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Thursday, December 31, 2009

Christmas EBook Sales (Part 3)

The last post of my Christmas Sales Roundup. A few of these expire very, very soon, so be sure to read thru the list. The first two are again exclusives for readers of this blog - I ask that you don't repeat these coupon codes on other sites, although you are welcome to post links back to the blog itself.

Land of the Free ($0.99 Kindle and Mobipocket), by Jeffry Hepple, is free on Smashwords with coupon code VM69V, thru January 31. This is sequel to Gone For a Soldier ($4.00 Kindle and Smashwords). Jeff runs not only the EBookGab website, but also the Operation Ebook Drop website, in addition to his day job and writing.

Book Description
The Van Buskirk family saga continues with the exploration of the Louisiana Territory and the War of 1812.

Held captive by the British aboard the warship HMS Surprise, American lawyer, Francis Scott Key, witnessed the British bombardment of American Fort McHenry through the long, rainy night of September 13th and 14th, 1814. As the sun rose the following morning, illuminating the American flag, still flying, he wrote these words on the back of an envelope:

O! say can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Death of a Cure ($0.99 Kindle), by Steven H Jackson, is free on Smashwords for the next year, using coupon code HL36N.

Book Description
We know them as humanitarians. Of this we are sure, we are certain, their calling unimpeachable. They have forsaken success in industry and in government that was surely theirs just for the taking. This personal sacrifice is for us. More importantly, for those we love. They are servants of a greater good. In return, we entrust them with our time, our talents and our money -- all we can give. They move the hearts of our children, our friends and our coworkers all of whom enlist sponsors that contribute even more money based on miles hiked or biked along traffic laden thoroughfares. We look to them to lead us from the heartbreak -- the overwhelming emotional devastation that cripples us as our lives derail when someone we love is struck down by a cruel and life-robbing disease. We hold them to a higher standard. They are better. We need them to be. They are the caretakers of our hope.

But is our dream of a cure really their mission? Have we been deceived? Could it be a cruel duplicity, a personal deceit, phenomenal in its audacity, yet nothing more to them than an evil means to a selfish end? A falsehood perpetrated against the trusting, abetting positions of power. Our hope blinding us from the truth. Have the lifestyles, the position and the money become their true motivation? Have they come to see the disease, our enemy, as their benefactor? How far would they go to protect the enemy?

Would they kill?

DEATH OF A CURE is a novel of mystery, suspense and action. The murder of one good man by a respected colleague is more than a crushing personal deception, it is an unequaled violation of the trust of thousands afflicted by a horrible disease.

In a first person account, the brother of the murdered man, a military surgeon born to wealth and accustomed to success, is thrust into the role of homicide investigator. Quickly discovering that his skills as a detective are frustratingly insufficient, he calls upon a woman from his past for help. Together they unravel layers of evil and organized deception revealing that the true work of this healthcare charity has little to do with curing the terrible disease born by a trusting constituency.

Murder was just another means to a hidden end.


Childproofed ($0.99 Kindle or Smashwords), by Reese Reed

Book Description
Motherhood sometimes seems as though it's not all it's cracked up to be. Sleepless nights, baby fat, encrusted bits of spit up clinging to my clothes and hair...not exactly what I'd pictured it as being. Sometimes I wonder where the real Virginia went - the person I used to be before I was just someone's wife or mother. Now I find out that a hot young girl is after my husband. Perfect. This is the life of a mother. It's real, and it's definitely nothing like a baby ad.

A Plague of Hearts (free Smashwords), by Patrick Whittaker

Book Description
On an otherwise normal day in Wonderland, the Knave of Hearts is arrested by the secret police. Outraged by what he believes to be an injustice, his valet, the March Hare, sets out to free him. Along the way he attends a mad tea party, witnesses the death and resurrection of the Queen of Hearts and uncovers a terrifying secret that could destroy not only his world, but ours too.

Refuge of Delayed Souls, by Miladysa, was free last month, but there is a new coupon code TC44V, thru March 1, for those who missed the last one.

Book Description
Volume 1 ~ RoYds In a story spanning many lifetimes, we follow Elizabeth Whyte's journey as she investigates the supernatural & seeks information about her own past, all while trying to keep a balance between the light & the darkness in her work for an agency known as the Refuge of Delayed Souls. A world where ghosts, angels, the Living & others exist side by side, although not always in harmony.


The Nan Tu - Southern Swallow Book II ($3.99 Kindle and Smashwords), by Edward C. Patterson, just released today!

Book Description
"We all lived in the shadow of K’ai-feng’s ashes now. No denying it. However safe we felt, the world hung by a silken thread." So begins the second book of the Southen Swallow series - The Nan Tu (The Southern Migration) and, like the first book, The Academician, it is told by K’u Ko-ling, servant to the Grand Tutor, Li K’ai-men. The Emperor Kao has proclaimed that his court and government will migrate to the south, a progress filled with adventure, intrigue, war and tragedy, thus setting a series of events in play that shaped the Middle Kingdom.

Set on the broad canvas of Sung Dynasty China, The Nan Tu is a tale of love, separation and sacrifice. Yet heroes emerge from the ashes and restoration is within their grasp. From the mountain lairs of bandits to the sweep of the fleet at sea, The Nan Tu will transport you to a world that should have never been forgotten. Still, there are more important things than empires and history. There’s love and destiny - the destiny of Li K’ai-men’s relics and the enlistment of his helpmates to guard over the membrane of time.


Homefront ($2.00 Kindle or Smashwords), by Kristen J. Tsetsi, can be had for free by emailing the author at kjt AT kristentsetsi DOT com, until late on New Year's Day. Make sure to include your email address in your note and indicate whether you'd rather receive a PDF copy (via email) or a coupon code to use at Smashwords.

Book Description
A cab driving former English professor, an unpredictable alcoholic Vietnam veteran, an anti-war soldier, and a morbid mother in-law come together in this realistic, sensual, and darkly humorous semi-autobiographical tale of waiting through a war deployment.


Angel of the Bus Shelter (free Smashwords), by Layton Buzzzard

Book Description
He was a geek. She was beautiful and insane. When uber-nerd Orson falls in love with a mysterious woman he meets at a bus shelter, he sets off a chain of events that leads to such unlikely events as the stars going out and buses arriving on time.

Lead Me Home (free Smashwords and B&N) and The Life & Times of a Boomer Baby (free Smashwords and B&N), by L.K. Campbell

Lead Me Home
Rick and Annie meet again ten years after high school. It looks as if they could rekindle their romance, but Annie is still feeling guilty about an old secret that caused Rick to have to leave town in disgrace. Is confession really good for the soul?

The Life & Times of a Boomer Baby
Personal anecdotes about growing up on a farm in the rural south during the 1960s. These sometimes humorous and sometimes poignant stories give a picture of life before cell phones, home computers, satellite T.V. and all those other things we think we can't live without.

The Elvis Interviews (free Smashwords), by glen bonham. I haven't looked at this one, but saw a recommendation by someone who paid $5.00 for this recently and claimed it "was worth every penny).

Book Description
The mob has stolen Elvis's 55 pink caddy from Graceland. When a retirement age sheriff with an eerie resemblance to Elvis investigates, he meets a down on his luck Journalist who is snooping around Graceland on a hot tip. The journalist becomes convinced the sheriff is in fact, Elvis Presley. “Yeah, I get that a lot,” grins sheriff Jesse, “but I ain’t Elvis. Elvis died in 1977"

Free Book (nook) - Altar of Eden

Altar of Eden ($9.99) Kindle, by James Rollins, is available as a free pre-order in the Barnes & Noble store. I'm not sure which format you'll get, though: eReader or EPUB (neither works with the Kindle) and you'll need to check back tomorrow to download the book (Amazon has it available today, but at a higher price).

Book Description
Following the fall of Baghdad, two Iraqi boys stumble upon armed men looting the city zoo. The floodgates have been opened for the smuggling of hundreds of exotic birds, mammals, and reptiles to Western nations, but this crime hides a deeper secret. Amid a hail of bullets, a concealed underground weapons lab is ransacked-and something even more horrific is set free. Seven years later, Louisiana state veterinarian Lorna Polk stumbles upon a fishing trawler shipwrecked on a barrier island. The crew is missing or dead, but the boat holds a frightening cargo: a caged group of exotic animals, clearly part of a black market smuggling ring. Yet, something is wrong with these beasts, disturbing deformities that make no sense: a parrot with no feathers, a pair of Capuchin monkeys conjoined at the hip, a jaguar cub with the dentition of a saber-toothed tiger. They also all share one uncanny trait-a disturbingly heightened intelligence. To uncover the truth about the origin of this strange cargo and the terrorist threat it poses, Lorna must team up with a man who shares a dark and bloody past with her and is now an agent with the U.S. Border Patrol, Jack Menard. Together, the two must hunt for a beast that escaped the shipwreck while uncovering a mystery tied to fractal science and genetic engineering, all to expose a horrifying secret that traces back to humankind's earliest roots. But can Lorna stop what is about to be born upon the altar of Eden before it threatens not only the world but also the very foundation of what it means to be human?

Click HERE for the free book.

Say Goodbye to the Harlequin 16

As of today, the sixteen free titles from Harlequin are no longer free in the Kindle store. You can still grab them on the Harlequin Celebrates page, but I don't know how long that'll be active. If you are new to the Kindle (or Sony or nook), like romance (or know someone who does) and have not downloaded these yet, I would not put it off another day, as they will no doubt be unavailable soon.

Click HERE for the books in several DRM-free formats (get more than one, as you never know if you might get a different reader in the future, plus one or two of the mobi/prc formatted files have had problems in the past).

At least for now, these books are also available, along with two others, on the Harrah's/Harlequin promotional page, HERE.

Free book on iPhone - The Graduate

This one is just for those with an iPhone or iPod Touch. It is a separate app, which installs from the iTunes store, so will count towards your total allowed applications (and no doubt has it's own interface, which is different from the Kindle app or the other ereader apps that are more commonly used).

The Graduate ($5.59 Kindle), by Charles Webb

Book Description
The basis of the acclaimed 1968 film. Benjamin Braddock, a new graduate of a prestigious Northeastern college tries to make sense of his life with fortyish Mrs. Robinson and later with her daughter with whom he falls in love. Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft and Katherine Ross starred in the Mike Nichols production.

Click HERE to install the App into iTunes.

Fictionwise Under a Dollar

Four more new books at Fictionwise that are priced ultra low (below 50 cents). I suspect the pricing is an error, so may change at any time. Like The Heir Hunter in the previous post, these are only available in DRM secured formats and are not Kindle compatible.

The Furies ($6.59 Paperback), by Bill Napier

Book Description
An unidentified object crashes from the sky into an Arizona canyon, releasing anthrax spores and leaving innocent victims in its wake. Investigators are shocked by what they find in the rubble: a swastika. They call upon former spy and World War II–era weapons expert Lewis Sharp for help. Could this be a biochemical weapon designed by the Nazis half a century ago—or is it an elaborate hoax? Sharp is convinced that it’s the real McCoy and he warns that two more killing machines are still out there, primed and ready to strike…

The attacker has left a cryptic note hinting at an another attack. Now, it’s up to Sharp to piece together a sixty-year-old mystery—one that spans from a convent in Hitler’s Germany to Hollywood, the Executive Branch to shadowy third-world governments. Sharp and his colleagues have just five days left to stop the weapon from unleashing mass destruction—and leading the world to the brink of a whole new kind of war…


The Gun Fight ($6.81 Paperback), by Richard Matheson

Book Description
John Benton was one of the toughest men ever to wear a Texas Ranger badge. But eight years ago, in August 1871, he hung up his guns for good.

Or so he hoped.

Then young Robby Coles challenged him to a fight over some imagined slight to the boy’s sixteen-year-old girlfriend. At first Benton tried to laugh off the affair. Why, the boy was little more than a child. But rumors and gossip spread like wildfire through their dusty frontier town and soon enough the entire community seems to be goading both men towards a fatal confrontation neither one truly wants.

Benton doesn’t want to kill again. Robby is secretly terrified of facing the legendary gunfighter. Yet, with both men’s honor on the line, is there any way to avoid a duel to the death?


The Vitamin Book ($6.39 Kindle), by Harold M. Silverman

Book Description
America's Most Reliable Vitamin Guide...Completely Updated!

We've all heard about the miraculous curative and preventive powers of vitamins, minerals, and herbal remedies. Now the new, revised The Vitamin Book, compiled by pharmacological experts, cuts through the confusion so you learn what to take and why.

Here is authoritative and up-to-date scientific information on exactly what vitamins, minerals, and herbal remedies can do for you. You'll find:
  • Detailed descriptions of vitamins, minerals, trace elements, and electrolytes, including daily requirements, dosages, therapeutic uses, and more
  • The latest research on St. John's wort, echinacea, CoQ10, DHEA, and other popular herbal and dietary supplements
  • An essential guide to brand-name multivitamins found in your supermarket or health food store
  • Specific recommendations for children, athletes, seniors, and pregnant or postmenopausal women
  • Guidelines for safe supplement use, including megadosing and critical drug interactions
  • The nutrient content of hundreds of common foods, including popular fast foods
  • How computer programs can monitor your vitamin and mineral intake
  • And much, much more
The Calorie Counter, 5th Edition ($6.39 Kindle), by Karen J Nolan & Jo-Ann Heslin

Book Description
DIET TRENDS MAY COME AND GO, BUT ONE THING IS CERTAIN -- CALORIES COUNT!

Recent research confirms that if you want to lose weight, which foods you eat is less important than how many calories you consume -- if you track calories, you'll drop pounds.

Revised and updated, The Calorie Counter, 5th Edition, is the most complete and easy-to-use calorie counter in the marketplace:
  • Calorie counts for over 20,000 foods, including more than 800 take-out items and dishes from over 100 national and regional restaurant chains
  • Easy tips for understanding calories and portion sizes that put you in charge of your eating habits
  • Simple tricks for burning more calories in your daily life
  • Advice for keeping liquid calories and dieting myths from sabotaging your success
  • An all-new look at why men are more successful at losing weight
The Calorie Counter, 5th Edition, is a weight-loss guide that will never let you down!

Here are the links at Fictionwise; don't forget to use coupon code JK25 for the extra 25% off.

The Furies
The Gun Fight
The Vitamin Book
The Calorie Counter, 5th Edition


UPDATE: I've received a couple of reports that the books that downloads is not the books described with this one. Instead, it's old, public domain classics. If you bought any of these books, check them, as you may have to ask for a refund.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

The Heir Hunter

The Heir Hunter ($5.59 Kindle), by Chris Larsgaard, can be had for as little as 31 cents over at Fictionwise, with rebates and membership and the 25% coupon that expires after today (but typically keeps working for a few days afterwards). Before the coupon, the price is 50 cents after rebate for non-members and 43 cents for members. The only two formats available are both DRM secured: Mobipocket and eReader (so no deal for Kindle owners, unless you read on the computer).

Book Description
An unclaimed $22-million estate is up for grabs in first-time novelist Larsgaard's ingenious thriller. Sexy attorney Alex Moreno-the Albany, N.Y.-based partner to former cop Nick Merchant who now specializes in finding heirs to unsettled estates-slips a county deputy attorney a $10,000 bribe to get a sneak preview of four probate files 10 days before the official release date. One of the files contains the mind-boggling multimillion-dollar legacy of Gerald Jacobs, an 87-year-old Hudson, N.Y., recluse who died with no apparent heirs. Since Nick's customary finder's fee averages about 30%, this represents the proverbial jackpot. Unfortunately, there is absolutely no record of the deceased's life earlier than his final three years at the Hudson address, so leads for Nick and Alex are meager. Unaware of clandestine forces working to quash any probe into the dead man's background, the intrepid heir hunters stage a daylight burglary of Jacobs's residence, but are interrupted by a mysterious intruder who shoots a cop investigating the reported break-in. Accused of attempted murder, Nick follows sketchy clues obtained in the burglary and winds up in Germany, where he finds an old lover of Jacobs and learns that the mysterious retiree was part of the FBI's witness protection program. The plot thickens and the chase picks up speed as Nick investigates in Iowa and Geneva. Grim reminders of the Holocaust and Swiss bankers' collusion with the Nazis--plus a sobering look at federal agencies operating outside the law--are well drawn, as is an artful undercurrent of sexual tension. If one forgives a brief lapse in the middle of the story that gives a bit too much plot away, and sporadic missteps from the fledgling author's earnest tendency to overwrite, this fine debut oozes authenticity and provides a fascinating glimpse into the quixotic and dangerous realm of high-stakes "assets recovery."

Click HERE for the book listing and don't forget to use coupon code JK25 for the extra 25% off.

UPDATE: I've received a couple of reports that the book that downloads is not the book described with this one. Instead, it's an old, public domain classic. If you bought the book, check it, as you may have to ask for a refund.

Free Book (EPUB) - Unseen Academicals

Unseen Academicals ($9.99) Kindle, by Terry Pratchett, is free in (DRM'd) EPUB format over at Kobo Books (compatible with Sony or nook readers). Don't forget to add it to your Library, as well as download the EPUB, in case you want access to the book after the price goes back up.

This is Pratchett's latest book, released just this past October, and the thirty-second book in the Discworld series.

Book Description
The wizards at Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University are renowned for many things-wisdom, magic, and their love of teatime-but athletics is most assuredly not on the list. And so when Lord Ventinari, the city's benevolent tyrant, strongly suggests to Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully that the university revive an erstwhile tradition and once again put forth a football team composed of faculty, students, and staff, the wizards of UU find themselves in a quandary. To begin with, they have to figure out just what it is that makes this sport-soccer with a bit of rugby thrown in-so popular with Ankh-Morporkians of all ages and social strata. Then they have to learn how to play it. Oh, and on top of that, they must win a football match without using magic. Meanwhile, Trev (a handsome street urchin and a right good kicker) falls hard for kitchen maid Juliet (beautiful, dim, and perhaps the greatest fashion model there ever was), and Juliet's best pal, UU night cook Glenda (homely, sensible, and a baker of jolly good pies) befriends the mysterious Mr. Nutt (about whom no one knows very much, including Mr. Nutt, which is worrisome . . .). As the big match approaches, these four lives are entangled and changed forever. Because the thing about football-the most important thing about football­-is that it is never just about football.

Click HERE for the free book.

Free Short Story (PDF) - Fated

Another free read from Simon and Schuster, Fated, by Shayla Black, a short story that fits into her Doomsday Brethren series.

This one expires today, but is an unsecured PDF, rather than an EPUB, so it should work fine as-is or converted on the Kindle, Sony or nook.

Click HERE for the download.

Free Book (EPUB) - Wake

Simon and Schuster is giving away the first book in the Wake Trilogy, Wake ($7.19 Kindle), by Lisa McMann. The download is only valid this week, December 26-31, and the book is a DRM'd EPUB - it won't work on the Kindle, but should be fine on your PC, Sony Reader or Nook (amongst others). Credit for this one goes to Staci, an alert reader that tipped me off to the download.

Book Description
For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams is getting old. Especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody-notices dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. Janie's seen enough fantasy booty to last her a lifetime.

She can't tell anybody about what she does -- they'd never believe her, or worse, they'd think she's a freak. So Janie lives on the fringe, cursed with an ability she doesn't want and can't control.

Then she falls into a gruesome nightmare, one that chills her to the bone. For the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else's twisted psyche. She is a participant....


Click HERE to sign up for the download. You can use a throw-away email address, as you'll get the download link immediately after submitting, rather than via email.

UPDATE: In addition to only being available for download for five days, it appears the DRM on this book will only allow you to read it for the next 30 days (like a library book). It's short, so it should be no problem to finish it quickly, but be sure to add it to the top of your TBR list.

Monday, December 28, 2009

The Harry Bosch Novels

I featured these same two books by Michael Connelly almost exactly a year ago (HERE), when both were being sold for $7.96 each. Since then, they have been $9.99, which isn't a bad deal for a three novel set, but today the second set is marked down to $4.50, dropping the cost for all six novels even lower than it was last year (and it's an especially good deal for anyone that picked up volume one then and waited before buying volume two).

The Harry Bosch Novels: The Black Echo, The Black Ice, The Concrete Blonde ($9.99)

Book Description
For the first time in one volume, the three novels that introduced Michael Connelly's great LAPD homicide detective, maverick Hieronymous (Harry) Bosch. The Black Echo (Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel) For Harry Bosch-hero, loner, nighthawk-the body stuffed in a drainpipe off Mulholland Drive isn't just another statistic. This one is personal. Billy Meadows was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat," fighting the VC and the fear they used to call the Black Echo. Harry let Meadows down once. He won't do it again. The Black Ice The corpse in the hotel room seems to be that of a missing LAPD narcotics officer. Rumors abound that the cop had crossed over-selling a new drug called Black Ice. Now Harry's making some dangerous connections, leading from the cop to a string of bloody murders, and from Hollywood Boulevard's drug bazaar to Mexico's dusty back alleys. In this lethal game, Harry is likely to be the next victim. The Concrete Blonde When Harry Bosch shot and killed Norman Church, the police were convinced it marked the end of the hunt for the Dollmaker-L.A.'s most bizarre serial killer. But now Church's widow is accusing Harry of killing the wrong man-a charge that rings terrifyingly true when a new victim is discovered with the Dollmaker's macabre signature. For the second time, Harry must hunt the murderer down, before he strikes again. Together, these three novels are the perfect way to discover, or rediscover, the sleuth the New York Times Book Review called a "wonderful, old-fashioned hero who isn't afraid to walk through the flames."

Harry Bosch Novels, The: Volume 2: The Last Coyote, Trunk Music, Angels Flight ($4.50)

Book Description
The Last Coyote: LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch is suspended from the force for attacking his commanding officer. Unable to remain idle, he investigates the long-unsolved murder of a Hollywood prostitute. Trunk Music: Harry returns to the force to investigate the murder of a movie producer with Mafia ties. Up against both the LAPD's organized crime unit and the mob, Harry follows the money trail to Las Vegas, where the case becomes personal. Angels Flight: The murder of a prominent African-American attorney who made his career suing the police for racism and brutality means that Harry's friends and associates have become suspects; and he must work closely with longtime enemies suspicious of his maverick ways to investigate them.

Ebook Coupons / Free Books

Be sure to read to the end, for two coupons exclusively for readers of this blog...

First, Manning Publications has a coupon for $15 off of any purchase, today only, whether an ebook or printed book. The company publishes technical books, mostly computer programming in nature and most of their ebooks are PDF's. They are, however, in the process of moving to embrace both epub and mobi formats and they have already released a few books in those formats and are converting others. Best of all, if you buy the PDF, then when (if?) the book does get converted, you get all three formats. Here's a catalog of all their ebooks, while this page
shows the ones in mobi and epub formats.

For $15 off, enter coupon code dotd1228 before checkout (near the bottom of the checkout page, after the billing address). You can also get a 35% discount on any order (which can be more than one book) by downloading one of their green papers (in PDF form, most excerpts/condensations from books they sell, it appears). You'll get a download link and the coupon in email with these. The two cannot be stacked, but that's still a decent discount on technical books.

Next up, Kobo has a 25% discount on any one title, using coupon code BW25. The offer expires Jan 2, 2010, and all of their books are in either DRM'D EPUB or are only accessible via a mobile device or the web (always check the available formats there, before purchasing). That means no deals for the Kindle only readers, but a good discount for those who have a Sony or nook reader. I haven't tried this coupon, but the last one they did worked even on their $9.99 Bestseller titles, so you can snag one for $7.50, if their formats work for you.

These last two are exclusive coupons created just for readers of this blog. If you know of anyone that might want to read the books, just share the address of this blog post (booksontheknob.blogspot.com/2009/12/ebook-coupons-free-books.html) and have each person log in and "purchase" the books (with their own accounts) using the coupon codes below. I do ask that you don't post these two codes elsewhere on the internet (although you can post a link back to this post, if you wish and it's allowed on the forum/site where you wish to post). Remember, books at Smashwords are free of any DRM and the Mobi format there works fine on the Kindle (EPUB is the format of choice for the Sony or nook).

Molokai Reef ($3.95 Smashwords; $5.99 Kindle), by Dennis K. Biby. Use coupon code VW97A during checkout to get this book for free, through January 5, 2010.

Book Description
Molokai Reef weaves humor, travelogue, environmental issues, sailing, and social commentary into a page turning mystery. Follow Gybe with no last name and his wacky friends, including a doobie smoking scarlet macaw, as they solve a murder mystery on the island of Molokai in the Hawaiian Islands.

Thin Blood ($3.97 Smashwords), by Vicki Tyley. Use coupon code MF79L during checkout to get this book for free, through January 31, 2010.

Book Description
A stockbroker’s wife disappears. Blood on his hands and an adulterous affair with the missing woman’s younger sister sees him charged with murder. With no body and only circumstantial evidence he walks free. Ten years later, journalist Jacinta Deller decides to investigate, only to become embroiled in a warped game of delusion and murder.

One note about Smashwords - their site seems to be running quite slowly today (could it be all those new nooks being used at once? Or the million new Kindles that found homes over the holidays?), so you may need to be patient or hit refresh a time or two before the book pages pop up. I haven't had any problems downloading books from my library there, just getting book pages to display.

AudioFile Magazine Listener's Guide to Sherlock Holmes

AudioFile Magazine's Listener's Guide to Sherlock Holmes features a free download of three Sherlock Holmes stories: Silver Blaze, The Adventure of the Stock-Broker's Clerk, and The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans.

Guide Description
  • Listen to our exclusive conversations with three Holmes narrators
  • Download three Sherlock Holmes stories on audio for FREE! Available worldwide, December 16-29, courtesy of Naxos AudioBooks
  • Discover AudioFile Editors' recommendations of the best Sherlock Holmes audiobooks and online resources
Sherlock Holmes is a perennial favorite, and the audio format offers a vast number of listening choices, with new releases appearing regularly. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories are available in unabridged collections from several audio publishers. Adaptations of the stories are also plentiful--from the radio broadcasts of the 1940s to more restrained versions of the popular stories. Whatever the listener’s preference, Sherlock Holmes is a natural audio adventure.

Listen to our behind-the-scenes conversations with narrators David Timson, Simon Prebble, and Ralph Cosham, plus an interview with award-winning audio dramatist and AudioFile contributing editor Yuri Rasovsky. And, from December 16-29, AudioFile's daily SoundReviews will focus on Sherlock Holmes narrators and audiobook reviews. We also feature a video and two podcasts of David Timson speaking about Sherlock Holmes and his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle.


Click here to get for the downloads.

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Book Giveaway - The Cowboy's Christmas Miracle

In the post on Christmas Eve was an unexpected package from Harlequin - five paperback copies of The Cowboy's Christmas Miracle ($3.60 Kindle), by Raeanne Thayne. Included was a Christmas card and a letter encouraging me to give away the extra copies.

So, I have four copies that I will mail out to four lucky readers (I'll keep one to read). Since there are (to my surprise) more than four of you out there, I'll draw names from those who comment on this post. I'll keep the contest open thru the end of the year and have the drawing on January 1st, 2010. Anyone who comments between now and midnight (US/EDT) December 31, 2009, is eligible. Be sure to leave me an EMAIL address that can be used to contact you (since I'll need a real mailing address later on -- don't leave that here in the comments). If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook or subscribe on the Kindle, leave a separate comment for each one, to get multiple entries.

Book Description
Christmas was tough for widow Jenna Wheeler and her four children. But even though she'd sold part of her family's land to make ends meet, she was determined to spin the holiday into the stuff of magic—no matter what it took. Now if she could only find a job….

Maybe her new landlord could oblige—gorgeous, child-averse Carson McRaven. He needed a chef, and he knew the lovely Jenna could do a bang-up job—if only she could keep her brood out of his hair. But as he found himself catapulted into the cheerful chaos of her family…not to mention Jenna's arms… he learned more about the spirit of Christmas than he'd ever dreamed.

Amazon Music Deal

Amazon is running a special deal in their MP3 music store, where every time you spend $7.99 or more (on one album), you'll get a credit for a free $5 album (there is a list to choose from). I checked my email and I have a $5 promotional credit because I bought some type of electronics in the lead-up to Christmas, so that means for $2.99, I can buy two albums.

Click HERE for additional details.

Even if you don't want to take advantage of this deal, you might want to check out some of the free music they have available. In addition to the 25 Days of Christmas (all of which is now available), you can pick up a Jazz Sampler from Pi Records, the Vanguard Visionaries Series Sampler, The Orange Mountain Music Philip Glass Sampler Vol.I and more, all for free.

Game of the Day - Sacred Gold

Amazon had this one on sale just before Christmas and has it marked down again today as today's Game of the Day. It's a Game Download and has been $9.99.

Sacred Gold ($3.49)

Game Description
  • Hundreds Of Unique Weapons, Armors & Set Items.
  • Free Multiplayer Modes. (Both Online And Lan)
  • Choose From 8 Heroic Characters.
  • Over 30 Main Quests And 200 Sub-Quests.
SACRED delivers a huge, elaborate world comprising 16 regions beset with heroic quests, battle-hardened warriors and horrific enemies. Ancaria consists of highly detailed landscapes, complete with villages and towns, and also features a day/night cycle with varying weather systems. Regions vary from forests and mountains to deserts, catacombs, and ice-covered landmasses.

Friday, December 25, 2009

Christmas EBook Sales (Part 2)

The Legend of the Seahawk ($2.50), by Adele Clagett

Book Description
In the small Connecticut seaside town of Stuart Cove, David, a young ambitious professional takes a short leave of absence from his job at the New York Daily Press to settle his elderly aunt's affairs after her death. Upon a visit to the Fishhook Pub, David is approached by an old fisherman. This old man has a story to tell, a story about a lighthouse keeper named Danny and the loss of the fishing vessel, Seahawk. She went down during a storm back in 1956, but as the old man said "That doesn't tell the whole story." David found his life, and the life of others, forever changed by this tale and the spirit of the Seahawk's Captain, Scott Spear.

The Charybdis Novels ($3.99), by K.A. Thompson, combines the titles Charybdis, As Simple as That and Finding Father Rabbit.

Book Description
Charybdis
His life littered with the women he's used--including a dead hooker he'd planned on marrying--Chip Davis is ready to move on. A blue eyed teenage wonder has found her way into his life, and he intends to run with her at full speed towards happiness. He knows she's the one, and nothing is going to keep him from holding onto her; not a dead friend, a missing brother, a kidnapped son, or a father whose sudden choice to explore the darker side of his employment will turn him away. Nothing except for his own demons, and, perhaps, the truth.

As Simple As That
They were supposed to ride off into the sunset and live out the cliche of happily ever after. They were supposed to have two-point-five kids, buy a minivan, carve out a slice of suburbia, and stay healthy and young and beautiful forever. They weren't supposed to make mistakes, have tempers or fights or bad days. They weren't supposed to split up. But with 18 years of marriage, 4 kids, a cat, and The Issue between them, Chip and Terry Davis aren't quite sure what to do when the distance between them seems to far to cross--or what to do when a simple case of the flu crosses it for them.

Finding Father Rabbit
After three years in the seminary, Kevin Davis comes home for his brother's birthday, and refuses to tell anyone why he's not going back. No one can pry the reason from him, not his parents, his brothers, or even his twin sister. But when childhood love Lydia Freeman bounces back into his life and yanks him out of his pool of despair, he considers telling her the truth, even though once she knows, there's no going back. He struggles with the truth, a pen pal who wants to be so much more, and an unfortunate streak with fire. Finding Father Rabbit follows the Davis family through two years, from Kevin's return home to the explosion of his secret revealed.


Learning to Fly ($1.99), by April Henry

Book Description
The chaotic scene of a huge, fiery chain-reaction car accident leaves Free Meeker in the possession of someone else’s bag and the hitchhiker she had just picked up dead. By the next morning, 19-year-old Free, daughter of aging hippies, has discovered that the bag contains nearly a million dollars - and that the hitchhiker’s body has been identified as hers. Fate seems to be handing her the chance to make her life over. But when the owner of the drug money realizes it didn’t burn up in the fire, things get complicated. And when the hitchhiker’s stalking husband decides that Free must be some do-gooder hiding his wife, well...

Boomerang (free), by Alan Hutcheson. This one is on Smashwords and has been free at least once before, but has a new coupon code: GK59K, good thru December 31.

Book Description
Ted Hogwood's beloved guitar is in the window of Topp Dollar Pawn. The only way he can get the money to rescue her is to accept an assignment from the AABC, a not nearly official branch of the US intelligence community. He is partnered with Jerry Kwiatkowski to steal a boomerang containing secrets that should have died with J. Edgar Hoover. It would be simple if they knew what they were doing.

Xenolith (free), by A. Sparrow. This one is also on Smashwords and has been free at least once before, but has a new coupon code: XY39L.

Book Description
Liz Bowen, wife of mission doctor Frank Bowen, goes missing in the wilds of Belize. The constables of San Ignacio can find no trace. On a pilgrimage years later to her remote 'grave', Frank is abducted and whisked away to a place he can't identify, by people whose motives and origins baffle him. Is this what happened to Liz? Might she still be alive?

Favorite ($1.99), by Karen McQuestion. This one has 10 reviews so far and nine of those were 5 star (the odd one out is still 4 stars).

Book Description
Sixteen-year-old Angie Favorite's life so far has been defined by the disappearance of her mother on her eleventh birthday. Since then, she and her older brother Jason have been raised by their grandmother, while their father tours with his rock band. When Angie is attacked by a complete stranger, the crime seems random, until she meets her attacker's wealthy mother, Lillian Bittner, and discovers nefarious connections between the Bittners and the mother no one has heard from in five years.

Told in a unique and compelling voice, Favorite will enthrall readers with its spellbinding tension and emotionally satisfying conclusion.


Victory Cove ($1.99), by Maureen A. Miller, the author of Widow's Tale.

Book Description
Megan Summers thought that she was safe in the remote coastal village of Victory Cove. For a year she hid in seclusion, preparing for the battle ahead by building her own target range and practicing adaptability in the darkened halls of Wakefield House. But, today a stranger appeared on her doorstep. Was he it? Was he her executioner?

For Jake Grogan, his trek to Victory Cove started out with a cryptic letter from a woman who after thirty-five years of silence identified herself as his mother. He was told to locate Wakefield House, the home of his grandmother. Jake found the sinister residence on the outermost crag of the ocean, but the woman who answered the door was not elderly. She was young, attractive, and looked like she would do about anything to get him off her doorstep.

Jake Grogan came to Victory Cove to discover his past. Megan Summers came to Victory Cove to escape hers. Inside Wakefield House their lives collide, and on the edge where land and sea meet, they wage a battle and struggle to survive the night.


Robin Reed has an agent looking at Xanthan Gumm ($1.99), so it may not remain on Kindle for long (there have been others optioned by publishing houses and yanked out of the Kindle store, only to return months later at higher prices; Two-Lane was pulled just last week for this very reason, before I had a chance to add the deal to the blog).

Book Description
Earth - The forbidden planet! Where strange beings called humans toil endlessly, creating the stories loved throughout Galactic Civilization. Stories collectively called The Movies!

One brave soul dares to go there, because he has a dream. He dreams of starring in a Movie, and of meeting the King of Earth - Steven Spielberg!


Dave Conifer has his entire catalog at Smashwords marked as free (which means you need to make a backup, you can't add them to your library and count on them being there later, after the price goes up).

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
A holiday short story about a guy, some tools and somebody who cared.

Snodgrass Vacation
A fun spoof on Disney World and the people who love it. Dave and Vinnie just know Morrison is faking his injury and they have a week at Snodgrass World to save the restaurant by proving it. They'll have to dodge fleets of wheelchairs and scooters long enough to expose him while enjoying attractions like 'Brutal yet Fun and Lovable Buccaneers' and 'Showcase of Random Allied Countries.'

eBully
Principal Lukather is desperate. An internet bully is terrorizing his students at Lakeland Middle School. He makes a deal with street smart Scott Halifax: go undercover as a student and nail the bully in return for a ticket out of the County Detention Center. It takes some sly computer sleuthing and a little dumb luck before they expose the bully, and it’s the last person they ever suspected.

Man of Steel
When Joe Jonas is sent to cover a press conference he figures it’s just another crackpot JFK assassination conspiracy until he stumbles across something that makes him realize this one is for real. Abby Reno, a saucy reporter from Austin, insists on working the story with him. As Jonas and Reno circle closer they learn that the secret's protectors are still around and they don't take prisoners.

Throwback
It wasn't long before the kid from North Carolina had made friends at his new high school in Jersey. Ben is the kind of guy that everybody likes. He's the star of the wrestling team and he's spending a lot of time with Judy Voorst. So what's the problem? Ben Petrovic has a secret. He’s not who everybody thinks he is.

FireHouse
Zach Bowie has been wrestling for years. It was something to do when he wasn't singing lead in his rock band. That all changes when the 171-pounder is injured and Zach is thrust into the starting lineup. He's surprised that the exhilaration of walking onto the mat feels as good as the rush he gets on stage. Maybe even better. How far could he go if he wasn't smoking three packs of Marlboros a day?

Union of Renegades: The Rys Chronicles Book I, by Tracy Falbe, is free on Smashwords (several formats) and in the B&N bookstore.

Book Description
The Rys Chronicles begin with this character-rich adventure that follows the travels of Dreibrand Veta, an ambitious warrior who seeks to rebuild his noble family's fortune. He is the first to join the powerful rys spellcaster Shan, whose race possesses magical powers and whose Queen Onja rules many human kingdoms as their Goddess. The wickedness and tyranny of Onja disgust Shan and he desires to seize the rys throne from her. The third renegade is Miranda. After escaping from her abusive slave master, she becomes a crucial player in Shan's bid for power. To weaken Onja, Shan raises rebellion among her human subjects and gathers allies to his cause. Shan demonstrates his magic in battle and convinces his followers that the fearsome rys Queen can be overthrown. For over two thousand years Onja has ruled, but now, not even fear of her ability to enslave souls will stop her ambitious enemies.

The Unsuspecting Mage: The Morcyth Saga Book One, by Brian S. Pratt, is also free on Smashwords and in the B&N store.

Book Description
James, a high school senior, went looking for a job. But instead, begins what turns out to be an adventure of a lifetime. Whisked unexpectedly to a world where magic works, he must learn to master its power, all the while searching for the meaning of why he was brought there and what he must do.

Looking Through The Windows of Madness, by Leo Vine-Knight. You can also pick up the PDF at the author's website.

Book Description
Steven is a psychiatric nurse with an attitude problem, as well as one or two embarrassing secrets. Close to burn out, he struggles through a maze of flashbacks, rebellious impulses and mind-numbing events, gradually revealing a story of insidious madness.

Not just a story, but also a heartfelt critique of modern values - seen through the comic lens of a professional on the brink.


The Fox, by Arlene Radasky, is free on Smaswords.

Book Description
The Fox is a captivating, fascinating historical romance about ancient and modern people, their traditions, beliefs, customs, and culture.It paints a word picture rich in breath-taking scenery and unique characters.It's a powerful love story full of passion, courage,and tragedy.The Fox shows why it is important to know and appreciate the sacrifices and challenges of the past to live well in today.

On the Origins of Joy Boy's Chasm ($0.99), by Liam James Leaven. I don't know if he's serious or not (although I have my suspicions), but he says that on January 1, the price will rise to $300.00 (yep, three HUNDRED dollars, not three).

Book Description
The mysterious nature of women, coupled with what seems to be a life slated for nothingness, has Joy Boy reeling. His consequent search for Dude, and all that he must know, begins a zany quest for something, anything, with more meaning and staying power than the 18-word sitcom descriptions he writes for his job at the TV Talon Times.

So begins a hilarious series of events filled with a wildly diverse array of impassioned, lonely and restless searchers, culminating in an explosion of pastoral bliss.


De Bello Lemures, Or The Roman War Against the Zombies of Armorica ($0.99), by Lucius Artorius Castus & Thomas Brookside, finishes up today's list and it's a Zombie book (is there really only one in today's posts?).

Book Description
This time, the isolated farmhouse is a Roman villa.

A recovered Latin text tells the story of a struggle between Roman legionaries and the undead in 185 AD. Lucius Artorius Castus leads an expedition to Gaul to defeat a rebellion against the rule of the Emperor Commodus - and gets more than he bargained for when his enemies rise from the dead to fight again. The power of the zombie horde is amplified by the Babel of Ancient Rome's religions and superstitions, and the terror the undead bring in their wake foreshadows the incipient medieval darkness already creeping into the world at the end of Rome's Antonine age. Richly annotated, this mashup of survival horror and alternate history takes the reader on a bracing journey into one of ancient Rome's dark corners.

Christmas EBook Sales (Part 1)

There are a number of (mostly) independent authors who either have their books marked down for the holidays or have new books that have just been released. Some of the sale prices may continue thru the end of the year, while others are tied to the number of books sold. As always, be sure to sample before buying, as formatting and editing quality can vary widely with self-published works and I definitely haven't had the time to sample them all (le alone read them).

Sins of the Past ($1.00 Kindle), by Sierra Rose, is free on Smashwords, using coupon code MV88Z.

Book Description
Tiger Force, a team of U.S. sanctioned secret warriors, tasked with protecting the world from those who would destroy it!

When a piece of the past comes back to haunt a member of Tiger Force and he chooses to deal with it on his own rather than risk the lives of his partners things go brutally awry in ways that none of them could have foreseen.

Rafael Valdez believed that most of his family to be dead so when a long-lost older brother appears with more knowledge on his current activities with the President's international team of warriors he chooses to handle the situation alone by quitting the team and going back to Cuba. At least that was his plan.

When one of his teammates' chooses to follow, the danger to both of them increases dramatically as it's revealed who the elder Valdez is working with and Rafael's loyalty is put to the test when he must choose family over friendship. His brother over the woman he loves.

Tiger Force and their allies struggle past red tape and political wrangling to get into the high mountains of Cuba to save their friends or avenge them at the very least as Sins of the Past return.


Haven (free Smashwords), by Justin Kemppainen

Book Description
The Citizens of Haven have finally realized their dream; separation. They have ascended. A new layer has been placed upon the city, sealing anyone they deem unfit down below. In the dark slums beneath the city, something has been set in motion that will usher in a change. Something that will rattle the city of Haven to its core and forever alter the lives of everyone within.

The Storms of Eternity ($0.99 Kindle), by Robert Williams, is "You Set the Price" on Smashwords thru the end of the year. Even if you downloaded it earlier, you may want to "buy" it now (just use $0.00 as the price), so that it stays in your library. That way, if the book is pulled or goes up in price (as it will in January), you can download it again anytime you wish.

Book Description
Mike, Reese, Josh and Jen are sailing down the Alaskan coast when they are struck by a violent storm, which casts them into a nightmare landscape where clouds cover the Earth with darkness and two factions battle for dominance. The friends must fight for their lives and freedom as they are drawn towards the being that has brought them into this apocalyptic future for its own enigmatic plans.

When Babies Dream ($0.99 Kindle), by James Dunn, is free on Smashwords with coupon code EP49S or QY58A.

Book Description
Rescued from neglect, an eighteen month old biracial girl named Ciara is sent to live with Jim, a young and single white foster father who is afraid to take her at first. Over the next eight months, Ciara and Jim become the most unlikely of families until time carries both away.

When Ciara dreams, a tornado comes for her. The tornado is strong enough to carry away but inside things are calm, just a little windy. Safe inside her tornado, Ciara finds windows of all kinds, some with fancy curtains, some even shaped like triangles floating all around her like moons. When she looks out the windows, Ciara sees her favorite memories of her life with Jim playing like scenes from a movie.

Forced to see Jim only in dreams, she relives the time when her life was safe and she got to be a kid. From the moment she was taken away from her mom to the moment when Jim was carried away, too is what Ciara sees, When Babies Dream.

A short story, easy to enjoy in a single viewing, and perfect for when you are between novels or have a limited time to read.


Wet Desert ($0.99 Kindle), by Gary Hansen, has actually been at this price for a while. I bought it after reading just a few pages of the sample and read it thru in just a couple of days (and late nights). Definitely recommended!

Book Description
Grant Stevens, a mid-level manager for the Bureau of Reclamation, only wanted to build dams. He never imagined he would be swept into a desperate race against an environmental terrorist bent on restoring the Colorado River by blowing up the dams. Left temporarily in charge of the Bureau, Grant must react when the first dam is attacked. He faces the unthinkable task of mitigating the massive flood roaring down the Colorado. The flood will eventually threaten the mighty Hoover Dam, and if Hoover fails, the other dams downstream will fall like dominos. Working with the FBI, Grant uses his engineering skills, river knowledge, and plenty of gut instinct in an attempt to outmaneuver the terrorist. The chase will lead all the way downstream to the Gulf of California in a cat and mouse game where the stakes are high and the potential for destruction is enormous.

Whitney Award Finalist.


Mercury Falls ($0.99 Kindle and Smashwords), by Robert Kroese. I haven't read this one, but have seen several favorable reviews.

Book Description
Years of covering the antics of End Times cults for The Banner, a religious news magazine, have left Christine Temetri not only jaded but seriously questioning her career choice.

That is, until she meets Mercury, an anti-establishment angel who’s frittering his time away whipping up batches of Rice Krispy Treats and perfecting his ping-pong backhand instead of doing his job: helping to orchestrate Armageddon. With the end near and angels and demons debating the finer political points of the Apocalypse, Christine and Mercury accidentally foil an attempt to assassinate one Karl Grissom, a thirty-seven-year-old film school dropout about to make his big break as the Antichrist.

Now, to save the world, she must negotiate the byzantine bureaucracies of Heaven and Hell and convince the apathetic Mercury to take a stand, all the while putting up with the obnoxious mouth-breathing Antichrist.


Regression ($0.99 Kindle and Smashwords), by Kathy Bell

Book Description
Fourteen-year-old Adya Jordan swears that before her head injury she was a forty-year-old mother of six. Is she going crazy, or did she really live through an entirely different life? 1985 is nothing like she remembers, although her first day of high school certainly is!

A typical girl with atypical genes, Adya tries to recapture her old life, hiding her growing conviction that she has done this before. The man she loves doesn't even know she exists yet, but she is haunted by memories of their life together.

Accidentally discovering the secretive Three Eleven Corporation might know more about her situation than she does, she is certain the twenty-eight men heading up the company are responsible for the changes in her world. Adya finds her way into their ranks, journeying to the tropical island headquarters to begin her twenty-week orientation.
Every third chapter, diary entries of scientist Nicholas Weaver are written from the future, the last survivor of the human race. He never quite tells readers all the details but the journal entries allude to a global disaster where one of Adya's children offers the last hope of survival. A maudlin but affable type, he is responsible for sending Adya back in time, doing it for the love of a woman. Over and over again for more than ten lifetimes - now that's love.

The Three Eleven Company controls the development and distribution of Twenty-first Century technology brought with them from the future. Charged with the task of preparing the world for the impending disaster, each member of the team uses his scientific background to create a solution for a problem the planet does not know it is facing. But Adya begins to question their program.

Banished to the frozen Canadian Shield for challenging the status quo, she finds the men in the underground city of Sanctum are interested in more than just her genes as they search for the answer to her presence in the timeline.

In the end, Adya encounters a choice no mother should ever face: save her children...or everyone else.


The Red Cross of Gold VII: The Wisdom of Solomon ($0.99), by Brendan Carroll

Book Description
The Chevaliere Meredith Sinclair must use her powers as the Knight of the Wisdom of Solomon to locate her missing daughter while coping with the rivalry between the Knight of Death and the Knight of the Golden Eagle for her attentions . At the same time, the Mad Arab, al Hafiz al Sajek, becomes more entangled in the affairs of the Order of the Red Cross of Gold as he plots to use Meredith's gifted daughter to further his own ends. As the prophecies continue to unfold, John Paul contemplates the eventual loss of his wife since he became a member of the Order as the Knight of the Orient after Sir Philip Cambrique died in an unfortunate accident.

The River ($0.99), by Maria Rachel Hooley

Book Description
When Diana Newport nearly drowns, she finds herself on the razor's edge between life and death, where she is reunited with her dead sister. When she comes back from the brink, however, into the land of the living, she knows at at once something is wrong. Someone else has returned as well, a disgruntled Vietnam vet ferrying with him the soul of a serial killer executed for his crimes against humanity. Now, in a desperate race against time that will try her faith to the utmost, Diana must stop him before he exacts his revenge.

Days' End ($0.99), by Scott L. Collins

Book Description
Nysa is an up and coming DNA retrieval expert well known in the scientific community for her advances in the technology used in the field. After being recruited to work on a secret project by an extraordinarily wealthy and mysterious benefactor, Nysa is moved to a hidden lab outside Denver, Colorado. Isolated from the world and forbidden from contact with anyone outside the facility, she is unaware of the strange occurrences that begin to plague the planet. Her fiance Alastair becomes concerned about her welfare and, with the help of his father, begins a frantic search for her. They soon come to realize that their quest is producing more questions than answers, and some very unsettling questions at that.

Only one person, the silent man financing the operation, knows the true nature of the experiment. Although unaware of his true identity, Alastair comes to realize his foe will stop at nothing to see the experiment through to its completion.


Time Storm 2012: Atlantis and the Mayan Prophecy ($0.99), by Juliann Farnsworth

Book Description
Time Storm 2012 is a science fiction mystery full of action, adventure and romance.

While doing research on the unusual occurrences in the Bermuda Triangle, Dr. Mark Turner, a scientist with a double Ph.D. in Oceanographic Seismology and Physics, will uncover something for which the government is willing to kill. Getting more than he bargained for, his discoveries will not only unlock the mysteries of the Devil's Triangle and the Mayan doomsday predictions about the year 2012, but also what happened to the lost city of Atlantis. Will he make the ultimate sacrifice to save the world if it is even possible? His search for the truth will also lead him to love but is she an ally or is she an enemy?

Much of the story line has been taken from real science and terrifyingly real scientific research and discoveries. It will keep you guessing on every page. Are we standing on the precipice of a disaster of our own making? The countdown to 2012 has begun.


Identity Crisis ($0.99), by Debbi Mack

Book Description

A simple domestic abuse case turns deadly when the alleged abuser is killed and Stephanie Ann “Sam” McRae’s client disappears. When a friend asks Sam to find Melanie Hayes, the Maryland attorney is drawn into a complex case of murder and identity theft that has her running from the Mob, breaking into a strip club and forming a shaky alliance with an offbeat private investigator to discover the truth about Melanie and her ex-boyfriend.

With her career and life on the line, Sam’s search takes her from the blue-collar Baltimore suburbs to the mansions of Gibson Island. Along the way, she learns that false identities can hide dark secrets, and those secrets can destroy lives.


Twilight in the Spaces Between ($0.99), by David R Williams

Book Description
Twilight in the Spaces Between is about a disgraced policewoman who travels to the ancestral home of the serial killer who caused her downfall to take her revenge. He has escaped from prison. She knows he will want to “come home” before he is captured. Believing her to be his fiancĂ©e she is welcome with open arms by his family. There she is drawn into a strange neo-gothic world haunted by murder, abuse, ghosts and dark memories.

The Horns of September ($1.00) and The White Lady Murders ($1.00), by Wendy Potocki

Book Description
The White Lady Murders

In a Malibu beach house, David Lynx struggles with writing with his latest tour de force – a book on magic. It’s a subject he knows nothing about. In a desperate attempt to understand, he decides to perform an ancient ritual not realizing that he will unwittingly open a door for a forty-year-old unsolved murder spree to start all over again.

While The White Lady Murders is immersed in the supernatural, fans desiring a solid murder mystery will not be disappointed. At its core, The White Lady Murders offers an action-packed detective story replete with a hard-boiled, hard-nosed police officer named Robert Moran leading the charge. Moran is a veteran police officer who vividly remembers the original murders that occurred during The Summer of Blood. The string of vicious crimes terrorized the city and held its residents captive in the killer's steely grip. No one felt safe and now Moran desperately races to solve the mystery of who or what is behind the new wave of brutal killings to prevent The White Lady Murders from beginning again.

The White Lady Murders is the book that will keep you guessing up until the very end!

The Horns of September
Date: September 1961
Place: Longview, South Carolina
Nickname: Shucktown
Unofficial Motto: Someone is always shuckin’ something in Shucktown
Dilemma: All is not right in Shucktown. Just ask Chuck Beckett. He’s young, in love and readying his group to audition for Motown Records. He’s sure his will be the first interracial group signed by the emerging recording giant. He should be on top of the world, but he’s not. For despite living out his dreams, Chuck feels as if he’s headed for certain disaster. Repressed memories have begun to surface in the form of dark, paralyzing depressions. These debilitating episodes convince him of one thing – that he is soon about to die. Chuck tries his best to shake it off as so much teenage angst. He finds it increasingly difficult to do so after the good friend who warns him about “the devils in Shucktown,” winds up murdered. Her death is the catalyst that leads Chuck Beckett to step out of his comfort zone to confront cabals, demons, monsters knitted out of darkness and all the horrors that arise from the curse known as The Horns of September.


Storytellers ($0.99), by Martin C Sharlow, is a young adult title and the author's first novel.

Book Description
A deadly living darkness sweeps across the city states of Myrrh, a land where a mighty council of Sages conjure magical creations through the use of stories.

Join Alena and Gailen, two apprentice Sages bereft of guidance, and a strange young man named Targ, discovered at the close of a legendary cloudless storm, as they struggle to survive in a world foreign to evil..

As old laws are shattered, and the impossible becomes possible, those who survive must learn to unlock the possibilities hidden within themselves.


The Doom Guardian ($3.99), by Julie Ann Dawson

Book Description

For centuries, the Spirit Wall has protected the world from the terrible powers of the undead god Vagruth. But now the Spirit Wall has begun to crumble, and with it the only thing preventing the world from becoming overrun by undead hordes.

Nadia Gareth knows all too well the evils that lurk in the hearts of the Vagruth's minions, the Necromancers. Nadia walks the land as a dhampir, a cursed thing trapped between the worlds of the living and the dead as a result of the Necromancers' vile experiments. Yet her curse also gives her the strength she needs to combat the forces that seek to turn everything around her into an undead waste. But this is one fight that may be too much for her to handle alone.

Darseidon Stonecleaver survived the War of Reckoning, and now journeys to the Mouth of Chaos to retrieve the Chaos Diamond, the one thing powerful enough to save the Spirit Wall from destruction. As he enters his Twilight, the aging dwarf knows it isn't a matter of if he will die, but when. He can only hope to complete his last mission before it is too late.

Nigel Stormthorn just wants to escape town with his stolen gems, but finds himself caught up in events that may determine the fate of the world. As his survival instincts wage war against his meddlesome empathy, he discovers that perhaps his gems are of less value than the secret that resides within him.


Cyberdrome ($0.99), by Joseph & David Rhea

Book Description
Human minds are trapped inside a digital universe.
One man has a daring plan to rescue them.
One problem: Who will rescue him?

A familiar shape emerges from the darkness - a large, metallic gray sphere held up by eight piston-driven legs sprouting from its top. While he should be terrified, Alek is strangely fascinated by the Spider as it draws closer - it's more than a robot, it's a living machine. And like most living things, it's not alone...

Alek Grey is a programmer who specializes in preventing break-ins to secure computer systems. When a company owned by his estranged father calls him in after their system is compromised, he is shocked to learn that his father is one of over forty people trapped in a revolutionary new form of neural interface. When an attempted rescue mission goes horribly wrong, Alek realizes that there is only one way to save the people he loves.

And that might mean risking the fate of humanity itself.


Look Away Silence ($0.99), by Edward C. Patterson

Book Description
Martin Powers wanted an ironing board for Christmas. Instead, he got . . . Matthew Kieler, a non-returnable gift, but a gift that kept on giving. Chance encounters are sometimes the ones that most change our lives. He sold Matt a tie, but got more in the bargain - more than most people would want and more than anyone deserved. Although these lovers may not have had the pink American dream, they had it better than most, even as they faced a crisis that would change us all.

Look Away Silence is a romance set in the time of AIDS, when ignorance could spell trouble and often did. It encompasses the author’s experiences in volunteer community service and personal friendships during a tragic period in American history. The novel is dedicated to the Hyacinth AIDS Foundation, the NAMES Project and to the author’s own fallen angels. "Mothers, do not shun your children, because you never know how long you have to revel in them."