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Castles in the Fog

by Linda Heavner Gerald

This second book in the Alladale series features Malcolm Dargie and his new bride Molly. The couple earlier survived the brutal scheme of two greedy men. Unfortunately, their best friend, Thomas Reid, wasn't so fortunate. His wife, Caroline, rushed back to their previous home in Charleston, SC. Now, her best friends work to fulfill the dreams of Caroline and her murdered husband. They quickly discover more about the evil plot of the greedy men who almost murdered them. While working on the detai... more

A True Map of the City: Lost in Dystopia

by J Guenther

Horus Blassingame’s company in Albion teaches him the Deresthian language and sends him off to Deres-Thorm to present a paper at an international conference. Trained in the wrong dialect, and without a proper map, Horus finds himself in a Kafkaesque nightmare as he struggles to find his way through the labyrinthine city to reach the symposium before it's too late. Events take darker turns, and his objective becomes the nearest border.

The Zima Confession

by IAIN M RODGERS

Glasgow 1977 - anarchist, Richard Slater, comes up with the idea that if he was to hide in deep cover until he was in a position of responsibility, he would be able to unleash a devastating act of sabotage capable of starting a revolution. Party activists develop the plan - code name Zima and wait… London 2013 - Richard is in London, working for a financial software company. He has held onto the Zima plan all this time and now knows how to make it succeed. Things start to go wrong when... more

What a Fool Believes

by John Horak

On August 18, 2018, members of the Sac Prairie High School graduating class of 1973 gathered to celebrate their 45th reunion. This was to be the last class reunion given how polarized the class remained in the aftermath of a vindictive senior year prank perpetrated during the Homecoming Pep Rally. Unbeknownst to the attendees, the foreign exchange student, a renowned Al Qaeda terrorist with unbridled hatred for his former classmates, aimed to ensure that this was the last reunion courtesy of the... more

Surreal Absurdity

by Jim Lively

Charles Pierce has some bizarre situations in Dallas to navigate in Surreal Absurdity. He desperately needs a guardian angel to watch over him. Jamie Simon is arrested for theft and murder after trying to poison Charles because she held him responsible for her husband's death. Charles does not want to relive the demons of his past and is reluctant to testify in court against her. Detective Gonzales informs Charles that he will be charged for failing to report an earlier confession by Jamie to hi... more

The Ransom Drop

by Rob Phayre

When an oil tanker is hijacked by a novice band of Somali pirates, it's a near impossible problem to solve in one of the most remote and dangerous places on earth. A team of negotiators, security and maritime experts are called in with one job to do, save the lives of the crew. Can this 'A-team' of experts do so? Can they prevent a massive environmental disaster, rescue the ship and its hundred million dollar cargo? There are reputations to be made, or lost... The Ransom Drop, a true to ... more

The Japson Club

by C.J. Butler

How had she gone so astray? Six months ago she had been a slightly lonely but perfectly respectable young woman; now, mired in scandal, illicitly involved with a married man, she was three sheets to the wind at the wheel of her car, driving away from a criminal with whom she had spent the night drinking... When successful high flyer Anna joins the exclusive equestrian club of Rosemount, simple fun is all she craves; away from her stressful London career and any memory of her stifling ex. But spa... more

Healing House

by Nicole Plumridge

After the death of Sophie's fiancé, she finds that living her old life is impossible. She decides to leave the comfort of her home in London to live in a cottage along the haunting cliffs of Dover. However, shortly after her arrival, Sophie finds that she has become intertwined in a dark mystery centering around the sinister past of the house she has just moved into. In order to solve the mystery surrounding her house, Sophie has to go on a journey through time. With the help of the previous... more

A Slow Ruin

by Pamela Crane

April 1910. Women’s rights activist Alvera Fields mysteriously vanishes from her home one night, leaving her newborn baby and husband behind, the case never solved.

April 2021. On the anniversary of her great-great-grandmother’s disappearance, Alvera’s namesake Vera Portman vanishes in an eerily similar manner.

Six months later, the police recover a girl’s body. While the family waits in the horror of finding out if it&... more

Twenty-Twenty Hindsight

by Tim Hind

Recruited solely for his reputation in cyber intelligence, Luke Frankland is meant to lend his name to a cyber start-up venture, host clients and build up the sales value of the fledgling company. However, when he is targeted by a new type of social engineering he quickly realises that all is not as it seems in the high-tech world of commercial intelligence gathering. Thrust into an environment where corporate advantage means multi-million dollar contracts, he discovers that some within the firm... more

Electric Green Mambas

by Bryan Cassiday

In this terrifying psychological thriller with occult overtones, Scott Brody, a Los Angeles PI, is hired by Evelyn Martin to find her missing brother Tyler Keogh, a well-to-do aeronautical engineer and a member of the local Mensa board of directors. As Brody conducts his search, he keeps discovering victims of a serial killer who leaves clues connecting the murders to a hopped-up cult that collects Nazi SS Totenkopf memorabilia and worships Li Grande Zombi, a voodoo snake god. Fearing Keogh mi... more

The Prophet Paradox

by Danny Tuttle

Is anyone free? Or do we see only what we want to see? And than how can love be stronger than destiny? Biblical scholar Anne Hart is lost. Again. In a rural Egyptian village, she tries to save a woman from a public lashing ordered by a local sharia tribunal of elders. The police chief orders Anne to be abandoned in the Qattara Depression, the worst hell hole in the Sahara Desert. With no food or water and weeks of desert in every direction, Anne makes a discovery that can change the world. Bu... more

The Devil's Shadow

by BJ Edwards

In a vault beneath the Mediterranean Sea, a creature from myth and folklore sleeps. Government agents David Coswell and Hannah Martin join forces to find and study the creature with the hopes of harnessing its power for their country’s good. Accidentally, they release the creature and London is plunged into chaos. Lawlessness and hedonism spread as Lord of the Flies regains his strength and uses violence and fear to build his new kingdom. David Coswell, along with his ‘handler’ Sentinel Nutbeam,... more

Iconoclast: A Sean McPherson Novel, Book Two

by Laurie Buchanan

Burdened by the pressing weight of survivor’s guilt, Sean McPherson, an ex-cop, is desperate for redemption. At Pines & Quill, a writer’s retreat in the Pacific Northwest, he and his fiancée, Emma Benton, are planning their lives together. He wants to go back into law enforcement. She plans to walk again. Georgio “The Bull” Gambino, head of a Seattle-based crime family, has a long reach. Like cockroaches, his minions infiltrate the most inaccessible places to do his bidding. With Seattle... more

Now Say You're Sorry: A Reese Clayton and Emerson Lake Novel

by Barbara Fournier

WHEN AN ABUSED YOUNG WOMAN IS THE SOLE SURVIVOR OF A STRING OF MURDERS, TWO DETECTIVES UNCOVER A WEB OF HIDDEN SECRETS THAT COULD BE DEADLY.

The Virtuous Con

by Maren Foster

What would you do if the unspeakable happened to you? This is the question that haunts Wyn Laurent after something precious is taken from her in a most unforgiveable way. Years before the #MeToo movement gained momentum and the unravelling of a Hollywood mogul, Wyn Laurent—a teenaged Millennial from the Chicago suburbs raised by her single mom and older sister—faces a difficult choice: take her chances on the criminal justice system, or take matters into her own hands. Married and living in a we... more

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