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Over 200 5-star reviews say small town secrets, fully-realized characters, and a truly twisted killer will keep you turning the pages in today’s Kindle Nation Daily eBook of the Day – Just 99 Cents Today!

 

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Never Smile at Strangers

by Jennifer Minar-Jaynes
4.4 stars – 383 Reviews
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KINDLE BEST SELLER!
– Mystery, Thriller and Suspense
– Mystery and Thrillers
– Suspense Thrillers and Mysteries
– Thrillers
– Suspense

Please note that “Ugly Young Thing,” the second book in the GRAND TRESPASS SERIES will be released on April 2013. If you would like to be notified once it launches, please go to http://www.Facebook.com/NeverSmileatStrangers and hit “Like” or email Jennifer at jenniferjaynes777@gmail.com.

WHEN TEENAGE GIRLS VANISH in what was once considered a safe Louisiana bayou town, the lives of four desperate young locals take unexpected turns, begging the question: Do you ever truly know those closest to you?

When nineteen-year-old Tiffany Perron vanishes from rural Grand Trespass, Louisiana, best friend HALEY LANDRY’s relationship with her boyfriend becomes increasingly strained. To make matters worse, her impressionable younger sister BECKY has begun idolizing an impetuous, seductive 15-year- old who’s encouraging her to do dangerous things.

Meanwhile, ERICA DUVALL, a reclusive 19-year-old aspiring writer, befriends Haley. Ten years earlier, Erica’s mother abandoned her, leaving her with the womanizing used car salesman father she loathes. She’s decided to write a novel based on Tiffany’s disappearance; a novel that she hopes will lead to a reunion with her estranged novelist mother.

RACHEL ANDERSON, a 36-year-old mother of two, is having trouble coming to terms with her husband’s affair with the missing girl—a relationship that supposedly ended shortly before Tiffany’s disappearance. What’s more, she comes to the realization that someone is watching her family through the large back windows of her house.

A DISTURBED MAN also lives in the area. Ever since his mother’s murder four years earlier, he’s been raising his insolent teenage sister, ALLIE, who sleeps with truck drivers for money. He considers women to be dangerous—and his world revolves around his fear and hatred for them. He’s terrified of his sister, knowing she’s intent on pushing him over the edge.

PRAISE FOR “NEVER SMILE AT STRANGERS”

“Jennifer Minar-Jaynes’ debut novel Never Smile at Strangers is a gritty, atmospheric Southern thriller that keeps the heat and the tension cranked high right to the end. Small town secrets, fully-realized characters, and a truly twisted killer keep you turning the pages. Minar-Jaynes has an unerring instinct for the perfect detail that draws you in and won’t turn you loose.”

— J.D. Rhoades, Shamus nominee & author of The Devil’s
Right Hand, Good Day in Hell, and Safe and Sound

“Never Smile at Strangers is an irresistible debut packed with surprises. Her set-up is riveting, the plot loaded with twists and turns that leads into an effective and logical conclusion. Add this to prose that is fresh, interesting, and innovative, and you have one of the best debut novels that’s sure to please readers for years to come.”

— Michael Laimo, author of Dead Souls
and Deep In The Darkness

“Solid, effective throughout. Dark emotions ranging from grief and loneliness to insanity are vividly brought to life with entirely believable insight… immediately sucks us in, sustains the suspense and keepers the reader involved. . .”

— Reader from Atchity Entertainment International

“Combines the best elements of mystery and suspense—intriguing characters, compulsive plotting, first-rate storytelling. A terrifically impressive debut.”

—David Angsten, author of Dark Gold and Night of the Furies

“Jennifer Minar-Jaynes is a welcome addition to the family of thriller writers.”

—Robert S. Levinson, bestselling author of Where the Lies Begin, Ask A Dead Man, Hot Paint

About the Author

 

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Jennifer Minar-Jaynes

 

Biography

Since graduating from Old Dominion University with a B.S. in Health Sciences and a minor in Management, Jennifer Minar-Jaynes has made her living as a content manager, webmaster, news publisher, editor and copywriter.

In ’04, Jennifer founded www.WritersBreak.com, which became widely recognized in the writing world and went on to be named a ‘best website for writers’ by “Writer’s Digest” magazine.

After moving from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles in ’05, Jennifer quickly traded in her conservative business suits for jeans and t-shirts and added screenwriting and freelance writing to her repertoire.

In 2010, she gave birth to two beautiful boys, Christopher & Ryan. Christopher has a congenital heart condition called hypoplastic left-heart syndrome, a CHD that she plans to write about in the near future.

In 2011, she published NEVER SMILE AT STRANGERS, which quickly rose through Amazon’s ranks and has made several bestsellers lists. Its sequel, UGLY YOUNG THING, will be published in April 2013.

Minar-Jaynes can be contacted at jenniferjaynes777@gmail.com, http://www.Facebook.com/jenniferminar and http://www.facebook.com/neversmileatstrangers.

 

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Three Books in One! Don’t miss today’s Kindle Nation Daily eBook of the Day from KND Fave Mainak Dhar!

Alice in Deadland: The Complete Trilogy

by Mainak Dhar
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5.0 stars – 11 Reviews
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Now also available – Hunting The Snark, the latest adventure in the Alice in Deadland series.

Alice in Deadland was released in November 2011 and quickly became an Amazon.com bestseller, selling more than 50,000 copies in its first three months. It was followed by its sequel, ‘Through The Looking Glass’ and ‘Off With Their Heads’, the prequel to Alice in Deadland. Now, get all three novels in the Alice in Deadland Trilogy in one single omnibus edition and immerse yourself in this bestselling adventure.

Alice in Deadland

Civilization as we know it ended more than fifteen years ago, leaving as it’s legacy barren wastelands called the Deadland and a new terror for the humans who survived- hordes of undead Biters.

Fifteen year-old Alice has spent her entire life in the Deadland, her education consisting of how best to use guns and knives in the ongoing war for survival against the Biters. One day, Alice spots a Biter disappearing into a hole in the ground and follows it, in search of fabled underground Biter bases.

What Alice discovers there propels her into an action-packed adventure that changes her life and that of all humans in the Deadland forever. An adventure where she learns the terrible conspiracy behind the ruin of humanity, the truth behind the origin of the Biters, and the prophecy the mysterious Biter Queen believes Alice is destined to fulfill.

A prophecy based on the charred remains of the last book in the Deadland- a book called Alice in Wonderland.

Through The Looking Glass: Alice in Deadland Book II

More than two years have passed since Alice followed a Biter with bunny ears down a hole, triggering events that forever changed her life and that of everyone in the Deadland. The Red Guards have been fought to a standstill; Alice has restored some measure of peace between humans and Biters; and under Alice, humans have laid the foundations of the first large, organized community since The Rising- a city called Wonderland.

That peace is shattered in a series of vicious Biter attacks and Alice finds herself shunned by the very people she helped liberate. Now she must re-enter the Deadland to unravel this new conspiracy that threatens Wonderland. Doing so will mean coming face to face with her most deadly adversary ever- the Red Queen.

Off With Their Heads: The Prequel to Alice in Deadland

A few months before Alice was born and fifteen years before the dramatic events depicted in Alice in Deadland, there was The Rising. A few days that destroyed human civilization as we know it, reducing much of the world to a radioactive wasteland teeming with hordes of undead Biters and controlled by a shadowy Central Committee.

Off With Their Heads brings to life the final harrowing days of The Rising through four shorts, each depicting events through the eyes of one pivotal character in the Alice in Deadland series. See how Dr. Protima became the Queen of the Biters; feel the pain of a young man’s sacrifice as he becomes the bunny-eared Biter whom Alice later follows down a hole; follow the rise of Chen from a conflicted young Chinese Army officer to a General in the Red Guards; and finally share in the dramatic escape of Alice’s parents from a city overrun by Biters.

More About the Author

Biography

Mainak Dhar is a cubicle dweller by day and author by night. His first `published’ work was a stapled collection of Maths solutions and poems (he figured nobody would pay for his poems alone) he sold to his classmates in Grade 7, and spent the proceeds on ice cream and comics. Mainak was a bestselling author in his native India with titles published by major houses like Penguin and Random House and with one of his novels (Herogiri) being made into a major motion picture. In early 2011, he began to use Amazon to reach international readers through his ebooks and became one of the leading independent authors in the world with more than 100,000 books sold in his first year. He has thirteen books to his credit including the bestselling Alice in Deadland trilogy. Learn more about him and contact him at mainakdhar.com.

Amazon Author Rankbeta

#73 in Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Horror
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Don’t miss today’s Kindle Nation Daily eBook of the Day: “A timeless, universal tale of a woman’s journey toward self-acceptance. An exciting tale of past crimes and dangerous friendships.”

The Girl From Long Guyland

by Lara Reznik
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4.2 stars – 78 Reviews
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-Includes Reading Group Discussion Questions-     Ranked the #1 spot in both Suspense and Contemporary Fiction, during it’s Amazon kindle select promotional days.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            MEMOIR MEETS THRILLER:  
Laila Levin enjoys a successful marriage and a thriving career as an I.T. executive in Austin, Texas, but she can’t quite shake her lifelong sense of not truly belonging anywhere.

When her company announces a major layoff, Laila finds herself caught between an unscrupulous CEO and her promiscuous boss. Then news of her college roommate’s suicide stirs up a dark secret involving three devious friends from her past. One has betrayed a vow, another wants to rekindle their romance, and the third is out for revenge.

Suddenly for Laila, it’s 1969 again. She’s only seventeen, and she’s left her sheltered home in Long Island for college in Connecticut. Amid protests of the Vietnam War, she’s tempted by the sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll that rule her generation. Laila gets swept up in a deceptive love triangle with two older locals and initiated into their unethical hippie family. Too late she realizes her search to belong has led to tragedy.

Laila must now juggle the demands of her perplexed husband and her baby boomer past forcing her to make choices that endanger her survival and challenge her conscience.

She learns that the lines between right and wrong are often blurred, and sometimes you have to risk everything to be true to yourself.

Editorial Reviews

“In Reznik’s debut novel, a woman confronts long-buried secrets when an old college friend commits suicide. . . . While effective as a page turner, the novel also tells a timeless, universal tale of a woman’s journey toward self-acceptance. An exciting tale of past crimes and dangerous friendships.” –Kirkus Reviews

★★★★★ “I love a mystery and I love stories about the late 60’s/early 70’s and this book has both. Really fun read.” –Barbara Gaines, Executive Producer, The Late Show with David Letterman

★★★★★ “Lara Reznik masterfully creates a story that brings the past and present together seamlessly. . . . I can honestly say it is not often that the plot of a book surprises me the way this one did. This book is truly timeless. I would recommend “The Girl from Long Guyland” to anyone who likes to read no matter what their preferred genre.” Katherine Bennett, Reviewer, Readers Favorite

From the Author

This book is dedicated to all baby boomers who survived the late 60’s and 70’s, as well as those that didn’t. Hope you enjoy the ride. —Lara

More About the Author

Lara ReznikLara Reznik, a native New Yorker, attended college at the University of New Mexico. As an English major, Lara studied under esteemed authors Rudolfo Anaya and the late Tony Hillerman, and attended a summer program at the prestigious Iowa Writers Workshop. Ambidextrous from birth, she preferred her right-brained creative side, but discovered she could make a better living with her left-brain skills, so entered the I.T. field in 1985.

Lara launched her debut novel, The Girl From Long Guyland, on Amazon on Nov 8th, 2012. The novel consistently ranked the #1 spot in both Suspense and Contemporary Fiction, and ranked #4 overall kindle books during it’s Amazon kindle select promotional free days in November 2012. In addition to her novels, Lara has written and optioned three screenplays that have garnered semifinalist and finalist wins in the Austin Heart of Film, Southwest Writers, TV Writer, Chesterfield and Writer’s Digest contests.

Currently, Lara is working on a new novel based on her screenplay, The M&M Boys.

Screenplays by Lara Reznik:

  • The M&M Boys
  • Bagels & Salsa
  • Dance of Deception
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The Leaves

by Jeremy Akatsa

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I was raped by my father and his men.

I was also born with an unusual gift that I kept a secret until now… I discovered magic.

Sarah was a girl who discovered a power that had the ability to control anything at will. Her discovery was so breathtaking because she realized that it could be possessed by anyone… even you.

Some realized this and her father became jealous, so he murdered those who refused to keep it a secret… He also did this because he wanted Sarah’s power for himself, but he died.

A box was opened in result. It revealed a list of twelve names six years later which began to die in the order that they were mentioned. So Sarah is caught in the middle of this thrilling mystery purposed to reveal the killer of her father.

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Can she love him if she can’t remember him? Our Kindle Nation eBook of the Day is Kristen James’ MORE THAN MEMORIES

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More Than Memories

by Kristen James
4.3 stars – 64 Reviews
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Can she love him if she can’t remember him? Molly Anderson returns “home” to a town she doesn’t remember, hoping it will spark a memory. She runs into Trent Williams, a Ridge City police detective, and something else definitely sparks.

He wants to know why she left town, with her parents, but without a word to anyone. She doesn’t remember that life. She can only tell him she knew her parents briefly before they died . . . or were murdered, she’s not sure. She hopes regaining her memory will help answer that question.

Trent has his own secrets, but they have a mystery to solve. As they work together and Molly meets their old friends, she realizes their relationship went deeper than memories. In fact, she grew up in Ridge City, even though her parents had said they lived there just a few years. How could she have forgotten her lifelong friend and love? Can she love him again if she doesn’t remember him? There’s also the possibility that she did something awful — and maybe that’s why she’s afraid to remember her old life.

Molly knows she wants him now, but the truth might destroy their love.

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Kristen James

It was the beginning of fourth grade and I was terrified. I would have Mrs. Straight that year and all the older kids said she was scary and mean. Luckily she wasn’t mean but simply strict, and she had high expectations for all her students. She was also caring. She noticed my artwork and put my 3D rendition of story The Trumpet of The Swan on display in the school library. Later she loved my first short story about a girl finding a unicorn in the forest and had me read it to an assembly of parents and other students. That was when I discovered I loved writing and sharing stories with other people. Mrs. Straight was diagnosed with cancer during the school year and died that summer. She was one of the many supporters in my life but someone I never got to thank. It’s amazing what an impact we can make on others, and sometimes without ever knowing it.

I live in the Pacific Northwest and enjoy exploring the mountains and traveling to the nearby coast or even farther away to Canada or the beach in Costa Rica. My favorite activities, besides writing and reading, include cycling, fishing, hiking, running, berry picking, and about any outdoor activity with my family. My motto? Make life an adventure! Visit my website and blog at www.writerkristenjames.com, and interact on Facebook at www.facebook.com/WriterKristenJames. I love to hear from readers!

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Kindle Nation Bargain Book Alert: Our eBook of the Day is “a totally enjoyable flashback ride to the 1980s.” 4.6 stars on 25/27 Rave Reviews and Now $2.99 on Kindle

 

Quarter Finalist for the 2012 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award

The Pursuit of Cool

by Robb Skidmore

 4.6 stars – 27 Reviews

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The Pursuit of Cool is a humorous and heartbreaking story of a music and movie obsessed, ragingly ambitious, tragically romantic young man, sure to appeal to fans of Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity, John Hughes movies, and the 1980s…

Praise for The Pursuit of Cool:

“A skilled writer… A smart account of ’80s college kids… the novel believably summons the ’80s, complete with floppy disks, 9 1/2 Weeks on VHS and R.E.M. cassettes.”–Kirkus Indie Review

“Skidmore has skillfully crafted a sympathetic protagonist whom readers root for… and the narration has an understated lyrical quality.”–Watch Me Bounce

“An excellent job of taking a character and creating his time and place perfectly. A totally enjoyable flashback ride…”–Dew on the Kudzu

“It centers the reader in that hopeful era of high expectations and jaded reality. A great debut, and I can’t wait to read more from Robb Skidmore.”–The Book Fetish

Here’s The Set-Up:

A novel that uniquely captures the 1980s, The Pursuit of Cool tells the story of Lance Rally and his turbulent college years. He faces pressure to live up to his super-achieving family and is fueled by a grandiose ambition. He wants to become a success but is prone to distraction and obsessed with pop culture. He also has a deeply romantic nature but is inept and inhibited, and his interactions with women are disastrous. Friendships with a punk rock actor and a subversive scholar challenge his world view. He discovers emotional complexities as relationships with a beautiful psych major and a feisty goth girl shape and change him.

He questions his beliefs as the clock of academia ticks on and his opened heart gets crushed. The story comes alive with album covers, dance techniques, all-nighter revelations, and corporate internships gone bad. On his road to personal truth, Lance finds solace and direction from music and movies he loves. He tries to capture that magic of youth, the essence that is “cool.”

About the Author:

Robb Skidmore writes stories that entertain and inspire. His short stories have appeared in many places, including New Orleans Review, New Millennium Writings, South Carolina Review, Oasis, and Twelve Stories. His nonfiction has appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The Surfer, his ebook novella, can be found on Amazon. His debut novel is The Pursuit of Cool, a Quarter Finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest. (link to my website: robbskidmore.com)
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Today’s Kindle Nation Daily eBook of the Day: 10 Straight Rave Reviews for Bradley Convissar’s Blood, Smoke and Ashes, and Just 99 Cents on Kindle!

Blood, Smoke and Ashes

by Bradley Convissar
4.9 stars – 10 Reviews
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In the Fall of 1955, the state of Nevada used the electric chair to execute a prisoner for the first time.

It was also the last time.

Molly Blackburn, nicknamed Jane the Ripper by the Las Vegas press after killing eleven men while posing as a prostitute, was strapped to the chair without incident. The switch was flipped.

Everything after that went horribly wrong.

Since that day, a copycat Jane the Ripper has appeared almost every decade in a different city, mimicking Molly’s choice in victims as well as her methods of murder. She kills eleven men then disappears, never to be found. The similarities between the bodies left behind each decade is uncanny. As if they are all the victims of the same murderer, not a copycat.

But that’s impossible, of course, because Molly Blackburn is dead, her execution witnessed by a dozen people.

FBI Agent Jack Shaw, the lead investigator in the Jane the Ripper cases since the seventies, finally catches a break in 2009 when the intended fifth victim manages to turn the tables on the newest copycat . Everyone believes that the horror has finally ended with her capture. Shaw is not so sure, though, wondering if someone else will take up the mantle and kill seven more men to complete the cycle. But when no more bodies with her distinctive markings show up over the next two years, Shaw allows himself to believe that maybe he has seen the end of the Jane the Ripper murders.

As it turns out, what he thought was the end was only the beginning.

His hunt will take him across the country, and even when he thinks he’s finally discovered the truth, he quickly learns that not everything is as it seems.

That not every monster is created equal.

That the nature of good and evil is not as black and white as he has always believed.

That not everything that is broken can be put back together.

That not every fractured soul can be saved.

When blood, smoke and ashes rise, no one comes out the same on the other side.

About the Author

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Brad Convissar is a dentist by day, a writer of dark fiction at night, and a father, husband, and not-so-proud pet owner when time permits.

He is the author of several dozen short stories, four novellas, and will be releasing his first novel, Blood, Smoke and Ashes, a supernatural thriller, in early 2013.

He was born in Georgia, but moved to southern New Jersey before he could be forced to be an Atlanta Braves fan. He spent his formative years living outside of Philadelphia where he latched on to the Philly sports teams and was promptly disappointed for almost twenty years. He spent his college years in New Orleans, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in evolutionary biology at Tulane University, then relocated to lovely Newark New Jersey, where he earned his DMD.

After eight years of bouncing around, Brad finally settled down back in south Jersey, only miles from the house he grew up in. He is happily married and the proud father of two children. He is also “dad’ to a diabetic, half-blind eight-year-old daschund named Friday who is little more than a lump on the couch most of the time.

When not filling cavities or performing root canals or extracting teeth or fabricating dentures, or writing, he spends his time playing with his kids, playing video games, reading comic books, reading non-illustrated books, and impotently rooting on his beloved Philadelphia Phillies or less than beloved Philadelphia Eagles.

His favorite authors are, but not limited to, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Clive Barker, Richard Matheson, Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, Simon Green, Jim Butcher, and Jeffery Deaver. He likes to think he learned something of the art of writing from each of these authors.

To this day, he wonders how the TV show LOST got so bad, so quickly. The wasted potential of the first three seasons still haunts him.

 

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