Thursday’s Top eBooks
Please be aware that prices may change at any time. Always verify the price before downloading.
Show Me a Marriage of Convenience
by Alexa Verde
FREEBIE
Contemporary Romance
Rating: 4.4
An ex-player cowboy with a little son, the boy’s shy plus-size aunt, and a reluctant modern marriage of convenience only the boy is excited about…
After three near-death experiences in one day–okay, maybe burning dinner and falling from a tree shouldn’t count–Kade Clark worries about his son’s future if he’s not around to protect him. The last thing he wants is for his son to become a bargaining chip between a con artist grandfather and a ruthless ex trying to get their hands on the family fortune. So Kade agrees to a crazy proposal from the woman his child adores. But as a former foster kid, Kade learned to walk away before getting hurt. Can he now learn to stay and love? Check out Alexa Verde’s Cowboy Crossing Romances! #ad
Angels Can’t Fall in Love
by Angel Adams
FREEBIE
Paranormal Romance
Rating: 4.5
I was always unlucky. I was born with an abnormality that made one leg shorter than the other. My parents died when I was eleven. On my birthday. So, I was used to bad luck sticking to me like skunk spray. But I hadn’t expected to get hit by a garbage truck on the way to school. I also didn’t expect to be assigned as a guardian angel to Tyler Mason, the school football star.
Now strange things are happening, and I’m developing an annoying crush on Tyler that I really shouldn’t have. It’s against the rules to fall for the guy you’re supposed to be guarding. But I can’t help it. He’s kinda hot. Oh, and someone is trying to kill him. #ad
Essential Grief
by Kathleen Flynn
BARGAIN
Self-Help/Advice
Rating: 5.0
Grieving loss is a big subject. This book’s stories are focused on grieving losses from the death of humans and pets. There is a myriad of losses such as loss of: a job, dreams, aging, relationships and many more. What Kathleen Flynn shares here can be applied toward many types of loss.
As a chaplain, minister, and grief counselor, Flynn chooses to focus on death, as it seems to be that loss, perhaps the finality of it, paralyzes us from taking action to mediate our grief. It is the finality of death, often with related trauma and with suddenness, that can immobilize us. All losses have contributed to the author’s understanding of the essentials of grief. #ad
The Memory Box
by Kathryn Hughes
BARGAIN
Historical Fiction
Rating: 4.6
Jenny Tanner opens the box she has cherished for decades. Contained within are her most precious mementoes, amongst them a pebble, a carving and a newspaper cutting she can hardly bear to read. But Jenny knows the time is finally here. After the war, in a mountainside village in Italy, she left behind a piece of her heart. However painful, she must return to Cinque Alberi. And lay the past to rest.
After a troubled upbringing, Candice Barnes dreams of a future with the love of her life – but is he the man she believes him to be? When Candice is given the opportunity to travel to Italy with Jenny, she is unaware the trip will open her eyes to the truth she’s been too afraid to face. Could a place of goodbyes help her make a brave new beginning? #ad
Booked for Death
by Victoria Gilbert
BARGAIN
Cozy Mystery
Rating: 4.3
Nestled in the historic waterfront town of Beaufort, North Carolina, Chapters Bed-and-Breakfast is a reader’s paradise. Built in 1770, the newly renovated inn hosts a roster of special events celebrating books, genres, and authors. It’s the perfect literary retreat–until a rare book dealer turns up dead in the carriage house during a celebration of Golden Age mystery author Josephine Tey.
The victim’s daughter points the finger at forty-two-year-old widow and former schoolteacher Charlotte Reed, who inherited the B&B from her great-aunt Isabella. Charlotte is shocked to discover that the book dealer suspected Isabella of being a thief who founded Chapters on her ill-gotten gains… #ad
Faking it with Bossy
by Olivia Noble
BARGAIN
Romantic Comedy
Rating: 4.3
Ash Wintergreen is the biggest jerk I know. I call him the mega Ash-hole. When the financial distress of my family forces me to sell my little business and move back home to Silver Mountain, Vermont, I have to take a job working for the person I hate most in the universe. Kill. Me. Now.
I hate Ash so much that if he and I were the last man and woman on the planet… you better believe you could kiss goodbye to the human race. Every time he offends me, I fill my notebooks with sketches of him dying in the most satisfying ways–like a piano falling on his head. So when he gives me the awful task of being his fake-fiancé… and threatens my job if I don’t help him? Well, I know exactly where he can shove that idea… Check out Olivia Noble’s Silver Mountain Series! #ad
Victim of a Delusional Mind
by K. J. North
FREEBIE
Mystery
Rating: 4.2
Tragedy enters the quaint coastal town of New Haven, Oregon when the recently released convict, Ross Conrad, vows to make good on a ten-year-old threat. Private Investigators, Troy and Eva Winters take on the case when they realize their good friend, Jasmine, is the object of his delusional obsession.
When the threat becomes deadly and Jasmine turns up missing, Troy and Eva go on the hunt for Ross and his captive. The chase leads them from the Oregon coast to the dense forest of Puget Sound, Washington. Following clues and evidence of bodies left behind, Troy and Eva must find Jasmine before her time runs out. Check out K. J. North’s Private Investigators Troy and Eva Winters Thriller Series! #ad
The Taken
by Avery Blake & Ninie Hammon
FREEBIE
Science Fiction
Rating: 4.2
Although they’ve never met, Star, Noah, and Paco have been dreaming about each other for years, each never sure that the others exist – until all three children start sharing dreams of invading aliens.
When the alien ships are spotted, six days from Earth, society quickly descends into brutal chaos. Star, in New Mexico, is blamed for summoning the aliens to exact revenge for the Roswell crash. Noah, in Kentucky, discovers that a terror-stricken scientist intends to kill Noah and his classmates, to save them from the atrocities of a war with the aliens… #ad
The Great Depression: A Diary
by Benjamin Roth
BARGAIN
History
Rating: 4.6
When the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary.
This collection of those entries reveals another side of the Great Depression–one lived through by ordinary, middle-class Americans, who on a daily basis grappled with a swiftly changing economy coupled with anxiety about the unknown future. Roth’s depiction of life in time of widespread foreclosures, a schizophrenic stock market, political unrest and mass unemployment seem to speak directly to readers today. #ad
The Best of Me
by Sharon Sala
BARGAIN
Women’s Fiction
Rating: 4.7
“Sharon Sala is a consummate storyteller. If you can stop reading then you’re a better woman than me.” -DEBBIE MACOMBER, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Ruby Butterman and her husband, Peanut, cannot have children, but they’re given a second chance at a family when eight-year-old orphan Carlie is left in their care. It’s a challenge for Carlie to adapt to a new town, a new school, and a new family, and when she gets bullied at school, Ruby and Peanut discover how to step up as parents, and how to make a forever family for their beloved little girl. #ad
“I” is for Innocent
by Sue Grafton
BARGAIN
Women Sleuths
Rating: 4.6
Lonnie Kingman is in a bind. He’s smack in the middle of assembling a civil suit, and the private investigator who was doing his pretrial legwork has just dropped dead of a heart attack. In a matter of weeks the court’s statute of limitations will put paid to his case. Five years ago David Barney walked when a jury acquitted him of the murder of his rich wife, Isabelle.
Now Kingman, acting as attorney for the dead woman’s ex-husband and their child (and sure that the jury made a serious mistake), is trying to divest David Barney of the profits of that murder. But time is running out, and David Barney still swears he’s innocent. #ad
Twelfth Knight’s Bride
by E. Elizabeth Watson
BARGAIN
Historical Romance
Rating: 4.4
Lady Aileana Grant just wants to help her starving clan at Christmastide. So she pilfers some vegetables from the bastard Laird James MacDonald–the Devil, they call him. When the Devil shows up and demands marriage as recompense for the thievery, Aileana can’t believe it when her brother agrees. Even if she’s able to negotiate a severance on Twelfth Night, that’s still two weeks to put up with the laird in enemy territory. She’s counting down the days, even if James isn’t quite the disgusting cretin she’d imagined.
James needs to marry an enemy bride in order to inherit his fortune. Cursed restrictions. He’d been unable to look away from Aileana’s untamed beauty ever since she squared off with him… #ad
Cyrano de Bergerac
by Edmond Rostand
FREEBIE
Literary Classics
Rating: 4.4
Brian Hooker’s brilliant 1923 blank-verse translation of the classic swashbuckling romantic French play by Edmond Rostand.
Long-nosed quick-witted master swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac writes love letters, on behalf of the good-looking soldier Christian de Neuvillette, to Roxane, the woman they both love. A paean to the power of words. #ad
How To Create A Prayer Journal
by Bryan Marshall
FREEBIE
Religious & Inspirational
Rating: 4.4
Have you ever felt your relationship with God has gone out of sync or you have felt a lack of faith, simply because you stopped communicating with God? Have you felt that your prayers were not being answered and you were being given the silent treatment?
Maybe you assumed that you knew exactly why this was and believed your prayers meant nothing? Perhaps you could not channel your thoughts into the words you wanted to say to God so then you ended up being the one who was then dishing out the silent treatment… #ad
My Patients Like Treats
by Duncan MacVean
BARGAIN
Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.1
Physicians used to make house calls. Today, a few veterinarians still do. Duncan MacVean, DVM, is one such vet. His patients range from cats and dogs to pigs and lizards–each of them a unique personality. Every animal and every home is different, but every owner is the same in their affection for their companions.
Without warning, MacVean finds himself in odd situations: stepping into a basement full of free-flying bats or struck speechless by a pig who loves opera so much that she falls into a trance. The hilarious and the heartbreaking come together in this collection of true tales, all gathered from his lifelong career. #ad
Most Wanted
by Lisa Scottoline
BARGAIN
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.3
Christine Nilsson and her husband, Marcus, are desperate for a baby. Unable to conceive, they find themselves facing a difficult choice they had never anticipated. After many appointments with specialists, endless research, and countless conversations, they make the decision to use a donor.
Two months pass, and Christine is happily pregnant. But one day, she is shocked to see a young blond man on the TV news being arrested for a series of brutal murders–and the blond man bears an undeniable and uncanny resemblance to her donor… #ad
Forgotten Memories
by Penny Zeller
BARGAIN
Christian Historical Romance
Rating: 4.5
The Wyoming Territory is rife with lawlessness and disorder, something Annie Ledbetter and her parents discover when their wagon train is robbed. Seven years later, Annie settles into her lifelong dream as a teacher in the small town of Willow Falls. When she meets handsome rancher Caleb Eliason through a humorous misunderstanding, she is quickly drawn to his kind heart and charming smile.
Former outlaw Caleb Eliason embraces his chance at a fresh start. Gone are the days of robbing stagecoaches and wagon trains. When he falls in love with the new Willow Falls teacher, he doesn’t realize they’ve met before–under much different circumstances. When his past comes to light, will it put the growing love between them at risk? Check out Penny Zeller’s Wyoming Sunrise Series! #ad
Rosemarked
by Livia Blackburne
BARGAIN
Fantasy
Rating: 4.4
A terminally ill healer… Zivah was once her village’s most promising young healer, mastering potions that altered both body and mind. But when she’s conscripted to treat a battalion of grievously ill soldiers, Zivah contracts the deadly rose plague. Now she’s doomed to a slow, solitary death, cut off from everyone she loves.
A broken warrior… Dineas grew up fighting to free his people from the Amparan empire, but capture and torture have left him shattered. Though he’s now escaped from the emperor’s dungeons, he cannot outrun the lingering effects of his trauma.
Zivah and Dineas share nothing but loathing for the empire and a deep-seated wish to be useful again. When they’re presented with an unexpected chance to help their people, they’re drawn to the opportunity, even if the perils are great… Check out Livia Blackburne’s Rosemarked Series! #ad