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Read and Buried by JT Webster

Read and Buried: An Oakridge Harbor Mystery (Oakridge Harbor Mysteries Book 1) by JT Webster

A rare book goes into the safe at R&C Booksellers on a Thursday afternoon. Friday morning the man who brought it is dead in the stockroom, and the book is gone.

Walter Pruitt asked Jess Hollis to hold it overnight. She photographed it, logged it, and locked the safe. The alley door was closed. She wants that on the record.

Detective Fletcher has a dead man in a locked building and no forced entry. Somebody used a door that does not latch unless you lift the handle a quarter inch, which everybody in the building already knows how to do.

The book was not what it said it was. Jess notices when a thing is out of place. The trouble is the interpretation.

Read and Buried is Book One of the Oakridge Harbor Mysteries, a complete mystery with violence kept off the page.

Download Read and Buried by JT Webster while it’s free on Amazon Sept. 4 – 8.

Meddlers by Carl Gedye

Meddlers by Carl Gedye

Initially set in contemporary England, the story follows our long-suffering protagonist, Tom, who suddenly finds himself transported to a strange alien realm. With flavours of Victorian London, including poverty and degradation, it is populated by mysterious folk who barely reach his waist in height.

Tom had thought he already knew the meaning of trouble, but trouble had just been warming up for the main event. Our hero is about to go head-to-head against Lord Sod, of Sod’s Law fame, in this unusual, fast-paced Aetherpunk Sci-Fi adventure.

Download Meddlers by Carl Gedye while it’s free on Amazon August 29 – 30.

The Grumbleback Sanctuary by Verda Rowe

The Grumbleback Sanctuary (Thistlewick Hollow Book 1) by Verda Rowe

The road to Thistlewick Hollow was not built for dignity.

Wren Ashcombe discovered this fact somewhere around the third pothole, when the hired cart lurched hard enough to send her traveling case sliding off the bench and her carefully composed posture along with it. She caught the case before it hit the mud, one hand shooting out with the same swift, unthinking reflex she’d once used to catch falling instruments in a treatment room.

Download The Grumbleback Sanctuary by Verda Rowe while it’s on sale on Amazon Sept. 3 – Dec. 31.

Tokyo Reckoning by Toi Suzuki

Tokyo Reckoning by Toi Suzuki

There is a rule in Kabukicho, and the rule is this: a man can lose his money, his liver, his wife, and three of his fingers, and the district will forgive him every one of these losses, will even buy him a drink to commemorate them, provided he never once loses the one thing that cannot be returned to him, which is face.

Taro Bessho was about to lose all five at once, and he did not yet know it, because at this particular moment, nine minutes past eleven on the last Friday night of November, 1990, he was standing under the neon waterfall of the Koma Theater intersection with a metal briefcase in his hand and the warm conviction of a man who believes he has, for once, gotten something right.

He had not gotten anything right. But the night was young, and so was the lie he was telling himself.

Download Tokyo Reckoning by Toi Suzuki while it’s on sale on Amazon August 31 – September 6.

Accidental Neighbor by Sharon Woods

Accidental Neighbor: Single Dad Romance (The Gentlemen Series Book 1) by Sharon Woods

This has to be the world’s slowest moving line. The shivers running up my arms into my bones have me rethinking my outfit tonight. Cold wind whips around my bare thighs. My teeth chatter, and I shuffle forward. My friends are waiting inside Three Dots Bar and I’m late for my best friend’s twenty-first birthday celebration.

It was a struggle to make it here on time, and that was before I had to stay over at work filling in paperwork for a child that had an allergic reaction and vomited on me just before the mom arrived. Loving my job makes these times bearable. I’m scheduled on the late shift at work this week and getting ready for a big night out takes time. The line moves—thank God—and I reach inside my bag for my ID card.

Shit. The contents of my purse spill onto the pavement, and I quickly squat down to gather my belongings when I hear a rip. I suck in a breath and freeze. My tight tartan yellow skirt has a new thigh slit.

“Great,” I mutter as I scramble to pick up my lip gloss, phone, and wallet.

“That’s what happens when you stuff too much into a small bag,” a deep male voice comments. I see his black shiny dress shoes and I know he is standing above, watching me.

Wanting to see his face, I rise, careful not to make the situation worse, and tug at the end, trying to add the illusion of more length.
My gaze focuses on the voice’s face, and I feel dizzy staring back into a set of dark, brooding eyes. I watch his eyes squint from a smile, causing creases to form near them. His teeth are straight, white, and perfect. And his brown hair is tousled neatly on top of his head. My hand is twitching to see what it would feel like. What is wrong with me?

He slowly and seductively slides his gaze downwards over my black bodysuit and over-the-knee boots. And I feel stripped but intrigued by this handsome man. I need to know his name. Before I have a chance to speak, he is turning and walking off inside the bar.

Download Accidental Neighbor by Sharon Woods while it’s free on Amazon August 31 – October 31.