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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.

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.

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.

Tampa's free-spirited Judge Wilhelmina Carson returns in the third installment of this well-loved series. During Tampa's annual Gasparilla Pirate Festival, murder chases Judge Willa's beloved secretary into a world of corruption, bank fraud, and art theft while Willa's dad, Jim Harper, suffers hell of his own making. Just as Willa is recovering from the shock of meeting her father's new trophy wife, her secretary Margaret Wheaton becomes mysteriously involved with a nefarious jeweler.

Three FBI murder mysteries that crackle with suspense. One gutsy FBI agent who never wanted to become a modern-day heroine.

I wasn’t supposed to end up on the Drexian space station or be matched to one of their gorgeous warriors as a tribute bride. My perfect twin sister is the one they wanted. Instead, I stole her spot. The trouble is, I’m not tribute bride “material”, whatever that means, and I’m on the first transport back to Earth in disgrace.

Stephanie Bond proves to be a masterful storyteller and Got Your Number is her latest winner.

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.

Liz Monahan is in a rut. Her boss is a jerk. Her mom won't stop asking about her love life. And her boyfriend just might be married. But since she found that corpse in her hotel room, things have gotten interesting. The new guy in accounting has a license to kill. He thinks she holds the key to a terrorist plot. And the man in her life is a rogue secret agent who just might want her dead. But at least he's single.

After a night of raw passion with the man Claire O'Briene had been secretly admiring for years, she thought their time together had come once and for all. Fate had finally brought them back to each other, but unfortunately nothing had changed. He was still the same man who ran away from relationships. Against his better judgment, Mason Bradley gave in to the temptation and allowed himself one night with the one woman he'd been too afraid to want - and too afraid to need.

This is not the typical bad boy meets good girl story. Logan Martelli is a bad boy. He's handsome, sexy, and knows what he wants. He steals cars. He doesn't do relationships. And he has the hottest green eyes in River Valley. Maddie Wright is a good girl with a wild streak. She's confident, strong, and goes after whatever or whoever she wants. And Maddie wants Logan Martelli with a passion. One fateful night brings Logan and Maddie together and electricity sparks between them.

If you are ready to create the life you desire without emotional baggage weighing you down, this book is for you! In spite of your achievements in life, do you remain curiously and even frustratingly unfulfilled? In spite of your efforts to create the life of your dreams, do you feel that love, youthful exuberance, and happiness remain devastatingly elusive? If you can relate to these obstacles, you are not alone.

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.

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?  

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.

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?

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 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?

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.

How to Clean and Organize Your Home Effectively is a user-friendly audiobook written with the intentions of making your life easier. Many people are faced with clutter and not quite sure how to get it under control. In this report you will learn that your clutter problem may not be your fault. In fact other factors may be contributing to what's causing your clutter issue. Thankfully there are simple steps that you can take to help you get that clutter in order.