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  • Monroe Doctrine: Volume II

    by Miranda Watson

    Through the cyber-fog of war…

    … the National Security adviser had one worry.

    Would he be able to save the U.S. from defeat?

    Blain serves at the pleasure of the President. Brought over from the last administration, there were few people more trusted. He knew the biggest threat was the deepfakes.

    China’s AI played war like a Grand Master. In what seemed like an instant, the cyber-attacks crippled networks, and then the world lost faith in everything o... more

  • Monroe Doctrine: Volume I

    by Miranda Watson

    It was called Jade Dragon…

    …and it threatened to destroy the West.

    Was an attack on the U.S. imminent?

    In a lab deep in the heart of China, a brilliant engineer had a breakthrough. It was the most powerful AI ever created. Ma Young believed the Jade Dragon could solve the world’s most dire challenges. There was just one problem…

    The president of China had other ideas.

    Was this t... more

  • Hot House

    by Lisa Towles
    When a former CIA operative and private investigator Mari Ellwyn starts digging into the blackmail case of a federal appellate judge, she becomes targeted by a van following her, threatening notes in her mailbox, and a breach of her home. Teaming up with seasoned investigator and former detective, Derek Abernathy, the crime-savvy pair begin looking into the wrongful death of a mentally-ill college student, Sophie Michaud, as well as two journalists – one dead, one missing, who were writing a sto... more

  • PECK FINCH AND THE HANGED MAN

    by Jerome Mark Antil
    A young man stumbles upon a sex-trafficking ring in New Orleans and attempts to save one of its victims. Boudreaux Clemont Finch—everyone calls him Peck— is a man of beguiling contradictions: Once an “an illiterate Cajun French lawn-mowing hunk,” he is now in night school in Tulane, while he works at a law office run by his boss and sometime lover, Lily Cup. Despite his unprepossessing manner, he has a remarkably lively, observant mind. One night, he witnesses a young girl—he estimates she’s 13—... more

  • Crude Ambition

    by Patricia Hunt Holmes
    A Texas Reckoning In the early morning hours after a law firm recruiting party at a beachside house on Galveston Island, a female summer intern is found lying on the floor, bruised, bleeding, and unconscious. Something terrible has happened. She is taken to a hospital by the only other woman there, but the next day the intern is gone without a trace. Those involved decide to keep silent about the incident in order to further their own career ambitions, but the two women are haunted by what happ... more

  • Half-Told Truths

    by Amy O. Lewis
    Book two of the critically acclaimed Colorado Skies series, Half-Told Truths weaves multiple mysteries into one seamless plot. Kim Jackson is starting to get used to life on the run. In Durango, Colorado, she has found work as a part-time bookkeeper and as a live-in housekeeper for Lena Fallon, an ex-cop paralyzed in the line of duty. Kim’s old life as a corporate accountant—when she was framed for murder and forced to go on the run—feels far away until someone from her past spots her in the ... more

  • Every Star in the Sky

    by Sara Davison
    She is willing to testify against her trafficker. If she can stay alive that long. “You’re safe here, Starr.” How many times has Detective Cole Blacksky said that to her since helping her escape the life she’d been forced into eight years earlier? Starr desperately wants to believe him, but she knows Brady Erickson, her former captor, too well. Although Cole has promised her protective custody on his family’s remote ranch, no place on earth is safe enough. Brady will stop at nothing to per... more

  • The Hillingdon Files

    by Paul A. Cooper
    DCI Greg Richards, having moved away from the metropolitan area to the more relaxed confines of Bournemouth CID, finds himself at the hands of a money laundering syndicate. This syndicate has kidnapped his partner and her sister because of their knowledge of a not-so-well-hidden computer file that can expose a multibillion-dollar scam being played out, unknown to them, on legitimate enterprises. Aided by the girls’ cousin, Richards embarks on a torturous route to track the women down. The evide... more

  • Where Death and Danger Go

    by V M Knox
    In the dark days of 1941, Britain fights on. Invasion threatens and fear hangs in the air. Some yearn for peace and an end to the relentless Nazi bombing. Others are spurred on to fight for victory, no matter the cost. And some will manipulate a divided country for their own ends. On a winter’s night, a German spy parachutes into the Cambridgeshire fenland while another man is secretly murdered in the same field. Is he another enemy spy or has he been sent to his death? Either way, a kille... more

  • In Spite of All Terror

    by V M Knox
    September 1940. Britain stands alone facing an imminent Nazi invasion. Handpicked groups of men form the covert Auxiliary Units; ordinary by day, they will be saboteurs and assassins by night. With a life expectancy of two weeks, their identities are a closely guarded secret from all but the local senior policeman but once activated, that policeman will be the cell's first victim. Clement Wisdom, a humble vicar and leader of the East Sussex Auxiliaries, receives the invasion alert and assemble... more

  • Blood on the Bayou

    by Douglas Wood
    A serial killer is terrorizing the streets of the French Quarter in New Orleans. The victims are found with their throats slit, odd symbols on their faces, and a wooden cross in their hands. Detective Rebecca Simone and her team are working the case and when DNA from a local man is found on a body, it looks like the mystery is solved. However, someone in Washington D.C. has been quietly observing, and he is not satisfied with the outcome of the case. Unable to remain an outsider, Special Agent C... more

  • FitzDuncan's Enlightenment

    by John J. Spearman
    A swashbuckling tale set in the medieval kingdom of Aquileia. FitzDuncan's third adventure finds him facing threats to life and limb, assisting his lady love and the queen with a magical intervention and learning more about his unique abilities.

  • FOOL'S ERRAND

    by Jeffrey S. Stephens
    Jack Rinaldi is a cautious young man. His father was a charming rogue who lived on the edges of organized crime who failed far more often than he succeeded. When Jack discovers a letter his father wrote him just before he died, six years ago, it turns his life upside down. The letter tells of a cache of stolen money his father left behind, leading his reluctant son on a search that takes him from New York City to Las Vegas and ultimately to the south of France. Along the way, Jack is confront... more

  • The Crooked Hand Tree

    by J.S. Parker
    It is the year 1820- and farm boy Tom Miller, born of a supernatural event is becoming aware of the unearthly powers bestowed upon him. Taught the ways of his gifts by an elderly shop owner in town, he begins to accept himself as he learns to conquer his fears. When an evil half-human witch is sent to destroy him...Tom must summon all...to save himself, his town and everyone and everything he truly loves.

  • Burnout

    by Sean Platt
    Cutter Dunn was born a ghost. Unchipped and unregistered, he exists as a nonperson, living off-the-grid, unrecognized by the facial recognition software built into every smart glass device that provides everyone with everything they want and need. According to the official system, he doesn't even exist. He has the skills and out-of-the-box perspective to design the nuts-and-bolts mechanism for the next generation of driverless shipping vehicles. He's also the kind of person that a massively w... more

  • Margaritas, Mayhem & Murder, An Andi Anna Jones Mystery Book 1

    by Mary Cunningham
    Andi Anna Jones, so-so travel agent and amateur sleuth, puts aside her resentment of her father's widow and books a sixtieth birthday cruise to Cancun for Ruby and three friends. Never does Andi imagine the cruise will include the murder of a has-been lounge singer—or that Ruby might be the main suspect. Flirting with more than danger after arriving in Mexico, Andi connects with charming local sheriff, Manual Gonzales. An embarrassing night involving the sheriff, too many margaritas, and a Ma... more

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