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A 15-year-old girl lies dead in a park. Two detectives, Logan Decker and Mike Harris, begin a routine investigation of what appears to be another death by overdose, but soon turns into a first-degree murder case. What could a 15-year-old girl possibly know that would make her a target for murder? An unexpected personal connection leads the detectives on a search for her killer in the underbelly of drugs in America. Their search takes them from the back allies of Cincinnati to the halls of Congress. Everywhere they turn, they find ruthless killers trying to protect the guilty.

Orphaned and alone on a dying planet, Evie prayed for rescue. When a ship crash-landed on the planet, it seemed as though her prayers had been answered. But aboard the Space Ark, she is an outsider, a child of criminals, and suspected of murder. Can she clear her name and escape the curse of her birth?

A phone rings at 5:07 a.m. in a Seattle houseboat…but to a number that shouldn’t exist. A man, wire-bound to a kitchen chair, is discovered in the ruins of a burned-out house. A woman, sexually abused when she was a young girl, names a presidential candidate as her abuser...and a naïve landscape gardener, relentlessly pursued by hit men, holds the key to it all. What started as a straightforward missing person case for private investigators Mallory Dimante and Jake Steiner now has them racing to work out the connection between these events.

Until quite recently, Ben Parker was considered, by many, one of the finest bakers on the Isle of Man. Indeed, his wife was once the first to concur with that accolade, directly attributing his culinary skills to her expanding waistline, in fact. So it was ironic, Ben couldn’t help but consider, that she ran off with the dietician he’d hired at her behest.

TJ knew the coal was there. A large deposit. But he had seen something else that intrigued him about the area south of Gillette in Wyoming Territory. He would find it only after he had bought the huge tract from the railroad. And he found much more. Not all of it good.

I’ve spent years trying to be someone I’m not. Controlled and humanized. Still, the darkness lurks inside me, waiting for a chance to break free. As the headmaster at Corium University, I must maintain professionalism and keep myself in check. I manage to do that until the day I discover I have a daughter and all the carefully constructed walls I’ve built around myself start to crumble.I know I need an outlet, a way to shut it off, and then she lands in my lap. Delilah. I want to punish her, humiliate her, and hurt her in the best ways.

Everything I knew was a lie. Everyone I loved betrayed me. Everywhere I go someone wants me dead. I’m no stranger to being alone. Even in my darkest hour, I knew I could count only on myself. Now, I have nothing and for the first time in my life I have to let someone else save me.

High school principal Sarah Flynn is in very big trouble—at least she thinks she is. She's just been notified by the superintendent to report to the library at once, and she knows very well that her boss not only has a terrible temper, but a track record of issuing corporal punishment whenever he deems it necessary. Upon her arrival at the library, she finds waiting for her are her superintendent, a dozen male members of the school committee, a recently graduated former student, Alex Shuman, and his very wealthy dad. And they're not happy.

Librarian Sylvia Ashe knows nothing about her past, having grown up without a father and a mother who refused to discuss him. When she stumbles upon a diary that suggests she's descended from magicians, she's skeptical. After all, magicians are special, and she's just an ordinary woman who loves books. She seeks answers from a member of the most prominent family of magicians, but she quickly learns that finding the truth won't be easy, especially when he turns out to be as artless as her, and more compelling and dangerous than books.

YouTube has over two billion users. So no matter what field your business operates in, that’s a huge market for you to take advantage of. The secret to making an impact is to stand out early on. And The YouTube Blueprint will show you exactly how to do just that—play by play. YouTube is a gold mine of opportunity for every small business owner. So if you want to stand out from the crowd and make sure your brand is a name people will never forget, then you need this audiobook today!

Hello, and Welcome to the What If: South is Up? Podcast where we invite you along with us as we learn to wing it like an author. We are Derrick, Xtina, and Meg. Three new-to-the-game fantasy authors taking our first steps into the great unknown of creating worlds from scratch. Derrick is a working photographer and author of the Crimson Prophecy series. He can be found at his website www.DerrickHallAuthor.com. Christina 'Xtina' Lefebvre is an assemblage artist and aspiring author currently writing her first novel (tentatively titled "Cogs & Arrows") and can be found at ...

Time can yield countless possibilities. Time finds a young Gracie No-Name sold to the Broken King Magnus Windbound. Her simple crime was being born to an unloving mother. A generation earlier, time finds Summer. A girl with curly blue hair and gray-blue eyes born to a world of black hair and black eyes, named after the season of her abandonment. Another generation later, Skye Wallace predictably found himself in his office, investigating God's Cruelties. Then stands the Gravedigger. A specter shrouded in black, burying the world one soul at a time, with every dig of its diamond shovel.

When Claire trades the hurried, nonstop hustle of her professional lifestyle for the quiet seclusion of a mysterious private island, she gets a little more than she bargained for. Could there really be a lusty giant octopus lurking beneath the ocean's surface, known to locals as the Master of the Sea? Or is the alien giant squid just a figment of her elderly friend's imagination? Journey with Claire into the ocean and discover for yourself what forbidden pleasures await beneath the surface in this short erotic tale.

In the midst of fighting a reignited war with the deadly Nimic, Lt. Commander Johnny Rangers of the Confederation of Aligned Planets is dragged into a rescue mission by mysterious agent Koya Nyrus. With his best friend’s life at stake, he finds himself on a restricted world full of secrets that could alter the course of the war. Meanwhile, Rangers’ father, Inspector Frank Branza of the Gravity City Police Force, sets out to uncover a vast conspiracy with plans to affect the very fabric of reality.

Across a thousand battlefields and a million wars, there is always a question. What do you do when all the chips are on the table? Do you run? Try to find salvation in the arms of an easy peace? Or do you stand and fight? Send your enemies into whatever hole they crawled out of? On Deadly Ground has 10 stories handling that exact question. Each character faces the impossible in different ways, but all will be tested before the day is done. Can they earn a heroic victory amongst the endless eternity of space, or are they doomed to fall into obscurity?

Angelica Decker has grown tired of her sexless marriage. She's tried everything to turn Arnold on, donning new nighties and even inviting her best friend Lola over for a steamy evening, all to no avail. Lucky for Angelica, Bigfoot isn't afraid to go all in. Little does she know that Bigfoot loves sex, until she stumbles into the forest during Sasquatch mating season and finds the mysterious lover of her beastly dreams.

Army sergeant Riley Forrester, desperate to get out of his Colorado civilian job and back into the uniform, jumps at the chance to take a summer-long TDY assignment in California. Young and newly divorced himself, he looks forward to spending a summer of both work and play. What he isn’t expecting is not only to fall for a beautiful single mother named Cara Reid, whose green eyes have him completely addicted at first glance, but to also receive orders that take him well outside the country.

Caitlin Strange's adventures continue. The former college student with the powers of a goddes and her motley band of heroes and immortals travel to the lands of the Tenochca, ruled by bloodthirsty Aztec gods. They must brave the Forbidden Jungle, a massive Labyrinth holding the treasures of the Tenochca. But the gods control the Labyrinth, and they have twisted normal dungeon rules to ensure no thief survives long enough to claim their loot.

Would you risk a loving marriage and a good life for a complete stranger—a man you find totally irresistible? How can someone you bump into just once turn your life into a web of deceit and lies? Is fantasizing about a stranger really as Harmless as you think it might be? Emma Farrell is torn between two men, and she is about to find out.

Philip Russell, a US Park Ranger for a small island in the Pacific Northwest, has stumbled across a dead body in the forest. Unsure if the dead woman is a local or someone from the mainland, the new female sheriff has come to Rockfish Island to find out if the community has anything still to fear. Eager to help solve the mystery, both instantly find themselves at odds with each other. Philip, defending the people he's known his whole life, and Sheriff Lane, giving no one the benefit of the doubt...not even Philip.