Blitzed: A Secret Baby Sports Romance by Lauren Landish holds the lead spot on the Self-Published Bestsellers List this week.
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Amazon Self-Published Bestsellers for the Week of May 18, 2016
1. Blitzed: A Secret Baby Sports Romance by Lauren Landish: “I’m normally not into jocks, but when Troy Wood asks me out, I feel like I’m the Chosen One. After all, he’s hot as hell and Silver Lake’s best athlete, practically the King of Campus.”
2. Evil by Tijan: “You know that group of people in school that everyone fears? Popular. Beautiful. The in-crowd? That was my family. Kind of. We were above that group. We held court over everyone else. We were the best looking. We were the mysterious and elusive ones.”
3. Killian: A West Bend Saints Romance by Sabrina Paige: “Killian Saint is wild and untamed, gruff and solitary, an arrogant loner from a family that people in West Bend say is no good. I should know better. A man like Killian should have no part of my life, not with a kid to raise and a bakery to run.”
4. Mister O by Lauren Blakely: “Just call me Mister O. Because YOUR pleasure is my super power. Making a woman feel ‘oh-god-that’s-good’ is the name of the game, and if a man can’t get the job done, he should get out of the bedroom. I’m talking toe-curling, mind-blowing, sheet-grabbing ecstasy.”
5. Beauty and the Blitz by Sosie Frost: “All-star linebacker Cole Hawthorne is a beast on the field, destroying offenses one broken quarterback at a time. Though he’s a gifted athlete, his violent reputation makes him a liability to his team and a villain in the league.”
6. A Shade of Vampire by Bella Forrest: “On the evening of Sofia Claremont’s seventeenth birthday, she is sucked into a nightmare from which she cannot wake. A quiet evening walk along a beach brings her face to face with a dangerous pale creature that craves much more than her blood.”
7. Constitution: Book 1 of The Legacy Fleet Trilogy by Nick Webb: “The year is 2650. 75 years ago, an alien fleet attacked Earth. Without warning. Without mercy. We were not prepared.
Hundreds of millions perished. Dozens of cities burned.”
8. Blackmailing the Virgin by Alexa Riley: “Welcome back to Alexa Riley Promises. This series is dedicated to old romances. It’s tropes galore, with all of our usual over-the-top alphas and sweet cheesy goodness. These short books will focus on traditional and classic tropes while sticking to the Alexa Riley code: no cheating and always with an HEA.”
9. A Shade of Vampire 27: A Web of Lies by Bella Forrest: “Lies run deep in this mysterious new world… Return to the lives of the Novaks. Book your ticket back to The Shade.”
10. Bachelor by Winter Renshaw: “Derek Rosewood is never going to marry. Ever. Again. Fresh off the heels of a bitter divorce, there are only three things he gives a sh*t about: his daughter, his career, and his bachelorhood.”
Smashwords Self-Published Bestsellers for the Week of May 18, 2016
1. GOA. Confession of the Psychedelic Oyster by Vasiliy Karavaev
2. Naturally Flawless: A holistic approach to clear skin by Andisheh Farahmand
3. Eidolon by Grace Draven
4. 被遺忘的埃及III ﹣ 阿卡那騰(Akhenaten) by Ruowen Huang
5. The Generous Qur’an: An accurate, modern English translation of the Qur’an, Islam’s holiest book. by Usama Dakdok
6. Our Universal Journey by George Kavassilas
7. 63 Defense: A Winning Youth Defense by Jack Gregory
8. Negotiating for Success: Essential Strategies and Skills by George J. Siedel
9. Basics of Age of Empires 2 by André Ferreira
10. My Secret Life Being a Pastor’s Wife by Sandra Weekes