Kiss the Girl

 Romantic Comedy
Author: Susan Sey

FREE
Kiss the Girl

Another smart, sexy contemporary romance from award-winning author Susan Sey, this one chock full of stoners, doctors and celebrities on the lam. Enjoy!

Nixie Leighton-Brace is ready to quit the family business. It’s not the work–she loves building hospitals, schools and orphanages for her family’s humanitarian organization. But when her movie-star mother steals Nixie’s boyfriend to generate publicity for their latest cause, Nixie snaps. She quits her job, walks away from her family, and boards a plane to the one place on earth she’s never been. Home.

Dr. Erik Larsen likes to keep his private life private, a word he doubts crazy-famous Nixie Leighton-Brace even knows. Fundraising, though? She’s got that one nailed, and Erik’s free health clinic is barely keeping the lights on. So when Nixie walks in and asks for a job, he gives her one.

The Time Travel Trailer

 Science Fiction > Time Travel
Author: Karen Musser Nortman

FREE
The Time Travel Trailer

A 1937 vintage camper trailer half hidden in weeds catches Lynne McBriar’s eye when she is visiting an elderly friend Ben. Ben eagerly sells it to her and she just as eagerly embarks on a restoration. But after each remodel, sleeping in the trailer lands Lynne and her daughter Dinah in a previous decade—exciting, yet frightening. Glimpses of their home town and ancestors fifty or sixty years earlier is exciting and also offers some clues to the mystery of Ben’s lost love. But when Dinah makes a trip on her own, separating herself from her mother by decades, Lynne has never known such fear. It is a trip that may upset the future if Lynne and her estranged husband can’t team up to bring their daughter back.

DARK WEB

 Mystery > Police Procedurals
Author: T.J. BREARTON

FREE
DARK WEB a gripping detective thriller full of suspense

A family is torn apart by a murder

Who killed a teenager and left the body in the snow? Mike and Callie Simpkins moved north to restart their lives and get their finances back on track. But their son Braxton withdraws into a dark online world. When he decides to meet some of the players in the real world, tragedy strikes, and the family is torn apart.

Detective John Swift must untangle a web of virtual and real crimes in order to solve this complex mystery. And as the family copes with unimaginable grief, even Braxton’s stepfather Mike comes under suspicion.

Unreal City

 Horror > Dark Fantasy
Author: A. R. Meyering

FREE
Unreal City

Sarah Wilkes is desperate enough to do anything, even make a deal with the devil—or in her case, a familiar spirit.

After her twin Lea is murdered, Sarah finds college life impossible and longs to escape. Everything changes when Sarah realizes a familiar spirit is stalking her and offers to transport her to the terrifying and fantastical realm of Unreal City. The payment for admission? A taste of her blood. Unable to resist, Sarah is drawn into an alternate reality that is a dream come true…at first.

The deeper she explores Unreal City, the more Sarah’s reality becomes warped. Death surrounds her as people are murdered in the same fashion as her sister. She has no choice but to continue her visits to Unreal City, which grows darker by the day.

Is finding out the truth about what happened to Lea worth becoming part of Unreal City forever?

Coming Home Again (A Coming Home Again Novel Book 1)

 Women’s Fiction > Humor
Author: T.I. Lowe

FREE
Coming Home Again (A Coming Home Again Novel Book 1)

I’ve lost myself. Where did I go? Can I find myself? I just don’t know… Savannah Monroe dances with demons from a complicated past.

Families believe ghosts can be well hidden deep in the ancestral closet, but forget all too easily that those ghosts haunt with abandon. Savannah has to face each one of hers as she heads home again to Bay Creek, South Carolina, after running away over five years ago. The closer she gets to home, the clearer the realization becomes that some skeletons need to be dealt with and properly buried.

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Xist Classics)

 Literature & Fiction > Classics > American
Author: Ambrose Bierce

Regularly $0.99, Today $0.10
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Xist Classics)

The classic “An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge” is a short story with a twist by American author Ambrose Bierce. Set during the American Civil War, it’s the story of Peyton Farquhar, a Confederate sympathizer condemned to death by hanging from Owl Creek Bridge.

Originally published by The San Francisco Examiner in 1890, the story is famous for its irregular time sequence and twist ending. Bierce’s abandonment of strict linear narration in favor of the internal mind of the protagonist is considered an early example of experimentation with stream of consciousness.

Photographing Your Children: A Handbook of Style and Instruction

 Photography > Reference
Author: Jenifer Altman

Regularly $17.99, Today $2.99
Photographing Your Children: A Handbook of Style and Instruction

No one loves taking pictures more than parents. But the combination of complicated digital cameras with fast-moving kids means no one is more flummoxed by taking pictures, either. This easy-to-use manual offers parents the tools they need to make beautiful, lasting, and evocative memories. Author, photographer, and mom of three Jen Altman shares her keen eye for the honest moment in this treasure trove of helpful instructions and inspirational photos. From choosing a camera and learning the fundamentals of photography to setting up great kid-friendly shots and overcoming the challenges inherent in photographing little ones, Altman’s warm prose and lovely images sweep aside preconceived notions and show readers how to capture the unique spirit and personality of every child.

Crooked House

 Mystery > British Detectives
Author: Agatha Christie

Regularly $8.99, Today $1.99
Crooked House

With World War II at an end, Charles Hayward is finally free to marry the woman he loves, Sophia Leonides. However, she refuses – the unexplained death of her grandfather, wealthy businessman Aristide Leonides, draws her back to the suffocating environment of her family home. Charles follows, but his arrival coincides with the discovery that Aristide’s death was murder. The ensuing investigation drags Charles into the dark heart of the family, and its deadly secrets and dangers. Even if Charles escapes with his life, will he survive the corrosive effect of the family itself?

Dead Man’s Folly: Hercule Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot series Book 31)

 Mystery > British Detectives
Author: Agatha Christie

Regularly $8.99, Today $1.99
Dead Man's Folly: Hercule Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot series Book 31)

Whilst organising a mock murder hunt for the village fete hosted by Sir George and Lady Stubbs, a feeling of dread settles on the famous crime novelist Adriane Oliver. Call it instinct, but it’s a feeling she just can’t explain…or get away from.

In desperation she summons her old friend, Hercule Poirot – and her instincts are soon proved correct when the “pretend” murder victim is discovered playing the scene for real, a rope wrapped tightly around her neck.

But it’s the great detective who first discovers that in murder hunts, whether mock or real, everyone is playing a part.

The Pale Horse

 Mystery > British Detectives
Author: Agatha Christie

Regularly $8.99, Today $1.99
The Pale Horse

When an elderly priest is murdered, the killer searches the victim so roughly that his already ragged cassock is torn in the process. What was the killer looking for? And what had a dying woman confided to the priest on her deathbed only hours earlier?

Mark Easterbrook and his sidekick Ginger Corrigan are determined to find out. Maybe the three women who run The Pale Horse public house, and who are rumored to practice the “Dark Arts,” can provide some answers?

Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man’s Soul

 Christian Living > Men’s Issues
Author: John Eldredge

Regularly $9.99, Today $1.99
Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

Every man was once a boy.  And every little has dreams, big dreams,  dreams of being the hero, of beating the bad guys, of doing daring feats and rescuing the damsel in distress. Every little girl has dreams, too: of being rescued by her prince and swept up into a great adventure, knowing that she is the beauty.

But what happens to those dreams when we grow up? Walk into most churches, have a look around, and ask yourself: What is a Christian man?  Without listening to what is said, look at what you find there. Most Christian men are . . . bored.

John Eldredge revises and updates his best-selling, renowned Christian classic, Wild at Heart, and in it invites men to recover their masculine heart, defined in the image of a passionate God. And he invites women to discover the secret of a man’s soul and to delight in the strength and wildness men were created to offer.  John Eldredge is the director of Ransomed Heart

BEYOND JUSTICE

 Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Crime
Author: Joshua Graham

Regularly $5.99, Today $2.99
BEYOND JUSTICE

Sam Hudson, a reputable San Diego attorney, learns this when the authorities wrongfully convict him of the brutal rape and murder of his wife and daughter, and sends him to death row. There he awaits execution by lethal injection.

If he survives that long.

In prison, Sam fights for his life while his attorney works frantically on his appeal. It is then that he embraces the faith of his departed wife and begins to manifest supernatural abilities. Abilities which help him save lives– his own, those of his unlikely allies–and uncover the true killer’s identity, unlocking the door to his exoneration.

Now a free man, Sam’s newfound faith confronts him with the most insurmountable challenge yet. A challenge beyond vengeance, beyond rage, beyond anything Sam believes himself capable of: to forgive the very man who murdered his family, according to his faith.

The Driver – John Milton #3 (John Milton Series)

 Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Author: Mark Dawson

Regularly $3.99, Today $0.99
The Driver - John Milton #3 (John Milton Series)

John Milton has started to hope that he might have a future. He has a job driving a taxi around the streets of San Francisco. He has his anonymity and his solitude. Being invisible has become a comfortable habit. He doesn’t want to be found.

But when a girl he drives to a party goes missing, Milton is worried. Especially when two dead bodies are discovered and the police start treating him as their prime suspect. Milton is a fugitive from the British Secret Service and a man in his position needs extra attention like he needs a hole in the head.

As unpleasant secrets leak out, and the body count rises, one thing is for sure.

Leaving the Hall Light On

 Family Relationships > Parent & Adult Child
Author: Madeline Sharples

Regularly $2.99, Today $0.99 Leaving the Hall Light On

Leaving the Hall Light On: A Mother’s Memoir of Living with Her Son’s Bipolar Disorder and Surviving His Suicide charts the near-destruction of one middle-class family whose son committed suicide after a seven-year struggle with bipolar disorder. Madeline Sharples, author, poet and web journalist, goes deep into her own well of grief to describe her anger, frustration and guilt. She describes many attempts — some successful, some not — to have her son committed to hospital and to keep him on his medication. The book also charts her and her family’s redemption, how she considered suicide herself, and ultimately, her decision live and take care of herself as a woman, wife, mother and writer.

In the Midnight Rain

  Romance > Multicultural & Interracial
Author: Barbara Samuel, Ruth Wind

Regularly $3.99, Today $0.99 In the Midnight Rain

Ellie Connor is a biographer with a special talent for piecing together fragments of the past. Her latest project, though, promises to be her most challenging–and personal. Not only is she researching the life of a blues singer who disappeared mysteriously forty years ago, but Ellie is also trying to find the truth about the parents she never knew. The love child of a restless woman who died young and an anonymous father, Ellie has little to go on but a faded postcard her mother sent from a small East Texas town–the hometown of her latest subject. It is there that Ellie meets Blue Reynard, a man with deep roots and wide connections who may help her find answers. With a piercing gaze and cool grin, Blue is as sultry and seductive as the Southern night air.

Vatican Knights

 Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Author: Rick Jones

Regularly $2.99, Today $0.99 Vatican Knights

While on a visit to the United States, Pope Pius XIII is kidnapped by a terrorist cell calling itself the Soldiers of Islam. If the United States and its allies do not meet their demands, they will execute the pope. So when FBI Specialist Shari Cohen is called to duty to track down the terrorist cell responsible, she learns that she is not alone. Deep behind the Vatican walls a secret order dispatches a clandestine op group of elite commandos known as the Vatican Knights. Their mission: bring the pope back alive. As Cohen and the Knights work in tandem they uncover a White House conspiracy involving high-ranking members on Capitol Hill. When she begins to get too close to the truth about the pope’s kidnapping, she becomes the target of indigenous forces trying to keep the conspiracy safe.

Fathered by God: Learning What Your Dad Could Never Teach You

 Christian Living > Spiritual Growth
Author: John Eldredge

Regularly $7.99, Today $1.99 Fathered by God: Learning What Your Dad Could Never Teach You

There is a path leading to authentic manhood, cut by men who have gone before us, sons following in the footsteps of their fathers, generation after generation. There are perils along the trail, even disasters?all the more reason to rely on the guidance of a Father who has gone before. But in an age when true fathers are in short supply, how do you find the path to manhood? How do you steer clear of the dangers? John Eldredge calls men back to a simple and reassuring truth: God is our Father. In life’s trials and triumphs, God is initiating boys and men through the stages of manhood from Beloved Son to Cowboy to Warrior to Lover to King to Sage. Fathered by God maps out the path of manhood?not more rules, not another list of principles, not formulas, but a sure path men have followed for centuries before us.

The Power of Words: Unlock Your Ability to Learn and Do Anything

Self-Help > Personal Transformation
Author: Sean Clouden

Regularly $2.99, Today $0.99 The Power of Words: Unlock Your Ability to Learn and Do Anything

If you’re looking for an easy way to ignite your potentials in any subject or activity, then read this book. You’re about to see how to quickly get “the edge” in school, business, hobbies and any other undertaking. The methods in this book…

    • Can be applied immediately to boost your intelligence, competence and confidence in any area of your life.
  • Are so easy to do that I’ve been using it since I was 14.
  • Are based on the research of some of history’s most brilliant minds (this goes back to the days of Socrates!).
  • If you’re like me, you’re skeptical of anyone making these kinds of promises. Trust me, I understand—I’m the biggest cynic I know.
  • But listen, I’m not asking you to “put your faith in me.” I’m not selling some magical “quick fix.” This is a true “nuts and bolts,” “in the trenches” system that will make immediate sense to you once you’ve learned it, and will deliver immediate results once you’ve applied it.

Hidden Agemda (Kate Diamond Adventure Series Book 1)

 Mystery > Women Sleuths
Author: Leighann Dobbs

Regularly $2.99, Today $0.99 Hidden Agemda (Kate Diamond Adventure Series Book 1)

The Millenia Ruby is stolen from the Ritzholdt Museum and insurance investigator Kate Diamond will stop at nothing to retrieve it … even if it means getting shot at, impersonating an FBI agent and tangling with a live volcano. Enlisting the aid of her retired jewel thief parents and their band of thieves, safecrackers and con men from the Golden Capers retirement village, Kate arms herself with a variety of gadgets and disguises to follow a trail of clues from icy Antarctica to a desolate tropical island. But she soon finds that what started off as an easy job may end with a deadly twist. Why is someone going to so much trouble to keep possession of the ruby? And what, exactly, does Kate’s ex-partner, FBI agent Ace Mason, have up his sleeve? Is he really trying to keep her safe as he suggests, or is he simply trying to find the ruby first and take all the credit?

The Long and Faraway Gone: A Novel

 Mystery > Private Investigators
Author: Lou Berney

Regularly $9.99, Today $2.99 The Long and Faraway Gone: A Novel

With the compelling narrative tension and psychological complexity of the works of Laura Lippman, Dennis Lehane, Kate Atkinson, and Michael Connelly, Edgar Award-nominee Lou Berney’s The Long and Faraway Gone is a smart, fiercely compassionate crime story that explores the mysteries of memory and the impact of violence on survivors—and the lengths they will go to find the painful truth of the events that scarred their lives. In the summer of 1986, two tragedies rocked Oklahoma City. Six movie-theater employees were killed in an armed robbery, while one inexplicably survived. Then, a teenage girl vanished from the annual State Fair. Neither crime was ever solved.

The Artful (Shadows of the City Book 1)

 Science Fiction > Post-Apocalyptic
Author: Wilbert Stanton

Regularly $4.99, Today $0.99 The Artful (Shadows of the City Book 1)

New York City, 2025: Everything is changed. The city that never sleeps is now a land of death and decay. A rampant virus has taken over and the survivors have become carriers, quarantined from the rest of the world. Twist and Dodger grew up in the streets, the sewers and underground tunnels – their playground. They aren’t heroes. They just like attention; and stealing meds from the rich and giving them to the poor is their golden ticket. On their latest raid, they unknowingly steal a cure that puts them square between the ailing Emperor of Manhattan and the war hungry Governor of Brooklyn and forces them on a quest into the darkest shadows of their putrefying world.

Chasing Claire (Hells Saints Motorcycle Club)

 Women’s Fiction > Romance
Author: Paula Marinaro

Regularly $3.99, Today $1.99 Chasing Claire (Hells Saints Motorcycle Club)

Claire Winston knows she’s lucky to be alive—and even luckier to have the love and protection of a man like Prosper, her adoptive father and leader of the Hells Saints Motorcycle Club. Yet, try as she may, she can’t leave yesterday behind. She’s still haunted by Reno, the bad-boy biker her heart loves but her spirit fears. And she can’t seem to escape the terrifying memories of a night filled with blood, bullets, and brutality. Hells Saints soldier Reno has tried everything with liquor and lace to get Claire off his mind. But he just can’t forget her freckles, her fierce fragility, and her tender heart. He knows he’s the only man who can give her the love she truly deserves.

That Magic Touch (Lake Shelbyville Book 1)

 Romance > Paranormal > Witches & Wizards
Author: Donna Marie Rogers, Stacy D. Holmes

Regularly $3.99, Today $0.99 That Magic Touch (Lake Shelbyville Book 1)

Living in a small town, Mia Grey has a hard enough time keeping her own unique healing powers secret, never mind those of her thirteen-year-old sister, whose powerful telekinetic abilities grow stronger by the day. Mia’s discovered it’s not so easy keeping a moody teenage witch on the right path while working full-time in her convenience store/bait shop. And her pre-occupation with their gorgeous new neighbor certainly isn’t helping matters. Jack Sutton spent seven years behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit. Longing for a family connection, he heads to Illinois in search of an aunt he’s never met. He rents an auto garage in the picturesque town of Shelbyville and just starts to settle in when late one night he’s stabbed in an apparent robbery. He wakes the following morning with a throbbing head and an aching gut. The good news is he’s alive.

Dubiosity

 Mystery > Cozy
Author: Christy Barritt

Regularly $3.99, Today $1.99 Dubiosity

Savannah Harris vowed to leave behind her old life as an intrepid investigative reporter. But when a friend raises suspicions about two migrant workers who’ve gone missing from the sleepy coastal town Savannah calls home, her curiosity spikes. As ever more eerie incidents begin afflicting the area, each works to draw Savannah out of her seclusion and raise the stakes—for both Savannah and the surrounding community. Even as Savannah’s new boarder, Clive Miller, makes her feel things she thought long forgotten, she suspects he’s hiding something too, and he’s not the only one. Doubts collide in Savannah’s mind: Who can she really trust?

GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love

 History > United States > 20th Century
Author: Duncan Barrett, Nuala Calvi

Regularly $6.99, Today $1.99 GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love

For readers enchanted by the bestsellers The Astronaut Wives Club, The Girls of Atomic City, and Summer at Tiffany’s, an absorbing tale of romance and resilience—the true story of four British women who crossed the Atlantic for love, coming to America at the end of World War II to make a new life with the American servicemen they married. The “friendly invasion” of Britain by over a million American G.I.s bewitched a generation of young women deprived of male company during the Second World War. With their exotic accents, smart uniforms, and aura of Hollywood glamour, the G.I.s easily conquered their hearts, leaving British boys fighting abroad green with envy.

A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee

 Children’s eBooks > Action & Adventure > Humorous
Author: Chris Van Dusen

Regularly $5.99, Today $0.99 A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee

Mr. Magee and his trusty dog, Dee, are enjoying a peaceful camping trip when all of a sudden they find themselves plunging down a mountain and teetering on the edge of a huge waterfall! How will they find their way out of this slippery situation? Chris Van Dusen, the creator of Down to the Sea with Mr. Magee, has filled this new adventure with charming illustrations and a playful, rhyming text. A fun read-aloud for children (and adults!) on campouts or snuggling at home!

… See the rest of today’s Editor’s Picks here on page 2Page 2