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After forty years of serving saints and sinners, a disillusioned Father Jack Mahoney has retired. Now he has time for family and hanging out with his pal, Jake Moriarity in Ocean Beach. But, a random encounter with a dying woman reveals a widening rift between the natural and supernatural worlds that will consume all he loves unless he can cobble together the tattered threads of his faith, summon the ancient power he once embraced, and stand in the gap between the living and the dead.

Three months had passed with no fresh cases of the virus. People celebrated birthdays, anniversaries and holidays. Couples got married. Babies were born. In short, people were daring to look forward again. And then the virus mutated. Only this time, it wasn’t the elders who were at risk. Newborns died within the first week of life with no symptoms. Hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands, and then hundreds of thousands as hope turned quickly to horror. Tasked with identifying this cruel killer, the world’s top virologists assembled in emergency congress. After three weeks most ...

At the beginning of time, The Alpha, the divine creator of the universe, spoke the Spiritual Realm into existence, filling it with angelic beings gifted with creativity and divine beauty. However, something rotten now brews below the surface. In such a wonderful place, how is it possible for evil to take root, spreading through the Kingdom like a weed? Free will is a tricky thing, and though The Alpha knows it is the key to true love, it breaks his heart to see it abused.

On the trail of his most hated enemy, Jake Moriarity is deep in the Amargosa Desert. He is cut off from the FBI team that inserted him, severely wounded, running on empty and apparently hallucinating, because he just shot Paul Morgan in the head with a 12-gauge and then watched him get up and walk away. Paul Morgan, the man single-handedly responsible for causing Jake's niece Cassie, to become addicted to heroin and then setting her up as his main girl in a Seattle escort service. Paul Morgan, who has now kidnapped Cassie and is threatening to kill her while forcing Jake to watch. Paul ...

Spring break in Las Vegas, and over two hundred thousand pleasure-seekers have packed the two- and one-half mile stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard known as The Strip. Among them, Jake Moriarity, who is backstage at the Caesars Palace Coliseum where best friend Aaron Perry and his jazz trio are wrapping a month-long residency to a standing room only audience of over four thousand adoring fans. Halfway through the concert, someone informs Jake that a sniper has gunned down two men in front of Caesars Palace. With the horror of 1 October still fresh in their minds, mass chaos erupts on The Strip ...

Jennie and Jessie Moon are ten-year-old cousins, although to see them together one would think them twins. Jennie lives with her parents in Watsonville, California, a small agricultural community in Santa Cruz County, while Jessie lives with her grandparents at Moon Lake Resort, a popular summer retreat nestled deep within the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Having spent each summer at Moon Lake for as long as she can remember, Jennie arrives to begin another adventure with her cousin. Days filled with hiking, fishing, swimming, boating and challenging each other to guess details about the various...

A cryptic death bed utterance that leaves Tommy Marshall, bassist for the Aaron Perry Trio, wondering whether Helen, his wife of thirty-five years, had been having an affair behind his back as her last words seemed to indicate.A man on the run, who runs right into the middle of the Russian mob, and their most ruthless assassin, carrying with him a secret that could bring down their entire West Coast human trafficking operation.A life hanging in the balance as Cassandra Harvey struggles to help her husband, Michael, recover from a series of blood clots, and needing her uncle by her side more...

Eighteen-year-old runaway, Vanessa Phillips, knows a secret…and the secret knows her—knows where she sleeps and where she eats on the streets of Pacific Beach in San Diego, California.Crooked Las Vegas politician Harry Olivetti is willing to kill in order to protect this secret, and his two hired assassins are closing in leaving Vanessa nowhere left to run.To a city by the sea—where the world flocks for sun, sand and surf—comes legendary FBI missing persons consultant, Jake Moriarity…a lost soul in a desperate search to find this lost girl. Moriarity can save her, but first, he ...

This collection of booklets on cultivating Biblical godliness covers topics that are essential to life as a follower of Christ. Each book in this bundle aims to address a wide variety of people and situations while discussing the fundamentals of Christianity.

2:00 a.m. Just outside of Toulouse, France, an obscure warehouse sits in the middle of a forgotten orchard. A monstrous evil is hidden away within its musty interior where four men have gathered in secret conclave. Powerful men—and ruthless beyond comprehension—they comprise the core of a multi-national cartel dealing in Holocaust art stolen by the Nazi’s during World War II. The purpose of their nocturnal gathering is to determine the fate of one of their own. Six hundred kilometers away, in Villefranche-sur-Mer, Jake Moriarity is enjoying blissful days and balmy nights in Gaspard ...

Bartholomew Bennet hadn’t planned on living on the streets of the Burnside Triangle, addicted to heroin and pimping himself out. Far from it. A newly minted MBA in hand and a job with one of Portland, Oregon’s most promising tech start-ups, Bart had arrived with hopes and plans for the future. And then, it all fell apart. The once bright, engaging twenty-two-year-old hipster was now a skinny, desperate, dying drug addict who would do anything for twenty bucks. And the saddest part of all? No one would be there when he died…not his mother, or his grandfather…Father Jack Mahoney. A ...

With his niece Cassie still reeling from a personal tragedy, Jake Moriarty takes her on a cross country trip. Their destination, his late mother’s hometown, Acacia Grove, South Carolina. It’s a good plan. Miles and miles of road with little else to do but talk, relax and enjoy the scenery and discover his roots in this all-American small town, complete with Southern charm and friendly citizens. Just what Cassie needs to recover from her great grief. What could possibly go wrong? They soon discover that just below the surface of apparent calm and civility lurks a monstrous evil that will...

An obscure and ancient Turkish church where, if legend is to be believed, thousands have been healed of all manner of disease and injury by simply walking through a door and into a small, candle-lit chamber. A renowned archeological team from a prominent Pacific Northwest university who have uncovered an ancient manuscript claiming to lead its possessor to a relic, the discovery of which would be the single greatest archeological find in history. A clandestine conclave of nine incalculably wealthy men ensconced in an obscure Swiss chalet. Their focus is also consumed with unearthing this ...

February in Portland, Oregon, and what many are calling the Storm of the Century has left hundreds of abandoned cars and buses clogging the icy streets, shutting down the entire metroplex. Eddie Lombard, a tough, hard-boiled private eye, is facing another kind of storm. When Ericka Holland, Rikki to her friends, walked in off of those snowy streets and through his office door, a tempest followed hard on her heels. Rikki wasn’t just in trouble, she was trouble. Overwhelmed by Rikki’s beauty and touched by her vulnerability, Eddie immediately throws himself into her rescue with as little ...

Simone Ducharme is poised to be the next big thing in the world of jazz. In fact, according to industry insiders, it’s almost a sure thing. Twenty-four, exotically beautiful and blessed with the kind of voice that seems to come along only once in a generation. But to stand where she now stood, in the live room of a legendary Hollywood recording studio—a studio that had been home to some of the most famous recording artists in history—required more than looks and talent. She also had an understanding of the music industry in general and the Jazz genre in particular that transcended her...