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Flipping the Circle

by Michael Leppert

“People don’t often think of corruption or white-collar crap having an actual crime scene, but the Winner’s Circle was the scene of this one.” Will O’Courtney is the ultimate insider. Having worked as an experienced contract lobbyist in Indianapolis for over a decade, he knows all the ins and outs of back-room deals and trading information. Shortly after his divorce is finalized, Will resolves to turn his life around, and just when he starts to think of leaving the winning course, he lands a ... more

The Academy

by Erica Noble

Rebecca Sheriff is your average young Australian. She has her rag-tag friends and Blake, her childhood friend and boyfriend. To her, the road she walks is certain and easily followed. Until, on the last day of high school, she receives news that puts a roadblock in that path. She’s to attend a prestigious college called Hallowell’s Academy, on the other side of the world. But, as she arrives, she discovers that all is not as it seems with this academy. There is something dark and evil that linge... more

The Sentinel

by T.M. Haviland

The year is 2124. Jonathan and his mining team in Antarctica discover an unusual object over a mile and a half beneath the surface. At first, they think it might be the remains of a meteor but, when they discover subtle but sentient behaviors, they must consider the possibility that this is the work of an alien technology. Backed by a consortium of countries developing Mars, Commander Rousseau and her engineers discover a similar object and soon international governments, big business, and th... more

Richter's War: Case of the Lady Crow

by Daniel P. Douglas

In this paranormal thriller short story, L.A.'s hard-boiled, World War II-era private detective Geno Richter hunts down a supernatural Nazi foe, one he must stop before it can deal a deadly blow to the American war effort.

Truth Insurrected: The Saint Mary Project

by Daniel P. Douglas

As former FBI agent William Harrison investigates a decades-old extraterrestrial cover-up, hired guns and an alien-human hybrid stand in his way of finding the truth and revealing the deadly government conspiracy.

The Pandemic Files

by Frederick Lim

COVID-19 has just begun its devastation, and Singapore journalist Alfred Lin is sent to Wuhan, China, the epicentre of the outbreak. To avoid censorship curbs, he plays a game of cat and mouse with the Chinese authorities. Risking his job, health and safety, he seeks out first-hand accounts of people who have suffered the unimaginable. Loss, death and heartbreak are everywhere. He comes upon personal accounts that reveal the best and worst of humanity in a crisis. But what intrigues him most... more

Happy Places

by Clay Savage

For Flynn Barnes, dying is just the beginning of his problems.

After waking up in his Happy Place--as all "graduates" do--he is guided by his Post-Mortem Facilitator to figure out his next move. With a lifetime of criminal behavior, an estranged family, and a vengeful English gangster to deal with, he's still got a lot of work to do.

And as Flynn will discover--even in the afterlife, free will can lead to all sorts of trouble.

Ninety-Five

by Lisa Towles

Running away is what Zak Skinner does best, and he’s just done it again, having transferred from NYU to University of Chicago. His fresh start goes south when he accidentally uncovers evidence of an on-campus, organized crime scam involving drugging students, getting them to commit crimes on camera, and blackmailing them to continue under the threat of expulsion. Digging deeper, Zak discovers that the university scam is just the tip of the iceberg, connected to a broader ring of crimes linked to... more

The Sodium War

by Nathan Merritt

USA, 2026
A mandated blood census has wreaked havoc on the United States. Only those with Western European ancestry are allowed to retain their citizenship, leaving millions to be deported, enslaved, or worse.
As dissenters to the current American regime, Rafe and Bri are branded with barcodes on their arms, monitored by voice and location devices, and are unable to leave their ghetto city.
To cope with these inhumane conditions, they determine to accomplish the inconceivable f... more

Where the Light Shines Through

by Kathleen Bailey

Castle meets Clue in this fun, fast-paced, fresh take on the cozy mystery. Olivia’s syndicated advice column is about solving problems … not murders. But when she returns to her hometown of Apple Station in Virginia to visit her dad, she has five days to expose a killer or fall prey as the next victim. Olivia had planned for a week of rest and relaxation before her move to New York for a promotion and a chance to pursue her publishing dreams. Within hours of arriving home, her world chang... more

ALICE IN DREAMLAND

by Roland S. Jefferson

The US Census Bureau projects the year 2050 as the year the white population will drop below 50%. As the browning of America is inevitable, a white extremist group of elected politicians rush to salvage dwindling white influence and economic power by secretly creating the Alice Plan, a new 'whites only' English-speaking republic established on foreign soil. But when PEPPER, a black prostitute steals a flash drive coded with details of the Alice Plan from the computer of a politician who refused... more

Friend of the Devil

by Mark Spivak

Has America's greatest chef cut a deal with Satan for fame and fortune?

Mine

by Rachael Tamayo

What happens in Vegas just might kill you. When divorcee Justin Gray wakes up next to a beautiful stranger in Vegas on his birthday weekend, he assumes it’s just a drunken mistake. When he discovers that he’s married to said stranger in her early twenties, he insists on an annulment and assumes his life will return to normal once he gets back home. He assumes wrong. As the shapely blonde refuses to give him an annulment and insists the marriage continue, what was a wild weekend turns in... more

When Silence Screams

by Mark Edward Langley

Arthur Nakai, now armed with his newly minted Private Investigator license, has visitors on his doorstep at White Mesa. Melanie Manygoats and her young son arrive on a cold winter’s day seeking his help locating her missing daughter, whom she fears has become one of the stolen. Arthur accepts and soon finds himself wading through the world of teenage prostitution where he discovers April has already been sold to a man known to everyone in the trade as The Cuban. Running underage girls is his bus... more

The Teaching

by T. O. Paine

Based on the author’s true-life experience living in a cult . . .

Raine Harkins believes everything the Teaching tells her—forgiveness is freedom, there are no dead, and there is no dying. She has lived her entire life in the Haven, a small religious community buried in the hills of northern Nevada, and it’s been a good life.

But when she discovers a frightened teenage girl hiding in the forest, everything changes. Raine offers to help the girl, but gun... more

978-1950613700

by Charlotte Stuart

From the open porthole on her sailboat, Bryn Baczek overhears a heated argument on a nearby boat followed by a loud splash . . .then silence. Bryn lives on a sailboat in a small marina with her cantankerous cat, Macavity, and a series of short-lived goldfish. While seeking evidence to prove a neighbor innocent of murder, she ends up being threatened by the victim’s abusive boyfriend, betrayed by a close friend, and almost bored to death by an uncooperative accountant. Although Bryn shares what... more

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