Kindle Single ‘The Girl in Room Fourteen’ Joins Self-Published Bestsellers List This Week

By Dianna Dilworth 

girlinroom14The Girl in Room Fourteen, a Kindle Single, took the No. 2 spot on our Self-Published Bestsellers List.

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Amazon Self-Published Bestsellers for the Week of November 19, 2013

1. Jake Undone by Penelope Ward: “Nina Kennedy was alive…but not living…until she met him. Planes, trains, heights…you name it, Nina was afraid of it and led a sheltered life ruled by irrational fears and phobias.”

2. The Girl in Room Fourteen by Carol Drinkwater: “Striking, raven-haired Cecile produces the finest lemons on the Riviera. Her ice creams, pies, lemonades, sold on her stall at the internationally famous Cannes market, are as renowned as the Mediterranean city itself. Tourists travel from everywhere to meet her. But Cecile is a woman who no one draws close to, a woman with a secret.”

3. All the Pretty Lies by M. Leighton: “Her… Sloane Locke has led a sheltered life. However, with a history like hers, she can understand why her brothers and her father want so much to protect her. She has gone along with it for twenty long years, but those days are over. For the girl who never makes promises, Sloane has made a pact with herself that things will change on her twenty-first birthday. So when the clock strikes midnight, Sloane strikes out to spread her wings and break a few rules.”

4. The Duchess War (The Brothers Sinister, Book 1) by Courtney Milan: “Miss Minerva Lane is a quiet, bespectacled wallflower, and she wants to keep it that way. After all, the last time she was the center of attention, it ended badly–so badly that she changed her name to escape her scandalous past. Wallflowers may not be the prettiest of blooms, but at least they don’t get trampled. So when a handsome duke comes to town, the last thing she wants is his attention. But that is precisely what she gets.”

3.  Truce (Neighbor from Hell) by R.L. Mathewson: “Elizabeth knows what’s expected of her, perfection. She’s the daughter of an Earl and expected to marry well, say and do the right things with a smile on her face when inside she’s dying for a chance to escape. Thanks to an inheritance her godmother left her years ago, her chance will come with her next birthday. Her hopes of escape abruptly end when Robert, her childhood nemesis that she hasn’t seen in over fourteen years, comes back into her life and does everything he can to drive her out of her mind even as he steals her heart.”

4. Sweet Surrendering by Chelsea M. Cameron: “When Rory Clarke ends up hiring the guy she spent one steamy night with to be her administrative assistant, she’s determined to keep things professional.”

5. The Atlantis Gene: A Thriller (The Origin Mystery, Book 1) by A.G. Riddle: “The Immari are good at keeping secrets. For 2,000 years, they’ve hidden the truth about human evolution. They’ve also searched for an ancient enemy–a threat that could wipe out the human race. Now the search is over. Off the coast of Antarctica, a research vessel discovers a mysterious structure buried deep in an iceberg. It has been there for thousands of years, and something is guarding it. As the Immari rush to execute their plan, a brilliant geneticist makes a discovery that could change everything.”

6. Hold us Close (Keep Me Still) by Caisey Quinn: “High school sweethearts Layla Flaherty and Landen O’Brien are living a fairytale in the heart of Spain. Landen’s professional soccer career is taking off and Layla is finishing her college degree. But when her aunt Kate calls with life changing news, she has to reveal the secret she’s been keeping from everyone. She’s pregnant. And she’s not sacrificing her child for anything, not even her own life.”

7. Truce by R.L. Mathewson: “Elizabeth knows what’s expected of her, perfection. She’s the daughter of an Earl and expected to marry well, say and do the right things with a smile on her face when inside she’s dying for a chance to escape. Thanks to an inheritance her godmother left her years ago, her chance will come with her next birthday. Her hopes of escape abruptly end when Robert, her childhood nemesis that she hasn’t seen in over fourteen years, comes back into her life and does everything he can to drive her out of her mind even as he steals her heart.”

8. Keep Me Still by Caisey Quinn: “ayla Flaherty had the perfect life, or close to it. Until a stranger gunned her parents down right in front of her, leaving her with seizure inducing PTSD. After years of trying to pass as normal and failing miserably, she resigns herself to being invisible. But new to town Landen O’Brien sees her, and he likes what he sees. Much to Layla’s surprise, he doesn’t freak out when she has a seizure in front of him. He does the exact opposite, calming her until the tremors subside. But Landen has secrets of his own. Secrets that both bind them together and tear them apart.”

9.  Gemini by Penelope Ward: “Diner waitress Allison Abraham had no idea her mundane life was about to dramatically change the day she serves a devastatingly handsome customer. Allison is immediately captivated by the mysterious man who stared through her soul with his electric blue eyes. After he abruptly leaves the restaurant, she can’t get him out of her head.”

10. Making Faces by Amy Harmon: “Ambrose Young was beautiful. He was tall and muscular, with hair that touched his shoulders and eyes that burned right through you. The kind of beautiful that graced the covers of romance novels, and Fern Taylor would know. She’d been reading them since she was thirteen. But maybe because he was so beautiful he was never someone Fern thought she could have…until he wasn’t beautiful anymore. Making Faces is the story of a small town where five young men go off to war, and only one comes back. It is the story of loss.”

Smashwords Self-Published Bestsellers for the Week of November 19, 2013

1. Nine Goblins    by T Kingfisher

2. Splendiferous    by Patrick Harding

3. Open Shading Language for Blender by Michel Anders

4. True Nature    by Jae

5. Stories for Amanda by Kelly Elliott, Kahlen Aymes,Michelle A. Valentine, Jessica Prince, Karina Halle, Nina Lane,Madeline Sheehan, Karen Avivi, Alexa Nazzaro, & Raine Miller

6.  Space Eldritch II: The Haunted Stars    by Nathan Shumate

7. Flit    by Abieth Winter

8. Touring Under Pressure    by Vincent Berg

9. Created (Talented Saga #4)    by Sophie Davis

10. Making Faces    by Amy Harmon

For the Amazon list, we found the highest ranked self-published bestsellers in Amazon’s Top 100 Paid Kindle Books list. The Smashwords list was drawn from the bestselling titles in the company’s fiction list. None of these companies have released actual sales figures for the individual books. If you believe your book should (or should not) be included in our rankings, feel free to email GalleyCat with your concerns.