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In New Orleans, the dead don't always stay buried. But this Mardi Gras season, they're getting up for more than just a party. When bodies start appearing in the French Quarter—drained, pale, with twin puncture wounds on their necks—DJ Marissa Gray's world collides with hardened detective Grady Mills. Together, they uncover a terrifying truth: the Quarter's newest resident, the enigmatic Comte de Saint-Germain, isn't just hosting the season's most exclusive masquerade balls. He's hunting. Each victim is carefully chosen. Each death choreographed. And as Fat Tuesday approaches, Marissa ...

A former top-level National Security Agency insider goes behind the headlines to explore America's next great battleground: digital security. An urgent wake-up call that identifies our foes; unveils their methods; and charts the dire consequences for government, business, and individuals.

Maybe the youngest son of a violent criminal named Hoggy Thompson was born a beast. Maybe rage was beaten into him. One thing was certain, by the time he reached manhood, Jerry Thompson was a savage killer. He had no conscience about rape, child molestation, or thrashing a dozen men in a prison fight. Once he got his hands on a gun, any target would do. He didn't leave witnesses. When he terrorized an entire courtroom and offered to rip deputy prosecutor Larry Sells apart, people wondered if there would ever be a way to stop his viciousness.

In the idyllic backdrop of Ballycross, County Cork, Seren once reveled in the bliss of marriage to Frenchman André while managing their quaint wine shop. A perfect world, it seemed, until an unforeseen tragedy shattered everything. Determined not to be a mere pawn in the game of fate, Seren takes charge of her destiny. In this journey, she discovers the stark difference between fate and faith—realizing that control is a powerful force. The revelation of an enigmatic email destined for her husband propels Seren into a harrowing mystery. Abandoning the comforts of Ballycross, she ventures ...

There’s no hookah-smoking caterpillar, White Rabbit, Cheshire Cat, or Mad Hatter, but there is tea and a girl named Alice in the fourth installment of the Blue Bridge Mysteries. Perchance 2 Dream picks up where To The Last Breath left off. Jimmy Favreaux has suffered a life-threatening traumatic brain injury (TBI) and wakes up in an unfamiliar hospital but with a familiar-looking blond nurse dressed in the traditional all-white nurse’s uniform. This story has two Wendi’s, two Pepé’s, and two Hillary’s, but only one Jimmy, and he’s trapped in a dreamworld inside a medically ...

With American interests increasingly under threat, the FBI must turn to an unlikely collaborator... On routine business in Russia, Silicon Valley tech executive Hanna Arnol overhears two men discussing an espionage plot in a Moscow café. From what she can make out, an influential piece of United States AI is in danger of being stolen — and Hanna’s expertise makes her uniquely qualified to identify the target. And the FBI is convinced she’s the woman for the job. Determined to avoid a security breach and its ensuing uproar, Hanna follows one of the men to CyberStena, one of two ...

Someone wants Maggie dead. Maggie Sloan, former librarian with the fierce spirit of a warrior, accepts an assignment to find a missing spy who trusts only her. Simple enough, until she is shot and friends are murdered. Maggie and her partner, Larry, a police officer from her hometown, reel as the shockingly vicious attacks escalate. They struggle with the disturbing clues that point to the guilt of everyone they meet, and their trust and reliance on each other grows deeper than Maggie realizes. (He falls first.) How many more will die before Maggie and Larry expose the ruthless enemy’s ...

Once Mortal is the sixth Jackson Avery, Charlie Black novel. The two FBI Special Agents are called back to Northern New Mexico. A human head is found discarded at a State Park. A dead body is found in a hidden mountain dump site on federal land. The New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator Field Deputy Emma Spruce and New Mexico State Police Criminal Investigator Mike Pelis uncover strange phenomenon and even stranger people. Another fascinating look into the unexpected behavior of seemingly ordinary people, and the unexpected revelations from spirits. Another wonderful read from ...

Once Feared is the fifth Jackson Avery, Charlie Black novel. Matters of murder, jealousy, insanity, and science interrupt the FBI Special Agents Jackson Avery and Charlie Black's, Christmas vacation in the Northern New Mexico mountains of Taos and Los Alamos.

Ancient Irish shoes, two scientists, and a biotech race to preserve our future. Alex Winthrop M.D. and Olivia Nilsson Ph.D. have their long-awaited sabbatical harshly interrupted by Chinese MSS agents on a revenge mission. Extracted by special forces, they’re ordered back to Mount Weather’s secret lab to work on an antidote to BN27, the highly effective antiviral that saved millions. The pandemic has passed but the US is reeling in post-apocalyptic chaos. When the public learns that BN27 causes miscarriage, women riot in the streets, burning research facilities to the ground. Ex-...

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.

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 ...

Argentina’s Black Widow has Elizabeth Moynihan trapped in a deadly web of art theft. Stealing a Picasso painting is her only escape. With the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art as a target, Elizabeth must play the death card in her elaborate con. Ben Abrams returns as an adversary and love interest.

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, ...

She’s an executive with a highly classified secret. He’s the CEO’s mysterious son. He’s coming to save her, but she’s not going to wait around to be rescued. Revital Shilon never thought her classified executive job at GENESIS BIOTECH would get her drugged, kidnapped, and held at gunpoint. The men who took her want to bring her before “The Viper” – the fearsome international terrorist. He wants something, something to do with her company’s top-secret project. Something that only she knows. It all started when she met Jonathan Moore: the charismatic and enigmatic son of the...

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Sixteen-year-old Matt Wheeler never expected that moving to a sleepy lakeside town in Idaho would thrust him into a nightmare. Still grieving the death of his mother, Matt finds his life further upended when he starts seeing the ghost of Kelli Sullivan, a local girl who went missing weeks before his arrival. Kelli appears only to Matt at midnight hovering in the fog above the lake—trapped between this world and the next, desperate for the truth to surface. As Matt dives into the mystery of Kelli’s death, he forms an unlikely group of friends: Hal Murren, a tough, blue-collar kid with a ...

In 1895, a 22-year-old Italian seamstress named Maria Barbella was accused of murdering her lover, Domenico Cataldo, after he seduced her and broke his promise to marry her. Following a sensational trial filled with inept lawyers, dishonest reporters and editors, and a crooked judge repaying political favors, the illiterate immigrant became the first woman sentenced to the newly invented electric chair at Sing Sing, where she was also the first female prisoner. Enter Cora Slocomb, who launched the first campaign against the death penalty to save Maria.

A wine tasting in Montmartre… What could possibly go wrong? When Ava Sext, a part-time sleuth and transplanted Londoner who sells books from an outdoor stand in Paris overlooking the Seine, is invited to a wine tasting held by a dead man to smoke out his killer, she can't resist. With the help of her fellow book seller, Henri DeAth, a former notary in a country where notaries are a powerful caste, Ava investigates the strange goings-on in the world of Grand Cru wines to try and find the dead man's killer before the killer finds her. Death in Montmartre is a light-hearted cozy mystery set ...

Since 1975, a privately circulated document has been the subject of much discussion and debate among researchers into the dark realms of political conspiracy. Its tentacles go deep, reaching into the heart of the energy industry and the intelligence community. Here you will find assassination teams, rampant and destructive "defense industry" corruption, and the covert manipulation of millions of people.