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Teresa Tommasino has always avoided trouble. Never married, shes gone through life quietly, content to be a Brooklyn schoolteacher. She knows the Mafia run her neighborhood, but as long as she keeps her head down, she figures shell be safe. But trouble has a way of slipping into even the most peaceful life. After witnessing a terrible crime, Teresa is drawn into a world of gangsters, fear, and deception. With a contract out on her life, she agrees to a desperate plan: a car bomb, a faked death, and an escape from New York.

A kidnapped girl. A ruthless criminal who preys on the innocent. Two killers who will stop at nothing to bring him down. Former assassin Leine Basso was supposed to be in sunny LA, watching the first class of operatives graduate from the new anti-trafficking academy. Instead, she’s in North Dakota in the middle of a brutal winter, helping ex-poacher Derek van der Haar track down and eliminate a deadly group of criminals hell-bent on providing young girls to the highest bidder. The closer Leine and Derek get to the organization, the more dangerous the mission becomes.

Deep in the heart of the Amazon, an expedition finds evidence of a fabled lost city of gold. It isn't long before a ruthless drug trafficker learns of the possible find and kidnaps an expedition member, threatening to kill her and the rest of the expedition unless he's given the coordinates to the city.

Former assassin Leine Basso is fresh off an assignment rescuing an American teenager from a terrorist group in Libya, when she thwarts the murder of a street kid in Tripoli. Leine agrees to help the girl, but she must first visit a refugee camp to uncover the reason behind a rash of mysterious abductions. Leaving the camp, Leine comes under a surprise attack, but only a handful of people knew her true mission.

Being a cop was never something that Riley was very good at. But now, as she must become a vigilante to clear her name, she finds new reserves of strength and courage, all with a healthy dose of sarcasm. With her name and photo splashed across the nightly news, Riley should leave the city ASAP. Instead, she decides to stay undercover and track down the real killer. But somebody knows that Riley is still in the game, and soon the police are the least of her worries as a sexy assassin starts closing in. Can she become the hero the city needs without getting herself killed?

Seattle attorney Camille Delaney is cash-strapped and struggling to balance the demands of her new solo legal practice with raising her three daughters. But when an emergency C-section goes wrong and a baby dies in the delivery room, the mother, Helene Anderson, shows up at Camille’s office asking for help. Facing the challenge of a legal system where child-loss verdicts are limited by the dollar value placed on a child’s life, Camille considers a quick settlement for the family. But Helene insists: her child’s life had value, and Camille needs to prove it in court.

She's not a karate expert. She can't pick a lock. And she certainly isn't a master of disguise.... But Riley is stubborn, and this is her city. She's not going down without a fight! If you like female characters who are strong, funny, and real, then you're going to love Kay Riley, a Chicago cop wrongly accused of a terrorist bombing, and on the run for her life. A wiser woman might flee the country, but Riley is determined to clear her name. Armed with a quick wit and some friends who don't mind breaking a few laws, Riley becomes an amateur vigilante.

Former assassin Leine Basso has severed ties with everyone she loves to keep them safe while she hunts for the ruthless terrorist Salome. There are rumblings that the French-born assassin is planning another attack, and Leine’s determined to stop her before it’s too late. Can Leine thwart her plans, or will Salome’s own twisted vengeance mean the end for Leine and everyone she loves?

A former assassin is drawn into the twisted game of a serial killer who may be a grisly remnant from her past. What happens when a reality show turns deadly? Determined to leave her old life behind, retired assassin Leine Basso accepts a job working security at one of television's most popular reality shows, Serial Date. When a contestant is found dead in the prop closet, it appears the killer is one of the "bachelors" on the show - an ex-con billed as a serial killer - but the detective in charge of the case isn't so sure.

Retribution: They took everything. Now she wants revenge. Claire Whitcomb's gunning for the men who destroyed her life—and won't settle for anything less than retribution. Gunslinger: On her way to start a new life in tough-as-nails Tombstone, Claire meets Isabella, an actress and a railroad magnate’s mistress. When Isabella’s security man is killed during an attempted train robbery, Claire’s hired to take his place and finds that Isabella is a target — making Claire one too…

Leine Basso races to prevent Syrian intelligence from obtaining a lethal bioweapon - a savage combination of toxins never before seen in nature. Leine’s called back to war-torn Tripoli, enlisted by her former employer to train a heroic group of ISIS-fighting snipers to crush the horrific threat. But there’s a leak, and the Libyan operation goes terribly wrong - the bioweapon ends up in the hands of a brutal terrorist who will stop at nothing to force the West to its knees. Can Leine and her warriors prevent a ruthless enemy from releasing the deadly toxin before it's too late?

A cop blamed for a terrible crime, Riley went on the run and was thought to be dead. Not quite. Now Riley is determined to learn the skills she will need to fight injustice on her own terms, from the shadows. Meanwhile, she agrees to help take down a dangerous arms dealer. Ruby, Marty, and the Shelbys are back to help, along with a new young woman who might, despite Riley's attempts to warn her away, be the perfect sidekick. And speaking of kicks, Selena Salerno is back as well, and not at all happy with what Riley has been up to since her apparent death.

An unexpected alliance sends Riley to Canada and Mexico, making her an international woman of mystery! Riley searches for a kidnapped woman, with an FBI agent hot on her trail and a supervillain in her sights. Solid Gold is another funny, fast-paced adventure about an amateur vigilante out to make the world a better place, if she doesn't get herself killed first!

As tension builds and the threat escalates, Leine's past collides with her present, blurring the line between friend and foe. In a breathtaking showdown, Leine unleashes her deadly skills to protect not only herself but the tight-knit community she has grown to love. Will she succeed—or will her enemy destroy everything she holds dear?

Former assassin Leine Basso is hired by a wealthy Beverly Hills power couple to find their missing daughter, Elise, last seen partying with her boyfriend at a club in Tijuana. At first, police believe the two teenagers are the victims of a carjacking. But when Leine finds their missing vehicle with a mutilated body inside, and the local cartel warns her away, she knows if Elise isn’t already dead, she will be soon, or worse.

It was the case of a lifetime...but then, it went sideways on her. The suspect Maddie put behind bars might have been crazy, but it turns out he was innocent, and now she finds herself in the Artificial Crimes Unit hunting a serial killer from 200 years ago and a madman breathing life back into him with modern technology. Worse yet, she’s partnered up with Jake, her former lover. Now, an evil genius is using droids to recreate the infamous Jack the Ripper murders.

The Middle East, 76 BCE. Internal power struggles consume Jerusalem’s attention while surrounding nations manipulate events for their own purposes. Two young women from opposite worlds—Pninah, a poor Jewish girl prone to seizures and Cypros, a Nabataean princess—are thrust by violent events into a collision course with each other and history. By capturing the era and its people with his characteristic raw intimacy and plainsong prose style, Daryl Potter brings the story of Herod the Great’s mother and a fateful Roman invitation vividly to life.

The way a person's house looks and feels like is a huge reflection of his or her personality. However, most of the time, there isn't enough leeway to find the schedule, energy, and motivation to keep our homes clean and organized. As a result, a cluttered, messy, and disorganized space invades our lives day in and day out.

92 BCE. A widow and an old scribe together raise Haim, a boy whose lineage cursed him from birth. When Haim is 11 years old, he runs away into a world populated by Samaritan bandits, a cultic pagan temple devoted to horror, and the whiterobed priests of Qumran. Desperate and lonely, Haim searches for community, friendship, and belonging while being plagued by a hunger for meaning he cannot satisfy.

Katie is dying to fit in. Literally. She’s a bulimic high school freshman who drinks and hangs out with the mean girls. Maybe you know someone like her? Or there’s Cindy, a high school junior who acts like everything is always OK. She plays three sports, earns straight A’s, and parties on the weekends, but also she struggles with depression, perfectionism, and addiction.