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Wind the Clock

by Dawn Brotherton and Lawrence Stutzriem

Bathed in the beauty of Germany on a storybook assignment, Major Jackie Austin is revered across Spangdahlem Air Base as an officer and leader. The Air Force is looking to promote her ahead of the pack. From the outside, she’s got it all, to include a fighter pilot husband, the handsome and popular Stan “Mace” Mason. In truth, things are fraying behind the scenes, as the compromises of a two-career military marriage take their toll. All of it factors into the greatest tragedy Jackie will ever ex... more

The Obsession

by Dawn Brotherton

When the phone calls began in the dead of the night, Jackie chalked them up to a prank caller. She had had her share of harassment coming up the ranks of the Air Force and shrugged them off. Then she began noticing changes in her home that she had not made, unsigned love letters began arriving, and she knew she needed to worry. Was she paranoid, going crazy, or were men at work not getting the message that she wasn’t interested? In the neighboring town of Sedalia, a more ominous situation was... more

Infinite Loop

by Gordon Brewer

In this paranormal mystery, Warren wakes inside a new character aboard a tramp steamer returning from Cuba during the 1930s. The man discovers his role as a wealthy playboy, but he has no idea why his character is involved with an unsavory group of associates for ten grand in cash. By the time his ship docks in Boston, Warren is a wanted man, just one-step away from capture and the gallows. The fugitive must adapt to an era of beautiful dames and dangerous lies while trying to find the real m... more

The Datura Solution

by Patrick Faure

Max Foreman has just come back from a military mission in Africa. What should have been a simple in-and-out covert operation turned into a multiple-week ordeal punctuated by a trail of bodies from Africa to Europe. Worse, Max realizes that the team was betrayed. Escaping to Spain, Max is witness to the kidnapping of Lena, a multibillionaire Russian woman, whom he falls in love with. Max?s relationship with Lena will change his life forever as she is an oligarch trying to fend off organized crime... more

The Summer Boy

by Ray Rhamey

The air was as still as it was hot—only the whir of a grasshopper’s flight troubled the quiet. Jesse felt like an overcooked chicken, his meat darn near ready to fall off his bones. Mouth so dry he didn’t have enough spit left to swallow, Jesse croaked, “That guy tryin’ to kill us?”

Turns out the answer is “not yet.” A ranch hand is murdered and bad things start happening to Jesse, just an average kid working on a ranch the summer of 1958.... more

Castle Danger

by Chris Norbury

Fugitive Matt Lanier, unjustly accused of a violent crime, has been hiding in the northeastern Minnesota wilderness for nine months. The law wants him in jail. His enemies want him dead. He simply wants to survive the most brutal winter in decades. After rescuing an injured trapper, Matt is forced to leave his primitive encampment. He undertakes a Herculean trek through a blizzard to Castle Danger, a small town on the rugged North Shore of Lake Superior. There he’s saved from near death by A... more

After the Wedding Came the Marriage

by Stella Louise

This novel has a pronounced Christian theme but centers on notions, such as forgiveness, that are all-inclusive. Louise doesn't focus on the mystery of who shot Paul, but still has fun by teasing plot twists. At its best, an engaging story of surviving tragedy with a universal, moral message.? 'Kirkus' Review Because of mistaken identity, Edmond was severely beaten, shot, and left for dead. They left him with a loss of memory. As he worked on regaining his identity and learning who tried... more

Midland Club

by Mark Spano

A knotted tale of corruption, lies, and murder in a Midwestern town. Only one man is willing to reveal the truth -- at the risk of his own life.

The Beast Within: Mended Souls #2

by Jacquie Biggar

She didn't expect to land in the crosshairs of a serial killer. When Julie Crenshaw is offered a news reporter's job on beautiful Vancouver Island she didn't expect to land in the crosshairs of a serial killer. Connor O'Rourke has seen his share of human depravities during his fourteen years as a homicide detective, but is still sickened by the murderer terrorizing his island shores. And threatening his key witness. As the stakes rise, can two people get a second chance at love? Or will ... more

B01NBVSXP0

by John Molik

Dr. Brigitte Sheen, an ambitious scientist, and her colleague develop a gene therapy system to extend human life spans. In her search for venture capital, Dr. Sheen, having strict moral and ethical guidelines, is quite particular on how this technology should be provided to the public. Just two years prior, Brigitte had helped her friends Kyle Pickens and Nikita Patel, and her husband, Jeremy Hughes, steal $33 million in bearer bonds from a contemptible rogue agent of the Horsemen who had ki... more

Second Chance

by gregory byrne

Synopsis of Second Chance By Gregory Byrne FBI Special Agent Declan “Deke” O’Brien has hit rock bottom. He is released from an alcohol rehabilitation program, but has no life to return to. He once had a successful marriage, a happy family, a successful second career as a mystery writer, and a job that he loved–working as a profiler for the FBI. Now he fears his love affair with alcohol has ended everything. His wife Catherine divorced him, shortly after his son Patrick was severely brain i... more

Silent Child

by Sarah A. Denzil

In the summer of 2006, Emma Price watched helplessly as her six-year-old son's red coat was fished out of the River Ouse. It was the tragic story of the year - a little boy, Aiden, wandered away from school during a terrible flood, fell into the river, and drowned.

His body was never recovered.

Ten years later, Emma has finally rediscovered the joy in life. She's married, pregnant, and in control again...

... un... more

Echo of a Dead Tongue

by Stefan Sofronijevic

How far would a man go in order to make it to the top? This is a novel that covers nearly all aspects of life - human pathology, modern life, its own kind of philosophy, criminal deeds, bloodshed, twisted but incredibly intelligent minds... Through a dynamic story and a strong dialogue, characters are brought to life. Two stories that flow in parallel, mutually intertwined, yet unbelievably different. If you have the stomach for the worst (also the best) in people, welcome to the dark side.

Murder Alfresco: The 7th Nikki Hunter Mystery (Nikki Hunter Mysteries) (Volume 7)

by Nancy Skopin

Private Investigator Nicoli “Nikki” Hunter has just returned from a trip to Washington D.C., where she survived an attack of the deadly variety and, once again, saved the life of a client. Now, all she wants is for her life to return to normal. She’s determined to focus on her regular customers and is enjoying the familiar routine of restaurant and bar mystery shopping when Abetha Mimbo shows up at her office and insists that someone is planning to kill her son. Murder Alfresco is the 7th myste... more

The Last Prophet

by Michael Hallisey, M.D.

When CIA agent Jake Bolton teams up with trauma surgeon Genevieve Neugold to solve her best friend’s murder, they quickly discover that they’re looking for a 500-year-old mystery hidden in a series of Renaissance paintings. Their unique skills help them narrowly escape assassination attempts and crisscross through an international web of Vatican secrets and lost Shakespeare manuscripts. Only by deciphering the clues behind this murder can Jake Bolton and Genevieve Neugold prevent all-out chaos... more

Judge Roth's Law

by Bill Sage

A judge who grew up in a tough Detroit neighborhood is being blackmailed into giving a congressman's associate a light sentence. Judge Roth goes to his old underworld friends to eliminate the blackmail threat.

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