FREE (and bargain) books for the Kindle - July 2011

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Free indies:

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by Severin Rossetti

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If it can be imagined then it can exist; what might only be pictured in this world can take on a tangible reality in another... the Kingdom of Eidolon. Usually access to this realm is denied us, but a group of young art students find themselves drawn into its turmoil, become a part of the world of Hieronymous Bosch and William Blake, of Edvard Munch and Rene Magritte

Horker's Law (The Six Books of Magic) by Mike Lee

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Horkers are thieves of an unusual sort. Trained from childhood in skills of deception, misdirection, slight of hand, confidence, etc., they are also taught a strict code, a code that governs their decisions and strategies. They are taught to avoid violence whenever possible, and live by their wits. One of the most important lessons in this code is that Horkers never use magic. Magic is notoriously unreliable and hard to control, and Horkers must control their environment.

Spivver MacAnders is one such Horker. A young man, working his way through life, Spiv horks enough to meet his needs, trying to get ahead (while taking only from people he figures truly deserve it, and trying to do a good turn for common folks, from time to time.) All this, while staying one step ahead of his marks on his way out of town. But when Spiv comes across the aftermath of a heinous crime, he is drawn into a commitment to deliver a valuable object; an object which he realizes is a powerful artifact, steeped in very specific magical properties. A secretive and skilled Horker is perhaps the perfect messenger to transport such an object unnoticed, especially because the one who seeks it is a powerful wizard, who has already sent his army to invade the realm Spiv must travel through on his mission.

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Hostage in Havana (Cuban Trilogy, The) by Noel Hynd now free for US Kindle

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From bestselling ABA author Noel Hynd comes this new series set against the backdrop of Havana, an explosive capital city of faded charm locked in the past and torn by political intrigue.U.S. Treasury Agent Alexandra LaDuca leaves her Manhattan home on an illegal mission to Cuba that could cost her everything. Accompanying her is the attractive but dangerous Paul Guarneri, a Cuban-born exile who lives in the gray areas of the law. Together, they plunge into subterfuge and danger. Without the support of the United States, Alex must navigate Cuban police, saboteurs, pro-Castro security forces, and an assassin who follows her from New York. Bullets fly as allies become traitors and enemies become unexpected friends. Alex, recovering from the tragic loss of her fiance a year before, reexamines faith and new love while taking readers on a fast-paced adventure. Readers of general market thrillers, such as John le Carre, David Baldacci, and Joel Rosenberg, will eagerly anticipate this first installment.

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The Forging (Book 1 of the Raven's Heart Trilogy) by M.S. Verish (Night Apple, LCC)

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The most unlikely journeys are often prompted by a question of one’s heart. An exiled man wonders if he should forsake his new life and risk returning to his homeland. A troubled girl seeks a chance at redemption for a terrible crime she has committed. A solitary tracker debates whether or not to correspond with an infamous and supernatural criminal. A vagabond thief chances leaving behind the world he knew for an unknown destiny.

They are an unlikely cast of characters driven by their own personal motives. By chance or by fate, they find themselves in one another’s company, willingly embarking upon an eccentric wizard’s mission to recover a magical stone of untold power: Raven’s Heart. If they can see past their own ambitions, they might survive their quest and ultimately realize that the success of their mission could determine the fate of the world in which they live.

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Short stories from Macmillian (all pre-orders)

Itsy Bitsy by John Ajvide Lindqvist

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Destined to become a modern classic, the short story Itsy Bitsy is guaranteed to make you think twice before you take a picture of someone in a bikini. In this creepy shocker, horror author superstar John Ajvide Lindqvist (LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, HANDLING THE UNDEAD) gives new meaning to punishing the paparazzi.

The Lake by Tananarive Due

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A free short story taken straight from the pages of THE MONSTER’S CORNER, an all original anthology from some of today’s hottest supernatural writers, featuring stories from the monster’s point of view.

In THE LAKE, Abbie LeFleur, a lifetime Bostonian, who hides her scales, webbed feet, and an incredible hunger for people, has relocated to Graceville to start her life anew when she sets her eyes on a young student in her English class

Specimen 313 by Jeff Strand

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A free short story taken straight from the pages of THE MONSTER’S CORNER, an all original anthology from some of today’s hottest supernatural writers, featuring stories from the monster’s point of view.

SPECIMEN 313 is the story of a meat-eating plant named Max, surviving in the greenhouse with his mad doctor keeper when he gets a new female neighbor.

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The World of Stephanie Laurens now also free for US Kindlers

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FYI, currently free only for those in Canada:

JENNY LOPEZ HAS A BAD WEEK by Lindsey Kelk (HarperCollins)

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Digital download exclusive story: if you love Lindsey Kelk, get your fix ahead of her new novel The Single Girl’s To-Do List.Digital download exclusive story: if you love Lindsey Kelk, get your fix ahead of her new novel The Single Girl’s To-Do List.Jenny Lopez is miserable. Having spent the summer working in LA, she’s back home in New York, and missing the three key elements in a girl’s life – a roommate, a job and a boyfriend. Jenny formulates a plan; surely someone must need a roommate and surely someone must need a girlfriend?By the end of the day, she has arranged a viewing for a potential roommate, the gay blond aka the Sex God,secured two dates, and work looking after a top supermodel. Things look like they are back on track; everything is going to work out great. If only life was so easy…

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Now also free for US Kindle:

Football Genius with Bonus Material by Tim Green

The Magnificent 12: The Call with Bonus Material by Michael Grant

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Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #7: Pantheon by John Jackson Miller (RandomHouse)

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When the Sith ship Omen crash-landed on Kesh two thousand years ago, the crew encountered native barbarism and superstition. Now a violent millennium has reduced the Lost Tribe of the Sith to a similar state. While Sith teachings are remembered, honored, and violently practiced, knowledge of the Lost Tribe’s true origins has all but vanished. With a dark age imperiling the Sith, the future rests in the hands of the unlikeliest of people: Caretaker Hilts, the official keeper of lore. Mild-mannered by Sith standards, the aged Hilts hopes to use the wisdom of the ancients to reunite his people. But the truth he uncovers becomes anything but the Tribe’s salvation. Rather, he may have set loose forces leading to its destruction—and his own. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Ascension.

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Survivors by Sophie Littlefield (Luna)

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DOING RIGHT ISN'T EASY IN A WORLD GONE SO WRONG
Cass Dollar outlasted the fall of civilization. But surviving Aftertime requires the kind of toughness that can conquer the violent landscape of California and still retain its humanity.

When a young boy and his dying grandmother are brought to the Box, the survivalist community where Cass takes shelter, she realizes that without her help he won't be long for this unforgiving new world. But while the Box is a haven from the roaming marauders—and the flesh-hungry Beaters—it forbids children within its confines. The boy will be turned out to fend for himself. All that stands between him and the brutal wilderness is Cass's protective instincts, and the stubborn resolve that's gotten her this far Aftertime.

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LAGAN LOVE by Peter Murphy (The Fiction Studio)

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If you know something about passion, and desire, and giving everything to live your dreams then leave your world behind for a while. Come with Janice to Dublin, in the mid nineteen-eighties when a better future beckoned and the past was restless, whispering in the shadows for the Old Ways. Janice has grown tired of her sheltered existence in Toronto and when Aidan leads her through the veils of the Celtic Twilight, she doesn’t hesitate. In their love, Aidan, Dublin’s rising poet, sees a chance for redemption and Janice sees a chance for recognition. Sinead tells her that it is all nonsense as she keeps her head down and her eyes fixed on her own prize – a place in Ireland’s prospering future. She used to go out with Aidan, before he met Janice, so there is little she can say. And besides, she has enough to do as her parents are torn apart by the rumours of church scandals. But after a few nights in Grogan’s, where Dublin’s bohemians gather, or a day in Clonmacnoise among the ruins of Celtic Crosses, it won’t matter as the ghosts of Aidan’s mythologies take form and prey on the friends until everything is at risk. Lagan Love is a sensuous story of Love, Lust and Loss that will bring into question the cost we pay for our dreams.

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Vampires in Devil Town by Wayne Hixon (Grindhouse Press)

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One evening Rachel Stokes is yanked from her bed and dragged into a black van by two young abductors. They refer to her as a chosen sacrifice and her mind races, wondering where they might be taking her. She thinks she knows. There’s a house located in a hollow of rural Lynchville. It’s called the Sad House, a place of legend. Rumors say it appears and disappears. Even worse than the house are the people who live in it. They could be vampires. They could just be ghosts with teeth. They’ve come after Rachel before and she narrowly escaped. And now they’ve come back to finish what they started in this horrifying and suspenseful novel by first time author Wayne Hixon.

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Free indies/backlist/selfpub:

CRY UNCLE by Judith Arnold

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After witnessing a professional hit, Seattle architect Pamela Hayes has testified in court against the hit man. Unfortunately, a mistrial is declared and the hit man is released on bail while awaiting a new trial. He intends to silence the sole witness to murder—Pam—before that new trial begins. She needs to hide, and she runs as far as she can: to steamy Key West., Florida.

Jonas Brenner, a Key West bar owner and easy-going slacker, is about to lose custody of his orphaned five-year-old niece—unless he can convince the courts that he’s a responsible father. What he needs is a prim and proper wife who will create the illusion that Lizard, as his niece likes to be called, is being raised in a stable environment.

What Pam needs is a new identity. Joe offers her a deal: if she marries him and takes his name, no Pacific Northwest hit man is going to find her. In return, she can pose as Joe’s respectable wife, dutifully caring for the rambunctious, feather-wearing Lizard.

Of course, this will be a marriage in name only. No sex. No emotions. No love. Which, once Pam and Joe move in together and the sparks begin to fly, is easier said than done.

CRY UNCLE was originally published by Harlequin Books.

Summer Loving by Tina Folsom and Bella Andre

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Summer is the time to read on the Beach! Bella Andre and Tina Folsom have put together a collection of two super sexy short stories/novellas and ten sizzling teaser scenes from their other works.

Summer Loving includes:
* Bound by Love by Bella Andre
* Venice Vampyr #2 – Final Affair by Tina Folsom
* Plus ten steamy excerpts from their contemporary and paranormal romances!

Dive into the summer with Summer Loving!

The Gifts (Vol 1 - The Gifts: Trilogy) by Patria Dunn-Rowe and Jonathan Ruchti

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The Gifts: (Vol 1-The Gifts Trilogy)

Nine gifts were stolen from a mythical man with wings ages ago. Those nine gifts found themselves transferred into human eggs, delved out through in vitro fertilization. These newly made beings were born into the world unbeknownst to man. There are dark spirits searching for those gifts, ready to reclaim them from the humans who have been created to bear them...

When twenty-one year old Nahla Marks decides to start her junior year at Wake Forest university as an education major instead of continuing on the path to pre-med, everything seems to fall apart. Her world is turned upside down as this strange "thing" begins to manifest within her. Nahla fears she is loosing it until she meets Gideon, the man with the silky smooth voice and chocolate brown hair, who seems to understand exactly what Nahla is going through.

Gideon knows the answers, but can Nahla trust him as her body begins to betray the fact that she may not be quite as human as she thought? Will Gideon be able to save Nahla from the dark spirits that are hunting them both?

Three months ago no one even knew her name, but now, bound by a curse and on the run, there was no one else she could trust…but him.

Quinn, a Vampire Watcher's Story (Royal Blood Chronicles) by Elizabeth Loraine

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Vampire Watcher's are the human protectors of the vampire royal, ruling class. In Quinn, a Vampire Watcher's Story which is prequill to the series Royal Blood Chronicles from Quinn's point of view. In his story we find out about the Watcher's, how they began and what their role was in the beginning and what it has become. We also get to see Quinn and Katrina as we never have before again from Quinn's point of view. For an added taste of Royal Blood Chronicles ten chapters of Katrina, the Beginning are also included.

Up The Gangway by Vera Louro

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Every year millions of people take cruises to amazing destinations. For them, a cruise is a dream holiday. For the crew, working on board brings a very different reality though.
Up the Gangway is a portrait of what it’s like to be a crew member. Find out how it is to live onboard with all the hard work, drama, gossip, craziness, romance and hilarious moments.
Follow Sofia's journey throughout a four month contract as she gets absorbed by the small world of the big cruise ships and learns how the industry works, how intensely crew members live their lives and how important good friends are in a place where there is nothing else to hold on to.

The Callahans Book One: Destiny by Gordon Ryan

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Vol. I - Destiny: Fleeing an abusive father
and a hopeless life in Ireland in 1895, nineteen-year-old Tom Callahan
takes passage on a ship bound for America. On board, he meets Katrina
Hansen, a young Norwegian woman traveling to Utah. It's not a likely
match. The brash Irishman is a Catholic, a brawler and a young man
without prospects. Katrina is a refined young woman, yet naïve in the
ways of the world. Lured into a polygamous marriage, she finds herself
abandoned on a remote Mexican beach as the man she loves, unaware of her
status, seeks his fortune in Alaska. Destiny is a sprawling historical
novel set at the turn of the 19th century, played out in such far-flung
places as New York City, the gold fields of Alaska and Old Mexico.

The Old Man and the Knife by Samuel Clemente

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The tale of two siblings, and a murder; narrated by the one who knew them both best. ''The Old Man and the Knife'' a short story by Samuel Clemente.

Short Stories:

Forever by Lee Moan

Symbiosis by Lee Moan

My Little Plaything (Confessions of an Escort Addict) by JT Holland

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FYI, currently just free for those in Europe:

Monday Night Jihad by Jason Elam and Steve Yohn is free again, but currently just for those in Europe (Amazon Main, Amazon DE) (Tyndale House)

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He thought his deadliest enemy knelt across the line of scrimmage. He was wrong! After a tour of duty in Afghanistan, Riley Covington is living his dream as a professional linebacker when he comes face to face with a radical terrorist group on his own home turf. Drawn into the nightmare around him, Riley returns to his former life as a member of a special ops team that crosses oceans in an attempt to stop the escalating attacks. But time is running out, and it soon becomes apparent that the terrorists are on the verge of achieving their goal—to strike at the very heart of America. This softcover edition also includes a teaser chapter of the next Riley Covington thriller.
Written by a member of the NFL; gives readers an insider look at the world of professional athletes and military intelligence. Examines the challenges of homeland security in large-venue events. Explores the tension between the desire for revenge and the constraints of the Christian faith, especially as it relates to Islam. Jason Elam has recently returned from Iraq, where he visited and supported the troops. You can read his journal at mondaynightjihad.blogspot.com

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FYI, currently just free for those in Europe:

A Kiss of Adventure by Catherine Palmer Amazon Main, Amazon DE) (Tyndale House)

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Desperate and on the run, Tillie Thornton finds herself in an uneasy partnership with Graeme McLeod, a daring adventurer who comes out of nowhere to thwart the plot of Tillie’s would-be kidnappers. Now these two must join forces against their common enemies, as well as the challenges of nature, as they embark on a quest that could bring them the answers they seek—or cost them everything.
Formerly published as The Treasure of Timbuktu.

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Now also free for US Kindle:

Monday Night Jihad by Jason Elam and Steve Yohn

A Kiss of Adventure by Catherine Palmer