Raz-Nave, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 18 customer reviews.

Category: Children’s

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

Hilly Finds her Quiet Place is the second book in a series in which Hilly is the main character.

As well shown in the first book, Hilly Colors Her Dreams, children straightaway connect to Hilly, who is a unique character with a charming personality, conveying important messages to children such as addressing their emotions, positive thinking, connecting to the peaceful self and more…

These themes are presented through humor, fun, love and care. Every child who reads the book drifts into Hilly’s world.

I invite you to join the journey and open your minds for healthy new thinking.

Hilly’s journey is derived from her goal to find her quiet place, a goal shared by us all. The events that happen during her quest are familiar and therefore easy for children to relate.

Hilly also shares and teaches the most effective and safe exercise in order to find that quiet place: Meditation. When exercising the quiet mind and awareness (meditation), we take a little break from our daily hustle and bustle and meet with the person closest to us… ourselves.

Meditation teaches us attentiveness toward our feelings and emotions and awareness of what we really feel – whether it is hunger, fatigue, apprehension, excitement, etc. Help your child recognize and control his/her feelings and thoughts.

Click here to pick up your copy of Hilly Finds Her Quiet Place.

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The Sweetest Seduction, by Crista McHugh, 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 142 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Romance

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

A new contemporary romance series that’s a sexy, modern twist on Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Never, ever, mix business with pleasure…

Lia Mantovani has created one of the hottest restaurants on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, but all that could disappear if she loses her lease with Kelly Properties. Having had her dreams ripped away from her before, she’ll do everything in her power to keep her restaurant. Her fate hangs on the whims of the frustratingly handsome Adam Kelly.

Adam has spent years trying to convince world famous chef Amadeus Schlittler to open a restaurant in Chicago, but he wants the prime location held by Lia. Business has always come first… until sparks fly when Adam meets her. When things get hot outside the kitchen, though, they’re both in danger of getting burned.

Warning: Contains a hero who always gets what he wants; a heroine who is just as deadly with gamberi as she is with a baseball bat; meddlesome, match-making mothers; and a Great Pyrenees with a penchant for sweeping the heroine off her feet.

Click here to pick up your copy of The Sweetest Seduction.

Check out Amazon’s Black Friday Deals – it is extending over the weekend! You can check out the deals if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/amazonbfriday into your web browser.

Demonsouled

November 28, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Book of the Day is Demonsouled, by Jonathan Moeller, 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 121 customer reviews.

Category: Fantasy

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

Banished for fifteen years, the wandering knight Mazael Cravenlock returns home at last to the Grim Marches, only to find war and chaos. His brother plans a foolish and doomed rebellion. His sister hopes to wed a brutal and cruel knight. The whispers speak of living corpses that stalk the night, of demons that lurk in darkness, and a sinister snake-cult that waits in the shadows.

Yet Mazael’s darkest enemy waits elsewhere.

Within his own tainted soul…

Click here to pick up your free copy of Demonsouled.

About the Author:

Standing over six feet tall, Jonathan Moeller has the piercing blue eyes of a Conan of Cimmeria, the bronze-colored hair of a Visigothic warrior-king, and the stern visage of a captain of men, none of which are useful in his career as a computer repairman, alas.

He has written the DEMONSOULED series of sword-and-sorcery novels, the TOWER OF ENDLESS WORLDS urban fantasy series, THE GHOSTS series about assassin and spy Caina Amalas, the COMPUTER BEGINNER’S GUIDE sequence of computer books, and numerous other works.

Visit his website at:

http://www.jonathanmoeller.com

Visit his technology blog at:

http://www.computerbeginnersguides.com

You can visit Jonathan’s Amazon author page if you click here.

More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

November 28, 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 Black Friday: 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!

A Widow Redefined, by Kim Cano, 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 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 123 customer reviews.

Category: Women’s Fiction

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

On a cold Valentine’s Day in Chicago, Amy White, a young widow who lost her husband to cancer, visits the cemetery and makes an unsettling discovery: a bouquet of fresh daffodils lying in front of her husband’s grave.

Curiosity grows into obsession as Amy searches for the stranger who left the flowers, while keeping her activities a secret from her live-in mother and seven-year-old son. The search leads to an unusual friendship that transforms her world and redefines her life.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/1935 into your web browser to pick up your copy of A Widow Redefined.

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The Demeter Code, by Russell Brooks, is regularly $5.99 but has been discounted to just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 19 customer reviews.

Category: Action and Adventure / Thriller

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

CRACK THE CODE AND YOU’LL SAVE LIVES…BUT KNOWING IT EXISTS WILL GET YOU KILLED.

When two American embassies in northern Africa are bombed, CIA operatives, Ridley Fox and Nita Parris, are assigned to track down the perpetrators. However, when their top asset is killed in a failed op, the agents suspect that there may be a new threat. Their search for the truth puts them on a collision course with a powerful multinational—which will go to extreme lengths to bury its criminal activities. However, the agents soon learn that someone with a personal vendetta against that company not only knows their secrets, but will expose them in a way that could result in the largest single-day attack against America.

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

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The Running Boy, by Dan Pollock, is regularly $3.95 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 39 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

A hideaway lake in the mountains above Los Angeles. A woman journalist on the run with a mystery boy, a step ahead of hired Red Mafia killers. A reclusive bachelor in a chalet high above the lake, staring down through binoculars. These are the initial ingredients of a full-throttle, nonstop chase thriller that accelerates from its opening pages to a breathtaking finale.

Eight-year-old Andrei “Andy” Morozov possesses a secret that could bring down the new Russian president, a media darling who conceals imperial ambitions. With geopolitical stakes this high, a secret directive is given–the boy must be hunted down and silenced forever. Thus, from the heart-pounding opening sequence, the thrilling helter-skelter race is on. Yet, as we see in vivid flashback, this is only the deadly home stretch of a six-months’ pursuit that began explosively in Moscow and has careened across Europe and America to reach its lethal climax amid the neon dazzle of the Russian neighborhoods of West Hollywood.

A story of revenge and relentless pursuit, The Running Boy will surprise and delight readers who enjoy thrillers, including action adventure and chase thrillers. Dan Pollock, a member of the International Thriller Writers, is also author of Lair of the Fox, Duel of Assassins and Orinoco.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/268 into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Running Boy.

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Murder on the Hill, by Kennedy Chase, 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 26 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Fiction

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

Introducing the first Harley Hill womens sleuth murder mystery novel.

Look out London, there’s a new investigator in town! Harley Hill is a twenty-five year old woman in need of a new identity. Until now she’s been know as many things: Baker, Crazy Cat Lady, Thief, Bandit, The girl dressed like a ninja…

When she’s offered an investigative position at the Silvers Finders Agency, she decides it’s time to go straight. Her first case is to discover why a mysterious object was left behind at a jewelry store break-in. But when it turns into a murder case, Harley will need all her skills to find the killer and uncover the secret of the artifact.

With the help of her new friends, an inquisitive cat, and two sexy men, Harley faces a race against the clock to catch the murderer. If she fails, it won’t just be the job she loses—but her life.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/murderhill into your web browser to pick up your copy of Murder on the Hill.

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The Tailor’s Daughter, by Janice Graham, is regularly $7.99 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 out of 5 stars based on 28 customer reviews.

Category: Historical Fiction

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

From the New York Times bestselling author of “Firebird” comes a richly detailed historical drama full of good Gothic romance, suspense and smartly dressed people.

As the daughter of a prosperous tailor in 1860’s London, Veda Grenfell has grown up accustomed to elegance and style. When a fever leaves her deaf at the age of sixteen, she turns for solace to the familiar world of her father’s workshop. Veda has inherited her father’s extraordinary talent, and she is not content to hide demurely in the back room whipping stitches. Defying Victorian notions of propriety, she establishes herself as a tailor to the young, fashionable sporting set of English nobility. Yet, beneath her impeccable dress and irreproachable manners beats a heart longing for the love of a man and a family of her own.

When an ambitious Italian tailor extends an offer of marriage, Veda’s keen intuition leads her to reject him, with disastrous consequences. Her situation is even more complicated by her growing attachment to Harry Breadalbane, a young viscount with a fascination for all things modern and a restless need to exert his energy on more than horse-racing and women.

As their complicity deepens, unsettling rumors begin to circulate about Harry’s family and his brutally powerful father, the reclusive Earl of Hambledon. When passion turns to betrayal, Veda abandons her beloved Savile Row and sets off on a treacherous journey to reclaim her rights – a journey that will bring her face to face with the darkly destructive forces that lurk at the depths of the human heart.

Graham’s elegant prose paints a deeply human portrait of a girl both willful and confused, vulnerable and yet fiercely courageous. The young narrator’s chronicle of her determination to seize for herself those dreams others try to deny her, render her character unforgettable and illuminate a world rarely imagined in literature.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/tailorsdaughter into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Tailor’s Daughter.

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Dancing with Mistletoe, by Leslie Wells, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars based on 9 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Romance / Holiday

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

When it comes to Christmas presents, it’s not the size that matters . . .
A sparkling, entertaining story that will leave you laughing and in the holiday mood.

It’s December 21st, 1981 in New York City, and the holidays are approaching fast. But up-and-coming book editor Julia Nash isn’t too busy to notice that her boyfriend has only put one small gift under the tree. At least Jack has an excuse: as the lead guitarist of a famous British rock band, he is deep into rehearsals for their upcoming tour. But Julia was hoping for something a little more meaningful than the pair of mittens she can’t resist taking a peek at.

Julia tries to ignore her friends egging her on about what Jack might have planned. But even with the distractions of a demanding boss, a steamy snowball fight, a baking flop involving rum balls, and a blizzard that shuts down the entire city, the question still torments her: Is a pair of gloves—the kind of thing you’d give to a friend—the only gift Jack is giving her? And if so, what does that say about their relationship?

Brimming with laughter and an enticing dash of romantic spice, with vivid characters that reviewers have called “engaging” and “irresistible”, Dancing with Mistletoe puts you in the mood to kiss someone you love under a sprig of green.
Also included is a sneak peek at Keep Dancing, the hilarious and captivating new novel about Jack and Julia, to be published in Spring 2015.

Click here to pick up your copy of Dancing with Mistletoe.

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Dynamite Fishermen, by Preston Fleming, 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 75 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

Beirut, 1982. Conrad Prosser is a skilled Arabist, expert agent handler, prolific intelligence reporter, and a connoisseur of Beirut’s underground nightlife. But, as his two-year tour at the U.S. Embassy nears its end, Prosser’s intelligence career is in jeopardy because he has not recruited an agent while in Lebanon, a sine qua non requirement for promotion.

Surveying his many contacts, Prosser selects an attractive Lebanese doctoral student and her idealistic brother as candidates for development. At the same time, he holds clandestine meetings by day and night with his string of Lebanese and Palestinian agents, pressing them to discover who is behind the latest wave of car bombings that has terrorized Muslim West Beirut. But when one of his agents supplies information used to capture a Syrian-backed bombing team, Prosser sets off a cycle of retaliation that threatens more than his career and cherished way of life.

At first denying, then later concealing, apparent attempts on his life, Prosser sets out to save both his job and his skin, exploiting his agents, his best friend, a former lover, his new girlfriend and her enigmatic brother. In doing so, he puts their lives at risk and discovers too late the effect of his heedless actions.

Click here to pick up your copy of Dynamite Fishermen.

Check out Amazon’s Black Friday Deals – I’ve already hit the website and there’s a lot of stuff! You can check out the deals if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/amazonbfriday into your web browser.

Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

November 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 Friday: 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!

Spilt Milk: A Collection of Stories, by D.K. Cassidy, 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 4.9 out of 5 stars based on 52 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

Within these pages you will meet an array of characters. Choices are made that will change lives. Are they right or wrong? You decide. Each brief story deliberately distills a life’s essence. Mika Sugano’s original illustrations compliment D. K. Cassidy’s flashes of fiction, heightening these refreshing ideas and themes on the page.

Welcome to Modern Gothic stories that are droll, horrific, and thought provoking.

• George, a child who collects things
• Cinderella’s stepmother in therapy
• A paraplegic finds her true life
• Caleb, unwanted, neglected, now grown
• Jared, baptized in a coffee world
• A mother lost in her torn past
• And six others

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/spiltmilk into your web browser to pick up your copy of Spilt Milk: A Collection of Stories.

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Faces, 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 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 22 customer reviews.

Category: Suspense

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

What if you could no longer recognize faces?

Following a head injury from a rock climbing accident, Jessica faces a disturbing future where everyone looks like a stranger. When a team of embezzlers stumbles upon her diagnosis of prosopagnosia – face blindness – they seize the opportunity to entangle her in their scheme. As she discovers the scam and alerts the authorities, she becomes a target in a masquerade far more dangerous than the extreme sports she loves.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/25p4qy into your web browser to pick up your copy of Faces.

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SARA: The Complete Series, a new three book box set collection by Ernie Lindsey, is regularly $6.99 but has been discounted to just $1.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 9 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

This complete collection contains all three novels in the Sara’s Game series, including the companion novella, One More Game.

SARA’S GAME

Two years ago, Sara’s husband left for the gym one morning…and never came back. His car was found. He wasn’t. Unbelievably, the police report said, “No foul play suspected.” There were a few unreliable sightings over the following months, but little else.

Now, on the last day before summer break, her three children have gone missing from their schools, all at the same time.

And the note under her windshield wiper asks one foreboding question: Are you ready to play the game?

SARA’S PAST

This is no game.

Eighteen months after Sara’s terrifying encounter with a demented kidnapper, life has finally returned to normal. Almost. Her memories of the game still haunt her dreams, and every day society appears to go a little bit crazier. Around the world, from London to Rio to Moscow, a small terrorist group known as The Clan creates chaos and unrest. Who are they, and why are all their targets connected?

All Sara wants is to live a safe, quiet life with her children.

On a damp fall morning, however, Detective Emerson Barker shocks Sara with news that’s both chilling and unthinkable, plunging her family headlong into another frightening fight for survival…”You’re the next target.”

SARA’S FEAR

Bolstered by a newfound fortune, Sara Winthrop is finally able to escape the horrific nature of her past. She’s moved her family three thousand miles, from the bustling city of Portland to the rolling Appalachians of southwest Virginia. Life is calm, the children are thriving, and she’s protected inside her rural fortress.

Or so she thinks. She soon discovers that the answers are never so easy. The illusion of security doesn’t stand a chance against two dangerous enemies with money, motivation, and an unquenchable desire for revenge.

Aided by the help of new friends and forced to the edge of extremes, Sara must find a way to win at all costs, or die trying.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/saraseries into your web browser to pick up your copy of SARA: The Complete Series.

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I’ll Be Home For Christmas, by Jeffrey Miller, 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 15 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Fiction

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

Carol Johnson believes her husband is keeping a deep dark secret from her, but Carol also has a secret which could destroy their marriage. A few days before Christmas, both of their secrets collide with each other along with the forces of nature and fate following a Christmas party and the worst snowstorm in decades.

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Presidential Pursuit, by Rachel Kall, 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 21 customer reviews.

Category: Suspense

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

A Love and Scandal Prequel Novella
Dynamic and determined, Helen Riley has devoted her life to public service. Now she’s on the verge of doing something no other woman has ever done: Become the President of the United States of America. But her enemies will stop at nothing to end her Presidential hopes.

Smart, loyal, and sexy Sean Mackay has never pushed to be more than Governor Riley’s best friend and strongest supporter. However, when her life is threatened Sean steps up to protect the woman he loves beyond all reason.

As the campaign heats up, sparks begin to fly between Helen and Sean. Will she make history and admit her love for Sean, or will her pursuit of the White House end in tragedy?

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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 out of 5 stars based 17 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

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.

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