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LAPD has a name for cop killers. Dead Men Walking.

FBI Agent Dean Blackwood gave up the undercover life for a desk job, traded whiskey for coffee, and swore he’d never look back.

Until he found his best friend bleeding out.

They had just stepped off the sand, surfboards under their arms, when the gunfire erupted.

Dean ran after the shooters, instincts firing before reason. By the time he got back, Joey was on the ground, blood pooling in the surf.

But Joey was just the beginning. Someone is hunting down members of an elite LAPD unit, one by one.

The LAPD calls it a string of unsolved murders. Dean calls it a pattern.

A grieving widow begs for justice. A relentless reporter digs where she shouldn’t. The deeper Dean goes, the more bodies stack up, and the more he realizes this isn’t just another case. The truth is buried under layers of corruption, and someone is willing to kill to keep it there.

Dean tried to start over, but they shouldn’t have killed his friend.

This time, there’s no going back.

Packed with high-speed chases, mob bosses, brutal fight scenes, and explosions, Drive to Kill is perfect for fans of fast-paced action, lone wolf antiheroes, and edge-of-your-seat thrillers. This is book 1 of 8 in the Dean Blackwood FBI Mystery Thriller series.

Small town politics can be murder.

Until she went with her boyfriend to ask the mayor to fund a spay and neuter clinic, Lisa Chance had never even set foot in city hall. But this all changes after the mayor is caught in an illegal gambling ring and fired.

With the town’s political landscape turned upside down, long-simmering tensions threaten the peace and stability of Moss Creek.

Now Lisa’s mother feels it’s her duty to run for the vacant office, and ropes Lisa into acting as her campaign manager.

When a murder disrupts the rival campaign, it seems no one in town is safe. Can Lisa find the killer in time to protect the town and the people she loves?

In Clyde Hawkins Elementary School Kindergarten class, I had the distinction of being the only student whose daddy shot at the teacher.
And my teacher, Mrs. Connors, shot right back.
This was Texas after all.
Lydia Rose Hall’s life had not exactly been a bowl of cherries. Before she even made it to first grade,her mother had run away with the “plumber,”her father had shot out the windows of her kindergarten classroom, and worst of all she couldn’t read worth a damn. If it wasn’t for bad luck, Liddy figured she’d have no luck at all. But that all changed once Aunt Betty took her to live at Paradise Gate Trailer Park.
When ten-year-old Kid Harding moved to town and laid eyes on Liddy Rose Hall it was love at first sight. She was skinny as a chicken, had curly, red, clown hair, and wore the strangest pair of pink eyeglasses he had ever seen. She couldn’t help it if she was as dumb as a box of rocks and meaner than a wet hen.
Some love stories are just meant to be, but this isn’t one of them.
Liddy and Kid’s story is a speeding train wreck set on a collision course of murder, mayhem and wit. Throw in a healthy dose of the Hells Saints MC and you have the kind of wild adventure we have come to love from the works of Paula Marinaro. So, fasten your seat belts, hold on tight and enjoy the ride ladies. The boys are back in town.

After their father’s death, Victor and his brothers set out to fulfill his lifelong dream of starting a new life in the Western frontier. However, their arrival in Western Springs is met with danger and conflict as the town is plagued by the notorious Bermuda Gang. As they struggle to find their place in this untamed land, the brothers must make a fateful decision…

Will they stay and defend the town against the gang’s reign of terror, or will they abandon their father’s dream and flee?

Harmon, the trained carpenter, finds himself torn between his growing feelings for a young nurse named Georgina and his responsibility to protect his brothers. Meanwhile, Wilbert craves adventure, and Victor seeks to keep the peace. The brothers’ conflicting motivations and fears threaten to tear them apart, forcing them to make choices that could have deadly consequences.

When Harmon develops a natural affinity as a healer, he’ll have to make a choice as to what his purpose is in life…

As the brothers search for a new home, the dangerous Bermuda Gang repeatedly stands in their way. The brothers must decide whether to fight alongside the town or flee before it’s too late. But as the stakes grow higher and their bonds are tested, they realize that their decision could mean the difference between life and death… Will the brothers risk everything or will they finally choose to save themselves?

A dystopian science fiction novel that unravels a great secret of the most mysterious continent in the world.

Scott “Buck” Buckley, an environmental scientist, accepts a job at the McMurdo Antarctic research station. After signing a secrecy declaration, Scott discovers the existence of Geyser Valley, an area with a unique warm microclimate, which is home to the mysterious indigenous Anai people. In an outrageous conspiracy, the world governments are keeping the existence of these people a secret, to avoid limitations on the division of land for natural resources.

Scott is fascinated by the unique culture of the Anai as he begins to visit their valley. Through his budding friendship with the young clan chieftainess Ki Tahan, he discovers a peaceful society that lives in harmony with nature.

In the meantime, the world becomes more and more unstable while a global war is about to break out. Just before darkness sets over Antarctica, warfare tears the world apart, and the research station finds itself completely isolated for the long and sunless winter.

In the loneliness of the dark season, Scott faces difficult questions: who are the Anai, and how did they come to Antarctica? How much truth is there in their legends about giant ancient reptiles frozen in ice, waiting to come back to life? How is McMurdo going to hold on until the communications and supply lines are restored? And what limits one is not allowed to cross, even in the name of survival?

With his career and reputation on the line, Dr. Christian Yates refuses to abandon his controversial theory that human DNA contains an infinite repository of ancestral memories.

But, Christian may get more than he bargained for as his mission garners the attention of a notorious serial killer and a ruthless pharmaceutical CEO seeking the same knowledge.

What if every human on the planet carries a dark secret in their DNA?

What if memories could be passed to the next generation with the ease of physical traits such as eye or hair color?

How can an entire lifetime of memories flash before a person’s eyes in just a split second during a near death experience?

Dr. Christian Yates risks everything to answer these questions and many more as the memories of his murdered father and the patient he couldn’t save haunt him.

Accompany Chistian through the exotic landscapes of Denmark, Greenland, and Switzerland as he pursues the truth with a deranged serial killer hot on his heels.

The parting gift is a mind-boggling ‘whodunit’ conclusion that has kept even the most discriminating critics glued and guessing right to the end.

A life-threatening microbe. A desperate scientist. Can she isolate the disease before terrorists obliterate the world?

Epidemiologist Leigh Austen can’t shake her lasting guilt. As the sole survivor of her team’s encounter with the Black Nile virus, Austen is tormented with memories of her colleagues’ horrific deaths. But when an unknown pathogen annihilates an entire Asian village, she must bury the nightmares and step up to help prevent a worldwide epidemic.

Joined by doctors, specialists, and a retired special-forces officer, Austen travels to the hot-zone epicenter a mile beneath the city’s surface. But with a crazed microbiologist and a former Soviet soldier after the dangerous organism, this scientist’s fight to save millions of lives could quickly cost her own…

Can Austen contain the killer strain before demented monsters unleash a deadly blight?

Meet James Hoak, a rising college senior whose zany escapades jeopardize his future as a national sportswriter. Can his arch-enemy football star and a legendary beach club owner save his career?

Recommended by TV sports commentator Tony Kornheiser on his podcast.

It’s the month of May at Blue Ridge University, a bucolic campus nestled in the mountains of southwestern Virginia. As his friends prepare for their senior beach trip, rising senior James Hoak lands a coveted summer internship at a national weekly magazine, Sporting America — a guaranteed pipeline to a full-time sportswriter career — if he graduates next May.

But in a crazy mishap involving BRU’s football star, Marvelavious Hall, Hoak loses every cent of his tuition money.

And Hall — injured in the accident — wants revenge.

Running for his life, Hoak, now broke, can’t pay for his fifth year of college. And with no degree, he has no pipeline to a full-time job. He must raise eight thousand dollars in four days, before the internship begins, or his career is wrecked.

What better place to raise the cash than the coolest beach hangout on the East Coast — with the help of his arch enemy?

While it targets young adults, this first book in the rollicking James Hoak series will satisfy all readers who enjoy binge-worthy shows like Apple TV’s Ted Lasso and book characters like Harlan Coben’s Myron Bolitar and Gregory Mcdonald’s Fletch.

Teens survived the apocalypse – but can they survive each other? ?

For fans of STRANGER THINGS, THE HUNGER GAMES, & THE LAST OF US…

An alien virus twisted every adult on Earth over age 20 into immortal monsters that hunt in darkness. Now, for the children who survived, a ray of sunshine is the thin line between life & death…

Terrified and alone at the end of the world, 13-year-old Amaia forms an unlikely alliance with Liam, the cute boy from across the street. Her instincts scream that Liam’s hiding some nasty secret, though she has no choice but to trust him as they create a safe haven in her attic.

Instead of finding weapons to protect themselves, the teens get saddled with an orphaned baby they find in the backseat of a wrecked minivan… a complication that could tear them apart.

Amaia will find the people she runs to for help… are the deadliest monsters of all.

MORTAL TETHER is an award-winning, mind-blowingly original thriller best suited for Ages 13 – Adult. It’s packed full of both edge-of-your-seat and heartfelt moments that will stay with you long after you’re done reading.

A Legacy Written in Blood and Pearls…

In 1498, the world was on the brink of a seismic shift. Christopher Columbus, during his fateful third voyage, stumbled upon the Pearl Coast — an enchanting realm teeming with riches beyond imagination. Yet, behind the glistening pearls lay a dark and treacherous history that would forever change the course of human lives.

At the heart of this gripping historical thriller lies Cubagua Island, a place where dreams and nightmares intertwined. Here, the lives of two souls, Charaima, a Native American, and Dembe, an African, were forever altered. Enslaved by the avaricious European invaders and subjected to unimaginable cruelty under the sadistic Captain Pedro, they clung to each other, united by a shared determination to secure their people’s freedom.

Hidden amidst the chaos and suffering, a cache of pearls was concealed in a buried clay jar — a symbol of hope and a means to their liberation.

Cubagua Island, once renowned as The Pearl Coast, bore witness to the ruthless harvest of an estimated two-hundred billion oysters, yielding twelve tons of pearls sent to Spain — a treasure that exceeded all other exports combined. But this insatiable greed came at an unthinkable cost. Within two decades, the entire Native population had been decimated, and the first African enslaved people in America toiled as pearl divers on the island’s shores.

Blood for Pearls unravels this dark and little-known chapter of history through the tireless efforts of Peter Von Perle, an American researcher and writer. Born in Venezuela, he became captivated by the hidden stories of early American natural saltwater pearl fisheries. For over a decade, he traversed the globe, unearthing secrets of the sixteenth-century pearl trade, and engaging with a multitude of experts, from gemologists and museum curators to archaeologists and historians. Now, he unveils his findings in this pulse-pounding historical thriller.

Prepare to be transported to a world where pearls are more than mere jewels — they are symbols of survival, resilience, and the enduring human spirit. Blood for Pearls is a spellbinding journey through history’s most precious bloodshed, where beauty and brutality converge in the name of wealth, and where the true savages were not those who perished, but those who invaded.

Join in the unearthing of this untold history of the Pearl Coast. Get your copy of Blood for Pearls: The First American Genocide today and dive into a mesmerizing saga of adventure, deceit, and the relentless pursuit of freedom and wealth.

She’s royalty. He’s the wrong guy. But he’s the only one who can keep her safe. Get ready for a red-hot new romance from New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Cynthia Eden.

How do you protect a princess?

Step one: Do the job. Make her the priority.

Constantine Leos can’t believe his new assignment. He’s supposed to protect a princess. An actual, no BS royal princess. Sure, she spent her whole life in the US, and she’s only just discovered that she’s royalty, but, still… this isn’t his typical type of case. He’s used to bad guys who fight dirty and hard. He’s not prepared for… her. A gorgeous princess with dark eyes, lush lips, and a deceptive delicacy that makes him want to take on the world in order to protect her.

Step two: Stay close to the client. Intimately close.

Seemingly overnight, Juliet Laurent went from being a nobody to being the lost princess who now has her face splashed across social media. The new fame comes with danger because someone seems intent on making sure that Juliet never gets to wear her promised crown. She’s scared and desperate, and Juliet doesn’t know who to trust in this crazy royal life…

Enter the new bodyguard. Big, buff, and dangerous. A man who isn’t scared of anything. Just the man she needs. A man she desperately wants.

Constantine promises to protect her from every threat. His job is to stand between her and danger. With him, Juliet feels safe. And with him, Juliet also feels the stirring of a fierce desire that catches her by surprise. How can she want a stranger so much, so desperately? But when the threats continue and Constantine shields her again and again, her feelings for him just grow stronger. Forced into close proximity, the attraction rages past her control and his…

Step three: Protect the princess. Don’t fall for her.

Constantine knows a guy like him won’t ever get a happy ending, but he will do whatever it takes to make sure that Juliet stays safe. Because Juliet doesn’t need a Prince Charming. She needs a bodyguard who will eliminate every threat and who will destroy anyone who tries to hurt her. In other words, this princess needs the big, bad wolf. Luckily, Constantine has always excelled at being bad.

Ready for a fun, hot romance with a touch of danger? HOW TO PROTECT A PRINCESS has a guaranteed happy ending and no cliff-hangers.