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Kindle eBook of the Day: Barry Award winning novelist Brett Battles’ LITTLE GIRL GONE – 4.8 Stars on 23 out of 24 rave reviews, just $2.99 on Kindle, and here’s a free sample!

July 11, 2011 by KND

Here’s the set-up for Brett Battles’ Little Girl Gone, just $2.99 on Kindle:

From the Barry Award-winning author of the Jonathan Quinn series comes LITTLE GIRL GONE.

Logan Harper isn’t looking for redemption. He just wants to live in peace and forget his troubled past. But one morning his quiet life is upended when he interrupts the attempted murder of his father’s best friend Tooney.

The next thing he knows, Logan is on his way to Los Angeles, searching for Tooney’s missing granddaughter and uncovering a sinister plot connected not only to Tooney’s Burmese past, but also to the boardrooms of corporate America.

As the odds stack up against him, Logan must fall back on old skills from the life he’d rather forget. He’s made a promise, and the only way to fulfill it is to bring the girl home alive.

BONUS MATERIAL: Chapter 1 of SICK

From the reviewers:

“Captivating characters, nail biting tension, breathtaking action – Little Girl Gone is pure gold.”—ANDREW GRANT, author of EVEN and DIE TWICE

“Once again, Battles delivers everything a thriller reader wants. An irrepressible hero and breakneck pace combined with vibrant settings and a deftly drawn supporting cast place LITTLE GIRL GONE firmly at the top of the genre. A book to be devoured.”—TASHA ALEXANDER, author of the Lady Emily Mysteries

PRAISE FOR BRETT BATTLES’ JONATHAN QUINN SERIES:

“Brett Battles has established himself as one of today’s best thriller writers, right up there with Lee Child, Barry Eisler, and Thomas Perry.”—DEADLY PLEASURES magazine

“The best word I can use to describe his writing is addictive.”—JAMES ROLLINS, author of the Sigma Force series

“Quinn is one part James Bond, one part Jason Bourne.”—NASHVILLE BOOK WORM

“I’m on the edge of my seat, awaiting future installments of Quinn’s Adventures.”—JEFFERY DEAVER, author of the Lincoln Rhyme’s series

“Battles has a true gift for writing thrillers…”—CRIMESPREE magazine

“The action is heart-pounding, gripping, and always engaging.”—TUCSON CITIZEN

“Battles is a master storyteller.”—Sheldon Siegel, author of PERFECT ALIBI

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Brett lives in Los Angeles and is the author of four novels in the acclaimed Jonathan Quinn series, including THE CLEANER (nominated for the Barry Award for Best Thriller 2008, and the Shamus Award for Best Debut Novel), THE DECEIVED (winner of the Barry Award for Best Thriller 2009), and the latest installment, THE SILENCED. LITTLE GIRL GONE is the first of his new series featuring Logan Harper. More info available at www.brettbattles.com

Though he still makes California his home, he has traveled extensively to such destinations as Ho Chi Minh City, Berlin, Singapore, London, Paris, and Bangkok, all of which play parts in his current and upcoming Jonathan Quinn thrillers.

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In today’s Kindle eBook of the Day, Kathryn Shay tackles passion, romance, a sexual predator, infidelity and the enduring love of two characters whose marriage withstands the unthinkable – A PRICE WORTH PAYING – Just $3.99 on Kindle!

July 10, 2011 by KND

Here’s the set-up for Kathryn Shay’s A PRICE WORTH PAYING – 3 straight rave reviews for this major new release from Kathryn Shay – Just $3.99 on Kindle:

Nick and Callie Muscato have been lovers since high school. They married at eighteen and Callie gave up Vassar to go on the road with Nick as he builds his major league baseball career. Once he becomes a superstar, their perfect life is marred by their inability to have children. And then a miracle happens and they adopt twin boys.

Both are happy until Nick gets hurt and is demoted to the minors. Instead of going with him, Callie takes the twins and returns to their home town to teach at the high school they both attended. Hers and Nick’s long distance relationship is strained, in part due to Callie’s best friend and former suitor in high school. Nick despises him and hates that Callie is around him again.

Eventually Nick is forced to give up his baseball career, gets his college degree and when the story opens, both he and Callie are teaching at their Alma Mater. Then tragedy strikes them with two major blows: Callie confesses she’s pregnant with another man’s child and, only an hour later, Nick is accused of sexual misconduct with a female student; he is suspended from teaching until hearings can be held.

Though this stress might split up a lesser couple, Nick and Callie fight the accusation and try to keep their marriage together.

This major original novel is vintage Kathryn Shay. Tackling passion, romance, a sexual predator, infidelity and the enduring love of two characters whose marriage withstands the unthinkable, she proves again why reviewers say she has “earned a well deserved place among the top romance authors.”

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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 York City and her fight to make a name for herself in a world of male journalists – and with one hardheaded editor in particular.

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.

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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Think “Mitch McDeere meets Gordon Gekko!” Our Kindle eBook of the Day is David Lender’s page-turner BULL STREET – 4.7 Stars, Just 99 Cents, and here’s a free sample!

July 14, 2011July 9, 2011 by KND

Here’s the set-up for Bull Street, 4.7 Stars, just 99 Cents On Kindle by David Lender, “The Grisham of Wall Street:”

Bull Street is the story of Richard Blum, a naïve, young Wall Streeter who gives a jaded billionaire the chance for redemption, as they team up to bring down an insider trading ring before they wind up in jail or dead. An excerpt from Vaccine Nation, David Lender’s upcoming thriller, follows the text of Bull Street.

From the Reviewers:

…his best yet. [Lender] is in his element with stories of Wall Street. The Gravy Train painted that world in colorful and realistic tones. Bull Street goes yet a step further in delving deep into this world of shady characters, ambiguous loyalties and double-crosses. –Cruiseman

Bull Street has characters and plot turns that you think are stranger than fiction. Then you think about Wall Street (I’ve been there) and realize you can’t make this stuff up because it happens. — Christian Schiller. Managing Director, Cascadia Capital, LLC

Bull Street is another winner from Lender, an even more accurate picture of Wall Street than his last, and this one a story told against the backdrop of the Financial Crisis.– Rohit Kapur

Richard Blum is John Grisham’s Mitch McDeere of The Firm who’s landed in an alternate reality at Walker & Co. on Wall Street. And instead of the mob laundering money, the top guys at this Firm are coining it, through an insider trading ring. — Penmark

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David Lender is the author of the bestselling thrillers, Trojan Horse and The Gravy Train. He writes thrillers set in the financial sector based on his over 25-year career as a Wall Street investment banker. David draws on an insider’s knowledge from his career in mergers and acquisitions with Merrill Lynch, Rothschild and Bank of America for the international settings, obsessively driven personalities and real-world financial intrigues of his novels.

His characters range from David Baldacci-like corporate power brokers to Elmore Leonard-esque misfits and scam artists. His plots reveal the egos and ruthlessness that motivate the players in the financial sector, as well as the inner workings of the most powerful of our financial institutions.

David began writing novels over ten years ago. At one point a friend sent his first novel to a prominent New York literary agent, whose reaction was, “Not bad for somebody who doesn’t know what he’s doing yet.” She introduced David to a seasoned thriller editor and publisher who had edited Robert Ludlum’s first nine thrillers; David spent the next 18 months working with him to learn his craft. And here, in the comfort of your own broswer, is your free sample:

Kindle eBook of the Day: Nothing and no one is spared as Joanna Johnson’s 5-star A FASHION OF BASTARDS drags every topical culture clash kicking and screaming to its logical but hilarious over-the-top conclusion in an intoxicating mix of political intrigue and action-packed satire. 10 Straight 5-Star Reviews, Just $2.99 on Kindle!

July 8, 2011 by KND

Here’s the set-up for Joanna Louise Johnson’s A Fashion Of Bastards, jut $2.99 on Kindle:

When Lacey Ames arrives in Washington to ‘marry up’ and take a job on Capitol Hill, she looks poised to capture the fast-fading American dream. Her handsome fiance has already hitched their wagon to Vice President Marvin’s rising star, and her new boss, popular Senator George, has given her the assignment of her dreams: to protect the mysteriously dwindling Great Lakes.

Add to the mix old law school friend Jezzebo Karadjordje, the feisty bi-sexual author, and new friend Nelson Peck, the dashing but cynical linguist from the Kennedy-esque Peck-Adams clan, and Lacey has the beginnings of a posse to boot, not to mention a dazzling pool of tempting potential lovers that includes the infamously irresistible Senator George himself.

But Lacey soon wonders if anyone but her dog can be trusted as her new life collides with a secret government plot to gain total control of the world’s largest oil supplies.

From solving a soldier shortage by drafting ‘illegal’ immigrants to selling a private pipeline into Lake Michigan and framing Japan for terrorism, Lacey’s opposition will do absolutely anything to achieve their goals. The question is what will Lacey do to achieve hers? Nothing and no one is spared as A Fashion of Bastards drags current U.S. culture clashes over energy, immigration, gender ethics, warfare and water kicking and screaming to their logical, over-the-top conclusions.

From the reviewers:

Bounding onto the international literary scene is an alluring new force by the name of Joanna Louise Johnson. A Fashion of Bastards is nimble, quick-witted and absolutely irresistible. So, toast the new darling of political intrigue and action. Even if you toast only with water, your first sip of Johnson’s work will leave you thirsting for more. –The Culture Buzz

This author has emerged with such a creative force. She can spin, weave and string words in such a way that you are captivated from start to finish. Truth is stranger than fiction and I believe there is much truth in her book. If you like a dry sense of humor, espionage, fast paced, quick witted, entertaining reading then this book is for you. Enjoy! –J. Hart

From the very beginning I was running to keep up with a cast of wonderful characters in Washington D.C. who are either trying to save the world or control it at all costs. I found myself laughing out loud and simultaneously groaning. –Laura Sands

Great Green Political Parody–Robert T. Self

Is it true? That’s what I kept wondering as I got deeper and deeper into A Fashion of Bastards. Everything in this fantastic satire of Washington insiders, is entirely plausible and definitely possible. –skyliner

Tokyo, October 2010: I settled into my flight from Paris to Chicago with “A Fashion of Bastards” intending to read a few chapters and catch a nap. But no, I simply could not put the book down. –One World Citizen

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A man with a plan, a woman with a dream — two hearts on fire in Mary Stella’s ALL KEYED UP, 4.8 Stars and just 99 Cents On Kindle!

July 7, 2011 by KND

Victoria Sheffield finesses her way into a failing Florida Keys dolphin facility hoping to finally establish her own reputation, but a lifetime of scientific observation hasn’t prepared her for a suspicious, sexy homo sapien like undercover agent Jack Benton.

Yesterday’s Kindle Nation sponsor James W. Hall has proven time and again that the Florida Keys are a great setting for suspense. But if you have ever been there, you may know that they are just as great a backdrop for romance….

Here’s the set-up for Mary Stella’s All Keyed Up, 4.8 stars and just 99 Cents On Kindle:

A man with a plan, a woman with a dream — two hearts on fire!

In this spirited, contemporary romance, undercover agent Jack Benton is on a mission to save his beloved aunt’s failing dolphin facility in the Florida Keys. He’s positive he can close a deal, until his sassy Aunt Ruby accepts the research proposal of world-renowned marine mammal scientist Dr. Vic Sheffield.

Now, Jack must cooperate with the project or break Ruby’s heart.

More than the Keys’ temperature heats up when Victoria Sheffield finesses her way into the facility under her famous father’s name, hoping to finally establish her own reputation. A lifetime of behavioral observation hasn’t prepared her for a suspicious, sexy homo-sapien like Jack.

She’ll need every point of her elevated I.Q. to out-wit this wily alpha male. He knows she’s hiding something and, in the meantime, more than his suspicions are aroused.

When dreams collide and passion storms, it’s no wonder everybody’s All Keyed Up!

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A voracious book fan since first learning to read, I fell in love with romance novels while pursuing my B.A. degree in English decades ago.

A professional writer since someone first paid me to write radio commercials while I was still in college, I always dreamed of writing a book someday. Eventually, I realized that a book wouldn’t spring fully written from my brain so I’d better get cracking.

All Keyed Up, a humorous contemporary romance set at a dolphin facility in the Florida Keys with a determined researcher and a stubborn DEA agent, is my debut novel, originally published in print format a few years ago.

Key of Sea, published a year later, proves that an ex-trophy wife can create a new life for herself, find love again with a younger man, and successfully battle land crabs.

I updated both of my books prior to releasing them electronically. I’m hard at work on a new project, which will also be set in the Florida Keys – the beautiful, fun, slightly abnormal island chain that I call home.

I love to hear from readers. Please email me at mary@mary-stella.com.

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Our Kindle eBook of the Day is a fascinating glimpse of the past — and of the human heart — as only Patricia Ryan can tell it! HEAVEN’S FIRE – 4.9 stars from 17 reviewers and just $3.99 on Kindle!

July 6, 2011 by KND

Here’s the set-up for Patricia Ryan’s HEAVEN’S FIRE – 15 out of 17 5-Star Reviews and Just $3.99 on Kindle:

In the sequel to Falcon’s Fire, celibate priest and Oxford scholar Rainulf Fairfax finds himself drawn to a humbly born young woman after he rescues from her vicious overlord.

Rainulf Fairfax meets Constance of Cuxham, beautiful but coming down with the deadly pox. He sets aside his own worries–a struggle with faith and whether he should leave the priesthood–as he tries to save Constance. She’s clever, attractive and he feels stirrings that add to his indecision. He does what little he can to combat the pox, then returns to Oxford feeling she will recover.

He is heart broken to learn she has died. But Constance, alive, shows up in Oxford disguised as a man named Corliss and on the run to save her freedom.

From the reviewers:

A fascinating glimpse of the past as only Patricia Ryan can tell it! Suspenseful and passionate! Patricia Ryan creates memorable characters that will warm your heart, and the sensual tension will raise your temperature! Fans of medieval romance will not be disappointed. Heaven’s Fire is a page turner up until the nail biting end . Kristina Wright — Copyright © 1994-97 Literary Times, Inc. All rights reserved — From Literary Times

“With Heaven’s Fire, Patricia Ryan establishes herself as a major voice in the medieval romance genre. For originality, drama and passion, Heaven’s Fire can’t be beat.” Romantic Times

“In the tradition established by her fabulous Falcon’s Fire, Patricia Ryan continues to write some of the best medieval romance today. Fans of this genre will find Heaven’s Fire is pure reading nirvana.” Affaire de Coeur

“A marvelous medieval romance from an incredibly gifted author! A fascinating glimpse of the past as only Patricia Ryan can tell it!” The Literary Times

“Lusty and exhilarating, this is medieval romance at its best. Heaven’s Fire is a splendid tale, and Patricia Ryan is a writer to watch.” Patricia Gaffney

“An intense tale of deception, religion, murder, and romance materializes in this graphic, well written historical romance. A dramatic tie-in to Falcon’s Fire, this book integrates old and new characters to create a unique love story you will not soon forget. Don’t miss these compelling books.” Rendezvous

“A heartwarming, scholarly tale of love, trust and sweet revenge.” Romance Forever

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Patricia Ryan has written more than two dozen romance and historical mystery novels, which have won numerous awards, including Romance Writers of America’s RITA for her medieval romance SILKEN THREADS.

She is also the recipient of two Romantic Times Awards and a Mary Higgins Clark Award nomination for Still Life With Murder. Website: patricia-ryan.com.
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Kindle eBook of the Day: Hell comes home to Jersey in Matthew Bryan Laube’s 5-star brew of horror, action, and comedy, ANCIENT AWAKENING: THE ANCIENT, just 99 cents on Kindle!

July 5, 2011 by KND

Think “Dr. Who Meets Hellboy” but set the action in Snooki’s backyard as seven ancient demons known as the Fallen awaken in New Jersey after a hundred years.

Here’s the set-up for Matthew Bryan Laube’s Ancient Awakening, just 99 Cents on Kindle:

Hell comes home to Jersey.

Seven ancient demons known as the Fallen have awakened in New Jersey after a hundred years. Fortunately for Mike and Ann, so has the one man who can stop them, Joseph Miller. Trapped in a hospital filled with mythical monsters, only together can they unravel the mystery of the Cursed and escape with not only their lives but also their very humanity.

Ancient Awakening is a Horror/Action novel with just the right touch of comedy. It is the first book in the series “The Ancient” which follows the adventures of eccentric demon hunter Joseph Miller. His job is to defend the human race against seven mythical demons and their offspring. Unfortunately for us, he has been dead for the last hundred years. Ancient Awakening is followed by Ancient Enemies.

The all-new second edition of Ancient Awakening is professionally edited, 57,000 words, and includes a free preview chapter of Ancient Enemies.

Please note: Ancient Awakening is now available an a Kindle-compatible audiobook at Audible.com!

From the reviewers:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect blend of horror and humor. I recently read this book after reading a few less than stellar books on my kindle. About half way through the book I realized just how bad some of the books I had read were. This book was a joy to read, never slow, always entertaining.–Francis J. Cone Jr.

If you love all things macabre, demonic, with a little bit of Dr Who and Hellboy humor thrown in for good measure, then this is something you will love.–M. Balcazar

A great read! This Kindle book found me by accident and I am glad it did. Do not judge this book by the small cost, judge it for its contents. This well written story has horror, thrills, and frequent well placed moments of humor. I am looking forward to more from this Author!–Craig Jackson

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The Ancient is a Horror/Action/Comedy series.

After Ancient Awakening, Ancient Enemies is the second book in the series that follows the adventures of eccentric demon hunter Joseph Miller. His job is to defend the human race against seven mythical demons and their offspring.

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