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  • Shut Up and Listen!

    by Reid Fischer
    Professional athletes are larger than life, but above all they are human beings like everyone else. Ethan Hackett is becoming an NBA star, and like any other player, he wants a championship. It's a slight distraction when his marriage is on the rocks. He can manage that. It's another matter entirely when his wife goes missing and he gets a text telling him to commit turnovers or she dies. Will Ethan have to betray his teammates? Can he navigate the waters to bring his wife back safe and le... more

  • Desert Dreaming

    by Steve Elliott
    An adventure story set it the Western Australian outback. A geologist accidentally discovers a terrorist group with plans to spread mayhem in Australia. The geologist, after several near misses foils the terrorists and emerges victorious.

  • DRIVEN

    by Valerie Webster
    Ex-investigative reporter, Rita Mars, loses an old friend to what appears to be suicide. She’s convinced he was murdered to cover unethical maneuvers and save reputations in the abyss that is Congress. Back stabbings inside the beltway sometimes extend beyond metaphorical. She’s going to butt heads with the local good ole boy authorities and navigate the deliberately stoked smoke screens of the duly elected, but she is never going to give up.

  • City of Stones (Detective Matt Jones 4)

    by Robert Ellis
    CITY OF STONES (Detective Matt Jones 4) By Robert Ellis A Killer’s Secret. A City’s Fate. A Detective Backed into a Corner With rookie detective Matt Jones recovering from the wounds he suffered in The Girl Buried in the Woods, and with his partner, Denny Cabrera, lucky to have survived but still unable to walk, a reporter from the Los Angeles Times, Ryan Brooks, makes a late-night call requesting a small favor... “I've heard that you’re on medical leave,” Brooks says. “Meet me in the... more

  • Cloud Warriors

    by Rob Jung
    Anthropology professor TERRY CASTRO makes the discovery of a lifetime: a pale-skinned, blonde-haired, blue-eyed tribe, secluded in the Peruvian rain forest since the time of the Incas, but the discovery puts Castro in a coma caused by curare, a primitive poison. He learns, however, that curare comas are different. He can still feel and hear even though his body is in a catatonic state. \tCastro is transported to a San Francisco hospital at the insistence of LEON DAY, sponsor of Castro's annual ... more

  • The Reaper

    by Rob Jung
    A riot at the 1937 Paris World Exposition turns deadly, and propels timid security guard, Francois Picard, into the middle of maelstrom: a fight over possession of a famous painting between the Nazi high command, Catalonian nationalists, an American industrialist and a Spanish museum curator. Against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War, Picard clumsily attempts to influence the painting’s future to his personal advantage, but his girlfriend jilts him, the looming world war terrifies him and hi... more

  • The Sower, Book Two of the Chimera Chronicles

    by Rob Jung
    A five-year-old unsolved murder, a U.S. senate candidate with a past to hide, and an alleged art forgery that rocks the art world: all pieces of a multi-dimensional puzzle facing Detective Ronni Brilliant and the women of the Monet Detective Agency. Hired to solve a cold-case murder, Brilliant, a transgender former Marine MP struggling with her own sexuality, faces an unrelenting succession of threats from an unknown source, raising the suspicion that her own client, the murder victim's grands... more

  • Tunnels & Caves

    by Robert Haydon
    Tunnels & Caves is a fast-moving and entertaining mystery thriller that features the duo of Former sheriff Kelly Wren and the beautiful Angie Morrison. They live and work out of a revamped country home in Willow Creek, Texas. Wren teams up with detective Wayne Tolleson to solve some very difficult and danger-laden cold cases while Angie fights off a band of coyotes and a persistent stalker. The tension builds throughout the book and it all comes to a head with a surprise ending.

  • Vestiges

    by Peggy Ann Shumway
    When anthropology professor Oneida Graham is entangled in a Michigan Relic mystery, she pairs up with archaeologist Lance Graham, a step-cousin of sorts, embarking on a frantic hunt to find the Native American treasure and the person responsible for their grandfather’s demise. Unfortunately, the diabolical forces at play are sworn to beat them to the target and destroy the treasured secrets before they can share what is sure to change humanity forever.

  • Deadly Dance: A Scott Drayco Mystery

    by BV Lawson
    Some secrets refuse to stay buried... When Scott Drayco's ex-girlfriend begs him to prove her rich fiancé, Harry Dickerman, is innocent of murder, Drayco's torn; he's suspicious of Harry's motives for wanting to marry a much younger woman, but on the other hand, the man seems to be a paragon of virtue. The police think it's an open-and-shut case — the victim was Harry's ex-wife, killed in Harry's home with his own letter opener, and only Harry's prints were on the murder weapon. But as Dra... more

  • The Job: Keep your enemies close and your target closer.

    by M.E. Saleh
    Rules were broken—Sam had no choice but to leave the organization. Walter’s dying wish is for Sam to come out of retirement for one last job. Trained in martial arts with the patience of a sniper and underground connections, Sam must ruin Andrew Donovan and take away everything and everyone he holds dear, including his wife, Dr. Leigh Harris. Dr. Harris races the clock to release her groundbreaking cancer treatment to save millions of lives. However, when the setbacks shift from unfortunate a... more
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    City of Schemes

    by Bill Garwin

    The year is 2028 and the Feds have appropriated Northern California for the Great Experiment. They designate it “Norcal” and create satellite-enforced borders to protect the clinical purity of society’s most ambitious scientific and social advancements. Megan Garrity and her 13-year-old autistic son Nick, cannot resist the trafficker’s offer to be smuggled into Norcal. Megan will be given a new life, programs for Nick she never imagined possible. The dream becomes a ni... more

  • The Pilot's Daughter

    by Audrey J. Cole
    Welcome aboard Pacific Air Flight 385, with nonstop service from Seattle to Honolulu. Cora is scared to fly again after her husband died in a recent helicopter crash in Pago Pago. A thousand times she has told herself to turn around, not get on the flight, go back to her young children. But now, she’s seated in first class across the aisle from the girlfriend of a famous billionaire pharmaceutical entrepreneur. Halfway across the Pacific, the flight is hijacked. Six people are dead—i... more
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    The Society of Necessities

    by Christopher Bowron
    In his lustful haste, he stepped off the curb behind a parked minivan. Turning, Daniel caught movement out of his left eye as the brown truck struck him. The impact was like a bug being hit by a fly swatter. He could feel his chest breaking—being thrown backwards onto the street, the back of his head hitting the pavement with a deadly force. All he could hear were tires screeching and his girlfriend Devi’s scream: “NO!” Daniel St Croix is the beneficiary of his estranged grandfather’s estate—in... more

  • Phantom of Execution Rocks: A Port Newton Cozy Mystery

    by MJ Miller
    In the middle of the Long Island Sound stands the lighthouse at Execution Rocks. What happened there is the stuff of myths and legends. It is said that every so often residents can see the image of an abandoned ship, sails billowing, silently gliding past the lighthouse. A ghost ship some say. Setting out to uncover the truth, Media Producer Luce Porter reluctantly teams up with an NYPD Detective as she discovers they share a childhood vision, along with disturbing family secrets. Tales of sl... more

  • Conduit: The Beginning

    by James Alexander
    Half human, half alien, and unknowingly the key to saving the world from an alien invasion. Will he survive or will the aliens kill him first? Orphaned by a tragic event and left adrift and alone in the world, Marcus spent his childhood bouncing from one abusive foster family to the next. Plagued by mysterious visions his entire life, Marc grapples with his sanity and his strange emerging abilities. But when unknown extra-terrestrial forces launch an attack on the earth through an insidiou... more
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