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BJ Owens can't calm the anger she still feels toward Ransom. After all, he used her years before to prove a friend was trading secrets to the enemy. But when a child trafficker goes after a family member, she must accept Ransom's help to keep the girl safe. Ronald "Ransom" McNeely is after a demon – the man responsible for the murder of his sixteen-year-old granddaughter. When he discovers the next possible victim will be a relative of BJ Owens,...
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"Dave, we do a great job in this department with every victim we encounter except one, the one in the mirror. You're a victim and you either don't know it or won't admit it," Chief Mann said. Captain Dave Michaels attained his dream job as the company commander of Rescue Squad 1, one of two such elite units in Fairmont County. But the dream turns into a nightmare, literally, when his crew is first arriving after a North Korean sponsored terrorist...
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Cameron MacGregor's lifelong dream was to become a US park ranger. In school, she'd earned the nickname Paula Bunyan. She knew more about the ecosystem of the forest than her teachers. Raised by her grandfather from the time she was nine years old, she'd come to appreciate the beauty and wonder of nature in the Alleghany Mountains of Pennsylvania.Only one boy looked beyond the un-female personage and saw the warmhearted, sweet girl she kept hidden...
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Tug McCarron is trying to carve out a simple life for her and her daughter. She had a good job, but a company takeover will put her out on the street in one week. She has just one last assignment for the outplacement firm she had worked for-- which she approaches with a certain sense of irony-- create resumes for the employees of American Insurance Company. Simple enough, until she opens a cupboard looking for yellow pads and finds a body instead.A...
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Hope is struggling with life. Her parents torment her, her friends don't value her, and the anxiety within is cutting through to the surface. Traumatized by her existence, she could not know that through this long, lonely time, someone would eventually come to save her.
Yet escaping an abusive home doesn't magically erase years of pain. And in this case – there are more years than she can even remember. Hope is confronted by a claim that her whole...
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Cam Kenyon came home a different woman from the one who left. Always the sensible one, she's a competent and respected psychologist. Now, if she could only apply that confidence to Noah Denton, her old high school crush and the current candidate for District Attorney. It seems not everything has changed.
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Aliyah Devon had never felt quite right. There had always been a voice in her dreams whispering for her to "wake up." For the past twenty-six years, she had felt like a dream walker in her own life until suddenly he appeared, and the world seemed to crash into blinding color and scorching heat. Isaiah Donovan had been searching for his destined mate since she perished in war thousands of years ago. She was the leader of their people and the most powerful...
8) Outnumbered
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I'm not exactly the social type. After spending most of my formative years in prison, I prefer an isolated existence in the wilderness of Canada's Northwest Territories, making what little cash I need guiding tourists to the best hunting grounds. I have no desire for company; I crave solitude instead, especially during the subarctic winter months, but what am I supposed to do when I come across a woman in distress? I can't just leave her to die...
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To satisfy the requirements for her graduate degree in fine art photography, and in turn secure her young daughter's future, Amy Millington is determined to photograph Charles Harding's boarded-up mansion.The reclusive architect allows no one to enter his former Mission Hills home, the traumatic scene of tragedy when he was four. Charles denies the gutsy widow's request, but Amy is nothing if not persistent. Amy and Marta's plan to teach Charles to...
10) Velvet Ropes
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No cover charged... no ID required... safety guaranteed...When Stella Jacobek was brutally attacked as a teen, Dermot O'Rourke appeared like an avenging angel. He tended her to wounds and helped her to heal and find purpose in life. A decade later, Dermot is framed for murder, and Stella, now a homicide detective, is determined to clear his name. In the midst of the clandestine investigation with the help of Team Undercover, evidence connects the...
11) Bellum Sanctum
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Parallel discoveries of a God-like power inflame a thousand-year-old hatred. Radical science and religious fervour combine in a new form of terror…
When former eco-warrior Dr Daniel Bayford discovers something extraordinary in the hills of Southern France, he and meteorologist Dr Kara Williams become the unwitting targets of a powerful secret guild and the world's most-wanted terrorist group.
Bizarre events, betrayal, and stubborn curiosity propel...
12) To Feel Again
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Reclusive widow Jenny Hamilton lives close to nature, far from the nearest town, raising cattle, writing and weaving until she pulls a near-drowned man from the creek and cares for him while he heals. Engineer Tom Driscoll hopes to bring Jenny out of her shell, but this victim of an abusive marriage refuses to trust any man.Someone from is sending anonymous threats to Jenny and she thinks they have to do with her late husband. Should she expect the...
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To follow the job of her dreams, Phoebe takes the dramatic step of leaving her marriage to fly to Canberra, full of hope and excitement. She soon learns that the path she has chosen is not for the faint-hearted. Almost immediately, her ideals are shattered, and she realises that, to survive, she must emulate the treachery of those around her to keep her job and to save face with those back home who had little confidence that she could or should have...
14) On the List
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No cover charged... no ID required... safety guaranteed...Agent Renata Fox knew the Feds killed the wrong person they believed to be the cold-blooded Chicago Sniper, but her persistence angers her S.A.F.E. co-workers, who think she's trying to make them look bad. The real killer is now determined to silence her, and the only man she can turn to is Gabriel Connor. Gabe has his own dark reason for wanting to track down the sniper. He befriends Renata...
15) Doves
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My lifelong captivation with doves, emblems of peace and purity, inspires this tale. Like the sky, which can shift from serene to stormy without warning, we often overlook moments of tranquillity, failing to savour them. In the same way, a pristine white sheet is destined to be sullied, a dove's life is finite, as is the peace it represents.
In a world where time crumbles and facades are the norm, Joshua Jones is thrust into a web of deception that...
16) VIP Protector
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No cover charged... no ID required... safety guaranteed... When ex-Special Forces officer Blade Stone discovers Lynn Cross's life is in danger, the Club Undercover bartender knows he has to protect the beautiful attorney. With the cooperation of the team, he sets out to make up for the terrible mistake he made that haunts him. Lynn doesn't like living in fear of some madman client with a grudge, nor of having a brooding bodyguard with her 24/7. As...
17) Blood: A Novel
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From talented newcomer Patricia Traxler comes a brilliant literary suspense novel about how desire can become jealousy, obsession, and finally murderous rage. Blood is equal parts auspicious literary debut, pageturner, and erotic novel about four people whose lives become irrevocably intertwined during one year at Radcliffe College.
The narrator, Norrie Blume, is a painter who has accepted a prestigious fellowship at the college; she's excited to...
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A dancer and a Marine-two worlds collide.
Chloe Johnson is no stranger to the spotlight. A prestigious member of the LA Laker Girls, she's in the public eye regularly. Her world is perfect.
Eric Taylor, on the other hand, is damaged, both body and spirit. Injured overseas, he returns home with fresh physical wounds, invisible emotional scars, and a bad attitude.
When Chloe becomes the object of affection to an unknown stalker, she must leave her...
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Inspirado en la clásica canción de Led Zeppelin, y en la duodécima historia de Justice Security, Black Dog ocurre poco después de los acontecimientos de "Las Campanas del Infierno". La historia comienza con Jessica Queen, Percival "King Louie" Washington, y Dexter Beck lidiando con pesadillas recurrentes. Los sueños son tan malos que los tres consultan al Dr. Caleb Mitchell, el psiquiatra del personal de Justice Security. Caleb descubre un hilo...
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Severely beaten, "Lucky" wakes up with no memory of who she is or where she came from. Rescued by the Centaur Agency, she sets out to discover her identity. Plagued by violent flashbacks, she finds herself afraid of the men around her. There is one man though that makes her feel safe. However time is running out for all of them. Will "Lucky" get her memories back in time to stop a madman? Or will her past catch up with her, leaving the most important...
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