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"An epic politcal thriller...riveting"-Richard J. Wall, A ReviewerMaddi has spent the last five months waiting for Henderson to awaken from a coma. The time alone has forced her to revisit a past that has haunted her for twenty-two years. That past has attained new life, and will soon become a credible threat to her future. As Henderson struggles to regain consciousness, and Maddi fights her demons, Morningstar sees an opportunity to take down his two greatest adversaries in a cruel, creative fashion. He has uncovered a secret, and will use it to threaten both Maddi and Henderson, as well as the child, Lili. Meanwhile, Hank Clarkson has been assigned to bring Henderson to DC. But a sudden war in Latvia forces him to accompany the Hendersons to their castle by the Baltic Sea. As he alters his plans to accommodate the war, Maddi and Henderson slowly, painfully begin to unravel truths that will change their lives forever.

"An epic politcal thriller...riveting"-Richard J. Wall, A ReviewerMorningstar, eager to put his Master Plan into effect, calls upon the international assassin, Cobra, to kill a troublesome adversary. Cobra's counterpart, Mark Justice, obsessed with the need to stop him, reaches out to psychiatrist James Samuels, forcing Samuels to choose between his devotion to justice and his obligation to duty. Meanwhile, as the war in Latvia rages on, a war with the past is being fought on three fronts by Maddi, Henderson, and a young Philadelphia police officer who is intricately tied to Maddi. This officer is eager to bring Maddi's old transgressions to light, but with each step he takes, he uncovers an unsettling fact about his own history. As Maddi tries to outrun her troubled past, and Henderson wrestles with a death wish, Morningstar sees a way not only to stop them from interfering in his efforts, but to end Madison's meddling for good.

A fast-paced, chilling page-turner, with a romance to melt the coldest heart!Emma Pearson believes she has the perfect life in Hopewell, Ohio, until she doesn't. Her husband's murder while working undercover has revealed a secret life, a betrayal too deep to forgive, and his actions have placed her and her children in danger. Declining an offer to enter witness protection, she changes her name and goes on the run to join her best friend Riley in the Adirondacks, a park so vast she can start a new life and hide from her pursuers.After recovering from severe burns and a gunshot wound acquired in a drug bust, Anton 'Tony' Storms struggles with demons of his own. When Emma and her children arrive in Wanakena, he finds his world turned upside down. Then the assassins trailing her show up, and Tony must decide whether to remain apart from all entanglements or risk everything to protect the woman who has stolen his heart.

A young woman with a questionable past...A family struggling to find common ground...A murder victim with no known enemies...Determined to overcome the dark secrets she helped reveal three years ago when she rescued a baby from a locked car and ran away, Xandra Byrd is now a student in criminology at the local community college and an accepted part of her biological family. Still, she struggles to escape the demons of her dysfunctional childhood. But when the woman who helped put her family back together is murdered, and she and her brother implicated in the crime, Xandra must return to the dark side of human nature in search of a killer. Will she solve the mystery and clear her name, or will she become the next victim?This sequel to The Dark Side of the Rainbow is a haunting exploration of the long-term effects of trauma and a sizzling murder mystery with page-turning suspense.

From an ancient dungeon in the heart of France to an abandoned schoolhouse in a lonely Scottish borough, the international assassin, Cobra, has embarked upon a long-awaited journey for vengeance. Though it is unclear even to him what - or who - was the catalyst for his psychotic behavior, he has taken steps to make all those who played a role feel the pain of what he has become.¿But his efforts aren't confined to Europe. His reach extends halfway around the world as he pulls together the varied actors who will star in the stage play of his life. As a Son of Jacob, his efforts are aided by his father Jacob, who is intricately tied to three of Cobra's prisoners. Those prisoners are vital to the evil patriarch's plans, so Jacob must therefore assist his errant son Cobra if he hopes to save them for his own nefarious use. As the maniacal killer gets closer to enacting his revenge, it becomes clear that his success hinges not only on the deaths of his enemies, but on the purging of a past that has haunted his entire life.

From an ancient dungeon in the heart of France to an abandoned schoolhouse in a lonely Scottish borough, the international assassin, Cobra, has embarked upon a long-awaited journey for vengeance. Though it is unclear even to him what - or who - was the catalyst for his psychotic behavior, he has taken steps to make all those who played a role feel the pain of what he has become. But his efforts aren't confined to Europe. His reach extends halfway around the world as he pulls together the varied actors who will star in the stage play of his life. As a Son of Jacob, his efforts are aided by his father Jacob, who is intricately tied to three of Cobra's prisoners. Those prisoners are vital to the evil patriarch's plans, so Jacob must therefore assist his errant son Cobra if he hopes to save them for his own nefarious use. As the maniacal killer gets closer to enacting his revenge, it becomes clear that his success hinges not only on the deaths of his enemies, but on the purging of a past that has haunted his entire life.

Riley Marie Finn lives a stolid, conventional life, every detail planned and unexpected and dull. But when her boyfriend dumps her and the school district where she teaches releases her due to budget concerns, Riley's whole world turns upside down. Jilted and jobless and determined to change her fate, she heads to the Adirondacks in search of summer employment, where she ends up lost. Rescued by a broody forest ranger who directs her to the hamlet of Wanakena, she is hired in place of a woman whose dead body is discovered at the very place Riley appeared.Josh Waylon is a forest ranger haunted by the ghost of his unfaithful wife, the first victim of the Wilderness Strangler one year ago. With a battered heart and a cloud of suspicion hanging over him, he swears off human contact until Riley invades his territory.Broken and desperate and unable to resist their mutual attraction, Riley and Josh join forces to flush out the 'Wilderness Strangler' and clear their names. Can their growing feelings for each other heal the damage of their past lives? Can they solve the dual murders before one of them becomes the next victim?

The frank and endearing true story of Peggy Butler, a young girl from the Appalachian foothills of southern Ohio, who loves music and dreams of becoming a performer, until an illness in her early teens changes her goal and her life dramatically. This stirring memoir offers a vivid picture of what it was like to be an aspiring nurse in the 1950s. Butler's accounts of the stigma endured by people with tuberculosis, a contagious disease with no known cure at that time, are heart-rending.

"There is an urgent need for more bisexual men to rise up and be heard. Thank you for contributing your voice to this still small but growing chorus."- Robyn Ochs, co-author, Recognize: the Voices of Bisexual Men Matteson's I Took Both Roads: My Journey as a Bisexual Husband is both eye-opening and inspiring. It is a timely, sensitive exploration of a topic through a loving and accepting lens. He first became aware of his sexuality in the early 1950s, and his bisexuality in the '60s -- dangerous times to be seen as different from the norm. It is as much an account of his incredible and supportive relationships with others - his parents, his spiritual advisors, his long-time gay partner, and particularly his wife - as it is an account of what it is like to be bisexual. Matteson skillfully brings the reader on a journey through his life. He introduces the memoir by acknowledging his "hope...that reading [his] story will help you to develop a deeper understanding of, and empathy for those whose sexual orientation is different from your own, and those who have gone through changes in their identity during the course of their married life." Robert Frost's famous poem about life's choices, "The Road Not Taken," is a recurrent motif in Matteson's book, and readers will come to understand that they, unlike Frost's speaker, need not recall their choices "with a sigh" of regret, but can instead proudly take both roads, though they seem to be divergent.

"Absolutely one of the best mystery writers that Absolutely Amazing eBooks has discovered ... Bob Coburn is an entertaining storyteller who creates characters you care about."- Hollis George, editorial director, Absolutely Amazing eBooksDysfunction, estrangement, greed, deception and revenge combine in a prelude to murder. Jack Hunter, always near by to trouble, unwittingly becomes involved in the sinister plan. KWPD Detectives Earl Gleason and Rachel Powers have their hands full with a double-murder investigation that eventually leads Powers to New Orleans and St. Julian Parish, while Gleason takes a stumble that threatens his career.

""This two-part book tells two entirely different but interlocking stories of several modern characters in modern situations (Hollywood, New York, Dublin, Greece, London) with two sets of couples and two sets of twins, all of whose reliability is questionable when faced with attempts to tell their autobiographies. The book transgresses many conventional boundaries usually found in even the most "post-modern" fiction. It will remind some readers of the works of Graham Greene and John le Carré, as well as a touch here and there of Evelyn Waugh and a hint of P.G. Wodehouse. Esposito's finely drawn characters populate a series of often very funny situations, swerving from the deadly serious to the absurd in unorthodox fashion."" - Brewster Chamberlin, author of Radovic's Dilemma.In 600 BC the Cretan philosopher Epimenides of Knossos asserted that "All Cretans are liars." If he was telling the truth, he was lying; if he was lying, he was telling the truth. Epimenides was asking us to accept two contradictory statements as simultaneously valid. More Than Two tries to prove his case.As René Magritte might have said, "Ceci n'est pas un roman." But is it a novel? Perhaps, in the light of the two protagonists' fate, it is un grec. It tests, in two contradictory stories, the truth of fiction. It questions the nature of authenticity. It provokes issues such as authorial presence and the reliability of narrative. It explores the relationship between fact and fiction, and between memory and imagination. It can be read as a parody or as an authentic narrative, depending upon the reader's starting point. It invites the reader into self-reflection as a form of confession. It is a palindrome.The author is a Cretan. James Esposito did not write this book.

"I picked up this book out of curiosity. I found I couldn't lay it down. It's definitely a hold-your-attention, non-stop reading pleasure."-Martha Griswold, Online Critics CornerGene Rackovitch*David Porteous*Kit Storjohann*Joyce DeCordova*Jean Schweibish*Susan Rosenstreich*Teresa TaylorIn this notable anthology from a group of Long Island, New York, authors, you will find more than two-dozen stories and reflections. The selections range from wistful reminiscences of parents' visits to Wisteria Cottage to a look at Aunt Mimi's eccentric world ... from Eddie's grandmother to garden-loving Agatha ... from a lost Jerseyite to a reunion of college chums ... from an alien of a planet called Howff to a denizen of the old neighborhood in Flushing, in Queens, New York ... they're all here in these delightful, thoughtful, imaginative, entertaining stories.

"Gripping. I hung on to every word ...""- H. L. Osterman, author of Short Changed"You can count on Coburn for a good mystery ..."- Bryon Rupert McCafferty, Seattle Book JournalMalice murder is by law a homicide done with express or implied malice. Express malice is the deliberate intention to unlawfully take the life of another human being, which is manifested by external circumstances capable of proof. Malice is implied when no considerable provocation appears and where all the circumstances of the killing show an abandoned and malignant heart.KWPD Detective Earl Gleason and his new partner, Detective Rachel Powers, have their hands full with a series of brutal homicides in a homeless encampment. Each a puzzle of its own with no apparent connection to the others. Other than the fierce brutality involved, that is. Jack Hunter returns to Key West and is soon caught up in the investigation. And in no time, falls under suspicion. Nor does it take him long to get the attention of one killer as another one comes for him.

Easter Rising (also known as the Easter Rebellion) was an armed insurrection that took place in Ireland during Easter Week in 1916. Mounted by Irish republicans, it ended British rule and establish an independent Irish Republic. Organized by seven members of the Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the rising was led by schoolmaster and activist Patrick Pearse.

Like the tagline says, this is "the mad misadventures of two English lads crossing America as the Rolling Stones." The rapscallions in the delightful novel find posing as famous rockers was an aphrodisiac to midwestern girl on their cross-country journey ... until facts of their impersonation catches up with them. But there is a prize waiting at the end of this pilgrimage: a slender blonde living in a treehouse. "Mark Howell is a gifted storyteller who will take you through an emotional gamut from laughter to tears," says Bill Craig, author of the Marlow and Chandler mysteries.

Upstate New Yorker Baz Rathbone makes ends meet by selling human skulls. By contract, he should cremate them, but he doesn't. His little business comes to the attention of the FBI when a woman spots her late husband's skull being used as a candlestand by a skinhead (she recognizes the skull from a distinctive Texas-shaped bone flap). The feds' investigation ultimately takes them to Moose Wallow, Maine, where they interview assistant mortician Lazlo Wetzo and his taxidermist friend, Uliba Helmsman, two loveable potheads. When Uli, Lazlo, and Laz's girlfriend, Annette Fibrowski, travel from Maine to the Carolinas to pick up a preserved human body and also the carcass of an orangutan -- the former for burial in Maine and the latter to be stuffed for a zoo near Charlotte -- chaos ensues. Through a complex set of connections, Baz Rathbone hires an inexpensive-but-stupid hood to steal the ape, whose skull would bring in serious money, but the heist goes wrong. Justice is eventually served, but only after a hilarious set of misadventures.

"Prepare to be astonished, prepare to be entertained. If you would know about the secrets of the human heart, its tragedies and triumphs, then read this remarkable collection of short stories by two brothers, Fred and Chris Belland. Ranging in locale from the U.S. to Europe, to Central America to Vietnam, each tale is beautifully crafted, each tale reveals something new and glorious and heartbreaking about the human condition. Read them and be dazzled."- Evan H. Rhodes, The Prince of Central Park, An Army of ChildrenThis is like two books in one, two collections of short stories by two brothers writing independently of each other, but with a common thread. Here you will find stories about people and events in Florida and the Caribbean -- so close to Cuba they call it Almost Havana.

"This can't-put-it-down mystery was inspired by author Robert Coburn's visit to the Key West Cemetery. While there he noted a row of 43 small graves, inspiring this masterful tale that blends history, intrigue, and - dare we say? - murder."- Shirrel Rhoades, president of Key West Art & Historical Society"Bob Coburn's best storytelling yet ..." - Hollis George, editor of Writing Tips From the Pens of Famous WritersQuestionable deaths of children buried in the Key West Cemetery have gone unanswered for years. Rumors point to a pair of doctors from an old and prominent Key West family as being responsible. Hearsay? Or something more substantial? Jack Hunter determines to find the truth. And soon realizes that he has taken on more than he can handle. He brings in Detective Earl Gleason. But the KWPD is not interested in pursuing rumors. Jack and the detective begin a clandestine investigation on their own. And violence becomes Jack's companion in the journey to an evil conclusion.

"One of my favorite storytellers...."- Hollis George, noted editor and anthologist"A raw novel written with the passion of memory and the experience of growing up in a beachside community on the northern corner of Florida."- Hayes Brandwell, The Polemicist PostAs a former newspaper colleague of Bill Burkett, I can certify that there is truth in this well-crafted prose..."- Pamela Paige, former feature writer, Florida Times-UnionThe time was 1959. Walter was a cook at Dawson's Famous Seafood Restaurant supporting his tubercular wife in an inland sanatorium and their daughter, who lived with her mother's parents. He was a loner who minded his own business until Corinne came to work as a waitress and he saw a chance to grab a little moment of happiness with her. But Corinne was a lodestone for dangerous men and he was on a collision course with disaster. "A nearly lost masterpiece is discovered ... modern Southern Gothic," says Shirrel Rhoades, former fiction editor for The Saturday Evening Post.