Old Suspense

In the summer of 1601, Galileo Galilei made a startling discovery in the mountains of Eastern Italy that, if made public, could shatter faith in religion, bring down governments, and lead to worldwide turmoil. For more than 400 years, the secret has been guarded by a small group of incredibly powerful people, willing to do everything in their power to keep these discoveries from being made.

This brat needs to be taught a lesson, and I’ll be the one to discipline her… Since retiring from the special forces, I’ve set up a team of elite personal security guards. But I wasn’t expecting the daughter of my first client to be such a brat. Adrianna thinks she can play me, but she needs to be taught a lesson. I’ll be the one to take her over my knee. She needs to learn that the only game I’m playing is for keeps. Protecting His Brat is an OTT age-gap romance featuring an older military hero and an innocent curvy girl. If you love over-the-top heroes who will do anything to ...

Lottie Jones thought her crimes were behind her. Decades earlier, she changed her identity and tucked herself away in a small town. Her most exciting nights are the weekly bingo games at the local church and gossiping with her friends. When investigative journalist Plum Dixon shows up on her doorstep asking questions about Lottie’s past and specifically her involvement with numerous unsolved cases, well, Lottie just can’t have that. But getting away with murder is hard enough when you’re young.

I never planned to marry a killer. But when a forged marriage license lands on my desk—along with a photo of my sister’s bruised face—I don’t get to say no. Adrian Morelli is my opposite in every way: eleven years older, colder than ice, and the most dangerous man in D.C. The same man who sits at the throne of the crime syndicate I’ve spent my life trying to destroy. Now I wear his ring. Live in his penthouse. And every heated touch blurs the line between enemy and husband. This was supposed to be protection. A lie. But Adrian plays for keeps—and his lies cut deeper than his ...

This collection includes 6 steamy hot taboo stories of forbidden love comprised of over 30,000 words. This collection includes stories of innocent young women who are tempted by their desire for the man of the house. The desire to lose their innocence is too much, as they give in to their primal passions. They will get it hard, fast, and unprotected. Included in the collection... Sleepover with the Brat Busted by the Brat on Craigslist Teaching the Brat Stepbrother's Forbidden Medical Exam The Brat's Forbidden Medical Exam The Billionaire and the Brat

A gripping suspense adventure for young adults, with twists and turns and a nail-biting finale. Her best friend has vanished. Her only ally is her friend's aloof brother. Can they solve a deadly mystery, before they become the next victims? Fourteen-year-old Holly Champion is devastated when, following a traumatic incident, her father sends her away to an exclusive school in Cornwall. Acorn Academy, a magnificent clifftop mansion, looks stunning, but why are the students so docile and obedient? Why does the principal seem to dislike Holly so much? And what happened to the mysterious Lydia, ...

"The dog came back." "This is a joke, right?" "No, it isn't.... So do you want to hear the rest of it?" Dumbly, Jury nodded. The rest of it is told by Harry Johnson, a stranger who sits down next to Richard Jury as he's drinking in a London pub called the Old Wine Shades. Over three successive nights Harry spins this complicated story about a good friend of his whose wife and son (and dog) disappeared one day as they were viewing property in Surrey.

I stole a Mafia heir. Now his father is here to steal me. Three years ago, I disappeared with a secret—Luca Marchesi’s son and built a new life as a lawyer in Miami. I thought I was safe. I thought he’d never find us. I was wrong. Luca tracks me down, his presence as lethal as ever. He’s twelve years older then me, cruel, and utterly unforgiving. I expect him to take Rafa and walk away. Instead, he gives me an impossible choice: Marry him, or lose our son forever. Now, I’m trapped in a forced marriage to the most brutal alpha I’ve ever met. A man who doesn’t believe in love. A...

Be careful which stones you look under ... An innocent walk through the woods turns sinister when Albert and Rex hear a cry for help. A desperate woman is trapped the wrong side of a high fence ... and she is being pursued. What follows is a situation more deadly than any they have faced before.

Not a jump in the car, see the sights kind of ride. He's been taken for everything he has. He's lost his house, his restaurant business, his savings, his car, his best friend, his faith—all to his conniving ex-wife. But that was seven years ago. He picked himself up, left Chicago, and started over in Peoria, Arizona, running the Roundhouse Bar and Grill. He doesn't look back on those bad years; there's no point. Not until two curious cops show up at the Roundhouse.

This chastity hell I’m in has my body throbbing with a constant desire for my four Mafia Gods. Leo, my father's friend, and right-hand man wants me like nothing else and his desires have me forgetting he’s much older. Nicky, my bodyguard annoys the crap out of me, but how he would take a bullet for me draws me to him like bees to honey. Cesare, my childhood sweetheart, knows all my secret fantasies, the good and the bad. Romeo, we would be a match made in Hell. But he’s wearing me down with every sensual look from those ice-blue eyes. Each Alphalicous man is doing everything he can to...

A past she can’t remember. A memory he longs to forget. Will a madman bent on revenge tear them apart or make them strong? Dr. Eli Merrick’s day off turns into a trauma induced morning that drags him to the emergency room to save an unconscious woman and her baby. Though she’s been identified as Janet Jones, Eli senses that isn’t her name. When Janet’s life is threatened, Eli’s need to protect her and her baby kicks in. He takes her to his home at the Crystal Creek Ranch. Janet gains consciousness but is puzzled by the people who call her this unfamiliar name. As she struggles ...

Following a passionate and troubled love affair with a pretty widow named Jane Holdsworth, Jury finds himself, unaccountably, a suspect in a murder investigation. Detained in London, Jury sends his friend Melrose Plant, former Earl of Caverness, to the Holdsworth family's Lake District home to pose as an eccentric librarian. Plant discovers that his catalogue cards contain less data on Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey than they do on tantalizing questions about the Holdsworths: What happened to Crabbe Holdsworth's first wife? What happened to his son, Graham?

I’ve always known two things: The Gallaghers and the Bianchis are sworn enemies. And Enzo Bianchi is the last man I should ever want. But how do you ignore a man who seems to be everywhere you go? Dark, brooding, and untouchable, Enzo watches me with an intensity that steals my breath. He’s dangerous, a man who could burn my entire world to the ground with a single glance. And yet, I can’t stop fantasizing about him. My family would never forgive me if they knew the truth. But I can’t help it. Enzo is everything I’ve ever craved. And when he offers me a way out of this life, I ...

She’s it. She’s the one that I want. I catch one glimpse of her and I know that I have to have her. She doesn’t know yet, but she will soon. Once I’ve stolen her away, she’ll see. I am the man she’s always been waiting for and I'll take her soon enough. A forgotten identity, amnesia, semi-stalker romance with a happy ending. The Curvy Girl Of The Month Club isn’t for the faint of heart. We’re talking filthy mouthes, first chance encounters, over-the-top alphas, and scenes so hot you just might blush. These aren’t your mama’s sweet beach reads. Grab a glass of wine and ...

Though best known for The Scarlet Pimpernel, the Hungarian novelist Baroness Orczy was a prolific and versatile writer who could turn her pen to other genres. So, in the social and literary context of the huge success of Sherlock Holmes, she developed a memorable, but nameless character with remarkable powers of detection. The first stories appeared in The Royal Magazine in 1901, and other series followed. The first collection appeared in book form in 1905.

A hard-nosed real estate baron is dead, and detectives P.T. Marsh and Remy Morgan learn there's a long list of suspects. Mason Falls, Georgia, may be a small town, but Ennis Fultz had filled it with professional rivals, angry neighbors, and a wronged ex-wife. And when Marsh realizes that this potential murder might be the least of his troubles, he begins to see what happens when ordinary people become capable of evil. As Marsh and Morgan dig into the case, it becomes clear that Fultz's death was not an isolated case of revenge.

Scary stories help children face fear and master it, by portraying the elements of conflict in clear, good-versus-evil terms with good triumphant in the end.

At the altar, Zarayah can’t help but wonder if she’s making a terrible mistake… Keeping her husband-to-be’s secrets from her family wasn’t the first gut-wrenching decision she had to make. Choosing to go through with the wedding after learning what Zaire has done leaves Zarayah with a bad taste in her mouth. But surely it’s too late to call things off when they’re standing at the altar together… right? Backing out would embarrass her family—and herself. So she goes through with the marriage and things go from bad to worse. Their honeymoon cruise is a disaster and her ...

This is no meet cute. It's meet brute. My day starts perfectly. I'm offered my dream job – manager at the largest independent bookstore in the country. Lame? Not to a bookworm like me. But then my perfect day turns into a nightmare. I’m kidnapped by Russian gangsters. Turns out my family has a debt, and I'm the collateral. I'm trapped, bound and blindfolded, scared senseless and wondering if I'll make it out alive. Then I get kidnapped again. Only this time my kidnapper is the bodyguard I never knew I had. A six-foot-four mountain of muscle and danger named Hammer. He's an ex-Marine, a ...