3 Free & 6 Cheap Kindle ebooks

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Coulson’s Secret (The Coulson Series)  Kim’s mother died because she was at the wrong place at the wrong time: collateral damage in a political assassination. But was her murder really an accident? A haunting family mystery unravels in this taut page-turne

The White Tree (The Cycle of Arawn)  In this towering fantasy novel, young Dante finds himself entrenched in a long-simmering war when he steals a dark god’s holiest book and attempts to master a shadowy power called the nether. 

Love is Darkness (The Valerie Dearborn Trilogy– Book 1)  Val trades her vampire-hunting past for grad school in London, but she’s barely arrived before she attracts the attention of vampire king Lucas. This fresh and sexy paranormal romance has over 180 five-star Amazon reviews.

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MURDER TAKES TIME (Friendship & Honor) – 99¢  Detective Frankie Donovan has made two oaths in his life: to the law, and to his childhood friend Nicky Fusco. But when Frankie investigates a string of murders, he faces an impossible choice…. With over 130 five-star reviews on Amazon, a mystery about friendship and justice.

The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece — and Western Civilization – $1.99  On a late September day in 480 B.C., Greek warships faced an invading Persian armada in the narrow Salamis Straits in the most important naval battle of the ancient world. Overwhelmingly outnumbered by the enemy, the Greeks triumphed through a combination of strategy and deception. More than two millennia after it occurred, the clash between the Greeks and Persians at Salamis remains one of the most tactically brilliant battles ever fought. The Greek victory changed the course of western history — halting the advance of the Persian Empire and setting the stage for the Golden Age of Athens.
In this dramatic new narrative account, historian and classicist Barry Strauss brings this landmark battle to life. He introduces us to the unforgettable characters whose decisions altered history: Themistocles, Athens’ great leader (and admiral of its fleet), who devised the ingenious strategy that effectively destroyed the Persian navy in one day; Xerxes, the Persian king who fought bravely but who ultimately did not understand the sea; Aeschylus, the playwright who served in the battle and later wrote about it; and Artemisia, the only woman commander known from antiquity, who turned defeat into personal triumph. Filled with the sights, sounds, and scent of battle, The Battle of Salamis is a stirring work of history.

The Case of the Love Commandos: From the Files of Vish Puri, India’s Most Private Investigator $1.99  Critics hailed The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken, the last installment in the Vish Puri mystery series, as Tarquin Hall’s best yet, saying that each book has “raised the stakes subtly” (The Huffington Post) and provided readers with “a gently humorous take on life in contemporary India” (The Christian Science Monitor). Now, in The Case of the Love Commandos, Hall has upped the ante yet again, throwing more twists, turns, and surprises at India’s “Most Private Investigator” than ever before. When Ram and Tulsi fall in love, the young woman’s parents are dead set against the union. She’s from a high-caste family; he’s an Untouchable, from the lowest stratum of Indian society. Young Tulsi’s father locks her up and promises to hunt down the “loverboy dog.” Fortunately, India’s Love Commandos, a real-life group of volunteers dedicated to helping mixed-caste couples, come to the rescue. Just after they liberate Tulsi, Ram is mysteriously snatched from his hiding place.

Thread of Fear (Glass Sisters) – $1.99  Forensic artist Fiona Glass is the best in the business — which is precisely why she’s quitting. Her skill at mining victims’ memories to re-create the faces of sadistic criminals has left her haunted and wary, and only Jack Bowman’s dogged persistence convinces her to help him. The rugged police chief is hunting a serial killer who’s targeting teenage girls. But what seems like a simple assignment is fraught with complications, including a searing attraction to Jack that’s tempting Fiona to let her guard down in potentially dangerous ways.

The King’s Hounds (The King’s Hounds series) – $1.99  From an international bestselling author comes a unique mystery set in Medieval England. After losing everything to the new regime, Halfdan comes to the court of the very King who stole his family — and gets tangled up in a wicked murder! Fans of Pillars of the Earth will love this nuanced historical whodunit.

The Heavens Rise – $2.99  New York Times bestselling author Christopher Rice brilliantly conjures the shadowed terrors of the Louisiana bayou—where three friends confront a deadly, ancient evil rising to the surface—in this intense and atmospheric new supernatural thriller.

9 free & cheap Kindle books – boxed sets, too!

Complete Rylie Cruz Series 99¢ In this three book box set, Rylie Cruz knows the pitfalls of paranormal love all too well: Her dating service pairs off lonely werewolves, vampires, and demons, but she worries that a family’s curse will keep her single forever. Can this lonely lycanthrope find her true love?

The First 3 Books in the Maggie Newberry Mystery Series 99¢ By day, Maggie lives the sweet life in France with her winemaking husband — but by night, she’s hunting down Europe’s most wanted killers. Get in on the action as she sleuths about from the French Riviera to Paris in this perfect collection of cozy travel mysteries!

Chicago’s Headmistress99¢  Step back into the Roaring Twenties as Giulietta becomes the headmistress of Chicago’s most exclusive and illicit men’s club. This captivating Prohibition drama follows her scandalous rise to power…. The Godfather meets Boardwalk Empire!

Ghost In The Bedroom: A Contemporary Paranormal Romance99¢ Recent newlyweds Phil and Michelle have every reason to be happy. But Michelle is still haunted by her late ex-husband… literally! Can this family truly overcome their past and face their future together? “It’s the human story that sets off shivers” (San Francisco Chronicle)

 

Paleo Slow Cooker: 75 Easy, Healthy, and Delicious Gluten-Free Paleo Slow Cooker Recipes for a Paleo Diet $1.99 Enjoy all the flavor and nutrition — and convenience — of an all-natural, gluten-free diet. A bestselling author offers 75 easy-to-follow slow cooker recipes for a robust variety of palates and occasions, plus tips for optimal cooking.  And if you didn’t check out yesterday’s Paleo Kindle post...

Magic Mirror: A Parisian Mystery (Georgia Lee Maxwell #1) (The Georgia Lee Maxwell Series)  FREE When journalist Georgia Lee Maxwell leaves her ex-boyfriend and a bad job to move to France, she practically lands in the middle of a museum robbery. The thieves steal an old mirror that once belonged to Nostradamus — and it’s up to Georgia to find out why. “An all-around delight” (Publishers Weekly).

The Choosing (Blood and Brotherhood Saga Book One)FREE  In a world where men live to serve their kingdom, brothers Seth and Garret travel to the choosing ceremony where their fate will be decided. But along the way, Seth discovers a devastating truth that will force him to choose between exile and servitude.

A Deeper Darkness $1.99  From a New York Times bestselling author of “intelligently written, intricately crafted thrillers” (Chicago Tribune): Medical examiner Samantha Owens sees death every day. But nothing can prepare her for a terrible personal loss — and the web of murders still to come…. “Everything I love” (Tess Gerritsen)

Emily and Einstein $2.99  After her husband Sandy’s death, Emily’s world unravels as his secrets are exposed. As she struggles to start over, Sandy is given the chance to right his wrongs — in the form of Emily’s adopted dog, Einstein. A novel about self-discovery and redemption with over 300 five-star ratings on Goodreads.

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Outlander: with Bonus Content $1.99.  Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another…

In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon—when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord…1743.

The Moment Keeper 99¢.  First there is Sarah: raised by her loving grandmother, but neglected by her own father who views her as the instrument of her mother’s death. She will lead a hard life, searching to belong and to be loved.

Then there is Olivia, surrounded by love, nurtured and adored by her parents, a golden child with a golden future.

Local Souls. $1.99.   With the meteoric success of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Allan Gurganus placed himself among America’s most original and emotionally engaged storytellers. If his first comic novel mapped the late nineteenth-century South, Local Souls brings the twisted hilarity of Flannery O’Connor kicking into our new century.

Through memorable language and bawdy humor, Gurganus returns to his mythological Falls, North Carolina, home of Widow. This first work in a decade offers three novellas mirroring today’s face-lifted South, a zone revolutionized around freer sexuality, looser family ties, and superior telecommunications, yet it celebrates those locals who have chosen to stay local. In doing so, Local Souls uncovers certain old habits—adultery, incest, obsession—still very much alive in our New South, a “Winesburg, Ohio” with high-speed Internet.

When Good Friends Go Bad.  99¢.  ‘Bloody Good. Quirky humor, crazy personalities, zany situations…This book has it all.’

After the Fog 99¢.  It’s 1948 in the steel town of Donora, Pennsylvania, site of the infamous “killing smog.” Public health nurse, Rose Pavlesic, has risen above her orphaned upbringing and created a life that reflects everything she missed as a child. She’s even managed to keep her painful secrets hidden from her doting husband, loving children, and large extended family.

In Deep Voodoo (Mojo, Louisiana humorous mystery series #1) 99¢.  A woman receives a voodoo doll of her lying cheating ex-husband as a gag gift at her divorce party, and vents her frustration by stabbing it with a pin. But later when he’s found stabbed to death, she doesn’t have to be told she’s managed to land herself IN DEEP VOODOO!

Broken Prince (The Broken Ones) 99¢.  Sometimes, when you’re broken, you can heal on your own. Sometimes, you need the help of your friends, your family, and the people you love. Keeping those pieces together when the world seems intent on ripping you apart is the greatest challenge of all. Especially when the ones you love, the ones who hold you together, start falling apart themselves.

Loyal To A Degree $1.99.  Despite his young age, Karl is a trained member of the Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth) and the assistant to KLV camp leader. Due to injuries sustained in battle, the camp leader is handicapped and unable to see to the evacuation of the boys from the camp. The job falls squarely on Karl’s shoulders as orders come from headquarters putting him in command of the mission. He must refine and execute an evacuation plan that will reunite the boys with their families and he must do it on his own. Berlin has no soldiers to spare.

Twisted Justice (Justice Series Mystery Thriller #2*) 99¢  Judge Willa Carson must solve a vicious murder after a Supreme Court nominee turns up dead — and Willa’s husband is the prime suspect. Fans of Lee Child will love this astonishing, unpredictable tale from a USA Today bestselling author!

cheap Kindle ebooks – cookbooks, too!

The Coconut Flour Cookbook: Delicious Gluten Free Coconut Flour Recipes is FREE.  Unlike baked goods made from grain flours, foods cooked with coconut flour are largely good for you and can be an integral part of most diet plans.This book contains a number of recipes covering everything from breakfast to dinner to dessert.

Cookie Craft Christmas: Dozens of Decorating Ideas for a Sweet Holiday only $2.99 (print is 4.05).

The Midwife’s Revolt is 99¢.  The Midwife’s Revolt takes the reader on a journey to the founding days of America. It follows one woman’s path, Lizzie Boylston, from her grieving days of widowhood after Bunker Hill, to her deepening friendship with Abigail Adams and midwifery, and finally to her dangerous work as a spy for the Cause. A novel rich in historical detail, The Midwife’s Revolt opens a window onto the real lives of colonial women.


Ties That Bind (A Madison Knight Novel) is 99¢ (1.99 print edition).  Detective Madison Knight concluded the case of a strangled woman an isolated incident. But when another woman’s body is found in a park killed with the same line of neckties, she realizes they’re dealing with something more serious. Despite mounting pressure from the Sergeant and Chief to close the case even if it means putting an innocent man behind bars, and a partner who is more interested in saving his marriage than stopping a potential serial killer, Madison may have to go it alone if there’s not going to be another victim.


The Cartographer of No Man’s Land: A Novel is $1.99 ($25.95 print). When his beloved brother-in-law goes missing at the front in 1916, Angus defies his pacifist upbringing to join the war and find him.  Assured a position as a cartographer in London, he is instead sent directly into the visceral shock of battle. Meanwhile, at home, his son Simon Peter must navigate escalating hostility in a fishing village torn by grief. With the intimacy of The Song of Achilles and the epic scope of The Invisible Bridge, The Cartographer of No Man’s Land offers a soulful portrayal of World War I and the lives that were forever changed by it, both on the battlefield and at home.


Furry United Coalition Bundle is 99¢ (7.99 print).  It started with an energetic bunny and a grumpy bear. It continued with a geeky swan and her playboy bear. And then we encountered an ornery croc who couldn’t help falling for a foxy lady.  The three Furry United Coalition stories you’ve come to love are now available in one handy bundle. Hours of romantic and humorous entertainment. Contains previously released stories.


The Drowning Guard: A Novel of the Ottoman Empire is $2 – $9.99 normally.  The Drowning Guard is the tale of the Ottoman princess, Esma Sultan—one of the most powerful women in Ottoman history and unlike any other woman in the Islamic world. In a gender reversal of Scheherazade in 1001 Arabian Nights, Esma seduces a different Christian lover each night, only to have him drowned in the morning. The Sultaness’s true passion burns only for the Christian-born soldier charged with carrying out the brutal nightly death sentence: her drowning guard, Ivan Postivich.

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Faelorehn – Book One of the Otherworld Trilogy is FREE.  I never heard him come after me and even as I climbed the slope and stumbled onto our shaded back lawn, I didn’t look back. It was like the day the gnomes chased me all over again, but this time I was not escaping some horrible little creatures, I was fleeing from an incredibly good-looking guy who could very well understand me completely. I was either saving myself from that serial killer I always imagined lived down in the swamp, or I had finally gone over the deep end.


Island Shifters (An Oath of the Blood) Book 1, Fantasy Series.  When your family, your home and the very land you stand on are destroyed, what do you do?  If you are a shifter of Massa, you turn around and fight. You fight, because the blood oath will have it no other way.


Light The Hidden Things.  Carter Crow has been wandering the country for years, denying and fleeing from the terrors of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.  He doesn’t expect Lupine to be any different from the hundreds of little towns he’s passed through in the years since he retired from the Marines. But when he meets the strong and beautiful Lila Milam, he knows there must be something special about the quiet mountain town.


Lichgates: Book One of the Grimoire Saga (an Epic Fantasy Adventure).  Kara, a college student still reeling from her mother’s recent death, has no idea the hidden world of Ourea even exists until a freak storm traps her in a sunken library. With nothing to do, she opens an ancient book of magic called the Grimoire and unwittingly becomes its master, which means Kara now wields the cursed book’s untamed power. Discovered by Ourea’s royalty, she becomes an unwilling pawn in a generations-old conflict – a war intensified by her arrival. In this world of chilling creatures and betrayal, Kara shouldn’t trust anyone… but she’s being hunted and can’t survive on her own. She drops her guard when Braeden, a native soldier with a dark secret, vows to keep her safe. And though she doesn’t know it, her growing attraction to him may just be her undoing.Hawaii is palm trees, black sand and blue water—but for policewoman Lei Texeira, there’s a dark side to paradise.


Blood Orchids (Lei Crime Series 1).  Lei has overcome a scarred past to make a life for herself as a cop in the sleepy Big Island town of Hilo. On a routine patrol she finds two murdered teenagers—one of whom she’d recently busted. With its echoes of her own past, the murdered girl’s harsh life and tragic death affect Lei deeply. She becomes obsessed—even as the killer is drawn to Lei’s intensity, feeding off her vulnerabilities and toying with her sanity.