Sunday, June 4, 2017

Free Ebooks (6/4/17)

 

 

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THE FREE PRICING IS ONLY A SPECIAL FOR THE DIGITAL FORMAT OF THE BOOK THAT IS LISTED AND IS ONLY AVAILABLE FOR A LIMITED TIME, SO BE SURE TO PURCHASE THE E-BOOKS BEFORE THE PRICE RETURNS TO ITS NORMAL LISTING. (Unless you want to buy them at full price:)

 

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Breadcrumbs: A Collection of Spiritual and Philosophical Essays on Kindle

Breadcrumbs: A Collection of Spiritual and Philosophical Essays by Francis J. Shaw: Feeling stuck? Need a short read to get some inspiration to seek new perceptions? Join me on some adventures. In Breadcrumbs, you will meet some familiar friends and perhaps make some new ones. There’s no need to pack. All you need is what every story asks of us—to be open to all the possibilities.

This book is Free on June 4, 2017

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Elle and the Escape: The Hero Chronicles on Kindle

Elle and the Escape: The Hero Chronicles by Tim Mettey: Elle and the Escape follows Elle Canon’s narrow escape from Valcary Hill during the Thusian Trials. Will she be able to survive the darkness that awaits her on the outside, without Nicholas and The 4 nearby? While she is forced to face her fears, including Xavier and the Seekers, a brutal battle unfolds all around her. Elle has no choice but to stand up and fight for her life—and not just her own. In this companion novella, fans of The Hero Chronicles get an inside glimpse into the character of Elle.

This book is Free on June 4, 2017

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Herbal Gardening: Box Set on Kindle

Herbal Gardening: Box Set by Cheryl Canton: Planting herbal plants can be a low cost and efficient method rather than buying these essential oils and medicinal plants. Learn how to grow them, which ones to grow, and the benefits of doing so inside this collection!

This book is Free on June 4, 2017

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10 Tenets To Transform Your Life on Kindle

10 Tenets To Transform Your Life by Tyler Oliveira: Happiness, time, success, and everything in between. In a world of complacency, confusion, and misguided ambition, the 10 Tenets To Transform Your Life is a guiding light within the darkness. This book is a comprehensive tool that will enable you to maximize the potential fulfillment derived from your life, your time, and those around you.

This book is Free on June 4, 2017

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Dawn of the Infected on Kindle

Dawn of the Infected by Eileen Cruz Coleman: Never surrender. Not now. Not ever. For twenty-three-year-old start-up tech company CEO Selena Martinez, it was just another uneventful early morning bus commute from her cottage in rural Southern Maryland to her office in Washington, D.C. But when her bus is suddenly attacked by a horde of crazed savages, Selena becomes immersed in a world of terror and confusion, where she must learn to survive on her own using smarts and skills she never dreamed she possessed.

This book is Free on June 4, 2017

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The Apples of Idunn on Kindle

The Apples of Idunn by Matt Larkin: A dark historical fantasy retelling of Norse mythology. Odin, still a mortal man, challenges trolls and sorcerers in an attempt to save his people.

This book is Free on June 4, 2017

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Dark Constellation on Kindle

Dark Constellation by Alex Random: The crew of a routine patrol spaceship is targeted by a reptilian species called the Deorcans, who are intent on killing all known life forms throughout the Universes.

This book is Free on June 4, 2017

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Dancing The Moon on Kindle

Dancing The Moon by Grace McCabe: In this steamy paranormal romance set in a small mountain town, two young couples are battling a pack of vicious werewolves in an effort to restore safety and security to their community. Derrick, Rachel, Kyle and Naomi are shape-shifters themselves, but they use their paranormal powers for good rather than evil. Taut action and passionate romance propel the story forward. Then things become even more dangerous when a mysterious stranger arrives in town…

This book is Free on June 4, 2017

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The Dragon's Secret Baby on Kindle

The Dragon’s Secret Baby by Jasmine Wylder: I’m not pregnant, am I? How is this possible…I’m still a virgin. Curvy archaeologist Dominique can’t believe her luck; she just uncovered an ancient Dragon egg! But she’s not the only one with her eyes on the prize. All of the Dragon clans of the area want to stake their claim. Especially that hot ass, annoying Virdi who sticks to her side like glue. Unfortunately, if she wants to stay safe, she needs Virdi’s help.

This book is Free on June 4, 2017

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Unsafe Haven on Kindle

Unsafe Haven by Char Chaffin: To escape a life of terror and abuse, Kendall Martin loses herself in remote Southwest Alaska and finds a new love in hot cop Denn Nulo. But as her romance with Denn heats up and her future looks safe and bright, Kendall discovers there are some nightmares that just won’t go away…

This book is Free on June 4, 2017

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Haven on the Riverwalk on Kindle

Haven on the Riverwalk by Eileen Cruz Coleman: When quite by accident, Maggie finds herself stuck in the small riverside town of Solomon’s Island, Maryland, she becomes determined to start a new life where no one knows who she is. She meets handsome and charming bike repair shop owner, Dustin, who she tries to resist. Though Maggie’s dark past and secrets haunt her every day, she starts to let her guard down and she not only finds herself in a whirlwind romance with Dustin, but also begins to fall in love with the small town of Solomon’s and its people.

This book is Free on June 4, 2017

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The Musician on Kindle

The Musician by Lola Sinclair: Violinist virtuoso Nicholas Spencer has a weakness for redheads. Older redheads, to be precise. From the moment he first laid eyes on his hot music teacher, he’s been chasing after redheads to satiate his lusts. That is until the day when blonde Fiona Ward accidentally tricks him into chasing after her…

This book is Free on June 4, 2017

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ACE: Las Vegas Bad Boys on Kindle

ACE: Las Vegas Bad Boys by Frankie Love: I like my money clean and my women dirty. That is until I meet Emmy Rose. She says she doesn’t want a bad boy. I guess I’ll have to change her pretty little mind.

This book is Free on June 4, 2017

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Something Like This on Kindle

Something Like This by Eileen Cruz Coleman: What happens when a hot, rich writer meets a damaged girl? The only way that 23-year-old Jadie Santiago can escape her sucky childhood is to force herself to move on with her life and bury a shameful secret. When Jadie lands a new job at a literary agency, things start looking up. Yet the one thing Jadie never expected was to capture the attention of the devastatingly handsome and rich Reece Carter, an aspiring writer who could destroy the precarious future she’s just started rebuilding.

This book is Free on June 4, 2017

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The Photographer's Assistant on Kindle

The Photographer’s Assistant by Lulu Fairhazel: When final year art student Hanna Dunne lands a prestigious internship with nude photographer Ren Goldsteen, she only has one thing on her mind – graduating. Ren goes through interns faster than film canisters and it’s not just because of his impeccably high standards; his penchant for nudes extends well beyond his famed photographs.

This book is Free on June 4, 2017

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Love, Lives, & Letters on Kindle

Love, Lives, & Letters by Rebecca Milton: From the pen of bestselling author Rebecca Milton, beloved for her romance stories, we bring you – for a limited time only – not one, but THREE collections of her best romantic writing with no less than 33 stories in total!

This book is Free on June 4, 2017

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An Affair to Dismember on Kindle

An Affair to Dismember by Elise Sax: Three months has been Gladie Burger’s limit when it comes to staying in one place. That’s why Gladie is more than a little skeptical when her Grandma Zelda—who is more than a little psychic—recruits her into the family’s matchmaking business in the quaint small town of Cannes, California. What’s more, Gladie is also highly unqualified, having a terrible track record with romance.

This book is Free on June 4, 2017

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Murder on Moloka'i on Kindle

Murder on Moloka’i by Chip Hughes: When Boston heiress Adrienne Ridgely strides into his Honolulu office, Surfing Detective Kai Cooke likes what he sees, but doubts what he hears. Adrienne’s sister, environmental activist Sara Ridgely-Parke, plunged to her death from a mule on Moloka‘i – the first fatal incident on the soaring cliffs above Kalaupapa’s fabled leper colony. Murder, cries Adrienne, perpetrated by Sara’s ex-husband, developer J. Gregory Parke. Cooke flies to Moloka‘i, tracking tantalizing leads to an unlikely murder that, despite himself, he starts to believe in.

This book is Free on June 4, 2017

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Love, Murder, and a Good Bottle of Wine on Kindle

Love, Murder, and a Good Bottle of Wine by Chris Phipps: Sarah Wagner, grieving the death of the beloved young aunt who took her in as a teenager, is shocked when she realizes she’s a suspect in the murder. While managing her aunt’s final affairs, she gathers clues to the identity of the real killer, who may be closer than she thinks.

This book is Free on June 4, 2017

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Rogue Wave on Kindle

Rogue Wave by Christopher Cartwright: The greatest technological advancement in warfare since the creation of the Atomic bomb has been discovered, and it’s being offered to the highest bidder. There is just one problem though; the seller might no longer have any control of the weapon…

This book is Free on June 4, 2017

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Lingerie Wars on Kindle

Lingerie Wars by Janet Elizabeth Henderson: In a small town in Scotland, two lingerie stores are at war to be the last shop standing. There’s only room in town for one shop and ex-lingerie model, Kirsty, is convinced that will be hers. After all, she knows a lot more about lingerie than the ex-SAS soldier who owns her competition. Unfortunately for her, Lake Benson might not know lingerie but he does know war. And as everybody knows, all’s fair in love and war.

This book is Free on June 4, 2017

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Davenport House on Kindle

Davenport House by Marie Silk: “…buttoned up plotting of a type that might appeal to Downton Abbey fans…” -Historical Novel Society. This #1 Best Selling family saga follows the wealthy Davenports and their servants in 1915 America. The sudden death of the patriarch changes everything.

This book is Free on June 4, 2017

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Monday, May 29, 2017

Enjoy An Exclusive Sneek Peek Of: Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia!

Eliza and Her Monsters  
Eighteen-year-old Eliza Mirk is the anonymous creator of Monstrous Sea, a wildly popular webcomic, but when a new boy at school tempts her to live a life offline, everything she's worked for begins to crumble.

 
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Prologue



Eliza Mirk is the kind of name you give to the creepy girl who clings to her ex-boyfriend for weeks after he’s dumped her because she refuses to accept that he hates her guts. Eliza Mirk is a low-level villain with a secret hideout in the sewers. Eliza Mirk belongs in a comic book.

But Eliza Mirk is me. I don’t think I’m desperate or deluded enough to hang on to an ex-boyfriend after he’s broken up with me, I wouldn’t go near a sewer with a ten-foot pole, and unfortunately I do not live in a comic book. I do live kind of a comic-book life, though, I guess.

I go to school during the day, and at night I cast off my secret identity to become LadyConstellation, creator of one of the internet’s most popular webcomics, Monstrous Sea, and fearless mother of a fandom. My superpower is the ability to draw for hours without realizing what time it is or that I haven’t eaten in too long. I succeed in disappearing in my disguise, and I excel at standing out in my true form.

Why LadyConstellation? you may ask.

Because, I reply, my favorite culture in Monstrous Sea comes from a people who have stars in their blood. These people— Nocturnians—instinctively chart stars. That is their calling in life. That is what they feel they must do, as I feel I must tell their story.

LadyConstellation is the one charting this story, drawing lines between plots and characters and places like the Nocturnians draw connections between stars. She is fearless, like the Nocturnians; she is mysterious and aloof, like the Nocturnians; and like the Nocturnians, she believes in the mystical, the supernatural, and the unknown.

LadyConstellation is the hero who defeats Eliza Mirk once a week and celebrates with her many admiring fans. She is beloved by all, even the villain, because without her the villain wouldn’t exist.

I am LadyConstellation.

I am also Eliza Mirk.

This is the paradox that can never be solved.



Chapter 1



The origin post is open on my computer when I shuffle over to it in the morning. Overnight, another three hundred comments have cropped up. I don’t know what they say anymore—I haven’t checked in months. I know some are from fans. A lot are from trolls. I don’t look at the post for the comments. I look because it is my daily reminder that all of this—all of my life—is a real thing.

My beginning is time-stamped in history.

I smooth down my tangle of hair, yawn, and rub sleep from my eyes. When I blink, the post is still there, sitting happy near the top of the Masterminds subforum for webcomics.You’d think, after two years, it would have fallen. It hasn’t.

I close the browser before I betray my own rules. I do not read comments. Comments are explosives for mental walls, and right now I need those walls up. I open Photoshop to find the file I was working on last night, a half-finished page from Monstrous Sea. All the line work is done. I started on the colors but didn’t finish, and I still need to add the text. Still, I’m ahead of schedule. This will be a whole chapter kind of week. My minimum for each week is one page; usually I average three. I always have something to post.

I skim over the comic page, skipping from panel to panel, double-checking the characters and settings. I lay out the rest of the colors in my head, then the light sources and the shadows. The text. The flow of the action looks okay, but in the bottom panel I drew Amity’s nose too narrow again. It’s always noticeable in close-ups of her face, and it’s always her nose. I’ll have to fix it later. I don’t have time now.

Like it agrees with me, my alarm clock goes off, and I jump. Even when I know it’s coming, even when I’m staring right at the thing. I shuffle back to the other side of the room to hit the button before it wakes up Church and Sully in the next room. Stupid middle schoolers get to sleep in an extra half hour, and they think they’re kings.

Mom already has two hard-boiled eggs and a glass of fresh squeezed orange juice ready for me when I get downstairs. I don’t know when she hard-boiled those eggs. She certainly didn’t do it last night, and it’s the crack of dawn now. She sits at the island counter in her running outfit with her bouncy ponytail, reading some health article on her tablet. A few strands of hair are out of place, and water splashes in the shower down the hall. She and Dad are already back from their early morning run. Heinous.

“Morning, hon!” I know in some universe she must be speaking at normal volume, but it is not this universe. “Made you breakfast. Are you feeling okay? You look a little gray.”

I grunt. Morning is the devil’s time. And Mom has told me I “look gray” at least once a week for the past year. I drop onto the island stool in front of the eggs and juice and begin eating. Maybe I should try coffee. Coffee might help. Coffee might also send me into spiraling bouts of depression.

Under Mom’s elbow is today’s issue of the Westcliff Star. I pull it over and turn it around. The front-page headline reads REMINDERS PLACED AT WELLHOUSE TURN. Below that is a picture of the sharp turn in the road past Wellhouse Bridge where wreaths of flowers, ribbons, and toys decorate the ground. That’s local Indiana news for you: they have nothing, so they fill their pages with the reminder that Wellhouse Turn kills more people every year than great white sharks. Also local Indiana news: comparing a turn in the road to a shark.

I finish the first egg. Dad comes out of the back hall smelling like a pack of spearmint gum and wearing slightly different running gear than what he wears when he goes out with Mom, which means these are his work clothes for the day.

“Morning, Eggs!” He stops behind me, puts his hands on my shoulders, and leans down to kiss the top of my head. I grunt at the nickname and stuff egg in my mouth. Hard-boiled heaven. “How’d you sleep?”

I shrug. Is it too much to ask that no one speak to me in the morning? I have just enough energy in my mouth to eat delicious eggs; there’s none left to form words. Not to mention that in twenty minutes I have to get in my car to go to school for seven hours, where I’m sure plenty of talking will happen, whether I like it or not.

Mom distracts Dad with her health article, which is apparently about the benefits of cycling. I tune them out. Read about how the Westcliff High band bus driver fell asleep at the wheel and drove off Wellhouse Turn last summer on their way back from regionals. Chew. Before that it was a guy driving with his son in the winter. Drink juice. And before that, a woman taking her two kids to day care early in the morning. Chew more. A group of drunk teenagers. Finish off the egg. A lone girl who hit the wrong patch of black ice. Finish off the juice. They should put up a barrier to keep people from flying off the turn and down the hill to the river, but no. Without Wellhouse Turn, we have no news.

“Don’t forget, your brothers have their first soccer game this afternoon,” Mom says when I drop off my stool and take my plate and cup to the sink. “They’re really excited, and we all have to be there to support them. Okay?”

I hate it when she says “Okay?” like that. Like she expects me to get angry at her before the words are ever out of her mouth. Always prepared for a fight.

“Yeah,” I say. I can’t muster any more. I return upstairs to my room for my backpack, my sketchbook, and my shoes. I jump up and down a few times in an attempt to get more blood flowing to my brain. Eggs eaten. Energy up. Ready for battle.

I resist the urge to go back to my computer, open up the browser, and check the Monstrous Sea forums. I don’t read comments, and I don’t check the forums before I leave for school. That computer is my rabbit hole; the internet is my wonderland.

I am only allowed to fall into it when it doesn’t matter if I get lost.

Amity had two birth days. The first was the same as anyone’s, and she didn’t remember it. She didn’t spend much time dwelling on the fact that she didn’t remember it, because she had learned years ago that nothing good came of dwelling. The second birth—or the rebirth, depending on what mood she found herself in—she remembered with stunning clarity, and imagined she would for the rest of her life.

Her second birth was the day the Watcher took her as its host.

 

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All You Need (Need You #3) by Lorelei James


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All You Need - Lorelei James

Author: Lorelei James
Title: All You Need
Series: Need You
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PR agent Annika Lund can spin any disaster into a win. But revamping the reputation of a notorious Swedish hockey player will take every trick in her arsenal, especially when his agent insists that convincing everyone he’s no longer a playboy is top priority. And that it requires a sham relationship—with Annika playing the part of loving girlfriend.

On fire in the rink and in the bedroom, Axl Hammerquist couldn’t care less about being anyone’s golden boy. So when his agent forces him to play nice with a new publicist, he takes satisfaction in being as much of a pain as possible. But the more time he spends getting to know Annika, the more Axl starts to think that being Mr. Nice Guy might be worth it if it gets him the girl.



I'm caught between three and four stars but the cast and their personalities carried All You Need and carried me as the reader through the opposites attract relationship between Axl and Anni. I liked that James opened Anni up to the sports equation and Axl to some normalcy.
It wasn't just the h/h that carried the weight of All You Need but the supporting characters had a lot to do with it as well. As many know that is something I like with the books I read is heavy character involvement. Lorelei James wrote a fantastic story that I really enjoyed. Sports and all.



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