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“Jacob, your mother was exiled.” Those words haunt me every time I close my eyes. Dead. My loving mother, tortured and killed. Alone, buried on a mound of dirt at the edge of the meadow. Anger runs through my blood thinking of the pain she went through. It’s all my fault. I failed to protect her. How did I leave her behind? Why didn’t I convince her to escape with us? The thought of her suffering makes me want to destroy him. Cassian, the evil leader who everyone fears in the village. I refuse to let him hurt anyone else, especially my loved ones. I’ll make sure he pays for the ...

The Martinellis were the closest thing to family Cat Johnson ever had. That’s why she ran - to protect them from her threatening past. The orphaned child of classical musicians, she’s been lying low in Nashville and performing at the No Name Café. When Cat reluctantly agrees to attend the wedding of her beloved foster sister, the plan is simple: make a quick appearance at the Martinellis’, then disappear again. Instead, she’s thrust headlong into a nightmare. After a wedding guest is murdered, Cat’s past becomes harder and harder to avoid. So does handsome and inquisitive Safe Harbor cop Nick Stanton.

"I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~ Multiple Fans "Alice Crowley is one of our best living authors!" ~ G. Taylor This 8,500-word supernatural paranormal erotic story takes the reader on a journey with the protagonist, a wife who is tested as she expands her consciousness and body alike. Tamara Carsons married a rocket scientist, a man named Mack Carsons, and she never anticipated where her marriage would take her. Now she's embedded deep in a secret society, and this cult wants to engage in the legendary Reverse Harem Ceremony, so Tamara ...

What would you do if you found a body in the trunk of your wife’s car? This is the question facing Dan Porter as he stood in the parking lot and looked down at a man wrapped in clear plastic sheeting...a man with a tidy .38 bullet hole in his forehead. But finding the body is a mere curiosity compared with the twists and turns Dan’s life will take over the next few days.

Former CIA operative Damon Thorne is a fixer. He cleans up messes other people make of their lives to forget the wreckage his own has become. When the job means kidnapping the wild son of a prominent senator in an election year, it should come with hazard pay. Life has a way of kicking butts, even the sexy ones. Thrown together in a situation neither wanted, Damon and Jude must now decide how to move forward. Jude knows something is wrong when he gazes into Damon’s haunted brown eyes and Damon recognizes there’s much more to Jude than the caricature he shows the world.

HEX HALL meets THE MENTALIST A missing toddler. A girl with an exceptional mind. I don’t fit in. I never have. People think I’m weird. That’s because I am. My mother says I’m no ordinary girl. How I wish I were. She also says I hide from the world. But if you were me, you would hide, too. Imagine being able to read everyone’s thoughts — a sixth sense I never wanted. I typically stay in the shadows, desperate not to attract too much attention, but one girl brings me out of my shell. And that’s when all hell breaks loose, and I’m exiled to RAMS — a school for gifted students...

Success – outwitting a lunatic's scheme to ensure your demise Meet Leah Reynolds, a budding young executive who prefers the challenge of reviving small southern factories over the glamour of Fortune 500 fame. Leah's all-American charm and dedication to helping the downtrodden have placed her in a fight for her life. Her current passion project screamed success, that is, before she discovered a stranger's vendetta to ensure her failure or worse. Staying alive now seems simple compared to surviving the love triangle she finds herself embroiled in between two career-driven, handsome males: ...

After suffering a personal tragedy Abby Sullivan buys a huge old seaside mansion she has never even seen, packs up her life in San Francisco, and moves to Holiday Bay Maine, where she is adopted, quite against her will, by a huge Maine Coon Cat named Rufus, a drifter with her own tragic past named Georgia, and a giant dog with an inferiority complex named Ramos. What Abby thought she needed was alone time to heal. What she ended up with was an inn she never knew she wanted, a cat she couldn't seem to convince to leave, and a new family she'd never be able to live without.

Dark and hazy nights were both their sword and shield... Liz Danger surrounded her. Escape seemed impossible. Hope came from the last place she expected. She knew his name...everyone did. But she knew nothing about the man he really was. Or if he had any chance at saving her. Sam The plan was a good one. If it worked. He had the perfect cover story. He’d be the one asking all the questions. Looking for answers was the story of his life and everyone knew it...expected it. This time though...the stories could turn out differently than expected. Sam and Liz knew the trip wouldn’t be easy ...

This Christmas, Texas Ranger Taylor Blackburn must protect a young boy, the sole survivor of a mass shooting, and his beautiful aunt, but who is going to protect his heart?

Nina Fischer carries a camera wherever she goes - so she can view life through a filter. Safely. After her mother abandoned her to the streets, Nina has kept people at a distance, including her uncle, who adopted Nina and her sister. Wealthy and proud, he is a good man, a fair judge, and someone many in San Antonio admire. But when he is murdered and the detective assigned to the case accuses Nina of the crime, she knows she must act.

Private investigator Jim Knighthorse returns in book 4 of the series when he's hired to find out if Freddie Calgary, a popular movie and TV star, really overdosed and died two years ago, or if he is still alive. The investigation turns into a big road trip as Jim follows the clues to L.A., Sedona, and San Antonio. There is plenty of action and danger as the dark side of Hollywood spills its blood, secrets and scandal over three cities.

She's a widow raising her baby alone. Even the leader of the motorcycle club knows who Karly Addler is. When he has to walk her down the aisle at her sister's wedding, neither of them expect the attraction between them... Karly Addler lost her husband fourteen months ago, and she's not all that interested in finding someone new--until she meets Maverick with his intense blue eyes, kind spirit, and arms full of ink. She's got a one-year-old daughter to think about, but maybe she doesn't want to be alone for the rest of her life... Maverick Malone lives a quiet life with his motorcycle club, ...

Enter a world of darkness and desolation, of delusion and destruction, of daring and death. Enter the personal hell of Christopher Irving in the thrilling novel, "This Side of Midnight" by David Halk. Christopher, a recluse and a failure, collects corpses for company and the dead become better friends for him than the living. But a mysterious voice threatening his own death puts Christopher on a mission of violence and murder as the only way to save himself. The line between the living and the dead becomes blurred with deadly consequences in this dark psychological thriller.

MURDER AT MORLAND MANOR, Book One in Marilyn Clay's Juliette Abbott Regency Mystery Series features clever, young Miss Juliette Abbott as sleuth. A former companion to a titled London lady, Miss Abbott has now agreed to serve as lady’s maid to one of the young ladies invited to the country estate of Morland Manor, each girl hoping to win the heart of the wealthy Morland heir. But nothing at the house party goes as planned and suddenly Juliette finds herself the suspect in a shocking murder! The only way to escape the muddle is to solve the mystery herself, otherwise she'll lose this ...

Since revealing her secret life to her husband, Nicole has been plagued by nightmares of her past. In a twist of fate, the assignment she is offered will take her right back to her childhood home in South Carolina...where her past was a nightmare. But when her children are put in sudden danger, Nicole no longer cares what happens to herself. And she soon arrives in her old home with vengeance burning in her eyes. Will Nicole save her family—and herself—in the process? Or is revenge a dish best never served at all?

She's the family lawyer and the baby of the Addler family. Her father didn't approve of her last boyfriend, and Mia broke up with the rockstar who'd helped her sister. But he's back in Forbidden Lake, and Mia has some very grown-up decisions to make... Mia Addler has always conformed to family expectations. So when her father declares rockstar Declan Phelps too old for her, she breaks up with him and tries to find a way to enjoy her summer. But he can't stay away from her, and he stages a "chance meeting" at the beach to see if they can have a second chance. Declan has traveled the world as...

He owns the biggest business in Forbidden Lake, and his top-floor penthouse overlooks the bay. She's his right-hand in the office...and his biggest crush. Will he tell her the secrets he's never told anyone, or let their chance at love wither away? Samantha Addler has worked for Tanner Global Communications for a while now, and she's bringing in more clients than ever. If only she wasn't so jealous of an innocent kiss her boss gave another co-worker last Christmas. But Sami's had her eye on Anderson Tanner for almost as long as she's worked for him. They've traveled the world together to ...

Everyone in Meryton is excited about the upcoming Netherfield ball, but Lizzy is preoccupied, for the thief, though his identity is known, is still at-large. When Mr. Darcy’s sister arrives, she and Lizzy become fast friends, but Lizzy’s acrimony with Darcy threatens everything, especially when she overhears him condemning Jane as a grasping social climber without true regard for Bingley. They are at odds, but when an abduction occurs the very night of the ball, it brings the two of them together to find the kidnapper and rescue his victim.

He's a member of a prominent family in Forbidden Lake looking to finish his degree. She's trying to make ends meet and stay out of the spotlight, which is pretty much impossible when someone starts a relationship with one of the Addlers... Jonathan Addler doesn't know why he wants to impress his father, but he does. And that means finally finishing his degree. He signs up for the introductory cooking class, thinking it will be a huge waste of time. Then he meets Cassandra Caldwell, and everything changes. Cassie wants one thing: to keep her twin brothers safe. After her mother's death, she ...