Two Three Free Books on Sony

Two Three new free books in the Sony Store today. The links below are to the Amazon versions, so you can read the reviews (remember, for Sony books, you have to open their software and search by title or look in their Bargain Priced section; web links on their store or here won't work for buying Sony books). So far, these are full price at Amazon, but there is some indication that that may change ... if so, I'll repost them as an Amazon deal. Both are now free on Kindle, as well.

Already Dead ($9.99), by Charlie Huston

Update: In addition to being free in the Kindle store, you can get an epub version free at Shortcovers.

Book Description
Those stories you hear? The ones about things that only come out at night? Things that feed on blood, feed on us? Got news for you: they’re true. Only it’s not like the movies or old man Stoker’s storybook. It’s worse. Especially if you happen to be one of them. Just ask Joe Pitt.

There’s a shambler on the loose. Some fool who got himself infected with a flesh-eating bacteria is lurching around, trying to munch on folks’ brains. Joe hates shamblers, but he’s still the one who has to deal with them. That’s just the kind of life he has. Except afterlife might be better word.

From the Battery to the Bronx, and from river to river, Manhattan is crawling with Vampyres. Joe is one of them, and he’s not happy about it. Yeah, he gets to be stronger and faster than you, and he’s tough as nails and hard to kill. But spending his nights trying to score a pint of blood to feed the Vyrus that’s eating at him isn’t his idea of a good time. And Joe doesn’t make it any easier on himself. Going his own way, refusing to ally with the Clans that run the undead underside of Manhattan–it ain’t easy. It’s worse once he gets mixed up with the Coalition–the city’s most powerful Clan–and finds himself searching for a poor little rich girl who’s gone missing in Alphabet City.

Now the Coalition and the girl’s high-society parents are breathing down his neck, anarchist Vampyres are pushing him around, and a crazy Vampyre cult is stalking him. No time to complain, though. Got to find that girl and kill that shambler before the whip comes down . . . and before the sun comes up.

Wit'ch Fire ($6.39), by James Clemens. It turns out that this one also contains Wit'ch Storm (at least in the Sony Store), so you get two full books with one download, which correlates to this title at Amazon (which isn't a bad deal at two books for $6.39): Wit'ch Fire/Storm.

Book Description
Wit'ch Fire: On a fateful night five centuries ago, three mages made a desperate last stand, sacrificing everything to preserve the only hope of goodness in the beautiful, doomed land of Alasea. Now, on the anniversary of that ominous night, a girl-child ripens into the heritage of lost power. But before she can even comprehend her terrible new gift, the Dark Lord dispatches his winged monsters to capture her and bring him the embryonic magic she embodies. Fleeing the minions of darkness, Elena is swept toward certain doom--and into the company of unexpected allies. There she forms a band of the hunted and the cursed, the outcasts and the outlaws, to battle the unstoppable forces of evil and rescue a once-glorious empire...

Wit'ch Storm: Elena bears the mark of the wit'ch upon her palm, the crimson stain that testifies to the awesome power of unimaginable potency: wild, seductive, difficult to control. Only a mistress of blood magick can stand against the foul minions and all-corrupting evil of the Dark Lord. But Elena is not yet the mistress of her magick. Protected by an ageless warrior and a band of renegades, she quests for a lost city where prophecies speak of a mystic tome that holds the key to the Dark Lord's defeat. But if the Dark Lord finds her first, Elena will become his most fearsome weapon. Sy-wen is a girl-child of an ocean-dwelling clan, bond-mates to the terrible and majestic sea dragons. But ancient bonds tie Sy-wen to the land she does not know, to a man she has never seen ... and to a legend asleep in stone deep beneath A'loa Glen--a legend beginning to wake. Now, as Elena and Sy-wen converge on A'loa Glen from land and sea, will the forces they unleash lead to a future of freedom--or an eternity under the Dark Lord's yoke?

Three Free Books (Romance/Erotica)

This one was posted yesterday as a CyberMonday sale, but is still working. Multiple formats available, you can buy multiple times if you need more than one format. All of these on the spicy end (or extremely spicy) of romance/erotica and are the first in series.

Alpha - Walk Away, by Treva Harte

Book Description
How does a nice girl handle a hungry were?

When Dek left her, Leila vowed never to fall for an animal like him again. But now he's back...and resistance seems futile.

Dek is determined to have Leila join his "family." He needs her, and he's not about to take no for an answer. Leila swore she'd never break the rules again. But she's about to discover that being top dog in a werepack has a lot of different rules.

Scary, hot, exciting rules.

Circe's Recruits 1: Roane, by Marie Harte

Book Description
In the three years since Project Dawn disbanded, Roane Weston and his men continue to fight the good fight. Now civilians, his squad--Circe's Recruits--works for a private organization bent on cleaning up the mess left in the wake of Project Dawn's rebirth. Run by Elliot Pearl, a ruthless millionaire, Pearson Labs continues to create Circs, people who have been genetically changed. When needed, these Circs take on an altered form, one neither man nor animal, but something in between. But unlike Roane and his squad, the Circs coming out of Pearson Labs aren't sane... Except for Caitlyn Chase, a female Roane can't get out of his mind.

As Caitlyn matures into the female Circ she was meant to be, she sets in motion a chain of events that will forever alter her future and those of Circe's Recruits. In the process, she'll fall in lust, in love with Roane, and in danger as she finally finds out who she really is. Only with Roane and her newfound friends can she hope to keep the PPA at bay while they crush an agenda that may spell the end of them all.

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: (see site for the rest)

Dark Elves 1: Taken, by Jet Mykles

Book Description
Diana is infuriated, humiliated… insanely aroused. Who do these black-skinned, white-haired, sex-oozing devils think they are making her into a broodmare and sex-slave? She won’t do it. Who cares if the damned elves were created as sex toys for a goddess? Or if each and every dark elf that visits her is a well-trained, exquisite lover. Or if Commander Salin makes her mind and body hum with desire and pleasure she’s never before experienced? She won’t submit. She won’t. Will she?

Salin’s men have all had their turn trying to tame the hellcat swordswoman. To a man, they’ve brought her to the heights of ecstasy but they’ve all had to rely on trickery or mystical attraction to bring her to heel. Even now, she refuses to submit and accept her new life. Never has a woman been so much trouble. Never has a woman so fired his blood. He will have her. He must.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be used, pleasured… Taken?

Publisher's Note: This novel contains explicit sexual content, including multiple partners, BDSM themes and content, male/male sexual practices, and exhibitionism. It also contains illustrations of a graphic nature that may be offensive to some readers. Readers should be advised that the illustrations have resulted in file sizes in excess of 1 MB in HTML and PDF formats. The Mobipocket version does not have images.

Free Book - The Purification Ceremony

The Purification Ceremony, by Mark T Sullivan, is out of print, but has been made available by the author at Smashwords. Normally $6.99, you can pick it up for free if you'll share your (account) email address with the author. This 1996 book was an Edgar Awards finalist, won the W.H. Smith Award for best “new talent” author, and was named one of the best books of the year by the Los Angeles Times. A bestselling thriller, it has been translated into fourteen languages.

Book Description

At a young age in the Maine woods, Diana Jackman learned to move freely in the wilderness, to sense a world invisible to most. A natural tracker from

a long line of shamans, healers, and hunters--an estranged wife and mother--she has returned to the woods to find again a place of magic...and death.

Eight hunters have gathered on an isolated estate in Bristish Columbia to track record book whitetail dear. But someone else is watching the hunting party--an insane and violent force of nature, hiding in the blinding whiteness of the Canadian winter. And now the hunters themselves have become the game.

For the first time in her life, Diana Jackman will know what it is to be prey.

To survive she will have to rely on her father's teachings, and set out alone to hunt the hunter.

This is the first of six books he'll be giving away, all for the cost of your email address. He explanation, from his website:

If you read one of my stories of suspense and intrigue and do not enjoy it, you have not spent a dime, and I hope you’ll try another. They’re all different.

And if you read another one and like it, awesome. You are still under no obligation to pay me anything, nor do I expect it.

But if you do like my books, and if you feel so inclined, you may return to my download page at www.SmashWords.com --my very cool partner in this experiment in new media publishing -- and send me a donation equal to what you think the experience of reading the novel was worth. Half of every donation will in turn be donated to non-profits that promote reading and writing.

Now you might give a plug nickel for my writing or my plotlines and that’s cool. As my grandmother used to say, “One man’s honey is another woman’s vinegar. “ But if you do like my stories and want to help promote literacy, I suggest a donation somewhere on a sliding scale of between $5 and $10.
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You’re asking: What is there to stop me from downloading one of Sullivan’s books, liking it, but then not sending him a donation?

Nothing. And you know what? That’s cool too. I’m just happy you enjoyed my storytelling, and I hope you come back to read another free book next month.

More Holiday Music

First, a new release today from Amazon:

Boogaloo Santa Claus by J.D. McDonald

Then, two singles courtesy of Oprah:

From Andrea Bocelli's My Christmas album, a duet with Mary J. Blige: "What Child Is This"

From Sugarland's album Gold And Green, "Silent Night"

Click HERE for the Oprah downloads (valid from November 30 at 10 a.m. CT to December 1 at 11 p.m. CT)

As of 2PM EST, you can also get a $5.99 price on Christmas From The Heart, by David Archuleta, in the CyberMonday Music Deals Lightning Deals.

Plum Spooky (Hardcover) - $4.19

Plum Spooky ($18.45; $9.99 Kindle), by Janet Evanovich, the first full-length Stephanie Plum Between-the-Numbers Novel, is currently marked down to $4.19 as part of Amazons's CyberMonday Deals in Books. Click on the link, then look in the lightning deals to get the special price.

Book Description
Turn on all the lights and check under your bed. Things are about to get spooky in Trenton, New Jersey. According to legend, the Jersey Devil prowls the Pine Barrens and soars above the treetops in the dark of night. As eerie as this might seem, there are things in the Barrens that are even more frightening and dangerous. And there are monkeys. Lots of monkeys. Wulf Grimoire is a world wanderer and an opportunist who can kill without remorse and disappear like smoke. He’s chosen Martin Munch, boy genius, as his new business partner, and he’s chosen the Barrens as his new playground. Munch received his doctorate degree in quantum physics when he was twenty-two. He’s now twenty-four, and while his brain is large, his body hasn’t made it out of the boys’ department at Macy’s. Anyone who says good things come in small packages hasn’t met Munch. Wulf Grimoire is looking for world domination. Martin Munch would be happy if he could just get a woman naked and tied to a tree. Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has Munch on her most-wanted list for failure to appear in court. Plum is the all-American girl stuck in an uncomfortable job, succeeding on luck and tenacity. Usually she gets her man. This time she gets a monkey. She also gets a big guy named Diesel. Diesel pops in and out of Plum’s life like birthday cake – delicious to look at and taste, not especially healthy as a steady diet, gone by the end of the week if not sooner. He’s an über bounty hunter with special skills when it comes to tracking men and pleasing women. He’s after Grimoire, and now he’s also after Munch. And if truth were told, he wouldn’t mind setting Stephanie Plum in his crosshairs. Diesel and Plum hunt down Munch and Grimoire, following them into the Barrens, surviving cranberry bogs, the Jersey Devil, a hair-raising experience, sand in their underwear, and, of course . . . monkeys.