Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 07-30-13

Bridegroom Wore Plaid

By Grace Burrowes / Genre: Historical Fiction / Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars (53 reviews)

Bridegroom Wore Plaid

His Family or His Heart — One of Them Will Be Betrayed…

Ian MacGregor is wooing a woman who’s wrong for him in every way. As the new Earl of Balfour, though, he must marry an English heiress to repair the family fortunes.

But in his intended’s penniless chaperone, Augusta, Ian is finding everything he’s ever wanted in a wife.

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Asylum: The Complete Series (All 8 Books)

By Amy Cross / Genre: Ghosts, Horror / Rating: 3.9 out of 5 stars (153 reviews)

Asylum: The Complete Series (All 8 Books)

No-one ever leaves Lakehurst. The patients, the staff, the ghosts… Once you’re here, you’re cursed for life…

After shooting her little brother dead, Annie Radford is sent to a Lakehurst for treatment. Hearing voices in her head, Annie is forced to undergo experimental new treatments devised by a mysterious old man who lives in the hospital’s attic. It soon becomes clear that Lakehurst’s staff, led by the vicious Nurse Winter, are involved in some dark and horrific plans.

As Annie struggles to survive the hospital, she learns more about her tormentor’s own story. Once a promising young medical student, Nurse Winter also heard voices in her head. What kind of signals are being transmitted from the basement of the hospital? Who is the old man in the attic? Who killed all those nuns? Why are living human brains kept in jars, and what is the dark secret that lurks at the flickering heart of the hospital?

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Doug and Carlie’s Love Conspiracy (Doug and Carlie Series)

By Lisa Smartt / Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (39 reviews)

Doug and Carlie's Love Conspiracy (#2 in the Doug and Carlie Series)

Clara Louise Johnson is 32, single, and lonely. The problem? She just got a cat. And when a shy lonely woman gets a cat, everybody knows the universe begins to work against her. Within a year, she could own twenty cats and start operating a failed recycling business out of her backyard. So newlyweds, Doug and Carlie, happily intervene. What happens when a rural-dwelling famous writer becomes a full-time matchmaker for beautiful Clara? A humorous and healing journey toward love begins.

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WHUPPED

By Jim Stevens / Genre: Humor / Rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars (41 reviews)

WHUPPED

Alyssa Walworth is young, polished, wealthy and drop dead gorgeous; and Jake Dombrowski couldn’t be more in love with her. So much in love, she’s got him going every-which–way in her quest to have the Beverly Hills wedding of the year.
Jake’s best friends, Gideon and Conrad, see the marriage as nothing more than the first step toward divorce. They try to convince Jake in the conventional manner, but Jake won’t listen, he’s too much in love. Stronger methods are needed, so Conrad and Gideon kidnap Jake on the night of his bachelor party, and leave him chained to the radiator in the apartment of adult film star, Jailbait Jordan. There they do all in their power to convince Jake that Alyssa, the woman of his dreams, will be nothing less than a nightmare.
It all doesn’t work out in any way anybody ever expected.

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Gilded Destiny (Vesper)

By Nola Sarina / Genre: Paranormal, Romance / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (19 reviews)

Gilded Destiny (Vesper)

A woman’s memory returns when she falls in love with the monster who took it from her.

Calli tattoos her skin to fill the holes in her memory, thanks to an accident that left her mind damaged and empty. But a nasty encounter with a fired employee leaves her in the arms of her unlikely savior: Nycholas, a predatory, serpentine Vesper on the run from his brutal master.

Nycholas’ clandestine world holds the secrets to mankind’s origin and survival… but he only wants one thing before his time is up: a few colorful nights with Calli, the fragile, tattooed, human woman he pursued and saved.

The more Calli learns about Nycholas, the more her own darkened memories return to her. Despite her haunted past, she loses herself to passion and desire with her immortal captor.

Now, Calli must overcome the demons of her past, or allow Nycholas to kiss her memories away and spare her the trauma of loving a doomed immortal. But each choice comes with dire consequences – some that endanger not only herself, but her family as well.

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 07-26-13

The Seven Steps to Closure

By Donna Joy Usher / Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (103 reviews)

The Seven Steps to Closure

Tara Babcock awakes the morning after her 30th birthday with a hangover that could kill an elephant – and the knowledge she is still no closer to achieving closure on her marriage breakup. Things go from bad to worse when she discovers that, not only is her ex-husband engaged to her cousin – Tash, the woman he left her for – but that Jake is also running for Lord Mayor of Sydney.
Desperate to leave the destructive relationship behind and with nothing to lose, she decides- with encouragement from her three best friends – to follow the dubious advice from a magazine article, Closure in Seven Easy Steps.
The Seven Steps to Closure follows Tara on her sometimes disastrous- always hilarious – path to achieve the seemingly impossible.
A credible and amazingly touching debut novel from Donna Joy Usher, this is a solid, light-hearted and honest read with plenty of laughs.

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Bittersweet

By Noelle Adams / Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars (44 reviews)

Bittersweet

As a widow at twenty-six, Zoe isn’t looking for love. She’s just looking for the energy to get through the next day and take care of her infant son. She might have to deal with Adam, her husband’s cousin and business partner, but she doesn’t have to like it. She doesn’t have to like him.

But he just won’t go away.

Adam knows that Zoe needs time and space to heal, so he resolves to be a friend and help her when he can. He wants to do the right thing. He doesn’t want to act on feelings he shouldn’t have for her.

But they just won’t go away.

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Brownie Points

By Jennifer Coburn / Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars (80 reviews)

Brownie Points

Sometimes that’s the way the Thin Mints crumble…

When Lisa Taylor and her family move from San Francisco to the suburban paradise of Los Corderos, they know their family won’t fit in perfectly. They’re the only interracial family in the neighborhood. Lisa is a snarky sculptor. And 13-year-old Logan is gay.

After Logan is repeatedly bullied at school, he finds his niche in an unusual place – his twin sister’s Girl Scout troop. When he tries to join, the organization refuses, so the boy sues for gender discrimination and sets off a firestorm of national media coverage. This only makes matters worse between the Logan and his father, a macho firefighter who is already struggling with his son’s sexual orientation.

Adding to the strife is Lisa’s increasing distaste for Junta Moms who wish each other “Namaste” while rigging school elections and stealing each other’s husbands.

Join the Taylors on their hilarious journey as they face the fight of their lives and,in the process, discover what it means to be a family.

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The Shipwreck

By Glynnis Campbell / Genre: Historical Romance, Romance / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (25 reviews)

The Shipwreck

When his wife and children die, Viking marauder Brandr has nothing left to live for, so he sails away on one final voyage. A storm at sea leaves him shipwrecked, alone, and barely alive on a foreign coastline. Along the Pictish shore, Avril, a warrior maid and the victim of a Viking berserker, banished from her ancestral home of Rivenloch to a seaside cottage, dreams of the day she’ll raise her sword, take back the castle that is rightfully hers, and find her half-Viking daughter a proper father. Discovering a broad-shouldered, fair-haired, broken castaway washed up on her beach among the wreckage of his longship, she takes him captive and binds him in chains. She refuses to be a Viking’s victim again…never imagining that soon her fiercest enemy will earn her trust, invade her heart, and enthrall her senses.

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Blur (Night Roamers)

By Kristen Middleton / Genre: Fantasy, Romance / Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars (105 reviews)

Blur (Night Roamers)

Danger lurks in the dead of night…

Seventeen year old Nikki and her twin brother, Nathan, move to the small town of Shore Lake to start over after their mother is brutally attacked. When a missing teenager washes up on shore during their first night at the cabin and there are whispers of vampires in Shore Lake, Nikki begins to realize that there are things roaming in the darkness that are far more sinister than what they left behind in the city.

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 07-24-13

The Morning After

By Sally Clements / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars (60 reviews)

The Morning After

One photo changes everything…
A mortifying incident in her youth has shaken sense into Cara Byrne. No more bad-boys. No more getting arrested. Instead, hard work and good behaviour has earned her a job teaching at the local Boys Secondary School, and a proposal from a worthy man. So what if he doesn’t exactly light her fire – surely passion is overrated?
When her friend since childhood, Ethan Quinn, storms back into the small Irish village he left to pursue a career as a Hollywood action hero, she’s stunned to discover she’s as susceptible to his lethal charm as every woman in the world. And when a compromising photograph floods the media of them in a clinch, her almost fiancé reveals his true colours, CarEthan starts trending on twitter, and she loses her job, could anyone blame her if she accepts his invitation to hide out at his Malibu beach house?
Ethan loves women, but never lets his girlfriends into his heart. He’s failed at being there in the past, and won’t put his heart on the line for anyone, ever again. But Cara’s a different matter – and when passionate attraction is added to his friendship with the one person he’s always confided in, he’s thrown for a loop. Cara’s lost everything, and like it or not, he’s responsible. There’s no fighting the attraction that blazes between them – but when the month long affair is over, will he ever be able to let her go?

Free as of 07/24/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

Play Him Again (A Matt Hudson Roaring Twenties Crime Novel)

By Jeffrey M. Stone / Genre: Historical, Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (67 reviews)

Play Him Again (A Matt Hudson Roaring Twenties Crime Novel)

It’s the Roaring Twenties but silence remains golden in Hollywood. Adding sound to movies is expensive and only two studios have installed recording equipment. Matt Hudson, the preferred bootlegger of the film industry, wants to produce a talking picture but neither sound studio will lease him their facilities. After Hud’s oldest friend, con man Danny Kincaid, dupes a gangster who controls a small movie studio into buying a bogus sound device, the gangster gets wise and Danny ends up dead. To settle the score, Hud runs another con to play the gangster again. A con that will either avenge Danny and land Hud a studio, or get him killed.

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Lost (Lost and Found #1, New Adult Romance)

By Nadia Simonenko / Genre: Coming of Age / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (38 reviews)

Lost (Lost and Found #1, New Adult Romance)

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.

When Owen becomes a teaching assistant for one of Maria’s classes, they find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other. As the two learn each other’s secrets and grow closer, they realize that although they may be lost, they’re not alone anymore.

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The Tribune: A Novel of Ancient Rome (Book 1 of The Tribune Series)

By Patrick Larkin / Genre: Historical Fiction / Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars (57 reviews)

The Tribune: A Novel of Ancient Rome (Book 1 of The Tribune Series)

“My name is Lucius Aurelius Valens, and I am a soldier in the service of Rome.”

A young Roman officer with a strong sense of justice and duty thwarts corrupt officials plundering the province of Syria and is marked for death. To save his life, he is sent to command a cavalry regiment stationed in ever-restless Judea. He expects only the thankless task of maintaining the Roman peace in a land where he and his soldiers are despised and feared. But this peace is shattered when he and his men discover the massacre of a detachment of Praetorian Guards and the man they were protecting—a member of the Roman Senate and an ally of the emperor Tiberius himself. Plunged straight into a deadly web of murder and intrigue, Valens soon realizes far more is at stake than just his own life and honor.

“I can only tell you what I saw and heard and felt and learned.”

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Midnight Brunch at Casa Dracula

By Marta Acosta / Genre: Fantasy, Romance / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (41 reviews)

Midnight Brunch at Casa Dracula

Hilarious party girl and writer Milagro De Los Santos is finally in a serious relationship with a fabulous man, Oswald Grant, MD, and living at his wine country ranch with his career-fixated relatives. It’s true that Oswald accidentally infected her with the rare family condition that makes them crave blood cocktails and need protection from the sun, but what family doesn’t have it’s quirks?

She thought they accepted her, so she’s hurt when she’s excluded from a midnight ceremony with special guests including a creepy family elder, Oswald’s hostile parents, and Milagro’s ex-lover, decadent and powerful Ian Ducharme.

When Milagro’s life is threatened, she flees to the desert to hide and work on a screenplay. Instead of solitude, she encounters an egomaniacal actor, a partying socialite, a sly tabloid reporter, and a lavish spa full of dark secrets. It’s all lots of fun until the bwaa-ha-ha laughter and the knives come out. Now all Milagro has to do is finish her screenplay, ambush a world domination movement, and overcome a terrible infection before she can make her way back to Casa Dracula.

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 07-23-13

TRANSCENDER: First-Timer (TRANSCENDER Trilogy)

By Vicky Savage / Genre: Paranormal & Urban, Fantasy / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (67 reviews)

TRANSCENDER: First-Timer (TRANSCENDER Trilogy)

Jaden Beckett, typical Connecticut teenager possesses an awesome power she isn’t even aware of until it’s triggered by a freak electrical storm and she’s catapulted into a strange parallel version of earth and an amazing alternate existence. The destiny police want her out. She’s got other plans!

In this life she’s a princess and heir to the throne of one of the three surviving dome nations. She has her mother back, a miracle she never imagined possible. And, just as compelling, is her breathless romance with Ryder Blackthorn, a wanted outlaw and possibly her one true soul mate.

Can the Inter-Universal Guidance Agency force her to leave this world, or will Jaden use her gift to pursue the life of her dreams?

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The Seven Devils (YA “New Adult” Romance)

By Sara Danvers / Genre: Coming of Age / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (67 reviews)

The Seven Devils (YA

After nearly being drowned by her alcoholic father, 17-year-old Ellen, her mother, and her brother move across the state to start over. Ellen soon meets Neil, a gorgeous loner with a bad reputation. Her classmates warn her to stay away, but he seems to be the only one who understands her. Besides, the rumors about Neil are too far-fetched to be believed. When she is threatened by Derrick (a jealous classmate) it becomes clear that there is more to Neil than meets the eye. In this sexy page turner, Ellen must discover Neil’s dark secrets and learn to stand up for herself before the plot hatched against her unfolds.

Free as of 07/23/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

The Warrior’s Wife

By Denise Domning / Genre: Historical Fiction / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (40 reviews)

The Warrior's Wife

Two warring families, one widow who has forgotten her family’s hatred, one powerful knight determined to reclaim his family’s castle and a wife to rule it beside him. No one will stop him not her father, his king or the lady herself.

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Eyes of the Hammer (The Green Beret Series)

By Bob Mayer / Genre: Men’s Adventure / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (63 reviews)

Eyes of the Hammer (The Green Beret Series)

What if US Army Green Berets led by Dave Riley must take on not only criminal drug traffickers but also betray their own government?

A US Army Special Forces team carrying sterilized weapons and unmarked uniforms is on its way to Colombia. The mission: conduct covert, unilateral raids to destroy cocaine processing laboratories.

Of course nothing is as it seems especially once the CIA gets involved. Throw in an Israeli mercenary, betrayal and double-dealing in Washington and the team soon finds itself wondering what the real mission is.

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Blue Plague Survival

By Thomas A Watson / Genre: Action & Adventure / Rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars (83 reviews)

Blue Plague Survival

Book Two of the Blue Plague series.
Mike and Bruce have escaped the hospital and the city, only to find infected aren’t their only worry. In the land they passed through, they brought hope to some and justice to others. On the way home, they saved and brought survivors back with them to the farm; and that was never part of any plan. How will they feed, clothe, and help those who join them? Should they save others, putting the family at risk? How can those that join the family help them? They traveled through hell to come home, but hell is everywhere now. Civilization has collapsed, and now they must survive.

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 07-21-13

Skip Rock Shallows

By Jan Watson / Genre: Historical Fiction / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (58 reviews)

Skip Rock Shallows

Lilly Gray Corbett has just graduated from medical school and decided to accept an internship in the coal camp of Skip Rock, Kentucky. Her beau, Paul, is doing his residency in Boston and can’t understand why Lilly would choose to work in a backwater town. But having grown up in the mountains, Lilly is drawn to the stubborn, superstitious people she encounters in Skip Rock—a town where people live hard and die harder and where women know their place. Lilly soon learns she has a lot to overcome, but after saving the life of a young miner, she begins to earn the residents’ trust.

As Lilly becomes torn between joining Paul in Boston and her love for the people of Skip Rock, she crosses paths with a handsome miner—one who seems oddly familiar. Her attraction for him grows, even as she wrestles with her feelings and wonders what he’s hiding.

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Bringing Down Sam (Temptation In The City)

By Leslie Kelly / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (65 reviews)

Bringing Down Sam (Temptation In The City)

High school teacher Eve Barret has a secret–she was once a child modeling superstar. She’s left that life far behind, and has no intention of returning to it. At least not until her best friends talk her into a crazy scheme to “bring down” Public Enemy Number 1: Sam Kenneman.

Sam Kenneman has every woman in the country up in arms about his new bestseller, 101 Ways To Avoid Commitment. The book’s supposed to be a joke–but women aren’t getting it. Now he just wants the frenzy to die down so life can go back to normal.

Her goal? Teach him a lesson.

His goal? Don’t fall for the sexy blonde.

The problem? They can’t resist each other!

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Into the Arms of a Cowboy

By Isabella Ashe / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (44 reviews)

Into the Arms of a Cowboy

Cassie Carlisle is on the run — and wanted for murder. When she hides in the back of a pickup truck, it’s just her luck that the truck belongs to a cowboy-turned-sheriff.

Jess Logan, with his dark eyes and bruised heart, just wants to to win a few more saddle bronc competitions and then go home alone to his cabin in the woods. But he can’t resist his sexy blonde stowaway, secrets and all.

Could this be love — or just a recipe for disaster?

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Searching for Glory

By Hunter J. Keane / Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (26 reviews)

Searching for Glory

Gloria Star is rich and famous. She’s on a hit television show and engaged to one of the most desired men in Hollywood. Her life is perfect. But then she gets a letter in the mail that changes everything. The past she has been trying to forget for so long has finally come back to haunt her.

Gloria Star hasn’t always been an A-list celebrity. She used to be just a regular Midwestern girl named Glory Stark. Now she is forced to reconcile her two lives because Johnny Carter, the only man she ever loved, has asked her to return to her hometown, and she can’t say no. Ten years ago, one night changed everything for Gloria and Johnny. Not only did Gloria lose Johnny, but she also lost herself.

Now she’s headed back to Princeton, Missouri, to reconnect with her sister and make amends with Johnny. She quickly realizes that returning to Glory Stark’s life isn’t going to be easy. As she faces painful truths about her past and an uncertain future, Gloria learns that forgiveness is essential, family is everything and love is forever.

Free as of 07/21/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

Thin Places

By Diane Owens Prettyman / Genre: Action & Adventure / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (39 reviews)

Thin Places

Just days before his execution, Calvery Thomas has reason to believe in thin places. He looks at the world through the eyes of someone who has already passed on. When he promises Finn Tully a reward to find his daughter and prove his innocence to her, Calvery knows the request is unreasonable. He also knows Finn needs his help, and Calvery’s daughter needs the money. Finn is clean, sober, on the downside of a prison term and not about to get swallowed up in Calvery’s problems until a series of unexplainable events propel Finn into the middle of the mysteries surrounding Calvery’s execution. When Finn finds the daughter, Chloe, in Clam Harbor, Washington, he soon realizes she is in danger. Chloe is a tough, no-nonsense charter boat captain involved in a smuggling operation with the very man who framed her father. Finn and Chloe join forces to find the truth behind Calvery’s execution and, in the process, discover the power of a father’s love and the miracles of the world beyond this one.

Free as of 07/21/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

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