Free Book (Kindle/nook/noDRM) - Soul Hunger

Soul Hunger, the first title in the Ra's Chosen series by Marisa Chenery, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble, AllRomance and the publisher, Ellora's Cave.

Book Description
As one of Ra’s Chosen warriors, Mehen must protect mortals from the undead who hunt them. Gifted by the sun god Ra, Mehen has never struggled with the task—until he saves a woman from three undead, and finds himself in need of saving. Something about the woman stirs him, and he’s consumed by his need not only for her body, but also her blood.

Blythe may have been saved by the mysterious man, but her reaction to the feel of his arms around her and the way his eyes wander to her neck don’t make her feel much safer. When she’s taken to his headquarters against her will, she finds herself a prisoner. But when he unleashes passion unlike any she’s ever known, she realizes she’ll do anything to stay imprisoned.

But Blythe is not who she seems. And Mehen finds himself in the fight of his life to save the woman he loves from the evil that yearns to possess her.

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Free Book (Kindle/nook/noDRM) - In His Own Defense

In His Own Defense, the first title in Lawyers in Love series by Ann Jacobs, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble, AllRomance and the publisher, Ellora's Cave.

Book Description
The minute Tony Landry sees his legal opponent across the courtroom, he knows he has to have her. Kristine feels the instant heat as well, but she's determined to do what's right, and Tony's on the wrong side of this case.

When the barriers between them evaporate into a night of steamy passion neither can deny, Kristine promises herself it's just for one night—to get the infuriating man out of her system. But Tony has other plans. To win his heart's desire, he'll have to make the most compelling argument of his career—to Kristine.

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Today's Deals

Additional formats on free books:

• Christmas with Family & Friends Cookbook (Kindle US/nook)
• The Christmas Dog (Kindle US/nook)
• Living Successfully with Screwed-Up People (Kindle US/nook)
• The Addicted Brain (Kindle US/nook)
• The Amazon's Curse (nook/EPUB)
• Triple Threat (nook/EPUB)

Mudbound ($0.99), by Hillary Jordan, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day.

Book Description
In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm—a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, is everything her husband is not—charming, handsome, and haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, has come home with the shine of a war hero. But no matter his bravery in defense of his country, he is still considered less than a man in the Jim Crow South. It is the unlikely friendship of these brothers-in-arms that drives this powerful novel to its inexorable conclusion.

The men and women of each family relate their versions of events and we are drawn into their lives as they become players in a tragedy on the grandest scale. As Kingsolver says of Hillary Jordan, "Her characters walked straight out of 1940s Mississippi and into the part of my brain where sympathy and anger and love reside, leaving my heart racing. They are with me still."

The Final Curtsey ($1.54 / £0.99 UK), by Margaret Rhodes, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $9.99).

Book Description
This is the intimate and revealing autobiography of Margaret Rhodes, the first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and the niece of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Margaret was born into the Scottish aristocracy, into a now almost vanished world of privilege. Royalty often came to stay and her house was run in the style of Downton Abbey. In the Second World War years she ‘lodged’ at Buckingham Palace while she worked for MI5. She was a bridesmaid at the wedding of her cousin, Princess Elizabeth to Prince Philip. Three years later the King and Queen attended her own wedding; Princess Margaret was a bridesmaid. In 1990 she was appointed as a Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen Mother, acting also as her companion, which she describes in touching detail. In the early months of 2002, she spent as much time as possible with her ailing aunt, and was at her bedside when she died at Easter that year. The next morning she went to Queen Elizabeth’s bedroom to pray, and in farewell dropped her a final curtsey.This is an enthralling account of a special life, and a unique insight into the intimate moments of the British Royal family. The Queen Mother regarded Margaret Rhodes as her “third daughter”, and she has been extremely close to her cousins the Queen and Princess Margaret throughout their lives. The book is full of charming anecdotes, fascinating characters, and personal photographs and is an unparalleled insight into the private life of the British monarchy.

The Eleventh Victim (Hailey Dean Series #1) ($2.99 Kindle, Kobo; $3.80 B&N), by Nancy Grace, is the Nook Daily Find, but cheaper on Kindle and from Kobo.

Book Description
"Seconds passed; minutes. She could hear movement now in the waiting room she had just left...it was the metal magazine rack she was sure, that crashed to the tile floor. Then quiet. She strained to hear in the darkness. Nothing more, and then... The air moved in the room and she knew. He was here."

As a young psychology student, Hailey Dean's world explodes when Will, her fiancé, is murdered just weeks before their wedding. Reeling, she fights back the only way she knows how: In court, prosecuting violent crime...putting away the bad guys one rapist, doper, and killer at a time. But dedicating her life to justice takes a toll after years of courtroom battles and the endless tide of victims calling out from crime scene photos and autopsy tables. Just as she grows truly weary, a serial killer unlike any other she's encountered begins to stalk the city of Atlanta, targeting young prostitutes, each horrific murder bearing his own unique mark. This courtroom battle will be her last.

Hailey heads for Manhattan to pick up the pieces of the life she had before Will's murder, training as a therapist. In a vibrant new world, she finally leaves her ghosts behind. But then her own clients are brutally murdered one by one by a copycat using the same M.O. as the Atlanta killer she hunted down years before. As the body count rises across Manhattan, Hailey is forced to match wits not only against a killer, but the famed NYPD.

Unless she returns to her former life and solves the case, still more innocent people will die at the hands of a killer who plans to get her, before she can get him!

Free Book (Kindle/nook/iBooks/EPUB) - Christmas with Family & Friends Cookbook

Update: 12/13/11 Now free from Sony.
Update: 12/12/11 As expected, now free in the US Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble and iTunes.

Christmas with Family & Friends Cookbook: Favorite recipes, homemade memories and little touches that make the holidays warm & cozy (Main/UK), by Gooseberry Patch, is free for UK customers in the Kindle store and should be free for US customers by morning. This one is a full size cookbook (228 pages), rather than usual mini-cookbooks that this publisher usually offers free.

Book Description
Just imagine the aroma of homemade gingerbread cake, the savory taste of bacon-wrapped chestnuts and the festive fruitiness of Santa Claus cranberry punch. For Christmas dinner, try rosemary-garlic turkey alongside cranberry-pecan stuffing. There’s a whole chapter of favorite cookie recipes and you’ll treasure the chapter of memories too!

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Free Book (Kindle/nook/EPUB) - The Christmas Dog

Update: 12/13/11 No longer free anywhere, it seems. Typical of Revell, the free status is only for about two days, even if an invidual store (like Sony) doesn't join in until the morning of the last day.
Update: 12/13/11 Now free from Sony.
Update: 12/12/11 As expected, now free in the US Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble and ChristianBook.

The Christmas Dog (Main/UK), by Melody Carlson, is free for UK customers in the Kindle store, courtesy of Christian publisher Revell, and should be free for US customers by morning. This is the one I was hoping we'd get last week, when her The Christmas Bus repeated.

Book Description
Betty Kowalski isn't looking forward to the holidays. She just can't seem to find Christmas in her heart. There's church, of course. But who can she bake for these days? And who would care whether or not she pulled out the Christmas decorations?

Her new neighbor just adds to the problem. He's doing home improvements that don't appear to be improving much of anything. These days when Betty looks out the window, she sees a beat-up truck, a pile of junk, lots of blue tarps, and--horror of horrors--an old pink toilet.

But when a mangy dog appears at her doorstep, the stage is set for Betty to learn a very important lesson about what Christmas is all about. This contemporary Christmas story is a timely yet gentle reminder that God can work miracles through something as seemingly insignificant as a little brown dog.

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