Showing results by publisher "Author's Republic" in Suspense

Jules was born with a gift, but until now, he's only used it for small and selfish reasons. That will all change as he's inducted into The Circle, a secret international organization that takes the magickally gifted and puts them to work, fighting the forces of darkness, saving an unknowing world from malevolence that hides in the shadows. And Jules knows shadows all too well; he can command them to do his bidding...

Returning home from work, she discovers her door ajar, signs of a struggle, and her pregnant wife missing. The kidnappers call. They issue a ransom, and she gives in to their demands, following their instructions to the letter. But it becomes increasingly clear that this kidnapping isn't about the money, isn't about her or her partner.

When Mark Murphy, an experienced but burnt-out newspaper reporter, takes a job on a second-rate city daily, he's really just looking for a steady income and a little peace and quiet. What he gets is a murder mystery. With a city full of hoodlums, crooked cops and ruthless politicians standing in his way, he enlists the help of summer student Ronald Phillips, City Hall Reporter Cynthia Drummond and a little black cat with a weird obsession for pushing buttons, and embarks on a roller coaster ride to the truth.

Set in the urban area of Tokyo in the near future, the story revolves around Touka Kimizuki and her twin brother, Yuuto. Both of them are just like a typical 16-year old high schooler. But they're actually recruited by Public Security Intelligence Agency (PSIA) to become secret agents due to their ability to kill skilled assassins while they were still in the middle school.

A clue to her boyfriend's murder during a study abroad program in Mexico draws Carey back into the mystery that led to his death, forcing her to re-examine her own culpability and the self-delusion that blinded her to the dangers of his world. Ben's missing passport resurfaces, and Carey, now in her late twenties and living with her parents in Indianapolis, learns that her Mexican restaurant co-workers know more than they've said. Past and present collide, bringing the truth into sharp focus.

It's a hard thing to accept that someone wants you dead. It forces you to decide if you have anything worth living for. When radio morning host Lee Garrett finds a death threat on his control console, he shrugs it off as a prank. Until a series of minor harassments turns into undeniable attempts on his life. The suspects are many - he's made enemies - and the police are strangely uncooperative. The radio career he loved has turned sour, leaving behind a dwindling audience and the wreckage of his marriage.

Claire doesn't miss her lying, cheating husband, but that doesn't mean she killed him. Someone else committed the crime and framed her for it, and she prays it was anyone but her twin sister, who had motive and opportunity....

The fictional story, relocated to the Vietnam War, opens many years after Lieutenant's death, with the publication of a photograph of the POW Camp Commandant responsible, now a US citizen and successful businessman named Donald Quang. Hershey is commissioned by a fellow Vietnam veteran to carry out a 'routine check' into Quang's background, ostensibly for business reasons. Complications multiply quickly as it emerges that the Lieutenant's senior NCO is already on his way to the US.

When Lady Eleanor Sotheby unexpectedly enters the life of Jayne Clark, a 23-year-old waitress from Wichita, Kansas, Jayne's world is turned upside down. Not only is she welcomed into a family that she never knew, but she is thrust headlong into the highest strata of European society. Nothing is too grand in the fairy-tale lives of the uber-rich - the spectacular seaside villas, the sleek chauffeured limousines, the outrageously expensive designer clothes.

Sybil Tyler planned to coach an Olympic swim team to gold. Jonah Bishop is sure that he will become a great master someday. Maybe as great as Renoir or Da Vinci. Then Jonah is critically injured in a cruel accident, and their dreams are ripped apart. Sybil needs money, and she needs a lot of it, to support Jonah's medical bills. Desperate, she accidently stumbles on a way to get it.

A desperate woman steals from a dangerous man. The dominatrix Gabriella steals two paintings from a Montreal mob boss and splits for the west coast, where she meets club jazzer Johnny who quickly discovers her problematic past. When her ex, Francesco, comes to seek revenge, the mob boss sends the assassin Rhino to clean up the mess and retrieve a secret document hidden in one of the paintings - one that could sink the east coast Cosa Nostra.

A taut tale of greed, murder, and revenge as combat-weary Marines take on the crooks of Wall Street. Gold in the Coffins follows the story of a tight band of retired Marines who bonded during a bloody tour of duty in Vietnam, only to find themselves facing a darker enemy back home, the demons of Wall Street.

Maud Ruthyn, the young, naive heroine, has a governess who is an enigmatic older woman, a liar, bully, and spy, who takes a dark secret with her when she leaves. Maud is then orphaned and moves in with her Uncle Silas, her father's mysterious brother and a man with a scandalous - even murderous - past. She is horrified to find her former governess appears in her life again, in this Gothic Victorian psychological thriller, with a touch of the occult.

After a chance meeting between a European DJ and an elite Arabic businessman at an airport, the narrative unfolds, as we discover that all is not what it seems.

While being tracked by a well-known Manhattan investigator, Benjamin Holder won't stop at anything until he finds his daughter. After being imprisoned for 15 years, he finds himself in some financial distress. With Detective Matthew Raegan closing in on him at every turn, he uses the ultimate weapon he designed (while in prison) to help squelch many controversial injustices within the community.

Historian Aldo Lombardi is a recent graduate of the Pontifical Gregorian University summoned to appear before Pope Benedict. Allison Gillespie is an investigator whose assignment leads her to Aldo and a 500-year-old secret whose discovery may unravel the very fabric of the Christian faith. The pair must uncover the truth behind the secret and reveal what the leaders of the modern Seventh-day Adventist Church know that could destroy the Catholic Church.

Why abduct a small child from the heart of Queensland’s Channel Country? Does the mother know or even suspect the real reason? Being 400 kilometers from the nearest lone police officer, Myall Downs’ own stationhands must act. Instinctively, Adam Mann, a tenacious, determined aboriginal stockman and known black-tracker, relentlessly chases the villains, dogging them across some of Queensland’s harshest and most beautiful terrain.

Before Sam met Scarlett, he was a private investigator and a mystery writer. He was supposed to retire to help Scarlett run her father's empire, but mystery won't leave Sam alone.

Fresh out of school, Dr. Crane takes on a new patient who both intrigues and unnerves him. Charming, manipulative, and amoral, Max has exactly the sort of mind Crane finds himself drawn to with fictional characters. As Max weaves himself into Crane's life, Crane realizes that while fiction might be safe, Max certainly is not. When the professional line between them thins, who gets to define where one man ends and the other begins?

Tommy Belanger was raised in a dysfunctional family, plagued with abject poverty, incest, alcohol and child abuse. His life was filled with grief, hunger and horror. The family had been moved from one poverty-stricken two-bedroom shack to another. Always hoping for a better tomorrow. Landing in a home the mirror image of the one they had escaped.