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PI Jarvis Mann was captivated by the sultry tones of his female client.... Emily White with girl next door looks and shimmering eyes that begged for help…. She is being stalked but isn’t certain by whom…and this wasn’t the first time.

While on the way home from her bartending job, Amy Hargrave witnesses a brutal murder. But the police question her account of the alleged crime. There is no dead body at the scene. No blood splatters. No blood residue. No evidence that a crime had even been committed. But Amy knows what she saw. Not knowing whom to turn to, Amy seeks help from Nick Price, private investigations. Amy’s story intrigues Nick, and he agrees to look into it. But as Nick Price digs deeper, he quickly realizes that what happened in the alley that night is a small link in a sinister chain of events.

Emma Hall is an aspiring screenwriter whose latest screenplay is causing quite the scene in the script-hunting world. Francis Callahan, an ambitious movie producer and director who is rising fast in the movie world, gets wind of the screenplay, and immediately schedules to meet Emma in person. Emma is both excited and nervous. Francis, after all, was her old best friend from high school, and she hasn’t spoken to him in years. While ecstatic that she is finally receiving serious consideration for the job that is her dream, she is afraid that things could get awkward, very fast.

A tragic overdose, an institutional cover-up, and human trafficking. When Dr. Brad Parker helps investigate the death of a patient at a Portland, Maine cancer center, he senses a cover-up to protect the responsible physician.

Four couples, four stories: Darien Francis and Richard Li meet during a bank robbery, but she’s afraid to love again. Shane Kenniston and Beth Parker are reacquainted years after she had a crush on him, but she is a recent widow, and Shane’s life was upended by a false accusation. David Early and Kate Howard meet in the laundromat, but her life is consumed by the needs of her disabled child, and David isn’t ready for the responsibility. Realtor Frank Ellison meets Kayla Barnes at an open house, but a mistaken first impression derails any chance of romance.

On the outer edges of populated space, beyond the Galactic Federation's reach, crime syndicates rule the stars, none more influential than the Niiosian Mob. Controlling multiple planetary systems through economic leverage, calculated violence, and covert operations, the Mob shapes Fringe Space with its extensive network and virtually unchallenged authority. Ken Oda is the Mob's deadliest assassin, a precision instrument sent to silence threats across the Fringe.

The mission is personal. The stakes are life and death. Powerful forces are already moving their pawns into position. The year is 2107. Roland Webb continues to carry the weight of the world on his shoulders. An opportunity to mend a family torn apart by war has arisen, but it may cost him everything he holds dear. The superpowers are on the brink of all-out war. The world has turned its collective eyes toward the Lunar South Pole, hoping that peace can endure.

In the heart of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Charles Langley is a man adrift—haunted by a past stained with guilt and a present teetering on the edge of collapse. When his father suffers a heart attack, Charles is thrust into a night of chaos at the emergency room. Seeking refuge in routine—a factory job, and fleeting connections with childhood friend Abigail—he struggles to ground himself in a world that feels increasingly unreal.

Roland’s mission is retrieval. The client’s promised payout cannot be ignored. The year is 2102; the kidnapping and ransom trade has exploded. The firm’s newest patron, a wealthy Emirati sheikh, has asked for his missing grandson to be found. Roland Webb, a veteran soldier, needs his team of mercenaries to come together and get creative. Time is not on their side as forces beyond their control begin to reshape the Middle East. Stepping into a burgeoning war zone, Roland is compelled to take risks—risks that push him into a collision course with an organization of unimaginable evil.

When Santa Claus enters a Texas bank just before Christmas in 1927, no one expects him to pull a gun. The fake white beard hides his identity from his neighbors while he and three others take everything. But their easy heist goes sideways fast when armed lawmen and citizens assemble to claim a new reward for dead bank robbers. Taking hostages, the gang forces a path through a frenzied and bloody shootout, setting the whole Lone Star state on their trail. One bandit dies in the getaway.

When the Eternal City beckons, it's not just history that stirs; it's the secrets that yearn to be unraveled. Chaos ensues when a laid-off senior executive from the U.S. who has lived and worked for years in Italy, takes a temporary job chaperoning thirteen high school students and their three teachers from Atlanta in the Eternal City of Rome.

Sweethearts Eric Leidheldt and Desiree Chauveau are spending a weekend at his uncle's cabin when they encounter two strangers cutting wood. Eric is knocked unconscious, and Desi is viciously attacked. The following day two police officers come to their apartment to arrest Desi. Her assailants are dead, murdered with an axe, and her fingerprints are on it. She confesses but is she really guilty?

The chilling true crime account of a family’s gilded American dream that became a nightmare when a meticulously plotted kidnapping went horribly wrong. In the 1950s and 60s, the Coors beer dynasty reigned over the West, seemingly invincible. When rumblings about labor unions threatened to destabilize the family’s brewery, Adolph Coors, Jr., the septuagenarian president of the company, drew a hard line, refusing to budge. They had worked hard for what they had, and no one had a right to take it from them.

Twenty-two years before the fall of Dakiti, a great conflict rages on the edge of populated space. Known throughout local systems as the Fringe War, the fight pits the superhuman natives of Haphez against the sly, semi-amphibious Sardons and their allies. The Sardons' goal? Gain control of a powerful Haphezian healing agent called caura...by force, if necessary.

In Hell's Crown, legendary demon hunter Cain Stoddard was touched by something ancient—and it did not let go. Then he vanished. The Empire believes Cain is dead. His apprentice knows better. Liam Gulban has been many things—braggart, drunk, survivor—but never a hero. When the man who forged him disappears into darkness, Liam follows the trail north into ruined kingdoms, ancient gods, and a war older than the Empire itself.

Heather was only fifteen when she died by suicide. Her father wants justice. The system wants silence. After his daughter’s tragic death, Dennis is devastated, convinced that her psychiatrist is to blame. Desperate for accountability, he seeks an attorney to settle the score. Enter Paul Schofield, a struggling attorney who impulsively takes the case, hoping for a quick settlement. But the deeper he digs, the more he uncovers buried secrets, conflicting loyalties, and ethical dilemmas that shake him to his core.

In the small Maryland town of Morgan’s Landing, fourteen-year-old Julie Morgan is living in comfort with her wealthy family. She disappears on her way to school after a spat with her twin sister. Detective Jim Brady, married and the father of two, has been on the Morgan’s Landing police force for twelve years. He identifies a few suspects in the girl’s disappearance—Is it the fired school janitor, a paroled sex offender, Julie’s computer teacher… or his own teenage son? Jim can’t believe his son could be involved, but his wife is convinced the boy is hiding something.

Dive into the heart of a war-torn land where beauty and brutality collide in Sketches from the Periphery, a stunning debut novel and international best-seller by MP Summers. Set against the volatile backdrop of Darfur in 2005, this gripping tale follows Alexander Barr, a young American contractor thrust into the chaos of the African Union Peacekeeping Mission. At just twenty-two, Alex trades college textbooks for the unforgiving desert, where every step reveals a world of resilience, violence, and haunting mystery.

Should one devastating mistake erase 20 years of good deeds? Griffin Ambrose lives a super stressful life as a news manager at a New York television station and a volunteer EMT in his New Jersey town. The commuting grind, the 24/7 stresses and the push-pull of the two worlds weigh heavily on him.

In 1963, Neil Vincent, a middle-aged World War II veteran and "Christian atheist," is working at Westfield Court as a chauffeur. He spends most of his spare time reading. Mary Claire DeWinter is a young, blind, Catholic college student and reluctant heiress. To secure her inheritance, she has to marry within a year, and her aunt is pressuring her to marry a rich man who teased and bullied her when she was a child.