Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 11-18-13

Indian Maidens Bust Loose

By Vidya Samson / Genre: Humor / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (73 reviews)

Indian Maidens Bust Loose

Nisha Desai is a young Indian woman who pines for romance in a country where love is in the same class as malaria, and where mates are selected using a calculator.

Normally deluged with ghastly suitors of her father’s choosing, she suddenly finds herself on the short list for a bride-seeing tour by a rich and handsome nephew of a neighbor. This is the stuff of which dreams are made.

A nightmare materializes when a very un-Indian ruffian moves in next door, complete with beard and obnoxious Harley motorcycle. He might play the bad boy in one of Nisha’s beloved romance novels, but in real life, he terrifies her.

So she tries to ignore the thundering engine of the bike while anxiously awaiting the arrival of Prince Charming–or at least, Prince Rich.

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Flabbergasted ( Book #1): A Novel

By Ray Blackston / Genre: American, Humor / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (65 reviews)

Flabbergasted ( Book #1): A Novel

When Flabbergasted stormed on the scene in 2003, the reviews came fast and furious:

“Good writing and an ample dose of humor make this as charming as Bridget Jones’s Diary from the male point of view.”–Library Journal

“Blackston’s novel will tickle your literary taste buds with a relational gumbo of quirky characters.”–Christian Book Previews

“Amazing. A novel that is simultaneously serious, hilarious, and impossible to put down.”–The Dallas Morning News

“With a colorful cast of quirky characters and a plot full of surprises, this is one of the feel-good novels of the year.”–CCM

Now this summertime favorite about a single stock broker looking for love in the murky waters of the southern church singles scene is repackaged with a hot new look.

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Gastien: The Cost of the Dream (The Gastien Series)

By Caddy Rowland / Genre: Continental European, Drama & Plays / Rating: 3.9 out of 5 stars (47 reviews)

Gastien: The Cost of the Dream (The Gastien Series)

When young Gastien Beauchamp flees the farm for Paris, the late nineteenth century bohemian era is in full swing. Color has always called to him, beseeching him to capture it on canvas and show people a new way of seeing things. His father belittled his dream of being an artist and tried to beat him into giving it up. The dream wouldn’t die, but Gastien would have had he not left.

He also yearns to become a great lover. After the years of anguish he has endured at the hand of his father, it would be heaven to feel pleasure instead of pain.

However, the city of Paris has a ruthless agenda. Unless a man has money and connections, Paris unfeelingly crushes dreams and destroys souls. With neither of the required assets, Gastien faces living in alleys, digging in trash bins for food, and sleeping where a man is often killed for his threadbare blanket.

Left with only his dreams, Gastien stubbornly pushes on. He vows that absolutely nothing will stop him, not yet realizing what keeping that vow might mean. Sometimes the “impossible” is possible – but the cost can be extremely high.

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Replacing Gentry

By Julie N. Ford / Genre: Mystery & Thrillers, Literary Fiction / Rating: 3.9 out of 5 stars (70 reviews)

Replacing Gentry

When Marlie attends a cadaver ball at Vanderbilt Medical School, she does not expect to actually see any cadavers. Or, that a strange apparition would issue her such a chilling message. Despite the cadaver’s warning, a year later Marlie is married to Tennessee state senator, Daniel Cannon, and living in a plantation-style mansion with two step-sons. Add to the mix her growing suspicion that something is amiss with the death of Daniel’s first wife, Gentry, and newlywed Marlie is definitely in over her pretty Yankee head.

What begins as an innocent inquiry into her new husband’s clouded past ends with Marlie facing a dangerous conspiracy.

A modern twist on the classic Gothic romance novels like Rebecca and Jane Eyre, REPLACING GENTRY follows Marlie’s precarious journey as she seeks to learn the truth about the man she married.

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Green to Go (Buck Reilly Adventure Series)

By John H. Cunningham / Genre: Mystery & Thrillers, Action & Adventure / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (47 reviews)

Green to Go (Buck Reilly Adventure Series)

Buck Reilly went to hell and back in Red Right Return. In Green to Go, it’s a one-way trip. Good news turns bad fast, and the bad just keeps coming in this thrilling new Buck Reilly adventure. The unexpected contents of his parent’s Swiss bank account offer Buck a chance to dig himself out of the hole he’s been in since the recession hit, but first he must recover the treasure maps and clues he lost at sea. Those plans get put on hold when a friend is accused of orchestrating the biggest theft in Key West’s sordid history, and the FBI uses Buck’s past against him to demand that he search for the thieves who fled aboard a hundred year-old schooner.

No good deed goes unpunished, and Buck’s dogged by greed and double-crosses from Key West to the Bahamas and points south. His hunt for the missing treasure pits him against a crazed mercenary, Peruvian rebels, rogue Cuban Secret Police and a beautiful woman torn between turning Buck over to the authorities or succumbing to his charm.

Buck’s a lot like the rest of us—trying to make ends meet and hoping for better times. He operates Last Resort Charter and Salvage, flying a 1946 amphibious Grumman Widgeon, hunting for sunken treasure and taking on an occasional passenger, no questions asked.

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 11-17-13

Fade into You (Fade series #1)

By Kate Dawes / Genre: Coming of Age / Rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars (389 reviews)

Fade into You (Fade series #1)

Olivia Rowland leaves her Midwestern life behind after graduating from college and heads off to Los Angeles to work for a Hollywood talent agent. Life in L.A. is a culture shock, but nothing compared to the jolt she gets when Max enters her life.
Max Dalton is Hollywood’s youngest and brightest movie producer/director/writer. He’s wealthy, successful, hot, and there’s never a shortage of women throwing themselves at him, but there’s only one woman he wants, and he intends to make it happen.
As Max pursues Olivia, he finds that she presents a whole new challenge for him. When Olivia finally gives in the stage is set for a perilous, yet passionate relationship. Together they discover each other’s deepest desires, and darkest secrets….

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Love, Lies, and Obsessions

By Demettrea / Genre: Urban / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (215 reviews)

Love, Lies, and Obsessions

Mia is a gorgeous 24 year old Puerto Rican bomb shell with a crucial problem. She is in an abusive relationship with her boyfriend Raymone. Tired of being forced to deal with his baby mama drama and sidechicks, Mia finally decides that enough is enough! She decides to move on and turns to Harlem, who has always been there for her. However, Raymone won’t make it easy. His obsession and jealousy gets out of hand and leads to all sorts of conflict. Will Harlem and Mia be able to weather the storm and find true love, or will Raymone ruin their relationship? Love, Lies, and Obsessions is a tale filled with deceit, murder, and drama with an unbelievable ending!

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The Pursuit of Cool

By Robb Skidmore / Genre: Literary Fiction / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (33 reviews)

The Pursuit of Cool

The Pursuit of Cool is a humorous and moving story of a ragingly ambitious, pop culture obsessed, tragically romantic young man who tries to find “cool” while attending college during the 1980s. It is sure to appeal to fans of Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity, The Catcher in the Rye, and John Hughes movies.

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You Will Pay – For Leaving Me

By Eve Rabi / Genre: Romance, Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (123 reviews)

You Will Pay - For Leaving Me

When the cop’s backs were turned, he whispered. “I will get you for this. I will hurt you in such a way, you will never recover from it. You will never be the same.”“What? You want to kill me for leaving you, Tom?”“Nope. Want you to live. Hurt every day. Suffer. Wait and see, Arena.”I stopped and looked at him. His eyes were like granite and a chill ran through me.What did he mean?

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Tampa Bait

By Edgar Winner / Genre: Action & Adventure / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (24 reviews)

Tampa Bait

Howard Stranger is happy to be back in the Tampa Bay Area where the beaches are never far, fishing is first-rate, and beautiful women are plentiful.
But then someone firebombs his bait shop business and he finds himself the target of a powerful and notorious man who specializes in setting people up to take a fall.
Even though Howard is known as a laid-back guy, you don’t really want to do something to make him mad – like try to burn down his family business. Because if you do, you may find out what happens when a former cop with a gun and nothing to lose decides to push back…

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 11-15-13

Rent A Husband: a Romantic Comedy

By Sally Mason / Genre: Humor / Rating: 3.9 out of 5 stars (42 reviews)

Rent A Husband: a Romantic Comedy

Dumped for a younger woman, delicious divorcée Darcy Pringle is determined to make a splash at her California town’s Spring Ball. But she doesn’t have a hot date. When a friend dares her to rent one: hunky womanizer Forrest Forbes, gone from riches to rags and desperate for cash, Darcy turns her life (and her bed!) topsy-turvy in this sexy romantic romp.

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The Old Man and the Wasteland: Updated Edition (Revised)

By Nick Cole / Genre: Horror, Science Fiction / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (839 reviews)

The Old Man and the Wasteland: Updated Edition (Revised)

Part Hemingway, part Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, a suspenseful odyssey into the dark heart of the post-apocalyptic American Southwest.Forty years after the destruction of civilization, human beings are reduced to salvaging the ruins of a broken world. One survivor’s most prized possession is Hemingway’s classic The Old Man and the Sea. With the words of the novel echoing across the wasteland, a living victim of the Nuclear Holocaust journeys into the unknown to break a curse. What follows is an incredible tale of grit and endurance. A lone traveler must survive the desert wilderness and mankind gone savage to discover the truth of Hemingway’s classic tale of man versus nature.Now with a new introduction by author Nick Cole.

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The Royal Dragoneers (Book One of the Dragoneers Saga)

By M. R. Mathias / Genre: Fantasy, Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars (144 reviews)

The Royal Dragoneers (Book One of the Dragoneers Saga)

After struggling for more than two centuries to tame the inhospitable islands where they washed up, the descendants of the survivors of a lost passenger ship are now striving to tame a more substantial “Mainland” they have found.

For as long as mankind has been stranded, dragons have been their sworn enemies.

But no longer…

Sixteen year-old Jenka De Swasso wants nothing more than to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a King’s Ranger. But when he one day finds himself surrounded by vicious trolls, a young pure-blood dragon comes to his rescue and they become bond-mates.

Meanwhile, the goblins have a new king, Gravelbone, and have allied themselves with the tainted “mudged” dragons to drive mankind out of its lands. Setting his sights on a vast manmade wall, Gravelbone and his wicked hell-born Nightshade, seek to poison the entire human kingdom and enslave any survivors.

Jenka and his companion, a druida warrior named Zah, soon realize that they and their bonded dragons are mankind’s only hope for survival. Forced to defy their arrogant king’s wishes, the pair set out on a desperate quest to stop Gravelbone’s forces and save mankind from its terrifying fate.

With action so intense you’ll forget to breathe and intrigue around every corner, The Royal Dragoneers is one adventure you cannot miss.

Hold on to your dragon… your journey is about to begin!

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The Road to Key West

By Michael Reisig / Genre: Action & Adventure / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (39 reviews)

The Road to Key West

The Road to Key West is an adventurous/humorous sojourn that cavorts its way through the 1970s Caribbean, from Key West and the Bahamas, to Cuba and Central America.
In August of 1971, Kansas Stamps and Will Bell set out to become nothing more than commercial divers in the Florida Keys, but adventure, or misadventure, seems to dog them at every turn. They encounter a parade of bizarre characters, from part-time pirates and heartless larcenists, to Voodoo bokors, a wacky Jamaican soothsayer, and a handful of drug smugglers. Adding even more flavor to this Caribbean brew is a complicated romance, a lost Spanish treasure, and a pre antediluvian artifact created by a distant congregation who truly understood the term, “pyramid power.”
Pour yourself a margarita, sit back, and slide into the ‘70s for a while as you follow Kansas and Will through this cocktail of madcap adventures – on The Road To Key West.

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Ten A Week Steale

By Stephen Jared / Genre: Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (18 reviews)

Ten A Week Steale

Written by Stephen Jared

Returned from the Great War, living in 1920s Hollywood, Walter Steale is hired as muscle by his politician brother while a platinum blond, renowned for playing empty-headed nymphets in the flickers, rekindles his faith in the world. But before long, lies stack up around his work, and Steale finds himself on the front lines of corruption.

Once he confronts his brother, Steale’s dirty work is used against him to protect powerful state leaders. Forced into the life of a fugitive, with the secret love of a film star at his side, the former GI fights to expose the state’s true enemies while hiding in the shadows of a thriving new metropolis where everyone is dancing fast, chased by sorrow, drugged by the dream of change.

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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: 11-06-13

When the Siren Calls

By Tom Barry / Genre: Mystery & Suspense, Romance / Rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars (89 reviews)

When the Siren Calls

A story of seduction, deception and betrayal…

When restless and neglected Isobel is invited to an idyllic Tuscan retreat by the suave and streetwise Jay, she imagines a life of excitement outside her stagnant marriage. Despite fear and guilt, she abandons herself in a passionate love affair, but is soon trapped in a web of feminine manipulation, business intrigue, and ruthless ambition, while controlling Jay encourages conservative Isobel to push beyond her sexual boundaries.

But all is not as it seems in the hilltop paradise and as her lover battles for survival, she finds herself a player in a dangerous love triangle. Unable to know who she can trust, she must fight to control both her own cravings and to save what little of herself is left. As her life falls apart, she is torn between the consequences of infidelity, her love for Jay, and fear that he will be her nemesis. For both Isobel and Jay, the excesses and confusions of an uncertain and largely amoral age are about to be brought home to roost, right in the heart of their lives.

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Exposure (East Park)

By Iris Blaire / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (74 reviews)

Exposure (East Park)

She’s the sexiest secret at East Park University.

Rylan Willow is the top model for East Park Exposed, the university’s underground and insanely successful erotic magazine.

Her friends know her as Evan Cosette, a biochemistry major with a flawless GPA.

East Park Exposed has kept Evan’s tuition paid. All she has to do is keep up the naïve school-girl disguise when she’s on campus and her secret is safe, her two worlds separate.

Until Dallas.

When the magazine runs a co-ed shoot to broaden readership, Evan’s partner is a gorgeous and disgustingly brilliant grad student. Evan doesn’t know how much of Dallas Whitley she’ll be able to handle, especially when he wants to study with her outside the studio. She promises herself that she can just be friends with Dallas. He has a girlfriend, after all. And Evan needs to focus.

She can’t when the co-ed printing brings sales through the roof.

She can’t when her photographer wants to crank the heat for the next issue.

Every steamy shoot leaves Evan gasping for breath, her true feelings for Dallas clouded by their camera-charade. But the more time she spends with him in the real world, the more she risks someone finding out the truth about her.

She needs to decide.

Who gets Dallas—Rylan, or Evan?

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The Doctor Wears A Stetson (The Diamondback Ranch Series #1)

By Anne Marie Novark / Genre: Medical, Western, Romance / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (84 reviews)

The Doctor Wears A Stetson (The Diamondback Ranch Series #1)

Jessie Kincaid was fifteen and innocent when Cameron asked her to the prom. She lost her heart that night, but his plans didn’t change. He left their small town to pursue his dreams.

Seventeen years later, a trip home leads Cameron McCade back to Salt Fork, Texas and the newly widowed Jessie Devine. Since his return, the fire between them burns as hot as ever. Can they take up where they left off? Can Jessie risk her heart again?

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Amid the Shadows

By Michael C. Grumley / Genre: Assassinations, Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (46 reviews)

Amid the Shadows

A six-year-old girl is born with an unimaginable gift.
One person wants to extinguish it.
Another wants to protect it.

After her mother is violently murdered, young Sarah Baxter ends up in the care of a new and inexperienced social worker with problems of her own. But when Christine Rose and Sarah both get thrown into a terrifying conspiracy, Christine discovers that someone will stop at nothing to rid the world of Sarah’s ability. Now the only thing that really matters is keeping Sarah alive!

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Summer Unplugged

By Amy Sparling / Genre: Short Stories / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (69 reviews)

Summer Unplugged

Summer Unplugged is a novella.

Bayleigh is addicted to her cell phone and her mom has had enough. After catching her sending a less than lady-like photo to a boy who barely knows her, Bayleigh’s mom sends her away to her grandparent’s house for the summer–sans cell phone, laptop and Ipod. Bayleigh thinks the summer will be torture without social media…that is until she meets the boy next door.

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