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No Clean Hands: A Relentless Crime Thriller
Author: Bear, William
FREE
Crime Action Fiction
Because Happy Endings Only Happen in Massage Parlors.
No Clean Hands
A Relentless Crime Thriller
Opportunity knocked, and he answered.
It’s 1997,and Abraham “Abe” Lincoln is a homeless punk rocker scraping by on the streets of Redlands, California. He’s got no plans, no prospects, and no illusions about how the world works. But when a drug deal goes sideways and leaves a dozen people dead, Abe stumbles into the aftermath, and walks away with a duffel bag full of drugs and cash that doesn’t belong to him.
Now, every choice he makes matters.
The local biker gang wants to save their reputation.
A psychotic meth cook wants blood.
And the police want a nice neat end to the whole thing..
Abe has to stay ahead of all of them while dragging K.O. Katie O’Hara, his sharp-tongued, battle-hardened girlfriend (sorta) with her own demons, along for the ride. Together, they’re two street-smart outcasts trying to outrun a system that was never built for people like them.
Set in the sweat-stained streets and desert outskirts of late-90s Southern California, No Clean Hands is a hard-hitting crime thriller that blends raw realism, emotionally scarred characters, and razor-sharp dialogue. This is not a story about clean getaways or easy justice. It’s about what happens when survival is the only plan, and whether two people with nothing can somehow find a way out.
If you like:
Crime thrillers with heart, edge, and no easy answers
Gritty, realistic fiction about life in the margins
Antihero protagonists and morally grey decisions
Stories like Winter’s Bone, Savages, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, or Joe
Books with punk attitude, desert heat, and emotional scars
…you’ll find No Clean Hands impossible to put down.
No Clean Hands isn’t about heroes.
It’s about the forgotten, the desperate, and the ones who slip through the cracks.
If you’re tired of polished thrillers with perfect characters and predictable endings, this book will remind you what real crime fiction feels like.
The Modern Girl’s Guide to Magic (Charming Cove Book 1)
Author: Hall, Linsey
FREE
Paranormal Witches & Wizards Romance
So here’s the deal—I’m a magical disaster. A witch from a family of witches, and the only one whose magic blows up in her face. Which is why I came up with my rules…
1. Never get involved with magic
2. If you must get involved, do not enter a competition to win the biggest magical fortune in England
3. And definitely don’t fall for Callan Hawthorne, the sexy billionaire mage who you’ve hated for years
So how the heck do I end up in a situation that promises to break all those rules? It’s the only way to save Seaside Spells, my family’s magical potion shop.
But it’s cool. When I go back home to Charming Cove—a village of ancient pubs and foul-mouthed familiars—I will totally ignore Witch Weekly’s Sexiest Man of the Year. I’ll win the competition, and if I’m lucky, I won’t turn myself into a toad in the process.
This’ll be fine. It’ll all be fine.
Riiiight.
The Modern Girl’s Guide to Magic is a fun, frothy romantic comedy full of laughter, love, and magical hijinks. It’s the first in a series of stand alone romances set in the seaside village of Charming Cove.
The Pilot’s Daughter
Author: Cole, Audrey J.
FREE
Action Thriller Fiction
Welcome aboard Pacific Air Flight 385, with nonstop service from Seattle to Honolulu.
Cora is scared to fly again after her husband died in a recent helicopter crash in Pago Pago.
A thousand times she has told herself to turn around, not get on the flight, go back to her young children.
But now, she’s seated in first class across the aisle from the girlfriend of a famous billionaire pharmaceutical entrepreneur.
Halfway across the Pacific, the flight is hijacked. Six people are dead—including the pilots.
Cora is a young widow, mother, and emergency room nurse...but as the world closes in around her, she’s also a pilot’s daughter.
Lost off radar in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, the motive behind the hijacking remains a mystery. Not knowing who to trust, Cora works with the man seated beside her, Seattle Homicide Detective Kyle Adams, to save herself along with the remaining one hundred and fifty-four souls on board.
Don’t miss Audrey J. Cole’s chilling new thriller, Missing In Flight, about a woman faced with the unthinkable when her infant goes missing aboard a plane to New York...
The Alvarez Family Murder Mysteries: Vol 1-3
Author: Haven, Heather
FREE
Humorous Cozy Mysteries
THE FIRST THREE DELICIOUSLY FUNNY DETECTIVE COZIES!
Here is the start of the series starring PI ferret, Lee Alvarez. She’s not the cute, 4-legged kind of ferret but the cute 2-legged kind. She sniffs out dastardly cybercrimes from the comfort of her gilded office. But when she gets up from her desk, she occasionally falls over a dead body or two. Not to worry. Solving murders is what she and her family are good at. They run Discretionary Inquiries, a family-owned detective agency in the heart of Silicon Valley.
This set is for cozy readers who can’t get enough of a smart-mouthed woman sleuth out to please her never-had-a-bad-hair-day mother, computer-genius brother, gourmet chef uncle, and energetic orange and white cat, Tugger. Now you can get the first three with one click—a delicious Kindle deal!
“One of the funniest mystery authors around. You won’t be able to put her books down. A must-read 5-star series!” —National Best Selling Author, Cindy Sample
MURDER IS A FAMILY BUSINESS
Just because a man cheats on his wife and makes Danny DeVito look tall, dark, and handsome, is that any reason to kill him? Lee Alvarez, half Latina, half WASP, and 100% detective doesn’t think so. Guilted by her aristocratic mother into tailing a friend’s husband to a seedy warehouse, he’s killed on her watch. She also finds an abandoned kitten destined to become hers. But in between kitty litter, kibble, and purrs, she’s determined to find out whodunit.
Fans of Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone, Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum, and Lisa Lutz’s The Spellman Files will get a kick out of the Alvarez clan.
The Contingency (The Contingency War Book 1)
Author: Ogden, G J
FREE
Space Fleet Science Fiction
- From Kindle Storyteller Award Winner, G J Ogden -
Their mission wasn’t supposed to find anything – least of all the truth.
Captain Taylor Ray commands a deep-space recon crew on a mission scouring the far reaches of the galaxy for signs of the Hedalt; Earth’s long-defeated alien enemy.
No-one really expects him to find anything because no-one ever has. After decades of hunting the remnants of the Hedalt across light years, all that remains are ghosts – long-dead outposts of a long-dead civilization.
But Captain Ray enjoys the company of his tight-knit, specialist crew, and the ten years’ worth of pay for just four years in the wilderness also helps.
When his ship detects a faint Hedalt signal and he orders his crew to investigate, Captain Ray couldn’t possibly know what he is about to discover.
Everything he thinks he knows is a lie. The Hedalt war didn’t end. It hasn’t even begun.
The Contingency War takes the alien invasion sci-fi genre and turns it on its head. Buckle up for action, mystery, adventure, and a twist that you won’t see coming…
Wolf Marked (Magic Side: Wolf Bound Book 1)
Author: Douglas, Veronica
FREE
Werewolves & Shifters Suspense
Werewolves are hunting me.
I was just an ordinary girl waiting tables in a small-town bar. I had no idea magic was real. That was, until I backed my car over a werewolf a couple times.
In my defense, the wolf was trying to murder me, and I was all out of mace.
Now I’ve got a cult of rogue wolves on my heels, and the only one who can protect me is Jaxson Laurent—the alpha of the Chicago pack.
He suspects I’m special and can’t take his eyes off me, but the problem is—he’s the sworn enemy of my family. Every time we get close it feels like something is going to rip out of my soul, but the heat between us is irresistible.
Like it or not, the fates are pushing us together.
With danger around every corner and wolves howling in the night, I need to master my magic and stand my ground, or I’ll be dead before the next moon rises.
Book 1 of 4
An action-packed urban fantasy, Wolf Marked features a kick-ass heroine, a dangerous hero, and a slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers romance.
Prepare to be drawn into a mysterious and magical world, full of demons, shifters, and sorcerers.
Killing Time in Georgia (The Savannah Time Travel Mysteries Book 1)
Author: Kiernan-Lewis, Susan
FREE
Step into the exciting and tumultuous world of 1920’s Savannah with 2023 police dispatcher Georgia Belle who is thrust into the past and into the center of a sinister mystery with personal ties to her future. As the body count rises, she joins forces with 1920’s police detective Sam Bohannon to find the killer. Book 1 in this electrifying new historical mystery series combines romance, suspense, and intrigue for a thrill ride that will have fans of Golden Age Mysteries on the edge of their seats.
Susan Kiernan-Lewis is a USA TODAY Bestselling Author and the writer of the bestselling Maggie Newberry Mysteries. She has also written the popular post-apocalyptic thriller series, The Irish End Games, The Mia Kazmaroff Mysteries, The Stranded in Provence Mysteries, and the Claire Baskerville Mysteries. S
Cabin Crush
Author: Stockton, Kasey
FREE
Sweet Romantic Comedy
This Christmas, all she wants is him.
Rachael
I’ve had a crush on my brother’s best friend my entire life. Once, in high school, I even got a taste of what it would be like to be with him thanks to some well-placed mistletoe: incredible and humiliating. We always spend Christmas with Max’s family at our cabin, and every year I have to suffer through a blissful week with him in a completely platonic way. His steady stream of girlfriends have made him off limits . . . until now.
It’s Christmas.
We’re at the cabin together.
And Max Dawson is single.
Max
I’ve never looked forward to Christmas less in my entire life. My parents’ holiday will be ruined after I tell them my news, and to make matters worse, I blabbed to Rachael on the drive out to the cabin. Now she has to keep my secret until I’m ready to share with my family.
Which is probably why she’s acting so weird. Watching me. Touching me. Flirting.
It would be terrible if I wasn’t enjoying it so much.
But her brother has made it clear she’s off limits. And besides, I kissed Rachael once, and we all know how that ended.
So we definitely shouldn’t do it again.
Right?
**Part of the Gift-Wrapped Romance series, Cabin Crush is a brother’s best friend & unrequited love sweet and clean romantic comedy. Enjoy all five romances in any order.
The Vampire and the Case of the Wayward Werewolf (Portlock Book 1)
Author: Harris, Heather G., Dolbeare, Jilleen
FREE
Paranormal Magical Realism
Someone paid the vampire king’s creepy son to turn me into one of the bitey undead. I’m not hanging about to find out who or why. The vampires want me to stay with them for one hundred years of indentured servitude but I have this thing about following orders so I ran from the streets of London to the wilds of Alaska.
I have an eidetic memory and a can-do attitude. I can-do anything to get away from the vampire king. So when the Sheriff of Portlock, a hidden paranormal town, invites me to be his assistant, I say sure thing. It beats servitude hands down.
At first things seem ideal in Portlock, I make a new friend and even get asked out on a date. But the truth is, there are secrets aplenty. The paranormal council are at each other’s throats, figuratively of course. But then someone rips out a werewolf’s throat, literally this time.
I need to work with the Sheriff to find the killer, before he strikes again. We just need to winnow through werewolf pack issues, council politics, and more suspects than you can shake a stake at. Simple.
Portlock is a melting pot of witches, necromancers, vampires and shifters, but things are starting to boil over. I hope I don’t get burnt.
The Time Machine
Author: Wells, H. G.
FREE
Classic Literary Fiction
⌛ He built a machine to travel through time — and discovered the end of mankind.
In The Time Machine, H. G. Wells introduces readers to one of the most enduring inventions in science fiction: the time machine itself. This revolutionary story blends thrilling adventure, scientific imagination, and profound social insight into a masterpiece that forever changed the genre.
When the brilliant but eccentric Time Traveller journeys hundreds of thousands of years into the future, he finds a world divided between two strange races — the gentle Eloi, who live in innocence and sunlight, and the terrifying Morlocks, who lurk in the darkness below. As he uncovers the truth behind their existence, he confronts the fate of humanity — and the destiny that progress may bring.
Visionary, haunting, and deeply philosophical, The Time Machine is not only a tale of exploration but a timeless warning about the fragility of civilization and the relentless march of time.
The Body in the Park: Razzy Cat Book 1
Author: McFarlin, Courtney
FREE
Cozy Animal Mystery
She’s found an unlikely consultant to help solve the crime. But this speaking pet might just prove purr-fect…
Hannah Murphy yearns for a real news story. But after a strange migraine results in an unexpected ability to talk to her cat, she must keep the kitty-communication skills a secret if she wants to advance from fluff pieces to covering felonies. And when she literally trips over a slain body, she’s shocked her feline companion is the best partner to crack the case.
Convinced she’s finally got her big break, Hannah quickly runs afoul of a handsome detective and his poor opinion of interfering reporters. And when she discovers the victim’s penchant for embezzlement and fraud, she may need more than a furry friend and a cantankerous cop to avoid ending up in the obits.
Can Hannah catch a killer before her career and her life are dead and buried?
The Body in the Park is the delightful first book in the Razzy Cat cozy mystery series. If you like clever sleuths, light banter, and talking animals, then you’ll love Courtney McFarlin’s hilarious whodunit.
Spells and Sandwiches (West Side Witches Book 1)
Author: Moseman, Kate
FREE
Paranormal Women’s Fiction
Beneath the soul of a chef, lies the heart of a witch.
Zelda Hawkins came to Manhattan to make sandwiches, not spells—but when a mysterious vampire offers free rent on her family’s old restaurant in exchange for repairing a magical mirror, Zelda’s plans are flipped like a hot grilled cheese.
With the help of a ridiculous rescue poodle, a mind-reading fire witch, a smoldering ex-boyfriend, and a hot Brooklyn hipster helping with the renovation, Zelda must use the magic she inherited from her grandmother to enter a world of witches, vampires, and fae, where masks and mirrors are only the beginning… and the stakes are higher than New York prices.
The Step-by-Step Instant Pot Cookbook: 100 Simple Recipes
🍲 Author: Jeffrey Eisner
💰 Regularly $11.99, Today $2.99
Pressure Cooker Recipes
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
The easiest-to-follow Instant Pot cookbook ever: 100 delicious recipes with more than 750 photographs guiding you every step of the way
Jeffrey Eisner’s popular Pressure Luck Cooking website and YouTube channel have shown millions of home cooks how to make magic in their Instant Pots. Now Eisner takes the patient, fun, step-by-step approach that made him an online phenomenon and delivers a cookbook of 100 essential dishes that will demystify pressure cooking for Instant Pot users of all abilities—and put an astounding dinner on the table in a flash.
Every flavor-filled recipe in this book is illustrated with clear photographs showing exactly what to do in each step. There are no surprises: no hard-to-find ingredients, no fussy extra techniques, and nothing even the most reluctant cooks can’t master in moments. What you see is truly what you get, in delicious and simple dishes such as: Mac & Cheese, Quick Quinoa Salad, French Onion Chicken, Eisner’s popular Best-Ever Pot Roast, Ratatouille Stew, and even desserts such as Bananas Foster and Crème Brulée.
Jeffrey Eisner built Pressure Luck Cooking into one of the most trusted Instant Pot resources online by understanding that most people don’t want to be gourmet chefs—they want dinner on the table without stress, confusion, or failure. His YouTube videos have millions of views because he shows every single step, anticipates where people get confused, and never assumes knowledge his audience might not have. This cookbook translates that teaching approach into print with over 750 photographs—meaning you’ll have visual confirmation that you’re doing it right at every stage of every recipe.
Why I’m including this: Most Instant Pot cookbooks assume you already understand pressure cooking basics and jump straight into recipes. Eisner assumes nothing, which is exactly what anxious home cooks need. The 750+ photographs mean you’re never guessing whether your ingredients look right, whether you’ve added enough liquid, or whether that beeping means success or disaster. This is the cookbook for people who bought an Instant Pot and then let it sit in the box for six months because they were intimidated. Eisner’s “Best-Ever Pot Roast” has cult status among his followers for good reason—it’s foolproof, deeply flavorful, and exactly the kind of crowd-pleasing comfort food that justifies the Instant Pot’s counter space. The range from Mac & Cheese (perfect for weeknight sanity) to Crème Brulée (impressive enough for dinner parties) shows Eisner understands the Instant Pot should be your everyday workhorse, not a single-purpose gadget. If you’ve struggled with other Instant Pot cookbooks that seemed to assume expertise you don’t have, or if you’re tired of recipes failing because you missed some crucial unstated step, Eisner’s obsessive hand-holding is exactly what you need. At $2.99, you’re getting a national bestseller that could finally make your Instant Pot earn its keep.
The Accidental Text
💬 Author: Becky Monson
💰 Regularly $4.99, Today $2.49
Romantic Comedy
Wrong number. Right guy?
Once upon a time, Maggie Cooper lived for adventure. Skydiving? Child’s play. But these days, she can’t even work up the nerve to flirt with her coworker. As a form of self-therapy, she starts texting her late mother’s number—only to discover it’s been reassigned. For weeks, she’s unknowingly shared her rawest thoughts (and a few not-so-PG musings about her coworker’s butt) with a complete stranger.
That stranger, Chase Beckett, finally texts back—and he’s just as surprised as she is. But message after message, night after night, Maggie finds herself drawn to his wit, kindness, and unexpectedly spot-on advice. He might just be what her grieving heart needs.
But can a guy on the other end of a wrong number really help her rediscover the fearless woman she used to be? And is she brave enough to take the leap… for love?
The Accidental Text is a heartwarming and hopeful romance about grief, healing, and the unexpected ways love shows up—sometimes one text at a time. Full of humor, emotional depth, and just the right amount of swoon, it’s perfect for fans of The Flatshare and Yours Truly. Low on spice, high on feeling.
“The Accidental Text will have you swooning, laughing, and even shedding a few tears. It’s absolute perfection.” —Jennifer Peel, USA Today Bestselling Author ★★★★★
Becky Monson writes contemporary romance that balances genuine emotional stakes with the kind of humor that makes you laugh out loud on public transportation. Her novels have attracted readers who want their rom-coms to acknowledge real pain—grief, anxiety, loss of self—while still delivering the satisfying emotional journey and happy ending the genre promises. Monson excels at creating heroines who are struggling but not broken, funny but not manic pixie dream girls, and flawed in ways that feel authentically human.
What makes this special: The “texting a dead loved one’s old number” premise immediately establishes emotional depth—Maggie isn’t just looking for love, she’s grieving her mother and trying to process that loss in whatever way she can. The fact that she’s been accidentally sharing her most vulnerable thoughts (and thirsty observations about her coworker) with a stranger for weeks before he responds creates both comedy and intimacy—Chase already knows the real Maggie before they’ve even had a conversation. The transformation from fearless adventurer to someone who can’t even flirt suggests trauma or loss has fundamentally changed Maggie, making her journey to rediscover that woman compelling beyond just the romance. The “low on spice, high on feeling” promise tells you exactly what kind of book this is—closed door romance that focuses on emotional connection and the slow burn of falling for someone through words before you’ve even met them. If you’ve loved Beth O’Leary’s The Flatshare (another romance built on written communication before meeting), Abby Jimenez’s Yours Truly (emotional depth with rom-com humor), or any of Christina Lauren’s contemporary romances, this delivers similar comfort-read satisfaction. At $2.49, it’s cheaper than therapy and probably just as likely to make you believe in unexpected second chances.
Done for the Best: A Pride and Prejudice Variation (The Engaged to Mr Darcy Series)
💕 Author: Amy D’Orazio
💰 Regularly $5.95, Today $2.99
Adaptations & Pastiche Fiction
Perhaps this concealment, this disguise, was beneath me… It is done, however, and it was done for the best.
Elizabeth Bennet, walking in Kent the day after Mr Darcy’s proposal meets with an unfortunate mishap. A meeting with an adder has disastrous consequences for her and when she wakes from a period of unconsciousness, she has no memory at all of the last ten months of her life. To her complete shock she learns that she is engaged to a man called Darcy, a man she has no recollection of meeting before.
Darcy is shocked himself to realize that Elizabeth thinks she is engaged to him but his efforts to correct her misapprehension are thwarted by those around her who believe that to learn the truth will be detrimental to her recovery. As the days go by, Darcy and Elizabeth spend time together, reading and driving out around Kent, behaving as the lovers Darcy always dreamt they would be. To continue in the disguise, to forget the contentions and misunderstandings of their past proves an unbearable temptation.
When the worst happens and Elizabeth learns that not only did she refuse Darcy’s proposal, she hated him. What she learns seems completely incongruous with the man she has fallen in love with…and yet she simply does not know if she can forgive him for deceiving her.
Amy D’Orazio writes Pride and Prejudice variations that explore “what if” scenarios with emotional sophistication and genuine stakes. Her Engaged to Mr Darcy series has attracted readers who want their Austen retellings to honor the original characters while pushing them into new territory that tests their relationship in ways the source material couldn’t. D’Orazio understands that the best variations aren’t just about getting Elizabeth and Darcy together through different circumstances—they’re about exploring facets of their personalities and relationship dynamics that Austen only hinted at.
Here’s what you’re getting: The amnesia trope could be melodramatic disaster, but D’Orazio uses it brilliantly to create a scenario where Elizabeth falls for Darcy without the baggage of Wickham’s lies, Darcy’s disastrous first proposal, and all the pride and prejudice that kept them apart. She wakes up believing she’s engaged to him, and everyone around her—worried that the truth will harm her recovery—lets the misunderstanding continue. Darcy gets to experience what he’s always wanted: Elizabeth looking at him with affection, spending time with him willingly, believing they’re in love. The moral complexity is delicious—he knows he should tell her the truth, but the temptation to have just a few more days of her believing she loves him proves impossible to resist. When Elizabeth’s memory returns and she learns the truth—that she refused him, that she hated him, that he’s been deceiving her—the betrayal is doubly devastating because she’s now genuinely fallen for the man he’s revealed himself to be. The setup forces both characters to confront difficult questions: Is the Darcy that Elizabeth fell in love with during her amnesia the “real” him, or was he performing for her? Can Elizabeth forgive his deception even though it came from love? If you’ve loved Abigail Reynolds’s Pemberley variations, Mary Lydon Simonsen’s sequels, or any P&P retelling that digs into psychological complexity rather than just rearranging plot points, D’Orazio delivers the emotional depth and moral ambiguity that makes great variations work. At $2.99, it’s an affordable entry into a series that promises to make you fall in love with Darcy and Elizabeth all over again.
Tiger Woods
⛳ Author: Jeff Benedict, Armen Keteyian
💰 Regularly $15.99, Today $1.99
Golf Biographies
#1 New York Times Bestseller * “A whirlwind of a biography that reads honest and true.” —The Wall Street Journal * “There is beauty and awe in this perfectly pitched biography.” —The New York Times * “Comprehensive, propulsive...and unsparing.” —The New Yorker
Based on years of reporting and hundreds of interviews with people from every corner of Tiger Woods’s life this is “a searing biography of golf’s most blazing talent” (GOLF Magazine)—who has made one of the most remarkable comebacks of all time.
In 2009, Tiger Woods was the most famous athlete on the planet, a transcendent star of almost unfathomable fame and fortune living what appeared to be the perfect life. But it turned out he had been living a double life for years—one that exploded in the aftermath of a Thanksgiving night crash that exposed his serial infidelity and sent his personal and professional lives over a cliff. In this “searing biography of golf’s most blazing talent” (GOLF magazine), Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian dig deep behind the headlines to produce a richly reported answer to the question that has mystified millions of sports fans for nearly a decade: who is Tiger Woods, really?
Drawing on more than four hundred interviews with people from every corner of Woods’s life—many of whom have never spoken about him on the record before—Benedict and Keteyian construct a captivating psychological profile of a mixed race child programmed by an attention-grabbing father and the original Tiger Mom to be the “chosen one,” to change not just the game of golf, but the world as well. But at what cost? Benedict and Keteyian provide the starling answers in this definitive biography that is destined to linger in the minds of readers for years to come.
Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian are investigative journalists who have written multiple New York Times bestsellers by combining meticulous reporting with narrative drive. Benedict’s previous sports biographies have set the standard for unauthorized but fair-minded portraits that neither lionize nor destroy their subjects. Keteyian spent decades as a CBS investigative correspondent and has broken major stories across sports and politics. Together, they brought the resources and access necessary to produce the definitive Tiger Woods biography—one that Woods himself didn’t authorize but couldn’t prevent, built on 400+ interviews with people from every phase of his life.
Why I’m including this: Tiger Woods is simultaneously the most famous golfer in history and one of the most mysterious—a man who performed miracles on the course while hiding a secret life that eventually exploded in spectacular public fashion. This biography answers the question everyone’s been asking since that Thanksgiving 2009 car crash: who is Tiger Woods when the cameras are off? Benedict and Keteyian go beyond the tabloid scandals to explore the psychological damage of being programmed from childhood to be a world-changer, the cost of maintaining a perfect public image while living a double life, and the mixed-race identity complexities that shaped how Tiger saw himself and how the world saw him. The “original Tiger Mom” reference to his mother Kultida is pointed—she and Earl Woods didn’t just raise a golf prodigy, they created someone who couldn’t separate his identity from his performance, couldn’t fail without feeling he’d betrayed his destiny. The book captures both Tiger’s athletic genius (the shot-making, the mental toughness, the dominance that redefined golf) and his human frailty (the affairs, the addiction issues, the inability to connect authentically with people). What makes this essential reading even for non-golf fans is that it’s ultimately about what happens when we turn children into products, when parents project their dreams onto kids, when fame and perfection become prisons. If you’ve read Andre Agassi’s Open, David Maraniss’s biographies, or any sports book that goes beyond statistics to explore psychology, this delivers similar depth. At $1.99 (down from $15.99), you’re getting a #1 New York Times bestseller praised by every major publication for less than a cup of coffee—an exceptional value for a biography that will change how you see one of sports’ most complex figures.
Mouth to Mouth: A Novel
😱 Author: Antoine Wilson
💰 Regularly $13.99, Today $1.99
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER * ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE SUMMER * An NPR and Time Best Book of the Year * Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (Canada) * Finalist for CALIBA’s Golden Poppy Awards
A successful art dealer confesses the story of his meteoric rise in this “powerful, intoxicating, and shocking” (The New York Times) novel that’s a “slow burn à la Patricia Highsmith” (Oprah Daily). “You’ll struggle not to rip through in one sitting” (Vogue).
In a first-class lounge at JFK airport, our narrator listens as Jeff Cook, a former classmate he only vaguely remembers, shares the uncanny story of his adult life—a life that changed course years before, the moment he resuscitated a drowning man.
Jeff reveals that after that traumatic, galvanizing morning on the beach, he was compelled to learn more about the man whose life he had saved, convinced that their fates were now entwined. But are we agents of our fate—or are we its pawns? Upon discovering that the man is renowned art dealer Francis Arsenault, Jeff begins to surreptitiously visit his Beverly Hills gallery. Although Francis does not seem to recognize him as the man who saved his life, he nevertheless casts his legendary eye on Jeff and sees something worthy. He takes the younger man under his wing, initiating him into his world, where knowledge, taste, and access are currency; a world where value is constantly shifting and calling into question what is real, and what matters. The paths of the two men come together and diverge in dizzying ways until the novel’s staggering ending.
Antoine Wilson writes psychological fiction that explores obsession, identity, and the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and why we do what we do. Mouth to Mouth earned comparisons to Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley for its exploration of a man who insinuates himself into another’s life, though Wilson’s approach is more philosophical than Highsmith’s—less about con artistry than about fate, obligation, and whether saving someone’s life creates a bond that can’t be broken.
What makes this special: The framing device—a chance encounter in an airport lounge where one man confesses his entire strange story to a former classmate who barely remembers him—creates immediate tension. Why is Jeff telling this story? What does he want from the narrator? The premise is both simple and deeply unsettling: Jeff saves Francis Arsenault from drowning, then becomes convinced their fates are linked, leading him to insert himself into Francis’s life without revealing who he is. When Francis takes Jeff under his wing in the art world, it’s unclear whether Francis truly doesn’t recognize his rescuer or whether he’s playing his own game. The art world setting—where value is subjective, authenticity is debatable, and reputation is everything—provides the perfect backdrop for a story about identity and truth. Wilson uses the mentor-protégé relationship to explore questions about debt, gratitude, and whether one person can ever truly own another’s life just because they saved it. The “staggering ending” promise suggests revelations that recontextualize everything, the kind of twist that makes you want to immediately reread the book knowing what you now know. If you’ve loved Patricia Highsmith’s psychologically twisted character studies, Ottessa Moshfegh’s morally ambiguous protagonists, or Kazuo Ishiguro’s unreliable narrators, Wilson offers similar literary sophistication with page-turning suspense. At $1.99 (down from $13.99), you’re getting a book that made Barack Obama’s summer reading list for the price of a bottle of water at that airport lounge—an absolute steal for literary thriller that Vogue says you won’t be able to put down.
My Heart’s Home (The Long Road Home Book 1)
💝 Author: Kris Michaels
💰 Regularly $4.99, Today $2.49
Military Romance
Forty years old and starting over. And not sure where home was going to be.
Chief Master Sergeant Cameron Freeland had a few job prospects but nothing that sparked much interest. And now… his flight was grounded, and he was stranded in an airport. At least, he could kill time in the USO.
A chance meeting there altered his decision, and he boarded his plane to Hope City with an interview for the job of his dreams.
Single mom, Mercy Cahill faced life and death struggles every day to protect herself and her daughter. Now hiding under a bridge in a homeless community, she needed was a break, a job, and a home somewhere her ex couldn’t reach them.
Cam’s new job as a special investigator took him to the cardboard cottages, where he met Destiny, the little girl with the big green eyes and her mother. Involving himself deeper with the mother and daughter was a mistake but leaving them in that place was impossible. If only Mercy would trust him, he’d give her shattered heart a home.
Kris Michaels writes military and romantic suspense that centers on alpha heroes who use their skills to protect rather than dominate, and heroines facing genuine danger rather than manufactured drama. Her Long Road Home series has attracted readers who want their military romance grounded in real-world issues—homelessness, domestic violence, PTSD—while still delivering the protective hero and hard-won happy ending the genre promises. Michaels doesn’t shy away from depicting the harsh realities her characters face, making their eventual happiness feel earned rather than inevitable.
Here’s what you’re getting: Cameron is forty and retiring from the Air Force, facing the disorienting question of what comes next when your entire adult identity has been military. The chance encounter at the USO that changes his trajectory suggests fate bringing together two people who desperately need each other. Mercy and her daughter Destiny are living under a bridge in a homeless encampment, running from an ex dangerous enough that homelessness feels safer than being found. When Cam’s new job as a special investigator takes him into that world, he meets the little girl with big green eyes and her protective mother—and can’t walk away. The “involving himself was a mistake” acknowledgment shows Cam knows he’s crossing professional boundaries, but leaving a woman and child in that situation is impossible for a man trained to protect. The domestic violence undertones (Mercy’s dangerous ex, her inability to trust) add genuine stakes beyond “will they get together”—Mercy needs to heal enough to let someone in, and Cam needs to prove he’s safe when her entire life has taught her that men are threats. If you’ve loved Suzanne Brockmann’s military romance with real danger, Susan Stoker’s protective SEALs, or Marliss Melton’s Navy SEAL series, Michaels delivers similar alpha heroes and genuinely vulnerable heroines. At $2.49, you’re getting a series starter that promises both heart and heat, where the romance can’t happen until very real problems get solved.
Carson the Magnificent
📺 Author: Bill Zehme
💰 Regularly $14.99, Today $3.99
Biography
The definitive biography of Johnny Carson, the entertainer who redefined late-night television and American culture, told through intimate insights and riveting accounts of his legendary career and complex personal life.
In 2002, Bill Zehme landed one of the most coveted assignments for a magazine writer: an interview with Johnny Carson—the only one he’d granted since retiring from The Tonight Show a decade earlier. Zehme was tapped for the Esquire feature story thanks to his years of legendary celebrity profiles, and the resulting piece portrayed Carson as more human being than American TV icon. Following Carson’s passing in 2005, Zehme embarked on an exhaustive nearly decade-long research journey, interviewing dozens of Carson’s colleagues and friends to craft this “immensely informative and insightful” (The Minnesota Star Tribune) biography, although his efforts were halted by a cancer diagnosis. When he died in 2023 his obituaries mentioned the Carson book, with New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinoman calling it “one of the great unfinished biographies.”
Yet the hundreds of pages Zehme managed to complete are astounding both for the caliber of their writing and how they illuminate one of the most legendary talk show hosts of all time: A man who brought so much joy and laughter to so many millions, but was himself exceedingly shy and private. Zehme traces Carson’s rise from a magic-obsessed Nebraska boy to Navy ensign in World War II to a burgeoning radio and TV personality to, eventually, host of The Tonight Show—which he transformed, along with the entirety of American popular culture, over the next three decades. Without Carson, there would be no late-night television as we know it. On a much more intimate level, Zehme also captures the turmoil and anguish that accompanied the success: four marriages, troubles with alcohol, and the devastating loss of a child.
Bill Zehme was one of the most celebrated celebrity profile writers of his generation, contributing to Esquire, Rolling Stone, and other major publications with pieces that captured not just what famous people did but who they actually were. His 2002 Johnny Carson interview—Carson’s only substantial interview after retirement—demonstrated Zehme’s unique ability to get past the public persona to the complicated human underneath. When Zehme died in 2023 after a long battle with cancer, the Carson biography he’d been working on for nearly two decades remained unfinished, prompting New York Times critic Jason Zinoman to call it “one of the great unfinished biographies.” What Zehme completed before his death has been shaped into this book—incomplete, but extraordinary.
Why I’m including this: Johnny Carson dominated American culture for thirty years but remained fundamentally unknowable—the man who made millions laugh every night was himself shy, private, and emotionally remote. Zehme’s biography is poignant not just for what it reveals about Carson but for its own backstory: a dying writer spending his final years trying to capture the essence of a man who brought joy to millions but struggled with his own darkness. The fact that Zehme interviewed Carson himself (the only substantial interview Carson gave after retirement) and then spent nearly two decades interviewing everyone else in Carson’s orbit means this biography has both intimacy and comprehensiveness that no other could match. Zehme explores the paradoxes: the magic-obsessed kid from Nebraska who became the most powerful figure in entertainment, the man whose timing and wit seemed effortless but who struggled with alcohol and failed marriages, the icon who launched careers for countless comedians but couldn’t sustain intimate relationships in his own life. The “devastating loss of a child” (Carson’s son Richard died in a car accident) provides tragic context for Carson’s emotional reserve. Without Carson, there is no Letterman, no Leno, no Colbert, no Fallon—he invented the template for late-night TV and American comedy. If you’ve loved Walter Isaacson’s biographies that capture complex genius, Robert Caro’s exhaustive research, or any biography that goes beyond hagiography to show both brilliance and brokenness, this delivers similar depth. At $3.99, you’re getting a book that shouldn’t exist (the author died before finishing it) but does, offering the only truly intimate portrait of one of America’s most beloved and mysterious entertainers.
The First Rule of Mastery: Stop Worrying about What People Think of You
🧠 Author: Michael Gervais
💰 Regularly $29.99, Today $1.99
Personal Success
A USA Today Bestseller
High-performance psychologist Michael Gervais presents a groundbreaking guide for overcoming what may be the single greatest constrictor of human potential: our fear of people’s opinions (FOPO).
FOPO shows up almost everywhere in our lives—and the consequences are great. When we let FOPO take control, we play it safe and small because we’re afraid of what will happen on the other side of critique. When challenged, we surrender our viewpoint. We trade in authenticity for approval. We please rather than provoke. We chase the dreams of others rather than our own.
But it doesn’t have to be this way.
In The First Rule of Mastery, Michael Gervais shows us that the key to leading a high-performance life is to redirect our attention from the world outside us to the world inside us. He reveals the mental skills and practices we need to overcome FOPO—the same skills he’s taught to the top performers in the world, including sports MVPs, world-renowned artists and musicians, and Fortune 100 leaders and teams.
Filled with fascinating stories from the worlds of sports and business, leading-edge science, and insights from the frontier of human performance, The First Rule of Mastery is a much-needed wake-up call that when we give more value to other people’s opinions than we do our own, we live life on their terms, not ours.
Michael Gervais is a high-performance psychologist who has worked with some of the world’s most elite athletes and performers, including Super Bowl champions, Olympic gold medalists, and Fortune 100 CEOs. As co-host of the Finding Mastery podcast, Gervais has conducted hundreds of conversations with top performers about the mental skills that separate good from great. His work focuses on helping people perform under pressure while maintaining their authentic selves—a balance that requires overcoming the fear of judgment that holds most people back.
What makes this special: Gervais gives a name to something that quietly destroys potential across every area of life: Fear Of People’s Opinions (FOPO). It’s why talented people don’t share their work, why leaders make safe decisions instead of bold ones, why we perform in relationships instead of showing up authentically. Gervais’s insight is that FOPO isn’t just about stage fright or social anxiety—it’s the invisible force that makes us betray our own values, dreams, and instincts because we’re more worried about external validation than internal alignment. The book draws on his work with elite performers to reveal the mental skills they use to overcome this fear: MVPs who perform under stadium scrutiny, artists who create despite critics, business leaders who make billion-dollar bets knowing they’ll be judged. These aren’t people without fear—they’re people who’ve learned to stop letting other people’s opinions dictate their choices. The science Gervais presents explains why FOPO is so powerful (our brains are wired for social acceptance as a survival mechanism) and how we can rewire those patterns. If you’ve read Brené Brown’s Daring Greatly about vulnerability and shame, Susan Cain’s Quiet about reclaiming your authentic self, or Ryan Holiday’s Ego Is the Enemy about getting out of your own way, Gervais offers complementary insights with more practical application for high performers. At $1.99 (down from $29.99), you’re getting a USA Today bestseller that could fundamentally change how you make decisions, pursue goals, and show up in the world—for less than the cost of worrying about what someone thinks of your coffee order.
