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When a caller claiming to have abducted 10-year-old Andrea Curren refuses to provide her father with "proof of life", Blake Curren turns the tables on the kidnappers. If the girl is not returned within 24 hours, Curren offers the amount demanded to anyone who can return his daughter safely or kill the people who have taken her.

A rash of killings threatens “the way life should be” in Downeast Maine. The Downeast region of the Maine coast is known for its independent, hard-working people, its picturesque settings - and its seafood. But behind the thousand islands, the countless miles of coastline, and the postcard scenery, bad things are happening in Acadia National Park. Kendra Hale, fresh off a dangerous assignment in Miami, is brought in by the FBI’s Special Projects Group to assist area law enforcement in their investigation.

Terrorists target Lady Liberty. The Hudson River and Long Island Sound provide historic, vibrant, and simply beautiful settings - until terrorists begin setting off dirty bombs along their shores. Kendra Hale and Ian Starbuck, special agents for the FBI’s Special Projects Group, are called in to stop the mayhem, uncovering a sophisticated network of jihadists whose goal is to render Manhattan uninhabitable. Nuclear waste is their weapon of choice, and they have the financing and maritime assets in place to deliver unprecedented chaos.

A pop icon is found dead aboard a lavish yacht that happens to be anchored in Biscayne National Park. Murder knows no boundaries, and with the yacht in his jurisdiction, Special Agent Kurt Hunter becomes entangled in a world he knows nothing about. While Kurt is no stranger to high-profile cases, he’s not looking for the spotlight or notoriety-he’s had both with disastrous results. Hounded by the media, promoters, and an Internal Affairs investigator, Kurt is forced to face his own inner demons to solve the case.

The Call Home continues the same tradition as previous books based on the harrowing saga of Bill Jay Cader, Florida's most dangerous killer. The setting is Apalachicola, Florida, in The Forgotten Gulf Coast, where town USA is tucked in the mid-eighties when things were far more relaxed and backwoods in the South.

A man is not great because he is a good man. A great man can be good, evil, or any shade of gray in between. A great man is a man who sees the world around him, and changes it to suit him, instead of letting it change him to suit itself. Lowin Fenly didn't want to be a hero, and he never thought of being a villain, but sometimes the path that must be walked by great men leads to dark places. Body twisted by dark magic, the scribe-turned-Knight must learn to control the beast he is becoming, or risk losing the few remnants of humanity he clings to.

All men who would change the world, must first be willing to destroy it. The continuation of the epic saga began in The Noble Fool, The Vengeful Malicereturns to the memories of Lowin Fenly as he is stirred from his respite of self loathing and forced on a quest to bring peace to his people, his land, and himself. A new menace comes from the sea, and it has come to devour mankind whole. The kingdom is at war with itself, and with a new enemy, and powerful men have decided that Lowin will play an important role in the upcoming conflict whether he wishes it or not.

I told you in the beginning, you would not like our town, and now you know one of the reasons why. What did Ron mean when he warned that everything would change? As our story continues, the previous night’s traumatic outcomes had a disturbing impact on Deputy Ron and his daughter Laura, and stirred up a previous devastating family event. Will the supposed witch doctor of Farmerville make foreshadowing predictions? Will another Farmerville secret, Valkyrie, be in danger of being exposed by a young ambitious journalist?

Life in the Chesapeake region for the family of Ethan Aaron Douglas, from steamboats to newspapers, struggles of immigrants and the changes brought by the industrial revolution. The simple life of watermen and challenges of weather, fire and disaster in the era of 1880 to 1910 brought to life for the reader from a life-long resident of the Tidewater region. Catch up on the latest events from around the Chesapeake as told by the News Readers on the steamboats of the Old Bay Line to the passengers.

Confessions of a Horseshoer offers a close and personal look at the mind-set of a professional horseshoer (farrier) who also happens to be a college professor. The audiobook, an ironic and playful view of the many unusual animals (and people) Ron Tatum has encountered over thirty-seven years, is nicely balanced between straightforward presentation, self-effacing humor, and lightly seasoned wisdom. It captures the day-to-day life of a somewhat cantankerous old guy.

Step onto the promenade deck of the Sea Empress for a cruise of a lifetime and become part of the world's greatest series of murder mysteries and thrillers in the Caribbean. Marsha and Danny Jones retired from law enforcement and thought it would be just the thing to break the boredom of retirement to be security consultants to protect the Seven Seas Company's finest ship from trouble.

After the discovery of serial killers in episode one, an ambitious journalist threatens to expose another Farmerville secret. Conspiracies and nightmares loom as Deputy Ron and his daughter struggle with their experiences and emotions. Is there a supernatural element at work or is it just paranoia, and what does a pig farm have to do with anything?

The Chesapeake: Six books in the series - Tales and Scales; Legends, Yarns, and Barnacles; Oyster Buyboats, Ships and Steamed Crabs; A Man Born to Hang Can't Drown; Country Cornpone Cornucopia; and Tidewater Sagas - provide the shared memories of those who lived life to the fullest in the Chesapeake region. This group of assembled scribes, poets, and storytellers aspires to one goal and one goal only: to entertain the listener. Most have been working hard at achieving the summit of worldly acclaim for decades.

This is the first book in the series Purple Mist - sci-fi/horror novelette trilogies written specifically for audiobooks and e-books, and for binge listening. You'll enjoy a spine tingling, Outer Limits feeling, and a quicker dramatic payoff than with standard-sized novels. Each is a third the size of a full-length novel.

The compelling small-town series continues with an escalating body count in the hundreds while the aftermath of the discovery of cave kids and another serial killer stirs up more secrets, conflict, guilt, and irony. A new arrival introduces new tension for the Farmer family.

Geologist Alex Cave discovered four alien artifacts that seemed designed to destroy all life on our planet. He thought they were locked up at a top-secret facility, but two of the devices have gone missing, and one of them is in orbit over our planet. John Essex had good intentions when he modified one of the stolen artifacts to collect and recycle the orbiting space debris. When he turns it on, the signal is detected from deep inside the earth by a powerful artificial intelligence who wakes one of its women, named Pandora, and takes control of her mind and body.

The fifth audiobook in the series of short stories of and about people in and around the Tidewater Chesapeake region - along with a few stories from other regions when the writers travel or are deployed overseas.

A hundred years in the future, it’s a world where supernatural beings live among humans. Of course, they’re forced to take the Undead Oath; they must not prey on humans for food. Just as with other minorities, they battle prejudice and must struggle to prove themselves. Alongside the humans’ bigotry is a criminal element, as seen in any group in society. The Dallas Police Department sets up an elite new squad of Immortal detectives and officers, dedicated to solving crimes among the Undead. Headed by veteran Lacey Anderson, can the Undead Unit overcome its obstacles?

Bobby Roland can't catch a break. Less than a week after Bobby takes on the mantle of Servitude, a position granting him the ability to exorcise demons from the possessed, he finds an envelope taped to his door containing an intimidating note and a picture of a strange woman. When a shadowy figure is abducted off the sidewalk down the street from his house, Bobby can't help but wonder if it's her.

Alex Cave receives an urgent message about an unusual geologic event in Iceland. Giant globules of molten rock are floating up out of an ancient glacier. Alex and his friend Okana descend into the lava tube of a volcano and discover an alien artifact of incredible power. But before he can take it to a safe location, it is stolen by Janice Sloan, a ruthless woman dealing in stolen advanced technology. When she turns it on, the device begins changing the orbit of the moon and dragging satellites from the sky, but it won't shut down.