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Ink and Intrigue at Ivy Tree Inn

by Ellen Butler

In 1958, amidst male-dominated workplaces and pressure for women to conform to stylish housewife roles, Ariadne Winter aspires solely to be fashionable, discarding the wife and mother expectation. Assigned to interview a Hollywood starlet on the cusp of royal matrimony for Ladies’ Lifestyle Magazine, she dreams to be an investigative reporter with a serious newspaper. Fate intervenes when she discovers a body and sees it as her ticket to the role she desires. Delving into the inn's secrets,... more

Mademoiselle Le Sleuth

by Theasa Tuohy

Paris thrums with life and mystery in the days before Notre Dame’s tragic fire. Vicki, a harried reporter, and her spirited four-year-old daughter, Miranda, navigate their bustling lives alongside Sarah, Vicki’s sister, an American actress newly arrived in the City of Light. The trio’s routine shatters when Sarah’s low-budget play becomes the stage for real-life intrigue and murder. As Sarah fights to keep the production alive despite the unsettling murder of a fellow actress, she finds hersel... more

Anchor’s Road: An Ian Reed Supernatural Thriller

by William Davis

A mystical object brings the CIA, Mossad, crime syndicates, and the Holy Roman Church into conflict. A father and son get caught in the middle as forces collide. Ian Reed, a former Philadelphia police officer, moves his family to a small lakeside community in western Maryland to look after his father and the family marina. Otter, Ian’s father, who’s struggling with Alzheimer’s reveals an ancient artifact he’s kept hidden for years. After his home health aide posts a picture of it on Facebo... more

Valuing Only Us

by Cory Desmond Wolfe

Ted Sullivan, an adopted boy who sprouted up on a modest farm in Oklahoma, is left penniless after the family livestock meat business goes under. Ted dreams of funneling the trauma he experienced in the slaughterhouse into a green billion-dollar company that will live forever. Meanwhile, Alec Young, a rich boy from Iowa whose family owns one of the largest producers of agricultural combines, endures verbal and physical assault from his father. Yet deep down, all Alec wants is to make his father ... more

Growler to Grave: Black OOps Detective Mystery Book 2

by Marissa Allen

Ex-FBI agent Tracy Black and ex-Navy SEAL Adam Slade are back in Growler to Grave, the second in the Black OOps Detective series! This stand-alone sequel to Cad to Cadaver finds partners Tracy and Adam embroiled in another zany rom/com mystery. Adam, a man of few words, and Tracy, a woman of many, are arguably a match made in Heaven. Catching brewmeister Blake Geist’s cheating spouse isn’t the most desirable job for these audacious private detectives, but money’s tight.... more

The Girl from Chapel Hill (Book 2): Legacy of a Praying Mama

by vanester williams

This book is the much-anticipated sequel to “The Girl from Chapel Hill: Her Journey of Faith, Forgiveness, and Freedom.” Laura has never forgotten the faith-filled lessons learned from her maternal grandmother. With a fearless determination – anchored in prayer - she passes these lessons on to her family. Travel on an unforgettable, suspenseful, and sometimes frightening journey with her family as they endure one challenge after another. Yet, at each juncture, somebody is fervently praying. ... more

The Yamanaka Factors

by Jed Henson

Fall 2028. Mickey Cooper, an elderly homeless man, receives an incredible proposition from a rogue pharmaceutical company: “Be our secret guinea pig for our new drug and we’ll pay you life-changing money, which you’ll be able to enjoy because if (cough) when the treatment works, two months from now your body will be youthened to twenty-three years old.” When his treatment proves more difficult than expected and corporate espionage turns deadly, Mickey finds himself flanked by internal corrupt... more

Locked Box

by Rebecca A. Miles

Celine Arceneau was admitted to the hospital for food poisoning and declared medically stable before her physician, Ellen Smythe, left for the evening. When she died the next morning from an unknown cause, Chief Detective Stefan Jablonsky suspects foul play and eyes Dr. Smythe, Dr. Kate Chambers’ friend and mentor, as his prime suspect. Pittsburgh’s amateur sleuth quickly joins the fight to prove her friend’s innocence. Chief Detective Jablonsky and Kate Chambers have worked together in the p... more

Failure Point

by Doug Williams

Is it possible to really know your spouse? Nick Faulkner is about to find out . . . if he can stay alive. Nick—a former FBI star whose career mysteriously tanked—returns home one day to find that his wife Lexi has walked out on him and simply vanished. Then, he discovers she’s part of a cult-like church. He doesn’t believe for a second she’s suddenly found religion, but is convinced she’s been kidnapped and recruits a band of similarly disgraced ex-agents to spring her from the cult’s hea... more

Walking Banks

by AH White

In a gripping narrative of intrigue and corruption, "Walking Banks" takes you deep into the heart of Beijing where a serial killer is on the hunt for a treasure buried in human flesh. When a high-ranking U.S. Embassy official is violently murdered in Beijing, seasoned security officer Jack Decker is reluctantly dragged back into action to unravel the mystery. Teaming up with the relentless Zheng Lei, a prodigious Beijing police officer, Jack delves deep into the investigation, uncovering a st... more

Invisible Revenge: An Invisible Man 2.0 Political Thriller

by Gerald Matlin

A laboratory explosion doesn't kill John Shelton, it makes him invisible. Terrified, John discovers how to control his invisibility. Using his new power, John leads a dangerous and successful mission to Iran. An assassination attempt on John's life means he can't trust anyone. When he finds out who is responsible, he takes Invisible Revenge. What would you do if you became invisible?

The Man Who Fell in Love With His Wife

by patrick oster

A man gets the terrible news that his beautiful wife of more than a decade has died in a fiery crash with a gasoline tanker truck. A week later, going through her things, he finds several fake passports, a 9-mm pistol, half a million in cash and other items that suggest his wife had a hidden life as some kind of spy. He suddenly wonders just who the heck he had married -- and sets out frantically to find out.

Jury Duty is Murder

by Kate Damon

The verdict is in; a famed athlete is headed for prison. The jurors have done their job and are free to go back to their lives. \tBut after being sequestered for four months, life as some knew it no longer exists. \tHAROLD ASHMAN’s house is almost destroyed by a careless driver. Exotic dancer, CEECEE LAINE, discovers that her boyfriend is two-timing her, and she no longer has a job. Actor ALEX MANNING learns his career is down the tubes, and 72-year-old, HELEN RYDER, discovers her family is p... more

Paradigm

by S A Carmody

Megan Walsh is running for her life, but only so that she can end it as she chooses and not at the hands of them. She escaped her children's home after being attacked by one of her care workers, only to be found by Jo, the one adult she once dared to trust. Jo learns that Meg is the victim of an evil gang whose tentacles reach far and wide within the police force, social care and all the way to Parliament. In a gripping race against time, Meg fights off terrifying flashbacks while attemptin... more

Maladjusted: A Murder Mystery

by Robert J. Potter

Are we destined to follow a certain path? Is there such a thing as fate? This remains an uncertainty. In any event, Zackary Webster—an intelligent, young man with a wild past—finds employment at a chiropractic office. Much to his surprise, he also finds himself in the middle of what appears to be a mystery in the making. Was it a mere accident, or did destiny herself place him on this winding road? Either way, Zack decides to investigate, and hi... more

ASHGABAT

by Tom Quinn

London, 2023, men from Britain, America and Russia conspire to assassinate the Russian head of state. In Australia Mark Falcone, a courier for ASIO, is tasked with following a suspected terrorist to Singapore and onwards to Turkmenistan. He blends in with a group of tourists, including a young American actress, Cassie Connolly, who claims to be psychic, and a Canadian Jewish lawyer, Hunter J. Brown. By chance Mark meets a couple of Russian professors who say they are making a document... more

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