Raising the Stakes: Risking It Book 1

Romantic Comedy
Author: Autumn Reed, Julia Clarke
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Raising the Stakes: Risking It Book 1

Emma Harris lets her best friend drag her to a popular Vegas club, expecting nothing more than to let loose after finals. But when she catches the attention of three magnetic strangers, and they each begin to pursue her, she wonders if there is more going on than meets the eye.

Unable to deny her curiosity, she lets Shane, Nicholas, and Cole chase her, questioning their motives even as she begins falling under their spell. When Emma uncovers the truth, will it ruin everything?

Beyond the Lens: A heartwarming romantic comedy (Lucy Mitchell Book 1)

Fiction > British > Contemporary
Author: Hannah Ellis
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Beyond the Lens: A heartwarming romantic comedy (Lucy Mitchell Book 1)

Twenty-six-year-old Lucy Mitchell isn’t the sort of person who’d take part in a reality TV show. But when she loses her job and is offered a free trip to Spain, it sounds too good to pass up.

Yes, she’s being filmed for a TV show, but it’s on a beautiful Spanish island. What’s the worst that can happen?

Surprisingly, her little holiday couldn’t be any more perfect; she makes fantastic new friends and even indulges in a behind-the-scenes romance with a hunky cameraman.

Then everything begins to unravel and she finds her week in the sun may in fact come at a very high price…

Chosen (The Djinn Wars Book 1)

Romance > Paranormal > Ghosts
Author: Christine Pope
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Chosen (The Djinn Wars Book 1)

When a fatal fever nearly wipes out the entire world’s population, the survivors of what became known as “the Dying” believe the worst is in the past. Little do they know…

In the aftermath of the Dying, survivor Jessica Monroe searches for sanctuary in a world unlike any she’s ever known before. As fear and isolation envelop her, Jessica encounters the sensitive and helpful Jace, who she believes is another survivor.  But Jace has a past and secrets of his own that’s he not ready to disclose. Soon Jessica realizes that the destruction of humanity might actually be the first step in a larger, more complicated plan — a plan that may very well involve her.

Ruin: The Waking

Romance > Paranormal
Author: Lucian Bane
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Ruin: The Waking

To judge and execute. That is Ruin’s power and desire. But Ruin’s memory is empty of how he came to be here on Earth and why. After saving Isadore– a neuroscientist living in the swamps of Louisiana– from a sexual predator, she volunteers to help him.
Ruin soon discovers that judging and executing wicked humans while linked to such a difficult and beautiful woman who can’t help but involve herself in every aspect of his business, is proving to be more difficult than judging the world.

Soul Rebel (Death’s Kiss Book 1)

Horror > Dark Fantasy
Author: C.J. Pinard
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Soul Rebel (Death's Kiss Book 1)

When 21-year-old Nolan Bishop meets a seductive redhead at a dark club in downtown Shreveport, little does he know that his soul will be gone as soon as she leaves the club. It doesn’t take Nolan long to realize that Eva Sheridan, the succubus who now invades his dreams, has taken something from him. Through the underground network of the supernatural in New Orleans, he discovers he has seven days to destroy Eva before he turns into a sinister and feral vampire himself.

The Affair: A Jack Reacher Novel

Thrillers & Suspense > Crime
Author: Lee Child
Regularly $9.99, Today $2.99

The Affair: A Jack Reacher Novel

Everything starts somewhere. For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997.

A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A cover-up. A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington.

Reacher is ordered undercover to find out everything he can and then to vanish. But when he gets to Carter Crossing, Reacher meets local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux, who has a thirst for justice and an appetite for secrets.

Rules of Prey (The Prey Series Book 1)

Thrillers > Espionage
Author: John Sandford
Regularly $9.99, Today $3.99

Rules of Prey (The Prey Series Book 1)

The killer was mad but brilliant.

He left notes with every woman he killed. Rules of murder: Never have a motive. Never follow a discernible pattern. Never carry a weapon after it has been used…So many rules to his sick, violent games of death.

But Lucas Davenport, the cop who’s out to get him, isn’t playing by the rules.

Bridget Jones’s Diary: A Novel

Fiction > British & Irish > Humor & Satire
Author: Helen Fielding
Regularly $9.99, Today $1.99

Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel

Bridget Jones’s Diary is the devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud account of a year in the life of a thirty-something Singleton on a permanent doomed quest for self-improvement. Caught between the joys of Singleton fun, and the fear of dying alone and being found three weeks later half eaten by an Alsatian; tortured by Smug Married friends asking, “How’s your love life?” with lascivious, yet patronizing leers, Bridget resolves to: reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1.5 inches, visit the gym three times a week not just to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult and learn to program the VCR.

In Sheep’s Clothing – A Noah Wolf Thriller

Thrillers > Espionage
Author: David Archer
Regularly $4.99, Today $0.99

In Sheep's Clothing - A Noah Wolf Thriller

Team Camelot has recovered from the devastation of their last mission, and it’s time to go back to work. This time, they find themselves working right here in the good ol’ US of A, taking out the top echelons of an entire drug cartel, and Noah gets the chance to use some of Wally’s supergadgets. The mission comes off better than anyone could have hoped, and the team heads for home.

But then all four of their phones signal an incoming message: Neverland under attack!

Only Team Camelot is still able to function, and Noah and his team are given the orders they thought they’d never hear: Go out on their own, and get the sons of bitches who did this!

The Mistress (The Anetakis Tycoons Book 1)

Romance > Contemporary
Author: Maya Banks
Regularly $3.99, Today $1.99

The Mistress (The Anetakis Tycoons Book 1)

Mistress. It sounded so sordid, so impersonal, so far removed from the kind of relationship Marley Jameson had with Greek hotel magnate Chrysander Anetakis. Until it all came crashing down around them.

Three months later, Marley awakened in the hospital with no memory of what happened before she got there. She couldn’t remember her past, Chrysander…or the baby she carried. All she knew was that when Chrysander showed up and whisked her away to his private Greek island, being with him felt like home.

Until she remembered the truth…

Gaslands: Post-Apocalyptic Vehicular Combat (Osprey Wargames)

Science Fiction & Fantasy > Gaming
Author: Mike Hutchinson, David Auden Nash
Regularly $15.20, Today $1.99

Gaslands: Post-Apocalyptic Vehicular Combat (Osprey Wargames)

Shoot, ram, skid and loot your way through the ruins of civilisation with Gaslands, a tabletop wargame of car-on-car destruction in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Players control small fleets of armed vehicles in battles for resources, dominance and survival. With rules for multiple vehicle types (from motorbikes to big rigs), varied special weapons and accessories (including oil slicks, caltrops and nitro boosters), and a host of options for scenarios, environmental conditions, crew and campaigns, players can tailor games to match their own visions for an anarchic future.

How Lunchbox Jones Saved Me from Robots, Traitors, and Missy the Cruel

Children’s eBooks > Science, Nature & How It Works
Author: Jennifer Brown
Regularly $6.39, Today $1.99

How Lunchbox Jones Saved Me from Robots, Traitors, and Missy the Cruel

Luke Abbott’s school is the losing-est school in the history of losing. And that’s just fine for him. He’d rather be at home playing video games and avoiding his older brother Rob and the Greatest Betrayal of All Time.

But now he’s being forced to join the robotics team, where surely he’ll help uphold the school’s losing streak. He’ll also meet a colorful cast of characters, including: Mikayla, the girl who does everything with her toes; Jacob and Jacob, who aren’t twins but might as well be; the sunflower seed-obsessed Stuart; and Missy the Cruel, Luke’s innocent-looking bully since they were six-years-old.

The Hired Man: A Novel

Literary Fiction > Historical
Author: Aminatta Forna
Regularly $1.99, Today $1.20

The Hired Man: A Novel

Visitors are not common in the small Croatian village of Gost, so Duro is surprised to see a strange car pull up to a well-known farmhouse just outside of town. Laura, a British woman, and her two children are refurbishing the home to be their summer cottage, and Duro agrees to lend a hand, becoming Laura’s confidant along the way. But the rest of the residents of Gost are not so pleased to have outsiders in their midst.

As Duro works to shield Laura and her family from the town’s hostility, volatile secrets begin to bubble to the surface—secrets that could threaten everyone in the seemingly sleepy town, even the unwitting new residents.

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