Kyle Mason runs his car off the road into the woods. He is drunk. He staggers to a house to ask for help when he sees a shadow through a front window. The shadow moves alone across the room. When it reaches a man in a recliner it falls into him and the man falls onto the floor. The shadow backs off and passes through a back wall. Kyle breaks into the man's house and tries to revive him but it is too late. The man dies. Kyle dials 911 and waits for someone to show up. Meanwhile he comes across a blue book much like a diary. He opens it and reads that the man who had just died had recently ...

Centuries ago, beneath the candlelit hush of a Venetian counting house, a secret circle forged a quiet tool of unimaginable power—an “Archimedes Key” to move markets as effortlessly as a lever shifts weight. Over time, this clandestine influence evolved, outlasting empires and adapting to every reform the world threw at it. Now, in the digital age, it thrives by working invisibly: no dramatic crashes, no public scandals, just gentle nudges that guide wealth upward fraction by fraction. Anya Sokolova, a brilliant quantitative analyst, and Marcus Vance, a once-disgraced journalist, once...

Seth Callahan has led an interesting life. One way it’s interesting is by being born in 1946, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Another way is by spending time in two foreign countries. Yet another way is his many experiences with women, what he describes as his “category five hurricanes.” Now, though, over fifty years after he married the woman of his dreams, she has made a request he can’t deny. She’s dying of cancer, and to ease the pain of losing her when she’s gone, she wants him to write the intriguing story of his life, including the astounding way they eventually met and ...

A Deeply Moving Collection of Poetry That Captures Love, Growth, Nature & the Quiet Power of Emotion 🌸 Featuring Exclusive Inspirational Poems for Women, a Beautifully Redesigned Cover, and Free Bonus Gifts 🌸 ⭐ Empower Yourself with Heartfelt Poetry That Celebrates Connection, Healing, and the Beauty of Everyday Moments—All in Just 5 Minutes a Day! ⭐ What if just 5 minutes a day could help you slow down, breathe, and reconnect with the tender spaces of your heart? 🔥 Do you ever feel moved by a place, a moment in nature, or a four-legged friend—but don’t know how to put it...

Trapped between two centuries, caught between duty and desire—she must risk everything for a love beyond time. Kara Knight has spent her life chasing a dream: to make history come alive. When she steps through an ancient standing cross and into Pictish Scotland, she finally has the chance to live her passion. But life in the eighth century is harsher, colder—and far more dangerous—than she ever imagined. Among enemies and secrets, one man shines brighter than any legend: Drest, a fierce warlord with loyalty carved into his very soul. In a world where survival is earned with blood, ...

WELCOME TO BRAMBLETT COUNTY GEORGIA WHERE THE TEA IS SWEET AND MURDER IS ON THE MENU Read Deal Gone Dead, Decluttered and Dead, and Signed, Sealed and Dead in one book! DEAL GONE DEAD ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I loved this book. Most of the characters are realistic and funny. Some are downright scary. But the twists and turns were great. Always kept me guessing who did it. Great story from one of my favourite authors. DECLUTTERED AND DEAD ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Snappy, delightful Southern murder mystery. The adorable and fun sayings that have been part of our Southern heritage ...

To dodge a group of ruthless debt collectors, an impoverished southern belle agrees to become the mail-order bride of a rugged cowboy in this sweetly suspenseful historical romance! After refusing to marry the cruel new owner of her childhood home, Annabelle Lane finds herself on the run from the scoundrels he hires to change her mind. In desperation, she signs a mail-order bride contract and hops on the next train, praying the groom she is matched with is a man worth running toward. The most sought-after range rider in the west, Ethan Vasquez is highly skilled at protecting livestock from ...

GOLDEN FEATHER is from another fork in the road of history, where America never existed, and the original inhabitants rule the land we know as North America. At the age of thirteen, in the year 1980, she encounters Hathaway from our timeline who is stranded in her world. In the span of five years, he builds a flying machine, and she becomes the first female aviator of that other world, enjoying fame and riches. But her destiny is yet to be fulfilled. Hathaway has told her about the modern marvels of our timeline, and she comes to our history in 1985 bringing love, laughter, and song. But ...

Delighted by the promise of living and working in a glittering Gilded Age mansion, Minerva Biggs moves to idyllic Bryd Hollow, North Carolina with her dog Plantagenet. She's looking for a new beginning; what she finds is five quite possibly deranged people, four French bulldogs, two distracting dimples attached to one inconvenient man . . . and one murder. Nope, make that two murders.

Lexi Jardine may be a thief, but she's not stupid. When a crooked fireshaper wants her to steal a ring from the boss of his order, she knows it's a one-way ticket to sleeping with the fishes. Her answer is to drop off the face of the earth. Safely hidden in a quiet seaside town, she just needs to keep her head down and pretend to be a regular human. Since her only magical ability is the power to control animals, that should be easy, right?

She's always crushed on her brother’s best friend. He never got her out of his mind. Will their plans tear them apart, or will they follow their hearts? Rachel Bonneville works to hide her love for her brother’s best friend, but now he’s back in town with a little girl who’s in Rachel’s first-grade class. When the child struggles with a learning disability, Rachel knows she can help, but being close to the child means getting close to Levi. Is she strong enough to bear that much damage to her heart? Levi McSweeney controls every decision he makes, and that includes his emotions ...

Romeo All EMTs save lives, but at Mercury Ridge Search and Rescue, we're trained to do it on the side of a mountain. We climb, rappel, jump out of helicopters, and kayak down raging rivers—whatever it takes. Nothing makes my pulse race. And I mean nothing. Except for Sierra Green. The five-foot-four, curvy redhead has a sassy mouth that I'd sell my soul to explore with my tongue. I've wanted her since middle school, and now that she's back in Mercury Ridge, it's time to stake my claim. Mountain Man's Regret is a sweet and steamy short romance with a curvy heroine, a sexy-as-sin mountain ...

Greyson Stone is the president of the Stone Kings MC, and he's seriously bad news. He's big and bad, dripping with menace, and covered in tattoos. He has the kind of dominant swagger that should make me want to run away.... Instead, it makes me fantasize about him. Even though I know he's a thug. Even though men like him caused the violence that ended my father's life.... One rough, demanding night with Greyson, and I don't know how to walk away. Even when life depends on it....

In the damp embrace of a Portland night, a confession so vile spills from the shadows of the Grotto that Father Thomas flees the confessional. He asks another priest to take over, but fate, it seems, is a fickle deity. The wrong priest ends up with his throat slit, a victim of mistaken identity. Haunted by his own demons, Detective Johnny Walker takes the case. Battling the insatiable hunger of addiction, he delves into Portland's deceptive heart, unearthing a darkness festering beneath the surface. He’s called upon to navigate the labyrinth of a chilling child serial killer. As Walker ...

RATCATCHER Book One of the acclaimed John Purkiss Spy Action Thriller series. When spies go rogue, they need to be stopped. That's where John Purkiss - the Ratcatcher - comes in. Purkiss's job is straightforward. Track down members of the intelligence services who are taking kickbacks, engaging in criminal activity, or otherwise abusing their positions, and bring them to justice. Straightforward doesn't mean easy... After a renegade British former intelligence agent, Fallon, is sighted in the Baltic city of Tallinn on the eve of a historic summit meeting between the Russian and Estonian ...