The Death of Joan of Arc - Nicholas Flamel Story for 99 cents

The Death of Joan of Arc: A Lost Story from the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel ($0.99) is a short story from Michael Scott. This pre-order releases on August 24,and appears to be heavily illustrated, as the file size claims to be over 2M. The first in the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series, The Alchemyst ($7.09) was free in April '09.

Book Description
Joan of Arc was not burned at the stake in Rouen, France in 1431. She was rescued from certain death by Scathach the Warrior.

The truth about that day is revealed in the last will and testament of William of York, and it will leave you wondering: does Joan of Arc still walk the earth? Michael Scott’s first-ever exclusive ebook short story delves into the world of the bestselling series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel and offers readers a never-before-seen lost story—the story of two warriors who would become sisters.

Free Audiobooks - Wondrous Strange and A Midsummer Night's Dream

Audiobook Sync's free giveaway continues. This week, there is, once again, one title available globally and one that is limited to distribution.

Wondrous Strange ($7.99 Kindle) by Lesley Livingston (read by Lesley Livingston).

Book Description
Since the dawn of time, the Faerie have taken. . . .

For seventeen-year-old actress Kelley Winslow, faeries are just something from childhood stories. Then she meets Sonny Flannery, whose steel-gray eyes mask an equally steely determination to protect her.

Sonny guards the Samhain Gate, which connects the mortal realm with the Faerie's enchanted, dangerous Otherworld. Usually kept shut by order of icy King Auberon, the Gate stands open but once a year.

This year, as the time approaches when the Samhain Gate will swing wide and nightmarish Fae will fight their way into an unsuspecting human world, something different is happening . . . something wondrous and strange. And Kelley's eyes are opening not just to the Faerie that surround her but to the heritage that awaits her.

Now Kelley must navigate deadly Faerie treachery—and her growing feelings for Sonny—in this dazzling page-turner filled with luminous romance.

Wondrous Strange is a richly layered tale of love between faerie and mortal, betrayal between kings and queens, and magic . . . between author and reader.

A Midsummer Night's Dream ($0.00 Kindle), by William Shakespeare (Read by Michael Maloney et al.)

Book Description
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, suggested by "The Knight's Tale" from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, written around 1594 to 1596. It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens, Theseus and Hippolyta, and with the fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.

Click HERE to get the free downloads.

For those who are just finding out about Audiobook Sync, there are two new ones each week, so you have to keep checking back. You can't get any titles that have been missed, but once they are loaded into, they are yours to keep (there is no expiration date). Get today's titles quickly, as there will be two new ones up each Thursday. You'll have to sign up for an account and install Overdrive (if you are not already using it for library books). In addition, you end up clicking about three pages, for each book, before the audiobook actually downloads. Don't stop so long as you still see a button that talks about your Sync download (or until you see the Overdrive software open up). Once in Overdrive, you'll need to tell it where to save the files (just click OK to use the default location, since Overdrive will keep track of them for you), then again to actually start the download (by default, all parts of the book are downloaded; I would suggest not changing this in the last dialog box, just click on OK to get the download started).

Game of the Day - Gwen the Magic Nanny

Today's game download pick is Gwen the Magic Nanny, which Amazon has marked down to $2.99 (from $6.99) for today only. There are only no reviews so far, but it looks like a Sims type game.

Game Description

• 7 Fantastical Families To Take Care Of
• Use Magical Powers
• Unlock Special Items
• Perform Unique Tasks

Bring some magic to your Time Management! After being awarded the title of Best Nanny, Gwen finds herself in high demand over in wondrous Fantasy Town. With residents like wizards, werewolves, and robots, it takes a real superstar to handle these jobs! You can help Gwen as she takes care of 7 fantastical families in their fantasy homes. Look after babies, kids, teens, seniors, and even their pets! Gwen has some tricks of her own though, and you'll have her 10 magical spells to help with her workload.

Author Spotlight - Cheryl Brooks

Publisher Sourcebooks Casablanca and Amazon have teamed together to mark down all but the last book in Cheryl Brooks's Cat Star Chronicles to $1.59 (and it's only $5.59). I'm listing all six in the series, for those of you that want to make sure you have the entire bunch before you start reading. For international readers, prices are the same in Canada, while Outcast and Fugitive are slightly less (and the rest slightly more) for those in the UK (if you've moved your Kindle to the UK store, you also get Rogue at the same lower price of  £0.72, by clicking HERE).

Slave

-- I found him in the slave market on Orpheseus Prime, and even on such a god-forsaken planet as that one, their treatment of him seemed extreme. He may be the last of a species whose sexual talents were the envy of the galaxy. --

Cat is an enslaved warrior from a race with a feline gene that gives him awesome beauty, fearsome strength, and sensuality and sexual prowess unmatched by any other males in the universe. Even filthy, chained, and beaten, he gives off an aura of power and virility and his feline gene gives him a special aura.

Jacinth is an intergalactic trader on a rescue mission and she needs a man she can trust with her life.

She has spent years pursuing her kidnapped sister from planet to planet. Now her quest leads her to a place where all the women are slaves. "Jack" needs a slave of her own -- one who can masquerade as her master.

Enmeshed in a tangle of deception, lust, and love, they must elude a race of violent killers and together forge a bond stronger than any chains.

Warrior

Even near death, his sensuality is amazing...

Leo arrives on Tisana's doorstep a beaten slave from a near-extinct race with feline genes. As soon as Leo recovers his strength, he'll use his extraordinary sexual talents to bewitch Tisana and make a bolt for freedom...

She has only one chance to tame him...

Tisana, whose healing powers are legendary, already knows Leo's the one who can help her fulfill her destiny... she can't let him get away now. Forced together on a dangerous journey, Tisana must reveal all of her powers, and Leo must give all of himself to gain his freedom...

Rogue

He crawled toward me on his hands and knees like a tiger stalking his prey....

No woman has ever tamed him before...
Enslaved for years, Tychar belongs to the Queen of Darconia. His feline gene gives him remarkable sexual powers and every female on the planet is in love with him. Then, the Queen gives him to Kyra...

Does she even stand a chance?
Or will she be just another one of his conquests? Why would he choose the modest piano teacher? Yet the two are drawn to each other with a powerful, magnetic attraction unlike any he's felt before... Then the palace is attacked in a coup, and Tychar has to choose between freedom and love....

Outcast

Sold into slavery when his planet was destroyed, Lynx was enslaved in a harem. He is a favorite due to his feline gene, which gives him remarkable sexual powers, but after ten years, Lynx is exhausted.

Thrown out without a penny, Lynx is bitter and anti-female. He emigrates to a new planet but can only find a job with a female rancher.

Bonnie's boyfriend has left with all their money and she needs help with the ranch. Lynx is cynical, but honest, and though he has made it clear that he wants no part of a romantic relationship, Bonnie can't resist him. She finds out about his impotence and becomes determined not to let such a beautiful and sensual young man go to waste...

Fugitive


A mysterious stranger in danger...

The last thing Drusilla expected to find on vacation was a gorgeous man hiding in the jungle. But what is he running from? And why does she feel so mesmerized that she’ll stop at nothing to be near him?

Hypnotically attracted, he will risk his life to have her...

Zetithian warrior Manx, a member of a race hunted to near extinction because of their sexual powers, has done all he can to avoid extermination. But when an uncommon woman enters his jungle lair, the animal inside of him demands he risk it all to have her. Until he saw her, his loneliness threatened to consume him. Would she risk her life to join him...or would their intense pleasure in each other destroy them both?

Hero ($5.59)


He is the sexiest, most irksome man she's ever encountered....
 
Micayla is the last Zetithian female left in the universe. She doesn't know what's normal for her species, but she knows when she sees Trag that all she wants to do is bite him...

He has searched all over the galaxy for a woman like her....

Trag has sworn he'll never marry unless he can find a Zetithian female. But now that he's finally found Micayla, she may be more of a challenge than even he's able to take on....

Indie Spotlight - Austin S. Camacho

Austin S. Camacho is an indie author who has a couple of series out, with his Hannibal Jones Mystery series probably the best known (and with the most reviews). Right now, he has two in that series marked down (although why the first and third, rather than the first two, is a mystery), as well as two short stories set in the same universe.

Blood and Bone ($2.99), is the first in the Hannibal Jones Mystery series (and one that I already had in my TBR stack).

Book Description
His only hope...

An eighteen-year-old boy lies dying of leukemia. As the members of Kyle's wealthy Virginia family are eliminated, they come to realize that one man could hold the key. The father who disappeared before he was born. But what chance does anyone have following a trail eighteen years cold?

His last chance…

Hannibal Jones, a troubleshooter and self-styled knight errant in dark glasses, takes the challenge. With only two weeks to find the missing man, Hannibal follows a twisting path of deception, conspiracy, and greed. A woman who could be Kyle's illegitimate sister, the woman who could be her mother, and a man who may be the only one to know the truth about Kyle's father.

From Washington to Mexico, Hannibal Jones pursues the truth. But as the danger grows, the chance for survival becomes less likely for everyone involved.

The Troubleshooter ($2.99), is the third in the Hannibal Jones Mystery series

Book Description
A high powered Washington attorney buys an apartment building in the heart of the city, hoping to create low income housing for good families. Instead he finds the building occupied by squatters: drug dealers, winos and hookers intent on staying in place. Hannibal Jones is hired to free the building from them, but the people holding crack pipes are backed up by people holding guns. Hannibal soon finds himself up against a local crime boss and his mob connected father. But Hannibal realizes that his success or failure will determine the fate of a neighborhood, and the future of one small boy.

A Little Wildness ($0.99) is a short story.

Book Description
When Nina Bonnaventura walked into Private Detective Hannibal Jones’s office, he could see that she was trouble. She wanted him to prove her lover innocent of his wife’s murder. Hannibal knew neither Nina nor her boyfriend would give him the whole truth. What he didn’t know was that she was connected to the mob, that the boyfriend had enlisted a questionable lawyer, or that another murder was just around the corner…

Mystery on Capitol Street ($0.99) is also a short story.

Book Description
When Nina Bonnaventura walked into Private Detective Hannibal Jones’s office, he could see that she was trouble. She wanted him to prove her lover innocent of his wife’s murder. Hannibal knew neither Nina nor her boyfriend would give him the whole truth. What he didn’t know was that she was connected to the mob, that the boyfriend had enlisted a questionable lawyer, or that another murder was just around the corner…