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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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: 02-28-14

Floor Time (Stewart Realty)

By Liz Crowe / Genre: Sagas / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (108 reviews)

Floor Time (Stewart Realty)

Jack Gordon is Ann Arbor’s most delectable bachelor. At age thirty-five, he’s made millions as a top-selling Ann Arbor real estate broker and has the right connections to close a deal by any means necessary. With his rugged good looks and compelling personality, he has a virtual black book most men would kill for and he uses it often, never settling for one woman for very long.

While his D/s past remains buried, exactly where he wants it, an undercurrent of boredom and dissatisfaction runs through his life now. A disastrous experience years earlier made him swear off the whole scene, but the more Jack suppresses his natural Dom, the more his frustration grows.

Sara Thornton, a rookie in the real estate game, has fast-tracked herself to the top of the Ann Arbor market. Her life reflects a disciplined and focused routine, exactly the way she wants it. However, as her career takes off, the fulfillment she seeks remains inexplicably out of reach. The one thing she knows for sure, she will not join the Jack Gordon groupies in her company, no matter how tempting that might seem.

A chance encounter, then a difficult transaction, throw Jack and Sara together and the sparks fly high and hot and often. Forced to confront the compulsions that gain momentum with each sizzling encounter, their relationship seems to spiral out of control until Jack finally admits what he needs, and shows Sara what she’s been missing.

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Black Creek Burning (The Black Creek Series, Book 1)

By R.T. Wolfe / Genre: Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (74 reviews)

Black Creek Burning (The Black Creek Series, Book 1)

After six long years, Brianna Chapman is finally able to cope with witnessing the murder of her parents.

Then, dead animals start showing up on her doorstep, her tires are slashed and her yard is scorched by an unexplained fire.

But Brianna refuses to reopen her parent’s six-year-old arson-murder cold case, along with all the old wounds.

Nathan Reed sees the incidents differently and quietly begins an investigation of his own.

As Nathan’s and Brianna’s lives and passions intertwine, Nathan discovers a painful truth. Brianna’s parents weren’t the arsonist’s target. Brianna was.

And the killer is back to finish the job.

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Lash (Broken Angel)

By L.G. Castillo / Genre: Hispanic American, United States / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (69 reviews)

Lash (Broken Angel)

**A New Adult Fallen Angel Trilogy**
Decades after being banished from Heaven for saving a life he shouldn’t have, Lash is given a chance to redeem himself. His mission: protect Naomi Duran, a young woman who has lost faith in herself. The assignment proves to be anything but simple when his superiors, the Archangels, withhold key information about Naomi and refuse to restore Lash’s powers. When an unexpected source reveals centuries-old secrets, his trust is shaken to the core, and he begins to doubt those whom he had once considered to be his greatest allies.

Determined to avoid anything that would risk his chances of returning to Heaven, Lash struggles with the greatest obstacle of all–his growing feelings for Naomi. But when her life is threatened by an unknown source, Lash questions the wisdom of the Archangels and his ability to keep her safe.

Soon, Lash will have to choose where to place his faith–in the home he has fought so hard to regain or in the forbidden love he can’t bear to lose.

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Silo 49: Going Dark

By Ann Christy / Genre: Dystopian, Science Fiction / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (100 reviews)

Silo 49: Going Dark

Set in Hugh Howey’s world of WOOL and written primarily for readers already familiar with the WOOL universe. Part One of the Silo 49 Series.

Silo 49 has never had it easy and things have just gotten a whole lot worse. Graham, the head of IT, has done many unsavory things in his life but everyone has a line they won’t cross. He just found his. With only his best friend, Wallis and a dying electrician, Grace, to stand by him, he is left with one clear and final choice. Does he do what is right or what the rules say he should? It is a race against time for the trio against the impersonal might of Silo One. Their only choice? Going Dark.

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Only In Dreams

By Wendy Owens / Genre: Romance, Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (52 reviews)

Only In Dreams

Paige Parker thinks she has everything figured out. Even though her heart is broken, she manages to find love again, and she’s sure this time it’s for keeps.

Between planning her wedding and working on garments for her upcoming debut fashion show, Paige is overwhelmed. When her fiancé, Henry, suggests a couple months away from the hustle and bustle of the Big Apple to focus, she is thrilled to use the opportunity to reconnect with her best friend, Emmie.

Paige heads to Texas, ready to spend some quality time with Emmie and her baby girl, Olivia. When she arrives, she is shocked to find herself face-to-face with Christian Bennett, the man who broke her heart.

She finds herself confused. Is she truly over her first love? Is she making a mistake marrying Henry? Paige follows her heart, but this may be the most painful decision she ever makes. It leaves her wondering if true love is possible ONLY IN DREAMS.

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 02-25-14

Confessions of a Courtesan

By Elizabeth Charles / Genre: Biographical, Historical Fiction / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (83 reviews)

Confessions of a Courtesan

This historical novel is based on the improbable but true rags to riches story that culminated in the greatest romance of the Georgian era…

Left without the protection of family or fortune at a young age, Lizzie Cane learns the hungry, brutal reality of life on the streets of 18th century London. She is rescued by a handsome young man and loses her heart to him, only to discover he is not what he appears. This experience teaches Lizzie that if she is to make her way in the world, she cannot rely on anyone but herself. Her only option is to barter her youth and beauty in one of London’s exclusive brothels. The luxurious life she finds there has a sordid, even dangerous, side but she quickly discovers what men want and what they can give her in return.

With intelligence, determination and luck, Lizzie rises from the anonymity of the brothel to the pinnacle of high harlotry. As Elizabeth Armistead, she becomes one of the most sought-after courtesans of the Georgian era, making conquests of earls, dukes and finally becoming a royal mistress to the handsome, young Prince of Wales. Not content to be a mere plaything, Elizabeth Armistead also becomes confidante and hostess to some of the most fascinating men of her time – the roguish, radical followers of Georgian era statesman Charles James Fox.

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True Love’s Fire (Hell Yeah!)

By Sable Hunter / Genre: Westerns, Romance / Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars (66 reviews)

True Love's Fire (Hell Yeah!)

While vacationing at a cabin in the Ozarks, Scott Walker – Austin neurobiologist, gets snowed-in and has to be rescued by local, Lia Houston. She brings him food, helps him fix his heat and tries to get his car on the road. A monster storm has paralyzed the mountain and as she’s trying to chain his car to her truck, a huge ice-covered limb falls, crushing the front of her pick-up and almost flattening Scott. If she hadn’t moved fast, he’d be a memory – but the brave action on her part comes with a price, she’s injured and stuck with Mr. Know-It-All until the weather abates. Scott doesn’t believe in love, much less love at First Sight. So when he meets Lia, he welcomes the attraction, but fights the tenderness with every breath in his body. Join Sable Hunter as she chronicles their journey from lust to love with a lot of fireworks in between. They meet at the dawn of the New Year, and by Valentine’s Day the fires of True Love are burning bright.

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Untouched: The Girl in the Box #2

By Robert J. Crane / Genre: Paranormal & Urban, Fantasy / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (82 reviews)

Untouched: The Girl in the Box #2

Still haunted by her last encounter with Wolfe and searching for her mother, Sienna Nealon must put aside her personal struggles when a new threat emerges – Aleksandr Gavrikov, a metahuman so powerful, he could destroy entire cities – and he’s focused on bringing the Directorate to its knees.

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Mama B – A Time to Love (Book 3)

By Michelle Stimpson / Genre: Christian, African-American Fiction, United States / Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars (73 reviews)

Mama B - A Time to Love (Book 3)

Mama B was supposed to be helping people at the community food pantry, but Eunice needs more than just a bag full of canned goods. Though Eunice has plenty money, she can’t seem to manage what matters most in life. Maybe if Eunice stopped all the “cigarette-ment” (as nosy church member Henrietta says) she might turn out all right.

Dr. Wilson’s not letting up on his pursuit of Mama B. Will he come on too strong and scare her away, or will Mama B throw caution to the wind and fall in love at age 72?

Catch up with Mama B again in the small town of Peasner, TX. She’s still servin’ the Lord with wisdom and humor as only she can.

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Reflect Me

By K.B. Webb / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (32 reviews)

Reflect Me

If you’re looking for a story about a sweet, innocent virgin who rides off into the sunset with a reformed bad boy, then you’re looking in the wrong place.

Some people don’t get a happily ever after. Molly Scott is one of those people, and she knows it. With the kind of past that she has, and the secrets that she holds, she knows that even if she found Prince Charming, he wouldn’t want her. She refuses to dwell on her less than ideal situation though. This is her life, no point in complaining.

Logan Wade had his life planned out, until all his dreams came crashing down around him. Now, he’s come back to the town he swore he would never see again to start fresh. He has no plans to ever settle down again, that’s how he ended up back here in the first place.

When Molly and Logan meet, they are forced to rethink the lives they thought they knew and the futures they were so sure they wanted. Suddenly, Molly wonders if there is a better life outside of the hell she has built for herself, and Logan begins to rethink his resistance towards settling down again.

They say love conquers all, but Molly and Logan are about to find out that sometimes love just isn’t enough.

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 02-16-14

The Back Door Man

By Dave Buschi / Genre: Technothrillers, Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars (175 reviews)

The Back Door Man

All credit cards have stopped working. Today. This morning.

What cash you have in your wallet is it. ATMs and bank systems are down. You can’t get gas, groceries… Commerce has essentially come to a halt. Such is the backdrop of THE BACK DOOR MAN.

Our society is computercentric. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. We’re plugged in. Managing our finances online. Downloading apps for our iPhone. Reading the WSJ on our Kindle.

There are things out there on the cutting edge we don’t even know we need to fear. THE BACK DOOR MAN takes us there.

We see it through the eyes of James Kolinsky, a simple family man who works in information security. His day goes from bad to worse when he discovers that his greatest fear is his fault and what’s happened to him has happened to millions of others.

He’s been set up. His family—make that the world—has been taken hostage. The next twenty-four hours we find out what James Kolinsky is really made of.

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The Match

By Quent Cordair / Genre: Single Authors, Short Stories / Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars (103 reviews)

The Match

In “The Match,” Elizabeth thinks that her boyfriend, the detective, may be ready to propose, but when conversation takes an unexpected turn, she must decide how much to reveal about a collection of books and an encounter with the law on a night when life and death hung in the balance. Another captivating short story by acclaimed author Quent Cordair.

Free as of 02/15/14 for Kindle. Click here to find out if this book is still FREE.

The Tilian Virus (The Pandemic Sequence Book 1)

By Tom Calen / Genre: Occult, Horror / Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars (43 reviews)

The Tilian Virus (The Pandemic Sequence Book 1)

The virus spread quicker than anyone could have imagined. Within days, over half the world’s population became infected. Now a small band of survivors, led by high school teacher Mike Allard, must learn to live in a world ravaged by the deadly victims of the Tilian Virus.

Weaving together two separate time frames, The Tilian Virus is a tale of humankind’s most dire hour. Faced with imminent elimination, humanity’s last glimmers struggle to break through the darkness of a pandemic the world has never before experienced.

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Star of Bethlehem (“Cleaner” version) (Flowering)

By Sarah Daltry / Genre: Contemporary, Romance, Teen & Young Adult / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (35 reviews)

Star of Bethlehem (

This is a holiday novella-length story that follows Forget Me Not and Lily of the Valley. There is strong language and the characters are in college, but the sex scenes have been removed in this version of the New Adult title (all of the original versions are still available as well as these “cleaner” editions).

“With you, Jack, it was the first time I ever felt real. It was the first time anyone looked at me and saw substance. It was the first time I wanted to make someone see me.”

Jack: New Year’s Eve. I’ve somehow managed to get here, and now I’m wearing a hideous and unreasonably itchy sweater, because I want to impress Lily’s family. I want to do anything for this girl who has made me believe in second chances.

Lily: The house is beautiful and shining with light, but it feels empty. At least until Jack gets here. I know how desperately he wants this – a family, love, a home. If I can be the person who can give it to him, it’s all I need, but I hope I can keep him from seeing how hollow it all really is.

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Crazy Love

By Eileen Leamy / Genre: Spiritual Growth, Christian Living, Religion & Spirituality / Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars (21 reviews)

Crazy Love

Crazy Love is the funny, romantic, tender, true story of two people who had given up on love. Eileen and Harry met late in life, she the divorced mother of two, and he a widower with three grown children. Neither had any intention of remarrying, but God had a different plan.  For two years, they lived in a blissful, newlywed exuberance, until Harry was diagnosed with leukemia, and they embarked on the most transforming journey of their lives. Crazy Love is the inspiring story of a real-life fairy tale that grew into a parable on the healing power of love.

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 02-13-14

Baehrly Breathing (Goldie Locke and the Were Bears #1)

By Elizabeth A Reeves / Genre: Witches & Wizards, Paranormal, Romance / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (44 reviews)

Baehrly Breathing (Goldie Locke and the Were Bears #1)

A spin-off of the popular Cindy Eller series.

The first book in the Goldie Locke and the Were Bears series.

It’s difficult to be taken seriously when you are a member of the Magical community and saddled with the unfortunate name ‘Goldie Locke’. It certainly doesn’t help if you are also about five feet tall, blond, and most commonly described as ‘cute.’. What was a girl to do?

Become one of the most dreaded Magical environmental lawyers of all time?

Goldie isn’t there yet, but she’s well on her way when a case drags her into uncharted territory– working with Ordinary officials to figure out why ‘unusual’ remains are being discovered all around New England.

With her hands full and a new dragon on the way, Goldie’s hunches about this case may prove to be all-too true– this stuff is bad business!

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St. Charles at Dusk: The House of Crimson and Clover Series Prequel

By Sarah M. Cradit / Genre: Psychics, Paranormal, Romance / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (34 reviews)

St. Charles at Dusk: The House of Crimson and Clover Series Prequel

A father’s threats. A tragic accident. Unanswered questions. Oz Sullivan has finally moved past the tangled web surrounding his brief, but intense, relationship with the young, impetuous Adrienne Deschanel. Through his family, and successful career as an attorney, he has forged a tranquil predictability.

Then Adrienne unexpectedly emerges, with no memory of the life she once led. Her desperate attempt to flee the confusing and dark influences in the bayou instinctively propels her to the one face for which she has a name. Oz’s world is once again turned upside down, as he must decide how to help her without losing himself entirely.

Set amidst the lush and vibrant backdrop of New Orleans, St. Charles at Dusk tells the story of Oz and Adrienne; of forbidden love, and startling heartbreak.

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From Finland with Love: A Novel

By Ellie Alanko / Genre: Women’s Fiction, Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (33 reviews)

From Finland with Love: A Novel

Thirty-three-year-old Alina Eskala’s Finnish time clock is ticking as fast as her hair styles are changing. Lonely and without family, she’s clueless about finding the love and connection she wants…until an unknown “cousin” suddenly arrives from Finland with his hot friend and her life steams up like a sauna.

In a Finnish flash, Alina’s solitary, orderly life combusts. She finds herself unwittingly entangled in a surprising love triangle-quadrangle, while plagued by repressed grief, a spell of mind-boggling headaches, wacky dates, and some truly tragic hair days.

Alina bumbles ahead with humor and classic Finnish sisu—spunk, grit, and (often foolish) stubbornness, ultimately flying to Finland to put closure on the past and begin afresh.
Will this summer of love and woe help Alina finally deal with the heartbreak of her parents’ deaths and the inner flaws that prevent her from finding happiness? And where is “home”—the U.S. or Finland?

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Laid Out and Candle Lit

By Ann Everett / Genre: Women Sleuths, Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (30 reviews)

Laid Out and Candle Lit

What do Sweet Thangs, Orgasm Pie, and a murder in Brownsboro, TX all have in common? Tizzy Donovan. Tizzy is a small town girl, a widow, single mother, daughter to the best baker in town, sister to the county Sheriff, and also known as the local girl who talks to the dead. After almost five years without a man, she’s pent up and hot to trot! And in small town Brownsboro, population 854, pardon 853, the roster of available men is just plain lousy.

When Tizzy discovers the body in the cemetery, she goes to prime suspect number one, and lands in a decidedly unsweetened pickle. With lead after lead placing her in the crosshairs, her only hope and potential damnation come in the form of Texas Ranger Ridge Cooper. Cutting his teeth on his first case, Ranger Cooper and his interest in the sexy Tizzy lead them both to combine his will to solve the case with her sassy come-backs and a good helping of Better than Sex Cupcakes.

With pressure mounting on both of them, will this formidable duo, be able to find a murderer and love within the once sleepy confines of Brownsboro, TX?

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Safer Outside (A Mature YA Romance) (The Outside Series)

By Kristina Renee / Genre: Anthologies, Drama & Plays / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (30 reviews)

Safer Outside (A Mature YA Romance) (The Outside Series)

When Liz moves to a new high school, she hopes for a fresh start. School is her escape from the violence at home and her only hope for breaking the cycle of

poverty she was born into. Trying to shield her siblings from her stepfather’s fury gets harder each day so when she meets Logan, she thinks it will be a

harmless distraction from the fear.

She’s Wrong.

Logan has the resources to change her life but at what cost? Her relationship is the best thing that ever happened to her but it could also be the worst. If she’s

not careful, she may lose everyone that’s important to her. But it’s hard to be careful when you’re fifteen and in love.

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