Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 02-12-14

Take Me Now

By Faith Sullivan / Genre: Coming of Age / Rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars (44 reviews)

Take Me Now

How do you survive the internship from hell?

Don’t fall in love.

Ivy thought being a reporter-in-training at the Independent Gazette would be her dream summer job. Little did she know, interviewing Eric, a landscaper with a heart of gold, would derail her plans. It turns out Ivy’s boss, Lauren, has been eying his chiseled physique for quite some time.

But at twenty-four, Eric already has a tragic past, one that he is still reeling from. Even though his ordeal turned him into some sort of local celebrity, it’s been a while since he’s shared his bed with anyone. When he comes to Ivy’s rescue out of the blue, it’s not long before the two of them start seeing each other behind Lauren’s back. When they get caught, Ivy’s journey toward a college degree is jeopardized and her relationship with Eric is severely put to the test.

Career versus love? In the end, a shocking turn of events provides Ivy with a revelation she never saw coming.

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Give Me Something

By Elizabeth Lee / Genre: Romance, Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (43 reviews)

Give Me Something

Here’s the deal… I learned a long time ago that sometimes you have to use what you’ve got to make things happen. What I happen to have is a pretty smile, long legs and the ability to make men believe anything I say. Before you get on your high horse and start judging me, can you honestly say you’ve never batted your lashes at some guy for a free drink at the bar? That’s what I thought.

Keep that in mind as I tell you my story of how I took it one step further. My story of lies, deceit, manipulation and love. Yeah, love. Believe me, it fits. Especially, when you factor in Nick and Tucker – one had my heart and the other one wanted it all for himself. Which one? Well, I can’t tell you that. It would defeat the purpose of the story. If I’m going to fill you in about me, Lila Garrison, and my life as a con artist you’re going to need to know all the facts, including the ones about the two guys who made me want to give up the life of fancy clothes, expensive jewelry, fast cars and easy money. Because sometimes, one person can give you something that’s more valuable than all of that.

If you’re still interested, stick around. Just remember, I’m pretty good at convincing people to do what I want, so if by the end of this whole thing you feel worked over, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

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Heartbeat

By Faith Sullivan / Genre: Coming of Age / Rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars (72 reviews)

Heartbeat

Katie and Adam are afraid of love.

She carries the scars of a first kiss gone terribly wrong.

He uproots his life to flee the stinging betrayal of an ex.

When trust is no longer an option, all romance is suspect.

As a young paramedic, Adam rescues people for a living but cannot save himself. Katie, just out of high school, struggles with a tortured home life she cannot escape.

Everything changes when Katie hops into the front seat of Adam’s ambulance. Overwhelmed by what they are feeling, neither possess the confidence to make the first move. They walk away from each other, full of regret.

To find her, Adam risks his future. To be with him, Katie sacrifices her security.

Little do they know, what little time they do have, is being measured by a heartbeat that is slowly dying out.

Free as of 02/13/14 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

Diamond’s Affair

By Danielle Marcus / Genre: Urban / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (107 reviews)

Diamond's Affair

Every woman has had a yearning desire for a thug in their life at least one time or another. And it’s nothing any different with Diamond Smith, a young independent 23 year old who feels like her standards is set too high to be suckered into love by a small time street hustler. Garren is his name, a minor league hustler. With high standards of obtaining the woman he desire. But the streets of Detroit refer to him as plain ole G. He feels Diamond is the woman for him without a shadow of doubt, and he is willing to do everything he can to prove it. But, being Diamond Smith, one man just might not be enough. Now caught up in a heart clenching affair. Who will win? Who will lose? Find out in Diamond’s Affair.

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 02-01-14

Derailed (Clayton Falls)

By Alyssa Rose Ivy / Genre: Coming of Age / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (163 reviews)

Derailed (Clayton Falls)

When you’re lost, sometimes the only place you can go is home.

Broken over the death of her fiancé, Molly leaves law school to return to her childhood home in North Carolina. Expecting to lay low until she can figure out what else to do with her life, she finds herself in the arms of her high school sweetheart, the boy who represents everything from the past she tried to leave behind.

Looking for an escape, she instead finds a way back to the girl she almost forgot existed and a future she never dreamed possible.

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She Walks in Beauty (Against All Expectations Collection Book #3)

By Siri Mitchell / Genre: Historical, Religious & Inspirational Fiction / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (204 reviews)

She Walks in Beauty (Against All Expectations Collection Book #3)

For a young society woman seeking a favorable marriage in the late 1890s, so much depends on her social season debut. Clara Carter has been given one goal: secure the affections of the city’s most eligible bachelor. Debuting means plenty of work–there are corsets to be fitted, dances to master, manners to perfect. Her training soon pays off, however, as celebrity’s spotlight turns Clara into a society-page darling.

Yet Clara wonders if this is the life she really wants, especially when she learns her best friend has also set her sights on Franklin De Vries. When a man appears who seems to love her simply for who she is, and gossip backlash turns ugly, Clara realizes it’s not just her heart at stake–the future of her family depends on how she plays the game.

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Lady Fortescue Steps Out (The Poor Relation Series, Vol. 1)

By M. C. Beaton / Genre: Regency, Historical Romance, Romance / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (78 reviews)

Lady Fortescue Steps Out (The Poor Relation Series, Vol. 1)

The impecunious Lady Fortescue, widowed and alone save for two loyal, unpaid servants, has sold off almost all of the furnishings in her large Bond Street home and faces a grim future as a member of the aristocracy too proud to seek employment or charity, yet too poor to survive on the infrequent largess of wealthy relatives oblivious to her plight. Salvation arrives in the unlikely form of old Colonel Sandhurst, an equally impoverished retired military man who falls at her feet in a hunger-induced faint one afternoon in Hyde Park. The two decide to join forces: the Colonel will share Lady Fortescue’s home, and they will invite others of their station and situation to live with them and pool their resources. Thus is born what eventually becomes one of London’s most popular hotels, The Poor Relation, to which the nobility flocks to enjoy the novelty of being waited upon by members of their own class.

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Mountain Hero

By Cheryl Yeko / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars (34 reviews)

Mountain Hero

Broken Engagement:
Finding her fiancé cheating with her best friend was bad enough, but when Michelle heads up the Rocky Mountains for a little R & R, it goes from bad to worse when her car breaks down during a major snowstorm.

Mountain Hero:
Along a deserted stretch of highway, Jason rescues a beautiful woman who’s being accosted by two men. But can he keep her safe when they’re left stranded during a harsh winter storm?

Love Blossoms:
Sometimes, one finds their Soul Mate in the most unexpected places.

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Hope Road (John Ray #1) (John Ray / LS9 crime thrillers)

By John Barlow / Genre: British & Irish, Literary Fiction / Rating: 3.9 out of 5 stars (153 reviews)

Hope Road (John Ray #1) (John Ray / LS9 crime thrillers)

John Ray, son of crime boss Antonio ‘Tony’ Ray, is the straight one of the family. With a successful business and a lifestyle to match, he wants nothing to do with his father’s criminal world. But what does that world want with him?

A young prostitute is found dead in John’s car, and Freddy Metcalfe, his best friend and employee, is framed for her death. Freddy denies everything but it’s an open and shut case: he’s going down for murder. John sets out to find the real killer.

But things get complicated. A stash of counterfeit money was also found in John’s car, and the police seem more interested in that than in the dead girl. Then Lanny Bride turns up; one of the north’s most ruthless criminals (and an old friend of the Ray family), Lanny is desperate to know who killed the girl. But why? Meanwhile, Freddy is too scared to talk to anyone, even his lawyer.

John’s police detective girlfriend, Denise Danson, has been warned off the case by her boss. But she doesn’t believe Freddy is guilty, and secretly helps John look for the murderer. The problem, though, is that uncovering the shocking truth about the girl’s death will force John to confront his own criminal past and risk destroying his future, as well as losing the only woman he’s ever loved.

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 01-29-14

What Once Was Perfect (The Wardham Series)

By Zoe York / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (41 reviews)

What Once Was Perfect (The Wardham Series)

She shuttered her heart and walked away…
Heading home always stirs up mixed emotions for Laney Calhoun. Twelve years ago she left for graduate school, broken-hearted. She’s found professional success, but positive personal relationships have proved elusive. Running into her ex-boyfriend fans flames she thought long extinguished, renews her interest in love. Not with Kyle, of course. Never again. But as sparks fly and items of clothing disappear, she scrambles to lock down her heart.

…Now he has a second chance to get it right.
Kyle Nixon let Laney slip away once. Their chemistry together is undeniable, but a few days of steamy sex over the Christmas holidays won’t be enough to convince her to let him back into her heart. Even if she did trust him again, her life as Dr. Calhoun is a day’s drive away from the hometown that he loves–the world he once chose over her.

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What Kills Me: Book One

By Wynne Channing / Genre: Occult, Horror / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (193 reviews)

What Kills Me: Book One

An ancient prophecy warns of a girl destined to cause the extinction of the vampire race.

So when 17-year-old Axelia falls into a sacred well filled with blood and emerges a vampire, the immortal empire believes she is this legendary destroyer. Hunted by soldiers and mercenaries, Axelia and her reluctant ally, the vampire bladesmith Lucas, must battle to survive.

How will she convince the empire that she is just an innocent teenager-turned bloodsucker and not a creature of destruction? And if she cannot, can a vampire who is afraid of bugs summon the courage to fight a nation of immortals?

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The Witch On Twisted Oak (Paranormal Romantic Suspense)

By Susan C. Muller / Genre: Witches & Wizards, Paranormal, Romance / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (37 reviews)

The Witch On Twisted Oak (Paranormal Romantic Suspense)

A powerful psychic is brutally murdered. Secrets are revealed. An old enemy is out for revenge.

Detective Ruben Marquez is thrust back into his childhood memories when he investigates a gruesome murder that occurs only feet from his mother’s home. Is the killer somehow connected to his own past? Is the beautiful, mysterious daughter of the victim, someone he can trust? Or is her revelation that she’s a witch a sign he should stay clear. But how can he, when it appears she’s next on the murderer’s to-do list?

In the ultimate test of courage, he uses himself as bait to protect all he holds dear . . . his career, his family, and the Witch on Twisted Oak.

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Cruiser

By Dee J. Stone / Genre: Contemporary, Romance, Teen & Young Adult / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (10 reviews)

Cruiser

Lex is the girl of Cruiser’s dreams. But his twin brother got to her first.

I’ve got a million voices telling me why I shouldn’t kiss her. She’s Rey’s girl and off limits. He’s been good to her. I know he will continue to be good to her. Look out for her, protect her. Lex’s been good to him, too. Only a jerk would try to break them up, and I’m no jerk.

But dammit, I want her.

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Whitechapel: The Final Stand of Sherlock Holmes (Jack the Ripper)

By Bernard Schaffer / Genre: British Detectives, Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 3.7 out of 5 stars (105 reviews)

Whitechapel: The Final Stand of Sherlock Holmes (Jack the Ripper)

Whitechapel: The Final Stand of Sherlock Holmes provides readers a rare look at the lives of the victims, the monster known as Jack the Ripper, and the characters of Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved stories. All are presented in a fresh and entirely new way. A entirely new realistic way.
Readers familiar with the Holmes stories will be shocked (and in some cases upset) with these new characterizations, but take heed as Gerard Lestrade transforms from doddering simpleton into an actual living and breathing detective assigned to the worst slum imaginable. They will be captivated by the reality of Holmes’ addiction to cocaine and morphine. They will find themselves walking the cobblestone streets of Whitechapel, wondering if Bloody Jack’s blade might be aimed at their throats next.

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 01-17-14

Forget Me Not (A Flowering Novel)

By Sarah Daltry / Genre: Women’s Fiction, Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (121 reviews)

Forget Me Not (A Flowering Novel)

“No one tells you when you start school just how homesick you will be, or how hard it will be to start life over with no direction and no friends or family. No one says that becoming your own person is terrifying.”
Lily had a crush on her brother’s best friend, Derek, for years – which led to their steamy night ten months ago in her bedroom. Now, she’s off to college and she and Derek are still going strong. However, when school starts, Lily realizes it’s hard to maintain a relationship, while also trying to live her own life. She and Derek find themselves falling apart and she has no idea where to turn.
Enter Jack. Everything about him is wrong for Lily and she knows it, but she can’t stop herself from being attracted to him. When things implode with Derek, it’s Jack who’s there to pick up the pieces – and to show Lily an entirely new set of experiences she didn’t know she was missing. Of course, Jack has his own problems and once Lily gets to know him better, she starts to wonder if she can handle all of Jack. 
When Derek reappears on the scene, Lily is forced to decide between two guys and herself. Can she find herself without losing the people who matter in the process? 

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Mangled Hearts: Francesca and Cade (Scarred Hearts)

By Felicia Tatum / Genre: Romance, Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (63 reviews)

Mangled Hearts: Francesca and Cade (Scarred Hearts)

Can two loves find their way back to each other despite an addiction and a hardened heart? Will their love overcome it all?
Francesca Taymon is young, successful, and broken. A tragic accident years ago haunts her to this day, and she blames only one person–the one that holds her heart. When she finally gets her first case, will she be able to handle seeing him again? Can she do her job and keep her heart intact?
Cade Kelling doesn’t take life seriously. He’s reckless and irresponsible, drinking all his problems away. When his parents bail him out for the last time, will he be able to handle seeing Francesca after all of these years? Will he be able to tell her what really happened that night 5 years ago or will he lose her forever?
And the most important question….
Can these mangled hearts be mended?

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Almost Midnight (Colorado Clearbrooks)

By Teresa McCarthy / Genre: Romance, Religious & Inspirational Fiction / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (67 reviews)

Almost Midnight (Colorado Clearbrooks)

Includes the descendants from THE CLEARBROOKS (the author’s historical series) who are now settled in modern-day Colorado.
Widower and millionaire Tanner Clearbrook is livid when his matchmaking father secretly hires beautiful Hannah Elliot as tutor to his young son. However, the couple want nothing to do with each other, that is, until one little boy brings them together. But can their love survive a shattering secret?

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Playing for Love at Deep Haven (Enchanted Places)

By Katy Regnery / Genre: Romance, Literary Fiction / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (41 reviews)

Playing for Love at Deep Haven (Enchanted Places)

Violet Smith and Zach Aubrey have history…

…the kind of history he regrets and she wishes she could forget.

She was the girl. The only girl. Ever.

Nine years have passed since heavy-metal songwriter, Zach, slept with, then walked away from, his best friend, Violet. But that doesn’t change the fact that he’s never gotten over her.

He shattered her heart.

Despite the years that have passed, chick-lit novelist, Violet, vividly recalls the pain of Zach’s rejection, and hates that she’s never been able to completely let go of the brooding boy who turned his back on her.

When the rocker and the writer find themselves thrown back together in a strange twist of fate, their chemistry is just as scorching as ever, but old wounds don’t just disappear. Even if Zach can explain why he walked away from Violet, can she find the courage to trust him again? Together they will discover if a love that broke them both is worth a second chance at forever.

Playing songs, playing for keeps…

…Playing for Love at Deep Haven

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Jesus on a Park Bench

By Shari Broyer / Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (70 reviews)

Jesus on a Park Bench

A middle-aged woman, alone and broke on the eve of Christmas Eve, finds new hope when she gives hope to a stranger.

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 01-10-14

Dreamlander

By K.M. Weiland / Genre: Fantasy, War / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (139 reviews)

Dreamlander

What if it were possible to live two very different lives in two separate worlds?

What if the dreams you awaken from are the fading memories of that second life?

What if one day you woke up in the wrong world?

Only one person in a generation may cross the barrier of dreams to reach the other world—a world of war-scarred countries and fallen faiths. When a Chicago-born journalist finds himself on the far side of his dreams, he must hurl himself into battle to save a princess from her own people, two worlds from annihilation, and himself from a dream come way too true.

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I Think I Love You (a humorous romantic mystery)

By Stephanie Bond / Genre: Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (313 reviews)

I Think I Love You (a humorous romantic mystery)

Sisters share everything in their closets, including the skeletons… Twenty years ago, the Metcalf sisters witnessed a murder and formed a pact of silence. Now they’re estranged and scattered because they all fell in love with the same man. When the sisters converge at their childhood home, old wounds are laid open against the backdrop of liquidating their parents’ antiques business. And when the playboy who broke up their family shows up, things go from bad to worse!

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A Charming Crime (Magical Cures Mystery Series)

By Tonya Kappes / Genre: Women Sleuths, Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars (112 reviews)

A Charming Crime (Magical Cures Mystery Series)

Bubble… Bubble…

June Heal has nothing to lose when she relocates her homeopathic cure shop, A Dose of Darla, from the flea market booth in her home town, to a quaint shop in the cozy but unusual little town of Whispering Falls, Kentucky. Or so it seems.

Cures and trouble…

Whispering Falls has a lot of secrets. From talking snow globes to whispering animals not to mention a few sprinkles of fairy dust, June realizes Whispering Falls is more magical than she thought. . .literally.

Magic stirs…

June discovers she was born into a family of psychics, and her homeopathic cures truly are magical. Unfortunately, they are not magical enough to save her from being the number one murder suspect when a member of the community that she had just had a disagreement with shows up face down in the lake with June’s lucky charm in the victim’s grasp.

And troubles double…

Add to that an attraction to her high school best friend, Sheriff Oscar Park and Mr. Prince Charming, her cat, is stealing charms from Belle’s Baubles, June is forced to clear her name in more ways than murder. After all, they don’t have cauldrons in jail.

A Charming Crime is book one of the bestselling Magical Cures Mystery series. Come walk around Whispering Falls for a fun, fantasy mystery with magic and romance. You won’t want to leave.

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Rae of Hope (The Chronicles of Kerrigan)

By WJ May / Genre: Paranormal & Urban, Fantasy, Teen & Young Adult / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (52 reviews)

Rae of Hope (The Chronicles of Kerrigan)

How hard do you have to shake the family tree to find the truth about the past?

Fifteen year-old Rae Kerrigan never really knew her family’s history. Her mother and father died when she was young and it is only when she accepts a scholarship to the prestigious Guilder Boarding School in England that a mysterious family secret is revealed.

Will the sins of the father be the sins of the daughter?T

As Rae struggles with new friends, a new school and a star-struck forbidden love, she must also face the ultimate challenge: receive a tattoo on her sixteenth birthday with specific powers that may bind her to an unspeakable darkness. It’s up to Rae to undo the dark evil in her family’s past and have a ray of hope for her future.

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Fall From Love

By Heather London / Genre: Women’s Fiction, Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (51 reviews)

Fall From Love

It takes just one moment for everything to change…

Struggling to put her life back together after a tragic mountaineering accident kills her college sweetheart, twenty-one-year-old Holly Treadwell is trying to set aside her grief, forge ahead in school, and find herself again.

When Carter Hansen, a guy who brings back horrible memories from the night of the accident, finds his way back into her life, Holly’s unsure if she should let him in. He terrifies her in more ways than one and invokes feelings in her that she thought were buried forever.

Everyone tells Carter that what happened on the mountain that night was just a terrible accident, but even then, he can’t help but carry around the guilt and is unable to forgive himself. He’s drawn to Holly and being near her helps ease his conscience and gives him the release he needs.

As Holly and Carter’s relationship grows, they begin to realize that the more time they spend with one another, the more their wounds begin to heal–her grief and his guilt. But when Holly learns the details about the night of the accident–what everyone has been keeping from her–it will rip open old wounds and tear apart what they’ve both worked so hard to overcome…

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