Short Heist

The Sound of Freedom meets Drive in this genre-busting rescue thriller From New York Times bestselling authors Andrews & Wilson. He’s saved dozens of lives. But to survive this mission, he’ll have to save his soul. After fifteen years on the FBI’s elite Hostage Rescue Team, Barrett...

Warning: Once you start reading, you won’t be able to stop! Do you love uncovering the hidden stories behind history’s strangest events? Do you thrive on curiosity and crave stories that make you say, ‘Wait… that actually happened?!’ If you're fascinated by history, mysteries, and mind-blowing facts, then prepare to dive into a world of the weird, the wonderful, and the unbelievable with INTERESTING STORIES FOR CURIOUS MINDS. Why does this matter? Because stories like these ignite curiosity, challenge what we think we know, and prove that reality is often far more interesting than...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Janet Evanovich, #1 bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum novels, and Lee Goldberg, bestselling author and television writer for Monk, comes the first adventure in an electrifying new series featuring an FBI agent who always gets her man, and a fearless con...

Gabriel Allon, art restorer and occasional spy, searches for a stolen masterpiece by Caravaggio in #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva’s latest action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue. Sometimes the best way to find a stolen masterpiece is to steal another one...

An IT whiz at the Babylon Casino is enlisted to upgrade security for the game of keno and its random-number generator. The new quantum computer system is foolproof. But someone on the inside is no fool. For once the odds may not favor the house - unless human ingenuity isn’t entirely a thing of the past.

When an armored car heist turns into a bloody and grisly crime scene, Federal agent Blake Wilder is sent to Philadelphia to track down the culprits. But there’s more to this militantly precise and violent crew than meets the eye....

Essence® best-selling authors Kiki Swinson and De’nesha Diamond are two rising stars in the world of urban fiction. Heist presents two novellas starring young women hustling their way to the top of the game through daring robbery schemes. In Swinson’s The Ultimate Heist, pampered Shannon Marshall is accustomed to a big-money lifestyle. Her world is shattered, however, when her man is thrown into prison for gun running.

Have you ever heard of a thief who strips naked and burns her clothes during a heist? Treasure hunters have the magical ability of detecting items. To steal from them without getting caught, I took off all my clothes and gear. Then I burned them so I would completely disappear from their radar. I was completely naked inside a vault of cursed artifacts. The items are worth a lot of gold and they have unknown, bizarre effects too. But they shouldn’t do anything to me because of my curse resistance. I found something that looked valuable enough for me to make it to master thief rank. It was ...

Book 1 in the "TIME HEIST" series. The Kiss That Saved The Timeline! *Romance Action Sci-Fi Short Read* ChatGPT Summary: She’s a Guild agent sworn to arrest him. He’s a time thief who steals from history itself. One collapsing timeline—and one impossible kiss—changes everything. Ezra Thorne has survived fourteen centuries of thefts, escapes, and near-death mistakes. But when a temporal trap floods a Prague subway, he’s saved by the last person he should ever trust—Celine Voss, the Guild’s most relentless agent. Their worlds should be enemies. Then the chronometer in Ezra’s ...

Every four years, the criminal underworld engages in a game. The Game. The challenges range from the impossible to the deadly to the truly insane. Things that only a crazy person would tackle. I’ve won the game five times. This time will be no different. I’m at the top of my field now, the best of the world’s thieves. There’s nothing I can’t steal, and this time, the game is all about theft, subterfuge, and sleight of hand. Starting with a legendary painting of poppy flowers.

Book 2 in the TIME HEIST series. The Vault of Secrets! *Romance Action Sci-Fi Short Read* ChatGPT Summary: They agreed to work together. They never agreed to fall for each other. Celine Voss is the Guild’s best agent—disciplined, controlled, and sworn to protect the timeline. Ezra Thorne is the thief she’s supposed to arrest—reckless, impossible, and the only man who’s ever made her break every rule she lived by. But when the chronometer reacts to both of them, their fates become dangerously intertwined. Every shared touch sparks visions of possible futures. Every mission pulls ...

I'll do anything to escape the controlling monster who's tormented me for years, even if it means putting my life at the mercy of a criminal. When Kane Daniels breaks into my gilded cage, he doesn't realize his loot will include more than gold and diamonds—it'll include me.

Bad Ass Butch, the latest sexbot from Wham Bam, Thank You Ma'am Productions, wants Alice to help him rob a bank. These damn sexbots are completely out of control! This is not going to end well.

Welcome to Christmas Creek, where Santa reigns all year and crime is as rare as a snowflake in July—or so Sheriff Brad Wing thought. With Christmas just around the corner, the cozy town is thrown into a festive frenzy by a string of mysterious package thefts. As Sheriff Wing dives deep into the investigation, his orderly world is upended by the mischievous Ivy Jolly, a woman who’s as sweet as she is unpredictable. Caught between his duty to uphold the law and his heart’s yearning for Ivy, Brad must navigate a whirlwind of holiday hijinks, stolen gifts, and a magical Christmas surprise...

A mysterious flamingo thief. Two unsuspecting residents. One matchmaker with a very strategic security assignment. When decorative flamingos start vanishing from front yards across Sunshine Village, Dolly McGraw has the perfect solution: assign two specific residents as her handpicked security team. They think they're investigating petty theft—she knows they're walking straight into her latest romantic trap. Forced together for late-night stakeouts and undercover surveillance missions, Dolly's newest targets discover that the most dangerous thing about detective work isn't catching ...

It’s just another morning on the fifth of July. The country is another year older; Gus is a touch hungover, the coffee in his office is stale, and all Gus wants to do is go home and start over again on July sixth. Unfortunately Father Xavier visits the sheriff’s office and he’s brought along a gift. He has a green jacket that should have been put in the church’s lost and found. The father suspects it belongs to a missing girl named Erica Torres which is odd given the jacket is marked as belonging to E. Rossi. Erica went to school one day and never came home. She was picked up by a ...

Part of the award winning Merit Bridges Legal Thriller Series. When a college student vanishes in downtown Austin, private investigator Ag Malone is hired by her wealthy stepfather to bring her home. What begins as a routine missing persons case quickly spirals into something darker and far more dangerous. An abandoned car. Missing surveillance footage. A shadowy private security firm with secrets to protect. As Ag digs deeper into the girl’s disappearance, the clues refuse to add up. Witnesses dodge questions. Evidence disappears. And the money trail leads straight toward powerful people...

They’d prepared for this moment all their lives without believing anything would ever come of it...they were wrong. Danae knew before she ever heard her brother’s voice that it was bad...and it didn’t take long to find out just how bad it was. She’d always understood the high cost of secrets...and quickly learned that sometimes the price of truths was far more costly. It took her even less time to realize that she’d never really known true fear. She did now and knew that the heart-pounding terror she’d experienced in those handful of moments when a gun was pointed at her brother...

All Mel and Dana wanted was a weekend break... Mel and Dana take a long weekend break with the family on a Lake Erie island, or so they planned. Things just never seem to work out as they plan because crime follows them everywhere. Will they ever get a break? Probably not, but maybe Mel will find the career spark that's been missing for a while. This is a short story featuring Mel and Dana that takes place sometime after Book 12 of the Morelville Mysteries series. You don't need to have read the series to enjoy this story, but it will certainly help you understand Mel and her motivations. ...

Professional assassin Evangeline "Lina" Heart returns in this holiday novella. Lina's hunt for the next relic brings her one step closer to unlocking the gates of Hell and freeing her fiancé's soul. However, her journey is interrupted by the last person she expected: Clay Wellers, charming thief-for-hire to the wealthy and eccentric, and her reluctant new sidekick. When Clay pulls her into what looks like a simple heist of a famous painting, things quickly go sideways. The painting isn't what it seems, and neither is the client. This holiday season, Lina and Clay are about to steal far ...