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End of Eternity

April 30, 2015 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day, End of Eternity, by Loretta Lost, is regularly $4.99 but is free today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 78 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Genre: Thriller

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

She married a monster. Now, she has to deal with the consequences…

Carmen Winters thought her life was getting better. Until she came home to find her new husband hanging from a chandelier.

Six months pregnant and devastated, Carmen is forced to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. Before she can even begin to grieve, she finds herself being inappropriately pursued by Brad West, a sophisticated Manhattan lawyer and her late husband’s best friend. But between caring for her elderly father and her estranged sister Helen, Carmen is not ready to open her heart to anyone new.

As she grows obsessed with understanding the madness that took her husband, Carmen finds her own mind unraveling dangerously to the brink of insanity. It is only when she meets a sweet and sensitive stranger named Owen that she finds herself able to smile again.

Is it really true that the best beginnings can come from the worst endings? Or does Carmen have deeper to fall before she can learn who she really is?

Please note: This is the first book of a four-part series. End of Eternity is now complete! Each book features a cliffhanger ending until the ultimate conclusion. While this story occurs after the events of the Clarity books, it can be enjoyed even if you have not read Clarity.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/endof into your web browser to pick up your free copy of End of Eternity in the Amazon Kindle store.

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About the Author:

Loretta Lost writes for the same reason that you read: to experience all the love and excitement that can often be lacking from real life. She finds it therapeutic to explore her issues through the eyes of a different person. She hopes to have a family someday, but until then, her characters will do nicely.

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

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More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

April 30, 2015 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here’s your second group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Thursday: 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!

Somebody Tell Aunt Tillie We’re In Trouble!, by Christiana Miller, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 94 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Mystery

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

Mara’s in hell. Just when she thinks morning sickness and a boyfriend with PPSD (Post-Possession Stress Disorder) are the biggest problems she’s facing, Gus shows up and turns her world upside down.

Gus is completely obsessed with his nefarious plans for the late, great, Lord Grundleshanks the Poisonous Toad. But in his single-minded quest for the mythical toad bone, he winds up flipping the seasons and accidentally opens a portal to Hell.

Soon, summer shows up in the middle of winter and refuses to leave. A local boy vanishes out of Mara’s car, leaving Mara as the prime suspect in his disappearance. And if that wasn’t bad enough, the Devil comes calling — and he’s gunning for Gus.

Now, Mara’s got her hands full. She has to:

1. Figure out what happened to J.J. before she’s arrested.

2. Prove to Paul that she’s not pregnant with a demon baby or some kind of mythological creature before he does something irrevocable, and

3. Broker a truce between Gus and the Devil, before Gus becomes Hell’s newest resident.

But she’d better do it in a hurry, because Gus’s life is on the line and he’s fading fast.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/hgldrp into your web browser to pick up your copy of Somebody Tell Aunt Tillie We’re In Trouble! in the Amazon Kindle store.

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The Stone House Secret, by Debra Burroughs, 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 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 46 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Mystery

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

Since feisty newspaper reporter Jenessa Jones’ return to her hometown of Hidden Valley, her romance with Detective Michael Baxter has begun to heat up–but his ex-wife and her ex-boyfriend do all they can to keep that from happening. When a scandalous murder is uncovered on the local college campus, Jenessa is assigned the front-page story. Her aunt is named as a prime suspect, compelling Jenessa to find the real killer in order to keep her family member from going to prison. As she follows the trail of clues, Jenessa’s investigation puts her life in grave danger. Can Detective Baxter capture the murderer and save the woman he loves?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/stonehousesecret into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Stone House Secret in the Amazon Kindle store.

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Alive and Killing, by Jeff Carson, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 232 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Thriller

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

Just for a day, Colorado Sheriff David Wolf trades slogging through murky meltwaters and even murkier small-town politics for an overnight camping trip in the wilderness with his son.

But when a man with fresh burns turns up on their trail, falling from the heavy load in his backpack and running wild from something, Wolf suspects his father-son camping trip may have just taken a turn for the worse.

Unfortunately his instincts are spot on, and Wolf is forced into action with the last person he wants by his side in a deadly battle — his only son.

When news of their disturbing episode travels through the valleys, local FBI agents want to take over Wolf’s investigation, hoping to halt murder and corruption originating 7,000 miles away in Afghanistan. Wolf ignores the FBI’s order to stand down, even if the case involves a matter of national security. Not when his son’s safety is at stake.

In this stomach-dropping, action and suspense packed third installment of the David Wolf series, Wolf partners with a beautiful FBI agent to bust an inter-continental conspiracy threatening anyone who has the bad enough luck to stumble on it.

Alive and Killing has mystery, thrills, suspense, and action that will grab and pin you down until the final page.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/alivekilling into your web browser to pick up your copy of Alive and Killing in the Amazon Kindle store.

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Southern Peach Pie and A Dead Guy, by A. Gardner, 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 93 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Mystery

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

From debut author A. Gardner comes a deliciously dangerous new series…

After an injury derails Poppy Peters’ ballet career, she gathers the courage to follow in her grandmother’s footsteps and attend Calle Pastry Academy in a small-town Georgia. Poppy has her work cut out for her not only fitting in with her charming (and not-so-charming ) Southern classmates but also proving her worth to her teachers after her first publicly humiliating attempt a making the school’s famous peach pie. But Poppy’s pastry problems go from bad to worse when she’s suddenly accused of stealing expensive black truffles, and her attempt to clear her name goes awry…resulting in her finding a dead body instead! If Poppy’s going to survive this culinary experience, she’ll need to find the missing truffles and track down a killer, all while honing her baking skills to compete in the school’s dessert competition for a coveted pastry internship in Paris. Can Poppy prove she’s one tough cookie? Or is her life about to crumble?

**Recipes Included**

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/peachpie into your web browser to pick up your copy of Southern Peach Pie And A Dead Guy in the Amazon Kindle store.

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XGeneration 1: You Don’t Know Me, by Brad Magnarella, 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 35 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: YA / Paranormal Mystery

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

In the fall of 1984, Cold War tensions between Washington and Moscow are close to breaking.

But in sleepy Gainesville, Florida, fourteen-year-old Janis Graystone is mainly worried about starting high school, earning a spot on the varsity soccer team, and keeping her older sister from running her life. And then there are her paranormal experiences. Experiences where she awakens in her backyard — out of her body — with the disturbing sense that someone is watching her.

For Scott Spruel, the start of high school means the chance to start over. And he’s willing to ditch everything — computer hacking, Dungeons & Dragons marathons, even his comic book collection (well, except for his X-Men) — if it means getting closer to Janis, the secret love of his life. But what about the eerie delay on his telephone, a delay he senses through powers he is only beginning to understand?

As clocks tick down, Janis and Scott will need the other’s help. But first they’ll have to find one another and that means traversing Thirteenth Street High’s caste system — a system that can be as brutal as it is unforgiving.

XGeneration is a teen paranormal thriller series, inspired by classic superhero comics and the 1980s.

Rated 14+ for language and some violence

Click here to pick up your free copy of XGeneration 1: You Don’t Know Me in the Amazon Kindle store.

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Undeniable Rogue, by Annette Blair, 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 762 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Historical Romance

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

UNDENIABLE ROGUE, The Rogues Club, One of Four Regency Historical Romances

A battlefield promise to a dying comrade, and Gideon St. Goddard, Duke of Stanthorpe, comes home from Waterloo to take a bride.

Aware that romance and matrimony aren’t always compatible, widow, Sabrina Whitcomb, nevertheless, needs a husband. While providing for her children is paramount, wedding a stranger—even a wealthy one like Gideon St. Goddard, Duke of Stanthorpe—is no light matter. So why did the shockingly handsome rogue agree to marry her? When Gideon flashes his wicked, seductive smile, the reason hardly matters.

Click here to pick up your copy of Undeniable Rogue.

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Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

April 30, 2015 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here’s your first group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Thursday: 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!

Dead in the Water, by Julie Smith, 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 57 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Mystery

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

This is the FOURTH book in Edgar-winner Julie Smith’s Rebecca Schwartz series.

What’s the etiquette when your hostess is arrested for murder?

San Francisco lawyer Rebecca Schwartz has occasion to wonder when she and her weekend hostess, Marty Whitehead, find a body floating in the 30-foot kelp tower at the Monterey Aquarium, and Marty’s promptly dragged off to the slammer.

Rebecca quickly grasps the Emily Post solution—sign on as Marty’s lawyer, try to keep her client’s two young kids out of the deep end, and somehow avoid drowning in the sea of lies gushing from Marty’s mouth–and everyone else’s. There’s a lot of intrigue among the aquarium’s oceangoing primates, as well as rumors of a pearl beyond price.

For Rebecca, the sea and all its animals have always held a huge attraction, but now her attention turns to a particularly fine specimen of homo sapiens–hot marine biologist Julio Soto. As her investigation picks up speed, she finds she better act fast to keep Julio from sleeping with the fishes he collects. Because if she doesn’t, he could be next in line for the shark tank—along with Rebecca herself.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/c943pn into your web browser to pick up your copy of Dead in the Water in the Amazon Kindle store.

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See Bride Run!, by Charlotte Hughes, 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 51 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Romance

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

Atlanta’s billionaire heiress Annie Hartford has been under her father’s thumb her entire life. At 29, he is now forcing her to marry a man she doesn’t love in front of 600 guests. With only moments to spare, she hijacks the family limo, which breaks down in small town Pinckney, Georgia. Annie, who has never wanted for anything, suddenly finds herself homeless, penniless, and with only the clothes on her back: a designer wedding gown and diamond tiara.

There she meets small town lawyer and restaurant owner Sam Ballard. Unlucky in love, the last thing Sam needs is a red-hot waitress who seems hell-bent on breaking every dish in his Dixieland Café. Still, he can’t very well fire her; she has already won the hearts of everyone in town.

After a lifetime of riches, can Annie find happiness in a garage apartment, second-hand clothes, and making her way around town on a borrowed bicycle? And how can Sam be certain that Annie won’t run home to daddy when her new life presents one obstacle after another?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/seebriderun into your web browser to pick up your copy of See Bride Run! in the Amazon Kindle store.

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Changer, by Jane Lindskold, 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 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 36 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Fantasy

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

Wild and unpredictable, brother to the sea, older than the creatures that walk the earth or swim in her waters, the Changer delights in countless shapes. When someone attempts to wipe out his family, the Changer discards coyote form and descends from the wilderness to call in a few favors from none other than King Arthur himself.

But Arthur has problems of his own. The Lustrum Review is about to meet and the tenuous accord that holds the athanor community in loose alliance is being challenged. Some of the challengers merely desire to see a few restrictions dropped. Others wish to see the Accord destroyed – and if Arthur and his closest allies are destroyed with it, they would be delighted.

For Arthur, the Changer’s arrival, ominous as it may be could also be a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate how the Accord serves even the most ancient among their immortal community. He also hopes that their alliance will serve to anchor this wild one more firmly to his cause.

Yet nothing is ever that simple. Before the Changer takes his revenge, those who have called themselves gods and have been the root of many a heroic legend will find themselves threatened with destruction. The very earth itself will shake. And a coyote pup―sole survivor of the Changer’s murdered family―will discover both her weakness and her hidden strength.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/57lfxc into your web browser to pick up your copy of Changer in the Amazon Kindle store.

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Fault Tree, by Michaela Thompson, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 10 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Action and Adventure

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

HELLO, IT’S YOUR PAST CALLING…

“Placing blame” thinks Marina Robinson, “is my life’s work. And why?” There’s a lot in her past to account for—nightmares and terrors, crimes and betrayals that happened half a world away, ten years go. Now she’s an engineer with a great job. She’s a failure analyst, an investigator who figures out what causes accidents, and she’s working on her most fascinating case–the fatal crash of a roller coaster–when suddenly the phone rings. And her world tilts…

The elusive, unidentified caller can be only one person—Catherine, her beloved younger sister who supposedly died in a fire ten years ago. Once again—for the moment abandoning her case–Marina is inexorably drawn back to India, the country that seduced her so long ago in so many ways, where something unspeakable happened to a child, and where she herself participated in misdeeds so shocking she can’t forgive herself. She starts by tracking Catherine’s lost lover, Nagarajan, the irresistibly charismatic guru under whose spell Catherine fell those many years ago, a man so dangerous, so full of hubris he took his name from Indian snake gods, and who at times seemed more serpent than human. But who is also reportedly dead—a suicide in a jail cell.

Thus begins an odyssey of fear and danger–far from dead, Nagarajan seems to be everywhere, and so do his disciples (at least those who haven’t gone mad from guilt). Nowhere, it seems, is Marina safe, nor is anyone who knows anything about the young victim of Nagarajan’s atrocities. Wherever she turns, the path seems strewn with fresh bodies. Just when the jig seems up, Marina calls on her skills as a failure analyst and Thompson pulls off a surprise ending that will leave you gasping.

Fault Tree is that rare novel that pulls us into the exotic experience of a stranger in a strange land, much like Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Heat and Dust or Gregory David Roberts’ Shantaram.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/faulttree into your web browser to pick up your copy of Fault Tree in the Amazon Kindle store.

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The War Planners: Episode 1, by Andrew Watts, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 21 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Thriller

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

A Chinese invasion is coming.

A CIA operative in Shanghai transmits two earth-shattering revelations to his contacts in Langley, and then goes missing. First, the U.S. government has been infiltrated with Chinese spies. Second, an inner circle of Chinese leaders have set in motion plans to do the unthinkable – to invade the United States of America.

Lena Chou is one of the few U.S. officials who knows the truth. She must put together a top-secret task force to help America’s government prepare for what will come. Now, in order to covertly plan the U.S. defense, Lena has gathered a Red Cell, a group of experts that will plan how China could best attack it.

David Manning is one of those experts. After he is abruptly taken to the covert island base where the Red Cell is being held, Lena presents the group with evidence of China’s imminent attack. But while the Red Cell plans for war, David suspects that something about this gathering of minds is terribly wrong…

Click here to pick up your free copy of The War Planners: Episode 1 in the Amazon Kindle store.

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Rise Of The Six, by Matt Ryan, 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 17 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Action & Adventure

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

Joey Foust has no idea he’s a wanted man and his parents aim to keep it that way. They raised him as a normal boy in a small American town, hoping he and his friends don’t discover what lies beyond. And for eighteen years, they succeed.

Joey and his friends, the Preston Six, were all born on the same day, but soon come to find they have much more in common than a simple birthdate. Details of their past are suspicious, and they are determined to figure out what their parents are hiding.

Small threads of new information are discovered, leading the Preston Six to venture in search for the truth. What they find pushes the boundaries of their beliefs. Now, they’re forced to leave behind everything to face an unknown adversary who’s been hunting for them since the day they were born.

They must rise as one, or fall to enemy hands

Click here to pick up your free copy of Rise Of The Six.

Color Me Grey

April 29, 2015 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Book of the Day is Color Me Grey, by J.C. Phelps, 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 213 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Genre: Action & Adventure

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

…exciting, highly paid position for person with specialized training…

Recently unemployed after quitting a boring office job, Alexis Stanton finds a mysterious ad in the help wanted section that might prove to be the answer to her desire for excitement and adventure.

After an intense application process, including actually fighting with her competition, she gets the job of her dreams.

But is it going to kill her?

Click here to pick up your free copy of Color Me Grey in the Amazon Kindle store.

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About the Author:

J.C. Phelps is a wife and mother of three who writes from the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota.

The Alexis Stanton Chronicles have been the most enjoyable works she’s written. Color Me Grey, the first book in the series, introduces the characters she has come to love. Shades of Grey and Reflections of Grey continue with the same characters and were equally as fun to write.

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

Today’s Free App of the Day

April 29, 2015 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

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

Today’s Free App of the Day is Mahjong , and this app is normally 99 cents in the Amazon App Store but is free for today only.

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

Presenting new title by 1C Wireless – Mahjong! Your goal is to match and remove all tile pieces from the tower.
Enjoy three game modes:
Classic – The original game; play as long as you want!
Time Attack – Play is timed.
Challenge – You have a limited time to choose your Tiles; for advanced players! The faster you choose, the bigger your bonus for that move!
Win in Challenge mode to unlock more towers.

You can pick up your free copy of Mahjong by clicking here or typing in http://smarturl.it/appdeal into your web browser.

Looking for more – or a more reliable – source of free books for your Kindle? You can check out my book, Free Kindle Books and How to Find Them, if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/fkb into your web browser!

More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

April 29, 2015 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here’s your second group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Wednesday: 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!

Previously Loved Treasures, by Bette Lee Crosby, is regularly $5.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 106 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Women’s Fiction

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

FROM A USA TODAY AUTHOR OF WOMEN’S FICTION BEST SELLERS comes an Award-Winning 20th Century historical mystery. In a Southern family saga rich with magic and mystery, recently widowed Ida Sweetwater finds the granddaughter she never knew she had and turns a group of haphazard strangers into family.

Struggling to make ends meet, Ida turns her cozy home into a boarding house and goes in search of used furniture. This quest leads to the Previously Loved Treasures shop and Peter Pennington, a delightfully strange proprietor who anticipates people’s needs. In addition to bargains, Peter hands out sage advice. When a pocket watch belonging to one of the residents goes missing for a second time he warns of danger—but will Ida’s granddaughter listen and will she heed his advice?

Previously Loved Treasures is an uplifting story that resonates with Crosby’s heartwarming albeit quirky characters and the joy of Catherine Ryan Hyde’s Pay-it-Forward philosophy.

A Memory House Novel.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/lovedtreasures into your web browser to pick up your copy of Previously Loved Treasures in the Amazon Kindle store.

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Tombstones And Tiaras, a new four-book box set by Angie Fox, Ann Charles, Christiana Miller and Tonya Kappes, has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Mystery

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

Shifters, sorcerers, witches and wizards, ghost whispers, angels, demons, fairies, and more are in this once in a lifetime box set. from bestselling and award-winning paranormal mystery authors, Angie Fox, Ann Charles, Christiana Miller, and Tonya Kappes. Escape into a world of magic, mischief, danger, and evil along with some romance starting with:

Angie Fox, The Accidental Demon Slayer (Biker Witches Mystery Book 1)
Straight-laced preschool teacher, Lizzie Brown, never lies, never cusses, and doesn’t really care much for surprises. When her long lost Grandma Gertie shows up on her doorstep on a neon pink Harley Davidson wearing a “Kiss My Asphalt” t-shirt and hauling a carpet bag full of Smuckers jars filled with road kill magic, Lizzie doesn’t think her life could get any stranger. That is, until her hyper-active terrier starts talking and an ancient demon decides to kill her from his perch on the back of her toilet.

Ann Charles, Nearly Departed in Deadwood (Deadwood Humorous Mystery Book 1)
Irony is having a big ol’ fiesta and Violet Parker is the piñata. Little girls are vanishing from Deadwood, South Dakota, and Violet’s daughter could be next. Short on time and long on worry, she’s desperate to find the monster behind the abductions. But with her jerkoff co-worker trying to get her fired, a secret admirer sending creepy love poems, and a sexy-as-hell stranger hiding skeletons in his closet, Violet just might end up as one of Deadwood’s dearly departed.

Christiana Miller, Somebody Tell Aunt Tillie She’s Dead (The Toad Witch Mysteries Book 1)
A little magic can go a long way–to really screwing up a girl’s life! When Mara’s 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 is one pissed-off old ghost and she blames Mara’s magical meddling for her untimely death.

Tonya Kappes, A Charming Crime (Magical Cures Mystery Series Book 1)
June Heal thinks she has nothing to lose when she relocates her homeopathic cure shop, A Dose of Darla, to the cozy little town of Whispering Falls, Kentucky. But Whispering Falls has a lot of secrets. From talking snow globes to whispering animals, June realizes the town is more magical than she thought… literally. June soon discovers she was born into a family of psychics, and her homeopathic cures truly are magical–just not magical enough to save her from being the number one suspect when a corpse is found in the lake, clutching June’s lucky charm.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/tombstonetiaras into your web browser to pick up your copy of Tombstones And Tiaras in the Amazon Kindle store.

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The Last Challenge, by Sharon Karaa, is regularly $3.49 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 41 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Romance

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

Did Lauren Rutherford, believe in luck? Absolutely. After all, he lived in her house and his first name was Bad. Did Lauren Rutherford believe in magic? Absolutely not. But sometimes life just loves to prove you wrong.

Lauren Rutherford knows she is a woman of many failings. She can’t cook, she can’t hold down a serious relationship and she can’t manage her money worth a damn. What she doesn’t know is that she’s the last descendant of a long line of witches. She needs to learn her craft, and fast, because the only thing between her and certain death is Agnes, her long-dead ancestor who has a foul mouth and a passion for G-strings, and Daniel, a sexy as hell male witch who drives her to distraction.

Lauren is the victim of a four hundred year old curse. Her life depends on her surviving a challenge set down by three damned souls, a challenge that will take her to hell and back. Literally. And Satan doesn’t do tea and scones!

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/lastchallenge into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Last Challenge in the Amazon Kindle store.

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Blood Memory: Episode One, by Perrin Briar, 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 42 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Horror

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

Blood Never Forgets

Haven’s crew find Jordan Grant half-dead floating at sea. With a six-year hole in his memory, he remembers nothing of the Incident or the Lurchers who have claimed the land as their own. He joins the crew in their daily struggle to survive in a harsh new world where every meal is live or die.

But when a shipwreck forces them from the safety of the sea, the crew soon discover their pursuers aren’t the only monsters out to get them.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Blood Memory: Episode One.

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Sweet Girl, by Cristin Harber, 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 287 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Contemporary Romance / New Adult

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

Sometimes falling in love means going through hell.

He’s everything she can’t have.

Nicola Hart grew up under the heels of her older brother and his sexy best friend, Cash Garrison. Years of ignoring her spark with Cash has transformed their friendship into a slow burning sizzle. One night with him could ruin everything. Or it could be more than she ever dreamed. They play. They flirt. But they haven’t crossed the line because too much is at stake. Family. Friendship. And the deepest kind of love that she’d have to be crazy to walk away from.

She’s his best friend’s little sister.

The definition of hands off. Cash has tried to ignore her for years. Those innocent eyes and her smile that screams kiss-me-if-you-dare… Instead, he’s looked at every pretty little thing who’s crossed his path, all to ignore the girl he seems destined to want. But when his hard partying ways get old and everyone at school is interested in Nicola, it’s time to stake a claim. To make Nicola his girl, no matter the risks, and hold the hand of the one he really loves.

Sweet Girl is the full length novel prequel to bestselling Garrison’s Creed.

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Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

April 29, 2015 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here’s your first group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Wednesday: 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!

The Trojan Project, by Eileen Thornton, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 28 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Thriller

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

It’s a peaceful night for Sarah and her family, until a strange light rises from behind the Cheviot Hills and a green mist descends across the valley. Its swirling tendrils, seeming to bear a life of their own as they snake across the land, can only be an omen of something sinister and evil.

When her husband fails to return from work, she and her children set out to search for him. A terrifying discovery awaits her in the valley below her home and before long, they find themselves caught up in a desperate search not only for her husband Pete, but also for the meaning of the green light. Pursued by the military, she slowly begins to realize her life, and the lives of those she loves, are in mortal danger.

The Trojan Project takes you into a nightmare world where no one is quite what they seem, and trust becomes a word with little meaning. Beware the green light in the sky; you never know what it hides!

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

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New Reality: Truth, by Michael Robertson, 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 28 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Science Fiction

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

A post-apocalyptic/dystopian science fiction thriller and #1 Bestseller in British Horror.

When the Rixon Corporation released New Reality, a fully immersive, five-dimensional entertainment experience, everyone logged on—everyone except Jake and Tom.

As the population gave in to the ultimate experience, it didn’t take long for the world to crumble into ruin.

Facing the wrath of Rixon and starvation, the pair embark on a fight for survival and freedom.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/3jra76 into your web browser to pick up your copy of New Reality: Truth.

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Venetian Mask, by Michaela Thompson, 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 12 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Mystery

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

MURDER AT CARNIVAL IN THE FLOATING CITY

The surreal splendor of Venice glitters and mesmerizes as six so-called friends who, it turns out, barely know each other meet at Carnival to play a malignant game that quickly turns murderous. Sally, the “Tallahassee lassie” spurned by the rest as a virtual hayseed, is swept up by a mysterious count, attending masked balls, operas, and Carnival revels even as she mourns her marriage and dodges a deadly pursuer. “Things should happen at Carnival,” says her unlikely protector, who resembles Harlequin in more than his costume. “If they go on just the same, there’s no reason for Carnival at all.” There’s absolutely no chance of that in this psychological tour de force of surging identities wrestling to emerge in people forced by violence to confront their inner Harlequins and Medusas.

The characters change costumes, alter egos, sex partners (and preferences), and most of all, their stories while Carnival swirls around them, each more desperate by the hour to solve the murder, commit another, save a career, escape a past…whatever it is that Carnival, as much a character as the humans, seems to command them to do. The guignol grows ever grander, the danger more heightened as the clock ticks toward midnight on Fat Tuesday and Sally finds she has more enemies than she thought.

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

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Visions, by Kimberly Readnour, 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 on 12 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Young Adult / Mystery / Thriller

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

“Since problems don’t exist in the euphoric world she envisions, my life will never measure up because it will always be problematic.”

Heather Reiner is not your typical teenager. Her abilities reach far beyond the norm, and she’s just beginning to discover the possibilities.

Growing up different from her peers has not been easy. Ridiculed by classmates, Heather moves to another state, but soon realizes she can’t run from a problem that begins within.

A guy from her new school, Barry, is captivated the first time he sees her. Determined to know her better, he learns her layers of complication run deep. With persistence, he chips away at her shield until each protective layer starts unveiling itself.

Heather wants a chance to be normal, but secrets never stay hidden forever. They reveal themselves when least expected. Is normalcy obtainable, or will the mystery about herself be discovered? And if discovered, will Barry be like everyone else and turn away?

Visions is book one of a young adult mystery thriller trilogy.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Visions.

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The Mortal Religion, by Marc Horn, 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 18 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Psychological Thriller

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

Chalk Cutter was spitefully nicknamed Moonface as a child, and lives a life of torment and isolation because of his unusual appearance.

Believing only a revolution could induce change, he kidnaps a girl who ridiculed him, intending to re-educate her – and ultimately mankind – in an attempt to lead a narcissistic society to treat all people as equal.

But Chalk hadn’t anticipated his own emotional backlash to the brutal brainwashing process…

His self-control diminishing, and after some reckless actions, his elaborate plan seems little more than a pipe-dream, until an old nemesis infiltrates their world.

This fateful encounter is the catalyst for the creation of The Mortal Religion, the shocking revolution Chalk is certain will breed universal contentment…

Click here to pick up your free copy of The Mortal Religion.

The Scotland Yard Exchange

April 28, 2015 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day, The Scotland Yard Exchange Series Boxed Set, a new three-book box set collection by Stephanie Queen, has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Genre: Romantic Suspense

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

From USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Queen – Scotland Yard Exchange Series Boxed Set #1

Escape to the intriguing and charming world in Queen’s Beacon Hill where politics, crime, action and fun mix with the clash between Boston and London’s law enforcement with three full novels:

Between a Rock and a Mad Woman – the prequel
“I was riveted! The twists, turns, surprises & the love story that resulted were outstanding and I can’t wait to read more”–HesperiaLovesBooks.com

Mad Madeline and Peter John Douglas battle for governor and set the stage on Beacon Hill for the Scotland Yard Exchange Program involving all the governor’s special men–and women–in solving special crimes.

The Throwbacks – Book 1
“The Throwbacks is a stellar not-to-be-missed standout!”- Romantic Times Book Review

David Young makes his mark in Boston after being exiled from Scotland Yard, but not before getting side-tracked by the delightful and surprisingly helpful bombshell decorator Grace Rogers.

The Hot Shots – Book 2
“fast-paced, funny and packed with adventure”–Romantic Times Book Review

On the run from a terrorist out for revenge, Chauncey Miller ends up in Boston from the Yard to try and stay alive, but ends up protecting the hot shot pixie Sophia Alano, taking her on the run with him back to London.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/sybox into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Scotland Yard Exchange Series Boxed Set in the Amazon Kindle store.

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About the Author:

Once upon a time, there was a young story teller in the kingdom…er, queendom. Then she grew up and… er, no… she never actually did grow up. That’s not to say she didn’t get old, or more old, but not terribly old, more like middle-aged really. Okay, so she was no longer short and cute.

But really, I always did like to make up stories. Still do. Still live in my own little world–where I’m Queen. Of the Queendom. Hence, the name. (Or whence the name?) Oh, what’s in a name anyway.
Now I’m sure you’re wondering how I manage to live, but I assure you I am quite competent. Except I couldn’t get the crown to actually sit on my head in the picture to the left. Still learning…

Oh, about me. I love cats. I have a girl cat, a princess technically. Named Kitty. No, I’m serious. Long story. No, I don’t have time. Or space.

Okay, so I do not have the inclination.

More about me. I spend hours, days, weeks, months (you get the picture) sitting at my desk, looking out the window of my castle/bedroom and writing complete fabrications in a romantic whimsical vein. Alright, if you insist, you can call the writing quirky. But I do keep myself amused.

Yes, it’s true, and entirely believable, I do have a college degree. I’m not saying when I obtained said degree, however. Go UConn!

Where do I live (for real) you ask? Among the picturesque lake-filled hills and dales (not sure what a dale is) of New Hampshire (the Granite State) (Live Free or Die) (Tough choice, but there’s a lot of tough people around here).

What else do I do besides write presumably fabulous romantic stories with noble heroes and amazing, warm heroines who you want to be just like? As if that’s not enough, I sometimes deign to teach, cook for the two gigantic very well-muscled sons and try to make sure Kitty doesn’t take over the house while I’m away in the Queendom. (That’s no joke. The cat’s a control freak.)

I actually have a very rich non-imaginary life. Right at the moment, however, I can’t think for the life of me what else it’s all about. Maybe I’ll think more about it later and get back to you…

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

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More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

April 28, 2015 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here’s your second group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Tuesday: 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!

Skynoise: A Time Travel Thriller, by Ernie Lindsey, 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 64 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Science Fiction

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

In 1587, over one hundred colonists, desperate for a better life in the new world, disappear without a trace from a settlement on tiny Roanoke Island, just off the coast of North Carolina.

And now, in the present day, tremendous, undulating wails are being heard in the sky all over the world, with no apparent earthly origin.

To Helen Weils, bestselling author and respected academic, history is a realm of observable facts, each one carefully weighed and inspected. So when she encounters Chip Sledd, a conspiracy theorist who insists there’s an unimaginable connection between the disappearance of the colonists in 1587 and the strange noises in the sky, she’s quick to dismiss his theories as the irrational ramblings of a lunatic. But when black-suited agents begin pursuing her and Chip, Helen soon realizes that the past is a lot more flexible than she ever thought possible — and seeking the truth sometimes means accepting the strangest theory of them all.

In this riveting novel, part time travel science fiction and part technothriller, USA Today bestselling author Ernie Lindsey takes readers on a captivating journey throughout history. With a blend of mystery, suspense, psychological drama, comedy, and fast-paced action adventure, Skynoise promises loads of fun, and delivers easily.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/skynoise into your web browser to pick up your copy of Skynoise: A Time Travel Thriller.

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The Kelly Brothers: Books 1-3, a new three-book box set collection by Crista McHugh, is regularly $6.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Contemporary Romance

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

Get the first three books in the popular Kelly Brothers series from New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Crista McHugh at a discounted price. Includes the complete novels, which have over 200 four and five star reviews. See why thousands of readers are falling in love with the Kelly Brothers.

The Sweetest Seduction (Book 1):
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.

Breakaway Hearts (Book 2):
Hockey star Ben Kelly has retreated to his mountain cabin in the ski town of Cascade, BC, to recuperate from a season-ending knee injury and contemplate his future in the NHL. He never expects to run into the one woman who got away. Nine years may have passed, but nothing has dulled the explosive chemistry between them. Now he wants more than just one night.

Hailey Eriksson had Olympic-sized dreams until an accidental pregnancy from a one-night stand halted her ambitions. Her life was shattered when her son died. Nothing will keep her from fulfilling her promise to him to make the Olympic team, especially not the charming Ben Kelly. Unfortunately, he’s out to sweep her off her feet this time, and she finds him harder and harder to resist with each passionate kiss. But when he learns about the child he never knew, will their rekindled romance be on thin ice?

Falling for the Wingman (Book 3):
Air Force pilot Caleb Kelly has come back home with one mission in mind—to propose to the woman whose letters and lucky charm helped him survive his deployment in Afghanistan. But when he finds their apartment empty with a note saying she’s left him, he arrives at her mother’s house in rural Alabama less than a week before Kourtney is about to marry another man. Now he’s out to win her heart again and gets some unexpected assistance from her younger sister, Alex.

Alex Leadbetter has always thought Caleb was too good for her manipulative, social-climbing sister. She had assumed Kourtney’s identity to write letters to him and keep his spirits up until he returned home to the hard truth, never expecting to fall in love with him along the way. After he shows up in town, she convinces him that the best way to get Kourtney back is to make her think he’s fallen for someone new — her. But when a fake romance becomes all too real, her deception may leave them both grounded.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/kellybrothers into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Kelly Brothers: Books 1-3 in the Amazon Kindle store.

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The Wicked Kind, by John Turner, 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 22 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Mystery

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

When Sam Stoneman disappeared in November 1989, the bottom fell out of Mason Tanner’s life. Sam and Mason were best friends, and it was on a ski trip together in the Sierra Nevada Mountains that the unthinkable happened. A chance encounter with a creep in a bar set events into motion, and when it was over, Sam was gone. In the aftermath, Mason could never shake the feeling that he was responsible. The guilt nearly killed him.

Years later Mason has turned his life around, the heartbreak and destructive living rooted in that long-ago night finally behind him. But the past remains, and when Mason’s girlfriend resurrects Sam’s case, it sets them both on a terrifying course of no return.

The investigation leads to Bridgeport, California, in the Eastern Sierra. From there, an epic showdown awaits at the infamous ghost town in Bodie. The old mining camp holds many secrets, and as Mason draws closer to a horrible truth, he will need all his cunning and courage to face down Sam’s killer.

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

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Armoires and Arsenic: A Darling Valley Cozy Mystery, by Cassie Page, 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.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Cozy Mystery

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

What would you do if you sent a $30,000 piece of furniture out for repair and it came back with a deadly package inside?

That’s the dilemma facing Olivia M. Granville, OMG to her friends and foes, as though the award-winning architect, interior designer and antiques dealer didn’t have enough on her hands.

Olivia, a transplanted Los Angeleno, is the newest resident of Darling Valley, a picturesque town just outside of San Francisco and home of the DV Bills, as Olivia calls the largest concentration of billionaires anywhere in the country. Like the Astors and Rockefellers of old who outdid each other building humongous summer cottages in Newport, the DV Bills outdo each other with eye-popping piles of sticks stuffed with museum quality art hidden in the Marin hills. It was Olivia’s plan to make a killing decorating them.

What Olivia liked best about moving to sleepy Darling Valley from LA was the absence of crime. No worrying about parking her car on a side street because it might get stolen. Nobody slipping sticky fingers into her purse and lifting her wallet while an accomplice distracted her at the sale rack at Neiman’s. Not having to trip over a dead body blocking the doorway of her office building while the LAPD took their sweet time locking down the crime scene. But the best part of living in Darling Valley was never having to find herself sitting across from Brooks at a dinner party while he romanced his new girlfriend and referred to Olivia as a client.

What she hated about Darling Valley was the 400 miles between its pristine mansions and gritty but happening LA. Not far enough to save her from becoming Detective Gurmeet Richards’ lead suspect in a killing of a different kind. Yes, that’s Detective Richards of the devastating velvety eyes.

Olivia should have remembered the advice her tea-leaves reading friend, Tuesday, gave her before she left LA. You get what you resist.

Watch what happens when Olivia and Tuesday get to work proving her innocence amid the opulence and deception of her, idyllic but deadly new home.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Armoires and Arsenic: A Darling Valley Cozy Mystery.

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Black Collar, by Daniel Sullivan, 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 70 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Mystery & Thrillers

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

The internet was the people’s great equalizer. That’s why the American aristocracy had to take it away.

MIT graduates Hart Galliston and Rockle Farnsworth are two weeks away from unveiling their revolutionary display technology when a deadly chance encounter pits them against Senator Martin Lancaster. Hart and Rockle seek vengeance by pursuing one of Martin’s daughters, the infamous heiress Brielle Lancaster. However, all is not what it seems with Brielle. Soon, she and her two siblings join Hart and Rockle on a quest far more dangerous than revenge. Hart and his friends are uncommon rebels: a computer engineer, a programmer, a socialite, a cable news anchor, and a street artist.

Daniel Sullivan’s Black Collar thrills with unpredictable twists and meaningful details, captivating as both a progressive social commentary and a dark suspenseful read.

This book is intended for mature audiences.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Black Collar.

Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

April 28, 2015 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

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

New Orleans Mourning, by Julie Smith, 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 406 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Mystery

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

Winner of the 1991 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best novel and the FIRST mystery in the highly acclaimed Skip Langdon series, New Orleans Mourning falls deliciously between the psychological suspense of Laura Lippman and the delicate drama of Tennessee Williams.

It’s Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and civic leader and socialite Chauncy St. Amant has been crowned Rex, King of Carnival. But his day of glory comes to an abrupt and bloody end when a parade-goer dressed as Dolly Parton guns him down. Is the killer his aimless, promiscuous daughter Marcelle? Homosexual, mistreated son Henry? Helpless, alcoholic wife Bitty? Or some unknown player? Turns out the king had enemies…

Enter resourceful heroine Skip Langdon, a rookie police officer and former debutante turned cynic of the Uptown crowd. Scouring the streets for clues, interviewing revelers and street people with names like Jo Jo, Hinky, and Cookie, and using her white glove contacts, the post-deb rebel cop encounters a tangled web of brooding clues and ancient secrets that could mean danger for her—and doom for the St. Amants.

Langdon, with her weight worries, insecurities, and yet overall toughness has long been a favorite of those who like their female sleuths bold, smart, and refreshingly human.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/2jond4 into your web browser to pick up your copy of New Orleans Mourning in the Amazon Kindle store.

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Meteor Storm, by David Capps, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 45 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? Yes

Category: Science Fiction

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

63,000 years ago, an ancient civilization existed far advanced over our own, but it was destroyed by a natural cataclysm. Now that same cataclysm is about to strike our modern world…

When Carl stumbles upon an unknown robot’s head, he manages with some effort to get it working. From the robot, Carl learns that it was created by an ancient civilization 63,000 years ago in northern India. The robot reports though, that the culture was destroyed by a meteor storm that killed all, but a thousand people planet wide.

When Carl learns that Earth is entering the same place in the galaxy where the meteor field exists, he warns people on TV, but finds himself ridiculed and ignored. To protect the world, Carl works to find out more about the ancient civilization and how to prevent a repeat of history.

To do this, Carl travels to a secret cave where the ancient technology is stored and here Carl meets a fully functioning robot from the ancient civilization. Now Carl must do everything in his power to preserve as many lives and as much of the current civilization as possible to avoid full scale destruction…

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/meteorstorm into your web browser to pick up your copy of Meteor Storm in the Amazon Kindle store.

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Dog with a Bone, by Hailey Edwards, 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 66 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Fantasy

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

Half-bloods with Thierry’s skill set are given two options. They can join the conclave’s marshal program, or they can pack their bags. Turn down the job offer, and you’ve just shredded your residency pass for the mortal realm and booked yourself a one-way ticket to Faerie.

Texas is the only home Thierry has ever known, and she’s not going anywhere. Even if it means following in her notorious father’s footsteps as a peacekeeper. But pinning on the badge opens her eyes to the fact sometimes fae need protection too, and that sometimes humans are the real monsters.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dogbone into your web browser to pick up your copy of Dog with a Bone in the Amazon Kindle store.

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Buying Time, by Paula Kay, 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 51 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Women’s Fiction

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

Arianna Sinclair had led a privileged life, growing up in an elite neighborhood in Marin County, California. Having only known private schools, fancy country clubs and all things luxurious, Arianna had been prepared for everything in life—except hardship.

At twenty-two, Arianna’s world is rocked by tragedy, and all she wants to do is escape it by taking the trip of a lifetime. All she wants to do is pretend that everything is “normal”, even though her whole world has crashed in around her.

She’s made the decisions about the direction she wants her life to go, until a surprise encounter with someone from her past challenges everything she believes—and everything that she thinks she needs in order to move on.

A meeting with a stranger, an unexpected journey and a shock that goes to the core of who she is—or who she thinks she is—will demand a reaction. A reaction that will have Arianna laying down the foundation for the rest of her life.

Click here to pick up your copy of Buying Time in the Amazon Kindle store.

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Magic of Thieves, by C. Greenwood, 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 852 customer reviews.

Book Part of Kindle Unlimited? No

Category: Fantasy

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

In a province where magic is forbidden and its possessors are murdered by the cruel Praetor, young Ilan, born with the powerful gift of her ancestors, has only one hope for survival. Concealment. In the shadow of Dimmingwood, she finds temporary protection with a band of forest brigands led by the infamous outlaw Rideon the Red Hand.

But as Ilan matures, learns the skills of survival, and struggles to master the inherent magic of her dying race, danger is always close behind. When old enemies reappear and new friendships lead to betrayal, will her discovery of an enchanted bow prove to be Ilan’s final salvation or her ultimate downfall?

Click here to pick up your copy of Magic of Thieves.

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