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‘Beneath Him’ Leads the Self-Published Bestsellers List

By Dianna Dilworth 

beneathhimBeneath Him by Komal Kant leads the Self-published Bestsellers List this week.

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Amazon Self-Published Bestsellers for the Week of December 10, 2014

1. Beneath Him by Komal Kant: “Sometimes love can start with a little hate. When Sky Hudson first has a run-in with tall, dark, and handsome Nicholas Ruggarson, she wants nothing more than to throw her coffee at him. He is rude and arrogant, and she is glad she never has to set eyes on him ever again. Or so she thinks.”

2. Gone – Part One by Deborah Bladon: “The first part of GONE, a three-part series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Deborah Bladon. Sending a half-naked picture to a stranger she met online, seems innocent and fun to Lilly Randall. After spending the past four years working towards an honors degree, she needs a distraction and flirting with a man she doesn’t know can’t hurt, right?”

3. Maude by Donna Mabry: “In 1906, I was barely over fourteen years old, and it was my wedding day. My older sister, Helen, came to my room, took me by the hand, and sat me down on the bed. She opened her mouth to say something, but then her face flushed, and she turned her head to look out the window. After a second, she squeezed my hand and looked back in my eyes. She said, “You’ve always been a good girl, Maude, and done what I told you. Now, you’re going to be a married woman, and he will be the head of the house. When you go home tonight after your party, no matter what he wants to do to you, you have to let him do it. Do you understand?””

4.Roomies by Lindy Zart: “Graham Malone is my roommate, my personal eye candy, the reason I get up in the morning smiling (that could be from the illicit dreams I have about him too, I suppose. Let’s move on.). He’s also beautiful to look at, but his heart is where his true beauty lies. Take away the exterior and the interior still shines.”

5. The Ready Series Box Set by J.L. Berg: “Years after suffering the tragic loss of her husband, Ethan, which left her alone to raise their young daughter, Clare Murray still holds the last letter he wrote with the words “When You’re Ready” written in his familiar messy handwriting, unable to break its weathered seal. Ready for what? He was her entire world, and Clare had accepted a life without him, without love. Until years later, fate brings her to an emergency room, and face to face with a stormy-eyed doctor intent on changing her mind.”

6. Rae of Sunshine by Micalea Smeltzer: “What I remember the most about that day was that it was completely ordinary. Then with one stupid decision everything fell apart and nothing was ever the same. Rae Wilder wants nothing but a do over—but life doesn’t work that way. She’s stuck living out the consequences of her actions. At times the burden feels unbearable. College is supposed to be her second chance.”

7. Foreplay: Six Full-Length Standalone Novels from Six New York Times Bestsellers: “When Emma kills her roommate’s rapist, she goes to the one person who can protect her. Carter Reed. He’s a weapon for the rivaling mafia family, but he’s also Emma’s secret and she’ll soon find out she’s the reason he became that weapon in the first place.”

8. His Secretary: Undone by Melanie Marchande: “I’m about to throw an ashtray at my boss’s head. Turns out, the mind behind my favorite, steamy romance novels…the ones I only read in private…the ones that are my only escape after a long day of dealing with The Boss From Hell? It’s not Natalie McBride, the sweet, rural housewife. It’s him.”

9. Free Me by Laurelin Paige: “Screw fairytales. The only reward Gwen Anders got from her rough childhood was a thick skin and hard heart. She’s content with her daily grind managing a top NYC nightclub–Eighty-Eighth Floor. So hers isn’t a happily ever after. She doesn’t believe in those anyway. Then she meets JC.”

10. Never Never by Colleen Hoover: “Best friends since they could walk.
In love since they were fourteen.
Complete strangers since this morning.”

Smashwords Self-Published Bestsellers for the Week of December 10, 2014

1. Negotiating for Success: Essential Strategies and Skills By 

2. Game Programming Patterns By 

3. The Seventh Bride By 

4. Mary’s Christmas By 

5. Manny Khoshbin’s Contrarian PlayBook: How to Build Your $100 Million Real Estate Portfolio From the Ground Up By 

6. Our Universal Journey By 

7. Knight in Shining Suit By 

8. 12 Days of Christmas Science for Kids By 

9.  WebRTC: APIs and RTCWEB Protocols of the HTML5 Real-Time Web, Third Edition By 

10. My Craziest Adventures With God – Volume 1: The Spiritual Journal of a Former Atheist Paramedic By