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San Francisco judge Ramsey Hunt, longtime friend to FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich, begins the murder trial of Clive and Cindy Cahill only to have federal prosecutor Mickey O’Rourke, known for his relentless, aggressive style, suddenly turn tentative and distracted. Hunt suspects that something is very wrong — and then O’Rourke goes missing, and Judge Hunt gets shot in the back.

San Francisco judge Ramsey Hunt, longtime friend to FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich, begins the murder trial of Clive and Cindy Cahill, only to have federal prosecutor Mickey O’Rourke, known for his relentless, aggressive style, suddenly turn tentative and distracted. Hunt suspects that something is very wrong - and then O’Rourke goes missing and Judge Hunt gets shot in the back. Savich and Sherlock receive news of the attack as a mysterious note is delivered to Savich at the Hoover Building.

Darcy came to Hertfordshire to find Bingley a wife. He found Elizabeth instead— Fitzwilliam Darcy has a plan. His friend Bingley needs a wife, and the eldest Bennet daughter is perfect: beautiful, amiable, and appropriately situated in the Hertfordshire countryside. All Darcy needs to do is engineer their attachment while keeping his own attention firmly fixed on business rather than a certain impertinent second daughter with muddy petticoats and devastating wit. Elizabeth Bennet has a plan too. Get Jane married, stay comfortably redundant, and avoid the matrimonial market forever. She ...

Every time Smokey stares at the President patch on his cut, he feels like an imposter. After all, that was not the life he was supposed to lead. In his former club, he did what they asked, when they asked, and that was enough for him. But 30 years later and the fate of the Broken Chains resting on his shoulders, all eyes were on him.

John Tyler refuses to give evil an inch. So after a service friend’s death is quickly followed by an attack on a former squad mate, the retired Green Beret puts his well-honed skills back to work. When he discovers his old unit is being targeted by a skilled assassin, he pulls out all the stops to shield his plucky daughter and elderly father from the crossfire.

When a mass psychosis from misuse of new technology spreads with the aid of social media, the entire world experiences an apocalypse that is labeled The Crash. People shed all logic and become possessed by rage that leads to killing and destruction on a scale that destroys societies and infrastructures everywhere. Amid the chaos, Ben, an evolutionary psychologist and the inventor of the world-changing Stoffer Solution, must find a way to halt The Crash while battling the organized forces trying to take control of his technology and use it for their own dark purposes.

In this story, Tony Alfiera and Marty Donovan were a team. They worked together on the police force and were both what you would call "good cops". Like any team they shared details of their private lives with each other: Marty knew Tony cheated on his wife Lenore, but Tony didn't know that Marty had fallen in love with her. An unauthorized stake-out to catch a jewel thief ends with Lenore a widow, the murderer on the run, and Marty in the most difficult position of his career.

I got roped into helping my sister's ex-fiancée Naddy throw a Walpurgis Night Party. No big deal, since I'd just set up and take down decorations and refreshments. Little did I know that my family curse would come into play, as I swapped bodies with Naddy.

She thought he was the only one who could save the world until the moment he threatened to destroy it. The human race is dying and the only thing that could prevent it is buried deep underground. The doomsday virus first appeared in China’s wet markets and quickly swept around the globe. Everyone expected it would be deadly. No one conceived it would end the world. Billions died, governments ceased to function and social order collapsed. On the brink of extinction, one of the last operating infectious disease laboratories created a vaccine using the blood serum from a gray wolf. It worked...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Agents Savich and Sherlock are back in the latest installment in Catherine Coulter’s #1 New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series, and this time both are enlisted to help women with traumatic pasts who are in mortal danger. When she was twelve years old, Kirra...

Discover the full story behind the 2025 U.S. tariff escalation and the economic shockwaves that followed. Trump’s Tariff War: How It Will Backfire on the American Economy explains how a policy framed as economic liberation reshaped industries, markets, and household budgets across the United States. Inside the book, you will learn: Why the Reciprocal Tariff Initiative was introduced and how it was presented as a fairness doctrine in global trade How China, the European Union, India, and other major economies responded with countermeasures The immediate impact on U.S. industries such as ...

Break Free from the Confidence Illusion You’ve tried affirmations, power poses, and “fake it till you make it”—but instead of real confidence, you end up exhausted, anxious, and doubting yourself more than ever. Welcome to The Confidence Trap—the hidden cycle that keeps millions stuck in endless self-improvement without ever finding authentic self-assurance. In this groundbreaking book, John K. Bell reveals why traditional confidence advice so often backfires and introduces a radically different approach based on the principles of Reality Transurfing. Instead of forcing yourself ...

In this urgently important book, Zelnick looks past the good intentions to how affirmative action really works in such areas as voting rights, employment, minority set-asides, mortgage and insurance regulation, and education. Zelnick traces how affirmative action was first sold as a short-term program designed to expand employer awareness of qualified minority job applicants, but instead has become a coercive network of race-conscious laws, regulations, quotas, preferences, and entitlement programs - in short, an assault on the very value of equality of opportunity it was supposed to promote.

Former Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper reveals the shocking details of his tumultuous tenure while serving in the Trump administration. From June of 2019 until his firing by President Trump after the November 2020 election, Secretary Mark T. Esper led the Department of Defense through an...

While visiting his brother in Texas, Michael McGinnis is struck by the devastation wrought by the drought and wildfires. Learning the fire departments are staffed mostly by volunteers, he feels compelled to stay and help. Having little experience with this type of firefighting, Michael is forced to learn the basics quickly, making him vulnerable to the deteriorating situations in the largest and most destructive wildfire in Texas history. Eva is forced to go back home to New York with the constant worry of his safety on her mind.

Two RISK! veterans deliver stories about plans that—you guessed it—backfired. As a teenager Nate Runkel built a satirical website that sexualized cartoon characters as a parody of how guys talk online. It got a million views, landed in Complex Magazine and a Maureen Dowd book, and earned him more attention than he ever wanted. The people he respected weren't laughing. (Content note: conversion therapy) And Kelli Dunham’s story is set in the sweaty, armadillo-haunted wilds of an evangelical Florida summer camp. She was there by her own choice, fundraised her own way in, and came home ...

A revealing, behind-the-scenes examination of how Congress twice fumbled its best chance to hold accountable a president many considered one of the most dangerous in American history. The definitive—and only—insider account of both Trump impeachments, as told by the two reporters on the...

One fake toast. One accidental "yes." One very real holiday problem... Hockey heartthrob Maddox Hart never meant to announce his surprise engagement during his friend's party—it just kind of… slipped out. Now the whole team thinks he and his Holidate, Claire, are tying the knot. Fast. With his team management loving the publicity and Claire playing along like it's all part of the plan, Maddox finds himself caught in the middle of a festive fairytale gone rogue. But pretending to be in love with Claire feels less like a game and more like the real thing—especially when he starts ...

One blizzard. Seven hockey bros. One sleepy kiss that changes everything. Travel nurse Kayla Foster wanted nothing more than a quiet night’s sleep. Fate had other plans. Stranded in a snowed-in lodge with seven boisterous Snowcap Saints, she’s face-to-face with her assigned Holidate—Boone Auclaire. He’s every woman’s dream guy: towering, broad-shouldered, biceps that don’t stop, with a beard that could melt any Christmas chill – except he’s not interested. Boone’s only after friendship despite the matchmaking efforts of the team. A rushed proposal, a sudden marriage... ...