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When the wife of a shady Florida businessman is shot in bed in their exclusive home, all signs point to a senseless robbery. Detectives are on the case, but it's the dead woman's high school sweetheart, now a high-powered attorney, who discovers a web of intrigue tied to China, a deadly weaponized virus, a beautiful young heiress, and even, perhaps, the U.S. government. With a plot that never fails to surprise, UNMASKED is full of details pulled straight from today's news about viruses, violence... more

Ashes of Despair

by Mary Schaller

The sequel to Deadly Distrust occurs three years later during the AIDS crisis in San Francisco. The morals of sex are changing, and the LGBT community is in turmoil. Our heroine, Elinor DeMartini, inherits a large estate. However, the board of directors doesn’t want her knowing about their corruption, and they don’t want to stop the flow of money. When Elly tries to learn about her inheritance, one of the board members is killed. And so starts an action-packed struggle to survive the many danger... more

Jaykyll's Joust

by R.H. Peake

John Jaykyll, professor at a small college in southern Appalachia, is having a mid-life crisis resulting from his conflict with the new college president, who hates his mountain origins, and dislikes Jaykyll because he is defending mountain literature and culture and the young professor in charge of this program who is accused by a crazy French professor of having an affair with his wife. His jealousy leads his to seek the murder of his neighbor, the young English professor. The French progessor... more

Silent Slipper

by Patricia Peterson

Julia and her sister Carly find a young girl dead on a lonely beach. A beautiful necklace and a slipper lie nearby. A pirate movie being filmed nearby features more than a B grade director and handsome actors. Will the sisters find the murderer before they end up dead themselves?

West Wind Clear

by Vicky Knox

The fourth in the Clement Wisdom Series In late 1941, the Pacific is a very different place from only one year earlier. Japan threatens and vast numbers of Imperial Army spies have infiltrated throughout the Pacific Islands in readiness for conflict. Just as he is preparing to leave Australia and return to Britain, Major Clement Wisdom is seconded to lead a small guerrilla force. Their mission: to secure a vitally important person in Singapore and take him, and the secret he carries, back ... more

More Blood Than Flesh

by Matthew Keller

More Blood Than Flesh follows siblings Mae, Tenn, and Bird Ellis who, after discovering their mother has been murdered by their father, must escape the lawless community they’ve called home all their lives. A horrifying level of violence awaits the siblings as they confront drug dealers, a mysterious lady who offers to help get them out, and most of all themselves as they make their way toward safety. Six years later the choices they made as they fled their home still haunt them. But when a s... more

Once Is Never Enough: Revenge Never Sleeps

by Monique Gliozzi

Larissa La Roche, heiress to a multimillion-dollar wine production empire in Napa County, has led a privileged life. Married, living a life of luxury and loving work as a flight attendant with a major airline, she seems destined for success. One day that all changes. Tragedy strikes, leading her down a path of deception and destruction. When her dormant, tragic past returns to haunt her and revenge never sleeps, is anyone safe? Isabella Ashford returns as Special FBI Agent Ashford to hunt dow... more

Father's Day: Part III - Fulfillment

by Gary Kyriazi

This is the final volume of the Father's Day Trilogy. For the third time in a row, on Father's Day, a body is discovered at the bottom of the cliffs of La Sangre, on the Northern California coast. "This has got to stop!" the Governor declares. But, how does one stop insanity?

Ghost Mark

by JP McLean

ane’s nightmares are back—and this time, they’ve unleashed a brutal killer. Jane Walker’s nightmares aren’t imaginary—they’re glimpses into the traumatic past; and the past can be dangerous, especially now that Jane’s protective birthmarks are gone. Worse, she’s no longer invisible within her dreams—and learns this the hard way while using her power to incriminate a ruthless killer. Inadvertently revealing her ghost form, she launches him on a relentless hunt to track her down. Even mor... more

ACONITE Queen of Poisons

by L.M. Jorden

BASED ON A TRUE STORY

In Roaring 20’s New York, a feisty orphan rises from the slums to become a doctor. When no one will hire a female, Josephine Reva, M.D. hangs her shingle in Brooklyn as the area's first woman doctor. Her loyalty to the Hippocratic Oath will be tested under Prohibition, but Josephine has graver concerns. She's fighting for women's equality, and she isn't going to stop using her botanical poison cures.

Murder intr... more

Blue Running

by Lori Ann Stephens

Blue Running is a gripping coming-of-age thriller set in post-secessionist Texas. Fourteen-year-old Bluebonnet Andrews is on the run across the Republic of Texas. An accident killed her best friend but everyone in the town of Blessing thinks it was murder. In this Republic, murder often means a swift death penalty, so she has no choice but to run. Blue doesn't know where her mother is — somewhere beyond the border in the United States — but she's determined to track her down. First she has ... more

The Fear of Winter: Book One in The Fear Of Series

by S. C. Sterling

On a frigid December night, Megan Floyd vanishes from the mountain town of Fraser, Colorado. The extensive search provides no answers and as attention of her disappearance fades, the case goes cold. Her father, Tom Floyd, is forced to confront his worst fear that his daughter will never be found, and soon his life and marriage begin to disintegrate around him.

A year after the disappearance and with no new leads, Tom hires private investigator Marshall York, a former detective, and his ... more

Return of the Sphynx

by Donald McInnis

The San Diego police arrested a young man for the so-called Sphynx rapes. The D.A. believes he will finally defeat the suspect’s defense attorney, A.J. Hawke. His chief evidence: The suspect’s DNA matches the rapist’s DNA. But is the suspect the real Sphynx rapist? The DNA says “yes,” given that two people having the same DNA, theoretically, is a scientific impossibility—unless they are identical twins. A. J. Hawke aims to test that theory, claiming the true criminal is the suspect’s twin brot... more

The Uniform

by G. Gruen

With only hours until his transport to a death camp, a Jewish labor camp prisoner stumbles across the body of a murdered Gestapo officer. The dead man's uniforms offers the prisoner his last chance to survive, perhaps even to escape. His challenge? Repairing the gashed and bloodied tunic under the noses of his SS captors.

Distant Relations, Rebecca Forster

by Rebecca Forster

A private plane explodes killing Detective Finn O'Brien's estranged uncle and his childhood love. Coming to grips with the tragedy, Finn puts the accident behind him until a misdirected insurance settlement, a federal investigation, and an arrogant ATF agent pique his curiosity and provoke his anger. Unable to find justice, Finn goes rogue, incurring the ire of everyone while his investigation leads him through a deadly labyrinth created by big business and personal passions. In the end Finn ... more

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