Free Audiobook - She's Got It Bad

Audible.com currently has a free, unabridged download of She's Got It Bad, by Sarah Mayberry, narrated by Zoe Hunter.

Book Description
Twelve years ago, Zoe Ford let Liam Masters break her heart. But now? There's not a chance. Zoe is as tough and wild as they come. So when Liam shows up at her tattoo parlor, she's more than ready to take him on again. That's not going to be a hardship, since he's hotter than he ever was.

This time she's staying in charge. And she's not going to consider their score settled until he's hot, bothered, and begging for more! Then she'll move on as callously as he left her. Unless all that deliciously bad sex is just too good to give up....

Click HERE for the free download.

Free Book - Home of the Brave

Jeffry Hepple's Home of the Brave ($2.99 Kindle), the third in his Gone for Soldiers series, is finally being released, after a tussle with UPS, who lost his edited manuscript with the changes he wanted to incorporate before publication. For readers of this blog, he has created an exclusive coupon you can use to purchase a free copy of book, in any of several a DRM-free formats at Smashwords. In addition, the announcement for the book is only being seen here this weekend, so you can be one of the first to read it, before it is posted/announced in the Amazon and other Kindle book forums. Feel free to share the link to this post with anyone you think might want to read the book, but please don't share the discount code in other forums (it helps him track his sales).

Jeff's book are heavy on historical detail, which I consider a plus. You could start reading with Gone For a Soldier ($4.00 Kindle or Smashwords - see below for coupon on this one, also) and Land of the Free ($2.00 Kindle or Smashwords), the first two in the series, or start with this one as a stand-alone novel without feeling you have missed too much backstory.

Book Description
The Van Buskirk family becomes embroiled in the Texas Revolution and the Mexican War when Thomas resigns his commission and purchases a land grant from Stephen F. Austin.

Click HERE to find the book on Smashwords and use coupon code EJ93F during checkout for the discount, valid until the end of February. Although Jeff didn't ask (he's happy you are going to read his book), I'd ask that those who do read it consider adding a small review on either Amazon or Smashwords (links are all above). It doesn't have to be an opus, just a few sentences on what you enjoyed about the book. If you pick up Gone for A Soldier, you can use coupon code GH98N to get $2 off - the entire trilogy then costs you only $4.00.

2/21 Update: Here are some updated coupon codes, that expire at month end (but use the one above to get Home of the Brave for free).

• Coupon HY25U $0.99 Home of the Brave Number 1 best seller in historical fiction.
• Coupon UZ45J $0.99 Land of the Free Number 2 best seller in historical fiction.
• Coupon GH98N $2.00 Gone For a Soldier Number 5 best seller in historical fiction.

Politician pre-order $8.55

Add another another delayed ebook release to the discount bin. This time, it's Andrew Young's Politician ($8.55), which will be released on Kindle on April 27, 2010. The hardcover ($12.00) was released on January 30, so this is another one with a three month delay.

The price of this book will revert to $9.99 after the pre-order period ends on 4/26.

Book Description
The underside of modern American politics -- raw ambition, manipulation, and deception -- are revealed in detail by Andrew Young’s riveting account of a presidential hopeful’s meteoric rise and scandalous fall. Like a non-fiction version of All the King’s Men, The Politician offers a truly disturbing, even shocking perspective on the risks taken and tactics employed by a man determined to rule the most powerful nation on earth.

Idealistic and ambitious, Andrew Young volunteered for the John Edwards campaign for Senate in 1998 and quickly became the candidate’s right hand man. As the senator became a national star, Young’s responsibilities grew. For a decade he was this politician’s confidant and he was assured he was ‘like family.” In time, however, Young was drawn into a series of questionable assignments that culminated with Edwards asking him to help conceal the Senator’s ongoing adultery. Days before the 2008 presidential primaries began, Young gained international notoriety when he told the world that he was the father of a child being carried by a woman named Rielle Hunter, who was actually the senator’s mistress. While Young began a life on the run, hiding from the press with his family and alleged mistress, John Edwards continued to pursue the presidency and then the Vice Presidency in the future Obama administration.

Young had been the senator’s closest aide and most trusted friend. He believed that John Edwards could be a great president, and was assured throughout the cover-up that his boss and friend would ultimately step forward to both tell the truth and protect his aide’s career. Neither promise was kept. Not only a moving personal account of Andrew Young’s political education, THE POLITICIAN offers a look at the trajectory which made John Edwards the ideal Democratic candidate for president, and the hubris which brought him down, leaving his career, his marriage and his dreams in ashes.

Game of the Day - Big Kahuna Reef 2

Amazon's Game Download of the Day is a $1.79 download of Big Kahuna Reef 2, a sequel to the free game Big Kahuna Reef.

Game Description

• An Explosive Ocean Adventure.
• Discover More Than 40 Exotic Sea Creatures
• Over 750 Levels To Explore
• Quest To Become The Big Kahuna.

Go Hawaiian all over again with Big Kahuna Reef 2: Chain Reaction! This spectacular and explosively charged match-game of adventure will captivate you as you dive with Humpback Whales, discovering new and exotic fish at every turn. Creative designers from around the world deliver over 750 delightful and fantastical levels! With its breathtaking effects, dynamic explosions and thousands of new levels to download online, what are you waiting for? Come back to an underwater paradise!

Free Book (PDF) - Maneater

Thomas Emson's acclaimed werewolf novel Maneater ($12.78 Paperback at Amazon & at B&N) can be downloaded for free, in PDF format, from SnowBooks.

Book Description
She’s not sweet. She’s not nice. She doesn’t fight evil. She doesn’t protect the weak. She doesn’t work in an office by day and have a secret identity by night. She doesn’t have friends and family who know nothing about her, but when they find out they love her anyway. She’s not cool. She’s not clever. She’s not kind to animals. She won’t help children, the elderly, and those less fortunate than herself.

In fact, she doesn’t care. But if you hurt her, she will kill you. Actually, she’ll do worse than that. . .Meet Laura. She’ll eat you alive.

Click HERE to sign up for the book (you'll get an email with the download link). While you are there, you might check their home page, which has a short story by Emson (online read only) and another, The Shattered Teapcup, from George Mann (online, download or audio version).

Further down the page, you'll find a free download of Underlife ($9.95 Paperback), by Robert Finn, in several DRM-free formats. This is the third book in his Adept series, but chronologically is a prequel to Adept and Ex Machina ($9.99 each Kindle).

Book Description
Being a thief makes it difficult to meet the right girl. And when you do, something always gets in the way. Like finding yourself trapped underground, caught in a shoot-out, and with only a supernatural killer to protect you. And you still need to persuade her to part with her phone number.