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Emmie Talbot is a quintessential good girl. Smart, Southern, Kind Church Goer Small Town Seamstress Aspiring Teacher And A Misguided Moonshiner Emmie's sole purpose in life was taking care of her moonshine loving step-father. When he is killed in a fiery crash on their farm, she is left alone and frustrated with a mountain of debt. Working as a seamstress for a crazy-old-coot shopkeeper is not the kind of life she had imagined for herself. The curious events that surround her step-father’s death send Emmie on a quest for answers. Answers that lead to a dangerous secret tucked away on her ...

Dirty Phenix: Birth of the Dixie Mafia is book one in a new true crime series from acclaimed investigative journalist HL Arledge, author of the Bayou Justice series and newspaper column. Inside, learn how a city’s corruption led to the rise of a burlesque icon, a political assassination, and the birth of the Dixie Mafia. This story begins in Georgia and Alabama, but it ends on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, home of Carlos Marcello and the New Orleans Mafia.

Millie has spent half of her life running from her perilous past, particularly from someone who wants nothing more than to destroy her life. She's dedicated her entire adult years to hiding in solitude, fearful of what will happen if she exposes herself even the slightest bit to the outside world. She likes to stay on the move, difficult to track and nearly impossible to find. Her latest move lands her in a dilapidated cabin high up in the forested mountains, secluded and isolated from the rest of the world --just the way she likes it. While Millie does her best to stay undetected in her ...

The online posting of an Oyster Island treasure map leads to murder The opening of the safe at the Majestic revealed several old documents, one of them a treasure map drawn by the pirate Jean Lafitte. Eddie Toledo and Basil Doles rediscover the old map after finding a dead man on the beach. A single clue leads back to the treasure map and perhaps provides a motive for the murder. Who is Amani LeClair? Where is she from, and what is she doing on the island? Is she somehow responsible for the murder? Is the murderer even human? Will Basil and Eddie find out before the island becomes a hunting...

La guerra contra el narco, la alternancia en los gobiernos de México y Estados Unidos, la captura y extradición de capos, la atomización de cárteles, el surgimiento de nuevos líderes, las fluctuaciones del mercado nacional e internacional y la evolución en el tráfico y consumo de estupefacientes han creado un nuevo México, que atraviesa la mayor crisis de violencia en 80 años.

Michael Shayne, "the reckless, redheaded Irishman", was a popular hard-boiled detective created by crime novelist Brett Halliday. In the novels, Michael Shayne settled in Miami just after WWII, making crime pay by fighting it with a license and an attitude. Like Mike Hammer and Philip Marlowe, Shayne was a loner. The backstory on Mike is that he was happily married, but it hit him hard when his wife was tragically murdered. Grief stricken, Shayne loses himself in his work as a private eye, prowling the dark streets of the city.

As they silently make their way through the trees to the hidden refuge that Thomas Dyersen once found need of for his family centuries ago, Sara Merryn is grateful for its existence as the silence of the night erupts with the sounds that she has long buried in her memories.Storm Tide continues the ongoing story of family, friends, and strangers who come together at a time when the unknown is their greatest enemy…and their hidden sanctuary is their greatest defense. No matter that they have planned for this moment since the storm that first brought them together, and the siege of lawless ...

*Amazon #1 Bestseller* *Winner-Pencraft Award for Literary Excellence* *Winner-Silver Medal-Global Book Awards* and 1st Book in Tejas Desai’s Riveting International Crime Trilogy The Brotherhood Chronicle (The Brotherhood, The Run and Hide, The Dance Towards Death)! *NOW BEING RELEASED: TEJAS DESAI'S LATEST BOOK, BAD AMERICANS (AKA THE GREAT AMERICAN PANDEMIC NOVEL), AN AMBITIOUS FRAME NOVEL FILLED WITH 12 SHORT STORIES BEING RELEASED IN PARTS FROM MARCH 15, 2025 TO APRIL 15, 2026. CHECK OUT HIS AUTHOR PAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION!* Enter a sinister, exotic world of danger, surprise and ...

El antiguo pájaro de la muerte El fotógrafo de vida silvestre Sam Daniels tiene un trabajo de ensueño: viaja a lugares exóticos y toma fotos de animales increíblemente hermosos para que todos los puedan ver. Sin embargo, durante un viaje a la jungla amazónica a la que viajó por ese motivo, Sam y su guía se encuentran con un pájaro diferente a cualquiera que hayan visto antes, completamente hermoso e hipnotizante. Se las arregla para conseguir algunas fotos, pero no antes de que la extraña criatura asesine a su guía y salga volando, gritando. Petrificado y traumatizado, Sam ...

If you've been captivated by the works of David Baldacci, Dean Koontz, Kendra Elliot, Jeffery Deaver, and Jim Butcher, then prepare to be spellbound by this dark and enthralling novel Original Sin. A chilling and sinister killer emerges from the depths of San Francisco's past, shaking the city to its core. The notorious serial killer known as Astaroth, dormant for three long decades, has resurfaced, leaving a trail of death and terror in his wake. As the body count continues to rise, panic grips the city, and Detective Alec Wolfe is faced with a relentless adversary that tests his every ...

Hercule Poirot is travelling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill estate. Richard Devonport has summoned him to prove that his fiancée, Helen, is innocent of the murder of his brother, Frank. There is one strange condition attached to this request: Poirot must conceal his true reason for being there from the rest of the Devonport family.

There's a cardinal rule in football that you never break. You don't mess around with another player's girl and you don't touch the coach's daughter. Well, I've never been good at following the rules. Belinda Carmichael is uptight, prissy and the hottest girl I've ever seen. She's also the head coach's precious baby girl. And she's entirely off limits. The trouble is, I didn't know who she was when I met her. And she had no idea I was her daddy's newest star player. It was her job to show me around campus, and I showed her a lot more than that. But we fumbled the ball – she never told a ...

Sometimes doors are closed for other ones to open... Sally Compton Scott's life should be back on track after the death of her husband, Tyler, the love of her life. Relocating from the suburbs to a high-rise building in Manhattan, she has built an accounting practice with a select group of small business clients. Now that her home is furnished and she is financially independent, all the things on her to-do list have been accomplished.Yet here she was with lonely evenings, yearning for a family with children to love, and an emptiness she can't seem to fill. Who was she? Where is her life ...

Arthur Taylor is New Zealand's best known, most influential and colourful career criminal. A household name, he was paroled from prison in 2019 after more than 38 years behind bars. His life story is nothing short of remarkable. He has more than 150 convictions ranging from bank robberies to fraud, theft, escaping and having weapons and explosives.

Have you ever had a rash? I’m talking one of the bad rashes. You know, the crusty kind that ooze puss and fester under the surface of your skin? The kind you gotta see a doctor for. Well, I’ve got a rash. It’s a bad one. And her name is Erika Wild. I’ve been told I can’t pick at my rash. I can’t cuss at either.

So much that is valued is rooted in a family’s history…the stories passed from one generation to the next…cherished traditions never to be forgotten…and for some an unbreakable sense of honor that stands the test of time.Family Honor…the seventh book in the Delahass Legacy continues the ongoing story of the search for their ancestor’s secrets. And no sooner than Patty Delahass believes that they are on the right path with the newly discovered information brought to them by a man whose ancestor was one of Jeremy’s closest and most trusted friends…yet another unexpected piece ...

(Edited February 26th 2018) I was running with no place to go and nowhere to hide. Emilia I had no one. They left me at the orphanage when I was young and from there I went from foster home to foster home, carting the black trash bag with my life shoved into it. John was a welcoming rain washing away the past or so I thought. Beau Killing is like breathing natural. I was born into this life and running the local MC that was always where I was going to end up. I didn't need or want an old lady I had plenty of woman floating around to satisfy any craving I had. So why was this chick becoming ...

Elizabeth had always believed there was nothing more magical than the precious gift of love...even now, in the heart of danger, she still believed it...she always would. After telling the story of Simon's magical cowboy ranch for more years than she cared to count, Elizabeth Fountaine wondered if there might be more to the fanciful fairy-tale than being an elaborate bedtime story to tell children. More than ever before, she very much needed for even just a small piece of the fairy-tale to be real. If it was, Simon's magical cowboy ranch could be the answer to their dilemma... This women's ...

Lucinda Jones paced around the room, debating which kind of criminal she’d need more for her task: a drug kingpin or a mafia boss? They had both been summoned to this mysterious rendezvous. Lucy surveyed her thick black book of contacts who frequented Club Twilight during its off-hours. When someone asked for Lucy’s help in resolving their dilemma, she never said no—but there was always a caveat. She might come calling for assistance one day. It had been ten years since two men came begging for Lucy's aid; and now Lucinda was due to collect on that debt. Indebtedness to Lucinda Jones ...

We get what we want. What we want is her. She’s the daughter of a mafia don. A princess who deserves better than what her father signed her up for—a loveless marriage to a cruel man. My business partner and I have had her in our sights for much longer than she could ever know. Now the time has come… To claim her. Fans of Faith Summers, BB Hamel and Michelle Heard will love the Brides and Billionaires series! Billionaires with all the time on their hands to spend worshipping the woman they claim as their bride. If you love arranged marriage and action with your dark mafia romance, ...