Barking Dogs ($6.99 Kindle), by Terence M. Green, is the free book this month from publisher Phoenix Pick. This is the first in his Mitch Helwig series, the second of which, Blue Limbo ($5.99), is also on Kindle.Book Description
Is your boss lying to you? Your wife? Husband? Is everybody?
Suppose you could tell. Absolutely.
Suppose you had a Barking Dog.
Mitch Helwig is a cop who has gone over the edge. He’s got a Barking Dog –- an infallible, illegal lie-detector, worn under street clothes –- and he’s tired of being lied to.
He’s a criminal’s worst nightmare.
Click HERE for the free book. Scroll down to find the listing for Barking Dogs and click where it says "Free Ebook for October". After entering an email address and the coupon code 9991566, you'll be able to download the book in one of several DRM-free formats (get Mobi for the Kindle).
There's an additional bonus on the download page. You can get Carolyn Ives Gilman's novel Halfway Human ($9.99 Kindle), for only $1.99. This is an earlier work from last month's author of the then-free Arkfall ($3.89 Kindle), a 2009 Nebula Nominee. For this one, you do have to pick a format, but they have added a 60-day no questions asked money back guarantee, in case you have problems or just decide you didn't like it. I bought the EPUB, since I wasn't sure if the mobi would work on Kindle and there isn't any DRM, so it's easily converted.Book Description
“The best science fiction novel I’ve read in a long time”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Tedla is a 'bland,' an asexual class of people that exist only to serve their fellow beings.
Val is an expert on alien cultures but has never seen a bland before.
They come together after Tedla is found light-years away from its home planet—alone, isolated and suicidal. Val's mission is to help Tedla recover. But the more she learns about the beautiful alien being, the more she discovers about the torment Tedla and its kind suffer on their planet.
Little does the rest of the universe know of the hidden world of the blands, a world that hides shocking secrets and unspeakable crimes.
Halfway Human is a mesmerizing look at an intricately created alien world which is strange and distant, yet hauntingly familiar.
