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Catch a glimpse of the night with this award-winning short story in the tradition of 'The Twilight Zone.' A man awakens in a secluded cabin to find he's being watched by a shape with obsidian eyes. Who or what is watching him, and why? Includes an excerpt of the acclaimed novel 'Pilate's Cross.'

The Blue Ridge Mountains of Southern Appalachia are ancient. They are older than the Rockies, older than the Alps. The Blue Ridge was old when the Himalayas were in their infancy. Beautiful, enchanting as is a Venus Flytrap to an unsuspecting fly, but there is a horror is bellied deep in the serenity in those rolling blue hills of southern Appalachia.

The Gorge, is a story of backwoods mountain culture, of a snake handling, strychnine-drinking pastor, who rises to power over his devoted flock. Of a Native American curse, confining an even older civilization of cannibal cave dwellers to within in the boundaries of a mountain gorge, hidden deep in the backcountry of the five hundred thousand acre Pisgah National Forrest.

Nathan Mires is drawn to this place, as a moth is helpless to the magnetism of a glowing porch light. His life has fallen to pieces; something has taken control of him, causing a murderous rampage, which has led him to flee into the backcountry of the Pisgah, seeking refuge from a crooked, spiteful sheriff. Soon after he arrives in the gorge, he discovers his problems have only just begun.

Someone is killing women in the Chelsea district of Manhattan - but, who? The only clues: a signature heart carved into each victim's breast (inside, the initials "J.C." and those of the deceased); copies of the New Testament (with underlined passages referring to infidelity); and fingerprints of a juvenile arrested in the 1960s. On the case is Matt Davis, a plodding but effective NYPD homicide detective who is addicted to fly fishing - and chocolate. Helping him is his one-quarter Mohawk Indian partner, Chris Freitag, to whom he owes a long-standing debt of gratitude. Complicating things is Rita Valdez, a female cop looking for "true love," and not too particular about where she finds it.
"As the Twig is Bent" is an explosive thriller that rips the lid off the sordid underbelly of Internet chat rooms, and propels the reader on a no-holds-barred journey toward its bone-chilling conclusion. CAUTION: Contains graphic sexual material that is inappropriate for some readers.

3rd in The Preston Andrews Mysteries series will take you to Seattle where a serial killer has descended upon the innocent women of the city. At the mayor's request, Probst sends Agent Wilding to lead a team of cops and agents who have been looking for a monster for a year with no luck.

A terrified Press rushes to Seattle when he is told that Rachel is missing. He takes his trusted team of Palmer and Trace, but the surprise is when Senator Andrews decides to go along and help.

Don't miss this one! It could change everything...

The third book in the Trafficker series when Lieutenant Karen Marshal, a special operations soldier, attached to Dark Angel, the European strike force, goes covert and dares to take on the most dangerous of all traffickers. The child trafficker. Hailed as the most exciting of the three books - this is one you will not forget!

Jack with a disability incurred on a mission as a Navy Seal returns to civilian life. He accepts a job as an associate detective. In his new career he encounters a moral dilemma. This dilemma creates a story that is intriguing and fascinating. He meets a woman also with a disability. Their union results in an action pack adventure with strong character development and twisting plots which involves the law enforcement community and the criminals they hunt. The disabilities are an advantage in this story revealing the capabilities of these characters and adding to the story.
In the story several characters become involved which creates intrigue resulting in an action filled novel drawing the reader into the story. It’s Reid Jackson’s second novel and he creates a spell bounding story that the reader can’t leave. The reader will bond with the characters and be drawn into the Moral Dilemma

An alcoholic writer, a self-destructive teen, a burnt-out waitress, an abused young wife, a good-natured cook, a tormented serial killer, and the cop unwittingly assigned to stop him. Marred with addictions, poverty, and personal loss, each degenerate overcomes incredible obstacles and finds his or her own salvation working in a restaurant named City Café. They form new friendships and relationships, and in a short time turn their lives around — until Tommy Fielding is hired. Seeming innocent at first, Tommy is a schizophrenic who believes murder will ensure for him an existence of perfect happiness. What happens next places the group in grave danger and leads them into a horror that will change everything about their lives.

Something wicked has returned to Elmwood, and it longs to continue the study it began over a century ago. It's looking for volunteers, but few seem worthy of the gift. Isaac Winters might be the one. He's a detective with a damaged past, and something to prove. Here's his chance.

Still haunted by his wife's murder sixteen years earlier, Isaac has thought more and more about turning in his badge. Over the years, he's seen the worst mankind has to offer. Until now.

A strange fire has consumed the life of a young girl. But she won't be the last. There are no witnesses and no evidence except a small stone figurine, a gateway to the past. Accompanied by a partner with questionable experience, Isaac must discover and defeat this faceless villain before it takes from him the greatest reminder of his dead wife.....their daughter.

From the mountain farms of Italy to the distant shores of L'America young Paolo forges an unforgettable journey of fortitude, intrigue, and love as he eludes the retribution of the Camorra crime syndicate. Fleeing to the New World in 1909, Paolo struggles on his own until he meets the beautiful Maria, a bold, fiery, labor activist. The dauntless couple become involved in the dangerous garment workers' strike in New York City, but it is the ensuing fire at the Triangle Waist Company that proves to be the ultimate challenge of Paolo's psychic abilities . . . and a true test of his courage as a man!However, through it all, a perilous debt still remains from Paolo's troubled past and those who lie in wait seek to honor their sacred code of vengeance. Can Paolo overcome the blind forces of reprisal and is the future as predetermined as one may think?

Money dictates the rules of this game and the victim could be anybody— regardless of sex, age, or race.

When high-end antiques dealer, Hailey Devlin, discovers her business partner's boyfriend has bankrupted their company, she sets out to expose the thief. Unknown to Hailey, her target is involved in a brutal trafficking ring where human lives are sold off to the highest bidder and she fits the next customer's order perfectly. She awakens to a world she can't remember. An alluring man claims to be her husband-a man who seems both to want and reject her. Is this amnesia or something much more sinister?

ICE Agent Patrick Roark jumped at the chance to put his training to the test on an elite human trafficking squad of Homeland Security. Undercover as the bodyguard to the ring leader, and key suspect in a murder case, proves more than he bargained for. Masterminding a clever deception, he's determined to keep the next victim safe—even if the high-stakes operation costs him everything-including his heart. Can they survive a killer's wrath? And if they do, will the lies be too damaging for their love to endure?

With raw action and superb story telling, Book II of the Full Wolf Moon Trilogy picks up eight years later.Max & David are now hunters, stalking the ancient werewolf's lineage where ever it emerges.But nothing they have experienced before can prepare them for where this trail leads.

"Grabs you from the beginning." ~M.Marr,NightsAndWeekends.

"Nappier [is a] stand out."~G.Llanas,DredTales.

When ex-Navy SEAL Thomas Highway's wife is murdered right in front of his eyes, he sets out to find the men responsible. His investigation leads to Ferdinand Montoya, the former kingpin of a powerful Mexican drug cartel, but before he can exact justice, the Department of Homeland Security steps in and orders him to back off.

Despite threats from the DHS, Highway presses on, and soon finds himself caught up in a conspiracy involving Weapons of Mass Destruction, underground cross-border tunnels, and a shady government agency intent on using Highway to execute their own agenda.

From the sun-drenched beaches of San Diego to the crime-ridden streets of Tijuana, HIGHWAY TO VENGEANCE combines a hard-boiled, neo-noir, first-person POV with modern thriller elements and a dash of real-life SEAL training to create a twisting novel that explores the darkness within us all, the lengths one man will go to avenge his lost love, and the very nature of revenge itself.

For fans of Lee Child, Stephen Hunter, and Dennis Lehane.

Book Title - Savannah Horror Stories
Author Jimmy Stille

Synopsis: This is Volume one of a series of stories set in and around historic Savannah, Georgia. These are short stories which will be presented four per title. The first four are as follows,

1-Erin Go Vampire, A tale of a woman who visits Savannah from Birmingham, for the St Patrick's Day celebration, and finds herself stalked by a vampire.

2-First Blood Feast, A tale about a Vampire that has taken up residence in the old Colonial Cemetery in Savannah. This is the story of his first blood hunt.

3-Last Moment Then the Mystery, A tale about Tony Dealey, husband and father of three, who succumbs to a heart attack, and then meets the Grim Reaper.

4-Bats, Scarecrow and the Harvest Moon, A tale about Carl who buys a Halloween mask, then finds that the mask draws bats. Carl is terrified of bats.

"Men like pie." Who would know the truth behind those words better than Elaina Brady's mother Maria? Months after she showed her teenage daughter how to bake perfect pie and hours after offering that culinary wisdom, Maria abandons Elaina, her sister Dee Dee and their father Walt. All it took was a lingering, lusty look from a Missoula trucker who stopped by their family's diner and ordered a slice of lemon meringue. Maria hitches a ride west with him, and with that impulsive decision, sixteen-year-old Elaina loses her mother and gains a job baking pies at the diner.
A decade after Maria's departure, Elaina is still working at The Terminal Diner, just around the bend from an upstate New York airport. Her humdrum life is defined by pie-baking routine. Elaina realizes painfully that all she still knows about the opposite sex is summed up in the three last words her mother spoke to her. Then one deceivingly beautiful morning in September 2001, horrifying acts committed by terrorists a hundred miles away upset her world, bringing new influences into her life and inspiring her to be like her mother-impulsive. Will Elaina survive the consequences of her actions?

At CIA headquarters, a young officer discovers that terrorists may have commandeered their computer systems to launch an unauthorized mission. Elsewhere, conspirators abduct nine people to manipulate the rules of their game. Two disparate ambitions — Clint Masters becomes the reluctant link in the chain of danger.

Ever since Clint’s almost ex-wife dumped him, he bobs along the Massachusetts coast in a sailboat with his black lab for company. He avoids all forms of technology, a counterintuitive effort for the burned-out founder of CatSat Laboratories. Tired of clutching the brass ring, he needed to untether, step off the corporate treadmill, and smell a flower. Fortunately, he met one, a beautiful, unspoiled woman who doesn’t treat him like a commodity. His relationship with Beth offers more promise than his marriage ever did, even if she is on dialysis for her recovering kidneys, until she disappears.

In spite of the evidence, her family refuses to admit she’s in danger. Without routine dialysis, she won’t survive. As Clint realizes that he loves Beth, damn-near ex-wife Paige sashays back into his life with disturbing news.

While the CIA young gun tracks his quarry, Clint enlists the help of two men to find Beth, a blithe Brit named Merlin, and Todd, his playboy partner-in-tech. But Clint must find Beth before her kidneys fail. And before someone unloads a bullet in his head.

Don’t Ever Change is a stand alone short story.
High school was a time of fond memories for Lori. Twenty three years later, she’s back in town for her mother’s funeral. Not wanting to deal with family right away after a long drive, she roams around town, only to find herself in front of her old school.
On a whim, she decides to sneak through a hole in the fence and take a look around. The last thing she expected was to find a classmate from long ago. Even more shocking was the fact that he hadn’t changed even a little bit; right down to the OP shirt and parachute pants.
When Adam explains that he’s been going to school every year for the last twenty three years, it shocks Lori. He shows her the yearbook where she wrote “Don’t Ever Change”. Then he explains how it’s her fault that he’s still exactly the same as when they went to school together, right down to the acne and braces.
How would you feel about never being allowed to change? Perhaps you’ll think a little bit harder the next time someone asks you to sign their yearbook.

The Priory of Sion lives: January 17, 1917 – the infamous priest in the tiny village of Rennes-le-Château, Bérenger Saunière, is found collapsed in the door of his tower. Five days later, he is dead, leaving few clues as to his fabulous wealth and influence. Some say he found Visigoth hoards or Templar Treasure, Cathar artifacts or even more unbelievable, the Holy Grail. All traces died with his housekeeper and she told no one. Over a century later, Commander Jaared Sen is assigned to follow a shady character, known as ‘The Head’, pursuing the treasure of Rennes-le-Château at all costs. What is this mysterious treasure and who are the Priory of Sion? Aided by his mysterious benefactress and a beautiful art historian, Jaared follows the Head to the south of France, into the dark heart of the Languedoc, its soil and history soaked in the blood of crusaders and martyrs.

Joe is stuck in a marriage that is quickly circling the drain. Can he hold onto his sanity as he struggles with the prospect of an unfaithful wife? Or will the precarious house of card that is his mind come tumbling down upon him?

Can fear breed love?
What if a ruthless vigilante transformed one of America's most affluent, coveted beach-side cities, ending all homelessness within its borders in a matter of days? The ambitious mission isn't accomplished by any brilliant appeal to public benevolence, nor by relocating the homeless. A bizarre method uses carefully-targeted fear to cure public apathy toward homeless citizens. In Dire Means, Geoffrey Neil weaves a tale of a city under siege, forced to comply with the Golden Rule as a means of survival.

On each day of November, a new person has gone missing in Santa Monica, California. Police, FBI and seasoned profilers from every corner of the country swarm the city, only to be stymied by seemingly perfect abductions. Soon, as mysteriously as they had vanished, the bodies of the missing begin to appear -each adorned with secretly taped footage of their abuse of the homeless. When the footage is released to the media, the vigilante's modus operandi becomes clear to a terrified public. Overt kindness to the impoverished provides the only camouflage against the furious killer's righteous indignation. Within days, the city of Santa Monica is transformed as unprecedented altruism and self-preserving generosity ends homelessness. But how long can the perfect extortion of brotherly love last? Mark Denny, a computer technician, is lured and then trapped in the killer's scheme to maintain the public's fear-fueled kindness to anyone who appears to be homeless. Matching technological wits is the only way Mark can end the city's terror and save his own life.

If you have ever contemplated the end of homelessness -despite the seeming futility of such a goal, of if you simply enjoy a story that will take you on a completely engrossing, original journey, Dire Means will satisfy.

Jessie Dawn Cutler is a rising star in the high-stakes banking world, as a relationship banker--someone who manages the accounts of the wealthiest clients. When her favorite customer turns out to be crooked and Jessie witnesses a savage crime, it'll take every resource she has--and the unlikeliest allies of all--to keep her alive. The Devil's Bait is a breakneck-paced thriller, brimming with exotic locations and nonstop action.

Bestselling author J. Carson Black (The Shop, Darkness at the Edge of Town) wrote: "Jeffrey J. Mariotte has written a compelling heroine in banker Jessie Dawn Cutler, whose well-ordered world implodes when she witnesses a cold-blooded killing by her biggest client. Now Jessie must pit her courage and resourcefulness against a remorseless killer whose reach is limitless. In this heart-pounding thriller set against the glittering backdrop of international banking, Jessie must hold her own against tremendous odds to survive. Fast-paced and gripping, THE DEVIL’S BAIT takes you full-throttle from beginning to end. One heck of a ride!"

New resident Lindsay Mason becomes a temporary hostage inside Oahu’s Lanakila Mall. Her attacker whispers a garbled message before he disappears. Officials refute her account of events and within hours, two thugs fire at her, destroying a mansion as she escapes. Charismatic Nicholas Bennett, a laid-back, high-profile islander, becomes her only resource for survival.

As the pursuit intensifies, Nick calls upon a wide range of contacts to keep Lindsay alive, including Lance Ipo, a childhood friend familiar with both sides of the law. In a run for their lives, they are chased aboard a catamaran, then witness a hit-and-run and death in a parking lot. The focus of their troubles turns to music discs, which is part of the Mall's operations and traceable back to a Chicago Mafia family. A daring foray into Lanakila’s executive office suite allows Nick to play out an elaborate "scam" that halts the perpetrators in their quest for illicit financial power.

Buckle up; Island Run is a rollercoaster action ride packed with lush greenery, fast boats, and colorful characters.

This gripping story of love, loyalty, insanity, betrayal and redemption takes you into the dark world of gangs, drugs and knifings on the grim inner-city council estates of Yorkshire.

SUITABLE FOR MATURE READERS ONLY. This book contains explicit material.



Seth is a twenty-one-year-old hard man. Along with his best friend Wayne, he is Top Boy in his “gang”; a loose collection of guys who get drunk, play football, and occasionally get in a scrape.



But when Seth loses it and beats up his boss, his life suddenly implodes. He loses two jobs, alienates family and friends, and drives away the beautiful Michelle. All he has left is the gang.



Seth reluctantly becomes the figurehead in an orchestrated tournament of gang violence, and as the stakes rise, the people he thought he could rely on evaporate. At least he has his blood brother Wayne… but Wayne’s addiction to a shocking new designer drug is tipping him over the edge into a destructive paranoid meltdown.



Targeted by a murderous local drug dealer, Seth is driven to the limits of physical, mental and emotional breakdown. Will he survive?

WHO IS HUNTER?
WHO IS PREY?
WHO WILL SURVIVE?

Award-winning true-crime author Robert Bidinotto weaves a thrilling tale of spies and criminals, love and honor, revenge and redemption.

Two people, passionately in love.
But each hides a deadly secret.
He is a crusading vigilante, on a violent quest for justice.
She is hunting this unknown assassin, sworn to stop him.
Neither knows the truth about the other.
Neither knows that a terrifying predator hunts them both.

From the top floor of the CIA, to the marbled corridors of Capitol Hill — from the posh hotels of downtown Washington, to the city's mean, violent streets — HUNTER takes you on a nonstop thrill ride.

Imaginatively blending spy intrigue, crime suspense, and passionate romance, HUNTER is a genre-bending novel. Deviously plotted, filled with vivid characters, propelled at a breakneck pace, it introduces an unforgettable new hero — and a heroine every bit his match — in a story as memorable for its provocative ideas as for a rousing climax that has readers cheering.

"I read the whole thing yesterday, to the exclusion of pretty much anything else. I LOVED the book. —Rose Robbins

"I finished reading HUNTER this afternoon and I have one word: Fabulous!!!" —Jeanette Traeg

“This book has all the elements of an exciting thriller — strong conflicts, romance, action, and characters you care about. I especially loved the concluding paragraph, and you will too.”
—Larry Abrams, “The Philosophical Practitioner”

"Bravo! I finished HUNTER last night about 3:30 a.m. I started when I got home from work at midnight with 85 pages to go. I could not stop. Honestly. Sincerely. I had to finish it.... HUNTER is one of the three best first novels I have ever read. No smoke. More, please." —Shawn Reynolds

"A great story." —Sean Killian

"Good pacing. Great action. Great ending!" —Gregory Wall

For lifelong friends, Jessica Rayder and Faith Angelo, Easton Ridge Equestrian Center is more than a successful business - it's a dream come true. When a series of tough breaks threaten disaster, Faith's tragic past surfaces and the friendship falters as the women struggle to keep the wolf from the barn door. Unwittingly, Jess lets him in and is faced with the fight of her life.

Two dark tales of passion, each involving a dress of a different color; one representing sin and the other a controlling lust. At the heart of each story is a woman who has in one way or another become a victim of a man she chose to love. And each one chooses a different way of dealing with these unfortunate circumstances. *Not for the faint of heart.*