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Sometimes, the biggest lies are the ones we tell ourselves. Casey hasn’t been able to look best friend Linda in the face for two whole weeks. Not since Linda blurted out a secret that chilled her to the bone. Now Casey has just days, if not hours, to get her house in order before her world comes crashing down. Then, when the plug is pulled and her thinly veiled mask of respectability slips, everyone will know what she has known all along… She is married to a monster.

She has to weigh up what will be worse – being known as the woman whose husband is the devil in disguise, or breaking her own silence. When the moment arrives, which path will she choose?

Or will it be decided for her? $0.99 on Kindle.

Reeling from a devastating tragedy she believes she has caused, nineteen-year-old Nadine Hall has lived an illusion rather than face a brutal reality. Eager to make a fresh start, she lands a dream job as a carer for an archaeologist near Cannes – the perfect location for the movie buff that she is – shortly before the film festival is due to be held. The blissful existence she finds among her charge, Lilly Somerville, Lilly’s sister Viv who suffers from dementia, and Agnes the housekeeper is soon shattered with the arrival of Lilly’s only daughter, Katrina, who wants Nadine gone. As the implications of losing her job and being sent home are greater than anyone can imagine, Nadine will do anything to outsmart Katrina and win her charge’s favor. When she happens upon Lilly’s account of her life in German-occupied Paris, she banks on using it to her advantage. However, her audacious scheme backfires with grave consequences. $0.99 on Kindle.

Sacrificing his job in investigation following an incident in Paris, Jacques Forêt has only a matter of weeks to solve a series of mysterious disappearances as a Gendarme in the rural French village of Messandrierre.
But, as the number of missing persons rises, his difficult and hectoring boss puts obstacles in his way. Steely and determined, Jacques won’t give up and, when a new Investigating Magistrate is appointed, he becomes the go-to local policeman for all the work on the case.
Will he find the perpetrators before his lover, Beth, becomes a victim?
Messandrierre – the first in a new crime series featuring investigator, Jacques Forêt. $2.61 on Kindle.

A young man agrees to help a woman return from New Orleans to Nashville. But tensions soon arise between the pair, and he realizes it is not going to be an easy road trip. Things quickly go from bad to worse when he is pulled over by highway patrol and the woman begins to act in a strange manner. David is in danger, but as cabin fever sets in, he heads right on into it. $0.99 on Kindle.

At the ripe and ready age of 85, and always on the lookout for new experiences, adorable Tillie Thistlethwaite signs up for a senior citizens self-defense class, never imagining how soon she will be called upon to apply the techniques she learns.

Mrs. Thistlethwaite and her special friend, Slim Bottoms, strike a blow against domestic violence in this second book in the Tillamook Tillie series. $2.99 on Kindle.

Forget Kris Kringle, Sinterklaas, and St. Nick. It’s about time you learned the truth. In the 1870’s in rural Hopeville, Connecticut, the Clauses came to work Max Pepin’s farm. Christmas hasn’t been the same since. This is a Christmas story you’ve been waiting for. $0.99 on Kindle.

Dynomike’s day is off to a rough start, and it only seems to be getting worse by the minute. A series of early-morning mishaps and nearly being late for school leaves him stressed and worried that the entire day will be a disaster. Luckily, the bus driver senses Dynomike’s distress and gives him a magic tool to calm down, refocus, and start thinking his way to a better day.

All of us have bad days from time to time. But Dynomike: Magical Space uses engaging illustrations and fun language to teach kids how to be mindful and shift their thinking to ease stress in any situation. Free on Kindle.

Math professor Anita Chapel is missing, leaving a string of numbers as clues to her whereabouts. Her niece, Tracy Fuller, and her boyfriend search for her. But where is the professor leading them? And who is the mysterious man in a red sweatshirt? The answers, and the question, lie on Varick Street. $0.99 on Kindle.