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A Revelation of Death

by Alexa Padgett and J. J. Cagney

The fourth installment in the Kirkus Reviews, National Indie Excellence Awards and Publishers Weekly award-winning series by USA Today Best-selling Author, J. J. Cagney: The first victim rolls out of a rain barrel. Soon, Cici Gurule dreams of other women's attacks, thanks to visions from her dead twin. The victims' watery graves torment Cici, feeding her growing fear of water. The killer targets Cici's congregants and friends, taunting her and her lover, Detective Sam Chastain. Sam part... more

The Pari and Kayal Adventures - Saved by Sid

by Maya Sara Karthik

This is an inspiring and entertaining tale that teaches kids about siblings’ love, the power of kindness and friendship, and the importance of not judging people or situations instantly. The loving sisters, Pari and Kayal , are unaware that they are going to embark on their first-ever adventure . They go camping with their parents to a beautiful campsite surrounded by a lush green forest. As they walk through the forest, they hear a lovely voice whistling softly. They are very curious and imm... more

Pincher Creek

by Scott Norman

Pincher Creek tells the story of Tom Payton, a father of two from Vancouver, BC, who comes out of a coma to discover he survived the car accident that claimed the lives of his wife and two daughters. With money from the three life insurance policies, he borrows a page from Neil Peart, the drummer of RUSH, to go in search of a new reason for existence after his past life has been erased. His journey delivers him to Babb, Montana, an hour from the Canadian border in the heart of the Blackfeet I... more

Yanter

by Bethany A. Beeler

Women are being murdered on campus. Thomas Yanter can't sleep, nor can he be certain that HE'S not the murderer. A model student with a secret, compromised past, Yanter's life is upended when the mysterious Tami of his high-school days resurfaces in his life, her presence drawing him ever closer to the epicenter of campus violence. Then, Yanter finds a pool of blood in a hidden underground passage and black pools his memory can't recover on the nights women were murdered. Is h... more

Calaveras

by Lisa Michelle

Deep in the backwoods of Calaveras County accidents happen. For gritty rancher and soon-to-be grandmother Kate Dunnigan, these deaths are mostly good old cowboy justice—until the day that justice hits home. Kate’s idyllic façade is destroyed when Emma Lee, her pregnant daughter, is wanted for murder. On the run and fighting to survive, Emma Lee is haunted by filthy family secrets but Kate will stop at nothing to save her from life in prison, even if it means using herself as bait.

Mountain Misery: Calaveras Love Stories

by Lisa Michelle

Mountain Misery is a collection of rural stories that remind us that love is a motley collection of emotion. Often twisted and tangled. Set deep in the backwoods of Calaveras County on the verge of the Sierra Nevada, these stories offer an intimate and authentic look at those who exist in the darkness of failure but courageously continue to seek the light of possibility.

Don't Break the Dolls: Scarlet's Story

by Simone Luxe

Everyone has demons. Some are small and convince you to take the last piece of cake. Some are bigger and convince you to lie and cheat. Some demons, like Scarlet's, can gobble up human life with no remorse. The scariest part isn't that we all have demons. It's that those demons are just primitive thoughts of our own design. There is no horned devil hiding in the shadows controlling them. We control them ourselves... and Scarlet's demons would always be her own secret playthings that roar... more

The Legend of Stormy and The Great Northern Christmas Spirit & Tree Company

by Thomas L Jaegly

Jane tells her 13 year old granddaughter, Brandi, the secret of why a reindeer, named Stormy, is the family Christmas tree topper. The story takes Brandi on an exciting journey into her Grandma Jane's past. The story is a fantastic adventure in which Jane travels to Alaska to do a remote piece for a local TV news program on reindeer migration at Christmas time. Once in Alaska Jane meets Earl, her guide for the trip, and her life is changed forever. A mishap during the remote shooting of the migr... more

The Hidden Hand of Death (The Jack Ryder Mysteries Book 1)

by Lawrence J. Epstein

It is early in 1942. The war with Germany has just begun. Jack Ryder, who calls himself a fixer rather than a detective, wanders the darkest nights to his office in a back booth at an all-night diner. Ryder is famous for killing members of the mob who have crossed their bosses by hurting innocent people. Ryder also helps ordinary people in trouble. An enemy—a homicide detective—comes to hire Ryder to find the detective’s missing sister. Ryder also gets involved in going up against some Nazis ... more

Winter Road

by mickey mikkelson

HOLIDAY ROAD On the heels of a bad breakup, Amelia Montgomery heads home for the holidays. Her hometown is a far cry from the metropolis where she lives now, but not nearly far enough away from Jake Grayson. TERROR ROAD Amelia's family festivities turn terrifying when a distraught Jake shows up uninvited on the Montgomery's doorstep. Jake will not stop until he possesses Amelia; one way or another, she will be his. DEADLY ROAD In a chilling nightmare, one man's obsession is so evil, it'... more

The House Always Wins (First Printing)

by Tom Minder

A tale of murder, mayhem, magic, and cheesesteaks. Someone is shooting up Dirty Sam’s. Will the Long Harbor police get their man, or woman, before a casino heist, a slots player who disappears in a puff of smoke, a crossbow-toting florist, and an undercover agent who makes a mean goulash, complicate the investigation? Oh, for the simpler days of illegal gambling.

Kill Tide: A Pepper Ryan Thriller

by Timothy Fagan

A kidnapped girl. A terrified Cape Cod. And a police cadet in way over his head… It’s summertime on Cape Cod. Pepper Ryan’s biggest worries are a crummy love life and doubts about his supposedly bright future. But then a teenage girl is kidnapped, stunning her beach town. The police launch a manhunt to catch the brazen kidnapper nicknamed the Greenhead Snatcher. Pepper attempts to find the girl himself, but the only thing he finds is trouble. Then the Greenhead Snatcher strikes again. ... more

Lies Behind the Woods

by Bradley Cornish

He thought he witnessed a kidnapping. He thought he did the right thing. He thought he was a hero. He thought, he thought. Until his thoughts came back to haunt him. Steve Breiten is a college professor who has a long line of failed relationships behind him. All he wants is a long vacation in the mountains, free of drama and responsibilities, where he can relax, read, and maybe even start writing his book. He didn't expect a mysterious woman to walk into his office - not that woman, the one... more

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by Joanne Carota

Kate Finn grew up on the South Boston docks idolizing her commercial fisherman father, Seamus Finn and his friends. Now she’s a marine biologist working for the FDA who still spends as much time as she can on the docks near this salty crew. That is, until one misty morning when she discovers her father’s best friend, Sammy, dead on the docks. All signs point toward Seamus.

Death of a Zen Master

by Cornelia Feye

Private security specialist Greg Stern is a reluctant guest in a remote and inaccessible Zen monastery. His wife, Vega, sent him there after a marital transgression to ponder and improve his interaction with women. When a dead boy is found in the meditation hall, the group of eclectic guests and monastics find themselves caught in an enchanted valley with a murderer in their midst.\t

Three Graves

by Zack Kaplan

A wisecracking former LAPD Detective has his life shattered, his wife murdered, narrowly escaping the wrath of a ruthless gangster. What started off as mistaken identity becomes personal, when Colin Graves sets a plan into motion; a quest for vengeance. Fueled by booze, painkillers, acerbic wit, Colin teams up with his brother to take down the man that took away everything. With a cast of characters, running the gamut from struggling actors to albino henchman, a pedophile, a serial killer, the R... more

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