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An elite soldier chosen for greatness. An empire extending its reach. Will love or loyalty carry through until dawn? Europe, 1529. Despite tragic origins, Haris swore to defend Sultan Suleyman at any cost. Already serving as one of the ruler's closest guardsmen, he valiantly defends the Ottoman's key camp when they come under attack during the siege of Vienna. But when the Janissary's courage on the battlefield leads to an audience with his so...

ONE LITTLE MISTAKE AND TRESADO'S MAGICAL FORMULA . . . . . . lands Group Six in a wasteland crawling with mutant monsters, a deadly disease, and creeping insanity that soon has them at each other's throats. Their rescue by the militia from Abakaar seems providential. Hidden away in an oasis valley, Abakaar's people are happy, prosperous, and peaceful. But Foxx's Knowing Spell, which has always served him well at the gambling table, tells him t...

Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there . . . .In the afterglow, the grid vanished, and Ryan's breath caught in her throat when she saw what remained. There was Jean, walking through her living room just as she had imagined her. Except, this woman was outlined in a halo of blue light-a hologram with every living detail that had been Jean-when she was alive.When gifted homicide detective Ryan Mills is recruited to a top-secret F...

Dr. Evan Jensen is a fourth-year resident in a General Surgery program at St. John's Hospital in Chicago, where she must face life and death decisions on a daily basis. After she is the passenger in a horrific car accident, she is taken to the same trauma hospital where she works. Comatose and with life-threatening injuries, random and misty images dance around in her silent brain. Evan finds herself lost in a world between life and death, but...

The first book in an exciting adventure series "The Temple Buck Quartet" that chronicles the rise and fall of the American Rocky Mountain fur trade. This volume is a coming-of-age story set in the first two years of the fur trade, 1822-24.Temple Buck is a young man whose rollicking tale begins with growing up in the Ohio wilderness before he is kidnapped by an evil keelboat captain. After his rescue by a beautiful St. Louis madam, he finally e...

Ancient China collides with Gold Rush America when two sleuths from opposite ends of the earth unite to hunt down a killer.JINCAN, a deadly toxin created through sorcery by combining the venoms of five creatures, oozes through the pores of this thriller - set in China, the jungles of Panama and the gold country of California in 1850. Shen, a Chinese assassin escapes to America with dreams of riches. Angus Greystone is a lawman on the hunt for ...

Temple Buck returns to the Rockies in 1828, rejoins his trapping bunch and resumes the carefree life of the American free trapper where he left off two years earlier. Temple and his comrades explore uncharted new beaver-rich country, gaining new and different experience in a changing and expanding fur trade. Their personal lives change, as well. They take on new responsibilities while enjoying more than ever the happy-go-lucky life of the Rock...

Portugal's violent occupation of India in the sixteenth century was much more than a plunder of the country's great material wealth. The Portuguese also sought to stamp out the ancient traditions of Hinduism and Islam throughout their Asian territories- everyone living in Portuguese India, centred in Goa, was forced to convert to Catholicism. The Witch Hunter got wealthy from arresting women accused of being the consorts of Satan. As an offici...

he story takes place in 1796 on the windswept Northern Plains. It is a coming-of-age story that takes place over the year in the life of a teen-aged member of the Cheyenne tribe. Bull Calf's needs are those of any adolescent male: he wants to have friends, to be accepted as a grown man, to seek adventure and aches to find true love with a girl, Pretty Day Walking. As Bull Calf leaves his childhood behind, to begin his new life as a warrior, hi...

Poredevil's Beaver Tales by Edward Louis Henry is a collection of 24 humorous mountain man tall stories narrated in a loose sort of verse in the voice of a tough, experienced, early-19th Century Rocky Mountain Fur Trapper. These stories are mainly addressed to greenhorns newly come to the mountains, but they are also intended to mystify and amuse veteran companions starved for entertainment. A few of the tales are a re-telling of the whoppers ...

U.S. Marshal Cameron Piquet is the Justice Department's best. To stop a serial killer nicknamed The Exterminator, he is partnered with long-time rival, FBI Special Agent Kevin Riddick. The case becomes a race against time when Piquet discovers that the killer is the Angel of Death summoned by a powerful conjurer who wants him dead. Enlisting the aid of Doctor Marion Fullbright, an abrasive forensic genius and Sarah Gilliard, a beautiful psychi...

When you go through hell, sometimes the best way to survive is with your best friend by your side.Nineteen-year-old Gabriel Turner excels at training pit bulls for illegal fights. When he runs into trouble with the law, he is given an ultimatum to either go to jail or join the military. He opts for the Army where he straightens out and serves as a handler of a bomb-sniffing dog he names Samuel L. Jackson. The two have each other's back through...

When his first true love sends 19-year-old Hollis Olmstead a shocking "Dear John" letter while he is serving in the Army, he questions why God has abandoned him. Upon his discharge, he returns with a vengeance to establish an independent life, settling on Omaha, Nebraska, as his adopted hometown. The reader follows him on his journey into manhood and his experiences with God. Sometimes funny, sometimes touching and sometimes painful, Hollis's ...

Through some of the most challenging circumstances come realizations and life-changing discoveries of what matters most. While the struggle with worry, doubt, dread and fear tell us to avoid being hurt, they also wake us up to the authentic self. This book is based on the assurance that It Will All Work Out (IWAWO). The author, a mental health therapist, gives you the tools you need to follow your Inner Compass. Through emotional, cognitive, a...

In the rural mining town of Rupland, baseball is a religion that keeps the town alive. Here, the best little league baseball in the country is played, and boys dream of donning the orange and black colors of their idols.Jack- the leader, Johnny- the rebel, and Joe- the student, are sons of a tormented Vietnam veteran who pushes them towards a better future. Together they battle through Rupland's and their own hardships of death, decline, and w...

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Elvira Parker, a spoiled, alcoholic teen from Chicago, has been sent to spend the summer on her uncle's Montana ranch. While there, city girl Elvira meets handsome Buck Eagle Plume, a biracial cowboy filled with bitterness over the death of his parents, his horse and his dream of becoming a rodeo champion. Buck accepts a job on Elvira's uncle's ranch in the Bitterroot Valley in Western Montana. While working for Ellie's uncle, Buck becomes...

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Written from daily journals, Weigh The Wind chronicles the author's life story from unloved girl child to insightful adult woman. The journey winds through surviving a near honor killing at the hands of her ethnic farm parents to a storm of daily life with an alcoholic, drug addict and spousal abuser. An understanding emerges as to why a smart, professional woman becomes so susceptible. How difficult is it really to overcome ingrained childhoo...

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