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Ghost Town: A Western Paranormal Thriller

by AJ Thibault

Three people, 3 days, trapped in a ghost town 100 years in the past.

Brilliant but burned out CIA operative Richard Hart has a midlife crisis. He wants out of the intelligence game for good. But he can’t resist his last and only opportunity to meet the legendary V.M. Moodbain, a grand CIA Chessmaster, who will do anything to keep him engaged.

When Moodbain does not show up for their rendezvous at the appointed time, Hart realizes he has been set up as a pawn... more

Death In Smoke

by Barbara Elle

A bloodied body buried on Cape Cod. A cold case in Kansas.

Can Leila track down a savage killer?

After a blinding snowstorm, artist and amateur sleuth Leila Goodfriend wakes early in the morning for a walk in the woods to think, to escape. When she stumbles on the bloodied body of a woman buried in a snow bank, Leila digs desperately, her fingers bleed, shaking with fear, she knows who it is.

It’s Susie, the ex-girlfriend of Steve, a failed photographer she dumped mont... more

Six Mercies

by Simon Phillips

It’s 1994 A wave of terror attacks begin to happen around the world. The race to find the mastermind and stop them in their tracks is on. Cassie Day’s mission takes her to Marrakech and into the darkness of a cult with a charismatic leader and entanglement with a CIA cell. Never sure who she can trust, she must enlist the help of an old friend in the Metropolitan Police and an FBI agent who may hold the key to understanding the terror campaign. But can anyone trust her? Her anger and viol... more

Girls, Crimes, and the Ruling Body

by Barry R. Ziman

A legislative intern with secrets that could unravel the governing elite vanishes into the night in Albany, New York. Seven years later, another young woman disappears in a suburb of the nation’s Capital. The only connection between both missing women is Ryan McNeil, the chief of staff to a rising congressman. Under suspicion, Ryan must now prove his innocence in these women’s abductions, but in the ruthless world of politics—where the line between crime and lawful authority blurs—there is no... more

Seven Lives

by Simon T. Phillips

It's 1993 A young British Agent with Post Traumatic Stress and a lost identity is the agency’s greatest undercover asset. Her memory of her life before her trauma starts to return whilst she is deep under cover. While she remembers her past, her job goes horribly wrong. Whilst she recovers she is given a new task of hunting a mystery assassin out for revenge. She goes undercover in an IRA terrorist cell in London to track her target down. Proving her own deadly skills along the way, she un... more

Beneath the Surface

by Tara Marlow

They’re on the run. Grace doesn’t know why but her father insists it's the only way.

She’s clinging to her mantra: ‘Finish high school. Turn eighteen. Freedom.’

She’s almost there but now she’s wondering if she can survive that long. Her father has never been father of the year.

Since landing in Sydney, her recurring nightmares are coming hard and fast. A red suitcase. Thorns. A phone number she can... more

Touch the Dead

by Ellen Thornton

Eden Sinclair leaves a broken marriage and the Blue Moon Trailer Park in Chicago to search for her missing cousin, Jess, in a Florida coastal community's fluid world of booze, sex, drugs, shady deals, and surfing. For nineteen-year-old Eden, finding answers and someone to trust are as elusive as the shadows lurking beneath the waves. When she makes a connection between Jess and another missing young woman, Eden lures a merciless killer into her arms to get the evidence she needs to avenge Jess.

Supreme Threat - A Logan Alexander Thriller

by T.L. Williams

North Korea has hatched a plan to attack the United States. Secret operatives from the North Korean Intelligence Service have infiltrated sensitive national security installations. They are awaiting final approval from North Korea's Supreme Leader. CIA operative, Logan Alexander, is on temporary assignment to Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he learns of the insidious plot. He is in a race against time to foil the operation, which if successful, will change history forever.

Deadline: New York

by Jim Lester

Set in the summer of 1952, Deadline:New York centers on the emerging paperback book industry in New York City. The protagonist is a former Naval intelligence officer and best-selling writer of paperback adventure novels who is asked by a secretary at his publishing house to investigate the suicide of her boyfriend. At the heart of the investigation is a state senate hearing on obscenity in the paperback industry and a widespread conspiracy inside the United States government, law enforcement a... more

Dread Watch

by Jared Agard

A secret fear. An antique pocket watch with a tragic past. When 8th grader Caleb Meyer stumbles upon the old watch at an abandoned railroad museum, he's sure that if he has it, all his fears will vanish. But the watch is more than just spindles and gears. A twisted ghost lives within, a Dreadmonger, feeding off the fears of his victims. And Caleb, seeking to finally be rid of his secret, is walking right into the Dreadmonger's trap.

Rumpa and the Snufflewort / 978-1777734725

by Jean Paetkau

Written for readers aged 6-12, the excitement of Rumpa and the Snufflewort begins when the siblings discover magical bubbles pouring out of the taps in their house instead of water. They soon meet up with the fantastical Snufflewort who need the help of Yacob and Baley for a daring rescue mission. The children and their new friends must battle a cat that might be a dragon and face the terrors of the green vugga.

The Chameleon

by Ron McManus

Jake Palmer, investigative consultant and former US Navy SEAL, has signed on as a contractor with a top-secret US Joint Special Operations Command team in Islamabad, Pakistan. Palmer and his JSOC partner work to uncover a suspected mole and gather intelligence regarding the security of Pakistan’s nuclear weapon arsenal as the country prepares for war with India over control of the disputed region of Kashmir. Fears regarding security of the weapons escalate when Pakistan decides to deploy its ars... more

Reefenue

by John Harrington

Reefer plus revenue: the endless opportunities to benefit society, arrived through an entertaining, suspenseful and poignant story.

THE GIRL FROM LONG GUYLAND

by LARA REZNIK

MEMOIR MEETS THRILLER: Set against a 1969 psychedelic love-in backdrop, The Girl From Long Guyland is shared through the eyes of Laila Levin when decades later, an unsolved murder pulls her reluctantly into her past. A dramatic collision of then and now -- entwining family, marriage, profession and ethics. Laila enjoys a successful marriage and a thriving career as an I.T. executive in Austin, Texas, but she can't quite shake her lifelong sense of not truly belonging anywhere. When her com... more

Boy Between Worlds Book Two: The Novice Collector

by Cynthia Huijgens

In Boy Between Worlds: The Cabinet of Curiosities, twelve-year-old Max Mead discovered he could travel back in time with objects from his grandfather’s cabinet of curiosities. In book two, The Novice Collector, Max spends his days learning to master the cabinet’s ancient magic, escaping at night with his new friend Youssef to explore the streets of Cairo. When the Lieutenant, leader of a local antiquities trafficking gang, resurfaces with a plan to steal treasure belonging to the ... more

Family of Killers-Memoirs of an Assassin

by Stephen W Briggs

David is pulled from his bed; he is seven. His father, freelancing for British intelligence, is identified while attempting to assassinate a terrorist. Now a wanted man, he must relocate his family from Northern Ireland to Canada. David is raised in the family’s business. A business that, eliminates those that can’t keep secrets, sells weapons around the world, and hides those that need protection. As a teen David struggles with his future in the family business and his mother’s desire to have... more

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