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The House on the Shore

January 7, 2021 By

A Haven of Peace or a Place to Fear?

Heartbroken Anna MacDonald leaves Edinburgh to find peace at the edge of a Scottish loch. Safely ensconced in her late grandmother’s cottage, she can finally heal her heart and write the novel that has burned inside her for years.

Her peace is short-lived. When debonair artist Luke Tallantyre’s yacht gets stranded in the loch, he seeks help at the nearest residence – Anna’s croft. She finds him annoying. He instantly dislikes the stunning but cranky hermit.

But there’s indisputable evidence that a hitman is on the prowl in the village. Is he after Anna? And what is Luke keeping from her that could deepen the danger? Against their wills, they join forces and embark on an adventure neither ever imagined…including a chance at true love. $0.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, In the Spotlight, Romance Tagged With: #romance, kindle books, mystery, romancenovel, scottish romance, Suspense

Animal Magnetism

January 7, 2021 By

Detective Isabeau DeClercq moved to Chicago to get justice for her parents’ murders. She found Kindred Nik Lazare’s invitation to The Ark casino—the heart of Chicago’s supernatural underground—near their bodies. Nik’s dark reputation precedes him. Half-Kindred, Half-Powers, Isabeau wants to prove him guilty the human way, to honor her parents. Nik just wants to stay away from Isabeau when Pop orders him to work with her investigating a Kindred kill at the zoo. But soon a meeting of souls that defies logic consumes Isabeau and Nik. $0.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Paranormal Romance Tagged With: immortals, kindle books, paranormalromance, romancenovel, shifters, Suspense

Free: Ekleipsis

December 21, 2020 By

Ékleipsis is a debut short story collection written by Canadian author Tamel Wino, with hints of Chuck Palahniuk’s and Cormac McCarthy’s stripped, vivid writing styles. This gripping book explores the havoc wreaked when ordinary people abandon their humanity to pursue their darkest desires, and questions just how far people will go to follow their baser instincts.

Each story takes a version of a person we’ve known in our own lives and transforms them into something completely unnerving—yet all too familiar.

These dark, complex characters and twisted tales of the once ordinary will change your perception of humanity forever. Free on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Hot Books, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Tagged With: #mysterynovel, kindle books, mystery, Suspense, thriller

Nothing Good Happens After Midnight

December 15, 2020 By

The sun sets. The moon takes its place, illuminating the most evil corners of the planet. What twisted fear dwells in that blackness? What legends attach to those of sound mind and make them go crazy in the bright light of day? Only Suspense Magazine knows…

Teaming up with New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, Suspense Magazine offers up a nail-biting anthology titled: “Nothing Good Happens After Midnight.” This thrilling collection consists of thirteen original short stories representing the genres of suspense/thriller, mystery, sci-fi/fantasy, and more.

Readers’ favorites come together to explore the mystery of midnight. The ‘best of the best’ presenting these memorable tales, include: Joseph Badal, Linwood Barclay, Rhys Bowen, Jeffery Deaver, Heather Graham, Alan Jacobson, Paul Kemprecos, Shannon Kirk, Jon Land, John Lescroart, D. P. Lyle, Kevin O’Brien, and Hank Phillippi Ryan. See price on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Hot Books, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Tagged With: kindle books, mystery, scifi, Suspense, suspensenovel, thriller

Bad Analysis

December 3, 2020 By

Bad Analysis is an excellently-paced terrorism thriller, hitting all the right notes of intrigue, duplicity, and desperation. With realistic descriptions of national intelligence organizations, anti-terrorism efforts, and filled with fanatics, high placed traitors and despicable thugs. $2.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Hot Books, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Tagged With: kindle books, mystery, Suspense, terrorismthriller, thriller

Free: Every Form of Malice: A Short Story (The Collaborative Story Project Book 1)

November 29, 2020 By

No one knows what killed Henry Whitelock. People say he just dropped dead from a heart attack, but not everyone believes that story.

No one knows what happened to Gideon Aloways, either. Rumor has it he died years ago. So it’s a shock when he shows up at Henry’s funeral to tell an old story that no one wants told. A story that will unearth a fifteen-year-old secret known by only two people in the world.

Henry’s widow, Amity, and her sister, Theo.

People talk. If they hear Gideon’s tale, Amity and Theo could lose everything. Their reputations, their wealth, the life they’ve shared for fifteen years.

Because nothing is more fragile than the truth. Free on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, In the Spotlight, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Tagged With: historical fiction, historicalsuspense, kindle books, short story, Suspense

A Snake Among Flowers

November 14, 2020 By

In this page-turning fast-paced book of suspense, a young woman from the LGBT community is found murdered and the police suspect her girlfriend. Why is Myra lying to the police? Find out why the detectives miss an important clue. $0.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, In the Spotlight, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Tagged With: #mysterynovel, kindle books, mystery, Suspense, suspensenovel, thriller

The Woman In The Water

November 12, 2020 By

Charlotte’s body lays lifeless floating in a pool. Ruby red water surrounds her.
Her daughter’s desperate screams fill the air…
“Mom?!!!!”.

Charlotte MacMillan, the mother of three, found dead. Murdered in broad daylight.
Only two know the twisted truth. The victim and her killer.
To solve this case, Paxton must bring light to the unrelenting darkness.
Unmask the truth behind the devastating lies.
And unearth the shocking secret behind Charlotte’s deadly double life…
All while trying to save an innocent man from taking a fall for a crime he did not commit.

But what happens when no one is who they appear to be?

Some secrets can destroy everything.
This secret will destroy the lives of those left behind.
The truth is a minefield that one must survive. Not everybody will. $3.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Hot Books, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Tagged With: kindle books, murdermystery, mystery, Suspense, suspensenovel, thriller

Free: The Desperation of Harry

October 24, 2020 By

Shocks, secrets and humor pack this novel based on actual events, as 23-year-old, Monty Hill, leaves his Midwestern roots for 1977 Hollywood eager to become a major screenwriter. As he stumbles his way through various romantic relationships, Monty meets his endearing new neighbor, Harry, who in hopes to assist Monty financially, entangles him with an apparent dangerous producer of adult films. Meanwhile, an unidentified pedophile looms in the distance, inexplicably relating his own brief narratives. Free on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Tagged With: #mysterynovel, kindle books, mystery, Suspense, thriller

Free: Exodus ’95

October 23, 2020 By

Claire may be a step away from recovering the most powerful artifact in human history: Moses’ Biblical staff, which her dying neighbor found and hid in the Arabian desert twenty years ago. But his startling revelations have got her entangled in a global race with ruthless fanatics who want to get to the artifact first. Meanwhile, she must find a way to get rid of the usurper of her mind before it’s too late. Free on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: fantasy, fantasynovel, kindle books, sciencefiction, scifi, Suspense

Mercenary

October 3, 2020 By

Sometimes in life, choices just aren’t part of the plan. When fate interferes and bulldozes right over you.

That’s how I felt the first time I saw him. Standing in my kitchen, soaking wet, hotter than a man has the right to be, and holding a knife.

Declan’s cold, stone-cold. I can’t help but want him. His presence stirs up some raw emotion within me. He seems so…alone. But is he here to kill me or save me?

He’s the one man I should never want…and the one I can never forget. $0.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Hot Books, Romance Tagged With: #romance, darkromance, darksuspense, kindle books, Suspense

Dead in the Water

October 2, 2020 By

Twelve ruthless killers board a billionaire’s yacht and find a handful of fat cats, playboys and a harem of good-time girls in outfits ranging from skimpy to skimpier.

Two days later, one lone Army Ranger sneaks on board in a desperate attempt to save the passengers, including his girlfriend’s father. The soldier’s chances are—you guessed it— slim to none.

The cutthroats have but one demand: three hundred million dollars be delivered to the yacht or the billionaire’s a dead man. To prove they mean business the body count starts climbing. $3.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Hot Books, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Tagged With: kindle books, mystery, Suspense, thriller

China Bohannon

September 19, 2020 By

China Bohannon fled a bad situation and decided to start her life over as a strong, independent woman in the wild and woolly town of Spokane, Washington. China takes on the role of bookkeeper at Doyle & Howe detective agency with her uncle, Montgomery Howe, and his handsome partner, Gratton Doyle. $0.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Tagged With: detectivenovel, kindle books, mystery, Suspense, thriller

Free: Ultima Luna

September 13, 2020 By

When Sol Shepard finally meets Luna, the perfect girl he has been searching for, he quickly falls in love. Soon, however, Luna starts to depart in a strange way before returning again. Sol finds it difficult to ignore the oddity. Though she won’t say what, Luna is hiding something from him. Will their love be strong enough to weather the storm? Free on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, In the Spotlight, Paranormal Romance Tagged With: #romance, kindle books, mystery, paranormalromance, romancenovel, Suspense

Free: Bangkok Whispers

September 1, 2020 By

Some people just can’t avoid danger. Lately, American expat lawyer Glenn Murray Cohen has been one of them. A year ago, Glenn and his close friends from Bangkok’s mysterious NJA Club were drawn into a CIA plot to kidnap a Russian gangster. They succeeded and survived, thinking life was back to normal. When a sleazy grifter from Glenn’s past appears in Bangkok, Glenn and the NJA gang are dragged back into a dangerous world, this one filled with drug dealers, spies, and North Korean hitmen. Follow Glenn and his colorful friends as they face bullets, deceit, and love. Suspense with a touch of humor will keep you turning the pages of this latest exotic noir thriller by a master of the genre. Free on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Hot Books, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Tagged With: cia, kindle books, mystery, Suspense, thriller

First Cut: A Novel of Suspense (Book One in the Detectives Daniels and Remalla Series)

August 28, 2020 By

Jill Jacobs must confront an elusive psychopath whose trail of terror left seven dead and whose obsession almost destroyed her.

When the murders begin again, Detectives Daniels and Remalla must rely on Jacobs, the former detective whose strange psychic connection to the killer is their best hope to catch him.

Can Jill find the courage to face the madman who took all she loved away and who is eager to do it again?
$0.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Hot Books, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Tagged With: crimenovel, kindle books, murder, mystery, Suspense

Renegade

August 28, 2020 By

Former SEAL Rocco Vitelli has every intention of exposing the con artist who took advantage of his father, no matter that his quarry is a self-styled sensuality maven. But when he goes undercover to learn more, his mission takes a turn for the hotter.

Jessica Winslow can’t believe the stud who volunteered for her massage demo isn’t who he claims, especially since she’s seriously attracted. But when she discovers she’s the victim of identity theft, Rocco is determined to help. She’ll need the formidable ex-SEAL to keep her safe with someone impersonating her and her past coming back to threaten the new life she’s built, but can she trust what she feels for him? $0.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, In the Spotlight, Romance Tagged With: alpha hero, contemporary, kindle books, military, romancenovel, sexy, Suspense

Free: Forgotten Journey, Every Man’s Dream-Every Wife’s Nightmare

August 14, 2020 By

Rogue waves, capsizing vessels, floating “Sea”crets, and a little dog named Bitti? What a maritime tale of stress and survival, and one can only hope the beloved parties eventually made it to shore. Free on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Hot Books, Romance Tagged With: #romance, kindle books, romantic suspense, Suspense

Free: Chosen

August 11, 2020 By

Marissa Dow is recovering from the death of her mother and a recent divorce. When she travels to the farm where she grew up, something extraordinary happens. It’s an event so bizarre that she questions her sanity and confides in her best friend, Becka, who is skeptical about Marissa’s wild tale. When proof presents itself, the two women vow to carry Marissa’s secret to their graves. Free on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Hot Books, Women's Fiction Tagged With: kindle books, Suspense, womensfiction

Free: Hollywood Whores: A Behind-the-Scenes Account

August 2, 2020 By

A novel set in the 1980s, completed in the 1990s but speaks volumes of where we are today.

It is 1984, the year of the Los Angeles Olympics, and Merle LaBrune plans to remain young for however long it takes for her to ascend a pantheon of Hollywood idols and be worshipped as a goddess. Free on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Women's Fiction Tagged With: kindle books, Suspense, womensfiction

Free: Unorthodox Therapy (Erotic Romance)

July 16, 2020 By

A tale of addiction, pleasure and pain, love and loss.

She was his boss at work and his submissive at all times.

LINA

I’d never noticed him before.

He was just a lonely, scared boy when I hired him.

I was too busy to notice the lust in his eyes.

Now I’m at his feet begging for every bit of pleasure and pain he’ll unleash on me.

THOMAS

She enthralled me.

Her body. Her mind. Her wicked laughter and unreadable eyes.

She was out of my league yet I knew what she longed for.

I only had two months to kill her nicotine addiction and make her crave me.

I’d use every trick I had to claim her as mine.

WARNING! This book is intended for mature audiences. This is a full-length novel featuring hardcore kink, steamy scenes, an alpha submissive female and her younger Dominant. It’s a slow-burn love story between two flawed people who grow together, a sensual journey to their darkest desires. It’s an emotional roller coaster, intense and insane, with many twists and turns. There are scenes of BDSM, rough language, as well as non-sexual violence. The book is part 1 of a trilogy, with a guaranteed HEA at the end of the series. All the characters are over 18 years old. Please, read the Warning at the front part of the book before you decide to purchase it. Free on Kindle

Filed Under: Erotic Romance, Featured Tagged With: bdsm, Erotic Romance, kindle books, Suspense

The New Orleans Go Cup Chronicles (Vol. 1-2)

July 16, 2020 By

TWO SIDE-SPLITTING NEW ORLEANS GO CUP CHRONICLES

All the fun of Mardi Gras—without the hangover! Colleen Mooney’s funny, romantic, delightfully meandering cozy mysteries gua-ran-tee you gon’ have an authentic Noo Awlins experience, dawlin’! $0.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Tagged With: cozymystery, kindle books, mardigras, romanticmystery, Suspense

A Single Light

July 3, 2020 By Ereader Nation

Six months after vanishing into an underground silo with sixty others to escape a pandemic, Wynter and Chase emerge to find the area abandoned.

The award-winning, breakneck sequel to The Line Between by New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee.

“A terrifying, edge of your seat, heart-palpitating tale.” –Top Shelf Magazine $1.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Hot Books, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Tagged With: kindle books, mystery, Suspense, thriller

No Going Back

July 1, 2020 By eReader Nation

In today’s world where celebrities and social media are everything, can a reclusive novelist stay anonymous?

Brian is a fairly successful novelist. He could be famous if he wanted, but he’s always avoided fame or recognition of any kind. In fact, he’s spent his whole writing career hiding behind a pen name and only six people know he’s the author of his books. However, a single photo comes about and threatens to disrupt all that. As things start going awry and his precious privacy is put at risk, how will an increasingly paranoid Brian cope? $0.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Contemporary Fiction, Featured, Hot Books Tagged With: contemporaryfiction, kindle books, Suspense

Secrets and Lies

June 28, 2020 By eReader Nation

Shot to death in his home, Morgan Tutwiler leaves behind a multimillion-dollar business and a daughter who hasn’t spoken to him in years. And she isn’t alone in wanting him dead. Plenty of people wanted the most hated man in Denver dead in P. H. Turner’s latest novel in the Claire Callahan series.

Claire finds herself up against buried secrets and partial truths. Can she use her wits to unravel riddles hidden for decades and find a coldblooded killer?

Reminiscent of the finest gumshoe storytelling, Secrets and Lies, would not be complete without Turner’s signature quirky characters and inventive plot. $0.99 on Kindle.