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A wealthy family with DARK secrets. A SHOCKING reveal that you guaranteed won't see coming... Avery Collins is an attorney with the tender heart of a warrior for the wrongfully accused, for one simple reason. She was once wrongfully accused, and spent 7 years in prison for a murder she didn't commit. Now sworn to protect the indigent accused, she's persuaded to represent Esme Guitierrez, an El Salvadoran refugee who is accused of killing 21-year-old Aria Whitmore. Aria was the daughter of the prominent billionaire hotelier Jacob Whitmore, and was also an aspiring concert pianist and music ...

THE MULTI-AWARD WINNING DEBUT THRILLER BY T.J.HAWKINS Tom Rivers is a middle aged professional. He has a wife and two daughters. His life is comfortable, if somewhat unremarkable. But he has a secret, that even he doesn't know about. During a business trip to London he discovers that he is instead, a genetically superior and highly trained MI5 agent who has been kept in a sleeper state for the past twenty five years and is now expected to save his country from catastrophe. A terrorist cell has developed a weapon so devastating that it could send Britain back to the Dark Ages and, at the ...

Those who control dreams control reality. Madeline wants more time—for her career as a tech startup CEO, for herself, and for her family. Lucky for her, a new and controversial procedure offers to give her just that by reducing how much she needs to sleep. The data is promising, and she’s used to taking calculated risks. It seems like the right decision at the time, even if she hides it from her husband. While Madeline scaled the corporate ladder and spent half her nights on the road, Darwin traded in dreams of winning the Nobel Prize in neuroscience for the quiet fulfillment of staying...

Who is Nola Brown? Nola is a mystery. Nola is trouble. And Nola is supposed to be dead. Her body was found on a plane that mysteriously fell from the sky as it left a secret military base in the Alaskan wilderness. Her commanding officer verifies she's dead. The US government confirms it. But Jim "Zig" Zigarowski has just found out the truth: Nola is still alive. And on the run.

Paleontology professor Logan Ford thought he found a fresh start when he purchased a sixty-seven-acre ranch in the badlands of Montana. Drummed out of academia for his faith-driven principles and acceptance of creationism, Ford just wants to be left alone to dig in the fossil-rich dirt at his new property. Excavating dinosaur bones gives him an unquenchable purpose and lasting contentment. Unfortunately, his past refuses to let go. A former colleague at the university is hellbent on destroying him. Professor Julian Blade has always been envious of Ford’s life and even led the charge in ...

Jess, a spirited woman at a crossroads in life, returns to her roots after a stormy divorce and bidding farewell to big city life. With her loyal collie Jigsaw at her side, she reinvents herself as the owner of a dog daycare center. In the midst of their new beginnings, tragedy strikes when a pet enrolled at Happy Pooch is left unclaimed. When Jess takes the abandoned dog home, she finds the owner’s lifeless body sprawled across the floor. Refusing to accept the official ruling of suicide, she begins a quest for the truth in a town where everyone knows everyone and untangling fact from ...

Winner in 2023 Global Book Awards competition Dark Matter: A fast-paced psychological thriller and emotional roller-coaster Personal tragedy gives D.S. Ross the daunting prospect of caring for his twelve-year-old autistic nephew, something he is ill-equipped to handle. As he learns and adapts, the killing doesn’t stop. Racked by grief and loneliness, enraged by those he believes responsible for the death of his wife, one man thirsts for revenge. The Press labels him the BBQ Killer. After being rejected and humiliated, another Killer hides in plain sight, cloaked in kindness and compassion...

Storms, Secrets, and Schemes on Lake Windermere! At England’s favorite summer retreat, Sherlock Holmes, Lucy, and their companions trade Baker Street for breezy straw hats and seaside disguises—but danger follows them even on holiday. While searching for their missing ally, Amy Thiel, they stumble upon another mystery: the sudden disappearance of a prominent attorney’s wife. The charade soon unravels. Flynn is recognized by his old foe, the infamous assassin known as the Burner, and narrowly survives an ambush. Meanwhile, Holmes and Lucy investigate a decades-old tragedy involving a ...

Sometimes the hardest person to forgive is the one in the mirror reflecting back at you. Matthew London can attest to this difficult truth. He was once a highly respected hostage negotiator for the NYPD. But then a bungled hostage scene destroyed his career. Now all London wants is to be left alone to lick his wounds. For eight years he has lived like a hermit in a declining plantation house, a broken man with a secret past. Only his talent for painting Renaissance-style paintings and murals keeps his inner demons from totally destroying him. Each day London longs for a chance at redemption...

What would you do if your most dangerous weapon was also your worst nightmare? Harper’s DNA is priceless and dangerous in the wrong hands. The evil doctor after her can use it to enhance his super soldiers. Not willing to risk being captured, Harper decides to flee, but is forced to resurface when her friends’ lives are threatened. As she hunts down the doctor to protect those she cares about, she realizes his army is far larger than anyone had imagined and will have to make decisions that could risk her very soul. The one good thing? She has the man she loves by her side, until he is ...

Fresh out of Bible college, James Buchman has found a good life for himself as the pastor of a small church in rural upstate New York. But beyond the joy of new friends and young love lurks a deadly secret. When inexplicable events leave innocent souls teetering on the edge of destruction, James can't help but wonder if the congregation's mysterious newcomer may somehow be responsible.

Death, dishonour or duty. Time is running out and someone is going to die.Trapped on Beta Earth, Julius has no memory of the past two years, and everything feels wrong. As he struggles to make sense of his surroundings, he is taken under the wing of a very unexpected group of people and their existence will change everything. Back on Alpha Earth, treacherous coalitions with the worst of Beta humanity are being formed and only Neith knows the full extent of the danger. Searching for help, she approaches those she trusts, but each encounter ends in violent death. She is on her own. Julius and...

The Rapture has occurred, America is devastated and the Islamic Messiah, the 12th Imam, is moving quickly to establish his ultimate control over the world. Soon all will be in place according to the plans of the Antichrist. As America attempts to recover from the trio of a nuclear explosion in the nation’s capital, an EMP attack on the electrical grid, and the disappearance of millions of people across the globe, over in Iran the Islamic messiah known as the 12th Imam takes advantage of the ensuing chaos. To consolidate his power, he quickly divides all the nations into ten distinct ...

Deadly. Ruthless. Eighteen. Bent on murder. Despite not being old enough to drive, Rose was easily the most skilled assassin in Eva Santella’s Italian boot camp. But then Rose decided to leave that life behind and spent her teen years playing soccer and chess and lying on the beach in Barcelona. The Sultan took all that away. When he killed her boyfriend on the night she turned 18, Rose made a vow that either she would kill The Sultan or die trying. At that moment, she knew despite her best efforts to live a normal life, she was destined to be a killer. Now, after years of hunting The ...

When Tom Hitsman attends his high school reunion he is confronted by the bullies that made his life miserable decades earlier. Suspecting that they are involved in criminal activities and faced with a terminal diagnosis, he makes a decision that will alter his life and their lives forever. As Tom navigates the complexities of vengeance and moral ambiguity, he manages to create ingenious ways to dispose of the bad guys including using a Barry Manilow song. They say revenge is sweet, but is it truly sweeter when simmered over thirty years, or just a really a bad idea. Find out in Terminal ...

A dead judge. A café full of curious cats. And me, Emma Carter—the prime suspect. When a well-known Judge Harrington is found dead in my cozy cat café, I’m as shocked as anyone. I never thought my café, Purrs & Puzzles, would turn into the scene of a murder investigation. But when my rescue cats start bringing me clues—odd little “gifts” from the crime scene—I realize I’ve got a puzzle to solve. With the help of my nosy friend Lizzie, Detective Jake Malone who’s allergic to cats, and a bunch of quirky regulars who know more than they’re saying, I’m diving headfirst ...

During a walk on the beach, Lea’s adventurous canines find a body under the pier. The discovery ignites her inner sleuth. Ignoring police warnings about interference, she convinces her sister to start their own investigation of the brutal murder. They learn of several possible motives, but which of the victim’s acts resulted in his tragic demise? An affair with a married woman; Mistreatment of peers in his relentless pursuit of success; or Unsavory dealings with corrupt individuals. Can the sisters solve the mystery before they get in trouble with the police, or worse…. Will they put ...

A mutilated body is found dumped at Cowane's Hospital in the heart of historic Stirling. For DCI Malcolm Ford it's like nothing he's ever seen before, the savagery of the crime making him want to catch the murderer before he strikes again. For reporter Donna Blake it's a shot at the big time, a chance to get her career back on track and prove all the doubters wrong. But for close protection specialist Connor Fraser it's merely a grisly distraction from the day job.

Do you have a plan for the apocalypse? Rhys doesn't. But as he watches chaos spill from the Alpha Tower, he knows one thing for sure ... He must get to his son before the virus does. If you like high stakes and edge of your seat action in a post-apocalyptic world, then The Alpha Plague is for you. Get it now to join Rhys at ground zero as he tries to save his loved ones and survive a disaster that will leave the world changed forever. This box set includes: The Alpha Plague: A Post-Apocalyptic Action Thriller The Alpha Plague 2 The Alpha Plague 3

Abandoned by her fugitive ex-husband, Lily Brown is rebuilding her life on the edge of a Kansas town that still feels the sting of his crimes. Lily lies low, managing the isolated storage facility where she lives with her twelve-year-old son, Everett, and planning a better future for them both. That requires keeping secrets. Everett has them too. After breaking into a storage unit, Everett finds photographs and news clippings of five girls missing for decades.