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The year is 2023, and things are bad—bad, but still not as bad as they could be. Hestia Harris is forty-two, abandoned by her husband (he left to fight for the Union cause), and estranged from her parents (they’re leaving for the Confederacy). Yes, the United States has collapsed into a second civil war and again it’s Unionists against Confederates, children against parents, friends against friends.

US Army Major David Keller was already identified as one of those leaders who would one day become a general. A West Point graduate with six combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, he was the consummate professional soldier - until a roadside bomb in Afghanistan took his legs. Angry, grieving, and carrying a loaded gun, David returns home to mend a few fences. Then, he would end his wheelchair-bound agony by taking his own life. But his family, community, and a woman, Maggie McCall - someone he tried to forget - begin to show him otherwise.

Core values are the things we care about. Jack Fallon has based the foundation of his company, Total Life Changes (TLC) on his personal core values. Jack wants to share with others how these seven core values became the driving force of how he lives his life and manages his company. Each chapter highlights one core value and provides insight into his life, the people who mean the most to him, along with the journey to get him where he is today. Jack hopes to inspire others by sharing his personal story.

How would you cope if everything and everybody you ever loved - your friends, your family, your very identity - were suddenly gone? Hans Kokx was born in a small town in the suburbs of Detroit to a middle-class family. Life should have been easy: go to school, do well, go to college, get a job, have a family, grow old, and die surrounded by loved ones. Life rarely happens the way we expect it to, though.

Sarah Keller and her live-in boyfriend, Sheriff Dave Chandler figured it was all over with the serial killer following Sarah from their last adventure. They had no idea of the danger from this new serial killer now stalking their sleepy little town dropping headless bodies all over the place. He claims they are gifts for Dave and after a threatening note, Dave must also protect Sarah. Along with two FBI agents and a bounty hunter, they go after the killer before he can take his revenge out on Dave and Sarah in this second of the Fatal Murder series.

From the East coast to the West coast the NY Slasher carved his murderous spree on thirty women, and then just disappeared. Derek Harcourt wrote about the Slasher's crimes in his first book. Now writing a second book, Harcourt has ulterior motives for this novel and is following the Slasher's journey all the way from New York to Washington state. Sarah Keller is Harcourt's editor and the unsuspecting victim of horrible crimes in her past and maybe her future.

Dexter Nash was a hitman. He murdered for money and it was a business to him. Nothing personal. Dex was given a job to do - a hit on a state senator - and in his research he met a woman who had an incriminating video of the senator in bed with two women. The woman wanted to blackmail the senator so she would have the cash to move away from the state. Unfortunately, she was murdered, which didn't make Dex very happy. Now he had to shoot the senator and go after the men who killed the woman.

He was a ghost writer for a few famous authors, but he grew tired of being in the background. His tell-all article would blow the whistle on those famous authors. Will the Ghost Squad solve who murdered the ghost writer? Wes announces that one of the suspects is also a serial killer. Now they have two cases to tie up.

Dexter Nash was a killer. He murders for money and it was a business to him. He came out of a bad marriage and decided that with all the money he earned murdering people, that he had hidden away, he would retire. A visit to a bar he used to frequent to get his hits from the man who procured other hitmen was his first mistake. His misfortune was to meet the woman who would turn his world around and not in a good way.

Detroit Police Detective Russ Baker is in charge of the Cold Cases and, with his ghostly friend and partner Wes Loomis, they have to solve murders to be able to send the victim's spirits to the hereafter. Russ is given a case by his girlfriend Mary, who transfers from Missing Persons to work with Russ. Together they go out to find a missing boy whose mother was murdered by his abductor. Wes is on the job, tracking down leads but even he runs into problems. Too many leads end up blocked by criminals just ahead of them.

Gus Mackie was relaxing in his new office in a better part of Detroit when he saw the young girl in front of his building. She was reading the sign in the window telling the world that a private investigator worked there. Gus could see she was homeless and went to open the door as she stood looking apprehensive. She finally came in and told Gus about how she wanted to find her mother who gave her up for adoption when she was a child. The girl lived on the streets most of her life and wanted a family now.

It was time for Gus to move to a better office and out of a slum area in Detroit. Police homicide detective Bernie Longmire, and Angela, Gus' daughter, agree to help him move into his new office. Going back to the old office to get ready to move, they find a woman crying at Gus' door. She has a problem: She doesn't know where her husband is at. Did he run off with another woman or is he dead in a shallow grave? They were able to get the story from her despite all the crying she was doing, and Gus took the case.

Gus Mackie's police detective friend, Bernie Longmire, comes to Gus with an offer of a special case. It has to be handled quietly since a country's fate is at stake. The country has a king and his daughter is missing. Bernie is tasked with finding her, before the king and queen go back home from the United State for an important celebration. But if they don't have the daughter with them, the king's rule may be in jeopardy.

Gus has been hired by a man to find out if his secretary is cheating on him, even though the man is married. On top of that, the man's wife has had her half-million-dollar necklace stolen. Gus is conflicted when the wife hires him to find the necklace and tie her husband to the crime. Should he follow the cheating secretary, who may have the necklace, and turn her in?

Halloween is a time for children to go door to door trick-or-treating. For Doyle and his girlfriend, Poppy, it's a time to catch a ghost. Poppy is investigating an insurance claim of a woman who says she was pushed down a flight of stairs by a ghost in a posh but very old hotel in Detroit. She enlists Doyle to help, and they try to get to the bottom of the claim.

Doyle decides to take a huge windfall of money from recovering Egyptian artifacts and take a vacation. He closes the business and go to Paradise, Hawaii. His new girlfriend, Poppy Drake, has decided to go along, and Doyle's secretary, Marge, is invited. Now in Hawaii, on a very secluded, private island, Doyle, Poppy, and Marge are loving the sun, sand, and the ocean, but they are drawn into the murders of guests. Doyle realizes he must solve the killings before Poppy, Marge, or himself become victims. Will he save Paradise before it becomes a living hell?

In this third of the Doyle, P.I. books, Doyle is hired by the curator of a Detroit Art Gallery. It seems nine valuable Egyptian statues were stolen from the gallery. They were replaced with fakes, and the gallery doesn't want the Egyptians to know their artifacts are missing. So Doyle and his partner Oscar Drew go on a hunt for the missing objects.

Art Doyle, private eye, having solved his first case after opening up his business, is now hot after a serial killer. Along with his partner, Oscar Drew, they have to keep ahead of the killer since he's been dropping bodies at Doyle's cabin in the woods. The reason the killer is targeting Doyle to receive the bodies is still to be determined, and the case takes Doyle and Oscar to the woods and then down to the back streets of Detroit. Is the killer someone from Doyle's past who he did wrong?

Doyle is a homicide detective. He's a good detective, but he has a problem: he's getting fed up with crime. A hostage situation comes up involving the mayor of Detroit and a mugger whom Doyle put in the hospital. The hostage exchange goes slightly wrong, but it's enough to make Doyle quit the PD. He goes out on his own to become a private eye and, along with another ex-detective, Oscar Drew, they start a business. Their first client is a woman looking for her missing father. But is there more to her story?