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Be swept away to romance and danger in this clean historical romanceKathleen and her father travel to the bustling mining town of Silverton, Colorado, to run the general store left by her late uncle. Upon their arrival, two young men notice her and vie for her attention.Kathleen is immediately drawn to Colin's quiet strength and kind heart, but their budding romance faces formidable obstacles. Complicating their relationship is Martin, a local businessman with his sights set on Kathleen. His manipulative nature and relentless pursuit of Kathleen add tension and danger to their lives. Kathleen'...

What happens when the neighbors get to know each other? Hearts are healed, friendships form, and romance blooms.Embrace the spirit of the season and embark on a journey that transcends generational gaps and celebrates the magic that unfolds when hearts open and worlds collide. This is more than a novel; it's an invitation to rediscover the beauty of human connection, wrapped in the glow of Christmas lights and the comforting scent of Swedish Tea Ring. Don't miss your chance to be part of this touching story and get your recipe for this delicious Christmas bread!Step into the enchanting world o...

What do you fear most?When members of a phobia therapy group begin dying in ways that mirror their greatest fears, Detective Jake Hawksworth faces his most complex, and terrifying, case. The investigation leads to the remote and mysterious Fear Institute, where everyone is a suspect. As Jake, his partner, and an alluring criminal profiler with secrets of her own, delve deeper into catching The Fearmonger, the body count rises.The twisted killer’s sinister calling card: a cryptic symbol related to the haunting works of H.P. Lovecraft. Could the clues to solving the case be hidden among the pa...

EVIL ISN'T ALWAYS LEARNED...SOMETIMES IT'S IN OUR BLOOD.Decades ago, Detective Jake Hawksworth and best-selling author Drew McCauley were brought together by a horrific crime. Jake, still reeling from the unsolved hit-and-run death of his wife, and Drew will be reunited once again when a crime from Drew’s novel-in-the-making becomes a devastating reality.Is the kidnapping of Drew’s son somehow linked to the murder Jake is investigating? Was Jake’s wife’s death really an accident? And could the person who has haunted both men for decades be responsible for these seemingly unrelated even...

This was my third book, and I was still learning to write professionally. I wrote it imagining it as a film, and the result was a series of flashbacks and a never-ending cinematic ride. Working on this edition gave me a chance to freshen up the manuscript. The flow of the story, the dialogue, and the situations remain the same, but it is much more polished this time. "Double One Zero (110) - Out of the Shadows" is a gripping tale of espionage and one man's relentless quest to uncover his true identity. This action-packed journey for the truth takes him across the globe to France, where he must...

"This book offers a refreshing and unique take on the typical Nazi treasure hunt narrative." - Litlinks by HSD Ascent on Goodreads"The action scenes are vivid and cinematic, and the twists kept me guessing until the end. This book makes you think while keeping you thoroughly entertained." Author Seema Garg on Goodreads and Amazon"This is the kind of book that makes you hold your breath and race through chapters. A fast paced, intelligent thriller with real heart." - Leonie Kaye on GoodreadsWhat would you do if you uncovered the secret of a hidden treasure? Would you chase the gold—or hunt do...

They were told it was for safety. For order. For the good of the country. But inside the frozen lobbies, where vending machines hummed louder than conversation, a darker truth took root—one clipboard, one quota, one vanished neighbor at a time.Dear Mr. Orwell, Dear Mr. Huxley, is a chilling work of speculative fiction grounded in the very real erosion of privacy, autonomy, and morality in modern surveillance states. Told through stark, immersive vignettes, it examines a world where every product tracks you, every app reports you, and every officer is handed a target instead of a reason. From...

For years, stories have circulated around the Superstition Mountains about an old hermit who seems to have been there forever.University of Arizona graduate student Matt Hayden has always been fascinated by the stories, but fascination isn't enough for a historian. When the opportunity arises to investigate the legend for his final graduate paper, Matt sets out to find out what is fact, what is folklore, and whether the mysterious hermit ever existed at all.He finds the answer sooner than expected. What begins as a simple research project soon becomes something far stranger as the man that Mat...

Everyone remembers the smile.Nobody remembers the face.Ethan Hale thought Hollow Creek was finally free.He was wrong.A new nightmare has arrived.People are disappearing from photographs.Mirrors show strangers.Families forget their own children.And every person who loses their face leaves behind the same message:THERE ARE NO FACES LEFT.When Ethan returns to Hollow Creek, he discovers the truth behind the first window.The Hollow Smile was never about fear.It was about identity.Because the most terrifying thing in the world is not dying.It is waking up and realizing nobody remembers you ever exis...

I didn't plan on killing people when I walked across America. I made a list of things I wanted to do, and murder was not on it. Yes, I killed people. A lot of people. Now I'm going to tell you a story, a (somewhat) true story, about two killers and a hunting adventure like no other. A story of a man whose entire life was turned upside-down by a frozen, floating head and balls and a woman he'd never slept with. A story of a man so broken he rescued a dog and set out across America on foot to mend his soul and hunt that bitch down. A story of death, discovery, and carne asada.&nbs...

London, October, 1895. Former Baker Street Irregular Tim Badger and his colleague in crime-solving, Ben Watson, are hired by a man whose neighbours are convinced he is a vampyre and have threatened him and his home. The strange Mister Jonathan Wicker – pale, dark-haired, allergic to the sun, and who spends his time in the study of bats! – needs the detectives to prove to the villagers that he is just an ordinary scientist. He invites the duo to travel to the village of Ashwell in Herefordshire to stay at his grim manor house to assess the situation whilst he is engaged in business in Londo...

My Memoirs -Empowerment DefianceA Heartbreaking Survivor Through Faith ,Rejection, Betrayal, Motherhood, StrengthThe memoir of Sabinah Adewole, who at the young age of four became an orphan when her dad died suddenly in a ghastly car accident in 1971 in London . Her mother a single parent had no option so returned to Nigeria in Africa on a ship in 1972 on the MV Auriel Her brother aged seven became the unofficial guardian of his four year old sister Sabinah. This was the beginning of My Memoirs Empowerment Defiance - a journey she was not prepared for. Her mum at the young age of 32 turned to ...

For more than a century, Saint Orison's Asylum has stood abandoned on a cliff above the sea.Its windows are black.Its doors are chained.And every local knows the same rule:Never enter after sunset.When restoration architect Elias Vale is hired to document the ruined asylum before it is demolished, he expects decaying corridors, forgotten patient records, and the ordinary horrors of a Victorian institution.Instead, he discovers something buried beneath the hospital.Something older than the asylum.Older than the town.Older, perhaps, than the church that was built to imprison it.Behind a wall of ...

In the isolated town of Hollow Creek, people have started smiling.Not laughing. Not grinning.Smiling.At first, it seems harmless. A cashier holds a smile a little too long. A teacher stands motionless outside her classroom with her lips stretched impossibly wide. Neighbors stop speaking altogether, choosing instead to watch from their windows with the same expression.Then the disappearances begin.When bestselling true-crime journalist Ethan Hale returns to his hometown after twenty years, he discovers something impossible: every victim was last seen smiling.The deeper Ethan digs, the more he u...

Emma Brooks has spent years helping strangers tell their stories.As the owner of a cozy neighborhood coffee shop, she's become the unofficial therapist, matchmaker, and keeper of everyone's secrets—except her own.Lucas Carter, a bestselling travel journalist, has returned to town after ten years away. His career has taken him across the world, but the one conversation he regrets walking away from happened in this small café... with Emma.Now fate seats them across from each other every morning.Their conversations begin politely.Then become playful.Then dangerously honest.Between forgotten dr...

What if you could relive your teenage years knowing everything you know today?At forty-seven, Nathan Brooks has accumulated a lifetime of regrets, missed opportunities, and memories he wishes he could change, but then the impossible happens. He wakes up thirteen years old again in 1987, armed with decades of memories and the chance to live his life over.At first, it feels like a dream come true as Nathan gets to see his parents while they're still young, reconnect with old friends, and experience the sights, sounds, and excitement of the late 1980s all over again. Most importantly, he has anot...

Cassandra has spent her life as the Council's weapon, feared for the pain she can inflict and trusted to extract secrets no one else can reach. But when she is sent to interrogate Nikolas, a captive dragon bound by his sister's control, one touch shatters the spells holding him—and opens a portal to a realm long believed lost.Stranded in Fabeldyrverden, Cassandra must navigate a world of ancient dragons, dangerous prophecy, and a mate bond she never expected. Nikolas may have escaped his sister's chains, but the truth he carries could ignite a war between realms.Across the world, Arianna has...

Alessandra Bianchi thought her life would be ordinary again after long ER nights—until a brutal, silent stranger rolls into her ER, claims she's his mate, and disappears. Evan O'Brien returns to consciousness miles from home with his body smeared in another's blood and a fragmented memory of torture. He tracks the only perfect match he can scent to a small-town nurse, and the moment their eyes meet, the world they both knew fractures.Caught between community rules that bind loyalties and predators who want Hawthorne—the ancient shifter hiding a secret that could change everything—Alessan...

Catriona Sullivan never meant to be anyone's epic fate. She's a wandering bartender, thirty‑something, with a knack for tripping over cookie tables and a life she hasn't bothered to plan. When a near‑mythic best man at a wedding stops her heart with a look and then disappears for months, her ordinary loneliness turns into obsession—and into danger.Jace McFadden is three centuries of regret in a handsome, controlled shell. He has avoided bonds and death for years—until he meets Cat and discovers a truth the Community dare not ignore: she may be his Blood Affinity. But Amanda, a cruel va...

When Millicent Calderwood finally receives the keys to the home she loved as a child, she expects dust and memories-not a floating man in a red mist and a web of old magic that reaches for her head. But the estate won't wait: a revenant keeps replaying the witch's cruelty, an imp hunts in the edges of town, and the people who shepherd her new life insist she's the only one who can finish what was started centuries ago.Thrown into a world of ritual, reluctant alliances, and slow-burning desire, Millie must learn rites from a housekeeper who is older than anyone should be and trust a brooding ca...

When data analyst Mara Venn is hired to audit a disappearing communication system inside a European research hub known as Helix Station, she expects corrupted files, bureaucratic errors, and technical noise.Instead, she finds something impossible:Entire conversations that never happened—but are still stored.People who remember events that were never recorded.And a protocol buried deep in the system that rewrites silence itself.At first, it looks like a glitch.Then colleagues begin to “sync” with versions of themselves that act differently.Messages arrive before they are sent.And every at...

At five years old, Kasiel was found with the pointed ends of his ears cut off...Despite that brutal start, he's lived twelve peaceful years with the man who took him in. Keeping his hair long over his mutilated ears helps him hide the fact that he is Vanrian, a child of the enemy.Everything changes when mercenaries arrive hunting for him. The last people he expects to come to his rescue are Vanrian soldiers, one of whom claims to be his spirit brother. They plan to take him across the war zone to deliver him to his real father, a man whose name strikes terror in his enemies.With his secret exp...

A Silent Spring?It proves anything but…After a century of dereliction, Toad Hall stirs back to life.Its revival is led by the irrepressible Horatio Toad, newly returned to his ancestral home with six wives, no money, and a plan to save the estate by making nature pay. His uneasy partner is Georges Montgolfiere, an eccentric and radical Rewilder who speaks of a Silent Spring—an eerie absence of birdsong and wildlife, a warning etched into the land itself.Horatio dreams of zipwires, cafés, and gift shops. Georges dreams of ecological redemption. Ideology collides with insolvency—and neith...

Lisa Doyle is fine. Absolutely fine.At least, that's the story she's been telling herself.Her best friend is getting married. Everyone around her seems to have a partner, a plan, and a life that makes sense. Lisa, meanwhile, has four glasses of wine in her, a talent for making bad situations worse, and a growing sense of being left behind.So she does what any sensible woman in a crisis would do. She announces that she's engaged.There is only one problem.Brian does not exist.Now Lisa needs a fiancé before the wedding, her actor flatmate is far too willing to get involved, and the real Brian, w...

BROTHERS, FATHERS, AND OTHER STRANGERS includes stories about family dysfunction in a not-so-blended family, work, Adolf Hitler’s imagined alternative lives and possible reincarnation, the spirit of Kurt Cobain, a green angel giving an aging alcoholic man a second chance at redemption, men struggling to find some meaning in their lives, and more. Many of these stories deal with feelings of alienation and abandonment, and feelings of the characters that they do not fit in in their families, their lives, their jobs, or, sometimes, in their very bodies.In all there are thirty-eight stories and ...

Emma Clarke thought the hard part was falling in love.She was wrong.Because staying in love?That’s where things get complicated.Now officially offline and very much together, Emma and Noah are stepping into something far more dangerous than dating apps and fake relationships—Real life.And real life comes with:Miscommunication that hits harder than silenceCareer choices that pull them in different directionsFamilies who suddenly have opinions about everythingAnd the quiet fear that love might not be enoughWhen an unexpected opportunity threatens to separate them—and a familiar face from t...

"Close your eyes, and he takes your mind."Dr. Aris Thorne thought moving to the quiet, fog-draped village of Oakhaven would save his career. He came to study a rare, localized form of fatal insomnia. Instead, he found a curse.When the sun sets, the villagers are paralyzed by terror that walks the tree lines-an ancient entity that calls The Slumbering King. The rules are simple: stay awake, or become his next vessel. As Aris begins to hallucinate the king's whispers, he realizes his scientific instruments are useless against the creeping dread. Trapped by the encroaching forest, Aris must uncov...

The door was never confined to an apartment.It was never trapped behind a wall.It was never something that could be closed.In THE LAST TENANT III: The Door Is Everywhere, the nightmare has evolved beyond recognition.The world feels normal again.The voices have faded.The strange disappearances have stopped.People have moved on.But Daniel knows the truth.The pattern never ended.It simply became invisible.Now, a new tenant discovers a door that shouldn't exist.A door with no number.A door no one remembers seeing before.A door that appears only when noticed.As old horrors begin to awaken in new pl...

The sun is gone.But something is still watching.After the final battle for the throne, humanity believed it had survived the end of divine judgment.They were wrong.Because in the silence that followed, reality itself began to change.Time fractures in abandoned cities. Shadows move without owners. And deep within the fabric of space, an impossible signal begins repeating across the stars.Jack Cross thought the war was over when he refused the crown.Now he understands the truth:The throne was never the conclusion. It was a trigger.Something ancient has awakened beyond the reach of suns and stars...

A modern-day American farmer convinces his wife and a handful of believers calling themselves "The Knights of the Golden Prarie" that he is the last heir to the throne of King Arthur. His misfit Knights of the Golden Prairie have one summer to prepare for The King's Challenge, a secret tournament between knights to determine the world's future and finally rid the world of monsters and magic. Will The Pendragon Prophecy be fulfilled?

A RIVETING PARANORMAL HORROR MYSTERY exploding with secret family legacies soaked in despair against mankind’s obsession to open and explore the blind spot between heaven and hell... Purgatory, Illinois: A town trapped between heaven and hell... Amanda Lemon and her curious twins quickly learn there is a thin line between madness and genius. Their new home is not the idyllic small town they prayed for after all. What will happen on Halloween? Why is the ancient society known as ECHO lurking in the shadows? Never wake the dead. Never...

What if the legendary giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan and his pet blue ox Babe really did exist? Young Billy Bunyan and his disabled brother Hap are determined to find out with unexpected consequences that will change their broken family's future forever.

A miniature painting of a mermaid drawn in bat’s blood is taking the art world by storm. Why was it adrift at sea in a bottle, a coded message etched in the glass? Who painted it and why? It is up to Larry Settlebottom, a sheltered museum curator, to decipher the riddle. His adventures take him to Mexico and beyond as he encounters modern-day pirates, corrupt oceanographers, and a band of romantic sea gypsies, all leading him to a remote island where madness, death and art live together.

THE FIVE PEARLS is a story of personal redemption against incredible odds, peppered with teen narcissism, secret pregnancies, and misguided burglaries; A true portrait of under-privileged, throwaway kids and mismanaged adult lives in today's America. A part-time teacher has his hands full with a the Tadpoles, a band of disillusioned and rebellious teenagers that don't want or need anyone's help. Or so they think...

Fifteen-year-old street thief Eddie Doyle has spent his life surviving on the streets of New York—until one desperate act changes everything. Fleeing with his deaf sister aboard an orphan train bound for Kansas, he finds himself in a world both harsher—and more hopeful—than he ever imagined.At Bittersweet Farm, under the watch of Mary Christmas, a retired Wild West Show sharpshooter and her “found family”, Eddie and a group of forgotten orphans learn what it means to belong. But danger lingers beyond the wheat fields, and the past refuses to stay buried.In a land of second chances, E...

The Vietnam War is raging along the coast. Aboard U.S. Navy destroyer USS Mullinnix, a murder threatens to tear the crew apart. As the ship pounds enemy positions with her five-inch guns, a darker battle unfolds inside the hull. One of betrayal, secrets, and revenge.War kills everything! A boiler room explosion and fire, a putrefied body in the bilges, a reefer dedicated to body bags, and the unimaginable. A murderer aboard ship!Wood captures the psychological & emotional reality of serving during the Vietnam War with authenticity. Raw. Real. Vivid. Humanity laid bare.A Vietnam War thrille...

In the tense years of the Cold War, the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Mullinnix DD-944 patrols the stormy North Sea as NATO prepares to test a revolutionary new sonar device. Technology that could expose Soviet submarines across the Atlantic.The Soviets cannot let that happen.Somewhere aboard the Mullinnix, a spy is already in place.As the ship moves between the weathered docks of Kingston Upon Hull and the cold harbor of Oslo, a quest begins. One fought within CIC, the radio shack, and sonar as well as in English pubs, foggy cobbled streets, and darkened upper rooms.Who is who when everyone has the...

The electrifying continuation of the Bond of Brothers stories...Magnanotron: The Evolution takes the reader two years after the action filled Russia Affair. A remarkable new discovery has come to the creators of Magnanotron and now it has evolved into something much more deadly. Follow Jason Patrick and Commander Ryan as the call of duty comes from the President. America's Military and Special Forces enter the fight to stop another even more unthinkable threat.Now under the capable leadership of legendary sniper and Special Forces soldier Sergeant Major Tex Larson – with the help of Magnanot...

The Unusual Story is a collection of short stories and articles about creativity and life's paradoxes. The articles talk about creativity in the form of creative writing, covering various topics, from inspiration to financial independence. The short stories are based on true events from real life, which is full of twists and turns. In them, facts and feelings intertwine.Why The Unusual Story - is up to the readers to find out. It includes: “Inspiration for Writing: Road to Santiago”, “Ways to get financially ahead”, “Celebrity Memoirs”, “An Unusual New Year's Story”, and other ...

Be the Hero! Contribute to your community in the most valuable way by making 9-1-1 work. Become active in pressuring our elected officials to stop the failure of the 9-1-1 system. We have the power, but the will has been lacking. It's not about money. Lousy 9-1-1 service costs roughly the same in budget terms, but it costs horribly in human suffering. Let's commit to changing our government's priorities.The solution is so simple. It shocks me that we continue to let people die.The solution: Make answering the phone the number one priority. That's it. No fluff.In this book, I show how to fix 9-...