Today's Featured Books

A coming-of-age story following the lives of two young people raised in diverse yet dysfunctional environments during the late 1970s. When their lives connect, it impacts the destinies of their friends and family over a forty-year span. Along the way, the characters navigate the wonders, challenges, and destiny of human interplay via juxtaposed tales of adolescent frivolity, dysfunctional family, enduring friendship, the depth of romance and sensuous love, criminal behavior, deception, success, failure, the thrill of knowledge, personal progression, and... a good dose of recovering from regrets. FREE - SHOP NOW / 

An archeologist has been missing since discovering a high-tech device attached to the wrist of a Neanderthal man murdered 30,000 years ago. Now a sinister force is desperate to have it. A cosmic retelling of the Cain and Abel story, blending Genesis, Norse mythology, quantum mechanics, a kidnapped ex-naval aviator, a slacker chick, and a mischievous Yorkie into a complex stew, spiced with a forbidden attraction between an alcoholic FBI Agent and a blonde, blue-eyed, tattooed IT genius with an extraterrestrial secret. From $0.99 SHOP NOW / 

A revolutionary opportunity. A murder most foul. Can a wrongly accused young lady prove her innocence before her future goes up in smoke? Pippa Stanhope is excited to follow her dreams of becoming a steam engineer until she's accused of murdering her professor. 4.4 stars, 79 ratings. From $2.99 SHOP NOW / 

I saw my billionaire boss. Naked. Michael Greer is the hot alpha male CEO of the company where I’m interning. I’m desperate to forget the incident but my boss won’t let it go. Fine. Two can play this game. But while I can deal with grumpy Michael, funny Michael is a different matter. The chemistry between us is irresistible. One kiss leads to another and then there’s no turning back. Can we find a way to make this relationship legit before someone catches us? From $0.99 SHOP NOW / 

Kidnapped and handcuffed to a dangerously sexy man, Austin is helpless to fight the attraction to her savior. The darkness of his world terrifies her, yet the rich timbre of his voice triggers a bizarre form of synesthesia. After a decade of being blind, what Austin sees when she's with Zander threatens to destroy them both. 4.3 stars, 1100+ ratings. FREE - SHOP NOW / 

Never make a secret one-night stand deal with your billionaire boss after shots of tequila. My overprotective brother tried to warn me about his best friend. What was supposed to be a one-time arrangement to end the sizzle to our undeniable tension resulted in two pink lines. He's far from ready to be a devoted father. To make things more complicated, I've completely fallen in love with my off-limits boss. How long can we keep this baby a secret? From our families, the office, and most of all, my brother. From $2.99. Free via KU. SHOP NOW / 

An Amazon Top 30 Bestseller. I got pregnant when I was fourteen, and now I can’t escape the constant reminders of my brutal past. When my secret college application is accepted, I jump at the chance to start a new life and meet the sexy singer, Hendrix Harrington. He earns my trust, and I eventually share my dark secrets with him. But the past I worked so hard to bury returns to haunt me. "#1 on my list of all-time best reads. Love & Ruin is EPIC, a heartbreaking, intense, emotional, raw journey." -Gigi, Goodreads Review. 4.4 stars, 700+ ratings. FREE - SHOP NOW / 

Free online tonight: The Big Texas Author Talk. Presented by Writing Workshops Dallas and Gemini Ink, tonight's talk will feature Andrew Porter, author of the story collection The Theory of Light and Matter and the novel In Between Days. Andrew is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and he has received a Pushcart Prize, a James Michener/Copernicus Fellowship, and the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Wednesday, May 17, 7 PM CST. 

"A good short story would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit." ~David Sedaris

When Karen Baker meets international businessman William Powell, she is impressed. Dating leads to a weekend in Napa, but when the nature of their relationship changes and Karen declines a date, Bill's behavior changes even more and he becomes threatening. Now, Karen is running away. She knows what she’s running from, but what is she running to? From $4.99. Free via KU. SHOP NOW / 

We hide in shadows. Our planet is lost. We are the last humans, and we must go home. Long ago, aliens destroyed Earth. Our fleets shattered. Billions died. The last humans fled a burning planet, heading to the stars. Today we are still refugees. Hungry. Afraid. Our enemies hunt us everywhere. But we have not forgotten. Earth is our heritage. Earth is our birthright. We will return! Book 1 in the Children of Earthrise series. 4.2 stars, 1750+ ratings. FREE - SHOP NOW / 

Congratulations to Sue Dobson and Vine Leaves Press on the release of Burned: The Spy South Africa Never Caught, “An unflinching memoir of a spy during a tumultuous time and unsavory alliances."

Burned: The Spy South Africa Never Caught by Sue Dobson

From the snowy Soviet shooting range to the heat and dust of Africa, nothing is what it seems. And neither is Sue Dobson.

The image of South Africa in the 1980s as the golden paradise on the tip of the African continent conceals a brutal, racist Apartheid regime. Those who oppose it risk their lives. Beauty and brutality go hand in hand.

Sue Dobson, a young white South African woman lives a 'legend'—a life where she pretends to conform, moving easily through the echelons of the racist government in her work as a journalist, whilst concealing her espionage and military training in the Soviet Union, and her intelligence work for the banned African National Congress.

Matters come to a head when sinister forces try to derail the Namibian independence process and Sue's cover is blown during a difficult honey trap operation, bringing the Cold War to Africa, and leading to her desperate flight across Southern Africa with the Apartheid security police snapping at her heels.
 
Praise for Burned

★★★★★ “An unflinching memoir of a spy during a tumultuous time and unsavory alliances. Dobson recounts her recruitment, training, and espionage with rare self-awareness.” ~Henry R. Schlesinger, author of Honey Trapped

Free online tonight: Rogue Reads. Join authors Tosca Lee, Liv Constantine, Doug Lyle, and Ellen Crosby for an exciting hour during which they will reveal the latest about their brand-new suspense novels, read excerpts for you, and answer questions. Monday, May 15, 7 PM EST. 

“Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.” ~Anne Lamott