Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 06-22-14

Rumors (A Lingering Echoes Prequel)

By Erica Kiefer / Genre: Short Stories / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (46 reviews)

Rumors (A Lingering Echoes Prequel)

Seventeen-year-old Allie Collins would rather hide behind rumors than face the truth—her life will never be the same as it was before the accident. As a star athlete grieving in the shadows, she hopes to find normalcy in boys and basketball. When her best friend sets her up with the popular Shane Moretti, Allie drags her feet, reluctant for added complications. Then she decides that dating Shane would be the perfect shield from last summer’s tragedy. However, what starts as a mere distraction proves much more complex. As Shane leads Allie into questionable situations, gossip continues to swirl.

Battling for her own identity while barricading painful emotions, Allie won’t escape her senior year without new wounds. After all, tragedy is no stranger to her. The events that unfold will draw readers deep into a well of emotion in Rumors, a Lingering Echoes Prequel.

Free as of 06/22/14 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

Bound to the Alpha: Part One

By Viola Rivard / Genre: Werewolves & Shifters, Paranormal, Romance / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (29 reviews)

Bound to the Alpha: Part One

Sarah Harper has spent her life making all the right choices—yet somehow still ending up in all the wrong places. Most recently, her horrendous luck has left her stranded in the middle of the Appalachian wilderness without her glasses.

Cain is an alpha wolf who is already overburdened by obligations. Recognizing her dire predicament, he reluctantly takes on yet another responsibility—escorting the small, nearsighted human female back to her own kind.

Undeniably attracted to the gorgeous alpha, Sarah soon finds herself wanting to make very bad choices. Unlike Sarah, Cain understands the consequences that could arise from lying with a human, but with each day bringing them closer together, Cain isn’t sure he’ll be able to stop himself from being dangerously irresponsible.

Free as of 06/22/14 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

Pepped Up (Pepper Jones Book 1)

By Ali Dean / Genre: Coming of Age / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (63 reviews)

Pepped Up (Pepper Jones Book 1)

Pepper Jones is ready for an epic cross country season. She wants to qualify for Nationals, and she’s willing to do anything it takes to make it happen. She can handle long miles and hill sprints, but boys? That’s an entirely different challenge.

Pepper’s never considered revealing her deeper feelings for her longtime friend, Jace Wilder. After all, he’s got the personal magnetism and good looks to hook just about any girl in town — and he has. Their friendship stands apart from high school social circles, and they’re both just fine with that (or at least they pretend to be).

That is, until running star Ryan Harding moves to town.

When it comes to running, Pepper’s goals are clear. But when it comes to Jace and Ryan, it’s nowhere near as simple.

Free as of 06/22/14 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

Sufficient Ransom: A Novel

By Sylvia Sarno / Genre: Women Sleuths, Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (40 reviews)

Sufficient Ransom: A Novel

What a mother wouldn’t do for her child. Ann Olson takes her life for granted until her young son, Travis, disappears from the backyard one evening. Searching for her son, Ann throws caution to the wind. Soon, she finds herself enmeshed in the seedy world of Mexican drug dealers who operate just across the border in Tijuana. Does Ann, an atheist, embrace Christianity despite her husband warning that her pastor friend is more interested in converting her than in finding Travis? Does she make it out of the drug tunnel alive, or is her rashness her downfall? And is Travis’s disappearance related to that of other recently missing children in San Diego? A story of a mother’s love, courage in the face of evil, and her unexpected journey of self-discovery along the way.

Free as of 06/22/14 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

CyberStorm

By Matthew Mather / Genre: Technothrillers, Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (233 reviews)

CyberStorm

Mike Mitchell, an average New Yorker already struggling to keep his family together, suddenly finds himself fighting just to keep them alive when a bizarre string of disasters starts tearing apart the world around them. The Internet goes down. A bird-flu epidemic starts raging. Rumors spread that it’s all part of a coordinated foreign attack. And then the power goes out as a monster snowstorm plunges New York into frozen darkness, becoming a wintry tomb where nothing is what it seems…and no one can be trusted…

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 01-11-14

The Difference Between Night and Day

By Melissa Turner Lee / Genre: Religious & Inspirational Fiction / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (48 reviews)

The Difference Between Night and Day

Nathaniel Taylor was a Christian who thought believers were exempted from “dark times.” That was until he entered his own long time in the dark. When he meets Lilly, a young woman in danger, it sends him on a journey to discover the difference between night and day and that during dark times, the Light is hidden, not gone.

Free as of 01/11/14 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

Losing Control (Losing Control Series Book 1)

By Desiree Wilder / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars (45 reviews)

Losing Control (Losing Control Series Book 1)

Gia feels broken inside after several miscarriages and a failed marriage. Now she’s just looking to have some fun…

During her marriage, she and her husband tried for several years to have a baby, she got pregnant three times and miscarried all three. Her husband couldn’t bear to give up his dream of having a family so they grew apart and eventually divorced. Gia feels like a total failure since she couldn’t carry a child. But now, it’s time to move on. She just wants to have a little fun. She needs to have a little fun. Secretly hoping of a wild sexual encounter with someone who craves to devour her inch by inch, she and a group of her closest friends set out to have a wild weekend at a rock festival which they look forward to every year. This is what she wants and what she needs, but is she really ready for this?

Free as of 01/11/14 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

Burn Bright (The Night Creatures)

By Marianne de Pierres / Genre: Coming of Age, Fantasy, Teen & Young Adult / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (24 reviews)

Burn Bright (The Night Creatures)

Retra is a Seal from the city of Grave – sealed minds, sealed community. When her brother Joel runs away to Ixion, the island of ever-night, ever-youth and never-sleep, she is determined to find him.

Retra endures the pain of her obedience strip to escape Grave and stow away on the Ixion barge. But the island is beyond anything she can imagine and she finds herself drawn deep into a intoxicating and dangerous world.

What are the creatures calling to Retra from the shadows? Where is Joel? And why are the young people she meets, vanishing?

Ixion may appear to be a place of bliss, but its secrets are deadly. Will the friends she makes, and the forging of an eternal bond with a Riper, be enough to save her from the darkness?

Free as of 01/11/14 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

Hope’s Decree (The Fated)

By Angela McPherson / Genre: Paranormal & Urban, Fantasy / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (21 reviews)

Hope's Decree (The Fated)

When everything else is lost, there is always hope.

While most teens want an epic senior year, Trinity Whitebone hoped for a normal one. Being seventeen was hard enough. Having the emotions of everyone around you in your head made life more than a little difficult.

Until Blain Heros enrolled.

He screamed hot-god in jeans with just his walk. His intense stare warmed her skin like a thousand suns. Unfortunately, his interest in her seemed to run from blazing to freezing in the span of moments and left her nothing but confused. She could deal with things not being normal, but when life goes from strange to dangerous…

Trinity is the direct descendant of Pandora and fated to rectify the terrors released into the world by her curious ancestor. With powers she didn’t know existed and abilities she never wanted, Trinity tries to walk away from everything her life had become. She thought she could turn her back on her fate, until a band of rogue immortals discover who she is and will do whatever it takes to control her powers. Trinity is left with one decision…Embrace fate or die trying.

Free as of 01/11/14 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

The Hanging Tree: A Novella

By Michael Phillip Cash / Genre: Single Authors, Short Stories / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (47 reviews)

The Hanging Tree: A Novella

Seventeen year old Arielle is at a crossroads in her life. Disenchanted with her father, she is testing the boundaries of his trust by dating someone he does not approve. Under the moonlit sky in Long Island, Arielle and her boyfriend meet beneath the infamous hanging tree. The couple’s destiny is rooted to the five spirits in the tree whose lives and deaths are determined by an ancient curse. Will her future be determined by the past or will Arielle’s choices alter the course of her life?

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 12-15-13

The Battered Heiress Blues

By Laurie Van Dermark / Genre: Women’s Fiction, Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (111 reviews)

The Battered Heiress Blues

Henry Walker has a history of choosing business over pleasure, and his British mannerisms chafe against her southern sensibilities. When sparks begin to fly, she must navigate the troubled waters of unresolved conflict and a string of broken promises, but can she see her way clear to accept loss and acknowledge the truth?

Crippled by grief and blinded by sorrow, she pushes everyone away, but not before a precious gift is left behind that will change everything.

Free as of 12/15/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

No Place for a Lady (Heart of the West Book #1): A Novel

By Maggie Brendan / Genre: Romance / Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars (72 reviews)

No Place for a Lady (Heart of the West Book #1): A Novel

Crystal Clark arrives in Colorado’s Yampa Valley amid the splendor of a high country June in 1892. After the death of her father, Crystal is relieved to be leaving the troubles of her Georgia life behind to visit her aunt Kate’s cattle ranch. Despite being raised as a proper Southern belle, Crystal is determined to hold her own in this wild land–even if a certain handsome foreman doubts her abilities.

Just when she thinks she’s getting a handle on the constant male attention from the cowhands and the catty barbs from some of the local young women, tragedy strikes the ranch. Crystal will have to tap all of her resolve to save the ranch from a greedy neighboring landowner. Can she rise to the challenge? Or will she head back to Georgia defeated?

Book one in the Heart of the West series, No Place for a Lady is full of adventure, romance, and the indomitable human spirit. Readers will fall in love with the Colorado setting and the spunky Southern belle who wants to claim it as her own.

Free as of 12/15/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

Inescapable (Road to Kingdom Book #1)

By Nancy Mehl / Genre: Romance / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (162 reviews)

Inescapable (Road to Kingdom Book #1)

Page-Turning Romantic Suspense Set Against the Backdrop of a Small Mennonite Town

Lizzie Engel is used to running away. At eighteen, she left her Mennonite hometown, her family, and her faith with plans never to return. Five years later, Lizzie finds she’ll have to run again. False accusations at her job, a stalker, and a string of anonymous threatening letters have left her with no other options. This time, however, her escape is back to Kingdom, her hometown.

As Lizzie becomes reacquainted with Kingdom, she realizes she may not have left her Mennonite roots and her faith as firmly in the past as she thought. She draws on the support of Noah Housler, an old friend, as she hides out and attempts to plan her next steps.

When it becomes painfully clear that the danger has followed Lizzie to Kingdom, suspicions and tensions run high, and she no longer knows who to trust. With her life and the lives of those she loves at risk, Lizzie will have to run one last time–to a Father whose love is inescapable.

Free as of 12/15/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

The Loch Ness Legacy: Tyler Locke 4 (An International Thriller)

By Boyd Morrison / Genre: Thriller, Mystery & Thrillers, Action & Adventure / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (116 reviews)

The Loch Ness Legacy: Tyler Locke 4 (An International Thriller)

1827 — During a trek to Loch Ness, Scotland, a young Charles Darwin encounters a mysterious and terrifying creature that provides a spark for his evolutionary theory.

2013 — Almost two hundred years later and across the Channel in Paris, the Eiffel Tower is under attack. Only through detective work, intuition, and a judicious application of high-tech weaponry does former Army combat engineer Tyler Locke prevent a massacre.

What Tyler doesn’t know is that the assault is just the beginning of a conspiracy so dark that it not only threatens the lives of those he loves, but could also ignite World War III. Racing against time to uncover Darwin’s centuries-old secret, he must solve a series of cryptic clues to find a manuscript that has been so cleverly hidden it hasn’t been seen since the Victorian age.

Tyler’s quest takes him from the bustling tourist hotspots of Seattle to the splendor of Versailles to the remote Highlands of Scotland in a battle to reveal the shocking truth behind the legend of the Loch Ness monster.

Free as of 12/15/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

All I Have to Give: A Christmas Love Story

By Melody Carlson / Genre: Religious & Inspirational Fiction / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (44 reviews)

All I Have to Give: A Christmas Love Story

Anna and Michael have been trying for years without success to have a baby. Now in her late thirties, Anna has given up on the hope of motherhood after heartbreaking miscarriages and shattered dreams. As Christmas nears, she has to consider the possibility that it might be time to empty out the nursery and convert it to a guest room. Amidst her heartache, Anna secretly struggles with strange health problems that have her very worried.
But, as often happens at Christmastime, there are miracles in store for Anna and Michael. As each tries to give the other the perfect Christmas gift the magic of Christmas is working its way into their lives. And what each of them unwraps for Christmas will surprise everyone.

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