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World-renowned painter Thom Tyler is murdered in Georgian Bay, Canada. The consensus is that Tyler had no enemies. Why would anyone murder him? Detective Sergeant Eva Naslund goes to work with a...

In 1882, Daniel McHarg travels up the Missouri River aboard a steamboat bound for Montana. On the trip upriver, he meets Nellie Sage, a woman who will change his life. But they are separated after...

An inconvenient alibi...a priceless treasure...an MI6 mole: A lethal cocktail. Emmeline and husband Gregory become targets. The trail leads to Switzerland, where a double-cross could cost their lives...

Trusting a stranger may prove to be her only means of escape...but at what cost? Abandoned as a child and desperate for the love of a family, Salt Lake City costume designer Tess Horton refuses to...

She didn't know what she was-or that what she was could get her killed... Chase Alcott has no idea about her unique genetic makeup. So she's unaware of the danger she'll soon face. Traveling to...

She has some deadly secrets... Tabitha Norkus wants only one thing in life-freedom from slavery for herself and the others held captive at the Lithuanian weretiger compound. When she gets the chance...

El Tigre is dead. This is a confirmed fact, but the legacy of evil and violence that he has sown continues to sprout. When these erupt, they inevitably affect Jon Morton, and, by association, Carlos...

The abandoned hotel on Blood Mountain stood vacant for twelve years in the Arizona desert, shrouded in mystery and rumors, until LA playboy Buddy McCain inherits the property and decides to reopen...

Young women and girls are disappearing, and bodies start showing up in the desert around the old Blood Mountain hotel... Sales Director, Rachel Ryan, who never could mind her own business, decides to...

The abandoned hotel on Blood Mountain stood vacant for twelve years in the Arizona desert, shrouded in mystery and rumors, until LA playboy Buddy McCain inherits the property and decides to reopen...

Just when JT Carpenter and Buddy McCain finally begin to show a profit from the old hotel on Blood Mountain, they run into trouble. Sales Director, Rachel Ryan has over-booked the hotel with two...

The steamy mountain jungles of Nicaragua provide a sanctuary for ex-US Marine Jim Slater as he struggles to build a schoolhouse for a rural community ravaged by the country's civil war. Haunted by...

BONDED BY CRIMSON Love isn't in the cards for her... After her short, failed marriage, Kate tries to rebuild her life and takes a position as a nanny to three small boys. She quickly grows to love...

Through three generations in Colonial America, the women of the LeSage family show a rare strength and courage. Anne, a wild spirit, plots treason against the Crown, constructs secret passageways,...

The year is 1988 and reporter Matt Brady of The Bronx Ledger is trying hard to get out of both his native borough and the dead-end job he's stuck in, writing for a weekly newspaper. When he's sent to...

Paul Wolfenthal is a rather peculiar thirteen-year-old boy, grappling with the challenges and absurdities of his young Bronx life in the 1960s. Along the way, he faces the trials of a sadistic...

Two years after Kingsley and Todd Henning recovered their kidnapped infant, they are enjoying their country existence. Everything changes when criminals initiate a criminal enterprise on the farmland...

Retired Chief Petty Officer Tom Jones was murdered in his apartment complex in Orlando in what appeared to be a "drug deal gone bad." The police won't even do an autopsy on a dead drug dealer. Coast...

When Carmen Luna's brother Tomas is abducted by Immigration (ICE) and taken to an unknown location, she knows her elementary magic will not be enough to free him. Forging a surprising friendship with...

ROUND 1 Illegal pit fighter and werewolf Carmine Rojas gets an off-hours assignment from her boss-babysitting a skin walker who's gotten herself in trouble with the yakuza. Carmine may kick ass in...

Like John Wesley Powell's expedition down the Colorado River and passage through the Grand Canyon, or Lewis and Clark's searching out a tributary to the Missouri River and finding what is now known...

CHANCING FAITH He didn't do short term relationships... American ad exec, Thane Aleksander, doesn't date co-workers either-until business takes him to Ghana, West Africa, and he meets Naaki. Now he's...

He didn't do short term relationships... American ad exec, Thane Aleksander, doesn't date co-workers either-until business takes him to Ghana, West Africa, and he meets Naaki. Now he's at risk of...

When struggling barmaid Mia Ryan is scouted from behind the beer taps of Dublin's Temple Bar and placed on a flight to Los Angeles, she can hardly believe her luck. Years of struggling to become a...

Mia Ryan used to think things like this didn't happen to girls like her. Barmaids from small Irish towns didn't get song-writing jobs with LA record labels. Girls like Mia also didn't land rock-star...

Clare is a twenty-four-year-old woman who faces life with quiet confidence and inner turmoil. She experiences love, hurt and uncertainty, sexual harassment in the workplace, and tragedy. She meets...

Liz A. Stratton is the kind of woman who regularly gets letters asking her to run for president: she's the host of a Spare Me! a wildly popular national talk show. Plus, she's edgy, beautiful, and...

Being a teenager is hard enough. To be hard of hearing on top of that is like being stuck in the middle of a never ending soap opera. In Compass, the sequel to Sway, Jessie's life begins to change...

Julie Chapman grew up in Key Largo, a tenth-generation Conch, raised in the Florida Keys by her grandmother, Tillie, since Julie's parents were deceased. Then one night Tillie has a car accident and...

He's haunted by the memory of a kidnapping case gone wrong... Not wanting history to repeat itself, Detective Matt Brady struggles to solve the disappearances of seven young women, but he quickly...