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The Colour of the Soul

by Richard T. Burke

I can see the colour of your soul. Annalise Becker wakes from an eleven month coma with the ability to sense a person’s aura. But why won’t her family tell her what happened? What dark secret is her mother hiding? And why is there a guard outside her hospital room? Hunted by a psychopathic killer and accused of a crime she can’t remember, she must use her new skill to separate the truth from the lies before it is too late.

Never Speak

by JOHN MANCHESTER

Ray Watts is an out-of-work artist living above his gallery in funky-chic Hudson, New York, and he’s just hit rock bottom. His muse has abandoned him, his girlfriend’s dumped him—and unless he pays his half of the mortgage on their house, he’s about to be homeless too. But when Ray’s ex-wife dies in a fiery car crash, he’s suddenly reminded of the last time he hit rock bottom—when he and his wife were members of a cult. A cult ruled by a single, sinister commandment: NEVER SPEAK ABOUT WHAT W... more

Blackthorn

by Judy Nedry

A crumbling old resort. A dead brother. A phantom boat in the mist. Nightmares. And then, a body. \tIn this modern-day gothic novel set on the scenic Columbia River Gorge, Sage Blackthorn revisits demons from her past and confronts a multitude of new ones when she returns to her childhood home to solve the mystery of her brother’s death. Sage left the Pacific Northwest ten years ago and has worked her way into a cushy travel editor’s job at one of the big five women’s magazines based in New Y... more

Decimation: The Girl Who Survived

by Richard T. Burke

How far would you go to save the human race? In 2017 a virus sweeps across the world and infects every living person. It lies dormant until a woman gives birth. Then she dies. Fifteen years later, nobody has survived childbirth since the outbreak began. Teenage wheelchair athlete, Antimone Lessing, discovers she is pregnant. She has no recollection of events leading up to the conception. When she unexpectedly gives birth and lives, she becomes a vital clue in the race to develop a cure befor... more

Broken Monarch

by Tom Schneider

In 1979 Glenn is a chef at the Silver Lake Inn when his experiences of lost time become inhabited by a violent and dangerous part of himself he doesn’t know. A week before the First Lady of The United States visit to the restaurant, he meets Lindsey who holds the key to understanding what’s happening. The clock is ticking as he uncovers the mystery of their shared past, his part in Project Monarch and the plot to kill the First Lady. Can they figure it out in time to escape the program, sa... more

The Death Sommelier

by Frank Stephenson

Set on the Navajo Reservation in northeastern Arizona, a USGS geologist is sent to examine the deaths of several Navajo people because their demise was originally believed to be caused by contaminated groundwater, a subject which the geologist knows well, but suspects otherwise. His major distraction, however, is a former Navajo girlfriend who darts in and out of his life like smoke from an ancient fire. Can he find her again?

Nobody Else's Business

by Beverly Hurwitz MD

When Pro-Life congressional leaders are personally confronted by unwanted pregnancies, multiple lives are endangered. This riveting political thriller draws the reader onto a frightening battleground, where powerful forces use extraordinary weaponry to both preserve and eradicate the right to choose.

Beware the Spider: A Black Orchid Chronicle

by David L. Haase

Nature photographer Sebastian Arnett holds a terrible secret: He can kill with his thoughts, a curse placed on him by an ancient spider demon that controls when he can use the power. His attempts to break the curse take him to a confrontation with a mysterious aboriginal in the Australian outback and then to the demon’s jungle home in Borneo. Before he can crack the code, ruthless Chinese crime lords hear of his power and go searching for him, hoping to acquire the power. Afraid to tackl... more

The Mark of the Spider: A Black Orchid Chronicle

by David L. Haase

Sebastian Arnett doesn’t believe in spirits, but one believes in him. While photographing rare orchids in the highland jungles of Borneo, Sebastian encounters an old Dyak woman who presents him with a black orchid. But the gift comes with a curse — the power to kill with his thoughts — and a disfiguring tattoo of a spider web that covers half his face. Sebastian soon learns that he cannot conceal the tattoo or control his lethal new power. When he accidentally kills the commander of a se... more

Maiden Fury

by Anibal Rodriguez Lopez

Jenny Mendez lives in her perfect world with her husband and their two young children. He is of the Wall Street elite, she the follower believing in her husband. When the children are abducted, her mother is left for dead and her husband arrested as the gangster he really is, Jenny ’s world comes crashing down. She must attempt to find her indomitable spirit, there to face the precipice of her death.

A Sip Before Dying

by Gemma Halliday

When Emmy Oak came home to save her family winery, she didn't expect to find a dead VIP in her wine cellar—poisoned by a glass of Emmy's wine! Now she's determined to save her winery's reputation by finding the real killer. Even if she has to go head-to-head with the sexy local Detective Grant, Emmy vows to find out just which of the wine country elite poisoned the victim's vintage!

Duncan

by Dennis McCort

A cunning pederastic serial killer nicknamed “Santa” is making his way up the East Coast from New Orleans to Boston, leaving a trail of young bodies in his wake. Santa covers his tracks along the way by working as an itinerant bass player in a series of jazz combos. At the same time, the Driscoll family – Mark, Julie and their nine-year-old son Nate – who live in an upstate suburb of Syracuse, New York, struggle to come to grips with Mom’s quadriplegia following ... more

A Perfect Lie

by Lisa Renee Jones

They say that you are not a product of the environment that you’ve grown up in, that you create your own story, tell it your way. That you get to pick your own future. They lied. If you’re honest with yourself, you believed that lie, too, like I used to, because I wanted to, and even needed to believe that I had some semblance of control over my own self. The truth is that control is part of the lie. The ability to become a person of our own making is the perfect lie. I concede that it might app... more

No End of Bad Guys

by Jeff Buick

Bobby Greco is Orlando Homicide, and he knows who took the barista on her way home from Starbucks, but can’t prove it. It’s all he can think about until a soccer mom at his daughter’s game catches his eye. Something’s amiss with Molly’s mom. As he digs under the surface he uncovers a horrific crime. Now one girl is missing and another has been found – and both are in danger.

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by Mark DaSilva

After deadly gas attacks have killed millions across the globe, stranded California business man Ted Ratelle struggles to find his missing family. Unprepared for such a catastrophe, he meets an ex-military police officer who befriends and trains Ted for combat. Once ready, the unlikely hero then follows clues to his family’s whereabouts, battling warlords, murderers, and thugs who stand in his way.

I Know You

by Erik Therme

Two days ago, Bree’s sixteen-year-old sister, Alissa, ran away from home. It wasn’t the first time. But unlike before, this time there was no note, and Alissa hasn’t been heard from since. When a backpack appears on the front porch, Bree is confused to find Alissa’s belongings inside—including her wallet—as Alissa is still nowhere to be found. Then the text messages begin: I have your sister. Now I want your brother. As the messages increase in frequency and urgency, one thing becomes clea... more

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