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People believe that every story is like a fairy tale, and that every tale ends with a happy ending. But, we live in a much darker place. Many things can change in a matter of seconds or minutes, and for some of us, those moments can change our lives forever.
People always say that things happen for a reason as a form of fate or that there is a design for each of our lives, and that no matter what you do, the outcomes will always be the same, as there...
2) Red Friction
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Ebony Daniels, med student by day and sexy stripper by night-she had it all. Money, glamour, and popularity. She had her life all planned out until one day, her two worlds collide. Her med career is on the line and so is her family. Now Ebony must find the balance between good and evil. Now she must right all her wrongs and set things straight to get her life back on track. With her girls by her side, she will have the fight for her life. Sex, drugs,...
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This book is fiction based on true events. It was inspired by a young woman who is trying desperately to raise her five children alone. Her loving husband has an evil temper and has tragically died. Yet he is not done, for he has returned as a ghost living in her home for ten long years. His torment has not ended for he uses the tin man that she is so fond of, by moving him from place to place in her house. She feels his spirit around her, and she...
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Matilda is the witch who, from the beginning, suffered many defeats, but she never gave up. On this occasion, Matilda returns, ready to take revenge once and for all. But with the passage of time, the world evolved, and that generation became extinct.
Matilda traveled the worlds in search of a new generation of humans to exact her revenge. She went so far as to liberate several peoples from an alien species' domain and then exact her revenge on...
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This is a story about a young girl who was a big liar. She was teased and picked on as a child. If you did anything to hurt Tammy, she would get her revenge by any means, and you would lose your life or more.
She was very curious about life and sex after being raped as a child, which caused her to grow up too fast. She was threatened and taken advantage of as a child, and also as an adult.
Just when Tammy felt she found what she had been searching...
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This story chronicles the events that could happen to a hardworking close-knit, God-fearing, altruistic American family living the American Dream that became powerless when their family is infiltrated by someone who is raised the opposite of them, that is, someone with no religion, no filial piety, no etiquette, and no compassion. The infiltrator not only cons them about many things, but seduces their wayward daughter. This person commandeers their...
8) Sea of Red
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John Dwyer was lost in thought as he lay on his bed. He often wondered how his life would have been if he hadn't given in to greed one night. It led him to find out the secret hidden beneath the windmill turbines in the Reese, Michigan area, and the organization protecting it. It had changed his life and caused him to experience what no other man has. He learned the identity of the leader of the organization and became certain the rest of the world...
9) Orange Burns
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When a most valuable player is accused of murdering his black wife using a baseball bat, a chase across Orange County begins. Residents of a rural community risk everything to solve this murder mystery that turns the cliches of the genre upside down. When "orange burns," the traditional is turned to the tragic, and back again. Still a story with humor, as only a novel set in 2020 could be, the issues of the year unfold as Officer Sandy Cortes and...
10) Freedom's Hammer
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A blow to fascism, a blow to secession, a blow to free-speech restrictions.
Terrorism had been a large part of Liam A. Crockett's twenty years in the Navy. Not domestic terrorism, however. That was about to change.
Liam served ten years as a Navy SEAL, ten years in naval intelligence. He is now a lawyer teaching constitutional law at the Naval Academy in Annapolis.
Liam received a call from a friend,...
11) Thin Blue Lines
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Thin Blue Lines is the story of a rookie cop's first year on the job, for a large metropolitan police department. It details the stresses of a career where life and death situations can and do occur on a daily basis. Many of the incidents are based on true events. Sometimes funny, sometimes heart wrenching, the reader is taken on a wild ride into a violent and often bizarre world, where cops and criminals alike struggle to survive. Culminating with...
12) A God's Game
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We each control the path in life we take...or so we like to believe.
More often than not, events in our lives are far out of our control. Groups of young adults learn this fact the hard way when three brothers come to Earth and claim to be the gods of games. These three gods, in an effort to end their century-long boredom, decide to use these humans as game pieces see which group of humans come out on top. Unfortunately, in order for some humans...
13) Tough Choices
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An enterprising young man marries an unpretentious and discreet heiress. Both are determined to succeed in their respective careers, capitalizing on their skills, drives, hard work, and strong marriage which provides harmony in their lives, rather than become trust babies. Yet several issues will intrude on what would be for many other couples their tranquility. They are confronted with at least three critical choices.
The heiress's family company,...
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From the roots of poverty and a thread of family, Bryan Hiser turned to burglary of the rich and wealthy in an attempt to fill a longing emptiness. The initial excitement turned to routine, then expertise, but ultimately to disappointment and betrayal even at the pinnacle of his incredible criminal journey.
Follow every step in his road to infamy, including his internal struggles as he matured and came to grips with what he had become, and the...
15) The Glass Tower
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Growing up in a lower-middle-class mob family, Greg has been chosen by his father to be in the family business. He is engulfed into a criminal enterprise with childhood friends, families, uncles, and cousins running one of the most powerful unions in New York City.
Greg is raised in this union with deceit, fear, and no way out. He finds himself torn between his family and his freedom to be something other than what the mob has made of him. This...
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Circa the late eighteenth century, six tourists from Vienna, "the big city," arrive in the backwoods of Transylvania by horse and carriage on holiday and in search of a quaint rural adventure among the common folks. A detour leaves them stranded atop a mysterious decrepit, old castle populated by odd noises and an eerily suspicious servant. Along the way, they encounter a colorful thief, strange mutant-like beings, and a beautiful young lab assistant...
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The cabin is a place where Mary spent much of her childhood with her parents. In her early twenties, her father was killed in a freak accident in the yard. Mary realizes that in order for her to move on with her life, she needs to return to the cabin alone, facing again that awful day. The story continues with convincing her mother that she also needs to return, with old relationships revisited and events that follow throughout her journey to heal....
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At head office in New York, executive assistants are running around in turmoil getting the last important details together for the annual meeting in London, if they only knew the plans of others! A company controlled by the Chinese government wants to seat two new directors on the board of Advanced Surveillance Systems Inc., but will they? The reason is simple: as directors, they can obtain the classified design/engineering information on the new...
19) Untamed
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His whole life, Corvan Black had everything handed to him. Money, women, the title of alpha to his pack. There was nothing he wanted for that he couldn't get, until Celine came along.
Celine Woods, the underdog, the misfit, always struggled for things in her life, but nonetheless, she always made it through. Is she going to let Corvan walk all over her like everyone else in her life? Will she finally stand up for herself and become the strong woman...
20) Double Cross
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In the first novel of the Double Cross series, we are introduced to Malik Davenport, a successful corporate attorney settled in Mobile, Alabama, with his wife and two young children. In an instant, his world is shattered when his children's lives are ended at the hands of two unknown white supremacist, whose malice is witnessed by a neighbor's young child who is too traumatized to reveal what he has seen. After repeated futile meetings with local...
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