There’s an old wives’ tale that says it’s bad luck to gift a Kindle without loading it’s first ebook (we swear!). We’ve got you covered! We’re excited this week to introduce a special selection of December bestsellers from independent publisher, Books We Love, Ltd, that will guarantee your future Kindle owner hours of great reading.
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Joan Hall Hovey Suspense Trilogy (Books We Love Holiday Trilogy)
by Joan Hall Hovey
Raised in an atmosphere of violence and unpredictability, Ellen and Gail Morgan have banded together, survivors of a booze-fertilized battleground, forming a fierce united front against an often cold and uncaring world. When their parents are killed in a car crash, Ellen becomes the mother figure for Gail.When fifteen years later Gail is brutally raped and murdered in her shabby New York basement apartment, practically on the eve of her big breakthrough as a singer, Ellen is inconsolable. Rage at her younger sister’s murder has nearly consumed her. So when her work as a psychologist wins her an appearance on the evening news, Ellen seizes the moment. Staring straight into the camera, she challenges the killer to come out of hiding: “Why don’t you come after me? I’ll be waiting for you.”Phone calls flood the station, but all leads go nowhere. The police investigation seems doomed to failure. Then it happens: a note, written in red ink, slipped under the windshield wipers of her car, ‘YOU’RE IT.’ Ellen has stirred the monster in his lair … and the hunter has become the hunted!
After nine years in Bayshore mental institution, once called the lunatic asylum, Caroline Hill is finally being released.There will be no one to meet her. Her parents who brought her here…are dead.They have found her a room in a rooming house, a job washing dishes in a restaurant. She will do fine, they said. But no one told that women in St. Simeon are already dying at the hands of a vicious predator. One, an actress who lived previously in her building. And others.
SOMEONE WAS STALKING HER. NOW HE’S FOUND HER…
When artist Katie Summers emerged from a four-day coma, she remembered all too vividly the horror of that night – the terrifying dead eyes that had stared back at her in the rear view mirror, causing her to crash her car. But nobody believed her. Even the enigmatic and disturbingly attractive psychiatrist, Dr. Jonathan Shea, implied that she had made the whole thing up. Or dreamed it.
Released from the hospital, still weak from her ordeal, Katie took a taxi to her remote farmhouse on Black Lake. Darkness had already fallen. There was only the wind in the trees to greet her…and the cold and empty house.
But the house was not quite empty. Something awaited her, upstairs in her bedroom. Something with cold, dead eyes…
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Juliet Waldron Trilogy (Books We Love Holiday Edition)
by Juliet Waldron
This Special Edition by Juliet Waldron contains three novels, Mozart’s Wife, My Mozart and Red Magic.
MOZART’S WIFE
Giddy sugarplum or calculating bitch? Pretty Konstanze aroused strong feelings among her contemporaries. Her in-law’s loathed her. Mozart’s friends, more than forty years after his death, remained eager to gossip about her “failures” as wife to the world’s first superstar. Maturing from child, to wife, to hard-headed widow, Konstanze would pay Mozart’s debts, provide for their children, and relentlessly market and mythologize her brilliant husband. Mozart’s letters attest to his affection for Konstanze as well as to their powerful sexual bond. Nevertheless, prominent among the many mysteries surrounding the composer’s untimely death: why did his much beloved Konstanze never mark his grave?
MY MOZART
Mozart was her teacher, her mentor, her rescuer–and, finally, fatally, her lover. ..
At dawn, in the marble palace of a Prince, a nine-year-old sings for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, then at the peak of his career. Always delighted by musical children, he accepts Nanina as a pupil. Gifted, intense and imaginative, she sees the great “Kapellmeister Mozart” as an avatar of Orpheus and her own, personal divinity.
His lessons are irregular and playful, but the teacher/pupil bond grows strong. Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro premieres, and Nanina, now twelve, is given a solo part. For her, this is the beginning of a long stage career. For Mozart, it marks the start of his ruin. His greatest works will be composed in poverty and obscurity.
RED MAGIC
Red-headed Caterina von Velsen, a tomboy and superb horsewoman, detests her older sister’s husband-to-be. Christoph von Hagen is handsome and brave, but he is also a Casanova, a man with a reputation that stretches from his mountain manor all the way to Vienna. When Caterina’s older sister dies in a riding accident only a week before her wedding, Caterina is forced to take her place. She now belongs to a man she firmly believes to be “a cold-hearted rake.”
There is magic in Christoph’s lonely mountain home, as well as in the locket Caterina’s aunt gave her long ago. Misunderstandings and preconceptions hinder the coming of true love, as well as the strange attraction she feels toward her husband’s magnetic, foreign horse master. Set in 18th Century Germany, RED MAGIC tells the story of a young woman’s transition from rebellious girl to adored–and adoring–wife.
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Renee Simons Special Edition
by Renee Simons
Renee Simons Special Edition published by Books We Love contains the novels, Safe Haven, Dearest Enemy and Eye of the Storm.
Safe Haven
Waging war on the mob may not be smart, but Jordan VanDien and architect Ethan Caldwell are after the men who, years earlier, destroyed Jordan’s family and now threaten Ethan’s future. Scarred by childhood trauma, the two loners never expected to battle an unwanted attraction. Yet hard as they try to fight their feelings, a common purpose and shared danger ignite a spark that grows to a flame neither can deny. In their quest for justice, will they let that fire die or can the beauty with a dark past and the guilt-laden Aussie transplant find a haven in each other’s arms?
Dearest Enemy
When Callie Patterson roars into Blue Sky, New Mexico, on her Harley she disturbs more than the quiet of the dying gold mining town. She unnerves the townsfolk who want to reopen a long dead mine that conflicts with her plan to turn her family’s Victorian mansion into a tourist haven and art colony. She stirs up old memories for Mercedes Gunn who fears the discovery of long-held secrets, and for Fernando Moreno, once the love of her now-deceased grandmother. Most of all, she shakes up the mostly well-ordered future that sheriff Luc Moreno has planned to protect his own family and their home. Being on opposite sides of the valley’s future threatens a growing attraction. Will it ultimately destroy any hope for love to blossom?
Eye of the Storm
Five years after his imprisonment for treason, Marine Corps Major Michael Stormwalker gets a chance to prove his innocence. The one person qualified to help him uncover the truth, however, has other plans. Convinced he murdered her fiancé, Alexandra McLaren means to see that Stormwalker goes straight back to Leavenworth.
Sparks fly in the clash between a seemingly immovable object and an equally irresistible force. The sexual sizzle ignites Stormwalker’s love for the auburn-haired beauty, who becomes as vital to his happiness as the restoration of his honor, the pride of his people and his career.
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Betty Jo Schuler Holiday Trilogy (Books We Love, Holiday Trilogy)
by Betty Jo Schuler
This Betty Jo Schuler Special Edition published by Books We Love contains three novels.
Love in a Small Town – A Best Books of Indiana Selection
It’s late June when Sam Champion drives into an Illinois town and sees a “Grow Browning” billboard, with the population, 3653, in changeable numbers, like those on a scoreboard. Sam, an ArizonaD professor, wants to sell the house he inherited, fast, and return to Arizona, for a prestigious promotion. Lily Madison, his red-haired neighbor is an accident-waiting-to-happen, but beautiful, determined, and smart, she has other plans for Sam and Browning. Lily brightens Sam’s life, but he doesn’t realize how much until he tries to walk away.
Finding Freedom
Nick Dennis, a mystery writer who’s gone where he wanted and done what he liked, has never had a serious relationship. Celeste Harte, a widow who’s always met others’ expectations, is looking for a romantic man. Nick is secretly trying to write a romance novel on a bet but can’t get inside his heroine’s head. She wants to become a free spirit. When he tells Celeste he doesn’t understand women, she thinks he’s joking. When he offers to turn her life around, she knows he can turn it upside down but can’t resist.
Celeste Harte wished for a fairy tale romance, and Prince Charming turned out to be a cheating toad. Wiser now, she wished on this year’s birthday candles she’d find a man who would turn her life into a sizzling romance novel. Does such a man exist? When dangerously sexy Nick Dennis offers to turn her life around, she knows he could turn it upside down, but can she say no to this romantic stranger?
Male Wanted
When Taylor Gayle advertises in The Town Crier for a male to date, Max Stuart misprints her ad to indicate she’s looking for a “sadomasochistic male to mate” and includes her address. To atone for his mistakes, Max becomes her live-in protector. Now, who’s going to protect this high school librarian from the unbelievably sexy newspaper editor? And who’s going to save Max?
Taylor Gayle names her plants, dulls her hair with a brown rinse, and envies her fraternal twin sister of her beauty. Max Stuart plays with noisy toys, brings home his sister’s dog Muttso, and sets fire to Taylor’s kitchen. The elevator in their apartment building is an accident-waiting-to-happen, but the landlady is more concerned with whether Taylor and Max are “cohabitating.” Glorious Apartments are as misnamed as Progressive High School and Boomtown, Ohio. Nothing is what it seems in this slaphappy romance.
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Jamieson Wolf Holiday Trilogy (Books We Love Holiday Trilogy)
by Jamieson Wolf
Hope Falls, the Series – Season 1
Miriam has played Sylvia Stevens on the highly rated TV Soap Opera, Hope Falls, for the past thirty years, and her ratings are dropping.
Like every actor on Hope Falls with a lifetime contract, Miriam knows what happens when her ratings fall: they will kill her.
Now, in a desperate race for her life, Miriam is in a race against time to escape before they kill her…and write her death into her storyline…
“Jamieson Wolf is one of the most energetic writers around and Hope Falls is a delightfully twisted soap opera of a novel. Dynasty meets Death Wish.” Scott Pack, Publisher, The Friday Project
The Raven’s Curse
Susan Halliway is desperate to change her life. But something is desperate to hunt her…
A serial killer begins to leave increasingly frightening notes for Susan after he kills each of his victims, little girls with blond hair and bright eyes. She receives details of the killings days before the bodies are found with no knowledge of how to find them or stop the killer.
They will need all their cunning, all their daring, if they are to reach the end of this hunt alive…
Witchcraft and Anchovies
I prefer not to think of that when I’m taking a call on the telephone. The source of my other income is a little shameful to me, though I must do it to make ends meet. I feel, sometimes, as if my white world has been marred by a spot of black.
The neighbourhood calls me a Witch.
I prefer to think of myself as a healer.
I try to heal others mostly because I can’t heal myself.
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