Wrap up the holiday weekend with one of these 10 Fabulous Kindle books.
Spiritual Journey
Lyrissa is a woman on a mission with a haunted past. Peggy is a woman in a new world on a quest. The Agency and the Guard both want Peggy. Will Lyrissa help the Queen and the Guard for a healthy sum or will she find the courage to let Peggy leave so they can both go home?
In a land teeming with corruption and immorality, where values are lost and your only hope for survival means ignoring your conscience and becoming as brutal as the rest, the innocent and the softhearted always end up last.
Twenty-eight-year-old Kate Delaney left New Falls, Tennessee, heartbroken but determined to be a successful screenwriter. She’s spent the last ten years in LA, but is back in town, fifty pounds lighter, California hotter, and she’s written The End on a screenplay, which is movie magic in the making. Just one problem—a nerve-nuking thief runs-off with her laptop, attached USB back-up, and the contents of her underwear drawer—and as if that wasn’t enough, the heartbreaker from ten years ago just walked through the door with a sheriff’s badge and looking more hormone-carbonating than ever.
Seven stories, ranging from ghostly encounters to the supernatural, with a sojourn into horror and the unexplained. Weaving through the tales is a fine thread involving an elderly man, who is reliant upon an unusual walking stick and drives a beautifully preserved Morris Minor motor car. Who is he? What is he? That is for you to work out. But I advise you to take care and not trip over the thread … you never know whose attention you might attract!
Libby the Loser. That’s what everyone used to call me behind my back. I wasn’t popular, I wasn’t strong, I wasn’t brave. All that changed after a chance encounter in a Canberra nightclub. Afterward, I began to dream; dream I was something else. A powerful creature of muscles and claws, something powerful and confident and everything I wasn’t. I dreamed I was in love with a man I’d barely met. The dream world is a beautiful, wondrous place, but there’s a shadow in my dreams. An eclipse, broken with a gunshot. Then I wake up. Now my dreams are coming true. My body is changing for real. I’m shedding Libby the Loser like an old skin. I’m growing into something else. But there are others. Others like me, and they don’t get along. People are disappearing. People are dying. The shadow is falling over the real world, too, and everything has changed. Part I of the Rakshasa serial.
Sarah Temple hopes to find a bit of peace and quiet when she leaves her abusive boyfriend, but instead she finds a world of horror. It’s bad enough that a sadistic serial killer and another maniac are both trying to murder her, but what’s worse is the mysterious Solitary One who controls both of them, a malevolent entity that the serial killer describes as a living darkness, a man and yet not a man, something that’s alive and yet not alive, something that wants to appall the world.
My name is Zabdas: once a slave; now a warrior, grandfather and servant. I call Syria home. I shall tell you the story of my Zenobia: Warrior Queen of Palmyra, Protector of the East, Conqueror of Desert Lands … The Roman Empire is close to collapse. Odenathus of Palmyra holds the Syrian frontier and its vital trade routes against Persian invasion. A client king in a forgotten land, starved of reinforcements, Odenathus calls upon an old friend, Julius, to face an older enemy: the Tanukh. Julius believes Syria should break free of Rome and declare independence. But his daughter’s beliefs are stronger still. Zenobia is determined to realise her father’s dream. And turn traitor to Rome … “JD Smith’s wonderful characterisation and meticulous research paints a vivid and dramatic picture of Syria in the 3rd Century AD at a time when Rome is disintegrating under the weight of its own corruption. The early years of Zenobia, one of the great enigmatic figures of history, are seen through the eyes of her cousin Zabdas, a slave who becomes a general. Zabdas is the perfect narrator and his story follows Zenobia from clever, precocious young girl to imperious manipulator of kings and emperors, from the desert kingdom of Palmyra to Rome and back. Full of passion, intrigue and drama it draws the reader in and holds them to the very last page.” Douglas Jackson, author of Caligula
**Winner of multiple awards** This bestselling collection of essays–more inspiration guide than style guide–serves up tips and insights for anyone who wants to write with umph. “Word Up!”–full title “Word Up! How to Write Powerful Sentences and Paragraphs (And Everything You Build from Them)”–does what too few writing books do: it practices while preaching, shows while telling, uses powerful writing to talk about powerful writing. It explores the perplexities and celebrates the pleasures of the English language. It leaves you smiling–and ready to conquer your next blank (or blah) page.
* IndieReader Discovery Award
* Forword Reviews IndieFab Award
* Next Generation Indie Book Award
* Readers’ Favorite Five-Star Award (Winners not yet announced)
* Kindle Book Review Award Semi-Finalist (Winners not yet announced)
What would you do? Your home-life has suddenly turned into a nightmare and you have become a lonely, silent victim. And you know it will happen again, and again… Just like any threatened being, you have just three options. You can take FLIGHT. You can FIGHT. Or you can accept fate, and FREEZE… Choose! – But do it now! For seventeen year old Lauren Hart this has just become her reality – Her life. Barely on the edge of WOMANHOOD she is forced to make decisions that will dramatically change and shape her life forever. For Lauren – FREEZE – might appear to be her only alternative, but, to just accept what is happening is NOT an option. Her choices and decisions might astonish you, but her courage and fight, against overwhelming odds, will uplift you. Life is too good, too full of promise, to not fight for it. But, get it wrong and WOMANHOOD might turn out to be an impossible dream.