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Far Out

by Khaled Talib

Screenwriter Blake Deco' s life is upended when his Hollywood movie-star wife, Goldie Saint Helen, comes out of a coma after a car accident with a makeshift identity. Her lawyers see her condition as an opportunity to swindle her.

Call of the Nightingale (A James Cartwright PI Mystery - Book 2)

by Oliver Dean Spencer

In his latest case, James Cartwright, a Detroit ex-cop, turned private eye, sets out to prove the innocence of a seventeen-year-old girl named, Alice. She’s suspected of murdering her grandfather, Professor Carmichael. However, the murder turns out to be anything but straightforward. Carmichael, a leading genetic scientist, has a dark and sinister past, dating back to the American Eugenics programs from the 1930s.

The Rebirth

by V.P. Evans

It’s been ten years since Jason and Mark last saw each other when a murder brings them together one night. Trapped in Chicago now, they must follow a secret path in the city by analyzing the works of some of the greatest minds in history to reveal the darkest scandal of all time. But each minute, their chasers are closing in, and haunting memories are coming to the surface, reminding them of the shadiest aspects of the human soul. And . . . soon, their last hope to alter the fate of the... more

Zone Trip

by Kitty Turner

Outlaw artists wage war on Big Tech to reclaim San Francisco for themselves. Fight Club meets Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow in this debut technothriller.

It's 2032, and anarchist impresario Leo wages war on Bay Area Big Tech with his guerrilla art organization, the Chaos Order. After being arrested for sabotaging the virtual reality company HERE's property, Leo's closest followers, Evan and Lydia, take two different paths. Evan joins HERE to avoid leg... more

UNFIXABLE

by Donna Ball

Former Hanover County Sheriff Buck Lawson leaves the mountains of North Carolina to take a job as the police chief of the small south Georgia town of Mercy, and soon finds himself in over his head. For one thing, his predecessor has been murdered... Leaving behind two failed marriages and a job that almost cost him his life, all Buck wants for himself and his new family is a fresh start. But Mercy is a town with a past as dark as the Blood River that runs through it, and the crime that resu... more

They Call Me Beauty

by J.Hieb

They Call Me Beauty is a coming of age - meets possession - story of a young girl with a horrific past. Beauty must fight for her life against forces within that seek to control and destroy her. Throughout her life, Beauty hears of a man called Jesus, a man she's desperate to know, but who the voices within despise and from whom they lead her away.

Fredonia Bound

by SannaBlue Baker

THREE SHORT STORIES • Buried Where We Stand - When God handed down judgement with a Winchester rifle. The historical secret of a community in post Civil War Georgia. A secret still kept today. • The Healing Stream - A hidden stream in the mountains is discovered by an injured traveler and starts a chain of events including miracles, blood feuds and legends. • Fiver Dean - As one of the world's most wanted art thieves, if Fiver Dean can survive the attack by the Albatross, he might escape Inte... more

A Deadly Combo

by Karen A Phillips

What do boxing and vintage trailers have in common? Meet Raquel AKA Rocky Nelson, a retired single woman with an attitude and love for boxing. Sisters Rocky and Bridget are enjoying each other’s company at a vintage trailerfest until they stumble over a corpse. Rocky uses her courage and skills learned in boxing lessons to protect her family and keep from becoming the killer’s next victim.

What the River Buries

by Rocky Hirajeta

In WHAT THE RIVER BURIES, the aftermath of her father's death makes seventeen-year-old Natalie feel like a stranger even to herself. Though she withdraws from friends and family, loses her job, and struggles with schoolwork, she finds peace in a riverside forest known as the Acres, comfort in the act of drawing sketches. But this solace is shattered when she comes face-to-face with a nightmarish murder deep within the woods. In her reckless pursuit of the killer, Nat wades through the tangled we... more

Fractured Oak

by Dannie Boyd

It’s hard to catch a killer when the only witness is a tree.

In 1853, after Catherine Miller is murdered for daring to become a doctor in a field full of men, a molecular fusion between human decay and natural rebirth transforms her into a Northern Red Oak. One hundred and seventy years later, she remains a mute but sentient tree, rooted near a secluded Northeast Ohio house. After she watches in horror as the newest homeowner murders one of his PhD students, Cathe... more

Cold-Blooded Trade

by Kerry K. Cox

When U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Special Agent Nick Tanner targets a prolific trafficker in endangered reptiles, what begins as a simple buy-and-bust operation takes a sudden, violent turn, and launches Tanner on a dangerous quest deep into the treacherous backwaters of Mississippi swampland.

JETSAM

by Tracy Grogan

Ricky Yamamoto has trust issues – if push comes to shove, she always pushes back. When a dream trip to exotic Far East waters turns into a nightmare, she struggles to regain control. What seemed like an innocent environmental research trip turns out to be anything but: her millionaire bosses had a hidden agenda, the menu turned out to be vegan, and she didn’t have a gun when she needed one.

Confessions of an Accidental Lawyer

by Michael Stockham

Battling against a Texas prison, a young lawyer fights for a fair trial in a prison-friendly town as witnesses and evidence evaporate. Scarred physically and emotionally by a botched delivery, his wife struggles to realize their dream of a healthy baby and a happy family. Trapped in solitary confinement, an immate fights for medicine to keep his failing heart pumping. Torn between career and family, with the lives of a prisoner, his wife de él, and his unborn child on the line, the youn... more

SET IN STONE

by J.A. Dayton

Resident state trooper, CLIFF ABBOTT, never dreamed terror could happen in North Meadows, a rural New England community. But, when seven stacked-stone towers mysteriously appear on farmland throughout town, Abbott knows life is about to change forever and it terrifies him. Mortal danger becomes apparent when the towers begin to move—one after another. One night, a stone tower is transported from a vacant farm onto the turnpike causing seven deaths on a curving two-lane road. Terror strikes again... more

When Last Seen

by Brenda Chapman

Ottawa is baking under a July heatwave when the Homicide and Major Crimes Unit is called to help track down missing three-year-old Charlie McGowan. This is the second missing person case in nine months — a university exchange student never made it back to her Carleton University residence from a downtown party in November. At first, the two disappearances appear unrelated, but as true crime podcaster Ella Tate and Detective Liam Hunter dig deeper into both files, unsettling relationships ... more

A Great House for Mary

by N Forbes Matheis

Mary is from the ghetto. She is beautiful, smart and ambitious and she just got accepted to go to university. But just as she gets ready to spread her wings, her only surviving parent dies. Things turn topsy turvy and the Area Don swoops in and grabs her up as his new shiny toy. Overnight, Mary's life becomes a living hell. She is young and naive but she knows she cannot stay here. Even if she has to get her hands bloody, she has to find a way out. How far can Mary get with the poli... more

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