Friday’s Top eBooks
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Falling For You
by Leeanna Morgan
FREEBIE
Romance
Rating: 4.4
After six years of focusing on her career, Natalie Armstrong craves the peace and tranquility that only Sapphire Bay can give her. But returning to her grandparents’ cottage isn’t as easy as she imagined. No one told her about her houseguest or the unexpected changes in the small town she calls home.
Gabe Lanigan is a former NYPD detective. His new career as a bestselling crime writer has brought him everything he didn’t want–fame, fortune, and a deep distrust of strangers. When Natalie arrives in Sapphire Bay, their unlikely friendship sparks into something he never expected…
Rescue: By Eyes Unseen
by F. E. Greene
FREEBIE
Fantasy Adventure
Rating: 3.5
When Pearl Sterling was fifteen years old, her parents disappeared, leaving her a farm to manage and debts to pay. They also left behind a room filled with mythory – storybook tales of an invisible castle which might not be entirely false.
Five years later Pearl glimpses the castle, and her life unravels. She loses her job. The bank reclaims her farm. Help appears but with conditions, and Pearl is forced to choose. Will she pledge herself to someone she does not love? Or risk losing everything she holds dear to seek help from a rumored king?
No One Listened
by Isobel Kerr & Alex Kerr
BARGAIN
Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.6
When Isobel and Alex came home from school to find their abusive father had brutally murdered their mother, their world was thrown into chaos. Plunged into a care system that neglected them, Isobel and Alex were expected to come to nothing, and had only each other to rely on.
Isobel and Alex’s mother used to do everything with them. A full-time teacher, she dedicated herself to her children, partly in order to give them every possible opportunity in life, and partly to keep them out of the way of their increasingly eccentric, erratic and unpleasant father.
The Pelican Trees
by Patrick Higgins
BARGAIN
Christian Fiction/Action/Adventure/Suspense
Rating: 4.5
Left out of her grandfather’s will for no apparent reason, Shelby McKinney mysteriously receives a post-dated letter a few days later, stating that he hadn’t forgotten about her after all. But if she wants her inheritance, she must find it buried six-feet beneath the sand somewhere in the state of Florida.
The only available clues–limited as they are–were stored in a bank safe-deposit box somewhere in the Sunshine State. Shelby is given 90 days to locate the bank, decipher all clues and find her buried inheritance. If she doesn’t find it within the 90-day time frame, she’ll be forced to forfeit it altogether…
A Fresh Start for Christmas
by Kimberly Grist
BARGAIN
Western Romance
Rating: 4.9
Memphis Rose Griffin loves teaching at Counting Stars Children’s Home. The girls and staff are like family, and working here ties her to her mother, whose last wish was for Memphis to take her place as teacher. But something’s missing. Now at the age of twenty-eight, her teenage dream of having her own family has all but faded.
Until her pastor and the orphanage founder come with a proposal that will change her life forever. Should she become their first candidate for their new matchmaking venture? Though grim, at least her future at the orphanage is familiar and certain. Can she risk an unknown future with a man she’s never met?
In Name Only
by Carol Kilgore
BARGAIN
Mystery
Rating: 4.6
No home. No family. No place to hide. For Summer Newcombe, that’s only the beginning. The night Summer escapes from a burning Padre Island eatery and discovers the arsonist is stalking her, is the same night she meets Fire Captain Gabriel Duran. As much as she’s attracted to Gabe, five years in the Federal Witness Security Program because of her father’s testimony against a mob boss have taught her the importance of being alone and invisible.
No matter how much she yearns for a real home, Summer relinquished that option the night she killed the man who murdered her father. But Gabe breaks down her guard and places both of them in danger. Summer has vowed never to kill again, but she’s frantic she’ll cost Gabe his life unless she stops running and fights for the future she wants with the man she loves.
Family Ghouls
by Alex A. King
FREEBIE
Cozy Mystery
Rating: 4.4
Allie Callas has a normal-ish job: she’s the owner and sole employee of Finders Keepers, a service dedicated to the time-consuming task of finding (and finding out) things on the tiny Greek island of Merope. The fact that she’s been seeing the dead ever since she can remember is incidental. It’s nothing more than a … a … a birthmark on her soul and a pain in her butt.
Except now death is getting personal and the dead are getting bossy. Her best friend (and neighbor) has been murdered, and her ghost is back to tell Allie that the events leading up to her death are hazy (very unhelpful), and that she wants Allie to figure out whodunit…
Society in America
by Harriet Martineau
FREEBIE
History
Rating: New Release
Society in America in two volumes by Harriet Martineau provides an interesting take on social life and customs in early 19th century America.
Martineau, who was a radical feminist especially for her time, took a travel through a merely fifty-year-old United States, observing and noticing changes in society and direction in which the country is heading. Her goal was to compare the existing state of society in America with the principles on which it is professedly founded…
Endurance: The Complete Series
by A. C. Spahn
BARGAIN
Science Fiction
Rating: 4.3
A disrespected ship, exiled to lonely patrol in the dark corners of the solar system. A crew of screw-ups, written off by the entire fleet. They’re about to change everything. If they don’t blow themselves up first.
Join the Endurance’s crew – a trigger-happy first officer, a hyperactive engineer, a shy covert operative, a conspiracy-spouting physicist, and a captain trying to earn his way back into his superiors’ good graces – as they explore the galaxy by accident and trip their way into saving the world.
Last Night at the Viper Room
by Gavin Edwards
BARGAIN
Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.3
In Last Night at the Viper Room, acclaimed author and journalist Gavin Edwards vividly recounts the life and tragic death of acclaimed actor River Phoenix–a teen idol on the fast track to Hollywood royalty who died of a drug overdose in front of West Hollywood’s storied club, the Viper Room, at the age of 23.
Last Night at the Viper Room explores the young star’s life, including his childhood in Venezuela growing up under the aegis of the cultish Children of God. Putting him at the center of a new generation of leading men emerging in the early 1990s…
Dead Sleep
by Greg Iles
BARGAIN
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.5
A woman comes face-to-face with a serial killer who glorifies the art of death in this “ingenious” thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Penn Cage series.
They are called “The Sleeping Women.” A series of unsettling paintings in which the nude female subjects appear to be not asleep, but dead. Photojournalist Jordan Glass has another reason to find the paintings disturbing… The face on one of the nudes is her own—or perhaps the face of her twin sister, who disappeared and is still missing…
Second Chance Ranch
by Jenna Hendricks & J.L. Hendricks
BARGAIN
Clean & Wholesome Romance
Rating: 4.6
Montana veterinarian Elizabeth Manning is living the life of her dreams. Dating the hottest guy in town, healing animals, and helping the homeless makes her feel she’s doing God’s work. So when the boy who broke her heart returns after ten years, she refuses to dig up her buried feelings.
Logan Hayes kicks himself for leaving Elizabeth so abruptly. Forced home to run his sick father’s store, his passion for his old flame has never been stronger. And he’s desperate to show her how he has grown to win her back. Arguing with her boyfriend over her charitable activities, Elizabeth wonders if he’s really the man God intended for her. If Logan wants to rekindle her devotion, he’ll have to confess the painful truth behind his abandonment…
The Obituary Society
by Jessica L. Randall
FREEBIE
Women’s Fiction
Rating: 4.2
When Lila Moore inherits her grandfather’s house, she finds herself in a small Midwestern town where margarine is never an acceptable substitution for butter, a coveted family recipe can serve as currency, and the friend who will take your darkest secrets to the grave will still never give you the secret to her prize-winning begonias.
Lila is charmed by the people of Auburn, from the blue-eyed lawyer with the southern drawl to the little old lady who unceasingly tries to set Lila up with her grandson. But when spooky things begin to happen, Lila realizes some of her new friends are guarding a secret like its a precious family heirloom…
Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between Worlds
by Darren Shan
FREEBIE
Children’s Fiction
Rating: 4.5
There is a universe beyond our own, known as the Merge.
A young locksmith called Archibald Lox is about to cross worlds and explore it.
As he learns about these lands of wonders, he will have to face cold-blooded killers, rivers of blood, hell jackals and more…
The Joy of Watercolor
by Emma Block
BARGAIN
Crafts & Hobbies
Rating: 4.6
Enjoy the meditative art of watercolor with simple supplies, forty colorful illustrated lessons, and easy step-by-step instructions!
For a soothing boost of creativity and whimsy, try your hand at watercolor. With a few simple steps, anyone can discover their artistic side and achieve moments of peace and tranquility. Forty straightforward lessons promise fun and colorful results — no pressure and no skill required.
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
by Peter Scazzero
BARGAIN
Religious & Inspirational
Rating: 4.7
In this revised bestselling book, Peter Scazzero outlines a roadmap for discipleship with Jesus that is powerfully transformative. He unveils what’s wrong with our current definition of “spiritual growth” and offers not only a model of spirituality that actually works, but seven steps to change that will help you experience authentic faith and hunger for God.
Peter Scazzero learned the hard way: you can’t be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature. Even though he was the pastor of a growing church, he did what most people do: Avoid conflict in the name of Christianity, Ignore his anger, sadness, and fear, Use God to run from God, Live without boundaries…
Up Country
by Nelson DeMille
BARGAIN
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.4
“Much more than a blood-and-guts thriller…An insightful, moving, and sensitive look at what the war did to a country, its people, and its enemies.” -Orlando Sentinel
Former army homicide investigator Paul Brenner has just gotten used to the early retirement forced on him after the disastrous end of his last case when his old commanding officer asks him to return for one final mission: investigate a murder that took place in wartime Vietnam thirty years before. Brenner reluctantly accepts out of curiosity and loyalty…and maybe a touch of boredom. He won’t be bored for long.
Protected by the Wolves
by Lilly Wilder
BARGAIN
Paranormal Romance
Rating: 4.4
My Life Hit Rock Bottom. I’d Always Been Afraid To Live Properly – After a bad break up, my friend Rachel convinced me to go to a bar and sing. She said that it wouldn’t matter, that I’d never see anyone there again. It was true freedom. I could sing without consequences. It wasn’t my usual place. It was filled with bikers. I was the odd one out.
But quickly things changed as I met Jack, Matt, and Buck. The three men wanted me in a way that nobody had ever wanted me before. My eyes were opened to a new world, a world of wolves…a world of desire. I was taken to their motorcycle club and they became my werewolves. I loved them and they protected me.