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Pittwater

by Kevin E M Clark

Two teenage girls, Paula and Lindsay, are about to go to college. They skip school to go to an ABC concert at the Sydney Concert Arena. In the crowded arena the young girls dance, sing and move to the rhythm of their parents’ music they grew up with. As they hide in the toilets to smoke a joint, Lindsay’s eyes are attracted by a drawing and a note scrawled in lipstick on the wall. When the Monster enters my Brain, I will never know, but it’s here to stay. Catch me before I do more! There’s a p... more

A BOUNTY OF BONE

by PG Lengsfelder

A haunting tale, inspired by real events, driven by timeless legends . . . After years of abuse for her albinism and macabre face, Eunis believes she’s finally turned her life around and shed the superstitious beliefs that tormented her as a child. Now on the precipice of a successful television career, she’s offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel as part of a global TV crew investigating the surreal weather in South Africa’s isolated Land of the Silver Mist. There’s just one p... more

The House of Wynne Lift

by Cheryl Pena

Professor Foster Livingston and reporter Peter Wylie join forces in New York, but they are at odds with each other from the start. Despite frequent arguments, they journey through the wilderness to find wealthy recluse, Wynne Lift, missing from society for two decades. Intrigued with his story, they follow reports of Lift’s whereabouts in a cave in the desert, but what they find is far from what they expect. Inside, they must match wits with Lift and try to unravel a mystery twenty years in the ... more

Moscow's Ashes

by R.H. Johnson

Russia’s president will stop at nothing to resurrect the Soviet Union and, in the process, drive a wedge between the United States and its European allies. Invasions of Ukraine and Georgia are just the beginning. When Vasily Burov eyes more tempting prey, he vows to use nuclear force against anyone who tries to stop him.

The One Who Rules

by Tanner B. Owen

An author accidentally discovers evidence of a global conspiracy the likes of which the world has never seen. After a freak accident followed by a horrific crime, even the author’s friends and loved ones are endangered. The only way to save everyone is to expose the conspirators all at once before the evidence can be erased forever. A terrifying race against time erupts to outwit and outmaneuver an unimaginably powerful secret organization. Nobody else can know. Nobody else can help. It’s a lone... more

Potts Better Butter Bakery

by Sharon Anderson./S. D. Anderson

What do you do when part of your past follows you from Las Vegas? Only that past was here at your feet, dead? Twins, Sativa and Indica Potts left their successful music careers behind to travel to the other side of the continent where they grew up, Cape Cod. Their dream to open a bakery to sell “better butter brownies and cookies” their Mother and Grandmother used to make was about to come true. They invested their life savings in a small shop at the end of West Main Street in the same to... more

National Security

by Matt Sloane

After serving his country in Detachment-Delta, Vince Carver parlays his elite skills into heading the kinetic protection division of a Silicon Valley security firm. Everything changes when his convoy is ambushed on American soil. Before he knows it, the CIA is back and embeds him in a world of slick intrigue and fast lies. Stuck protecting a client who might be a traitor and fending off foreign agents, Carver wonders if even the CIA is above suspicion.

No Amends

by Angela Lam

For Tang Young, life is mostly good. She shares a cozy beach house with her girlfriend, has a thriving real estate career, and a book she hopes to see published. But when every literary agent rejects the novel she has spent the last few years writing, she escapes to a bar in San Francisco where she meets a woman who inspires her. Tang hooks a literary agent with her new idea and thanks her muse with an afternoon of illicit desire. But the passion between them isn’t fleeting or casual, a... more

Chaos in my Wake

by A.V. Shener

Matt Evans never expected to be neck deep in debt by the age of twenty-three. His guilt following the death of his father had made him take a risky loan from local thug, Jeff Holden, and now time has run out. Determined to get his money back one way or another, Jeff brings forth an alternative deal. Matt is to assist a scientist with his covert projects to cover the debt, no questions asked. Although unconventional, the deal seems to be the only possible solution. But underneath the scient... more

CODE OF THE RUNNING CROSS

by Josephine Ashton

In 1933, a Bauhaus'artist's secretive actions in Europe on the edge of World War II. In the late 1990ies, two transatlantic lovers, Erin Kelly, a Taos, New Mexico based photographer, and François Rosen, a creative, Paris businessman, get caught up in a tangled web of Nazi confiscated art. \t Their lives and that of many associates are in danger as they slowly begin to discover they are being pursued by someone who will not only murder thousands to get hold of... more

Rafael Jerome

by Tobias Maxwell

A fluke meeting in Paris brings the past into focus for two very different strangers. Gary Silverman, whose encounter with Rafael Jerome in 1949 led to a lifelong sense of loss, and Jeremy Jerome, clueless about his father’s misadventure in flashy Hollywood, circa ’49, who must deal with the consequences once Gary discloses misalliances. Always the dutiful son, Jeremy is determined to unearth his father’s true legacy. He follows his intuition that takes him to Ottawa then Calgary to find dec... more

Florida Retirement Is Murder

by Kris Courtney

FLORIDA RETIREMENT IS MURDER

Snowbirds do more than just Flock

“Stewart Johnson had worked hard his entire life to reach retirement. However, his Golden Years would prove to be more of a challenge than he anticipated after his wife passed away. Seeking to find peace of mind and warmth in Florida, Stewart became surrounded by a tribe of Snowbird residents who took him on a journey of laughter and sleuthing inside a gossip riddled communi... more

Shore Lodge

by Susan Specht Oram

Her grief threatened to swallow her whole. When a seed of betrayal plants a devastating truth, will blood prove thicker than vengeance? Jacklyn Stone is struggling to stay strong. Left bewildered by her husband’s death, the devastated widow feels her usually competent management over her garden shop sliding into chaos. So when her son and daughter suggest a brief vacation to help speed up her healing, she heads to the remote retreat… only to realize she can’t check out. With her skin crawl... more

The Hunt for the Peggy C

by Bruce Bortz

This gripping novel full of action and suspense introduces us to Captain Jake Rogers, a hardened smuggler transporting contraband through the U-boat infested waters of the North Atlantic in the beginning phases of World War II. Rumored to have killed someone in America before beginning his career at sea, he takes on cargo few other captains would be willing to carry—if the price is right. But after witnessing the oppression of Jews in Amsterdam, Rogers agrees to take on the most dangerous ca... more

Cold Dead Night (Brand of Justice Book 1)

by Lisa Phillips

Private Investigator Kenna Banbury lost everything two years ago at the hands of a serial killer. From the ashes of that encounter, she’s built a life she believes in, searching for the lost and forgotten all over the western US. Bringing her own brand of justice. When a series of murders drags her into an FBI investigation, Kenna finds herself back in the place where it all went wrong. Struggling to make sense of the case, Kenna’s past and present collide in a deadly plot that ri... more

The Girl Who Wore A Hockey Helmet

by Alex Charns

Before the second day of a cop car bombing trial, Assistant Public Defender Star Gwiazda and her Lumbee Indian client, Jimmy Ray Oxendine, learn that their bigoted trial judge died when his car exploded that morning. Both laugh in front of a courtroom full of people when the news is announced. Oxendine turns informant and accuses Star of planning the bombing. Star is charged with first-degree murder. Her struggles with bipolar disorder and the fact she was off her medication surface when the... more

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