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Five Days in Summer

by Katia Lief

4.4 stars – 23 Reviews
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Here’s the set-up:

SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE RIGHT BACK…

Before the long drive home from vacation on Cape Cod, Emily Parker made a quick run to the grocery store…and disappeared.

When
her car is found abandoned in the parking lot, her husband, Will, turns
to a retired FBI profiler named John Geary for help.

As her
family scours the Cape for her, Emily’s thoughts are not on her own
safety. Kept helpless in a madman’s lair, she watches him prepare a
five-day countdown that will bring him to his real victim–her young
son.

USA TODAY and International Bestseller

  • “Mesmerizing…Your heart will be pounding long after you’ve turned the final page.” –Lisa Gardner
  • “I put Five Days in Summer aside only once…to make sure my doors were locked.” –Barbara Parker
  • “A gripping, poignant portrait of an innocent family caught in a nightmare of evil.” –Anne Frazier
  • “Five
    Days has it all–an attractive female detective, a crusty FBI profiler,
    and the scariest killer you’ll never want to meet.”
    –Leslie Glass
  • “Strikes terror into a lazy summer day.” –Donna Anders

 

And here, for your reading pleasure, is our free excerpt:

 

PROLOGUE

 

Five syringes lined the bleach-clean counter.  Five shots, five days.  No food, no water, just total darkness and the sway of the ocean.  She would sleep and wake, and when the blindfold finally came off, her eyes would be frozen open.  If the muscle inhibitor worked as it had before, along with starvation, whatever was right in front of her would be visible, but that was all.

What she saw would terrify her.

He prepared the boat, cleaning every surface of the cabin until the long wooden benches gleamed, their cushions had been beaten of dust and the galley fixtures appeared never to have been touched by sea air.  He’d had many boats over the years, but this one was his favorite; built for the river, it was tough enough to handle the fickle estuarial crosscurrents of the coastal inlets and bays.

The cabin stayed cool and damp despite the burning summer heat outside.  A residual odor of mildew lingered even after the hatch had been left open all afternoon.  He knew the smell would grow worse in the days ahead, and he hated it, but it would weave itself into her torment.  The smell, the darkness, and damp coolness, the trickling away of life.  It was all part of his plan.

He checked his supplies.  A wreath of hose in the cabinet under one bench.  Under the other, an axe, sharpened and oiled.  Cooking oil on the blade made the cut cleaner.  A little research, that was all it took to discover these things; and of course, practice.  A butcher’s knife.  A paring knife.  Scissors.  Gardening shears.  Long metal skewers.  Bottles of purified water.  Coiled rope.

The smaller items were in the single drawer under the galley counter.  A swath of black fabric, folded neatly in the corner.  Extra syringes.  One hundred straight pins equidistantly piercing the soft fabric of a pincushion shaped like a bulbous strawberry.  It was a ridiculous item he’d been unable to resist, just like something he’d once discovered in his mother’s sewing box.  He’d removed the hastily jammed pins and used the pincushion as a ball.  Later that night, he was the pincushion.  Eventually the scars were covered by chest hair.
The small, under-counter refrigerator was clean and cold.  Glass vials of pancuronium and trifluroperazine were lined up on the top shelf like little soldiers.

He had waited seven years.

 

 

Chapter 1

 

Emily stepped back onto wet sand and looked out over Juniper Pond.  A calm sky hovered over four acres of gleaming lake.  Pines and lake grass roughened a shoreline that curved into secret places then reappeared.  In a lifetime of summers here, there were parts of this lake she had rarely seen.  She lifted a hand to shade her eyes against the afternoon sun, and watched her middle child Sam lurch out of the water.  He stood dripping at her side, scanning the shore with her.

“Why is it doing that?”

He pointed at what they had come to call the “reaching tree.”  The old pine was anchored at a peculiar angle a few hundred yards away, just where the shoreline turned into a neighboring cove.  Bent sharply at the base of its trunk, the tree seemed to reach with all its branches, like a bereft lover, toward the center of the pond.

“There must be something it needs,” she said.

“Or wants.”  David, her eldest, glided into the shallow water.

“What does the tree want?” was always the question Emily, as a child, had asked her mother.

“I suppose it wants everything,” was always Sarah’s answer.

Emily decided on a new answer.  “Maybe it wants to fly,” she told her sons, and reached out to tousle Sam’s wet hair a moment too late; he was already back in the water, chasing David, who had swam away.

A cloud shifted and the sun briefly vanished.  Water lapped at Emily’s toes.  She ached to go back in and join her mother and children for a swim but she’d already delayed her trip to the grocery store too long.  It had to be at least three o’clock.   She was taking the kids home to New York tomorrow – the boys started school later in the week – and she wanted to leave the house stocked with food as a thanks to her mother.

Emily raised her arm to wave goodbye.  A jangle of metal fell from her wrist; the clasp of her silver charm bracelet had come loose again.  Snapping it shut, she called to Sarah, “Remind me to get my bracelet fixed.”

“Careful not to let it fall into the water, dear,” Sarah called back.  She stood to her waist in the lake, with year-old Maxi squirming in her arms.  The broad rim of Sarah’s straw hat dappled Maxi’s plump face in shadow and light.

Emily threw Maxi a kiss, and Maxi’s lips smacked the air, kissing back.  Emily smiled, Maxi clapped.  And just as Emily’s words “I love you” sailed across the water, Sam splashed in her direction, vying for attention as he struggled to swim.

“Sammie, control your strokes.”  Emily pointed at David.  “Look.”

David moved between surface and depth, a spray of water at his kick.  He was just like she had been, in this very lake, at the age of eleven:  a natural fish.  Sam at seven was a fish out of water.  The shopping could wait another five minutes.  Emily strode into the lake and Sam threw himself into her arms, all soft skin and burgeoning muscles, nearly toppling her backward.

“Try it like this, sweetie.”

She circled him, her arms rotating in the water, face pivoting back and forth for air.  Sam jumped up and down, splashing, then stopped.  David had swum to her side like a dolphin pup, perfectly mirroring her movements.  Winking at David, she reached for Sam’s hands and swam backwards, pulling him along.  He began to kick and splash and his natural glee returned to those chocolate eyes.

They splashed their way over to Sarah and Maxi, who reached her arms around Emily’s shoulders.  Emily held and kissed and squeezed her last baby.  “Mama’s going to the store, Grandma will take such good care of you.”

“No!”  The silky cheek buried in Emily’s neck.

“Mommy will be right back.  I love you.  Take good care of Grandma while I’m gone.”

“No!”

“Yes!”  Sam lightly splashed Maxi, who splashed back, laughing.

“Careful of Maxi’s ear infection,” Emily said.

Sarah shifted Maxi out of Sam’s spray, and he happily turned the waterworks on himself.

“Mom,” David said.  He’d slid next to her, coolly unnoticed.  She pushed a strand of wet hair off his forehead.  “Strawberry ice cream, okay?”

“Are we out of cones, too?”

“Yes,” Sarah said over the splashing, “we are.”

“I’ll try to remember that.”

“Better go, dear.  Look at the sky.”

From a distance, Emily could see that a group of clouds was approaching the sun; an unanticipated storm was coming.  Her father used to quote the daily weather reports in the Cape Cod Times as reliably “cloudy, sunny, and dry, with rain.”  If she was lucky, she’d be home from the store before it started.

She waved goodbye to Sarah and the kids, and walked through the grove of trees that separated the lake from the house, giving them privacy in both places.  Once on the wide grass path, she was bathed in scorching sunlight.  As she walked up to the house — a standard, weatherworn Cape clapboard with a porch off the back – she sensed a tingling excitement as if she were escaping to a tropical vacation, or going for a spa day, or a movie at noon.  There was always that same contradiction when she left the kids:  the pang of loss, and the seductive possibilities.  Maybe she’d pull into the drive-through at Starbucks along the way for an iced tea.

An iced tea.  It took so little now to triumph over the day.  Before kids, she’d toured the world as a cellist with the New York Philharmonic, sometimes visiting three different countries in a single week.  As a young musician she had challenged herself to the fullest, or so she’d thought.  Until falling in love with Will.  Until motherhood.  Now her work outside the home was a weekly music column for the Observer.   She reviewed all kinds of music and could be as opinionated or irreverent as she wanted.  It was the perfect job:  Will got an evening to himself with the kids, free of her hovering, and she got out on the town and was paid for the pleasure.

Emily passed under the porch into cool, welcome shade.  It was easier to enter the house by the downstairs back door.  She took a deep breath of the sweet honeysuckle that Sarah had trained to climb the tall supports up to the porch.  Her mother’s gardens were spectacular; everywhere you looked, in every direction over the three-acre property, something was blooming.  Sarah’s attentions to the gardens had strayed somewhat this summer, though, since Jonah’s death.  Emily sorely missed her father.  The weeds, the shot lettuce, the overgrown grass, every dead blossom that had not been pinched back, were ghosts of him.

Toys littered the downstairs common room.  Emily kicked a path and went to her room, which since her childhood summers had been transformed into guest quarters.  All her pretty colors had given way to neutrals, her adolescent posters stripped away.  Over the bed was one of Sarah’s paintings of Emily as a small girl, holding her father’s hand which entered the picture just at the edge of the frame.  Between the windows were two framed photos:  Emily on stage at Carnegie Hall, and Jonah with his first vintage car.

Emily opened the bottom dresser drawer and remembered she was in the middle of laundry; most of their clothes were upstairs in the mudroom off the kitchen, churning away in the machine or waiting in a heap on the floor.  She peeled off her bathing suit and put on the same underpants and khaki shorts she’d had on at lunch.  Holding her blue shirt against her front, she went upstairs to the mudroom and looked through the unwashed piles for a bra.  It seemed all her bras had gone in with the load of whites, which were currently mid-cycle.  So that was it, she’d throw caution to the wind and go braless; if someone wanted to look, that was their problem.  She slipped on her leather sandals and remembered her sunglasses before heading out the door.

 

It was Labor Day Monday and traffic was thick on Route 151 all the way to Stop & Shop.  Emily abandoned the idea of the iced tea.  By the time she got her turn at the green arrow at the intersection, directing her into the shopping center, all sensation of escape had evaporated with the heat; she would get it over with and go home.  She pulled their white Volvo wagon into the only spot she could find at the far end of the crowded lot.  It looked as if everyone else who had seen the distant clouds had run to the store to beat the rain.  She couldn’t see the clouds anywhere now; the sky was blue.

She followed her usual routine in the store and went straight to the deli counter.  They had a nifty new computer, as an alternative to the long line, and she touch-screened in her order.  She’d get just enough of her mother’s favorite cold cuts and sliced cheeses to take her through the rest of the week alone.  Sarah always stayed on the Cape through the end of September, before returning to her own apartment in Manhattan, and Emily had urged her to follow her normal schedule even though Jonah was gone.  The deli’s computer screen spit out a receipt, instructing Emily to arrive at the pick-up counter in twenty minutes.

Turning into the vegetable aisle, she impulsively decided on corn for dinner with their grilled salmon.  She pulled up at the bin of fresh corn and waited for a man who was carefully filling his bag.  He seemed to touch every ear of corn, even if just slightly, as if performing some kind of ritual.  She had never seen anything like it.  He appeared to be in his fifties and had pasty skin to match his gray hair.  A navy blue sailor’s cap that didn’t fit well sat on top of his head.  He wore a white windbreaker, the only person in the whole store outside of the butcher department wearing a jacket on this hot summer day.  When finally she turned away to get some red peppers and stop wasting time, he curtly spoke.

“That’s it.  I’m done.”

His eyes flicked at her chest, then her face, then the corn.  Emily’s bravado at going braless vanished in that instant.  He touched three more ears of corn, then carefully placed his bag into his shopping cart and moved away.  Back at home in Manhattan, she would have steeled herself in the gaze of another shopper, and muttered only in New York with a shared laugh.  But here on the Cape, in this crowded exurban store, she was alone, and this guy was weird in a most uninteresting way.

It took shucking a dozen ears of corn before she found six good ones, and by then, to her relief, the strange man was long gone.  She pushed her way through the aisles.  Extra tuna and peanut butter for sandwiches on the ride home tomorrow.  Goldfish crackers for Maxi’s snacks and entertainment.  Those awful fruit rollups the boys loved so much.  Juice boxes.  Small water bottles.  An extra can of Sarah’s favorite loose tea, just in case she was running low.

Emily turned into the bread aisle in search of her mother’s favorite loaf; and there he was, right in front of her, the corn man, slowing pushing his cart along with his eyes fixed forward.  She moved straight past him and couldn’t tell whether he had seen her.  At the end of the aisle she found the bread she wanted with a sense of relief that was all out of proportion.

“Didn’t you notice it was gone?”

An older woman with bleached blond hair and too much makeup stood next to Emily, holding the silver charm bracelet in an open hand.

“I noticed you wearing it before because I have one too.”  The woman lifted her other wrist to show her own bracelet covered in twice as many charms as Emily’s, all gold.  “It slipped right into the corn bin.  You’re lucky I got there next.  I’ve actually been following you.”

Emily took her bracelet – a jack-knifed swimmer, a cello, a sword, a heart, three babies and a coin — and closed her fingers around it.  She savored the cool silver against her palm.  It had been a gift from Will after David’s birth and she’d worn it every day.

“I don’t know how I missed it,” Emily said.  “I didn’t even realize it was gone.”

“I treasure mine,” the woman said.

“Just how many children do you have?”  Emily had noticed that most of the many gold charms were babies.

“Four children, nine grandchildren.  And counting.”  The woman winked.  “Don’t wear it until you’ve had it repaired.”

“Good advice.”  Emily slipped the bracelet into her shorts pocket.  “I’ve been putting off fixing the clasp.  I guess this is my wake-up call.”

“I’ve always said life is a series of close calls.”

“You can say that again.”

The women parted ways, and Emily figured this was why she’d had that sensation of foreboding just before.  It wasn’t the corn man.  She had lost her favorite bracelet, the one she never took off, and didn’t know it, at least consciously.  It was impressive how the mind worked, understanding things even before they were apparent.

The cart was loaded and it was time to return to the deli to pick up her order.  She pushed her way back, marveling at the sheer amount of stuff these mega stores could offer.  With its constrictions on space, the city had nothing even similar to this when it came to food.   She stopped at a bin filled with pink, yellow and blue plastic cups.  The sign said they were “magic cups” that would change color when a cold drink was poured in.  She knew the kids would love them and bought two of each color.

She was almost at the deli counter when she saw him again.  The corn man was back at the corn.  Just when she noticed him, he looked up and saw her.  He quickly looked down, and touched three corns.  She read the number on her deli receipt, picked up her cold cuts from the appropriate cubby, and detoured two aisles back so she wouldn’t have to pass him to get to the checkout.

The feeling was back, just when she’d forgotten all about it.  She checked for her charm bracelet in her pocket; it was still there.

Luckily the lines were not as long as when she’d arrived and she reached her cashier quickly.  She unloaded her items onto the conveyor belt and bagged them herself as soon as they slid down the ramp.  She was nearly done when she looked up and saw the corn man right behind her on line, his cart half-full with nothing but corn.  He placed it neatly onto the conveyor belt in groups of three.  The teenage girl at the register, deeply tan with a ring on every finger, rolled her eyes at Emily.  She rolled hers back.  They waited in silence through the screechy buzz of the credit card connection and approval.  Emily scrawled her signature on the receipt and hurried her cart toward the exit.

It was a relief to get outside, away from that bizarre man.  She couldn’t wait to get home.  When she opened the back hatch of her car and stale heat blasted at her face, she knew she was ready for another swim.  She could see herself in her red racing suit, plunging into the cool lake.  She could hear the chaos of her children’s laughter on the beach.

She was brought back to the moment by the crescendoing chimes of her cell phone.  Digging through her purse, she found it, and answered.

“They accepted our offer!”  It was Will.

“What offer?”

“The one I made on the house yesterday.  I didn’t want to tell you.  It was a surprise.”

“It is a surprise.  Does that mean you got the job?”

“My third interview’s set up for Wednesday.”

“But Will –“

“Honey, they don’t see you three times if it isn’t in the bag.”

“I just think we should wait on the house until the job’s definite.  You know we can’t afford –”

“Houses like that go in a day, Em.  It’s just an offer, the worst is we’ll lose the promise money, but that’s just a couple thousand dollars and it’s worth the risk, don’t you think so?”

“If you get the job, it will be.”

“Don’t worry, it’s the cost of doing business.”  She heard his laugh and saw his handsome winking face and felt his confidence, his ability to bound forward.  They had always landed on their feet.

“I know, Will, leap don’t creep.”  She unloaded the bag of ice cream into a shaded area of the trunk.

“Stop worrying.  Anyway we won’t be fully committed until we have to sign a contract.  By then we’ll be sure.”

“You know what?”  Toilet paper and snacks.  Milk and cold cuts.  Magic cups.  “I am sure.  It’s going to work out, I feel it.”  She knew how much he wanted that gorgeous house in Brooklyn Heights, with its wide rooms, fanciful turn-of-the-last-century details, space for everyone, and views of the East River curling around the southern tip of Manhattan.

“Upward and onward,” he said.  “Where are you?”

“In the parking lot at the grocery store.  It’s hot out here.”

“Get home, sweetie.  Kiss the kids.  I’ve got to make some calls before the dinner rush.  The new manager still can’t really handle it without me.”

“What’s on special tonight?” she asked as she always did, in the tone of the knock-knock jokes the boys told incessantly.

“If it’s Monday –“

“—it’s fish!”

They laughed and she slammed shut the trunk.

“All right honey,” she said, “I’ve got to get back to the house.  Talk later.”

He sent her a kiss through the phone, which meant he was uncharacteristically alone somewhere in the restaurant.  Even if the Madison Square Café didn’t hire him as its new Executive Director, she knew he’d still be happy in the busy swirl at Rolf’s, just disappointed; it would mean, of course, turning away from the house.

She ended the call and dropped the phone back into her purse.  A shadow passed over her and she looked up to the sky, expecting to see the clouds back in force.  But just as her mind registered blue, an acrid cloth slammed over her face and she was overcome by darkness.

 

Continued….

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In addition to her critically aclaimed novels, Joan Hall Hovey’s articles and short stories have appeared in such diverse publications as The Toronto Star, Atlantic Advocate, Seek, Home Life Magazine, Mystery Scene, The New Brunswick Reader, Fredericton Gleaner, New Freeman and Kings County Record. Her short story Dark Reunion was selected for the anthology investigating Women, Published by Simon & Pierre.

Ms. Hovey has held workshops and given talks at various schools and libraries in her area, including New Brunswick Community College, and taught a course in creative writing at the University of New Brunswick. For a number of years, she has been a tutor with Winghill School, a distance education school in Ottawa for aspiring writers.

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KND Kindle Free Book Alert for Monday, May 28: 300 BRAND NEW FREEBIES in the last 24 hours added to Our 3,800+ FREE TITLES Sorted by Category, Date Added, Bestselling or Review Rating! plus … Stephen Woodfin’s NEXT BEST HOPE (Today’s Sponsor – $3.99 or FREE via Kindle Lending Library)

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PETER AND THE VAMPIRES (Volume One)

by Darren Pillsbury
4.8 stars – 38 Reviews
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For fans of J.K. Rowling (the HARRY POTTER series), Orson Scott Card (ENDER’S GAME), and Darren Shan (CIRQUE DU FREAK)…

When ten-year-old Peter moves into his grandfather’s creepy old mansion in a small town, bad, baaaaad things start to happen.

A family of charred boogeymen who haunt the garden decide they don’t like trespassers…

A classmate with a crush comes back from the grave, and decides to make Peter her Undead Prince Charming…

A creature from Fairieland changes place with Peter’s two-year-old sister, leading to a VERY strange babysitting job…

A prehistoric predator snatches children from the town lake, forcing Peter to literally dive into the belly of the beast…

With his troublemaking neighbor Dill, his grumpy grandfather, and only his courage and wit to guide him, Peter has to survive all these things, plus the Greatest Horror Of All:  Fourth grade.

PETER AND THE VAMPIRES is the first in an ongoing series that includes PETER AND THE WEREWOLVES and PETER AND THE FRANKENSTEIN. This book is 120,000 words (370 pages) and contains some mild language, violence, and scary situations.

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With the pacing of a mystery novel, Craig Lancaster tells the tale of Mitch Quillen, a middle-aged man harboring marriage and career problems. When his long-estranged father calls, Mitch leaves for Montana to meet him. Together, Mitch and his father drill into their emotionally explosive history, altering Mitch’s life forever.

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Kindle Nation Daily Bargain Book Alert: James Robinson Junior’s FIGHTING THE EFFECTS OF GRAVITY is Our eBook of the Day at just $1.99, with 4.5 Stars, and Here’s a Free Sample!

Here’s the set-up James Robinson Junior’s Fighting the Effects of Gravity, just $1.99 on Kindle:

Since the day James Joseph Robinson Jr. was born in 1952, life had gone on swimmingly. His childhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was mostly normal. He attend a prestigious university, married, and had three children. But then he hit his mid-thirties, and suddenly everything went topsy-turvy.

Witty, engaging, and just plain fun, Fighting the Effects of Gravity examines the physical and mental manifestations of middle age. From that one fateful day, when gravity became his nemesis and his beloved jeans could no longer hold their end of the bargain, Robinson shares the joys and sorrows of growing older.

Aching muscles, weight in all the wrong places, memory lapses, and slow reflexes all become a part of Robinson’s existence. Different emotions, both positive and negative, vie for room in the limited brain capacity he has left, but one thought rises above it all: we all must confront mortality sooner or later. Robinson accepts his coming old age with grace and a healthy dose of realism. After all, getting old really is better than the alternative.

Robinson delivers an enjoyable commentary on middle age that will resonate with the young, old, and everyone in between!”

From the reviewers:

A humorous look at aging. James Robinson has written a book that is an easy read- read it in one afternoon. He starts of talking about the physical effects of gravity- something everyone who is getting older can sympathize with- the droopy butt and saggy middle that happen no matter how hard you fight the effects of aging. The hat snap crackle and pop of stiff joints as you go throughout your day. He then discusses the mushy brain- I particularly enjoyed his description of three middle agers having a conversation where not one of them can get a name they are looking for and the fear that this may be the beginning of alzheimers. He describes how his family now and his family growing up have affected how he looks at life. — Kathryn A. Sweet

What’s So Funny About Getting Old? A LOT!   Brilliantly written, humorous at every turn, FTEOG shows that aging, the fear of it, the way it ravages a body and betrays a soul, and makes a mind mushy is the same for men and women! As I read this, I folded down pages to remind me of the funny parts I identified with and by the time I was finished, the book was dog-eared from front to back. What surprised me most was the way that Robinson started “skin-deep” then really delved into life’s invisible wounds–mostly how to get through them by laughing, at least a little bit, along the way. Do not miss this book!  –  Kathie

 

James Robinson Jr. is a 1974 graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a BA in English literature.

He resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with Deborah, his wife of thirty-four years. Robinson has three adult children and four grandchildren.

And here, in the comfort of your own browser, is your free sample of FIGHTING THE EFFECTS OF GRAVITY by James Robinson Jr.:

 


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Sex, Love and Murder

by Sandy Semerad

5.0 stars – 1 Reviews
Text-to-Speech and Lending: Enabled
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Previously published as Mardi Gravestone

After the unexpected death of her husband, Lilah Sanderford thinks she’ll never love again until she travels to New Orleans where sexy jazz musician Jay Cascio stirs her into a frenzy of raw passion. Combine the mystique of Mardi Gras with the soulful spirit of New Orleans, add a suspicious accident, a plot against the U.S. President, a mysterious suitcase and a crystal necklace from a graveyard psychic and you have SEX, LOVE AND MURDER. A romantic suspense novel you won’t soon forget.

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Elusive Mission

by Roseanne Dowell

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Imagine being threatened and forced to give up custody of your child. That’s exactly what happened to Vanessa Gleason. A fairy tale marriage turned into a nightmare, Now, alone in the world, Vanessa vows to fight her wealthy ex husband for custody of her daughter. Was it fate that brought her to the little church on Christmas Eve?

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Sarah’s Heart

by Ginger Simpson

4.1 stars – 10 Reviews
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Previously published as Sarah’s Journey

Will the man of mixed blood save her life, or will she save his?

When Sarah Collins sets her sights on California for a new beginning, she never dreams a war party will attack the wagon train she travels on. She and her new-found friend Molly are the sole survivors, but when Molly succumbs to her injuries, Sarah is left alone to find her way back to civilization. While trying to mount a stolen horse, she suffers a rattlesnake bite that threatens to accomplish what the Indians failed. Is it her time to die or does Sarah have a purpose she’s yet to discover?

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Stone Maiden

by Tina Gerow

4.0 stars – 4 Reviews
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In Stone Maiden, Ariel Knight, a nine-hundred year old gargoyle and ex-warrior for God opens a present-day bodyguard agency with her three sisters. At the request of the Angel Gabriel, they take on protecting Logan McAllister, playboy country music songwriter, who has suddenly become a prime target for all of the evil supernatural beings in the area. While Ariel tries to unravel who is behind the mysterious attacks, she is also battling a growing affection and attraction for him. To make matters worse, Logan’s business manager turns out to be a master vampire who broke her heart two centuries ago and still seems to have feelings for her. Nothing like finding out your lover is a soulless bloodsucker to ruin a relationship.

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The Abduction of Mary Rose

by Joan Hall Hovey

4.4 stars – 55 Reviews
Text-to-Speech and Lending: Enabled
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Following the death of the woman she believed to be her mother, 28-year-old Naomi Waters learns from a malicious aunt that she is not only adopted, but the product of a brutal rape that left her birth mother, Mary Rose Francis, a teenager of Micmac ancestry, in a coma for 8 months.

Dealing with a sense of betrayal and loss, but with new purpose in her life, Naomi vows to track down Mary Rose’s attackers and bring them to justice. She places her story in the local paper, asking for information from residents who might remember something of the case that has been cold for nearly three decades.

She is about to lose hope that her efforts will bear fruit, when she gets an anonymous phone call. Naomi has attracted the attention of one who remembers the case well.

But someone else has also read the article in the paper. The man whose DNA she carries.

And he has Naomi in his sights.

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Her Sister’s Keeper

by Sydell Voeller

5.0 stars – 2 Reviews
Text-to-Speech and Lending: Enabled
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Logan Corbett, registered nurse, suddenly becomes the guardian of her 10-year-old sister, Kim. A former prizewinning gymnast, the girl was seriously injured in the same plane accident that killed their parents. Logan admits she’s overly protective of Kim, but only wants what she thinks is best for her. Dr. Zachary Dellinger, a pediatrician at the hospital where Logan works, suggests that Kim should attend a summer camp for children with special needs. Logan agrees, but on one condition–that she will volunteer to be the camp nurse so she can keep a close eye on Kim. Under starlit skies and breezy summer days, Logan struggles with her growing attraction to the handsome pediatrician–all the while, battling the urge to hold on too tightly to Kim. Will Logan ever be able to let go enough to allow love into both their lives?

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With hundreds of new books turning up free each day now in the Kindle Store, it can be tough to hone in on books that you will actually want to read. And most of the new free books will be free for just a day or two at a time, so we are working hard to make sure that you do not miss the ones you want!

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Many say few know more about stock trading than Michael Swanson, who ran a top ranked hedge fund for four years and has built up a huge audience of readers on his website WallStreetWindow.com thanks to the accuracy of his market calls and investment acumen, including making over 50% in 2008 in one of the worst years for the stock market ever. His book Strategic Stock Trading demystifies the stock market by explaining what truly makes the stock market and individual stocks move the way they do and shows you how you can take advantage of it. The book explains the principles required for you to become an elite trader in the stock market, including what and when to buy and sell using the Two Fold Formula, how to manage risk, and how to be able to foresee real changes in the overall trend of the market before the crowd does. There are many investment books that describe aspects of technical and fundamental analysis. This one puts them together and shows you have to really use them in a strategic way backed by real life experiences and examples. It also discusses the psychology of investors in the market and how hedge funds and institutional investors now influence the stock market more than ever before and what the individual investor must do in this type of market to succeed.

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Sunset (Pact Arcanum)

by Arshad Ahsanuddin

4.1 stars – 14 Reviews
Text-to-Speech and Lending: Enabled
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Here’s the set-up:

Los Angeles, 2040. The terrorist Medusa and her followers threaten to destroy the metropolis with a nuclear bomb. One individual, the vampire Nicholas Jameson, comes forward to oppose them. As Nick takes on the terrorists, the fragile peace between the races hangs perilously in the balance as the supernatural peoples are exposed.

Arshad Ahsanuddin is a hematopathologist. The irony of a physician who specializes in blood disease writing a series of vampire novels is not lost upon him.

For more details about Arshad, check out the author’s website at pactarcanum.com.

Search on “Pact Arcanum” to find all the books in the series.

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4.0 stars – 2 Reviews
Text-to-Speech and Lending: Enabled
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Ryan, Erin, Kris, and Jason are heroes defined by the villain, unwitting assistants in a cataclysm brought about by an old man who calls himself… Devidis. The four modern, international teens awaken deep within a jungle canyon, a prison in the post-apocalyptic empire established by the tyrannical Devidis. Surrounded by danger, the four Elementals quickly embrace their new-found super-powered control of the elements–wind, fire, water and stone–under the guidance of Sensei, an imprisoned freedom fighter who believes that Devidis’ near omnipotence is a clear sign that the world is a persistent illusion in the mind of its evil emperor. And so the Elementals are forced to come of age in an increasingly hostile land. Though supernaturally capable, they are faced with a frightening possibility: are their hopes, goals, powers, friends, enemies, surroundings and selves… all an illusion? It’s “Final Fantasy meets X-Men” as worlds are torn asunder!

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Picture Perfect

by Deena Remiel
4.3 stars – 19 Reviews
Text-to-Speech and Lending: Enabled
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Jamie has it all, looks, brains, and a charming personality. But in this romance cover model’s world, those blessings become a curse when a colleague blurs the line between reality and fantasy. Will women only see him for his looks and never look below the surface to the man beneath?
Hope had a dream job, working with sexy, hot photographs, turning authors’ dreams into reality. When laid off from her publisher as a cover artist she must find her namesake in life again…some kind of hope for her future. Can a birthday wish give her what she truly desires? They say be careful what you wish for.
Destiny seems to bring Jamie and Hope what they need, each other. But a dangerous obstacle stands in their way as obsession turns deadly. Can Jamie trust in Hope’s grounded nature? Is Hope strong enough to live in Jamie’s world? Or will reality intrude on their fantasy of being together?

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Soleá

by Andrew Dambe

4.8 stars – 5 Reviews
Text-to-Speech and Lending: Enabled
Here’s the set-up:

The cultural melting pot of Melbourne’s inner suburbs is the setting for this refreshing tale of love seeking in the Internet age: Zach, a lecturer by day and a flamenco guitarist by night, has recently emerged from a disastrous relationship with the charismatic (and violently bipolar) homoeopath and dancer ‘Rags’. On the day that his overweight upstairs neighbour falls through his kitchen floor, crashing into Zach’s apartment, the bizarre event signals the beginning of a zany period of recovery. The cantankerous Archie and the mischievous Syrian Ghassan – called in to renovate the floors in their quirkily renovated dwelling – are set to interact fatefully with those who enter the following phase of Zach’s life.

First telling the poignant story of a meeting between vibrantly different individuals on their journey through Outback Australia, Soleá gives a darkly funny account of the breakdown of Zach and Rags’ relationship back in the city.

At the suggestion of his friend and attorney Ron, who plays the part of a kind of alter ego urging Zach to explore his primitive sides – Zach turns to the Internet in search of a new love. But as he prepares for his part in an upcoming flamenco show, his search will take him in some wildly unexpected directions.

Soleá is a hilarious tale of troubled minds and troubled relationships; a glimpse into the colourful, sometimes crazy world of flamenco; an uplifting comic drama that will keep you turning pages – and guessing until the end.

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No Ordinary Killer

by Rita Karnopp

Text-to-Speech and Lending: Enabled
Here’s the set-up:

Enter the conflicting mind of a serial killer on a clever path to bring about the destruction of Cooper Reynolds. The brother, in the killer’s mind, whose life is everything he wants to be his own. Manipulating Cooper’s ex-wife, Megan Reynolds, into writing Malicious Intent, the book explodes on the market. When the murders described in her book begin happening again, Great Falls, Montana, is in a panic. A serial killer is among them and evidence is pointing directly at Detective Cooper Reynolds.

Revenge for her ex-husband’s rejection, writing the first book sounded like a good idea, but now Megan is being forced into writing yet another book of three murders in Physical Evidence. The killer is watching her every move and going to the police will only get her mother and children killed. She is caught in a violent world she created on paper . . . and it’s now coming to life.

IA agent, Dallas Fortune, is investigating Cooper Reynolds. Although there is more incriminating evidence proving his guilt than innocence, she instinctively believes he is being framed. Together they fight to stay alive while unraveling the clues the killer leaves behind . . . with the hope they’ll discover his identity before Cooper is sent to prison for six murders.

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Signs That Might Be Omens

by Billie Hinton

4.8 stars – 5 Reviews
Text-to-Speech and Lending: Enabled
Here’s the set-up:

Bingham Wade lives a solitary life. He leaves his mountain cabin rarely, mostly to do private contract work finding lost children. Cynical and lonely, bound by regret to the past, a photo of a lost girl with curly red hair forces him to his porch in the middle of the night, where he searches the internet for a woman he lost twenty years ago.

Claire Caviness is married and owns an art gallery in Savannah. When she returns to NC for a funeral, things begin to happen: she inherits money, buys a big handsome horse, reconnects with her father, and suddenly, things she lost in the past return to her.

Signs That Might Be Omens, book two in the Claire Quartet, is a story of love, loss, and illumination.

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