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Lucas Montgomery is a charismatic and flamboyant property tycoon. Sparks fly the moment I am tasked with defending him against money laundering charges, igniting both tension and undeniable attraction. Every meeting is a battle of wills, with his charm and confidence constantly testing my patience and my resolve. The forced proximity required for our collaboration reveals growing feelings between us, challenging me to navigate the fine line between my professional duties and personal emotions. Facing ethical dilemmas, dangerous threats, and high-stakes courtroom drama, I find myself pushed ...

A deadly satellite combined with an unstable president could prove fatal. (Saga 2 of 10). Can Detective Blackhawk save Earth from destruction? In this spell-binding thriller, an overheard conversation leads to three deaths in one night. Det. Blackhawk has no choice but chase a killer to Mars in the 25th century. Updated -5/18/24 Be sure to get the ebook, Best Friends, an outtake companion story of Alex's early life. #B07VVMQLQ6 Next in the Domino Series: Crossroads #B01E9N6FPW

Chrissy, a journalism lecturer struggling to re-enter the workforce after maternity leave, stumbles upon a decades-old mystery that could be her ticket back into the career she loves. A photograph of four young women in ski wear, taken in the Snowy Mountains in 1980, leads her to a chilling double-murder case that was never solved. Michael and Gloria Katzenbach vanished during a white-out, their bodies uncovered months later when the ice melted. The case went cold, but Chrissy is determined to find the truth.

Stay-at-home mom Yvonne Landis enters her kitchen one day to meet a huge surprise: Seated on a chair is her son, Gabe. He went missing when he was ten years old, more than three years ago. It turns out he was abducted by pedophiles who made his existence a living hell. Yvonne is determined to heal Gabe. Her husband Ben is not completely on board with that idea, especially since Gabe stabbed him with a fork shortly after they were reunited. Then disturbing things happen to their younger son, 9-year-old Joseph, and Gabe may be behind those, too....

Book #2 in the Thailand Fiction Series - Thailand's Sickest HELL TO PAY is full of non-stop action. You should read book #1 first, it has sold 26,000+ copies! Hell To Pay is the second in the "Thailand's Sickest" series. If you haven't read the first book, you should probably do that. If you want to read them out of order, it's possible, but probably not the best reader experience. Hell To Pay is set in Thailand - Surat, Krabi, Ubon, and Pattaya. Fact and fiction blurs a bit in this story. The author writes from a first-person perspective about events that happened after publishing the ...

Edith may have been tricked into a nursing home, but at eighty years young, she’s planning her escape. Patience works there, cleaning up mess and bonding with Edith, a kindred spirit. But Patience is lying to Edith about almost everything. Edith’s own daughter, Clio, won’t speak to her. And someone new is about to knock on Clio’s door...and their intentions aren’t good. With every reason to distrust each other, the women must solve a mystery with three suspects, two murders, and one victim. If they do, they might just find out what happened to the baby who disappeared.

Sheltered and naïve Carmen Darby has lived under the thumb of her father Rex, a brutal criminal businessman, her whole life. But when Rex announces his retirement and plans to leave his vast wealth to his three daughters, Carmen doesn't thank her father as effusively as he'd like, enraging him. Cast out from her home, Carmen assumes a new identity and starts her life over, but she knows she can't outrun the sins of her family for ever.

When successful journalist Marshall McEwan discovers that his father is terminally ill, he returns to his childhood home in Bienville, Mississippi - a place he vowed to leave behind forever. His family’s newspaper is failing; and Jet Turner, the love of his youth, has married into the family of Max Matheson, one of the powerful patriarchs who rule the town through the exclusive Poker Club. Bienville is on the brink of economic salvation, in the form of a billion-dollar Chinese paper mill.

Never underestimate the power of a woman especially one like me with beauty, brains and the greed to become the boss I am in a business where men rule. I know money and power hold hands. I mean what I say. I say what I mean. I eliminate threats including women and children. I had to prove to be stronger than, wiser than and better than the best. I put in work. I made moves that earned me respect in this action thriller of my wild, crazy and dangerous ride to remain on top by any means

The T&E crew believed they were out of danger. Unbeknownst to them, someone was making plans to eliminate them one by one, starting with Freddie's adopted daughter, Terri Atkins. How will Freddie, Ed, and Craig join forces to protect Terri and her family?

Terri and her friends narrowly escaped the clutches of a madman, only to be hunted for that very reason. Caruso is so hell-bent on vengeance and recapturing the women that he unknowingly walks into a trap. Can he and his goons extract the revenge he desperately wants, or will Ed’s team successfully eliminate the threat to their lives? Find out if Ed’s team comes out victorious or if they fall prey to Caruso’s twisted plan.

What Is the End Game?: By Foley Western has achieved a remarkable feat by being as Top #10 best seller in three of Amazon's categories. #4 Best Seller ★ in Workplace Behavior (Kindle Store) (March 04, 2024) #32 Best Seller ★ in Workplace Culture (books) (Kindle Store) (Marach 04, 2024) Lean, louche and loaded, Dan is boss of his own multi- million pound computer tech company at the tender age of thirty-six. A charmed life, you might say... except that someone wants him dead. He's been shrugging off the hate mail that keeps appearing in his inbox. After all, you don't get to the top ...

Trace is a prosecutor whose world revolves around putting criminals in prison...until the love of his life that he lost long ago appears as one of his Defendants. Will he betray his office or allow her to go to prison?

Truth Be Told - formerly titled Are You Sleeping - is an addictive psychological thriller about a hit podcast that reopens a murder case and threatens to unravel the carefully constructed life of the victim’s daughter. The only thing more dangerous than a lie . . . is the truth. Josie Buhrman has spent the last ten years trying to escape her family. Following her father’s murder thirteen years before, her mother ran away to join a cult and her twin sister betrayed her in an unimaginable way, leaving Josie alone.

1990: Holly is a fresher student at Oxford University. Out of her depth and nervous about her surroundings, she falls into an uneasy friendship with a group of older students from the upper echelons of society and begins to develop feelings for one in particular. He’s confident, quiet, attractive and seems to like her, too. But as the year progresses, her friends’ behaviour grows steadily more disconcerting, and Holly begins to realise she might just be a disposable pawn in a very sinister game.

She’s lost herself in his life—but what will she do without him? Tony looks from the smoking gun to me, his eyes wide with mingled grief and shock. I set the pistol down on the desk and sit. The grip bears my bloody handprint. “Is everyone ready to get to business now? Because we have a huge mess to clean up.” *** Eleni Everyone I love goes away or betrays me. I’m tired of getting my heart broken. When the empty boss’s chair offers me the opportunity to seize power and control, I don’t know how to refuse. Dante? I’m not used to taking a backseat. I’m not used to wearing my...

A childhood spent moving around the world left Revelle Lee with an unusual gift—the ability to fluently speak 11 languages. Now, Revelle spends her days translating for witnesses, victims, and the accused across London crime scenes and courtrooms. It's a stressful job, though not as stressful as the process she is currently going through to adopt little boy, Elliot. She is determined to be the mother to him that she never had, and to make up for her own past mistakes.

Five years ago, when Akash Hingorani won a trial in court for his friends Priti and Vansh Diwan, he lost his heart to the presiding judge, Shilpa Singh. But the passionate start to their relationship would meet a swift end. And then, nine months after the affair is over, Akash gets a call for help from Judge Shilpa Singh.

A burglary at an attorney’s home in Tupelo, Mississippi and a stolen 10,000-year-old archaeological treasure draw Detective Arlan Trahan into the dark underworld of primitive flintknapping—and into the ghostly path of a World War II soldier with a terrible secret. Soon he finds himself on a decades-long trail of clues between the old soldier and the home invasion. Connections between the attorney, her stolen artifact, and a 1942 bank robbery quickly turn more than mysterious. A team of Memphis racketeers arrives with plans for the missing relic, and plans to end his investigation—with...

This twisted, thrilling read will plunge you into the unraveling mind of a psychotic female serial killer. Joanne Hawkins, sexually abused as a young girl by Joe, her drug-addicted stepfather, develops multiple personalities to deal with this horrific tragedy. Years later, as an adult, she uses her beauty and her sex to attract men like Joe. Once she seduces them, she binds their hands together while she makes love to them, and when they are defenseless, she strangles them with barbed wire. After several known pedophiles, are found murdered in the Austin, Texas area, there is an ...