Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 01-12-14

Oh, Cherry Ripe

By Claudy Conn / Genre: British & Irish, Drama & Plays / Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars (114 reviews)

Oh, Cherry Ripe

Cherry Elton was beside herself! Her own mother had arranged a marriage for her to a man she had never even met. She had no choice but to run away.

Sky Westbrooke had no wish to marry, but his mischievous siblings sorely needed a firm maternal hand. Yet, how could he court his unseen bride, when into his employ had come the most remarkable, enchanting governess?

And Cherry, playing at being a governess was smitten by the handsome, cavalier Lord Westbrooke. His stolen kisses left her breathless—yet, he was betrothed to another. Whatever was a love struck governess to do?
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Find Her, Keep Her – A Martha’s Vineyard Love Story (LOVE in the USA, #1)

By Z.L. Arkadie / Genre: Romance, Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars (60 reviews)

Find Her, Keep Her - A Martha's Vineyard Love Story (LOVE in the USA, #1)

Travel writer, Daisy Blanchard has just discovered the worst news ever. Her boyfriend is now engaged to her best friend! And to add insult to injury, she learned about the blessed event through a Facebook status update. Daisy escapes her life in shambles by accepting a last minute assignment to Martha’s Vineyard where she immediately catches the eyes of billionaire Belmont Jaxson Lord.

Thanks to Belmont’s relentless pursuit, they fall hard and fast for each other. However, Belmont has a secret that’s revealed after Daisy receives an unexpected and unwelcomed visit from the last two people in the world she wants to see. Their steamy love affair comes to a grinding halt. But it was the hand of fate that led him to find her–will the same force of nature let him keep her?

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Drowning Mermaids

By Nadia Scrieva / Genre: Mythology, Mythology & Folk Tales / Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars (143 reviews)

Drowning Mermaids

To escape the war in her underwater kingdom, the noble daughter of a murdered king must flee to Alaska. Doing all she can to keep her younger sisters safe, Aazuria tries to assimilate and work among the Americans, with her feisty red-haired bodyguard at her side. This refuge holds pleasant surprises, for the princess meets a somber gentleman in a dark corner who promises to show her his world.
Trevain Murphy is a successful crab fisherman who has spent his life building an empire above the sea, but knows nothing of the greater empire beneath the surface. When a graceful dancer captures his attention, he becomes fascinated with her old-fashioned speech and unique mannerisms. Learning that her father has recently died, he cannot resist extending his kindness in offering to guide and protect her.
As it becomes clear that the dark-haired woman is much more than she seems, Trevain is unprepared to uncover the staggering secrets behind her innocent facade. Neither the captain nor the princess can imagine that their lives will become forcibly entwined as a common enemy threatens both of their worlds…

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12.21.12: The Vessel (The Altunai Annals)

By Killian McRae / Genre: Urban / Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars (34 reviews)

12.21.12: The Vessel (The Altunai Annals)

The only way to save the future is to decode the past. The only way to decode the past is to save the future.

Archaeologist Sheppard Smyth has staked his career and the honorable memory of his wife and partner on proving his widely panned theory: Cleopatra VII, the last sovereign pharaoh of Egypt, was not a victim of suicide as history suggests, but of a well-concealed murder. When a statue of the doomed Queen is unearthed in a pre-Columbian excavation site in Mexico, Shep rushes to investigate and, hopefully, find the proof that has evaded him for so long. The statue, however, is only the first clue suggesting a mysterious connection between Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica, and possibly – beyond. Suddenly thrust into the heated rivalry between sexy and enigmatic antiquities thief Victoria Kent and the infamous Russian mafioso Dmitri Kronastia, Shep finds himself a common pawn played by forces working to see out a quest older than the pyramids and cloaked in the Mayan Doomsday prophecy of 12.21.12.

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An Indecent Death

By David Anderson / Genre: Police Procedurals, Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 3.9 out of 5 stars (25 reviews)

An Indecent Death

When sexy, seventh grade teacher Paula Noonan is found murdered in a nearby park, Detective Sergeant Nicholas Drumm of the York Police Services is called in.

Drumm’s previous experience as an elementary teacher comes in handy when the investigation leads him to Paula’s school, and a host of suspects, including the school’s creepy janitor, an abusive spouse, the principal, a moody and leering fifth grade teacher and the angry and aggressive father of one of her students.

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

The Grimm Diaries Prequels volume 1- 6: Snow White Blood Red, Ashes to Ashes & Cinder to Cinder, Beauty Never Dies, Ladle Rat Rotten Hut, Mary Mary Quite Contrary, Blood Apples

By Cameron Jace / Genre: Horror, Teen, Young Adult / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (690 reviews)

The Grimm Diaries Prequels volume 1- 6: Snow White Blood Red, Ashes to Ashes & Cinder to Cinder, Beauty Never Dies, Ladle Rat Rotten Hut, Mary Mary Quite Contrary, Blood Apples

This Grimm Diaries Prequels are a number of short books in the form of epistolary diary entries. The diaries are more of teasers for the upcoming series: The Grimm Diaries, allowing you to get a glimpse of what to expect of the series. The 6 diaries are told by The Evil Queen, Peter Pan, Little Red Riding Hood, the Devil, Prince Charming, and Alice Grimm.
The first book in the Series will be out soon, called SNOW WHITE SORROW.

The Grimm Diaries are pages written in a Book of Sand, where each fairy tale character confessed the true stories once altered by the Brothers Grimm two centuries ago. To keep the truth about fairy tales hidden, the Brothers Grimm buried the characters in their dreams to never wake up again. But the curse is broken now, and the characters are allowed to wake up every one hundred years. They intend to tell the truth about really happened, and about an untold cosmic conflict between fairy tale characters.

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Father Found (The Daddy School)

By Judith Arnold / Genre: Women’s Fiction, Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (39 reviews)

Father Found (The Daddy School)

Jamie McCoy is the ultimate guy: thirty years old, carefree and professionally successful as the writer of a nationally syndicated humor column called “Guy Stuff.” Nine and a half months ago, he spent a week basking on the beach in Eluthera and indulging in a fling with a woman at the resort. Never did he expect to find the unplanned result of that fling—a healthy, wailing baby named Samantha—strapped into a car seat on his back porch, along with a suitcase full of diapers and infant apparel and a note informing Jamie that he’s her father.

Maybe he is and maybe he isn’t. But first things first. He’s never fed a baby or changed a diaper in his life. He doesn’t own a crib or a stroller. In a panic, he phones the nearest hospital, where neonatal nurse Allison Winslow takes his call and tells him about a class she teaches called the Daddy School.

Classes on how to be a dad are exactly what Jamie needs. But when he attends his first class and sees the tall, earnest, amazingly beautiful and even more amazingly competent Allison, he realizes that he might just need more from her than her lectures on how to hold a baby.

Jamie’s efforts to be a father to this precious baby touch Allison. His sense of humor amuses her. His striking good looks turn her on. But how can she trust the sort of guy who’d sleep with a stranger on vacation, without giving a thought to the consequences? How can she give her heart to such a reckless man?

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The Defiant Governess (Lessons in Love, Book 1)

By Andrea Pickens / Genre: Regency, Historical Romance, Romance / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (39 reviews)

The Defiant Governess (Lessons in Love, Book 1)

When the high-spirited Lady Jane Stanhope finds herself facing a marriage ordered by her father, she flees home, disguises herself as “Plain Jane” and lands a governess position to the ward of the reclusive Marquess of Saybrook.

Winning the love of the shy little ward is easy. Sparking arguments between herself and the mysterious Saybrook is delightful fun. But both are putting her heart in danger.

Now she’s caught between desire and her deception, for the most a titled lord can offer to a mere governess is ruin.

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Power Trip

By Treasure Malian / Genre: Urban / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (110 reviews)

Power Trip

As the daughter of a former NBA player and a criminal attorney, 21 year old Skye Lewis is faced with the immense pressures of becoming as successful as her parents. Upon starting her first year of law school she meets 3rd year student Cameron Carter. Almost immediately, they find themselves extremely attracted to one another. However, Cameron has a host of secrets and a complex occupation, which he tries to keep from Skye. Through an unlikely turn of events, Skye finds out about Cameron’s secret life and is forced to choose between true love or her own wellbeing.

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Earthly Delights: Corinna Chapman #1 (Corinna Chapman Mysteries)

By Kerry Greenwood / Genre: Women Sleuths, Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (75 reviews)

Earthly Delights: Corinna Chapman #1 (Corinna Chapman Mysteries)

Corinna Chapman is living her dream. She’s left the buttoned-down world of accounting behind—along with a less-than-lovable husband—to open a bakery in downtown Melbourne. The neighborhood could be nicer—performing CPR on an unconscious junkie is no way for a baker to start her morning—but the neighbors are something else again. Corinna’s bakery, Earthly Delights, is on the ground floor of a particularly eclectic apartment building, whose occupants promise to make life interesting. A mysterious moralist has taken offense at the building’s professional dominatrix; poisoned pen letters find their way to all residents; suddenly more heroin addicts seem to overdosing than usual; and then there are the vampires. Someone’s got to get to the bottom of it all, and it might as well be Corinna.

Earthly Delights is the first in a delicious new series by the award-winning author of the Phryne Fisher mysteries. A cozy, quirky, unconventional antipodean mystery.

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

The Sword and the Dragon (The Wardstone Trilogy Book One)

By M. R. Mathias / Genre: Fantasy, Action & Adventure / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (269 reviews)

The Sword and the Dragon (The Wardstone Trilogy Book One)

When the Royal Wizard of Westland poisons the king so that his puppet prince can take the throne and start a continental war, a young squire is forced to run for his life carrying the powerful sword that his dying monarch burdened him with from the death bed.

Two brothers find a magic ring and start on paths to becoming the most powerful sort of enemies, while an evil young sorceress unwillingly falls in love with one of them when he agrees to help her steal a dragon’s egg for her father. Her father just happens to be the Royal Wizard, and despite his daughter’s feelings, he would love nothing more than to sacrifice the boy!

All of these characters, along with the Wolf King of Wildermont, the Lion Lord of Westland, and a magical hawk named Talon, are on a collision course toward Willa the Witch Queen’s palace in the distant kingdom of Highwander. There the very bedrock is formed of the powerful magical substance called Wardstone.

Who are the heroes? And will they get there before the Royal Wizard and his evil hordes do?

Whatever happens, the journey will be spectacular, and the confrontation will be cataclysmic.

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The Luck of the Weissensteiners (The Three Nations Trilogy)

By Christoph Fischer / Genre: Historical Fiction / Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (93 reviews)

The Luck of the Weissensteiners (The Three Nations Trilogy)

The Luck of the Weissensteiners is an epic saga set in wartime Eastern Europe. It follows the lives of two families – one Jewish, one Catholic – and their entwined survival amidst the backdrop of the second world war; first the fascist then the communist invasion and occupation of Slovakia, and the horror of the consequences of war. The reader is transported to a world of deception, fear, distrust and betrayal, alongside enduring love and family drama. Weissensteiners is a magnificent tale of human survival.

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Sebastian (The Three Nations Trilogy)

By Christoph Fischer / Genre: Family Life / Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (50 reviews)

Sebastian (The Three Nations Trilogy)

Sebastian is the story of a young man who, due to an unfortunate accident, has his leg amputated shortly before World War I. When his father is drafted to the war it falls to him to run the family grocery store in Vienna, to grow into his responsibilities, bear loss and uncertainty, and hopefully find love.

Sebastian Schreiber, his extended family, their friends and the store employees experience the ‘golden days’ of pre-war Vienna, the time of war and the end of the Monarchy, while trying to make a living and to preserve what they hold dear.

Fischer brilliantly describes life in Vienna during the war years; how it affected the people in an otherwise safe and prosperous location, the beginning of the end for the monarchic system , the arrival of modern thoughts and trends, the Viennese class system and the end of an era.

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Fancy Free

By Shelley Munro / Genre: Westerns, Romance / Rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars (42 reviews)

Fancy Free

It’s not every day a girl inherits a condom company, and to say accountant Alice Beasley is astonished and out of her depth is putting it mildly. For an almost virgin, she needs a quick education in all things condom because her inheritance is in danger. Someone is intent on sabotage and trying to destroy her new company.Alice is suddenly getting down and dirty with charismatic James, the factory manager, all in the name of business, testing new condom designs. The sex is hot. Mind-blowing. It’s a dark thrill and an erotic journey. Yeah, it’s a hard job, but a girl’s got to do what a girl’s gotta do.Alice wants James. She craves his talented touch and sultry kisses, she desires passion and physical pleasure on a permanent basis but first she must convince bad-boy James to give up his fancy-free ways.

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Fire & Shadow (A Hand of Kali Novel – Book 1)

By T.G. Ayer / Genre: Mythology & Folk Tales / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (34 reviews)

Fire & Shadow (A Hand of Kali Novel - Book 1) (The Hand of Kali Series)

Normal people sneak out to a party and have fun. Maya Rao ends the evening by incinerating the guy who attacks her.

Nik Lucas, sexy, new in town and totally forbidden, happens to walk in on her. Normal guys would run for the hills. Nik knows a whole lot more than he’s telling.

Maya doesn’t believe the gods are real, doesn’t waste her time with mere mythology. But when gods, demons and hellhounds become the new normal and wielding fire becomes her new skill, she must decide what it is she really believes.

Can Maya accept that normal is something she will never be because it isn’t normal to be …The Hand of Kali.
A new Paranormal coming of age series delving in the fantasy and magic of Hindu mythology and its plethora of gods, demons, legends & mythology.

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 05-09-13 [Part 1]

Tell No Lies

By Julie Compton / Genre: Legal, Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (134 reviews)

Tell No Lies

In Compton’s gripping legal drama TELL NO LIES, a volatile attraction forces a successful family man to confront the limits of trust and the pitfalls of desire.

Idealistic St. Louis prosecutor Jack Hilliard appears to have it all: intelligence, good looks, a great job, and a solid marriage with his wife, Claire. But he finds himself at a crossroads when, on the same night his boss announces his resignation as DA, his simmering flirtation with his mysterious lawyer friend Jenny bubbles to the surface.

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Best Kindle Freebies and Bargain Books: 03-18-13 [Part 2]

Waiting for Summer’s Return (Heart of the Prairie Book #1)

By Kim Vogel Sawyer / Genre: Romance, Religious Fiction / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (43 reviews)

Waiting for Summer's Return (Heart of the Prairie Book #1)

All alone on the Kansas prairie, Summer Steadman has few options. With her husband and children lost to illness, she has no desire to continue on farther west to where she and her husband planned to build their future. Instead, she seeks employment in a small Mennonite community in order to be near the graves of her family.

Widower Peter Ollenburger, the local gristmill owner, needs someone to teach his young son. When he hears of a “learned woman” in town, he believes she is the answer to his prayers. He soon discovers, however, that helping this outsider may have troublesome consequences.

There is little this father will not do for his son, but as the boy begins to look at Summer as more than a teacher, Peter must make a choice. Does he marry this woman to give his son a new mother, or does he marry only for love?

Will Summer’s broken heart ever be able to love again?

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