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A tragic overdose, an institutional cover-up, and human trafficking. When Dr. Brad Parker helps investigate the death of a patient at a Portland, Maine cancer center, he senses a cover-up to protect the responsible physician.

There is a degree of vulnerability that comes with this kind of biographical artwork and telling of times as we were transitioning from teens into adulthood. New York meant all of that to me. It is the city that built me, it is the city that made me strong and ready to take on the world.

After surviving the destruction of their hometown, a hellish journey across the states, and monsters both human and mutant, Connor and Amanita find themselves at one of the last remaining military bases in Southern California. Unfortunately, this isn't a safe haven. Death lurks just beyond the razor wire and concrete walls, and it's only a matter of time before their resources run dry. Their only hope of survival is to find a cure for the hissers plague. Problem is, the rest of the world blames America for the outbreak and are gearing up for nuclear war.

PI Jarvis Mann was captivated by the sultry tones of his female client.... Emily White with girl next door looks and shimmering eyes that begged for help…. She is being stalked but isn’t certain by whom…and this wasn’t the first time.

While on the way home from her bartending job, Amy Hargrave witnesses a brutal murder. But the police question her account of the alleged crime. There is no dead body at the scene. No blood splatters. No blood residue. No evidence that a crime had even been committed. But Amy knows what she saw. Not knowing whom to turn to, Amy seeks help from Nick Price, private investigations. Amy’s story intrigues Nick, and he agrees to look into it. But as Nick Price digs deeper, he quickly realizes that what happened in the alley that night is a small link in a sinister chain of events.

Emma Hall is an aspiring screenwriter whose latest screenplay is causing quite the scene in the script-hunting world. Francis Callahan, an ambitious movie producer and director who is rising fast in the movie world, gets wind of the screenplay, and immediately schedules to meet Emma in person. Emma is both excited and nervous. Francis, after all, was her old best friend from high school, and she hasn’t spoken to him in years. While ecstatic that she is finally receiving serious consideration for the job that is her dream, she is afraid that things could get awkward, very fast.

Steve Coleman had never heard of Comptos before receiving a call from one of their recruiters. They needed a Project Manager and through a stroke of luck had heard about him — underpaid and underappreciated in a rural manufacturing environment.

In the heart of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Charles Langley is a man adrift—haunted by a past stained with guilt and a present teetering on the edge of collapse. When his father suffers a heart attack, Charles is thrust into a night of chaos at the emergency room. Seeking refuge in routine—a factory job, and fleeting connections with childhood friend Abigail—he struggles to ground himself in a world that feels increasingly unreal.

On the outer edges of populated space, beyond the Galactic Federation's reach, crime syndicates rule the stars, none more influential than the Niiosian Mob. Controlling multiple planetary systems through economic leverage, calculated violence, and covert operations, the Mob shapes Fringe Space with its extensive network and virtually unchallenged authority. Ken Oda is the Mob's deadliest assassin, a precision instrument sent to silence threats across the Fringe.

The mission is personal. The stakes are life and death. Powerful forces are already moving their pawns into position. The year is 2107. Roland Webb continues to carry the weight of the world on his shoulders. An opportunity to mend a family torn apart by war has arisen, but it may cost him everything he holds dear. The superpowers are on the brink of all-out war. The world has turned its collective eyes toward the Lunar South Pole, hoping that peace can endure.

Roland’s mission is retrieval. The client’s promised payout cannot be ignored. The year is 2102; the kidnapping and ransom trade has exploded. The firm’s newest patron, a wealthy Emirati sheikh, has asked for his missing grandson to be found. Roland Webb, a veteran soldier, needs his team of mercenaries to come together and get creative. Time is not on their side as forces beyond their control begin to reshape the Middle East. Stepping into a burgeoning war zone, Roland is compelled to take risks—risks that push him into a collision course with an organization of unimaginable evil.

When Santa Claus enters a Texas bank just before Christmas in 1927, no one expects him to pull a gun. The fake white beard hides his identity from his neighbors while he and three others take everything. But their easy heist goes sideways fast when armed lawmen and citizens assemble to claim a new reward for dead bank robbers. Taking hostages, the gang forces a path through a frenzied and bloody shootout, setting the whole Lone Star state on their trail. One bandit dies in the getaway.

When the Eternal City beckons, it's not just history that stirs; it's the secrets that yearn to be unraveled. Chaos ensues when a laid-off senior executive from the U.S. who has lived and worked for years in Italy, takes a temporary job chaperoning thirteen high school students and their three teachers from Atlanta in the Eternal City of Rome.

Twenty-two years before the fall of Dakiti, a great conflict rages on the edge of populated space. Known throughout local systems as the Fringe War, the fight pits the superhuman natives of Haphez against the sly, semi-amphibious Sardons and their allies. The Sardons' goal? Gain control of a powerful Haphezian healing agent called caura...by force, if necessary.

THE UNITED STATES IS IN CHAOS as hordes of the undead ravage the country. General Gary Markum, virologist Dr. Benjamin Lieber, and Colonel Jack “Ghost” Crown, M.D., lead a secret military compound working on a cure. Simultaneously, Jack and his men battle zombies and vicious marauders to expand the Crown Territory safe zone.

Heather was only fifteen when she died by suicide. Her father wants justice. The system wants silence. After his daughter’s tragic death, Dennis is devastated, convinced that her psychiatrist is to blame. Desperate for accountability, he seeks an attorney to settle the score. Enter Paul Schofield, a struggling attorney who impulsively takes the case, hoping for a quick settlement. But the deeper he digs, the more he uncovers buried secrets, conflicting loyalties, and ethical dilemmas that shake him to his core.

Dive into the heart of a war-torn land where beauty and brutality collide in Sketches from the Periphery, a stunning debut novel and international best-seller by MP Summers. Set against the volatile backdrop of Darfur in 2005, this gripping tale follows Alexander Barr, a young American contractor thrust into the chaos of the African Union Peacekeeping Mission. At just twenty-two, Alex trades college textbooks for the unforgiving desert, where every step reveals a world of resilience, violence, and haunting mystery.

It was his responsibility to fight for those who could not fight, punish those who needed punishing, and righting the world of all the wrongs—to Captain Vicarelli, that was his mission even out of the Corps. Once separated from the Marines, he took his mission to his home, New Orleans, rife with murder, rape, and crime. The Corps had trained him and trained him well. He was a skillful killing machine of unusual propensity.

Bram Stoker’s Dracula is the quintessential Gothic horror novel that introduced one of literature’s most iconic villains—Count Dracula. The story unfolds through diary entries, letters, and newspaper clippings as Jonathan Harker, a young solicitor, travels to Transylvania to assist Count Dracula with his estate purchase in England.

From twenty-two-year naval and marine veteran Montel Williams comes a page-turning history of how one World War II aircraft carrier’s crew defied all odds, redefining the very meaning of what it means to struggle, persevere and survive. 1944. The USS Intrepid set sail on its first combat...