Amazon has some great Daily Deals today for $2.99 and many of them are being price-matched. Five books are listed below, but do feel free to check out all the sale offerings!
The Ghost
RECOMMENDED: The Ghost by Monica McCarty is $2.99! This is the final book in the Highland Guard series and Elyse gave it a B+:
Alas, all good things come to an end. The Ghost by Monica McCarty is the 12th and final book in the Highland Guard series. I loved this series and The Ghost does not disappoint.
A couple of notes: this series does not need to be read in order although characters reappear throughout the series (this book ties in closely with The Viper, Lachlan and Bella’s book). This book also contains an attempted rape scene and mention of a prior rape that some readers may find triggering.
Overall this is a great wrap-up to the series: it left me bittersweet that it was all coming to a final happily ever after.
An undercover warrior and her sworn enemy play a seductive game of cat-and-mouse in New York Times bestselling author Monica McCarty’s sexy new Highland Guard novel.
Joan Comyn swore allegiance to Robert the Bruce the day she witnessed England’s barbarous king torturing her famous mother, Scot patriot Bella MacDuff. Now the mysterious beauty slips into men’s hearts like a specter and entices England’s most illustrious barons to unwittingly divulge their secrets, then shares them with her king. Known only as the Ghost even among her Highland Guard brethren, Joan has become the most wanted traitor in England.
The man determined to uncover her identity poses her biggest threat yet. Alex Seton once stood with Bruce but now fights for the enemy. Though Joan knows she must avoid the handsome warrior or risk discovery, his knightly chivalry touches a place in her long since buried. When his suspicions grow apparent, Joan realizes she must do everything in her power to stop Alex from revealing her mission and convince the powerful fighter to join forces with the Highland Guard once more. But as the ultimate battle in the great war approaches, will Alex choose love or honor?
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The Passenger by Lisa Lutz is $2.99! Elyse picked this for March’s Hide Your Wallet, saying, “A psychological thriller about a woman who goes on the run after her husband dies. Yes please.” She also said the beginning is really good, though some readers on Goodreads wanted more insight into the main character.
From the author of the New York Times bestselling Spellman Files series, Lisa Lutz’s latest blistering thriller is about a woman who creates and sheds new identities as she crisscrosses the country to escape her past: you’ll want to buckle up for the ride!
In case you were wondering, I didn’t do it. I didn’t have anything to do with Frank’s death. I don’t have an alibi, so you’ll have to take my word for it…
Forty-eight hours after leaving her husband’s body at the base of the stairs, Tanya Dubois cashes in her credit cards, dyes her hair brown, demands a new name from a shadowy voice over the phone, and flees town. It’s not the first time.
She meets Blue, a female bartender who recognizes the hunted look in a fugitive’s eyes and offers her a place to stay. With dwindling choices, Tanya-now-Amelia accepts. An uneasy―and dangerous―alliance is born.
It’s almost impossible to live off the grid today, but Amelia-now-Debra and Blue have the courage, the ingenuity, and the desperation, to try. Hopscotching from city to city, Debra especially is chased by a very dark secret…can she outrun her past?
With heart-stopping escapes and devious deceptions, The Passenger is an amazing psychological thriller about defining yourself while you pursue your path to survival. One thing is certain: the ride will leave you breathless.
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Cujo by Stephen King is $2.99! While not my favorite King book, it’s pretty well known in terms of the King canon. Some readers didn’t find it as frightening or nerve-wracking as other King books and I had to laugh at a particular reviewer complaining about the number of swears in the book. But if you’re looking to round out your King collection, $2.99 isn’t bad. I especially like the new cover design!
The #1 national bestseller for Stephen King’s rabid fans, Cujo“hits the jugular” (The New York Times) with the story of a friendly Saint Bernard that is bitten by a sick bat. Get ready to meet the most hideous menace ever to savage the flesh and devour the mind.
Outside a peaceful town in central Maine, a monster is waiting. Cujo is a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had. One day, Cujo chases a rabbit into a cave inhabited by sick bats and emerges as something new altogether.
Meanwhile, Vic and Donna Trenton, and their young son Tad, move to Maine. They are seeking peace and quiet, but life in this small town is not what it seems. As Tad tries to fend off the terror that comes to him at night from his bedroom closet, and as Vic and Donna face their own nightmare of a marriage on the rocks, there is no way they can know that a monster, infinitely sinister, waits in the daylight.
What happens to Cujo, how he becomes a horrifying vortex inescapably drawing in all the people around him, makes for one of the most heart-stopping novels Stephen King has ever written. “A genuine page-turner that grabs you and holds you and won’t let go” (Chattanooga Times), Cujo will forever change how you view man’s best friend.
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Darkness by Karen Robards is $2.99! This came out in March, so it’s a relatively new release. It’s also romantic suspense with an ornithologist (BIRD SCIENTIST) heroine and a hero whose plane crashes near the island where she’s working. Some readers said they were hooked from the first page, while others mentioned difficulties connecting with either character. It has a 3.7-star rating on Goodreads.
New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards continues her penchant for “fantastic storytelling” (RT Book Reviews) with this next heart-pumping romantic suspense novel, the tale of a brilliant ornithologist trapped on the remote Attu Island in Alaska, fighting for her life—and that of a handsome stranger—before they’re swallowed up in darkness forever.
BOOM. That’s the sound that changes everything for Dr. Gina Sullivan, a renowned ornithologist on a group research grant trip on the remote island of Attu, Alaska. When an everyday outing turns sinister at the onset of one of Attu’s infamous storms, Gina expects thunder and lightning—but what she doesn’t see coming is the small jet plane that drops out of the sky and into the water mere feet from her boat. Even more unprecedented: there’s a sole survivor from the crash, and he needs Gina’s help. But it turns out that rescuing the stranger and getting them both out of the oncoming storm is just the beginning. Because the more Gina learns about James “Cal” Callahan, he of brooding eyes and muscled frame, the more she fears—for herself, and for him.
Cal has made a career of trading on government secrets and emerging unscathed—until a routine pickup goes horribly wrong and lands him in ice-cold water. Literally. He knows the plane crash was no accident and that there could very well be an enemy force currently combing the Alaskan island ensuring there were no survivors. Now if only the arrestingly beautiful bird-watcher with the clear-blue gaze would stop watching him, well, like a hawk. Cal convinces Gina to return to base camp and help him covertly get off the island. But when Gina makes it safely back to camp and finds her entire team murdered, all bets are off, and as darkness envelops the island, she must decide: trust a man she barely knows, or go it alone and risk running straight into the arms of a killer?
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The Secret by Rhonda Byrne is $2.99! I was close to graduating high school when this came out and I remember it was huge. Oprah was talking about it. It was a bestseller for a while. There has been some controversy about whether the self-help techniques in The Secret actually work, but if you’re curious about checking it out, it’s on sale for today only.
Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life-transforming for all who experience it.
In this book, you’ll learn how to use The Secret in every aspect of your life — money, health, relationships, happiness, and in every interaction you have in the world. You’ll begin to understand the hidden, untapped power that’s within you, and this revelation can bring joy to every aspect of your life.
The Secret contains wisdom from modern-day teachers — men and women who have used it to achieve health, wealth, and happiness. By applying the knowledge of The Secret, they bring to light compelling stories of eradicating disease, acquiring massive wealth, overcoming obstacles, and achieving what many would regard as impossible.
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The Secret is a great introduction to the law of the attraction; her book The Power focuses on gratitude/thankfulness and I found it really uplifting and helpful.
For those who want to go deeper into the subject, the Abraham-Hicks material (books written by Esther and Jerry Hicks) is really the fountainhead and life-changing.
I admit I only know The Secret from people (among others, the Read It and Weep podcast years ago) mocking it, but a note of pre-buying warning: I really don’t know if it can be categorised as self help. From all reports it works on full-on belief in magic, essentially saying you can manifest real concrete physical things by just thinking about them.
It was a petty great podcast episode, though.
@klee, it’s been awhile since I’ve read The Secret, so I can’t comment specifically on that book, but my understanding of law of attraction is that it is a universal force like gravity that applies to everyone and everything equally. In my mind it is more in the realm of quantum physics. Pam Grout has two wonderful books called E2 (E Squared) and E3 (E Cubed) with experiments for anyone interested.
The foundational premise is that we are energetic in nature and like attracts like. Essentially, you get what you think about whether you want it or not because you vibrate at a frequency that then draws you things that match it (which is why when you wake up on the wrong side of the bed the day tends to go downhill from there unless you change how you feel or distract yourself).
What Abraham-Hicks discusses more is how our emotions are the guidance that let us know if we are moving towards something we want or towards something we don’t want. Basically, the better you feel, the better your life becomes on all levels.
HATE the cover of Cujo so much I had to tweet it when I saw it this morning. Cheery shamrock green! A dog that looks like it belongs on an old Nancy Drew cover!
Somebody’s going to buy that for their young Cesar Millan in training and have to answer some awkward questions.
“Mommy, why is that man jerking off on someone else’s bed?”
“Well, Billy, when two people love each other very much, they get married, and then the mommy screws someone other than the daddy and that man loses his damn mind and marks his territory. It’s a parallel plot corresponding to the rabid dog, you see?”
@Ren: I respectfully disagree. I really love the new cover! It’s vibrant and eye-catching, and I think the teeth-bared with the spit denotes that the dog it going to unleash some hell. The previous cover (I think it was red and white with the dog teeth in the mirror) was fine, but it’s a bit outdated. I wouldn’t mind seeing more minimalist covers with a solitary color and a central image.
One thing that put me off The Secret, and I have not read it is that if people only gravitate to things they feel are positive, where does that leave less fortunate people? I spend time with people who are ill and suffering in the hope of helping them. I have no worry that I’m attracting some kind of negative energy, I’m focused on caring.
@Cas that’s a really good point. This is a subject close to my heart and life because I am very interested in spirituality and personal expression generally and have studied law of attraction in particular for almost a decade. My feeling is that it is both a person by person case (i.e., there is not a universal “negative”) as well as how that person individually is perceiving the subject at any given time. Every subject has the potential to feel good (looking at aspects that are wanted) or bad (looking at unwanted aspects). What is wanted will therefore vary by person since we all have our unique desires and worldview.
LOL it always amazes me when people say we have the potential to feel good according to our worldview.
No matter how I twist, I still can’t find anything positive in the fact my child is going to die very young after a life of unpleasant chronic illness. I don’t know what devious things he got up to in utero to attract this.
@Flora, I am so sorry to hear that you and your child have had to suffer so. It was never my intent to belittle how someone feels.
I am going to absent myself from further discussion on this topic. I am well aware that my beliefs are far outside the mainstream and that’s okay. I don’t think there is a one-size-fits-all solution to anything, really.
I meant to include above that the reason I posted originally was because I have found the topic to have been very helpful, healing, and insightful in my own life. It has helped me to make connections between my beliefs and what’s happened in my life and ultimately to change and feel more empowered. I like people to feel good about themselves and their lives and I feel that understanding law of attraction is one potential route for that.
I think Mary Star’s last comment gets to it exactly–it’s something that helps people feel good and like they’re in control of their worldview. You could make the same argument for a lot of other religious practices, which is basically what the Secret is. It’s not science, though it dresses itself up in scientific language. It’s magical thinking.
@ Flora: No words. Just — my heart goes out to you and your child.
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