Wednesday’s Top eBooks
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Heather
by Chris Keniston
FREEBIE
Clean & Wholesome Romance
Rating: 4.4
Home is where the heart is… Brilliant cardiac surgeon Heather Preston has invested everything to achieve her dream of working at a world renowned hospital. When an unsettling call from her grandfather the retired general brings her back to her childhood lakeside home, she rediscovers the appeal of life in a small town, the joys of free-spirited youth–and Jake Harper.
“Small town, big family, and mismatches that will steal your heart! Delightful!” -Roxanne St. Claire, New York Times bestselling author of the Dogfather Series.
Check out Chris Keniston’s Hart Land Lakeside Inn Series! #ad
An Artist’s Guide to Plein Air Painting
by Malcolm Dewey
FREEBIE
Crafts & Hobbies
Rating: 4.4
Outdoor painting (en plein air) has exploded in popularity over the world. First made famous by the impressionists outdoor painting is back to stay. Whether you are a beginner or looking to try something new you will love the outdoor painting experience.
This beginner’s guide by professional artist, Malcolm Dewey, will get you started painting outdoors with confidence. From the materials required, how to approach your first outdoor painting experience plus a step-by-step demonstration painting to help you. Start you outdoor painting experience today. #ad
Bringing Down the House
by Ben Mezrich
BARGAIN
Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.6
Robin Hood meets the Rat Pack when the best and the brightest of M.I.T.’s math students and engineers take up blackjack under the guidance of an eccentric mastermind. Their small blackjack club develops from an experiment in counting cards on M.I.T.’s campus into a ring of card savants with a system for playing large and winning big.
In less than two years they take some of the world’s most sophisticated casinos for more than three million dollars. But their success also brings with it the formidable ire of casino owners and launches them into the seedy underworld of corporate Vegas with its private investigators and other violent heavies. #ad
Hallowe’en Party
by Agatha Christie
BARGAIN
Mystery
Rating: 4.4
At a Halloween party, Joyce–a hostile thirteen-year-old–boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub.
That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the ‘evil presence’. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer… #ad
A Caring Widow to Fix his Broken Family
by Ava Winters
BARGAIN
Western Historical Romance
Rating: 4.6
Crissie used to be a happy teacher in Chicago next to a loyal fiancé–until the day he died. Now, with nothing left but a best friend, she decides to run away with her out West and get married to a solitary rancher. How can Crissie accept her new reality as not something that needs work to become better day in and day out?
Logan never wanted to settle in his life. After he receives word of his father’s death though, he gets back home to help his brother and their ranch. Tragedy strikes again when his brother dies, leaving behind him four children in desperate need of a woman’s care… #ad
Dead Lake
by Miranda Kate
BARGAIN
Dark Paranormal Fantasy
Rating: 4.8
Damn and blast! That rancid piece of excrement, Carter, has had her ransacked out of Clancy!
Tricky returns to her cottage to find it turned upside down. An action that means she’s got three days to leave the district or face punishment. Randolf Carter, head of the district, is spreading lies and suspicion about her kind, making life difficult. But it wasn’t just an ordinary ransacking – they were searching for something. Using her gifts, Tricky traces the energy left by the men and spies another creature’s energy among it: a jackdaw. Swift and wily, it’s pinched her precious gemstone, a piece of black obsidian. But at whose bidding? Communicating with birds is a rare ability and she knows all who possess it… Check out Miranda Kate’s Tricky’s Tales! #ad
Blood Guilt
by Ben Cheetham
FREEBIE
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.3
After the death of his son in a freak accident, Detective Harlan Miller’s life is spiralling out of control. He’s drinking too much. His marriage and career are on the rocks. But things are about to get even worse. A booze-soaked night out and a single wild punch leave a man dead and Harlan facing a manslaughter charge.
Fast-forward four years. Harlan’s prison term is up, but life on the outside holds little promise. Divorced, alone, consumed with guilt, he thinks of nothing beyond atoning for the death he caused. But how do you make up for depriving a wife of her husband and two young boys of their father? #ad
Stanley Stickle Hates Homework
by Trevor Forest
FREEBIE
Children’s Fiction
Rating: 4.3
In this, the first short book in the series, Stanley gets a shock when he discovers that every pupil in the school is to be given EXTRA homework in preparation for the BIG TEST.
Stanley is appalled at this assault on his human rights and will do just about anything to avoid the extra work. Stanley thinks up a cunning plan, a master plan, the best plan that anyone ever planned…ever. Only it doesn’t quite work, so it’s on to Plan B… then Plan C… #ad
Hekla’s Children
by James Brogden
BARGAIN
Horror
Rating: 4.0
A decade ago, teacher Nathan Brookes saw four of his students walk up a hill and vanish. Only one returned–Olivia–starved, terrified, and with no memory of where she’d been. Questioned by the police but released for lack of evidence, Nathan spent the years trying to forget.
When a body is found in the same ancient woodland where they disappeared, it is first believed to be one of the missing children, but is soon identified as a Bronze Age warrior, nothing more than an archaeological curiosity. Yet Nathan starts to have horrific visions of the students, alive but trapped… #ad
When Love Rides the Storm
by Grace Clemens
BARGAIN
Inspirational Romance
Rating: 4.4
Nellie Abrams, being a free-spirited and unconventional young woman, is struggling to find a local suitor who does not wish to “tame” her. With no prospects in her small town, she gladly replies to an ad for mail-order brides in the hopes of finding a future for herself, one where her prospective husband can accept her for who she is.
When the lucky match is made, she’s intrigued by her man-to-be but she will also realize that her new life comes with unexpected challenges… Will she eventually be able to remain true to her wild heart if she is to experience love for the first time? #ad
The Key Lime Crime
by Lucy Burdette
BARGAIN
Cozy Mystery
Rating: 4.6
When a fierce rivalry between key lime pie bakers leads to a pastry chef’s murder, food critic Hayley Snow is fit to be pied.
During the week between Christmas and New Year’s, the year-round population of Key West, Florida, faces a tsunami of tourists and snowbirds. It doesn’t help that outrageously wealthy key lime pie aficionado David Sloan has persuaded the city to host his pie-baking contest. Every pie purveyor on the island is out to win the coveted Key Lime Key to the City and Key Zest food critic Hayley Snow is on the scene to report it… #ad
Unforgettable Loyalty: Craving and Devotion
by Multiple Authors
BARGAIN
Romantic Suspense
Rating: 4.1
Faithfulness, devotion, commitment… all exclusive words meaning you put that special someone at the top of your “you-matter-the-most” list.
Is there anything more important in a relationship than loyalty from the one you love… knowing that person will always be there for you? And then they aren’t. What happens then?
In these NINE romances written by New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Authors, we deal with this problem, find solutions, and are able to reach memorable Happy-Ever-After endings. #ad
The Douglas Bastard
by J R Tomlin
FREEBIE
Historical Fiction
Rating: 4.4
“Descriptions are vibrant and violence is a given. These people play for keeps.” – Kirkus Reviews
King Robert the Bruce and the Black Douglas are dead – and Scots once more must fight for their freedom.
Young Archibald, the Black Douglas’s bastard son, returns from exile to a Scotland ravaged by war. With treachery and danger on every side, he must learn to sleep with a claymore in his hand and one eye open because even his closest friend may betray him… #ad
The Lost Star
by Odette C. Bell
FREEBIE
Science Fiction
Rating: 4.3
Ava is an Avixan priestess, a powerful being with a powerful destiny to keep her people on the true and righteous path. A destiny she despises. To flee it, she joins the Coalition Academy. But her past catches up. When she joins the newest ship in the fleet, someone tries to kill her.
She’s soon thrust into a secret war – one that spans the entire Milky Way. Yet she is not alone. The unpredictable Hunter McClane is by her side. Together they must find out what’s at stake before it’s too late. #ad
Life Lessons from James: Practical Wisdom
by Max Lucado
BARGAIN
Religious & Inspirational
Rating: 4.8
Do your Monday actions reflect your Sunday worship? How about your claims to faith? Is your life full of noticeable changes and actions?
James, the half-brother of Jesus, wasn’t impressed with talk. He knew that a life of faith was all about actions that revealed a difference in a person’s life. For him, it was not that works save the Christian, but that they mark the Christian. In his letter, he boldly deals with practical issues of faith not bound by culture or place. He shows the importance of living a genuine life of faith. His message is bare-knuckled as he encourages, challenges, and confronts, offering practical words and admonitions to live out our faith. #ad
Sunrise by the Sea
by Jenny Colgan
BARGAIN
Women’s Fiction
Rating: 4.5
Marisa Rossi can’t understand why everyone else is getting on with their lives as she still struggles to get over the death of her beloved grandfather, back home in Italy. Everyone loses grandparents, right? Why is she taking it so badly?
Retreating further and further from normal life, she moves to the end of the earth–the remote tidal island of Mount Polbearne, at the foot of Cornwall, hoping for peace and solitude, whilst carrying on her job as a registrar, dealing with births, weddings, and deaths, even as she feels life is passing her by… #ad
Chasing Justice
by H. Terrell Griffin
BARGAIN
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.6
Matt Royal is going back to the courtroom. He has agreed to defend his good friend and wife of Longboat Key’s Police Chief. Abby Lester has been charged with the murder of Nate Bannister, an unlikeable, shady character. He was found shot to death in his downtown Sarasota condo and the evidence points to Abby as the killer.
Matt cannot refuse Abby’s pleas for help, despite having retired from the practice of law several years earlier. Now, he must face a hotshot prosecuting attorney with a record of twenty-two wins and zero losses in murder trials. As he begins to investigate, Matt finds that nothing is what it seems… #ad
Love At War
by Alan Hardy
BARGAIN
Historical Romance
Rating: 4.3
It’s 1940. World War Two. Germany is on the rampage. The Battle of Britain is at its height. The Royal Air Force is all that stands between England and invasion. Jennie is a young woman from the Welsh valleys. Petite. Slender. Quite plain. Teeth a bit too big. Mouth too wide. She’s quite willing to admit it. She gives herself no airs or graces. She finds herself one evening in a London night-club.
Who should she meet but Malcolm, looking gorgeously resplendent in his iconic RAF blue-grey uniform? She is shocked. Scared. Angry. And excited. You see, there’s a history between the two of them, stretching back three years. He seeks her out. He asks for her help. Can she turn him down? Can she forgive him, and forget his despicable behaviour? #ad