This book selection was updated on June 21st, 2026.
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Free: Murder in the Shade of Crimson

Days after her sister’s tragic end, Ireland Matthews stumbles across a troubling letter. Several weeks later, Ireland crosses paths with a man seeking the truth about what really happened to her sibling. Suspecting someone close to Ireland is involved, the man enlists Ireland’s help to prove it. Initially, Ireland refuses to believe or help the man, but then decides to jump on board after realizing secrets have been kept from her and lies have been told. Free on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

EMP Shadow Fall

He was the man on the mountain with more ammunition than the county sheriff’s office, a shortwave in his kitchen, and a pantry stocked to feed four people for a year. The whole mountain laughed at him. Then the EMP hit. Now the whole mountain was coming to Dutch’s gate. Lilly had come home to a dying father, a furious twin sister, and a family still broken by the years she’d been gone. Her sister had spent those years running the still alone, hauling wood up the ridge, and changing their ... [Read More...]

In the Serpent’s Shadow: Where Power Breeds Poison (The Rouke Correlation Book 1)

He was hired to find the leak. He didn’t know he was the bait. Caleb Rourke thought returning to Washington was just another job — a routine security audit for a biotech giant, triple the usual rate, quick in and out. Then he found a ghost in the code: a decade-old encryption signature from a heist he was supposed to have buried forever. And a name he never expected to see again.When Caleb’s ruthless aunt Vivienne — Washington’s most formidable power broker, days from conf... [Read More...]

The House Obedient

From Angela R. Key, author of the Amazon bestselling psychological thriller The Lies We Inherit, comes a colder, sharper return to the Scott family world. What began as revelation becomes rule. After Richard Scott’s death, Elise Marian Scott does not inherit comfort. She inherits control. At Ashdown, the family estate that once trained everyone around it to obey, Elise locks down access, strips old assumptions of power, and begins uncovering the hidden architecture beneath the Scott name: sea... [Read More...]

Free: Better to Have Lost

For some, love has only one side. Elliot can’t drink enough to drown out the memory of Stephanie—the woman who chose anything better than him. Then he learns she’s engaged to a rising district attorney — a man marked for death. The hit is already in motion—ordered by the powerful Lucio Corbucci crime family. And Elliot hears about it from the man sent to make sure it happens. A tailspin of emotions reopens old wounds and new possibilities. Should he warn them? Try to stop it? Or let f... [Read More...]

Pitch Black: A Psychological Survival Thriller

The most dangerous traps don’t stop you from moving forward — they turn you into a part of their mechanism. J. wakes up trapped in an unknown underground environment, with no explanations and no obvious way out. Forced to quickly grasp the rules of a game he never chose, he must make decisions under extreme pressure, in a space that tests both his physical and psychological limits. Every step forward becomes a direct confrontation with darkness, isolation, and his own survival instincts. A ... [Read More...]

DARKLANDS PARANOMAL (The Chronicles)

This book is like no other containing 90 QR codes to scan to hear real spirits speak right off the pages! A few bonus videos, one of a bound possessed clown forced to make a toy spin! Some of the things ghosts say will shock you- Use earbuds or headphones to isolate the voices as you read and be prepared to be blown away… $1.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

New Australia

America has annexed Greenland as our 51st state, only to drill for oil in its vast Arctic reserves. To do so inexpensively, polarizing President Franklin Hale establishes a prison camp for free prisoner labor. David Parnell has a thriving business and devoted family but is sent to the camp–New Australia–under false pretenses. Can he survive cruel conditions to return to his family and escape an immoral government? $0.99 on Kindle ... [Read More...]

Freddy Ferguson

From Book 1: A mysterious woman fleeing an unknown terror boards the wrong plane at San Francisco International and disappears into the heart of the country. Freddy Ferguson, a troubled detective with a violent past, believes she’s the last living witness to a crime that has captivated the nation. Sifting through the wreckage of her past, he begins to understand who she’s running from, and why. Now he must track her down before her pursuers can silence her for good. A modern crime t... [Read More...]

The Hiding Girl (The Emily Calby Series Book 1)

Twelve-year-old Emily Calby was a good girl from a good family in rural Georgia. She loved softball, her little sister, and looking up words to get her allowance. Then two men came and murdered her family. Only the killers know she escaped. On the run, surviving by wits and instinct, she meets an unlikely mentor and protector in ex-gang member Lucas Jackson, who takes her in off the streets of Memphis and teaches her how to survive—and kill. When more tragedy strikes, Emily is thrust into a p... [Read More...]

Grid Zero

Plunged into a prolonged blackout by back-to-back hurricanes, America’s East Coast suffers sweltering heat, lack of food, and the beginnings of civil unrest. As Empire Energy struggles to repair its storm-damaged grid, it discovers a bigger problem: sophisticated malware has been ravaging its internal control network for weeks. As power returns, the human toll of the outage becomes clear. Thousands of elderly and chronically ill citizens have succumbed to the heat. While the public rejoic... [Read More...]

The Debt

‘A muscular, suspenseful crime thriller about consequence and the long shadow of obligation.’ BestThrillers.comMichael Kramer, an eighteen-year-old talented martial artist, is blamed for the accidental death of his best friend James Basset. Sentenced to five years for involuntary manslaughter, Michael is forced to navigate a prison system where race dictates every opportunity and every threat. In this harsh world, trusting someone like Ijal, a drug mogul from a different background,... [Read More...]

Blood Red Deceit

Forensic expert Ridge Warner saves his fiancée’s life, but the blood that keeps her alive exposes a secret that turns their wedding countdown deadly. In Woodland Park, Colorado, a murdered pastor, a desecrated church, and a hidden explosive pull Ridge into a case where every answer leads deeper into betrayal. Ridge can read evidence. The harder question is whether he can read the woman he loves. $2.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Finding Brody

Violet visits the sticky heat of the South to help her best friend find her missing husband. Her last case involved missing ChapStick, but she’s all Fiona has, since the sheriff abandoned the case. However, as the clues add up, she realizes everyone is a suspect, including her own friend. Perfect for fans of small-town secrets and amateur sleuths. $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

The Empty-nesters Cozy Mystery series

A clean, humorous cozy mystery series featuring a sharp-witted amateur sleuth, small-town secrets, and birding adventures gone wrong. When widow Peg Howard starts a birding group in Pensacola to cope with empty-nest syndrome, she doesn’t expect to find herself solving murders. But with a keen eye for detail and plenty of time on her hands, Peg keeps uncovering clues others miss—and landing in the middle of dangerous investigations. Set in Northwest Florida, with scenes at Fort Barrancas and... [Read More...]

Hornet’s Nest

Lieutenant Virginia Hornet is on a suicide mission to save a love she thought she had left in her past in this tense, breakneck thriller by Army veteran and award-winning author Victoria Montes. Ginny Hornet thought the hardest part of her past was behind her—until a murder case lands on her desk and pulls her straight back into it. Captain Tom Rivers is accused of the brutal murder his pregnant fiancée. To everyone else, the evidence looks airtight—all Tom needs to do is sign the plea dea... [Read More...]

91 Seconds

From the world of the #1 Amazon Urban Fiction hit The Monster Besides the Silence comes the newest installment in the Wolf Gospel Universe: a hard, fast, pressure-loaded street novel about hunger, loyalty, fear, and the deadly math of bad decisions made too quickly. 91 Seconds follows Augustus “Ock B” Jenkins, a man pushing forty and running out of respectable ways to survive. The jobs dried up. The money never stretches far enough. Family still needs him. Pride still tells him he can hold... [Read More...]

Free: Magical Mystery Book Club: Box Set #1-3

A cozy mystery adventure with an enchanted library and a clever talking cat! When this club selects a book, magic happens. They are whooshed inside the book and become the main characters as the mystery comes to life. It is exhilarating fun – until they realize they can’t get out until they solve the crime and reach The End. In every book journey they are excited to land in a unique world and meet a different kind of paranormal being. And even better, in these books, calories don’t count,... [Read More...]

I Choose Violence

Every year, thousands of children disappear into networks that exist only because powerful people protect them — politicians, judges, investigators quietly told to look elsewhere. Sixty-seven pages of one such ledger fall into the hands of three people the system has already failed: a soldier whose niece was on the list, a quiet European who has waited fifteen years, and a third man who reads it end to end and says, “I choose violence.” What follows is precise, methodical, and unc... [Read More...]

Free: A Fiery End (A DI Fiona Williams Mystery): Detective Mystery

Time to discover a brilliantly twisty mystery series. A tradesman is set alight in his vehicle on an isolated road. His daughter is missing. And time is running out. “I was on the edge of my seat and couldn’t read fast enough.”“Totally riveting.”“Superb murder mystery and police procedural.” DI Fiona Williams is a driven detective juggling work with a family crisis and growing suspicions about her new boss. Her plan to take a break is shattered when she comes across a burning van... [Read More...]

A Touch of Deceit

The Gripping Thriller That Launched The Award-Winning, Bestselling Series! FBI agent Nick Bracco can’t stop a Kurdish terrorist from firing missiles at random homes across the country. The police can’t stand watch over every household, so Bracco recruits his cousin Tommy to help track down this terrorist. Tommy is in the Mafia. Oh yeah, it gets messy fast. As fast as you can turn the pages. $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

DARKLANDS PARANORMAL

Not only will you be pulled into some of the most haunted and active places investigated through great storytelling, but this book is also the only one of its kind, containing 90 QR codes to scan as you read through to hear the ghosts/spirits speak right off the pages! There are also a couple of bonus videos as well. Be sure to use earbuds for listening pleasure. Enjoy! $3.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Our Secrets to Keep

Three best friends. A lifetime of secrets. Sahar, Riley, and Jenna have been inseparable since middle school—or so they thought. Now one of them is dead, and the investigation begins exposing affairs, betrayals, and buried lies none of them saw coming. The past they thought was behind them is catching up fast. And the truth may destroy everything they built together. $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Free: Ghost Talker: A Gaslamp Ghost Mystery Volume 1

Between possessions and poltergeists, Elinor speaks with the dead to solve mysteries in this Gaslamp fantasy. Historical Fantasy, ghost mystery with a slow burn romance in a completed series with over 800 reviews. Elinor Chalamet’s talent to speak with the dead may have landed her in the soup. Witty and clever, Elinor uses her mediumship skills to hunt for her father’s killer. So when a body in the canal brings her to the morgue, she’s happy to help until Tristan Fontaine, the Duke de Arc... [Read More...]

Free: The Eternity Code

A forgotten legend. A missing scientist. A discovery that could change humanity forever. When gunmen shatter a quiet weekday morning and abduct archeologist Francisco Andrade from his university, authorities turn to his former protégé, Dr. Nick Randall, who’s thrust into a race that spans continents and centuries. What begins as a desperate rescue mission quickly spirals into something far more dangerous. From the treacherous jungles of South America to hidden caves in the Caribbean and the... [Read More...]

Terminal Moonlight: A Dick Moonlight PI Thriller

Finalist for the 2026 ITW Thriller Award! When a beautiful TV reporter hires PI Dick Moonlight to protect her from Russian gangsters, he’s pulled into a deadly web of corruption, lies, and murder. With killers closing in and no one to trust, survival becomes his only shot at revenge. Fast, gritty, and packed with twists. $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

The Paris Protocol

Fame was his cover. Now it’s a death sentence. When CIA agent Brad James undercover as a popstar discovers a plot to overthrow the power structure in the United States, he is abandoned by his superiors and targeted for assassination. Can he stay alive long enough to foil the conspiracy, clear his name, and bring the real traitors to justice? $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Free: The Ex Who Wouldn’t Die (Charley’s Ghost Book 1)

Book 1, Charley’s Ghost seriesUSA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR When Amanda’s lying, cheating, scam-artist husband, Charley, saves her life in a near-fatal motorcycle accident, she can almost forgive him for dragging his feet on their divorce. Then she discovers he’d been dead for several hours at the time she thought he rescued her. And not just dead… murdered. On the good side, at least they are no longer married. But she’s the primary suspect in Charley’s murder�... [Read More...]

The Westcombe Hall Mysteries

The Westcombe Hall Mysteries is a cozy magical boarding school series set at Westcombe Hall — a traditional girls’ school where polished routines and house rivalries conceal an older, stranger magic. Every bell, portrait, locked corridor, and school tradition hides something the governors would rather not know about. Each book is told entirely through the eyes of Miss Beatrice Harrow, headmistress: composed, dry-witted, quietly protective, and carrying a secret about the school that str... [Read More...]

The Ship of Theseus: When Pieces Change, What Remains?

Dr. Amelia Clarke, a renowned philosopher, is thrown into a whirlwind of personal and professional upheaval as she grapples with the age-old question of identity: If something is gradually replaced, part by part, is it still the same? Tasked with restoring a famous historical ship in a groundbreaking preservation project, Amelia confronts both the physical rebuilding of the ship and her own sense of self. Her world begins to unravel as she notices small but eerie changes not only in the ship bu... [Read More...]