Saturday, February 18, 2012

FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- Babies in the Bargain by Mona Risk

With only one year left to complete her medical training, Dr. Holly Collier vows not to let anyone mess up her sacrosanct schedule. Especially not Dr. Marc Suarez. The heartthrob of the hospital who used to collect sports’ trophies and nurses’ kisses broke her heart seven years ago.

When a tragic accident transforms the carefree playboy into a dedicated, but novice father to his nephew, Holly gives in to her maternal instincts and turns her structured life upside down for the orphaned preemie. But can she learn to trust Marc again and believe in true love?


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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- WHITE PAPER ROSES by Elizabeth Dickman

Widowed after two years of marriage Diane
Parker is strangely pursued by a killer who is
after something in her possession, but what?
Diane flees to the vast California central valley
seeking anonymity and safety for herself and
her tiny daughter but the people she loves
begin to disappear or mysteriously die.

Hidden away in this dusty town she works as a
waitress in a truck stop café serving
sandwiches and pie to the truckers that travel
the back roads. When a strange woman
appears every few weeks in an expensive
automobile and sits alone in the back booth
Diane discovers they have a common interest
and the two women become close confidants.
When Diane’s last remaining friend suddenly
dies she looks for answers and what she
discovers threatens her life. The strange woman
secretly known as The Recruiter is extremely
dangerous and on ruthless mission and Diane
is on her list.

When the showdown comes Diane has only her
stray dog to protect her.

This story is fast paced and suspenseful,
frequently surprising the reader with sharp
twists and unexpected events. The characters
that surround Diane are sincere and loving,
dangerous and evil, startling and ambitious and
they evolve in surprising directions leaving
Diane to wonder whom she can trust.

You will not put this book down until you finish
the frightening end.


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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- Sunday Billy Sunday: A Memoir by Mark Wheaton

When a Dallas-area priest, Father Billy Acosta, believes he's been shown a miracle by God, instead of being uplifted, ensuing weeks of doubt make him demand to see a second one. Driven crazy by what he feels is God's silence, he heads to his church's East Texas summer camp to massacre 99 kids - one at a time - to bring about Divine Intervention. Among the campers are four 14 year-olds - Phil, Mark, Faith and Maia - who are forced to come of age in the Texas woods, cut off from civilization, as their friends begin dying in horrific fashion, convinced as they are that the Devil has come to Earth and is slaughtering the faithful...


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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- fakebook.con by Iain Benson

In hindsight, Ryan Cooper's bet with Arthur was a bad one.

Create a fictitious woman on Facebook and get real people to believe they shared a high-school class with someone who never existed.

Ryan thought this would be simple.

He was wrong.

There was only enough room in his life for one life, but whose life? His own, or the virtual life he descends into?

Fakebook.con is a story of memory manipulation, duplicity and obsession for the Facebook generation.

Can you really trust your Facebook 'friends'?


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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- The Okapi Promise by Paula Boer

A cure for rabies is discovered in the heart of Africa. Two unknown adversaries join a small tour group to gain the serum. One wants to use the cure for the good of all mankind; the other for personal glory and profit.

The travellers are threatened by wild animals, tribal unrest, personal hardship and vehicle breakdowns. Set at the start of the Rwandan Civil War, the race to patent the new drug is against more than time. The physical and emotional challenges of the journey across the whole continent leaves no-one unchanged—and one of them won't come out alive.

The soft cover version of this book is 200 pages.


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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- The Broken Lands (Diary of the Displaced) by Glynn James

The Journal of James Halldon continues...

After escaping from The Corridor with DogThing, Rudy and Adler, James discovers that the world awaiting him outside is just as harsh as the one he had left behind.

The horrors that he had escaped from, that lurked in the darkness, would continue to haunt him in the bright sunlight of The Broken Lands.

Will he find a way to recover his memories?

Who was the creature that hunted him in The Corridor?


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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- THE COLOMBIAN CONNECTION (Daniel Forbes & Amy Strong Detective Mysteries) by Arnold Brookes

‘A Daniel Forbes and Amy Strong Detective Mystery’

When a Colombian emerald miner commissions the agency to chase up on a valuable mislaid emerald pendant, Daniel Forbes assumes the case will be a quick and easy fix; money for old rope. But when corpse’s are suddenly involved, gem smuggling and fabulously rich emerald mines, with beautiful and alluring girls like Audrey Hailey and a huge fee to collect; then the stakes have to be raised to a new high.

From the comforts of the South East of England to the lush, tropical recesses of South America, ‘The Colombian Connection' must be traced and infiltrated. Amy Strong discovers to her cost what it's like to be incarcerated in a South American jail, and she doesn't like it...

A cleverly crafted detective story with an unexpected twist in its tail.


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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- FREEFALL (A Megalith Thriller) by D R Sanford

Cullen wakes to his wife's terror-filled cries...

Unable to protect her or prevent her abduction, he loses everything he lives for...

Harassed by a detective and accused of Nora's death, Cullen descends into darkness...

Months later, a cryptic call sheds new light on his loss and plunges Cullen headlong into the discovery of an ancient cult and its leader, a puppet-master of nations...

With nothing left to lose, Cullen finds a strength and merciless resolve he never suspected he possessed..

He'll need more than that, however, to reach the truth and redeem himself.

...Follow Cullen's journey into the abyss and witness his rebirth as a new, dark hero.


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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- Hurt Machine (Moe Prager Mystery) by Reed Farrel Coleman

At a pre-wedding party for his daughter Sarah, Moe Prager is approached by his ex-wife and former PI partner Carmella Melendez. It seems Carmella's estranged sister Alta has been murdered, but no one in New York City seems to care. Why? Alta, a FDNY EMT, and her partner had months earlier refused to give assistance to a dying man at a fancy downtown eatery. Moe decides to help Carmella as a means to distract himself from his own life-and-death struggle. Making headway on the case is no mean feat as no one, including Alta's partner Maya Watson, wants to cooperate. Moe chips away until he discovers a cancer roiling just below the surface, a cancer whose symptoms include bureaucratic greed, sexual harassment, and blackmail. But is any of it connected to Alta's brutal murder?


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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- The Child Taker (Soft Target Series) by Conrad Jones

A stand alone novel based on high profile child abductions, which have been followed by millions of concerned parents on the news. 5 year old twins are abducted from a tent in the Lake District and the hunt for a dangerous peadophile ring begins. Police procedure follows the premise that 60% of abducted children are murdered within the first four hours of being taken. The first hour is called "The golden hour" and the longer a child is missing, the less chance there is of them being recovered unharmed. The Child Taker follows the desperate search for the missing twins. Packed with action and twists, this is one of the best thriller novels around.


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FREE -- UK ONLY Kindle Edition -- The Assassins' Village by Faith Mortimer

“The Assassins’ Village” by the acclaimed author, Faith Mortimer, introduces, Diana Rivers, writer, sometime actor and amateur sleuth.

When an expatriate theatrical group gather to discuss their next play there will be murder. A blackmailer stalks their picturesque Cypriot village. The group is riven with jealousies, rivalry, sexual tension and illicit affairs.

Unbeknown to each other they all attempt to find solutions to their problems. Some believe it lies in murder. Can they find the blackmailer? And can they find that all important ‘little black book’ – the chronicle of their misdeeds.

A body is discovered and Diana turns detective to draw up a suspects list. After the police get involved one of the suspects is found hanged – is this another murder or suicide? A visit to a villager’s home uncovers an ancient assassin’s device. Could this be the murder weapon? Is it possible that an assassin lives at the heart of this formerly peaceful and idyllic mountain village?

Love, hate, murder and high drama all feature in this classic historical detective story. With a long list of suspects, some dramatic twists and the odd red herring, the reader is left guessing until the final curtain. (93,000 words)


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FREE -- US ONLY Kindle Edition -- The Cart Before The Corpse (The Merry Abbot Carriage-Driving Mystery) by Carolyn McSparren

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) seat belts 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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