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After its second revolution, America is nothing-and everything-to joke about. The U.S.A. is history. In 2044, the Covenantal States of America constitutes a white-Christian autocracy echoing George Orwell's banned classic, 1984. Washington pushes back against armed rebels, humor ridiculing tyranny and mushrooming graffiti referencing Orwell's novel in the form of 2084. Sam Klein, a member of the Minyan, a clandestine group of stand-up comics, organizes a July Fourth comedy protest while his Indian-American wife Indira, a native Californian, faces deportation. The Fourth, celebrating an America made great yet again, brings unexpected fireworks.

This is the final installment of the Scot Free series. A new Blood Brother comes to town to determine if Mikey is responsible for the deaths of two other bike club members. Is he finally going to be caught at his own game or will he once again slip through getting away with everything Scot Free?The federal government spent more than twenty years pursuing him, wire tapping the phone lines, following him and at one point, through Scot Free II: The Lawless Biker, we know the feds even infiltrated the biker club. How will the new Blood Brother fair in his quest to solve the disappearances and death of two other faithful members when the FBI can't even catch Mikey doing anything illegal?Many tell me it sounds interesting growing up with a man who is a self-proclaimed hitman for the Mob. I can tell you that it was not. His choices affected our lives and not always for the better. Most of the time, it was for the worst. Please, join me as Toledo's notorious outlaw finishes what he started. Mikey Thomas continues to work under the cloak of invisibility the Mafia and his club brothers afford him. He was a man who had no regrets and in his own words, "e;I lived my life how I wanted and I will not apologize for anything."e;

A young girl escapes her kidnappers; the US embassy compound in Athens comes under a devastating missile attack; a US Navy amphibious carrier, returning from a goodwill tour, engages hostile aircraft over the Adriatic Sea; and an abandoned Soviet submarine base in Bulgaria is secretly refurbished. These are the seemingly unrelated pieces of a puzzle that Matt Moretti and Han Li encountered while on vacation. It started innocently enough when the two agents from the off the books White House organization known as Nemesis were walking back from dinner and saw a young girl being chased by three thugs. After dispensing their own brand of justice on her pursuers, and on hearing that she and others like her were kidnapped and being sold into slavery, they decide to get involved. However, they soon find that the tables have been turned and they're being hunted by someone with seemingly limitless resources. Needing to survive long enough to take down the human traffickers, they receive help from where they least expect it.

Since the fall of man, God had set a time for the final judgment of Satan. The endgame is about to begin, and Satan's reign on Earth is about to end. This is the final move through his son, the takeover of earth, and the return to Heaven with his armies to conquer and settle the score. Meanwhile, Christ prepares to bring home his own, the saved from eternity past. It is now 1994; in the aftermath of a congressional investigation, a new agency has replaced the CIA, and its director is a man without a past. In an area of Queens, New York, a lodge is destroyed by an unknown source. In the aftermath of the destruction, five individuals and a missionary woman rescue two brothers in a hospital, while in another dimension, Satan plans a strategy to remove Christianity from the last bastion on earth, the United States of America. Working through the man without a past, he suspects seven individuals to be part of a conspiracy to undermine his plans outside the predestined path. The seven, the chosen from the foundations of the earth, are Satan's main target. Who are these seven? Are they soldiers of Christ the many who are saved to pave the way for the Savior's return? The man without a past, will he set in motion the events that will lead to the Rapture? Imagine in an alternate time and history what is to happen, for it is a warning of what is to come. Read on, find out, and claim the promise before Christ returns.

Wanting a simpler lifestyle, away from the drama of a heated divorce, and to have an escape from the stress of a military career, Mark moves to a ranch. Hope Ranch is owned and operated by a friend and her ranch hands. He quickly becomes accustomed to the lifestyle and finds peace in the many jobs a ranch has to offer.But when strange attacks and events start happening in the area, Mark learns that the world is starting to fall apart.With mankind's existence threatened, Mark and his group find out that simply living isn't the only thing at risk, and even though he is a little more prepared than others, some dangers aren't what they expect in the new world they must survive in.

Hey! Remember me?Sam. Ex-Key Grip turned screenwriter. Do all my own stunts. Even the life-threatening ones that involve the deep state and loaded weapons. Well, as my daughter Hildy says, I'm up to the same old shit. Again. Or as I prefer to call it-Samson Agonistes: The SequelWhat's it this time, Sam, you're asking?This time, I'm holed up in the pitch-dark desert, looking at the wrong endof a gun, wondering if all the roads in my life are dead ends. This time it's kids-undocumented ones taken from their parents at the border. This time there's no way to deny it. This time it isn't an accident that I'm in over my head. Because this time I fell right into their trap.

This is a hard subject that is happening in our community every day. Pedophiles are harming our children without being stopped and no one is addressing this hush-hush issue. LinNette is bring this topic up in plain straight forward talk addressing boldly a taboo in our society. Low-self esteem is outlined and list ways to identify no and low self- esteem to prevent you and your family from becoming a victim the Uncle Jerrys of the world. Uncle Jerry can be a Sunday school teacher, coach, boy scout leader, neighbor, uncle, aunt, friends of family, the man you just brought in from the club, step fathers, natural fathers and many unsuspected people that have full access to your living space. It is your responsibility to protect your children.

A demon who will stop at nothing to make Julia Bettington's life a living hell begins to inflict a series of twisted events on her. The entity strips everything Julia takes joy in, aiming to make her each waking second an excruciating misery. As it wishes to torture her and take her every last breath, a little boy enters her life swearing to fight off the demon and save her. While Julia struggles to keep her soul, she starts to uncover the secrets of the little boy who nudged his way into her life.

Seema is a gardener and a dreamer. She is almost content with her safe life, sharing a flat with her best friend. Until, on a girls' night out, a beguiling older man approaches her. He leads her into a world of wealth and sophistication she's completely unused to. Through him she arrives at a place where both dreams and nightmares come true. Has seduction crossed the line into manipulation or coercion? Worse, is the relationship sliding into a supernatural realm - where a man's obsession with blood will lead to Seema's death?About Crocodiles and Good Intentions"e;It's an amazing achievement. Lady Bag excels herself. I was shocked, appalled, mystified, uplifted, tickled pink and hugely entertained. There's no person in all of literature anything like her Above all, the human spirit (and some doggy spirit) rises above all the privations and triumphs. Thanks for a terrific read."e;Peter Lovesey, MWA Grand Master, CWA Diamond Dagger winnerMat Coward (reviewing in The Morning Star): "e;One of current fiction's most striking and exhilarating characters returns for a second outing Amid the horrors of Lady Bag's new adventures, and inextricable from them, is some gaspingly funny comedy. Cody has command not only of comic dialogue but, which is much harder to pull off, a kind of verbal rendering of visual humour, as she choreographs her characters across the pages with perfect timing. About Lady Bag"e;made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up for a whole novel Lady Bag is perfectly realized"e;Sara Paretsky, MWA Grand Master, CWA Diamond Dagger winner

Pull the ThreadA masterful mystery of international intrigue...Josh and Roger have been friends for many years who work and play together, thinking they know each other really well. The friendship ends suddenly one day when Josh finds Roger murdered. Josh, distrusting the local authorities because what they have done to his brother, launches his own investigation that has him pulling on the thread of his relationship with Roger. The ensuing investigation reveals Roger has a murky past that has caught up with him. He has been keeping sensitive information secret and foreign actors are willing to kill for it. Josh unwittingly finds himself in the middle of it and becomes a target of those operating in the shadows. As federal agents pull on the thread to find the killer, the story broadens into a heart pounding mystery of international espionage in which the bag guys are being chased halfway around the world. Before it is all said and done, it leaves Josh, who thought he knew his friend well, to wonder if he knew him at all. Maybe some threads should never be pulled...

If you have ever witnessed an actual red tide in full bloom at night, you know how incredibly beautiful the electric-blue light explosions of color with every disturbance of the water can be. However, as with an atomic mushroom cloud billowing into the sky, which is also an incredible sight, the underlying destructive power has the capability to destroy life as we know it.This book is a work of fiction full of drama and suspense, but it also explores the real dangers the world could face with a massive red-tide event, which could result from the ever-increasing levels of pollutants dumped into our waters. It also addresses the real threat of a pandemic caused by an engineered virus, which would make the novel coronavirus akin to the common cold in comparison. How far has science come in understanding viral engineering? Enter the TA virus and a new cold war!Ken Shakel-a relentless reporter, trying to understand threats facing not only his own family but the rest of the world.Doug Smith-a renowned marine scientist, trying to convey to the world the arrival of what he knew for years was inevitable.Alexandria Jane Smith-a woman no one should mess with, including the CIA!"e;He surfaced and swam to the juvenile that was still alive. Its breaths were weak; it was dying. Doug stroked its body with his hand and looked into its eye... It slowly closed, and Doug knew it would never open again. He pressed his ear against the body, closed his eyes, and listened to a slowing heartbeat, bump-bump, bump-bump, bump...and it stopped. He held onto the creature for a moment, feeling a deep sadness."e;Could the world's salvation depend upon the one animal on our planet with a brain three times larger than a human's?

This is a story where fantasy and reality blend, where shedding light can cast shadows of unknowns, the hidden truth of parts each of us will play! Forever-sought questions, answered. Mysteries revealed. Made known in your mind: death's true purpose!

Jack Trumane is a 1930s-era private detective constantly struggling to make ends meet. A beat cop, in any US city, who feels his career as a police detective was taken from him by Irish immigrants who filled a majority of law enforcement rolls during the early 1900s. Through this lighthearted yet intriguing book, you will meet Ethel, who is Jack's love interest; Mildred, who works behind the lunch counter at Woolworths and has a soft spot for Jack; Bruce, the pawnshop owner who enjoys a love/hate relationship with our protagonist; and many other characters that contribute to each Jack Trumane, Private Dick novella. Jack occasionally has "e;flash-forwards"e; to the late 1990s early 2000s via musical interludes. If you're paying attention, you will notice that while the story has a specific running timeline of a few days or weeks, references are made to holidays and months that could not possibly fit the time frame. Sexual overtones abound. These are all for comedic value. Relax and enjoy the world of Jack Trumane-Private Dick!

Maura Delaney is just your average, sarcastic, chain-smoking young woman who happens to moonlight as a vigilante assassin. Through the use of advanced technology, her mission is to dispose of the human monsters who plague our communities every day. We're talking murderers, rapists, pedophiles-the worst of the worst. Seems like a dream job, right?Of course, everything doesn't always go according to plan, especially with a best friend constantly playing matchmaker, a hard-nosed boss breathing down her neck, and an obsessed coworker who doesn't understand the term friend-zoned. The malfunctioning of her ability to inconspicuously dispose of the bad guys suddenly throws Maura for a loop. And the appearance of a handsome stranger amid the chaos really throws a wrench in the cogs. Who is this enigmatic man, and why does he make Maura's palms sweat? There's something peculiar and yet absolutely magnetizing about him that she can't seem to shake.To top things off, a serial murderer is on the loose, and without Maura's disposal mechanism running at full capacity, the bodies may really begin to stack up. It's a high-stakes race to stop a killer, with quite a few speed bumps, school zones, and construction detours along the way.

RONAN RYAN, A FORMER FBI AGENT, RETURNS TO EASTBORO TO ATTEND THE REUNION OF HIS HIGH SCHOOL CLASS. A CELEBRATION WITH HIS BASKETBALL TEAMMATES AND A PLEASANT ENCOUNTER WITH HIS FIRST LOVE IS INTERRUPTED BY A VIOLENT ACT OF VENGEANCE. THE FIVE CHIMINEYS RESTAURANT WHERE THE REUNION DINNER IS HELD BECOMES A CRIME SCENE, BUT THE KILLERS WORK IS NOT FINISHED. HIS OTHER TARGETS ARE ALL THE MEMBERS OF RONAN'S CLASS, THAT INCLUDES HIS HIGH SCHOOL SWEETHEART AND HIS FRIEND, THE EASTBORO CHIEF OF POLICE. THEY JOIN WITH A JAILED COMPUTER HACKER TO TRY AND FIND THE DERANGED, BUT CLEVER GARAGE DWELLER WHO MERCILESSLY AND METHODICALLY WREAKS TERROR ON THE CLASSMATES OF HIS PAST. THE REUNION AT EASTBORO COMES TO AN END IN FORTY-EIGHT TENTION PACKED HOURS AFTER THE REUNION BOMBER MAKES HIS FINAL DETONATION.

Sergeant Nick Chester has dodged the Geordie gangsters he once feared, is out of hiding and looking forward to a quiet life. But gold fever is creating ill-feeling between prospectors, and a new threat lurks in the form of trigger-happy Americans preparing for Doomsday by building a bolthole at the top of the South Island.As tensions simmer in the Wakamarina valley, Nick finds himself working on a cold-case murder and investigating a scandal-plagued religious sect. When local and international events reach fever pitch, Chester finds himself up against an evil that knows no borders.

Lesley, Malcolm, and Julian did the unthinkable. They solved their first case and sent the murderous Hyde behind bars. Their newfound team has had their first victory. Now trouble comes hot on the heels of that victory and threatens to destroy it.The trio gets news of a dangerous threat on the streets of London-a threat that the city itself thought it stopped decades ago. The notorious Drake brothers have apparently risen from the dead. Crime has increased drastically across the city, bearing the familiar marks of the Drake family's old brutality. Commissioner Nicholas Drake, the son of one of the late mob brothers, asks Lesley's crew to help solve the crimes and find out who is resurrecting his late father and uncle's old gang.Enter Tommy and Timmy Drake, the commissioner's younger twin cousins. Two names that have been shrouded in obscurity will now come to be the bane of the trio's existence. The twins will make the trio's lives a living hell and scar one of them permanently for the rest of his life.In the second installment of the London Circle series, Lesley, Malcolm, and Julian will be pushed to their limits. Their faith in their government, in their law enforcement, and in one another will be challenged and damaged. And for one of them, that damage may be final.

Life's hard enough growing up, and finding out that you're more than just human can make it even more complicated! Renee Cox found this out one day when she met a mysterious boy out of the blue and had no idea the impact that he would have on her entire life. Follow her through her unimaginable ride into the supernatural realm and learning all about love, heartache, and being a beast unlike any other. Sometimes things don't go as planned, but no matter what, that's life, and we have to live it the best way we can!

Chasity Johnson has only one objective: to seek revenge on the man who broke her heart. Will she go through with the "e;She-Devil"e; tactics she has in store, or will she let the attention of a beautiful stranger distract her from the mission at hand?

Jackson Berman's career as a criminal-defense attorney was exploding. He was widely reputed to be defender of the innocent and protector of the rights of the guilty. The rightly and wrongly accused wanted him in their corner. But his marriage was imploding. He would stop at nothing to remain in his young daughter's life, even if it meant giving in to his estranged wife's whims and demands.While balancing the highs of his professional life with the lows of his personal life, he took on the most important and challenging client of his career-himself.Annoying acts of vandalism quickly escalated to attempts on his life. Searching for the person who wanted him dead, he found himself accused of a horrific crime that could send him to prison for the rest of his life. Who would defend the defender?Certain Truths is a compelling story of one man's struggle to deal with exaggerations, distortions, and lies and his search for the peace that comes with living with the truth...no matter how ugly it is."e;Stephanie Wyler's ability to take the reader inside the personal and professional life of a criminal defense attorney will send you on a journey of unexpected twists and turns. Each page draws the reader in as the story begs the question: what are certain truths?"e;Sandy Phillips Kirkham, author of "e;Let Me Prey Upon You - Breaking Free from a Minister's Sexual Abuse"e;

Life is a mosaic of pieces that don't always quite fit perfectly together. Tragedy and reward both take their places in the life puzzle that is Caponi's Home of Champions. Its unavoidable fingers touching each and every one associated within its walls. Secrets of the past don't always stay that way. Revenge is a meal best served cold. In today's world, Dan and Marylou are what the gym rats would term old school. They hold friendships sacred. This time their friendship with Paul DeLuca could cost them everything, even their lives.

John Kennedy, like Marcus Aurelius two thousand years ago, served at the apex of his country's power and glory. His life was only half over when an assassin's bullet took him away from his countrymen and his family. For those who were alive in 1963, his violent death was a bigger jolt than the natural death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1945. Kennedy has been gone now for fifty-eight years. The controversy surrounding his death has never abated. Half the country believes Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole architect of the murder. The other half believes the government hid the real conspiracy. The sands of time have finally revealed the actual actors responsible. Fallen Prince is a political thriller involving interaction between historical and fictional characters. The goal is to finally name the men who ended Camelot after one thousand days. A secondary goal is to entertain readers who love history and drama.

After being cheated on by her fiance, Arielle, a young writer, moves from her hometown to the East Coast and settles in a small town in Rhode Island. There she finds solace, along with new friends and new love interests. Life is great, even though she is getting pressure from her publisher to write the next book in her series. Arielle holds tightly to the perfect sanctuary that becomes her new home, expecting no one will know who she is. She plans to keep this secret close. Not long after her new life starts, her surroundings quickly change from safe and glorious to suspicious and dangerous. Strange occurrences start happening to her at home and to her friends. A stalker is born in this small New England town, but who could it be? Is this random, or do they know who Arielle truly is, and better yet, what do they want with her? When her old life and new life meet, no one is safe. The young writer fights for her life and sanity as she is caught in a game of cat and mouse with nowhere to turn to and no one to help keep her safe.

I got tired of seeing and hearing about our troops being killed and murdered for our country by the hand of terrorist. And I said to myself, "e;My brother, uncle, and brother-in-law were trying to do what was right."e; So I came up with some badass-kicking soldiers who could get the job done. And they did.

The year is 2013, London, England. Whitechapel is the place of historical murders and a number of unsolved homicides. Now there's a threat on the streets. Young men are being targeted and murdered with no evidence pointing to the killer. MI5 is about to shut down, and MI6 is gaining more power. Lesley Ashcroft, the face and the brains behind the government, is threatened and must find a way to protect his position and his control of their nation. He creates a team to help him, but they can only operate under the government's nose. No one can know. Together with Malcolm Vance and Julian Radcliffe, a detective sergeant with a drive for justice no matter the cost and a psychologist with a knack for profiling, they need to find the killer before MI6 decides to step in and find the killer themselves.If they fail, they stand to lose everything.

Dani is one of a group of friends who, while hiking in the Superstition Mountains, stumble upon an ancient treasure. The treasure comes with a dire warning, a curse associated with it, and tales of death that befell those who tried to possess it.The group dismisses the warning as ignorance of the time centuries ago, believing the deaths mentioned could be explained away with much more logical reasons not understood in that day. However, when shortly after the find a series of apparently tragic accidents begin to occur to members of the hiking party, the curse gains more consideration by some.Detective Salazar is not among those who find the curse a plausible explanation for the accidents, wondering instead if the valuable find may be the cause of them. As the number of accidents grows, he begins to wonder if Dani or her boyfriend, Travis, may be connected to the accidents. After all, he believes in greed but not curses, right up till the end.

Tomahawk, an end-of-the-road town in the Wyoming mountains, where nothing ever happens and the people there appreciate it, is about to have a wake-up call that could be its last. A wounded mountain lion, starving and dying, eats something that falls out of the sky. The people also end up infected through a contaminated lake water supply. Animals become smarter and the people discover and indulge their animal natures... to fatal consequences for all. It becomes a fight for survival, for all species, and into this sudden and dangerous turmoil comes a teenager, Owen Temple, orphaned and with an aunt he doesn't know. He meets a rough tomboy, her editor father, a veterinarian and a game warden. Together, they will have to fight for survival, while protecting the rest of the few inhabitants - some of which are undergoing horrible transformations and are as dangerous, if not more so, than the animals which are now cleverly lethal. The people will have to adapt, and quickly, or perish. They are so preoccupied with understanding what's happening, fighting for survival, and trying to control their sharpened senses, that they barely have time to wonder who... or what... is causing the crisis.

This book is a collection of adventures that defined the cold war. The theme of some of these adventures is about how close we came to World War III with nuclear exchanges between China, Russia, and America. The results of some of those stories might have resulted in a non-nuclear war with Russia and America shooting at each other. Our NSA protagonist and his KGB girlfriend tie many of the stories together. All the adventures are fictional although they were based on actual events. This was a time when the world's greatest powers, Russia, America, and China were at conflicting ends politically and militarily. Both China and Russia felt it was necessary for them to occupy other countries. This colonization in their eyes was necessary for their very survival. America with her self-viewed position as the world's policemen tried to stop them.

Jack, at a very young age, was left to survive on his own due to a family tragedy. Eventually, his life pulls him back to the Big Apple to find closure and seek revenge. Returning to join New York's finest in 1975, he discovers a city in financial crisis, broken down, and controlled by the Mob. Soon his talents grab the attention of the Organized Crime Control Bureau. He is then thrust together with TJ, a seasoned female officer who is a hard-core New Yorker, beautiful, and brash. They try to infiltrate the underworld of crime as partners, but their relationship becomes serious and complicates the arrangement. Eventually, TJ is urgently needed elsewhere and is transferred to the Son of Sam case that is terrorizing the city. Jack is left to get dirty on his own and struggles with the evil he is becoming a part of. Brought back together for one night, Jack and TJ stumble upon a lead that takes them on a journey through Little Italy. There, with his gun drawn, Jack is unknowingly looking at his nemesis with a gun pointing back at him. In that New York split second, he must decide as they both see their lives flash before their eyes. Then a single gunshot shatters the night.

Zenais lived harmonously with his brother Sem. But after being deceived by a malevolent spirit named "e;The Disgraced,"e; he does the unthinkable. He is then punished by the Deity Lord Eden to spend the rest of his life as the most vile creature. A dragon. His transgression and wrongful blame causes his home to sink into the ocean and is forced to find a new home. Azalea, along with her family, takes up residence on an empty beach. She constantly worries about her cousin Kairi who lives in one of five different villages, each cursed based on their specific vices. Another problem arises with the arrival with a large crimson-scaled beast that arrives on the shore near her home. She notices that the creature takes an interest in her. But will she accept him with or without the "e;Guinevere Spark"e;?