Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 10-26-13

My Way Home (St.Gabriel Series Book 1)

By Cynthia Lee Cartier / Genre: Women’s Fiction, Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (57 reviews)

My Way Home (St.Gabriel Series Book 1) (St. Gabriel Series)

With its honest, journal-like style, My Way Home (the first book in the St. Gabriel series) has endeared and captivated readers. For over twenty years, Cammy Coleman dreamt of visiting the beautiful island of St. Gabriel. Filled with history and tradition, it’s surrounded by the brilliant northern waters of Lake Brigade. Charming old buildings line its main street, and grand homes, cottages, gardens and woods complete the picture-perfect landscape. Life has never allowed Cammy to make the trip to St. Gabe, but she’s been content to be a homemaker, mother, and wife to her husband of twenty-five years, tucking away her dreams for someday.

But when the husband Cammy adores asks for a divorce, she’s devastated; the last thing she wants to do is leave the safety and solitude of her home. Her well-meaning friends, however, have something else in mind. Hoping to distract her from her grief, they convince Cammy to go with them on a week-long retreat to St. Gabriel. Cammy grudgingly agrees, but finds herself immediately drawn to the island and an abandoned lodge in a way that opens up the possibilities of a new life, new loves and finding her way home.

Warm and inviting, My Way Home is a touching, entertaining and emotionally powerful story that speaks to the inner strength within us all.

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Love Gone to the Dogs (Second Chances)

By Margaret Daley / Genre: Humor / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (93 reviews)

Love Gone to the Dogs (Second Chances)

Single mom, Leah Taylor, has her hands full with a grandfather, an inventor, who lives a bit risky when it comes to his job and two sons, one a rambunctious genius. But it is her free spirited beagle who gets her into trouble with her new neighbor, Dr. Shane O’Grady, when her dog makes a move on his champion bichon that he wants to breed.

Leah and Shane clash over their dogs that clearly like each other. Leah is determined to ignore her neighbor, but when her youngest son who tries to defy gravity and fly ends up hurt, it is her neighbor, the doctor, who takes care of her son. Can Leah and Shane find love or has love gone to the dogs?

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Quicker (an Ell Donsaii story)

By Laurence Dahners / Genre: Terrorism, Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (100 reviews)

Quicker (an Ell Donsaii story)

Quicker is a near future SciFi/Thriller whose young heroine Ell Donsaii is an intrepid athletic phenom who reminds one of David Weber’s Honor Harrington. Like Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) Ell is also a mathematical genius who, instead of counting sheep, works on her own theory of quantum mechanics to help her drift off to sleep. At once shy and concerned about her social skills, yet well loved by those around her, she finds herself at the center of a terrorist plot at the Olympics. The terrorists never contemplated trying to hold a hostage with the unbelievable quickness and athleticism of Ell Donsaii!

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Eye of the Beholder

By Jackie Weger / Genre: Romance, Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (20 reviews)

Eye of the Beholder

Twenty-four year old Phoebe Hawley is on a quest to find a place for her homeless family. Phoebe is Alabama tough, country smart and sapling thin. On the road with two siblings, twelve year-old Maydean and five year-old Willie-Boy, Phoebe is out of money, out of gas and out of patience. Now the only things she owns in abundance are Hawley backbone and Hawley pride–neither of which she can trade for food or gas.

A collision with Gage Morgan puts Phoebe’s mission in even worse jeopardy–until Phoebe discovers Gage Morgan owns the perfect place for the Hawley clan.

But Gage Morgan has a bruised ego, a tight fist on his wallet and an iron fist on his heart. Once Phoebe discovers Gage is too wily to succumb to her schemes to pilfer his wallet and claim his home, she has to try something different to win his heart.

But will Hawley backbone and Hawley pride step aside to let her do it?

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Ember X (Death Collectors)

By Jessica Sorensen / Genre: Angels, Paranormal, Romance / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (246 reviews)

Ember X (Death Collectors)

For nineteen-year-old Ember, life has always been about death. With a simple touch, she can see when someone will die. It’s her curse and the reason she secludes herself from the world. The only person that knows her secret is her best friend Raven.

But that changes when she meets Asher Morgan. He’s gorgeous and mysterious and is the only person Ember can’t sense death from. The silence he instills in her mind and body allows her to feel things she’s never been able to before, so despite her initial reservations, Ember lets Asher into her life and lets herself to get close to him. But the closer they get, the more Ember realizes that Asher is keeping secrets from her.

When unexplained deaths begin to surface in her town, Ember questions why she can’t see Asher’s death and what it is he’s hiding from her.

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 10-21-13

If The Shoe Fits (Book 1, Once Upon A Romance Series)

By Laurie LeClair / Genre: Humor, Romance / Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (13 reviews)

If The Shoe Fits (Book 1, Once Upon A Romance Series)

What happens when a modern day Cinderella’s dreams don’t involve getting married?

Romance? Love? In this Once Upon A Romance Series Book 1 romantic comedy, Charlotte (Charlie) King doesn’t have time for either one. All she wants is her late father’s dream to come true by making his beloved King’s Department Store thrive again. However, her stepmother has other ideas. Charlie agrees to help her stepmother find grooms for her sheltered stepsisters. In exchange, the stepmother will release her stronghold on the store’s budget. After all, one good deed deserves another, right? But, Charlie has no idea what her heart’s in for when…

Alexander (Alex) Royale, dubbed by society newspapers as Prince Charming, arrives for dinner to meet the all-female King family. His ailing grandparents yearn for his marriage and then the baby carriage. Well, that and running the family company. Having unsuccessfully searched for months, Alex doesn’t hold out any hope in finding his future bride among the King sisters. However, all his expectations, including his idea of a business-like marriage of convenience, vanish the moment Charlie crashes into him.

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Girl Least Likely to Marry (The Wedding Season)

By Amy Andrews / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars (19 reviews)

Girl Least Likely to Marry (The Wedding Season)

Talk nerdy to me Samuel Tucker is absolutely the last person scientist Cassie Barclay would ever date. Yes, he’s gorgeous, but he’s also far too cocky for his own good and thinks that Pi is a tasty afternoon treat. So when he asks her to dance at her friend Reese’s non-wedding she’s wondering why on earth she says yes! Tuck is used to people assuming he’s all brawn and no brain, and amuses himself by winding Cassie up. But when he finally takes her to bed, suddenly it’s Tuck who can show Cassie a thing or two! Can he convince her that love and sex have nothing to do with logic and everything to do with chemistry?

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Domestic Enemies: The Reconquista (The Enemies Trilogy)

By Matthew Bracken / Genre: Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (165 reviews)

Domestic Enemies: The Reconquista (The Enemies Trilogy)

A novel about the deconstruction of the American national identity, and the loss of the Southwest.

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Almost Impossible

By Lee Miller / Genre: Drama & Plays / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (30 reviews)

Almost Impossible

Eliza Campbell is a stubborn, professional perfectionist that has it all, but the man of her dreams. She is convinced that true love does not exist after having her heart broken by her long term boyfriend Tavis. Her best friend Madra forces her on dates to keep her out of a funk and to keep the hope of love alive. Eliza decides to create a list of what she thinks the perfect man is and she is sure that no one that she crosses will be that man.

Emmanuel Levi is a free-spirited, king of simple man, who loves everything about life and everything about women. He’s been in a committed relationship with the same woman, Desiree, for years, but he’s not convinced that it’s love. He ventures out to test new waters and he just may have bitten off more than he can chew.

Read to see how Emmanuel and Eliza turn struggle into love. Will the obstacles bring them closer together or tear them completely a part?

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Tear Stained Beaches

By Courtney Giardina / Genre: Women’s Fiction, Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (21 reviews)

Tear Stained Beaches

Haylie Julian wants nothing more than to put her crumbling marriage back together. Chase used to be a fun-loving, light-hearted husband who has lately become an overworked attorney obsessed with climbing the corporate ladder. It isn’t long before Haylie starts waking up next to a man she barely knows. His secretive phone calls and late nights at the office leave her feeling alone and afraid of what he might be hiding. Ignoring his continuous pleas to just leave well enough alone, she continues to dig for answers…and discovers a heartbreaking truth.

Struggling with what she has just learned, Haylie sets off to a quaint little North Carolina beach town to decide if her marriage can survive. It isn’t long after she arrives that her world is once again turned upside down, as Chase’s secret stares her right in the face.

Tear Stained Beaches explores what happens when a marriage isn’t the “happily ever after” you thought it was. Can trust be rebuilt? Can a wife forgive the ultimate betrayal?

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 10-16-13

Wish You Were Here

By Lani Diane Rich / Genre: Romance, Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (12 reviews)

Wish You Were Here

Freya Daly has a problem. Her property-tycoon father has dispatched her to the wilds of Idaho to buy a rundown campground, with her promotion hanging in the balance, but the owner doesn’t want to sell. Worse still, Freya has rare eye condition that makes it seem like she’s crying, which she isn’t, and it doesn’t make conducting business with the campground’s stubborn, though sexy, owner any easier.

Nate Brody has a problem. He gave up his life as a five-star chef to keep a deathbed promise to his father, and now he’s stuck in Idaho until he can find a mysterious… something. All he wants is to make good on his promise, sell the stupid place to the crazy, but alluring, woman in Cabin Four, and get back to his real life.

Unfortunately, there’s more going on in this Idaho idyll than either Freya or Nate bargained for, and they must work together to figure out what’s going on before things get out of hand… although it may already be too late.

Wish You Were Here: It’s not business. It’s personal.

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Riding for Love (A Western Romance)

By Tina Susedik / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (19 reviews)

Riding for Love (A Western Romance)

Eve Dayton, owner of a riding ranch, rose above her childhood past and overcame the emotional damage her boyfriend caused when he married another woman. When someone starts sabotaging her ranch, Eve is desperate to find the culprit before she loses everything. Is it a coincidence or is the return of Denton Johansen tied into the mystery?

Divorced Denton Johanson returns to his hometown to help convict the embezzling controller of the family business. When he runs into Eve, he realizes his feelings for her are still strong to try and win her back. His fear of horses won’t get in the way of his goal and decides the only way to be near Eve is to take riding lessons from her. Can he convince her that his love is real and he is not behind the mystery surrounding the ranch?

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The Grave Blogger

By Donna Fontenot / Genre: Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (21 reviews)

The Grave Blogger

The scenic bayous and small towns of South Louisiana hold hidden dangers beyond those you might expect – in a tangled tale of mystery and suspense.

Raya, a freelance writer and blogger, researches cold cases for true crime websites. One case in particular, the Bayou Family Slaughter case, stirs macabre memories, but are they real or imagined? Determined to uncover the truth, she heads to the small town of St. Felicity to investigate the 20-year old Bayou Family Slaughter case.

Raya gets help from Nick Simoneaux, a young St. Felicity detective who is also investigating the cold case, but is Nick hiding family secrets from Raya? Is there anyone in St. Felicity she can trust, or is a murderer still living in this quaint old town – waiting and watching?

As Raya reveals St. Felicity’s secrets, she uncovers the mysteries of her own past, leading to dangers that threaten not only her own existence, but the lives of those she loves most.

THE GRAVE BLOGGER is a fast-paced, riveting suspense thriller from an exciting new author. Donna D. Fontenot draws on her own experiences as a blogger and Louisiana Cajun to create a tense mystery filled with engaging characters in a setting that draws the reader in with its unique beauty and hidden dangers.

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Dirt (The Dirt Trilogy)

By K F Ridley / Genre: Paranormal & Urban, Fantasy / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (22 reviews)

Dirt (The Dirt Trilogy)

Up until now, my life has been simple, uncomplicated, but because of what I am, everything is about to change. In fact, things are about to get deadly.
 
Faeries are real and they want my blood. To make matters worse, I’m falling for one of them.
 
In a mythical and magical world, I’m about to discover the secrets of my past and the truths of my existence. At least, that is, if I can

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Breathe for Me (Be for Me 1: Xander)

By Natalie Anderson / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (91 reviews)

Breathe for Me (Be for Me 1: Xander)

The last thing Chelsea Greene wants is to be rescued, but that’s exactly what happens when she’s caught wearing nothing but her swimsuit during a midnight emergency evacuation drill. Turns out her ‘hero’ is a former lifeguard who has no hesitation in offering the kiss of life. So not happening, right?
But for emotionally chastened Chelsea, one touch changes everything. She discovers a desire to satisfy this arrogant, demanding tease. Unable to express her own fantasies, she finds unspeakable pleasure in serving his.

Xander Lawson exudes easy charm. He likes a woman unafraid to match his appetite for unfettered fun. He doesn’t do complicated or emotional. But the raw need emanating from fragile Chelsea compels him closer. He can’t resist spinning a sensual fantasy world around them.
As passion spills outside their carefully selected boundaries, Xander learns Chelsea’s stronger than he first thought. But is she strong enough to handle the intensity he’s always kept hidden?

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 10-11-13

Home Run: A Novel

By Travis Thrasher / Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (106 reviews)

Home Run: A Novel

Baseball star Cory Brand knows how to win. But off the field, he’s spiraling out of control. Haunted by old wounds and regrets, his future seems as hopeless as his past. Until one moment—one mistake—changes everything. To save his career, Cory must go back to the town where it all began. His plan is simple: coach the local baseball team, complete a recovery program, and get out as fast as possible. Instead, he runs headfirst into memories he can’t escape … and the love he left behind. Faced with a second chance he never expected, Cory embarks on a journey of faith, transformation and redemption. And along the way, he discovers a powerful truth: no one is beyond the healing of God.  A novel based on the major motion picture starring Vivica A. Fox and Scott Elrod, Home Run is an inspirational story of the hope and freedom God offers each of us.

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Marry Me, Maddie (The Bachelor Pact)

By Rita Herron / Genre: Humor / Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars (60 reviews)

Marry Me, Maddie (The Bachelor Pact)

One sassy southern girl looking for the right man…
Two sexy men after her heart:

Bachelor # 1 – the long term boyfriend she just dumped

Bachelor # 2 – her overprotective brothers’ best friend

When the competition heats up, who will win her heart and her hand?

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Rent A Husband: a Romantic Comedy

By Sally Mason / Genre: Humor / Rating: 3.9 out of 5 stars (32 reviews)

Rent A Husband: a Romantic Comedy

Dumped for a younger woman, delicious divorcée Darcy Pringle is determined to make a splash at her California town’s Spring Ball. But she doesn’t have a hot date. When a friend dares her to rent one: hunky womanizer Forrest Forbes, gone from riches to rags and desperate for cash, Darcy turns her life (and her bed!) topsy-turvy in this sexy romantic romp.

Sally Mason grew up on a diet of romantic comedies and is happiest when she has a tear in her eye and a smile on her face.

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Two Thousand Miles

By Jennifer Davis / Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (21 reviews)

Two Thousand Miles

A tragic event forces seventeen-year-old Kat Parker to move two thousand miles away from her cushy life in Malibu, California to a simpler one in Slidell, Louisiana, where she falls for the beautiful Mason Dugas and the Broussard’s–the family who has taken her in. But Kat fears she may lose them all when the secret she’s been keeping is revealed and she’s suddenly summoned back to Malibu to settle unfinished business.

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Sanguis City

By Morgan Jane Mitchell / Genre: Vampires, Paranormal, Romance / Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars (15 reviews)

Sanguis City

The End was not a Zombie apocalypse but a Vampire one.

Ever wonder what happens after the world ends?

Lilanoir Rue did, a mere by product of the destruction, she never knew what happened before hand either. No longer just a human with fangs, she is banished from the only place she called home, the Human Reservation. She wipes her tears and never looks back.

In a world gone dead, life has never been so good, for some. While others live in chaos, the chosen call Sanguis City home. The rich and powerful found a way to survive The End and enjoy every minute of it, for eternity. On the brink of a gruesome death from starvation, disease or a hungry zombie, humans flock there to sell their blood for peace and security.

The city of blood, made for and by vampires, welcomes Noir; her kind are in high demand. New vampires, the ones who bought immortality, need a loyal workforce. Neither Human nor Vampire, Bleeders take care of the city in the daylight. Draining humans by day and dating Vampires at night leaves Noir little time to think about her past, or much else, until it finds her.

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 10-10-13

Haven: A Stranger Magic

By D.C. Akers / Genre: Fantasy / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (61 reviews)

Haven: A Stranger Magic (Epic fantasy, Fantasy and Science fiction, Paranormal Mystery, Paranormal Fantasy, Short Stories Series)

Sam Dalcome thinks he is so completely average that no one ever notices him. Until he discovers a mysterious stranger outside his home. Bewildered, he tries to uncover the stranger’s intentions. But Sam is sidetracked when he and his friend Travis discover a secret passageway deep in the town’s quarry that leads to a hidden cavern. What they uncover next will not only change their lives forever, but will uncover the first clue to a deadly Dalcome family secret. Sam finds himself drawn into a world of mystery and magic he never knew existed, which brings him closer to a destiny he never knew was possible.

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Fall From Grace (Mad World)

By Christine Zolendz / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (245 reviews)

Fall From Grace (Mad World)

I’m finally home after struggling through my brother’s illness and death. But, home is definitely a bit different. My best friend (the only person alive now that knows my secret) has a new boyfriend; and he has a friend. Shane Maxton: bad boy, tattooed rock god, eye candy extraordinaire. He is also New York City’s most arrogant, self-serving, son of a, well, a definite one-night stand kind of a guy.

But, it doesn’t matter to me because I’ve spent my existence looking for the love of my life, my angel. And, there is nothing that Shane Maxton can do to change that.

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Enchanted Immortals (Book 1)

By C.J. Pinard / Genre: Horror / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (39 reviews)

Enchanted Immortals (Book 1)

Thomas never thought he would live this long; he expected the usual lifespan of 60 to 70 years. But one terrifying night in 1946 San Francisco has changed all that; he has now been alive 86 years and still looks 20. He and his associates, Jonathan and Kathryn, have been granted Immortality by a group of sylphs belonging to the Zie Council – lead by their queen, Malina – who possess an elixir called Enchantment. But what they and the rest of the Immortals have to do in order to keep receiving this elixir involves protecting sylphs and humans from the faeworlders – vampires and shapeshifters – who want nothing more than to eat, violate, and kill them. For Jonathan, Thomas, and Kathryn, policing the fae is a dirty job, but somebody has to do it. And the payment is eternally priceless.

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First World (A Walker Saga)

By Jaymin Eve / Genre: Paranormal, Romance / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (25 reviews)

First World (A Walker Saga)

If the Seventine are released, will anyone survive?

Abigail Swish might not love her life, living in gang-ridden New York in 2035 and training to fight and survive with Compound 23. But she is grateful for a few things, especially her no-filter-between-brain-and-mouth best friend Lucy and her escape each night into a dream world far different from her own.

In fact, sometimes she lives for the fleeting moments she spends at night with the man who fuels every romantic fantasy she’s ever had. But each morning reality returns. She could just cry. But she won’t of course; tears don’t change a damn thing.

Then without any warning, a month before her eighteenth birthday, everything does change. A guardian finds her. He explains, in a strangely familiar accent, that she was stashed on Earth for safekeeping and has been lost to her family ever since. And it is time to return home. To the First World; a land of unimagined beauty.

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The Legacy

By Melissa Delport / Genre: War & Military, Action & Adventure / Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars (21 reviews)

The Legacy

One man obsessed with power.
One woman prepared to sacrifice everything to stop him.
One war that changed the world.

“Eric Dane has segregated the wealth and resources that remain, giving a select few the highest chance of survival and leaving the rest to starve!”

World War 3 lasted twelve days and almost eradicated the human species.
Growing up in post nuclear America, Rebecca Davis remained blissfully ignorant of the despotic leadership that had seized what was previously the most powerful nation in the world.
When the truth is revealed and Rebecca discovers that everything she has been taught is a lie, she is determined to fight for the life that she has not been allowed to live.
In order to do this, Rebecca has to cross the boundary fences and venture out of the safety of the New United States, into the barren wastelands. It is there that she finds allies she never dreamed existed.

In Rebecca, the Resistance has finally found the ultimate weapon.

“You were given this life Rebecca, because you alone are strong enough to live it.”

An action-packed, adrenalin-inducing thrill ride, which will have you riveted until long after you have turned the last page.

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