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June Bloom feels that her job as a low-level manager at the Fleener Plastics company can't get much worse as she tries to navigate the absurdity and stress of corporate life and deal with her incompetent and sexist boss. When one of her employees goes missing, a colleague who's a self-proclaimed psychic gets a vision of the man's dead body lying in the trunk of an unknown car. June is stunned to learn that her missing employee, Melvin, has been using...
2) Bayou Chase
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Chase Anderson, wounded in Afghanistan, gets a rebuilt knee and falls for his surgeon. They marry, but nine months later, she's raped and murdered as she planned a meal to let Chase know he would be a dad. The killer's DNA left at the scene is compromised by the Chicago Police and a one-year sentence for breaking and entering is too much for Chase to accept. Chase leaves no evidence when he drowns the killer in the man's bathtub. The twin brothers...
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Las Vegas limousine driver Micah Donovan prides himself on his discretion. Regardless of what transpires in the back of his car every night, he keeps his eyes on the road and his heart so far away he can no longer reach it. But when the son of an imprisoned gangster requests a beautiful young dancer be delivered to his door, Micah is unable to turn a deaf ear, and he rescues Katelyn just before the man can hurt her. Together they flee into the night,...
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Brazen navy hero Lt. Moses Redding incites an international incident on the eve of Mideast peace talks. He's banished to command the 200-year-old USS Constitution, "Old Ironsides," on a Mediterranean PR cruise-purgatory for a man of action. Onboard is the alluring but high-spirited Dr. Miriam Hannah. She's a naval historian and the top aide to Vice President Virginia Mitchell, point person on the peace talks. A battle of the sexes ensues between the...
5) Con Me Once
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After witnessing a mob hit-gone-wrong, Frank Lambda, an inept superhero wannabe, goes on the run. Enter mystery woman Keira who claims to run a secret training program, turning cosplayers like Frank into real-life heroes. He smells a con but with nowhere to turn, he joins a mismatched troupe of bumblers and travels to the promised land: Las Vegas, Sin City USA. Against the backdrop of a thousand spandex-clad cosplayers, Keira's true agenda-to steal...
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Camp Humphreys, South Korea, 2018 CIA agent Mike Porter is sent undercover to prevent the assassination of the North Korean president during the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang. Porter discovers a narcotic and human trafficking ring headed up by an evil village local and his unit's commanding officer. The woman Porter falls in love with is a victim. Porter must end the rings to free the woman before flying north to thwart the assassination.
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It's three years after the explosion that made her husband's mistress, Katelyn, disappear, and Cece has finally put her life back together - until her seventeen-year-old daughter, Josie, goes missing. Josie is a prima ballerina in the New York ballet. The police suspect her mystery boyfriend is the culprit for her disappearance, but her parents know she'd never sacrifice her first major performance to run off with a boy. When Katelyn returns and threatens...
8) Domin8
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After his wife loses interest in him, fifty-year-old Dave Barndon turns to the dark side of the Internet and sex chat rooms. There he finds willing partners who are happy to fulfill his needs with no strings attached. But they aren't the only ones looking to play. When a woman he had an affair with is murdered he becomes the prime suspect. He thinks his alibi is solid until a second woman is murdered, and then a third. He fights for his freedom and...
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Dario Vitez crawled from the brink of poverty and made a name for himself as a wealthy, successful restaurateur. Love is the only thing missing from his life. He's never found a woman who could compare to his childhood sweetheart, Irena Novak-who was forced into a marriage of convenience and lives half a world away. Irena has secrets-dangerous secrets. She reappears in Dario's life, on the run from her murderous husband, who will do anything to silence...
10) The Axe
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Sweethearts Eric Leidheldt and Desiree Chauveau are spending a weekend at his uncle's cabin when they encounter two strangers cutting wood. Eric is knocked unconscious, and Desi is viciously attacked. The following day two police officers come to their apartment to arrest Desi. Her assailants are dead, murdered with an axe, and her fingerprints are on it. She confesses-but is she really guilty? Eric is determined to stand by her, but the physical...
11) Fiddlers Creek
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Daniel "Scrap" Scruggs is going broke and fast. On the eve of his financial demise, he sets off a far worse threat when he discovers missing drug money in the marsh and uses it to save his business. His commitment to providing for his family-at all costs-lures him down a path that may destroy everything he loves. With both the FBI and a sociopathic drug lord after him, Scrap hatches a scheme to turn the FBI away from himself and onto the drug cartel....
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Ezekiel Wilson preaches in support of prohibition so that his flock will believe him to be an upstanding Baptist minister. And so that he can continue in his illegal bootlegging operation. But when prohibition is finally enforced, he finds himself pitted against immovable forces, including the God he's so long claimed to serve. At the close of 1958, Ezekiel is preaching and bootlegging; Robert Arrington is coming to terms with his rebellious nature;...
13) Broken Toys
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Texas Ranger Noah Morgan has his life together-with a great job and the girl of his dreams. Too bad it's all based on a lie. A single phone call threatens to bring it all crashing down. After an irate citizen complains shoddy workmanship has left him with a booby-trapped driveway, and the local sheriff's office is too busy to respond, Noah takes the call. The investigation of local scam artists uncovers a human trafficking ring. Noah fights to avoid...
14) Under The Skin
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Born poor and raised on the streets, celebrated bridge builder and billionaire, Mic Vargas is knee-deep in the construction of a trouble-plagued bridge from Manhattan to New Jersey. He really can't afford to take in a stray thief and fall in love with her. But when a beautiful, snappy-tongued, illegal immigrant literally drops at his feet, he becomes consumed with saving her and her family from poverty. Cat burglar, Lena Correr stopped trusting anyone...
15) Bad Way Out
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In a case of corporate espionage, a Key West businessman hires Sam Mackenzie to retrieve technical information stolen from his company. He's told that confidence man Jack Craft recommended him. Sam has been burned by Jack before but this looks like easy money. The job turns out to be anything but easy, as a caper flush with government agents, assassins, and conspiracy ensues. Not to mention a beautiful CIA agent with questionable motives has her eye...
16) Toxic Soup
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Toxic waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation has been poisoning the environment, human beings, and wildlife for more than six decades. When her brother dies a horrible death at Hanford, Casey Long, a kayaker and windsurfer by day and bartender by night in the Columbia River Gorge, Oregon/Washington, swears to put an end to the upriver contamination. But, how can she possibly take on the entrenched fortress of a facility? After she confides in Little...
17) Segment of One
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Marketing analyst Nick Vanderoff, newly retired from his successful career in business, lost his wife last year to cancer. Now he just wants to rest, relax, and repair family relationships. To accomplish this, he's been spending time with his math-genius granddaughter, Holly, and his estranged daughter. But a serial killer is on the loose in Dallas, and traditional forensics have produced nothing. Nick has consulted for the police department before,...
18) Forever Night
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Paul Williams is an ex SAS soldier who suffered physical and psychological injuries during an Afghanistan battle. After his wife Amanda leaves him, Williams begins a search to find and murder her. The army has trained him never to fail, never give up, and survive at all costs, and he is determined to succeed on his final, sacred mission. Using disguises, Williams passes for 'normal,' but he strikes ruthlessly when he finds any woman who resembles...
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Blood Diamonds of the Lost Bazaar takes readers into two very different worlds-from the Lost Bazaar Art Gallery in small-town North Louisiana into Sierra Leone and its dark, violent and sad world of Blood Diamonds and boy soldiers. Caitlin, a beautiful and talented artist, ends a stormy relationship with her musician boyfriend Hunter and journeys to Sierra Leone. Von Vermeer, a wealthy, charming diamond merchant pursues her, and though attracted to...
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Nicky is sick of the violence he sees while driving a cab in the city. On the night of his brother Simon's eighteenth birthday, a gang senselessly beat him to death, and Nicky hopes to find the men responsible. Nicky rescued Didi, a dancer, from two attackers, and they became friends as kindred spirits who both suffered a tragedy. But they have secrets. Didi's secret is a daughter, and Nicky's is that he is the Northbridge Vigilante who has killed...
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