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Stella Hardesty dispatched her abusive husband with a wrench shortly before her fiftieth birthday. A few years later, she's so busy delivering home-style justice on her days off, helping other women deal with their own abusive husbands and boyfriends, that she barely has time to run her sewing shop in her rural Missouri hometown. Some men need more convincing than others, but it's usually nothing a little light bondage or old-fashioned whuppin' can't fix. Since Stella works outside of the law, she's free to do whatever it takes to get the job done.

When Ella visits her cousin in Toronto, she discovers that a famous author living nearby has been murdered, leaving behind a fortune in print books, eBooks, audiobooks, and other merchandise. With so many people who could profit from the author's death, Ella joins forces with Toronto Homicide Detective Hanger to uncover the truth. As the investigation intensifies, Ella and Hanger must discover who has the most to gain from the author's death, and if the answer lies in his will. This gripping sixth installment of the Gabriella Hunt Cozy Mystery Series by a USA Today Bestselling Author will ...

AN EROTIC SUSPENSE THRILLER **** "Excellent story line... I totally recommend this book." - Debooks, Amazon reviewer **** "Sexy with some unexpected twists." - Debbie, Goodreads reviewer **** "Absolutely threw me for a loop!!... Truly loved the book, can't wait for the sequel." - Mrs Sheldon, Amazon reviewer ***DO NOT READ THIS NOVEL IF YOU'RE NOT PREPARED FOR SOME OF THE MOST EXPLICIT AND AROUSING DESCRIPTIONS OF SEXUAL ACTS EVER COMMITTED TO PRINT*** Some people will do anything for lust... Donna Thurgood is thirty-three, beautiful, and wealthy. She’s also trapped in a loveless marriage...

The New Republic faces new threats to its peace and prosperity: a charismatic firebrand is inciting war between two planets...reports of rogue Jedi Kniths practising a vigilante law are sowing seeds of mistrust and fear...and beyond the Outer Rim, a mysterious alien race is mounting an invasion.

Somehow, they just really needed to disappear without leaving a trace of their presence behind and that simply wasn’t all that easy to do anymore. It’s the middle of the twenty-third century and while there have been staggering technological and environmental advances, human nature is still very much the same as it has always been. One woman unexpectedly finds herself thrust into the middle of a long simmering struggle between power, greed, and an overwhelming effort to keep long hidden secrets buried. Luckily she isn’t on her own. A childhood friend that she hasn’t seen in years is...

At an exclusive private school in Switzerland, mystery surrounds the identity of the beautiful girl who arrives each morning and leaves each afternoon in a heavily protected motorcade fit for a head of state. She is said to be the daughter of a wealthy international businessman. She is not. And when she is brutally kidnapped across the border in the Haute-Savoie region of France, Gabriel Allon, the legendary chief of Israeli intelligence, is thrust into a deadly secret war with an old enemy that will determine the future of the Middle East - and perhaps the world.

Booklist compared this author’s propulsive novels to Big Little Lies. In her eighth suspenseful, emotional page-turner, Simmons explores friendship and the cost of keeping secrets in a small Pennsylvania town. When Sarah, Jonna, and Taylor meet in a church basement support group, they're the same age, but the secrets they keep from their families and from the police, are all different. Still reeling from the crimes committed against their children, the women are hungry for answers and purpose – and yes, for fun. But as their friendship grows, so does their questionable behavior -- and ...

On a warm spring evening in 1982, 37-year-old accountant Margaret Barbera left work in New York City and walked to the parking lot where she kept her BMW. Finding the lock on the driver’s side jammed, she went to the passenger’s side. A man leaned through the open window of a van parked in the next spot, pressed a silenced pistol to the back of Margaret’s head, and fired. She was dead before she hit the pavement. It was a professional hit, meticulously planned - but the killer didn’t expect three employees of the nearby CBS TV studios to stumble onto the scene of the crime.

Rissa Belgrande’s always known there was something different about her. Something that made her a damned good detective. Now she’s learning why. And it’s a doozy of a notion to wrap her head around the reasons behind her unique, not to mention strange, skills. Maze Turner is second in command of Skull Point security. He’s not meant to be a detective. Suddenly, he finds himself as an unofficial partner to a hot New Orleans detective. He’d quit, except that this mission could clear his friend Quick Alvarez. And the fact that he kinda likes this detective. A little. Maybe. Okay, ...

Although Erik Patko is still coming to terms with a heartbreaking tragedy, he begins his sophomore year of college with high hopes. He earns a headlining role in the drama club production of Curtain Drop, but while the musical is a comedy, the drama backstage is no joke. Scenery is tampered with, students are blackmailed, and four influential families are accused of bribing the dean. While his confidence is shattered and he struggles with his conflicting feelings for his roommate’s sister Priscilla, Erik must discover who’s behind the scandal before his Broadway dreams are derailed ...

In the sultry shadows of 1918 New Orleans, death has a rhythm all its own. When a string of brutal, axe-wielding murders shatters the city’s uneasy peace, Detective Louis Beaulieu is thrust into a chilling hunt for a phantom whose only calling cards are shattered skulls and bloodstained jazz notes. As fear grips the streets, the elusive Axeman sends a nightmarish ultimatum to the public: play jazz through the night—or face the blade.

For fans of Fatal Attraction and Unfaithful, Bedrock is a dark, addictive psychological thriller where passion turns perilous, desire becomes deadly, and one wrong choice can unravel everything. Addison Greyer knows better. Or at least she should. Never in a million years would she have guessed she'd wind up agreeing to the sinister side-gig her tough-as-nails new boss proposes. Until she does. Turns out, one bad decision often leads to another. He's troubled. She's married. It's a dangerous game, for sure—one in which she stands to lose the most. Soon, she learns desire is not only ...

This thought-provoking book examines gang history in the region encompassing West Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Northern Chihuahua, Mexico. Known as the El Paso-Juárez borderland region, the area contains more than three million people spanning 130 miles from east to west. Mike Tapia examines this region by exploring a century of historical developments through a criminological lens and by studying the diverse subcultures on both sides of the law.

A heist. A chase. A desperate gang holed up in a hideout. Darla Doyle hates being poor. She didn't go to college. She doesn't have a rich family. But she has a skill: driving. For five years, she has been the getaway driver for several bank jobs, each netting her over twenty thousand US dollars. It's not wealth, but it's enough to keep her kids clothed. Then a new bank job comes along. Great target. Good score. Well-planned. Well-executed by three people she's worked with before. The plan is firing on all cylinders...right up until an armored car guard offers them more money than they'd ...

At an exclusive private school in Switzerland, mystery surrounds the identity of the beautiful girl who arrives each morning and leaves each afternoon in a heavily protected motorcade fit for a head of state. She is said to be the daughter of a wealthy international businessman. She is not. And when she is brutally kidnapped across the border in the Haute-Savoie region of France, Gabriel Allon, the legendary chief of Israeli intelligence, is thrust into a deadly secret war with an old enemy that will determine the future of the Middle East—and perhaps the world....

Life was never going to be the same again…friends had become family and strangers became friends…all in the midst of a storm like no other and the aftermath that no one could have ever predicted. Jess and Max find their relationship takes an unexpected and life-changing turn…Brian decides on a risky mission that no one can talk him out of…and Sara struggles with the knowledge that among those responsible for the terror of the last year are a few who have ties to the tragedy in her past that is never far from her thoughts.After the Storm is the final book in the ongoing story of ...

When Finn Hensen gets a call from his sister Jess to say their father has died, neither is heartbroken. Their parents divorced many years ago, after which their father, Jimmy, continued to live a bohemian lifestyle in sun-soaked Mallorca, while his family returned to the UK. Ownership of his home, a beautiful but dilapidated farmhouse in the mountains, now passes to Finn and his sister. The only problem is that Jimmy recently remarried for the third time, and his new wife is still living there. The pair agree that Finn should go to Mallorca and tactfully take possession of their inheritance.

Kellyn had always loved Elias Stratton with all her heart and probably always would. She'd trusted him...but never again. 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 ...

Una plaga en la edad moderna. ¿Qué harías si tu mundo cambiara ante tus propios ojos?. ¿Qué harías si vieras a tus seres queridos convirtiéndose en horrendas monstruosidades?. ¿Qué harías si fueras la única persona sana y normal que queda en el planeta?. Estas preguntas, que brillan intensamente como los bordes exteriores de una supernova, son las que se hace Alicia Gaden mientras toda la vida a su alrededor se convierte en locura y decadencia. El agua, la sustancia vital de la que depende la supervivencia misma de la Tierra, se ha transformado en un fango espantoso y ...

Ten sadistic killers. One state. Countless lives that will never be the same again. To the outside world, New Mexico is the epitome of art, culture, and pristine, picturesque landscape. For those whom have had the misfortune of bearing witness to what lies below the surface, behind the facade of majestic mountains and miles of beloved desert land, life in New Mexico will forever be jaded by the memory of heinous acts perpetrated upon those they loved.