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Dying is what changed Mary O'Reilly's life. Well, actually, coming back from the dead and having the ability to communicate with ghosts is really what did it. Now, a private investigator in rural Freeport, Illinois, Mary's trying to learn how to incorporate her experience as a Chicago cop and new-found talent into a real job. Her challenge is to solve the mysteries, get real evidence (a ghost's word just doesn't hold up in court), and be sure the folks in town, especially the handsome new police chief, don't think she's nuts.

When an ordinary nurse becomes the target of a relentless online hate storm, her quiet life is shattered overnight. But what begins as a personal crisis gradually evolves into a chain of events that have implications reaching far beyond her own life. Will she be able to avert the imminent catastrophe?

Easy jobs don't exist. Jerold should have remembered that. Jerold thought guiding some desperate foreigners around the city would be quick coin. Find one missing relative, collect his fee, done. But his clients are hunting a man who left behind furious creditors, dangerous enemies, and what appears to be a truly impressive talent for bad decisions. Now Jerold's caught between rain-soaked ambushes and mounting threats, wondering if any amount of coin is worth babysitting people who somehow make every situation worse. And as the trail grows colder, one thing becomes clear: some people stay ...

Gabriel, an ex-soldier-turned-project-manager with anger issues, is sent to a small town in New Mexico and charged with keeping a failed government experiment secret and stable. There he meets Tam, an oddly philosophical scientist, but as they settle into a bantering friendship, things go catastrophically wrong.

Flung down a mountain and into adventure as he escapes his evil master, a young wizard takes on a quest that will force him to use all his powers and his magical sword to save the kingdom and the woman he loves, even at the cost of his own liberty.

"An author who knows the horror genre very well. Suspenseful and gripping right up to the chilling finale!" –William Jack Sibley, author of Here We Go Loop de Loop Crime reporter John Blackwood is looking for answers to the biggest story of all time-a mystery older than creation itself. But making this deadline won't be easy, especially if a murderous cult tied to Judas Iscariot and a trio of ravenous vampiric sisters can stop him It all begins with an ancient grimoire hidden centuries ago in the wilds of Spanish Texas by a secret order of Catholic warrior-priests to keep the tome's ...

Zale is horrified. He’s in a new body on a different planet, and wants nothing else but to return home. But his hopes are shattered when his only way back becomes the focal point for a deadly cultist—one who calls down a flaming storm of death. Burning, dying, screaming at the unfairness of it all, Zale stumbles into the sanctum of an ancient goddess—one who sends him back in time. He wakes up at the beginning of the week, shocked he’s still alive, but it’s not all rainbows and butterflies. He only has ten loops to rack up his stats and train if he’s going to crush that cultist from hell.

The Special Agents’ Mates: A Paranormal Mystery Romance Collection Five deadly cases. Five dangerous shifters. Five desired mates. One elite FBI unit. Step into the shadows where paranormal threats blur the lines between justice and obsession. The Special Paranormal Investigative Unit is a covert team of powerful shifter agents, each with a past they can’t outrun—and a future they never saw coming. When the supernatural twists into kidnapping, murder, lies, and betrayal, it’s up to these five to uncover the truth and restore order. But as each case heats up, so does the passion and ...

The supporters of Auguste Saturnine, exiled consul, are silenced and oppressed, driven underground and disenfranchised. Still they cling to hope that one day the wrong will be righted, that the government of the Dominion of Planets will face its reckoning. Yet a dark wind is blowing, and an evil that the humans of Old Terra escaped ten thousand years ago is now spoken of at a whisper. His name? Unknown. His role? The nemesis.

The world crashed to pieces on June 23rd and Adrian Ring wasn't anywhere near ready for it. He had no guns, no food, no friends around, a cat that wanted to slip out the back of the condo and a girlfriend trapped in the heart of the city. This is the story of how he survived. Real, flawed, and raw, Dark Recollections is Adrian's own story of how he survived after "That Day". Told through his eyes as he talks to his laptop, affectionately named "Mr. Journal".

Molly’s Memoir is a journey through the life and times of a woman who is raised by a Seneca Indian after she is abandoned on the porch of a log cabin in the hills of West Virginia. Growing up in the isolated Monongahela Mountains, she learns about love, faith, and of the craft of healing with medicinal herbs.

The Shadow Order has completed the mission it was sent to Solsans for. But now that Seb has seen how the Crimson Countess oppresses the beings living there, he can’t walk away. Driven by his goal to overthrow the countess’s regime, Seb has to amass an army capable of taking down the Crimson foot soldiers, an army built on slum dwellers who have spent their entire lives yielding to their oppressors. Victory will make Solsans a better place to live. However, if they lose, the countess will undoubtedly make the people pay. Failure isn’t an option.

Seb and Sparks were given a choice: Join the Shadow Order or rot in a prison cell. As Seb touches down for his first mission, he wonders if he's made the right call. The First Mission (Book Two of The Shadow Order) is a fast-paced, planet-hopping, space opera adventure.

Rand O'Neal, an ambition-less reporter, is given a single task upon the death of his grandfather: Destroy a mysterious map. What should be a simple errand thrusts Rand into a journey across three countries where he discovers humanity's biggest secret. The book is labelled an action adventure, but contains elements of science fiction, suspense, and mystery.

After finding my soon-to-be ex-husband together with my soon-to-be ex-assistant, I realize his "for better or for worse" didn't include my 40s. An extended vacation on a remote Italian island sounds like the perfect antidote to a midlife crisis - until I arrive. I'm expecting Chianti and pasta. What I get is a run-down bed-and-breakfast with the oldest Nonna in existence. There's something about this island. Something odd. Like how everyone keeps calling me Mamma or how I'm the first tourist in decades.

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

The end has come at last. After his victory at Vorgossos, Hadrian Marlowe finds himself a fugitive, on the run not only from the Extrasolarians, but from his own people, the Sollan Empire he betrayed—and who betrayed him. Hidden safely beyond the borders of human space, Hadrian awaits the arrival of the one ally he has left: the Jaddian Prince Kaim-Olorin du Otranto.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER After Revenge of the Sith, a newly forged Darth Vader hunts for the secrets of life and death under the watchful eye of Emperor Palpatine. In the wake of Emperor Palpatine’s rise to power, the true nature of his most sinister enforcer remains a mystery. Darth Vader is a...