Friday’s Top eBooks
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A Pinch of Promise
by Elizabeth Maddrey
FREEBIE
Christian Romance
Rating: 4.6
In the ten years since Ben Taylor last saw Marie, no other woman has measured up. After he meets Rebecca Fisher, the physical therapist rehabilitating his knee, Ben is convinced that she is the same woman he fell in love with so many years ago. She denies it at first, but his persistence causes her to admit the truth. Right before she pushes him away.
To escape a painful negative image created by her father, Rebecca Fischer has constructed an identity completely separate from her past. Seeing Ben, her long lost love, threatens to shatter her intricate illusions. As Ben digs to uncover the truth of who she is, Rebecca must decide if she will trust any man with her wounded heart. But even if Ben can convince her to admit the truth, how will he be able to trust her love? Check out Elizabeth Maddrey’s Taste of Romance Series! #ad
Dragon’s Rebel
by Anastasia Wilde
FREEBIE
Paranormal Romance
Rating: 4.6
An alpha dragon on a mission. A commitment-phobic thief who always has an exit strategy. The only way for them to save the world is to fall in love–or die trying.
Rebel Smith is no fairy-tale princess. She’s the best retrieval specialist in the Pacific Northwest, which is a fancy way of saying “expensive thief-for-hire.” But now a sexy, grouchy, obsessive dragon shifter has dragged her off to his lair, insisting that she’s his Destined Mate–and the only person who can find the second magical Seal that will save the world from fiery destruction. No pressure… Check out Anastasia Wilde’s Wild Dragons Series! #ad
Ancient Eats: An Edible Exploration of the World
by Stephanie Hanson
BARGAIN
Cookbook
Rating: 5.0
Go on a mouth watering journey through the ancient world with this family-friendly cookbook. Each of the more than 100 recipes is inspired by delicious historical dishes and adapted for ease of preparation in the modern kitchen.
Taste your way through 18 cultures as you feed your mind with mythical origins and the historical significance of food around the world and across tens of thousands of years. Make tamales like the Olmecs in Mesoamerica and curry like the people of the Indus Valley Civilization of India. Enjoy feasts, drinks, desserts, and simple snacks as you read about their ancient origins… #ad
Iced
by Carol Higgins Clark
BARGAIN
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.5
It’s Christmas in Aspen and P.I. Regan Reilly is vacationing with her parents. And hoping to meet an unmarried man. Soon, however, all thoughts of romance turn to sleuthing when million-dollar paintings start disappearing, along with an old friend of Regan’s–who happens to be an ex-con. Regan is sure he’s innocent, but proving it is going to be an uphill battle.
The snow is falling, the plot is thickening, and the danger is closing in on Regan. With all the assorted hijinks, adventures, false alarms, and–yes–plain old silliness, can she get this case tied up in a nice, neat bow in time to enjoy the rest of her holiday? #ad
A Confirmed Rake
by Martha Keyes
BARGAIN
Historical Romance
Rating: 4.6
When Rebecca Russell’s brother marries, she finally has the opportunity she has been dreaming of: to leave the seclusion of her reclusive grandfather’s home and enter into Society. But when her inexperience has her making blunders and courting embarrassment, help comes from an unexpected source: the brooding, irritable brother of her chaperone.
Valentine Donovan is a rake, mountains of gaming debt and all. With his only hope for financial relief tied up in the Admiralty Court, he must temporarily rely on his father’s charity–and all the strings attached to it. His father demands Valentine show evidence that he is changing his ways, so when the engaging but naive young woman living with his sister presents a plan, he can’t refuse the opportunity to fulfill some of his father’s requirements, albeit reluctantly. Check out Martha Keyes’s The Donovans Series! #ad
A Savage Kultur
by Monique Roy
BARGAIN
Historical Fiction
Rating: 3.9
Ava, a Jewish art student at Oxford University in England, receives a heart-wrenching letter from her grandfather after he dies. From the letter, she discovers that her grandfather has left her his London art gallery, which he says will secure her future, as well as provide a place for her to grow her artistic talents and follow her passion for art. The letter also describes his one last wish–that she recover a treasured Vincent van Gogh painting, The Lovers: The Poet’s Garden IV, that belonged to her grandparents and was deemed degenerate and looted by the Nazis in 1937.
Arriving for the first time at the gallery, she discovers old photographs in a secret room that recount the harrowing past–a Nazi propaganda parade in 1937. She quickly becomes aware that the room and the gallery, with an empty frame for the missing van Gogh, hold such rich memories of her grandparents… #ad
The Clockmaker’s Secret
by Jack Benton
FREEBIE
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.3
On holiday to escape the nightmares of his last case, disgraced soldier turned private detective John “Slim” Hardy comes upon something buried in the peat on Bodmin Moor. Unfinished and water-damaged but still ticking, the old clock provides a vital clue to an unsolved missing-persons case.
As Slim begins to ask questions of the tiny Cornish village of Penleven, he is drawn into a world of lies, rumours, and secrets, some of which the residents would prefer to stay buried. Twenty-three years ago, a reclusive clockmaker left his workshop and walked out onto Bodmin Moor, taking his last, unfinished clock with him. He disappeared… #ad
Dragon Storm
by Lindsay Buroker
FREEBIE
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.3
Telryn “Trip” Yert has always been a little odd, with hunches that are too accurate to explain. Magic is feared and forbidden in Iskandia, so he’s struggled his whole life to hide his eccentricities. As a boy, he was forced to watch his mother’s execution. Her crime? Witchcraft.
Understandably, Trip wants nothing to do with the power that lurks within him, always threatening to reveal itself. Instead, he dedicates himself to serving as an officer in the king’s army, to battling pirates and imperial conquerors. He longs to become a soldier as respected and renowned as the legendary General Zirkander. #ad
Queen Elizabeth II’s Guide to Life
by Karen Dolby
BARGAIN
Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.6
Queen Elizabeth II – Britain’s longest-serving monarch, Supreme Governor of the Church of England and the Head of the Commonwealth – has reigned over us for a record-breaking sixty-seven years. Now in her ninety-fourth year, this timely celebration sheds new light on the myriad attributes and personal qualities she brings to the nation.
From fortitude in the face of adversity to standing as the nation’s ambassador all over the world, no one could doubt the work ethic that powers this remarkable woman, even into her nineties. Equally, her love of family – from her rock of over sixty years’ marriage, Prince Philip, to her great grandchildren – shines through… #ad
Set Free by a Fairytale Love
by Aurora Hanson
BARGAIN
Historical Romance
Rating: 4.7
Helen Acosta’s whole life has been mapped out for her. Her parents have decided it all; she’ll make an excellent marriage and settle down to raise children. Determined to carve out her own destiny, Helen leaves home with no intention of ever coming back. While stranded in a strange town by a snowstorm, she meets an intriguing traveler who hides a dark secret…
Fletcher Grant is an ambitious sheriff’s deputy, determined to prove himself. To do that, he’ll need to go undercover and catch one of the most dangerous criminals in the West. However, fate has it that he meets Helen, a beautiful woman whose beauty immediately captivates him… #ad
The Breaking Point
by Jefferson Bass
BARGAIN
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.6
It’s been ten years since Dr. Bill Brockton created the Body Farm–the world’s first postmortem research facility dedicated to advancing the frontiers of forensic science–and the researcher is at the pinnacle of his career.
Under his leadership, the University of Tennessee’s forensic anthropology program has become the most prominent in the world, and Brockton’s skills and knowledge are in high demand among top law enforcement. Calling him in for a number of high profile cases, the FBI now wants him to identify the charred remains of a maverick millionaire, killed in a fiery plane crash. #ad
Irine Wicklow: Bounty Hunter
by Laura Strickland
BARGAIN
Western Romance
Rating: 4.3
Rine and Jus are after a madman who has been terrorizing the lumber camps all along the Payette River, a seven-foot-tall lumberjack with a giant axe. Nobody knows why Dag Olafson, a former legend at the Wind River Camp, has run amok, but authorities believe Wolverine’s the man–or as Jus knows, woman–to bring him in. Spooked, Jus wishes Rine would turn down the job. But every time he says so, she suggests he go home to Kentucky, and his heart won’t let him.
There are a lot of things Rine doesn’t like about this job. The temptation Jus presents when they’re alone on the trail. The way the pretty daughter of the lumber camp manager makes eyes at him. The seven-foot-tall ghost with the axe. What worries her most, though, is the price love demands of the unwary heart… Check out Laura Strickland’s Irine Wicklow: Bounty Hunter Series! #ad
The Radical Gatsby: A 1990’s Retelling
by Charlie Wood
FREEBIE
Young Adult
Rating: 4.2
When 17-year-old Nick Carraway moves to Long Island for the summer, he’s introduced to the rich kids of West Egg and their wild, all-night, booze-fueled parties–parties that all emanate from the mansion of a mysterious 19-year-old named Jay Gatsby.
On his first night at Gatsby’s, Nick meets someone who will change the course of his summer–electric, energetic party girl Daisy Fay, who may be more than what she seems… #ad
Your Friendship with Holy Spirit
by Sarah Bowling
FREEBIE
Religious & Inspirational
Rating: 4.4
In some cases, Scripture and the supernatural have been sadly mishandled, causing many to ignore the Spirit altogether. But Holy Spirit is still a very real part of the Godhead, and desires to be in relationship with us!
In this interactive guide, author and teacher Sarah Bowling introduces you to Holy Spirit by guiding you through special exercises to help deepen your relational connection to Him. Examining Jesus’ introduction to Holy Spirit in John 14-16, Sarah reveals the wonder of the One who Jesus calls our Helper, Comforter, Counselor, Friend, and so much more! #ad
Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies
by J. B. West & Mary Lynn Kotz
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History
Rating: 4.6
J. B. West, whom Jackie Kennedy called “one of the most extraordinary men I have ever met,” provides an absorbing, one-of-a-kind history of life among the first ladies.
Alive with anecdotes ranging from Eleanor Roosevelt’s fascinating political strategies to Jackie Kennedy’s tragic loss and the personal struggles of Pat Nixon, Upstairs at the WhiteHouse is a rich account of a slice of American history that usually remains behind closed doors. #ad
Star Trek: Coda: Moments Asunder
by Dayton Ward
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Science Fiction
Rating: 4.5
Time is coming apart. Countless alternate and parallel realities are under attack, weakening and collapsing from relentless onslaught. If left unchecked, the universe faces an unstoppable descent toward entropy.
Scarred and broken after decades spent tracking this escalating temporal disaster, while battling the nameless enemy responsible for it, an old friend seeks assistance from Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise. The apocalypse may originate from their future, but might the cause lie in their past? #ad
Murder at the Mayfair Hotel
by C.J. Archer
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Historical Mystery
Rating: 4.3
December 1899. After the death of her beloved grandmother, Cleopatra Fox moves into the luxury hotel owned by her estranged uncle in the hopes of putting hardship and loneliness behind her. But the poisoning of a guest on Christmas Eve throws her new life, and the hotel, into chaos.
Cleo quickly realizes no one can be trusted, not Scotland Yard and especially not the hotel’s charming assistant manager. With the New Year’s Eve ball approaching fast and the hotel’s reputation hanging by a thread, Cleo must find the killer before the ball, and the hotel itself, are ruined. But catching a murderer proves just as difficult as navigating the hotel’s hierarchy and the peculiarities of her family. #ad
Desiring Dixie
by Elizabeth Kozloff
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Contemporary Romance
Rating: 4.4
Dixie doesn’t have time for a relationship, she just got out of a bad one and wants to focus on her. When an opportunity arises to move out of state, she jumps in with both feet. Deciding this is the next step to a new her, she is ready to grow.
Mason is well known in town – not only for his looks, but also for his family’s construction business. Not looking for love or a relationship, Mason takes each day one at a time. But, one look across the diner and he is intrigued with the new woman in town.
But when the past meets the future, there are some challenges that need to be worked through. Will Dixie continue on her path to be stronger? Will Mason change his life plan? Check out Elizabeth Kozloff’s The Baker Family Series! #ad