Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 10-11-13

Home Run: A Novel

By Travis Thrasher / Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (106 reviews)

Home Run: A Novel

Baseball star Cory Brand knows how to win. But off the field, he’s spiraling out of control. Haunted by old wounds and regrets, his future seems as hopeless as his past. Until one moment—one mistake—changes everything. To save his career, Cory must go back to the town where it all began. His plan is simple: coach the local baseball team, complete a recovery program, and get out as fast as possible. Instead, he runs headfirst into memories he can’t escape … and the love he left behind. Faced with a second chance he never expected, Cory embarks on a journey of faith, transformation and redemption. And along the way, he discovers a powerful truth: no one is beyond the healing of God.  A novel based on the major motion picture starring Vivica A. Fox and Scott Elrod, Home Run is an inspirational story of the hope and freedom God offers each of us.

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Marry Me, Maddie (The Bachelor Pact)

By Rita Herron / Genre: Humor / Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars (60 reviews)

Marry Me, Maddie (The Bachelor Pact)

One sassy southern girl looking for the right man…
Two sexy men after her heart:

Bachelor # 1 – the long term boyfriend she just dumped

Bachelor # 2 – her overprotective brothers’ best friend

When the competition heats up, who will win her heart and her hand?

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Rent A Husband: a Romantic Comedy

By Sally Mason / Genre: Humor / Rating: 3.9 out of 5 stars (32 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.

Sally Mason grew up on a diet of romantic comedies and is happiest when she has a tear in her eye and a smile on her face.

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Two Thousand Miles

By Jennifer Davis / Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (21 reviews)

Two Thousand Miles

A tragic event forces seventeen-year-old Kat Parker to move two thousand miles away from her cushy life in Malibu, California to a simpler one in Slidell, Louisiana, where she falls for the beautiful Mason Dugas and the Broussard’s–the family who has taken her in. But Kat fears she may lose them all when the secret she’s been keeping is revealed and she’s suddenly summoned back to Malibu to settle unfinished business.

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Sanguis City

By Morgan Jane Mitchell / Genre: Vampires, Paranormal, Romance / Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars (15 reviews)

Sanguis City

The End was not a Zombie apocalypse but a Vampire one.

Ever wonder what happens after the world ends?

Lilanoir Rue did, a mere by product of the destruction, she never knew what happened before hand either. No longer just a human with fangs, she is banished from the only place she called home, the Human Reservation. She wipes her tears and never looks back.

In a world gone dead, life has never been so good, for some. While others live in chaos, the chosen call Sanguis City home. The rich and powerful found a way to survive The End and enjoy every minute of it, for eternity. On the brink of a gruesome death from starvation, disease or a hungry zombie, humans flock there to sell their blood for peace and security.

The city of blood, made for and by vampires, welcomes Noir; her kind are in high demand. New vampires, the ones who bought immortality, need a loyal workforce. Neither Human nor Vampire, Bleeders take care of the city in the daylight. Draining humans by day and dating Vampires at night leaves Noir little time to think about her past, or much else, until it finds her.

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 10-08-13

Star Kissed

By Lizzy Ford / Genre: Coming of Age / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (75 reviews)

Star Kissed

Find love 10,000 years in the future!

When Mandy loses her job, she thinks she’s hit rock bottom – until her plane is swallowed by a strange storm that sends her and everyone else on board 10,000 years into the future. At first, she thinks the scary world is nothing more than a bad dream. The war-torn Earth is unrecognizable. Black fog blocks the sun, and the oceans are dry. Even worse: the planet is inhabited by half-human, half-alien creatures dying from a mysterious disease. Horrified at the thought of spending her life here, she clings to the knowledge that there’s one man who can open the star gate to send her home.

As the Naki prince who controls the star gate, Akkadi gets first choice of any human female that makes her way through the star gate. Only by breeding with purebred humans from the past can his race hope to remain immune to the disease and hopefully, develop an eventual cure. With shrinking resources and a raging battle for the human planet, dutiful, commanding Akkadi is less than thrilled at the idea of trying to figure out Mandy, a woman he views as wild with neither discipline nor respect for someone in his position.

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Above Rubies (Rockland Ranch)

By Jaclyn Hawkes / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (54 reviews)

Above Rubies (Rockland Ranch)

His chivalry was strangling her.
He thought he was helping her—and in truth, he was. She was in desperate straits. But as honorable as he was, he was also breaking her heart.
Her attraction was drowning him.
When World Champion rodeo cowboy Rossen Rockland and his friends rescue a young runaway who has been abused by her foster father and take her home to his parents’ ranch, he expects her to turn out to be a pain in the neck. And sometimes she is.
It doesn’t take him long to figure out that she has way more than her allotment of troubles—and far more than her share of gifts. Lovely, talented, and ravingly brilliant, Kit Star is too young, unbelievably humble, and oh, so loveable. Knowing that she needs his protection and time to grow into her potential, Rossen also figures out that what she really is, is a pain in the heart.

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Friends Without Benefits (Knitting in the City)

By Penny Reid / Genre: Humor / Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars (31 reviews)

Friends Without Benefits (Knitting in the City)

There are three things you need to know about Elizabeth Finney: 1) She suffers from severe sarcastic syndrome, especially when she’s unnerved, 2) No one unnerves her like Nico Manganiello, and 3) She knows how to knit.

Elizabeth Finney is almost always right about everything: the musical merits of boy bands are undervalued by society, “benefits” with human Ken dolls are better without friendship, and the sun has set on her once-in-a-lifetime chance for true love. But when Elizabeth’s plans for benefits without friendship are disarmed by the irritatingly charismatic and chauvinistic Nico Manganiello- her former nemesis- she finds herself struggling to maintain the electric fence around her heart while avoiding electrocution or, worse, falling in love.

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Awakenings (Elemental Series)

By Hally Willmott / Genre: Fantasy, Teen, Young Adult / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (37 reviews)

Awakenings (Elemental Series)

When sixteen-year old Jacey Adison’s parents tell her they must move again, she has never questioned their life style. Until now…When Jacey was two, her parents fled the protection of their birthplace, the mystical dimension of Nemele. Leaving was the only solution her parents believed might allow them to keep their family together and alive…

The Adisons have been running from a sect of iniquitous beings from Nemele who covet Jacey. Her parents have repressed their adversaries’ relentless tracking efforts by not utilizing their own mystical powers. They have chosen to conceal themselves within the only realm they knew they’d be able to survive. They are living under their self-imposed powerless sanctions on Earth, which constitutes the nineteenth nation of Nemele.

Her parents have never revealed their true identities to Jacey, consequently keeping her true lineage and unique birthright from her. Jacey’s family has pretended to be non-magical humans as a ploy to prevent an ancient omnipotent entity from killing more innocent beings in its relentless quest to possess Jacey.

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Purple Moon (Teen & Young Adult – Religion & Spirituality)

By Tessa Emily Hall / Genre: Religious, Teen, Young Adult / Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (31 reviews)

Purple Moon (Teen & Young Adult - Religion & Spirituality)

Selena’s life isn’t turning out to be the fairy tale she imagined as a kid. 

That hope seemed to vanish long ago when her dad kicked her and her mom out of the house. This summer might finally hold the chance of a new beginning for Selena … but having to live with her snobby cousin in Lake Lure, NC while waiting for her mom to get out of rehab wasn’t how Selena was planning on spending her summer. She soon begins to wonder why she committed to give up her “bad habits” for this.

Things don’t seem too bad, though. Especially when Selena gains the attention of the cute neighbor next door. But when her best friend back home in Brooklyn desperately needs her, a secret that’s been hidden from Selena for years is revealed, and when she becomes a target for one of her cousin’s nasty pranks, she finds herself having to face the scars from her past and the memories that come along with them. Will she follow her mom’s example in running away, or trust that God still has a fairy tale life written just for her?

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 10-07-13

The Moon Dwellers (The Dwellers Saga)

By David Estes / Genre: Action & Adventure, Teen, Young Adult / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (198 reviews)

The Moon Dwellers (The Dwellers Saga)

In a desperate attempt to escape destruction decades earlier, humankind was forced underground, into the depths of the earth, creating a new society called the Tri-Realms.

17-year-old Adele, a member of the middle-class moon dwellers, is unjustly sentenced to life in prison deep underground.

When a war breaks out within the Tri-Realms, Adele must escape from prison and seek to uncover her parents’ true past, armed with only a wicked roundhouse kick and two fists that have been well-trained for combat by her father.

In her world someone must die.

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Grave Consequences: A Novel (Grand Tour Series)

By Lisa T. Bergren / Genre: Romance, Religious Fiction / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (104 reviews)

Grave Consequences: A Novel (Grand Tour Series)

The Powerful, Epic Romance ContinuesFor Cora Kensington, the journey of a lifetime takes unexpected twists. And her future—her very life—depends on the decisions she’ll make at each crossroad. As her European tour with her newfound family takes her through Austria, France, and Italy, an unseen enemy trails close behind. Meanwhile, a forbidden love continues to claim her heart, putting everyone’s plans in danger. And as Cora stays one step ahead of it all, what might need the most protection is her own heart, torn between the dramatic pursuit of a dashing Frenchman and a man who has been quietly staking claim to her affections all along. Love has dangers all its own. She must escape the bonds of the past and discover the faith to make the right choices, as each one has grave consequences.

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Mad World: Epidemic

By Samaire Provost / Genre: Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (51 reviews)

Mad World: Epidemic

“The Black Plague is ancient history. It killed 100 million people nearly seven centuries ago, halfway around the world from the technologically advanced research center at Stanford University. Scientists there have recently begun examining samples of bone marrow from plague-infected corpses unearthed in Europe. All the necessary safeguards are in place. What could go wrong?
Alyssa and Jake are away with their class on a highly anticipated year-end trip to Broadway with their senior acting class when all hell breaks loose at home. Traveling back, and trying to find their families, they encounter deadly results. Riots are breaking out. People are being evacuated. And they have no idea what’s happening to their families.
Horrific ordeals, heart-pounding tragedy, and chance encounters harden them for what lies ahead. Faced with tormenting decisions, they’re forced to follow their instinct for survival at any cost – even when the cost is a heart-wrenching decision of life or death.
A harrowing adventure of frightening discoveries, horrifying confrontations and narrow escapes in Epidemic, the first installment of the Mad World series.
Find out what’s got everyone so terrified.”

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Shades of Gray

By Carol A. Spradling / Genre: Historical Romance, Romance / Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars (31 reviews)

Shades of Gray

Mail order bride, Kat Bailey has more to fear than malicious rumors about a crazed murderer. But a woman with no money or family has few options. She quickly learns that her intended groom is not as honorable as Hampton society believes him to be. Beaten by her betrothed, she seeks refuge in the home of the most feared man in town.

Accused murderer, Grayson Gregory is more interested in guarding a family secret than clearing his name. When a broken and battered woman collapses on his doorstep, he is reminded of a torturous past he can’t escape. Kat may have opened old and festered wounds, but he can’t deny the fire she ignites in him.

Kat is determined to uncover the truth about Gray, regardless of what she finds. As their attraction to one another grows, Gray must confront his dark past in order to keep her safe. His secrets unfold, forcing him to choose between a new love, or to remain plagued by the demons of his past.

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Window

By T.M. Franklin / Genre: Short Stories / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (26 reviews)

Window

Chloe Blake has a unique gift, an odd connection to her house that results in glimpses of the past, present, and future via the picture window in her living room. Unfortunately, it’s a gift that sometimes proves to be more of a curse. Especially when she tries to help out Ethan Reynolds, the gorgeous boy who lives across the street – an endeavor that, for some reason, always seems to backfire.

Or leave her covered in mud.

But the house is convinced Ethan’s life is in danger and Chloe’s the only one who can save him. The problem is, he thinks she’s more than a little crazy.

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 10-06-13

Lost and Found (Growing Pains #1)

By K.F. Breene / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (27 reviews)

Lost and Found (Growing Pains #1)

On the tail-end of her ex-boyfriend crashing through a restraining order and putting her in the hospital, Krista realizes that the only way to effectively escape her past is to put distance between it. She gets her life back on track in San Francisco with a job that has limitless potential.

Unfortunately, to achieve her dreams, she must brave the star of the company; a charming and handsome salesman that isn’t used to the word no. Krista tries to run from him at every turn, but his pull continually sucks her back in; her hesitancy to trust the only thing saving her from being another notch on a bedpost.

Sean never has to try with women. He’s the type of guy to jump in with both feet, get bored, and sprint right back out. But when a geeky new hire stumbles through the company, befuddling him with a keen intellect he doesn’t expect, he starts to lose his way. Before he knows it, all his efforts are concentrated around trying to capture the interest of the only woman to run when he tries to deliver a line. As she opens up, so does he, landing him in a terrain as disconcerting as it is invigorating.

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Twisted Arrangement

By Mora Early / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars (31 reviews)

Twisted Arrangement

All Emma wanted to do was retrieve the family heirloom watch. The watch that her ne’er-do-well brother lost in a poker game to dashing gambler and renowned ladies man Joshua Owens.

She crashes a party at Joshua’s mansion, a party she knew about because of her job in the promotions business… and one she could lose if they ever found out she was doing this. But her job will become the least of her worries when an encounter with Joshua threatens to turn her entire life upside down.

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Valor (A Greystone Novel #1)

By Taylor Longford / Genre: Paranormal & Urban, Teen, Young Adult / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (61 reviews)

Valor (A Greystone Novel #1)

When gargoyles last walked the earth eight hundred years ago, the proud race traveled in close-knit packs and could turn to stone at will. They were strong, beautiful creatures whose throats were marked with ancient runes. Throughout time, their greatest enemies were the ugly and brutal harpies that people today mistake for gargoyles.

Like all gargoyles, and the rest of his pack, Valor is driven by instinct to protect the people he cares about. So when he encounters a human girl for the first time in almost a thousand years, his first impulse is to keep her from harm. But Valor soon discovers that the greatest risk to MacKenzie’s safety is himself. Just one scratch from the poisonous barbs on his knuckles…and she’ll be lost to him forever.

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Shift: Book One (The Spiritus Chronicles)

By David Reynolds / Genre: Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (29 reviews)

Shift:  Book One (The Spiritus Chronicles)

Waring angels and demons destroying the neighborhood? Sandy thinks a night of baby-sitting five-year-old Cassie, who reads Dickens, will be fun, and that maybe she can get to the bottom of Cassie’s nightmares and a secret the little girl is hiding. When an experimental weather-control device falls off the Navy jet carrying it and it crashes just blocks away up in the hills, it ramps up, out of control, and they awake to a massive storm and utter darkness. With the power outage, the only working radio Sandy can find is one that her dear departed husband had stored in a metal drum of survival gear in the garage.

Sandy and Cassie learn that there is an exodus to the local Police Station for shelter because their chunk of town has been taken someplace else by the faulty apparatus that has borne them away in a bubble of time and space where angels and demons, or something, are fighting in the sky and on the ground. Cassie thinks that’s what they are because that is what they resemble. Others believe they are aliens at war and they are helplessly marooned with them.

Meanwhile, the military aparatus is outside The Zone attempting to undo the damage, even as virtually every branch of the Federal Government decends upon the coastal community of Ventura, California.

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Beyond the Pink Moon: A Memoir of Legacy, Loss and Survival (Special Edition)

By Nicki Boscia Durlester / Genre: Memoirs, Biographies & Memoirs / Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars (60 reviews)

Beyond the Pink Moon: A Memoir of Legacy, Loss and Survival (Special Edition)

In this touching, frank and informative memoir, Nicki Boscia Durlester intimately chronicles her transformational journey after being diagnosed with breast cancer. Her story begins with her mother, who was diagnosed with the disease in 1962: a time when breast cancer was only discussed behind closed doors, and long before women took an active role in their diagnosis and treatment.

Nicki provides unique insight into being part of a large Italian-American family afflicted with the BRCA2 gene, and shares poignant stories about her mother and aunts who faced breast and ovarian cancer with extraordinary grace and courage.

Nicki writes candidly about her frustration in finding the right team of doctors as well as the highs and lows of her journey, sharing humor and heart along the way. She puts a human face on statistics ranking breast cancer as the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women in the United States.

This deeply moving story of legacy, loss and ultimately survival is told through the eyes of a daughter who shared an unbreakable bond with her mother. As she travels the scary, unpredictable road through her own diagnosis, treatment and recovery, Nicki discovers the most difficult challenge she faces becomes the most spiritually transcendent experience of her life.

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 10-02-13

Lengths

By Steph Campbell / Genre: Coming of Age / Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars (143 reviews)

Lengths

Nineteen-year-old Whit Conrad leaves her conservative Pennsylvania home for sunny California, looking for independence, a fresh start, and a place to stash her grief. She promptly finds a job at a tattoo parlor, a craptastic first apartment, and one friend—Ryan—who is a little less friend, a little more benefits.

Deo Beckett is a soulful surfer with a passion for tattoos and beautiful women. On the eve of his twenty-second birthday, he finds himself living with his grandfather, recently unemployed, and seriously adrift. He doesn’t know much about what he wants out of life, but he does know his current situation isn’t cutting it.

When Deo meets Whit, she’s all sexy makeup and fierce, smart-ass fun. It doesn’t take him long to see past her tough shell. And when he gets a good look at what’s under all the superficial stuff that usually gets his attention, it leaves Deo wondering if there might be more to life than living fast and free.

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Haven (War of the Princes)

By A. R. Ivanovich / Genre: Steampunk, Science Fiction / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (384 reviews)

Haven (War of the Princes)

From missing socks to missing people, nothing could remain hidden from seventeen year-old Katelyn Kestrel for long, but after locating a forbidden passage out of her isolated country, Haven, she discovers for the first time that there are some things that should never be found.

Outside the safety of her homeland’s borders, Katelyn meets Rune, a young soldier who will die without her immediate aid. She never considered that helping him would lead to her capture. While being held prisoner by the handsome Lord Dylan Axton, she learns that the outside world is rife with war and controlled by people with extraordinary powers. It becomes clear that there was a very good reason the founders of Haven locked their people away from the rest of the world. The depth of her peril reaches a fever pitch when a ruthless Commander wants Katelyn dead. Her only hope is to return to Haven, but can she survive long enough to find her home?

HAVEN is an exciting young adult fantasy novel, set in a unique, rural steampunk world, by debut author A. R. Ivanovich.

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Homecoming, The (): A Novel

By Dan Walsh / Genre: Romance / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (95 reviews)

Homecoming, The (): A Novel

No sooner is Shawn Collins home from the fighting in Europe than he is called upon to serve his country in another way–as a speaker on the war bond tour. While other men might jump at the chance to travel around the country with attractive Hollywood starlets, Shawn just wants to stay home with his son Patrick and the aging father with whom he has finally reconciled. When Shawn taps Katherine Townsend to be Patrick’s nanny while he’s on the road, he has no idea that she will be the key to his future happiness and the mending of his heart.
This heartwarming story of tender love and fresh starts will capture readers.

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Beach Blanket Santa (Holiday Brides Series)

By Ginny Baird / Genre: Humor / Rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars (33 reviews)

Beach Blanket Santa (Holiday Brides Series)

When Holiday Hearts Meet, Love’s in the Bag…
Three years ago, Sarah Anderson made a terrible mistake. After one too many glasses of champagne at her best friend’s wedding she woke up in bed with the best man. To make matters worse, he ran out on her and she never heard from him again. When Sarah’s gifted with Christmas week at her best friend’s beach house, the last person she expects to run into is the handsome heartbreaker. But it appears fate has ensured a mysterious double booking, and he was given a key to the same place. With a winter storm raging on their secluded barrier island, it seems they’re both trapped there together. Will their marooned status push them even farther apart, or heal past wounds and lead to a new start?

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Faces,Souls, And Painted Crows

By Rudi Unterthiner / Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (62 reviews)

Faces,Souls, And Painted Crows

“Faces, Souls, and Painted Crows” chronicles the life of the protagonist, Paul Reiter, from his humble beginnings in a war torn village in the Alps to a successful cosmetic surgery practice in Hollywood. The obstacles he encounters along the way shape and strengthen him, but also cause him to question his role as a surgeon who erases the wrinkles of time.
Attempting to justify this work with the rich and famous, he travels to the Baja peninsula on weekends to provide medical care to a poor Mexican village. Throughout the book we meet charming and unique characters from both worlds and witness the transformation of Dr. Reiter as he delves into the mysterious connection between the face and the soul and the healing power of forgiveness.

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