Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
He Knows When You’re Awake
by Alta Hensley
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
This Christmas, it’s all about getting what you really want in this dark billionaire stalker romance sequel to He Sees You When You’re Sleeping.
Stalking in a winter wonderland… Jewelry designer Sloane dreams of launching her own custom line—but she needs a Christmas miracle to pull it off. With traditional banks turning her down left and right, she can’t resist when a mysterious stranger offers her a lifeline.
I see what she creates in those stolen moments when she thinks no one’s watching. I see everything. There’s a darkness at her core and I will unravel her until I find it.
No Way Out
by Alan Jacobson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The FBI profiler teams up with Scotland Yard in this “outstanding thriller” by the USA Today–bestselling author of The 7th Victim (Library Journal, starred review).
When a potent firebomb destroys part of an art gallery in an exclusive London district, FBI profiler Karen Vail is dispatched to England to work with Scotland Yard on drafting a threat assessment to head off future attacks. But Vail soon discovers that at the heart of the bombing lies a four-hundred-forty-year-old manuscript that holds clues to England’s past—with dramatic political and social implications. The manuscript’s content is so explosive that a group of political radicals is bent on destroying it at all costs.
The Root of the Matter
by Lynne Tagawa
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Her job is to prep time travelers. Now she is one.
Archivist Geneva Fielding would rather stick to ancient manuscripts and chocolate croissants. But when a mission to 1630s New England loses its Traveler, Geneva and her physicist friend Peter are tapped to go, with only three days to prepare.
She’s terrified but determined. This is her chance to learn the truth about John Winthrop and the early Puritans—were they the oppressors history has painted them to be?
Geneva and Peter are dumped into an early, struggling Massachusetts, the Puritan inhabitants having escaped the persecution only to face a howling wilderness.
Along Came a Spider
by Ben Patterson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Peacekeepers were meant to fix a broken justice system – until a Spider turned them into targets. Someone wanted judges bought, not dead, but Everett Chase refused to kneel. With partner Lex and rogue judge Dane Varron, he fought back. The war wasn’t won with weapons, but with truth. As corruption fell, Peacekeepers became legends. But justice has a price – and Everett was willing to pay it.
Whispers from the Ice
by Robert Smith
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the eternal frost of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, a forgotten rover stirs. Echo-7—its batteries nearly drained, its final log echoing the melancholy of its Martian ancestor: Batteries low, and it’s getting dark. A tremor ripples through the ice, and the rover’s systems flicker to life, sending a ping across the void.
The reply doesn’t come from a human ear. It comes from Zyrak, an exiled scout from the Hive-world Kaelith Prime, forty-seven light-years away. He found a Voyager probe and followed its star-map to Earth. What he finds is not a cradle, but a ruin: humanity’s own merciless superintelligence pruned its makers into extinction.
Let Me in Your Window
by Adam Ellis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
This brand-new collection of delightful horror comics includes ten new thrilling and terrifying stories that will keep readers on the edge of their seats and peering out their windows in fright. Adam Ellis, one of the biggest stars in webcomics, brings his unique blend of humor and horror to life with stunning illustrations and gripping narratives. Stories include Sleepwalker, about a terrifying and unexplained incident at a youth hostel, Old Machines, about receiving instant messages from a friend who has been dead for years, and Sunken Express, which chronicles a paranormal journey on a phantom subway car.
Season of Angels
by Jo Grafford
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A waitress is keeping a huge secret to protect two people she loves — a task that would be a lot harder if the bachelor sheriff she’s crushing on wasn’t forever lending her a hand.
Tiva Nez’s life has been a hot mess since the day she was born, so it’s just her misfortune to find herself posing as a single mom to protect her sister and nephew. No, Christmas is NOT the most wonderful time of the year. She would rather skip it altogether.
Everyone knows Police Chief Adriel Montana is married to his job. He lives to serve his tribe on the reservation, including his favorite waitress who refuses to officially date him despite privately paying him in kisses every time he rushes to her rescue — which is pretty often.
The Covered Bridge
by Karen Harper
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When Benjamin Kline returns to the fold after eight years, Abigail Baughman welcomes her neighbor with an open heart. But all is not well in their Amish village. Abby overhears some suspicious activity, and it lands her in harm’s way, forcing Ben to come to her rescue. He vows never to let anyone hurt her, even though secrets in his past threaten to put everything at risk—their community, their way of life…and their future together.