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Cleopatra’s Necklace

September 3, 2015 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book:

Cleopatra’s Necklace

Author: Susan Vaughan

Genre: Romantic Suspense
Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars
Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: ~~$3.99~~
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Book Description:

DEVLIN SECURITY FORCE, Protecting Priceless Treasures

A stolen necklace – When DSF boss Thomas Devlin’s old flame is pursued by the same thugs who stole the Queen of the Nile’s priceless necklace from under his company’s nose, he drops everything and jets to Venice to protect her. He’s desperate to recover the necklace from the smuggling ring Centaur and restore his company’s reputation, but he runs into more trouble than he can handle in the arms of the woman he can’t forget.

A woman in danger – Impetuous artist Cleo Chandler’s involvement with the forger who copied Cleopatra’s necklace sends her on the run because the thugs who killed him believe she knows the location of the jewelry. When Thomas bursts back into her life promising protection, she knows he’ll safeguard her life, but will this take-charge man crush her love again?

A dangerous quest – From Venice to the U.S., as Thomas and Cleo race against time and the smugglers, they learn that something much greater is at stake than their lives and recovering the precious antiquity. As the peril escalates, so does the risk to their hearts.

Because Devlin Security Force is founded and staffed with veterans, the Wounded Warrior Project will receive ten percent of profits for the first year of publication.

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About the Author:

I wanted to write as soon as I learned to read. I dabbled with stories and poems for years, but didn’t start writing seriously until many years later. My favorite books have always been mysteries and romances, so the mix in romantic suspense was a natural. I love writing romantic suspense because it throws the hero and heroine together under extraordinary circumstances and pits them against a clever villain.

My books have won the Write Touch Readers’ Award, the More Than Magic Award and have been both a Romantic Times Magazine Reviewer’s Choice Nominee and a finalist for the Daphne du Maurier Award. Reviewers have called my books fast-paced, thrilling, action-packed, sizzling, and highly emotional. I am a West Virginia native but I have lived for many years on the coast of Maine.

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

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More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

September 3, 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!

Double Trouble

Author: Mike Faricy

Genre: Mystery
Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars
Kindle Unlimited: Yes

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Book Description:

Work is slow for Private Investigator, Dev Haskell so he agrees to make collection calls to octogenarians past due on their coffin payments. He barely lasts the morning before he quits. On his way out the door Dev recommends “reformed” criminal Tommy Flaherty for the job. Since no good deed goes unpunished, that turns out to be a very big mistake and Dev finds himself taken for the ultimate ride.

At the same time, Dev attempts to investigate online tampering with an “Escort” website. Unfortunately, there’s a lot more than pictures of gorgeous women being exchanged and the last people willing to help seems to be Dev’s client Ashley and her thug boyfriend, Tony.

Double Trouble is a hilariously entertaining mystery, full of nonstop surprises and a delightfully zany ending.

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The House of Worms

Author: Harvey Click

Genre: Horror

Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars
Kindle Unlimited: Yes

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Book Description:

Dexter Radcliff’s elderly great-aunt owns an ancient Native American artifact called the Talking Horn that allows one to speak with the dead, and when Dexter’s carelessness causes the Horn to be stolen he is plunged into a nightmarish struggle with the Lost Society, a vast narco-terrorist network of occult assassins led by a dead sorcerer. But Dexter’s problems have just begun—soon he will have to contend with parasitic brain-eating worms, sinister Longevitals who can live a very long time thanks to a hermetic treatment, a “Twisted Zoo” containing among its horrific exhibits Dexter’s murderous atavistic twin, “spectreholes” that open spectral doorways to other worlds, and a hellish monstrosity older than mankind that is preparing to return to earth and return earth to primordial chaos.

Warning: this grisly novel is not for the timid. The first chapter entices the readers like a bloody fishing lure, and each following chapter drags them deeper and deeper into a swirling maelstrom of horror.

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Justified Means

Author: Chautona Havig

Genre: Religious Fiction

Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars
Kindle Unlimited: No

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Book Description:

The Agency Files:

Whatever it takes: the motto of “The Agency.” It doesn’t exist–not legally speaking. However its effect in the lives of those who benefit from their aid is incalculable. Lives saved, restored, guarded–protected from the side of life most never see. Their clients are usually wealthy, important–desperate. Their other clients–well, they don’t always appreciate the efforts expended on their behalf–not until they aren’t lying on a slab in the morgue.

Justified Means

Erika Polowski, in grave danger–danger she has no idea exists–finds herself captive, shackled, bound, gagged. Her captors have the most unbelievable story, yet as the enemy manages, time after time, to get too close, she has to decide who or what to trust. Can she believe the man who daily holds her at gunpoint? Does she trust her gut? She is certain that she knows nothing that could possibly matter to anyone–has done nothing that should put her in danger.

For Keith Auger, it’s just another assignment. Extract the client, protect the client, return the client to her life with minimal interruption. Except that this “client” isn’t so keen on being protected. His usual cheerful demeanor disappeared the night he helped her escape from her home–escape with the aid of duct tape, rope, and the dark of night.

His faith seems incongruous with his job. Her feisty personality might just keep her alive–if he can’t. How long can they stay one step ahead of their pursuers? How long can he protect her when every move they make seems only half a step behind those who want Erika dead. Why can’t they get a break?

The only answer is the one thing that he fears most. Is there a mole within The Agency?

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The Planner

Author: Alexandra Swann

Genre: Christian Fiction
Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars
Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99
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Book Description:

Once a top-producing real estate agent with a successful business and a beautiful home, Kris Mitchell is a victim of the economic downturn. She has lost her home to foreclosure, and her long-time boyfriend has married someone else. Then, just when she has almost given up hope for a better future, an opportunity presents itself for her to become a Level 1 Planner for a newly created federal agency that will implement the Retire America Act of 2013.

After persuading her own aging parents to sign over all of their assets, Kris learns that the government’s plan to confiscate the wealth and property of America’s retirees in exchange for lifelong care in the Smart Seniors community has some serious downsides. As she relinquishes more and more personal freedom to hold onto her job, she discovers what it means to trade liberty for a steady government paycheck.

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Thoroughbreds and Trailer Trash

Author: Bev Pettersen

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $4.99
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Book Description:

AWARDS: Book Buyers Best Finalist, National Readers’ Choice Award Finalist, Heart of Excellence Readers’ Choice Award Finalist, Laurel Wreath Award Finalist, Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award

A feisty horse masseuse relies on her job and street smarts to support what’s most important…her younger sister. But when she’s caught in the middle of a hostile takeover, headed by a charming but ruthless corporate shark, both her heart and career are threatened.

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Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

September 3, 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!

Bed of Bones

Author: Cheryl Bradshaw

Genre: Mystery
Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: ~~$4.99~~
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Book Description:

Sometimes even the deepest, darkest secrets find their way to the surface…

Summer 1956

Thirteen-year-old Willie Compton and his younger brother Leonard stumble upon a mine shaft while hiking the hills of Park City, Utah. The shaft is unsealed, abandoned. While Leonard stares at the hole in wonderment, a Slinky he’s been flipping back and forth between his hands slithers through his fingers, tumbling toward the mouth of the shaft. Leonard bolts forward, reaches out to grab it, but he slips, then he falls.

Present Day

Up-and-coming filmmaker Melody Sinclair stirs in her chair, nervously awaiting the debut of her film at the Sundance Film Festival. Based on a true story, Bed of Bones tells a tale of murder, shining a big, bold light on Park City’s tragic past. A past that’s about to revisit the present.

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Seabound

Author: Jordan Rivet

Genre: Science Fiction

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Kindle Unlimited: Yes

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Book Description:

When an apocalyptic catastrophe decimates the land, a lucky few escape on a souped-up cruise ship called the Catalina. After sixteen years, the strain begins to show in a floating world of distrust and shifting allegiances.

A young mechanic named Esther wants to prove herself, but she tends to bash things up in the name of progress. When disaster strikes the water system on Esther’s watch, she’ll risk everything to fix her mistake.

Nearly out of water, the Catalinans must use their last fuel to sail for help. They head to an unknown seabound metropolis called the Galaxy Flotilla. The inhabitants of the Galaxy are keen to parade their lives of luxury, but they’ll want something in return for their warm welcome.

But is Esther ready for the dangers she’ll face on the post-apocalyptic ocean? Can she save her friends aboard the Catalina before it’s too late?

Find out how far Esther is willing to go to save her home in the fast-paced first novel of the Seabound Chronicles.

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Behind Closed Doors

Author: Brian L. Porter

Genre: Mystery
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Kindle Unlimited: Yes

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Book Description:

Autumn, 1888. The population of London is horrified by the atrocious murder spree being conducted by Jack the Ripper. While Metropolitan Police Commissioner Charles Warren throws the bulk of his investigative resources into the search for The Ripper, another, less well publicized killer is at large.

Tucked away on the inner pages of the daily press, a few short articles tell of the strange, unsolved murders taking place on board the carriages of the new-fangled and much-heralded London Metropolitan Railway. Each murder takes place the day after the Ripper killings, as the murderer appears to be taking advantage of the lack of police resources to tackle two major investigations simultaneously.

Inspector Albert Norris is charged with bringing the railway killer to justice, but clues are few and the killer’s motive unclear. He is forced to carry out his investigations ‘quietly and without causing a public panic’ as the authorities seek to maintain confidence in the underground railway system’s safety. The press is being told even less, and Norris can count on little help from above as he attempts to solve the inexplicable series of murders.

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The Underground Trilogy Box Set

Author: Anna Kyss

Genre: Paranormal

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: ~~$6.99~~
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Book Description:

Far beneath the streets of London, in abandoned tunnels of the London Underground, the age-old battle between Light and Dark brews. Are you ready to enter The Underground?

When Meghan Kelly, eighteen-years-old and backpacking across England, descends into the century-old stone tunnels of the Underground, she plans on a hot date at a secret nightclub. Instead, she finds herself imprisoned and in a fight for her very survival.

Kiernan has lived in the Underground nearly all his life. After his encounters with Meghan, he must choose between loyalty to his father or saving the human girl he yearns for. Not an easy decision when his people face extinction and Meghan might hold the key to saving them.

In this box set edition of The Underground Trilogy, join Meghan and Kiernan in their epic race for survival that spans hearts, paranormal civilizations, and continents. The box set contains all three books in the trilogy: Wings of Shadow, Wings of Memory, and Wings of Light

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The Lost Bible

Author: L. Rosenman

Genre: Paranormal / Mystery
Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $3.99
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Book Description:

“What would you say if you suddenly received a mysterious phone call from someone telling you that there weren’t forty-eight of Gutenberg’s books, but forty-nine?”

Hannah, a green-eyed beauty, finds herself in mid-life with no husband, no work, and no clear direction. Following a promising ad, she joins an enthusiastic professor on a perilous search for a lost copy of the Gutenberg Bible, last seen in the 16th century. To succeed where others failed, they must decipher ancient encrypted texts, enter monasteries and torture cellars – and avoid dangerous criminals who will stop at nothing to lay their hands on this priceless antiquity. But then they are forced to face an even greater challenge…

This suspenseful romance reveals an ancient love that drowned in blood 500 years ago, yet has endured to this day.

Click here to pick up your free copy of The Lost Bible in the Amazon Kindle store.

Love and Rumors

Author: Jean Oram

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $2.99
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Book Description:

One picture. One tabloid. Two lives changed forever.

Finian Alexander is one scandalous tabloid photo away from catapulting his acting career onto the A-list. All his bad boy persona needs is an agreeable member of the paparazzi to give him a friendly boost. But vacationing out in the middle of nowhere, the only photographer he knows is way too scrupulous for her own good.

Or is she?

Hailey Summer is desperate for cash—so desperate that she’s willing to do just about anything with her photography skills to save her family’s cottage and keep her secrets hidden from her sisters. So when sexy, arrogant movie star Finian makes her an offer, Hailey can’t resist. But does his proposition take things too far? And when their plans begin to unravel, will Finian and Hailey find the limelight too blinding?

This is the first book in the Summer Sisters Tame the Billionaires contemporary romance series.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Love and Rumors in the Amazon Kindle store.

The Aura

Author: Carrie Bedford

Genre: Mystery

Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars
Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99
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Book Description:

The FIRST book in the Kate Benedict paranormal mystery series.

SHE KNOWS WHO’S GOING TO DIE! BUT NO ONE WILL BELIEVE HER…

Life spins out of control for London architect Kate Benedict when she sees a dancing aura above certain people’s heads that seems to signal death. Suddenly she’s psychic. But that can’t be! Psychic’s not acceptable in her circle, where the supernatural is strictly for the superstitious. And yet…people are dying. People close to her.

Kate’s tentative attempts to talk about her new-found metaphysical gift are met with eye rolls, so much so that she can’t even tell the nice Scotland Yard detective who’s investigating the death of a close friend, Rebecca Williams. And now Rebecca’s neighbor has an aura.

So what’s Kate to do but try to save him by turning detective herself? A break-in and attack on her boyfriend confirm that the murderer’s catching on that Kate knows too much. But he (or maybe she) has no idea that what Kate knows is a little on the paranormal side.

Fans of traditional British mysteries (and female sleuths) will love watching competent, reasonable Kate try to harness supernatural abilities she not only doesn’t understand, she doesn’t even believe in! And those who love international mysteries will particularly enjoy the vivid scenes in Italy, where the story begins and, in some ways, ends.

Click here to pick up your free copy of The Aura in the Amazon Kindle store.

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Meet Author RP Dahlke

September 3, 2015 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Continuing our “Meet the Authors” series, let me introduce you to independent author R.P. Dahlke…

From the first time I could shove my five-year old hand high enough to place my library card up on the librarian’s desk, I knew that someday I would write mysteries. What I didn’t know was that my stories would be met with giggles to outright belly laughs.

If you met me would you think I’m a funny person? I doubt it. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m a agreeable person, I’m a good listener and I’m also the sucker everyone’s for April Fools’ day tricks. I come from a family of funny people. My mother’s favorite holiday wasn’t Christmas or Thanksgiving, it was April Fool’s Day. See what I mean? And my dad was a very funny guy−he just didn’t know it. My dad was very much like Noah Bains, Lalla Bains’ dad; Laconic, prone to quotes at all the wrong times, an old retired guy who is just trying to keep a grip with all the crazy stuff going on around him.

So why interject humor into a murder mystery? Well, for one thing, everyone needs a break from the neighborhood axe murderer. I’m not saying that my books have axe murderers in them, but if they did I’d go with the scene after the fact. I don’t enjoy long, frightening scenes of people being butchered. Besides, humor gives the reader a break from the drama, and loading up the story with characters who may be sincere in their approach to life and death, but who always seem to be slightly off in their delivery, is just fun.

And I work very, very hard to get my mysteries right. I look to make my plots compelling, unique and original. I attend writer’s workshops, research poisons, weapons, how to hide a dead body and how to find that dead body.

When I first wrote A Dead Red Cadillac, I was about to turn forty, so I thought it would be fun to poke at my protagonist’s fear of aging. Might as well, no matter what I did, I was still going to turn fu-fu-forty. Of course there’s a murder; Lalla’s vintage caddy goes missing. It’s found in a local lake with an elderly piano teacher in the driver’s seat. It gets funny when the woman’s felon husband disguises himself as a woman to get to the truth of his wife’s murder.

In book number two, A Dead Red Heart, journalist Delmar Potts thinks he needs to compensate for his short, fat, balding appearance by being a sexist pig, which drives Lalla to want to smack him. Yet, in spite of his disgusting behavior, he’s instrumental in helping Lalla Bains solve a murder.

In A Dead Red Oleander, Cousin Pearlie Mae Bains arrives from Texas to help, or maybe hinder, Lalla in the investigation of a dead pilot. I knew I was on the right track when I got the following review: “Janet Evanovich meets aero-ag pilots.”

In A Dead Red Alibi Lalla Bains, her dad, and her erstwhile fiancé, Caleb Stone, travel to Arizona, where Caleb gets car-jacked, Dad falls in an abandoned mine pit, and Lalla solves the case of a reclusive young artist with a dangerous side job.

A Dead Red Miracle, #5 in this series and was published on Amazon in July. Lalla and cousin Pearlie buy into a retiring P.I’s business, only to discover that their business partner is a cheat, a liar and blackmailer. But when they go to confront him, his house explodes with him in it. Nearly broke, they will have to grapple for enough business to stay afloat while dodging his greedy ex-wives and solve the dirty bastard’s murder before the killer comes after them as well.

Thank you, RP! You can check out her Amazon author page if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/rpdahlke into your web browser – please note if you are a member of Kindle Unlimited (click here to learn more about Kindle Unlimited), you can read all of her books for free!

California Series

September 2, 2015 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book:

California Series – Books 1-3

Author: Sandy Loyd

Genre: Romance
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: ~~$4.99~~
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Book Description:

Three couples find their way to love and happiness in these first three heartwarming stories all set in the San Francisco Bay area. Cozy up to the fire and fall in love with Winter Interlude. Experience a flirty, sexy & fun romance on a San Franciscan night in Promises, Promises. And read about JAMES, a man women love with one flaw – he can’t commit.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/californiaseries into your web browser to pick up your copy of California Series – Books 1-3 in the Amazon Kindle store.

About the Author:

Sandy Loyd is a Western girl through and through. Born and raised in Salt Lake City, she’s worked and lived in some fabulous places in the US, including South Florida. She now resides in Kentucky and writes full time. As much as she loves her current hometown, she misses the mountains and has to go back to her roots to get her mountain fix at least once a year.

She spent her single years in San Francisco and considers that city one of America’s treasures, comparable to no other city in the world. Her California Series, starting out with Winter Interlude, are all set in the Bay Area. Her series consists of fun, heartwarming stories about crazy friends who, like single people everywhere, are seeking that someone special to share their lives with among thousands of eligible candidates.

Sandy recently published her first Romantic Suspense novel, The Sin Factor, set in another wonderful US city, Washington, DC. She has since published two more, both set in fictional towns in Kentucky to give a reader a feel for small town living. Running Out Of Fear’s setting showcases the state’s caves and lakes. All have heart-stopping suspense and are full of the twists and turns she loves. Sandy also doesn’t skimp on the romance.

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

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More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

September 2, 2015 by Michael Gallagher 2 Comments

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 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!

Diamonds In The Sky

Author: M.A. Harper

Genre: Mystery
Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars
Kindle Unlimited: Yes

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Book Description:

FINALIST, DIGITAL BOOK AWARDS 2015, FOR ADULT FICTION!
(PRETTY MUCH THE OSCARS OF EBOOKS)

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. Was 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 toward a 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 what 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 in the Amazon Kindle store.

Always With You

Author: Andrea Hurst

Genre: Women’s Fiction

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Kindle Unlimited: Yes

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Book Description:

1977 is a glorious time to be alive in the beautiful wine country of Northern California, and Cathy has everything she thought she wanted – from a thriving health food café to loyal friends.

Since the devastating failure of her short-lived marriage, Cathy has buried herself in her work and kept men at arm’s length. But when an old high school friend, Pam, brings her family for a short stay, Cathy’s stone walls begin to crumble when she meets Jamie. Jamie, whose compassion and warmth slowly break down her defenses. Jamie, whose devotion to his four-year-old daughter melts Cathy’s heart and makes her desperate for a family of her own. Jamie… who is married to Pam.

A profound love that transcends time and place is impossible to resist. But is love more important than friendship? Are loyalty and fidelity an anchor or a chain? In the end, it’s all about choices – tough ones that can break hearts. Now Cathy must make the most difficult choice of her life.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/btptt8 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Always With You in the Amazon Kindle store.

Mail Order Bride Tess

Author: Rose Jenster

Genre: Historical Romance
Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Kindle Unlimited: Yes

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Book Description:

Tess is a seamstress in upstate New York during the 1880s. She fears she will be working in the sweltering shop her whole life and never find true happiness by finding a man who loves her. A married friend shows her a newspaper that has ads for mail order husbands and Tess shyly studies it with guarded hope. Tess is quite bashful with a lot of fear, but also worries what her life would be like without a big change.

Will she find happiness out west or be stuck in the sweltering shop in New York? Why does Luke withdraw from her emotionally and can he let go of his past loss? Will Tess return home in defeat and be broken inside? Can their love blossom?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/bridetess into your web browser to pick up your copy of Mail Order Bride Tess in the Amazon Kindle store.

Kept

Author: Sally Bradley

Genre: Religious Fiction

Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars
Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: ~~$3.99~~
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Book Description:

Life has taught Miska Tomlinson that there are no honorable men. Her womanizing brothers, her absentee father, and Mark, the married baseball player who claims to love her—all have proven undependable. But Miska has life under control. She runs her editing business from her luxury condo, stays fit with daily jogs along Chicago’s lakefront, and in her free time blogs anonymously about life as a kept woman.

Enter new neighbor Dillan Foster. Between his unexpected friendship and her father’s sudden reappearance, Miska loses control of her orderly life. Her relationship with Mark deteriorates, and Miska can’t help comparing him to Dillan. His religious views are so foreign, yet the way he treats her is something she’s longed for. But Dillan discovers exactly who she is and what she has done. Too late she finds herself longing for a man who is determined to never look her way again.

When her blog receives unexpected national press, Miska realizes that her anonymity was an illusion. Caught in a scandal about to break across the nation, Miska wonders if the God Dillan talks about would bother with a woman like her—a woman who’s gone too far and done too much.

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Small Town Glamour Girl Christmas

Author: Stephanie Queen

Genre: Contemporary Romance
Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars
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Julie loves her small town life. She loves her family run Inn. This much she is sure about–especially after her misadventure as a big city big glamour model parading as an Audrey Hepburn look-alike a few years back.

But what she’s not sure about is if she really loves her boyfriend Neil. Especially after Jack returns to town for the big Christmas celebration.

Julie and Jack had a special connection a long time ago as kids, but does he remember that time–does he even remember her? They were young and sheltered then. Now that they’re all grown up, Julie is all too aware that Jack is a billionaire city boy from London. The magic and charm of the small town Christmas rekindles the connection, but Julie is uncertain if she and her small town life would ever be enough for Jack.

What chance does a small town glamour girl have at a romance with a big city billionaire boy?

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Darkangel

Author: Christine Pope

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Finding the man of your dreams can be a real nightmare….

As the future prima, or head witch of her clan, Angela McAllister is expected to bond with her consort during her twenty-first year, thus ensuring that she will come into her full powers at the appointed time. The clock is ticking down, and her consort has yet to make an appearance. Instead, her dreams are haunted by a man she’s never seen, the one she believes must be her intended match.

But with time running out, and dark forces attempting to seize her powers for their own, Angela is faced with a terrible choice: give up her dreams of the man she may never meet and take the safer path, or risk leaving her clan and everyone in it at the mercy of those who seek their ruin.

Darkangel is the first book in the Witches of Cleopatra Hill, a paranormal romance trilogy set in the haunted town of Jerome, Arizona.

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Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

September 2, 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 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!

A Death in Duck

Author: Mindy Quigley

Genre: Mystery
Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
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With the new year approaching, hospital chaplain Lindsay Harding heads for a much-needed break in the peaceful resort town of Duck on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Her plan to attend the wedding of her friend Anna runs aground when a boatload of trouble washes ashore, and as the old year ticks down, the body count goes up. Thrust into the path of an increasingly desperate killer, Lindsay must uncover a sinister secret before she winds up swimming with the fishes.

Old family scandals, sunken World War II U-boats, obscene desserts, and a stolen Doberman all guarantee a far from restful break for the irreverent reverend, who makes her second appearance in this lively mystery.

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The Pariahs

Author: Erik Hofstatter

Genre: Horror

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Two disfigured siblings are torn from their beds at night by The Government and transported into an isolated stronghold, hidden in the deepest and most hostile parts of Siberia.

Friendships will be formed and loyalties tested as the siblings struggle to locate one another, but tragedy lurks within the stronghold and blood relation does not always mean family. Destinies are interwoven and fates collide in this explosive novella from Erik Hofstatter, author of the acclaimed Moribund Tales.

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Full House

Author: Shelley Singer

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A CULT LEADER, A CACHE OF CASH, AN UNHOLY MESS!

An ark in the middle of suburban Oakland was interesting but not strange by California standards. Even one built by peaceful cultists preparing for the coming flood. Until sometime private eye Jake Samson is hired to find Noah, their leader, who has disappeared with a lovely devotee and a quarter million in cash. The cult suspects foul play. The police aren’t convinced.

As Jake and his carpenter sidekick, Rosie, trail the wealthy visionary from a health-food factory in Sonoma to a casino in Tahoe, thugs, drugs and the murdered body of Noah’s attractive assistant add up to a lot less than a biblical tale. And Jake’s got a gut feeling the floodgates are just the beginning to open.

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Contact Us: A Jake Corby Sci-Fi

Author: Al Macy

Genre: Science Fiction

Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
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On May 22, 2018, every person on Earth sneezes. Simultaneously.

Hours later, an alien spacecraft appears over New York City and broadcasts a dire message of impending doom. The future of the human race will depend on the whims of a solitary extraterrestrial who appears in the form of Walter Cronkite. Yes, that’s right, Walter Cronkite, the deceased news anchor!

Ex-FBI troubleshooter Jake Corby has faked his death and dropped out of sight, living like a hermit in a small town. But the president is convinced Corby’s still alive. He wants Jake, with his unique problem-solving skills, added to the team that will try to defeat the strange but powerful alien. Jake needs to overcome his introvert tendencies if he’s going to help save the planet.

The alien has some nasty surprises for the residents of Earth, and the race is on to figure out his true motives and the meaning of the sneeze event–before it’s too late.

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Codename: Zosha

Author: Yehudit Kafri

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars
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An unsung Jewish heroine of World War II

Her daring activity in the Red Orchestra and the heroic struggle in a Gestapo prison.

Zosha Poznanska was recruited into the Soviet spy network known as the Red Orchestra, which operated in Western Europe. It was on the eve of World Rar II and Zosha was part of the inner core of the network, a third of whose members were Jews. Apparently unaware of the Jews’ participation in the Red Orchestra, Hitler declared, “The Bolsheviks surpass us in one area alone: espionage!” and he commanded his counterspies to eradicate this network at all costs.

This book tells the story of Zosha through all the chapters of her short life: childhood, the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement in Poland, Eretz Israel and the PKP in the 1920s, Europe in the 1930s and the Red Orchestra. It tells her loves, her relationships with family and friends, her daring activity in the Red Orchestra and her heroic struggle in a Gestapo prison. The State of Israel posthumously awarded Zosha a medal of honor for fighting the Nazis.

Zosha Poznanska is an unsung Jewish heroine of World War II. Born in Kalisz Poland, she immigrated to Israel as a pioneer and for a brief time belonged to the group that founded Kibbutz Mishmar Ha’emek. Afterwards, she joined the Palestine Communist Party (Palestiner Kumunistishe Partie in Yiddish, abbreviated PKP), and from 1930 until her death she lived in France and Belgium.

The book is written as a biographical novel and relies on exhaustive research; all fictional passages are derived from and based on extensive documentation. It was awarded the 2004 prize for top literary achievement, by the Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers in Israel (ACUM).

Click here to pick up your free copy of Codename: Zosha in the Amazon Kindle store.

Axeman’s Jazz

Author: Julie Smith

Genre: Mystery

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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WHAT’S THE PERFECT KILLING FIELD FOR A MURDERER?
A place where he (or maybe she) can learn your secrets from your own mouth and then make friends over coffee. A supposedly “safe” place where anonymity is the norm. The horror who calls himself The Axeman has figured it out and claimed his territory—he’s cherry-picking his murder victims in the 12-Step programs of New Orleans.

And he’s had the gall to name himself after a historical serial killer. He just needs to go down, and fast, because this is New Aw’lins, dawlin’—half the town is either alcoholic or co-dependent!

Who better to take him out than tall, funny, social-misfit Skip Langdon, now a homicide detective on the Axeman team, a gig that takes her into the 12-Step groups to meet the suspects (giving the author a chance for gentle satire). As Skip threads her fascinated way from one self-help group to another, she finds she has more in common with the twelve-steppers than just the murder—her mother, for one thing, whom she encounters at Overeaters Anonymous! And she knows what they do not: that among their anonymous numbers is a murderous, and dangerously attractive psychopath…

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Don’t Forget the Kindle Paperwhite Giveaway!

September 1, 2015 by Michael Gallagher 1 Comment

Have you entered our latest giveaway?

It takes less than ten seconds to enter – and it’s free to enter – the giveaway where you can win one of the new version Kindle Paperwhites that was released this summer. Just click here or point your web browser to http://www.smarturl.it/0915pw to enter – and please be sure to tell your family and friends as I am sure they would like an opportunity to win, also!

Good luck!

Michael

Pianist in a Bordello

September 1, 2015 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book:

Pianist in a Bordello

Author: Mike C. Erikson

Genre: Literary Fiction
Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars
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What would happen if a politician decided to tell the truth—the whole truth?

Richard Youngblood, aspiring Congressman, is about to find out. He’s running on a platform of honesty and transparency—and against the advice of his friends and advisers he’s decided to start with himself. His autobiography will lay his entire life bare before voters just days before the election.

And what a life he’s had. Born in a commune and named Richard Milhous Nixon Youngblood as an angry shot at his absent father, Richard grows up in the spotlight, the son of an enigmatic fugitive and the grandson of a Republican senator. He’s kidnapped and rescued, kicked out of college for a prank involving turkeys, arrested in Hawaii while trying to deliver secrets to the CIA…Dick Nixon Youngblood’s ready to tell all.

He’ll even tell his readers about the Amandas—three women who share a name but not much else, and who each have helped shape and define the man he’s become.

Are voters really ready for the whole truth?

Are you?

Pianist in a Bordello is a hilarious political romp through the last four decades of American history, from a narrator who is full of surprises.

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About the Author:

Mike C. Erickson grew up in the idyllic college town of Logan, Utah, but because of a twist of fate he graduated from high school in Honolulu. He left Hawaii brimming with aloha and enrolled at Utah State, where he was awarded two degrees and self-proclaimed minor intellectual status, which was of dubious value when the US Army invited him to vacation in South-East Asia. Ten days after leaving Vietnam, he began decades of dispensing pearls of wisdom as a high school history teacher, academic decathlon coach, and on occasion, as a community college instructor in the Sacramento area. Mike and his wife Trudy, have two grown sons and a grandson born soon after this novel is published. When not in Hawaii or another exotic locale, they live in Gold River, California. This is his first novel.

As of April 26, 2015, my book is now the award winning novel, Pianist in a Bordello, having garnered a nod by the Northern California Publishers and Authors for third place in General Fiction.

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

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More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

September 1, 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 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!

Z-Risen: Outbreak

Author: Timothy W. Long

Genre: Horror

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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When the USS McClusky (FFG-41) was overrun by the dead, Machinist Mate First Class Jackson Creed, and Marine Sergeant Joel “Cruze” Kelly, were forced to abandon the ship, and take their chances in San Diego. Relying on military training, guts, and pure force of will, the two of them will face a nightmare world that is intent on killing them one bite at a time.

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Roanoke Vanishing

Author: Auburn Seal

Genre: Mystery
Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars
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Avery Lane is driven to discover the fate of the 117 missing colonists of Roanoke. When she encounters a mysterious group called the Descendants, who are determined to keep the colony’s secret hidden, Avery must choose between her obsession for the past and her own survival. Will solving this mystery cost her everything? Is there more to this secret than what is buried at Roanoke? Haunted by visions of the past, she must find answers before the Descendants stop her and forever banish the truth.

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Anti-Soviet Activities

Author: Jim Williams

Genre: Thriller

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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For Colonel Pyotr Andreevitch Kirov there is only one inescapable truth in modern Russia – if the old order does not change, it is impossible to bury the past.

When Kirov’s routine investigation into black market antibiotics is linked to the former head of the KGB – and Kirov himself is put under investigation by his own men – the course for collision is set.

As the old and new factions in the Soviet machine grapple for power, the stock in trade is the hardest currency known to the Socialist Republic … murder. Will Mikhail Gorbachev share the same fate?

Anti-Soviet Activities is the second of Jim Williams’s astonishingly prophetic novels about the decline and fall of the Soviet Union.

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Dead on Demand

Author: Sean Campbell and Daniel Campbell

Genre: Thriller
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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A career man, Edwin Murphy has always put more effort into his work than his family. Everything changes for Edwin when his wife files for divorce. On the brink of losing his home, his job and his little girl, Edwin orchestrates an intricate plan to eliminate his wife and regain his former lifestyle.

The police are baffled when bodies begin to appear all over London with no apparent connection between them. Inspector David Morton must think outside the box as he investigates the deadly web of deceit behind the murders.

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Rebirth: Rogues Shifter Series Book 1

Author: Gayle Parness

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy

Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars
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Having always felt like a freak of nature, Sixteen year old Jackie’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she’s not human, but instead part of a large supernatural community. Because of her newly discovered magical abilities, she’s picked to train with a group of powerful young shapeshifters who become her close friends. Their purpose is to protect the vulnerable shifter population from the more violent supernatural beings that inhabit this terrifying and exciting world.

During her training, she meets Garrett, a magically powerful vampire who teaches her to use her unique gifts and then manages to steal her heart. Backed by their team of rogues, Jackie and Garrett face unexpected dangers, finding strength in their magic and their commitment to a life together.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Rebirth: Rogues Shifter Series Book 1 in the Amazon Kindle store.

Archives for September 2015

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Author: Susan Vaughan

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Author: Mike Faricy

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Author: Harvey Click

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Author: M.A. Harper

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Author: Andrea Hurst

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Author: Rose Jenster

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Author: Sally Bradley

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Author: Stephanie Queen

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Author: Christine Pope

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Author: Mindy Quigley

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Author: Julie Smith

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Author: Mike C. Erikson

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Author: Timothy W. Long

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Author: Auburn Seal

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Author: Jim Williams

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Author: Sean Campbell and Daniel Campbell

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