First Mystery

The crew of the deep-sea exploration rig Leaguer discovers oil sweeter, purer, and easier to refine than the fields in Saudi Arabia. To confirm their own analysis of their trillion dollar find, a test barrel is flown from the drill site off the coast of Papua/New Guinea to Houston Analytical Laboratories (HAL).

A stolen secret, a strangled judge, and a flowering feud. When Lena Larsen agrees to host the New Oslo Tulip Festival at her grandmother's Victorian home, she expects prickly personalities and competitive gardeners. What she doesn't expect is murder. As tulip enthusiasts and judges gather to showcase their prized blooms, tensions quickly rise to the surface. Head judge Eleanor Summers seems to delight in antagonizing everyone with veiled threats about "revelations" she plans to share. But before she can expose anyone's secrets, Eleanor is found dead among the prize tulip beds. With a house ...

When recipes are stolen, revenge boils over... Lena Larsen's Victorian guest house in New Oslo was supposed to host a simple charity chili competition. But when celebrity chef Chad "Chili" Bartell turns up dead—face down in his own cooking pot—the temperature in the kitchen really starts to rise. With her best friend Charlie, her sheriff boyfriend Mark, and the not-so-subtle guidance of her grandmother's ghost, Lena must sift through a stew of suspects: a food blogger with a fiery temper, a local diner owner with a simmering grudge, an ambitious PR agent stirring up trouble, and a PTA ...

Pet portrait artist Kiki Long is driving to her first day of work at her new job as the Pride Falls forensic photographer when she spots a smoking car that's skidded off the road. After confirming nobody is inside, her natural inclination to document what she's witnessing takes over and she starts taking pictures, which means she's standing too close when the vehicle explodes. Now she's dealing with a head injury and an irate detective who accuses her messing up his crime scene. That's nobody's definition of a good first day. But she did do a good job with the photos. They prove that the ...

Octa has the spear of Woden, but the redemption he sought is out of his grasp. With his banishment and the death of his father, he can no longer return to his Saxon homelands. His only salvation is to join forces with Hengist and Horsa, and their Jutish army that beaches itself on Brittania’s shores. But can he trust their motivation or are there greater plans afoot? The Gods have their own plans, though, and Octa’s fate is not his own to control as Friga, the mother of the Saxon gods, battles to avoid a war with the gods of the Britons and Saxons using Octa as her weapon.

In April of 1843, Phoebe’s family hears about a murder while they are traveling to their new home in the Shenandoah Valley. They arrive to learn the victim attended her father's new church and the crime took place on a leading church member’s plantation. Eager to make new friends, Phoebe forms a unique relationship that propels her into the middle of the mystery, and she begins to question several acquaintances’ motives. Will she uncover their secrets before the plantation owner’s charming son discovers hers?

As the interplanetary human civil war looms, Seth Harthset, a terraforming engineer and a rare telepath, stays far from the conflict on a distant planet. He fears they will learn he is a rogue telepath. The ruthless Emperor forces the few human telepaths to spy for him. After seeing what telepaths can do, Seth vows he will never use his unique ability. Seth has visions of disasters about to happen, but only when they happen to others. He has had another vision his entire life, this of a beautiful woman. He doesn’t know who she is but believes he will find her someday. Seth’s visions ...

Dealing with Europe is never easy It's Paris 1919 and the Peace Conference following the end of the Great War is proving anything but peaceful. In fact, it can be murder... A French Diplomat has been murdered. When the chief suspect turns out to be the girlfriend of Aldric 'Spunky' Stephens, Kit Aston is called in to investigate. The investigation becomes a race against time as Europe faces a deadly new enemy, intent on dragging it back into the carnage from which it has just escaped. The Kit Aston mysteries mix real life historical characters and events with crime thrillers full of red ...

The last thing Jett Gavallan would call himself was a hero. A fighter pilot in the Gulf War, he found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. But he is determined not to let it destroy him. He has created Black Jet Securities, an international financial consulting firm, in order to use his expertise to create enough wealth to do some good in the world. It's a noble goal, but Black Jet Securities' latest and most ambitious deal could destroy everything that Gavallan has worked so hard to build.

Dylan First, brilliant psychologist turned FBI agent, is trying to forget the horrific discovery of her past: that her mentor and father figure, a brilliant psychiatrist and professor, was secretly a serial killer. Though behind bars, he haunts Dylan’s psyche, and when a new killer turns up, seemingly targeting people from her mentor’s past, the FBI desperately need Dylan to solve the mind games that only a brilliant criminal psychologist like her can.

Max Moran looks like Superman but has the personality of Clark Kent. People expect him to take charge, but he'd much rather be a follower. Women expect an alpha male, but he's more the best friend of the romantic lead. This disconnect between his looks and his personality has caused him problems with his family, his girlfriends, and his attempts to develop an acting career in New York. Now he is managing his Uncle Edward's inn in the resort town of Lighthouse Point along the New Jersey Shore, and life is quiet, just the way Max likes it. Then a dead body turns up in one of the rooms, and it...

You take out one annoying vampire in revenge, and now you have to clean up the mess? What a pain in the...something. Bethany Anne and crew are back! They need to grab a ship, figure out who is trying to dig into her businesses, get their hands around the potential for creating an AI and the ongoing mess with Anton and South America.

Alpha Daddies and the Brats who can’t resist them... 5 Hot Age Gap Stories Featuring Older Men and Younger Women plus bonus story Brat’s First Time With Alpha: Young women’s first time with an older man ~ From untouched to first time age gap.

Two years after first contact, Astral forces have established their fragile kingdom around the globe. Motherships occupy the cities. Shuttles patrol the lawless outlands. The pacifist class of Astrals known as Titans assist humans in running their alien empire while bloodthirsty Reptar peacekeepers ensure that order is kept. And unseen in the ships above, a third class of visitor calls the shots - the unseen Divinity, worshipped and feared by citizens in equal measure.

The hugely powerful and pervasive presence of the Colossus supercomputer mechanically runs Earth and its myriad operations. Managed by its creator, Dr. Charles Forbin, it is incapable of lies and void of human emotion. It is not a robot and not human. As part of its brief to enhance the human race, it runs eerie emotion research centers, authorizing acts of savagery to measure resistance and feeling. Art and abstract creation are banned, and surveillance is constant. No one is free.

Anna had just dumped her cheating fiance, but couldn't get out of paying for their weekend away at a ski resort, so she decided to go anyway. After getting really drunk, she is befriended by Crystal, a hot lesbian, who helps her out of a dangerous situation. Anna decides to reward Crystal in the only way she knows how.

“When girls go missing here, no one says a word"...Twenty-four year old Lila has disappeared without trace. It’s the kind of case that ex-military loner Grant Fletcher would normally be happy to take on - he will always seek justice if someone has the money to pay him. But this one he’s doing for free. This one’s personal. She last called her father from a small town called Daversville, in rural Georgia. A place - Fletcher discovers as he checks into the only motel - where folks are proud to keep themselves to themselves.

All I want for My Birthday is…? What do you get a brat who has everything she wants... Except you? All Madison wants for her eighteenth birthday is to have her step be her first. But so far, he has resisted everything she can do to seduce him… except one thing that she noticed when she was semi-asleep. When Mady falls asleep watching TV with her step, she discovers his weakness for her… and she schemes to use that to get him right where she wants him…Never has a brat had to work so hard on her own birthday to get the one thing she really wants: birthday sex! Mady comes up with a ...

Smart, wealthy and grounded, Emma has worked hard for her success. When she meets Matthew, a kind, handsome widower, he seems like the icing on the cake. Initially, Emma’s friends are delighted, but as the relationship quickly develops, they worry Emma could be being exploited. She’s a rich woman, after all.

Great New Low Price! Was $2.99. Now 2 Bucks Off! Lovely Young Woman Gets Her Cherry Popped! The boss’s eighteen-year-old daughter Chrissie makes Zac an offer: She wants him to be her first, if he’s up for it. Is he up for it?! Chrissie is not just your average summer intern… Untouched is the last thing young Chrissie wants to be… and she comes up with a way to get her cherry popped while working as an office intern at her Dad’s company. She doesn’t count on getting her other cherry busted as well! Story: 7000 words Filthy sex that’s stinking hot. MF, first time, oral, ...