War is coming to the frozen wastes of Ostero that people stubbornly insist on calling home. The Empire is poised to swipe the final holdout off the table and claim all of Arda for itself. With the loss of the Ostero King’s head there is nothing standing in their way. Well, almost nothing.

Ciara, daughter of the Dark Knight and head mistress, was content to spend her coming days serving the Lord of her castle — as content as a teenager can be — until the gods dumped one Aldrin, second son of the Ostero King, in her overburdened lap. Now the pair are forced out into a mostly indifferent world, fleeing for their lives to try to get Aldrin’s bony ass onto the vacant throne. Keeping their secret secret proves difficult for the no longer nobby nob, and the boy prince falls under the blade of an Empire’s assassin.

Walking corpses colloquially named unblinkers because they can’t all be called Carl, an Emperor who believes he’s the second coming of whatever god had the best dress sense, and a witch who dangled the threat of a very interesting and creative death above their heads all stand in their way to save their homeland from the invaders and stop all of Arda from succumbing to the rise of magic. No pressure. $0.99 on Kindle.

When Michaela’s mother dropped by unannounced Michaela had a bad feeling. Her mother never visited without a reason, now she was asking her to babysit her spoilt, millionaire step-brother and his entourage for a few weeks. It was bad enough that she had had to spend too many summers with her mothers’ new husband and his egotistical son Eric growing up, now he would be back in her life again. Free on Kindle.

Customer review: “This is a thoughtful, brooding, and expressive tale about the fear, anxiety, and disquiet of aging with all its encumbrances and inconveniences. It’s a must-read for all.” $1.99 on Kindle, today only (4/30/2015).

In 1945, Elsie Schmidt is a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she is for her first kiss. She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and desperation overtaking her country by a high-ranking Nazi who wishes to marry her. So when an escaped Jewish boy arrives on Elsie’s doorstep on Christmas Eve, Elsie understands that opening the door would put all she loves in danger.

Sixty years later, in El Paso, Texas, Reba Adams is trying to file a feel-good Christmas piece for the local magazine, and she sits down with the owner of Elsie’s German Bakery for what she expects will be an easy interview. But Reba finds herself returning to the bakery again and again, anxious to find the heart of the story—a story that resonates with her own turbulent past. For Elsie, Reba’s questions are a stinging reminder of that last bleak year of World War II. As the two women’s lives become intertwined, both are forced to confront the uncomfortable truths of the past and seek out the courage to forgive. $1.99 on Kindle.

After recovering from the shock of her parents perishing in a tragic accident, Grace Lindroth discovers clues in their attic that cause her to believe the people she called Mom and Dad her whole life may not have been her real parents.

In her search for the truth, Grace encounters people whose actions cause her to be distrustful of just about everyone, making her mission that much more difficult but heightening her determination to uncover what she believes is essential for her to go on with her life. Free on Kindle.

In Rise to Power, the history of ancient Israel and its king come alive. Told in the voice of the man who would be king, this account is like none you have heard before. The political struggle is rife and the language is modern, both of which place before you a mirror of our own times, the the ways power and passion shape the actions of leadership. $0.99 on Kindle.

When his professional baseball career doesn’t work out, Nick Grimes finds himself in desperate search for his place in the world. Over his adult life, he’ll learn some important lessons about living, love and the pursuit of happiness. Free on Kindle.

An Elegant Story of the Mystery of Life. If you relish enchanting short stories — the kind that prompt you to briefly put down your reading because you’re inspired to think about what you’ve just read — then you’ll love this book. This enticing story explores the power and the light of that pure bead of energy that animates us all, and the impossibility of endings. A richly entertaining tale that will, if allowed, come to take on a life of its own. Free on Kindle.

Mr. Rosen is broken, and soon he will be more so. His wife, who has led her thirty-year converted introverted husband through life, is dying. She has done all that she can to simplify his world by downsizing their life through the purchase of a smaller home, the selling of their business and taking care of the plans for her funeral. What she didn’t plan was them living next door to a racist whose son call’s the couple Mr. and Mrs. Jew. Free on Kindle.

Saul Poliakov is caught in an unsalvageable marriage that is slowly dragging him, his wife Fay, and their daughter into a morass of depression and self-doubt. His obsession with Nataly, the only woman he truly ever loved and whose sudden and inexplicable disappearance in the past still haunts him, lies at the root of his problems. The novel that Saul is writing lays unfinished as he realizes his work, his marriage, his life cannot move on until he solves the mystery of Nataly’s vanishing. So he sets out in earnest to find her. Find out what happens in Enter & Delete. $0.99 on Kindle.

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This illustrated collection contains 11 short stories reflecting pieces of life touched by animals. Free on Kindle.

In revisiting various plays of Shakespeare the author’s response has been to write a total of 55 ternacci, 34 of which are based solely on the play Macbeth. The ternacci is a fixed form poem of three lines with a syllabic count of 8-5-3. This ebook also includes a tutorial on writing the ternacci. Free on Kindle.

This regional story collection is set in the hills of southern Kentucky. The distasteful and repentant are seen in glimpses living alongside one another in modern-day Appalachia. Their actions showcase the good, the bad, and the ugly inside 12 unique stories. It would be best compared to Pinckney Benedict’s “Townsmokes” collection in West Virginia. Free on Kindle.