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The Unexpected Hostage

by Allison McKenzie

Nothing in her life has been stable since Tess’s beloved fiancé Kyle died in a tragic accident. She’s spent the past year hell-bent on outrunning her grief, jetting between high-stakes meetings and the rock clubs where she can disappear. Avoiding her pain was working—almost—until she and her colleagues are taken hostage by a violent Eastern European terrorist group. With no means to escape her captors, Tess and fellow captive Mark must rely on one another to survive. Together, they’ll risk t... more

Lorelei

by Kit Derrick

Trent has been in a living nightmare for two years since the accidental death of his beloved girlfriend. What was once a tragedy has become a terrifying descent into his own mind, as a seductive spirit torments and blames him in his dreams, and hallucinations start to take over his waking hours. With his mental and emotional stability on the brink of collapse, Trent must decide if he's willing to cross the line between reality and madness - even if it means taking one more life. Will Trent be ab... more

Two for the Money

by Steve Zettler

What happens when millions in cold cash evaporates into thin air? And the only people aware of its disappearance are a collection of misfits, bunglers and crooked CIA agents? And the one person on earth who knows exactly where that cash is located is a legless, ex-Navy SEAL, confined to a wheelchair. It’s an icy Christmas Day in Philadelphia, City of Brotherly Love. Sam Christie has come to South Philly to visit the grave of a former Secret Service Agent, Pete Macaluso. Drive into town, place s... more

Second Chance Killer

by Bradley Cornish

Damon Faulkner is trapped in a nightmare he can't escape. A lifelong struggle with sleepwalking lands him in the middle of a murder investigation - and he's the main suspect. Despite having no memory of the crime, Damon fights for his life against a drunken detective determined to close his one-hundredth career case. As Damon awaits trial, he discovers unsettling secrets about Jekyll Island's past and realizes he may have been set up. He must stay awake to clear his name before it's too l... more

The Recordings

by Kyle Zona

Joseph Bailey—recently fired after a student-scandal—moves to Baxtor Springs, hoping to publish a novel unlike his previous textbooks. After a massive explosion claimed hundreds of lives in Baxtor Springs, Joseph feels inspired to use the tragedy in his writing. But would it be malicious to write about the victims as an outsider? Alone in his smart home, Joseph asks his Home Device to play a record—but his words are misinterpreted. Instead, the Home Device plays the recording of a murder, a r... more

Border Sands

by Math Bird

ONE AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY. ONE BRUTAL MURDER. On a sweltering August Bank Holiday in 1983, the town of Mabon Pryce’s childhood home had much to celebrate - until tragedy struck with the brutal murder of local beauty Mary Reece. Haunted by the darkness that shrouds the small town, Investigative reporter Mab returns for the funeral and finds himself drawn into the mystery of Mary’s death. As he begins to piece together the events that led to Mary’s death, he realizes that the truth is far m... more

Break My Bones

by Michelle Ian

A secret never to be shared. A killer seeking vengeance. Is his nightmarish fiction about to become a bloody reality? Michael Kerrigan is delighted with his success. With his well-received suspense novels putting him on the map, the popular author trades his dark past for meet and greets with adoring fans. But his borrowed peace shatters when a friend he thought he’d buried dead in the ground long ago shows up very much alive… and hellbent on wreaking murderous havoc. Trapped in a deadly g... more

Bee Conspiracy

by David Boito

As concerns over food shortages grow amid massive honeybee die-offs, an LAPD cop and a Special Agent for US Fish and Wildlife investigate a sociopath kindling mass hysteria to profit from the extermination of biological bees.

Gracie's Deal

by Larry Enright

Everyone’s got a deal. Gracie’s is complicated, but then everything is complicated in the quaint little college town of Holbright. Gracie was born there and has lived there all her life. That makes her a townie, and at any bastion of education atop a holy hill in the middle of nowhere worth its salt, that merits her little more than a look of disdain down a better-than-thou nose. It doesn't matter that she more or less graduated from there or that her father is the college physician. It doesn’t ... more

The Spirits of South Drive

by Caroline Kaiser

When antiques appraiser Virginia Blythe finds a murdered woman in the art studio of a gloomy mansion, she’s stunned to realize that she recognizes the victim. Who would have strangled eccentric but harmless Alice Aberfoyle, and why? Virginia’s boss, George Schlegel, and Detective Joe Hanratty are determined to find the killer, but the investigation is going nowhere. Then Virginia meets a quartet of frustrated ghosts who attended an art class in the studio in 1928 and still gather there to this d... more

Ghost Witness

by Jason L Melendez

Ghost Witness follows the sole witness to a murder, a young woman haunted by what she’s seen; only she’s seen it in her dreams and has written it off as just an unwelcome recurring nightmare. Everything changes when she meets the mysterious and irresistibly attractive new tenant of the house where her nightmare takes place, and she begins to suspect that his adopted four-year-old niece’s disturbing claims of seeing ghosts in her room are related. Meanwhile, those be... more

The Honolulu Situation

by Mark A. Henry

From the streets of Taboor City to the Molokai Fracture Zone, trouble finds Jefir Zaqq like a hook. When a ten-dollar street fight leaves him the target of a vengeful warlord, Jefir accepts the help of a mysterious stranger who helps him escape to America, where everything has a price. On the run in Honolulu, Jefir throws in with the salty crew of the fishing boat Monkey Fist and tries to survive the whirring gears of capitalism, corporate security, home furnishings, secrets and lies in the ... more

X

by Jafe Danbury

From JAFE DANBURY, author of the critically acclaimed thriller LEAVING PHOENIX, comes ❌, the riveting follow-up to Phoenix’s story. With the happily-ever-after they thought they had, Phoenix and Curt are settled into family life with young daughter Rose when the unthinkable occurs. It's every parent's nightmare. How do they navigate that dark world to rescue their child when unseen forces threaten everything? Beating and leaving behind her past helped Phoenix find her strength. What will... more

Your Turn

by Lavelle Andrew Miller

Ten years ago, Seven House was found guilty of a heinous crime, the murder of a fellow police officer. After his surprising release, House attempts to track down who framed him, uncovering a shocking revelation about his old police department.

Rogue Agent

by Dan J Ford

Rogue Agent is a fast-paced, detective-style, conspiracy-spy-thriller opener, featuring dogged and old-school ex-FBI Agent, Tom Wiseman, in an ultra-modern world. Rogue Agent follows Tom's investigation into a missing UN Helicopter, as it spirals into territory where dark, secretive, and powerful forces collude. Against his own better judgment and direct orders, Agent Wiseman goes 'Rogue' to pick through a web of deceit and profiteering so ingrained, discovering its mere existence is a death ... more

Osprey

by M. L. Buchman

Russia teeters on the brink of collapse, spoiling for a battle to end all wars. All it needs? One thin excuse. World War I began with the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. World War II launched with the invasion of Poland. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine didn’t do it—yet. A close flyby of an American CMV-22 Osprey tiltrotor goes desperately wrong over the North Sea. Will the tipping point for World War III break the moment a favored daughter of the Oligarchy goes down in flames? When th... more

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