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The last time PI Blaze McClintock was on her family's ranch, she left in handcuffs. She vowed then to never go home again...until her estranged father is accused of murder. He's not a good man - this entire Montana town knows that. But Blaze believes her father is innocent and she'll do anything to prove it, even ask the one man who broke her heart for help - the only man in town who's on her side.

Summer, 1920. The immigration and public health authorities on Ellis Island in New York Harbor are slowly recovering from the war years, even as a new influx of European and African immigrants is flooding the Great Hall. A young, pregnant, Irish woman, Ciara McManaway, disappears from the Isolation Hospital on Ellis Island. Stephen Robbins, a specialist in finding the missing - persons as well as things - is sent to Ellis Island by his boss in the Bureau of Investigation to locate the McManaway woman.

After peacefully and complacently expanding for centuries, the Centran Empire comes face to face with their first major obstacle, the stubborn and warlike inhabitants of Earth, and decides to use Earth warriors to pacify difficult planets throughout the galaxy, but they soon discover a new problem - the humans could end up running the Central Empire itself.

A year ago, Chris Csejthe (pronounced "Chay-tay") was completely human - then a blood transfusion from the Lord of the Undead changed everything. Now he is a hunted man, sought by human and vampire alike for the secrets he knows and the powers that his mutated blood may bestow. So far he's dodged undead assassins, werewolves, a 6,000-year-old Egyptian necromancer, and Vlad Dracula himself. But now he's really got problems.

Johnny Walker used to live a quiet life in the Florida swamps with his two hound dogs by his side. Life has changed...a lot. It's a full house with teenage Amanda home for winter break and four confused cyborgs living with him. Johnny needs an escape. Time to go hunt some monsters. He'll even need the help of the cyborgs for this one.

Forget minor hazards like nuclear bombs. The discovery of time travel means that everything we know, anyone we know, might not only vanish, but never even have existed. Against that possibility stand the men and women of the Time Patrol, dedicated to preserving the history they know and protecting the future from fanatics, terrorists, and would-be dictators who would remold the shape of reality to suit their own purposes.

Very few in Aspen Lake expected that I, Calista Monroe, their most notorious wild child, would ever amount to anything besides being a model prisoner. So, imagine their surprise when I returned as the hospital’s newest ER doctor. Believe me, no one is more surprised than I am. I had vowed to never return, even if it was the last safe haven during the zombie apocalypse. But when my niece Quinn begged me to come home, I couldn’t say no. My plan is to stay out of trouble this time, and, above all, avoid Quinn’s uncle Tristan—the man I love to hate and the reason I left Aspen Lake.

Zachareth, Baron of Carthridge, is a driven, ruthless, and obsessive man—a man who could be a hero, but he wants so much more. Having watched his father fall under the sway of a sorceress, Zachareth grows up craving knowledge and power. When his tutor at Greyhaven introduces him to forbidden magics, Zachareth discovers there is more to power than meets the eye. As he returns home to a barony on the verge of rebellion and beset by necromantic foes, Zachareth must choose his true path—the path of virtue and heroism, or that of darkness and villany.

The stage is set. Twillo can now summon the cultivated power of a dragon, one that can take three distinct forms. But he has also unleashed a force so evil that it could very well ruin the Four Kingdoms if he doesn't act in time. Perhaps there are some relics he can uncover that will aid him along the way.

Waiqar, Lord of the Mistlands, is a necromancer of supreme power, arrogance, and skill. Driven by his hunger for power, he has the whole of Terrinoth in his sights. But before he can raise his undead armies and march on the Baronies, his hold on the Mistlands must be complete. Waiqar's court is rife with scheming and deception, from corrupt vampires with plans to usurp him, to an apprentice harboring dark ambition of his own. As his enemies vie for power, Waiqar's own plans come to fruition. For power is hard won but easily lost, and this great necromancer has more to lose than anyone.

It is a living hell. Murderous Mayans, reptiles that kill on contact, and creatures more deadly than crocodiles. No man has ever come back alive from Quintana Roo.

Finn Donaghey turned himself into the FBI to protect Carys Van de Berg, the love of his life. Now serving multiple life sentences, he can't save her from the dangers lurking outside. Carys won't accept a life without Finn in it. While she plots to break him out of jail, other shadowy figures seek ways to take them down. After Carys is injured in an explosion, Finn teams up with unlikely allies to hunt down the perpetrators.

Deputy Sheriff Nick Rogers found out small-town life meant adjusting to two things-gossips and Laney Cavanaugh. And neither was much help in solving a bridal shower murder. Some days it appeared like everyone in Whitehorse had a secret-including their new lawman. And falling for Laney wasn't a good way to maintain a low profile. Nick might have been new to Whitehorse, but he wasn't above getting his hands dirty.

When Angie Grant is declared dead, Jack Donovan is determined to prove her husband is the murderer. But then Jack begins catching glimpses of Angie around town. Will Jack get a second chance with the woman he loves — or is someone orchestrating the ultimate revenge?

Look around you. It doesn't take long to witness unrest, disruption, and chaos. Violent outbursts and market crashes take their toll. Journalism thrives on breaking news, and social media highlights broken lives. It's tempting to isolate and insulate. We often settle for cynical minds and calloused hearts as a means of coping with the chaos. Thankfully, there's a proven path to peace. Author Jeremie Kubicek serves as your tour guide on a path that yields practical solutions.

She was lovely, innocent, just 15—off on a church outing. And now she's gone! Her father must find her even if he travels into the pit of Hell itself—into the peep-shows, the massage parlors, into the depths of degradation where the pimps and porno movie-makers create their sexual phantasmagoria. Afraid, terrified that he'll find her too late.

Jay Baysinger is dead, or so everyone believes. Two years after his tragic death in a mysterious accident, his wife Kristy is rebuilding her life. But when a strange man shows up at her door claiming to be Jay—armed with intimate knowledge of their past—Kristy's world is turned upside down. Is this stranger suffering from delusions, or has Jay really returned? As unsettling questions unravel, Kristy is thrust into a chilling psychological web involving government secrets, violent killers, and a deadly conspiracy.

Dean “The Machine” is a South Philly legend. Much to the dismay of fans who still hound him, the broody former fighter walked away from his boxing career right before clinching another championship belt. Tight-lipped on his reasons for retiring, he’s busy trying to figure out his future when the past literally falls in his lap. Tabitha Tyler, the fiery redhead who captured his teenage heart, is back in town and staying next door. Only now the girl that got away is all grown up and offering him a strings-free summer fling.

Ex-military man Thorn Grayson has debts to pay. So when a plane crashes in the mountains near his cabin, he's hired to find the wreckage - and the kidnapped woman believed to be the sole survivor. But when he locates Geneva, or 'JJ' as she insists on being called, she's not at all what he expected.

Trey returns from another visit to the Moore estate with nothing but more anger and less room in his head to stow it. Old coping mechanisms no longer work. Not with a newborn in the mix. And Liv, who’s had enough. Liv has found what’s missing: a memento of her past she’s worked hard to forget. It unearths memories of a different man—a stable partner, a loving father. As it draws her in, Trey’s new anger drives her away.