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A Kidnapping in New York

by Jackie White

Central Park, New York City. A newborn baby is snatched, in broad daylight. It’s every parent’s worst nightmare… Gwendolyn Black is one of New York’s most renowned attorneys. After her baby is kidnapped during her morning jog, the detectives working the case suspect she is hiding something. Further uptown, a retired criminal whose girlfriend has just lost a full-term pregnancy, gives her the ultimate gift: a perfect baby girl. With the media transfixed, the detectives tighten their noose, hop... more

BITS

by C.J. Kichuk

“What does it mean to be human—or perhaps human 2.0?”

This question sets the stage for the thrilling journey that awaits in BITS, an action-packed thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. In a world where the lines between artificial intelligence and human sentience are blurred, we are forced to question what it truly means to be human.
We meet Clayton Rhodes, a seasoned FBI agent with a complicated past and a 25-year career ... more

Lie me down among the cold dark pines

by Michael Carlos Maroney

When Hart finds the body of a murdered stripper, she discovers a small mining town can have as much darkness and as many secrets as the big city. But as she unravels the mystery her secret is uncovered and life becomes dangerous. Sixteen-year-old Hart discovers a body in the forest above her new home. The girl died of a drug overdose and may have been involved with Hart’s grandfather. When he is arrested, Hart tries to clear his name. She believes him innocent, but also admits she has a selfi... more

Al Ana's Curse

by Jerome McGinn

In the small Northern Michigan town of Cheboygan, a group of courageous friends sets out on a thrilling quest to unravel the mystery surrounding a string of bizarre occurrences that leaves its residents in a state of fear and paranoia. Haunted by nightmares and pushed to their limits, they must confront their innermost fears as they come face-to-face with evil, whose malevolent presence threatens to engulf Cheboygan in shadows. Confronted with their deepest fears and the looming darkness, the fr... more

After the Bridge

by Andrew J Field

Two suicidal strangers, failing actor Owen and traumatised Ukrainian refugee Becky, postpone death on a bridge to honey-trap men. They make easy money. Until they reach Manchester. A blackmailer dies on Becky in a hotel room. Owen steals the dead man’s identity to con a quarter of million quid from a brain-damaged hero’s trust fund. His impersonation is good, but doesn’t fool a cynical cop, or the deceased’s crazy self-harming granddaughter. Putin’s pals are in the city too, demanding the blackm... more

The Grand Puppet Master

by Eddie Shay

“Betray me, and I’ll destroy everyone you care about before I come for you.” New York private investigator Lacey Green brushes off the cryptic TikTok message—until her father dies suddenly. Then, one by one, her closest friends and family begin to fall prey to chilling “accidents.” Could it be tied to her viral TikTok exposing a twisted fetish brothel in Flushing, the conspiracy behind the chilling wave of self-harm, or the brain-chip tech giant with ties to Communist China? Backing dow... more

Bone Deep Blues

by Brian O Callaghan

Bone Deep Blues intricately navigates the life of JD “Big Dog” Walker, a former Navy Seal turned blues musician and nightclub owner. When his brother and fiancée fall victim to a ruthless kidnapping, JD plunges into a dangerous world of human trafficking, organized crime, and desperate measures. Will they survive this darkness as he races against time to rescue his loved ones and safeguard his livelihood?

In Search of Tom Candy

by Dairl M. Johnson

In 1904, journalist John Stanton, the son of the man who had been Abe Lincoln’s secretary of war, seeks to clear his father of being implicated in the death of America’s towering sixteenth president. A trove of incriminating and circumstantial evidence has led a mob of revisionist historians to accuse Secretary Edwin Stanton of being at the heart of the assassination plot. But John believes he’s found the key as to why his father is being smeared: a large, far-reaching conspiracy that ranges f... more

Rainbow Warrior

by BB Clifford

More than a year has passed since the fire. The destruction of a home is bad enough, but the remaining members of Dylan’s family perished in the fire, so grief has followed Dylan in relentless pursuit. Never one to pass up an opportunity, Max, Dylan’s first love, seized what he could from a grief-stricken Dylan. He would have taken everything, but the fire gave Dylan an inexplicable strength to escape, so they fled Rotherwell in search of a new life across the Atlantic. But Max doesn’t let h... more

Tangled Knot: The tale of Eris of suburbia

by BB Clifford

Eris once believed that she could keep herself safe from the suburban beast that slithered around the swampland of a small town on the US East Coast. She hid herself away behind latches and bolts and locks, making a fortress of her family home. They called this recluse a witch, and if she had lived in another age, this suburban misfit would have been hanged or burned at the stake. Despite her fortress, the dangers still found Eris. As if myths and legends were true all along, her family was t... more

Ink and Intrigue at Ivy Tree Inn

by Ellen Butler

In 1958, amidst male-dominated workplaces and pressure for women to conform to stylish housewife roles, Ariadne Winter aspires solely to be fashionable, discarding the wife and mother expectation. Assigned to interview a Hollywood starlet on the cusp of royal matrimony for Ladies’ Lifestyle Magazine, she dreams to be an investigative reporter with a serious newspaper. Fate intervenes when she discovers a body and sees it as her ticket to the role she desires. Delving into the inn's secrets,... more

Mademoiselle Le Sleuth

by Theasa Tuohy

Paris thrums with life and mystery in the days before Notre Dame’s tragic fire. Vicki, a harried reporter, and her spirited four-year-old daughter, Miranda, navigate their bustling lives alongside Sarah, Vicki’s sister, an American actress newly arrived in the City of Light. The trio’s routine shatters when Sarah’s low-budget play becomes the stage for real-life intrigue and murder. As Sarah fights to keep the production alive despite the unsettling murder of a fellow actress, she finds hersel... more

Anchor’s Road: An Ian Reed Supernatural Thriller

by William Davis

A mystical object brings the CIA, Mossad, crime syndicates, and the Holy Roman Church into conflict. A father and son get caught in the middle as forces collide. Ian Reed, a former Philadelphia police officer, moves his family to a small lakeside community in western Maryland to look after his father and the family marina. Otter, Ian’s father, who’s struggling with Alzheimer’s reveals an ancient artifact he’s kept hidden for years. After his home health aide posts a picture of it on Facebo... more

Valuing Only Us

by Cory Desmond Wolfe

Ted Sullivan, an adopted boy who sprouted up on a modest farm in Oklahoma, is left penniless after the family livestock meat business goes under. Ted dreams of funneling the trauma he experienced in the slaughterhouse into a green billion-dollar company that will live forever. Meanwhile, Alec Young, a rich boy from Iowa whose family owns one of the largest producers of agricultural combines, endures verbal and physical assault from his father. Yet deep down, all Alec wants is to make his father ... more

Growler to Grave: Black OOps Detective Mystery Book 2

by Marissa Allen

Ex-FBI agent Tracy Black and ex-Navy SEAL Adam Slade are back in Growler to Grave, the second in the Black OOps Detective series! This stand-alone sequel to Cad to Cadaver finds partners Tracy and Adam embroiled in another zany rom/com mystery. Adam, a man of few words, and Tracy, a woman of many, are arguably a match made in Heaven. Catching brewmeister Blake Geist’s cheating spouse isn’t the most desirable job for these audacious private detectives, but money’s tight.... more

The Girl from Chapel Hill (Book 2): Legacy of a Praying Mama

by vanester williams

This book is the much-anticipated sequel to “The Girl from Chapel Hill: Her Journey of Faith, Forgiveness, and Freedom.” Laura has never forgotten the faith-filled lessons learned from her maternal grandmother. With a fearless determination – anchored in prayer - she passes these lessons on to her family. Travel on an unforgettable, suspenseful, and sometimes frightening journey with her family as they endure one challenge after another. Yet, at each juncture, somebody is fervently praying. ... more

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