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FREE eBOOK BLOCK #1 – {04-08-2013}
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Due to international copyrights, not all titles will be available or similarly priced outside of the United States. – Holly
Operation Wolfe Cub (The Time To Tell) by H.C. Wells
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Horror, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers
N ationally recognized ForeWord Clarion Reviews gave H.C. Wells’s new breakthrough novel “Operation Wolfe Cub” a four out of five star rating.
A baby is borne out of Germany in the middle of the night on a secret journey. He is prophesied to bring a thousand years of peace to the world, only to survive a shipwreck and be discovered on the shore of America by a disabled American veteran. Thinking he finally has the child he always wished for, he and his wife soon begin to realize that the baby just might be something else entirely.
A thought-provoking work of historical science fiction, H. C. Wells’s debut of his The Time to Tell series is a fascinating reinvention of our nation’s history and the possible truths behind it.
A taut, well-paced thriller full of intrigue and almost unbearable suspense, Wells captures your attention from the novel’s opening action sequence and never relents, always staying two steps ahead with intricate plotting marked by sharp turns and surprising twists. A razor sharp ear for time and place lend authenticity, and the marvel of weaving a fictional tale infused by magical realism within the true events of history is nothing short of astonishing. Full of gusto and quiet unease, Operation Wolfe Cub will have you questioning your beliefs and rethinking critical moments of the past seventy years.
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A Sporting Murder (Greg McKenzie Mysteries) by Chester D. Campbell
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Mystery, Thrillers, Suspense, Private Investigators
C hristmas week takes on a deadly flavor when PI Greg
McKenzie and his wife and partner, Jill, take on an investigation involving
rumored shady dealings in a business group’s plan to bring a National
Basketball Association team to Nashville. Their client is a fan group of the
local NHL hockey team who feel the fan base
of their beloved Predators will be fatally diluted. When Greg goes to meet an
informant who promises information that will “blow your mind,” he finds the
young man shot dead.
As they pursue sparse leads, a new complication pops up.
Greg learns a former lieutenant he helped send to prison during his Air Force OSI
career has been released with revenge in mind. The tension builds when someone
touches off an improvised explosive device beneath Greg’s Jeep. It all comes
together in a Christmas day climax that features something other than good will
toward men.
About the Author
Chester D. Campbell is the author of six thrillers and
mysteries featuring private investigators in Nashville.
This book is the fifth in his Greg McKenzie series.
Praise for Chester D. Campbell’s work:
“A gem of a writer.” – Crimespree Magazine
“Riveting.” – Women on Writing
“Unique.” – The Best Reviews
“Creative imagery.” – Blue Iris Journal
“Fabulous mysteries.” – Midwest Book
Review
“Excellent.” – Front Page Reviews
“Intriguing and Entertaining.” – The (Nashville)
Tennessean
“Masterful plotting.” – Spinetingler Magazine
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What’s Wrong With Me?: A Girl’s Book of Lessons Learned, Inspiration and Advice by Daree Allen
Genre(s): Social Situations, Self-Help, Self-Esteem, Teens
H ave you ever wished that you knew back then what you know now? What’s Wrong With Me: A Girl’s Book of Lessons Learned, Inspiration and Advice, is a part-memoir and part self-help young adult guide to encourage teen girls and young women in various areas of life, in an easygoing, conversational style. The messages in this book educate and empower young women in every facet of their lives, including: accepting their identity, dating relationships, dealing with toxic friends and family members, avoiding or delaying premarital sex, building self-esteem, developing a positive attitude, dressing for success, setting goals, spending money wisely, handling anger and depression, and embracing their singleness, and discovering their life purpose.
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Betty’s Child by Donald Dempsey
Genre(s): Biographies & Memoirs, Memoirs, Parenting & Relationships, Family Relationships, Child Abuse, Dysfunctional Relationships
I n the tradition of Frank McCourt and Angela’s Ashes, Don Dempsey uses Betty’s Child to tell the story of life with his cruel and neglectful mother, his mother’s abusive boyfriends, and hypocritical church leaders who want to save twelve-year-old Donny’s soul but ignore threats to his physical well-being. Meanwhile, Donny’s best friend is trying to recruit Donny to do petty theft and deal drugs for a dangerous local thug.
Young Donny is a real-life cross between Huckleberry Finn and Holden Caulfield as he tells his story, with only his street smarts and sense of humor to guide him. Donny does everything he can to take care of himself and his younger brothers, but with each new development, the present becomes more fraught with peril–and the future more uncertain.
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Within a Man’s Heart by Tom Winton
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Literary, Romance, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Inspirational
F our years after burying his young wife, New York sales executive Christian Crews still can’t move forward with his life. Day after day, treasured memories of his beloved Elyse continue to drift through his spirit like an endless procession of mournful ghosts.
Chris wants to leave Manhattan–walk away from his job and the apartment he and Elyse once shared. He dreams of moving to New Hampshire, where he feels he just might have a chance of finding peace. But in his grieving mind, breaking away from those memories would be the same as abandoning Elyse–an unforgivable act of betrayal he could never live with.
Then, on the fourth anniversary of Elyse’s death, Chris makes two shocking discoveries, and a part of him begins to believe that she would want him to go on with his life.
Two weeks later he makes the move to New Hampshire, and minutes after arriving in the small rural village of Mountain Step, he meets a beautiful local woman with mesmerizing gray eyes and a heart as big as the surrounding mountains. Beginning another emotional relationship may be the last thing on Chris’s mind, but he soon finds himself falling for Gina Elkin, every bit as hard as she’s fallen for him.
Could there be a future for them? Will Elyse allow it? After all, she’s still deep within Chris’s heart–a place no one else has ever been.
It has been said that author Tom Winton is a man who writes with his pen dipped in his soul. Like all his previous Amazon best-selling books, his new novella, Within a Man’s Heart, is packed with intrigue and emotion.
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BARGAIN KINDLE BOOK PACK #1 – {02-05-2013}
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Price may change without notice! Due to international copyrights, not all titles will be available or similarly priced outside of the United States. – Holly
The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John Holmes by Dawn Schiller
Genre(s): Biographies & Memoirs, Memoirs, Specific Groups, Women, Parenting & Relationships, Family Relationships, Child Abuse, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Pornography, Nonfiction, Parenting & Families, Dysfunctional Relationships
P ainstakingly honest, this chilling memoir reveals how a teenager became immersed in the bizarre life of legendary porn star John Holmes. Starting with a childhood that molded her perfectly to fall for the seduction of the king of porn,” this autobiography recounts the perilous road that Dawn Schiller traveledfrom drugs and addiction to beatings, arrests, forced prostitution, and being sold to the drug underworld. After living through the horrific Wonderland murders of 1981, she entered protective custody, ran from the FBI, and turned in John Holmes to the police. This is the true story of a young girl’s harrowing escape from one of the most infamous public figures, her struggle to survive, and her recovery from unthinkable abuse.
Knife Music: A Novel by David Carnoy
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Medical, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Mystery, Hard-Boiled, Police Procedurals, Thrillers, Legal, Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers
K risten Kroiter was sixteen, a high-school sophomore, when she was injured in a car accident. Dr. Ted Cogan had saved her life when he treated her in the ER six months ago-but now police detectives were questioning Cogan about her, in intimate detail. What was going on? What had she told them?
That’s just it, the cops said. She hadn’t told them anything. She had died. Looked like a suicide. And Cogan was in a heap of trouble.
Tense and twisting, Knife Music is the story of a doctor struggling to clear his name after being accused of raping and causing the suicide of a young girl. The novel pits Cogan, a forty-three-year- old surgeon and self-described womanizer, against Hank Madden, a handicapped veteran detective. From the outset it’s not clear who is victim and who is victimizer, as the usually dispassionate.
Madden grapples with his long- suppressed prejudices and his obsession with bringing Ted Cogan to justice at any cost. It all leads up to the most stunning surprise ending since Scott Turow’s Presumed Innocent.
The Life & Dysfunction of Nadine Daniels by Hadena James
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Mystery, Women Sleuths, Mystery & Thrillers
N adine Daniels’ life is a disaster. The security company that she owns is being sued, her mother is coming to visit for a week, and some unpleasant realities about her “charity” work are about to surface. She thought this was as bad as it could get, but she was wrong–dead wrong.
Someone believes she knows a secret – a secret worth killing for. With assassins tracking her every move, Nadine wishes the only thing she had to worry about was her mother pestering her to settle down with her suspected live-in boyfriend, Zeke, but she can’t think about the future when the present might end with her death.
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Western, Westerns
H aunted by nightmares, tormented by guilt, Jezebel came to Redemption Ranch to escape the past–except now she’s stuck in the middle of nowhere with no redemption in sight. When her mother pushes her into riding lessons with local veterinarian Matthias Saunders, Jezebel balks. Sure, the doctor is gorgeous, but he’s completely obnoxious and knows how to push every one of her buttons.
Only her deep connection with The Reverend, a gentle stallion who guards her darkest secrets, has her agreeing to spend any more time with Dr. Saunders. Caring for the stallion is the first bright spot in her life in months, and if being around the horse means she has to deal with Matthias Saunders, then so be it. Surely a city girl like her can handle one country vet–even one with disturbing blue eyes. Can’t she?
Freshwater Road by Denise Nicholas
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Historical, Literary, United States, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
T he critically acclaimed debut novel from pioneering actress and writer Denise Nicholas tells the story of one young woman’s coming of age via the political and social upheavals of the civil rights movement. Nineteen-year-old Celeste Tyree leaves Ann Arbor to go to Pineyville, Mississippi, in the summer of 1964 to help found a voter registration project as part of Freedom Summer. As the summer unfolds, she confronts not only the political realities of race and poverty in this tiny town, but also deep truths about her family and herself. Drawing on Nicholas’ own involvement in the movement, Freshwater Road was hailed by Newsday as “Perhaps the best work of fiction ever done about the civil rights movement.”
Trust No One (Vista Security) by Diana Layne
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers, Spy Stories & Tales of Intrigue, Romance, Romantic Suspense, Mystery & Thrillers
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Nominated for the RWA® Golden Heart® Award
“Layne has star power in spades.” ~Diane Morasco RT Book Reviews for The Good Daughter
When reality is a web of lies and the truth endangers all you hold dear . . .Trust No One.
Drafted into the nebulous underworld of a secret agent right out of college, MJ Thornberg survived betrayal and attempted murder at the hands of her trusted partner. Instead of returning to the deadly realm of espionage, she chose to retire to a small Texas town and work as a mechanic while raising her soon-to-be-adopted baby daughter.
Ben Walker is a man with his own secrets. An agent with MJ’s former employer, Vista Security, Ben is clawing his way out of a downward spiral from a job gone wrong when Vista sends him after MJ, with orders to use the threat of halting her baby’s adoption to ensure her cooperation.
Furious and trusting no one, MJ intends on working the job solo until a sniper’s bullet alters her plans. With no choice but to work with Ben, MJ must confront ghosts from her past, discover truths of her present, and trust that the future she deserves is in her hands to create.
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Betrayed….
“Who you working for, Keith?”
“No need for you to know,” the man behind her said. He poked his revolver into her back. “You’re gonna be dead.”
She ignored him and focused on Keith. “How much money? Who’s the target?”
“Stalling, MJ? Afraid to die?”
“I knew the risks going in. So did you. But what about the innocent people who’ll die if you sell that information?”
“Sorry, baby, but I don’t have time to debate philosophy.” The sound of a distant engine made Keith pause and tilt his head to listen. “That would be the extraction team,” he said.
MJ tightened every muscle, ready to spring. It well could be his team, but it could as easily be hers. Even if she wasn’t in position for the original pick-up, she’d sewed a small tracking device in that backpack.
“No time for long good-byes.” He raised the gun.
Now or never.
FREE KINDLE BOOK BLOCK #3 – {02-03-2013}
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Voodoo Dues (Lian and Figg) by Stephany Simmons
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Contemporary, Paranormal
“ … light, nerdy, absurdly gory with death count increasing by the hour, but undeniably funny.”
Nocturnal Book Reviews
“Voodoo Dues is a fun, fast paced read, with a lot action, humor, and a little romance.”
Tiki – Reader
“Its engaging plot and enticing characters will keep the readers awake even after the book has ended.”
Bornean Bookworm Review
From the beginning of Figg’s employment, there is something not quite right about the bar. There are few customers, a parade of neighborhood psychics and pentacle adorned visitors, all coming to hold court with her enigmatic boss. Figg is not sure what is going on, but she is determined to find out!
When the local voodoo queen shows up, and the next morning her grandson ends up dead outside the bar things get interesting.
Figg pesters Lian into telling her the truth about his former life, and is thrust into a world where the things that go bump in the night are real. There’s a murder to solve, zombies to lay to rest and a villain that neither of them saw coming.
“If you’re a fan of Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampires, Laurell K. Hamilton’s early Anita Blake books… you’re going to LOVE Voodoo Dues!”
“It keeps you on the edge of your seat; so what if it’s 2:00 AM and I have to get up for work in a few hours, just had to find out how it ended.”
Vera Sime – Reader
“Surprising, sexy and fast paced… I couldn’t stop reading!”
Alisa Hurkman – Reader
Genre(s): Science Fiction & Fantasy, Spine-Chilling Horror, Parenting & Relationships, Family Relationships, Dysfunctional Relationships, Science Fiction Fantasy & Horror, Parenting & Families
F reak. Weird. Crazy. These are the names tossed around seventeen-year old Jane Watts by her fellow classmates. But things aren’t always as they seem. Sometimes there’s a reason for talking to yourself in the hallway at school.
Jane struggles with adjusting to her new home and school after an abrupt move. She wants one thing in life–to be like everyone else at school, but that’s hard to do when you’re the new kid. But she does manage to make one friend, Evan–he’s sixteen, charming, and protective. Everything a girl could want in a best friend…with one minor caveat.
He’s dead.
Caught somewhere between life and death, Evan is tied to Jane and the living world unable to complete the journey to the other side. She thinks he’s here to be her friend, to take care of her, and that’s why no one can see or hear him.
That is until a new boy shows up at school after a rumored stretch in Juvie. Connor can see Evan and he’s not convinced the ghost is being completely honest. From his own experience ghosts tend to need something from the humans they connect to and Evan, despite his arguments isn’t any different.
Jane is resentful of Connor’s intrusion but realizes soon enough he’s right. Evan has secrets about his past and not only did his life end tragically but members of his family are still in danger. Jane must face her fears and battle Evan’s human demons to free both of them.
Book 2 of the Wraith Series, Shadow Bound will be released in December 2012.
Grave Situation by Alex MacLean
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Police Procedurals, Thrillers, Mystery & Thrillers
H alifax cop Allan Stanton is a troubled homicide detective who has lost everything, including his family and his sense of justice. When he finally decides to leave the force and start over, he’s assigned a string of murders that all bear the signs of a serial killer collecting trophies. As Stanton unravels each grisly crime scene, the mounting evidence points uncomfortably close to him, forcing him to confront a past he’d rather forget–and a dangerous future when the killer targets Stanton himself.
Genre(s): Health Fitness & Dieting, Relationships, Mate Seeking, Literature & Fiction, United States, Romance, Contemporary
C alm, cool, and premenopausal, single mom and chef Jill Morgan Storm has set out on a scheme to find and wed a traveling salesman. In return, she hopes for one week of marital bliss, three weeks off while her new husband is out of town, and a nice monthly paycheck. Enter Davin Wesley, the opposite of the type of man Jill is searching foran elementary school teacher who refuses to skedaddle out like a good little husband. Jill isn’t sure if she can keep up the protests because his kiss is pure fire and he won’t be discouraged. Suffering from hot flash after hot flash, she’s unsure if she can say no as her hormones scream yes.
A Boy Called Duct Tape by Christopher Cloud
Genre(s): Action & Adventure
P ablo Perez is a 12-year-old kid without much going for him. His classmates have dubbed him “Duct Tape” because his tattered discount-store sneakers are held together with…you guessed it, duct tape. He can’t escape the bullying.
Pablo’s luck changes after he finds a $20 gold coin while swimming with his sister in a river near their home. Pablo later buys a $1 treasure map at the county fair. The map shows the route to the “lost treasure” of the notorious outlaw Jesse James. Pablo can’t help but wonder: Is there a link between the map and the gold coin?
He is determined to find out, and he, his 9-year-old sister, Pia, and 13-year-old cousin, Kiki, hire an ill-mannered cave guide and begin a treacherous underground adventure in search of treasure. Their treasure hunt is made more perilous because they are being followed by the evil Blood brothers, who want the treasure for themselves. The Blood brothers will stop at nothing to claim the treasure as their own.




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