If you bought the deal at AmazonLocal yesterday, you probably have the email by now. If not, and you bought it late, be patient. The company processing the orders is much slower than Amazon's gift card system, plus they sold one million of the deals, selling out long before midnight. Any purchases after 11AM were taking over 12 hours to clear and those near the end of the deal will definitely take closer to 24. You can also simply log in and check your Vouchers tab and see if the gift card is there, yet, just in case you think the spam filters ate the email notice.
In Her Sights ($0.99), by Robin Perini, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day. I bought this one last month as part of a KSO $1 deal - now everyone can grab it at the same price!Book Description
Jasmine “Jazz” Parker, Jefferson County SWAT's only female sniper, can thread the eye of a needle with a bullet. But she carries a secret from her past that she thought she buried for good at the age of fifteen. Two years ago she even drove away the one man she believed she could love—ex-Army Ranger turned reporter Luke Montgomery—to keep her past hidden. Now, in a fleeting second, the time it takes for one clean shot, one perfect hit, to save the life of the governor's daughter, Jazz's world begins to crumble around her.
Luke splashes her face and name across the front page of the newspaper, reawakening her past with a vengeance. A vicious enemy is now bent on destroying her life, forcing Jazz to turn to the one man she can never have in order to stop a killer before she and everyone she cares about pays the ultimate price. Full of explosive action and almost unbearable suspense, In Her Sights is a relentless, steamy thriller surprisingly infused with soul and poignancy.
Mummydaddy ($1.57 / £0.99 UK), by Jeremy Howe, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (no US edition).Book Description
In the summer of 1992, Jeremy Howe and his wife, Lizzie, were tending to last-minute holiday preparations. Lizzie was leaving to teach at a summer school before she could join Jeremy and their two daughters, Jessica, six and Lucy, four, at the seaside. That night, arriving at his mother’s in Suffolk, Jeremy managed to get the excited girls to go to sleep, irritated that their mother hadn't called to say goodnight as she had promised. Just after midnight the household was woken by a policeman who had come to tell them that Lizzie was dead. She had been murdered. Twenty years after that terrible night, Jeremy and his girls are not the people they might have been had Lizzie not died. They’re certainly different, but not damaged. This is the candid, heartrending story of how they got there, of how, faced with the worst thing that could possibly happen, they put their lives back together, bit by bit and piece by piece. It's a story of how Daddy became Mummydaddy and of the pitfalls along the way, from how on earth you decide what to tell your children about their mother's violent death to the practicalities of knowing what they like in their packed lunch; from helping your children to grieve when your own grief is so sharp it threatens to overwhelm you to making sure that they brush their teeth and comb their hair. It's a story full of tears, but also of love and family and redemption.
Map of Bones ($1.99 Kindle, B&N), the second title in the Sigma Force series by James Rollins, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle. This was a free audiobook selection last summer and a different (bonus) edition was free the summer before, so check your library to see if you already have it before ordering.Book Description
During a crowded service at a cathedral in Germany, armed intruders in monks' robes unleash a nightmare of blood and destruction. But the killers have not come for gold; they seek a more valuable prize: the bones of the Magi who once paid homage to a newborn savior . . . a treasure that could reshape the world.
With the Vatican in turmoil, SIGMA Force leaps into action. An elite team of scientific and Special Forces operatives under the command of Grayson Pierce and accompanied by Lieutenant Rachel Verona of Rome's carabinieri, they are pursuing a deadly mystery that weaves through sites of the Seven Wonders of the World and ends at the doorstep of an ancient, mystical, and terrifying secret order. For there are those with dark plans for the stolen sacred remains that will alter the future of humankind . . . when science and religion unite to unleash a horror not seen since the beginning of time.
The Throne of Fire ($2.99 Kindle, B&N), the second title in the Kane Chronicles series by Rick Riordan, is the Nook Daily Find for Families, price matched on Kindle. If you're the type that gets ten fiction at the library, it's worth noting that although the first title in the series is in the libraries I checked, this one was only in one or two and only as an audiobook.Book Description
In this exciting second installment of the three-book series, Carter and Sadie, offspring of the brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane, embark on a worldwide search for the Book of Ra, but the House of Life and the gods of chaos are determined to stop them.
