Here’s a quick update to the request I had yesterday…you can click here or type in http://wp.me/p2b82w-4vH into your web browser in case you missed it or want to read it again.

In an effort to help out the blog, and to see if we could make a book reach the #1 best-seller status on the Amazon storefront, I challenged you to buy Pacific Avenue for just a penny. Many of you have helped the post go a little viral, and I am happy to report this book has zoomed all the way to #34 on the Kindle best-seller list!

Can you make this one #1 in the Amazon Kindle store? Sure, you can! Just click the link below and spend a penny – not only will we achieve our goal, but it will help the blog out in terms of being able to list future free Kindle books. How about passing this on (forward the email, give the post a “Like”, call your friends, you name it) and let’s get this book to #1!

Pacific Avenue, by Anne L. Watson, is regularly $1.99 but has been discounted 99% to just $0.01 in the Amazon Kindle store (that’s right, it’s just a penny today), and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 54 customer reviews.

Category: Romance / Literary Fiction

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Where do you go from the end of the line? This is the question facing Kathy Woodbridge as she steps off the bus in the port city of San Pedro, California. Nineteen years old, from Louisiana, she is running away from her past. There’s a lot to run away from.

What do you do when there’s no one to do for? That’s what Lacey Greer wants to know, with her only child off at college. When Kathy gets a job at the office where Lacey works, she can tell that Kathy’s in trouble. Lacey’s husband advises her to stay out of it — but what’s she supposed to do, buy a rocking chair?

Set in San Pedro, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans in the early seventies, Pacific Avenue explores themes of love, belonging, helpfulness, hope, forgiveness, reconciliation, interracial marriage, and healing from the trauma of war. At the end of the line, will Kathy find a way to return home?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/3houi6 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Pacific Avenue .
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Here are four Kindle book offers for your Sunday consideration from highly-rated independent authors who have discounted the pricing for a limited time just for members of the blog.

Three Days in Seattle, by Debra Burroughs, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 152 customer reviews.

Category: Romantic Suspense

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Revenge. Romance. Murder.

A gorgeous Blonde, a kidnapped Sister, a handsome Stranger, and a vengeful Killer.

The desperate race is on to find the sister before both women wind up dead.

A sweet Romantic Suspense novel that will curl your toes.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/qd8i27 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Three Days in Seattle .

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Double Trouble, by Deborah Cooke and Claire Cross, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted 80% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 232 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Two sisters. One disaster.

First things first: I’m the bad twin. While my sister, Marcia, has the perfect family in the perfect suburb, I’ve been making my living as an Internet advice columnist and designing Web sites in my downtown loft. I always thought I had the right answer – and hair color – for any occasion. That is, until Marcia ran up loads of debt and ran out on her husband and kids, and I was left helping to pick up the pieces. Her husband, James, is a lawyer who I hate on principle alone.

But for a guy who’s just lost his job, his marriage, and his expensive toys, he’s keeping it together – and making me rethink my feelings toward him. It’s not that he’s traded in his conservative suits for sexy jeans. It’s that he’s not giving up what’s important to him, and oh baby, I’m a sucker for a guy who hangs tough.

That doesn’t mean I’m ready to step into Marcia’s designer shoes now that she’s gone AWOL.

And it doesn’t mean I’m going to fall for James’s easy charm…not again, anyhow. Besides, I’ve had a lifelong policy of not being mistaken for my twin and I’m not backing down on that one now – no matter how convenient it might be for a certain sexy (and persuasive) man…

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/xriu7n into your web browser to pick up your copy of Double Trouble .

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Dark Nights Dangerous Men, is a collection of sex highly-rated books by carious authors, and is a new release specially priced at just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store.

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

6 Bestselling Authors, 6 Sexy Reads…

From romantic suspense to paranormal romance; from a full length novel to a bite sized novella, whatever you’re looking for, we’ve got the story for you!
Total collection: 317,000 words

STOLEN FURY by Elisabeth Naughton

To unearth a centuries-old secret, an archaeologist must team up with the rakish thief who’s stolen both an ancient relic and her heart…

Word count: 100,000

BOUND BY BLOOD by Cynthia Eden

Married to the enemy. In order to save her clan, vampire princess Morgan LaBeaux will do anything…even marry werewolf alpha Jace Vaughn. She may have to trust him with her life, but Morgan vows to never give the wolf her heart.

Word Count: 21,000

NO ONE TO TRUST by Katie Reus

When Elizabeth Martinez is shoved into the cross hairs of one of Miami’s death-dealing drug lords she has no choice but to depend on former Marine Porter Caldwell, her ex-boyfriend and the one man she’s tried desperately to forget.

Word count: 45,000

RAPHAEL by Alexandra Ivy

The brilliant and dangerous diplomat of the Pantera shapeshifters, Raphael has devoted his life to discovering the key to the infertility that is threatening the extinction of his puma race. Creating a vast network of spies worldwide, he never expected to discover that the answer might be beneath his very nose. But when Ashe, a beautiful human female, crosses his path, his most primitive instincts are stirred. Unable to resist, he takes her to his bed, and is shocked when she becomes pregnant with his child. It’s a miracle that might prove to be the salvation of his people, but only if he can keep her safe from the mercenaries determined to kill her.

Word count: 21,000

PARISH by Laura Wright

Untamed and undeniably sexy, Parish, leader of the Pantera hunters, rarely leaves the magic of the Wildlands to deal with the humans he despises. But with the prized and risky Pantera birth on the way, puma shifter, Parish must travel to New Orleans to find and bring back a human doctor. The moment he sees the lovely, talented and all too human Dr. Julia Cabot he cannot resist the wild, potent drive to make her his. Betrayed and destroyed by love, Julia will not let her heart choose her path again. But as she and Parish fight to save the life of an unborn child, a fierce and overwhelming bond develops between them, threatening her frozen heart with the secret hope and ultimate temptation of love and family.

Word count: 20,000

INTIMATE ENEMIES by Joan Swan

An emergency physician on leave returns to Baja Mexico in search of answers in the deaths of her mother and stepbrother and uncovers buried secrets that threaten her life and a man who threatens her heart.

Word count: 110,000

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/qgdvui into your web browser to pick up your copy of Dark Nights Dangerous Men .

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Broken Pieces, by Rachel Thompson, is $5.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 116 customer reviews.

Category: Non-Fiction / Women’s Studies / Poetry

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Winner, Honorable Mention, 2013 San Francisco Book Festival! 2013 Global eBook Award Nominee! eFestival of Words 3-time nominee!

Broken Pieces quickly hit the Paid Top 5 list on Women’s Studies AND Poetry and continues to impact people in unexpected way.
Welcome to bestselling author Rachel Thompson’s newest nonfiction work! Vastly different in tone from her previous essay collections A Walk In The Snark and The Mancode: Exposed, BROKEN PIECES is a collection of pieces inspired by one woman’s life: love, loss, abuse, trust, grief, and ultimately, love again.

Please note: the book is laid out in keeping with the title. This means you are reading ‘pieces,’ or glimpses, into the author’s mind. And heart.

This is NOT a humor book! It IS a book about relationships, a study of women, a book with heart.

Want to see why people love it? Why they call it ‘riveting, powerful, insightful?’
Read it and see why Broken Pieces is tearing up the lists for Poetry, Nonfiction, Women’s Studies, and books for women!

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/9qxpha into your web browser to pick up your copy of Broken Pieces.

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Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is CONTACT , by AFN Clarke, and this book is normally $3.99 but has been discounted 25% to just $2.99 in the Amazon Kindle store; this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 16 customer reviews.

Category: Memoir / Autobiography

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

This new expanded edition of AFN Clarke’s bestselling and controversial book CONTACT is a raw, visceral, “no-holds-barred” account of combat from one of the men we paid to kill. When first published it caused a furor for its devastating honesty and chilling revelations.

Clarke vividly recounts his experiences of two tours in Northern Ireland (in Belfast and Crossmaglen) as a Platoon Commander with Britain’s elite Parachute Regiment during the blood soaked 1970′s. Soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan comment on how relevant the book still is today, as the dangers, political agendas and religious roots underlying the conflict are eerily and heartbreakingly similar to their own more recent experiences.

Clarke takes us to heart of the action. We feel what it’s like to live each day with senses on high alert, waiting to be ripped apart by the accuracy of a sniper or a well-hidden bomb. We enter the private world of soldiers ordered to hold the lines in an ancient quarrel they have little affinity for, but whose consequences are deadly. We experience their emotions, fear, courage, humor, bravado and the anguish of death.

This expanded edition continues from where the print version ended, revealing the untold nightmare Clarke lived through having nearly died, with half his insides missing, suffering from PTSD and being expected to return to a “normal life”. A story of the scars of war that affect generations. Of heartache, courage and hope for peace.

“I am an ex soldier who served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles and this is an excellent account of what it was like. I only wish we had an officer like Captain Clarke.” pm, 5 Stars Amazon UK

“.. its honesty and passion cannot be denied .. Mr. Clarke has sent out a powerful and disturbing early warning signal.” Maurice Leitch, Daily Telegraph.

“..a major contribution to our understanding of war and how people act .. Contact is the work of a brave writer.” Kevin Toolis, Irish News.

“As a civilian it’s hard to imagine what’s it’s really like to be a soldier in combat but this book opened my eyes. I highly recommend it …” KTHuffy, 4 Stars Amazon USA.

CONTACT was reviewed by soldiers who served with Captain Clarke as verification of his recollections. It was first published in the UK in 1983 by Martin Secker & Warburg, was serialized for 5 days in The Mirror and became an instant best seller. In 1984 it was published in paperback by PAN Books, by Schocken Books New York and made into an award-winning BBC TV film. And in 2012 came the expanded ebook edition, which all these years later is still selling strong. Readers outside the UK are invited to visit Amazon.co.uk for soldier’s reviews and comments. (Book length approx. 200 pages.)

AFN Clarke is a full-time author and writes fiction of various genre – fast-paced thrillers (An Unquiet American), poignant human drama (Dry Tortugas), humorous satire (The Book of Baker Series – Dreams from the Death Age; Armageddon; Genesis Revisited), psychological horror (Collisions); and the Thomas Gunn suspense series (The Orange Moon Affair) with more coming soon. Visit the Amazon Kindle Store or afnclarke.com for further information.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/17362t into your web browser to pick up your copy of CONTACT .

About the Author:

I’ve been fortunate as a writer to have written the best seller CONTACT and the screenplay for the award winning BBCTV film of the same name. The success of CONTACT was a turning point in my life and I now count myself lucky to be pursuing my passion and writing full time – with 6 works of fiction on sale on Amazon and more on the way. I enjoy writing in various genres – from suspense, intrigue and politically charged thrillers with controversial and provocative themes to literary fiction, humorous satire and books that explore the complexity of human relationships.

Apart from my many lives as a racing car driver, Captain in Britain’s elite Parachute Regiment, screenwriter, pilot, yacht skipper, and proud father of four daughters I’ve lived in Hong Kong, India, Libya, Iran, the UK, USA and travelled extensively. Favorite things to do? Write, sail, listen to opera, rock music, cook gourmet meals, drink wine, have heated discussions and travel off the beaten path.

Having had a near death experience, lost half my insides and made it back from the trauma of war, all I can say is that tends to change how a person looks at life and maybe in a strange way it’s made me a better writer. For me – and I suspect for most of my readers – good books are a great way to shut out every day life, suspend normal ways of thinking, and allow yourself to be transported to another world. I love a good story, enjoy laughing out loud, being challenged by thought provoking ideas, sitting on the edge of my seat in anticipation of what’s to come and the thrill of unexpected endings. And so I hope that’s what my readers get – the thrill, suspense, drama, intrigue, humor, mystery, danger, poignancy, love and laughter of life seen through different eyes.

Published works include CONTACT, COLLISIONS, AN UNQUIET AMERICAN, THE BOOK OF BAKER SERIES (Dream from the Death Age; Armageddon; Genesis Revisited- release 2013), DRY TORTUGAS and THE ORANGE MOON AFFAIR the first of the Thomas Gunn thriller series. For more information I invite you to visit www.afnclarke.com or email author@afnclarke.com. Comment on my blog, connect on Facebook and Twitter and I thank you sincerely for taking the time to write a review of any books you have read.

You can visit AFN Clarke’s Amazon author page if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/afn into your web browser.

 
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I didn’t mention a free Kindle book in today’ posts as the ratio of free downloads to paid downloads is above 80% – please remember that is not my rule but Amazon’s rule! While I’ve written about this rule a couple of times, if you don’t know what I’m talking about you can read about it in a prior post if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/xbqyfr into your web browser.

What does that mean to you? Well, that means a lot of you are downloading a lot of free Kindle books after clicking over from a link on the blog – that’s ok, but I need to get the ratio back down below 80% before I can post more free Kindle book offers!

So, here’s a request I’d like to make for each of you who has downloaded a free Kindle book after clicking through from one of the links on the blog this month – please buy a Kindle book after clicking one of my links! To make it as painless as possible for you, all I am asking is for you to invest one penny – hopefully, just one penny won’t break any of you and it will help with me being able to continue doing what I’m doing.

Actually, I’d like for you to buy this book I mention below – and I’ll throw in a challenge: if everyone who reads this post will invest just one cent and purchase this book below, not only will you help out the blog but let’s see if we can make this book reach the #1 paid title in the entire Amazon Kindle store! I’m certain it would happen – pass this message and link on to your Kindle-owning friends, and let’s see if we can get this book to the #1 spot: you’ll not only make my day, but I will bet you will make the author’s year!

Pacific Avenue, by Anne L. Watson, is regularly $1.99 but has been discounted 99% to just $0.01 in the Amazon Kindle store (that’s right, it’s just a penny today), and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 54 customer reviews.

Category: Romance / Literary Fiction

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Where do you go from the end of the line? This is the question facing Kathy Woodbridge as she steps off the bus in the port city of San Pedro, California. Nineteen years old, from Louisiana, she is running away from her past. There’s a lot to run away from.

What do you do when there’s no one to do for? That’s what Lacey Greer wants to know, with her only child off at college. When Kathy gets a job at the office where Lacey works, she can tell that Kathy’s in trouble. Lacey’s husband advises her to stay out of it — but what’s she supposed to do, buy a rocking chair?

Set in San Pedro, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans in the early seventies, Pacific Avenue explores themes of love, belonging, helpfulness, hope, forgiveness, reconciliation, interracial marriage, and healing from the trauma of war. At the end of the line, will Kathy find a way to return home?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/3houi6 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Pacific Avenue .
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Continuing our “Meet the Authors” series, here is a guest blog post from best-selling author Laurel Osterkamp…

Are My Books Literary Fiction?

The other day I entered a contest with my most recent book, November Surprise, and I had to pick a genre. None of them really fit, but I was torn between romance and literary fiction. November Surprise is a love story, but it’s also about self-discovery, set against six recent presidential campaigns. Does that make it literary instead?

When I think literary, I think James Joyce, Jane Austen, or Louise Erdrich. I think of a novel that is made to challenge and enlighten the reader. I certainly wouldn’t classify my own books as literary. I’d like to believe they are quality work, and hopefully they occasionally challenge and enlighten whoever has picked them up. But ultimately they are meant to entertain. They’re not timeless, as literary fiction ought to be. But they are relevant.

So here’s my question: What ever happened to popular fiction? To me, a book that is entertaining, easy to read, and relevant should fall into the “popular fiction” category. But I don’t see many books advertised as popular fiction anymore.

Around a year ago independent author, Darcie Chan, rose to the top of the New York Times bestseller list with her novel, The Mill River Recluse. She was one of the first independent authors to achieve this feat, and she received a lot of press. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal (12/9/11) Chan described her early challenges with marketing her book.  “It didn’t really fit any genre. It has elements of romance, suspense, mystery, but it falls into the catch-all category of literary fiction, and of course that’s the most difficult to sell.”

I haven’t read Ms. Chan’s novel, so my aim here is not to disparage it. But since reading that article I have noticed a lot of authors have classified their own work as “literary.” Whether that’s by choice or because they aren’t able to classify it as something else, I’m not sure. But I do have a theory. Mainstream authors who are published by big name publishers often don’t want to be branded as “literary fiction” because it makes their work sound boring. But indie authors welcome the title, because it gives them an air of credibility. Like it or not, there is still a bit of stigma in being self-published, but calling our work “literary” makes it sound more impressive.

I teach English at a public high school, so I could talk for hours about what is literature and what is not. But when it comes down to it, I think the whole concept of “literary fiction” is over-rated. If an author has something to say, and he or she says it well, then it’s worthwhile even if it isn’t literary. Yet I also hesitate to brand November Surprise as a romance. I don’t have a shirtless guy on the cover, there are no real sex scenes, and while love is a theme, it doesn’t follow the formula of a “romance”.  I know there are a ton of well written (perhaps even literary) romance novels out there, but there are certain expectations that come with romance novels that November Surprise just doesn’t meet.

In the grand scheme of things, classifying my books into a genre is not a huge problem. But as self-published works continue to grow both in amount and in esteem, independent authors will have to realize some sort of system for labeling their work. It’s the first, and probably the most important step in marketing our books to readers.  And finding readers is way more perplexing than writing the book itself, whether it’s literary or not.

Thank you, Laurel!  You can check out Laurel’s Amazon Author page and check out her books if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/laurel into your web browser, her blog at http://www.laurelosterkamp.blogspot.com/, and her personal website at http://www.laurelosterkamp.com/

Here are four additional Kindle book offers for your consideration from highly-rated independent authors who have discounted the pricing for a limited time just for members of the blog.

Midnight Reflections, by Pamela M. Richter, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 34 customer reviews.

Category: Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

MIDNIGHT REFLECTIONS – What really happens at Midnight?

Julia’s midnight reflections actually happened at four in the morning. Tragedy had struck her family. She was far from home, lonely, watching a handsome man sleeping in her bed at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Robin, the handsome sleeping man had put himself in terrible danger so she could solve a mystery. Now she was feeling guilty as well as heart broken.

Robin himself is obsessed by Julia, knowing something besides her attractiveness enchanted him; an illusive mixture of sweetness and intelligence that beckons. He’s playing a role, hiding his true identity.

Julia is playing a dangerous role herself, working for a man she believes is a murderer. She also suspects that Robin is much more than the simple man he proclaims himself to be. Can she trust him?

Together they uncover inflammatory information and are forced on the run by a dangerous and angry politician.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/v5kz6v into your web browser to pick up your copy of Midnight Reflections .

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Armored Hearts, by Pauline Creeden and Melissa Turner Lee, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 12 customer reviews.

Category: Fantasy / Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

When a crippled young lord rescues a girl falling from a tree, it reveals a secret about himself and his mother’s side of the family that could put him at the center of a war with beings he thought only existed in fairy tales.

Tristan Gareth Smyth lived his entire life stuck at home at Waverly Park and left behind while his Grandfather makes trips to London, all because of his blasted wheelchair.

Then an American heiress falls in his lap, literally, and he must find a way to keep her at a distance to protect not only his secret, but everyone around him from an assassin sent to kill him.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/q47pvk into your web browser to pick up your copy of Armored Hearts .

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The Madams of Mischief, by Sherry Siska, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 17 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery / Humor

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

“I practically skipped over toward the green ninety gallon trash tote. I lifted the hinged lid of the trash can, swung it open, and tossed in the diaper. That’s when Destiny not only called my name, she also spit in my face, thumbed her nose, and blew me a big old raspberry. Lucky me.”

Those crazy Madams of Mischief, Destiny, Lady Luck, and Fate seem to be out to get Marty Sheffield! Marty just wants to live her quiet life in her quiet town while recovering from being left at the altar by up-and-coming country music star, Ricky Ray Riley. The Doom Divas seem to have other ideas, though. While babysitting her sister’s kids, Marty finds the body of a former classmate wedged in a ninety-gallon trash container at a local park. With the help of her sister, Marty sets out to solve the mystery and save her own hide before it’s too late.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/madams into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Madams of Mischief .

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Swimming with Maya: A Mother’s Story, by Eleanor Vincent, is just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 35 customer reviews.

Category: Memoir

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Previously available only in hardcover, Swimming with Maya demonstrates the remarkable process of healing after the traumatic death of a loved one. Eleanor Vincent raised her two daughters, Maya and Meghan, virtually as a single-parent. Maya, the eldest, was a high-spirited and gifted young woman. As a toddler, Maya was an angelic tow-head, full of life and curiosity. As a teenager, Maya was energetic and independent – and often butted heads with her mother. But Eleanor and Maya were always close and connected, like best friends or sisters, but always also mother and daughter.

Then at age 19, Maya mounts a horse bareback as a dare and, in a crushing cantilever fall, is left in a coma from which she will never recover. Eleanor’s life is turned upside down as she struggles to make the painful decision about Maya’s fate.

Ultimately Eleanor chooses to donate Maya’s organs. Years later, in one of the most poignant moments you will ever read about, Eleanor has the opportunity to hear her daughter’s heart beat in the chest of the heart recipient. Along the way, Eleanor re-examines her relationship with her daughter, as well as the experiences that shaped Eleanor as a woman and as a mother to Maya.

In a story that has been called “heartbreaking and heart-healing,” Eleanor Vincent illuminates the kind of courage, creativity, faith, and sheer tenacity it takes to find one’s balance after unthinkable tragedy.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/cv1q3g into your web browser to pick up your copy of Swimming with Maya: A Mother’s Story .

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Here are four Kindle book offers for your consideration from highly-rated independent authors who have discounted the pricing for a limited time just for members of the blog.

Atticus for the Undead, by John Abramowitz, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 53 customer reviews.

Category: Urban Fantasy / Thriller

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

The next chapter in the struggle for equal rights begins!

Hunter Gamble is an idealistic young attorney in a very special area of the practice: arcane defense. Funded by enigmatic billionaire Charles McClain and aided by shy-but-energetic research attorney Kirsten Harper, he’s making the world a better place–one vampire, zombie, or werewolf client at a time. After all, they deserve their day in court too, right?

When a young zombie walks into Hunter’s office accused of murder (by brain-eating), Hunter’s idealism is tested as never before as he struggles to secure the man’s freedom. To do so, he must square off against a savvy and ambitious district attorney, contend with a judge who is deeply biased against arcanes, and stand up to a human-supremacist group which will stop at nothing–not even Hunter’s own death–to see his client convicted.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/atticus into your web browser to pick up your copy of Atticus for the Undead .

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Betrayal of Magic, by Brian Dockins, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 14 customer reviews.

Category: Fantasy / Young Adult

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Our world seems normal, one governed by logic, science, and natural laws.

But we don’t realize that magic exists in many forms all around us.

The US Government does however, and they will go to any lengths to hide all evidence of magic’s existence to protect the citizens from the sinister forces that lurk in the dark periphery of our vision.

Cadan Johnson lived a seemingly ordinary life. He was on the soccer and cross country teams and had a loving family. But one thing about the Johnsons made them very unordinary- they could perform magic.

When a mysterious spell on his school counselor backfires, Cadan is faced with the realization that everything he thought he knew about his family has been a lie. He leaves his home to search out the identities of his real parents, but before he can discover the truth, he is tracked down by another group of magic-wielders, this time sent by the government.

The top-secret Department of Magic was set up in the 1930s when the U.S. government became aware of the existence of mages and fantastical creatures. For the last eighty years, the agency has been commissioned with searching out and detaining these magical beings, and making sure everyone else believes they are no more than myth.

Now a detainee within the Department, Cadan quickly realizes the truth – that not everything in this world is quite as it seems. The Femme Fatales, a world famous all-female pop group is actually a troupe of fairies. And Tyler Knox, the teen heartthrob, is secretly an elf who has had to alter his ears before appearing in movies.

Now a rookie agent, Cadan begins to train with his new team of misfit operatives, among them one boy with four arms who is afraid of the dark, another with black wings, and an elf with anger management issues. The group fights constantly, their training sessions are disasters, and to top it off, the leader of the team hates him. But when one of the leaders initiates a plan to destroy the Department, the only thing that stands in his way is Cadan and his ragtag band. With the fate of the Department at stake, will they be able to stop the rogue agent and his forces?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/3f7ght into your web browser to pick up your copy of Betrayal of Magic .

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The Secret of Getting Things Done: Think Less, Achieve More, by Sri Vishwanath, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 19 customer reviews.

Category: Self-Improvement

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Enables readers to think less to achieve more bridging the gap between thoughts and actions

Breakthrough process to quickly simplify your thoughts, and transcend from a state of confusion and indecision to calmness and right action.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/qtiul3 into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Secret of Getting Things Done: Think Less, Achieve More .

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Shadow on the Rose, by Laura Jane Leigh, is just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 15 customer reviews.

Category: Romantic Suspense

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Marion is thrilled when she and her husband, James, buy a lovely, old mansion with a rose garden. After they move in, however, she falls ill and must stay at home to rest. Alone and depressed, she begins to have strange dreams which seem to take her back into the past. Although James is skeptical, Marion believes that when she sleeps, she is leading the life of a young Victorian woman, Mariana.

Mariana used to visit the house as a guest of her friend Rosamund, whose mother is thought to have drowned while rowing on the river with her husband. During her stays with the family, Mariana comes to suspect that the death was not an accident. She investigates, but meets with obstacles that prevent her from finding the full truth.

Eighty years later, Marion takes up the search. The scene shifts back and forth from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, as her discoveries push forward those of her Victorian alter ego. The latter, after she accuses someone of murder, is never entirely free from doubt: she thinks she may have persecuted an innocent person. By determining what really happened, Marion thinks she can drive away the guilt that has been hovering about the house like a ghost. What she fails to see is that her obsession is damaging her relationship with James. If she’s not careful, she’ll destroy her marriage and her future happiness.

Note: Canadian spelling is used throughout.

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Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is Better Off Dead in Deadwood, by Ann Charles, and this book is just $3.99 in the Amazon Kindle store; this book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 261 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery / Thriller / Horror

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

***IT’S FINALLY HERE! The 4th book in the award-winning Deadwood Mystery Series!!***

Praise for BETTER OFF DEAD IN DEADWOOD…

“Flirty, Frisky, Frantic and Frightening…Better Off Dead is just plain Fun!!!!” ~Terri Reid, Bestselling Author of the Mary O’ Reilly Paranormal Mystery Series

“Better Off Dead is a wonderful blend of sizzle and sleuth-juggling murder, men and mayhem on every page!” ~Mary Buckham, Award-winning Author

Overview of BETTER OFF DEAD IN DEADWOOD…

One dead body. One century-old haunted opera house. One zombie musical. One pissed-off detective.

Will Violet “Spooky” Parker keep her tail out of trouble or will she end up as one of Deadwood’s walking dead?

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About the Author:

Ann Charles is an award-winning author who writes romantic mysteries that are splashed with humor. Her book Nearly Departed in Deadwood won the 2010 Daphne du Maurier for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense Award and the 2011 Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award for Best Novel With Strong Romantic Elements.

Currently, she has several fiction books available: Nearly Departed in Deadwood, Optical Delusions in Deadwood, Dead Case in Deadwood (selected as one of Suspense Magazine’s BEST OF 2012 books), and Better Off Dead in Deadwood, which are all part of her ongoing Deadwood Mystery Series. The fifth book in this series will be out in late 2013/early 2014.

Also available from Ann are the first two books in her Jackrabbit Junction Mystery Series: Dance of the Winnebagos and Jackrabbit Junction Jitters. The third book in this series will be out in mid-2013.
She has a couple of short stories as well– Seeing Trouble (a short story from her Deadwood Mystery Series) and The Old Man’s Back in Town (a short story from her upcoming Goldwash Mystery Series, the first of which will be out in 2014).

She also has two non-fiction book available: Nail It! The Secret to Building an Effective Fiction Writer’s Platform and Growing Your Audience: Workbook for Published, Unpublished, and Under-published Writers. Both books are co-written with Jacquie Rogers.

A member of Sisters in Crime and Romance Writers of America for many moons, Ann has a B.A. in English with an emphasis on creative writing from the University of Washington. She is currently toiling away on her next book, wishing she was on a Mexican beach with an ice-cold Corona in one hand and her Kindle in the other. When she is not dabbling in fiction, she is arm wrestling with her two kids, attempting to seduce her husband, and arguing with her sassy cat. Most nights, you can find her hanging out over at www.anncharles.com, on Facebook as Ann Charles, or as DeadwoodViolet on Twitter–especially around midnight when her quirky fictional world comes to life.

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Each day, Amazon sponsors the Kindle Daily Deal and the Free App of the Day.

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deal is a one-day only offer where a specific Kindle book for adults, one for young readers (children or young adults), a romance, and a science fiction / fantasy title have been hand-selected by the editors at Amazon and significantly discounted for today only.

Amazon’s free App of the Day can be utilized on a Kindle Fire and Android-based smartphones and tablet computers, and the app can be a game, utility, or who knows? Each app is offered free for 24 hours and, after that period is over it goes back to paid status and a new app is the Free App of the Day.

Kindle Daily Deal

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for adults is all three books in the Star Trek: The Next Generation: Cold Equations series, by David Mack, and each of these books was $7.99 yesterday but have been discounted 70% to just $0.99 for today only.

Today’s Kindle Teens Daily Deal is It’s a Mall World After All , by Janette Rallison, and this book was $5.99 yesterday but has been discounted 67% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 21 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Daily Deal is Dawn , by Octavia E. Butler, and this book was $14.99 yesterday but has been discounted 80% to just $2.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 107 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Caught on Camera , by KimLaw, and this book was $9.99 yesterday but has been discounted 80% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 94 customer reviews.

You can check each of them out if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser.

In the interest of time and space (pun intended), I am not going to list out each of the Star Trek books. However, you can check each of them out if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Demands .

Here is the It’s a Mall World After All book description from the Amazon website:

Charlotte’s job as a perfume spritzer at the mall is perfect for spying on her classmates who hang out there. So when she see her best friend’s boyfriend flirting with another girl, a series of hilarious, often foiled attempts to catch him in the act of cheating follow. Through it all, the gorgeous and infuriating Colton is there laughing at her. But when Charlotte and Colton dress up as Santa and his elf for a charity event at the mall, they get more attention than they bargained for-leading to a mall brawl, a moment of truth, and the realization that being right isn’t always a one-size-fits solution.

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Here is the Dawn book description from the Amazon website:

Rescued from Earth’s destruction, one woman is called upon to revive mankind

Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth—the last stage of the planet’s final war. Hundreds of years later Lilith awakes, deep in the hold of a massive alien spacecraft piloted by the Oankali—who arrived just in time to save humanity from extinction. They have kept Lilith and other survivors asleep for centuries, as they learned whatever they could about Earth. Now it is time for Lilith to lead them back to her home world, but life among the Oankali on the newly resettled planet will be nothing like it was before.

The Oankali survive by genetically merging with primitive civilizations—whether their new hosts like it or not. For the first time since the nuclear holocaust, Earth will be inhabited. Grass will grow, animals will run, and people will learn to survive the planet’s untamed wilderness. But their children will not be human. Not exactly.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Octavia E. Butler including rare images from the author’s estate.

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Here is the Caught on Camera book description from the Amazon website:

Beautiful Vega Zaragoza was poised to become fashion’s next “it girl” when she learned the hard way that sex and politics don’t mix. Now the former model spends her days behind the camera, working as a videographer to hide from public scrutiny. Her life is on autopilot until a promising new job sparks her ambition. There’s just one catch: she must land an exclusive interview with JP Davenport, the golden boy of American politics and first in line for Georgia’s open senatorial seat.
Charming and gorgeous, JP is also fiercely private, a charismatic enigma with his fair share of secrets—not to mention a string of romantic conquests a mile long. He could make Vega’s career, or destroy what credibility she has left—because JP has made it very clear that his interest in Vega is anything but professional. Vega should know better than to trust a man like him. But kiss by heated kiss, she discovers this man may be worth the risk.

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Free App of the Day

Today’s Free App of the Day is Crazy Tanks , and this game app is normally $0.99 in the Amazon App Store but is free for today only.

Here is the app’s description from the Amazon App Store website:

CrazyTanks is an insanely fun game. Drive your crazy tank. Shoot at enemy tanks and enemy towers. Collect yummy powerups.

Game has 30 different levels. There are 4 types of enemy tanks and 2 types of turrets. More levels are in development.

A tank! A tank! My kingdom for a tank!

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Here are six discounted and free Kindle book offers for your morning consideration from highly-rated independent authors who have discounted the pricing for a limited time just for members of the blog. While the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could change at any time!

Together Again: Spirit Travel Novel , by Mimi Barbour, is regularly $5.25 but has been discounted 81% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this three book collection has received an average user rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars based on 11 customer reviews.

Category: Paranormal Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

She’s sixteen, pregnant and terrified.

He’s a reporter after a story and has no time for anything else.

Her spirit invades him and tears apart his calm world.

Go figure – they fall in love!! Now she needs to leave him and go back to her own time…

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The Boy Who Lit Up the Sky , by J. Naomi Ay, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 12 customer reviews.

Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Lydia Kalila, the Princess Royal of Mishnah, is forced into marriage with the son of her country’s mortal enemy for the sole purpose of producing an heir. Duty comes before personal choice for a princess especially when her country has been at war for more than a thousand years. Lydia’s pregnancy removes her brother and new husband from their respective lines of succession placing her yet unborn infant at the head of the both queues. No one is happy about this, especially Lydia who dies during childbirth from wounds caused by the talon-like toenails of her very strange newborn son.

Grief stricken at the loss of his daughter, the Mishnese King hastily sends Senya, his infant grandson off to a decrepit inner city orphanage with the intent to retrieve him much later when things got sorted out. At the orphanage, Senya is protected by the invalid Sister Meri who instantly falls in love with the little fellow. She’s not bothered at all by his strange telekinetic and telepathic powers, flickering pupil-less silver eyes or wicked clawed toenails. The House Father takes a shine to the lad too and when Senya is six years old, he is summoned to the Father’s chamber. The Father ends up in flames forcing Meri and Senya out into a snow storm running for their lives.

Thus begins the tale of Senya, a prince created to be king of a planet but then tossed aside until his twelfth birthday when Lt. Taner, a Royal Guard detective is sent to retrieve him. It is unclear to all whether Senya is the product of something good or something evil but in either case, it is very apparent that he is something more than just Lydia Kalila’s son.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/bbyyng into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Boy Who Lit Up the Sky .

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Deception Peak , by Diane Lynn Gardner, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 30 customer reviews.

Category: Young Adult / Adventure / Fantasy

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

The first book of a trilogy, Deception Peak is a young adult adventure fantasy about a teenager, Ian Wilson, who follows his father through a portal that magically appears on their computer screen. They travel into a deceptively beautiful Realm, where horses run free, the wind sings prophetic melodies, and their computer avatars come to life.

But when the two are separated, Ian is abducted by a tribe of dragon worshipers and is forced to find his courage. As he struggles for his freedom and embarks on a perilous search to find his father, Ian meets the true peacekeepers of the Realm. It’s then that he learns there is a greater purpose for being there.

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Twisted Justice , by Diane Capri, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 10 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery / Thriller

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Bestselling Author Diane Capri’s Legal Thriller Delights John Grisham fans!

War hero General Randall Andrews has been nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court and George Carson leads the fight to defeat him. Before the final Senate vote on his nomination, Andrews is found shot to death in his Tampa home and George is arrested for murder. Judge Willa Carson believes with all her heart that her husband is the victim of twisted justice, but why won’t he defend himself? George Carson could kill a man. But he didn’t kill Andrews. Or did he?

Realistic twists and turns keep readers engaged and guessing until the finale of this tense political thriller!

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/32985r into your web browser to pick up your copy of Twisted Justice .

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After the Ending , by Lindsey Pogue and Lindsey Fairleigh, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 84 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through May 18th.

Category: Science Fiction / Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

The Virus spread. Billions died. The Ending began. We may have survived the apocalypse, but the Virus changed us.

When people started getting sick, “they” thought it was just the flu. My roommate, my boyfriend, my family…they’re all gone now. I got sick too. I should have died with them—with the rest of the world—but I didn’t. I thought witnessing the human population almost disappear off the face of the earth was the craziest thing I’d ever experience. I was so wrong. My name is Dani O’Connor, I’m twenty-six-years-old, and I survived The Ending.

The Virus changed everything. The world I knew is gone, and life is backwards. We’ve all had to start over. I’ve been stripped of my home, my dreams…all that is me. I’m someone else now—broken and changed. Other survivors’ memories and emotions haunt me. They invade my mind until I can no longer separate them from my own. I won’t let them consume me. I can’t. My name is Zoe Cartwright, I’m twenty-six-years-old, and I survived The Ending.

We’ve been inseparable for most of our lives, and now our friendship is all we have left. The aftermath of the Virus has stranded us on opposite sides of the United States. Trusting strangers, making sacrifices, killing—we’ll do anything to reach one another. Fear and pain may be unavoidable, but we’re strong…we’re survivors. But to continue surviving in this unfamiliar world plagued by Crazies and strange new abilities, we have to adapt. We have to evolve.
And more than anything, we have to find each other.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/qcx2da into your web browser to pick up your copy of After the Ending .

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Strange Magic , by Gord Rollo, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 9 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through May 19th.

Category: Horror

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

A MAN HIDING FROM A TERRIBLE PAST…

Wilson Kemp is a man living a lie in Billington, Pennsylvania. He’s been in hiding for a long time, running from a dreadful secret that has forced him to change his name, move to this small secluded town, and abandon what had once been a stellar career. Once, he’d been a talented escape artist on the brink of fame and fortune, but now he’s a broken down alcoholic scared of his own shadow. Mind you, he has good reason to be scared because his worst fear has finally caught up with him, and the sleepy little town of Billington is about to be declared a war zone.

HIS DARK SECRET ABOUT TO BE REVEALED…

With the aid of a malevolent entity trapped within an old wooden trunk, a stranger from Wilson’s past has hunted him down; an insane fellow magician who will stop at nothing to get his twisted, bloody revenge. To survive, Wilson will have to conquer his own inner demons to fight his old enemy in a battle that will lead to the gates of death and beyond. To live, Wilson will have to accomplish the greatest magic trick of all time: escaping from the dark pit of Hell itself…

Special Bonus Content: The short story Every Magician has to Start Somewhere by Gord Rollo

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Here are ten discounted and free Kindle book offers for your consideration from highly-rated independent authors who have discounted the pricing for a limited time just for members of the blog. While the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could change at any time!

Looking for Love, by Rita Herron, is a three book box set that is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 18 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

A boxed set of three of Rita’s romantic comedies:
3 single women looking for love – but are they looking in all the wrong places?
HUSBAND HUNTING 101 – a woman takes a class to find a husband and is suddenly attracted to a commitaphobic advertising executive she just hired to create a new ad for her sexy lingerie store!

HERE COMES THE BRIDE – a twin switch leaves Marci Turner playing fake fiancé to a sexy man at his best friend’s wedding. But his parents decide to throw them an impromptu wedding and the fireworks begin!

UNDER THE COVERS – a marriage therapist hires an actor to play her husband for publicity purposes when her husband leaves her for a man!

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/d34mvq into your web browser to pick up your copy of Looking for Love .

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St. Matthew’s Passion: A Medical Romance, by Sam Archer, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 15 customer reviews.

Category: Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

A NOVEL ABOUT ROMANCE, ABOUT PASSION, AND ABOUT THE CHOICES A MAN AND A WOMAN ARE FORCED TO MAKE BETWEEN LOVE AND THEIR CAREERS

Melissa Havers is one of the brightest rising young stars in the ultra-competitive world of trauma surgery. When she lands a position at the prestigious St Matthew’s Hospital in London, she’s determined to beat the odds as a woman and become the best in her field.

But Melissa didn’t expect her boss, Daniel Finmore-Gage – Fin, as he’s known, and the most brilliant surgeon in the city – to have quite such an impact on her from the start.

And she certainly didn’t expect to fall in love with him.

Fin, though, has his reasons for not returning Melissa’s feelings. He’s been married before, he’s too professional to abuse the authority he has over her – and he harbours a dark secret which he can’t reveal to Melissa, and which has made him vow he’ll never put anything before his work.

Not even love…

As the powerful forces which bind these two strong, vital personalities threaten to disrupt the very functioning of the service to which they’ve both dedicated their professional careers, a crisis occurs which will test not only the bond between them, but also their commitment to the lives they’ve chosen for themselves.

Breathtaking in its suspense, and heartbreaking in its portrayal of a love affair that appears at once inevitable and doomed to failure, ST MATTHEW’S PASSION is a thrilling novel by a practising doctor which blends authentic specialist medical detail with a universal story of the complexities of the human heart.

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The Afterlife Series Box Set, by Willow Rose, is a three book box set that is usually $4.99 but has been discounted 80% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 62 customer reviews.

Category: Fantasy

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Book 1 – BEYOND
Death is only the beginning …

Meghan is 16 when she dies.

She wakes up on a flying steamboat on her way to a school run by Angels in a white marble castle.

On the boat she meets Mick who has been dead for more than a hundred years but still looks like a teenager. He helps her past the difficult beginning at the new school in a new world filled with magic.

One day some of Meghan’s roommates find a mirror in the cellar of the school and they persuade her to go through it with them – well knowing it is strictly against the rules of the school. Meghan ends up back on earth where she meets Jason. But Jason is in danger and Meghan knows something important. Something that is a matter of life and death. Soon she is forced to choose between the two worlds. The one she belongs to now and the one she left.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/q0qm6j into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Afterlife Series Box Set .

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Leaving the Hall Light On, by Madeline Sharples, is normally $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 130 customer reviews.

Category: Memoir

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Leaving the Hall Light On: A Mother’s Memoir of Living with Her Son’s Bipolar Disorder and Surviving His Suicide charts the near-destruction of one middle-class family whose son committed suicide after a seven-year struggle with bipolar disorder. Madeline Sharples, author, poet and web journalist, goes deep into her own well of grief to describe her anger, frustration and guilt. She describes many attempts — some successful, some not — to have her son committed to hospital and to keep him on his medication. The book also charts her and her family’s redemption, how she considered suicide herself, and ultimately, her decision live and take care of herself as a woman, wife, mother and writer.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/vs998h into your web browser to pick up your copy of Leaving the Hall Light On .

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The Last Stoic, by Morgan Wade, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 22 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this is the last day for this book to be free.

Category: Historical Fiction

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

The Last Stoic is a story of appetite and fear, both modern and ancient. Half of the story’s narrative occurs in the time and place of the ancient Roman Empire; the other half occurs in the present-day United States. The parallels between the two eras are so strong that the narrative continues uninterrupted as the setting shifts from historic Rome to modern America, alternating from chapter to chapter.

Marcus, a young man from a northern provincial border town, journeys deep into the heart of the empire and witnesses first-hand the excesses that can lead to ruin, both personal and political. His story offers an ancient commentary on the preoccupations of our own turbulent times. Shortly after his arrival, the empire is thrown into a panic by an unprecedented barbarian attack on the capital. Suspicion and paranoia abound. A young Roman/American runaway named Patrick, disillusioned with his own life and the state of his country, becomes convinced that Marcus is a dangerous traitor. Culminating in a public accusation made by Patrick, Marcus is wrongfully imprisoned, exiled and tortured as an enemy of the state. In prison, he confronts the many contradictions he has found in his adopted home, and in himself.

Throughout the story, in both eras, the writings of the philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius (The Meditations) insinuate themselves unexpectedly into Marcus’ life. In prison, he is saved by a chance meeting with Sextus Condianus, the “last Stoic” of the title, a cell-mate who is able to fully recite Aurelius’ words and impart their wisdom. Ultimately, it is this unanticipated and unbidden instruction that gives the young man the strength he requires to survive. It becomes evident that the words of the venerable Stoic emperor have as much relevance to our own era as they did to his.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/1olodi into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Last Stoic .

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The Devil of Light, by Gae-Lynn Woods, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars based on 33 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through May 18th.

Category: Mystery

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

A BIZARRE MURDER

When young Detective Cass Elliot responds to a report of domestic violence at the home of a prominent businessman, she finds him violently murdered in the barnyard with his battered wife unconscious near the tool that killed him. Still raw from her own unsolved attack six years ago, Cass is stunned when confronted with graphic photographs scattered across their kitchen floor, and she wonders if the wife might’ve had cause to kill her husband.

A COVERT WEB OF LIES AND EXPLOITATION

Cass and her partner Mitch Stone delve into a cunning world of blackmail and violence – and find a cult concealed for nearly a century beneath the genteel, small town façade of Arcadia in East Texas. Their investigation triggers a brutal response from powerful men who will protect their identities at any cost. They unleash a ruthless killer whose actions create a media frenzy and destroy the fabric of trust within the police department.

A PERVASIVE EVIL
Cass and Mitch circle closer to the cult’s few members, following a slim lead into a night lit by fire. A night that begins with a blood ritual and ends with Cass holding a man’s life – or death – in her hands and struggling to walk the fine line between vengeance and justice.

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Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is Within a Man’s Heart, by Tom Winton, and this book is just $2.99 in the Amazon Kindle store; this book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 15 customer reviews.

Category: Romance / Literary Fiction

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Four years after burying his young wife, New York sales executive Christian Crews still can’t move forward with his life. Day after day, treasured memories of his beloved Elyse continue to drift through his spirit like an endless procession of mournful ghosts.

Chris wants to leave Manhattan—walk away from his job and the apartment he and Elyse once shared. He dreams of moving to New Hampshire, where he feels he just might have a chance of finding peace. But in his grieving mind, breaking away from those memories would be the same as abandoning Elyse—an unforgivable act of betrayal he could never live with.

Then, on the fourth anniversary of Elyse’s death, Chris makes two shocking discoveries, and a part of him begins to believe that she would want him to go on with his life.

Two weeks later he makes the move to New Hampshire, and minutes after arriving in the small rural village of Mountain Step, he meets a beautiful local woman with mesmerizing gray eyes and a heart as big as the surrounding mountains. Beginning another emotional relationship may be the last thing on Chris’s mind, but he soon finds himself falling for Gina Elkin, every bit as hard as she’s fallen for him.

Could there be a future for them? Will Elyse allow it? After all, she’s still deep within Chris’s heart—a place no one else has ever been.

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About the Author:

Tom Winton has been listed as an Amazon Top 100 Author in Literary Fiction. It has been said that he is a man who writes with his pen dipped in his soul.

Born in New York City, Tom has done everything from working on a railroad gang in the Colorado Rockies to driving a taxicab in Manhattan. He’s been a mailman, a salesman, an entrepreneur and more. He now lives in Florida with his wife Blanche and their ill-tempered but loveable Jack Russell terrier, Ginger. They spend part of their time in Carmel, Maine.

Mr. Winton’s debut novel, Beyond Nostalgia, has been likened to such classics as Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird. Praised as “A 20th century Gone with the Wind,” Beyond Nostalgia is a four-time Amazon Bestseller.

His second novel The Last American Martyr has been on six bestseller lists at the same time. His third book, Four Days with Hemingway’s Ghost, has been a repeat bestseller as well.

Tom’s newest release–a novella entitled Within a Man’s Heart, came out in January 2013.

Tom was also kind enough to write a guest blog post for the blog telling the blog readers more about him and his writing. In case you missed it, or want to read it again, you can check check it out if you Click here or type in http://wp.me/p2b82w-424 into your web browser.

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Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is The Grimm Diaries Prequels Volumes 1-6 , by Cameron Jace, is a six book box collection normally $4.99 but has been discounted 80% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store; this book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 522 customer reviews.

Category: Fantasy / Young Adult

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

What if all you knew about fairy tales was wrong?
Warning: these Grimm Prequels are like snap shots of a magical land you’re about to visit soon. I like to think of them as poisoned apples. Once you taste them, you will never see fairy tales in the same light again.

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 in February 2013, called SNOW WHITE SORROW.

Series Description:
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.
List of the available Grimm Diaries Prequels:

1 Snow White Blood Red
narrated by The Snow White Queen
2 Ashes to Ashes and Cinder to Cindernarrated by Alice Grimm
3 Beauty Never Dies
narrated by Peter Pan
4 Ladle Rotten Rat Hut
narrated by Little Red Riding Hood
5 Mary Mary Quite Contrary
narrated by the Devil
6 Blood Apples
narrated by Prince Charming
7 Once Beauty Twice Beast
narrated by Beauty
8 Moon & Madly
narrated by Moongirl
9 Rumpelstein
narrated by Rumpelstiltskin
10 Jawigi
narrated by Sandman Grimm

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About the Author:

Things you might want to know about me:
I write books that I can’t find elsewhere, basically to amuse himself.
Everything I do is for fun, so don’t take me seriously, and never call me a writer. I hate that. I prefer the word: Storyteller. I am also full of flaws, but I’m improving everyday. If you like my books, horaaaay! I luv ya too. If ya don’t, hoooray! Now we know in advance that this relationship isn’t going to work.

Although my books are ordinary on the surface, they hold many secrets that I might reveal one day. What matters the most to me are characters struggling to find their identities in the world.

Things you don’t need to know:

I celebrate my birthday twice a year, the day I was born and Friday the 13th. I want to live in a bubble house. I live in San Fransisco when I have no money. When I do, I travel away, and that’s when I write best. I am a damn good music composer, and a damn good architecture college dropout. I like boats, beaches, bears, beards, bears, bananas, bars, barfights, beans, bikes, bones, butter, babes, bakery, blizzards, and pirates ( I thought it was spelled Birates when I was a kid. )
Follow me:

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http://www.goodreads.com/CameronJace

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Corktown, by Ty Hutchinson, is normally $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 69 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

She’s short. She’s feisty. She’s sexy. She’s Mom. Meet FBI Agent, Abby Kane.

The Doctor Is Back.

In the quiet Corktown neighborhood of Detroit, a mutilated body has the residents nervous and for good reason. Detroit Metro Police recognize the handiwork of the serial killer known as the Doctor. But there’s a problem with that. They locked him up seven years ago.

Because of her expertise with serial killers, former hotshot detective and now FBI agent, Abby Kane, is tasked with figuring out how this madman is able to kill again. When she visits The Doctor behind bars, he swears he’s innocent and not the psychopath everyone thinks he is. Oddly enough, Abby believes him.

Corktown is a page-turning mystery thriller that dives headfirst into the grit of Detroit, exploring government corruption and deadly violence.

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Goal Setting Success Secrets, by Raymond Le Blanc, is normally $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 23 customer reviews.

Category: Self-Improvement / Business

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

If you enjoy living your life without having a purpose and something to work towards, DO NOT buy this book!
“Imagine for a moment that you just learned a powerful goal setting technique that could turn around every aspect of your life – at home and at work…”
This technique will place balance in your life and transforms you into a new human being…

Let Raymond Le Blanc take you by the hand and teach you practical and powerful goal setting techniques that will allow you to finally reach previously unreachable dreams and goals. Learn how to apply the strategies and techniques to your own situation, to let you experience, enjoy and adopt success in your life.

A Sneak Peak into what Le Blanc will teach you:
• Develop a mission and a vision for your career and personal life, and learn strategies for setting and achieving goals
• Learn which habits are the key to success and should become your ally
• Learn how to believe you can succeed and achieve more by thinking positively
• Learn how to increase your pride, satisfaction, and confidence
• Learn how to set goals, how to stick with them
• Learn how to increase your motivation to achieve your desired success, and stay balanced at the same time
• Learn how to cure yourself from the fear of failure and other anxieties that influence the quality of your life
• Learn how to be a survivor of past feelings of defeat
• Use goals to help you grow
• Improve your self-confidence
Keep in mind:

* 60% of people do not set goals.
* 10% of people set goals, but do not write them down.
* 3% of people set goals and write them down and act . . .
* and the 3% does 50 times better than all the others put together!

Welcome to the 3% Club.
Now it is time to drive yourself forward, and focus on being the best you can be.

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A Dead Red Cadillac, by R.P. Dahlke, is normally $9.99 but has been discounted 90% today to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 116 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery / Humor

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

“I’ve been married so many times, they should revoke my license,” says NY model, and reluctant pilot Lalla Bains.

Running her dad’s Crop-Dusting business in Modesto, California she’s hoping to dodge the inevitable fortieth birthday party. But when her trophy red ’58 Cadillac is found tail-fins up in a nearby lake, the police ask why a widowed piano teacher, who couldn’t possibly see beyond the hood ornament, was found strapped in the driver’s seat.

Reeling from an interrogation with local homicide, Lalla is determined to extricate herself as a suspect in this strange murder case. Unfortunately, drug running pilots, a cross-dressing convict, a crazy Chihuahua, and the dead woman’s hunky nephew throw enough road blocks to keep Lalla neck deep in an investigation that links her family to a twenty-year old murder only she can solve.

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Promise Me, by Mona Ingram, is just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 6 customer reviews.

Category: Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Combat Hospital – Kandahar Airfield

What are the odds? Karen Hughes, an ER nurse, travels half way around the world only to meet someone from the other side of town. Brian Calder, a medevac helicopter pilot, breezes into her life like a refreshing ocean spray. Both from Vancouver Island, they find that they share much in common, and soon become an “item” in the closely knit medical community of KAF. Karen’s tour of duty is up in a few weeks, and Brian will follow shortly, but now that he has so much to lose, he becomes concerned for his safety. He’s been carrying his grandmother’s ring, and uses his considerable charm to convince Karen that she she should take it with her and give it to his grandmother when she returns home.

Join Karen on a heartbreaking and ultimately satisfying journey as she searches for love from the heat and grit of Kandahar to the cool mountains and endless beaches of Vancouver Island.

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Rogue Hunter: Inquest, by Kevis Hendrickson, is notmally $4.99 but has been discounted 100% to just $0.01 today in the Amazon Kindle store (that’s not a typo – it really is just a penny this morning which to me is free as you can’t buy anything for a penny these days), and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 24 customer reviews. I hope a lot of you get this one today as it would really help out the 80% / 20% free to paid ratio which would allow me to list more freebies!

Category: Science Fiction

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Fearing retribution from ruthless gangsters over an unsettled debt, intergalactic bounty hunter Zyra Zanr ventures to a distant world to collect the reward for Boris Skringler, a notorious terrorist, who has been sentenced to death by political rivals of the InterGalactic Alliance. When she fails to secure his release, she decides to break him out of prison. Zyra soon finds herself an unwilling participant in events that lead to a climactic showdown between the most powerful worlds in the galaxy.

Torn between her desperation to rid herself of the threats to her life and her guilt in agitating the conflict between two galactic superpowers, Zyra is horrified to learn that the lives of an entire world of people hinge on her ability to return Skringler to his captors. However, her distrust of Skringler gives way to lust, unraveling her plans. Will Zyra give into her passion and allow Skringler to go free? Or will she surrender him to her enemies to stop an impending war? The fate of billions depend on whether she chooses life for a killer or the death of her lover.

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The Geronimo Breach, by Russell Blake, is normally $4.97 but has been discounted 80% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 136 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

The Geronimo Breach is a breakneck-paced thrill ride that pits the world’s most unlikely protagonist against the deadliest adversaries on the planet. From the corridors of Langley to the sweltering jungles of Panama, from the hills of Pakistan to the cocaine trails of Colombia, a clandestine scheme to preserve a terrible secret goes horribly awry, plunging a reluctant hero down a deadly rabbit hole of deceit and betrayal, while raising disturbing questions about the media, the war on terror & its linkage with the war on drugs, & the nature of reality in an age of sound-bites and photo ops.

Albert Ross is a malingering misanthrope – a boozing, chain smoking philanderer; shifty, lazy, cowardly, going to fat, & more prone to doing the wrong thing than any man alive. His purgatorial existence working for the State Department in Panama gets shattered when a routine errand becomes a race against the clock, battling adversaries for whom no price is too high to protect a secret that could topple the world order. As the body count climbs in a struggle without rules, Al must face his own demons, as well as the myriad very real ones intent upon destroying him. The unexpectedly shattering conclusion of this richly drawn thriller is both topical & chillingly plausible, making for a roller-coaster action/adventure without parallel.

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Old Enough to Know Better (The Good, The Bad, and The Girly) by Joan Reeves, is normally $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 11 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Every woman makes mistakes. Meet Stormy Clarkson, haunted by mistakes that taught her to be wary of men who wanted her for her face and her body, but not for herself.

Then she meets sexy Sean Butler, owner of Sierra Verde Winery. Sean’s been after her for six months, but she’s resisted every advance. He scares her because of the way he makes her feel. Armed with iron self-control and determined never to risk her heart, she denies her desire for Sean.

Then, one night he kisses her. That changes everything.

Sean Butler was once an interrogator for the U.S. Army. He knows a lie when he hears one, and that’s all he hears in Stormy’s icy refusals. Sean’s smart enough to know that the only way to deal with a control freak like Stormy is to make her lose control.

The beautiful blonde had better be on her guard because he’s got a plan to win her heart. His plan? Whatever it takes.

OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER is Book 1 of THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE GIRLY, a new series by Joan Reeves.

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Across the Creek, byJeremy Asher, is normally $3.99 but has been discounted 75% today to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 161 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Fiction / Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Life only gives you one first kiss.

And when Jesse Malone kissed Sarah Ramsey, he thought his life would change, but not in the way that it did. An unlikely childhood romance between a poor boy and a wealthy girl began the day Jesse decided to do the impossible and cross the creek. A love was born, one that would become their shelter, protecting them from the storms of their lives, until the day Jesse witnessed his mother’s murder, forcing him to leave his childhood home…and first love.

Ten years later, life has finally gotten better for Jesse. He has a loving family, a charming pet shop to run, and one semester left before graduating with a degree in architecture. Everything is great, until the day fate intervenes and his long-lost love walks into his shop and back into his life.

Sarah, engaged to a budding attorney, is struggling to keep everything together. Her father, diagnosed with terminal cancer, is running out of time. Sarah races to build their dream business while planning her wedding in time for her father to walk her down the aisle.

Their brief encounter starts a series of events that neither Jesse nor Sarah expects. After a decade of running, Jesse is now forced to face the demons from his past, while Sarah has to choose between her handsome attorney and her first love.

Just when they think love has given them a second chance, Jesse is faced with an impossible decision, one that will change their lives forever.

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Forever After, by David Jester, is just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 51 customer reviews.

Category: Fantasy / Paranormal

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Forever After follows Michael Holland, a grim reaper in a grim town. An embittered and melancholic man who struggles to grasp the purpose of his own existence, or lack thereof. He is a minuscule cog in a monumental machine and knows less of his role than those surrounding him — from his boss, the mighty Angel of Death, to his friend and flatmate Chip: a grubby midget tooth fairy with an addiction to pot and procrastination.

Brittleside is a dank, dark and decrepit town, and Michael Holland is its reluctant reaper. From dealing with the drunks, the druggies and the wasters, to tracking an escaped demon who believes he is Santa Claus; Forever After follows his escapades over four dark and humorous tales.

A paranormal and comic romp through a fantasy world where the mythical, the fantastical, the insane and the typical combine. A mix of dystopia and comedy, if the works of Philip K. Dick and Terry Pratchett were to ever procreate, Forever After would be the bastard child of their creative communion.
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Enoch’s Device, by S.D. O’Donnell is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 14 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through May 17th.

Category: Historical Fantasy

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Nearly a thousand years after the birth of Christ, when all Europe fears that the world will soon end, an Irish monk, Brother Ciarán, discovers an ominous warning hidden in the illuminations of a religious tome. The cryptic prophecy speaks of Enoch’s device, an angelic weapon with the power to prevent the coming apocalypse.

Pursued by Frankish soldiers and supernatural forces, Ciarán and his freethinking mentor, Brother Dónall, journey to the heart of France in search of the device. There, they rescue the Lady Alais from a heretic-hunting bishop who insists mankind must suffer for its sins. Together, the trio races across Europe to locate the device, which has left clues of its passage through history. But time is running out, and if they don’t find it soon, all that they love could perish at the End of Days.

Enoch’s Device is a fast-paced medieval adventure steeped in history, mythology, and mysteries from a dark and magical past.

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Adopted Son, by Dominic Peloso is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 18 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through May 17th.

Category: Science Fiction

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

What would you do…
…if it were your child?

The invasion has begun.
An invasion not from the stars but from within our wombs. All over the world children are being born…different. Their features are alien, their DNA isn’t human, their loyalties are unknown. As scientists, spies, and regular citizens race to make sense of this new disease they find themselves asking the same question: Is this the first wave of an alien assault on Earth?

Novelist and bioterrorism expert Dominic Peloso weaves a complex tale of alien invasion, environmental catastrophe, and societal upheaval, in a world not too removed from our own. Adopted Son perfectly blends hard sci-fi with biting political and social commentary to create a truly modern literary masterpiece that transcends genres.

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