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I SPOT HIM ACROSS THE ROOM AND REALIZE I HAVE ONLY MINUTES TO LIVE. THE PARTNER I BETRAYED SEVEN YEARS AGO. HOW PATIENTLY HE WAITED FOR HIS REVENGE. BUT THERE WAS NEVER REALLY ANY DOUBT HE WOULD RISE FROM THE DEAD TO COME FOR ME. A master criminal who's also a passionate art lover. A long-lost painting by Johannes Vermeer. A completely green and very young private investigator hired to find a missing art professor by a wife whose motives are...

POSTCARDS THROUGH HELL IS A TRUE TALE OF HEROISM AND SACRIFICE THAT TAKES READERS ONTO THE DEADLY ROADS OF AFGHANISTAN AS BRAVE SECURITY CONTRACTORS RISK THEIR LIVES TO DELIVER THE US MAIL TO OUR MILITARY WARRIORS ENGAGED IN A BLOODY WAR. "...rings with an authenticity that only comes from personal experience. Contracting is a different" world from the military, one that has little recognition yet was no less dangerous. In fact, it was even mo...

FAMILY HISTORY, MODERN GENETICS, AND WELL-KEPT SECRETS COLLIDE AS ANGIE BIER IS DRAWN INTO A SEARCH FOR A STRANGER'S BIRTH FATHER HIDDEN SOMEWHERE IN HER OWN FAMILY TREE. THE SEARCH LEADS TO DUSTY ARCHIVES, CLUES HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT, AND THE CUTTING EDGE OF COMMERCIAL GENETIC TESTING. Fifty-something Kathleen used 23andme to identify her biological mother, who is rumored to have a child with a priest. Kathleen believes that her father is An...

A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD DANCER IS SENT TO A PRISON "RESORT" FOR TRYING TO PROTECT HER MOTHER AND NOW TO ESCAPE, MUST TRUST A FORMER ENEMY. Set in the future where a tightly controlled technology has been developed that allows rich old people to switch bodies with poor teens. The Government of Ameca captures sixteen-year-old Eliana after she illegally switches bodies with her mother in order to protect her from a painful death. Eliana is sent to a p...

MARRIED WOMEN IN ANTIOCH, NORTH CAROLINA CANNOT SPEAK OUTSIDE OF THEIR HOMES. THEY TAKE A LIFELONG VOW OF SILENCE. SUNLESS AND SILENT AND DEEP IS THE STORY OF CARA GRACE DUPREE, A BIRACIAL YOUNG WOMAN RAISED IN THE INSULAR RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY AND OF JUANITA BOSTON, THE DETERMINED BLACK SOCIAL WORKER WHO HELPS CARA TO FIND HER VOICE. Early Praise Sunless and Silent and Deep tells stories within a story! Heard's vivid characters and settings are...

Judge Jackie Martin's job is to impose order on the most chaotic families in New York City. So how is she blindsided when the man she loves walks out on her? Jackie Martin is a woman whose intelligence and ambition have earned her a coveted position as a judge on the Manhattan Family Court-and left her lonely at age 39. When she meets Lou Greenberg, Jackie thinks she's finally found someone who will accept her exactly as she is. But when Lou'...

Genealogy should be a relaxing and interesting hobby for a retired homicide detective. But in Jack Oliva's case, it may turn out to be fatal... Retired Phoenix homicide detective Jack Oliva is curious about his roots. For nearly seventy years, his mother never mentioned his grandfather's name, leaving Jack to wonder why she never celebrated her father's birthday or commemorated the anniversary of his death. Following his mother's death, Jack...

When the body of an attractive young woman is found wrapped in a package in a Phoenix city park, homicide detective Sean Richardson is stunned to discover along with the body the driver's license of a woman who was killed forty years earlier. The original victim was the first of four women who were murdered and then dumped in a run-down neighborhood south of the Deuce, Phoenix's long-time skid row district, but the killer was never identified ...

ALTHOUGH COMPLEX AND HIGHLY INTELLIGENT, RUPERT IS DRAWN INEXORABLY TO THE DARK SIDE. HE IS FORCED TO FLEE NEW JERSEY FEARING RETRIBUTION FROM THE DRUG DEALER PARTNERS HE HAS BETRAYED. BUT GETTING TOO CLOSE TO RUPERT IS LIKE BEING SWALLOWED BY A POWERFUL VORTEX FROM WHICH NO ONE EVER EMERGES. "Brilliant 'entertainment' in the Graham Greene sense. The Broken Light of A Different Sun gradually eases you to the edge of your chair, then keeps yo...

A UNIVERSITY VICE PRESIDENT FINDS HIMSELF THRUST INTO A HELLISH PANAMANIAN PRISON, AT THE MERCY OF UNKNOWN FORCES. When a university receives a bequest of a village in Tuscany to use as a study-abroad site, Bill, the Vice President, is put in charge of negotiating the terms with the donor's angry son who thinks the village rightfully belongs to him. Bill discovers that something is very wrong with the deal and is determined to get to the botto...

ONE-BY-ONE THE SPIRIT-FILLED APARTMENTS AT BROUSSARD COURT CALL THOSE IN NEED OF SHELTERING COMFORT. THE SEQUEL TO THE NEW WITCH Madame Badeaux, the old woman they called The Witch was dead, but was she gone? Someone, or something, lingered on, guiding and protecting those who came to live at Broussard Court. An old man escaping his family's plan for a retirement home. A young woman fleeing her family's disapproval. A teen boy with no place ...

ATTORNEY KATE MARSTON HAS LANDED A HIGH PROFILE CASE THAT COULD EITHER MAKE OR BREAK HER CAREER. Her client is a controversial judge who has been charged with murder. Her investigation leads her into the shadowy and dangerous world of organized crime, hard-ball politics, and big-time college football. It also leads her to an alternative suspect -- her father. Will she be able to avoid this ethical minefield and give her client zealous represen...

Trent Mullins holds the bottle of pills that failed to aid his climb out of the black hole that nearly killed him. Tossing the bottle over the Wrightsville Beach Drawbridge, he feels the first sliver of light in months.He leaves family, friends, and the area that had served as his home for his entire life. With the help of his best friend, Jackson, he lands in the coastal area of Georgia. A new job, unlikely landlords, and the peaceful marshla...

AN AIR FORCE SPECIAL AGENT AND A TIPSY BRITISH DIPLOMAT CHALLENGE THE CHINESE MOB FOR CONTROL OF A WORLD WAR II MEGA-WEAPON.Global Hawk reconnaissance aircraft from the American Territory of Guam detect suspicious Chinese naval activity near an abandoned island airbase. Intercepted radio traffic suggests the Chinese are hunting for an Army Air Corps plane that disappeared in 1945. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations sends Agent Jack...

Earth is in the middle of a revolution. It might lead us to more knowledge about ourselves, our place in the universe and the universe itself, or it might lead us to catastrophe. This book is a report on seventy-five years of history during which extraterrestrials (ETs) and their extraterrestrial vehicles (ETVs, , which used to be called UFOs) - have made themselves a part of life on earth. Don Donderi, psychology professor at McGill Universit...

THE FACILITY TOOK EVERYTHING FROM HIM, INCLUDING HIS EYES. NOW ANDREW HARKINS IS DETERMINED TO USE HIS SPECIAL ABILITIES TO EXACT REVENGE.Doctor Andrew Harkins accepts his dream job at a cutting-edge lab, but the dream becomes a nightmare when he refuses to use unwilling human test subjects. Andrew finds himself at odds with the owner of the Facility. They take everything from him, including his eyes, but there is more to Andrew Harkins than t...

MEET THE MAN WITH NO NAME. WHEN THE SNOW FALLS, HE'S RUNNING. By all appearances, Cy Ford is no more than a quiet loner living in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. He works as a conservation officer and prefers the company of his sled dogs. What nobody suspects is that Ford's past is a fractured one, and all of it, down to his name, is a lie. During the winter months, Ford moonlights as a drug-running dog sled musher, a lucrative sideline that's a...

A RANCHER WHO IS NEAR SUICIDE FROM A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT THE HANDS OF A MOTORCYCLE GANG FINDS HIS SOLACE IN HELPING ANOTHER RANCHER SAVE THEIR SPREAD, BUT THIS BRINGS THE WRATH OF THE SAME GANG DOWN ON THEM ALL.Guzzling alcohol as a way out of this world and into the next, but needing money to finish the job, Cable accepts employment at a dude ranch near the hole in the woods where he stays. What he doesn't expect is that the owners-mother and...

IN THE LIFE AND DEATH WORLD OF DRUG TRAFFICKING INFORMANTS ARE NECESSARY TO STAY ALIVE. THE PERFECT INFORMANT CAN ALWAYS BE DEVELOPED BY APPLYING THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF LEVERAGE. The wife of a Mexican Cartel leader is poisoned while having dinner with her eleven-year-old daughter, and the head of the most violent drug trafficking cartel in the world sets a $10 million reward for the murder of the waiter responsible for poisoning his wife, as well...

WHEN AN ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD, WHISKY DRINKING, PIANO PRODIGY ENCOUNTERS A WEALTHY FAMILY POSSESSING SUPERNATURAL BEAUTY, HER ENSUING OBSESSION UNLEASHES FAMILY SECRETS AND A CATACLYSMIC PLAGUE OF CICADAS. The summer of 1956, a brood of cicadas descends upon Providence, Georgia, a natural event with supernatural repercussions, unhinging the life of Analeise Newell, an eleven-year-old piano prodigy. Amidst this emergence, dark obsessions are stirred,...