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SPIRITS SURROUND US ALL, AND IT'S UP TO US TO LISTEN TO WHAT THEY ARE TELLING US-WHERE TO GO AND WHAT TO DO... From the bayous of south Louisiana to the arid hills of Arizona, they follow us. Or maybe they beat us there. We can do nothing except listen and obey.Deep in the swamps of south Louisiana, a young girl is guided by the spirits of her ancestors. When she is older, she is trained in the mystical arts by Madame, whose powers are known t...

What's New in the 3rd EditionSpecial 50th Anniversary Issue The 3rd Edition of DB Cooper and the FBI - A Case Study of America's Only Unsolved Skyjacking is an updating of events since August 2016 when the FBI officially closed their investigation.When the Bureau threw in the towel, two important dynamics were unleashed: First, the FBI no longer had absolute control over their paperwork and it became available to the public. Second, citizens a...

PART ROMAN, PART GAUL AND CONSCRIPTED, MARCELLUS STRABO IS AN UNWILLING LEGIONNAIRE CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO WORLDS Marcellus Strabo is rudely awakened from a drunken stupor to find himself conscripted in the training camp of the XI Claudia Legion. The legion is one of six under the command of Julius Caesar bound for Celtic Gaul. Until now, Strabo has known only privilege and a preference to spend his time in brothels and on the back of a fast horse...

A BITTER, ICY COLD NIGHT...Mystery writer Michael Coleman, parks at a seedy coffee shop, sits and opens his laptop.He can't help but notice a bedraggled little urchin sitting by a window alone and shivering.He sends over a hot chocolate, takes a washroom break, then leaves.He arrives home to discover the crouching waif-like girl hiding in the back of his car...Excerpt He put his finger to his lips and signaled for Claire to shush. "You're scar...

MYSTICISM AND SCIENCE COLLIDE WHEN A TEAM OF CIVILIAN AND U.S. MILITARY PERSONNEL INVESTIGATE A MYSTERIOUS AND POTENTIALLY MALEVOLENT FORCE THAT HAS SUDDENDLY AWAKENED IN RURAL WEST VIRGINIA. A FORCE ONCE WORSHIPED AS A DEITY BY NATIVE AMERICANS When employees of the Green Creek Coal Company detonate an explosion to strip-mine Kanawha Mountain, the blast triggers a series of unexplained-possibly super-natural-events in the rural hills of West ...

A twisty, fast-paced novel--intrigue of the highest order. Highly recommended!"-Ward Larsen, USA Today bestselling author of Assassin's Strike"Justin Lee is a must-read new talent."-Mike Lawson, Edgar Award Nominated author of the Joe DeMarco series."... packs a powerful punch with a looming terrorist threat, multiple kidnappings, unexpected killings and some high level political infighting. Lee keeps the reader guessing {until} the very end w...

ISOLATED FROM THE REMAINING EMPIRE, FLAVIUS QUIRINIUS, A PROVINCIAL ROMAN NOBLE, RAISES AN ARMY AGAINST MARAUDING SAXONS.The time and place: Britain from 440 to 491 AD, cut off from the Western Roman Empire as its provinces slump into Germanic kingdoms and Italy is reduced to an Eastern Roman vice-regency. This is the period whose events were transmuted into the Welsh legends of the Mabinogion, and into other accounts both fictional and factua...

CAN AN OPEN MARRIAGE SAVE A RELATIONSHIP? OR DOES IT SPELL THE END? When Alex and Lila married, they dreamed of having a big family. Fourteen years, two children, several miscarriages and a stillbirth later, Lila is devastated when Alex torpedoes that dream by getting a vasectomy without telling her. Alex, a doctor, doesn't believe another pregnancy would be safe for her health or her heart. Lila shuts down-her body, mind, emotions-unable to c...

JOB LOSS, STAGE THREE BREAST CANCER, AND 14 MONTHS OF CHEMOTHERAPY COULD NOT BREAK SUE MARTIN'S POSITIVE SPIRIT. THIS IS HER INSPIRATIONAL SURVIVAL STORY. I Shed Two Tears and kicked it with attitude is an inspiring true story of surviving and thriving cancer during the Great Recession. Job loss, stage three cancer, 14 months of chemotherapy, while navigating a new job, were challenges, not obstacles. Sue Martin not only survived, but she also...

CHARLIE MESSINA WAKES FROM A COMA TO REPORT HAVING SEEN ST. AUGUSTINE, HIS DECEASED DAUGHTER JONI, AND A FAT BLACK DOG NAMED DUMBASS. HIS WIFE AND SONS THINK HE'S LOST HIS MIND.Photographer and retired college professor Charlie Messina, seventy-five and weary of a long life behind the veil (he was born with a caul) is led through a redemptive understanding of parallel time by some unsuspecting children-and a supposedly imaginary dog. In additi...

Why is novelist Pen Elliot's life being threatened over and over? There are a few suspects: her bitter ex-husband Peter and Joe, the abusive husband of a friend, who blames her for destroying his family. But what if the answer revolves around something larger and more global? Set in the seaside town of Falmouth, on scenic Cape Cod, the novel involves a romance as well as a coming out story of a young teen. It also asks how far would you go to ...

A DEPARTMENT HEAD FIGHTS THE HOSPITAL FO.R. FULL DISCLOSURE ABOUT THE EVENTS THAT LED TO THE DEATH OF CARLA WILLIAMS AFTER A ROUTINE SURGERY.¿Carla Williams, a mother of three and popular high school teacher, undergoes a routine surgery which does not go as planned. Department Chair, Harold Thompson, becomes an unlikely ally when he vows to find and share the truth about what happened to Carla. Thompson reassures Carla's distraught physician a...

THE GOVERNMENT KNOWS ABOUT THE GRAY WOMAN... And they are determined to use her unique skillset against terrorists and make her an offer she can't refuse.When Homeland Security is alerted to threats against a retired army sniper made real with a bounty on his head, they offer the impossible task of keeping him safe to Julia Pelletier. Accepting her role as an agent of the government, she travels to Jackson, Wyoming, and learns the enormous sco...

AFTER A CHANCE MEETING, AN OLD MAN AND A MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN CHART AN UNCONVENTIONAL PATH FORWARD.When Ben Sanna, a contemplative retiree with a penchant for helping people, and Samantha Beckett, a secretive New York City hedge fund manager, meet by chance in a small Vermont town, they enter into a tenuous relationship. Over several weeks, Samantha and Ben open their pasts inch by inch, sift through their futures consciously, and come to terms w...

At the height of the Spanish Inquisition a ruthless inquisitor by the name of Bishop Promane tortures a fellow priest, Father Sanchez, for information about the whereabouts of a relic known as the Judas Robe, rumored to be the only piece of physical evidence of God on earth. Promane succeeds in recovering the robe only to lose it to Sanchez's saviors, knights belonging to The Order of Christ.In the Present Day, Joel Gardiner, a pre-med student...

HE'S A SERIAL KIDNAPPER, RAISED IN AN UNDERGROUND CULT. NOW, HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN STOP THE END OF THE WORLD. Adam is a Rescuer, a man who takes children out of what he deems bad situations by convincing parents to give them up. He takes the children to his underground world, where they are welcomed and raised by The Family and their leader, a man they call Father. After his latest mission, Adam learns Father is ready to trigger a catastr...

INCOGNITO'S MISSION IS TO ASSASSINATE LEADERS OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS IN 1776.As the colonies begin to talk openly of political separation from England, a coded letter is deciphered. It suggests that an assassin, code name Incognito, is headed to Philadelphia to assassinate key leaders of the Continental Congress. The assassin may have co-conspirators in the city, and in the Congress itself.Will Harrell, the young man who decoded the lette...

IN THE 1980s WEST-TEXAS OIL PATCH, WHEN THE POLICE REFUSE TO GET INVOLVED, A LOW-LEVEL CRIMINAL WITH FAMILY PROBLEMS, COLTON PARKER, AND FELLOW LOW-LIFERS ARE HIRED TO FIND TWO MURDERERS.Gamblers, cons, and whores inhabit the night-time bar world of the early 1980s Odessa, Texas oil boom. Colton Parker-with a wife, two young boys, and a father-in-law-is a bouncer for a gambler and loan shark in this dark hidden world. Danny Fowler cruises this...

TWO CLASSIC MYTHS, GIVEN A FEMINIST SPIN Eve's Daughter's puts a feminist spin on the classic myth of The Fall, times two. Many creation stories depict a cosmic conflict between good and evil. But what if the conflict was something simpler, an earthly divide between men and women? Would things be any different? Book One, based on the Sumerian tale of the goddess Inanna and her lover Dumuzi, takes us back to the Early Copper Age when a matriarc...

THE BRONX RIOTS WHEN A WHITE NARCOTICS DETECTIVE KILLS AN UNARMED MAINTENANCE MAN. IS IT JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF POLICE BRUTALITY AGAINST MINORITIES, OR IS IT PART OF A BIGGER SCHEME? Celeste Santiago, an aggressive, successful, and ambitious Assistant District Attorney, sees the shooting as a chance to launch her campaign to become the next Bronx County D A. Meanwhile, a trial attorney, famous for garnering multi-million dollar verdicts, repr...