Tag: Thriller

  • Wednesday’s Free & Bargain Kindle Book Deals

    Romance, Thriller, Humor, Contemporary Fiction, Mystery, Classics, Science Fiction, Historical Romance… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

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    Mix 'N Match: an enemies to lovers fake relationship romance (No Match for Love) A spontaneous maid of honor trying to thwart the paparazzi. The straight-laced best man who’s convinced she’ll ruin the wedding. Can these two opposites admit they’re not so different and build a life together?

    Maid of honor Zoey Carlson doesn’t want to plan a billionaire’s super-secret destination wedding. That’s the bride’s job. But when an over-the-top bachelorette party accidentally tips off the paparazzi, she agrees to fly to Paris and finalize the plans herself. If Zoey goes to France while the bride stays in California, hopefully it’ll throw the press off the trail. Too bad Mitch, the uptight best man who drives her crazy, is coming with her.

    For Mitch, keeping the big day under wraps is part of his job, and Zoey’s an attractive liability. When a reporter follows them to France, Mitch will do anything to keep the wedding paparazzi-free—even pretend he’s the one getting married…

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    The Lighthouse Witches Over 800 5-Star Reviews!

    Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found–but she’s still the same age as when she disappeared…

    When single mother Liv is commissioned to paint a mural in a 100-year-old lighthouse on a remote Scottish island, it’s an opportunity to start over with her three daughters–Luna, Sapphire, and Clover. When two of her daughters go missing, she’s frantic. She learns that the cave beneath the lighthouse was once a prison for women accused of witchcraft. The locals warn her about wildlings, supernatural beings who mimic human children, created by witches for revenge. Liv is told wildlings are dangerous and must be killed.

    Twenty-two years later, Luna has been searching for her missing sisters and mother. When she receives a call about her youngest sister, Clover, she’s initially ecstatic. Clover is the sister she remembers–except she’s still seven years old, the age she was when she vanished. Luna is worried Clover is a wildling. Luna has few memories of her time on the island, but she’ll have to return to find the truth of what happened to her family. But she doesn’t realize just how much the truth will change her.

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    Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader Over 100 5-Star Reviews!

    An essential collection of career-spanning writings by the political satirist and #1 New York Times–bestselling author P. J. O’Rourke.

    From his early pieces for the National Lampoon, through his classic reporting as Rolling Stone’s International Affairs editor in the 1980s and 1990s, and his brilliant, inimitable political journalism and analysis, P. J. O’Rourke has been entertaining and provoking readers with high octane prose, a gonzo Republican attitude, and a rare ability to make you laugh out loud. Christopher Buckley once described his work as “S. J. Perelman on acid.”

    Thrown Under the Omnibus brings together his funniest, most outrageous, most controversial, and most loved pieces in the definitive O’Rourke reader. Handpicked and introduced by the humorist himself, Thrown Under the Omnibus is the essential O’Rourke anthology.

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    The Affair: A Novel Over 6,000 5-Star Reviews!

    In this riveting novel, Danielle Steel explores a high-profile affair that reverberates throughout an entire family, from the wounded wife to her husband—torn between two women—to the wife’s close-knit sisters and their mother.

    When Rose McCarthy’s staff at Mode magazine pitches a cover shoot with Hollywood’s hottest young actress, the actress’s sizzling affair with a bestselling French author is exposed. The author happens to be Rose’s son-in-law, which creates a painful dilemma for her. Her daughter Nadia, a talented interior designer, has been struggling to hold her marriage together, and conceal the truth from their young daughters, her family, and the world. But Nicolas, her straying husband, is blinded by passion for a younger woman—and not only that, she is pregnant with his child.

    Nadia’s three sisters close ranks around her, flying to Paris from Los Angeles and New York to lend support and offer their widely divergent advice. Athena, a jovial celebrity chef with her own TV show in Los Angeles, is leery of marriage. Olivia, a stern conservative New York superior court judge, is haunted by a shocking secret of her own. Venetia, a zany fashion designer, happily married with three kids, has the gentlest, most realistic point of view. Despite their well-meaning advice, Nadia needs to figure out what she herself thinks, and what to do next…

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    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (The Hercule Poirot Mysteries) Over 8,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Blackmail and murder point to several suspects, but it will require master detective Hercule Poirot to come out of retirement in order to solve this baffling mystery.

    The eminent Belgian detective Hercule Poirot has lost a friend to an unfortunate stabbing incident, and now, despite his retirement in a previously peaceful English village, he must return to work and find out who killed Roger Ackroyd—and how his demise may be connected to the dark secrets and tragic events surrounding Ackroyd’s late fiancée, who died only the day before…

    From the legendary novelist whose mysteries have sold more than two billion copies, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd remains one of Agatha Christie’s most popular works, renowned for its twist ending.

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    Party of Two (The Wedding Date Book 5) Over 2,000 5-Star Reviews!

    A chance meeting with a handsome stranger turns into a whirlwind affair that gets everyone talking in this New York Times bestseller.

    Dating is the last thing on Olivia Monroe’s mind when she moves to LA to start her own law firm. But when she meets a gorgeous man at a hotel bar and they spend the entire night flirting, she discovers too late that he is none other than hotshot junior senator Max Powell. Olivia has zero interest in dating a politician, but when a cake arrives at her office with the cutest message, she can’t resist—it is chocolate cake, after all.

    Olivia is surprised to find that Max is sweet, funny, and noble—not just some privileged white politician, as she assumed him to be. Because of Max’s high-profile job, they start seeing each other secretly, which leads to clandestine dates and silly disguises. But when they finally go public, the intense media scrutiny means people are now digging up her rocky past and criticizing her job, even her suitability as a trophy girlfriend.

    Olivia knows what she has with Max is something special, but is it strong enough to survive the heat of the spotlight?

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    Her Perfect Life Over 200 5-Star Reviews!

    Everyone knows Lily Atwood―and that may be her biggest problem. The beloved television reporter has it all―fame, fortune, Emmys, an adorable seven-year-old daughter, and the hashtag her loving fans created: #PerfectLily. To keep it, all she has to do is protect one life-changing secret.

    Her own.

    Lily has an anonymous source who feeds her story tips―but suddenly, the source begins telling Lily inside information about her own life. How does he―or she―know the truth?

    Lily understands that no one reveals a secret unless they have a reason. Now she’s terrified someone is determined to destroy her world―and with it, everyone and everything she holds dear.

    How much will she risk to keep her perfect life? And what if the spotlight is the most dangerous place of all?

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    The Red Badge of Courage and Four Stories (Signet Classics) A powerful Civil War classic follows the main character’s transformation from an eager recruit to a battle-shocked survivor and is accompanied by four additional tales, including “The Upturned Face” and “The Blue Hotel.”

    Henry Fleming has joined the Union army because of his romantic ideas of military life, but soon finds himself in the middle of a battle against a regiment of Confederate soldiers. Terrified, Henry deserts his comrades. Upon returning to his regiment, he struggles with his shame as he tries to redeem himself and prove his courage.

    A pioneer in the realistic school of American fiction and the true forerunner of Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Crane probed the thoughts and actions of trapped or baited men fighting the destructive forces in nature, in other human beings, and in themselves…

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    Wild Nines: A Space Opera Series (The Wild Nines Book 1) Framed for murder on a fringe outpost, a ragtag mercenary crew must find the truth before bounty hunters take their lives…

    With his crew, Davin has to find out what happened and why, all the while outrunning merciless authorities and powerful people that would like it very much if the Wild Nines just dropped dead.

    But Davin has a habit of disappointing people who wish him harm, and he’s not going to stop until he clears his crew’s name, and makes sure the ones who crossed his crew wish they never had.

    Wild Nines is the first novel in The Wild Nines series, a fast-paced, action-driven space opera set in a corporate-controlled solar system where laws are profit-driven, and survival often depends on how fast you are on the draw.

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    Love me, If you Dare (Wagers and Wallflowers Book 1) Over 1,000 5-Star Reviews!

    They are wallflowers, bluestockings, merry widows, and debutantes—members of a secret, exclusive Lady’s Club in Berkeley Square! There, ladies indulge in daring wagers, learn to fight, read scandalous books, and learn the art of wooing the gentlemen they will bring to their knees…

    Sebastian Crawford, Duke of Hartford, cares about his duty, honor, and family. He has everything planned: his sister is engaged, and now plans to select his duchess from a list of eligible debutantes. The last thing he expects is his sister to go missing a few weeks before her wedding!

    Lady Theodosia Winfern is upset when a devilishly attractive duke accuses her of persuading his sister to run from her duties. He declares that Theo won’t leave his side (even if it means sleeping in his chamber) until his sister is found. Theo has little choice but to go along with his scandalous demands. The last thing she wants is the powerful duke as her enemy, especially as he knows about her secret lady’s club!

    Both are quick to deny the increasingly fiery attraction between them until temptation becomes irresistible and passion can no longer be denied…

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    Sleeping with Paris (City of Love Book 1) Over 250 5-Star Reviews!

    Charlotte Summers is a sassy, young French teacher who is two days away from moving to Paris with the love of her life and from fulfilling her dream of studying at the prestigious Sorbonne University in France. But when she discovers her fiancé’s online dating profile and has a little chat with the busty red-head he’s been sleeping with on the side, she gives up on committed relationships altogether and decides to navigate Paris on her own.

    Determined to stop other women from finding themselves in her shoes, Charlotte creates an anonymous blog on how to date like a man in the City of Love – that is, how to jump from bed to bed without ever falling in love. But, with a slew of Parisian men beating down her door, a hot new neighbor who feeds her chocolate in bed, and an appearance by her sleazy ex-fiancé, she isn’t so sure she can keep her promise to remain commitment-free.

    And, when Charlotte agrees to write an article for a popular women’s magazine about her Parisian dating adventures – or disasters, rather – will she risk losing the one man who’s swept her off her feet and her dream job in one fell swoop?

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  • Book of the Day: The Marriage Secret

    The Marriage SecretThe Marriage Secret by Carey Baldwin

    Over 1,700 5-Star Reviews!

    He married me despite my darkest secret. But am I safe now that I know his?

    From the outside, my marriage to Zach was perfect: dream home, a perfect baby girl and passionate, all-consuming love. When we met, I confessed my darkest secret to him and he never judged me for it. Instead, he vowed to always protect me whatever the cost.

    But as I cradle my gorgeous baby, I have to accept that the husband who used to be my everything, has changed. At first it was little things: expecting me to keep to a strict schedule, picking out my clothes for me. Now, he controls every aspect of my life: from how much money I have, to when I leave the house and who I can see.

    One fateful night, a young woman is found murdered and Zach is a potential suspect. Turning towards me, a look of warmth returning to his eyes, he swears he’s innocent, and I realize there is only one solution. If I agree to be his alibi, he will keep my secret and our daughter can grow up in a loving home. In that moment, I do what any faithful wife would do: I stand by him.

    But I know deep down, only one of us will make it out of this marriage alive…

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    Biographies & Memoirs, Contemporary Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Thriller, Christian Fiction, Cookbooks, Western… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

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    The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers Over 1,200 5-Star Reviews!

    Fred Rogers was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. Through his long-running television program, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted to children and to taking their fears, concerns, and questions about the world seriously.

    The Good Neighbor, the first full-length biography of Fred Rogers, tells the story of this utterly unique and enduring American icon. Drawing on original interviews, oral histories, and archival documents, Maxwell King traces Rogers’s personal, professional, and artistic life through decades of work.

    King explores Rogers’s surprising decision to walk away from his show to make television for adults, only to return to the neighborhood with increasingly sophisticated episodes, written in collaboration with experts on childhood development. An engaging story, rich in detail, The Good Neighbor is the definitive portrait of a beloved figure, cherished by multiple generations.

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    Winnie-the-Pooh Over 1,900 5-Star Reviews!

    The original classic—starring Christopher Robin, his silly old bear, and a forest full of friends…

    Prepare for fun with young Christopher Robin and his stuffed animal friends. There’s his teddy bear, Winnie-the-Pooh; the timid toy pig, Piglet; the gloomy donkey, Eeyore; and the toy kangaroos, Kanga and her son, Roo. There are live animals, as well: the scatterbrained Owl and the practical Rabbit.

    Come along as they go on adventures, like Pooh using a balloon to get honey or Piglet meeting a Heffalump. Join the search for Eeyore’s missing tail or help celebrate his birthday. Find out what happens when Pooh visits Rabbit’s house or when Piglet is trapped by a flood. Whatever the occasion, you’ll enjoy the time you spend with Winnie-the-Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood.

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    Just One Kiss (Whisper Lake Book 4) Over 1,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Hannah Stark takes care of everyone else, from the patients she nurses back to health, to her family, who can never seem to get it together. She’d love to find someone she can trust, someone she can lean on, someone she can love, but that someone will not be Jake McKenna. The ruggedly attractive owner of Adventure Sports might still make her palms sweat, but Jake broke her teenage heart years ago.

    In the twelve plus years since they were a couple, Jake has given up on forgiveness from Hannah. He’d really like the chance to set the record straight, but that would mean revealing secrets he has sworn to protect. So, they dance around each other, never getting close enough to the lingering sparks to start another fire.

    A stormy Christmas eve at the lake changes everything. A woman in trouble and a death-defying rescue gives them a chance to start over as they are now—if they can find the courage to trust each other. Will these two enemies turn into lovers, or will they reject the fate that has once again thrown them together?

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    Home is Where the Hound Is (Furever Yours Book 7)
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    How much love can one person handle?

    Back in Spring Forest for the first time in twelve years, animal rescue worker Bethany Robeson already has her hands full with an inherited house and an overweight pooch named Meatball. She doesn’t dare make room for Shane Dupree, her former high school sweetheart, now a single dad.

    Bethany doesn’t believe in starting over, but Shane, baby Wyatt and Meatball could be the family she always dreamed of…

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    A House Divided (The Good Earth Trilogy Book 3) Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    A man returns to his native China to find upheaval in both his homeland and his family in this novel by a New York Times–bestselling author.

    On the eve of a popular rebellion, the Chinese government starts to crack down in cities across the country. Fleeing the turmoil, Wang Yuan, the son of a famous general and grandson of the patriarch of The Good Earth, leaves for America to study agriculture. When he returns to China six years later, he encounters a nation still in the grip of violent uprisings.

    Unprepared for the social upheaval, Wang is torn by the tensions between old traditions and new ways, and by his formidable family, whose struggles he hopes to solve.

    A House Divided is a rich and unforgettable portrait of a family—and a nation—in transition.

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    The Overnight Guest: A Novel Over 2,800 5-Star Reviews!

    A woman receives an unexpected visitor during a deadly snowstorm in this chilling thriller from New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf.

    True crime writer Wylie Lark doesn’t mind being snowed in at the isolated farmhouse where she’s retreated to write her new book. A cozy fire, complete silence. It would be perfect, if not for the fact that decades earlier, at this very house, two people were murdered in cold blood and a girl disappeared without a trace.

    As the storm worsens, Wylie finds herself trapped inside the house, haunted by the secrets contained within its walls—haunted by secrets of her own. Then she discovers a small child in the snow just outside. After bringing the child inside for warmth and safety, she begins to search for answers. But soon it becomes clear that the farmhouse isn’t as isolated as she thought, and someone is willing to do anything to find them.

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    Forgiveness Road: A Powerful Novel of Compelling Historical Fiction Over 100 5-Star Reviews!

    On a hot, humid July morning, sixteen-year-old Cissy Pickering calmly and deliberately shoots her father in the back.

    To their Mississippi community, the death of well-regarded attorney Richard Pickering is a fascinating scandal. To Cissy’s distraught mother, Caroline, it’s an unforgivable crime. But in Cissy’s troubled mind, it was the only way she knew to save her younger sisters, the two people she loves most in the world.

    Janelle Clayton, the family’s matriarch, has kept her distance from her daughter, Caroline—a fact she now regrets—yet she hopes to do right by her granddaughter, whom she believes implicitly. When Cissy is remanded to the Greater Mississippi State Hospital, new revelations drive her to retreat from reality. It will fall to Janelle to become Cissy’s advocate and rescuer. And over the course of an unlikely road trip, Janelle and Cissy will confront the truths they’ve hidden from the world and themselves—finding courage, resilience, and a bond tender and tough enough to transform them both.

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    Where the Last Rose Blooms (Heirloom Secrets) Alice runs a New Orleans flower shop alongside her aunt, but thoughts of her mother, who went missing during Hurricane Katrina, are never far from her mind.

    After getting off on the wrong foot with a handsome yet irritating man who comes to her shop, Alice soon realizes their worlds overlap–and the answers they both seek can be found in the same place.

    In 1861 Charleston, Clara is known to be a rule follower–but the war has changed her. Unbeknownst to her father, who is heavily involved with the Confederacy, she is an abolitionist and is prepared to sacrifice everything for the cause. With assistance from a dashing Union spy, she attempts to help an enslaved woman reunite with her daughter. But things go very wrong when Clara agrees to aid the Northern cause by ferrying secret information about her father’s associates.

    Faced with the unknown, both women will have to dig deep to let their courage bloom.

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    The Easy Bake Oven Complete Cookbook: 150 Simple & Delicious Easy Bake Oven Recipes for Girls and Boys Over 700 5-Star Reviews!

    150 Simple & Delicious Easy Bake Oven Recipes for Girls and Boys

    Don’t worry if you’ve never set foot in the kitchen―the simple and straightforward guidance in The Easy Bake Oven Complete Cookbook will teach you everything you need to know, starting with absolute basics like kitchen safety, properly mixing, handling eggs, and more. Each recipe is foolproof and easy to follow, with tips to help kids get excited about cooking.

    In this cookbook you’ll find:

    • Baking Basic―Get easy-to-understand baking guides that start with the assumption that you’ve never tried cooking or baking for yourself before.
    • 150+ Simple & Delicious Recipes—Includes breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, desserts, and more!
    • Cooking Fun—This cookbook is filled with fun food facts that will pique their minds as well as their appetites.

    The sweetest treat you’ll find in The Easy Bake Oven Complete Cookbook is even better than something you can eat―it’s the memories you’ll cook up.

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    Jack Slater: Orphan Train to Cattle Baron In the fall of 1872, following a buggy mishap that killed his parents, Jack Slater, ten years old, was flung to the streets of New York City, among thousands of misplaced, orphaned, or runaway children.

    He was saved by the Children’s Aid Society that placed orphaned children with families on the frontier. These families welcomed the children and most found loving homes. Some grew up to become industrial, political, or community leaders.

    Slater did not find a loving home.

    Instead, he found himself at Pete Jablonski’s farm in Fargo, Dakota Territory where abuse was a daily dose of reality.

    When outlaws rob a local mine payroll and kill four men in the process, Slater makes a mortal enemy of the Elko County Sheriff that takes Slater’s life is an unexpected direction.

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    Long Lost Christmas (Sweetheart, Montana Book 1) With Christmas and a family showdown looming, can she find a miracle?

    Hoping to reunite her mother with her long-lost brother for Christmas, interior designer Hayley Stevens travels to Montana to hand-deliver a Christmas card to the uncle she’s never met. Finding her uncle is easier than getting him alone to explain her mission. Reluctantly, Hayley hides her identity to learn more about her uncle and his family, but it’s his handsome and enigmatic partner who captures her heart and imagination.

    Architect and builder Blake Dennison is attracted instantly to the beautiful Hayley, but he’s suspicious of her curiosity. Can she be a spy for a rival builder? He’s been burned by deceit before, but as he spends time with Hayley, he falls hard.

    Hayley knows she has much more at stake than fulfilling her mother’s Christmas dream, and when she confesses to Blake the real reason for her visit, his reaction is what she feared. He wants her gone. But Hayley knows how to fight for what she wants…

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    BLUE MURDER a gripping crime thriller filled with twists (Detective Janine Lewis Mysteries Book 1) Over 900 5-Star Reviews!

    Meet Janine Lewis. A single mum of three and Manchester’s newest detective chief inspector. Her cheating husband walked out the day she got promoted. Now she’s six months pregnant with his baby and in charge of her first murder case.

    The body of a deputy head teacher is found on a lonely allotment. Gutted — his stomach sliced open — and left for dead.

    The only witnesses are a dying elderly man and a seven-year-old girl. And now the prime suspect has disappeared…

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