Christmas has just eeked past us and it’s now Boxing Day! For anyone unfamiliar with Boxing Day, it is a holiday the day after Christmas, when people used to give gifts to poor and unfortunate individuals. Modern days, it’s just a shopping holiday. Do you have any big shopping plans for today? Perhaps some of our new releases might make their way on your Kindle?
Today is not only Boxing Day, but it’s also the first day of our Five Days of Christmas. Check out the free book week below.
And in addition to the free books, we also have new releases. I have 6 phenomenal books launching this week, That’s pretty sweet for a Monday!
- Maximum Pain
- Sophie Briggs and the Magic Thief (Warrior-related)
- Carpetbags and Crossroads
- Beyond the Pack
- Probation
- She Is The Principle (Kurtherian)
This Week’s New Releases
Title: Maximum Pain
Series: Pain and Agony Book 9
Release Date: 12/26/2022
Situation normal set sail for the distant horizon some time ago at P&A Investigations.
After the recent revelation about Pain’s former partner, the big guy’s been AWOL in search of answers.
Agony is not the type to mope about. She has kept the ship afloat, trusting that when Pain’s found the answers, he needs he’ll be back
When Pain does come back, he arrives only he can…
…in a maelstrom of gunfire, screams, and callouts to emergency services.
Agony and Pain need to sort out the issues months of distance and time have created, and they need to do it quickly.
More than one ghost has emerged from the past to haunt them. If they’re not careful, the fragile peace the dysfunctional do have built could go up in smoke.
So old allies must be called up, and new understandings reached to make right what’s been wrong for so long
Even with stakes this high, the pugnacious partners can count on being outmaneuvered, outgunned, and out of time as their adventures reach a crashing crescendo.
And they wouldn’t have it any other way!
Title: Sophie Briggs and the Magic Thief
Series: The School of Roots and Vines
Release Date: 12/27/2022
Sophie Briggs will have to fight her way out this time but without her elemental gift of life. It’s the spring semester of Year Two at the famous School of Roots and Vines.
The National Elemental Skills Trials are coming up, and Sophie and her friends are called to represent the school in faraway Colorado.
Dark forces and powerful, all-too-familiar enemies are out to kidnap Sophie and steal her elemental powers. They’ll stop at nothing to get their revenge.
Is there a snake in the grass?
Sophie, Marcus and the gang are out to unravel the secrets of the Defenders before Sophie’s magic is gone for good.
Will they be too distracted? Or will the secrets of the ancient tree at the School of Roots and Vines help them to victory?
Title: Carpetbags and Crossroads
Series: Marmalade and Magic Book 8
Release Date: 12/28/2022
Where there’s a witch, there’s a way.
Jemma and her friends are still dealing with the pocket of anti-coven sentiment that’s been pervading Kalhoun County.
It’s a good thing the coven can depend on the people they’ve helped to have their backs.
But trouble is brewing outside the county as well as within.
A trip to Johnsonville for Jerome Winslow’s trial ends with a nasty surprise for the coven. A familiar face gets them out of hot water.
It’s not that simple. When Val acts to save Easter from an attack, he ends up behind bars awaiting the news of whether he’ll be charged with murder.
Jemma is at a loss. Her plans to scare the anti-magic thugs have to be abandoned, leaving her without a plan to set things right.
Can an unexpected alliance save the coven and Val?
Title: Beyond the Pack
Series: Great Lakes Investigations Book 7
Release Date: 12/30/2022
Just when Maggie thinks it’s safe to relax, her life takes another turn down crazy avenue.
The biggest surprise should be that Cole turned out to be a baddie, but the possibility she might sorta have something going on with Liam eclipses everything else.
Might.
Maggie isn’t exactly comfortable trusting her instincts right now.
Does she decide to handle this in a totally mature way? If “totally mature” means running away, sure.
The only way Maggie can keep her head above water is to get out of the pool. But will distance give her the perspective she needs?
The world is full of mysteries for a PI to unravel, especially when that PI comes from a family steeped in secrets.
Having enough skeletons in the family closet to populate a graveyard aside, Maggie is about to learn that some secrets are far, far stranger than anyone could have guessed…
…and that knowledge always comes with a choice.
Title: Probation
Series: Brew City Blues Book 2
Release Date: 12/30/2022
Michael Collins made it through field training and a close call with IAD. Now he’s on probation.
Assigned to the graveyard shift in the most dangerous part of town, Officer Collins finds himself under scrutiny from a new sergeant who is threatening to have him fired.
If that isn’t bad enough, his new shift is filled with jeopardy.
Coming under fire from bad guys is an expected part of the job, but no one said anything about being stabbed in the back by his fellow officers.
There is hope for Officer Collins. He is building strong friendships with the more trustworthy cops on his tight-knit shift, and there is help from the kind sergeants who make the job bearable.
Collins’ mettle will be tested when the shift respond to a triple homicide, diffuse a tense hostage situation, and hunt down a killer.
The late shift get all the interesting cases, complete with car chases.
Off-duty, the ghosts of the past must be faced.
The prospect of new romance becomes a reality if Michael can let go of what haunts him while fending off his overprotective mother.
Between a flirty neighbor, internet dating, and a promising connection with a nurse who showed him compassion in a time of need, the time of being alone could be over for him.
Note: This book contains profanities and situations not for the faint of heart. There is also dark, or what some call ‘gallows humor’ that police officers, and most other first responders use to deal with the ugliness that is thrown their way on a regular basis. This book is as realistic as it gets. Unless you are riding around in a squad car, now that’s real.
Title: She is the Principle
Series: The School of Harder Knocks Book 1
Release Date: 12/31/2022
A teenage boy with a terminal condition, a group of school bullies, and an incognito Empress with a short temper…
Kirian Larsen knows he won’t live to see adulthood. Dex and his gang only care that he’s a human living on “their” planet.
Their determination to make his life harder bothers Kirian less than their efforts to do the same for their other victims. What can he do, bound to his wheelchair and dealing with unimaginable, unending pain?
Fight back, and damn the consequences.
Kirian’s refusal to submit to the hand life has dealt him gets the attention of his new physical therapist, a human doctor with a hidden past who has recently moved to High Tortuga.
Dr. Ericson isn’t the only human arrival to the planet previously known as Devon.
Rumors of the Empress’ Witch taking over the planet are proven by the vacancies opening up in the planet’s government and criminal enterprises. Baba Yaga’s bloody Justice is unavoidable for the corrupt.
A reckoning is coming for the bullies—both in the schoolyard and the planet’s places of power.
Can Kirian put an end to Dex’s reign without crossing a line he can’t come back from? Will Baba Yaga find a way to ensure the vision she has for the planet doesn’t crumble the moment she returns to the Empire?
Nobody Likes to say goodbye to the holidays, so instead say hello to FREE BOOKS! Today’s free book is Christmas Kringle: Silent Night and tomorrow’s is Mud War.