Kindle First

[Jessica Lares]

Ahhh, so happy I can get two! I got Flirting with Felicity to begin with, but I was trying to decide between that one and Everything Burns.

[fjtorres]

The email I just received said Prime subscribers get two this month *and* everybody else gets to buy up to two at $1.99 each.

Kindle First Bonus Offer

Happy New Year! This month, Prime members can download two free early release Kindle First books and non-Prime members can download up to two for $1.99 each through January 31, 2015.

A new wrinkle.

[Manabi]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

The email I just received said Prime subscribers get two this month *and* everybody else gets to buy up to two at $1.99 each.

A new wrinkle.

My guess is it's just a little promo/treat for the new year. Bet it goes back to just one next month.

[fjtorres]

Originally Posted by Manabi

My guess is it's just a little promo/treat for the new year. Bet it goes back to just one next month.

No doubt.
But giving non-prime customers the early access part of the deal (at a deep discount) might endure.

[Hampshire Nanny]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

No doubt.
But giving non-prime customers the early access part of the deal (at a deep discount) might endure.

As I recall, non-Prime members could buy one of the Kindle First books at discount before this month. I'm sure that was the case in December and may have been so for much longer.

[tubemonkey]

Last Day to get your free books for Jan -- exp 31 Jan

see post #141 for selections

[gabby98]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Last Day to get your free books for Jan -- exp 31 Jan

see post #141 for selections

Thanks...forgot as usual

[Manabi]

This month's Kindle First selections are out, they are:

The Mermaid's Sister by Carrie Anne Noble [Genre: Fantasy]

2014 Winner — Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award — Young Adult Fiction

There is no cure for being who you truly are...

In a cottage high atop Llanfair Mountain, sixteen-year-old Clara lives with her sister, Maren, and guardian Auntie. By day, they gather herbs for Auntie’s healing potions. By night, Auntie spins tales of faraway lands and wicked fairies. Clara’s favorite story tells of three orphan infants—Clara, who was brought to Auntie by a stork; Maren, who arrived in a seashell; and their best friend, O’Neill, who was found beneath an apple tree.

One day, Clara discovers shimmering scales just beneath her sister’s skin. She realizes that Maren is becoming a mermaid—and knows that no mermaid can survive on land. Desperate to save her, Clara and O’Neill place the mermaid-girl in their gypsy wagon and set out for the sea. But no road is straight, and the trio encounters trouble around every bend. Ensnared by an evil troupe of traveling performers, Clara and O’Neill must find a way to save themselves and the ever-weakening mermaid.

And always, in the back of her mind, Clara wonders, if my sister is a mermaid, then what am I?

The Dead Key by D. M. Pulley [Genre: Mystery]

2014 Winner — Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award — Grand Prize and Mystery & Thriller Fiction Winner

It’s 1998, and for years the old First Bank of Cleveland has sat abandoned, perfectly preserved, its secrets only speculated on by the outside world.

Twenty years before, amid strange staff disappearances and allegations of fraud, panicked investors sold Cleveland’s largest bank in the middle of the night, locking out customers and employees, and thwarting a looming federal investigation. In the confusion that followed, the keys to the vault’s safe-deposit boxes were lost.

In the years since, Cleveland’s wealthy businessmen kept the truth buried in the abandoned high-rise. The ransacked offices and forgotten safe-deposit boxes remain locked in time, until young engineer Iris Latch stumbles upon them during a renovation survey. What begins as a welcome break from her cubicle becomes an obsession as Iris unravels the bank’s sordid past. With each haunting revelation, Iris follows the looming shadow of the past deeper into the vault—and soon realizes that the key to the mystery comes at an astonishing price.

The One That Got Away by Simon Wood [Genre: Crime Thriller]

Graduate students Zoë and Holli only mean to blow off some steam on their road trip to Las Vegas. But something goes terribly wrong on their way home, and the last time Zoë sees her, Holli is in the clutches of a sadistic killer. Zoë flees with her life, changed forever.

A year later and still tortured with guilt, Zoë latches on to a police investigation where the crime eerily resembles her abduction. Along with a zealous detective, she retraces the steps of that fateful night in the desert, hoping that her memory will return and help them find justice for Holli. Her abductor—labeled the “Tally Man” by a fascinated media—lies in wait for Zoë. For him, she is not a survivor but simply the one that got away.

With an unforgettable heroine, a chillingly disturbed psychopath, and a story that moves at breakneck speed, The One That Got Away is thriller writer Simon Wood at his finest.

Wreckage by Emily Bleeker [Genre: Contemporary Fiction]

Lillian Linden is a liar. On the surface, she looks like a brave survivor of a plane crash. But she’s been lying to her family, her friends, and the whole world since rescue helicopters scooped her and her fellow survivor, Dave Hall, off a deserted island in the South Pacific. Missing for almost two years, the castaways are thrust into the spotlight after their rescue, becoming media darlings overnight. But they can’t tell the real story—so they lie.

The public is fascinated by the castaways’ saga, but Lillian and Dave must return to their lives and their spouses. Genevieve Randall—a hard-nosed journalist and host of a news program—isn’t buying it. She suspects Lillian’s and Dave’s explanations about the other crash survivors aren’t true. And now, Genevieve’s determined to get the real story, no matter how many lives it destroys.

In this intriguing tale of survival, secrets, and redemption, two everyday people thrown together by tragedy must finally face the truth…even if it tears them apart.

The page says that Amazon is allowing Prime members to pick two books again this month. This may be the new regular.

[stormcloude]

I've got a fourth book on mine:

Mystery: The Dead Key by DM Pulley.
From the editor:
When engineer Iris Latch gets her first field assignment out of college, surveying an abandoned bank, she’s just looking forward to a break from her cubicle. Instead, hidden among cobwebbed desks and dusty files untouched for twenty years, she finds hints that something rotten used to go on in the back offices. She comes to believe that someone else, a young secretary named Beatrice Baker, may have left those clues on purpose—and at great risk to herself.

The “dead key” in the title can grant access to wealth and forgotten secrets, but for me, the most valuable thing it unlocks is Iris’s connection to this young woman from the past. They share a lonely but fierce spirit that won’t let them step aside as corrupt and powerful men go unpunished. Their stories intertwine even though they don’t know each other, and in a strange way, they are counting on each other to expose the truth at last.

[Manabi]

Originally Posted by stormcloude

I've got a fourth book on mine:

Yeah, it's shown up for me now too. Not sure what happened there, even the links were numbered without it (The One That Got Away and Wreckage were t2 and t3, and are now t3 and t4).

Edit: And now that I've had time to read through everything, I decided to get The Mermaid's Sister and The Dead Key. Glad that one showed up, it sounds pretty interesting.

[stormcloude]

Yes, I got The Dead Key too, and Wreckage, though I am a bit worried that it will be about cannibalism.

[Manabi]

Originally Posted by stormcloude

Yes, I got The Dead Key too, and Wreckage, though I am a bit worried that it will be about cannibalism.

I'm not sure where you picked that up from either title. But I certainly hope so too!

[Dngrsone]

Originally Posted by Manabi

This month's Kindle First selections are out...

The page says that Amazon is allowing Prime members to pick two books again this month. This may be the new regular.

Wow, going to be tough deciding which two.

[silverraven]

The Dead Key and The One That Got Away for me!
I'm liking the two free a month, hope they keep it up!
S

[Demingy]

Originally Posted by stormcloude

Yes, I got The Dead Key too, and Wreckage, though I am a bit worried that it will be about cannibalism.

I'm a bit worried about that with Wreckage too - I honestly can't think of what else it could be. I keep going back and forth for the second book partially because of that (definitely getting The Dead Key for book one).