Contemporary Political Mysteries

Lost in the wilderness with no place to hide but a hunting lodge, familiar characters run into diamond smugglers in book two of the Deep Bay series. When a rustic lodge in Northern Saskatchewan becomes the nesting ground for diamond smugglers, Carla Reece finds herself in the middle. She and a myriad of others fall victim to circumstance and have to find their own way out of the wilderness. Survival becomes a quest for truth and self-discovery, with faith their only weapon against a foul ancient creature hidden in Deep Bay since the beginning of time.

What if your son was killed in front of you, and the murderer got away with it? Would you hunt him down even if it destroyed your soul in the process? Her son is murdered and she hates the man who did it. She'll do anything to catch him, even if it turns her into the very monster she is tracking. When Loretta's only son gets killed during a bank robbery, she sets out to find his killer no matter what the cost. The story brings us to a remote fly-in-fishing camp in Northern Saskatchewan where three very different people come together for very different reasons. Together they pursue truth, ...

What if your newborn was abducted and fell into the hands of a human trafficking scam? What would you be willing to do to get your baby back? Stolen from the hospital, an abducted newborn falls into the hands of a murderer. Detective Grayson is on the case, but not without the father of the child. Together, they stumble upon a human trafficking scam, and find out the hard way, that family has more to do with it than they realize. (Book 3 in the Deep Bay Series)

She spins the lies. He represents the dream. When the truth becomes deadly, they are the only ones left to trust. Amara Diallo is Washington D.C.’s most efficient crisis manager. She knows the cardinal rule of the swamp: truth is irrelevant; the only thing that matters is the story that sticks. But when a desperate late-night call from her former mentor leads her to the Library of Congress, she walks into a trap she can’t spin. Witnessing the brutal execution of a U.S. Senator, Amara is instantly framed as the villain—a radicalized killer and kidnapper. Senator Liam Sterling is the ...

Dewey Andreas, former Delta and newly recruited intelligence agent, is sidelined after screwing up his last two operations. Still drowning in grief after the tragic murder of his fiancé, Dewey has seemingly lost his focus, his edge, and the confidence of his superiors. A high level Russian...

On a lake deep in the Minnesota woods, Kathy Wade comforts her husband John, a rising political star, after a devastating electoral defeat in which he's been pursued by rumors of the atrocities he committed in Vietnam. But it is clear that something is horribly wrong between them - too much has been hidden. Then Kathy vanishes, along with their boat.

A teenage runaway is about to change Kelly’s life forever. The two meet at the hospital, sharing a common bond, unaware that something more sinister is at work. Someone or something is after the girls. A sleepy seaside town in Alaska is put on full alert after realizing the threat to the community. But will the local authorities be able to protect them? Will Kelly risk everything to save a child? How far would you go to protect your family? Addictive, suspenseful Christian fiction from Kathleen Morris weaves the gospel message into a gripping thriller you will not be able to put down. ...

When a tabloid exposes her personal life, a bestselling author reconnects with a man from her past to unearth the secrets behind her sister's murder. Bellamy Lyston was only twelve years old when her older sister Susan was killed on a stormy Memorial Day. Bellamy's fear of storms is a legacy of...

In Ben Coes' latest, Eye for an Eye, Dewey Andreas faces the toughest odds of his life as one of China's most powerful men has decided to do whatever he must to take down Dewey—and inflicts a horrifying loss. When Dewey uncovers the identity of a mole embedded at a high level in Israel's...

When a fifteen-year-old girl is abducted by vampires, it’s up to U.S. Marshal Anita Blake to find her. And when she does, she’s faced with something she’s never seen before: a terrifyingly ordinary group of people—kids, grandparents, soccer moms—all recently turned and willing to die...

An ambitious reporter haunted by memories of the war in Afghanistan follows an FBI tip to investigate the mysterious disappearance -- and likely murder -- of a former Marine. Dawson Scott is a haunted man. A well-respected journalist recently returned from an assignment in Afghanistan, he's...

Just outside of Omaha, Nebraska, the relative calm at Offutt Air Force Base is suddenly shattered when commercial Flight 209 crashes down onto its runway. Major Tamika Smith must try to rescue survivors From the flaming wreckage and try to make sense of the tragedy.

In a world where the over-consumption of vampire novels has forced the good and honorable government to deem garlic an illegal substance of danger and horror, a group of rebellious restaurateurs take matters into their own garlic-butter laced hands.

Bringing together a cast of fascinating characters in a riveting tale of ambition and corruption, politics, passion, and ultimate justice, Dangerous Games is a thrilling drama from number-one New York Times best-selling author Danielle Steel.

Paris aka the City of Light is alluring and seductive but by no means benign, as vintage photography expert and former paparazzo Jay Grant discovers in this fast-paced thriller set in contemporary Paris. Orange alerts for terrorism make people trigger-happy. Red and black alerts are much worse. They transform the City of Light into a dangerous City of Night... The hero of Paris City of Night is Jay Anthony Grant, alias JAG. He's the son of a recently deceased CIA officer and he has serious issues about his spook father's murky past. JAG plans to meet up with his long-time fiancée and spend...

A young congressman discovers a mysterious stuffed aardvark on his doorstep and sets out on a journey to find out what it means in this "weird, wonderful" novel about the secrets we keep from ourselves and their history-shaping consequences (Esquire). It's early one morning on a hot day in...

A short novel from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author, featuring DI Logan McRae and DCI Roberta Steel. CID isn’t what it used to be… It’s a been a bad week for acting Detective Inspector Logan McRae. Every time his unit turns up anything interesting, DCI Steel’s Major...

In the New Russia, the past is never far away. The Pegasus Project is an epic drama that sweeps from the open riches of Texas and current social and political issues of the MidEast to behind the closed doors of The Kremlin. When Broadcast Journalist Alexandra Bishop is invited to Moscow for an energy conference that can reshape the balance of power from the Mid East and West to Russia, the lives of those who live in a world of change are held in the balance of a man with a vision, a man who believes in destiny and a woman who falls in love.

Four years ago, I lost my virginity on live, streaming television. Too bad I wasn’t awake for it. Three of the four guys in the video shared me. But that fourth guy, who did nothing? That was my boyfriend, Drew. And that was the last time I saw him. Until today, when my father - now on a path to the White House - hired him as head of security for my new team as I return home after four years of “recovering” in an undisclosed location that involved white lab coats, needles, pills, and damage control.

Turns out there was a second video from that awful night four years ago. Mine wasn't the only tape. Too bad mine wasn't the worst. Drew can’t protect me no matter how hard he tries, but the roles are flipped now. I have to help him, but I’m not wired that way. Not anymore. Three men think they’re above the law. They’re right. But I’m willing to go beneath the law to make sure they never harm anyone else. Their threats don’t scare me. When you have nothing left to lose because someone took it all away, you create the most dangerous creature imaginable: me. Game over.