Today's Deals 2/26

Thru February 28, members at Audible can take advantage of the Buy One Get One Free Sale, doubling the values of your credits. There will be a different selection every day, so be sure to stop buy and see what is new.

Today's Gold Box at Amazon is 20 MP3 Albums $1.99 Each. Save on music by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Tegan and Sara, Muse, Passion Pit, Fiona Apple, Aerosmith, and others.

Just a reminder for those with Amazon Prime that you have only two more days to borrow your February title.

For those in the UK only, if you sign up as a new subscriber to the Kindle Daily Deal, thru Feb 28, you'll get a free Kindle book as a welcome gift (there are 16 to choose from).

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is The Quilter's Homecoming ($1.99), by Jennifer Chiaverini [Simon and Schuster], with the companion audiobook for $3.99.

Book Description
A Roaring Twenties adventure unfolds in Jennifer Chiaverini's latest bestselling Elm Creek Quilts novel, another in "a series that neatly stitches together social drama and the art of quilting" (Library Journal).

Newly wed in a festive yet poignant ceremony at Elm Creek Manor, bride Elizabeth Nelson takes leave of her ancestral Pennsylvania home. Setting off with her husband, Henry, on the adventure of a lifetime, Elizabeth packs the couple's trunk with more than the wedding quilts she envisions them dreaming beneath every night of their married lives. They are landowners who hold the deed to Triumph Ranch, 120 acres of prime California soil located in the Arboles Valley, north of Los Angeles.

"Triumph Ranch," says Mae, a traveling companion whom Elizabeth has let in on the promise of the Nelsons' bright future. "That sounds like a sure thing." But in a cruel reversal of fortune, the Nelsons arrive to the news that they've been had, and they are left suddenly, irrevocably penniless.

They are hired as hands at the farm they thought they owned, and Henry struggles mightily with his pride. Yet clever, feisty Elizabeth -- drawing on her share of the Bergstrom women's inherent economy and resilience -- vows to defy fate through sheer force of will. As her life intertwines with Rosa Diaz Barclay, native to the Arboles Valley and a fellow quilter, their blossoming friendship sheds light on many secrets that have kept each of them and their families from their rightful homes.

In the cabin where Henry and Elizabeth are living on Triumph Ranch, Elizabeth discovers quilts belonging to Rosa's mother, and in their exquisite patterns recognizes a misplaced legacy of love, land, and family. But her newfound understanding of the burden of loss that Rosa shares with the mysterious Lars Jorgensen places her in mortal danger. Only by stitching the rift between the past and the future can the inhabitants of Triumph Ranch hope to live in peace alongside history.

Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Mistress of My Fate ($2.99), by Hallie Rubenhold [Hachette].

Book Description
Set during a period of revolution and turmoil, Mistress of My Fate is the first book in a trilogy about Henrietta Lightfoot, a young woman who was abandoned as a baby and raised alongside her cousins, noble children of a lord and lady. At just sixteen years old, circumstance and a passionate love affair tear Henrietta away from everything she knows, leading to a new life fending for herself on the streets of 18th century London as a courtesan, gambler, and spirited intellect of the city.

Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is The Ladies of Mandrigyn ($1.99), the first novel in Barbara Hambly's Sun Wolf and Starhawk Fantasy series [Open Road].

Book Description
A brilliant mercenary must lead his army against the forces of the most powerful wizard alive

Gifted with courage, strength, and the intelligence to know when to fight, Sun Wolf is the greatest mercenary in a land overrun by war. With his first lieutenant, Starhawk—a woman more deadly than any man—at his side, he has laid waste to countless cities, taking the best of their treasures for himself, and distributing the rest among his bloodthirsty crew.

Then a woman comes to him, an emissary from the town of Mandrigyn, a lush port city recently sacked by a powerful, mad wizard of unmatched abilities. She offers Sun Wolf untold riches for the use of his army, but the captain is not fool enough to wage war against a magician. He refuses her offer, but that is not the end of it. The women of Mandrigyn can be very persuasive.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Barbara Hambly, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

Making Habits, Breaking Habits: How to Make Changes that Stick (£1.19 UK), by Jeremy Dean, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $9.10, with a companion audiobook for $3.99).

Book Description
Why is it so difficult to get in the habit of something good? Most of us would love to adopt a new positive habit – an evening run, eating more veg, clearing the email backlog by the end of the day – but canʼt quite muster the self-control to make our resolutions stick. Now, psychologist Jeremy Dean shares the new brain science of routine that can improve any personʼs life, every day. Habits are powerful, Dean explains, because of the way in which the brain runs automatically. Amazingly, we spend a third of our waking

hours falling into habits without even realizing it – ruminating over past events, or clicking through web sites trawling for updates. Such unconscious thoughts and actions can, however, be steered to our benefit. Drawing on hundreds of fascinating studies, Dean reveals how to take control of your brainʼs “auto-pilot” to transform willpower into reality.

Otherkin ($7.19 Kindle, $1.99 B&N), by Nina Berry, is the Nook Daily Find. No price match yet on Kindle, but if it does, you may also want the companion audiobook for $3.49.

Book Description
I thought I knew myself. Then I met Caleb.

Dez is a good girl who does as she's told and tries not to be noticed. Then she rescues a boy from a cage, and he tells her secrets about herself. Now inside her burns a darkness that will transform her.

Everything is about to change--and neither Caleb, nor the Otherkin, nor those who hunt them, are prepared for what Dez will unleash.

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Guinness World Records 2013 ($2.99).

Book Description
The Guinness World Records 2013 eBook features thousands of brand new inspirational achievements and exclusive pictures chronicling Guinness World Records from all over the world! With more than 4,000 records and over a dozen chapters Guinness World Records 2013 is the must-have eBook of the year for aspiring record-breakers of all ages. From Wacky Vehicles and Animalympics to special pages devoted to a world tour of superlatives and an exploration of the extremes of record-breaking, Guinness World Records 2013 is fully designed and brings to you the world of record-breaking like you've never seen before!

This book requires a Kindle Fire, Kindle Cloud Reader, Kindle for iPad or Kindle for Android app.

Bargain Book Trio

I ran across Mad Mouse: A John Ceepak Mystery ($0.99), by Chris Grabenstein, in the Audible BOGO offer that is still going on. Since the companion audiobook is only $1.99 on this one, buying the two outright is significantly cheaper than any of the prices paid on credits. Previously published by Carroll & Graf (in multiple editions), this is now self-published (later titles in the series are with Pegasus Books) and currently he has the first three titles in the series at only 99 cents apiece (and the linked audiobooks for $1.99)! The formatting on the samples looks pretty good and you can pick up all three at a steal.

Book Description
The Anthony Award Winning series continues...

It's almost Labor Day, and the end of summer could mean the end of someone's life in this exciting sequel to Chris Grabenstein's TILT A WHIRL.

Young Danny Boyle, the part-time summer cop "down the shore" in Sea Haven, New Jersey, gets taken on a wild ride when he and his longtime beach buddies become the unwitting targets of a mad-man's twisted scheme for revenge. Fortunately, John Ceepak, the cop with a soldier's unshakeable code of honor, stays at Danny's side to help him negotiate the quick twists and turns that threaten to destroy his life, his friends, and everything about the world he loves.

Whipping from the boardwalk to the beach and back again, MAD MOUSE, like TILT-A-WHIRL, keeps zigging and zagging at a breakneck pace, all the way to the surprising finish.

Kirkus named Mad Mouse one of the ten Best Mysteries of 2006!

You can pre-order Frank Tuttle's Markhat Files ($4.40) at a discount right now. This is the seventh novel in his Markhat Files series (and you can still pick up the first novel, The Mister Trophy, for free as I write this). As you might guess from the content warning, this is published by Samhain and is a part of their non-romance line of books. All of the titles in the series are $5 or less, although some are novella length.

Book Description
When the banshee howls, start looking for the lifeboats....

Take a simple, three-day cruise on a lavish steamboat casino, they said. Just keep an eye out for trouble while the Regent rolls the dice, they said.

Markhat should have known the maiden voyage of Avalante’s vampire-crewed Brown River Queen would be anything but a finder’s dream job. Especially when he charges a ridiculous fee—and gets it without a peep of protest.

Then a pair of identical murderous maidens attack him and his lady love, and it doesn’t take a banshee’s howl to confirm his sinking suspicion he’s about to earn his fee the hard way.

As the heavily guarded steamboat casts off, Markhat is forced to navigate shoals of old enemies, treacherous political undercurrents, and rogue waves of assassins. All to keep the walking dead from turning the Brown River Queen’s decks red with blood.

Warning: This is a work of fiction. Please stop trying to apply it as a cream directly to your forehead. The characters depicted herein are quite real despite this disclaimer and will be deeply hurt if you peek ahead to the ending. This prose is certified gluten-free. Not intended as an emergency substitute Flight Manual, no matter what the nerds at Popular Mechanics claim.

Devil's Bride ($1.99), the first novel in the Cynsters series by Stephanie Laurens, was offered at the same price as a Daily Deal a few months ago, and a Bonus Edition was briefly offered for sale late last year also, so be sure to check your library before buying. The companion audiobook is $2.99, though, so audio listeners may want to get this edition too, just for the companion edition discount (which you don't get with the Bonus Edition); I read a review by one fan of the narrator, Simon Prebble, that said she would pay to listen to him read a phone book!

Book Description
When Devil, the most infamous member of the Cynster family, is caught in a compromising position with plucky governess Honoria Wetherby, he astonishes the entire town by offering his hand in marriage. No one dreamed this scandalous rake would ever take a bride. And as society mamas swooned at the loss of England?s most eligible bachelor, Devil?s infamous Cynster cousins began to place wagers on the wedding date.

But Honoria wasn?t about to bend society?s demands and marry a man "just" because they?d been found together virtually unchaperoned. No, she craved adventure, and while solving the murder of a young Cynster cousin fit the bill for a while, she decided that once the crime was solved she?d go off to see the world. But the scalding heat of her unsated desire for Devil soon had Honoria craving a very different sort of excitement. Could her passion for Devil cause her to embrace the enchanting peril of a lifelong adventure of the heart?

Changes Afoot!

Some of you may have heard rumors that Amazon is making changes to the affiliate program (which is how sites like this make money, as I've mentioned in the past) in regards to how free books will affect earnings. They dropped the bomb on everyone via a midnight email a couple of days ago and many sites are scrambling, to accomodate the new rules. Any site that Amazon determines "primarily promotes free books" and has more than 20,000 free books purchased and if less than 20% of all books are paid purchases, will lose all their income for that month, starting March 1.

That sounds like a really big number, 20,000, until you break it down by day (about 670/day) and by books (on an average day, the big publishers might have 2-3 free books and the smaller publishers another half dozen; that's ignoring the probably thousand free books added in the KDP select program for indie authors). So, a site like this one that mentions 7 books a day would lose all income if 100 people bought each of the books mentioned. This can easily happen to a site with a much smaller readership than I have. Note that affiliates don't lose only the referral income due to the free books (there isn't any income from free books, of course, but sometimes there will be a small amount if someone goes on to purchase something else in the same session), but all referral income for the month (and across all of the affiliates sites: many other bloggers have multiple sites with different focuses, but share a single Amazon affiliate account).

What none of us know, right now, is how many free books are being credited to our accounts right now, because Amazon doesn't share that information with us (they hope to have reports available for this by March 1, when the new rules take effect). Another complete unknown is how many free books will get added to our accounts due to people who go on to buy more than one free book once reaching Amazon (in the above example, if 50 people went to buy those 7 free books and also bought another free one they saw on the bestseller lists or the "also bought" ad under each book, then that would be enough to hit that 700/day level; you can see how even a very small blog could end up exceeding these limits if they keep promoting free books).

I've read on some sites that they will shut down or charge for listings, as some of the large freebie only sites now do (authors pay to be featured on the site or emails, often scheduling far in advance) and a rumor of one that will charge for a daily email of free books. I've never accepted author advertising for free books and don't plan to start. But, I will have to make some changes. Right now, I am setting up a second site for free book postings (it's sort of up now, but I still need to set up the related RSS feeds, twitter, facebook, etc). If that site can continue without impacting the main site, it will keep going and the books mentioned there will be the same ones that had been mentioned here. After March 1, the main Books on the Knob site will only feature bargain books, daily deals and reviews; no free books, the same as many other sites have decided. Free MP3 music and Android Apps are not affected by the upcoming changes, so will continue to be highlighted on a daily basis, here on the website's homepage.

I don't know how this will effect those who subscribe to Books on the Knob on their Kindles - I may be able to combine the RSS feeds there, since there are no affiliate tags in the feed (and the Kindle doesn't let you click on links for blogs, anyway). There will be separate feeds for those using an RSS reader or email delivery. For the next few days, there will be no changes and I'll give you the links for the new site, just as soon as I get everything sorted out.

Outside of changes here on this blog (and across the web at other sites), I expect to see some changes in the KDP Select program, which authors use to offer free books, as well, in the next few weeks (although perhaps Amazon believes that cutting off their avenues for advertising will be enough to rein in the flood of free books and some of the resulting problems, such as Kindle Libraries that are so large they don't function well and the costs that Amazon no doubt incurs from delivery). At least one thread mentioned an author selling over 40,000 free books when mentioned on just one high traffic blog (not here! I'm nowhere near that big); that's enough to affect sales rankings at Amazon and may still be worth the advertising fees the larger sites are charging (which may go up, once they lose their Amazon earnings). A lot of indie authors are talking about leaving KDP and hope that readers will go back to paying for content, as they've run into readers who now want the entire series free, rather than just the first in a series. Of course, it isn't just the indie authors that have been gaming the system - I just read an article on how much you can pay to guarantee a #1 start on either The Wall Street Journal’s or NYT's Bestseller lists (think $70K and up) and how some agencies are gaming the sales numbers by ordering multiple singles, rather than dealing with distributors for the books for the events they arrange.

Today's Deals 2/25

Thru February 28, members at Audible can take advantage of the Buy One Get One Free Sale, doubling the values of your credits. There will be a different selection of 50+ books every day. If your membership supports buying credits and you need more for this sale, you can purchase 3 credits at a discount.

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Mackenzie Blue ($1.99), by Tina Wells [HarperCollins].

Book Description
Meet Mackenzie Blue, aka Zee

She has it all—smarts, talent, humor, and style. . . .

Is it enough to survive middle school?

Countdown to a 7th Grade Meltdown

1. Your BFF moves away.

2. Someone steals your diary and reveals your deepest secrets—to the entire class.

3. You have one chance to become a rock star and one chance to totally blow it. Guess what!? All three happened to me! School's a disaster already. Don't get me wrong—I love Brookdale Academy and I have a fabulous crew of friends. (At least, I think I do.) But, if I'm going to survive, I need all the help I can get!

Grade Level: 3 and up

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is The Perfect Assassin ($1.99), by Ward Larsen [Oceanview Publishing], which I bought a couple of years ago.

Book Description
One perfect shot will change the course of history. Christine Palmer, a young American doctor sailing solo across the Atlantic, makes an incredible discovery - a man narrowly clinging to his life in the frigid waters. But there is much more to this desperate survivor than meets the eye.David Slaton is a Kidon - a highly-trained, highly-precise, and highly-dangerous assassin. The Kidon is both the hunter and the hunted, and he and Christine are in grave danger. Will they win in this race against time?With the precision of a sharpshooter, author Ward Larsen weaves an intricate tale of espionage and intrigue.

Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Samantha ($1.99), by Andrea Kane [Open Road].

Book Description
One woman embarks on the adventure of a lifetime when she meets a man with irrepressible passion and a penchant for peril

Samantha Barrett is looking for a hero. He can’t be just any man, but one worthy of her girlish fantasies. Dashing. Dangerous. Forbidden. Exactly like the mesmerizingly handsome stranger who just strode into the smoky tavern. Except he isn’t a stranger, he’s Remington Worth, earl of Gresham. London’s most notorious rake.

Though tempted by Samantha’s beauty and innocent desire, Remington cannot allow her to be tainted by his perilous exploits. For he isn’t the man she thinks he is. As the Crown’s most loyal covert agent, the former navy captain and war hero leads a dangerous double life. But as passion builds between them, risking his life for his country is nothing compared to how far Remington will go to keep Samantha safe—and locked in his arms forever.

Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is Spellsinger ($1.99), the first novel in the series by Alan Dean Foster [Open Road]. I snapped this up the first time I saw it on sale, a couple of years ago (it's on my re-read list).

Book Description
Snatched through a portal into a land of magic, a young musician must use a mysterious, multistring duar to rescue the world into which he has fallen before he can return to his own

Jonathan Thomas Meriweather is a typical college student, interested in girls, music, and an occasional taste of reefer. But when a journey through an interdimensional portal lands him in a world of talking animals and ominous sorcery, he finds he is on a very different trip indeed. Here, when he plays a strange instrument called a duar, peculiar things happen—powerful magic that may be the only way to stop a dark force that threatens his new world—and his old one. Reluctantly, he finds himself teaming up with a semi-senile turtle wizard; a thieving, backstabbing otter; and a bewildered Marxist dragon to rally an army for the war about to come.

Spellsinger, the first in Alan Dean Foster’s eight-book Spellsinger series, introduces a world of magic and mayhem, where animals are people and plunging ahead no matter what the consequences may be the only way to survive.

The Virgin Suicides (£0.99 UK), by Jeffrey Eugenides (author of Middlesex: A Novel, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $9.99).

Book Description
The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out for the one and only date of their lives. Twenty years on, their enigmatic personalities are embalmed in the memories of the boys who worshipped them and who now recall their shared adolescence: the brassiere draped over a crucifix belonging to the promiscuous Lux; the sisters' breathtaking appearance on the night of the dance; and the sultry, sleepy street across which they watched a family disintegrate and fragile lives disappear.

Indiscretion ($8.89 Kindle, $1.99 B&N), by Charles Dubow [HarperCollins], is the Nook Daily Find. This is likely to be price matched on Kindle later today.

Book Description
Harry and Madeleine Winslow have been blessed with talent, money, and charm. Harry is a National Book Award–winning author on the cusp of greatness. Madeleine is a woman of sublime beauty and grace whose elemental goodness and serenity belie a privileged upbringing. Bonded by deep devotion, they share a love that is both envied and admired. The Winslows play host to a coterie of close friends and acolytes eager to bask in their golden radiance, whether they are in their bucolic East Hampton cottage, abroad in Rome thanks to Harry's writing grant, or in their comfortable Manhattan brownstone.

One weekend at the start of the summer season, Harry and Maddy, who are in their early forties, meet Claire and cannot help but be enchanted by her winsome youth, quiet intelligence, and disarming naivete. Drawn by the Winslows' inscrutable magnetism, Claire eagerly falls into their welcoming orbit. But over the course of the summer, her reverence transforms into a dangerous desire. By Labor Day, it is no longer enough to remain one of their hangers-on.

A story of love, lust, deception, and betrayal as seen through the omniscient eyes of Maddy's childhood friend Walter, a narrator akin to Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby, Indiscretion is a juicy, richly textured novel filled with fascinating, true-to-life characters—an irresistibly sensual page-turner that explores having it all and the consequences of wanting more.

Indiscretion also marks the debut of a remarkably gifted writer and storyteller whose unique voice bears all the hallmarks of an exciting new literary talent.

Today's Deals 2/24

Thru February 28, members at Audible can take advantage of the Buy One Get One Free Sale, doubling the values of your credits. There will be a different selection every day, so be sure to stop buy and see what is new. Plus, if you use three credits by Feb 24 (those from Friday thru Saturday count), then you'll get an additional $10 credit added to your account next month.

Today's Gold Box is "Amazon Instant Video: Own 100+ Oscar Winners & Nominees for $3.99 Each in SD or $5.99 Each in HD". In addition, this weekend you can get Flight (starring Denzel Washington) for only $8.99 in HD (the same price as the SD version, but buying the HD version lets you view both SD and HD, either as a download or streaming).

Amazon's Android Free App of the Day is Grimm's Red Riding Hood ~ A 3D Interactive Pop-up Book.

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is The Painted Girls ($2.99), by Cathy Marie Buchanan [Penguin], with the companion audiobook for $4.99.

Book Description
A heartrending, gripping novel about two sisters in Belle Époque Paris.

1878 Paris. Following their father’s sudden death, the van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother earns disappearing into the absinthe bottle, eviction from their lodgings seems imminent. With few options for work, Marie is dispatched to the Paris Opéra, where for a scant seventeen francs a week, she will be trained to enter the famous ballet. Her older sister, Antoinette, finds work as an extra in a stage adaptation of Émile Zola’s naturalist masterpiece L’Assommoir.

Marie throws herself into dance and is soon modeling in the studio of Edgar Degas, where her image will forever be immortalized as Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. There she meets a wealthy male patron of the ballet, but might the assistance he offers come with strings attached? Meanwhile Antoinette, derailed by her love for the dangerous Émile Abadie, must choose between honest labor and the more profitable avenues open to a young woman of the Parisian demimonde.

Set at a moment of profound artistic, cultural, and societal change, The Painted Girls is a tale of two remarkable sisters rendered uniquely vulnerable to the darker impulses of “civilized society.” In the end, each will come to realize that her salvation, if not survival, lies with the other.

Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is When We Collide ($1.99), by A.L. Jackson [Sapphire Star Publishing], the New York Times Bestselling author of Lost to You ($0.99) and Take This Regret ($3.99).

Book Description
William has spent six years running from his past and the last eight months trying to rid his mind of the dreams that increasingly haunt his nights.

Maggie had lived her entire life without hope until one man showed her what it meant to be loved. He'd been her light in a lifetime of darkness. Six years ago, that darkness stole him away. Without him, she's surrendered herself to an existence she doesn't know how to escape.

In a moment that will change his life forever, William comes face to face with the girl who, with one look, captured his heart.

Now William is ready to fight to take back what had been stolen from him six years before.

But he never imagined what that fight might cost him.

A.L. Jackson gives you an intimate look into the lives of a family bound by an unseen connection in this new contemporary romance.

Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is I Am Legend ($1.99), by Richard Burton Matheson [RosettaBooks], with the companion audiobook for $3.95.

Book Description
Robert Neville has witnessed the end of the world. The entire population has been obliterated by a vampire virus. Somehow, Neville survived. He must now struggle to make sense of everything that has happened and learn to protect himself against the vampires who hunt him constantly. He must, because perhaps there is nothing else human left.

I Am Legend was a major influence in horror and brought a whole new thematic concept to apocalyptic literature. Several humanistic and emotional themes in this book blend the horror genre with traditional fiction: we see Neville as an emotional person, and observe as he suffers bouts of depression, dips into alcoholism and picks up his strength again to fight the vampiric bacteria that has infected (and killed off) most of humankind. Neville soon meets a woman, Ruth, (after three years alone), who seems to be uninfected and a lone survivor. The two become close and he learns from Ruth that the infected have learned to fight the disease and can spend short amounts of time in the daylight, slowly rebuilding strength and society as it was.

The novel was adapted to film in 1964 as The Last Man on Earth, as Omega Man in 1971 and finally as I am Legend in 2007, starring Will Smith.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Richard Burton Matheson (born February 20, 1926) is an American author and screenwriter working primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. Between 1950 and 1971, Matheson produced dozens of stories, frequently combining elements from the different genres in which he works, making important contributions to the further development of modern horror. Matheson wrote fourteen episodes for the American television series The Twilight Zone, including the famous "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet." Notably, Steven Spielberg's first full length film (made for television) was based on the story “Duel,” for which Matheson also wrote the screenplay.

Leviathan (£0.99 UK), by Scott Westerfeld [Simon & Schuster UK], is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $8.41).

Book Description
The year is 1914 and Europe, armed with futuristic machines and biotechnology, is on the precipice of war. Prince Aleksandar is fleeing for his life, having discovered that his parents have been assassinated and he is now a target for the Clanker Powers, a group determined to take over the globe with their mechanical machinery. When he meets Deryn Sharpe, an orphan girl who has disguised herself as a boy so she can to join the British Air Service, they form an uneasy, but necessary, alliance. But the pair will soon discover that their emerging friendship will dramatically change their lives - and the entire course of the Great World War...

The Lightkeeper's Ball ($2.99 Kindle, B&N), the third novel in the Mercy Falls series by Colleen Coble [Thomas Nelson], is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
At the elegant Mercy Falls masquerade ball, Olivia's hidden identity will be revealed.

It is the dawn of a new century and Olivia Stewart is heiress to an empire. Her family numbers among the Four Hundred-those considered the wealthiest and most distinquished in America. Unfortunately their wealth has nearly disappeared, and now their security rests upon the Stewart daughters' marrying well.

Olivia's sister, Eleanor, was engaged to Harrison Bennett, one of the nation's wealthiest men, but has since died. Now the pressure is on Olivia to take her place, despite her suspicions about Eleanor's fiance. Using her family's long-forgotten English title, Olivia travels to Mercy Falls, California, as Lady Devonworth, hoping to learn more before committing to marriage. There she finds that Eleanor's death was no accident. And Harrison is not the man she thought he would be.

When Mercy Falls holds a charity masquerade ball to raise funds for the new lighthouse, secrets-and truths long hidden-will be revealed. But can Harrison really love Olivia when he finds her true identity? Can she live with the repercussions of failing her family, or will she finally realize that nothing-not money, family, or romance-will ever compare to God's unconditional love?

Today's Kindle Teen Daily Deal is The Name of the Star ($2.99), the first title in the Shades of London series by Maureen Johnson [Penguin], with the companion audiobook for $3.99.

Book Description
The day Louisiana teenager Rory Deveaux arrives in London marks a memorable occasion. For Rory, it's the start of a new life at a London boarding school. But for many, this will be remembered as the day a series of brutal murders broke out across the city, gruesome crimes mimicking the horrific Jack the Ripper in the autumn of 1888.

Soon "Rippermania" takes hold of modern-day London, and the police are left with few leads and no witnesses. Except one. Rory spotted the man police now believe to be the prime suspect. But she is the only one who saw him. Even her roommate, who was with her at the time, didn't notice the mysterious man. So why can only Rory see him? And more urgently, why has Rory become his next target? In this edge-of-your-seat thriller, full of suspense, humor, and romance, Rory will learn the truth about the secret ghost police of London and discover her own shocking abilities.