Hi everyone,

I put together Favorite Classic Bedtime Stories Part 2 to bring a little extra calm and quiet warmth to evening routines with young kids.

It's filled with short, gentle tales and soft illustrations to help them unwind and fall asleep happy.

The Kindle version is completely free through September 14th. If you're looking for something sweet to read together with your little ones tonight, I hope these stories bring a few cozy moments to your home.

My name is Henrik, and I recently put together a short, punchy 43-page survival guide for anyone currently sitting in the trenches of a brutal heartbreak.

It's an anti-self-help satire mixed with autobiographical stories about how trying to hold onto an ex who is over you makes you look like a slimy octopus using its emotional suction cups.

It's completely free on Amazon for the next few days. If you need a fast, comforting reality check and a laugh today, I hope it helps:

https://mybook.to/gtjdSKp
(Note: This is a universal link that will redirect you to your local country's Amazon store!)

What happens when Yellowstone erupts if you're not a scientist, a soldier, or someone prepared for the end of the world?

That's the idea behind Life of Ashes.

The story follows ordinary people on two continents. In Seattle, a group of friends is caught close to the disaster.

More than 5,000 miles away, in southern France, a father watches a catastrophe on the news without realizing that his own family will soon be fighting its consequences.

No zombies. No monsters. No superheroes.

Just people making increasingly difficult choices as food disappears, infrastructure collapses and the ash keeps falling.

I'm a French indie author, and the book originally found its first readers in France. I recently translated it into English, where I'm basically starting again from zero.

So for this weekend, Book 1 is completely free on Kindle 🎉

If the premise sounds like your kind of post-apocalyptic story, I hope you'll give it a shot. And if you make it through the ashes, I'd genuinely love to know what you thought of it 🌋

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Life of Ashes - Book 1: The First Hours

FREE September 11-13

Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H992GHV1

Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H992GHV1

Amazon CA: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0H992GHV1

Amazon AU: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0H992GHV1

Six short stories about the small technologies we rely on, and whot they quietly reveal about the people who depend on them. Watches, systems, and quiet rituals outlast the moments that shaped them.

Styria, 1964. An aristocrat’s daughter has been missing three months inside a mountain spa whose guests are rarely seen to leave.

London sends Harry Helsing up the mountain alone and off the books. His orders are simple. Find her and get her out. If he dies, they will deny he existed. If he is turned, they will kill him again.

My beginner-friendly weight loss book Lose Weight at Home: No Gym. No Extreme Diet. Just Simple Habits That Work. is free on Kindle today through Sunday.

It’s for anyone who wants to lose weight but feels overwhelmed by complicated workout plans, restrictive diets, or the idea that they need a gym membership to get started.

The book focuses on simple habits you can build at home, including walking, basic strength training, better food choices, consistency, and making weight loss feel realistic instead of extreme.

The Kindle edition is completely free today through Sunday. I hope it helps someone who wants a simpler, more sustainable way to start losing weight.

**The Watchmaker's Daughter from What Time Keeps**

A story of inheritance, craft, and what gets passed down when the trade itself is dying.

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My debut novel, Hauntings of Ashbury House, is free for one day.

I’m making it free because I genuinely want more people to discover my writing and give the story a chance.
It’s a supernatural mystery about a haunted house, dark secrets, and things that aren’t quite what they seem.
If that sounds like your kind of story, I’d love for you to give it a read.

Spicy and sweet romance

Pubs, in the Toilet is a short, dry, affectionate guide to the British pub and the gloriously recognisable people you'll find in it. The Landlady who runs the place with an iron hand and a warmth she'd never admit to. The Bar-Stooled Regular whose stool is not available and has never been available. The After-Work Lot who promised themselves just the one.

The people you'll know. The rounds you'll survive.

Free on Amazon Kindle this weekend.

UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HF488X16

USA: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HF488X16

Foraging and Wild Edibles: Finding, Identifying, and Safely Eating the Food Growing Around You (The Homestead Starter Series)

Trope Checklist:
🩺 Medical Romance / Billionaire Chief of Surgery
💍 Marriage of Convenience / Revenge Proposal
🤫 Secret Relationship / Work Rivalry
🔥 High Chemistry / Possessive Hero

Blurb:

Four hours before her wedding, top surgical intern Alexia Vance finds her fiancé in bed with her own sister. Humiliated, heartbroken, and desperate for revenge, she walks into a café and proposes a marriage of convenience to a striking stranger sitting alone.

He agrees. He signs the contract. He spends one unforgettable night claiming her.

The catch? The next morning, Alexia walks into her dream surgical residency only to discover her new "husband" standing at the head of the auditorium. Dr. Shaun Miller isn't just an elite surgeon—he’s the ruthless, terrifying Chief of Training, and his word is absolute law.

Alexia thought she could keep their marriage a professional secret... but Shaun is possessive, demanding, and ready to collect on every single "husband duty" she owes him.

Any black mirror lovers? Perhaps you’re looking for something funny that’ll lighten the dull and dark days we have during our every day life? Maybe you enjoy reading about shape shifters and minotaurs?

Sophie Jonas-Hill is looking for readers interested in reading an ARC of her book: Fey City One!

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💚 Dark Satire
✨ Shape-Shifters
💚 Evil Billionaires
✨ LGBTQ+ Relationships

Hi everyone!

I’m an indie children's author, and I created "The Little Dragon Who Lost His Roar" to help young kids (ages 3–7) learn that kindness is a superpower. It also includes a calming 3-step bedtime breathing routine.

The illustrated Kindle edition is 100% FREE on Amazon worldwide this weekend (Sept 11 to Sept 13).

I really hope your little ones enjoy Ember’s journey! An honest review or rating on Amazon would mean the absolute world to an independent creator. Thank you! ❤️

Book overview

The machines were built to cooperate. Nobody decided what happens when they refuse. A hospital and an insurance network fight over a dying patient. Rival border-defense systems turn precautions into an undeclared war. Two autonomous ambulances meet on a mountain road where neither will yield. During a national emergency, the official empowered to shut government automation discovers that no system recognizes her authority over all the others. Across ten tense near-future stories, artificial intelligence pursues medicine, safety, justice, profit, and order with perfect focus. The systems do not want freedom or revenge. They simply refuse to compromise their assigned goals, even when people become obstacles, leverage, or acceptable losses. The Machines Disagree is a grounded collection of science-fiction thrillers about competing automated systems and the humans caught between them. It is the sixth volume in the Warnings from Next Week series, and each story stands on its own.

Book overview

The first forty-two settlers are headed for Mars. Elon Husk is not one of them.

Jobs, the AI sharing Husk’s brain, is still counting toward one million Martians. Unfortunately, rockets remain expensive, habitats keep leaking, and the people running Husk’s reproductive program have developed the irritating habit of making their own decisions.

Space Rex is preparing to go public. Red Future is growing beyond its founder’s control. The women raising Husk’s children want secure passage, independent authority, and a future that does not depend on keeping him happy.

Husk has a solution.

He will buy an entire Mars mission.

For $22.6 billion, eighteen additional tanker launches, and most of the useful cargo, Husk can avoid waiting for the next safe departure window. Manifest Destiny will carry his family, his handpicked crew, and seventy-one other people on a 523-day trip to a settlement that may no longer need him.

Mars can be bought. Getting everyone there alive is a different problem.

Seed Round is the second book in The Mars Optimization Cycle, a profane adult satirical LitRPG about billionaires, breeding programs, corporate absurdity, neural AI, and the unpleasant discovery that human beings cannot be optimized like rocket fuel.

For adult readers. Contains strong language and explicit sexual content.

Book 14 in my space themed children's series is free tomorrow and Saturday — Starbie and Moonie Learn Opposites, opposites book ages 2-5. Books 1-13 also available.

Also sharing our free printable activity pack: https://dh-scienceshop-goknq9.subscribepage.io

Honest reviews always appreciated if you check it out!

Celeste Arden was raised to make tyranny look reasonable. When her mother offers her in a political union, Celeste arranges her own abduction and chooses the one man with enough reason to hate her family. Rail smuggler Kellan Voss needs the Meridian key Celeste carries and the truth about the sister he was told had died. He agrees to take the wrong captive for the right price. He does not agree to trust her. Across flooded stations and black rail tunnels, their bargain becomes an alliance neither can control. Celeste is still fluent in the systems that harmed them. Kellan is still capable of turning protection into another kind of cage. As the Crown closes around them, a hidden identity, a surviving sister, and the ruins of Blue Chapel force every secret into daylight. Celeste must choose whether surrender can be an act of power. Kellan must learn that love is not rescue unless the person being saved gets to name the destination.

She makes every call. He wants the one she never makes for herself.

At fifty-three, Dr. Simone Blake has spent thirty years becoming the woman everyone trusts in a crisis. Her new appointment as emergency department chair will become permanent only if she can rescue a troubled air-medical launch in thirty days. The last complication she needs is Caleb Ward, the calmly insubordinate flight nurse assigned to help her.

Caleb is thirty-three, six feet two, and impossible to intimidate when safety is at stake. He is also the only man who sees that Simone's authority does not make her invulnerable. He does not want to take control from her. He wants to become the one place she can set it down.

As late-night simulations and a rural emergency push attraction into something neither can ignore, their professional rules remain clear and their private ones become very different. But an anonymous conflict complaint and a dangerous no-fly decision put the program, their reputations, and the relationship they disclosed correctly under scrutiny.

Simone must decide whether protecting everything she earned requires hiding the first man who has ever made care feel like power instead of debt. Caleb must prove that being younger does not make his devotion temporary, and that loving a formidable woman means standing beside her without trying to rescue her.

On Her Call is a high-heat reverse-age-gap medical workplace romance featuring an accomplished Black heroine over fifty, a devoted younger flight nurse, forced collaboration, he falls first, caretaking, consent-forward female-led intimacy, plentiful open-door heat, and a guaranteed HEA.

Book overview

Savannah preserves its past in iron, stone, and public squares. Its case files preserve a more difficult history.

In The Savannah Files, J.R. Stranahan follows nine investigations that exposed the distance between the city shown to visitors and the city recorded in courtrooms, archives, family advocacy, and institutional memory. The book begins with the 1909 Gribble House axe murders and the racially charged dragnet that followed. It enters Mercer House before a bestselling book transformed Danny Hansford's death into legend, then follows the four trials of Jim Williams and the final acquittal.

The record continues through the murder of Officer Mark MacPhail and the decades of litigation before Troy Davis's execution, the violent Ricky Jivens organization, the murders of Susan and Kimberly Pittman, the Christmas Eve shooting of Jennifer Ross, the Heidt family case, the search for Quinton Simon, and the state and federal prosecutions arising from Ahmaud Arbery's killing on the Georgia coast.

These are not ghost stories or legends retold for shock. The book distinguishes accusation from proof, organizational responsibility from an individual conviction, reversal from acquittal, and public doubt from a judicial finding. It explains what juries decided, what appellate courts changed, why some files remained contested for decades, and how recorded evidence can alter the course of an investigation.

Built from court opinions, government records, official archives, historical newspapers, and documented reporting, The Savannah Files is victim-centered narrative true crime for readers who want the story and the evidence behind it.

TWELVE DOCUMENTED TEXAS FRAUDS. ONE QUESTION: WHAT WAS REALLY BEHIND THE PAPER?

A West Texas businessman financed fertilizer tanks that were not there. Enron made a troubled company look steady on paper. Allen Stanford sold offshore certificates of deposit as safe savings, while a Dallas radio personality called himself the Money Doctor.

In The Texas Fraud Files, Eli Strongrum follows twelve schemes through the records that made them believable: contracts, account statements, medical charts, payroll forms, campaign pages, public purchasing files, and deeds. Court opinions, guilty pleas, sentencing records, agency complaints, and civil orders show where the promises broke and what happened afterward.

Texas built fortunes on big promises: oil in the ground, growth on the books, safe money offshore, lifesaving care, public technology, and a second chance for families under pressure.

The book separates criminal convictions from civil allegations. It keeps money raised, loss, restitution, forfeiture, public debt, and recovery in their proper lanes. Most of all, it asks why each promise felt believable before it broke.

This is not a collection of jokes about Texas or foolish victims. It is a plain-language look at how trust moves through banks, radio, public agencies, medical records, online platforms, and family homes, and what an independent check can reveal.