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**Kathryn Shay’s SERENITY HOUSE TRILOGY is Our eBook of the Day at just $6.99 for All 3 Books, and Here’s a Free Sample!**

March 17, 2012 by KND

Here’s the set-up for Kathryn Shay’s Serenity House Trilogy, just $6.99 on Kindle:

Veteran teacher Kathryn Shay knows teenagers and puts that knowledge into creating a series about successful women who were once troubled teens.

Welcome to SERENITY HOUSE, a trilogy of stories about women who spent some of their adolescent years in a group home for troubled girls. Each story explores what effects their dysfunctional backgrounds had on them. As you might guess, trust—not being able to trust—is a big issue for all three. But with the help of those who love them, each woman overcomes her difficult beginnings and becomes the person she was meant to be.

In PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT, Paige Kendrick is a successful doctor who keeps people at a distance and refuses a relationship with hunky doctor Ian Chandler. But Ian won’t stop until he gets what he wants—Paige! And because of his assertiveness, he almost destroys their chances of a life together.

In A PLACE TO BELONG, Darcy O’Malley and Hunter Sloan have more in common than they know when they meet at her daycare. Both have troubled kids, both grew up as outcasts in their hometown, and both find a deep and driving passion for the other that cannot be denied.

When she was eighteen, troubled Anabelle Crane fell in love with Nathan Hyde, the town’s fair-haired boy. He broke her heart and she left town to become an undercover cop. In AGAINST THE ODDS, she’s back to guard him from a stalker. But some things haven’t changed and Anabelle and Nathan find that the passion they have for each other has not died!

From the reviewers:

“For readers like myself who have been a bit disappointed with the quality of the genre of late, Shay’s latest might as well have antidote stamped right next to the Serenity House logo.” – The Romance Reader

Fans will enjoy the return of the Serenity House residents, and can only hope for a second-generation series one day! – Word Weaving

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Kathryn Shay is a lifelong writer. At fifteen, she penned her first ‘romance,’ a short story about a female newspaper reporter in New YorkCity and her fight to make a name for herself in a world of male journalists – and with one hardheaded editor in particular. Looking back, Kathryn says she should have known then that writing was in her future. But as so often happens, fate sent her detouring down another path.

Fully intending to pursue her dream of big city lights and success in the literary world, Kathryn took every creative writing class available at the small private women’s college she attended in upstate New York. Instead, other dreams took precedence. She met and subsequently married a wonderful guy who’d attended a neighboring school, then completed her practice teaching, a requirement for the education degree she never intended to use. But says Kathryn, “I fell in love with teaching the first day I was up in front of a class, and knew I was meant to do that.”

Kathryn went on to build a successful career in the New York state school system, thoroughly enjoying her work with adolescents. But by the early 1990s, she’d again made room in her life for writing. It was then that she submitted her first manuscript to publishers and agents. Despite enduring two years of rejections, she persevered. And on a snowy December afternoon in 1994, Kathryn Shay sold her first book to Harlequin Superromance.

Since that first sale, Kathryn has written twenty-two books for Harlequin, ten mainstream contemporary romances for the Berkley Publishing Group, and two online novellas, which Berkley then published in traditional print format.

Kathryn has become known for her powerful characterizations – readers say they feel they know the people in her books – and her heart-wrenching, emotional writing (her favorite comments are that fans cried while reading her books or stayed up late to finish them). In testament to her skill, the author has had a one of her books serialized in the December 2003 COSMOPOLITAN magazine and has been quoted in PEOPLE and THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. She has won five RT BookClub Magazine Reviewers Choice Awards, three Holt Medallions, two Desert Quill Awards, the Golden Leaf Award, and several online accolades.

Even in light of her writing success, that initial love of teaching never wavered for Kathryn. She finished out her teaching career in 2004, retiring from the same school where her career began. These days, she lives in upstate New York with her husband and two children. “My life is very full,” she reports, “but very happy. I consider myself fortunate to have been able to pursue and achieve my dreams.”

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Kindle Nation Daily Bargain Book Alert: Kim Karter’s SMALL TOWN UNWOUND is Our eBook of the Day at just $2.99, or Currently FREE for Amazon Prime Members Via the Kindle Lending Library, with 4.4 Stars on 16 Reviews, and Here’s a Free Sample!

March 16, 2012 by KND

Here’s the set-up for Kim Karter’s Small Town Unwound, just $2.99 on Kindle, or Currently FREE for Amazon Prime Members Via the Kindle Lending Library:

Delta Grayson may be Leighton, Alabama’s only medical doctor, but she’s not the only serial killer.

Small Town Unwound is the first installment of the Dr. Delta Grayson series, followed by Main Street Misfire.

From the reviewers:

“With as much humor and heartbeat as it has suspense and mystery…Small Town Unwound is as original as it is endearing. I have never grown as attached to a set of characters or as immersed in a plot.” — Mary Ford, Editor

Small town doctors are notorious for juggling roles: physician, coroner, ER attendant. Dr. Delta Grayson just has a few extra tricks up her sleeve. Born and raised in the same rural Alabama town where she sets up shop, Delta takes a personal interest in the well being of her patients. Could this deep familial bond be the reason she finds herself driven to occasionally dole out more than just prescriptions when she senses wolves among the sheep, so to speak? – Mary Beth

Small Town Unwound surprised me in the best way. This book is quirky, vivid, and quite the page turner. Not to mention I felt myself sweating through all the action. The character development deserves five stars alone. I rooted for Delta every step of the way. – Gwyn

This book achieves what most others don’t by creating a living atmosphere in the south that anyone can long to live in. The story is thrilling and engaging with some truly horrific scenes blended into the lives of the main characters that leaves a hint of fear on the readers minds constantly. I loved this book and can’t wait for the next chapter. – Andrew Augustine

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Kim Karter (4-3-88) is a born and raised Southerner depicting the quirks of the South from an honest perspective. Her upbringing includes various moves as a child including Kansas City, Missouri, and Birmingham, Alabama, but her home is Muscle Shoals, Alabama where she resides today with her family, German Shepherd, and an orphaned fox named Todd.

Her short stories have been published in various literary magazines, including Folly, Dew on the Kudzu, New Voices, and Twisted Dreams. She praises ‘Not in My Kitchen’ as the start of her professional writing career.

“‘Not in My Kitchen’ gave me the confidence to take the next step, and complete projects I’d been working on for a long time. My Grandmother had just passed away, and I turned to writing to help me cope with such a tremendous loss. The character Thelma, is based on her, and within days the story was accepted for publication. I took that as a sign from my Grandmother to get back to work! I could just see her standing behind the editor and slapping them as they read it. She may have had more to do with it than I even know.”

To contact Kim for product giveaways, E-book autographs, or to simply send her some feedback, visit www.kimkarter.com or e-mail KimKarterthewriter(at)gmail(dot)com

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**Kindle Nation Daily Bargain Book Alert: Kate Burns’ THE OPHELIA TRAP is our eBook of the Day at just 99 Cents, with 4.6 Stars on 5 Reviews, and Here’s a Free Sample!**

March 15, 2012 by KND

Here’s the set-up for Kate Burns’ The Ophelia Trap, just 99 Cents on Kindle:

Julia and her family may have escaped the rent trap… but curiosity has drawn a predator home.

When Julia Henry’s former neighbour plunges eight stories to her death in the snow, she’s convinced her previous landlords harassed the woman to suicide. But as she investigates, another dead girl turns up with a connection to a serial rapist.

Julia and her husband have put as much distance as they could afford between them and the landlords who put them through hell, and stories from humiliated tenants match Julia’s own. She’s determined to prove their tactics resulted in tragedy. But the half-empty building is hemorrhaging tenants, the girl’s boyfriend comes complete with a wife and daughter, and the best friend overdosed days after giving police their only description of a serial rapist.

Now it seems someone wants Julia buried under the heaviest blizzard in thirty years. But when one of her daughters is targeted for a brutal attack steps from home, two nightmares converge.

The only way she can protect her girls and still live to see the snow melt is to expose the wrenching truth behind the rapes, the deaths, and the strangest absentee landlord ever.

The Ophelia Trap tells the story of a woman who drags home more than she bargained for after investigating the death of a young neighbour.

The setting is the small town that remains within the Aylmer city limits, and many of the landmarks and the dual French-English culture will be familiar to Ottawa area residents.

The novel engages the reader in suspense, but also delves into some dark territory — rent fraud, sexual abuse and the fragile safety of women in modern society. The Ophelia Trap turns the narrative of of the ultimate victim on its head.

From the reviewers:

“Juicy, fantastically polished, engrossing, unrelenting in its ability to hold the reader. This book stands out as an example of what an exceptionally good writer should be.” – Paul Dayton, Author of The Eye of the Idol

“This little gem of a novel is set in Canada’s Capital region and features a mystery that unravels even more mysteries. The flow of language, memorable characters and story twists make it a swift and unforgettable read.” – Madapples Book Review

“With great economy and assurance the author conveys Julia’s horror… it appears simple, but such writing is difficult to produce.” -Lynn Clayton, Author of Deadly Nevergreen

“Clean, crisp and snappy paragraphs with to-the-point dialogue.” Robert Young, Author of Auctoratus

“The vivid details that the author paints makes you feel that you are at the places and they feel familiar. The characters are likeable and believable. A highly recommended read. I can’t wait for her next novel.” – TonyInMontreal, review on Apple’s iBookstore

“Having read The Ophelia Trap, I am now an anxious fan waiting to see what mysteries await Julia et al in the future. The Ophelia Trap is an intelligent mystery story with an intricate plot and believable characters. The setting of Aylmer Quebec, small town in proximity to larger metropolitan areas, is one to which many people can relate. The canvas is the perfect size for the picture that has been painted. It is a great read!” – Michael Macdonald

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Kate Burns is a designer and writer living and working in the Ottawa-Gatineau area. She gardens, knits, enjoys nature in all its beauty and expresses herself through writing and acting. She and her husband David share a beautiful daughter, Virginia and two wonderful stepchildren, Danny and Amelia. The Ophelia Trap is her first novel.

She is currently working on her second mystery, as yet untitled, set in Ottawa’s intriguing and diverse Byward

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**Kindle Nation Daily Bargain Book Alert: Benson Grayson’s LUST TAKES THE WHITE HOUSE is Our eBook of the Day at just $1.99, with 4.9 Stars on 11 Reviews, and Here’s a Free Sample!**

March 14, 2012 by KND

Here’s the set-up for Benson Grayson’s Lust Takes the White House, just $1.99 on Kindle:

On a whim, Lust Cosmetics Company owner Melvin Shultz resorts to the same sleazy tactics he employed to make his firm an industry leader to manipulate the American presidential primaries. His goal is to see if he can put inept, woman-chasing ex-governor Robert “Buck” Porter into the White House.

Pursuing his “3 B’s,” (bribery, bullying and blackmail,) Shultz is successful. He then is unexpectedly persuaded by Porter to become CIA Director. Shultz quickly realizes he has made a horrible mistake, and that Porter is so bad his administration threatens America’s future.

Feeling responsible for foisting Porter on the country, Shultz must now decide whether to risk disgrace and probable imprisonment by again using the same ruthless tactics in an attemptt to force Porter’s ouster from the Presidency.

From the reviewers:

Intiguing. Political intrigue! Corruption in the white house! This book was a really good read – I was kept page turning – and made me think about what’s really going on behind the scenes of government and its ties to big corporations. Great fiction makes you think about real life. Oh and I liked the double entendre of the title – great name for a book! – Andrea Cornell

Power, greed, corruption, assassination attempts, paid supporters, lies, controversy, backroom deals, blackmail, and public opinion manipulation all come together and keep you guessing in this superb and delightful political thriller. The author crafts a splendid and captivating tale that is not only entertaining, but also opens the mind to the fact that there are major flaws to the political process. – Tanja “Kindle lovin”

More suspense than a murder mystery. This book has more suspense than most mystery novels and kept me reading and reading almost non stop until finished, I hated for it to end. Who said politics were boring? – Karen West

Beginning to End Enjoyment. From the first page of this book until the end Mr. Grayson kept me entertained. The best thing about this book is the obvious research that has gone into it. The author not only has a keen understanding of advertising and business but also what appears to be an insiders knowledge into the United States political process. – Sandy

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Benson Lee Grayson served as a Foreign Service Officer of the State Department and subsequently as a reporter covering the Washington scene. He is the author of seven previously published books, all non-fiction, on history and international affairs. He holds a Ph.M. degree in Modern East European History from Columbia University, and an M.P.A. degree from Harvard

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**Kindle Nation Daily Bargain Book Alert: Benson Grayson’s MY TROUBLES WITH TIME is Our eBook of the Day at just 99 Cents, With 4.9 Stars on 8 Reviews, and Here’s a Free Sample!**

March 13, 2012 by KND

Here’s the set-up for Benson Grayson’s My Troubles With Time, just 99 Cents on Kindle:

What happens when a friendless physics professor in his mid-thirties, still a virgin, travels back to December 1941 in a time machine he has invented?

His goal is to become a national hero by destroying the Japanese fleet which bombed Pearl harbor. Against all odds, he succeeds. Instead of being hailed as a hero, he is arrested and sentenced to death by a U.S. Navy Court Martial for mistakenly attacking the Japanese vessels before they launched their attack.

The time machine mysteriously vanishes and his claims to having invented it are ridiculed. The professor’s escape from this fate is one of the most unusual and most humorous ever encountered in fiction.

The book is written in a light style intended to leave the reader in as cheerful a state as possible when completing it. At the same time, it is carefully researched and adheres closely to actual historical events.

From the reviewers:

Strange and funny book, certainly worth the money. Good story and a bit of history, but more than aything, good fun. – Tarpon1

This novel is a delightful, fast read, and when you finish the book you can be almost guaranteed to have a smile on your face. I found myself pulling for the brilliant but hapless Snodgrass as he tried to make the right moves within the physics department of Miles Standish University and on the bridge of the U.S.S. Nevada as he drove the ship through the line of carriers and battleships approaching Pearl Harbor. – Rocky Cole

Great science fiction story. The author was able to bridge the gap that I often find between good science fiction books and history without being boring. The author weaves a tale of intrigue and historical interest while also keeping my interest. Well done! – Kesh Teza

I thought this book was exciting and fun to read. I usually stick to the non-fiction realm, but this was an excellent choice for a departure. I thought the pace of the book was perfect and found it to be decently organized. If you’re looking for something a little out of the box and fun historical / science fiction tale check out this book. I would highly recommend it for a good dose of entertainment. – Scott

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Kindle Nation Daily Bargain Book Alert: Jenn Thorson’s THERE GOES THE GALAXY is Our eBook of the Day at just $2.99, or FREE via Kindle Lending Library, With 4.4 Stars on 17 Reviews, and Here’s a Free Sample!

March 12, 2012 by KND

Here’s the set-up for Jenn Thorson’s There Goes the Galaxy, just $2.99 on Kindle or Currently FREE for Amazon Prime Members Via the Kindle Lending Library:

It’s the age-old tale of boy meets alien abductor. Boy meets stun-gun. Boy learns he’s the only one in the Universe who can save the Earth from extreme world makeover by inter-stellar landlords. (Yeah: he thinks it’s a bit much, too.)

Like everyone else on his planet, Bertram Ludlow hasn’t paid much attention to fluctuations in the intergalactic real estate market. But as a cognitive psychology grad student, he has given some thought to what a complete mental breakdown looks like. And this is pretty close.

Now he’s discovering space is a mad and mind-boggling place where interspecies communication rests on the power of a gumball. Where androids demand better work/life balance. Where crime is Art, technology still has its bugs, and lasers don’t go “pyew-pyew.”

It’s also surprisingly easy to get on the Universe’s Most Wanted list. So with the weight of the world on his shoulders and the cosmic law on his tail, can Bertram outrun, outwit, and out-bid to save the Earthling squatters from one spaced-out redevelopment plan?

From the reviewers:

Love the book! It’s fun and reminds me a little of the “Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy.” I’ll buy her next book! – anneli toppfer

HHGTTG meets Discworld. I kept finding new humor page after page. Very enjoyable, tongue-in-cheek romp through a universe that may well be out there…and if it was…we may well wouldn’t want to know about !! – “stevep”

Great, light-hearted read! Jenn certainly has the skills to keep a reader like me engaged and entertained. There weren’t any slow pieces, the action was non-stop! – Dennis J

There Goes The Galaxy is such a cool and funny book. I’ve read a few SF and this certainly has its own unique twist. I found myself laughing out loud, nodding or stare in shock several times. The writing is witty and fast paced and I found it difficult to set aside. – T.L. Lubrano

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Jenn Thorson always knew she wanted to be a writer; it was the C+ in Penmanship that initially held her back. By the age of 11, she’d written her first mystery novel, Key to the Blue Moon, which her secretary– er, Mom–was good enough to type up for her. It was a raging hit among the two people she knew.

Spurred by her dramatic success, she went on to write other works, an experience that found her cluing into the Mystery genre, flirting with the Melodramatic Teen style, and becoming better versed in the Embarrassing Poetry of Which We Shall Never Speak Again school of writing.

Yet, oddly, no one stopped her from attending Carnegie Mellon University for Creative and Professional Writing. And it was here she discovered that humor was in her heart.

This was a surprise, since the funny bone usually gets so much press.

Soon Jenn graduated from Carnegie Mellon and, with an inconvenient bent toward eating regularly, she took a job as a technical writer for a software development company. In the years that followed, she would move from the joys of explaining where the File menu was, to managing the marketing of the company’s product line. Marketing, she realized, involved a gleeful combination of Making Stuff Up and Actually Getting Paid for It; so she became a full-time marketing writer and project manager in a local advertising firm. She also continued to hone her fiction, and her first published story, “The Last Great Play of Rosie Cosnowski” made its way into the Timber Creek Review.

Since those days, Jenn Thorson’s stories have been published in the Humor Press, the magazine for the Lewis Carroll Society of North America, and Romantic Homes magazine. Her humor blog, Of Cabbages and Kings, has a regular following of readers–fine folks who are simply too polite to ask why the posts are never about monarchy or leaf vegetables. There Goes the Galaxy represents her first published novel.

Jenn is currently working on a second book of her character Bertram Ludlow’s adventures, which is great fun for her, but less so for Bertram, since he’s already been through quite a lot at her hands.

Jenn Thorson lives in Bertram Ludlow’s hometown of Pittsburgh, PA, but is definitely mostly sure she’s never met extra-terrestrials there.

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Victoria Landis’ BLINKE IT AWAY is Our eBook of the Day at just $3.99, or Currently FREE for Amazon Prime Members Via the Kindle Lending Library, with 4.7 Stars on 21 Reviews, and Here’s a Free Sample!

March 11, 2012 by KND

Here’s the set-up for Victoria Landis’ Blinke It Away, just $3.99 on Kindle or Currently FREE for Amazon Prime Members Via the Kindle Lending Library:

It’s an idyllic day on Oahu until Bess Blinke interrupts a bizarre robbery that ends in homicide. In the following days, she discovers terrible secrets tied to the crime, and her world unravels. When the killer realizes the depth of what she knows and comes after her, she runs, hides, and plots to reveal the truth and expose the brutal force behind several murders.

Lauded for its authentic grasp of the ‘local’ Hawaiian culture, Blinke It Away takes the reader into the everyday bustle of ordinary life in Hawaii and shows the reality far from the staging presented to tourists.

From the reviewers:

Blinke It Away pulled me in from page 1! Read it for my book club and we all loved it! The setting took me back to vacations in Hawaii and I enjoyed the strong, well paced plot and interesting characters. I’ll be sure to buy the next Bess Blinke book on the day of release! – “Book Babe”

Having lived in Hawaii myself for 6 years, I can attest to the fact that the author knows her island and its people. The descriptions of Oahu and the islanders really took me down memory lane. – “Vandernise1”

Top of the line whodunit! Victoria Landis has produced an immensely readable, exciting, and – yes – thought provoking novel with Blinke It Away. Her plot line is consistently exciting although she did allow me to come up for breath every so often before hitting me with the next frightening event. However, the book is much more than that! It is a study of characters and of the many faces of the individuals she presents, it is a tale of love and the absence of love, and even of ethnicity and the cruelty of victors over vanquished. Set in Hawaii, we also learn of the people to whom that tourist paradise is living and working home – Patricia Austin

A friend handed me this book and told me, READ it, you’ll love it. Lies, revenge, and murder – not my usual fare. However, I started it and I was hooked immediately. The story draws you in from the first page. You smell it, you feel it, and live it. – Vicki McClellan

Fun, the whole way through! The book is an easy read, scenes chock full of lush environment and contemporary hijinx! Lighthearted fun co-mingled with darkside drama is presented wonderfully. A spirited mixture of humanity, individualism, collective strength and right vs. wrong held my attention throughout as all roads lead to the Eddie Aikau surf competition. – Duffy Pastore

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Victoria Landis is a writer and an artist who lives in South Florida. She has lived in six states, including twelve years in Hawaii.

Find background stories about her characters, maps of book locations, and even a short glossary of Hawaiian words on her writing website – www.victorialandis.com.

She is a nine-year member of Mystery Writers of America, and writes fiction in several genres. Fun fact: In 2004, Victoria wrote Chapter Nineteen in one of the silliest (and most hilarious) progressive novellas ever produced – Naked Came the Flamingo. Edited by Joan Mickelson and the late, great Barbara Parker, accomplished writers Elaine Viets, Randy Rawls, and the PJ Parrish team contributed chapters, along with many others.

Having had a decidedly unconventional life, she finds sharing lessons learned in her non-fiction to be very satisfying.

She also writes a monthly humor column for The Parklander magazine. Her writing website is www.victorialandis.com.

In addition, she designs book covers – including her own. To see her artwork, please go to her website – www.landisdesignresource.com -More examples are featured on her blog there.

She can be reached via email at – victoria@landisdesignresource.com

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