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The Cut Off

by Mark James Montgomery

Cole: “Why does this town keep all the lights out at night?” Althea: “So it looks like no one’s at home.” Cole Cantwell is emotionally destitute. He was late for his father’s funeral, his girlfriend is leaving him, a blizzard is due, and he’s trying to get over the Sierras and recover what’s left of his life. Instead, he takes a cut off and crashes his car in a white-out. The hamlet of Cope is in walking distance, where he hopes to find shelter. But he has stumbled into forbidden territory.... more

Elena in Exile

by Gavin Boyter

Elena Balan should be laying low. After all, she's on the run from a horrifying mistake. A Romanian single mum, Elena arrives in London to discover that her lover, Frances, has vanished. To find her, Elena's 14-year-old daughter Ana enlists disgraced former police detective Robin Yarmouth. Although Frances' whereabouts remain a mystery, things begin looking up. Elena and Ana find an apartment, a job and a new school. Then Elena's sex worker neighbor and friend is found dead. The police are ce... more

Fatal Flaw

by Warren C. Easley

WHEN GREED RUNS RAMPANT, MURDER CAN’T BE FAR BEHIND It’s winter in the Oregon wine country, and small-town lawyer Cal Claxton deserves a respite after his last grueling case. But just as the world learns about a threatening new virus variant, a woman named Willow Daniels shows up at his office, asking Cal to represent her in the settlement of her uncle’s estate. The uncle’s death was ruled a suicide, but Willow isn’t buying it. Getting involved is against Cal’s better judgment, but how can he r... more

Misconduct

by Christopher Renna

Sixteen-year-old Jasper is finally focusing on schoolwork and his prospects of going to college. He's also looking forward to the freedom and seniority of his last two years of high school. But homework, soccer, and his strict father keep him from truly enjoying his status as a popular upperclassman. Befriended by the new algebra teacher, Jasper believes an adult finally understands him and his goals. Soon, their friendship develops into an affair. After their relationship is discovered, Jasp... more

The Expat Wife: A Novel

by Courtney Hargrove

Welcome to Switzerland in winter: Snow upon snow, everywhere to disappear, nowhere to hide... When newlyweds Rose and Wesley Blackwood move from New York City to Lucerne, Switzerland for his new job, they quickly take to expatriate life. What's not to love about this safe, cozy country known for chocolate, cheese, and scenery to die for? But when Rose's new friend Jacqueline disappears, Rose begins to see an ugly side to this beautiful country-and to her new husband. Muddled by jetlag a... more

Black Magic 1

by ChiQui Thoughts

Four teens discover that magic exists in the darkest of places including a town in the big city of New York. They also discover that sometimes you have to look at things with your third eye to see the bigger picture.

Regardless of the Consequences

by Larry Lauritzen

Sheriff Lance Tallbear’s half-blood Apache heritage leaves him struggling to find his place in a world where neither white nor Indian wants or readily accepts him. He faces the world his shaman father turned away from and acknowledges the one his shaman grandfather prays he’ll return to. Tallbear’s new case uncovers a mysterious plane wreck discovered in the Superstition Mountains that turns out to stir both his life decisions and ultimate direction. Along with his troubled FBI partner, Brad Ha... more

90 Days

by W. Michael Hewitt

Dr. Essie Openwaters has just ninety days until nuclear annihilation. She must find the stolen plutonium and prevent the mad men from using it. But who is sending the assassins this time? Is it Rettig again? And why did friendly colleagues turn hostile? Someone among the FBI, Secret Service, and National Security Administration agents she is working with is spying on her. Billionaire psychopath Tyrone Rettig must exterminate the lovely, young Essie Openwaters. Her relentless search for the p... more

Far Out

by Khaled Talib

Screenwriter Blake Deco' s life is upended when his Hollywood movie-star wife, Goldie Saint Helen, comes out of a coma after a car accident with a makeshift identity. Her lawyers see her condition as an opportunity to swindle her.

Call of the Nightingale (A James Cartwright PI Mystery - Book 2)

by Oliver Dean Spencer

In his latest case, James Cartwright, a Detroit ex-cop, turned private eye, sets out to prove the innocence of a seventeen-year-old girl named, Alice. She’s suspected of murdering her grandfather, Professor Carmichael. However, the murder turns out to be anything but straightforward. Carmichael, a leading genetic scientist, has a dark and sinister past, dating back to the American Eugenics programs from the 1930s.

The Rebirth

by V.P. Evans

It’s been ten years since Jason and Mark last saw each other when a murder brings them together one night. Trapped in Chicago now, they must follow a secret path in the city by analyzing the works of some of the greatest minds in history to reveal the darkest scandal of all time. But each minute, their chasers are closing in, and haunting memories are coming to the surface, reminding them of the shadiest aspects of the human soul. And . . . soon, their last hope to alter the fate of the... more

Zone Trip

by Kitty Turner

Outlaw artists wage war on Big Tech to reclaim San Francisco for themselves. Fight Club meets Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow in this debut technothriller.

It's 2032, and anarchist impresario Leo wages war on Bay Area Big Tech with his guerrilla art organization, the Chaos Order. After being arrested for sabotaging the virtual reality company HERE's property, Leo's closest followers, Evan and Lydia, take two different paths. Evan joins HERE to avoid leg... more

UNFIXABLE

by Donna Ball

Former Hanover County Sheriff Buck Lawson leaves the mountains of North Carolina to take a job as the police chief of the small south Georgia town of Mercy, and soon finds himself in over his head. For one thing, his predecessor has been murdered... Leaving behind two failed marriages and a job that almost cost him his life, all Buck wants for himself and his new family is a fresh start. But Mercy is a town with a past as dark as the Blood River that runs through it, and the crime that resu... more

They Call Me Beauty

by J.Hieb

They Call Me Beauty is a coming of age - meets possession - story of a young girl with a horrific past. Beauty must fight for her life against forces within that seek to control and destroy her. Throughout her life, Beauty hears of a man called Jesus, a man she's desperate to know, but who the voices within despise and from whom they lead her away.

Fredonia Bound

by SannaBlue Baker

THREE SHORT STORIES • Buried Where We Stand - When God handed down judgement with a Winchester rifle. The historical secret of a community in post Civil War Georgia. A secret still kept today. • The Healing Stream - A hidden stream in the mountains is discovered by an injured traveler and starts a chain of events including miracles, blood feuds and legends. • Fiver Dean - As one of the world's most wanted art thieves, if Fiver Dean can survive the attack by the Albatross, he might escape Inte... more

A Deadly Combo

by Karen A Phillips

What do boxing and vintage trailers have in common? Meet Raquel AKA Rocky Nelson, a retired single woman with an attitude and love for boxing. Sisters Rocky and Bridget are enjoying each other’s company at a vintage trailerfest until they stumble over a corpse. Rocky uses her courage and skills learned in boxing lessons to protect her family and keep from becoming the killer’s next victim.

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