Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 11-07-13

Bet in the Dark

By Rachel Higginson / Genre: Romance, Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (80 reviews)

Bet in the Dark

All Ellie Harris wanted was a life of her own.

In a shortsighted decision, she follows her high school boyfriend to college, only to get cheated on and then dumped. And to add insult to injury her overprotective family is suddenly clinging to her again, fighting to control every part of her life.

Bad luck follows her hasty decision and when her roommate steals her identity and leaves town, Ellie is left to clean up a gigantic mess.

Fin Hunter insists Ellie owes him seven thousand dollars from an online poker game and he is determined to get it from her. Determined to keep her family out of her life, Ellie agrees to work for Fin in his illegal online poker operation. He’s given her six weeks to pay off the debt.

Soon sparks are flying between them and the only thing keeping her from falling for him is the debt she still owes and the money she doesn’t have.

At the end either Ellie will have to pay the mistaken debt or bet in the dark that her feelings for Fin will be worth more than the money.

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Taken by Storm

By Angela Morrison / Genre: Contemporary, Romance, Teen, Young Adult / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (38 reviews)

Taken by Storm

Mormon girl Leesie has life figured out until devastated Michael lands in her small town high school. He needs her like no one has before. A rare journey into a faithful LDS teen’s intimate struggle.

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Mark of the Mage (The Scribes of Medeisia)

By R.K. Ryals / Genre: Dark Fantasy, Horror / Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars (38 reviews)

Mark of the Mage (The Scribes of Medeisia)

Books never die, but they can be forbidden.

Medeisia is a country in turmoil ruled by a blood thirsty king who has outlawed the use of magic and anything pertaining to knowledge. Magery and scribery are forbidden. All who practice are marked with a tattoo branded onto their wrists, their futures precarious.

Sixteen year-old Drastona Consta-Mayria lives secluded, spending her spare time in the Archives of her father’s manor surrounded by scribes. She wants nothing more than to become one of them, but when the scribes are royally disbanded, she is thrust into a harsh world where the marked must survive or die.

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Distant Star (The Reminiscent Exile)

By Joe Ducie / Genre: Paranormal & Urban, Fantasy / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (47 reviews)

Distant Star (The Reminiscent Exile)

For Declan Hale, the Shadowless Arbiter, life has been simple since he ended the Tome Wars and forced a cruel peace in the mythical realms of Forget. Exiled to Earth for his crimes, Declan spends his days managing a small bookshop.

So when a familiar looking corpse appears in the dead of night, spilling his scotch, Declan is less than amused. Especially because the body is his own. Someone–or something–has sent a calling card from the future.

Daring him to confront his monstrous past.

The last time Declan went to war, Ascension City burned and eight million people lost their lives. The Knights and Renegades should have left him alone…
*~*~*~*
An urban fantasy story, the first in a series, that spans worlds, universes, and time. Join Declan as he battles friends, enemies, kings, and the gods themselves in his struggle for redemption.

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Gotcha!

By Christie Craig / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (35 reviews)

Gotcha!

Macy Tucker was five years old when her beloved grandfather dropped dead in his spaghetti. At twelve, her father left his family in the dust. At twenty-five, her husband gave his secretary a pre-Christmas bonus in bed, and Macy gave him the boot. To put things lightly, men have been undependable.

That’s why dating’s off the menu. Macy is focused on putting herself through law school — which means being the delivery girl for Papa’s Pizza. But cheesier than her job is her pie-eyed brother, who just recently escaped from prison to protect his new girlfriend. And hotter than Texas toast is the investigating detective. Proud, sexy…inflexible, he’s a man who would kiss her just to shut her up. But Jake Baldwin’s a protector as much as a dish. And when he gets his man — or his woman — Macy knows it’s for life.

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 11-06-13

When the Siren Calls

By Tom Barry / Genre: Mystery & Suspense, Romance / Rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars (89 reviews)

When the Siren Calls

A story of seduction, deception and betrayal…

When restless and neglected Isobel is invited to an idyllic Tuscan retreat by the suave and streetwise Jay, she imagines a life of excitement outside her stagnant marriage. Despite fear and guilt, she abandons herself in a passionate love affair, but is soon trapped in a web of feminine manipulation, business intrigue, and ruthless ambition, while controlling Jay encourages conservative Isobel to push beyond her sexual boundaries.

But all is not as it seems in the hilltop paradise and as her lover battles for survival, she finds herself a player in a dangerous love triangle. Unable to know who she can trust, she must fight to control both her own cravings and to save what little of herself is left. As her life falls apart, she is torn between the consequences of infidelity, her love for Jay, and fear that he will be her nemesis. For both Isobel and Jay, the excesses and confusions of an uncertain and largely amoral age are about to be brought home to roost, right in the heart of their lives.

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Exposure (East Park)

By Iris Blaire / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (74 reviews)

Exposure (East Park)

She’s the sexiest secret at East Park University.

Rylan Willow is the top model for East Park Exposed, the university’s underground and insanely successful erotic magazine.

Her friends know her as Evan Cosette, a biochemistry major with a flawless GPA.

East Park Exposed has kept Evan’s tuition paid. All she has to do is keep up the naïve school-girl disguise when she’s on campus and her secret is safe, her two worlds separate.

Until Dallas.

When the magazine runs a co-ed shoot to broaden readership, Evan’s partner is a gorgeous and disgustingly brilliant grad student. Evan doesn’t know how much of Dallas Whitley she’ll be able to handle, especially when he wants to study with her outside the studio. She promises herself that she can just be friends with Dallas. He has a girlfriend, after all. And Evan needs to focus.

She can’t when the co-ed printing brings sales through the roof.

She can’t when her photographer wants to crank the heat for the next issue.

Every steamy shoot leaves Evan gasping for breath, her true feelings for Dallas clouded by their camera-charade. But the more time she spends with him in the real world, the more she risks someone finding out the truth about her.

She needs to decide.

Who gets Dallas—Rylan, or Evan?

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The Doctor Wears A Stetson (The Diamondback Ranch Series #1)

By Anne Marie Novark / Genre: Medical, Western, Romance / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (84 reviews)

The Doctor Wears A Stetson (The Diamondback Ranch Series #1)

Jessie Kincaid was fifteen and innocent when Cameron asked her to the prom. She lost her heart that night, but his plans didn’t change. He left their small town to pursue his dreams.

Seventeen years later, a trip home leads Cameron McCade back to Salt Fork, Texas and the newly widowed Jessie Devine. Since his return, the fire between them burns as hot as ever. Can they take up where they left off? Can Jessie risk her heart again?

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Amid the Shadows

By Michael C. Grumley / Genre: Assassinations, Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (46 reviews)

Amid the Shadows

A six-year-old girl is born with an unimaginable gift.
One person wants to extinguish it.
Another wants to protect it.

After her mother is violently murdered, young Sarah Baxter ends up in the care of a new and inexperienced social worker with problems of her own. But when Christine Rose and Sarah both get thrown into a terrifying conspiracy, Christine discovers that someone will stop at nothing to rid the world of Sarah’s ability. Now the only thing that really matters is keeping Sarah alive!

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Summer Unplugged

By Amy Sparling / Genre: Short Stories / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (69 reviews)

Summer Unplugged

Summer Unplugged is a novella.

Bayleigh is addicted to her cell phone and her mom has had enough. After catching her sending a less than lady-like photo to a boy who barely knows her, Bayleigh’s mom sends her away to her grandparent’s house for the summer–sans cell phone, laptop and Ipod. Bayleigh thinks the summer will be torture without social media…that is until she meets the boy next door.

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 11-03-13

Chasing Sunsets (The Cedar Key Series Book #1): A Cedar Key Novel

By Eva Marie Everson / Genre: Romance / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (69 reviews)

Chasing Sunsets (The Cedar Key Series Book #1): A Cedar Key Novel

Kimberly Tucker’s life hasn’t turned out the way she thought it would. A divorced mother of two, Kim resents her ex-husband for moving on with his life and living it up while she struggles to understand what went wrong. When her sons end up spending five weeks of summer vacation with their father, Kim’s own father suggests a respite in the family vacation home on tiny Cedar Key Island. As Kim revisits her childhood memories and loves, she soon discovers that treasures in life are often buried, and mistakes–both past and present–become redeemable in God’s hand.

Readers will be swept away to an island retreat where they walk alongside Kim as she discovers that God’s answers may not come easily, but they do come.

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Small Change: The Secret Life of Penny Burford

By J. Belinda Yandell / Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars (20 reviews)

Small Change: The Secret Life of Penny Burford

As a young girl, while helping her minister father distribute Christmas baskets and toys to underpriveleged families, Penny Burford’s life was touched and changed. As a result, in 1965, adult Penny takes a single nickel from her husband, Roy’s, overflowing mound of change on the bedroom dresser. With that single act, she changes the course of her life–and the lives of untold others.

Penny has never kept a secret from her husband, but as her hoard of castaway change grows, she discovers that having her own money gives her the power to make her own decisions. And she finds that small change can eventually lead to big changes.

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Absolutely Unforgivable

By Tracy Tegan / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (21 reviews)

Absolutely Unforgivable

How do you follow your heart when it feels divided? Stacy Keller had always said no to good-looking guys, until Jeromy wormed his way past her resistances. She discovered that, beneath the handsome facade that had all the other girls chasing him, he was caring and generous. She’d never want to hurt such a kind man. When his job sends him back to Texas, she leaves her native Tulsa to move with him.

If only she hadn’t met Billy Snow, Jeromy’s childhood friend. Her attraction to him feels like water flowing to meet water, a destiny buried deep in her cells. But is it real and lasting? Should she stifle her desire for Billy to save her relationship with Jeromy, the man she thought was perfect for her? While she’s deciding, what does fate have in store for her? She hadn’t known love would hurt so much.

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Lost and Found: The Complete Series

By Nadia Simonenko / Genre: Coming of Age / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (18 reviews)

Lost and Found: The Complete Series

Lost & Found: The Complete Series is now available as one book!

We’ll find each other somehow. We’re not lost anymore…

Maria’s life was torn apart when she was fifteen, and for seven years, she’s kept her terrible secret hidden from the world. Now, in her final semester of college, she still struggles against paralyzing fear just trying to speak up in class, and the terror and helplessness linger on in her nightmares.

Across campus, Owen sees his scars in the mirror every morning while he gets ready for class. They remind him of the broken home he left behind, the father he hates and fears, and the little sister he couldn’t protect. Now, in his final semester of college, he’s scared that he may have to return to the hell he called home after staying away for almost five years.

Fate has plans for Maria and Owen. Big plans.

When they finally meet, the two find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other. As they learn each other’s secrets and grow closer, they realize that although they may be lost, they’re not alone anymore. The past can’t hurt them as long as they’re together.

…or can it? They’re about to find out.

Will the love and happiness Maria and Owen found be enough to hold them together as their lives fall apart around them, or will their relationship slip away and be lost forever?

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Long Way Home

By Ann Vaughn / Genre: Romance, Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (22 reviews)

Long Way Home

Shane McCanton and Tessa Kelly were childhood enemies. Everything was a contest to them and Tessa always seemed to show Shane that nice guys finished last. Things change, however, when hormones take over and Shane begins to see the perpetual thorn-in-his-side as more than just his childhood nemesis…
Tessa had never meant to set into motion events that led to their childhood rivalry, but once it started, she embraced it with gusto…until her world started to fall apart and she realized that Shane was the one constant in her life, her rock who would never leave her and help her find her Long Way Home…

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 11-02-13

Becoming A Lady

By Marie Higgins / Genre: Single Authors, Short Stories / Rating: 3.7 out of 5 stars (101 reviews)

Becoming A Lady

Dorothy Paxton is not pleased when a handsome Englishman walks into her inn and announces he’s taking her to England to reunite her with the grandfather who turned his back on her years ago. Her escort, Calvin Seton, bribes her by paying her brother’s doctor’s bills, and soon she’s on the ship sailing for London. Little by little, Calvin’s charm softens her heart. While her lady’s companion teaches her to become a lady, Dorothy is secretly wondering if the price of love is worth it. Especially when she knows Calvin will walk out of her life as soon as they reach England.

Can she afford the cost of love?

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Rushed

By Brian Harmon / Genre: Horror / Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars (248 reviews)

Rushed

Eric can’t remember the recurring dream that keeps waking him in the middle of the night with an overwhelming urge to leave, yet he spends each day feeling as if he desperately needs to be somewhere. With no idea how to cure himself of this odd new compulsion, he decides to let it take its course and go for a drive, hoping that once he proves to himself that there is nowhere to go, he can return to his normal life. Instead, he finds himself hurled headlong into a nightmare adventure across a fractured Wisconsin as the dream reveals itself one heart-pounding detail at a time.

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My Ex-Wife’s Wedding (Altar-ed Destinies)

By Elise Marion / Genre: Short Stories / Rating: 3.9 out of 5 stars (90 reviews)

My Ex-Wife's Wedding (Altar-ed Destinies)

Jack’s ex-wife is getting married in the morning. With only one night left to change her mind, can he convince her not to give up on 13 years of marriage?

Holly has always loved Jack, but her new fiance’ is the safe, logical choice. Will she choose him, or risk all to give Jack another chance? When Jack comes flying into her wedding, putting it all on the line, which will she choose?

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Soul Taker

By Karen Michelle Nutt / Genre: Vampires, Paranormal, Romance / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (38 reviews)

Soul Taker

No soul is safe…
A vampire from the Grim Sith sept is sucking the souls out of young women from the Boston area, but this sinister crime is far worse than a vampire seeking substance. He’s selling the souls to the highest bidder and it seems business is booming.

A vampire, a werewolf, and a Necromancer are a most unlikely team, but Garran, Harrison, and Isabella plan on putting a kink in the dubbed Soul Taker’s plans. It’s personal now. One of their friends has fallen victim to the Soul Taker’s charms, but to stop him from hurting anyone else, their efforts may involve raising the dead.

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The Last Temptation of Clarence Odbody

By John Jughead Pierson / Genre: Literary, Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars (53 reviews)

The Last Temptation of Clarence Odbody

What if George Bailey wasn’t saved by his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody, on that snowy Christmas Eve in Bedford Falls? This reimagining of the beloved Frank Capra classic It’s a Wonderful Life (and the Phillip Van Doren Stern story that inspired it) tells the story of Bedford Falls and its inhabitants after the death of their drama&ssquo;s central character.

The Last Temptation of Clarence Odbody restores the dark undercurrent of the Van Doren Stern’s short story “The Greatest Gift” to the uplifting plot of Capra’s film, and explores how the familiar characters in it might respond to the dire circumstances created by George Bailey’s disappearance from their lives. The paths of an introspective cab driver, a ruthless henchman, and a wayward daughter collide nearly twenty years later in the town that defined their reputations for better or for worse.

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 11-01-13

Never Forget (Memories)

By Emma Hart / Genre: Coming of Age / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (124 reviews)

Never Forget (Memories)

A city girl.

A small town boy.

A summer they’ll never forget.

Spending the summer at her Grammy’s in Lilac Bay, Devon, is city girl Alexis ‘Lexy’ Edwards’ idea of hell. That is, until she reconnects with her childhood friend, Jen, and meets Alec Johnson.

Alec is the kind of guy Lexy knows she needs to stay away from. He’s the village flirt, ridiculously hot and very dangerous to her self control. But there’s a problem – she can’t seem to keep him out, even though she knows he’ll break her heart.

As Alec slowly strips away Lexy’s defences and the two embark on a summer romance she never wanted, their feelings grow to more than either expected. But nothing lasts forever, and reality intrudes.

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Choice, The (Lancaster County Secrets Book #1): A Novel

By Suzanne Woods Fisher / Genre: Religious Fiction / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (171 reviews)

Choice, The (Lancaster County Secrets Book #1): A Novel

With a vibrant, fresh style Suzanne Woods Fisher brings readers into the world of a young Amish woman torn between following the man she loves–or joining the community of faith that sustains her, even as she questions some of the decisions of her elders. Her choice begins a torrent of change for her and her family, including a marriage of convenience to silent Daniel Miller. Both bring broken hearts into their arrangement–and secrets that have been held too long.
Filled with gentle romance, The Choice opens the world of the Amish–their strong communities, their simple life, and their willingness to put each other first.

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Meeting Place, The (Song of Acadia Book #1)

By Janette Oke / Genre: Fantasy, Historical Fiction / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (63 reviews)

Meeting Place, The (Song of Acadia Book #1)

A Chance Encounter Forever Changed Their Lives–and Destinies.

Crafted by two masters of inspirational fiction–Janette Oke and T. Davis Bunn–and combining the engaging historical settings, rich characterization, and heartwarming messages quintessential to both authors, The Meeting Place is another timeless story for you to cherish.
Set along the rugged coastline of 18th century Canada in what was then called Acadia (now Nova Scotia and New Brunswick), The Meeting Place re-creates a world that was home to native Indians, French settlers, and English garrisons. Such diverse populations did not live in accord, however. Instead, they were isolated within their own groups by a brewing political tension under the difficult English rule.
Amid such chaotic times two women, both about to become brides and both trying to live lives of quiet peace, meet in a lush field of wildflowers. Louisa, a Frenchwoman, and Catherine, who is English, continue to meet secretly through the seasons, sharing both friendship and growing faith.

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Welcome to Paradise (The Kincaids)

By Rosalind James / Genre: Women’s Fiction, Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (64 reviews)

Welcome to Paradise (The Kincaids)

They’re going to party like it’s 1885.

Mira Walker is hoping that competing on a “living history” reality show will give her what’s missing from her real life. Maybe she’ll get closer to her boyfriend, who hasn’t been all that nice to her lately. Get fired up about her job again. Who knows, she might even win a million dollars.

Gabe Kincaid and his brother Alec are after that million too, though. Mira and Scott are no threat at all, not when everybody involved is going to want to kill Scott after the first day. And there’s no bond stronger than a twin’s. What could possibly go wrong?

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Beyond The Sun

By Sandra Bischoff / Genre: Epic, Fantasy / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (24 reviews)

Beyond The Sun

Fifteen years ago Jared Bonatelli had it all. The youngest son of one of the founding families in the Conservatorship of The Dark Order he lived a life you only thought existed in novels and nightmares. He had just graduated from Oxford University and became engaged to his childhood sweetheart when he lost it all in one violent act. The very next day he found himself shipped off to New Orleans with only the money in his pocket and whatever he could fit in one suitcase. Since that night he has suffered reliving his fiancé’s murder repeatedly in his dreams. It isn’t until he finds himself summoned back to New York for an emergency meeting of the Conservatorship that the comfortable world he lives in begins to crumble around him.

Alexandra Toscano has been searching for the one assignment that could catapult her journalistic career. When her editor Gene O’Hanlon drops a manila folder in her lap, Alex is immediately skeptical. At first glance the information he hands her seems like a publicity piece that is till she comes across an article he wrote some fifteen years ago about Vampires murdering a young woman in Central Park.

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