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I came on board the Drexian space station to attend my cousin’s wedding. That was it. Despite every other woman on Earth falling all over themselves for one of the tough aliens, I wasn’t interested. Not even a little bit. I had my own life on Earth to sort out, and a hot Drexian did not figure into my plans.

When FBI Special Agents Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar are sent to Fort Bird, North Carolina, to find Jack Reacher, powerful enemies with their backs against the wall will stop at nothing to keep the secrets Reacher left behind. The Hunt for Jack Reacher series enthralls fans of John Grisham, Lee Child, and more.

FBI Special Agents Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar will wait no longer. They head to Houston to find Susan Duffy, one of Jack Reacher's known associates, determined to get answers. But Duffy's left town, headed for trouble. Otto and Gaspar are right behind her and powerful enemies with their backs against the wall will have everything to lose.

Now that everyone on Earth knows about the Drexians - and their need for human mates - women have been falling all over themselves to volunteer. But not me.

For Shreya, taking an alien for a mate was never in the cards. As one of the human women who rejected the idea of being a tribute bride to the Drexian warriors, she was just fine without a big, hulking alien. Even if they are gorgeous. But now that she’s been taken captive by one who won’t take no for an answer, it looks like she may not have a choice.

When they told her she’d been abducted from Earth as a tribute bride for a badass alien warrior, Hope thought it was the craziest thing she’d ever heard. That was before she was kidnapped by space pirates. Hope didn’t buy the idea of being a tribute bride. After all, she’d never been into commitment. But when she sees the Drexian who’s come to rescue her, she’s more impressed than she wants to admit.

When the Inferno Force battleship I’m working on jumps away to save a colony under attack, I have no choice but to become part of the crew. But the Inferno Force ship is nothing like the high-tech space station I’m used to—and the warrior crew isn’t used to females on board. For a curvy brainiac who’s not used to being noticed, I’m now being noticed—a lot.

Alex was living the American dream. Until her crash. As she begins her daunting quest to uncover the black spots on her memory, a dead body is discovered in a murky Boston bay. What she finds doesn't make sense. The ritualistic slayings begin to stack up—and Alex is forced to plunge deeper into the investigation. Is she unwittingly falling into a trap? Just as Alex uncovers the killer's twisted motive, she's gutted: Her FBI and family worlds collide. And the resulting explosion tears her in two. Can Alex piece together the jagged fragments to save her family before it's too late?

Brok has vowed to track down the pretty human who was snatched by space pirates, and return her to be matched with a Drexian warrior. One who isn’t battle-scarred and damaged, like him. The snag: He’s thought about nothing but the dark-haired beauty for weeks. Now he's stuck on a hedonistic, alien planet with her where the clothing is scant and the inhibitions are low. If he gets her out, can he really let her go?

A little boy makes his first kill—and he likes it. He is cunning, charming, and without remorse. He is a sociopath. Alex tracks a homicidal maniac, yet the evidence doesn't line up. Could there be more than one killer? She knows she's being played, but by whom? And for what twisted purpose? When the cold hand of death touches her family, all bets are off. It’s a frantic race for Alex to stop a manipulative killer...before the bloodbath reaches haunting proportions.

Everyone needs a vacation - even hardworking, crime-fighting federal judges. Looking forward to a quiet week of stunning winter scenery, roaring fires, and warm companionship, Judge Willa Carson and her husband, George, head north to Pleasant Harbor, Michigan, and slam into murder.

The shadow of death envelopes her sleepy seaside hometown. Can Alex’s family escape the crossfire? Drug lords have no mercy…and spare no one to achieve their sinister goals. Disconnected investigations converge into one focal point—and for Alex, it hits too close to home. Alex will stop at nothing to blow the crime ring straight to hell. But who in her family will be sacrificed in the process?

Bombs rip through the Boston Marathon crowd. Hysteria engulfs New England. A loved one clings to life—Alex won't sleep until the culprit is found. Can she push her way on to the task force? Rumors swirl, but hard evidence is as elusive as an icy glacier. With her FBI team wrapped up in the formal investigation, Alex pulls in her newest confidante. Alex and Ozzie team up to quickly separate fact from fiction. But what seems right could be so very wrong.

Boston Strong of just a few years ago is now Boston on edge. And this time the targets are men of the cloth—priests. Could Alex's friend and colleague be behind these bombings? Alex is torn between her loyalty of friendship and her FBI oath. But what price will she ultimately pay? Bloody Sunday. The IRA. The movement toward peace. Wounds of decades ago have reopened, bleeding all over Boston. As Alex pieces together the puzzle, she wonders how innocent her colleague really is. How far will someone go to make a stand?

Alex gets a call no parent should ever receive. A dagger to her heart. But she can't afford to stop. Forced to carry out the wishes of the captors, Alex is threatened at every turn. It defiles her, but she'll do anything to get her daughter back. Will it work?

This book is a scientific expedition to research and explore the enterprise-grade big data appliances with blended OLTP and OLAP capabilities. Enterprise database systems with the aid of big data analytics create an intelligent ecosystem by taming and wrangling the data coming from extreme-disparate sources of structured and unstructured channels with massive parallelization techniques to discover, visualize, predict, and action the patterns and trends of mashups of big data.

Judith Campbell prides herself on her level head. She's a scientist with a 10-year plan, a well-managed bank account, and a clear understanding of what she wants out of life. Currently, that means a summer of fun touring Europe with her friends. She intends to see some amazing scenery, flirt with a cute guy or two, and return home ready to settle down for good. Falling madly in love with an Italian playboy is definitely not on her life goals to-do list. But then her eyes meet those of Cesare D'Angelo across a crowded piazza.

Alex goes off the books to try to stop a group that has redefined modern-day terrorism. She has no choice but to pull in Ozzie; they find only more death. A young woman with so much hope…two bullets in the back of her head. How does she connect to all the other deaths in cities across the world? Alex can see only one common thread: a bloodthirsty quest to obtain control. And that control will kill hundreds of thousands to pad the pockets of the group's leadership.

Recruited to investigate a string of grisly murders, FBI agent Alex Troutt is without words. The mutilations are unlike anything she's ever witnessed. The slayings don't stop. There is no pattern. With the aid of a CIA agent, Alex tracks the assassin down the east coast. But every step forward proves to be a step too late, the kill list seemingly endless. And then the killer turns it up a notch. It's a vendetta unlike any other, because a killer must make it personal. Alex has no other option: To end the murders, she must confront the person who destroyed her life.

Thirty years have passed since that fateful night. Can Alex ever forget the mother she never really knew? Alex finally confronts the killer—the same man who just murdered the Boston police chief. And what Alex pulls from him shatters her core. Clinging to a whisper of hope, Alex must outthink and outduel everyone in her path to right a 30-year wrong. Will Alex’s quest to find the truth destroy her life all over again?