Thursday’s Top eBooks
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Don’t Back Down
by Sharon Sala
FREEBIE
Romantic Suspense
Rating: 4.7
Army veteran Cameron Pope arrives back in Jubilee, Kentucky, for the first time in years. He barely has time to catch his breath when he becomes embroiled in a race of life or death for his little niece and a deadly hunt for the human traffickers who are destroying the peace of his mountain town.
When he’s reunited with Rusty Caldwell–a woman from his past he’s never stopped thinking about–he wants to believe they can finally be together. But Rusty belongs to one of the rich families in Jubilee… #ad
The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
by Algernon Blackwood
NO LONGER FREE
Horror
Rating: 4.0
Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. Blackwood wrote a number of horror stories. His most work seeks less to frighten than to induce a sense of awe.
Table of Contents: The Empty House, A Haunted Island, A Case of Eavesdropping, Keeping His Promise, With Intent to Steal, The Wood of the Dead, Smith: An Episode in a Lodging-House, A Suspicious Gift… #ad
Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior: Path of the Diamond
by Cube Kid
BARGAIN
Children’s Fiction
Rating: 4.8
In this fourth in the series of Minecraft-inspired adventure books, it’s time for our 12-year-old hero to choose his future vocation to study at the Minecraftia school. His options are less than tantalizing: farmer, butcher, crafter, miner.
What this noob really wants is to be a warrior like his hero, Steve. So when he learns that the five best students in school that year will get the chance to start warrior training, it’s ON! #ad
Johnny Carson
by Henry Bushkin
BARGAIN
Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.2
Probably everyone in America knows the phrase, whether they watched every episode of The Tonight Show or none because they had to go to bed early on school nights. From 1962 to 1992, Johnny Carson and his Tonight Show dominated the American consciousness.
Henry Bushkin was Carson’s best friend and lawyer during that period, and his book is a tautly rendered and remarkably nuanced portrait of Carson, revealing not only how he truly was, but why. Johnny Carson is by turns shocking, poignant, and uproarious… #ad
The Great Alone
by Kristin Hannah
BARGAIN
Historical Fiction
Rating: 4.6
Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife and daughter north where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier.
Cora will do anything for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown. Thirteen-year-old Leni, caught in the riptide of her parents’ passionate, stormy relationship, has little choice but to go along, daring to hope this new land promises her family a better future… #ad
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
by Benjamin Stevenson
BARGAIN
Mystery
Rating: 4.0
Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I’m not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate.
I’m Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I’d killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it’s a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? #ad
Holiday Heartwarmers Trilogy
by Mimi Barbour
BARGAIN
Holiday Romance
Rating: 4.6
Christmas is family time in small town, Carlton Grove… Three stories to lift your holiday spirits!
Snow Pup – A small town’s lovely deputy and a father who lost his son years ago to a vindictive wife team up to save the kid from an overzealous social worker and foster home he hates.
Find Me A Home – An accident changes the lives of: a little baby girl who loses her parents, a crabby puppy who hates all men, a soft-hearted beauty who fears for her brother and also the cop who can’t escape his destiny.
Frosty the Snowman – Stranded in an Alaskan snowstorm, strangers Hali and Terry are forced to rely on each other for survival. The frigid temperatures are brutal and when Terry falls through the ice to save a puppy, the stakes for survival become enormous. #ad
Murder at Mile Marker 18
by Denise Jaden
FREEBIE
Cozy Mystery
Rating: 4.4
If anyone had told Mallory Beck she would become Honeysuckle Grove’s next unschooled detective, she would have thought they were ten noodles short of a lasagna.
Her late husband had been the mystery novelist with a penchant for the suspicious. She was born for the Crock-Pot, not the magnifying glass, and yet here she is elbow deep in fettuccine, cat treats, and teenagers with an attitude, the combination of which lands her smack-dab in the middle of a murder investigation. #ad
How To Not Clean
by Tamra Carter
FREEBIE
Non-Fiction
Rating: 4.9
Discover how to have a clean house WITHOUT THE WORK, even if you are drowning in mess.
Is cleaning and tidying leaving you drained, exhausted, and lifeless? Do you dread the hours of back breaking work it takes just to keep your house clean? Have all other cleaning methods failed you? If you want a clean house, without all the housekeeping that comes with it, then the internationally acclaimed book How to Not Clean is your answer. #ad
Until We All Share Joy
by Heather Wood
BARGAIN
Christian Fiction
Rating: 4.7
Titan Dinsmore loves his family, but as the youngest of five, he craves his older siblings’ respect–and a little distance. A chance meeting at the train station with a forlorn young lady turns into a growing attraction between them. But Titan soon discovers there is a difference between wanting to be treated as an adult and truly stepping up to lead.
How can he help tenderhearted Nora see beyond her father’s abandonment and rest in the love of her Heavenly Father? And will his secret plan to restore her family for the perfect Christmas together win Nora’s undying admiration or only lead to greater heartache? #ad
The Hating Game
by Sally Thorne
BARGAIN
Women’s Fiction
Rating: 4.5
Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman hate each other. Not dislike. Not begrudgingly tolerate. Hate. And they have no problem displaying their feelings through a series of ritualistic passive aggressive maneuvers as they sit across from each other, executive assistants to co-CEOs of a publishing company.
Lucy can’t understand Joshua’s joyless, uptight, meticulous approach to his job. Joshua is clearly baffled by Lucy’s overly bright clothes, quirkiness, and Pollyanna attitude… #ad
Heartbeats Amidst Risks
by Lorelei Brogan
BARGAIN
Historical Romance
Rating: 5.0
Three of my best-selling Western romance stories! Stories full of powerful emotions, trust and betrayal, intrigue, family values and romance that will captivate you!
This collection includes: Her Last Hope For Happiness, A Journey of Love and Peril, The Secret Behind Their Bond
If you love clean Western romances that feature strong women of the era and determined, yet charming, male protagonists, then you are going to love this collection! Grab your own copy to unravel the adventure now! #ad
After That Night
by Karin Slaughter
BARGAIN
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.6
Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton’s life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her world apart. Since then, Sara has remade her life. A successful doctor, engaged to a man she loves, she has finally managed to leave the past behind her.
Until one evening, on call in the ER, everything changes. Sara battles to save a broken young woman who’s been brutally attacked. But as the investigation progresses, led by GBI Special Agent Will Trent, it becomes clear that Dani Cooper’s assault is uncannily linked to Sara’s. #ad
The Godsend Incident
by Thomas Watson
BARGAIN
Science Fiction
Rating: New Release
The entity known as the Faceless nearly destroyed Humanity. Only at the last moment, and at tremendous cost, did we prevail. That victory left a mystery in its wake. What was the source of the enemy’s terrifying and destructive power?
The answer may be hidden in a star system called Godsend, from which the Faceless launched its war of extermination. But Godsend was lost to the rest of the galaxy, its links to other systems severed when the Faceless disrupted space and time in its final assault on Humankind and its allies… #ad
The Rowan Tree
by Robert W. Fuller
FREEBIE
Literary Fiction
Rating: 3.9
As the Arthurian myth sowed the seeds of a democratic Britain, The Rowan Tree foretells a dignitarian world. This novel of ideas is replete with illicit loves, quixotic quests, transformative failures–and inextinguishable hope.
The Rowan Tree reaches from the catalytic 1960s into humanity’s global future, and encompasses the worlds of politics, sport, ballet, terrorism, presidential leadership, and world governance. An international cast of characters personifies the catalytic role of love and sex in political change. #ad
Incubation
by Laura DiSilverio
FREEBIE
Young Adult
Rating: 4.4
Bio-chemistry whiz Everly Jax wants one thing: to know who her parents are. Raised with other repo kids in In Kubator 9, she has pinned her hopes on Reunion Day, the annual event where sixteen-year-olds can meet or reunite with their parents.
When her Reunion Day goes horribly awry, she and her pregnant friend Halla escape the Kube, accompanied by their friend Wyck who has his own reasons for leaving. #ad
Forty Autumns
by Nina Willner
BARGAIN
History
Rating: 4.4
In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family–of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Forty Autumns makes visceral the pain and longing of one family forced to live apart in a world divided by two. At twenty, Hanna escaped from East to West Germany. But the price of freedom–leaving behind her parents, eight siblings, and family home–was heartbreaking… #ad
The Starless Sea
by Erin Morgenstern
BARGAIN
Fantasy
Rating: 4.3
From the bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world–a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.
Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. #ad
Royal Gone Rogue
by Emma St. Clair
BARGAIN
Romantic Comedy
Rating: 4.6
With the king’s health in decline, the time is short for Crown Prince Phillip of Elsinore to choose a suitable wife.
Preferably NOT one of the many titled women who seem only interested in the crown. Like the logical, responsible man he is, Phillip treats this task the way he does everything else–analytically, with measurable data points. Leaving Elsinore in secret, Phillip travels to a tiny Italian village to meet the woman best matching his qualifications. The plan is to present Alessia with a proposal of marriage and return to the palace before anyone notices his absence. What he didn’t plan for: FEELINGS… Check out Emma St. Clair’s Sweet Royal RomCom Series! #ad
Nothing to Lose
by J. A. Jance
BARGAIN
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.7
Years ago, when he was a homicide detective with the Seattle PD, J. P. Beaumont’s partner, Sue Danielson, was murdered. Volatile and angry, Danielson’s ex-husband came after her in her home and, with nowhere else to turn, Jared, Sue’s teenage son, frantically called Beau for help.
As Beau rushed to the scene, he urged Jared to grab his younger brother and flee the house. In the end, Beaumont’s plea and Jared’s quick action saved the two boys from their father’s murderous rage… #ad
Kisses
by Trisha Ridinger McKee
BARGAIN
Romance
Rating: 5.0
As the youngest of three, Paloma has always maneuvered through life with a wild spirit and a pretty face. She relies on her sisters Evangeline and Callista for advice and on her best friend Hunter for stability and encouragement.
But when Hunter’s girlfriend becomes more than his usual fling, Paloma finds herself experiencing emotions and an attraction she had never expected. To distract herself from crushing on her friend, Paloma turns to Blade, a man with a wildness that rivals her own. #ad