Free Book (Kindle/EPUB) - Sweet Tea & Jesus Shoes

Update: 12/24/11 Now free in the UK Kindle store.

Sweet Tea & Jesus Shoes ($7.69 Kindle US/UK), an anthology by Deborah Smith, Donna Ball, Gin Ellis and Nancy Knight, et al, is free from Kobo, courtesy of Bell Bridge Books.

Book Description
Six award winning authors have created a poignant, humorous collection of nostalgic tales. Here life's lessons are handed down--liberally sprinkled with hilarity--from eccentric relatives, outrageous pets and unrepentant neighbors, and served up with a generous dollop of that most valued of all Southern commodities: good old fashioned storytelling. From Mississippi to Georgia, from Florida to Tennessee, these daughters of the South will take you on a lush tour of the times and the places they know best, each voice as refreshing and inviting as a glass of cold sweet tea on a hot afternoon.

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Free Book (Kindle/EPUB) - The Cart Before The Corpse [UK]

The Cart Before The Corpse (US/UK), the first of the Merry Abbot Mysteries series by Carolyn McSparren, is free for UK customers in the Kindle store and from Kobo, courtesy of Bell Bridge Books. I expect it to be free for US Kindle customers by morning.

Book Description
Hitch your imagination to an intriguing new mystery series set in the world of competitive carriage driving--an elegant yet cut-throat realm in which gorgeously costumed drivers and their magnificently harnessed horses vie for championships in the challenging obstacle course of the show ring.

Jane Austen, meet Mad Max.

Fans of the long-running Mossy Creek Hometown Series will gallop to bookstores for this spin-off equine mystery series by veteran Mossy Creek author Carolyn McSparren, a nationally known novelist and expert carriage driver, who owns and shows carriage-driving horses in her home state of Tennessee.

Open your barn doors and fasten your (buggy's) seatbelts for THE CART BEFORE THE CORPSE.

Famous southern carriage-horse trainer Hiram Lackland, a handsome widower, dies mysteriously after retiring to a farm outside Mossy Creek. His estranged daughter, Merry Abbot, also a horse trainer, arrives to settle his estate. But Merry quickly plunges into bit-chomping dilemmas when her father's friend and landlord, mystery-novel maven Peggy Caldwell, insists he was murdered.

Before Merry can so much as snap a buggy rein, a handsome and annoying GBI investigator, Geoff Madison, is on her case. Then there's the troublesome donkey: Don Qui. Short for Don Quixote. And the fact that Hiram was teaching all of Mossy Creek's lonely women how to--ahem--drive his carriage.

Can Merry rein in the truth? What kind of horse play was her rakish dad involved in, and why would someone want to giddy-yup him into an early grave?

Stay tuned for the answers in this first episode of, "As the Carriage Wheel Turns."

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Free Book (Kindle/EPUB) - Twice Dead

Update: 12/24/11 Now free in the US Kindle store.

Twice Dead (US/UK), the second title in the Haven series by Kalayna Price, is free for UK customers in the Kindle store and from Kobo, courtesy of Bell Bridge Books. I expect it to be free for US Kindle customers by morning.

The first title in the series, Once Bitten, was free on Kindle a couple of years ago and on Kobo earlier this year.

Book Description
Newly undead shifter-turned-vampire Kita Nekai is coming to grips with the reality that her cat has not awakened since her change. What she needs is a little time to adjust to her new liquid diet and the increasingly complex attraction to her sire, Nathanial. What she gets is a headless harlequin. With the body count rising, Kita is dragged into a dangerous game of vampire politics. Her involvement draws the attention of an ancient vampire known as the Collector who has a penchant for acquiring the unusual - like a pureblood shifter-turned vampire. Kita still has unfinished business of her own and finds herself deeper in magical debt. It's a bad time to be a kitten who can't slip her skin.

Kalayna Price's debut novel, ONCE BITTEN, earned rave reviews and reached #1 on Amazon.com's "Fantasy Bestseller List." TWICE DEAD returns readers to a dark, seductive world where magic rules and ancient loyalties collide with modern challenges.

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Free Book (Kindle/EPUB) - Mossy Creek

Update: 12/24/11 Now free in the US Kindle store.

Mossy Creek (US/UK), a collection of short stories by Deborah Smith, et al, is a repeat freebie in the Kindle store and from Kobo, courtesy of Bell Bridge Books. So far, it's free for UK Kindle customers only, but I expect it to be free for US Kindle customers by morning.

Book Description
A delightful new collection of original Southern stories set in the charming, fictitious down-home town of Mossy Creek, where there's a friendly face on every corner and a heartfelt story behind every door...

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Free Book (Kindle/EPUB) - The Goddess Of Fried Okra

Update: 12/24/11 Now free in the US Kindle store.

The Goddess Of Fried Okra (US/UK), by Jean Brashear, is a repeat freebie in the Kindle store and from Kobo, courtesy of Bell Bridge Books. So far, it's free for UK Kindle customers only, but I expect it to be free for US Kindle customers by morning.

Book Description
Grief. Hope. Love. Sword fights. And the crisp glory of fried okra. Ex-cocktail waitress and "convenience story professional" Eudora "Pea" O'Brien is filled with grief and regret, low on cash and all alone. Headed down the hot, dusty back roads of central Texas, Pea is convinced she'll find a sign leading her to the reincarnated soul of the sister who raised her. A sign that she's found her place in the world of the living again. At least that's what the psychic promised. In an unforgettably funny and poignant journey, Pea collects an unlikely family of strays-a starving kitten, a pregnant teenager, a sexy con man trying to go straight, and a ferocious gun dealer named Glory, who introduces Pea to the amazing, sword-wielding warrior goddesses of Texas author Robert E. Howard-creator of the Conan the Barbarian novels-and celebrated in festival every year. Six foot tall, red-headed Pea looks good with a sword in her hand. Glory, the goddesses, and a grandmotherly café owner become Pea's unlikely gurus as she struggles to learn swordplay and the art of perfect fried okra. She'll have to master both if she's going to find what matters most-her own lost soul.

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