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Sunday’s Featured (and FREE!) Kindle Book

December 31, 2017 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Democracy Inc

Author: Joseph John

Genre: Science Fiction

Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

America as we know it is no more. Free enterprise has devolved into a world ruled by megacorporations. The ultra-rich govern from their towers in the sky while the lower class toil in the gutters just to survive. The corporate states work together to maximize profits and keep the masses placated through the Orbis, a virtual realityscape of online entertainment and the only escape from the bleak reality of existence.

Titus Remington is the son of the CEO of Roman Biogenics, but when his father is convicted of treason, a reluctant Titus finds the mantle of leadership thrust into his hands and must prepare himself to govern his corporate state. However, in his quest to uncover the truth that his father sacrificed everything for, he stumbles upon a dark conspiracy of epic proportions. Now Titus must make a choice: take the throne and wear the crown or risk the wrath of the council to fulfill his father’s legacy and set things right.

But this isn’t the land of the free and the home of the brave. This is a world without justice or hope, a world steeped in corruption and sin, where morality comes in shades of black and gray. This is Democracy Inc, where a life well led means nothing when pitted against profit margins and the bottom line, and with the odds stacked against him, Titus may very well lose everything . . .

Click here to pick up your free copy of Democracy Inc in the Amazon Kindle store.

About the Author:

Joseph John is an Army officer and combat veteran with over 19 years of active duty service as a CH-47 Chinook helicopter pilot and operations analyst. He is the author of The Eighth Day, an Amazon bestselling novel in genetic engineering and techno thriller fiction. His most recent novel, Democracy Inc, is a dystopian science fiction novel set in a startling and disturbing future that seems all to possible. Joseph lives in Vicenza, Italy with his wife, who is a graphic artist.

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

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Saturday’s Featured (and FREE!) Kindle Book

December 30, 2017 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

I Have the Sight

Author: Rick Wood

Genre: Horror

Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $4.99
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Book Description:

Eddie was eleven-years-old when he was hit by a car, wounding him and killing his sister.

That’s when he first saw her.

He was twenty-three when he had his second near-death experience. He saw her once more, overpowered by the demonic, destitute exterior that scarred his mind.

Now he sees her when he’s awake. Everywhere he looks, every time he closes his eyes, she is there, making him weaker. She has chosen him and he is yet to understand why.

But finding out why could be the key to saving the soul of his dead sister…

Click here to pick up your free copy of I Have the Sight in the Amazon Kindle store.

About the Author:

Rick began writing stories as soon as he could write. As a child, he would shut himself away in his bedroom and bash away on his Windows 95 computer for hours.

As Rick grew up, he had to overcome multiple mental health issues, including OCD, Bipolar Disorder, Tourette’s Syndrom and Low-Level Autism. Rick did battle through, going on to become a stand-up comedian, through which he performed three Edinburgh Fringe Festival shows. Eventually, Rick gave up the stand-up lifestyle to become an English and Drama Teacher.

Rick now lives in Loughorough, where he works hard at writing horror and thriller novels, most notably known for The Edward King Series.

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

Free & Discounted Kindle Books for Saturday

December 30, 2017 by Michael Gallagher 2 Comments

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

Exit Strategy

Author: Colleen Cross

Genre: Thriller

Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $4.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

Diamonds, Danger, and A Deadly Secret…

Private investigator and forensic accountant Katerina Carter uncovers a sinister connection between blood diamonds and organized crime. Then two company employees are brutally murdered and her investigation becomes much more dangerous than she had ever imagined. Can she can stay alive long enough to expose the real criminals…or will her first case be her last?

Click here to pick up your free copy of Exit Strategy in the Amazon Kindle store.

London Large – Blood on the Streets

Authors: Roy Robson & Garry Robson

Genre: Thriller

Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

A corrupt system. A city in meltdown. A rogue cop, bent on revenge. Who will deliver justice?

Blood on the Streets is the first in the London Large crime thriller series, featuring the exploits of Detective Inspector Harry ‘H’ Hawkins, an old-school London copper with over thirty years of besting villains under his belt. When a bloody international gang war threatens to rip the metropolis apart, ‘London’s top copper’ finds himself under siege as never before.

Haunted by flashbacks of the horrors he experienced in the Falklands War, held accountable for the unstoppable wave of violent chaos that is turning the streets of his city red with blood, hounded and ridiculed by a media he cannot understand and continually thwarted by an establishment cover up of he knows not what, the big man is bang in trouble.

As the chaos in London reaches boiling point can H, against all the odds, bring the streets under control, see through the fog of a high-level conspiracy and rescue his partner Amisha before she is killed by her ruthless kidnappers? And will he himself be forced to step outside the law to do so?

Click here to pick up your free copy of London Large – Blood on the Streets in the Amazon Kindle store.

Sink

Author: M.E. Rhines

Genre: YA Fantasy

Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

Obedience has always been a matter of survival for sixteen-year-old mermaid princess Pauline. Her mother is the tyrannical Queen Calypso, who rules the kingdom of Atargatis with an iron trident. To utter one word against her would mean banishment—or worse—so Pauline bites her tongue and minds her manners. But on the eve of her sister’s merling-shower, all of that is about to change. Confronted with the truth about what happens to the human men who are betrothed to the mermaids of Atargatis, Pauline realizes she can stay silent no more.

Determined to end the queen’s dark tradition, Pauline goes along on a search for shipwreck survivors, secretly planning to free them. But things get complicated when she finds herself inexplicably drawn to one of the men. Before she realizes what’s happening, she has kissed him—and a kiss from a mermaid is not without consequences. Now Pauline will have to risk everything if she is to save the young man and thwart the queen’s dark plans…

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

Paranormal Public

Author: Maddy Edwards

Genre: Young Adult

Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

Step into a world filled with magic, romance, and adventure! With over 700 5-star reviews on Goodreads!

There is no such thing as a mage. There is certainly no such thing as a vampire, pixie, werewolf, or fallen angel. And they certainly do not all attend a college together called Paranormal Public University.

One minute Charlotte Rollins is a normal girl about to go to a normal college. She is at once excited and nervous, getting ready to start this new phase in her life. The next minute she is a freshman not at a normal college, but at Paranormal Public University, a school where paranormals of all kinds must co-exist. Charlotte must learn magic, that is, if she could actually do magic, which unlike every other mage at Public she can’t seem to manage.

Her transition to this new and wonderful world is difficult. On top of trying to learn magic, make new friends, and confront forbidden love, the archenemy of the paranormals, the demons, are getting stronger. They are looking for something. It turns out that Charlotte might just hold the key to finding it.

Can Charlotte get a handle on her powers in time to save the school she loves? Can she fulfill a destiny the paranormals scarcely dared to hope for? Or will she be too late?

Click here to pick up your free copy of Paranormal Public in the Amazon Kindle store.

To Fall in Love Again

Author: David Burnett

Genre: Romance

Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

Class warfare is alive and well.

After her husband’s death, Amy had never expected to fall in love a second time, but when she meets Drew, the attraction is immediate. However, when Drew brings her into his world—a world of old money and high society—by inviting her to the Society Ball, battle lines are drawn.

A woman at her office tells Amy she won’t fit in, and Amy’s older daughter agrees. As the Ball begins, Amy is cornered by one of Drew’s neighbors, who tells her she doesn’t belong there. The attorney who is probating her late husband’s will, a man she thought to be a friend, seems to object to her presence, too. With so many people pushing her out of Drew’s world, she finds it hard to believe he could really want to pull her in.

Is Drew really just like the rich snobs who despise her? Does he have some ulterior motive? As she ponders those questions, she realizes she is left with a choice: put her fears aside and follow her heart or break off their relationship and lose her chance to love again.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/fallinlove into your web browser to pick up your copy of To Fall in Love Again in the Amazon Kindle store.

One Dark Night

Author: Anna Faversham

Genre: Historical Romance

Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

A lovely romance woven into swashbuckling action that will keep you enthralled for many a dark night.

It is 1821 and smuggling is rife on the English coast. Lucy Yorton, dragged away from her privileged early life, must slave on a bleak, run-down farm. Those around her suspect she is a spy and treat her accordingly. Her problems increase when two men enter her life:-

Lieutenant Karl Thorsen, sworn to avenge the murder of his father, is a King’s man. He is determined to stop the violent smugglers, hang them, and hang and gibbet one in particular.

Daniel Tynton has smuggling in his blood. Undaunted by Thorsen’s threats, he is respected and feared.

The choices we make determine our futures and Lucy is torn between two determined men.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/onedarknight into your web browser to pick up your copy of One Dark Night in the Amazon Kindle store.

Corridor Man Box Set

Authors: Nick James & Mike Faricy

Genre: Thriller

Rating: 3.1 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $9.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

HE DID ALL THE RIGHT THINGS–AND THEN THE BODIES STARTED PILING UP…

It looks like disbarred attorney Bobby Custer has won the lottery. After serving four years of a seven-year sentence, he gets an offer he can’t refuse – from the feds. They just want him to keep an eye out for shady goings-on at one of the most prestigious law firms in the city. And suddenly he’s out – out of jail, but also totally cast out of his old life: shunned by family and friends, working the hallways and back alleys of the legal game and finding plenty of shady dealings to keep an eye on.

He’s psychotic, narcissistic, psychopathic, greedy, unprincipled … and always charming.

He did all the right things — went to law school, got a job in a good law firm — right up until the conviction for “a minor dalliance with a trust fund”. You could almost feel for the guy – a young man tempted by the high life could make a mistake he regrets and end up losing everything. And a guy who’ll help you hide a body could just be a good friend. But as the bodies start piling up, you have to wonder if there’s something about Bobby that’s just not … right.

Chilling and action-packed, Corridor Man exposes a dark, violent undercurrent just beneath the surface of “perfectly legal and above-board”.

A combination of Breaking Bad and House of Cards, Corridor Man series are a collection of sinister, disturbing thrillers that are bound to keep you awake at night.

Books 1-5 in the Corridor Man series.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/corridormanbox into your web browser to pick up your copy of Corridor Man Vol. 1-5 in the Amazon Kindle store.

Wisdom Spring

Author: Andrew Cunningham

Genre: Thriller

Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

Jessica Norton is a woman on the run, a sensational lead item on the nightly news, accused of the murders of four of her fellow staffers of a U.S. Senator. Jon Harper is a grieving father whose life has crumbled over the death of his young daughter. When Jon picks up Jess hitchhiking on a deserted Texas highway one rainy night, it pitches him into the middle of a massive conspiracy, one that threatens the very future of the United States.

From having nothing to live for, Jon suddenly finds himself the protector of someone with everything to live for, someone desperate to uncover the conspiracy that has ruined her life. Staying two steps ahead of the police, and barely one step ahead of the powerful organization that wants Jess dead, Jon discovers that Jess is harboring a secret of her own, a strange inner “voice” providing cryptic clues for them to follow.

Part political thriller and part chase novel, Wisdom Spring takes readers on a fast-paced, suspenseful ride along the highways of the U.S. and Canada, into the far reaches of the Alaskan wilderness. Along the way, the two unlikely heroes transition from helpless prey into proficient hunters as the mysterious clues eventually lead them to a violent final confrontation with corrupt forces at the highest levels of government.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/wisdomspring into your web browser to pick up your copy of Wisdom Spring in the Amazon Kindle store.

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New Releases on Kindle

December 30, 2017 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Included in this post are six relatively new Kindle book releases by independent authors in a variety of genres: I’m certain you will find something to enjoy in the offerings below. Also, similar to what I tell you in the daily posts, while the pricing 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 change at any time!

For Better or Worse

Author: Donna Huston Murray

Genre: Cozy Mystery

Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

Finally back to her spunky self after the loss of her husband, men have once again become an issue for amateur sleuth Ginger Barnes—men who mistreat their wives, men accused of murder, and men who ask her out.

While working on a DIY project at her newlywed daughter’s house, a bag of bricks is thrown from the neighboring third-story window. Next, pops that sound like muffled gunshots have Gin racing for her phone. Eric, who lives in the house with his grandmother, claims she’s obsessed with mystery novels. Yet after the septuagenarian falls down a flight of stairs, she’s so frantic to keep Eric away that Gin must intervene. Was the fall actually attempted murder?In her husband’s eyes, Cissie Voight can’t do anything right. Gin occasionally helps the frazzled young mother, and when she needs a dresser carried upstairs, Gin brings Eric along. Bad move! The electricity between the two new acquaintances sparks a chilling premonition. This time Gin’s good intentions will produce grave consequences—for everyone involved.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/betterworse into your web browser to pick up your copy of For Better or Worse in the Amazon Kindle store.

Haunted Tenor

Author: Irene Vartanoff

Genre: Paranormal

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

Kathleen Grant, new to her job at a major New York City opera house, is stunned when she experiences ghostly transformations during performances of the opera Don Carlo. Strange dreams and even stranger compulsions make her repeatedly seek out the opera’s hot star singer, JC Vasquez. Is she crushing on the real man, or has she confused him with the sixteenth century prince he plays on the opera stage?

Spanish tenor JC Vasquez at first accuses Kathleen of being a stalker, but as the weird events escalate, they become romantically entangled despite all the reasons they shouldn’t. With her emotions and her job at risk, Kathleen resorts to wild ploys in her attempts to obey the ghost’s insistent demands—even though it means ignoring the barriers JC has erected against her.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/hauntedtenor into your web browser to pick up your copy of Haunted Tenor in the Amazon Kindle store.

Stars In Her Eyes

Authors: Bruno Carlos Santos & Alan Seeger

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

Philip McReynolds is a young man coming of age in a world that says that greed, selfishness and being sexually experienced are things that are expected of a young man. However, this is not the type of person Philip is. He is a reader, a writer, a dreamer of dreams, and when he meets the girl of his dreams, a 17-year-old beauty named Amanda, he begins the journey to break free of his mother’s possessiveness and become Amanda’s knight in shining armor.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/starsineyes into your web browser to pick up your copy of Stars In Her Eyes in the Amazon Kindle store.

Tampa Two

Author: David Chill

Genre: Mystery

Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $4.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

Tampa Two marks the return of Judy Atkin, the teenage runaway who P.I. Burnside arrested a decade earlier for prostitution. He made an enormous mistake by trying to help her, and wound up losing his job as an LAPD officer, along with his honor and reputation. Judy was the catalyst that led him down the path of becoming a Private Investigator, and all the good and bad that came with it.

But Judy is back in L.A. again, and is desperate for Burnside’s help. Her life is in danger, and she tries to persuade Burnside to accompany her into a dangerous situation. While Burnside isn’t fooled this time, she still manages to rope him in, and he quickly finds himself to be a person of interest in a grizzly Santa Monica homicide.

Tampa Two continues to showcase Burnside at his wise-cracking best, exchanging quips with an assortment of fascinating characters, no matter what side of the law they are on. This well-crafted novel is the embodiment of the classic Southern California noir mystery, set against a Los Angeles backdrop, a city that many think they know, but few really do. The story leads readers down a trail of theft, murder and deceit, with sharply honed banter and strikingly original characters. It is a tightly written story that is loaded with both suspense and humor, as well as some jaw-dropping surprises!

Click here or type in http://geni.us/tampatwo into your web browser to pick up your copy of Tampa Two in the Amazon Kindle store.

Dragon Storm

Author: Lindsay Buroker

Genre: Fantasy

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

Dragons have been gone from the world for over a thousand years. Now they’re back.

Telryn “Trip” Yert has always been a little odd, with hunches that are too accurate to explain. Magic is feared and forbidden in Iskandia, so he’s struggled his whole life to hide his eccentricities. As a boy, he was forced to watch his mother’s execution. Her crime? Witchcraft.

Understandably, Trip wants nothing to do with the power that lurks within him, always threatening to reveal itself. Instead, he dedicates himself to serving as an officer in the king’s army, to battling pirates and imperial conquerors. He longs to become a soldier as respected and renowned as the legendary General Zirkander.

But his country is in need of more than a soldier.

After disappearing for over a thousand years, dragons have returned to the world. A few of them are willing to be allies to mankind, as they were millennia before, but far more want to destroy or enslave humans and claim the world for themselves.

There are few people left with the power to fight dragons. For reasons he doesn’t understand, Trip may be one of those people. But if he chooses to learn more about his heritage and the power he can wield, he risks losing everyone he loves and everything he longs to be.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/dragonstorm into your web browser to pick up your copy of Dragon Storm in the Amazon Kindle store.

Sisters of the Mist

Author: Eric Wilder

Genre: Paranormal

Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

It’s Halloween in the French Quarter as P.I. Wyatt Thomas traces his missing girlfriend to a mysterious convent hidden deep in south Louisiana’s Honey Island Swamp. Even if he manages to find her and they both survive, will their relationship ever be the same?

Click here or type in http://geni.us/sistersmist into your web browser to pick up your copy of Sisters of the Mist in the Amazon Kindle store.

Friday’s Featured Kindle Book

December 29, 2017 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Paper, Scissors, Death

Author: Joanna Campbell Slan

Genre: Mystery

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: ~~$2.99~~
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

Every scrapbook tells a story. Memories of friends, family . . .and murder?

Mousy housewife Kiki Lowenstein has two great loves: scrapbooking and her young daughter, Anya. Her happy family album is ruined when her husband, George, is found naked and dead in a hotel room. Evidence from the crime scene proves George was not alone. Kiki’s world unravels as she discovers that George wasn’t the man she thought he was. In fact, he had a secret life, one that might have gotten him killed. Now Kiki struggles with a new reality: Can she support herself and her daughter while tracking down the man who murdered George? Kiki’s trust in Detective Detweiler might turn into something more…something like true love. But can a mother who has already made one big mistake afford another? Particularly if it costs her custody of her daughter?

Click here or type in http://geni.us/122917 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Paper, Scissors, Death in the Amazon Kindle store.

About the Author:

Joanna writes books that feature spunky female characters. Her work has been praised by Library Journal as “topically relevant and chock-full of side stories.” Publisher’s Weekly calls her cozies, “a cut above the usual craft-themed cozy.”

RT Book Review describes one of Joanna’s typical heroines as “our best friend, our next-door neighbor and ourselves with just a touch of the outrageous.”

In her ongoing quest never to see snow again, Joanna lives with her husband and their Havanese puppy, Jax, on an island off the coast of Florida.

You can visit Joanna’s Amazon author page if you click here or type in http://geni.us/jcslan into your web browser.

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Free & Discounted Kindle Books for Friday

December 29, 2017 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here’s your listing of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Friday: 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!

Sweet Masterpiece

Author: Connie Shelton

Genre: Cozy Mystery

Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $4.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

When she’s not baking her delectable pastries Samantha Sweet breaks into houses for a living. Sometimes, the things she discovers lead to trouble. When she finds an unmarked grave on a property in a remote spot in Taos County, New Mexico, Sam calls in the authorities. A small mural painted inside a closet in the abandoned house provides clues and Sam is caught up in an investigation alongside the good-looking Deputy Beau Cardwell. A fortune in artwork, a bogus will, and a wooden box that seems to give Sam powers she never dreamed she possessed–it all adds up to a dynamic paranormal romantic mystery.

Then, there is all that chocolate! Sam’s real goal in life is to use her elegant baking skills to open her own pastry shop, Sweet’s Sweets. She’s gaining quite the reputation as a baker with a magical touch, but a few obstacles stand in her way. Her grown daughter shows up on her doorstep–jobless and homeless; her bank account is at an all-time low; and trying to work from the tiny cramped kitchen in her home is becoming impossible.

Somehow, Sam copes and she finds that her dreams might just have a chance of coming true.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Sweet Masterpiece in the Amazon Kindle store.

Insidious

Author: Victoria Evers

Genre: YA Paranormal Romance

Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $0.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

What’s worse than being hunted by a devil?
Discovering you’ve been mated to one.

Since moving to Mystic Harbor, Maine, I’ve made it my life’s mission to avoid Reese Blackburn at all costs. Sure, he has cheekbones that could cut glass, not to mention bedroom eyes that could melt any girl into a puddle on the floor. Too bad that doesn’t change the fact he’s completely stab-worthy. When a fun night out on the town turns deadly, I quickly discover the quaint little hamlet of Mystic Harbor houses more than sandy beaches and adorable B&B’s. Beneath the New England charm rests a deadly world where shifters, demons, vampires, and angelic hunters all vie for power.

A world where magic is the greatest weapon.

Magic that people are willing to kill for.

Magic that I now possess.

After that one fateful night, I can feel the changes beginning to take hold of me. Worse yet, I have no idea what I’m even turning into! All I know is someone wants me dead, and someone even worse wants me alive. Hell’s mystifying Crown Prince of Lust has just marked me to be his Mate, and this handsome devil won’t stop until he claims what is his. My only real ally rests in the one person I can’t stand: the insufferably gorgeous Reese Blackburn.

I was just your average seventeen-year-old girl. Now, my very soul is at stake. Can my unlikely partnership challenge fate itself before it’s too late, or will I be forever damned as a Princess of Hell?

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

Born To Magic

Author: David Wind

Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

What would you do if you were 18 and told the future of the world is in your hands?

Young Areenna of Freemorn is just beginning to discover her powers when she is called to a place from which few ever return.
Mikaal of Tolemac, the son of the High King holds a secret so dangerous it could shatter the fabric of the world should it become known.

3,000 years after America is destroyed by nuclear war, the inhabitants have evolved, embracing magic and metaphysical warfare. As enemies from across the seas begin to close in, ancient legends come alive, leaving no one safe. The only two who can stop the onset of the darkest evil is the sorceress, Areenna, and Mikaal, the son of the High King of Neveah. With the safety of the world in their hands, and their powers young and erratic, will Mikaal and Areenna find the courage and strength to overcome the impossible, or…

Click here to pick up your free copy of Born To Magic in the Amazon Kindle store.

9th Circle

Author: Carolyn McCray

Genre: Mystery / Thriller

Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $4.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

A madman terrorizes Seattle, attempting to recreate the nine circles of hell by using the blood and bodies of the innocent.

Detective Robi Darcmel, a gifted yet troubled savant, is the only man standing in the path of this pathological killer.

As the fate of the Emerald City hangs in the balance, can Darcmel overcome his failings or will Seattle burn to ash?

Click here to pick up your free copy of 9th Circle in the Amazon Kindle store.

Trouble In Summer Valley

Author: Susan Y. Tanner

Genre: Mystery

Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

DIVORCE, BETRAYAL, MURDER – Avery Wilson knew starting over would be hard, but she never expected to be in an all-out war with her ex. What was he planning next? Her goal of equine rehabilitation for wounded veterans on her Alabama horse ranch was slipping from her grasp, and her precious horses were in danger.

Dirks Hanna had what should have been a simple mission – evaluate Summer Valley Ranch for federal funding. But something deadly was happening in Summer Valley. The beautiful – and headstrong – equestrian was targeted for harm with danger in every direction. And, intertwined with that danger, was a multi-faceted black cat who somehow appeared at the scene of every disaster.

Trouble had arrived at the ranch anticipating bitter human emotions to run high, but the black cat finds his paws more than full with murder and two very stubborn humans who refuse to see they are meant for each other.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/summervalley into your web browser to pick up your copy of Trouble In Summer Valley in the Amazon Kindle store.

Lisa Emmer Box Set

Author: Rob Swigart

Genre: Thriller

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $5.99
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Papyrologist Lisa Emmer’s world flips when the Surete meets her at her Metro station with news of the savage murder of the esteemed Paris historian Dr. Raimond Foix, her friend and mentor in the study of ancient documents. Horrified, Lisa finds clues at the crime scene left behind for her by her mentor—clues to secrets kept hidden for centuries, one of which is Lisa’s own identity, secret even from her.

Since she was a child Lisa had suffered from uncontrollable fugue states. Now she discovers just in time that what she always thought was a liability may in fact be an almost paranormal ability to see things in ways others cannot.

Vol. 1: THE DELPHI AGENDA

THE INQUISITION IS BACK! AND THIS TIME THEY HAVE TECHNOLOGY.

Papyrologist Lisa Emmer’s friend and mentor, esteemed Paris historian Dr. Raimond Foix, has been savagely murdered. Now Lisa is not only a prime suspect in the murder investigation, but also smack-dab in the cross-hairs of a deadly commando group that proves to be none other than a contemporary offshoot of the Inquisition.

They want an ancient document that reveals a secret so explosive it could change the world—a document they’ve been tracking for centuries. Led by a sadistic priest and a vicious but very accomplished nun with excellent military cred, their mission is to destroy the document—no matter what the cost in blood.

Desperate to clear her name and to stay alive, with the help of a handsome yet mysterious banker, Lisa must solve the clues and uncover the millennia-old secret before her adversaries can find and destroy it. The trail leads everywhere from ancient cemeteries and tombs throughout France to Istanbul and Greece, as Lisa and Steve desperately stay one step ahead of their enemies, solving the clues to a dangerous treasure hunt their lives now depend upon.

Vol. 2: TABLET OF DESTINIES

JOB DESCRIPTION: DELPHIC ORACLE, CURRENTLY SERVING
TO-DOS: STOP APOCALYPSE. ASAP!

A clay tablet turns up, containing a prophecy of demons, a snake goddess, and the birth of a “disruptive” miraculous child. A prophecy so dangerous the tablet was smashed to bits, and the shards scattered to all the cities of the ancient world to prevent reassembling, until a Jesuit scholar’s vision sets the prophecy in motion in Paris, where the pieces have lain for centuries, half a world and three millennia away from their source.

Yet very close to the current home of Lisa Emmer, chosen the Pythia, head of the Delphi Agenda because of her gift of sight, and trained in ancient world studies by a mentor who promised to “teach you life”; more accurately, he might have said “teach you to save the world from evil.” Prophecy is Lisa’s bailiwick—she’s the modern-day Delphic Oracle, head of a secret organization whose purpose is to protect the world from rogue conspiracies within the Church.

Now, in a suspenseful race against an alignment of planets and comets that signals the “wondrous child’s” impending birth, Lisa speeds to find and protect the mother and child. If she’s too late, “disruption” will take on a devastating new meaning.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/lisaemmer into your web browser to pick up your copy of Lisa Emmer Box Set in the Amazon Kindle store.

Red Rain

Author: David Beers

Genre: Thriller

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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No one caught him…

Five years ago, locals found a dead woman in the woods. Naked. A bullet in her chest. Bleach covered the crime scene, destroying all DNA evidence. Detective Alan Tremock took the case as far as possible, risking his marriage and health to find the killer—but in the end, the case went cold. Now, five years later, Tremock gets a call to the same location. Another body. It’s naked with a bullet lodged in the torso. Bleach drenches everything.

And he’s back …

John Hilt kills people. Not often nor carelessly, but only when a certain voice whispers to him. John is sporadic, yet meticulous. He’s also wealthy. He’s a corporate executive and well known in his community. His amazing wife and children love him. His father and sister adore him. No one would ever think John a serial killer.

But he’s coming unhinged…

Risking both his marriage and his own life, Tremock ferociously attacks the case. He’s hunting a man he can’t see and believes the murders are finished. John has other plans, though, because the voice hasn’t stopped talking yet. It keeps saying, “Kill them… Kill them all…”

This time, he’s just getting started…

Click here or type in http://geni.us/redrain into your web browser to pick up your copy of Red Rain in the Amazon Kindle store.

The Last Goodbye

Author: Caroline Finnerty

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars
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Sometimes the decisions we make can last a lifetime . . . and sometimes we cannot shake off the shackles of decisions made by others in the past.

Kate Flynn has spent her whole life running away. She reckons the best decision she ever made was to leave Ireland the day after she finished school. Having seldom returned since, she would be perfectly happy if she never had to go back there. She is happy in London where she runs a successful photography gallery with her best friend Nat, though their relationship is going through a rocky patch since Nat began an affair with a married man.

When Kate becomes pregnant and her partner Ben persuades her to make the trip home, she is forced to confront everything she left behind and memories of Eva, the mother she feels betrayed her. Kate finds it impossible to forgive Eva who chose to refuse cancer treatment while pregnant and died, leaving a young family motherless.

Do some wounds go too deep to ever heal? Must Eva’s Choice forever deny Kate real happiness?

The Last Goodbye is a powerful story of love and loss, forgiveness and new beginnings – a heart-wrenching and emotional page-turner for mothers and daughters everywhere.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/lastgoodbye into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Last Goodbye in the Amazon Kindle store.

December Informal Poll: What Are YOU Reading on Your Kindle?

December 29, 2017 by Michael Gallagher 19 Comments

For several years, I started or participated in a monthly poll on the USA Amazon Kindle discussion boards asking people a simple question: what are you reading on your Kindle? I stopped doing it on the Amazon discussion boards and started hosting it periodically on the blog’s website (on a side note, Amazon stopped the discussion boards a few months ago).

I’ve received some great tips with past polls, finding out what others are reading on their Kindle, and found some “new” authors I generally wouldn’t have found using my hunt-and-peck method. While I have certainly enjoyed the mainstream author suggestions over the years, I’ve also enjoyed a lot of independent authors from each month’s poll I never would have heard of previously.

If you are reading this on your e-Ink Kindle or the blog’s free email subscription – or anywhere other than the blog’s website – and would like to check out the poll and find some new things or, better yet, tell others what you are reading, just click here or type in http://smarturl.it/1217poll into your web browser, scroll down to the bottom of the post, and start typing away in the comments section!

Here’s how this works – on the blog’s website (using the link above) list a book you are currently reading or just recently read on your Kindle, whether you would recommend it, did you get it free, and anything else you would care to share.

Like many in Texas, I have been sequestered for about a week now with the flu – in between napping and feeling miserable I have had a chance to read quite a bit. I literally just started Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race (you can type in http://geni.us/hiddenfigures into your web browser to see it). I watched the movie several months ago with my family and thought it was outstanding; Amazon had the Kindle version of the book discounted to $2.99 (from $9.99) on Thursday, so I grabbed it and am looking forward to it.

I also read four thrillers by Roger Stelljes this month: they were very good and hard to put down. If you are looking to start a new series of engaging thrillers, I would recommend you give his Mac McRyan series a try. Start off with The St. Paul Conspiracy (you can type in http://geni.us/stpaul into your web browser to see it), then progress up through the series. As soon as I finish the Hidden Figures book mentioned above, I will be starting book five of this series (ironically, as I type up this post, it is free in the Kindle store).

Finally, here’s my standard continuation of each request for prior participants in the poll: if you like or dislike a title you have read, in addition to telling us about it in this informal poll, how about writing a book review on the Amazon website? The review will certainly last and be visible a lot longer than this poll will. If you’re like me, you look at the customer reviews in order to see if you want to investigate a book further. Since we are all a little community here, and while I realize each review is each person’s opinion and we may not like the same thing, I know your friends and online discussion neighbors would appreciate your honest assessment of the likes and dislikes without providing a spoiler – I know I would!

Your reviews don’t need to be a long dissertation of the book, I like to keep them short, sweet, and hopefully to the point (some people think I am too blunt on things I dislike, but I am at least giving you my honest opinion!).

We’d really like to hear what you’re reading right now – I, for example, may find something interesting from your list I want to read (It’s been known to happen!). If you are reading this on your Kindle – or anywhere other than the blog’s website – and would like to check out the poll and find some new things or, better yet, tell others what you are reading, just click here or type in http://smarturl.it/1217poll into your web browser, scroll down to the bottom of the post, and start typing away in the comments section!

Anyway, that’s all for this one: have a great rest of 2017!

Michael

Thursday’s Featured Kindle Book

December 28, 2017 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

The Amendment Killer

Author: Ronald S. Barak

Genre: Thriller

Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars
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“WE HAVE YOUR GRANDDAUGHTER. HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO DO.”

That’s the text message Supreme Court Justice Arnold Hirschfeld receives as hearings commence in the U.S. Supreme Court to determine the fate of the 28th Amendment – enacted to criminalize abuse of power on the part of our political representatives.

In court to defend the amendment, retired U.S. District Court Judge Cyrus Brooks observes his old friend and law school classmate Hirschfeld acting strangely and dispatches veteran D.C. homicide detective Frank Lotello to find out why.

In the meantime, Hirschfeld’s precocious and feisty 11-year-old diabetic granddaughter Cassie, brutally kidnapped to control her grandfather’s swing vote upholding or invalidating the amendment, watches her insulin pump running dry and wonders which poses her greatest threat, the kidnappers or the clock. As Brooks is forced to choose between saving our nation or saving the girl.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/122817 into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Amendment Killer in the Amazon Kindle store.

About the Author:

Described by his readers as a cross between Agatha Christie, Lee Child, and John Lescroart, bestselling author Ron Barak keeps his readers flipping the pages into the wee hours of the night. While he mostly lets his characters tell his stories, he does manage to get his licks in too.

Barak derives great satisfaction in knowing that his books not only entertain but also stimulate others to think about how things might be, how people can actually resolve real-world problems. In particular, Barak tackles the country’s dysfunctional government representatives—not just back-seat driving criticism for the sake of being a back-seat driver, but truly framing practical remedies to the political abuse and corruption adversely affecting too many people’s lives today. Barak’s extensive legal background and insight allow him to cleverly cross-pollinate his fiction and today’s sad state of political reality.

Ron and his wife, Barbie, and the four-legged members of their family reside in Pacific Palisades, California.

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

Free & Discounted Kindle Books for Thursday

December 28, 2017 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here’s your listing 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!

Mail Order Bride: Westward Winds

Author: Linda Bridey

Genre: Historical Romance

Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars
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Bored socialite Tessa craves adventure, and finds it when she becomes a mail order bride to Montana rancher and widowed father Dean Samuels. Can this pair — as different as night and day — find love?

Click here to pick up your free copy of Mail Order Bride: Westward Winds in the Amazon Kindle store.

Mrs. Tuesday’s Departure

Author: Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

Genre: Religious Fiction

Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars
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A heart-wrenching historical inspirational romance novel spanning seventy years, two continents, and a an imagined story that holds the power to create a safe future for a young girl during World War Two. This page-turning family saga soars to a breathtaking ending that redefines the meaning of love.

When Natalie and Anna, sisters and life-long rivals, hide an abandoned child from the Nazis in Budapest Hungary, their struggle re-opens a star-crossed love triangle and inspirational romance, threatening their safety and testing the bonds of their loyalty.

Hungary’s fragile alliance with Germany during World War Two insured that Natalie, a best selling children’s book author, and her family would be safe as World War Two raged through Europe. The Holocaust that has only been whispered about until now becomes a terrible reality for every Jewish family or those who hide Jews.

Beautiful but troubled Anna, a poet and university professor is losing her tenuous hold on reality, re-igniting a dangerous sibling rivalry that began in childhood. She threatens not only Natalie’s inspirational romance, but both of their lives.

The streets of Budapest, Hungary echo with the pounding boots of Nazi soldiers at the height World War Two. Danger creeps to the doorstep where the sisters’ disintegrating relationship threatens to expose the child they are trying to protect. In one night, Anna’s rash behavior destroys their carefully made plans of escape, and Natalie is presented with a desperate choice.

Interwoven with Natalie and Anna’s story, is Mila’s. The abandoned child whose future Natalie lovingly imagines in a story about an old woman named Mrs. Tuesday.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Mrs. Tuesday’s Departure in the Amazon Kindle store.

The Dark Man

Author: Desmond Doane

Genre: Supernatural Suspense

Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
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Ford Atticus Ford, former host of the hit ghost-hunting reality show Graveyard: Classified, has more than a few regrets—especially after young Chelsea Hopper was attacked by a demon. Assisting police departments by conducting paranormal investigations and uncovering buried clues now provides Ford with an ounce of redemption, but it will never be enough.

What occurred on that long-ago Halloween night was unforgivable, and Ford, chasing ratings and stardom, let it happen.

With Graveyard cancelled and his reputation destroyed, Ford sets out to avenge little Chelsea, and to save his own soul—if he can.

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

When Time Is A River

Author: Susan Clayton-Goldner

Genre: Mystery

Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars
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On a bench at the edge of the Lithia Park playground, someone is stalking two-year-old Emily Michaelson as she plays with her eighteen-year old half sister, Brandy. The child’s laughter curves through the sunlight, as if on wings. The stalker is more enamored than ever, but aware of Brandy’s vigilance with Emily, knows a kidnapping won’t be easy. Planning to gain Emily’s trust, the stalker gives her a necklace—little girls love pretty things. A few days later, Brandy and Emily arrive at the park for the Children’s Health Fair. When the stalker sees them enter the public restroom, the opportunity is seized.

Not long after Emily’s disappearance, Detective Radhauser finds her rainbow-colored sneakers in Ashland Creek, their laces tied together in double knots. Brandy’s father and stepmother blame her for Emily’s disappearance. Radhauser feels sorry for Brandy, but insists she stay out of the investigation. Brandy can’t do that. She is obsessed with finding out who took her little sister, and why. Will Emily be found in time?

Click here or type in http://geni.us/kOmT into your web browser to pick up your copy of When Time Is A River in the Amazon Kindle store.

The Specter of Seduction

Author: Carolyn Haines

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars
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Waverley Mansion, a unique and lovely antebellum home in northeast Mississippi, offers the most dangerous challenge yet to Raissa James and her partner in the Pluto’s Snitch private detective agency. They specialize in hauntings, possessions, and the occult.

In the isolation of Waverley, Raissa’s special gift, her ability to see and communicate with the dead, puts a target on her back. The entity that resides at Waverley Mansion covets Raissa’s sensitivity. But Raissa is not the only one in danger. She and her partner Reginald Proctor must save eight-year-old Amanda Sheridan from the dark forces roaming the grounds of Waverley.

The bitter past plays a major role in the nightmare of the present—and Raissa and Reginald must find the answers to who—or what–was Nora Bailey, a woman reputed to be not only a Union spy in the heart of the South, but also one whose promiscuity put the men who loved her at risk.

Raissa and Reginald can trust no one—especially not the dead–because the dead lie.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/thespecter into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Specter of Seduction in the Amazon Kindle store.

The Five Shields: The Lost Souls

Author: Ilan Dvir

Genre: Fantasy

Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars
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Imagine discovering a baby with a mysterious gem on your doorstep!

A sharp knock in the middle of the night awakens Henri and Aline. They discover on their doorstep a swaddled baby with only a mysterious ring wrapped in her blankets. They decide to keep their find a secret and tell the world she is theirs, not knowing that every secret comes at a price. They name her Rose.

Five teens from across the world discover shared hidden powers and a deadly mission

On their thirteen birthdays, Rose and four other teenagers from across the globe discover that they are The Five Shields, tasked with protecting the world’s fate and the balance of good and evil. All they have in common is a mysterious, powerful gem. On a life-changing journey, they discover untold powers hidden within them.

Can the Five Shields save a world threatened by total darkness?

The Five Shields must fight to free the lost souls before it is too late. But first they must defeat sinister, dark forces hell-bent on their total destruction. If the Shields succeed, light will triumph; if they fail, darkness will reign. Who will prevail?

Click here or type in http://geni.us/fiveshields into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Five Shields: The Lost Souls in the Amazon Kindle store.

Deadly Alliance

Author: Kathleen Rowland

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Finbar Donahue, former Army Ranger, walked on the wild side in Iraq, but now he lives in the shadows. After his evasive partner, Les, was shot in a random drive-by, Finn discovers cash is siphoned monthly. He fights to keep his investment company afloat. When the late partner’s girlfriend, Amy Kintyre, applies for his bookkeeping job, Finn suspects she knows about his company drain and hires her.

Amy needs a nine-to-five with free evenings and weekends to get her fashion design business back on track. She unearths Les’ s secret bank account and alerts Finn. Freezing of the money laundering account sets off havoc within an Irish gang. Amy witnesses a gang fight between a brutal ISIS fundraising organization and the Irish. Desperate to escape a stalker’s crosshairs, she seeks refuge with Finn. As danger heats up, sparks fly hotter.

Les is alive. After cheating the Irish mob, he became their target. Mistaken identity took the life of his disabled twin brother. Now Les makes another deal—trading Amy and stolen drugs for their forgiveness. Stakes are high as Finn tracks assassins across the San Bernardino Mountains. If he gets her back, can he trust her?

Click here or type in http://geni.us/deadlyalliance into your web browser to pick up your copy of Deadly Alliance in the Amazon Kindle store.

Wednesday’s Featured Kindle Book

December 27, 2017 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Operation Tropical Affair

Author: Kimberli A. Bindschatel

Genre: Mystery

Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
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She’s got a shiny new badge. And a mind of her own.

That’s the problem.

Special Agent Poppy McVie’s new partner expects her to look pretty and keep her mouth shut.

Not a chance.

Not while animals are being trafficked from the steamy jungle of Costa Rica and the bad guys are getting away with it. Even if she has to do some investigating on her own.

But when he learns what she’s been up to, the sparks fly between them and the real trouble begins.

If you like a fun, thrilling adventure with a strong, feisty female protagonist working with a partner she can’t stand (or can she?), then you’ll love this story.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/tropicalaffair into your web browser to pick up your copy of Operation Tropical Affair in the Amazon Kindle store.

About the Author:

Born and raised in Michigan, I spent summers at the lake, swimming and chasing fireflies, winters building things out of cardboard and construction paper, writing stories, and dreaming of faraway places. Since I didn’t make honors English in High School, I thought I couldn’t write. So I started hanging out in the art room. The day I borrowed a camera, my love affair with photography began. Long before the birth of the pixel, I was exposing real silver halides to light and marveling at the magic of an image appearing on paper under a red light.

After college, I freelanced in commercial photography studios. During the long days of rigging strobes, one story haunted me. As happens in life though, before I could put it to words, I was possessed by another dream–to be a wildlife photographer. I trekked through the woods to find loons, grizzly bears, whales, and moose. Then, for six years, I put my heart and soul into publishing a nature magazine, Whisper in the Woods. But it was not meant to be my magnum opus. This time, my attention was drawn skyward. I’d always been fascinated by the aurora borealis, shimmering in the night sky, but now my focus went beyond, to the cosmos, to wonder about our place in the universe.

In the spring of 2010, I sat down at the computer, started typing words, and breathed life into a curious boy named Kiran. Together, in our quest for truth, Kiran and I have explored the mind and spirit. Our journey has taken us to places of new perspective. Alas, the answers always seem just beyond our grasp, as elusive as a firefly on a warm autumn night.

Most recently, my focus has shifted to more pressing issues—imperiled wildlife. With the Poppy McVie series, I hope to bring some light into the shadowy underworld of black market wildlife trade, where millions of wild animals are captured or slaughtered annually to fund organized crime. IT. MUST. STOP.

You can visit Kimberli’s Amazon author page if you click here or type in http://geni.us/kimberli into your web browser.

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