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Moscow Nights Return

by Beth H. Macy

Moscow Nights Return, 90,361 words long, is a gripping spy suspense/thriller that brings alive flawed characters and interweaves their lives in a high-speed chase through Moscow, St. Petersburg, Hamburg, Amsterdam, the UK, and the USA. The book opens in Moscow in 1990, during the Cold War, bringing that conflict into the current time, through the eyes of master spies. The protagonist, Elda Ainsworth, cut her teeth as a spy in the Cold War. Elda ex-Navy, a married lesbian, and semi-retired, is ... more

Releasing the Reins

by Catherine Matthews

In the dawning of summer, the rugged landscape of rural Alaska sets the stage for a tale of determination and dark secrets. Headstrong Bunny O’Kelly arrives on the sprawling expanses of Buck Miller’s horse ranch with the fiery ambition to make a name for herself. Against the backdrop of wild horses and unchecked wilderness, she embarks on a grueling journey to prove her worth, not just as a ranch hand, but as a woman in a world that doesn’t want her. But when Bunny stumbles upon the shattered... more

Innocence Slain

by Kit Karson

Young women have gone missing and unmissed, until the wrong one disappears. The tranquility of tiny Anderson Montana is once again shattered when pampered Stacey Nichols disappears after a quarrel with her boyfriend. Clues are few and flimsy, but newly hired deputy, Birdie Bradshaw, has more than a professional interest in the case. Digging through old records, she uncovers evidence of similar disappearances going back decades. While a battered Stacey plots ways to escape he... more

DEATH AGENT

by Mike Krentz

They threatened his life. They hurt his kid. Can this gifted ER doctor deliver payback without becoming addicted to revenge? Dr. Zack Winston craves vengeance. A confident emergency physician who holds lives in his hands every day, the loving father struggles to guide his sixteen-year-old daughter through her post-traumatic stress disorder. When a patient attacks him at the ER, his guts tell him the vicious cartel hasn’t moved on… and the incident was a planned attempt at murder. Convinced... more

Vengeance Falls

by A.A. West

Beck Gideon, a tech savant, has just secured an investment in her startup at twenty-two years of age, a momentous achievement considering the many challenges of growing up orphaned. So when her wayward sister Riley shows up in the middle of the night, covered in blood with a dead body riding shotgun, everything Beck has worked for is put at risk. She doesn’t know if she can even trust Riley, who has a Ph.D. in deception. When a detective arrives to question them, Beck is relieved…right up to the... more

The Ambition

by Yvonne Blackwood

In the hustle and bustle of 1990s Toronto, John Cippione and his younger brother Carmine take over their hard-working Italian immigrant father’s small heating and air-conditioning company. John is determined to propel the business into the big leagues and finally have the lavish lifestyle he craves, so the brothers join forces with a powerful development company. But when an industry player sets out to bankrupt them, they risk tarnishing their father’s name and losing the legacy he entrusted... more

Winner's Curse: A Lynn Dayton Thriller

by L. A. Starks

The first-ever woman to lead the drilling division of TriCoast Energy, protagonist Lynn Dayton is determined to prove herself capable but finds herself facing more than just the usual water cooler backstabbing. Undercutting her at every turn is former TriCoast Executive, Henry Vandervoost, who blames her for his humiliating fall from power. Ruthlessly competing with Lynn for control of Bradshaw Energy, his own playboy son's company that has revolutionary energy technology, Vandervoost enlists th... more

Through Frozen Eyes

by Lana M. Fox

The worst snowstorm in years. The town is shut down., and a killer is on the loose. With her marriage to the sheriff in tatters because of his affair with her best friend, Detective Liz Ellisen must decide what to do with her life. Should she continue working for the man who betrayed her? When the body of her daughter's childhood friend is found frozen in the snow, Liz must put her personal life aside and do her best to find a killer who is coming after her family with a vengeance..

Totality

by Brendan Lyons

What is man, oh Lord? And what do we owe God in receipt for our body and soul? As we barrel forward in medical and scientific progress, the answer trends increasingly toward ‘nothing.’ Enter the ‘switchover,’ the process by which a human being’s mind is transferred into a genetically perfected body, cloned specifically for them. Held up as the pinnacle of medical science by its creators and embraced by the insurance industry, more and more doctors and plans are making the process a prerequisi... more

Gunbarrel Highway

by Sean Bridges

Texas trophy wife Claudia Grant dies after she causes an early morning car accident. In the other vehicle, Daniel Morrison, an attorney struggling with a pending divorce and pill addiction, panics and leaves the scene. The victim’s husband, congressional candidate Hayden Grant, is a corrupt politician who seizes the opportunity and places a million-dollar reward on Morrison’s capture. Dead or alive. Daniel is on the run. Roya Navarro, a determined San Antonio police detective is hot on hi... more

Double Threat

by Patrick Weill

In this third installment of the series, Park and Walker are given separate high-stakes assignments. Park drives up to Los Angeles, where he joins forces with the FBI and works undercover on a cruise ship in pursuit of an unidentified serial killer. Back in San Diego, Walker becomes a member of MARTAC, the Harbor Police’s SWAT team, and he tackles a case of his own involving political assassination, white supremacy, and narcotics trafficking. Alternating chapters spotlight these two heroes until... more

The Last Hunt (The Final Hunt Book 2)

by Audrey J. Cole

A missing body. A bloody bear trap. Is a serial killer back from the grave? Tok, Alaska. Cameron Prescott hopes the past stays buried. After believing her murderous husband is finally dead, the fierce survivor longs to start over with her state trooper boyfriend. But her illusion of peace shatters when she hears of a fresh killing that resembles her late husband’s grisly signature.

Entheóphage

by Drema Deòraich

Isobel, a pharmaceutical scientist, harvests the last pristine coral reef for materials to make a medicine that will save her son. Luk, a game designer who is raising his daughter alone, watches helpless while his 8-year-old daughter contracts an unknown virus that leaves her screaming in pain. When the virus strikes children around the world, CDC researcher Nadine discovers the unlikely truth. The virus is rewiring the children's brains, changing them in what appears to be an unusual evolutiona... more

Did the Frail Have a Heater?

by Larry Kahaner

This funny, suspenseful version of a much-loved genre uses familiar conventions, characters and plot points, which are then twisted, shaken and slapped around until they are transformed into material that is not only original but at the same time pays homage to an honored mystery-novel past. Washington, DC private eye, Sam Marlowe, named by his parents for their love of classic noir literature, works out of a shabby office where he gets by on the usual staples of private eye work. Into his offic... more

Torment

by Jeffrey Butler

On an early fall morning, the sleepy oceanside town of Wolf Hollow awakens to a gruesome crime. Alison Newton, an innocent young woman who was senselessly murdered six months ago, has been dug up and brutally violated. Veteran Detective Harper Jones, the lead investigator in her murder, is called upon to track down the offender, and he quickly realizes that this isn’t some random act. Instead, he discovers that a ruthless serial killer has descended upon Wolf Hollow with his own cruel mo... more

Iceapelago 3

by Peter Brennan

A decade after the Big Storm climatic conditions improved gradually in Iceapelago. The third generation of survivors faced a different set of challenges as improving temperate weather prevailed. The sea ice melted. Crops thrived. Food was plentiful. The ageing island communities were more settled and self-sufficient but isolated. Word spread abroad that Iceapelogo had recovered well unlike other less-fortunate regions affected by the extremes of Mother Nature. The leaders of the Principality of ... more

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