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Tobias didn’t mind not being the oldest. He was actually glad. He got all the advantages of being a Carmichael without all the obligations. He wasn’t a slacker by any means. But he didn’t carry around the weight of the Starlight Ranch on his shoulders. While Deacon kept everything running smoothly, Tobias was out in the trenches, so to speak. He was a working cowboy and proud of it.

Cabe Calaway would sooner swallow a porcupine than tussle with Jovie St. John. Jovie is stubborn, aloof, and darn right rude to him most of the time. He knows all that about her, and he steers clear of her whenever possible. Even though owning the ranch next to his family ranch makes that hard sometimes. What he doesn’t know is why she asked him to dance at the barn raising event his brothers had held. It was totally out of character. Cabe has known Jovie all of his life, and she’s always been reserved and unapproachable, even as a child.

With the US in chaos, the government, ensconced in the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, enacts Presidential Directive 40, declaring a national emergency. FEMA, now a militarized police force, rules over the remnants of society with an iron fist, establishing civilian work camps and enforcing martial law to maintain control.

Kalen McDonald is a normal man with an exceptional gift and an unusual talent. Kalen has been blessed with a third sight. The visions that invade his mind show horrific scenes of death and murder. Kalen’s talent is the countermeasure to the things he is shown. Over the years, Kalen has honed his skill in eliminating the perpetrators of the violent crimes he sees. Kalen is a serial killer in his own right. The profile of his victims is a simple one: Kalen murders killers.

Kalen needs to escape his prison, but the people who have taken him want something. What they want will end his life and put his long-time friend, Mitchell, in great danger. Kalen never saw the woman stuck on the side of the road with a broken-down car as a threat until it was too late. Now, his only link to Mitchell is the visions in his head of a terrible coming peril. A thrilling game of psychological terror is ongoing, and Kalen must find a way to help his partner.

A brutal killer haunts the streets of Kennington, leaving dead bodies in his wake–dead bodies, gruesome murder scenes, and nursery rhymes. The media dubs him NRK, the Nursery Rhyme Killer. When NRK targets his brother, ex-military intelligence analyst Owen Day taps into the skills he developed in the Army to bring the killer to justice–before he strikes again.

Kalen McDonald knows the depravity of those responsible for his imprisonment, but he doesn’t know all the players in the entity they operate. He also knows that only the deaths of these vicious people will eliminate the kidnapping of more innocent men and women. Using the extra sense that has always been a part of his life, he is guided closer and closer to the shocking truth and those responsible. As he pursues them, he is surprised to find another killer operating close to home, and he’s even more shocked to find who this new killer is stalking.

He was a thirty-year-old bull rider. In his mind, he knew he was nearing the end of his career. But in his heart, he wasn’t ready to give it up. But we don’t always get what we want. Shortly after his thirty-first birthday, Cooper Calaway took his last ride. Suddenly forced to face a life without rodeo. Copper returned to the family ranch to heal. But even his loving family couldn’t keep him from spiraling from the pain and self-medicating. When Cooper finds a runaway horse and returns it to its owner, Lyric, a widow with two young boys, he gets a new perspective on dealing with loss.

The Whitecap Hotel is a former retreat, a vacationer’s castle amongst the Rocky Mountain Peaks. The Whitecap has been closed for years now, a fading memory in a Colorado tourist town. Someone, though, is breathing new life into the Whitecap. This person has created a game and Kalen and Tisha McDonald have been invited. The game is a murder mystery party to be held in the heart of the hotel. Multiple past employees of the Whitecap will attend with Kalen and his wife to help solve a murder. The crime has been presented to them as a fictitious evening of clue solving–but is it?

Something has invaded the homeless community in Fort Collins, Colorado. Violence in the streets has escalated beyond control. Peaceful people have suddenly become angry and aggressive, harming those around them. For Kalen McDonald, the impact of this trend is personal. A local homeless man, a friend, has begun to spin out of control, and Kalen witnesses his out-of-control rage in person. What or who is behind the drastic change in the people who have typically lived invisible, behind-the-scenes lives?

Being away at school has crushed Abby’s adventurous spirit, and she’s been counting the days until the end of the semester. When her brother Tanner shows up with devastating news, she packs up her dorm to head home to the Starlight Ranch. As she deals with a tragic loss, Abby reconnects with Skyler Fremont and discovers he’s engaged to the daughter of a wealthy ranching family from Dallas. The news is a shock and Abby is afraid in her absence her friend has become the person he always swore he wouldn’t.

Dr. Dean Graves, M.E. is asked to help the Atlanta Health Department investigate a respiratory illness that’s infecting—and killing—mostly young, healthy individuals. The victims of the deadly disease seem to be random, with no traceable source for the exposure. As the illness with a 100% mortality rate spreads across Georgia, including Augusta where Dr. Graves lives and works, he starts to question whether this could be an act of bioterrorism.

Moral Articulation outlines an ethical framework that allows us to embrace a version of the latter, transformative view without sacrificing notions of moral truth, objectivity, and knowledge. The book presents a view of moral meaningfulness as extending beyond what we can presently put into words, urging that expansions in our moral vocabularies often begin in dissonant experiences of conceptual and linguistic limits.

Tyson Reeder's book traces early America's rocky beginnings, when foreign interference and political conflict threatened to undermine its aspirations and ideals, even its very existence. Spanning the period from the Revolution to the War of 1812, and focusing on the presidency of James Madison, it reveals a nation adjusting to rancorous partisan politics, aggravated by the untested and imperfect new tools of governance and the growing power of media.

It only took five months for Tanner to go from being single and happily unattached to becoming a married man. That is, if a northern Texas blizzard doesn't keep him and Harper from tying the knot.

The mysterious man known as the Radio Killer has figured out where Kalen McDonald and his family live. It is only a matter of time before he strikes. He needs Kalen to die. He cannot continue his depraved game of murdering prostitutes with the Kalen hunting him, promising to end his life and his sadistic game. As the Radio Killer draws ever closer, another man comes to the attention of Kalen. He is a man who has determined he must have a woman he desires. The lovely Shelby Marris is in his crosshairs.

1931. As Thomas Edison was dying, he left test tubes of what he believed would be his final breath, until it was. His intent was to leave his “last breath,” for his protégé, friend, and confidant, Henry Ford. But forty-two tubes were lost after he died. Then, year after year, one of the tubes of Edison’s breath would arrive at Ford’s Florida winter home where Ford would open it and breathe in the breath of his dead friend. He thought it brought him strength and wisdom.

A woman kills a man in the privacy of her home. It is self-defense. It is also the latest time she has had to defend herself against a killer from a secret murder club, of which she knows nothing about. Her name is Gianna Ricci, and she finds herself alone in the world with unseen enemies coming for her from every direction. Gianna knows she must move. She must get off her kitchen floor where her enemy lies next to her and escape her home before more like him arrive. Because there are more, more and more killers who all want the same thing—her death.

Kalen’s world is turning upside down. His trusted partner, Mitchell, is in the hospital and the timing couldn’t be worse. The threat that Karina poses to his family grows by the hour as another mysterious threat emerges. Who is the man lying in a hospital bed named Max? Is he the victim of a stalker? Is he as innocent as he claims, or are there more complicated circumstances brewing under the surface?

On a small poultry farm located in Delaney, Georgia, an antigenic shift causes the H7N9 bird flu virus to jump to other species. The contagion burns through everything in its path despite the federal government’s ham-handed efforts to mask its true nature. The unprecedented mortality rate paralyzes the nation and paves the way for establishing FEMA’s martial law across the country.