Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 08-30-13

In Deep Voodoo (Mojo, Louisiana humorous mystery series #1)

By Stephanie Bond / Genre: Women Sleuths, Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (373 reviews)

In Deep Voodoo (Mojo, Louisiana humorous mystery series #1)

Start with bad mojo, add a pinprick of revenge, and watch things boil over…

A woman receives a voodoo doll of her lying cheating ex-husband as a gag gift at her divorce party, and vents her frustration by stabbing it with a pin. But later when he’s found stabbed to death, she doesn’t have to be told she’s managed to land herself IN DEEP VOODOO!

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Picture Perfect (The Wilsons)

By Alicia Roberts / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars (31 reviews)

Picture Perfect (The Wilsons)

Lea Wilson needed a nice, relaxing break. What she didn’t need was to run into an annoying, rugged photojournalist – one who lived in her hotel and frequented her fantasies.

There’s no way she’ll ever be with Adam Brenner. He’s unpredictable and risks his life every day – what she needs is a dependable man who wants to settle down. Too bad the chemistry between them is so hot…

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Dirty Little Secrets: Sexy Suspense (Book 1, Dirty Series)

By Julie Leto / Genre: Action & Adventure / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (131 reviews)

Dirty Little Secrets: Sexy Suspense (Book 1, Dirty Series)

With everyone telling Dirty Little Secrets…what’s a girl gotta do to stay alive?

–A disgraced bounty hunter pursues her sexy ex
–The secret agent on the run catapults her into his treacherous underworld
–Is her super-sexy lover her ticket out of a mundane world–or is he setting her up to crash and burn?

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Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled

By Bert Murray / Genre: Coming of Age / Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars (51 reviews)

Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled

Meet Colin Preston. 19 years old and a student at Elerby University in upstate New York.He drinks too much. Lives for the Beatles, John Lennon and classic rock. Falls for the most beautiful sophomore on campus.His life is about to change forever.Funny. Moving. Honest. Raw.An entertaining coming of age novel about friendship,music, first love and betrayal.From Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled:”Maybe she was out of my league. What made me think I could get a girl like her? What made me think I could keep her?””How far is too far? When you love a band so much that its songs fill the empty spaces inside your head and heart, is that too far? A band could become more important than your family or friends. John, Paul, George and Ringo spoke to me. Jasmine would see when she’d been with me a little longer. She’d understand me completely. I had to give her time.”

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Ratchet Woman

By D T Pollard / Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 3.9 out of 5 stars (39 reviews)

Ratchet Woman

A small-town pregnant teenager was disowned by her family because they could not tolerate the thought of who the father of her unborn child was, but she was taken in by her friend’s family. Later, the two young women struck out for the big city and found that life was far harsher than they imagined. Lindsay Wilson was determined to survive and did what it took to support her family, even if some called her a ratchet woman because of her profession, but she was hiding a secret about her child’s father that would shock the nation when it came to light. The revelation of Lindsay’s child’s father led to pain, death and renewal.

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 08-26-13

Into the Free: A Novel

By Julie Cantrell / Genre: Literary Fiction / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (253 reviews)

Into the Free: A Novel

Just a girl. The only one strong enough to break the cycle.

In Depression-era Mississippi, Millie Reynolds longs to escape the madness that marks her world. With an abusive father and a “nothing mama,” she struggles to find a place where she really belongs.

For answers, Millie turns to the Gypsies who caravan through town each spring. The travelers lead Millie to a key that unlocks generations of shocking family secrets. When tragedy strikes, the mysterious contents of the box give Millie the tools she needs to break her family’s longstanding cycle of madness and abuse. 

Through it all, Millie experiences the thrill of first love while fighting to trust the God she believes has abandoned her. With the power of forgiveness, can Millie finally make her way into the free?

Saturated in Southern ambiance and written in the vein of other Southern literary bestsellers like The Help by Kathryn Stockett and Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin, Julie Cantrell has created in Into the Free—now a New York Times Best Seller—a story that will sweep you away long after the novel ends.

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Some Kind of Wonderful

By Barbara Freethy / Genre: Family Life / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (122 reviews)

Some Kind of Wonderful

“ABANDONED BABY FOUND”

It’s the kind of story investigative reporter Matt Winters writes about — not the kind he wants to be living. When he discovers a newborn baby girl on his doorstep, he panics … then he desperately turns to his temptingly pretty neighbor Caitlyn Devereaux for help. After all, women are supposed to know everything about babies!

Caitlyn’s natural sensuality intrigues Matt … and her aching vulnerability as she holds the precious bundle piques his curiosity. The wedding gowns she creates are famous for fulfilling every bride’s fantasies, yet she firmly says that marriage — and motherhood — are not for her. But her kisses suddenly have Matt dreaming of something wonderful — and soon he’s determined to get this reluctant woman to change her mind.

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Falling for the Ghost of You

By Nicole Christie / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (138 reviews)

Falling for the Ghost of You

Seventeen year old Violet Mercer returns home from her summer vacation in Hawaii to discover her boyfriend’s cheating on her with a friend. As if that wasn’t bad enough, her mother’s marrying a man she just met.

Things take an awkward turn when Violet meets her rich new stepfather, and his gorgeous son–the hot guy whom she made a fool of herself in front of earlier that day! Zane O’ Connor is sexy and charming, and way out of her league. He makes her forget her ex-boyfriend even existed. But there’s no way she’d ever have a chance with him…right?

Through a strange turn of events, Violet finds herself living with Zane for a month. Somewhere between the fighting and flirting, they become friends. And it isn’t long before that friendship blooms into something else…something more powerful than Violet anticipated.

But Zane is hiding something from her–something big enough to tear them apart if Violet ever discovered the truth about him. Her suspicions keep her from trusting him completely. She’s been burned before–is she willing to take that risk again?

As she and Zane spend more time together, Violet realizes it’s too late: she’s fallen for the beautiful boy with the big secret. Will she get her heart broken twice in one year–or will her love survive the truth?
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Passport through Darkness: A True Story of Danger and Second Chances

By Kimberly L. Smith / Genre: Memoirs, Biographies & Memoirs / Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (131 reviews)

Passport through Darkness: A True Story of Danger and Second Chances

As she shares her extraordinary stories of fighting human trafficking as an ordinary mom, Kimberly Smith offers hope for readers who wonder if God is calling them to greater things.

Passport Through Darkness takes readers on Smith’s journey from normal family life and business, to Europe, to the deserts of Africa and ultimately, to the deserts of her own soul as she tries to live well as an imperfect American mom, crusade for justice for orphans around the world, and embrace God’s extraordinary dreams for her. When Kimberly and her husband risk everything to answer God’s call, they see God change and restore them—even amid exhaustion, marital struggles, and physical limitations.

This heartbreaking, heartlifting book is for anyone who longs to see God move their life from normal to one that matters. It is a call to readers to take one more step on their journey to know God’s heart.

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Carry Your Heart

By Audrey Bell / Genre: Sports, Romance / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (21 reviews)

Carry Your Heart

Champion skier Pippa Baker lost everything in the avalanche: her boyfriend, his best friend, and her will to win. After a year of grief, she returns to competition.

She finds more than buried memories and steep slopes in Utah. She finds Hunter Dawson, a heartbreaking daredevil with the gold medals to prove it. And she finds that his reputation doesn’t stop her from falling hard, and that her heart might not be as broken as she once believed.

But, Hunter has scars and memories too—scars that make him believe falling in love might hurt too much, scars that make him run.

Pippa knows how much love hurts when it’s gone. Will she stop herself before she’s in too deep? Or will she let herself fall?

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 08-25-13

The Messiah Matrix

By Kenneth John Atchity / Genre: Religious Fiction / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (103 reviews)

The Messiah Matrix

To what lengths would the Vatican go to suppress the secret origins of its power? Current papal politics has made this thriller eerily prophetic! The Messiah Matrix is a myth-shattering novel whose protagonists delve into the secrets of the past—and expose the fundamentalists who hide them still.

A renowned scholar-monsignor is killed in Rome while a Roman coin is recovered from a wreck off the coast of ancient Judea. It’s up to his young American protégé–a Jesuit priest–and a vivacious, brilliant archaeologist to connect these seemingly disparate events and unravel the tapestry that conceals in plain view the greatest mystery in the ecclesiastical world. Together they pursue their passion for truth—while fighting to control their passion for each other. What they uncover is an ancient Roman imperial stratagem so controversial the Curia fears it could undermine the very foundations of the Roman Catholic faith–much like the secrets emerging from the Vatican in today’s news.

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Bannockburn Binding (Beloved Bloody Time)

By Tracy Cooper-Posey / Genre: Fantasy, Romance / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (17 reviews)

Bannockburn Binding (Beloved Bloody Time)

In the early 23rd Century, vampires learned how to travel back in time, and created a time-tsunami that threatened life as we know it, until they corrected their mistake. They created the Chronometric Conservation Agency, which is tasked with preserving history and therefore protecting humanity’s future. The Touring arm of the Agency offers trips back into the real past, with vampire guides, called travellers.

When Natalia (Tally) Marta, vampire and traveller, takes her client to visit the siege of Stirling Castle in 1314, she is caught and held hostage for ransom by Robert MacKenzie, a Bruce clansman. Rob finds himself drawn to the wilful, stubborn and very different English lady he has captured and the relationship becomes an intimate, highly-charged sexual pairing. Swiftly, Tally and Rob realize their bond is more than sexual, that the emotions stirring their hearts are true.

Christian Lee Hamilton, vampire, one of the last true southern gentlemen, and Tally’s ex-lover, knows the 1314 time marker enough to jump back and help Tally return home. His arrival at Bannockburn adds complications, for Christian finds himself drawn to Rob MacKenzie as much as Tally is. But neither of them can stay in the past forever. To do so means certain death.

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Victim Zero (The Fall)

By Joshua Guess / Genre: Action & Adventure / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (42 reviews)

Victim Zero (The Fall)

Kell McDonald isn’t your average guy. He’s a brilliant biologist and geneticist, a leading researcher in the constant fight against disease and death. He works in secret on a miraculous organism with the potential to change the world.

But he isn’t the only one.

Victim Zero is a story about life and loss, self-awareness and the hard choices between what is right and what is necessary. As the world spirals down and the dead begin to rise, Kell must learn the difference between surviving and living.

Set in the world of Living With the Dead, Victim Zero tells the story of how The Fall began. From before the outbreak itself, during the crisis and beyond, this novel chronicles the journey of a man who holds the weight of the entire human race on his shoulders.

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Misery Loves Company

By Rene Gutteridge / Genre: Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (36 reviews)

Misery Loves Company

Don’t tell me it’s terrifying. Terrify me.
Filled with grief, Jules Belleno rarely leaves the house since her husband’s death while on duty as a police officer. Other than the reviews Jules writes on her blog, she has little contact with the outside world.

But one day when she ventures out to the local grocery store, Jules bumps into a fellow customer . . . and recognizes him as her favorite author, Patrick Reagan. Jules gushes and thoroughly embarrasses herself before Regan graciously talks with her.

And that’s the last thing she remembers—until she wakes up in a strange room with a splitting headache. She’s been kidnapped. And what she discovers will change everything she believed about her husband’s death . . . her career . . . and her faith.

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The Greeks of Beaubien Street

By Suzanne Jenkins / Genre: Drama / Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars (63 reviews)

The Greeks of Beaubien Street

Nestled below the skyline of Detroit you’ll find Greektown, a few short blocks of colorful bliss, warm people and Greek food. In spite of growing up immersed in the safety of her family and their rich culture, Jill Zannos doesn’t fit in. A Detroit homicide detective, she manages to keep one foot planted firmly in the traditions started by her grandparents, while the other navigates
the most devastated neighborhoods in the city she can’t help but love. She is a no nonsense workaholic with no girlfriends, an odd boyfriend who refuses to grow up, and an uncanny intuition, inherited from her mystic grandmother that acts as her secret weapon to crime solving success. Her story winds around tales of her family and their secret laden history, while she investigates the most despicable murder of her career.

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 08-23-13

Haven from the Storm (Storms of Life #1)

By Sarah Dosher / Genre: Coming of Age / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (78 reviews)

Haven from the Storm (Storms of Life #1)

“If you’re going to make me cry, at least be there to wipe away the tears…”

Most were asleep in their beds the night Lily Grace’s entire world was ripped apart leaving only darkness and torment in its place. The only remaining person she depended on abandoned her without a second thought…or so that’s what Lily’s believed for the past four years.

Dean Haven has returned for one reason, to win Lily’s love again. He broke her heart once because of the demons that haunt him, can his desire for Lily keep him from succumbing to those demons again?

Dean has no idea what awaits him when he tries to fight his way back into Lily’s life. Everything he remembers has changed, including Lily.

Is love enough when you’re forced to weather the storms life has blown your way?

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Untouched

By Melody Grace / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars (71 reviews)

Untouched

Emerson Ray is trouble. Juliet knows it the minute she lays eyes on Beachwood Bay’s resident bad boy. Forced to spend her summer before college in the sleepy beach town, she never expected to crash into the most devastating guy she’s ever met–or for Emerson’s blue eyes to strip through her dark secrets, and make her feel a desire she’s never known. Their connection is undeniable, but Juliet is torn. She knows, once she gives him everything, there’ll be no turning back.

Juliet McKenzie is dangerous. Emerson can tell from the way she blows through all his defenses, laying bare the demons he’s carried alone all his life. He’s left a trail of broken hearts and empty beds in his wake, but Juliet is different. Her innocence is intoxicating–and the passion she keeps hidden, just below the surface. He wants to be the only one to set it free, but with every kiss, he’s closer to losing control and doing the one thing he swore he never would: fall in love.

One summer. Two damaged hearts. Their story is only just beginning…

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Whiskey Rebellion Book 1 (Addison Holmes Mysteries)

By Liliana Hart / Genre: Humor / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (141 reviews)

Whiskey Rebellion (Romantic Mystery/Comedy) Book 1 (Addison Holmes Mysteries)

My name is Addison Holmes, and I teach history at James Madison High School in Whiskey Bayou, Georgia. You might be under the assumption that my life went to the dogs when my fiancé left me at the altar for the home economics teacher, or when I got notice that my apartment building was going to be condemned, or even when I was desperate enough to strip to my unmentionables to earn some extra cash. The truth is that I’m pretty much used to disasters following me around on a daily basis, but I could have gone without finding my principal dead in the parking lot of a seedy gentlemen’s club.

After the initial shock of finding my first dead body, which included throwing back shots of Jack Daniels like it was water, I decided to take stock of my life. I was in a desperate situation and if the school board ever found out I’d been a stripper, even a bad stripper, I’d be jobless as well as fiancé-less and homeless. Fortunately, I had a friend who felt sorry enough for me to give me a job doing some surveillance work at her detective agency. Not to mention the fact that I was now able to stick my nose into other people’s business for a good cause, find a murderer, and pick up helpful tips from an incredibly attractive detective.

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Drawing The Line

By Kimberly Kincaid / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (45 reviews)

Drawing The Line

When Detective Jason Morgan is tasked with keeping a local restaurant owner safe as part of a make-or-break case, he rises to the challenge. The job is his first priority, and he owes it to the memory of his father, a detective killed in the line of duty, to do it at any cost. But Jason never expected Serenity Gallagher to be so beautiful, so serious…or so tough to protect.

Serenity has moved from place to place at the whim of her capricious mother all her life. The last thing she wants is to leave the diner she finally calls home, even if it means being stuck with a sexy blue-eyed detective. But she’s the only witness to a horrible crime, and the man behind it wants her very, very dead. Going into protective custody means survival, no matter how much Serenity hates hiding.

As Jason and Serenity bide their time together, they are shocked to discover they have much more in common than the surface reveals. But keeping her safe is Jason’s number one priority, no matter how much he’s drawn in by the woman beneath the witness, and Serenity’s past makes it difficult to trust. As the stakes get higher and the spark burns hotter, can Jason and Serenity draw the line?

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Five Dances with Death: Dance One

By Austin Briggs / Genre: Action & Adventure / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (42 reviews)

Five Dances with Death: Dance One

Step right into the world of the ancient Mexico. The violence of war and the thrill of dangerous sports. The human drama of conquest and defeat. The terror of the human sacrifice and the struggle for love.

In the final days before the Conquistadors, Xicotencatl (Angry Wasp) fights to keep his family and his small Aztec nation alive.

Slavers have kidnapped his daughter. His wife has turned to powerful sorcery. His people have challenged Montezuma’s dominance and now face extinction. And the Spaniards have begun their invasion inland.

Wasp must rely on his military skill, courage and even deadly magic to win back his family and protect the freedom of his nation, as he joins the desperate fight that will forever change the fate of the Aztec people.

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 08-21-13

Heavenly Hell (Heavenly Hell Book 1)

By Aria Williams / Genre: Paranormal, Fantasy / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (38 reviews)

Heavenly Hell (Heavenly Hell Book 1)

You’d think being stuck in the body of a beautiful seventeen year old girl forever would be a gift. But when you are fallen, it is more like a curse.

Indiana was a beautiful angel, enjoying the perks of Heaven, until she was tricked by a demon to fall in love with him. She was forced to fall from Heaven and remain in her seventeen year old form, banished to Earth, for all of eternity.

Now, unable to cope with her banishment, she is a seemingly normal seventeen year old girl by day, while she spends her nights punishing men for the wrongs they have committed against women.

Although Indiana has lived on Earth for thousands of years, she recently settled into a small town, where she has finally been able to make some lasting friendships. When a handsome, mysterious boy comes to town, Indiana knows something is not right. He might end up her ally, or she might end up in the fight of her life.

Free as of 08/21/13 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

A Secret Wish (Wish Series #1)

By Barbara Freethy / Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars (237 reviews)

A Secret Wish (Wish Series #1)

Three women, three birthdays and one unforgettable night that will change their lives forever.

One night in San Francisco, three women make a birthday wish believing it can’t possibly come true. Liz is turning thirty. A successful nurse, she has a good career, but no man to share her life. All her friends are married, and she’s alone, still trying to outrun a tragedy from her past. Then she meets a handsome stranger.

Angela, a member of a large, loving Italian family, is facing thirty-five with no baby in the nursery. Eight years of infertility treatments have put a strain on her marriage. Will she have to choose between her husband and having a child? When she is mugged by an unexpected assailant, her life takes a new turn.

Carole, a corporate wife, is staring down forty candles. Having grown up poor, she worked hard to get ahead, but when her kids bail on her birthday, and she discovers her husband with another woman, she realizes that she may have nothing at all. She goes back to where it all began, the mother she left behind, and the man whose heart she once broke.

Three women, three birthdays and a night of events that connects them in unexpected ways …

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Saved: Sizzling Military Romantic Suspense

By Lorhainne Eckhart / Genre: War, Romance / Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars (38 reviews)

Saved: Sizzling Military Romantic Suspense

Growing up I had dreams that one day I’d fall in love, get married and start a family. Then one night I was taken. But I survived, I escaped and I was saved. Eric didn’t see me as damaged. He didn’t see my baby as a monster. He protected me, he kept me safe … he saved me.

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Worse Than Being Alone

By Patricia Clark / Genre: Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (43 reviews)

Worse Than Being Alone

Worse Than Being Alone is a riveting tale involving multiple cons, a vicious murder, romance, betrayal, and escape as it vividly explores just how far all of us are prepared to go to avoid being alone.

Kitty and Roni are building their fledgling investigative agency by following workers’ comp cheats. Every PI’s dream of catching real criminals seems to be coming true when they begin to suspect one of their targets is engaged in more nefarious activities than just a bogus comp claim. Their cat and mouse game gets twisted when they realize they are the ones being stalked.

A personal and potentially lethal inquiry emerges after Roni’s father marries a woman with a checkered past, and they fear he has found his Worse Than Being Alone. When their investigation points to a shady past involving a trail of life insurance payouts and dead husbands, they wonder if Dad has married a Black Widow or an extremely unlucky woman.

As that case boils over, along comes the most talented con artist of them all. After his angry employer hires them to check him out, Kitty and Roni slowly come to realize he has the makings of a master criminal. They uncover numerous identities along with multiple workers’ comp claims. Then here are his almost daily trips to the same bank wearing different disguises.

Surprises abound as Kitty and Roni break up a sex slave ring, thwart a bank robbery, nab a shoplifter, and document a Black Widow’s treachery. A sudden death leaves them stunned as they second-guess their activities, forcing them to confront a murderer.

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Shadow Bound (Shadow series)

By Erin Kellison / Genre: Fantasy, Romance / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (54 reviews)

Shadow Bound (Shadow series)

Death
Some people will do anything to avoid it. Even trade their immortal souls for endless existence.

Wraiths
Secretly, inexorably, they are infiltrating our world, sucking the essence out of unsuspecting victims with their hideous parody of a kiss.

Segue
Adam Thorne founded the Institute to study and destroy his monster of a brother, but the key to its success is held in the pale, slender hand of a woman on the run. There is something hauntingly different about Talia O’Brien, her unknowing sensuality, her uncanny way of slipping into Shadow.

Twilight
This is the place between life and what comes after – a dark forest of fantasy, filled with beauty, peril, mystery. And Talia is about to open the door.

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