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Lure (Sam Flock Adventures)
Sam Flock is a good cop, but when she has a paranormal experience on the job that causes her to drive into the side of an ambulance, her career in law enforcement meets its end. Determined to find answers, she forms a paranormal investigation agency with her friend, Shells. Though they are perhaps the world’s worst paranormal investigators, they find something beyond their wildest imaginings.
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Author: Brian Rathbone
Price: $4.99
Black Beast: A Clan of MacAulay Novel (Volume One)
Decorated Denver Detective Bobby Macaulay has faced down a truckload of tragedy over recent years. The death of his partner; the loss of his own leg in the line of duty; the companionship of his beloved wife to cancer; his faith in God to his inner demons.
After the man who ruined his leg and killed his first partner is executed, Macaulay becomes the lead detective investigating the Sloan’s Lake murders. The method of killing in this double-homicide is so heinous it leads Macaulay and his partner down an ever-darkening path–one that must be traversed if they are to discover the evil forces behind the slaughter.
Just when Bobby Macaulay is questioning the very career that has been his salvation, he will discover a heroic history buried within his own family roots: The Clan MacAulay–a deep family lineage of protectors at the very core of a millenniums-long war against unimaginable evil.
“Black Beast” is the first in a series of “Clan of MacAulay” novels–a stellar first outing for new author R.S. Guthrie. The book is a page-turner that avoids meandering, written with tight prose that keeps the action flowing. The reader is taken inside the heart and mind of a common hero who will make you believe in good again–Macaulay is a believable, flawed character with whom each of us can relate and for whom each of us will cheer.
50% of net proceeds go to Ben, a profound young man with Down Syndrome and autism, to pay for his tuition at The Joshua School in Denver—a wonderful school that has given him the education and attention he deserves!
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Author: R.S. Guthrie
Price: Free for Prime Members or $0.99 for non-members
Red (Kayla Burkheart Tales)
When Kayla embarks on a drive from Washington to Texas, she is just doing her job. When the black 1967 Impala starts showing up at every turn, she starts to think it might be more than coincidence. When the mysterious driver leaves her a note, she is engulfed in a race for her life. A race that even a fast car can’t always win. RED, an urban retelling of a classic fairy tale. A short story at approximately 4500 words.
Be sure to check out the sequel to this story, a 20,000 word novella titled, Snow, available for Kindle right now at just 99 cents.
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Author: Christine Sutton
Price: Free for Prime Members and $0.99 for non-members
Lucifer’s Odyssey
Lucifer languishes in an earthly prison, awaiting the apocalypse that will finally free him after 200,000 years. Before breaking loose, he discovers that the armageddon he set in motion will destroy the capital of Chaos, his home universe.
He travels back to Chaos and stumbles upon a bloody civil war devastating his homeland. The realm’s magic wielders are firmly under the control of a rival clan, and without their protection, Lucifer’s family is in mortal peril. As old demon clan rivalries blossom and a new hostile universe expands across the known multiverse, Lucifer is faced with not only protecting Chaos from annihilation but also saving his rightful place on the throne.
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Author: Rex Jameson
Price: Free for Prime Members of $3.99 for non-members
The Bones of the Earth
The Dark Age. The Earth has turned on humanity with earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and a new plague that kills the Roman Emperor himself. Barbarian invasions shatter civilizations.
In this chaos, Javor comes of age in a poor, remote village. Try as he might, though, he never fits in with his own people. There is just something about him that keeps him apart from the others.
When barbarian raiders kidnap the girl he loves, he takes a mysterious dagger handed down from his great-grandfather and tries to rescue her. But while he’s away, a horror that Javor could never believe existed murders his parents and devastates his village.
Javor begins his quest for revenge, not realizing that he is entering a war against forces bent on eliminating humanity.
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Author: Scott Bury
Price: $0.99
#1 Rule of Social Media
I have noticed a trend lately on social media sites, where authors and other professionals are posting their opinions on politics, religion and other delicate subjects. THIS IS DANGEROUS. I understand we live in a country where we have the right to free speech, but isolating a demographic based on your personal opinions is not only unprofessional, but it WILL affect your book sales. And not in a positive way.
Kauai Spy Games
Seasoned covert operative Jeff Ivanov knows something is stirring in paradise. His never ending antics and perchance for romance got him a two year leave, aka paid vacation, to his childhood home of Kauai. The Garden Island, however, is a hotbed of nationalities with hidden national agendas. Even while enjoying the island Aloha life, he can’t miss the gorgeous Russian ladies flirting with scientists and engineers from Kauai Missile Base. When his old team members start to show up, the party’s on. Of course their mission isn’t condoned or even recorded. The Na Pali Seven do not exist.
As the son of a US Naval Captain and a Russian born professor, his role is to use his Russian connection to block the Russians from getting too close to the enamored scientists. The assignment gets real easy when Anya saunters into the bar and into his sights. They play the game together but emotions are dangerously real.
The Na Pali Seven could be responsible for stopping the largest and most devastating attack on US soil and Ivanov might be falling for the enemy.
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Author: Kristen James & Jeff Ivanov
Price: Free for Prime Members or $2.99 for non-members
The 19th Element
Al Qaeda plans to attack Minnesota’s Prairie River Nuclear Power Plant as a means to return the down-trodden terrorist organization to international prominence.
In addition to their own devoted forces, the terrorists enlist some homegrown anarchists, and a Three Mile Island survivor with a pathological vendetta against the nuclear establishment, to assist in the assault.
James “Beck” Becker is a former elite U.S. government intelligence operative who has retired to his childhood hometown of Red Wing, Minnesota – just six miles down the Mississippi from the Prairie River nuclear facility.
Possessing wisdom born of experience, Beck suspects the terrorists’ intentions as soon as the body of a university professor turns up on the Mississippi shore – the clear victim of foul play.
He recognizes connections between seemingly unrelated incidents – the murdered agronomy professor, a missing lab assistant, an international cell call, a stolen fertilizer truck – but can’t piece it together in enough detail to convince government authorities that a larger threat exists. Only his American Indian friend, “Bull,” will help Beck defuse the threat.
So it’s Beck and Bull versus international terror.
May the better men win.
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Author: John L. Betcher
Price: Free for Prime Member or $6.99 for non-members
Born to Kill
Jared Sumner just wanted a pack of cigarettes. But as he waits in line at the crowded gas station, a customer pushes the clerk over the edge and the doors at The Quickshop lock themselves. The clerk has a secret he’s been waiting to share for a long time. And what better time than now?
In this short story, Robert S. Wilson gives a nod to his biggest influence, master of horror and suspense, Stephen King.
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Author: Robert S. Wilson
Price: Free for Prime Members or $0.99 for non-members
ROSES ARE RED, A Collection of Short Stories (Book 1 of the New Blood Trilogy)
A LONG DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP–Drunk, Allan ended an all-nighter of partying with a hit and run that escalates into First Degree murder.
A LUCKY HUMAN–Traveling the Universe aboard a space cruise ship may be the hottest trend, but a young man may be exchanging his life for this privilege.
CASH ONLY–This bounty hunter only cares about the paycheck.
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Author: Carrie Green
Price: $0.99
Scott Nicholson Library, Vol. 1
A boxed set of four novels from a #1 Kindle bestselling author. Nearly 300,000 words of fiction.
SCOTT NICHOLSON LIBRARY, Vol. 1 features the complete text of:
THE RED CHURCH: A boy and a sheriff must solve the mystery of a haunted Appalachian church after a sinister preacher returns to town. A Stoker Award finalist and alternate selection of The Mystery Guild.
THE SKULL RING: Julia Stone’s shattered past comes creeping back after she discovers a strange silver ring, and she can’t trust any of the three men who want to help her.
GHOST COLLEGE: A husband-and-wife ghost hunting team is summoned for a very special case at a bible college, where Latin phrases and strange piano music haunt the night.
AS I DIE LYING: Richard Coldiron’s five personalities may be possessed by a demonic spirit, and, to make matters worse, here comes the woman of his dreams.
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Author: Scott Nicholson
Price: Free for Prime Members or $3.99 for non-members
Industry Interview: Smashwords Founder Mark Coker
Today I am here with Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords, a distributor of e-books. Tell us a little about yourself and Smashwords.
MC: Smashwords is the world’s largest distributor of indie ebooks. We distribute over 90,000 ebooks from over 33,000 indie authors and small publishers. My background is in technology marketing here in Silicon Valley going back 20 years. I’m also an angel investor in over a dozen technology startups, and have founded a couple myself.
JR: How did the idea of Smashwords come about?
Alice & Chess
The only thing more terrifying than a fall down the rabbit hole…
Is the creature that follows you home.
When fantasy can no longer be fiction,
Wonderland becomes Lucidity.
This time there can be no escape home.
The fairy tale you thought you knew will become the nightmare you could never imagine.
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Author: J.C. Noir
Price: Free for Prime Members and $1.99 for everyone else
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
In this stunning collectors’ edition of The Lightning Thief, Percy Jackson’s world is brought to life with eight full-color plates by the series jacket artist John Rocco. The edition comes in an elegant slipcase with a ribbon bookmark, rough edges, and cloth cover–a perfect keepsake for fans of this truly epic series.
After getting expelled from yet another school for yet another clash with mythological monsters only he can see, twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is taken to Camp Half-Blood, where he finally learns the truth about his unique abilities: He is a demigod, half human, half immortal. Even more stunning: His father is the Greek god Poseidon, ruler of the sea, making Percy one of the most powerful demigods alive. There’s little time to process this news. All too soon, a cryptic prophecy from the Oracle sends Percy on his first quest, a mission to the Underworld to prevent a war among the gods of Olympus.
This first installment of Rick Riordan’s best-selling series is a non-stop thrill-ride and a classic of mythic proportions.
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Author: Rick Riordan
Price: $4.99
To Read or Not To Read
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To Read or Not to Read’ is a short story by Vincent Hobbes. It was first published in ‘The Endlands’ (Jan. 2011)
Gunter von Strauss owns a small bookstore. He carries something for everyone’s taste.
He also carefully inspects each book, making sure they are safe to read.
Who knew that choosing the wrong book could carry such a consequence.
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Author: Vincent Hobbes
Price: Free
Slander Hall
Fifteen years ago the affluent gated-community of Slander Hall was the setting of the largest mass suicide in U.S history, dozens of men and women committing the ultimate sacrifice and embracing the covenant of their leader to shed their bodies for a life in outer space. Now a modern ghost town, it boasts only the decaying and derelict phantoms of a withered populace. Cedar Jarrell, sole survivor of the holocaust that claimed so many, returns to the dark heart of Slander Hall on a final pilgrimage where not all who take the journey will survive …
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Author: Matthew Tait
Price: Free
The Hunger Games
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister Primrose, regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister’s place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before — and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that will weigh survival against humanity and life against love.
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Author: Suzanne Collins
Price: Free for Amazon Prime Members; $4.69 if not.
A Concealed Hand
Bernie has about had it with his wife. About forty years of her berating insults and over-seasoned cooking are about to come to a head during their regular Sunday canasta game, when he discovers that the only reason she’s winning is because she’s cheating.
Loaded with dark humor and capped off with an ending that chills to the bone, A CONCEALED HAND shows how quickly a long marriage can turn south over a bad game of cards.
This story also appears in DEAD WIVES TALES: A COLLECTION OF DISSOLVED UNIONS
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Author: Allison M. Dickson
Price: Free
11/22/63
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination—a thousand page tour de force.
Following his massively successful novel Under the Dome, King sweeps readers back in time to another moment—a real life moment—when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has the power to change the course of history.
Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls,Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.
Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely possible—mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life – a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.
A tribute to a simpler era and a devastating exercise in escalating suspense, 11/22/63 is Stephen King at his epic best.
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Author: Stephen King
Price: $14.99
These Trespasses Book 1
This is not your ordinary Zombie Apocalypse.
Torn by life decisions, Marty struggles to discover his true nature in the worst of times. When devastation takes hold in Southern Illinois he finds himself contemplating how God has wronged him, the people he has lost and then found, and above all things the safety of his companions.
He doubts his brother. He doubts the opportunity of growing love and companionship thinking he is unworthy. But above all things, Marty doubts that he will ever be able to forgive himself of these trespasses.
These Trespasses takes a unique approach to combining horror and science fiction providing an interesting character study in an apocalyptic theme.
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Author: Kenneth W. Cain
Price: $2.99
The Honour of the Knights
When starfighter pilot Simon Dodds is enrolled in a top secret military project, he and his wingmates begin to suspect that there is a lot more to the theft of a legendary battleship and an Imperial nation’s civil war than either the Confederation Stellar Navy or the government are willing to let on.
Within weeks of being reassigned to the Confederate border system of Temper, the five would begin to untangle a web of lies and a cover-up that seemed to span the length of the entire galaxy. And it would not be long before they themselves would come face to face with that which destroyed an empire: an unforgiving, unstoppable, and totally unrelenting foe.
There seemed to exist only one glimmer of hope of driving back the darkness: The ATAF Project – a secretly developed set of starfighters that may well just harbour some terrible secrets of their own.
Author: Stephen Sweeney
Price: Free
Author Outtakes: Stephen J. Sweeney
I am here today with Stephen J. Sweeney, author of the Battle for the Solar System series. Hi Stephen. Tell us a little about yourself.
SS: My name is Stephen J Sweeney, and I’m a science fiction writer from England. I currently live in London and work as an IT contractor. I’ve been writing off and on all my life, but only recently decided to look into the commercial aspect of it. I’ve enjoyed the journey so far – there are certainly some interesting characters and people to be met, and the writing community is surprisingly warm and open.
JR: So far you have released two books in this series, The Honour of the Knights and The Third Side. What does the future look like for the series?
Author Outtakes: Richard Herley
I am here today with Richard Herley, author of The Drowning, The Tide Mill, Refuge, The Penal Colony, and The Pagans trilogy. Hi Richard. Tell us a little about yourself.
RH: Hi, Jairus, and thank you very much for the invitation. I was born in 1950, in a market town about 20 miles north-west of central London, went to school locally and then on to Sussex University, where I studied biology. On the eve of my final exams I decided I didn’t want to be a scientist, but a professional writer. I worked a variety of jobs while trying to learn the craft, finishing a couple of execrable novels which are now hidden in my loft. In 1975 I had the idea of writing an historical thriller, set in Victorian times, but was intimidated by the research needed. So I kept going further and further back. Finally I reached the Stone Age. Since I knew a fair bit about the natural world, I was in business: The Stone Arrow was my first published novel.
The Penal Colony
The future.
The British government now runs island prison colonies to take dangerous offenders from its overcrowded mainland jails.
Among all these colonies, Sert, 25 miles off the north Cornish coast, has the worst reputation. There are no warders. Satellite technology is used to keep the convicts under watch. New arrivals are dumped by helicopter and must learn to survive as best they can. To Sert, one afternoon in July, is brought Anthony John Routledge, sentenced for a sex-murder he did not commit. Routledge knows he is here for ever. And he knows he must quickly forget the rules of civilized life. But not all the islanders are savages. Under the charismatic leadership of one man a community has evolved. A community with harsh and unyielding rules, peopled by resourceful men for whom the hopeless dream of escape may not be so hopeless after all …
Author: Richard Herley
Price: Free
Search for the Lost Kingdom
Welcome to the mysterious world of Eldohr, where the land is vast and colorful. This world was once reigned by two royal kingdoms who were friends and allies. Castlegrove to the north, Greengate to the south. A terrible dragon, Alibastizor, has destroyed all dreams of these kingdoms ruling together in harmony. By casting the wicked Zilemstone spell, Alibastizor has kidnapped the beautiful Princess Zara Shadenbrooke. The princess has a special power, and the dragon means to make it his. All hope lies with Elrick Darkmoore. With the help of the wise Oracle, and the alluring Elequene, Elrick must overcome his selfish nature, risking everything to reclaim his kingdom and rescue Princess Zara.
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Author: T.L. Wood
Price: $.99