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They died with smiles on their faces. Three apparent suicides: a brilliant engineer, an infamous lawyer, and a controversial politician. Three strangers with nothing in common - and no obvious reasons for killing themselves. Police lieutenant Eve Dallas found the deaths suspicious.

A desperate attempt to pay tuition so I can graduate college is the only reason I took this job. When I accidentally spill a bottle of expensive tequila on Jovan Aguilar, I have no idea he's the one who owns the elite Miami nightclub—a fact he doesn't reveal until the morning after I end up in his bed.

In a merciless summer of biblical heat and destructive winds, Gabrielle Fox's main concern is to rebuild her career as a psychologist after a shattering car accident. But when she is assigned a patient who is the most dangerous teenager in the country, she begins to fear she has made a terrible mistake.

In the moments leading up to the Rapture, nobody knows it is coming as the clock silently ticks down. Choices are made. The stage is set as Nicolae Carpathia ruthlessly eliminates any obstacles in his rise to power.

A friend is missing and presumed dead, and detective Jade Hollis is determined to track down the killer. To do that she must team up with private investigator Bryce Kingsley - who doesn't know he is the father of her child. But she'll have to put personal secrets aside because the killer will strike again to keep the truth from being exposed.

Authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins are now among the greatest successes in the history of publishing. They continue their captivating story with this third prequel, which leads directly to the events of Left Behind, the novel that started the phenomenon.

Jeff has always loved Georgianne, ever since they were kids—with a love so strong, so obsessive, it sometimes drives him to do crazy things. Scary things. Like stalking Georgianne and everyone she loves, including her caring husband and her innocent teenage daughter.

Magnolia Parish Detectives Dawn Luke and London Carter are called to investigate a strange burglary at a local clothing store. All of the female mannequins have been stolen, but their clothes have been left behind. As though the theft weren't strange enough, the case becomes even more bizarre when some of the stolen property turns up in a sugarcane field, but riddled with bullets.

The thought of his best friend, Aaron, turned traitor, burned deep within Detective Liam every day. He knew he couldn’t rest until he made him pay. So he lied to his girlfriend, Sheila and ran off to exact revenge. Low and behold, evil lurked back home in Hillsborough, as terror began to overtake the town. Something strange was going on. Individuals vanished without warning and were feared dead. Upon his return, Liam immediately became immersed in solving the mystery and was astonished at who the suspects were.

When Sirena Martell finds herself lost and alone on a backwoods road near the Great Serpent Mound, panic pounds her troubled heart. But when she finally does reach the stranger she is supposed to meet - Enoch - with his clutch of artifact eggs, Sirena breathes a sigh of relief...until the real trouble hatches. With unnerving action from the Great Serpent Mound site to Maysville, Kentucky, and overseas from Paris to Amsterdam, Serpent Egg Rapture is one scorcher of a listen across a harrowing landscape that is wrought from pure evil.

Alpha and Omega: Your transfiguration awaits you, my love. Heed the mantra, and live exalted forever. Reject it, and die a mortal death. Haunting relics lure a non-fiction writer into this destiny proclaimed by his tantalizing seductress. He must either claim his revealed identity to start his new life with his soulmate, or else perish in the wake of devastating temptation. Through twists and thrills that test the boundaries of reality, Robb Hoff’s launch of the Eggsquisite Corpse series is an odyssey across a surreal landscape that careens between the earthly and divine.

Unhappily married Laurel sets out on the vacation of a lifetime with her closest friends. Kidnapped, their innocent fun becomes terrifying, and she has to be brave in the face of danger. Laurel finds herself intrigued by her captor, Rayn, a Somali pirate leader who is extremely competent and dangerous, which makes him a force to be reckoned with. He's also an astute businessman with millions in his Swiss bank account. Will this Somali pirate carry out his mission and put Laurel's and her friends' lives on the line, or does he subscribe to another agenda? Will he capture Laurel's heart along with his ransom demands, or completely destroy it?

Rapture is my stomping grounds. The place where all my depravity originates. It isn't that I want to live this way. It's that my normal life disappeared years ago. I'm a hollow man, trying my best to fight off the nothingness that threatens me every waking hour. But one night, it all catches up to me. I barge into her life like a criminal on the run, pleading for her to tend my wounds. The pretty vet across the back alley from Rapture is everything I'm not. Smart. Talented. Driven. Good. She's out of my league, yet I don't want to let her go.

Learn how rapture insurance generated millions of dollars for two struggling entrepreneurs, one a believer and the other an atheist. This is the surreal story of the rise of the company that created the post-rapture assistance industry almost overnight.