Thursday’s Top eBooks
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Mistaken Kiss
by Kathleen Baldwin
FREEBIE
Clean & Wholesome Regency Romance
Rating: 4.3
Willa, the vicar’s little sister knows full well that her prospects are bleak. When she accidentally kisses Alexander Braeburn, her dull predictable world turns upside down. Logic dictates that she should stay away from the handsome Corinthian. He’s the black sheep of their village. But how can she resist? She yearns for one more taste of the most tantalizing excitement she has ever experienced. Just one more, before Willa settles back into her dreary life forever.
Alex is intrigued by the refreshingly forthright Willa. Her genuine character warms his jaded heart and makes him smile. When she naïvely marches into trouble, Alex feels duty bound to rescue her. Is it duty? Or something else that compels him to watch over the vicar’s little sister? Check out Kathleen Baldwin’s My Notorious Aunt series! #ad
Gambit
by C.L. Denault
FREEBIE
YA Dystopian Romance
Rating: 4.2
In Earth’s battle-ridden future, humans have evolved. Those with extraordinary skills rise to power and fame. Those without live in poverty.
Sixteen-year-old Willow Kent believed she was normal. But when a genetically-advanced military officer shows up in her village and questions her identity, long-buried secrets begin to emerge. With remarkable skills and a shocking genetic code the Core and its enemies will do anything to obtain, Willow suddenly finds the freedom she craves slipping through her fingers. Greed, corruption, and genetic tampering threaten every aspect of her existence as she’s thrust, unwilling, into the sophisticated culture of the elite Core city… Check out C.L. Denault’s The Prodigy Chronicles! #ad
The Yoruba People
by Captivating History
BARGAIN
History
Rating: 4.7
The Yorubas are an interesting people with a rich cultural heritage that can be traced back to many centuries ago. The history of the Yorubas is one of Africa’s most researched and analyzed histories due to the high level of literacy among the Yoruba. They have a system of government that ensures the proper running of the community and the education of their young.
The Yorubas are located in West Africa, with the majority of the population found in southwestern Nigeria. With an estimated population of over thirty to forty million people, they are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa. #ad
Available Light
by Dayton Ward
BARGAIN
Science Fiction
Rating: 4.5
The past comes back to haunt Captain Jean-Luc Picard in this brand new thriller set in the universe of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Section 31, the covert organization which has operated without accountability in the shadows for more than two centuries, has been exposed. Throughout the Federation, the rogue group’s agents and leaders are being taken into custody as the sheer scope of its misdeeds comes to light. Now Starfleet Command must decide the consequences for numerous officers caught up in the scandal–including Admirals William Ross, Edward Jellico, Alynna Nechayev, and Captain Jean-Luc Picard… #ad
Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors
by Ann Rule
BARGAIN
True Crime Biography
Rating: 4.5
In July 2011, billionaire Jonah Shacknai’s Coronado, California, mansion was the setting for two horrifying deaths only days apart–his young son’s plunge from a balcony and his girlfriend’s ghastly hanging. What really happened? Baffling questions remain unanswered, as these cases were closed far too soon for hundreds of people; Rule looks at them now through the eyes of a relentless crime reporter.
The second probe began in Utah when Susan Powell vanished in a 2009 blizzard. Her controlling husband, Josh, proved capable of a blind rage that was heartbreakingly fatal to his innocent small sons almost three years later in a tragedy that shocked America as the details unfolded. #ad
Hunter Bates
by Frank Wheeler
BARGAIN
Western Adventure Fiction
Rating: 5.0
When Hunter’s estranged brother, Archer, shows up on the ranch unannounced, he thinks it’s their chance to patch things up. But his brother isn’t alone. Tyson Blood and his gang are masquerading as ranchers looking for new land. The truth is far darker and more deadly. The governor of Texas is passing through Tightwater in a couple weeks, and Blood plans to kidnap and ransom the man. He’ll kill anyone who gets in his way, including Archer’s wife and infant daughter. Hunter swears to his brother he won’t let that happen.
With the help of local saloon girl, Cat Berry, who has her own secret ties to Blood’s past, they set out to stop him before anyone else gets hurt. But Blood has more bullets and more men. He’s got Hunter outmatched, though maybe not outwitted. Can Hunter stop Blood from completing his plans, or is this one time that evil will triumph? Check out Frank Wheeler’s A Western Adventure Fiction series! #ad
Target Practice Mysteries 1 & 2
by Nikki Haverstock
FREEBIE
Cozy Mystery
Rating: 4.4
Di has a new job, and an unexpected side gig as an amateur sleuth. Target Practice Mysteries is a funny cozy mystery series about starting over again, taking wild chances, and being adopted by a dog named Moo. Heartwarming and sweet with a slow-burn romance!
Death on the Range – When a competitive archer is murdered at the training facility where Di has just started working, she’s thrust into the middle of an unofficial investigation before she can even settle into her new life. With her roommate Mary and a Great Dane named Moo, she begins to unravel the mystery around the death of the victim, but can they solve the case before they find themselves in the killer’s sights? Also includes: Death at the Summit! Check out Nikki Haverstock’s Target Practice Mysteries Boxset! #ad
Because God… I Can
by Stephen A. Gammon
FREEBIE
Religious & Inspirational
Rating: 5.0
Because God is personal and relational, He desires a personal relationship with every one of us. God invites us to come apart each day for some quiet time with Jesus. When we do this, our Lord speaks and we hear; then He hears as we share our hearts, and He changes us in His presence.
Daily quiet times with Jesus are an amazing and treasured opportunity. The life-changing principle we can apply in His presence each day is Because God… I Can. Because God what? Because He speaks, acts, reveals, empowers, loves – because He is with me in this moment and always, I can. #ad
The Girl and the Stars
by Mark Lawrence
BARGAIN
Fantasy
Rating: 4.3
A stunning new epic fantasy series following a young outcast who must fight with everything she has to survive, set in the same world as Red Sister.
In the ice, east of the Black Rock, there is a hole into which broken children are thrown. Yaz’s people call it the Pit of the Missing and now it is drawing her in as she has always known it would. To resist the cold, to endure the months of night when even the air itself begins to freeze, requires a special breed. Variation is dangerous, difference is fatal. And Yaz is not the same. #ad
The Forgotten Garden
by Kate Morton
BARGAIN
Historical Fiction
Rating: 4.6
From the internationally bestselling author of The House at Riverton, an unforgettable new novel that transports the reader from the back alleys of poverty of pre-World War I London to the shores of colonial Australia where so many made a fresh start, and back to the windswept coast of Cornwall, England, past and present.
This is a novel of outer and inner journeys and an homage to the power of storytelling. The Forgotten Garden is filled with unforgettable characters who weave their way through its spellbinding plot to astounding effect. #ad
Field of Prey
by John Sandford
BARGAIN
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.6
On the night of the fifth of July, in Red Wing, Minnesota, a boy smelled death in a cornfield off an abandoned farm. When the county deputy took a look, he found a body stuffed in a cistern. Then another. And another. By the time Lucas Davenport was called in, it was fifteen and counting, the victims killed over just as many summers, regular as clockwork.
How could this happen in a town so small without anyone noticing? And with the latest victim only two weeks dead, Davenport knows the killer is still at work, still close by. Most likely someone the folks of Red Wing see every day. Won’t they be surprised. #ad
Second Chance Ranch
by Jenna Hendricks & J.L. Hendricks
BARGAIN
Contemporary Clean 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. Will Elizabeth and Logan find their way to forgiveness and into each other’s arms? Check out the Triple J Ranch series! #ad
Montenegro Book One: Cemetery Candles
by Estela Vazquez Perez
FREEBIE
Horror
Rating: 4.0
Victor Montenegro is a respected diplomat, a revered illusionist, and a treasure hunter who is applauded and envied for his uncanny ability to find historical treasures. In the town of Montenegro, California, Victor hires Valentina Santa Cruz, an aspiring anthropologist, to educate his nephew Teo.
Victor and Valentina’s mutual love of the dead opens up an intimate ethereal realm. They share many passions: sunken treasures, cemeteries, and ancient burials, but can Valentina’s passion for Victor wake a heart that has been dormant for decades? #ad
The Cinderella Effect
by Orit Atias
NO LONGER FREE
Self-Help
Rating: 4.6
We all aspire to live a life of happiness, success, and self-fulfillment, but sometimes the path from wanting to achieving our dreams is blocked by fear, causing difficulty and problems.
For more than 30 years, Orit Atias worked as a counselor, guided parents, coaches, and managers, and developed professional teams in big institutions and organizations, to allow them to realize their hidden potential and achieve success. In her book, The Cinderella Effect, she provides the reader with a new outlook on how we can overcome difficulty and crisis and identify the secret to self-realization in all areas of life. The book details seven main processes comparable with the know story of Cinderella, and the stages of her transformation from maid to queen. #ad
Asterix Omnibus #1
by René Goscinny
BARGAIN
Children’s Fiction
Rating: 4.6
Asterix is celebrating 60 sensational years as an international comics superstar, and in the first collected edition from Papercutz, the stories are newly translated into American English for a new generation of fans!
The story of Asterix starts here. These are the first three adventures of Asterix as he defends his tiny village from the overwhelming forces of the Roman Empire. Join the short, spunky, and super-powerful warrior from Gaul and his faithful friends… #ad
Claiming her Joy’s Lost Piece
by Leslie Hales
BARGAIN
Western Romance
Rating: 5.0
Serena Bolton has a career as a lawyer that anyone would envy. However, behind this success is hidden a wound caused by bitter betrayal; a wound that will be reopened when the man who broke her heart is accused of a crime he didn’t commit.
Compelled by some inner voice to prove his innocence, she returns to Texas to defend him. Very soon though beneath the ashes of the past she feels the sparks of her bygone feelings for him… Is the love they once shared meant to be reignited or is the trauma too deep to be healed? #ad
All Fall Down
by M. J. Arlidge
BARGAIN
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.5
Those are the only words on the phone call. Then they hang up. Surely, a prank? A mistake? A wrong number? Anything but the chilling truth… That someone is watching, waiting, working to take your life in one hour. But why?
The job of finding out falls to DI Helen Grace: a woman with a track record in hunting killers. However, this is A case where the killer seems to always be one step ahead of the police and the victims. With no motive, no leads, no clues – nothing but pure fear – an hour can last a lifetime… #ad
Much Ado about Barbecue
by Sally Kilpatrick
BARGAIN
Women’s Fiction
Rating: 4.7
Emma Sutton promised herself three things: she would never move back to Ellery, never work in the family barbecue restaurant, and never have anything to do with Ben Cates ever again. Losing her job and her home might’ve forced her to break the first two, but she’s determined to keep the third.
Unlike Emma, Ben Cates has made peace with his hometown. He wants nothing more than to make his restaurant something his father couldn’t: a success. But between his hellraising little sister and Emma Sutton’s return to Ellery, his dream could easily be snatched away.
Emma and Ben might’ve made each other’s childhood a living hell with their endless pranks, but the only way to finally get rid of the other is to win the coveted contract for Ellery’s annual barbecue festival. Seems easy enough–until attraction ignites like a charcoal flame, and happiness seeps in like a surprising new flavor… Check out Sally Kilpatrick’s An Ellery Novel series! #ad