Thriller

In 1993, the San Bernardino Valley became ground zero for a plethora of torture and murder. The Satanic Underground proclaimed war on the independent meth cooks and their associates, reclaiming their rightful place as the sole manufacturers of high-powered methamphetamine distributed and sold to the drug populace, turning human beings into soulless ghouls of the night that would do anything to satisfy their craving for the devil's drug.

Local basketball star, Black Johnson, is college bound until he gets tangled in a timeworn feud initiated by his father. When Black's brother, Keith, is murdered in the streets in cold blood, Black swears vengeance and promises his mother he'll find those responsible for breaking apart their family. Deep in the pursuit for answers regarding his brother's murder, Black encounters a mysterious woman focused on her own path of revenge. As Black confronts the events surrounding his brother's death, he uncovers mysteries that have been deeply buried by the people closest to him. Learning the truth can come at a high cost, especially when it means discovering his trust in others may have been misplaced. Will Black turn to the one person whose past will reveal all the answers? Or will he have to risk the lives of those around him to avenge his brother and solve the secrets of the past?

A newly married couple, experience a disagreement which disrupts their lives. This leads up to 'chaos' on the job in which one wakes up incarcerated, unbeknownst why.

When the legal system fails innocent victims, Jake and Thomas are there to right the wrongs and restore balance. Their vengeance is swift and without guilt or consequence. For years, they have acted independently, using their own judgment to decide who lives and who dies. Perhaps fate brings them together or perhaps it's the arrival of a third killer. This new killer seems to murder for no reason at all. He is driven purely by blood with no rhyme or reason, making him both unpredictable and diabolical. In order to stop the growing body count in their city, Jake and Thomas must learn to trust each other. They know they're the only ones who can stop this murderer, but can they do it without getting caught? These two men aren't the only ones searching for answers. Susana, an eager journalist, and her detective friend are hot on their trail. For Jake and Thomas, it's now a race against madness in an effort to save innocent lives from brutal torment. In the end, a decision must be made. How far are these two killers willing to go, and will this final fight put an end to their vigilante justice?

If food became unavailable due to a natural disaster and your only food source was human beings, would you eat someone? Would you go a step further and kill someone to eat them? These are decisions that would have to be made by normal, everyday people if faced with this type of situation. Hunting for the Lamb of God traces the footsteps of two families living across the street from each other in a suburb south of Denver, Colorado. The families join forces to navigate through a dystopian nightmare after America is hit with a super EMP (electromagnetic pulse), where food and water supplies run dry, and neighbors turn against neighbors, hunting each other for food to survive.

After his wife and children are killed in a traffic accident, Peter Allen Clarke vows revenge. Unable to unleash hell on the the person responsible, Clarke strikes back in a murderous rampage that paralyzes an entire city. With the police now in hot pursuit, Clarke mysteriously disappears, only to return to Los Angeles months later. There, he begins plotting his final revenge. Soon bodies turn up, leaving the police with no suspects or motive. Baffled, the police little realize that his next victims are his real targets. LAPD Homicide Detectives Ray Harris and Doug Walls leave no stone unturned in their efforts to catch their killer. Can they catch him before it's too late?

Elihu Leonard has acquired great wealth from his investments over his lifetime, and is enjoying life in Monomoy, at his home on Nantucket for several months of the year. His favorite grandson Samuel Leonard often visits when he finds himself the new owner of the property after his grandfather was found murdered. Elihu has left several wax sealed letters addressed to Samuel which are actually dated in a time frame after his passing for them to be opened. Some of these already have been given to Samuel by Elihu's attorney, Eileen Berg, who was a trusted friend of Elihu and his wife for many years on Nantucket. Eileen is privy to all the financial records of Elihu's and has always kept them private and locked away for safe keeping until the time arrives to disclose them to family members. One of the last letters that Samuel is given by Elihu's attorney is one that describes a book, that is supposedly hidden in the house, as Elihu discovered an old faded piece of paper that actually fell out of a desk that was left after he purchased the home many years ago, the paper was hidden in between a desk drawer and a side wall of the desk. It was dated October 31, 1922 and stated if the person who finds this letter is reading it that means a certain book is still undiscovered at the property located on the North Westerly knoll Half Mile to the left of the very beginning of Monomoy Road, parcel number 44, the old Shea Estate.

In 2011, Steven Di Carlo, unknowingly living his ninth existence as an executioner, was about to be awakened to his purpose on earth by remembering his many past lives. Along with his prophets Michael and Samuel, they would continue their enormous task of protecting the Book of Wisdom known as the KHoKeM, the very science of an everlasting life. Rumors of its existence had some referring to the KHoKeM as the Holy Grail while others searched in vain for the ever-elusive fountain of youth. December 12, 2012, feared as the day of the apocalypse, was in fact the date targeted for the retrieval of the KHoKeM. September 9, 2019, would be the day its secrets are to be revealed to the human race. Will the people of earth be ready for this knowledge? Will the prophets and the executioner decide that humanity is still too barbaric and choose to leave the science hidden for another thousand years, or will the path and all its wisdom forever be destroyed by the evil inside us all?The journey begins with book 1 of this new trilogy by Frank Franco.

It is the middle of World War II. America is now in the war on the Allied side; however, the Axis remains strong, and the tide of the war could turn either way. A deep undercover Allied agent working within the German military command structure itself makes what might be one of the biggest discoveries of the war, but her cover is blown, and she is captured before she can get the full details to the Allies. What she has been able to share, as well as information gleaned from other sources, is terrifying. The Nazis have taken their occult science and made it reality under the aegis of Projekt Regenschirm. They can raise the dead to fight for the Nazi cause. They are also creating new supersoldiers, ubermensch, that may very well be unstoppable on the battlefield. One man has been tasked with the impossible job of leading a commando team to penetrate the Nazi's most secure stronghold and render Regenschirm vulnerable to Allied destruction. He has ample motivation for doing so. His sister is the agent who first exposed Regenschirm and is now being subjected to the tender mercies of the SS in her captivity. His former girlfriend, who is another deep undercover Allied agent helping his sister with her work, has also gone missing with his sister's very last data drop on Regenschirm, and no one, not even the Nazis, knows where she is. Thus, Major Jonathan "e;Jack"e; Bradshaw has two very personal reasons for taking down Regenschirm for the Allied cause. Can he and his team succeed in their mission, or will the Nazis complete their evil plans and win the war thanks to Regenschirm's horrible progeny?

It is a story about an Iranian college student during the war between Iran and Iraq in 1980. Because of the war, he was forced to leave his country and pursue happiness, a better life, and religious freedom so that he could practice his love for Christianity, which was introduced to him by an American missionary, Father Fredericks, back in 1978 and 1979 in Tehran, Iran. In his quest for his freedom, Darius comes to the United States and eventually ends up residing in the state of North Virginia. There, he nds the freedom to continue his education and become a good doctor and a heart surgeon. He also discovers his beloved wife, Sandee. She becomes his best friend and colleague, and after one year, they get married. They eventually have two daughters, Artemisia and Farah Claire. One becomes a Virginia State Trooper, and the other becomes a US Navy Medical Ocer who serves in Afghanistan. This is also a story about one family and their two daughters and the many obstacles they encounter and eventually overcome. This is a story that provides a unique and inspiring perspective on the power of true faith, perseverance and the enduring legacy of the human spirit-a must read!

On winter days and nights in the city of Buffalo New York, things were relatively calm and peaceful. But when the United States was drawn into the global threat of World War 2, society became different. There was a buildup of military hardware, and citizens were forced to be on guard all over the country, and the Queen City was no exception. For a young boy who has just started high school, such events were the least of his concerns. Then one mild winter weekend, as he and his friends were enjoying a mischievous time being kids, something mysterious came about when a stranger came to town. Little did he know that getting his nose into somebody else's business could go from being fun to deadly!33

No es casualidad que ahora mismo este libro se encuentre en tus manos. Asi que, acompaname a desvelar los misterios que se encuentran tras los espejos. Te invito a sumergirte en otra dimension donde lo imposible se hace posible, donde las respuestas florecen para cada pregunta, donde habita el ser antes de ser humano. El destino te ha traido hasta este lugar porque quiere iluminar el universo de tu mente con la abundante luz del conocimiento que aqui encontraras.Toda mente es un universo donde abundan las ideas, las creencias. Donde las fantasias se vuelven realidad, donde la realidad supera toda ficcion.

Greg Kilgore works at Chesapeake Memorial Park And Funeral Home where he hates his job, his life is going nowhere, and the stresses of the job are taking its toll. Greg learns to maneuver his life with confidence after discovering his gift for slicing up the competition and squeezing the life out of difficult customers. Upon discovering his newfound talent, the town begins to realize what an artist he is and takes notice. Soon the bodies are just lining up to fill the cemetery.

Gotham City may have their Batman, but Honolulu has the Tiger Princess. This fast-paced crime thriller is a contemporary work of fiction written episodically, like television. It follows PeggySu Lee from her birth in Hong Kong during the Vietnam War, through her career as a private detective and attorney with the family law firm in Honolulu. PeggySu Lee is the Tiger Princess, a double-edged sword, both private investigator and attorney-at-law. Trained by her father, Commander Robert E. Lee, Special Forces, PeggySu is an expert in all forms of self-defense, both armed and unarmed. The Tiger Princess is the deadliest thing on two feet. Glimpse the underbelly of Honolulu as you read the various cases of KanSu and Associates and Lee Investigations. Walk the streets with the exotic PeggySu Lee and the handsome young homicide detective Keanu Wong.

Maribel es una pueblerina que, sin proponerselo ni desearlo, llega despues de muchas vicisitudes a ser primera dama de su pais. Todo empieza cuando, a sus dieciocho anos, es secuestrada por ordenes de un candidato a la Presidencia de la Republica que hacia campana en un pueblo cerca de su aldea y la retiene hasta dos dias antes de las elecciones.Varios anos despues, ya convertida en una actriz reconocida, es secuestrada de nuevo por otro presidente. Esta vez, el cautiverio dura solo unos minutos, pero fue mas traumatizante que el primero porque salio de Los Pinos, a donde la habian llevado, embarazada y convertida en asesina teniendo que huir al extranjero esa misma noche.Frisaba los cuarenta cuando el presidente del actual sexenio, y que habia enviudado solo meses despues de haber sido electo, se enamoro de ella y le prepuso matrimonio. Su miedo y desconfianza hacia este tipo de hombres la hicieron rechazarlo hasta pocos dias antes de la boda.Su historia termina pocos dias antes de morir por un cancer terminal, se le ve por ultima vez cuando da una entrevista televisada para contar su verdad y su secreto.

Diana Miller es una joven con aspiraciones en la vida. Pues, tiene el sueno de llegar a ser una gran cantante y actriz. Pero esos suenos se ven cortados al ser victima de un poderoso personaje del bajo mundo, Johnny, quien la viola y la abandona dandola por muerta. Diana ha sobrevivido al ataque y denuncia a su agresor, a quien le dan carcel. Ahora Diana enfrenta un embarazo del hombre que la mancillo y esta condenada por amor a su madre, a cargar con el fruto de una violacion. Con los anos, Diana logra ser una gran actriz y manda a un internado al hijo producto de aquella violacion. El pasado permanece oculto y el tiempo sigue su marcha. Pero el destino hace que se crucen los caminos de Diana, el hijo y el hombre que la ultrajo.

A series of deaths occur publicly. Provided the nature of a public setting and multitude of witnesses, the investigation becomes a federal matter. Two diametrically opposed special agents, Kyle Frazier and Norman Wiley, draw the unlucky straw for this case. They quickly find out that the case is not a slam dunk because aside from the witnesses, there is one random piece of cryptic evidence that links the deaths together-a small blank sheet of paper. Regardless of all the resources awarded the federal government, the case's difficulty becomes secondary to the deep-rooted tension between the two agents. Secrets from the past can shape a person's future. The problem is, their secrets, unbeknownst to them, can shape the outcome of this case.

A novel of business and political intrigue, Corporate Secrets is the story of a quest for power in which private abuses are combined with national tragedies. Susan Blakely is a young marketing executive who joins the pharmaceutical company GMA Corporation, headed by chief executive officer Richard Danziger. Danziger wants to be the leader of his company, his industry, his country and perhaps even the world. When he realizes Ms. Blakely is an honest and talented person, he subjects her to verbal abuse and sexual harassment. After she refuses to tolerate his repugnant behavior, he shifts his attention to other targets. When the Food and Drug Administration denies the company's application for a weight loss pill, Danziger orders a successful murder attempt on the FDA commissioner. When the president of the United States proposes price controls for prescription drugs, the CEO arranges a murder attempt for him as well. Will the attempt be successful? Will Danziger escape justice? Can Susan Blakely do anything to stop him? Corporate Secrets provides the answers.

At thirteen, Kamryn was yanked from her normal life into the world of vampire hunting. As the last living descendant of the Van Helsing bloodline, Kamryn was taught that the only good vampire was a dead vampire. For years, Kamryn dutifully killed any vampire that crossed her path until she met Alex. Alex was the most powerful vampire that Kamryn had ever encountered. Three years ago, he approached Kamryn and offered his assistance in hunting those vampires that indiscriminately killed humans and teaching her about vampires. The alliance did not last as their true nature pushed them apart. Now a new evil threatens both hunters and vampires, forcing Kamryn to seek Alex's help. In order to protect her and destroy their enemies, Alex must bring Kamryn into his world of vampires. There, Alex shows Kamryn that not all vampires are as soulless or as predatory as she was taught.

Since her parents' divorce, Sarah, who is now fifteen, has become withdrawn and painfully shy. She didn't have a lot of friends before the divorce, but now, she doesn't have any. When the hunky new guy starts trying to talk to her and asks her to help tutor him, she keeps him at arm's length, tutoring only, nothing else. Why do people think there's something going on with them when there isn't? Why are other girls threatening her when she hasn't done anything? How is it that this new guy is causing so many issues in her nice little town of Paradise? What can she do to stop all this madness? She has no idea the run through hell her life is going to take and will soon learn what's in store for her and why you should always be careful what you wish for. Don't miss the next thrilling adventure in the Sarah Wheeler series, He's Watching. Coming soon.

The Waters of Crystal Lake appear serene and beautiful in the fall sunshine of 1979. Yet something is silently glowing under its surface that could wreak havoc in the fictitious town of Greenwood, which depends on the lake for its water. Meanwhile, twenty-eight-year-old divorcee, Debra Chandler, is working in a Nashville research lab for the brilliant, but difficult Dr. Joseph Steiner, an authority in DNA research. Soon her quiet and boring world will be turned upside down when a new boyfriend, medical resident Dr. Jim Tarkington, asks her to accompany him to Greenwood to investigate a possible epidemic. Coincidently, this is the same town where her favorite cousin Elizabeth Chandler lives. Elizabeth works as an office nurse for a doctor in family practice. Shortly they and the rest of the medical community will be swept up in a disaster of epic proportions. Jim and Debra arrive at Greenwood Memorial planning a short visit to collect data for his research paper. There they find a chaotic scene with the hospital overflowing with deadly ill patients suffering from an unknown disease. The medical personnel have no idea what is causing the illness as they frantically attempt to treat the sick. After interviewing patients and arranging to collect samples from them, Debra and Jim, exhausted, spend the night at Elizabeth's home. The next day, acting on a hunch, they also obtain samples from the Greenwood Water Company before returning home. Back in Nashville, after careful laboratory analysis of the samples, they discover an unbelievable reason for the epidemic. This information will later force the decision-makers to admit a madman is loose in the city.

James Leforte, former SAS sniper and MI6 operative, relocates to the United States after a disastrous US-British joint operation. Leforte takes over for his uncle, a sheriff in North Dakota. Now Leforte must deal with the local crime family, the theft of nuclear material, and a terrorist plot to detonate a nuclear weapon in downtown Bismarck. To complicate an already-dangerous situation, someone from Leforte's past reemerges and is hell-bent on revenge: on Leforte, on the CIA, and on the United States itself. Leforte finds himself in a desperate race against time to prevent a nuclear catastrophe in an American city.

After a thirty year absence, Bobby Gallagher returns to his hometown to say goodbye to his dying mother. Back in Kalamazoo, he faces haunting memories of a tragedy involving his high school sweetheart, and her brutal father. Having been unjustly accused of being responsible for that tragedy, Bobby is presented with an ultimatum by a corrupt judge-- Vietnam or jail. Back home, he finds a letter from his deceased father that offers clues to what deputy sheriff Ted Dorn discovered about Bobby's alleged crimes. Tough questions from his mother, and guidance from a Catholic nun help him piece together the circumstances that led to his banishment. Bobby renews a difficult relationship with his lawyer sister, and rekindles the fire of his pubescent first love Rita, the girl next door. He reunites with Jack Dooley, the leader of the RECON team he served with, and watches the dismantling of the smuggling operation that's been run with mob-like efficiency since it began in Vietnam. Bobby relives in vivid detail his military experience, and the dangerous and often out of control life of an infantry soldier in 1969. The memories of his youth and home surround him, and with the help of these characters he orchestrates a long overdue justice, and changes their lives in the process.

H. Hunter Mahoy, a top-notch tax consultant in Miami, accidentally records a conversation between clients, Cuban businessmen, discussing their involvement in the death of a US Senator three years earlier. Mahoy takes the recording to the FBI bureau chief in Miami who seems uninterested in the old case. On the way back to his car, Hunter gets mugged. Then his office gets ransacked. He mails a letter to an old flame, Morgan Lindsey, a Washington Herald reporter, knowing full well she will investigate further. Several days later, while soaring high over the Everglades in a high-performance fiberglass sailplane, Hunter suffers a midair collision with a military stealth fighter and ends up riding his parachute into the swampy saw grass below. He stumbles upon an entrance to an underground base where he overhears top US government officials plotting to drop a laser-guided bomb from a stealth fighter on Fidel Castro and US President James Weber during an historical meeting at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in just two weeks' time. Hunter also learns they are searching for the downed sailplane pilot so they can kill him to keep the stealth fighter midair incident a secret. At least one person in the CIA is also involved in their Operation Ghost Flight. Hunter and Morgan are forced to team up. Not able or willing to trust anyone, the race is on for them to warn President Weber directly while two different groups are trying to kill them at every turn.

Inside this book are written weird tales of the macabre and supernatural, and if you dare to read them, they just might take you to a place you wish not to go. You might find yourself in the mystical land of the Killerpillar. You might suffer the venomous sting of the gruesome Homunculus. You might find yourself shivering in an ancient chair you wish you had never sat down in, for you will find no comfort in those cushions, only the dreadful clutches of doom and a slithering through your soul slowly dragging you to madness. Ever wake up in a strange graveyard? Ever find some curious object and bring it home only to curse the day you found it? Well, the choice is yours. Take it home and read it if you dare, but don't claim you haven't been warned, for madness lurks in deep, dark holes, and evil lives where no man should go. The sliver moon peeks from behind drifting gray clouds, and you swear you saw a set of shining bright eyes watching you from the bushes. But never forget, it doesn't have to be the witching hour or even dark for the creeps to do what they goddamned do.

Hustling, partying, fighting, and sex seem to be what was happening in the hood of the dirty south until the hard-knock life ended the lives of close friends and family. LeeMan, Lit Bit, Rhonda, Tim, and the whole gang were having a life of fun and pleasure-at least that's what they thought. But why try selling a dream when everyone knows laughter and tears don't mix? Losing friends and family is a hard pill to swallow. Something has to stop. Somebody has to put an end to this lifestyle real soon. Will Mo survive the terrible ordeal? Will LeeMan and Lit Bit hook up? When gunfire takes place, will it slow the gang down? Or will death after death after death end the Southern-style life? Will the gang split up? Or will money and big ballin' become the root of all evil?The gang will finally realize either way that it's not just all about partyin' and fightin', but sex and money will change your life just as quick. Tired of starin' death in the face, how long will it take before death opens their eyes?Maybe the loss of small children will change their lives, or maybe even a close call of death of their own will change the Southern-style of life they live.24Southern Style will have you laughing, crying mad, and all mixed in your feelings. See how life changes the Southern style of fun and pleasure of many close friends and family.

A Five-Awards Winning Legal Mystery: an unusual lawyer, an unusual case, an unusual trial. Add the charm of South Louisiana and you have a legal mystery told with a twist -- from inside the lawyer's mind. --NIEA Finalist, Writer's Digest Honorable Mention, Chanticleer Somerset Finalist, Contemporary Fiction Indie Reader Plus, Literary Titan Silver Award, and placement in Midwest Review's Library.

Cali is a very pretty twenty-year-old girl who stands at five feet and five inches tall with long flowing dark red hair. With her best friend, Windy Cool, they deal with something they could not expect-a mystery with no clues they work together helping the people of the Hawaiian island from the monsters they call the wicked. The wicked comes out at night with the yellow moon and attacks people who are alone that might be shopping or out on a jog. Cali instinctively comes to save the day, pounding on the wicked until they go running and screaming back to the newly formed volcanic island. However, she and Windy have no clues how to get ride of them altogether, but they soon find a cellar full of secrets left by Cali's late mother at Cali's Pond, the estate Cali inherited. Cali and Windy keep this a secret because who would believe them? As the two girls do this every night for a while, they take on a new friend Sammy, and form a group called the elite group of the three sisters. Together they piece together clues, only getting further away from what is happing as new mysteries emerge. The girls do have fun in all of this as it is the only thing that keeps them from going crazy. One night, Cali and Windy have a pool party at Cali's Pond with their friends and find a baby Rottweiler and named her Chloe, whom they quickly form a bond with. This unfolding mystery holds all the clues for Cali and her future as there will be a question she will have to answer from something much more sinister and powerful than she could ever imagine that could change the world.

The relationship between a mother and daughter is a special one. Unfortunately, not all mothers and daughters share good relationships. This is the case with Deloris and her mother, Emma Jean. Deloris dreams of the moment when she'll leave home and her mother for good. But when she comes up pregnant for Jasper Reynolds, a man several years older, Deloris becomes a bargaining chip between Emma Jean and Jasper for his freedom. Married to Jasper and expecting her first child, Deloris finds some comfort in being the woman of her own home. Although Jasper imposes house rules of his own, Deloris feels freer than ever before. However, her freedom is short-lived with the return of Luther Diamond, a dangerous man from her past. Deloris knows that her marriage to Jasper is a betrayal to Luther and he's not a man that takes betrayal well. In fact, Luther has every intent to kill Jasper Reynolds, but Deloris in desperation to save the life of her new husband, reveals another tragic betrayal committed by her mother. Jasper's suspicion of his new wife causes him to decide to place Michael, his best friend, in the position of watchdog for Deloris. This might prove to be a mistake because unknown to Jasper, Michael carries a torch for Deloris and she might be carrying much more for Michael. Deloris has many problems, but her mother remains the biggest. After the birth of her baby, Deloris lies in a coma while Emma Jean sets an evil plot in motion to steal her daughter's baby. The relationship between this mother and daughter isn't just bad, it's downright criminal.

She's known as the Stylish Crime Fighter who is also one of the world's top models. Travelling to all corners of the globe in search of high style, high action, and high drama. These are the further adventures of Fashion Girl. The Style Chicks are back with two brand-new adventures and a host of special features. So once again if you're ready? Let's rock!