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Being and Becoming

by PHALGUN PRATIVADI

In this stunning thriller, Dr. Arya Krish, an accomplished researcher, physician, philanthropist, father, and husband explores the outer edges of “the ends justify the means.” Having cultivated Beacon Medical Institute into a premier research group and medical center, he dedicates his resources to humanitarian and social service at home and abroad. As a result, Dr. Krish finds himself entangled not only in an internal conflict of choice and action, but the murky realm of corporate espionage, co... more

Come Out of Hiding 9781517144142

by sherri stewart

Slightly agoraphobic Julie Richards just wants to be left alone in her fortress-like house, but someone is watching her--she can feel it. She has more than she can handle representing a teacher from Guatemala, whose husband is trying to kill her. When things go from bad to worse, her client must go into hiding. Will Julie be able to overcome her fear, come out of her shell of a house, and rescue her client?

Down and Out in Kathmandu: adventures in backpacking

by Jennifer S. Alderson

Zelda wants to teach children English and “find herself” in Kathmandu. Ian wants to get stoned and trek the Himalayas. Tommy wants to get rich by smuggling diamonds. How their stories collide will leave you on the edge of your seat!

Travel from the dusty, tout-filled streets and holy sites of Nepal to the sultry metropolises and picture-perfect beaches of Thailand, as Zelda and Ian try to outsmart the smugglers and escape Asia alive.

This fas... more

The Lover's Portrait: An Art Mystery

by Jennifer S. Alderson

A portrait holds the key to recovering a cache of looted artwork, secreted away during World War II, in this captivating historical art thriller set in the 1940s and present-day Amsterdam.

When a Dutch art dealer hides the stock from his gallery – rather than turn it over to his Nazi blackmailer – he pays with his life, leaving a treasure trove of modern masterpieces buried somewhere in Amsterdam, presumably lost forever. That is, until American art history ... more

Honeyball

by Pete Liebengood

After a distinguished career as a professional beach volleyball player, Rachel Haslett's father hands her the reigns to the Santa Barbara Charros, a class A minor league baseball team. She shakes the very foundation of the sport by hiring an all female staff and creating a highly successful marketing campaign called honeyball. To baseball purists it represents marketing sex over baseball. It's a concept that results in the Charros' becoming the all time minor league leader in attendance for a si... more

Cowards, Crooks, and Warriors

by J. C. De Ladurantey

Family man and police officer Howard Hamilton happily works the quiet night shift in the Orchard Hills community of California. One evening, he is in a situation where he might have used his firearm but froze, which is when he starts to question his qualifications as a Police Officer. Then, the unthinkable happens: a rookie officer is killed. When the department struggles with their first on-duty death in ten years, the new chief transfers HH to day watch—where the bad luck really begins. Wit... more

Rob the Vatican

by Robert Gallant

Everyone believes that robbing the Vatican is impossible. The world's greatest collection of treasures, jewelry, and art sits inside the seemingly impregnable walls of the Vatican. A vast cadre of devoted priests, Swiss Guards, and Vatican Gendarmes protect the sanctity of the one-hundred acre heartbeat of the Roman Catholic Church.

But events, ingenious planning, and a man on a mission may make the impossible possible. A powerful cardinal is obsessed with becoming the next pop... more

Baby Love

by Ronald Argo

A gritty thriller inspired by true events!

Smuggled babies have gone missing after the grizzly massacre of their migrant caretakers in the California desert. Now only a scrupulous reporter with the aid of a compassionate trafficker hold the key to finding them. A rollicking feast of perverse characters frantically trying to stay alive while making a buck doing it.

The Devil and the Deadly Peace - Tales of Khaga

by Sindhura Chamala

Peace or Death?

The two great Nations of Khaga are on the verge of a bloody war. The survival of Jalika, a neutral kingdom in trade with both, is in jeopardy.

After calling the Devil to his kingdom, the King of Jalika has passed away in the dead of the night. His death, a mere week before the Peace Events, when officials from the two Nations come together to sign a treaty that will exempt Jalika from the war, has set many wheels in motion.

As Jalika prepare... more

Violated

by Carolyn Arnold

Sometimes the past should stay there…

“A top-notch thriller.” –Brooke Blogs

Violated explores the cost of revenge and not letting go of the past. Wickedly clever, you won’t want to put this killer thriller down.

FBI Agent Brandon Fisher and his team jet off to California to try and prove the innocence of a fellow agent suspected of murder. ... more

Washington, DeCeit

by Ivy Harper

When America's first "Non-Profit Investigators" uncover a conspiracy wherein the White House, public college Chieftains, D.C.'s top lobbyist, and a student loan company amass wealth on the backs of students and taxpayers, journalist Chapin Alexander and U.S. Attorney Arik Leaventhal kick-start "The Trial of the Decade," only to learn the cost of interrupting Washington's student loan status quo.

White Ashes

by John D Moulton

Rachael Farrington is sitting on a riverbank when young Jason Beauvale wanders into her life. The two become inseparable, but Rachael’s mother is suspicious of the boy; he’s wealthy and, for reasons of her own, she has no trust for him and his kind. As the couple become closer, Jason shares a secret: Many years earlier he witnessed his father escape, badly injured, under a hail of bullets. He doesn’t know why it happened, or if his father survived, or why his mother then cho... more

Dicer Heist

by John Dixson

Daniel Sanders is a professional sports gambler in Las Vegas. Las Vegas mayor, Mayor Beck, succeeds in negotiating with Major League Baseball to permit hosting of a professional baseball team in Las Vegas. After 20 years of successful sports wagering Mayor Beck approaches Dan to invest in ownership of the new Las Vegas Major League team. Dan sets out the next 2 years to finance and build Las Vegas' newest professional sports franchise, the Las Vegas Dicers, while Mayor Beck leads the way to ... more

Bones in the Wash: Politics is Tough. Family is Tougher.

by John Byrne Barry

Winner, Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA) Best Book Award, 2015 Albuquerque Mayor Tomas Zamara understands that politics is like playing football on a muddy field. If you don't get dirty, you're not giving your all. But dirty politics is not his style.The Democrats' Barack Obama is drawing adoring crowds with his uplifting speeches, and Zamara's GOP bosses are pressuring him to do "whatever it takes" to win. Challenging him every step of the way is fierce, young Sierra Le... more

The Jumbee's Daughter

by Jonathan Ross

Anika Hegner comes from a long line of Danish colonists on the island St. Thomas. She is pure Dane, except for a drop of Jumbee blood, straight from the Dark Continent. Since childhood, she has delighted in shape shifting to a black cat and scaring the unwary. Now, as she struggles to reconcile her dual heritage, she discovers a taciturn Army veteran trespassing on her family’s abandoned estate on the wild south coast of the island. This is where she goes to be quiet and alone; angrily, she orde... more

An Empire of Silence

by Anthony Chapman

Master thief, Jack Higgins, has just pulled off the crime of his life - he has stolen the Whitely Diamond and left irrefutable proof of the theft. That’s what he was hired to do, and that’s where he should have left it. But instead of handing it over, Jack gives the diamond to charity, and a few days later the government catch up with him. Jack is offered a deal he can’t refuse - if he wants to stay free: help catch a major international criminal, and all of Jack’s ill... more

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