Sunday Free Books 6-3-2012

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Chocolate Aftertaste by Liz Grace Davis

Rating: 4.5 Stars with 4 votes
Category: Contemporary Romance
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At her pre-wedding dinner, Nora Darkin, the daughter of a wealthy entrepreneur, discovers her fiancé is not the man she thought he was. As her father hoists his glass to toast them, she makes an announcement: there will be no wedding to her father's right-hand man.

Due to the fresh rift driven between her and her father, Nora escapes to the quaint town of Dreara. Determined to live her life her own way, she makes new friends and pursues her lifelong desire of becoming a chef. Ethan Danes, a neighbour with his own broken heart, helps soothe hers.

Just as Nora discovers what it means to be happy, and she begins to fall in love with Ethan, a woman from his past re-enters his life…

Moon Signs by Helen Haught Fanick

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 2 votes
Category: Mystery
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Retirement is a time for knitting, gardening, and an occasional quiet lunch with friends, according to Kathleen Williamson. Her sister Andrea has an altogether different point of view. When the sisters go to the Canaan Valley to search for paintings mentioned in a document found in an old hotel once owned by their grandparents—paintings that might be Monets—Andrea immediately becomes involved in tracking down a murderer. Kathleen would much rather be looking for the paintings, but she goes along with Andrea, since the victim was their hotel-keeper, murdered just down the hall from their room. The question is: Does the murder have something to do with the elusive paintings?

There are many clues and many suspects, including hotel staff, valley residents, and the mysterious foreigners who come from the Eastern Seaboard for skiing. There are also many types of danger—icy roads, sub-zero temperatures, and a killer who doesn’t care how many people die in the attempt to make sure the right ones do.

Informed Consent by Raphael Hirsch

Rating: 4.7 Stars with 3 votes
Category: Medical Thriller
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David Myers is a young neurosurgeon willing to bend the rules to join the elite group of researchers who dominate the emerging field of gene therapy. But just when success is within reach, his cherished career is threatened. It becomes clear that someone else has been bending the rules-on him. As he searches frantically for an explanation, he discovers a terrible secret. He and his family have been unwitting subjects in a fifty year-old genetic experiment. And unless he can unravel the mystery, none of them-least of all Dr. David Myers-are safe.

The Dark Lake by Carson Anthea

Rating: 4.1 Stars with 29 votes
Category: Psychological Horror
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Something is wrong with Jane. She is stuck in the past.

She goes to therapy. She goes to AA. She tries to find a job, and eventually, to avoid jail time, she goes to Anger Management.

Then they start dragging her car from the lake. “Why,” she wonders, “after all this time, why are they pulling her car from the lake?”

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Hurricane by Janice Thompson

Rating: 4.7 Stars with 31 votes
Category: Historical Christian
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From multi-published Christian author Janice Thompson comes a story of faith and courage.

It's 1900 and Brent Murphy, a prodigal son, is disillusioned with New York and his life as a newspaperman. Drawn home to Galveston Island, Brent knows it is likely he will face rejection from his father. On Saturday September 8, 1900, without warning, the citizens of Galveston Island are in for the fight of their lives when the hurricane of the century hits. In a single night of horror, more than 6,000 islanders lose their lives and countless others are left in devastation.Through the experience, Brent finally faces the truth of his own childhood and the stormy relationship he has with his parents. He finds the courage to write the story of his past and discovers a loving God.

Gods and Kings by Lynn Austin

Rating: 4.7 Stars with 66 votes
Category: Historical Religious
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Gods and Kings is the story of King Hezekiah, heir to the throne of King David. When his evil father plots to sacrifice him, Hezekiah's mother, Abijah, searches frantically for a way to save him. But only two men can help her, and neither of them seems trustworthy. In a time and place engulfed by violence, treachery, and infidelity to Yahweh, Abijah and her son must discover the one true Source of strength if they are to save themselves and their country. Book 1 of Chronicles of the Kings.

Human Sister by Jim Bainbridge

Rating: 4.3 Stars with 14 votes
Category: Science Fiction
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The ancient moralities and worldviews of established religions and the ruling majorities of Earth’s most powerful nation-states have been fighting a rearguard action against the encroachment of science on what they consider to be the core of the human self: its mind and consciousness. The United Nations Human Genome Protection Act has outlawed all genetic enhancements of human offspring, and the old contenders for world domination, the United States and China, have allied themselves to destroy all conscious nonhuman operating units in every outpost of civilization.

Set in such a world, Human Sister is the story of a prodigy, Sara Jensen, the granddaughter of Professor Severn Jensen, one of the world’s leading experts on conscious artificial intelligences, who, with his wife, raises and homeschools Sara on their beautiful California vineyard. Sara’s family also includes a secret fourth member—her illegal bioroid brother, Michael, whom she helps raise and who was made by her grandfather in part from Sara’s neurons and other cells and who is capable of accessing her thoughts and affections. Amidst a dangerous and darkening outer world, Sara discovers that she also must contend with the secrets and deceptions of those she loves—her grandfather, her boyfriend, and Michael—and she learns that even the best of intentions diligently pursued often have unintended, and tragic, consequences.

Black Butterfly 3 by Dante Feenix

Rating: 4.7 Stars with 6 votes
Category: Drama
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From award winning author Dante Feenix, Black Butterfly 3 takes you on an unprecedented thrill ride to a conclusion that YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO PREDICT! In Black Butterfly one and two we got a chance to feel the rage of a falsely accused woman. But what happens when the pain inflicted on a mother turns her son into a monster? Prison fights, Cartel Formations, Federal Agents, Dirty Cops, and Kidnappings are just the beginning in this reality based page turner!

Eboni, the single mom starlet, struggles to adjust to prison life as her son Nadet discovers his dark side and takes over the city just to fund her appeal. Equipped with the intelligence of a master, the cunning of a mobster, and the rage of a psycho; Nadet quickly becomes his alter ego known in Baltimore only as Fame! The one thing his mother pursed but ultimately ruined their lives! In Nadet’s mind, everyone involved with his mother’s downfall will pay the deadly Price of Fame! No love was given, so no love will be lost when he takes up his moms cause… violently!

Question: What do you do, when you don’t know what to do, but you’ve got to do something? The answer is mind blowing… one most people can’t handle! So read Black Butterfly 3 with extreme caution because you won’t see things the same after this one! As real as life itself, this novel will be in your top five best of all time! The Black James Patterson is back… FEENIX!

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Zeron, the planet of death-sleep by Vindal Vandakoff

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 2 votes
Category: Science Fiction
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How would you come to terms with the fact that you would die everyday?

What would it feel like to know how you would die?
Knowing that when day surrenders to night rapid aging takes hold. Your body wastes
away and you are plunged into a death sleep.

For the inhabitants of Zeron this is the torturous reality. Their planet is racked by untold environmental disasters. They live in a world created and destroyed each day.

In a stone chamber overlooking a sea of molten lava, a young heiress awakes from her death-sleep with the memories of a dream. It was something no one had ever done before. In the dream a terrible truth was revealed to her. Only she could free Zeron and its people from this endless cycle of death and rebirth. A series of tasks has to be performed. To fail would bring disaster – but the cost of success was terrifying.

Never Really Alone by Myra Stephens

Rating: 4.7 Stars with 10 votes
Category: Literary Fiction
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Never Really Alone tells the tale of Sarah Jane Foster, a young girl who at the tender age of seven, loses one half of herself to death. In June of 1958, her twin sister Miranda Jean, drowns in the river that runs through their farm.

Is it because she's unable to deal with the loss, so her mind solves the problem, or could it be that Miranda Jean has really returned from the dead on the day of the funeral? Of course, seven-year-old children who claim to see those who have passed on must be ill, mustn't they?

In 1958, child psychiatry was a child itself, and treatment was by today's standards somewhat shocking. Needless to say, Sarah Jane's world was turned more than upside down. It was as if she had been dropped into the middle of a battlefield.

Thus begins Sarah Jane's journey from happy-go-lucky twin to broken half of a whole - and her attempt to rebuild that life. All the while, still attached to her ghostly, but very real to her, sister. On the one hand, clinging to her with every fiber of her being - yet at the same time, yearning to be her own person with one voice.

WOOD by Robert Dunbar

Rating: 4.5 Stars with 8 votes
Category: Horror
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Woods surround a blighted section of a nameless city. After dark, something creeps forth into the streets, something that preys upon humans ... and may ultimately replace them.

One winter night, it begins to stalk a runaway girl.

The creature just made its first mistake.

From a Distance by Tamera Alexander

Rating: 4.5 Stars with 47 votes
Category: Historical Romance
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What happens when the realization of a dream isn't what you imagined... and the secret you've spent a lifetime guarding is finally laid bare?

Determined to become one of the country's premier newspaper photographers, Elizabeth Westbrook travels to the Colorado Territory to capture the grandeur of the mountains surrounding the remote town of Timber Ridge. She hopes, too, that the cool, dry air of Colorado, and its renowned hot springs, will cure the mysterious illness that threatens her career, and her life.

Daniel Ranslett, a former Confederate sharpshooter, is a man shackled by his past, and he'll do anything to protect his land, and his solitude. When an outspoken Yankee photographer captures an image that appears key to solving a murder, putting herself in danger, Daniel is called upon to repay a debt. He's a man of his word, but repaying that debt could bring secrets from his past to light.

Forced on a perilous journey together, Daniel and Elizabeth's lives intertwine in ways neither could have imagined when first they met . . . from a distance.

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Through a Glass Darkly by Karleen Koen

Rating: 4.2 Stars with 151 votes
Category: Historical Romance
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Karleen Koen's sweeping saga contains unforgettable characters consumed with passion: the extraordinarily beautiful fifteen-year-old noblewoman, Barbara Alderley; the man she adores, the wickedly handsome Roger MontGeoffry; her grandmother, the duchess, who rules the family with cunning and wit; and her mother, the ineffably cruel, self-centered and licentious Diana. Like no other work, Through a Glass Darkly is infused with intrigue, sweetened by romance and awash in the black ink of betrayal.

Shadow of Doubt by Jonnie Jacobs

Rating: 4.7 Stars with 3 votes
Category: Mystery
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Kali O'Brien returns to her hometown of Silver Creek where her childhood friend Jannine is the prime suspect in the murder of her husband. Kali is convinced she's innocent until the evidence begins to mount. Secrets past and present confound Kali's investigation. This is the first in the Kali O'Brien series of legal mysteries.

Between Seasons by Aida Brassington

Rating: 4.4 Stars with 25 votes
Category: Horror/ Ghosts
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There are things Patrick Boyle will never forget: the sound of his own neck breaking at the moment of his death in the fall of 1970, the sweet taste of his mother's chocolate cake, and the awful day his parents abandoned him in his childhood house-turned prison.

Nineteen-year-old Patrick wonders for decades if God has forgotten all about him or if he's being punished for some terrible crime or sin over a lovely forty years trapped in an empty home. But when Sara Oswald, a strange woman with a mysterious past, buys his house, old feelings reawaken, and a new optimism convinces him that she's the answer to his prayers.

Things are never simple, though, especially when she begins channeling the memories of his life and death in her writing.

Crow Mountain by Colby Van Wagoner

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 1 vote
Category: Paranormal/ Horror
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From within the Massacre Cave of Crow Mountain, a Navajo witch of the Yee Naaldlooshi, or skin walker tribe, seeks to gain power by using his magic, casting a spell on two young people, creating a family legacy, and forming a bond that will lead to the ultimate power within his tribe. With three of the four family members under the witches spell, William Bartlebee, born of the spell cast upon his mother and father, learns of his family legacy, and their fate from Mautalla, a Navajo medicine man, and is asked to break the spell and the hold on his family by confronting the leader of the Yee Naaldlooshi. If William is unsuccessful, the witch’s spell will overcome him, and complete the circle of the turning and contribute to a stronger power within the Yee Naaldlooshi tribe, giving the witch a stronger control, and the ability to spread his control across the land of William’s people. Armed with the only man-made weapons able to kill the witch, and break the spell on his family, can William and Mautalla, the medicine man defeat the witch of the Yee Naldlooshi in the caves of Crow Mountain?

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Changes of Heart by Paige Lee Elliston

Rating: 3.7 Stars with 3 votes
Category: Christian Romance
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After the unexpected death of her husband, Maggie Locke's perfect life is shattered. Keeping to herself at first, she slowly finds solace in new and old friendships. But still, Maggie is cautious, especially when she discovers that Danny Pulver, her ranch veterinarian, and Ian Lane, the vibrant new minister, both have feelings for her. Then a terrible blizzard hits the town on Thanksgiving night while Maggie is away from home, and she finds she must rely on both Danny and Ian in order to fight the howling winds and get back to her horses. Even while battling the snow and ice, Maggie wonders where her heart really lies. Will she overcome the grief that nearly smothered her spirit in time to find a new love? And if so, how can she choose between the two godly men who seek her heart?

Force of Habit by Alice Loweecey

Rating: 4.8 Stars with 11 votes
Category: Mystery
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Giulia Falcone is convinced she's going to Hell. First, because she left the convent. Second, her new job with a private investigator has her sneaking around and lying. Adjusting to life in the outside world isn't easy. Makeup, dating, and sex are all new to her. And despite a crush on her boss Frank Driscoll—a foul-mouthed, soft-hearted ex-cop—Giulia is sure he'd never fall for an ex-nun.

Her first case involves drop-dead handsome Blake Parker, a man with immense wealth and an ego to match. He and his fiancée are getting disturbing "gifts" with messages based on biblical verses. When Giulia is drawn into the stalker's twisted game, salacious photos of her appear, threatening her job and her friendship with Frank. No one imagines—least of all naïve Giulia—the danger ahead, when following the clues turns into a fight for her life.

Book one in the dangerously habit-forming Falcone & Driscoll Investigation series

Stirring Up Trouble by Juli Alexander

Rating: 4.5 Stars with 11 votes
Category: Young Adult Paranormal
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Zoe Miller is a 15-year-old witch with a talent for potions. She's working hard to find a substitute for toad slime. Since fat-free margarine has been found to be a substitute for dead man's toe, she's hopeful that she'll find one.

Then there's all the so-called normal stuff. Like high school, her annoyingly selfish "friend" Anya, and her crush on Anya's ex-boyfriend Jake.

Now, Zoe's dad is dating Jake's mom, and things are getting more and more complicated. If only Zoe could brew a potion or two and set everything straight. Zoe can't. If she brews a self-serving potion, bad things will happen to her appearance. Like a crooked nose, giant wart, green skin, rotting teeth--the whole ugly witch stereotype.

Zoe's tired of fate interfering so cruelly in her life. Can you really blame her for putting her potions to not-so-good use and stirring up trouble?

Immortal Coil by C.I. Black

Rating: 4.2 Stars with 5 votes
Category: Paranormal Romance
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Two souls. One Body. Sharing is not an option...

Terrible news has turned Anaea Salis's life upside down. There's nothing she can do to make it right and the stranger who stops to talk to her can't help. But when that stranger, Hunter, an ancient dragon spirit, is viciously attacked and forced to transfer his spirit into her body, Anaea's life takes a new terrifying twist.

Hunter should have known by now not to get involved with human affairs, but there was something about the woman that drew him to her and he just couldn't help himself. Trapped in her body all he wants is to get out, except whoever is trying to kill him is now after her.

Their only hope of survival... plunge into the deadly world of dragons.

Length: 89,000 words/286 pages

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Chasing Sunsets by Eva Marie Everson

Rating: 4.5 Stars with 41 votes
Category: Contemporary Christian Romance
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Kimberly Tucker's life hasn't turned out the way she thought it would. A divorced mother of two, Kim resents her ex-husband for moving on with his life and living it up while she struggles to understand what went wrong. When her sons end up spending five weeks of summer vacation with their father, Kim's own father suggests a respite in the family vacation home on tiny Cedar Key Island. As Kim revisits her childhood memories and loves, she soon discovers that treasures in life are often buried, and mistakes--both past and present--become redeemable in God's hand.Readers will be swept away to an island retreat where they walk alongside Kim as she discovers that God's answers may not come easily, but they do come.

Wild Goose Chase by Terri Thayer

Rating: 3.8 Stars with 25 votes
Category: Mystery
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A computer techie by trade, Dewey Pellicano would rather swallow needles than be pinned down to a life of quilting. But when her mother passes away, Dewey must exchange code for calico as the new proprietress of Quilter Paradiso.

Between learning the business and dealing with a conniving employee who is also her sister-in-law, Dewey is ready to snap. During a national quilt show, quilting celebrity Claire Armstrong offers to buy the shop. But before Dewey can accept, she finds the famous quilter lying dead on the floor—a bloody rotary cutter at her side.

When hunky homicide detective Buster Healy enters the scene, romance flourishes... until another murder takes place. Can Dewey thread together the pieces to this murderous pattern before the killer strikes again?

Wild Goose Chase is the first book in the Quilting Mystery series featuring amateur sleuth Dewey Pellicano.

The Watcher by Jo Robertson

Rating: 4.6 Stars with 28 votes
Category: Romantic Suspense
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Forensic psychiatrist Kate Myers believes the killer of two teenage girls in Bigler County, California, is the same man who savagely murdered her twin sister over fifteen years ago. Working with a single-minded tenacity, she sets out to prove it.

Deputy Sheriff Ben Slater hides his personal pain behind the job, but Kate's arrival in his county knocks his world on its axis. He wants to believe her wild theory, but the idea of a serial killer with the kind of pathology she proposes is too bizarre.

Together they work to find a killer whose roots began in a small town in Bigler County, but whose violence spread across the nation. A Janus-like killer, more monster than man, he fixates on Kate. The killer wants nothing more than to kill the "purple-eyed girl again."

Never Smile at Strangers by Jennifer Minar-Jaynes

Rating: 4.6 Stars with 129 votes
Category: Thriller
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WHEN TEENAGE GIRLS VANISH in what was once considered a safe, Louisiana bayou town, the lives of four desperate young locals take unexpected turns, begging the question: Do you every truly know those closest to you?

When nineteen-year-old Tiffany Perron vanishes from rural Grand Trespass, Louisiana, best friend HALEY LANDRY's relationship with her boyfriend becomes increasingly strained. To make matters worse, her impressionable younger sister BECKY has begun idolizing an impetuous, seductive 15 year old who's encouraging her to do dangerous things.

Meanwhile, ERICA DUVALL, a reclusive 19-year-old aspiring writer, befriends Haley. Ten years earlier, Erica’s mother abandoned her, leaving her with the womanizing used car salesman father she loathes. She’s decided to write a novel based on Tiffany’s disappearance; a novel that she hopes will lead to a reunion with her estranged novelist mother.

RACHEL ANDERSON, a 36-year-old mother of two, is having trouble coming to terms with her husband, TOM’s, affair with the missing girl—a relationship that supposedly ended shortly before Tiffany’s disappearance. What’s more, she comes to the blood curdling realization that someone is watching her through the large back windows of her house.

A DISTURBED MAN also lives in the area. Ever since his mother’s murder four years earlier, he’s been raising his insolent teenage sister, ALLIE, who sleeps with truck drivers for money. He considers women to be dangerous—and his world revolves around his fear and hatred for them. He’s terrified of his sister, knowing she’s intent on pushing him over the edge.

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Two Days of a Dream by Kathryn Gilmore

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 4 votes
Category: Romance
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Kelly Goins’ life didn't match her four-point plan.

1. College at eighteen
2. Career at twenty-two
3. Marriage at twenty-four
4. Kids at twenty-six

Everything in its right order. Except, for Kelly, life didn’t follow the order after step two. After a hard day of corporate climbing in Lincoln, Nebraska, Kelly slips into a vintage nightgown and goes to sleep. The next thing she knows she’s in a dream ... maybe.

The frustrating, stone-cold Captain Duran maybe just what she’s not looking for, but what she needs. She knows it's only her subconscious creating the commanding and handsome man who orders his way into her heart so she dreads when her alarm clock will wrench her from her heart’s desire.

In Iraq, Duran had come to grips with the fact that he would be alone for the rest of his military career, but Kelly turns his orderly life upside down when she appears in his tent. The woman is more than interesting, but is also crazy. He doesn't want to like the hard-nosed woman that keeps popping up in his cot, but maybe he's crazy too.

The Frog Who Would Be Prince by Norm DaPloom

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 6 votes
Category: Middle Grade/ Fantasy/ Humor
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Did you know that every 60 seconds another prince is turned into a frog? The Prince of Capitol City was in danger of becoming just another statistic when young Tom discovered him croaking on his bedroom windowsill. Now, with a little help from a cranky old dwarf, an overly optimistic dragon, and a wise-cracking library book, Tom must restore His Majesty to mammal-hood, and that’s not as easy as it sounds.

Along the way they’ll face witches, monstriches, the horrifying (but eminently literate) Bookwyrm, and the dastardly pirate captain Dirty Beard Daggert, with his notoriously bad hygiene and his chronically ill parrot, Admiral Petey. They’ll swim through the innards of a giant sea turtle, witness the unbridled ferocity of a traditional Dwarven meal, and explore the tranquil beaches of Insignifica, where the world’s tiniest armed forces don’t take kindly to trespassers. And – who knows? – they may even learn a thing or two about sniggling while they’re at it.

The Frog Who Would Be Prince is a 60,000 word novel designed for middle readers with an interest in humorous fantasy adventure, but its quirky, off-beat humor will inspire a laugh from readers of all ages.

Killer Twist by C.A. Larmer

Rating: 4.7 Stars with 3 votes
Category: Mystery
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No one bats an eyelid when a bag lady washes up on the shores of Sydney, minus five fingers and decked out in designer couture; nor is anyone too perturbed when socialite Beatrice Musgrave plunges to her death soon after. No one, that is, except ghostwriter and Merlot-lover Roxy Parker. She’s been writing Beattie’s 'autobiography' and has just stumbled on a secret that’s worth killing for.

With slick black hair, tortoise-shell glasses and a penchant for cheap plonk, Roxy Parker is a sassy new female detective … except she’s not strictly a detective. Rather, she’s a writer with a taste for the morbid and mysterious—and this time her little sideline may get her in way over her head …

In the first book of the Ghostwriter Mystery series, Roxy is hired to ghostwrite the life story of department store heiress Beatrice Musgrave. Beatrice has promised Roxy a secret worth writing about, but before she gets the chance to tell all, the socialite is found ripped to shreds at the bottom of a cliff. The police say it's suicide but Roxy knows better—there are too many people looking way too relieved.

And so she embarks on an investigation of her own. From the posh suburbs of inner-city Sydney to remote outback Australia, Roxy finds herself lured into a web of deceit where time has healed no wounds and no one is who they appear to be. One thing, however, is crystal clear: chasing headlines can be a deadly occupation. Roxy must also act fast—there's a menacing stranger threatening her life, a handsome best friend growing increasingly impatient, and her mother is really starting to get on her nerves.

Killer Twist is a fun, fast-paced adventure for anyone who loves a good cozy mystery with a little wine swilling and fashionable accessories on the side.

FEVER DREAMS by Bruce Elliot Jones

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 3 votes
Category: Paranormal Mystery
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Elliot Bledsoe has a university teaching career, a new screenwriting book, and a gorgeous fiance, Rita. He's also a cynic with phobias about everything from Rita's cat Garbanzo to drowning, but he's learned to live with that.

Enter Katie Bracken, a paranormal investigator from New York who's convinced that Elliot holds the secret to her latest case, the twenty-year-old disappearance in the Louisiana swamps of a kidnapped girl that the local officials never solved. Now the little girl seems to be haunting not only her mother and the local voodoo queen but Elliot as well! And to make matters worse, he is stuck with Garbanzo, his mortal enemy, when Rita decides to visit her parents and Katie harasses him into accompanying her to New Orleans and helping her investigate the case.

Is this the start of a beautiful friendship or a horrible nightmare? Humorous, terrifying, realistic and filled with colorful characters, FEVER DREAMS is the first in the Bracken and Bledsoe Paranormal Mystery series and will make a believer out of you!

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WidowMaker by Carolyn McCray

Rating: 4.0 Stars with 15 votes
Category: Horror
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Terror in the Trees, the latest uber-low budget slasher flick is slaying people... literally. But is it all hype or is there an evil force behind the supposed deaths? Special Agent Bolder had best find out before the President attends the Hollywood premiere...

My Soul to Keep by Sean Hayden

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 8 votes
Category: Young Adult Paranormal/ Humor
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Ever have one of those bad ideas just pop into your head? You know the ones. They seem like a great idea at the time, but if you had stopped to think about it a moment…

I’m talking about those ideas where you just seize the moment and do what your heart tells you to. Then, after the dust settles and you get bandaged up, your parents say, “What the hell were you thinking?”

“But, Dad, I wasn’t!”

I had one of those moments.

I guess if you want to be technical, I had a whole chain of those moments leading up to the big bang moment. The problem was I didn’t have anyone standing around saying, “What the hell were you thinking?”

The moral of this story?

There are several.

First, stores don’t sell black candles for a reason. They’re bad news. If you happen to come across one in the mall that sells questionable items…walk away. Trust me on this one. Black candles are bad.

Second, always know what you want out of life. Coasting along, not caring about anything will get you into trouble. Maybe more than you can handle.

Lastly, if someone offers to grant you your fondest wish, wish for something you really, truly want. Wish for something that will make the world a better place or you a better person. Never ever wish to be a monster…

The MineFields by Steven Eisner

Rating: 4.6 Stars with 16 votes
Category: Literary
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From an early age, Sam Spiegel single-mindedly pursued an entrepreneurial path that prepared him to transform a small-time ad agency into a regional powerhouse with national ambitions. A couple decades later, Sam had achieved almost everything he ever dreamed possible as the ad agency's rainmaker, fountainhead, and unflappable pursuer of success. One final goal remained: To consolidate his gains by attracting an international advertising conglomerate and cash out. That's when the nation is hit with the most unthinkable tragedy, and Sam begins to take stock of his own life, finding that he is growing weary of the relentless hunt. Unsatisfied in his marriage and embroiled in a mind-boggling professional crisis, everything Sam had achieved is put at risk.

Wolf's Rite by Terry Persun

Rating: 4.8 Stars with 5 votes
Category: Spirituality
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An ad exec, led to spiritual awakening by mystical Native Americans, discovers love and violence at the edges of sanity.

Wolf, a predatory New York ad man on a mid-life path to self-destruction, meets with a mysterious band of Native Americans who send him on a spiritual journey in the New Mexico desert. There's no turning back, as his life falls apart around him. Accused of murder, implicated in his friend's suicide, his marriage irrevocably broken, Wolf's sanity and very survival are at stake in his profound personal struggle to banish his own aggressive egotism, to connect with people and nature and to rebuild his life.

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The Dark Citadel by Michael Wallace

Rating: 4.5 Stars with 2 votes
Category: Epic Fantasy
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A slave boy named Darik falls in with a pair of spies as the great city of Balsalom comes under siege by the armies of a dark wizard. They flee west to enlist the aid of griffin riders, an order of wizards, and a band of ascetic knights to come to the city's defense.

Meanwhile, a young queen named Kallia leads a heroic struggle to keep both her city and body free from the dark wizard's cruel embrace. After a treacherous attack opens Balsalom to the armies of the enemy, Kallia assembles an unlikely alliance of palace servants, barbarians, and jealous merchants to retake her city before its people are led away in chains.

Sweet Song by Terry Persun

Rating: 4.1 Stars with 26 votes
Category: Historical Fiction
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An archetypal American story of self-discovery, set against the turmoil of post – Civil War America, Sweet Song tells the story of the mixed race son of a white landowner and a black house servant. Leon, raised black but an outcast from both cultures, fi nds himself suddenly on his own — and passing for white.

Wrestling with a divided heritage in a world where honesty, even with friends, might prove fatal, he falls in with dispossessed thieves, mill workers, saloonkeepers, musicians, businessmen, thugs, freedom loving idealists and malevolent racists — a vivid panorama from America’s past. This tender, raw, provocative novel speaks from the heart about where we’ve come from and who we are.

The Twelve Stones by RJ Johnson

Rating: 4.7 Stars with 11 votes
Category: Science Fiction
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Twenty two years ago, Alex McCray found the first of the Twelve Stones, a set of powerful artifacts left for Humanity to find and use to save Earth from certain destruction.

Returning to his hometown of Onyx, California, Alex reunites with his father who returns the stone Alex found so many years ago. Their reunion is cut short however after Alex's father is murdered by billionaire industrialist Rupert Kline, a madman who will stop at nothing to collect all twelve stones for himself.

Driven by revenge, Alex McCray vows to bring his father's killer to justice and keep the remaining Twelve Stones out of Kline's hands.

A thrilling tale that mixes romance, cutting edge science, and oh yeah, the fate of human civilization.

The Color of Bones by Tracy Edward Wymer

Rating: 4.8 Stars with 10 votes
Category: Young Adult Dystopian
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Twelve year-old Derby Shrewd lives in a divided town. Literally. Lights live on the Northside of the Line, Darks live on the Southside. Hillside has been that way ever since the Line appeared naturally from the ground, much like a spring welling up from deep inside the earth.

Now the Line controls the town, keeping Hillside segregated, zapping those who come near it and killing those who dare cross it.

But when Derby, a Northsider, finds a pile of bones stacked on the Line, he sets out to uncover the Crosser's identity. In the process, he befriends a Southside girl and soon begins to challenge the Line and the town's rules. And then, before he can turn back, Derby goes too far.

Second Batch of Friday Free Books 6-1-2012

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Scorpio Rising by Monique Domovitch

Rating: 4.4 Stars with 27 votes
Category: Literary Fiction
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Set in New York and Paris amid the glamorous and competitive worlds of art and real estate, Scorpio Rising takes the reader from the late 1940s to the 1960s through the tumultuous lives of its heroes.

There is Alex Ivanov, the son of a Russian immigrant and part-time prostitute. He yearns to escape his sordid life and achieve fame and fortune. His dreams of becoming a world-class builder are met with countless obstacles, yet he perseveres in the hope of someday receiving the recognition he craves.

Half a world away, Brigitte Dartois is an abused teenager who runs into the arms of a benefactor with an agenda all his own. When she finds out that her boss has an ulterior motive, she flees again, determined to earn her living through her art. This career brings her fame, but also the unwanted attention of her early abuser.

Monique Domovitch’s debut novel, Scorpio Rising, is a compelling tale filled with finely etched characters and a superb understanding of the power of ambition. Scorpio Rising promises to resonate with all who once had a dream.

Speed Dating with the Dead by Scott Nicholson

Rating: 4.3 Stars with 54 votes
Category: Horror
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SPEED DATING WITH THE DEAD

When Digger Wilson brings his paranormal team Spirit Seekers International to the White Horse Inn, he is skeptical that his dead wife will keep her half of the bargain. He doesn’t believe in ghosts, and just before she died, she promised to meet him there.

But when one of the conference guests channels a mysterious presence and an Ouija board spells out a pet phrase known only to Digger and his wife, his convictions are challenged.

And when guests start to disappear, Digger and his daughter Kendra must face the circle of demons that view the hotel as their personal playground. Because soon the inn will be closing for good, angels can’t be trusted, and demons don’t like to play alone . . .

A Winter Ballad by Barbara Samuel

Rating: 4.3 Stars with 23 votes
Category: Historical Romance
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A FAIR MAIDEN

Anya of Winterbourne had suffered nothing but humiliation at the hands of men. And yet when she found a fallen knight in a still winter forest, she could not leave him to die.

A NOBLE KNIGHT

Weary of battle and pursued by assassins, Christian de Moreerx would have liked nothing more than to stay at Winterbourne and champion the elusive and beleaguered Lady Anya. But his past contained a secret he had to decipher if he was to live, and his presence could only bring more disaster to the manor.

A GREAT AND DANGEROUS GAME

To thwart their separate enemies, Lady Anya and her broken knight battle virulent forces and face death itself to win the love that would long be sung by troubadours as... A WINTER BALLAD

The Bee Who Was Different by Kurt Zimmerman

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 2 votes
Category: Children's 
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An exciting, full color picture book about a brave little bee with a disability. The story clearly demonstrates that bravery comes in all shapes and sizes. The full-color 3D pictures will captivate young and old alike.

The perfect bedtime story!

Friday Free Books 6-1-2012

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Right Care, Right Now by Stuart D. Heaslet

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 5 votes
Category: Non-fiction
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"What makes this book different? There isn't a lot of fluff. Just solid, useful information and tools that will help you make good decisions for a loved one." -IJH, San Francisco, California

"RIGHT CARE, RIGHT NOW" is a practical no-nonsense guide written for people short on time who need information about representing a patient in today's U.S. health care system.

Included are powerful strategies and techniques to plan and process health care decisions for a patient.

This is an easy to read reference that is to the point and heavily linked to essential research, physician, hospital, drug and government insurance websites.

Features:

-How to avoid the top ten mistakes made by most health advocates.

-How to research medical treatment options (and why you shouldn't rely on Google).

-How to find the best doctors, surgeons and hospitals, and which questions you should ask before you hire them.

-How to do background checks on doctors and hospitals.

-Learn when teaching hospitals tend to make the most mistakes.

-When and how to fire a doctor.

-Why second and third opinions matter.

-How to get get the best second and third medical opinions, and why it is often best NOT to get them from colleagues of the primary care physician.

-How to research and source the best and most economical medications.

-How to work with Medicare and private insurance companies, and deal with excessive charges and billings.

-How to appeal insurance denials of insurance coverage.

-How to establish your legal and practical role as a patient advocate, or outsource to a professional or volunteer advocate.

-And much more...

This is the book for non-medical people who must deal with one of the most complex medical bureaucracies on the planet, and who don't have a lot of time to learn how to do it.

We don't post many non-fiction books but this is one that seemed relevant to about everyone in the US.

Along Came a Demon by Linda Welch

Rating: 4.6 Stars with 38 votes
Category: Paranormal Mystery
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I'm told the dead are all around us. I wouldn't know about that, I see only the violently slain. They can be victims of hit-and-run, innocents caught in a cross-fire, the murdered. They whisper to me and they never, ever, forget the face of their killer. I've learned to live with my uncanny ability, in fact I've made a career out of it.

The departed aren't the only supernaturals I see. No, they're not vampires or werewolves or fae - those things don't exist. We live side by side with what some call the Otherworldy. That's too much of a mouthful for me, I call them demons. If you saw them as I do, you'd know why.

Right now I'm trying to track down a missing six year-old boy whose mother was murdered. Or maybe she wasn't. To further complicate the case, Clarion PD gave me a partner I'd rather shoot than work with.

I can't tell them he's a demon.

They'd think I'm crazy.

I'm Tiff Banks. Welcome to my world.

WHISPERINGS. Paranormal mystery with a splash of humor and dash of romance.

Strike the Match by Diane Moody

Rating: 4.0 Stars with 11 votes
Category: Romance
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Strike the Match - The Teacup Novellas Book Two

The last place twenty-four year old Keri McMillan wants to be is back home in Waterford Bay, Oregon. But after two years at prestigious New York University pursuing a degree in journalism, her bank account is drained. Keri is determined to move home for one year - and one year only--- to make some serious money working for her dad's log cabin company, but her goals all go up in smoke when the company's new showcase home burns to the ground.

Six months ago, Grant Dawson bought the Waterford Weekly, a small newspaper in his father's hometown. Burned out as a reporter for the L.A. Times and tired of all the inherent politics, he welcomed the slower pace of this Oregon coastal town and the more relaxed lifestyle producing a weekly paper. He enjoys being close to his dad again, a quiet man who captains a whale-sightseeing boat.

Grant is surprised at his unexpected interest in Keri, the niece of columnist Luby Sanders. He thinks Luby is a hoot and can't help but adore her. But she's also playing matchmaker, trying to interest him in her niece. When Keri shows up at a log cabin fire in the middle of the night, she's not the geeky college kid he expected. But he's not about to fall victim to Luby's orchestrations.

Even if her niece is beautiful.
And vulnerable.
And apparently in need of a job.

Freezing Point by Karen Dionne

Rating: 4.1 Stars with 30 votes
Category: Thriller
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The polar icecaps are melting - fast.

In a drowning, desperate world, the Soldyne Corporation sees an opportunity: Melt Antarctic icebergs into drinking water using their microwave satellite array, ship the water to thirsty nations around the globe, and make a fortune.

But deep within the ice waits an enemy more deadly than anyone could imagine—and an apocalyptic horror Earth may not survive.

Includes excerpts from BOILING POINT by K. L. (Karen) Dionne, and WHAT CAME AFTER by Sam Winston