Alison Wonderland ($0.99), by Helen Smith, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day. It's been discounted to $3.99 quite a bit lately, but this is about the lowest price I've seen on this book (full disclosure, I have a review copy in hand, but haven't read it, yet).Book Description
After her husband leaves her for another woman, twentysomething Londoner Alison Temple impulsively applies for a job at the very P.I. firm she hired to trap her philandering ex. She hopes it will be the change of scene she so desperately needs to move on with her shattered life. At the all-female Fitzgerald’s Bureau of Investigation, she spends her days tracking lost objects and her nights shadowing unfaithful husbands. But no matter what the case, none of her clients can compare to the fascinating characters in her personal life. There’s her boss, the estimable and tidy Mrs. Fitzgerald; Taron, Alison’s eccentric best friend, who claims her mother is a witch; Jeff, her love-struck, poetry-writing neighbor; and—last but not least—her psychic postman. Her relationships with them all become entangled when she joins Taron for a road trip to the seaside and stumbles into a misadventure of epic proportions! Clever, quirky, and infused with just a hint of magic, this humorous literary novel introduces a memorable heroine struggling with the everyday complexities of modern life.
The Name of this Book Is Secret ($0.99), by Pseudonymous Bosch, is the spotlight book this month at Barnes & Noble (and price matched on Kindle). As you might guess from the description, this is a children's book, but from the reviews at Amazon, the audience ranges from age 6 to adults.Book Description
Warning: this description has not been authorized by Pseudonymous Bosch. As much as he'd love to sing the praises of his book (he is very vain), he wouldn't want you to hear about his brave 11-year old heroes, Cass and Max-Ernest. Or about how a mysterious box of vials, the Symphony of Smells, sends them on the trail of a magician who has vanished under strange (and stinky) circumstances. And he certainly wouldn't want you to know about the hair-raising adventures that follow and the nefarious villains they face. You see, not only is the name of this book secret, the story inside is, too. For it concerns a secret. A Big Secret.
The Getaway is a free novella by Sonya Bateman, that ties in to her urban fantasy djinn series, published by Simon and Schuster.Book Description
Getaway driver Jazz wasn't exactly thrilled when the thief Gavyn Donatti, her ex-partner -- and the unwitting father of her son -- waltzed back into her life, and then dragged her into the middle of a magical war between a bunch of ancient genies, who'd been hiding among humans for centuries. And as if that wasn't enough, it turned out these djinn didn't choose Donatti for his charm... he's related to them, and has a little magic of his own.
Now that they've vanquished their enemies and Jazz has more or less accepted Donatti into her life, he's talked her into taking a weekend trip for her birthday. A "romantic" getaway in a rustic cabin. Unfortunately, Donatti's map-reading skills aren't up to par, and neither is his car -- because first they get lost, and then they wreck on some unnamed mountain road.
When Jazz comes to, Donatti is MIA and she's been abducted by a smooth-talking stranger who is more than he appears. There's something magical, and dangerous, going on -- and for once, it's not Donatti's fault.
The Donzerly Light, by Ryne Douglas Pearson, is another free indie book on Kindle. The author is the one that caught my eye, this time, and he also has an omnibus, The Art Jefferson Collection, that's currently $6.95 and includes Simple Simon, which was the basis of the movie Mercury Rising.Book Description
If evil shook your hand, would you know it?
With a destitute childhood and the tragic loss of his parents a distant but constant memory, Jay Grady has come to Wall Street to make a name, and a fortune, for himself. But the success he'd imagined is frustratingly elusive.
Until he meets the bum. An enigmatic transient who occupies a Manhattan corner, offering puzzling morsels of wisdom on a sign he changes daily. Drawn to the bum one day by a familiar snippet on his sign, Jay gives the man some spare change.
What he gets in return shakes him to his core.
Suddenly gifted with some power of prescience, Jay becomes the darling of Wall Street, picking winning stocks as if he can glimpse the future.
Or shape it.
But the dark side of this gift reveals itself as a curse when Jay tries to turn away from what he's been given, leading the bum to reach into his life with murderous results. Running from the horrific reality that his power now unleashes, Jay finds his flight coming full circle as he must face the man, the thing, that set him on this path.
A number of indie authors have banded together to market an Indie Book Blowout weekend - all of the following books are marked down to 99 cents over the weekend. I've arranged them by genre and will just show the covers, as there are so many. I've actually stumbled upon a few additional titles that are marked down for the weekend, but are not mentioned on the official page, so I've included them here on the first tab.
