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After purchasing a lucky winning lottery ticket, the four friends were able to purchase property to use not only as a quilters’ retreat, but also as a recreational ranch that doubled as a safe place to go in time of trouble. Little did they know that they purchased the property in the nick of time, as trouble was rapidly approaching.

Step into the heart-pounding world of The Straits, a thrilling novel set in 1978, where one man's ordinary life is shattered by a ruthless chain of events. Brad Solomon, a bar manager at a remote mountaintop resort, becomes entangled in a deadly game when his daughter is taken hostage by ruthless mercenaries.

Cassie Blake lives a simple life on a ranch with her family. Although she hates having to go to the city, when a dear friend makes plans to come visit, Cassie makes the drive to the airport to pick her up. While waiting at the airport, an event occurs that will change her life forever.

Cassie was discharged from the military after being seriously injured when the Humvee in which she was riding was destroyed by an improvised explosive device (IED). Although she was able to walk on her new leg, multiple surgeries left Cassie using an electric wheelchair for mobility while her other leg healed. She was at the airport waiting for her friend and she and her service dog, Petra, sat in one of the airport restaurants watching the people go by. A fellow traveler, Andy Rittenhouse, sat down with her, and the two began chatting.

When Hugh Conrad picked up that jangling phone in the mud-strewn lobby of a two-bit Bangalore hotel one monsoon-slammed night in June of ’51, the last thing he’d expected to hear was the voice of the father who’d vanished off the face of the earth 24 years prior.

Former pro football player and West Texas high school coach Gale McClanahan is plucked out of obscurity to lead the San Antonio Lone Stars. But as he uncovers the true motives of the team's shady owner, McClanahan's once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to coach at football’s highest level turns into a nightmare of treachery and deceit.

When Horatio Billings returned from a trip, and first met Penny, she was sitting behind his receptionist/paralegal’s desk in his office. He had absolutely no idea why she was there instead of his girlfriend who was also his current receptionist/paralegal.

Bethany and Gary had a lot in common. Both were independent-minded and self-sufficient. They were well aware of the dangers in the world and did what they could to be ready for anything just in case. As the world spiraled out of control, it appeared that their worst fears were coming true before their very eyes just as they were beginning to fall in love and begin their lives together. When disaster struck, they would find their preparations and their love would be tested, but would their struggle to survive bring them closer together or tear them apart?

An heiress, giga-yacht, and underwater habitat become part of Captain Gills McBain's life at a very opportune time.

After surviving a terrorist attack, Watson Drake began to wonder what horrible thing the terrorists could be planning next. In addition, he realizes that disasters are not limited to just whatever havoc the terrorists may create, the earth and society have their own share of problems as well.

Kevin Crain was tired. He’d lived a long, healthy, productive life. Part of Tom Brokaw’s “Greatest Generation”, he’d done his part in World War II, and then again in Korea. He matured during the Cold War. He’d seen a couple of the atomic bomb tests first hand, and knew the destruction that would come with all-out war.

A man and his brother escape to a rural retreat when disaster strikes America.

A young man fleeing his violent outlaw past in Texas rides into Rainy Flats, Montana, looking for a new life. He changes his name to Abraham Littleton and slowly eases into a new way of life. Then the Renit Gang rides into town. The Renits kidnap the town’s favorite lady and shoot the lawman. Threatening his friends and everything he has slowly worked to build, Littleton is being forced to take a stand and reveal his old self to the town.

After seven years of exile, Justin Hacker returns to his hometown of Nogales, Arizona, to try and break his younger brother out of a Mexican prison where he waits to be hanged for crimes he didn't commit. But first, Justin must overcome certain obstacles—such as a town bully, a Mexican bandito and his gang, being stranded naked on the desert, an Indian attack, a father who has vowed to shoot him on sight should he return to Nogales, and matching wits with a maniacal prison warden who hates gringos.

An unpretentious man lives humbly while his braggadocio neighbor buys the latest gadgets and status symbols. When hard times come, his humble lifestyle pays off, but his neighbors believe they are entitled to the resources he sacrificed to obtain. As society collapses around him, can John Havingsworth stick to his values and also keep his friends, not to mention his life?

A group of people evacuating ahead of civil unrest amid a societal collapse find themselves lost, alone, and on the run, deep in the woods of rural West Tennessee. With snow on the ground, no skills, and not much more than the clothes on their backs, the group is in dire straits and probably won't last the coming night. Until out of the falling snow, a lone figure approaches. Over the next few days their silent benefactor will keep them safe, fed, and warm while helping them acquire the know-how to care for themselves. The thing is, he's just a kid....

You know I never saw an officer, an EMT, a fireman, or an ER crew ask anyone what their politics were and then refuse to care for them because of their answer. The color of skin pigment, the last name, the amount of money in a bank account, none of that mattered. All that mattered was someone needed help, and they had the skills as well as the burning desire to do so. Yes, they are only human and internally flawed and prejudiced as any other. But their true nature, their crowning glory in mortal life, is their ability to rise above those flaws and prejudices when called upon.

Stares at the Moon sat, huddled in his blankets, glaring at the small fire that was fighting to warm his makeshift shelter. As he sipped the melted snow, he wondered where the White man and Crying Dove were. Were they warm and dry in some cabin built by the White man—eating food and laughing at him? Just the thought of them together caused his anger to rise once more. This was Stares at the Moon’s 24th winter and as he looked back, he realized the mistakes he had made.

Ryan Kealey now knows he'll never really put the game behind him. But now the game itself has changed. Between tense interagency "cooperation" that gums the works and an overreliance on data-crunching and wiz-kid tech, today's US intelligence service has lost a step to its ever-bolder, viciously adaptable global enemies. And thanks to an incredible discovery in the Arctic, those enemies now have a nuke - capable of unleashing unthinkable terror.

In the dead gray cold of Starkfield, Massachusetts, farmer Ethan Frome is struggling to scrape out a living. His duties are to his wife, Zeena - an ungrateful, soul-sick hypochondriac as frigid as the New England winter. When Zeena’s cousin Mattie arrives to help with the farm, the ethereal, gentle-natured beauty brings a light and a fugitive affection into Ethan’s life. Yet for Ethan and Mattie, daring to be happy - and together - will have its consequences.