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?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/vjhxb3 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Better Off Dead in Deadwood.

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 The Secret to Building an Effective Fiction Writer’s Platform and Growing Your Audience: Workbook for Published, Unpublished, and Under-published Writers.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.

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

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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.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of It’s a Mall World After All .

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.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of Caught on Camera .

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…

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/x40ens into your web browser to pick up your copy of Together Again: Spirit Travel Novel .

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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.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/ddn3ko into your web browser to pick up your copy of Deception Peak .

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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.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/7s0o3o into your web browser to pick up your copy of St. Matthew’s Passion: A Medical Romance .

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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.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/cl6mrg into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Devil of Light .

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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.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/46501g into your web browser to pick up your copy of Within a Man’s Heart .

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.

Visit Tom’s Amazon author page: http://smarturl.it/tomwinton
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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

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/gge0xx into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Grimm Diaries Prequels Volumes 1-6 .

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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https://twitter.com/cameronjace

http://www.goodreads.com/CameronJace

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

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Here are five discounted and free Kindle book offers 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!

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.

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

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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.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/ej37v4 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Goal Setting Success Secrets .

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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.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/qeyh7d into your web browser to pick up your copy of A Dead Red Cadillac .

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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.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/promiseme into your web browser to pick up your copy of Promise Me .

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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.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/fzolgt into your web browser to pick up your copy of Rogue Hunter: Inquest .

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Organize your books on your Kindle Fire with our updated Collections and Categories App! Click Here or type in http://smarturl.it/firecollections into your web browser to get it now!

Here are six discounted and free Kindle book offers 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!

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.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/q4eq2s into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Geronimo Breach .

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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.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/kpstuf into your web browser to pick up your copy of Old Enough to Know Better (The Good, The Bad, and The Girly) .

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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.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/og6f31 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Across the Creek .

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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.
Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/as3q6d into your web browser to pick up your copy of Forever After .

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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.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/enoch into your web browser to pick up your copy of Enoch’s Device .

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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.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/3jguur into your web browser to pick up your copy of Adopted Son .

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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 The Demands , by Mark Billingham, and this book was $9.99 yesterday but has been discounted 70% to just $2.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 14 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Teens Daily Deal is Mira’s Diary: Lost in Paris , by Marissa Moss, and this book was $12.99 yesterday but has been discounted 85% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 11 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Daily Deal is Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond , edited by John Joseph Adams and Douglas Cohen, 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 out of 5 stars based on 40 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Down in New Orleans , by Heather Graham, and this book was $7.99 yesterday but has been discounted 75% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 20 customer reviews.

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

Here is the The Demands book description from the Amazon website:

The Crime The customers in a London convenience store are taken captive. Among them is young mother, Detective Helen Weeks. She is told her life depends on the co-operation of one of her colleagues – detective Tom Thorne.

The Demand Akhtar is desperate to know what really happened to his beloved son, who died a year before in prison. He is convinced the death was not an accident and forces the one man who knows more about the case than any other, Thorne, to re-investigate.

The Twist What Thorne discovers will upend everything he thought he knew about the fate of those he’s put away…but will it be enough to fulfill the wishes of a grieving and potentially violent father?

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

Here is the Mira’s Diary: Lost in Paris book description from the Amazon website:

When Mira receives a cryptic postcard from her missing mother, she sets off with her father and brother to find her in Paris. Only Mira doesn’t know she’s looking in the wrong century.
With an innocent touch to a gargoyle sculpture on the roof of Notre Dame, Mira is whisked into the past. There she learns her mother isn’t just avoiding the family, she’s in serious trouble. Following her mother’s clues, Mira travels through time to help change history and bring her mother home.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of Mira’s Diary: Lost in Paris .

Here is the Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond book description from the Amazon website:

When L. Frank Baum introduced Dorothy and friends to the American public in 1900, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz became an instant, bestselling hit. Today the whimsical tale remains a cultural phenomenon that continues to spawn wildly popular books, movies, and musicals. Now, editors John Joseph Adams and Douglas Cohen have brought together leading fantasy writers such as Orson Scott Card and Seanan McGuire to create the ultimate anthology for Oz fans – and, really, any reader with an appetite for richly imagined worlds. Stories include:
• Frank Baum’s son has the real experiences that his father later fictionalized in Orson Scott Card’s “Off to See the Emperor.”
• Seanan McGuire’s “Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust” finds Dorothy grown up, bitter, and still living in Oz. And she has a murder to solve – assuming Ozma will stop interfering with her life long enough to let her do her job.
• In “Blown Away,” Jane Yolen asks: What if Toto was dead and stuffed, Ozma was a circus freak, and everything you thought you knew as Oz was
really right here in Kansas?
• “The Cobbler of Oz” by Jonathan Maberry explores a Winged Monkey with wings too small to let her fly. Her only chance to change that rests with
the Silver Slippers.
• In Tad Williams’s futuristic “The Boy Detective of Oz,” Orlando investigates the corrupt Oz simulation of the Otherland network.
• And more…
Some stories are dystopian…Some are dreamlike…All are undeniably Oz.
Includes stories by these authors:
Dale Bailey, Orson Scott Card, Rae Carson, David Farland, C.C. Finlay, Jeffrey Ford, Theodora Goss, Simon R. Green, Kat Howard, Ken Liu, Seanan McGuire, Jonathan Maberry, Rachel Swirsky, Robin Wasserman, Tad Williams, Jane Yolen

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond .

Here is the Down in New Orleans book description from the Amazon website:

When Ann infiltrates the dark corners of the Big Easy to clear her ex-husband’s name, what begins as an innocent investigation becomes a matter of life and death

Ann and Jon Marcel are a rare case; five years after their divorce, they’re good friends, and Ann has come to love Jon’s hometown of New Orleans. Until the day Jon staggers through her door covered in blood and mumbling, “I didn’t do it.”

Jon is charged with murdering a stripper, and in order to save him, Ann will have to dive into the sordid New Orleans underworld, looking for clues in erotic clubs and seamy jazz spots. And, if that weren’t enough, she must deal with the resolute detective bent on bringing her husband to justice—the eagle-eyed lieutenant who dogs her steps and surfaces in her dreams. But despite her wavering affections, Ann has bigger concerns as she becomes embroiled in a fight not only for Jon’s freedom, but also for her life.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Heather Graham, including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of Down in New Orleans .

Free App of the Day

Today’s Free App of the Day is Office Calculator Pro and this utility app is normally $1.69 in the Amazon App Store but is free for today only.

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

Office calculator with a virtual tape,
fixed point or floating point calculator,
various rounding modes and percent calculation.
This is a calculator optimized for office tasks.

* Calculator with virtual tape
You can switch between calculator view and and tape view to have a full screen view of the tape.
The tape of the calculator can have up to 500 lines.

* Calculator supports corrections on the tape
You can change values on the virtual tape to make corrections.

* Calculator allows annotations on the tape
You can write a comment to a tape line.

* Calculator with fixed point arithmetic or floating point.
Fixed point arithmetic has 20 digits and 0 – 4 decimal places.
The floating point arithmetic has 64 bits (IEEE double precision).
By default, the calculator works with fixed point arithmetic and 2 decimal places as needed for most calculations with amounts.

* Calculator supports three rounding modes: up, down or 5/4.

* Calculator has percent calculation to add or subtract percent values.
This makes it very easy to calculate tax amounts with the calculator.

* Calculator support operator precedence (multiplication/division over addition/subtraction) and displays interim results (optional)

This is the Pro variant of Office Calculator, a Free variant with ads is also available.

You can pick up your free copy of Office Calculator Pro by clicking here or typing in http://smarturl.it/appdeal into your web browser.

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Download the Free Kindle Books and Tips blog app for your Kindle Fire or Android-based smartphone or tablet – for free, of course – by clicking here or type in http://smarturl.it/fkbtfreeapp into your computer’s web browser from the Amazon App Store or click here or type in http://bit.ly/fkbtgoogle into your computer’s web browser for the Google App Store.

Here are six additional 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!

What We Saw, by Ryan Casey, 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 out of 5 stars based on 64 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

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

Liam and Adam arrive at their grandparents’ caravan site like any pair of young cousins: mischievous and fascinated by mystery and adventure.

But when the disappearance of their dog leads to a terrifying discovery deep in the nearby woods, Liam and Adam are plunged into a very adult world of secrecy and suspicion. As the story twists and turns towards a shocking conclusion, the dark secrets of the seemingly sleepy community begin to unravel…

What We Saw is a touching and thrilling British mystery novel with elements of comedy, friendship, fear and suspense. Told from the innocent perspective of a child, it poses the ultimate question: if you stumbled upon a shocking discovery as a child, how would you react?

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Flowers, by Scott Nicholson, 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 22 customer reviews.

Category: Dark Fantasy Short Stories

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

A fantasy and paranormal collection. Contains the Writers of the Future Award-winning story “The Vampire Shortstop” and 11 other tales of magic, romance, and the supernatural, including the Makers series in which children control the essential forces of the world. Includes “The Boy Who Saw Fire,” “In The Heart of November,” and “Invisible Friend.”

Nicholson is the author of 12 novels, including The Red Church, Drummer Boy, Disintegration, and The Skull Ring. With J.R. Rain, he wrote the urban fantasy Cursed! Look for his other story collections THE FIRST, MURDERMOUTH: ZOMBIE BITS, CURTAINS: MYSTERY STORIES, and ASHES.

As L.C. Glazebrook, he writes the paranormal romance series OCTOBER GIRLS.

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My Cheeky Angel, by Mimi Barbour, is just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 61 customer reviews.

Category: Paranormal Romance

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

Woman-hater, tomboy and a Cheeky Angel! Sparks fly when the tomboy grows up and decides to make drastic changes to her boring life, and thanks to her helpful angel she’s goes all out. Instead of being a playmate for her bachelor buddy, she’s turned into a real dazzler. Now what’s a guy to do?

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Ice Hunter: A Woods Cop Mystery, by Joseph Heywood, is normally $13.50 but has been discounted 100% to just $0.01 today in the Amazon Kindle store (that’s right, it’s just a penny but watch the pricing to make sure it hasn’t changed by the time you read this!), and this book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 35 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

In a brilliant debut to a thrilling series, Grady Service gets news that his nemesis, the head of an incestuous clan of poachers, is to be released from prison. But something even more sinister is afoot in the Mosquito Wilderness. Service must call upon his every reserve to track, stalk, and capture the “ice hunter.”

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Pemberley to Waterloo: Georgiana Darcy’s Dairy, Volume 2, by Anna Elliott and Laura Masselos, is regularly $5.49 but has been discounted 46% 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 71 customer reviews.

Category: Historical Romance

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

Can their love withstand the trials of war?

Georgiana Darcy and Edward Fitzwilliam want only to be together. But when the former Emperor Napoleon escapes from his exile on the Isle of Elba, Britain is plunged into renewed war with France … and Edward is once more called away to fight.

To be with the man she loves, Georgiana makes the perilous journey to Brussels, in time to witness the historic downfall of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. But when Edward is gravely injured in the battle, she will need more courage than she ever knew she had to fight for their future together.

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Out of the Shadow, by J.S. Winn, 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 61 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through May 16th.

Category: Mystery / Suspense

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

Two women. One goal. To uncover the truth no matter the cost.

The survivor of rape and her husband’s murder, all Becca Rosen wants to do is move on with her life, but how can she when she’s being stalked by a psychopath with an attitude—and an agenda. The police are no help because they’re convinced, with her history of mental illness, Becca has faked the rape to get away with her husband’s murder. On top of that, Becca has begun to have flashbacks of childhood abuse, possibly at the hands of the rapist. Not knowing where to turn, and feeling like she might go crazy again, Becca hires Psychologist, Sarah Abrams, to help her uncover the crimes of the past…and the present.

Three men come into Becca’s life around the same time. While each of these men has his charms, Becca can’t be certain whether one of them poses a danger to her. Or could it be someone else? Becca and Sarah start on a course of hypnotherapy to discover the abuser’s identity. Will their work reveal the real killer before it’s too late, or will Becca fall prey once again to this demented criminal?

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Chasing the Ghost, by Bob Mayer, 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 38 customer reviews.

Category: Military Thriller

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

Covert operative Horace Chase has been chasing ghosts his entire life.
First, his Medal-of-Honor winner father who died in Vietnam without ever meeting his son. And left him the legacy of an automatic appointment to the Military Academy at West Point which shaped the next thirty-five years of Chase’s life. Then, the ghost of his mother, who died while he was at war in Afghanistan and wounded, causing him to resign his commission and return to the United States, a lost soul.

Chase now wears two hats as a Federal counter-terrorism liaison to the local police department in Boulder, Colorado where he becomes embroiled in two seemingly un-related cases. Working as a detective with Boulder PD he chases another death, this one the apparent rape/murder of Rachel Stevens, an upscale housewife attending night classes at the University of Colorado. And with his counter-terrorism team he is embroiled in a series of killings involving a militia group, a rogue ex-Special Forces officer, a psychopathic ex-CIA contract mercenary, and ruthless drug runners.

From the streets of Boulder, to the highest railroad tunnel in the world, to a swingers club hiding in plain site in suburbia, Afghanistan starts to look pretty good to Chase.

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The Model Mystery , by Maci Grant, is 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 8 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

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

Note: “The Model Mystery” is a short story and a quick read. (estimated 22 pages)

FBI Agent Lorena Styles has a reputation for being among the best that the bureau has ever had. Her passion and tactics for catching the bad guy are known among her peers and most that know her are also aware of the tragedy in her past and why she lives her life with such single-minded devotion to getting criminals behind bars.

In “The Model Mystery” Styles finds herself unexpectedly demoted beneath an arrogant agent who will test her patience while at the same time shockingly leading her closer to the case she seeks to solve more than any other case.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/k8togu into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Model Mystery .

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Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation: 31 Bible Verses About Faith – To Keep You Overcoming! , by Gloria Coleman, is normally $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 12 customer reviews.

Category: Religion

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

This essential Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation tool will help you to develop your trust and confidence in God starting with 31 Key portions of Scripture featured in full text in 4 popular translations (The King James Version, The Message, The Amplified Bible and The New American Standard Bible).

It includes my personal testimony in the introduction, a note of encouragement, what is scripture meditation and the benefits of scripture meditation.

From Day 1 to Day 31 you have your Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation in 4 translations, Thought for Today, Biblical Meditation Tips and Prayer for today for each day!

This eBook has been written to provide the motivation, framework and confidence you need to begin and continue the journey of faith using scripture.

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Seven Point Eight: The Second Chronicle, by Marie Harbon, 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 9 customer reviews.

Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy

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

In the second installment of the five part Seven Point Eight series, the legacy of the OOBE project weighs heavily on the conscience of Dr. Paul Eldridge. Tahra Mamoun needs to muster all her courage and venture back into the alternate dimensions of reality. Through a series of challenging, surreal and frightening experiences, she comes to comprehend the destructive power she can yield and must face her own demons in the process.

Paul continues his quest to understand the ancient knowledge of the cosmos, while dark forces seek to hijack his research to further a secret agenda. With their lives in jeopardy, Paul and Tahra confront their enemies against an international backdrop featuring the pyramids of Giza and the peaks of Switzerland.

Meanwhile, Sam and Ava endeavour to uncover their past, even though it may irrevocably change their lives.

In a tale of courage and tragedy, love and betrayal, their lives are interwoven around the demons of one man, Max Richardson, who’ll stop at nothing to achieve his objectives.

Written in the style of a TV series, Seven Point Eight draws together quantum physics, psychic powers, alternate dimensions, time travel, past lives, ancient wisdom, and conspiracy in a soap opera for the soul.

It’s the ideal read for lovers of sci-fi, contemporary fantasy, the paranormal, metaphysics, ‘Lost’, ‘Fringe’, ‘Touch’, and Dan Brown books.

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More Ketchup than Salsa, by Joe Cawley, 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 60 customer reviews. I received a note form the author saying this book would be free through May 16th.

Category: Humor / Travel / Memoir

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

When Joe and his girlfriend Joy decide to trade in their life on a cold Lancashire fish market to run a bar in the Tenerife sunshine, they anticipate a paradise of sea, sand and siestas. Little did they expect their foreign fantasy to turn out to be about as exotic as Grimsby on a wet Monday morning.

Amidst a host of eccentric locals, homesickness and the occasional cockroach infestation, pint-pulling novices Joe and Joy struggle with ‘Brits abroad’ culture and learn that, although the skies might be bluer, the grass is definitely not always greener.

A hilarious insight into the wild and wacky characters of an expat community in a familiar holiday destination, More Ketchup than Salsa is a must-read for anybody who has ever dreamed about jetting off to sunnier climes, finding a job abroad… or anybody who has even momentarily flirted with the idea of ‘doing a Shirley Valentine’ in these trying economic times.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/e1l1od into your web browser to pick up your copy of More Ketchup than Salsa .

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The Spirit Keepers, by J.S. Winn, 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 10 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free for today only.

Category: Romantic Suspense

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

Can you escape the wrath of the Spirits?

One of Sandy Jacobs’ ten year old students and his family are accused of witchcraft. Blamed for the mysterious deaths of two San Anselmo Pueblo children, they’re terrorized by “Boogeymen” Kachina. Sandy rushes to their aid, but her actions inflame the perpetrators and arouse the opposition of Native born faculty member, Ben Rush. Sandy and Ben clash over the issue while struggling against the attraction growing between them until the harassment culminates in violence. Together they risk their lives to uncover the truth and, in the process, learn lessons as valuable as any they have taught.

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Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is Megan’s Way , by Melissa Foster, and this book is just $3.99 in the Amazon Kindle store; this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 243 customer reviews.

Category: Drama / Women’s Fiction

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

What would you give up for the people you love?

When Megan Taylor, a single mother and artist, receives the shocking news that her cancer has returned, she’ll be faced with the most difficult decision she’s ever had to make. She’ll endure an emotional journey, questioning her own moral and ethical values, and the decisions she’d made long ago. The love she has for her daughter, Olivia, and her closest friends, will be stretched and frayed.

Meanwhile, fourteen-year-old Olivia’s world is falling apart right before her eyes, and there’s nothing she can do about it. She finds herself acting in ways she cannot even begin to understand. When her internal struggles turn to dangerous behavior, her life will hang in the balance.

Megan’s closest friends are caught in a tangled web of deceit. Each must figure out how, and if, they can expose their secrets, or forever be haunted by their pasts.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/5omm8g into your web browser to pick up your copy of Megan’s Way .

About the Author:

Melissa Foster is an award-winning, International bestselling author. Her books have been recommended by USA Today’s book blog, Hagerstown Magazine, The Patriot, and several other print venues. She is the founder of the Women’s Nest, a social and support community for women, the World Literary Cafe. When she’s not writing, Melissa helps authors navigate the publishing industry through her author training programs on Fostering Success.

Melissa hosts an annual Aspiring Authors contest for children, she’s written for Calgary’s Child Magazine and Women Business Owners Magazine, and has painted and donated several murals to The Hospital for Sick Children in Washington, DC. Melissa’s interests include her family, reading, writing, painting, friends, helping others see the positive side of life, and visiting Cape Cod.

Melissa is available to chat with book clubs and welcomes comments and emails from her readers. Visit Melissa on The Women’s Nest or her personal website.

Direct from Melissa:

Hello everyone! I grew up in Maryland with my mother, a slew of wonderful brothers, and friends. I am passionate about writing, reading, living healthy, and helping others do the same, and enjoy just about anything outdoors (and anything chocolate!). I love to chat with readers and book clubs, and welcome your comments and suggestions. Feel free to email me. You can also catch me on The Women’s Nest, user name, “Thinkhappy”.

Thanks for reading!

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Each month from October 2009 – January 2013, I started or participated in a monthly poll on the USA Amazon Kindle discussion boards asking people a simple question: what are you reading on your Kindle? I stopped doing it on the Amazon discussion boards and started hosting it on the website as, after all, we need each of your input here on the blog!

I’ve received some great tips with past monthly polls, finding out what others are reading on their Kindle, and found some “new” authors I generally wouldn’t have found using my hunt-and-peck method. While I have certainly enjoyed the “mainstream” author suggestions over the past year, I’ve also enjoyed a lot of independent authors from each month’s poll I never would have heard of previously.

If you are reading this on your Kindle – or anywhere other than the blog’s website – and would like to check out the poll and find some new things or, better yet, tell others what you are reading, just click here or type in http://wp.me/p2b82w-4u1 into your web browser, scroll down to the bottom of the post, and start typing away in the comments section!

Here’s how this works – on the blog’s website (using the link above) list a book you are currently reading or just recently read on your Kindle, whether you would recommend it, did you get it free, and anything else you would care to share.

I’ll start off this month’s poll by saying I am currently reading The Slaver Wars: Alien Contact by Raymond L. Weil. I read several short stories in this series over the last six months or so, and now that there is a full-length novel I picked it up: according to my Kindle, I am 41% of the way through it and it is pretty good. I’d start with this one, then move on to the three shorter stories in the series if you enjoyed Book One. I picked this one up for $2.99 in the Kindle store, and have received a lot more than $2.99 in entertainment value out of it.

Finally, here’s my standard continuation of each month’s request for prior participants in the poll: if you like or dislike a title you have read, in addition to telling us about it in this informal poll, how about writing a book review on the Amazon website? The review will certainly last and be visible a lot longer than this poll will. If you’re like me, you look at the customer reviews in order to see if you want to investigate a book further. Since we are all a little community here, and while I realize each review is each person’s opinion and we may not like the same thing, I know your friends and online discussion neighbors would appreciate your honest assessment of the likes and dislikes without providing a spoiler – I know I would! Your reviews don’t need to be a long dissertation of the book, I like to keep them short, sweet, and hopefully to the point (some people think I am too blunt on things I dislike, but I am at least giving you my honest opinion!); you can see all of the reviews I have written if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/mgreviews – if you think any of them were helpful, I would appreciate a “Yes” vote just underneath the reviews on the Amazon website.

We’d really like to hear what you’re reading right now – I, for example, may find something interesting from your list I want to read (It’s been known to happen!). If you are reading this on your Kindle – or anywhere other than the blog’s website – and would like to check out the poll and find some new things or, better yet, tell others what you are reading, just click here or type in http://wp.me/p2b82w-4u1 into your web browser, scroll down to the bottom of the post, and start typing away in the comments section!

Anyway, that’s all for now. Have a great rest of your week!

Michael

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The Prophet Motive: A Cult Thriller , by Eric Christopherson, 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 72 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

Red Adept Reviews Indie Award for Thrillers/Suspense 2011

San Francisco Homicide detective John Richetti spent part of his childhood living inside an infamous cult known as the People’s Temple. As a boy he’d lost his parents to cult-instigated mass suicide. The memories come flooding back when he investigates the bizarre suicide of a former member of Earthbound, a New Age cult–and suspects murder instead. To uncover the truth he infiltrates the group, along with police psychologist Marilyn Michaelsen.

The new recruits find themselves pushed to their physical and mental limits by a series of sophisticated brainwashing techniques as well as by a cult leader, known only as The Wizard, who appears to possess psychic and paranormal powers. Even the psychologist’s expert knowledge of cults can’t explain The Wizard’s feats, and it isn’t long before John, like his parents before him, surrenders his independence to another . . .

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/aahxbf into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Prophet Motive: A Cult Thriller .

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Listen: The Sweet Little Voice Within , by Sri Vishwanath, 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 5 out of 5 stars based on 18 customer reviews.

Category: Spirituality

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

This profound parable of men and women confronting their own difficulties in realizing the force of God within themselves presents a challenging and incisive commentary on the nature of religion and human capabilities. The setting is a village in north east india, but the site would be anywhere in the universe, and the forest a trio of villagers need to go through to reach mysteriously appearing figures of Krishna, Jesus and Mohammed could be the thicket all humans pass through to experience a true religious awakening.

After a number of lethal failures by the villagers, whose faith rises and falls as the drama ensues, the way to success and salvation is revealed by Vignesh, a gatekeeper to the forest which has dangerous man-eating beasts. Throughout the tale the insights in human consciousness are both dramatic and compelling.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/aja8ky into your web browser to pick up your copy of Listen: The Sweet Little Voice Within .

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Three Girls and a Baby , by Rachel Schurig, is normally $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 311 customer reviews.

Category: Women’s Fiction / Contemporary Romance / Humor

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

Book #1 in the best-selling Three Girls series!

Ginny McKensie’s life is spiraling out of control.

Finished with college, she should have been planning her wedding. After all, Ginny and Josh were made for each other—everyone said so. Except the love of her life didn’t agree.

Now Ginny is back in her hometown, unwillingly single, and stuck in a dead-end job. When she discovers she’s pregnant, Ginny is convinced her life is ending. Instead of planning a future with Josh, she’s learning the truth about morning sickness, juggling bills, and seeing just how far designer jeans can stretch.

Her life-plan never included dating again (not even with her too-hot new boss), or being a single mother at 23. Now, with the help of her best friends, Annie and Jen, Ginny must try to re-imagine—and rebuild—a life she never wanted.

Don’t miss the sequel, Three Girls and a Wedding!

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/3girls into your web browser to pick up your copy of Three Girls and a Baby .

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A Bid for Love , by Rachel Ann Nunes, is regularly $6.99 but has been discounted 57% to 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 16 customer reviews.

Category: Romance / Religious Fiction

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

Cassi is the head buyer for a prestigious art gallery in California. Jared is a buyer for an exclusive New York gallery. Sparks fly as the two come head to head in a bidding war for a hideous but very expensive Indian Buddha.

Cassi and Jared are both determined to win the statue, but others also want the Buddha—at any cost. Thugs, art forgers, the FBI, or Jared’s beautiful and alluring boss . . . who will end up with the statue? During a string of hair-raising exploits, Cassi and Jared are forced to develop a tentative friendship that deepens into romance. Will they survive long enough to see it through?

Best-selling author Rachel Ann Nunes has crafted a wonderfully intriguing and romantic drama in this fast-moving novel, bringing two idealistic people together from opposite edges of the continent and allowing them, in their own way, to find an unexpected connection to their Christian faith and each other. In the end, their very lives depend on the trust they’ve developed.

If you love romance and excitement, you’ll be captivated by A Bid for Love.

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The Sholes Key , by Clarissa Draper, 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 38 customer reviews. I received a note form the author saying this is the last day for this book to be free.

Category: Mystery

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

All across London, single mothers are vanishing. Margaret Hill, mother of two, walks out of her house and is never seen again. A month later, Carrie-Anne Morgans takes her two-year-old son for a walk in the park and disappears, leaving him alone in his stroller. Lorna McCauley leaves her London flat in the early hours of the morning to buy medicine for her sick child and does not return.

Newly-promoted Detective Inspector Theophilus Blackwell is assigned the case of Lorna McCauley that first appears to be a simple case of mid-life crisis and child abandonment. Elsewhere in London, MI5 analyst, Sophia Evans, is working undercover to catch an animal rights group responsible for targeted bombings. As Sophia’s case (and her personal life) fall to pieces, she receives a strange envelope in the mail. It contains a picture of Lorna McCauley’s lifeless face along with a daunting code.

Now the police and MI5 are forced to work together to stop the murders, and Sophia must
find her way into the terrifying mind of a serial killer.

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The Color of Heaven , by Julianne MacLean, 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 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 120 customer reviews.

Category: Women’s Fiction

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

A deeply emotional tale about Sophie Duncan, a successful columnist whose world falls apart after her daughter’s unexpected illness and her husband’s shocking affair. When it seems nothing else could possibly go wrong, her car skids off an icy road and plunges into a frozen lake. There, in the cold dark depths of the water, a profound and extraordinary experience unlocks the surprising secrets from Sophie’s past, and teaches her what it means to truly live…and love.

Full of surprising twists and turns and a near-death experience that will leave you breathless, this story is not to be missed.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/qxmgu2 into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Color of Heaven .

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The Freedom Star , by Jeff Andrews, 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 42 customer reviews.

Category: Historical Fiction

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

The Freedom Star immerses readers in the lives, dreams, and sufferings of two families, one owned by the other, at the outset of the Civil War. Isaac yearns for the freedom that Henry, his boyhood friend and owner’s son, takes for granted. Although they share similar dreams, Isaac’s life as a slave promises only hardships, while Henry enjoys his first year as a cadet at West Point, oblivious to his friend’s suffering. When war comes, Henry joins the Confederates. Soon after, his father takes ill and his older brother seizes control of the family farm. Abruptly, slaves are forced to endure the whip, Isaac’s father is sold south, and the atmosphere in the slave quarters becomes as oppressive as the August sun on a dusty tobacco field.

Following a series of false promises and futile escape attempts, Isaac’s only hope of reuniting with the woman he loves lies in joining Henry and the Rebels on their march north. When Henry is wounded and taken prisoner, Isaac finds himself behind Union lines and free, but facing a dilemma. Should he follow his dreams, or return to slavery to save his childhood friend?

The Freedom Star offers readers a powerful and evocative family saga with poignant characters and compelling layers of story that will hold readers until the very last page.

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The Ways of GOD , by Cherie Hill, is normally $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 28 customer reviews.

Category: Christian Living / Spiritual Growth

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

Unexpectedly, we find that our faith has had a collision between high hopes and harsh realities—life isn’t turning out like we expected. We find ourselves questioning whether or not God is really in control . . . because life sure isn’t.

Though He claims to be “all we need,” we’re just not exactly sure we believe that. In our fight of faith, we’re convinced that His thoughts are higher than our thoughts—as hard as we try, we can’t figure God out. And although His ways may be higher, they certainly don’t seem better—we made plans for our lives, but God is directing our steps and taking us places we never wanted to go.

It becomes clear that God has brought us to a place in life where faith is no longer an option or a luxury, it’s a necessity— He’s brought us to our knees, so that we have nowhere to look, but up. In our hopelessness, we find God teaching us to trust Him, when there is no evidence that we should.

“The Ways of God” takes your faith to the next level. You’ll come to understand that although you don’t know where your life is headed, God does. You’ll grasp that when you can’t know every detail of His will, you can trust it.

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Watcher’s Web , by Patty Jansen, is regularly $6.99 but has been discounted 57% to 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 16 customer reviews.

Category: Science Fiction

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

She’s not your ordinary country girl, even though she might look like one. She casts webs of power, reading the feelings of living beings and telling them what to do. Nobody knows what causes it, least of all her. Her name is Jessica, but most people call her ‘freak’.

One fateful day, her ‘web’ connects with a stranger, and stray power causes the plane in which she’s travelling to crash in an alien world. An accident? The more she discovers about the world in which she has landed, the more she doubts it. She is a survivor from an ancient race that once travelled the stars. Her ancestors were powerful and dangerous, and it seems at least two people want her: the man who invades her mind, and the man who’s desperate to help her get back home. But Jessica grew up an Earth girl, and isn’t having any of this. She’ll pander to no one, thank you very much, even if her stubbornness enrages the tyrant race who hold the world in their grip.

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Quest for the Lost Treasure , by Gerry Gaston and Laura Livi, 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 56 customer reviews. I received a note form the author saying this book would be free through May 15th.

Category: Children

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

“Choose Your Own Path” Pirate Adventure for Ages 3-8!

Your epic journey begins when a band of Pirates raid your village and you set out to track down the thieving pirates and recover the lost gold and jewels. The unique interactive format allows you to control the progress of the story, as it is being told! Will you dare to explore what’s behind the closed door, or play it safe and escape up the stairway?

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Bias Cut , by Morgan Richter, 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 21 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:

Burned out and bitter after a string of disappointments, Nicola Strozyk takes a short-term gig assisting Laurie Sparks, the design world’s reigning enfant terrible. Barely in his twenties, Laurie has built himself an empire that encompasses a chic Manhattan boutique and a role on an obnoxious reality series. Part worldly sophisticate and part cheerful scatterbrain, Laurie is beautiful and extravagant; at nearly twice his age, Nicola is jaded and resolutely unglamorous. As Laurie’s burgeoning fame threatens to overwhelm him, Nicola finds herself struggling to keep him on solid ground.

When Laurie becomes obsessed with tracking down the designer of a mysterious coat, he drags Nicola along on a champagne-fueled quest that takes them from the New York catwalks to glittery Hollywood parties and swanky suites in Paris hotels. What begins as a lark takes an ominous turn when they uncover a decades-old mystery involving the murders of two young models. Along the way, the odd-couple camaraderie between Nicola and Laurie evolves into a fierce bond, which is put to the test when she must protect him from a pair of deadly threats: a mercurial fellow designer hell-bent on burying a dark secret, and an obsessive killer who has fixed his sights on Laurie.

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