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On a dirt road in Barranquilla, Colombia sometime in the
1970's a mother of baby twin boys is forced to make the
most difficult decision of her life. One of her sons grows to become a major part of the Cali Cartel drug trafficking world. The other boy's life remains a mystery until the drug dealer son begins searching for his lost twin.
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Two young women, tortured by their past--and now the present--latch onto Evan, an interning therapist.
Jennifer and Ruth make for intense relationships that will test Evan both professionally and personally.
This novella is a compelling psychological thriller that will keep the reader guessing until the last few pages.
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Every small town has an eccentric or two, and Killdeer, New York, is no exception. Morgan Mason attracts more than a few stares when he drives through town on his ramshackle tractor wearing a skirt. His sister is mortified, his neighbor resents the Skirt Man's interference, and a local preservationist is horrified by Morgan's huge satellite dish. These minor small-town annoyances become more serious – and deadly – when the Skirt Man is killed...
4) Tabula Rasa
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State Trooper Sebastian Bly and his brother-in-law Billy Nightingale are called in to investigate a house fire that killed two young children. Suspicious details at the fire scene – and the discovery of a baby hiding underneath the porch – put them on the trail of a murderous mother and lead to Sebastian and his wife, Annie, raising baby Meredith without revealing her dangerous and frightening past. Meredith grows up to be a promising young ballerina...
5) Intuition
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For fifteen years Libby Anderson tried to appear normal, and her Aunt Ruth sought to keep her from the fate suffered by her biological mother. But Ruth is brutally killed, and Libby's unique gift is discovered. Libby must then run for her life and elude a ruthless tech mogul, a relentless supercomputer, and a vicious assassin. They are all after one thing-Libby's intuition.
As she runs from her pursuers, Libby must search for the father she never...
6) Deception
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For Olivia Lawrence Ward, having a photographic memory can be a curse by which to relive harrowing past experiences, or a blessing to bring perpetrators to justice. Occasionally indulging in delectable naughty pleasures, this hardened Pulitzer prize winning investigative journalist has had her fair share of dealing with madmen, exposing corruption, and experiencing the trauma of surviving warzones first hand.
Still reeling from the brutal murder...
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Like the legendary Rose of Jericho, some people survive in the harshest of proverbial deserts without knowing how much they can bloom in the right oasis. Set against the backdrop of the Iraqi war, Nora and John crossed paths as compassionate fighters for the weak and downtrodden. Both estranged from their faiths, they yearned for more grounding in the world they found themselves in.
Later reunited in the United States, the radicalization of Nora's...
8) Bloodline
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Upside Down Again - Bloodline This is Book Three of the Upside Down series. Traci and Tom Hanson, two young and beautiful white New Haven residents, married almost 2 years, are in love and excited about expecting twin girls. Their ideal life is nearly shattered when the babies are born and Dr. Petty, their Pediatrician, informs Tom that his twin daughters, Terri and Tammi, appear to be African American babies. With infidelity out of the question,...
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The novel, Two Spies Too Many, takes place in South West Florida. Drs. Rebecca and Jeff Dylan were happily married. They were psychologists who worked at a Government facility, nicknamed The Ranch.
Rebecca's husband was killed in a hit and run accident on the morning of their 5th wedding anniversary. Rebecca is devastated. She throws herself into her work. She socially isolates and has ongoing dialogs with her deceased husband.
Two years later,...
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Nitro, a pitbull having been born into an abusive kennel prison is raised by the entire cast of dogs including his best friend Oscar, who is a Dachshund, and his idol Laser who is a racing greyhound. As he grows up his friends try to prevent him from finding out his true fate, knowing full well what some humans make pit bulls do. Once everyone realizes just how much danger Nitro is in, escape becomes their main goal in life, BUT is it too late to...
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Jo is a tough-talking, big-hearted social worker with a chip on her shoulder. She longs for romance and some excitement in her life, but is not prepared for the drama that unfolds. Accused of murder, Jo takes her dogs and races to find safety for them all beyond the clutches of a jealous ex-boyfriend, who is a well-respected police detective. What ensues is one terrified young woman depending upon her wits as she runs from police and the FBI. Her...
12) Storm Damage
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Mindy May Millner is the new Storm Queen. Along with her singing partner, Tiger Lilly, they push their new Storm Band to major successes, just as outside forces seek to destroy their relationship. With the Red Queen gone, Mindy May struggles to keep the Storm Band together. It doesn't work. There was only one Red Storm and Mindy will never take her place. According to some. But others are willing to follow a new leader, including Lilly Jones. So,...
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When a talented young artist captures the attention of the art world, forces beyond her control align. Power plays pit money, ideals and families against the inner workings of a competitive and closed art world. In his debut fiction, Woon Tai Ho gives us an insider's look into the creative world he knows well. Set in modern-day Singapore, and drifting between worlds, Riot Green tells a gripping tale that draws on rich Chinese traditions and beliefs....
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Before the Rooster Crows Twice: A suspense novel inspired by true events that will keep you intrigued with every turn of the page. Freelance photographer Sarah Gallus runs from a grief-stricken past into the arms of two charming and non-committal men who tempt her into their world of forbidden pleasures. But that world turns against them when Sarah, Stuart, and Robbie experience a supernatural occurrence during their vacation in the middle of the...
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When the Chelsea gang members find out that Taylor has been subjected to years of vicious child abuse, they confront a range emotions, while simultaneously trying to figure out how to help her escape the abuse and secure justice for herself. Cate's family steps in to show what Taylor what a loving, functional family looks like while her medical and legal issues are arranged. This book looks at the worst of families, and the best of them. Through it...
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In the small upstate town of Misty River, two seemingly unconnected crimes occur in the space of two years. First, the town's beloved Italian baker Frank is found lying in a pool of blood, with his head nearly severed from his body. The brutal, cold-blooded murder that shocked the residents of Misty River was never solved. Two years later, elementary school teacher Olivia is abducted and forced at gunpoint into the secluded woods along the Misty River,...
17) Temper the Winds
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In a small town southern setting in 1943, "Temper the Winds" is a storyabout a widow swept up by the whirlwinds of fate. When Maggie Clay's husband dies in a TB sanitarium, she is left with Jenny and Josey, and two dollars and thirty-four cents. Financially and emotionally set-back, she is taken by her father, Claude, to a farm life she despises, a site where she is unloved by her mother, Leona, and shielded by her father, both harboring a long kept...
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When a terrible tragedy drives Angela Johnson from her beloved hometown of New Orleans, her life is flipped upside down. With her best friend missing and her family scattered to the four winds, Angela has to make a new life for herself in a strange city, alone and with little more than the clothes on her back. Alone, that is, until she meets Danny Armstrong, a single father to a beautiful little girl, and a man who lives a lifestyle she can't fully...
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It is the year 2000, and Marian Bradley is suddenly, shockingly, a widow and childless. Mohamed Arazi, a young student from Morocco, has planned and executed a suicide bombing that killed Marian's husband Bill and her twenty-two year old son Rob. With no one to blame or punish, Marian has to find her way to an acceptable vengeance for the murder of her family. She also has to create a new life for herself. On the other side of the world, Rashid bin...
20) Obsession
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At the conclusion of Blow Dart: The Abduction, Trish Dawson thought her three-year nightmare was finally over except for two things: her untimely pregnancy and a secret she decided to keep from her husband and the authorities. She withheld it because she had to seek revenge for the deaths of her two best friends, Pam Forrester and Shea Connors, and all the suffering that she, Roger, Carlye, and Jake had endured. But that it was over couldn't be further...
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