Elle Casey is our freebie of the day big-hitter this week. She’s a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author and the first book in the Drifter’s Alliance Series, Drifter’s Alliance is up for grabs for a short period of time. This is a fine space opera, though a lot shorter than that genre normally allows for at 250 pages of text. Cass Kennedy is the heroine of the piece and she’s just got her own ship. She’s invested heavily in training and feels ready to take on the universe. Then she …
Fantasy & Sci-Fi & Horror
Dead Weight
The intro to the Amazon page says $5.99 for a limited time! But for the moment, that’s wrong and the book is available free of charge for a promotional period. Dead Weight is an unusual novel for a freebie. Why? Well, because it’s not the first, the second or third part of a series but rather a stand-alone book. It’s also a very good one. Zephyr Rockwell has gone camping. When he awakes after a night under the stars – the world has changed forever. Almost everyone has disappeared, and modern …
Kindred (Book 1 of The Kindred Series)
Erica Stevens gets the important bit right with our freebie today – it’s the first book of this 5 book series. That means no catching up or oddly peculiar passages you can’t relate to and if you’re a fan of young adult vampire fiction – this is going to be right up your alley. If you have a hankering for a return of Buffy and can pretend she has a new name… this is going to be even better. Yes, this is a bit cliched but that doesn’t detract from the fun. I don’t mind that an author is …
Outraged Boxed Set (Books 1-3)
Wow! This is a seriously good freebie for today. T W Piperbrook’s Outrage Horror Suspense series is a popular dark fantasy series. So, to get the first 3 books in the series for free is excellent value. Of course, it’s worth noting that there are 3 more books available and that they’re also on sale (for a short period of time) for less than a buck in total! You really can’t go wrong with that. The setting is the small town of Plainfield which when snow strikes and leaves the town cut off from …
Witches Of Bourbon Street
As you might expect from the title Deanna Chase’s The Witches of Bourbon Street is concerned with matters supernatural. It’s the second book in the Jade Calhoun series but it stands well on its own and it’s too good a deal for us not to feature it in our discount slot for today. I think this may be one of my favorite series now. Here we find Jade fighting to do a spirit a solid but she needs to learn to tame her own desires for dark magic if she wants to be the witch that she …
Blood of Stone
Fans of Rachel Morgan are going to be happy to see our freebie today; Blood of Stone is a vampire hunting novel where there aren’t any sparkly vampires in sight. Thankfully. Sorry, Twilight fans but that kind of thing can really turn a girl off supernatural thrillers – but Jayne Faith’s book has redeemed the concept for me. Petra Maguire is our lead vampire hunter and she’s looking for revenge for the death of her mother and the destruction of her childhood. Her father wants her to go home …
Xor: The Shape Of Darkness
Not to be confused with Gor, Xor by Moshe Sipper is a rather interesting supernatural/fantasy novel that has passed largely under the radar and I think this free promotion ought to get it some of the attention that it deserves. Fans of Rachel Morgan or Kitty Norville are going to find that they enjoy this even if it is pitched at a slightly younger audience. Lewis Nash loses his father in an explosion. Then in a dazed state he finds himself facing down a wolf-man who tries to snatch him. …
Cursed (A Cursed Magic Novel)
Are you in the mood for some dark fantasy? Then you’re going to be very pleased that today’s freebie is Cursed by Casey Odell. Claire Tanith finds her life turned upside down when her village is attacked and her mother demands that she flee. She’s told to seek out the inhabitants of the forest and is assured that they will protect her. In the depths of the woods, Claire finds something she never expected – elves. They are ready to protect her but there is a price; she doesn’t want to pay – …
Diffusion
Diffusion by Stan C Smith is the first book in a series of 3 and it was so good that I bought the other two immediately after reading the first chapter. This is, I guess, best described as where Indiana Jones might have ended up if the series had been freed of the budgetary constraints. Adventure, archaeology, puzzles, fantasy, they’re all here and they’re all very well done. It’s the story of Quentin Darnell who discovers a strange substance in Papua, Indonesia and then his quest to protect …