Free: Bloody Paws

Bloody PawsWhen college sweethearts Jim Briggs and Helen Williams broke up to pursue careers in other parts of the country, they had no idea a tragedy would reunite them around a common cause six years later in Portland, Oregon where Briggs operated a mobile canine care service.

Shortly after Helen loses her husband in a freak accident and is then attacked and left for dead by a group of homeless predators, she shows up on Briggs’ doorstep to take a job managing his pet crematory. Helen’s arrival coincides with Briggs’ own shock over witnessing a homeless woman flipping out in a drug overdose meltdown, begging, “God please take me.”

While Briggs struggles with an inner dark voice urging him to put down the homeless meth addict like a stray dog, Williams goes on a murderous rampage for revenge while sleeping with the detective assigned to solve the case. Free on Kindle.

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Two For The Money

Two For The MoneyA Late-Night Phone Call. A Voice from the past. An Apparent Suicide.
The phone call came on a Tuesday evening in the middle of August. Harry Starke hadn’t heard from his old school friend in almost five years, and he hadn’t thought about him in almost as long. Tom Sattler wanted to meet, and it wouldn’t wait until morning. But when Harry arrived at Sattler’s home less than an hour later, he found him lying in a pool of blood with a single gunshot wound to his head and .22 revolver lying close to his hand.

Was it suicide, or was Tom Sattler murdered? If so, by whom and why?

The search for answers plunges Harry into a far-reaching investigation that involves murder, corruption, organized crime, and duplicity. As always, there’s a twist in the tail. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Horizon Protocol

Horizon Protocol

A massive disc hovers near Fort Hood Army Base…

Eight people are dead…

Will a shocking discovery enslave humanity forever?

Agent Jackson Stone has been searching for UFOs his entire life. When he’s saved by a clandestine organization, he becomes their weapon. Desperate for answers, will he betray the agency to uncover his past?

Agent Alabama Wren’s uncanny empathic abilities set her apart from other agents in the field. She’s tough, smart, and remarkably lethal. But will she have the strength to face the Others?

What they uncover begins a race around the globe.

Is a terrorist loose? Has Earth been invaded by the Others?

Or is it something more sinister?

A parallel Deep State wreaks fear and destruction, entangling Jackson and Alabama in a web of lies.

Who leads this world-wide conspiracy? Can it be stopped in time?

Brace. Horizon Protocol is now in effect.

Will it spell the doom of the human race?

James Rollins and Clive Cussler blended with Nick Thacker and Douglas Richards.

You’ll love this fast-paced techno-spy-thriller because you need a break and we know what you like. The twists don’t stop until the very last word. $0.99 on Kindle.

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Free: Zachary’s Gold

Zachary's Gold

In this stunning story of action and suspense, set against the turbulent background of World War One, a young military Chaplain is thrust into a life and death struggle with a psychopathic British soldier.

When escaping to the wilds of rural North Dakota with his new wartime bride doesn’t provide a safe refuge from the pursuing killer, Chaplain Bill Teller is forced into drastic moves that challenge the very foundations of his teachings. Free on Kindle.
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Cold Iron

Cold Iron
She feels frozen in place. Until a pair of prison escapees descends on her hometown…

Montana. Former MP Cache Iron’s future is as clear as the whiteout conditions blanketing town. Raised among generations of strong-willed men, the feisty woman spent much of her restless childhood exploring the backcountry of her family’s ranch. And now that unique knowledge is suddenly in demand when she’s contracted to help police track down two suspected killers.

With the blizzard and threats of wolves pushing her to take shelter, Cache is up against the clock as sheets of white cover up every potential clue. But when she discovers her targets’ lifeless bodies staining the snow red, the gritty ex-soldier comes to an inescapable conclusion: There’s another murderer hidden in the trees.

Can she bring down the real threat before her shot at a new future melts away?

Cold Iron is the thrilling first book in the Cache Iron mystery series. If you like chilling secrets, desperate searches, and snowbound investigations, then you’ll love Alex Blakely’s icy page-turner. $0.99 on Kindle.

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Free: Forgotten Crimes

FORGOTTEN CRIMES
A reunion with her friend, Rhetty, in a sleazy bar triggers a series of disturbing flashbacks for Gloria: events that occurred four years previously when a woman they’d met was killed. Rhetty encourages Gloria to visit the site where the woman died. Gloria is compelled to go along to understand the strange memories that are beginning to re-emerge. But doing so will put her in danger and force her to confront an awful episode in her past. Free on Kindle.

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The Calla Lily Mysteries: Books 1-3 (The Calla Lily Mystery Series)

The Calla Lily Mysteries: Books 1-3 (The Calla Lily Mystery Series)
Life in small-town California wine country is a tangled vine of mystery, suspense, and intrigue. In California’s wine country someone wants Lily dead! When Lily Callahan returns home to California’s wine country, sparks fly amid a hail of bullets as she and Deputy U.S. Marshall Austin Jennings take cover. Money, fame, and love all come into play as motives when Lily and Austin try to discover who wants Lily dead. The trouble begins soon after Lily’s beloved Aunt Lettie dies and leaves her vineyard estate to Lily—is it about the money? Counterfeit wine and growing suspicions about Aunt Lettie’s death add to the mystery. Life in small-town California wine country is a tangled vine of mystery, suspense, and intrigue.

Grab your copy of these fast-paced mysteries with twists and turns, romance, and a dash of humor from USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author, Anna Celeste Burke. Recipes Included. Free to read with Kindle Unlimited. $8.99 on Kindle.
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Free: Cozy Up to Christmas

Cozy Up to Christmas

A former enforcer for an outlaw biker gang hides out as mall Santa. What could go wrong? That is the hilarious premise for COZY UP TO CHRISTMAS, the fifth book in the “Cozy Up” series. Action, suspense, and holiday laughs ensue. Free on Kindle.

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Murder Most Annoying

Murder Most AnnoyingCarolyn Neville may not be the world’s greatest detective, but that’s fine. She’s a long-suffering Manhattan book editor, one of those dinosaurs in danger of being replaced by spell check and Netflix.

Carolyn is still trying to edit the world around her. But the world isn’t cooperating, her spiritual life is shaky, and her love life is nonexistent. Unfortunately, her job at a Manhattan publishing house keeps drawing her into more literal dangers, much to her understandable irritation.

Along with her sarcastic sidekick, Stephen Ames, they investigate shocking charges that one of their bestselling authors, Willow Hayly, is a fraud. When the Atlanta blogger who broke the story is murdered, they find themselves chief among the suspects… $0.99 on Kindle.
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Murder on Principle

Murder on Principle

November 1800, Maine. After helping their long-time friend Tobias escort his wife, along with a liberated slave and her child, from the Great Dismal back to Durham, Will and Lydia Rees’s lives are interrupted when a dead body is found near their home.

The body is that of Mr. Gilbert, a slaveholder from the Great Dismal. Was he murdered in pursuit of the former slaves?

When it’s discovered Gilbert was infected with smallpox, and Gilbert’s sister arrives demanding justice and the return of her absconded slaves, Will is torn. Finding the killer could lead to the recapture of the former slaves. Letting them go free could result in a false arrest and endanger the Durham community. Will must make a choice…$1.99 on Kindle.

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The Old Boys

The Old Boys
Three men are kidnapped on the eve of their high school reunion and wake up trapped inside a remote cabin in the Scottish Highlands.

What comes next is the discovery that one of them is a killer. $0.99 on Kindle.

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Silent Sands (Agnes Taylor Mystery)

Silent Sands (Agnes Taylor Mystery)
“The Agnes Taylor Mystery Series: Compelling Whodunit Stories: If you’re a fan of mystery writers like Agatha Christie and Louise Penny, you’ll love Eva Bernhard’s traditional style of storytelling.” —Best Mystery Novels— When Canadian college instructor Agnes travels to a German island, she hopes the joined vacation will mend the broken relationship with her mom. The rental cottage far out in the dunes is idyllic. Yet finding peace proves impossible. Protests by environmentalists up in arms about a wind turbine project rock the little town. Tension rises between mother and daughter. They must face their own past, and murder…$0.99 on Kindle.

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Dark Ride Deception

Dark Ride Deception
A computer genius is missing from Arizona’s Nostalgia City theme park. So are the secrets to his billion-dollar technology that will transform the industry. Is he dead? On the run? Ex-cop – turned Nostalgia City cab driver Lyle Deming goes undercover, using a range of identities—from attorney to maintenance worker—to scour Florida theme parks looking for the scientist and his mind-bending secrets. (Does this have anything to do with the severed human finger Lyle found in the back of his cab?)

His almost-girlfriend, 6’2” Kate Sorensen, helps out, but she has her own mystery to solve at Nostalgia City, a park that re-creates an entire 1970s small town. $0.99 on Kindle.

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Hope

Hope: He wanted to give her freedom. She wanted her daughter back

What is the difference between justice and fairness?

What are the limits you are willing to overcome for the one you love?

When DCI Paul Peterson meets Hope for the first time, he confronts a struggling teenager with her hands and shirt full of blood. It seemed to be the easiest of cases as she confessed her double murder.

So why does Paul feel his mission must be to prove her innocence rather than close the case? What are the secrets Hope is hiding?

When Helen, Olivia’s mother and celebrated neurosurgeon, chooses her dedication to work against the long-awaited vacation trip to Paris with her husband and daughter, she doesn’t know she is making one of those decisions able to change her life forever.

How far can a mother go to keep her hope alive?

Sometimes is the culprit the real victim. $0.99 on Kindle.

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Fury in the Gulf

Fury in the Gulf

Seven men who aren’t ready to hang up their rifles…

…A desperate mission far from home.

Will any of them survive?

Terrorists have seized a tiny island kingdom in the Persian Gulf, and taken Americans hostage. But the Saudis are leaning on the Americans to prevent an overt response. Meanwhile, the clock is ticking for the hostages.

Enter the mercenaries.

John Brannigan retired from the Marine Corps, and isn’t all that happy about it. Now, with American lives in the balance, he’ll come back to the action, recruiting a small crew of men ready to stare death in the face.

They’re alone, outnumbered, and outgunned.

There’s no backup coming.

Have they signed up for a mission, or a suicide run?

You’ll love this action thriller because the intrigue is tense and once the fight starts, it never lets up. $0.99 on Kindle.

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The Cerberus Affair

The Cerberus Affair

Catherine is determined to expose those responsible for the death of her friend – a future British Prime Minister. She enters the world of controversial genetics research; uncovers a tangled web of corporate corruption and murder; and faces the
mysterious, sinister Cerberus.

Can Catherine discover the truth in time to protect a world-changing medical discovery and save the lives of her son and the man she loves? $0.99 on Kindle.

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Fault Lines

Fault Lines
When her best friend vanishes from a party at a haunted house attraction, Laurie Arbo refuses to believe that the man she loves might be a murderer. Still, she finds it impossible to move on unless the mystery of her friend’s disappearance is solved. As Laurie draws closer to learning what happened that fateful night, she realizes the truth is the one thing she doesn’t want to uncover. $1.99 on Kindle.

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Interrupted Dreams

Interrupted Dreams

Angie and Justin find themselves in the grip of romance. The dream life they’ve set out to build could be perfect, but even the most beautiful dream can become a nightmare. The newlyweds, and unrequited love, find themselves on a collision course the likes of which none may survive. Based on true events. $6.99 on Kindle.

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The Blackmail Enigma

The Blackmail Enigma

A note, with a call for help, interrupts Lord Tensbury this morning.

The note can also be blackmail.

Who is behind the blackmail? Will it succeed? Can it be stopped?

If the information hinted in the note becomes public, it will prevent Tensbury’s son Andrew from becoming the youngest prime minister of Britain in over 200 years.

It is nine days before the general election. Andrew is the leader of the Conservative Party. While campaigning, he extols the achievements and humble beginnings of the 1st Baron Tensbury, to whom Queen Victoria granted peerage.

The blackmail note refers to a horrible event in 1850s Africa. It implicates the 1st Baron Tensbury. That is why Tensbury must stop the blackmailer, whoever it is.

Across the Atlantic, a young American woman from Silicon Valley, Hanna Arnol, is getting ready to retrace her ancestor Signe’s steps. Alone on a trading ship, as a girl of eighteen, Signe traveled from Norway to South Africa in 1859. Signe wrote a diary each year. Hanna has them all, except for a couple of torn-out pages from 1859.

As Tensbury tries to preempt, what he assumes, is the Labor Party’s effort to discredit his son, his agent’s path crosses that of Hanna Arnol, looking to solve the mystery of the lost pages.

Crime, pride, remorse, and intrigue are all part of this story. What was the horrible event in Africa? Do the missing pages contain the answer? And will Tensbury deflect Labor’s plotting efforts?

If you enjoy mystery-thriller-suspense, this book is for you. $0.99 on Kindle.

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Free: Genesis (Harry Starke Genesis Book 1)

Genesis (Harry Starke Genesis Book 1)
She was the one that got away. It was a dark and stormy night…

No kidding, it really was. I’d quit the police force only a couple of days earlier – that was back in 2008 – and I was on my way to a poker game at the Sorbonne when a shadow crossed in front of my car. It went by so fast I didn’t have time to stop. I hit the brakes hard and swerved into the mud at the side of the road. I looked out through the deluge, but it was difficult to make out the figure coming towards the driver’s side window. Instinctively, my hand went for my gun and rested on the grip, but as the figure came closer I could see it was a girl. Her hair, dark, bobbed, was plastered to her head and face. The raccoon eye shadow smeared above her eyes had run in rivulets down her cheeks. She looked like one of the walking dead, but more than that she looked scared, really scared. What the hell is she doing out here alone in this kind of weather? I wondered as I let go of my gun and rolled the window down a half-inch.“Get in the back,” I yelled at her, and flipped the lock so she could open the door. And that’s how it all began. Had I known what I was getting myself into I might have done differently… No, I wouldn’t. Anyway, that’s how I became a private detective. Free on Kindle.

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Free: Late Night Shots

LATE NIGHT SHOTS

Stories to entertain and intrigue before lights out.

After a long day, wind down and treat yourself to a Late Night Shot from this collection. Short measures of easy reading – each mixed with a dash of suspense. Switch your phone to night mode and re-love the enjoyment of the bedtime story with these intoxicating and intriguing grown-up tales. All served with a twist.

Featuring:

GHOSTWRITER – ‘When Fact and Fiction Collide’
A shot with hidden depths…exposing a crime writer who finds his own downfall written by a mysterious hand…right before his eyes.

SINDERELLA – ‘If The Shoe Fits…’
A shot that packs a lethal punch…a lady with a set of killer heels and anything but fairy tales in mind.

THE THIRD DOOR – ‘What Lies Inside?’
A shot that keeps you guessing…a house with a mysterious door where one lady sees herself…over and over again.

The first short story collection from novelist Charlotte Valentine – whose debut novel (The Cerberus Affair) hit an Amazon Top 20 Bestseller List (Financial/Conspiracy Thrillers). Free on Kindle.

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Weakest Lynx (The Lynx Series Book 1)

Weakest Lynx (The Lynx Series Book 1)
She wanted a simple life. What she got was anything but…

Lexi Sobado is anything but ordinary. She can do things—sense things—that most people cannot. When she attracts the attention of a deadly stalker, she’s not about to sit quietly and let the handsome ex-SEAL save her. She’s going to take care of herself and help catch the madman—even if it’s the last thing she ever does. $0.99 on Kindle.

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Body in the Waves

Body in the waves
Natalija only wanted a good holiday. Instead of this she will face it with a guy who raped her before ten years. $1.50 on Kindle.

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Deception, Denial & Murder

Deception, Denial & Murder
A domineering co-worker, a flirtatious neighbor, and a dead body make for many questions and awkward situations. When Stacie Maroni’s night out is derailed by the discovery of a body outside a local watering hole, she’s glad she’s not involved. But when the police investigate and close friends are cast as potential suspects, Stacie will do whatever it takes to identify the true culprit, even if it creates waves with the men in her life, her father included. The suspect list is slim and she’s grasping at straws. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Circle of Sharks

Circle of Sharcks
The four Lavington children roamed around their town like sharks in a lagoon doing what they pleased to anyone who got in their way. Some little twit from nowhere gets into their late father’s will? Not for long…

Gordon Lavington packed a pistol. Burton Lavington used his fists. Gretchen Lavington, the lawyer, put people away. Sydney Lavington, the sociopath, plotted and planned all the above. Four sharks rise up against the upstart usurper, Dan Warren, the raggy kid who thinks he can be one of them. He better get lost real fast if he wants to survive.

Dan has had a hard life. His mother disappearing when he was eight landed him in a founding home. Old Noah Thompson, a drunken survivor out of the Iron mines of Mount Riga, eventually rescued him. At twenty-three years old, Dan still lived with Noah surviving as a maintenance worker in a local factory. He knew nothing about his father or any family member until an estate lawyer waving his dead father’s will forced Dan to consider a whole new life. But, the will had stipulations. If he expected to receive any inheritance he would need to move into the family mansion surrounded by his newfound family.

Can he get along living within a circle of sharks?

His siblings regard him to be a ragged bum; a nobody who would not be missed if anything happened to him. The four siblings nudge and shove him around. “Be smart about your chances. Get out of town as fast as you can,” They sneer.
But, Dan suspects they know the reason for his mother’s disappearance. In spite of their threats, Dan decides to remain in the middle of the family, determined to find out what happened. $2.99 on Kindle.

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