FREE & BARGAIN EBOOKS – {01-16-2017}

The Libraryby Amy Cross

One book. One girl. Two worlds…

Kidnapped and taken to a huge, world-spanning library, Claire Mathis is shocked to discover the truth about her own life. Thrust into the heart of a battle for the library’s fate, she quickly learns that the powerful Forbidders will stop at nothing in order to gain the one object they prize above all others.

While the Forbidders wreak havoc, however, a great danger is edging closer. The darkness is reaching out across the void, threatening to destroy this world just as it has already destroyed countless others. As he tries to save the library, a tired soldier named Vanguard finally sees the truth and realizes that there’s only one way for the library to be rescued from destruction.

The Bees: A Novelby Laline Paull

The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut set in an ancient culture where only the queen may breed and deformity means death.

Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues and worship of the beloved Queen the only religion. But Flora is not like other bees. With circumstances threatening the hive’s survival, her curiosity is regarded as a dangerous flaw but her courage and strength are an asset. She is allowed to feed the newborns in the royal nursery and then to become a forager, flying alone and free to collect pollen. She also finds her way into the Queen’s inner sanctum, where she discovers mysteries about the hive that are both profound and ominous.

But when Flora breaks the most sacred law of all—daring to challenge the Queen’s fertility—enemies abound, from the fearsome fertility police who enforce the strict social hierarchy to the high priestesses jealously wedded to power. Her deepest instincts to serve and sacrifice are now overshadowed by an even deeper desire, a fierce maternal love that will bring her into conflict with her conscience, her heart, her society—and lead her to unthinkable deeds.

Thrilling, suspenseful and spectacularly imaginative, The Bees gives us a dazzling young heroine and will change forever the way you look at the world outside your window.

Every Day Is a Holidayby George Mahood

“…laugh out loud moments on nearly every page…”
“…had me laughing from beginning to end…”
“…loved the book – funny and engaging…”
“…read it, love it, recommend it…”

George Mahood had a nice, easy, comfortable life. He had a job, a house, a wife and kids. But something was missing. He was stuck in a routine of working, changing nappies and cleaning up cat sick. He felt like he was missing out on a lot of what the world had to offer.

He then discovered that it was Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day. The day after that was National Curmudgeon Day, and the day after that was Inane Answering Machine Message Day. In fact, the calendar is FULL of these quirky, weird and wonderful events. He realised that somebody somewhere had created these holidays, believing that they were important enough to warrant their own official day. Surely he should therefore be more appreciative of their existence? So he decided to try and celebrate them all. As you do. He hoped that at the end of the challenge he would be transformed into a happier, more intelligent and more content person.

Follow George on his hilarious, life changing adventure as he tries to balance his normal life with a wealth of new experiences, people, facts and ridiculous situations. It’s a rip-roaring, life-affirming, roller-coaster of a ride, where every day is a holiday.

Forgotten Bodyguard Box Setby Ali Parker

From Best Selling Author, Ali Parker… Forgotten Bodyguard Full Series Box Set.

FORGOTTEN BODYGUARD 1
It’s hard to tell a bad boy to keep his hands off the hottest asset under his watch… especially when she wants those hands all over her.

Chloe Moore has money, status and popularity, but she yearns for the missing piece – freedom. Her father is a senator in California and has decided to run for President of the United States. Due to some of his political positions, he’s receiving death threats. With no choice, Chloe is given a shadow, a bodyguard that has been instructed to never leave her side during her summer break from UCLA. Her life before her father’s decision to run was restrictive, now it’s unbearable.

Ian Matthenson has worked himself up from the shitty start he got in life. Coming from the wrong side of the tracks and spending more time in jail than not, he’s finally cleaned up and proven himself to the right people. His older brother gets him a gig he can’t refuse -protecting the college-aged daughter of a political icon, a man even he looks up to. He has no concern over his ability to keep the pretty little tease safe, but keeping his hands off of her is going to be the feat of his existence.

Things heat up as Chloe pushes Ian to the edge, both physically and mentally. It’s only when her life is in danger that he realizes that perhaps it’s not just his paycheck that causes him to protect the girl’s body so closely…

FORGOTTEN BODYGUARD 2

It’s hard to tell a bad boy to keep his hands off the hottest asset under his watch… especially when she wants those hands all over her.

After Chloe sacrificing herself for Ian and watching him walk away, she’s devastated. Her father’s more than happy to assign a new bodyguard and she’s more than thrilled to provide the man with his own personal version of hell.

With Jeremy still on the loose, Ian keeps as close as the restraining order Senator Moore issued will allow him to. When questions arise about the Senator’s involvement in ruining Jeremy’s life, Chloe’s safety is once again threatened, and Ian comes charging in – rules be damned.

In the cut throat game of politics, sacrifices must be made to achieve success.

This time it might just be too much though…

FORGOTTEN BODYGUARD 3

It’s hard to tell a bad boy to keep his hands off the hottest asset under his watch… especially when she wants those hands all over her.

With blood on his hands, Ian is forced to move up into the top bodyguard position for Senator Mitch Moore, leaving Chloe in the hands of a less-than competent ass. She refuses to come out of her shell after witnessing the death of her closest companion and has no choice but to blame Ian. He was the one standing above the body with a smoking gun.

Power corrupts, and leaves a fallout that none of them are ready for or capable of handling. Everything boils down to one moment. Her or him? With only one life to be spared, who will Ian choose? His girl or his brother…

After the Fall (a thriller)by D.M. Mitchell

‘After the Fall’, D. M. Mitchell’s newest thriller, goes deep. Very deep…

5-star praise for After the Fall:

“This book keeps you on the edge and wanting more.”

“Excellent, exciting and original.”

“This book is the best I have read.”

D. M. Mitchell has been compared to Dean Koontz, Stephen King, Ruth Rendell, M. R. James, Linwood Barclay, Umberto Eco, the Bronte sisters, Charles Dickens and many others. His novel The Soul Fixer has been optioned for a Hollywood movie in conjunction with the famous director Dominic Sena (director of Gone in 60 Seconds, Swordfish etc). Discover for yourself why D. M. Mitchell is being regarded by some as one of the UK’s most original and exciting writers of psychological thrillers and supernatural fiction.

Craig Tyler is a journalist taken to a remote mine deep in the Atacama Desert in Chile.

But Tyler’s journey has been made in almost complete secrecy. In fact secrecy surrounds everything about the heavily defended mine and its employees. He has been commissioned by a senior executive from the Ross Corporation, Nathan Wood, to deliver a story that he says will astound the world – the discovery of a special mineral that will have massive implications for the future of the world’s energy.

Once underground Tyler finds himself involved in an earthquake and the mine collapses all round him. Rescued by two Chilean miners, Sebastian and Vicente, they scramble through pitch-dark tunnels to find one of the mine’s many refuges. Finding escape near impossible, they encounter more survivors, and together this disparate group begins its fight for survival against tremendous odds, with only enough water and food to last a few days, the stress and tensions quickly beginning to mount.

Then they discover an unexploded bomb. And with that the further realisation they are not alone down the mine. Something sinister, primeval and malevolent haunts the depths. With the group splintering inevitably into corrosive factions, their fight for survival just got tougher.

Was this an accident? If not, what really happened, and are the perpetrators still among the survivors? What is Area B’s terrifying secret? Will they ever escape? Craig Tyler’s bid for freedom takes the reader down a labyrinthine maze of darkness and despair, hope and fear, in one of D. M. Mitchell’s most original, powerful and spine-tingling thrillers to date.

Daddy 3.0: A Comedy of Errorsby Rob Armstrong

What a mess. This was not supposed to happen.

This isn’t where Nick Owen thought he would be by this point in life. He used to be a busy web programmer. Now he spends most of his energy trying to stop his three-year-old twins from playing in a dirty sand pit. Nick thinks of himself as Daddy 3.0, a stay-at-home-dad–but he just wasn’t programmed for this.

He must navigate a new world of jungle gyms and playdates while supporting his surgeon wife. He tries his best to be there for the twins, but he can’t stop making a mess of things. He’s just about nearing the end of his rope when the Swing Incident happens. The Swing Incident, spoken of in hushed tones around Nick’s New York City apartment building, has caused the resident queen bee, nicknamed “Supermom,” to declare him an enemy for life. No matter what Nick does to get back into Supermom’s good graces, he fails spectacularly.

Now Nick’s going to have to learn to fight fire with fire and become the best superparent on the block. This hilarious new book by Rob Armstrong chronicles one man’s journey into the world of modern fatherhood–one botched haircut, playground fight, and dirty diaper at a time.

Stay-at-home-dads have a new hero, of sorts.

Shroud of Deceitby Stephen McDaniel

Murder and chicanery in the Austrian hinterlands.
Chief Inspector Heimo Kapeller’s neck is on the block. His career is in political limbo after a botched murder investigation. When the same killer strikes again, Heimo has a choice – either redeem himself or be cashiered from the only job he’s ever wanted.
But these murders have been well planned and executed by someone who has no intention of being caught. And, at every turn, Heimo and his team run into roadblocks and protests from the province’s movers and shakers. Someone very high up is pulling strings.
The Homicide investigators , with the help of Prosecutor Cristina Neuroth, dig into the second victim’s past, and ugly family secrets began to crawl into daylight. With his personal life disintegrating, Kapeller’s got a plateful of possibilities, no idea if the killer will strike again, and an investigation descending into chaos.