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Police investigators Pete Culnane and Martin Tierney are as different as parchment and newsprint, and Martin’s insecurities are fed by Pete’s expertise and finesse. A homeless man wearing an eye-popping diamond ring is as inexplicable to both of them as the disappearance of the two boys who reported his body on St. Paul’s Upper Landing.

World-renowned Attorney Alexandra Phillips has a knack for turning open and shut cases for the prosecution into wins for the defense. In the third installment of the Behind Closed Doors Series, Attorney Phillips defends another victim who is accused of murdering her abuser. With the world still reeling from the effects of COVID-19, Protagonist Attorney Alexandra Phillips is determined to uncover the truth behind the mysterious HIV strain that is discovered as she searches for a key piece of evidence to exonerate her client. Her client, an adulterous Dallas housewife is accused of murder. ...

What If? . . .a secret visitor from another dimension is caught flying---solo . . . a President fights for his life---outside of the political ring . . . a father converses with his son---still in the womb . . . a scientist creates the first time machine---to fund his greed . . . a tunnel swallows a man, his dreams---and his haunted hitchhiker . . . the First Man in Space blasts off---in 1944! Welcome to Volume 1 of Myths of What If? sci-fi stories. Come journey with us on flights of fantasy, through realms of fractured reality, down halls of breathless imagination. Blink hard! Harder! Now ...

A wound to the heart, a hole so deep. Can it be fixed? Or simply replaced? People lie. Those closest to me, tell the most lies. Do they not know who I am? What I'm capable of? Sometimes I wonder if they do. Because when I unravel their lies, they will be delivered to the hell I once visited. And it won't be pleasant.

Thirteen-year-old Jessamine Grace and her mother make a living as sham spiritualists - until they discover that Jess is a mesmerist and that she really can talk to the dead. Soon she is plunged into the dark world of Victorian London's supernatural underbelly and learns that the city is under attack by ghouls, monsters, and spirit summoners. Can Jess fight these powerful forces? And will the group of strange children with mysterious powers she befriends be able to help?

The world can be a scary place to navigate when you’re brain damaged. Even scarier when you aren’t entirely sure what you might have done during a blackout while your alternate personality is running around in your body. My wife calls him "the other one". If you can’t trust your own eyes or the people around you, sometimes, it pays to take a leap of faith. I have, I stopped taking my little pink pill. I wonder what will happen?...

Book three in the Kelly Blake series: The K’Rang Empire has once again encroached into Galactic Republic space, holding four Human worlds hostage to their imperial ambition. Be a witness to the epic confrontation as Humanity fights a bitter struggle for survival against the K’Rang Empire. Kelly Blake takes command of the Orion, a new super scout, the fastest ship ever built, in a race to enlist the aid and cooperation of another species suffering from K’Rang aggression

Over four hours of strange and chilling tales of horror, science fiction, fantasy, and the surreal, including the classics Master of the Crabs by Clark Ashton Smith and Black God's Kiss by C.L. Moore. A unique blend of short stories for fans of all audio genres!

Schoolteacher Gemma Hughes is an ordinary woman living an ordinary life. Disorganized and clumsy, she soon finds herself in the capable hands of the beautiful Dr. Maria Moran. Everything goes wonderfully until Gemma starts doubting Maria's intentions and begins listening to the wrong people. But has Maria something to hide, or is it a case of swapping trust for insecurity, respect for jealousy and finishing with a world of heartbreak and deceit? Can Gemma stop her actions before it's too late? Or will she ruin the best thing to happen in her life?

In a city where opulence masks treachery, Detective Dion Knight is called to the scene of a high-society murder. Lydia Harper, a glamorous socialite, lies dead in her penthouse, surrounded by a puzzle of shattered glass and a bloodless knife. As Dion and his ambitious partner, Officer Stevens, delve into Lydia's life, they uncover a web of deceit involving estranged husbands, secret lovers, and cutthroat business rivals.

This book is an edited text with experts writing on these topics: literacy foundations, data-driven assessments, strategic partnerships, secondary literacy programs, DEI, leadership, planning and instructional strategies, and the content areas. It fills a gap in the literature on middle and secondary literacy and differentiation. Each chapter includes the latest research and takes a practical look at some of the essential questions facing educators today.

Urban fantasy offers a diverse playground for some extremely powerful stories. Professional writer and editor Kerrie L. Hughes pulled some fantastic tales out of 14 top writers for this fifth installment of Fiction River. Set in urban lands from modern Portland, to a future Detroit, to a wild Washington, D.C., and ending the tour in London, these top writers take the idea of "Hex" and stretch and twist it into stories with a magickal grip on the imagination.

Some conspiracy theories turn out to be true. FBI profiler Victor Loshak works a brutal murder case in Watertown, New York - a woman found strangled in her basement, her face gone purple and baggy. But as he sifts through the crime scene details, his mind keeps drifting back to Kansas City, his last job. The human trafficking case there ended in something of a cliffhanger, and it's a loose end that everyone else in law enforcement seems in no hurry to tie up. The truth is out there. Always just out of reach.

Berlin, 1944: Sixteen-year-old Gunther Schmidt is a product of his times—one with a short shelf life. Afraid he might miss the adventure of war, he lies about his age to join the Waffen-SS. His misplaced enthusiasm buys him a one-way ticket to the Russian Front. Too tall and part Hungarian via his grandfather, Gunther is denied his dream of commanding a tank. He must settle for Panzer-infantry machine gunner. In his first action, he meets veteran Tiger I tank Commander Wolfgang Ridder and his odd-ball crew. Commander Wolf is obsessed with beating famed Michael Wittmann, who destroyed 138 ...

How much damage could someone do to someone they love and still be forgiven? Joshua Kendall was about to find out along with much more from his ex-fiancé Jenna McKinnon. Trapped together in a Wyoming blizzard will Joshua get the answer he seeks from Jenna? Is the little girl he found out she had four years ago his daughter? The one with ice blue eyes the same as his own? After what he'd done to Jenna could she forgive him after learning the truth and find again the love they once shared? Or would outside forces come between them again? This is a standalone in the new The Taken Series that ...

Here lies the adventures of Miss Abbey's group, how they came together, and their fight to escape Baton Rouge in the days and weeks before they joined Isherwood and the rest in the island citadel of St. Maryville. The master of puppets is coming in black boots. The pieces are in motion, but what is this mysterious chess game unfolding in the land of the dead?

Once every 10,000 years, the walls between worlds grow thin. The stars align and Hell is close. It is the time of The Sha'Daa. The mysterious Johnny The Salesman is up to his usual tricks, offering dark magic trades if one is brave enough to barter with him. Johnny's latest ally, the immortal tattoo artist Haumea, just might have the answer to saving the planet from destruction, if she can create enough supernatural tattoos at Mom's Bane tattoo parlor to turn the tide against evil.

Niila was born into a tribe of Dark Fae on the planet of Nibiru. According to the Fae tradition, a royal prince or princess is to marry on their twenty-first birthday and begin the journey of life. And Niila was prepared to start her journey with Prince Idris from the neighboring kingdom of Ravenwood. Saavik was born Prince of the Kushite Tribe on Earth. He was one week away from marrying a woman he had been courting since they were teenagers.

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want to try something new? Would you like some guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Greater Than a Tourist book is for you. Greater Than a Tourist - St. Augustine, Florida, USA by author Laurie Smith offers the inside scoop about interesting locations within beautiful and historic St. Augustine, Florida.

Chayton Tacony had never believed in his grandfather's stories of love at first sight.... until he met Gracelyn Daniels. That's the moment he knew his grandfather had been right all along because he fell instantly in love with the beautiful young woman the second their eyes met. He knew Gracelyn was meant to be his but how could he convince the stubborn dark haired beauty they were destined for one another? Especially when the devil known as his father also had his sights set on her? Would he be able to convince the woman he loved to marry him before the man he hated forced her into a ...