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Sunday, December 25, 2011

More Free Backlist Books (Kindle/iBooks/noDRM)

Several more backlist books that are free today (and some of these I anticipate going back to full price tomorrow (3AM eastern), so double check all prices before one-clicking).

Harlequin's coupon code SPEND4E11 to save $4 on ebooks works on all orders $4 or more, thru 1/31/12. You can also use the code more than once.

Additional formats on free books:

if you missed Lords of Rainbow, by Vera Nazarian, when it was free a couple of days ago, try to get it now (it's regular price is $7.99), as it will likely go back up tomorrow
Book Description
Imagine a sudden brilliant flash -- an artificial orb ignites, filled with peculiar impossible light...

The nature of this light bears no description. It lingers in dreams, inciting an unrequited love for a goddess.

A corrupt city is shaped like a perfect wheel, and is ruled by a sister and brother, Regent and Regentrix, by perverse desires, and by a secret...

A loyal warrior woman swears to serve a mysterious lord. At the same time, an epic invasion is precipitated by a being of utter darkness, who is the one absolute source of black in a monochrome silver world.

And amid all this, flickers an ancient memory of a phenomenon called Rainbow and of those who had once filled the world with an impossible thing called color...

Lords of Rainbow.

Silver Storm ($0.99 Kindle), the first title in the Raveneau series by Cynthia Wright, is free on Smashwords and from iTunes; this one was originally published by Ballantine Books. She also has two titles marked down to 99 cents today: Caroline (The Beauvisage Novels #1) (Kindle/Smashwords/nook) and Touch the Sun (A Beauvisage / Hampshire Novel) (Kindle/nook).
Silver Storm
Dashing and dangerous Andre Raveneau is the Revolutionary War’s most reckless privateer captain when Devon Lindsay stows away aboard his ship after her Connecticut town has been burned by the British. Raveneau sardonically agrees to deliver her to her childhood sweetheart in Virginia but doesn’t count on his own potent attraction to the enchanting, courageous Devon.

Through high adventure, swashbuckling sea battles, and the colorful history of America’s revolution, the couple battles the fiery passion that binds them together.

SILVER STORM is has been beloved by readers of Cynthia Wright for more than three decades. The story of Andre and Devon and their twisting path to true love is one you will want to read over and over!

The Pearl of Paradise is a novella by Jean Brashear (author of The Goddess Of Fried Okra, still free from Bell Bridge Books). You'll also find two short novels for 99 cents in the Kindle store: The Choice and Texas Secrets (Texas Hearts).
Book Description
Five years ago, covert operative Damon Alexander became guardian of the sacred ivory carving, the Pearl of Paradise, and he sacrificed any chance for a life with the woman he loved to save her from being killed by his archenemy, Kwan. The vow curses him to die, should he leave holy ground, but his enemy is back and is picking off those Damon cares for most, taunting Damon to risk the curse to stop him.

Lily Shen has spent five years closing off her heart from Damon after his devastating betrayal, but hearing that he means to sacrifice his life to stop the killing, she knows that she may have the only means to save him—by revealing to him that he has a son. When Kwan kidnaps their child, the love that never died draws them together in a race to find some means to break the curse and save the son Damon has never met.

Bookmarked to Die: a Miss Zukas Mystery, by Jo Dereske, was originally published by Avon/HarperCollins.
Book Description
Librarian extraordinaire Miss Helma Zukas wakes up on the morning of her forty-second birthday in the throes of more than one midlife crisis. Her championing a collection of local authors' works ignites a firestorm of jealousy and anger in Bellehaven. She's blackmailed by her conniving boss, library director May Apple Moon, into attending group counseling sessions - and two of the participants turn up dead. An obnoxiously bubbly new librarian is turning the head of Helma's longtime admirer, Police Chief Wayne Gallant. And worst of all, her uncuddly feline companion, Boy Cat Zukas disappears.

Wild Angel ($0.99 Kindle), by Miriam Minger, is free on Smashwords and from iTunes. You'll find three more at 99 cents in the Kindle store: Secrets of Midnight, Defiant Impostor and Captive Rose, along with a free children's book on iTunes under a pen name: Little Mike and Maddie's Christmas Book, by Miriam Aronson, Jeff Aronson & Jay Zephyr.
Book Description
... sweeps you into a world of epic adventure and bold passion...

Ronan was a legend among men...and the last thing he needed was a troublesome woman. Yet this fierce Irish warrior took a deathbed oath to protect a chieftain's rebellious daughter.

Triona was a hellion of a woman...who would let no man rule her. Raised in the ways of a warrior, she defied Ronan's every command. So he planned to marry her off, to be rid of the wild lass forever. But in the heat of battle--enflamed by her passionate spirit--Ronan decided he wanted this beautiful, impossible woman for himself!

The Bastard, by Brenda Novak, is free in the Kindle store.
Book Description
To some men honor is just a word….

Jeannette Boucher, a young French beauty from a family left penniless by the revolution, must marry against her will to save them all from ruin. But almost immediately after the vows are spoken, she learns that her old English husband is impotent—and in his desire for an heir, he plans to compromise her in the worst way.

Determined to escape such a fate, she stows away on one of His Majesty’s frigates. But a woman alone is in constant danger.

To Lieutenant Treynor, honor means everything….

Born a bastard to a wayward marquise, Lieutenant Crawford Treynor was given to a poor farmer to raise and was maltreated until he ran away to join the Royal Navy. Treynor is determined to prove he’s as good as any other man and rise to captain his own frigate. But once he finds Jeannette aboard The Tempest he must decide whether to return her to the man he knows would abuse her—or risk everything, even his life, to keep her safe.