Free (Amazon) Assorted Titles May 23rd listed separately

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Don't have much time to post today but it seems most promos are repeats anyway. Here's one with mixed reviews. Third book will be available in June.

The Fringe Worlds (Human Chronicles #1) by T.R. Harris
http://www.amazon.com/Fringe-Worlds-...7785033&sr=8-1

Adam Cain is an alien with an Attitude!

After all, how would you feel if you were abducted by aliens and transported into a strange, new universe away from your home, your family -- everything familiar to you? Would it make you happy? Not likely!

Now imagine you're stronger, faster and more coordinated than every alien you encounter. Would you start kicking some ass? Of course you would!

This is the story of Human superiority in the galaxy, a gritty, realistic profile of a young Navy SEAL who doesn't like aliens very much -- and he makes them pay for disrupting his happy life back on Earth!

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Abducted (Lizzy Gardner Series #1) by T.R. Ragan. Romantic suspense. Author has both books in series free today. Seems to have a high number of positive reviews on Amazon but fewer on GR. Sample first if doubtful. She goes by the name Theresa Ragan also it seems. May be familiar to some of you.
http://www.amazon.com/Abducted-Lizzy...7785510&sr=1-2

Elizabeth Gardner (Lizzy) is seventeen-years old when she tells her parents she's going out with her girlfriends. Instead, she meets up with Jared Shayne, her boyfriend of two years. As she walks home beneath an inky black sky, her perfect night becomes her worst nightmare.

Fourteen years later, Lizzy is a licensed PI known as the "one who got away." When she's not searching for runaway teenagers, working on insurance scams, or talking to her therapist, she's at the local high school teaching young girls to defend themselves. But her world is turned upside down for the second time after she receives a call from Jared Shayne. He's an FBI special agent now and he needs her help. Lizzy has no plans to get involved. Not until Jared tells her the kidnapper left her a personalized note.

Escaping from a madman should have been the end of her nightmare...but it was only the beginning.

Her second title:
Dead Weight (Lizzy Gardner Series #2) by T.R. Ragan
http://www.amazon.com/Weight-Lizzy-G...=AG56TWVU5XWC2

Her First Cold Case…

Lizzy Gardner, a private investigator known as the “one who got away,” has spent over a decade trying to get over her past and move on. Although she knows that the man responsible for ruining her life is now dead, letting it all go is easier said than done. Hoping murder and mayhem are behind her, she delves into her first cold case: twenty-one years ago, a girl went missing and the girl’s dying mother is more desperate than ever to know what happened to her only child.

A Missing Woman…

After a woman walks into Lizzy’s office and offers her a large sum of money to keep a close eye on a fitness guru, a man she believes is responsible for her sister’s disappearance, Lizzy realizes she might have taken on more than she can handle.

An Angry Teenager…

Lizzy calls in the help of her two assistants, forcing Hayley and Jessica to work together. Hayley might be of more use to Lizzy if she wasn’t wandering the streets of Sacramento in the dead of night.

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Progeny (The Children of the White Lions, #1) by R.T. Kaelin. Self published using his own press. Fantasy perhaps YA. Good reviews all around. He says this is the latest update.
http://www.amazon.com/Progeny-Childr...7786536&sr=1-1

Nikalys and his sister Kenders have grown up living a peaceful life in the small village of Yellow Mud.

On a blistering hot day, brother and sister head to the lake for a swim. There, they witness a mysterious stranger send forth a massive, living wave that swallows their village. Believing they are the sole survivors, the two strike out on their own, hoping to discover why their home and family have been destroyed. They must make their way through a countryside where magic is outlawed while struggling with the revelation that one of them can “weave the Strands.”

Through their travels, they discover that their simple life was an illusion. An epic, divine struggle has been underway for ages, and Nikalys and Kenders are at the center of it.

Ancient, powerful forces have sought them since before their birth and hunt them to this day. Some wish to eliminate the threat they pose while others want to help the pair fulfill a destiny of which they are unaware. Myths and legends come to life, whisking the pair along a grand journey neither could have imagined possible.

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Dead Things by Matt Darst. Horror. Another free title from Grand Mal Press (still closed to new submissions). Reviews mixed but generally positive. Depends on your love of zombies.
http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Things-eb...7787005&sr=1-1

Nearly two decades have passed since the fall of the United States. And the rise of the church to fill the void. Nearly twenty years since Ian Sumner lost his father. And the dead took to the streets to dine on the living. Now Ian and a lost band of survivors are trapped in the wilderness, miles from safety. Pursued by madmen and monsters, they unravel the secrets of the plague...and walk the line of heresy. Ian and this troop need to do more than just survive. More than ever, they must learn to live.

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Doughnuts for Amy by John Malik. Humor. Published on lulu by a chef and former restaurant owner. Might be a wild card. Sample suggested.
http://www.amazon.com/Doughnuts-for-...7&sr=1-1-spell

Nick St. Germaine, Woodmont Retirement Community's Executive Chef, is emotionally distraught as the second anniversary of his wife's death looms on the horizon. Troubled by nightmares and challenged by his son to move forward one day at a time, Nick is doing that, but just barely. He takes solace in early morning workouts at his gym, long runs and longer hours in Woodmont’s kitchen. An unexpected change in management brings a new Director, Amy Sommers, a beautiful, divorced nurse with little knowledge of the Food and Beverage business. Nick is quick to show his disdain for her, so much so that she comes close to showing him the door her first day on the job. Yet Amy is convinced to give him a chance to prove his worth and she soon finds out he's an effective manager as well as a great cook with a tighly-knit, though overly protective kitchen staff. As Amy takes charge of the many facets of Woodmont, she soon realizes her greatest challenge lies in the broken heart of Nick St. Germaine.

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The Harrowing by Alexandra Sokoloff. Thriller. Repeat from April This is an author mentioned by ATD. It was previously published by St Martin's Press in 2006.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Harrowing-...7805552&sr=1-1

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Meany by Peazy Monellon. Horror. Debut novel "published" by Brother Maynard Press. Your guess is as good as mine. Described as early Stephen King. I'll let you be the judge. Many positive reviews.
http://www.amazon.com/Meany-ebook/dp...7806249&sr=1-1

Six year old Jenny Barnes wakes up from night terrors only to find out that ghosts are real and there’s no such thing as safe.

She lives in a two hundred year old farmhouse with her large family, but they’re not alone. There’s a malevolent presence up in the attic and the forest surrounding the farm is alive with folks who just won't stay dead. Worse is the fact that the cattle have developed a taste for murder and are threatening to stampede. Well…that, and the fact that it seems her own father is trying to kill her.

All Jenny wants is a childhood--a few moments playing in the sunny yard with her sisters. To get one, all she'll have to do is survive.

And as Eddie, the one farmhand who’s on her side notes, “this old place is going over.”

Will anyone get out of there alive?

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Daughter of the Bamboo Forest by Sheng-Shih Lin. Historical fiction. Loosely based on her mother's childhood. Decent reviews and may interest those interested in Chinese culture.
http://www.amazon.com/Daughter-Bambo...7806860&sr=1-1

Alone in the bamboo forest, seven-year-old Little Jade, still dressed in red silk after her father's recent wedding, wonders whether she will ever meet her real mother. DAUGHTER OF THE BAMBOO FOREST is a story set in war-torn, post-revolutionary China during the 1940s. From age seven to twelve, Little Jade longs for the attention of an opium-addicted father and clashes with a desperate, resentful stepmother. The young girl is inadvertently swept by the tides of history, encountering a plague that decimated a village, Catholic nuns in a convent school, and the fabled dragon king along the way.

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World War II London Blitz Diary, Volume 2, 1941 (A Woman's Revelations Enduring War and Marriage) by Ruby Side Thompson. I believe volume 1 was published by Faber. Sample and reviews good.
http://www.amazon.com/London-Revelat...7807505&sr=1-2

Do you find yourself watching reality tv? Well, if you do, click off that set and head for the real thing. These diary entries, written 70 years ago by Ruby Thompson, who had to simultaneously put up with the Blitz bombing of London and a marriage that was as damaging to a woman's psyche as those Nazi bombs were to the city, will take you back to a time and put you in the middle of the history the way no boring textbook summary of the war could. What was it really like for the individuals who bore the fear, rationing, and destruction created by the Blitzkrieg against London? How were women stuck in bad marriages, held captive not only by convention, but by their own mindset that had been drilled into them from birth? Ruby's fierce intelligence, powers of observation, clear writing, and analysis of her miserable husband and unhappy marriage provide insight into both history and the psychological state of a woman stuck partly by her era and partly by her own sense of what was possible. A fascinating revelation for anyone interested in World history and women's history.

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My all 5-star title of the day. Use extreme caution.

The Deadenders by Bruce Elliot Jones. Horror. Self published. Also uses the pseudo name Bruce Jones who was reviewed by several newspapers incl Chicago Tribune.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Deadenders...7808478&sr=1-1

Four young boys.

Four pre-adolescent kids--all best friends--so close they formed their own exclusive no-girls-allowed club proudly declared The Deadenders. Four stalwart buddies walking together through the late afternoon gloom of tangled Midwestern woods on a mission that will secure even tighter their private little club, bind them more closely than ever, and set in motion a series of unspeakable events that will force each to grow up very fast…and face terrors that will haunt them well into adulthood.

Four innocent boys, treading stealthily through a labyrinth of darkening forest to a pre-chosen spot…a magical place that will combine their greatest desires with their greatest fears. All blissfully unaware that they are not alone….that something else walks with them.

Stalking. Waiting…

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After The Rising by Orna Ross
http://www.amazon.com/After-The-Risi...7808936&sr=1-1

Before The Fall by Orna Ross
http://www.amazon.com/Before-The-Fal...=AG56TWVU5XWC2

Historical fiction, Author previously published by Penguin but has decided to self publish. First title is the prequel.

Note: After The Rising is the prequel to 'Before The Fall']
CAN WE EVER ESCAPE THE PAST THAT MADE US? When Jo Devereux returns to Ireland after an absence of 20 years, the last thing she expects is to end up writing a family history. Growing up in Mucknamore in the 1970s, with her village riven by the divides of a previous time, Jo found family pride brought her nothing but heartbreak and loss.
Now, unearthing seventy-year old secrets of love and revenge in a time of war, and a killing that has haunted three generations, she begins to understand why.

In revealing astonishing truths about her mother and grandmother, Jo is brought face-to-face with her own past and her intense relationship with Rory O'Donovan, who still lives in Mucknamore.

Will a reluctant mission to exhume the past redeem Jo's future?

'After The Rising' is a sweeping, multigenerational tale set in 1920s and 1990s Ireland that explores the conflict between freedom and belonging.

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The Crystal Bridge by Charles M. Pulsipher. YA fantasy. Self published. Sample first.
http://www.amazon.com/Crystal-Bridge...7809609&sr=1-1

Kaden is your typical 16 year old boy who can open wormholes to far away worlds. His first trip almost killed him. Now he spends hours inside his Egg, a glowing sphere only he can see, where he glimpses wonder and adventure, but is afraid to travel again.

Aren has the ultimate gift of empathy, seeing into the memories of others and experiencing them as though they were her own. When she turns her ability toward Kaden, it fails to open his memories to her, seeing in their place a golden shell with impossible images flashing along the interior. Aren reaches out to one of these images, plunging Kaden and herself into a world full of unknown danger on the edge of war.

James, a research geneticist for Omegaphil Pharmaceuticals, recreates extinct species with the help of an AI simulation program and the nano nueral transmitters in his head. But, to find all the genetic codes he needs, his altered brain will do anything and go anywhere to find the answers.

Meanwhile, deep within the emptiness between universes, an ancient creature awakes. With inhuman patience it has waited millennia to be freed from its prison and the existence of both worlds is threatened if it can find a way out.

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Shimmer by Bruce Jones. Horror. Same author as The Deadenders above.

http://www.amazon.com/Shimmer-ebook/...809874&sr=1-13

It was to be a long-earned vacation for David Petrie and his pretty wife Donna.

A cross country tour, really, from the St. Louis Arch to the bright lights of Las Vegas--and a final chance, perhaps, for their cancer stricken young daughter Pepsi to see the world. No airplanes, no trains…just a leisurely drive together where scenic beauty and unhurried back roads might bring them closer together, hold back time just a little.

But unhurried roads sometimes lead to open deserts, merciless sun, a whole new concept of time…and a growing conviction in David’s mind that he has gotten his precious family lost in the middle of nowhere. Except “nowhere” is always “somewhere”…and the smallest of desert towns can still be a port in the rolling ocean of sand.

Until the rattling old windmill at the edge of town, the empty wind-blown streets, dark storefronts, and strange town-folk of Clear Water with their hooded glances and uneasy smiles appear not quite what they seemed. Everything—every one—is…different.

Why do you keep running away, David Petrie—only to circle back again and again--this little desert town saved your family’s lives!

…for now…