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.

Free as of 11/07/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

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.

Free as of 11/07/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

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.

Free as of 11/07/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

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.

Free as of 11/07/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

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.

Free as of 11/07/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

Continue reading

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.

Free as of 11/01/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

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.

Free as of 11/01/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

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.

Free as of 11/01/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

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?

Free as of 11/01/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

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.

Free as of 11/01/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

Continue reading

Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 10-31-13

Fluke

By David Elliott / Genre: Coming of Age / Rating: 3.9 out of 5 stars (73 reviews)

Fluke

Adam Fluke is a regular guy. He wants love, friendship, and happiness. However, his bumbling-but-good-natured tendencies have left him lacking direction in life. Content with his lack of motivation, he earns a meager living as a pizza delivery boy.

Everything changes one night, on a medium cheese pizza delivery to Sara DuBeau.

Sara is interesting, intellectual, fun, and successful: everything Adam believes he is not.

An unexpected, whirlwind relationship begins, and it’s a match made in heaven.

Or is it?

Their storybook happiness is called into question by the discovery of a mysterious, buried-away photograph of a man with an uncanny resemblance to Adam.

Secrets are revealed, the search for answers begins, and Adam’s very identity is suddenly the one thing that could tear them apart.

Free as of 10/31/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

Tyger Tyger: A Goblin Wars Book

By Kersten Hamilton / Genre: Action & Adventure, Teen, Young Adult / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (93 reviews)

Tyger Tyger: A Goblin Wars Book

What would you do if the stories of your childhood suddenly began coming to life?  Teagan Wylltson’s best friend, Abby, dreams that horrifying creatures—goblins, shapeshifters, and beings of unearthly beauty but terrible cruelty—are hunting Teagan.  Abby is always coming up with crazy stuff, though, so Teagan isn’t worried.  Until Finn Mac Cumhaill arrives, with his killer accent and a knee-weakening smile.  Either he’s crazy or he’s been haunting Abby’s dreams, because he’s talking about goblins, too . . . and about being born to fight all goblin-kind.  Finn knows a thing or two about fighting.  Which is a very good thing, because this time, Abby’s right.  The goblins are coming.

Free as of 10/31/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

The Trilisk Ruins (Parker Interstellar Travels #1)

By Michael McCloskey / Genre: Adventure, Science Fiction / Rating: 3.9 out of 5 stars (87 reviews)

The Trilisk Ruins (Parker Interstellar Travels #1)

Telisa Relachik studied to be a xenoarchaeologist in a future where humans have found alien artifacts but haven’t ever encountered live aliens. Of all the aliens whose extinct civilizations are investigated, the Trilisks are the most advanced and the most mysterious.

Telisa refuses to join the government because of her opposition to its hard-handed policies restricting civilian investigation and trade of alien artifacts, despite the fact that her estranged father is a captain in the United Nations Space Force.

When a group of artifact smugglers recruits her, she can’t pass up the chance at getting her hands on objects that could advance her life’s work. But she soon learns her expectations of excitement and riches come with serious drawbacks as she ends up fighting for her life on a mysterious alien planet.

Free as of 10/31/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

Fast Forward

By Juliet Madison / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (22 reviews)

Fast Forward

Aspiring supermodel, Kelli Crawford seems destined to marry her hotshot boyfriend, but on her twenty-fifth birthday she wakes in the future as a fifty-year-old suburban housewife married to the now middle-aged high school nerd.

Trapped in the opposite life of the one she wanted, Kelli is forced to re-evaluate her life and discover what is really important to her. Will she overcome the hilarious and heartbreaking challenges presented to her and get back to the body of her younger self? Or will she be stuck in the nightmare of hot flushes, demanding children, raunchy advances from her husband and hideous support underwear forever?

Free as of 10/31/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

Eternal Shadows

By Kate Martin / Genre: Fantasy, Romance / Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars (24 reviews)

Eternal Shadows

“I was a monster. And in that moment, leaning against Rhys’s warm body, feeling his unnaturally cool breath against my face . . . I knew I would give in.”

Vampires aren’t supposed to be real, and Kassandra is not supposed to be one of them. But on the morning of her eighteenth birthday she wakes with fangs, a hunger for blood, and a body with abilities she can’t control. Turned by the irritating, yet handsome, Rhys O’Shea, Kassandra struggles to balance her former human life with her new life as one of the undead.

With the world at war, the vampires have stepped in–but if the existence of the supernatural is exposed, then an entirely new battle will erupt. A battle for survival that will forever alter the future.

But the past may be just as dangerous. Kassandra can’t stop the dreams of a young Irish girl in the medieval countryside, a girl who smiles when Rhys comes near, nor can she shake a looming sense of doom. The last time she felt this dark chill her mother died, and now Kassandra could be next.

Free as of 10/31/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

Continue reading

Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 10-29-13

daynight

By Megan Thomason / Genre: Dystopian, Young Adult, Romance / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (237 reviews)

daynight

Meet The Second Chance Institute (SCI): Earth’s benevolent non-profit by day, Thera’s totalitarian regime by night. Their motto: Because Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Life(TM). Reality: the SCI subjects Second Chancers to strict controls and politically motivated science experiments like Cleaving–forced lifetime union between two people who have sex. Punishment for disobeying SCI edicts? Immediate Exile or death.

Meet Kira Donovan. Fiercely loyal, overly optimistic, and ensnared by the promise of a full-ride college scholarship, Kira signs the SCI Recruit contract to escape memories of a tragedy that left her boyfriend and friends dead.

Meet Blake Sundry. Bitter about being raised in Exile and his mother’s death, Blake’s been trained to infiltrate and destroy the SCI. Current barrier to success? His Recruit partner–Miss Goody Two Shoes Kira Donovan.

Meet Ethan Darcton. Born with a defective heart and resulting inferiority complex, Ethan’s forced to do his SCI elite family’s bidding. Cleave-worthy Kira Donovan catches his eye, but the presiding powers give defect-free Blake Sundry first dibs.

Full of competing agendas, romantic entanglements, humor, twists and turns, daynight is an award-winning, bestselling novel and first in the daynight series.

Free as of 10/29/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

The Edge of Courage (Red Team)

By Elaine Levine / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (134 reviews)

The Edge of Courage (Red Team)

Step into Elaine Levine’s exciting new series of alpha warriors–products of the government’s secret corps of assassins called the Red Team:

Haunted by memories he cannot reach, stalked by an enemy bent on revenge . . .

Rocco Silas has come home to Wyoming after long years as a Red Team operative in Afghanistan. It isn’t easy returning to civilian life, especially burdened as he is with a staggering case of PTSD or hunted as he is by an enemy determined to seek an eye-for-eye–neither of which can he battle until he confronts the truth of what happened one fateful day in the high mountain ranges of the Hindu Kush.

. . . She alone holds the key to his sanity.

Mandy Fielding’s dream of opening a therapeutic riding center on her family’s ranch is almost within her grasp–until she hires Rocco Silas, a dangerous ex-Spec Ops friend of her brother’s. His haunted eyes and passionate touch promise a love she never dared believe possible. Can they confront the truth of his past and build a future together or will the enemy stalking him destroy them both?

Free as of 10/29/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

Henry (The Beck Brothers)

By Andria Large / Genre: Romance / Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars (137 reviews)

Henry (The Beck Brothers)

Henry Beck, the gorgeous CEO of an advertising company, was in need of a new personal assistant. He expected HR to hire someone older, more experienced, maybe even with gray hair. Who he got instead was the beautiful, young, single mother – Claire Russell. A woman who he is having a hard time keeping his eyes off of…

Claire never expected her new boss to be the most gorgeous man she’s ever laid eyes on. She also never expected him to be sweet to her two year old son, Ethan. But Henry is her boss and there is no future with him. Or so Claire thinks…

Will Henry and Claire be able to fight the obvious attraction between them? Will Henry’s overbearing mother come between them? Or will a freak accident change their perspectives on life and what’s most important…

Free as of 10/29/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

Michal’s Window (A Novel: King David’s First Wife)

By Rachelle Ayala / Genre: Romance, Religious Fiction / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (94 reviews)

Michal's Window (A Novel: King David's First Wife)

It’s not easy being a woman, least of all princess of Israel. Married as a prize, abandoned as a wife, Michal fights to claim her rightful spot next to King David, the man she loves with all her heart.

Separated by war, concubines, and kingdom politics, Michal embarks on a journey of adventure and heartache where she is befriended by a goddess-worshiping priestess and tempted by a Philistine prince.

From reading scrolls high atop the palace walls to seduction with a henna-painted body, Michal is not your ordinary Bible heroine. Join her in Michal’s Window and let her delight you with her courage, devotion, and outrageous passion in her relentless drive to win back her husband.

Free as of 10/29/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

Animate Me

By Ruth Clampett / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (82 reviews)

Animate Me

She seemed far beyond his reach…could love draw them together?

For years shy animator Nathan has carried a torch for Brooke, the beautiful and dynamic Director of Development at their animation studio, even creating B-Girl, a comic-book heroine in her likeness. When a new project throws the two of them together, lovestruck Nathan finally seizes his moment – only to find Arnauld, head of the animation studio, claiming exclusive rights to Brooke’s affections.

But Nathan, it turns out, is not giving up on his dreams so easily. With inspired determination, he sets out to be the super hero of wooing his girl. Threatened by his persistence, Arnauld plays dirty – only to spark an uprising at the studio that unleashes the sort of havoc only a building full of frustrated animators can create. While Nathan pulls out all the stops to win his B-girl, Brooke has to choose. Should she pursue the sparkling career that has taken her years to build…or follow her heart?

Free as of 10/29/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

Continue reading

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.

Free as of 10/26/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

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?

Free as of 10/26/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

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!

Free as of 10/26/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

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?

Free as of 10/26/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

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.

Free as of 10/26/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

Continue reading