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Deliver Us From Honor

by S. E. Valenti

Deliver Us from Honor is the story of sixteen-year-old Adriana Vazanno, a young girl who is brutally raped and left for dead in 1911 Sicily by a man who is seemingly above the law. Adriana knows that bringing him to justice risks the death of her own father–and she is not willing to pay that price. So when her older brother Antonio finds her ravaged and beaten body in the family’s lemon orchard, she swears him to silence. But Adriana’s mother knows the truth of her daughter’s injuries and is ov... more

A Season To Kill

by Michael Mucci

A 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist

A 2016 Readers Favorite Honorable Mention winner - Murder Mystery

As the new sheriff in the rural town of Macon, Pennsylvania, Chris DeAngelo digs into a series of unsolved cases - only to unearth a dangerous secret that puts him into a killer's crosshairs..."Brilliantly written and truly suspenseful" (San Francisco Book Review)

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Blood Will Tell

by C.. S. Donnell

“But he never forgets. You know that.”
“And he never forgives.”

Family ties. A good thing, right? Not if you come from Amy's family. Amy escapes her gilded cage only to find herself alone. One by one, everyone disappears from her life. Seventeen years of futile searching end when a letter arrives and leads her through a maze of shifting identities, kidnapping and attempted murder. Will she find the answers in time?

Brooklyn's Song

by Sydney Arrison

Brooklyn Pierce has just witnessed an attempted assassination, and Detective Song Kai and his partner, Detective Mattice Blake, are on the case. But as the story progresses, sparks begin to develop between Brooklyn and Song, providing the reader with a storyline overflowing with sensuality, compassion and romance amidst the onset of drama, tension, suspicion, deception and murder and an explosive ending, which you will never see coming.

The Legacy: A New World Legal Thriller

by Marjorie Florestal

What if Christopher Columbus had fathered a child with a Taino Indian woman from the New World? Five hundred years after a discovery that rocked the world, Chris Colón wants everyone to know his explosive secret. He claims to be descended from Christopher Columbus--born of a union between "The Great Navigator" and the beautiful Taino warrior princess, Yaguana. Now, Chris wants his share of the vast Columbus fortune. Chris's revelation threatens the stability of several govenments around ... more

The Ephesian Artifacts

by Patrick W. Ledray

KRINGLE

by Kimberley Koz

December 21st ~ 84:00 hours to Eve Launch After twenty years of ‘wedded bliss’ to the original Bad Boy of the Northern Hemisphere, my life is not all Sugarplum Fairies and Joy to the World. I could fill pages about my life with Kris Kringle, but I wouldn’t want to destroy your childhood delusions about Santa Claus. Don’t get me wrong. I love my wickedly charming husband. He’s a wonderful father. A steady provider, and still makes all the right moves in bed. Ohhh yah! Yet, here’s the thing: I wa... more

Follow the Dotted Line

by Nancy Gilsenan Hersage

Andrea Bravos is dazed and amazed when a Styrofoam burger box with her ex's ashes arrives in the mail. Her adventure to find out what happened will upset officials of several small countries, insult the founders of three major religions, give her four adult children acid reflux, and lead her to assault with a deadly golf club. In the process, she will joyfully drag along her soft-spoken but fearsome accountant, while trying to fend off her mooch of a nephew. It’s a convoluted and quixotic cape... more

Spike

by Steve Powell

They were strangers on a train until she invited him out for drinks. She's sizzling hot beyond reason and he thinks that this is his lucky day. But before he knows what hit him, he blacks out and when he awakens he somehow has enhanced aptitudes. But his situation gets even more complicated when a mysterious voice on a mobile-phone starts directing him and and a large sum of money appears in his bank account. That's when he knows that the world has gone mad and the woman from the trai... more

Dial Qr for Murder

by A.E.H. Veenman

For defense attorney Isis Ferrelli, life is good—until the second day of the Norman Kane trial… Her client was accused of using QR code software he’d developed to steal a drug called Fentanol. But when he’s murdered, Isis fears someone from her own past might be involved. Her uncle, Louis Fernoza, put her through law school. Now a mob boss, he wants to end their estrangement and make use of the star attorney he created. To protect those she cares about, Isis turns to her crime blog and her alter... more

Falling Walrus

by Robert Wolfe

A dead fisherman and headless walrus draw Nick John and anthropologist Camilla Mac Cleary into a shadowy world of black-market ivory and ancient prophecies. An Alaska mystery, book one of the Falling Walrus mysteries.

The Murder of Sherlock Holmes

by David Fable

The year is 1912, and Sherlock Holmes lies dead on the coroner’s table as a shaken Dr. Watson witnesses his autopsy. In the search for Holmes’s murderer, Watson is joined by Christopher Hudson, the 21 year old son of Mrs. Hudson, Holmes’ former landlady at 221B Baker Street. Christopher, recently graduated from Oxford, grew up at Baker Street during the legendary years when Holmes and Watson occupied the flat upstairs. Watson and Christopher explore the grimy East End of London and encoun... more

The Mind of God

by Bevan Frank

When Liz Greene discovers that her father is missing, she is unwittingly drawn into a plot that could change the world forever. Before he went missing, Professor Harry Greene had been working on the black box global consciousness project. Now, Liz needs to find both her father, and his groundbreaking research before it's too late. On the same day, President of the United States Daniel Rafferty is in Cape Town to give an address at the Convention Centre. Is it a coincidence that the black box was... more

The Stolen Twin

by Michele Pariza Wacek

On the surface, Kit Caldwell has it all. A senior in college with her future ahead of her, lots of friends, lots of parties…not to mention also having the eye of Tommy, the star quarterback of the football team. But underneath, Kit's life is a charade, built on a foundation of secrets and lies, including one so dark it threatens to tear her world apart: her twin sister, Cat, was kidnapped when they were both seven, never to be heard from again. That is, until one dark Halloween night. ... more

Energy X

by Nisfan Nawaz

Before Alex Watson stumbled across that mysterious rock in the foothills of North Carolina, his biggest concern was finding a job after graduation where he could do some good in the world. Now he’s running for his life, fleeing assassins sent by the most powerful men in America, and trying to get into a war-torn country that might just hold the secret to the global energy crisis.

The first thing Alex notices about the rock unearthed by the landslide is it glows. The second is that... more

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by Vicki Vass

Known to the neighborhood as Grandma Jan, Janice Kustodia has a routine and keeps to it. Up at 6 a.m., a pot of Jewel Extra Bold coffee and then out the door to bring the garbage cans up from the curb, sweep the sidewalks and walk South Linden Avenue to make sure all is as it should be. But today it isn’t when she discovers the postman murdered. This isn’t supposed to happen on her watch. To discover the truth, she must unravel the red tape of corruption at city hall, track down a killer who is ... more

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