Sunday Steals: 10 FREE Awesome Indies Ebooks – Mystery, Romance, Fantasy and More

For this week’s Sunday Steals, we have a slew of Awesome Indies freebies available on Amazon, from contemporary fiction to romance to mystery. What better way to pass a chilly February afternoon? As always, these prices are current now but may change without notice; please double-check before clicking “Buy Now”!

CONTEMPORARY FICTION

Title: Big Sound Temple
Author: Ben Stevens
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
FREE Sunday, February 24
Amazon U.S.
Amazon UK
Blurb: From the author of the #1 Bestselling A GAIJIN’S GUIDE TO JAPAN. When you begin to read “Big Sound Temple” by Ben Stevens, it takes a few pages to acclimatize yourself to deciphering the seemingly awkward voice of the main character, Hiro. Hiro’s narrative begins with the death of his father, who is the gardener and caretaker of the town’s Buddhist temple. Hiro has lived at the temple and worked with his father for his entire life, and so it is understood by all that he will basically inherit his father’s job. Thus begins the story of several hectic and uncertain months in Hiro’s life. This is a very complex tale with many conflicts – between Hiro and other characters, as well as the financial problems that are plaguing the temple.

Title: Ripple: A Dolphin Love Story
Author: Tui Allen
FREE Sunday, February 24
Amazon U.S.
Amazon UK
Blurb: Ripple is a young female dolphin, born to change the universe, but likely to fail. Cosmo is a damaged male dolphin, angry and bereaved, an outsider who yearns to travel the stars. Ripple can swim faster and leap higher than any other dolphin. Cosmo is the most dangerous fighter in the sea. They fall in love in the wild surf, but her actions force Cosmo to question her sanity and though he fears nothing else in the world, he fears madness.

Ripple’s love for Cosmo inspires her to a discovery with the potential to bring her everlasting inter-galactic fame but only if she can find a way to communicate it beyond her own mind. The vast poison-tentacled monster, Erishkigal, longs to devour Ripple and comes close to succeeding. Ripple must overcome her fear of Erishkigal before she can fulfil her destiny and prove her sanity to Cosmo.

Both Ripple and Cosmo must experience the extremes of loss, grief, danger, pain, social ostracism and healing before they can unite in strength, find vindication in ocean mind, and be catapulted towards leadership in the pathways they have chosen. Only then can they begin the work that will change the entire universe and ultimately affect modern humanity.

Title: The Tale of Findo Gask
Author: Huw Thomas
FREE Sunday, February 24
Amazon U.S.
Amazon UK
Blurb: Winner of the UK’s Undiscovered Authors Prize 2005 – the story of an extraordinary thief who will capture your heart as he strives to make sure an uncaring world never forgets his name.

From stealing cigarettes to an armed raid on a security firm… from saving drowning dogs to snatching an opera diva’s tiara, ‘Findo Gask’ tells the story of a rollercoaster life in the underbelly of modern Britain. It’s also the story of a lonely boy trying to find love and earn respect from the few people that he does trust.

MAGICAL REALISM

Title: A Hole in the Pavement
Author: Tahlia Newland
FREE Sunday, February 24
Amazon U.S.
Amazon UK
Blurb: Every morning, Norris watches his goddess walk to the bus stop in front of him, the gap between them far wider than the physical distance. This morning, she stumbles. He wants to run and help her, but finds himself stuck in a hole that appeared along with his self doubt. By the time he gets out, she’s long gone. He vows that if it happens again, he won’t hesitate, but when she falls the next day, he has more than just his own hole to deal with. Can he find his heroic self before she walks away?

TRADITIONAL FANTASY

Title: Mark of the Dragon Queen
Author: Katie W. Stewart
FREE Sunday, February 24
Amazon U.S.
Amazon UK
Blurb: Kira has led a sheltered life, brought up by her widowed father, whom she adores. When he is arrested and imprisoned for a murder he allegedly committed 18 years before, she is devastated. So when she overhears an ex-student of her father’s planning to visit the prison, Kira decides to go, too. However, the student – Arun – is not who she thinks he is, and she soon learns that her father has not always been the man of integrity she has known for fifteen years.

Caught in a rebellion against the Lord High Councillor who would return the country to Wizard Rule, Kira finds that there is one more lesson she has to learn – about herself. Success depends on her, but is she willing to make the sacrifice it will require?

URBAN/PARANORMAL FANTASY

Title: Malakh
Author: Sharon Gerlach
FREE Sunday, February 24
Amazon U.S.
Amazon UK
Blurb: HE HUNTS, SILENT AND UNSEEN. HIS NEXT VICTIM HAS BEEN CHOSEN. AND PREY BECOMES PREDATOR.
Suzanne Harper had wielded supernatural abilities and super-athletic prowess, but that was while she was the lover of an angel. When a string of gruesome murders points to her former lover, Suzanne teams up with Icarus, an angel who hunts those of his kind who have fallen, because the choice of victims tells a terrifying tale: the next murder will be hers.

MYSTERY

Title: The Loyal Servant
Author: Eva Hudson
FREE Sunday, February 24
Amazon U.S.
Amazon UK
Blurb: Winner of the Lucy Cavendish Prize for fiction, 2011

It’s late. In Westminster a well-respected government minister lies dead in the Department for Education, scattered pills and whiskey bottle on his desk. Low ranking civil servant Caroline Barber discovers his body, but is convinced the minister wouldn’t take his own life. When Martin Fox’s death is quickly forgotten by the press, Caroline fears the real reason for his death will be buried with him.

She embarks on a mission to uncover the truth, recruiting hard-nosed investigative journalist Angela Tate. But Tate only agrees to help in exchange for confidential government information. Torn between her quest for justice and her loyalty to the department, Caroline reluctantly turns whistleblower, putting not just her career at risk, but the safety of her family. As her enemies close in, she unearths a scandal powerful enough to bring down the government. But will she get the chance to expose the corruption before she is silenced permanently?

The second book of the Degrees of Separation series, The Senior Moment, is also available on Amazon.

Title: Maids of Misfortune
Author: M. Louisa Locke
FREE Sunday, February 24
Amazon U.S.
Amazon UK
Blurb: It’s the summer of 1879, and Annie Fuller, a young San Francisco widow, is in trouble. Annie’s husband squandered her fortune before committing suicide five years earlier, and one of his creditors is now threatening to take the boardinghouse she owns to pay off a debt.

Annie Fuller also has a secret. She supplements her income by giving domestic and business advice as Madam Sibyl, one of San Francisco’s most exclusive clairvoyants, and one of Madam Sibyl’s clients, Matthew Voss, has died. The police believe his death was suicide brought upon by bankruptcy, but Annie believes Voss has been murdered and that his assets have been stolen.

Nate Dawson has a problem. As the Voss family lawyer, he would love to believe that Matthew Voss didn’t leave his grieving family destitute. But that would mean working with Annie Fuller, a woman who alternatively attracts and infuriates him as she shatters every notion he ever had of proper ladylike behavior. Sparks fly as Anne and Nate pursue the truth about the murder of Matthew Voss in this light-hearted, cozy historical mystery set in the foggy gas-lit world of Victorian San Francisco.

Title: Sins of the Father (Book 2, Erin Solomon Mysteries)
Author: Jen Blood
FREE Sunday, February 24
Amazon U.S.
Amazon UK
Blurb: The truth will set her free… But is freedom worth the price?
A convicted murderer desperate to prove his own innocence, and a serial killer with a list of victims dating back to the 1970′s. The only thing the two seem to have in common is their link to investigative reporter Erin Solomon’s own father. When she and fellow reporter Daniel Diggins are forced into the northern Maine woods during their investigation by someone intent on making them pawns in a diabolical game of cat and mouse, it will take everything they have to get out alive, and finally learn the truth about Erin’s father’s past — and the trail of bodies in his wake.

CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Title: Fast Movin’ Train
Author: Pam Howes
FREE Sunday, February 24
Amazon U.S.
Amazon UK
Blurb: Interior Designer Mandy Radcliffe runs a thriving business. Her husband is married to his job and her three daughters are adults with lives of their own. Anyone observing would assume they were a happy and successful middle-class family. Then a phone call and a declaration of love leads Mandy into a secret affair that turns her well ordered life upside down.

Fast Movin’ Train is the first novel in the Sensual Romance Series.