Saturday 30 June 2012

Amazon FREE and $0.99 Book Listing: 30 June 2012


The listing of FREE and $0.99 e-books available from Amazon is currently available at http://flurriesofwords.blogspot.com/p/amazoncom-free-and-99-book-listing.html.  If you're looking for a bargain, check it out! 






And many thanks to the Paupers Book Club for providing this listing

99 CENT BOOK FIND: The ElectroLive Murders by Don Broma


Available for JUST 99 CENTS is The ElectroLive Murders  by Don Broma  (Click here for UK purchase).  Why not download this  before it goes back to full price?





BOOK DESCRIPTION
When a rich old man is brutally murdered, detective Richard Dashiell loses all patience for protocol. Rookie inspector Natalia Helenas, assigned to the same case, finds herself caught between respect for her partner and respect for the rules. As the investigation leads them from the immaculate halls of a cutting-edge medical business, to the seedy chambers of a twisted sex club, Helenas and Dashiell learn that sometimes not even the dead get to rest in peace.

FREE BOOK FIND: Flashy Fiction and Other Insane Tales by Jen Wylie and Sean Hayden

FREE to download TODAY THROUGH MONDAY is Flashy Fiction and Other Insane Tales  by Jen Wylie and Sean Hayden  (Click here for UK Download)  Why not download it before it goes back to full price?







BOOK DESCRIPTION
An anthology of the strange, bizarre, and just plain weird.

Zombies, vampires, ghosts, and ...crickets? Try a taste of writing from two very different fantasy authors. Flash stories are super short and perfect for when you 'just have a minute'. This anthology contains 15 stories from authors Sean Hayden and Jen Wylie. Run the rampart of emotions in this exciting mix of tales. From humor to twisted, there is something for everyone.

Note: Some stories contain adult language.

FREE BOOK FIND: Mind Games (Mindjack Origins) by Susan Kaye Quinn


FREE to download TODAY is Mind Games (Mindjack Origins)         by Susan Kaye Quinn  (Click here for UK Download) Why not download it before it goes back to full price?







BOOK DESCRIPTION
Raf, a regular mindreader, is in love with Kira, the only girl in school who can't read minds. Raf struggles to keep his thoughts about her private, but secrets are something that only zeros like Kira can keep. As he works up the nerve to ask Kira to the mindware Games, his friends have other games in mind for him. 

(Mind Games is a short story prequel to the novel Open Minds.) 
See the Mindjack Trilogy website (mindjacktrilogy.com) for more information. 
Mind Games (prequel short story to Open Minds)
Open Minds (Book One)
Closed Hearts (Book Two)

FREE BOOK FIND: No Place To Be Sick by Timothy Sheard


FREE to download TODAY AND TOMORROW is No Place To Be Sick - The 5th Lenny Moss Mystery (Lenny Moss Mysteries)     by Timothy Sheard (Click here for UK Download) Why not download it before it goes back to full price?






BOOK DESCRIPTION
The nurses at James Madison Hospital are afraid… 

Too many of their patients are dying from unexpected cardiac arrests. The nurses fear that a serial killer could be roaming the hospital. But when they share their suspicions with the Director of Nursing, she orders them to keep their mouths shut or they will be fired. So the nurses turn for help to Lenny Moss – custodian, shop steward and...Detective! 

But Lenny has problems of his own. His last murder investigation nearly killed him. The post traumatic stress from a brutal attack has our union champion turning away from his friends, his family and his passion for the fight for justice. Even the threat from a merciless hedge fund CEO to buy the hospital, turn it private and kick out the union hasn’t roused Lenny to join the struggle. Feeling beaten and hopeless, he just wants to be left alone to do his job. 

Will the murderer keep on killing? Will Lenny turn his back on his friends and family and the union he's devoted his life to serving? 

FREE BOOK FIND: Friends for Life by Billi Tiner


FREE to download ALL WEEKEND is Friends for Life  by Billi Tiner (Click here for UK Download).  Why not download this before it goes back to full price?


BOOK DESCRIPTION
Bo and Rico are two puppies who meet at a pet store. The puppies are dognapped from the pet store by two goons. Realizing they are in danger, Bo and Rico must work together to escape the dognappers. After their escape, Bo and Rico find themselves scared and alone on the mean city streets. They are rescued by a streetwise stray named Tank. Tank takes the puppies under his wing and teaches them how to survive on the streets. Bo and Rico embark on several adventures including avoiding the local Animal Control officer, Jimmy; several run-ins with a pack of dogs led by a stray named Mongrel; and rescuing a beautiful lost Poodle named Pearl. Through it all, Bo and Rico form an incredible friendship that will last a lifetime.

FREE BOOK FIND: Welcome Home by Billi Tiner


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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Welcome Home is the story of Jake, a black Labrador Retriever mix. For as long as Jake can remember, he has been having the same dream. In his dream, he lives with a wonderful man in a beautiful home. He has never seen the face of the man in the dream, but he knows his voice and is certain that they are meant to be together. When the day comes for Jake to be given away to his new home, he believes that he will finally get to meet the man from his dreams. However, when he is chosen, it is definitely not by the man from his dream! He is taken to a home where he is terribly mistreated. After suffering years of abuse, Jake finally escapes and is able to begin the search for the man he has been dreaming of his entire life. Along the way, Jake meets some interesting characters, survives amazing adventures, and forms life-long friendships. Join Jake on his incredible journey home.

INDIE NEW RELEASE: Zion's Crossing by H.T. Barkman


We are happy to announce as an INDIE NEW RELEASE and BARGAIN BOOK:  Zion's Crossing  by H.T. Barkman (Click here for UK purchase).  Why not grab a copy of this today?



BOOK DESCRIPTION
Described as Amish Macabre, ZION'S CROSSING is the tale of Amish twin savants, Jed and Anna. On their first Rumspringa outing, a tragic car accident leaves the twins in equal parts peril and self-discovery at the local hospital. A coma-stricken Jed battles for his very soul against a Deathrunner whose intent is to send him to Hell. His guilt-ridden sister suffers her own demons in the shape of narcotics. Journey with Jed through an Amish version of Dante's Inferno and experience the heartache and triumph of redemption.

BOOK OF THE DAY: The Following Sea (The Pirate Wolf series) by Marsha Canham

by Marsha Canham




BOOK DESCRIPTION
The Following Sea is the long-awaited and anticipated story of Gabriel Dante. Book three of the award-winning Pirate Wolf series which began with Across A Moonlit Sea and The Iron Rose.. The story takes place on the Spanish Main, with pirate attacks, high-seas adventure, lost galleons and sunken treasure, and of course, great romance from the author dubbed by Romantic Times as "the Queen of Swashbuckling Romance"

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Friday 29 June 2012

FREE BOOK FIND: Z (A Novel) by Lauren Baratz-Logsted


FREE to download TODAY THROUGH MONDAY is Z (A Novel)  by Lauren Baratz-Logsted  (Click here for UK Download)  Why not download it before it goes back to full price?



BOOK DESCRIPTION
After years living of living in Los Angeles, novelist Nix Carter returns home to Connecticut to care for her ailing father. As she reconnects with childhood friends, she encounters a window washer who also happens to live in a mansion, throw lavish parties and go by the name of Zorro. Yes, Zorro. But is he really the caped man of legend? Or just an eccentric who drives a horse-drawn cart and wears a cape while washing windows? And what will happen when the townspeople who once flocked to his parties and drank his champagne become suspicious of him? 

A contemporary re-visioning of The Great Gatsby, Z is a smart, quirky novel that has it all: comedy, drama, romance, adventure, even swordplay. Lauren Baratz-Logsted at her best.

FREE BOOK FIND: Mad Stacks by Scott Nicholson


FREE to download TODAY is Mad Stacks: Story Collection Box Set (Stacks Series)  by Scott Nicholson  (Click here for UK Download)  Why not download it before it goes back to full price?







BOOK DESCRIPTION
BAD STACKS is the complete text of three story collections covering suspense, psychological mystery, and paranormal tales. A total of 29 stories originally published in professional magazines and anthologies such as Writers of the Future, The Third Alternative, Cemetery Dance, Crimewave, and more. The box set of 118,000 words also includes a bonus essay.

Scott Nicholson is the international bestselling author of 15 novels, six screenplays, four children’s books, and four comic book series, as well as 80 short stories. His novels include LIQUID FEAR, CHRONIC FEAR, THE HARVEST, AS I DIE LYING, THE RED CHURCH, DISINTEGRATION, and more. Send your questions to his Amazon Author Central page by clicking on his name below the book title at the top of the page.

Guest contributors include Shane Jiraiya Cummings, Tim Lebbon, William Meikle, and John Everson. 

FREE BOOK FIND: All My Tomorrows by Colette L. Saucier


FREE to download TODAY is All My Tomorrows  by Colette L. Saucier  (Click here for UK Download) Why not download it before it goes back to full price?



BOOK DESCRIPTION
A Tale of Pride & Prejudice for the New Millennium 

All My Tomorrows is losing the ratings war.

Headwriter Alice McGillicutty would do anything to save the long-running soap opera from cancellation, even reading the old absurdist melodrama The Edge of Darkness for inspiration.

When scandal rips Hollywood bad boy Peter Walsingham off the tabloids and into her studio, Alice doubts the small screen is big enough for his ego - or his entourage. In their battle of pride and prejudice, will Peter's vanity and arrogance compel Alice to write him out of her script, or can she find a role for him in All My Tomorrows?

Amazon FREE and $0.99 Book Listing: 29 June 2012


The listing of FREE and $0.99 e-books available from Amazon is currently available at http://flurriesofwords.blogspot.com/p/amazoncom-free-and-99-book-listing.html.  If you're looking for a bargain, check it out! 






And many thanks to the Paupers Book Club for providing this listing

FREE BOOK FIND: The Secret Cove [Contemporary Romance Novella] by Kate Bellevue


FREE to download TODAY AND TOMORROW is The Secret Cove [Contemporary Romance Novella]  by Kate Bellevue  (Click here for UK Download) Why not download it before it goes back to full price?








BOOK DESCRIPTION
Maggie Hunt seems to have it all together... 

A successful attorney and litigator, she's on a mini-vacation in Maine when a trip and fall along a forest trail brings her face-to-face with former Navy Seal Doctor, Chase Regan.

It doesn't take long for the sparks to fly, and her annoyance with the tall, dark and handsome doctor only increases as he seems to know how to push her buttons better than anyone. 

Romance is the last thing Maggie is looking for, even though Chase's petite, blond companion seems to think otherwise.

She has sworn off men for good following a betrayal and painful divorce, and now she's hoping that the sexual tension and response in her body is solely a result of her abstinence over the last few months... 

Certain parts of her body seem to act as an antenna when Chase is around, much to Maggie's chagrin. Feeing betrayed by her body, she desperately tries to resist the growing attraction. 

Shocked by her response to their brief, steamy interludes, Maggie attempts to deny the all-consuming pleasure that his touch creates, frightened by a depth she has never known before, and the vulnerability she feels as a result.

INDIE NEW RELEASE: A Comedy of Terrors by Graeme Smith

We are happy to announce as an INDIE NEW RELEASE: A Comedy of Terrors  by  Graeme Smith (Click here for UK purchase).  Why not grab a copy of this today?


BOOK DESCRIPTION
Segorian Anderson’s an Idiot. But that’s fine with him. It’s a well paying job with no heavy lifting.

Nobody ever remembers Segorian. It isn’t magic - he just has the sort of face his own mother could forget, and she’s been trying to for years. But being forgettable is a job requirement for an Idiot.

No, he's not the Court Jester. He doesn’t wear motley (whatever motley may be). That's a different union. He’s the Idiot. In a Queen’s castle, wine spilt down the wrong dress can lead to war, so someone unimportant has to be blamed for it. That’s the Idiot’s job. He’s the Idiot that did it, for any value of ‘it’. Of course, as soon as he’s exiled-for-life out of the castle gate, he uses his back-door key and sneaks back in. But that's not all. Someday, something really bad will happen. Really, really bad. Badder than a bad thing on a very bad day with extra badness. When the world’s about to end (or the washing up won’t get done – whichever comes first), who you gonna call? No, not them. They haven’t been invented yet. You call the Idiot, someone nobody will miss if things don’t work out. And now Peladon has a case of dragon.

But the dragon may be the easy part. Segorian has woman trouble, and he’s the only person in the castle who doesn’t know it. Because to Segorian, women are an open book. The problem is, he never learned to read.

FREE BOOK FIND: TAINTED SOULS by Steven J. Wangsness


FREE to download TODAY is TAINTED SOULS by Steven J. Wangsness  (Click here for UK Download) Why not download it before it goes back to full price?



BOOK DESCRIPTION
Detective Rick Frost washes up in the sleepy Los Angeles exurb of Santa Isidora after being cashiered by the LAPD. An everyday murder investigation draws Frost into a web of corruption that stretches from the salons of Beverly Hills to the Green Zone of Baghdad and quickly pits him against powerful forces that even the Feds fear to disturb. Before it’s over, Frost will face an agonizing decision: to bring the guilty to justice, he must risk the life of the woman he loves.

FREE BOOK FIND: SLAVE SPY - The Youth and Times of Lazarus Perlman by Byron Lee Wade

FREE to download TODAY THROUGH SUNDAY is SLAVE SPY - The Youth and Times of Lazarus Perlman  by Byron Lee Wade (Click here for UK download)  Why not download it before it goes back to full price?






BOOK DESCRIPTION
Ending the trade in millions of slaves could be in the hands of just one boy . . .

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In the late 18th century, Lazarus Perlman, a motherless Jewish boy is raised by a tradition-bound father and mentored at London’s famed Jews’ Free School. Debating the issues of the day at the King Solomon Club – he encounters Thomas Clarkson, the heartbeat of the campaign to end the British trade in African slaves. 

Keenly aware that he is a descendant of slaves, Lazarus joins the effort as aide to Clarkson and the Abolition Society gains the upper hand . . . until the ruthless West Indies sugar lobby convinces Parliament that evidence of cruelty to slaves is exaggerated and stale. The abolitionists need fresh evidence, but their leading informant in the West Indies has been murdered – and the abolitionists face defeat unless somebody can provide intelligence from the scene.

Disguised as a tailor, Lazarus sails to Barbados to spy on slave masters . . . to end the slave trade and save the slaves. But his adventure proves more perilous than anyone had thought. Now the question becomes . . . who will save Lazarus Perlman . . . and how?

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Set against the rich background of the British abolition movement - which spawned Amazing Grace - this ambitious historical fiction takes a fresh look at two peoples, Africans and Jews, and their common legacy . . . slavery and oppression. Peopled with unforgettable characters and paced with stark conflicts, it spins a captivating, uniquely original and timeless tale - and posts reminders for every generation.

BARGAIN BOOK: The Littles (An SSCD Crime Thriller) by Tallulah Grace


We are happy to announce as a BARGAIN BOOK: The Littles (An SSCD Crime Thriller)  by Tallulah Grace (Click here for UK purchase).  Why not grab a copy of this today?






BOOK DESCRIPTION
The mountains of rural Georgia will never be the same after a series of viscous murders rock the area to its core. Not only does the killer target children, his gruesome murders are designed to inflict the ultimate agony upon their parents and to instill extreme terror within the small communities.

An SSCD team, part of the FBI’s Special Serial Crimes Division, accepts the case and the conditional Governor’s liaison, a prosecutor with more baggage than anyone realizes. Travel with them over the hills of the mystical Blue Ridge Mountains as they hunt the psychopath stalking the innocent. Can they capture him before he strikes again? Will he turn the tables and ensnare one of their own in his devious trap?

This psychological thriller delves into the mind of a deranged serial killer as it follows the twists and turns of an SSCD manhunt. Action packed and filled with suspense, The Littles takes readers on a thrill ride they will not soon forget.

FREE BOOK FIND: Dark Matter Heart by Nathan Wrann

FREE to download is Dark Matter Heart (Dark Matter Heart Vampire Trilogy Book 1)  by Nathan Wrann (Click here for UK download) .  Why not download it before it goes back to full price?







BOOK DESCRIPTION

A new town. A new school. A new beginning. Seventeen year-old Cordell Griffin and his mother move from Los Angeles to the Pacific Northwest to deal with his "allergies," and start a healthier new life. Cor has one goal: To blend in and be invisible. Unfortunately for him, no matter how far he goes, he can't run away from his secrets. Secrets about who he is. Secrets about why he's sick. And secrets about why so many people he meets end up dead, drained of blood.

In "Dark Matter Heart", the origin novel in the "Cor Griffin Bloodsuckers" Young Adult Paranormal Thriller series from filmmaker and author Nathan Wrann, Cor must uncover the mysteries of his past and conquer the secrets of the present in order to protect the girl of his future, and save himself.

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About the Dark Matter Heart Trilogy:
A new town. A new school. A new beginning. Seventeen year-old Cordell Griffin, and his mother, moved from Southern California to the Pacific Northwest to deal with his "sun allergies," and bizarrely restrictive "human blood diet". Cor has one goal: To blend in and be invisible. Unfortunately for him, no matter how far he goes, danger and tragedy lurk around every corner. Realizing that he and his friends, Taylor, Caitlyn, and Diana, can never lead normal lives, his goal changes to simply survive the experience. 

Armed with knowledge gleaned from antique books and artwork, Cor and his new friends set out to uncover the truth behind the myths, legends and scary stories that keep us awake late at night.


The Dark Matter Heart Trilogy is the origin story in the Cor Griffin Bloodsuckers series.

99 CENT BOOK FIND: In Waiting by Kathryn Jones


Available for JUST 99 CENTS is In Waiting  by Kathryn Jones  (Click here for UK purchase) .  Why not download this  before it goes back to full price?







BOOK DESCRIPTION
There was no one in line or waiting for a refill, so I leaned forward over the counter. “My fiancé just dumped me.” 

“Woah! Why would he do a stupid thing like that?”

I felt the tears welling up in my eyes. I had promised myself that I wouldn’t talk about this with customers or with anyone, really. I hadn’t even broken the news to my parents yet, who were already making plans for their first grandchildren.

“He found somebody else.”


When Tabitha finds herself suddenly alone, she doesn't know where to turn. Floating through life, dealing with her best friend's strange assumptions of marriage, and trying to balance work with attending school is about all Tabitha has to look forward to until she finds love in a most unusual place.

BOOK OF THE DAY: The Spaces Between (A Drunkard's Journey) by Martin Gibbs

by Martin Gibbs



BOOK DESCRIPTION
A brazen mercenary believes he can learn magic from an exiled warlock. Not content with taking along experienced help, he enlists Zhy, the town drunk, to escort him on his journey. Convinced he is part of some misdirected script, Zhy joins the strange quest, hoping only to keep the ale flowing. However, the pair is soon saddled with an aloof and peculiar companion, and the three find themselves fighting demons, elite assassins, the elements, and each other. An idiot man-child follows, guided by Zhy’s dead father, who hopes he can keep Zhy away from the threshold of Hell. Sadly, each man is only a pawn in a wicked scheme.

***** UPDATE ****

Includes a preview of the forthcoming follow-up, Dead Spaces. Part II of A Drunkard's Journey will be released Summer of 2012!

AUTHOR BIO


I am a big fan of Robert Jordan, George RR Martin, and R. Scott Bakker. I also enjoy Ellery Queen mysteries and books about Arctic survival. I'm an avid cross-country skier, mountain biker, poet, cook, and I know three chords on the guitar.
Active projects include A Drunkard's Journey (Dead Spaces is coming out this spring!), an attempt at a 1930's mystery, a Christian-based piece of historical fiction, and a smattering of short stories. 

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