Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Saturday, April 23: Two Brand New Pre-Order Previews + 250 Other Free Kindle Books! plus … Craig Spector’s A Question of Will (Today’s Sponsor) comes highly recommended by bestselling thriller author Peter Straub

April 23, 2011 by KND

Whether you feel like cooking up some romance or a recipe for mystery with a Turkish twist, we’ve got some fascinating free reading for you atop this morning’s latest additions to our 250+ Free Book Alert listings….

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What happens when a local hero – a firefighter and paramedic – finds his personal world at the short end of a vicious crime? Chart Paul Kelly’s transformation from a good guy to a man descending into darkness, searching for an explanation of this evil….

“This is what horror wants to be when it grows up, a vision of tragic inevitability rooted in character, ruthless and inexorably unfolding, yet shot through with the possibility of grace.” –Peter Straub

A Question of Will
by Craig Spector
5 Stars – 2 Reviews

Kindle Price: $2.99

Text-to-Speech: Enabled

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“How far would you go?”

Please note: The author and his publisher will be donating 25 percent of all proceeds to Parents of Murdered Children (POMC) for all of April and May.

Here’s the set-up:

Paul Kelly is a good man: a firefighter and paramedic facing death and danger daily, risking his own safety for the sake of strangers. Paul has seen tragedy a thousand times, but it has never been his own. Until now…

A shocking crime. A loved one, brutally murdered. Paul’s life is suddenly invaded by police, reporters, the harsh glare of spotlights on a family’s private sorrow. The killer shows no sorrow, no remorse – a teen sociopath whose dead eyes stare in sullen silence. Paul does not want blood or vengeance. He wants to know why.

Paul Kelly was a good man. But his obsession is drawing him into the darkest depths of the human soul. Where a terrible truth lurks in the shadows of lies. And a price must be paid to answer…

What the Reviewers Say

“In A QUESTION OF WILL, Craig Spector… has achieved a mature, hard-won narrative authority that will be deeply gratifying to all, as well as to the many thousands of readers who have enjoyed his earlier work. The novel moves its protagonist from believable heroism into an equally convincing moral darkness terrible to behold, and it carries us with it every step along the way. This is what horror wants to be when it grows up, a vision of tragic inevitability rooted in character, ruthless and inexorably unfolding, yet shot through with the possibility of grace.”
–Peter Straub

“Spector (THE LIGHT AT THE END) is a strong writer who convincingly re-creates the dark, often gruesome world of paramedics and firefighters. Most impressive is his exploration into Paul’s character and how ordinary people cope with extraordinary grief and horror. Not for the faint of heart, Spector’s latest is for lovers of the best psychological thrillers, along the lines of Ruth Rendell’s.”
–Publishers Weekly

“A powerful novel of one man’s search for an answer after a loved one is brutally murdered. The question is why? Filled with heartbreak and horror, an unflinching trip into the heart of darkness. Highest recommendation. “
–Recluse

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In the words of one historian, the Civil War is “the American Iliad” – Here’s a historical novel that brings that truth to life: Timothy Woods’ GRANT ME TIMELY GRACE is our Kindle Nation eBook of the Day, and Here’s a Free Sample- 4.5 stars – just $2.99 on Kindle!

April 23, 2011 by KND

With Robert Redford’s THE CONSPIRATOR in theatres, here’s a Civil War novel with a strong feminist theme that will appeal to men and women alike. Timothy Woods’ moving historical novel is informed by thorough research, a sense of its characters’ weariness with war, and an understanding of the war’s international dimensions. GRANT ME TIMELY GRACE – 4.5 stars – just $2.99 on Kindle!Here’s the set-up :

Washington, D.C., June 1863. It is the week before Gettysburg, and the nation’s fate hangs in the balance.

A Union officer was not court-martialed after disobeying a direct order during battle. Why?

Major Russell Johns is being played by puppet-master Gerard Chantier. Transplanted New Orleans businessman and toast of the town, Chantier hosts the city’s most lavish entertainments attended by members of Lincoln’s cabinet and Washington’s elite.

Little do they know Gerard is coordinating an attack with Confederate general JEB Stuart’s cavalry to take over the city, kidnap Lincoln and bring victory to the South.

When Russell’s probing brings him in contact with Chantier’s daughter, Thérèse, he has to face his most difficult moral choice: manipulating her to get to her father or honoring the one thing that has sustained him through years of battle and loss—his own integrity.

Praise for GRANT ME TIMELY GRACE:

“It is late June, 1863 and the Army of Northern Virginia is north of the Potomac River with elements well into Pennsylvania. Jeb Stuart’s Confederate cavalry is close to the Western approaches of Washington, D.C. but what is their intent? An attack on the city? Needless to say, The Union leadership and their advisers are shaken and desperately searching for ways to counter the threat, or are they?

In Grant Me Timely Grace, Tim Woods weaves an intricate story of deep cover spies, disgraced military men, diplomatic intrigue and lovely Southern belles into a riveting fictional account of Washington before the Battle of Gettysburg.

The novel revolves around Gerard Chantier, an immensely wealthy expatriate widowed Louisianan who has become the confident of the high Union leadership, his beautiful and brilliant daughter Therese, and Gerard’s longtime friend and assistant, James Bayeaux, who he had freed from being a family slave upon inheriting his wealth. Add in a disgraced Union officer searching for redemption, a lethal female Southern sympathizer and a suave British intelligence operative and you have quite a story.

Author Woods has a good command of the Civil War era and moves deftly between actual and fictional events. He speaks of the intricate defense system of Washington, which also had its flaws which play a role in his narrative. The byzantine politics of both the Northern and Southern governments are also well related. A refreshing addition to Civil War fiction is the plot line involving diplomacy and intrigue with the British Empire, a most fascinating what-if.

Grant Me Timely Grace … is highly recommended for those who enjoy historical fiction, especially fiction related to the Gettysburg Campaign.—-Ken Williams – TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog.

I am not a history buff, nor have I ever thought I was very interested in historical fiction. I was given Mr. Woods’ book to read and I have to say I could barely tear myself away! I read it (on my computer screen, no less) every spare moment I had until I finished, and I was sorry when it ended. I thoroughly enjoyed the story and the writing. Rich and descriptive, I could imagine I was watching a movie as I read through each scene. The characters were deep and well developed and became very real to me. This one is a must for any Civil War buff, history buff and really anyone who enjoys engaging and well-written novels; it certainly transcends its genre.

Historical fiction isn’t what I generally read so it took most of the first chapter to get over myself and into the characters and setting of the book. From there on I was hooked and found it difficult to put down. Having lived in the South in the 1940’s and 50’s I saw firsthand the cultural scars from the civil war that still exist today. So I appreciated Tim’s historical accuracy of the war and it’s brilliant use as a backdrop to a well told story that had my full attention throughout the book. The tapestry of the story is woven around the civil war and the dynamic cast of characters which include soldiers, slaves, spies, war profiteers, wily politicians, and northern ladies of pedigree in full regalia, (that are described in amazing detail). You don’t want to miss this gem of a book that has an ending that keeps you thinking.

Visit Amazon’s Timothy Woods Page

I’m delighted to announce, after a 7+ year journey, the release of my Civil War novel, ‘Grant Me Timely Grace.’

The book’s title comes from an Edmund Spenser sonnet that thematically speaks to the weariness of war (aren’t we all).

In attempting to say something fresh in a Civil War novel, I’ve woven into the narrative several under-represented topics.

A major character, Gerard Chantier, is a Southern spy; yet, unlike most portraits of Confederates he is not a racist. In fact, the only person he considers a friend is his Black secretary, James Bayeaux.

In addition, this story integrates international dimensions of the war that are woefully under-appreciated by the non-Civil War scholar. Britain and France were one incident away from entering our Civil War for their own geo-political purposes.

I grew up in a New England family, but my mother came from the South. I have ancestors who fought on both sides of the conflict, and The American Civil War was always debated at our table.

I hope my novel has done justice to some of the war’s paradoxes and complexities. As Charles P. Roland so aptly put it, The Civil War is the American Illiad.

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Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Friday, April 22: Four Brand New Freebies, plus … Paul Levine’s Best “Jake Lassiter” Mystery Yet: Flesh & Bones (Today’s Sponsor)

April 22, 2011 by KND

Only a very lucky few of us will have the opportunity to spend this Summer touring Europe, but if there’s any chance you might be among that elect any time soon, it’s an absolute must that you pick up the new HSA travel guide that sits with three other brand new selections atop this morning’s latest additions to our 250+ Free Book Alert listings….

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A major fave among Kindle Nation readers, the award-winning author Paul Levine is back with what he promises is his “best Jake Lassiter novel” to date. This time Lassiter’s new client literally tumbles into his lap with the vapors just seconds after having shot the guy next to him – who turns out to be her father. And that’s just for starters…

“Lively entertainment…Jake Lassiter is attractive, funny, savvy, and brave.”
—Scientific American
(And who’s to say we’re not all scientific Americans?)

Flesh & Bones (The Jake Lassiter Series)
by Paul Levine

Kindle Price: $2.99

Text-to-Speech and Lending: Enabled
5.0 Stars from 3 Reviews

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From Wes Lukowsky of Booklist:

Pro football player turned lawyer Jake Lassiter is savoring a drink at a South Beach bar when a beautiful young woman shoots the man on the next bar stool and faints in Lassiter’s arms. It’s one way to get clients, he figures. The woman, Chrissy Bernhardt, is charged with the first-degree murder of her father, whom Chrissy believes abused her as a child. Lassiter takes the case, which is complicated by the fact that Chrissy’s repressed memories of her father’s abuse have been “unlocked” with the help of a therapist who turns out to be her late mother’s former lover. The seventh Lassiter novel continues the series’ steady improvement. Lassiter is smart, tough, funny, and very human. He’s coming on fast as one of the most entertaining series characters in contemporary crime fiction.

What the Reviewers Say

“Mystery writing at its very, very best.”
— Larry King about the Lassiter series in USA TODAY

“[Lassiter has] a lot more charisma than Perry Mason ever did.”
–The Miami Herald

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THE “FLESH & BONES” BACKSTORY

By Paul Levine

Recovered Memories: Real, Imagined…or Fake?

The idea for “Flesh & Bones” came from a real murder case involving the controversial notion of repressed memory syndrome.

Here’s how it started. A 29-year-old California woman reported to police that she suddenly remembered seeing her father rape and kill a schoolmate twenty years earlier. Were the memories real? Or dreams? Or outright fabrications?

The D.A. thought they were real. And so did the jury which heard the case of the previously unsolved child killing. The father was sentenced to life in prison and served seven years before a federal court determined that the daughter’s testimony had been tainted by hypnotic therapy.

Out of that grew my notion of a troubled young model, Chrissy Bernhardt, who walks into a Miami Beach bar and shoots her father in front of dozens of witnesses…including linebacker-turned-lawyer Jake Lassiter. Chrissy claims that, under hypnotic regression therapy, she recovered memories repressed long ago: her father’s sexual abuse.

As I did while researching the book, Lassiter interviews a skeptical psychiatrist who tells him that memories are “malleable” by therapists.

“We can thank Freud for the theory that all our experiences are stored away somewhere in the brain, just waiting to be recovered by therapy,” Dr. Santiago said. “A huge number of his patients seemed to recall terrible memories of childhood incest. Initially, Freud accepted the stories as true. Later, he concluded they were ‘screen memories,’ fantasies hiding primitive wishes. Others believe they’re just false memories.”

“So what’s the truth?” I asked.

“Oh, memories may be repressed and then recovered, but does that make them true? I’m sure you remember many events in your life that are absolutely false.”

“I don’t get it. If I remember them, they’re true.”

“Not necessarily. You may try to store memories like a librarian shelving books. But each of us constructs a personal myth about what we think is true. We may exaggerate. Good times in the past become even better, hard times even worse. Individuals who were bad become outright demons. And some of our memories might simply be dreams that never took place at all.”

Lassiter soon discovers that his client’s shrink might have his own motive for wanting Chrissy’s father dead. So might her brother, for purely financial reasons. All of that plays out against the very real debate about the science of the mind. Are the memories dug out of the subconscious through hypnosis real or imagined?

The psychiatrist tells Lassiter: “Memory suppression is hardly unknown. In one study, researchers found that thirty-eight percent of adult women who had been treated for sexual abuse as children had no memories of the incidents. The difficulty is to recover the memories without contamination by post-event occurrences or suggestions by therapists, whether innocent or malevolent.”

That’s the heart of “Flesh & Bones”and every murder trial. Separating the innocent from the malevolent.

–Paul

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AIN’T NO SUNSHINE by Leslie DuBois – 4.7 stars and now just 99 cents on Kindle! – Our eBook of the Day, and Here’s a Free Sample

April 22, 2011 by KND

WHITES ONLY — Words that adorned every building in Livingston, Virginia during the summer of 1963. Words that told Stephen that what he felt for his colored neighbor Ruthie was wrong. In time, Ruthie becomes the only ray of sunshine in his life and he is not willing to let her go without a fight … a fight that could lead to murder.

Here’s the set-up for AIN’T NO SUNSHINE by Leslie DuBois – 4.7 stars and now just 99 cents on Kindle!

Summertime in Virginia, in the turbulent Sixties. Race relations grow more strained. Stephen’s father is murdered, and the boy is pulled over by police 700 miles away from the scene of the crime. A broken taillight causes the pullover. The fact that Stephen’s girl friend is in the car complicates things. The fact that Stephen is white and she is black really complicates them.

WHITES ONLY

Those words adorned every building in Livingston, Virginia during the summer of 1963, confusing and angering a five-year-old Stephen Phillips.

Those words told Stephen that what he felt for his colored neighbor Ruthie was wrong.

As he grows older, Ruthie becomes the only ray of sunshine in his abusive life and he is not willing to let her go without a fight, a fight that could lead to murder.

From the reviewers:

The title of this story comes from the Bill Withers song:

Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone.

It’s not warm when she’s away.

Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone

And she’s always gone too long anytime she goes away.

I didn’t think I would like this story because I knew it would be full of misery and pain. Well, it was, but the ending was surprisingly beautiful! I loved it!

This is a story of racism, love, and secrets from the past all colliding in one couple’s lives.

This story contains a lot of pain but leaves you with hope at the end. Not necessarily justice, but definitely with hope.

The author holds no punches in her writing. She writes about ugly subjects most people would prefer to hide, including the characters in this story. The father is abusive, the son is in love with the mulatto neighbor girl, and the passion and anger in the book grow until it explodes.

Editor’s note: And the next review, not written in the King’s English but with a heartfelt eloquence that cannot–and should not–be ignored:

love this so deep what i learn in this book love has no color when you love someone you should them. great read fast to i will buy book again fromm this author

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Bargain Books on Kindle #9: More Great Reads, all for just 99 cents each!

July 7, 2019April 21, 2011 by KND

With nearly a million books in the Kindle Store, it’s no wonder that one Kindle Nation citizen recently channeled Erasmus with a Facebook status update that said, in so many words, “So many books, so little time!”

But we are here to help with a new batch of quality 99-cent reads from some terrific authors. Each of the following 99-cent books has received at least 4 Amazon reader reviews with an average rating of 4 stars or better. No sponsorship or fee is required for a book to be included in these bargain listings: it is totally free for authors and readers, and each post is sponsored by one title from (usually) another author … which of course we hope you will consider.

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We’ve got a great new batch of highly rated 99-centers to share with you today….

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A Question of Will
by Craig Spector
5 Stars – 2 Reviews

Kindle Price: $2.99

Text-to-Speech: Enabled

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“How far would you go?”

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Ariana’s Pride
by Margaret Lake
Genre: Historical Romance
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.25 stars out of 16 reviews
Follow Ariana on her dark and dangerous journey to a destiny she couldn’t have foreseen.

No Cure for the Broken Hearted
By Kenneth Rosenberg
B004EEPOY0
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Price: $0.99
R & R: 4.4 stars from 11 reviews
Long ago he broke her heart. Now he’s back, but should she forgive him?

DOUBLEBACK
Libby Fischer Hellmann
B002SG7OWG
Mystery/thriller
Price: $0.99
4.0 Stars from 18 Reviewers
Georgia Davis and Ellie Foreman tackle the farreaching case of a little girl who’s kidnapped, returned, then left motherless.

HER OWN BEST ENEMY
By Cynthia Justlin
B004RVN1AO
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4 stars from 4 reviewers
When a woman’s son goes missing she has nowhere to turn–except to the man who once ruined her life.

The Other Side
By E. Thomas Finan
B004O0U9X0
Genre: Short Story Collection
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.3 Stars from 10 Reviewers
From extramarital affairs to bus trips to voicemail obsessions, this collection looks at when we grow—and when we don’t.

Julius Katz Mysteries
By Dave Zeltserman
B004KAA9LQ
Genre: Mystery
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.75 Stars from 4Reviewers
Two awardwinning mystery stories featuring the brilliant detective Julius Katz and his most unusual sidekick, Archie.

DAEMON: Night of the Daemon
By Harry Shannon
B003CN6K4W
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Price: $0.99
4.8 stars from 11 reviews
A mysterious creature from Iraq. A Special Op leader and his team. Someone or something is stalking Las Vegas.

The Journey
By Laura Lond
B004HILRLM
Genre: Fantasy
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.8 Stars from 20 Reviewers
A story of faith, friendship, courage, and staying true to one’s calling.

THE DEAD MAN #1: FACE OF EVIL
By LEE GOLDBERG & WILLIAM RABKIN
B004NNV48W
Genre: Action/Horror
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.5 stars from 28 reviewers
Matthew Cahill is an ordinary man who, after a terrible accident, can see evil before it strikes. First in a new monthly series.

Nice Girl Does Noir, Vol. 1
By Libby Fischer Hellmann
B003NE6E32
Genre: Crime Fiction Short Story Collection
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: Excellent reviews from 5 sources, including PW, Mystery Scene, Meritorious Mysteries, Mystery Scene Magazine
A collection of 5 mystery short stories featuring amateur sleuth Ellie Foreman and Chicago PI Georgia Davis

Nice Girl Does Noir, Vol. 2
By Libby Fischer Hellmann
B003NHT4UE
Genre: Crime Fiction Short Story Collection
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: Excellent reviews from 5 sources, including PW, Mystery Scene, Meritorious Mysteries, Mystery Scene Magazine
A collection of 10 dark crime fiction stories, some historical, some foreign, some awardwinners too.

Besserwisser: A Novel
By Steve Anderson
B002NU5LCW
Genre: Humor, Mystery, Satire, Thriller
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.75 Stars from 4 Reviewers
Munich, 1990: An American expat poses as a Hitler scholar and finds himself the target of wannabe NeoNazis.

Wrecker
By Dave Conifer
B004IEA8GK
Genre: thriller
Price: $0.99
Reviews & Ratings: 4.7/5 stars over 19 reviewers: Currently #248 in Amazon Kindle store.
Jane thought a loveless marriage was as bad as it could get. Steve thought life was perfect with a hired man to do his chores. They were both wrong.

Catherine and the Captain
By Margaret Lake
Genre: Historical Romance
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4 stars out of 5 reviews
Can Catherine escape the destiny of a doomed king or will she choose duty and honor over love?

Demonspawn
By Glenn Bullion
Genre: Horror / Paranormal
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4 stars from 8 reviewers
Join Alex as he discovers his demonic powers and battles the supernatural

Foxy’s Tale
By LB Gschwandtner & Karen Cantwell
B004R1Q4JE
Genre: women’s fiction
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4 stars from 11 revieiwers
A comic, chick lit, comingofage, vampire tale (sort of) where family triumphs over adversity and mother and daughter learn how to face the world as grownups – together.

The Eye of the Idol
By Paul Dayton
B003Z0D1MG
Genre: Adventure / Murder Mystery / Treasure hunt
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 6 reviews, 4.5 stars
Follow the trail as an SIS agent and a professor piece together the mystery of the Box and its incredible contents.

Reining In
By Dawn Judd
B003I851OG
Genre: Paranormal Fantasy
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.5 stars from 13 reviewers
How does a vampire keep her identity hidden from a world where social security numbers, licenses, passports and credit cards are a must? She builds the Network.

Rock Charisma
By Joan P. Cooley
B004ELANTO
Genre: Fantasy Romance
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.5 stars from 10 reviewers
A ruthless rock star with a secret meets his match, when a beautiful blonde reporter is assigned to interview him.

Bound by Blood
By Danielle Bourdon/Kimberly Hoyt
B0042JTP1U
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.5 stars from 6 reviewers.
Laurel must decide between her vampire Prince and the mortal man he once was.

The Donzerly Light
By Ryne Douglas Pearson
B0042FZQBM
Genre: Paranormal Suspense
Price: $0.99
Ratings: 4.8 from 8 reviews
A young stock broker, given psychic powers by an enigmatic transient, learns the dark side of his gift.

Anathema
By Megg Jensen
B004MDLN66
Genre: YA fantasy
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.6 Stars from 10 reviewers
A sheltered slave girl, surrounded by magic and manipulation, must learn to believe in herself and save her people.

The Bottom Feeders and Other Stories
By Aaron Polson
B003F777TW
Genre: Horror
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.6 stars from 5 Reviewers
Witness hotels with shifting rooms, carnivorous beetles, a ghostly Marine on his return from Iraq, and more…

Monster in the Mirror
By M.J.A. Ware
B003TXS9CQ
Genre: MG/YA Horror
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.4 Stars from 7 Reviewers
Nate and friends stumble upon a hidden room during a sleepover. What they find inside is anything but friendly.

Raven’s Heart: A Tale from the World of Secramore
Matthew & Stefanie Verish
B003V8BH8M
Genre: Fantasy
Price: $.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.8 Stars from 6 Reviewers
An unlikely cast is assemble for a quest, but it might be each other they must survive.

THE SHOP
J. Carson Black
B004SY5RVG
Genre: Thriller
Price: $0.99
Reviews and ratings: 4.8 stars from 6 reviewers
Who’s killing celebrities, and why? Smalltown homicide detective Jolie Burke’s murder investigation leads to the highest reaches of government.

Hard Day’s Knight
By John G. Hartness
B004GB17G0
Genre:Urban Fantasy/Comedy
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.5 Stars from 12 Reviewers
Wisecracking nonsparkling vampire detectives try to save the world and get the girl. They usually manage the first half.

The Quest for Nobility
By Debra L Martin & David W Small
B003CC1KI4
Genre: Science fiction
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.0 over 8 reviews
Royal twins, Darius and Dyla Telkur, fight to save their throne from an evil mastermind bent on eliminating the Telkur line of succession.

BORROWED TIME
By Maureen A. Miller
B004E3X9CK
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.0 from 10 Reviewers
A beautiful engineer fights to prevent her savant brother from becoming a military pawn.

SILENT COUNSEL
By Ken Isaacson
B003EOAC6G
Genre: Legal Thriller
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.6 over 19 reviews (from hardcover edition)
Suppose your child were killed in a hitandrun, and the one person who knew the driver’s identity – his lawyer – couldn’t tell you his name because the court held it was privileged information?

Out of Time: A Paranormal Romance

By Monique Martin

Genre: Time Travel/Paranormal Romance
Price: $.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.4 Stars from 88 Reviewers
Time travel romance (1929 New York City) with a paranormal twist.

The Losing Role

By Steve Anderson

Genre: historical, espionage, war, thriller
Price: $0.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.5 Stars from 12 Reviewers
A German actor is forced to join a desperate WWII mission in which he must impersonate an enemy American officer.

Space Junque, a Romantic Sci-Fi Fantasy (Apocalypto 1)

By L.K. Rigel

Genre: apocalyptic fantasy romance
Price: 99 cents
Reviews and Ratings: 4.3 Stars from 15 Reviewers
During an environmental apocalypse Jake and Char battle eco-goons, bureaucrats and a goddess while falling in love.

Dead to Writes

By Cathy Wiley

Genre: Mystery
Price: .99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.5 stars from 20 reviewers
Sometimes writing mysteries can be murder…

Kissing Kelli

by Kathy Carmichael
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Price: $.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.3 Stars from 7 Reviewers
Romantic Comedy set in Texas.

Bootscootin’ Blahniks

D.D. Scott
Romantic Comedy
Price: $.99
Reviews and Ratings: 5 stars from 8 reviewers
Romantic Comedy with a chick-lit, gone-country twist. Think Sex and The City meets Urban Cowboy.

The Sex Club
L.J. Sellers
Mystery/Suspense
$.99 (Kindle)
4 stars, 64 reviews
A dead girl, a ticking bomb, a Bible study that’s not what it appears to be, and a detective who won’t give up.

EASY INNOCENCE

Libby Fischer Hellmann
Mystery
$.99
4.5 stars from 13 reviewers
Chicago PI Georgia Davis, investigating a murder, finds out how far high school girls will go to gain acceptance from their peers.

Class Collision: Fall From Grace

Annette Mackey
YA Historical FIction
$.99
Reviews and Ratings: 13 reviews averaging 4.85 stars. (eleven 5 star, two 4 star)
A story that explores the heart of human emotion. You’ll hate the boy, but fall in love with the man.

AFTER THE FIRE
Kathryn Shay
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Barbara Silkstone
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L.C. Evans
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Karen Cantwell
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Mark Adair
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John Truman, a bright, introverted, college student belongs to the New Dawn…he just doesn’t know it yet.

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Nicole Baxter’s life changes with an afternoon phone call from the harbor. During a scuba dive, her husband disappears. Neither his diving instructor nor the Coast Guard can find him. Is he still alive? Or is grief making her believethe impossible? Rachel Howzell’s The View from Here – Now just 99 cents on Kindle!

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L.M. Preston was born and raised in Washington, DC. An avid reader, she loved to create poetry and short-stories as a young girl. With a thirst for knowledge she attended college at Bowie State University, and worked in the IT field as a Techie and Educator for over sixteen years. She started writing science fiction under the encouragement of her husband who was a Sci-Fi buff and her four kids. Her first published novel, Explorer X – Alpha was the beginning of her obsessive desire to write and create stories of young people who overcome unbelievable odds. She loves to write while on the porch watching her kids play or when she is traveling, which is another passion that encouraged her writing.

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When Gina wakes up from a two-year coma, she realizes someone tried to kill her and make it look like suicide. Detective-in-training Lara Evans is assigned the case, but when she discovers who the main suspect is, she fears she’s in way over her head.

Meanwhile Detective Jackson learns the man in prison for murdering his parents is innocent of the crime and another officer coerced the detainee into a confession. As the two investigators work the cold files, members of their own department come under suspicion and their cases begin to overlap. Can they find the killers before the crimes of the past explode in the present?

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Another Home Run: I have loved all of LJ Sellers books & this one is another home run. I am not going to give it an overview because others already have. However, this is why I love her books – the characters are developed well, the story itself is top notch, you are always surprised by the ending, the story is not too long but not too short, and you just don’t want to put the book down.

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Great Addition To The Series: What can I say without giving away too much? Only this is a darned good police procedural involving characters you love to follow. I think L.J. Sellers gives us as good as J.D. Robb ever did. Maybe it’s something to do with using two inits instead of a first name. Whatever it is, it’s working.

Might Be The Best Yet: Detective Jackson, who we’ve come to love in other Sellers’ mystery novels, is back in a big way in Dying For Justice and this time the case gets very personal. And when detective-in-training Lara Evans is assigned the case, the reader is treated to a yet another of Sellers’ richly satisfying characters. One can’t help but love the drama that ensues.

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I’m an award-winning journalist and the author of the Detective Jackson mystery/suspense series: The Sex Club, Secrets to Die For, Thrilled to Death, Passions of the Dead, and Dying for Justice. My novels have been highly praised by Mystery Scene and Spinetingler magazines, and all five are on Amazon Kindle’s bestselling police procedural list.

I also have two standalone thrillers: The Baby Thief and The Suicide Effect. When not plotting murders, I enjoy cycling, social networking, and attending mystery conferences. I’ve also been known to jump out of airplanes.

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