The Great INDIE Summer Read Giveaway – Day #42

Day #42

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
-Adams, Dawn

Brinling, John – The Ghost Of A Flea

Time: 1975.
Location: New York City.

The murder of Roger’s musician friend, Gideon Whiting, turns Roger’s world up-side-down. His wife, Natalie, lies to him. His best friend, Ted, lies to him. His boss and U.S. Senate candidate, Charlie Holt, lies to him. And Lieutenant Tarrington, a homicide detective, is convinced Roger killed Gideon—but is Tarrington who he claims to be, or is he lying, too?

Peggy Curtis, the blond bombshell who dropped into Roger’s life one snowy night after he left Gideon’s apartment, might be the only person who can unravel the Gordian knot facing Roger, yet she has serious credibility problems, and is the last person he would want to rely on with his life and freedom on the line.

The drug cartel masterminding much of the chaos seeks an address book it thinks Roger took from Gideon. As their ruthless pursuit intensifies, the police learn of the book and join the chase. The problem is, Roger doesn’t have what they want and he must get it before they decide he is expendable.

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Bunn, Christopher – The Mike Murphy Files and Other Stories

A Collection of Rogues, Ruffians and Rascals
Meet Mike Murphy. He’s a private eye, ready to right wrongs if you pay him enough. He’s also ready for a good Polish with sauerkraut if he can scrape together a few extra bucks. Sure, nobody hired Murphy to tangle with the local mob boss, but sometimes a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do. Even if that means ogres and mummies and one mean gorilla.

From freeze-dried pygmies and ruby mines, IRS agents and the resourceful Polly Inch, the fifth dimension and grumpy elves, come take a wild ride through stories from a world just around the corner. Buckle up, though, because that Camaro the elves are driving has got a jet engine. And an espresso maker.

Website: http://www.christopherbunn.com
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Franklin, Michelle – Tales from Frewyn

The Haanta Series is the longest, ongoing, online romantic fantasy series. Thousands of readers visit the world of the Two Continents to enjoy the daily short stories featuring all their favorite characters from the Haanta Series novels. In between the business of the books, the commander, Rautu, Otenohi, Unghaahi, Leraa, Kai Linaa and Alasdair enjoy some time together in Diras Castle, but as the stories portray, mischief lies in every corner of the keep where spiders, chocolate pies, petulant giants and grouchy cooks abound.

Website: http://thehaanta.blogspot.com/
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McCullough-White, Dawn – Cameo the Assassin & Cameo and the Highwayman

Cameo the Assassin, a historical novel from Dawn McCullough-White, is an engaging, fast-paced romp about highwaymen, assassins, Lockenwood vampires, their victims, and their evaders in an age when “who knew there were so many vampires running around.”
Cameo, an alias for Gwen, “the thrall of a vampire,” has two masters to serve. One is Wick, the aging, spell-casting head of the Association of Assassins, who assigns missions to the battle-scarred Cameo. The other is Haffef, Cameo’s vampire “Master,” who years ago rescued her from certain death after her vicious rape and beating and a deadly attack upon her younger sister. The one wants her to kill the prince of the Kingdom of Sieunes; the other wants her to unearth her sister’s bones and return them to him. Her life is further conflicted when she agrees to become the bodyguard for Kyrian, a fifteen-year-old acolyte healer who needs to travel to the Temple of the Sun at King’s Basin. As she balances her missions and battles the forces of evil set against her on all sides, she overcomes assassins sent to kill her, seeks revenge against highwaymen who have robbed her of her namesake cameo brooch, develops an arms-length relationship with one of the brigands, and confronts Wick in a deadly duel.

Website: dawnmccullough-white.com
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Muto, Michelle – The Book of Lost Souls

When teen witch Ivy MacTavish changes a lizard into her date for a Halloween dance, everything turns to chaos. And when no one is powerful enough to transform him back except Ivy, it sparks the rumor: Like father, like daughter. Ivy has heard it all before – that her father, who left when she was seven – was involved with the darkest of magic.

Making the rumors worse, someone uses an evil spell book to bring back two of history’s most nefarious killers. Ivy’s got a simple plan to set things right: find the real dark spell caster, steal the book, and reverse the spell. No problem! But she’ll have to deal with something more dangerous than murderous spirits that want her and her friends dead: the school’s resident bad boy and hotter-than-brimstone demon, Nick Marcelli. Nick’s offering Ivy more than his help with recovering the missing book – he’s offering her a way to ditch her scaly reputation as a lizard-lover. Demons are about as hard to handle as black magic, and as Ivy soon discovers, it’s going to take more than a lot of luck and a little charm if she wants to survive long enough to clear her status as a dark witch, get a warm-blooded boyfriend, and have her former date back to eating meal worms before the week’s end.

Website: http://michellemuto.wordpress.com/
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FIRST TIME HERE?

How can you win? Simply by filling out this form and you’re then in the drawing that will happen when the giveaway is over on 31st of July.

You can gain extra entries. The daily posts will have snippets of the books in the giveaway, guest posts and interviews. Each day you will get links to webpages relevant to the presented books. You get extra entries by commenting on the daily posts, following the linked author blogs/websites. You need to tell on your daily comment if you’ve done some of the other things granting you extra entries. It’s important for you to use the same nickname & email combination throughout the giveaway so all the extra entries can be added up.

You can also gain extra entries by tweeting the giveaway! You can use the example tweets to tweet on the daily posts if you don’t want to come up with something of your own. Always remember to use the #INDIEsummer hashtag.

Prizes!

1st winner will receive 10 different books
2nd & 3rd winners will receive 5 different books
4th & 5th winners will receive 3 different books
6th – 10th winners will receive 2 different books

Others will win one book each as long as there’s books to give out. And there’s lots of them! Some authors are giving away several copies.