‘The Atlantis Gene’ Leads the Self-Published Bestsellers List This Week Again

By Dianna Dilworth 

theatlantisgene1The Atlantis Gene: A Thriller (The Origin Mystery, Book 1) by A.G. Riddle leads the Self-Published Bestsellers List this week for the third week in a row.

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Amazon Self-Published Bestsellers for the Week of December 26, 2013

1. 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.”

2. Bully (Fall Away Series) by Penelope Douglas: “My name is Tate. He doesn’t call me that, though. He would never refer to me so informally, if he referred to me at all. No, he’ll barely even speak to me. But he still won’t leave me alone. We were best friends once. Then he turned on me and made it his mission to ruin my life.”

3.  The Atlantis Plague by A.G. Riddle: “In Marbella, Spain, Dr. Kate Warner awakens to a horrifying reality: the human race stands on the brink of extinction. A pandemic unlike any before it has swept the globe. Nearly a billion people are dead–and those the Atlantis Plague doesn’t kill, it transforms at the genetic level. A few rapidly evolve. The remainder devolve. As the world slips into chaos, radical solutions emerge. Industrialized nations offer a miracle drug, Orchid, which they mass produce and distribute to refugee camps around the world. But Orchid is merely a way to buy time. It treats the symptoms of the plague but never actually cures the disease.”

4. Until You (Fall Away Series) by Penelope Douglas: “Have you ever been so angry that hitting things felt good? Or so numb that you actually felt high? The past few years have been like that for me. Traveling between fury and indifference with no stops in between. Some people hate me for it, while others are scared of me. But none of them can hurt me, because I don’t care about anything or anyone. Except Tatum.”

5. Bedding the Wrong Brother by Virna DePaul: “Melina Parker prides herself on being a lady in public, but after she’s dumped yet again for being a lady in the bedroom, she’s ready to go back to school. Determined to find her inner sex diva, she enlists her childhood friend, Max Dalton, to tutor her after hours.”

6. Trouble by Samantha Towle: “Mia Monroe is running. Running from a person she doesn’t ever want to find her. Running from a past she doesn’t ever want anyone to know. Desperate to find a future, that yesterday, she could only dream of having. Jordan Matthews likes easy. Easy women. Easy life. Then he meets Mia.”

7. The World Beneath by Rebecca Cantrell: “Software millionaire Joe Tesla is set to ring the bell on Wall Street the morning his company goes public. On what should be the brightest day in his life, he is instead struck with severe agoraphobia. The sudden dread of the outside is so debilitating, he can’t leave his hotel at Grand Central Terminal, except to go underground. Bad luck for Joe, because in the tunnels lurk corpses and murderers, an underground Victorian mansion and a mysterious bricked-up 1940s presidential train car.”

8. Broken by Kelly Elliott: “Layton Morris and his brother Mike grew up not knowing what it would be like to live in a normal home. With no running water or electricity in their home, no parents around to protect them, they quickly learned how to survive and depend only on each other. When a tragic accident takes Mike away from Layton, and the only other person that he ever let into his heart walked away from him, leaving his heart shattered, Layton focuses all of his time and energy into the ranch he and his brother dreamed of.”

9. Skin Deep by Dez Burke: “Some people were curious why I wrote about “Shane” a man burned and scarred on one side of his body. The story in a way is mine. Two years ago I was severely burned in a bad cooking accident. A friend asked me to hold a jar while he poured hot bacon grease from a cast iron skillet into it. We didn’t realize how hot the grease was and when he tilted the skillet the grease bubbled up and over, completely coating my right hand and wrist. When I looked down, my hand and wrist were charred. For a long time people couldn’t help freaking out when they saw my hand and I couldn’t blame them. I was very lucky and blessed that my hand eventually healed so I could use it again. Shane’s scars however never healed so this is how I came up with his story.”

10. The Snowflake Inn by Samantha Chase: “A home for the holidays… Grace thought she had finally found a place to belong. Coming off of ten years of tragedy and disappointments, her arrival at The Snowflake Inn finally gives her a reason to have hope for her future and the possibility of her forever-home. Until one man arrives with the power to take it all away. Versus NOT wanting to be home for the holidays…”

Smashwords Self-Published Bestsellers for the Week of December 26, 2013

1. The Animal Desk Reference By Melissa Shelton DVM

2. Tides of Faith: Travail of The Dark Mage Book Two By Brian S. Pratt

3. Ashes to Ashes (Experiment in Terror #8) By Karina Halle

4. Building A Legacy By Vincent Berg

5. Toxic Metals and Antidotes – The Chelation Therapy Handbook (ebook Edition) By Dr. Eleonore Blaurock-Busch PhD

6. Autonomy in Language Learning: Getting Learners Actively Involved By Marcella Menegale

7. The Countess ConspiracyBy Courtney Milan

8. The Whale Has Wings Vol3 – Holding the Barrier By David Row

9. The Stipulation Box Set (Volumes 1-7) By M.L. Young

10. Agile ScrumMaster Exam Questions By Eddie Vi