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Karl Adams is a new CIA officer undercover and immersed in Murmansk, Russia, as a Spanish graduate student at the local university. On a cold February night, while flying a drone, he takes video of a missile on a transporter erector launcher being loaded aboard a merchant ship. This could be a violation of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty signed by Reagan and Gorbachev.

Bruno Johnson, a young and inexperienced LA County deputy sheriff, is trying to balance his life as the single father of a four-year-old daughter and his responsibilities as a cop in the Violent Crimes Unit. When he and his impetuous partner, Ned Kiefer, are put on loan to the FBI to help out with a "special problem", Bruno finds himself in a real bind. The FBI hands Bruno and Ned a case that the Bureau prefers not to touch - a group of teenage criminals that are being run by a nefarious criminal known as the Darkman.

When Julie Crenshaw is offered a job as a news reporter on beautiful Vancouver Island she didn't expect to land in the crosshairs of a serial killer. Connor O'Rourke has seen his share of human depravities during his 14 years as a homicide detective, but is still sickened by the murderer terrorizing his island shores and threatening his key witness.

If you like military romance, wounded warrior romance, contemporary romance, or romantic suspense, this is a sure to be a story you will love from USA Today best-selling author Jacquie Biggar. Nick Kelley spent years working as a dog handler in the US Marine Corps. His sole focus, to keep his team alive in the midst of chaos. When he fails to notice an IED in time and loses most of his teammates, Nick shuts down. It takes meeting and falling in love with a woman in danger to make him realize life’s worth living.

Investigative reporter Julie Crenshaw stumbles upon the case of a lifetime - one that could cost her everything. When Julie is called on to investigate a string of sexual abuse cases, she doesn't expect to land in the crosshairs of a serial rapist. Soon she's in a race to find the facts before a killer makes her the headline.

Brother and sister team Max and Robin Kane are hired by an old high school friend to look into the mysterious death of his brother in a Wyoming mining incident. Max must first break the barrier of small-town law enforcement and the powerful mining company to discover the truth. When Max invariably rubs folks the wrong way, he must not only search for a killer, but also keep himself alive. The old west comes to life again in a battle over rights of the individual and those of powerful forces determined to profit from the land.

The war rages on, with no sign of victory for either side. Spartan and his loyalist soldiers win battle after battle against the Star Empire, but they are losing the war against this new and invigorated foe. Every day, more heavily armed troops arrive to bolster the enemy. Many of Spartan's exhausted Byotai allies want to surrender, but he will never back down, no matter the odds. He promised to fight this war, and fight it he will. Spartan takes his mercenaries, and what remains of the militias, deep underground.

Karnak is a battleground, a planet torn apart by a dozen warring factions. Spartan and his small band of mercenaries and militia have won battle after battle. Now they must prepare for their final test, an assault on the heavily defended enemy capital, Montu. The plan is torn apart when a huge fleet of reinforcements appears. A fleet that threatens to overwhelm the valiant rebels.

Mob rule had taken over the border town of Whetstone, New Mexico. Black-hooded vigilantes were stringing up those they considered to be "undesirables" for even the pettiest of crimes. Someone somewhere had to bring peace back to the beleaguered town - but who in hell was it going to be?

In order to win a much-needed contract as physical therapist to one of the NHL's leading hockey teams, Sam must delay the recovery of their sniper Mac Wanowski. The trouble is, the more she gets to know the taciturn hockey player, the more she aches to help him. Mac "The Hammer" Wanowski chased the Stanley Cup dream for too many years. Last time he was close, it had cost him his wife.

Professor Andrew Murray and his fellow scientists were not to go up into the Texas hill country to carry out weather tests unless they had someone trail-wise along to watch them. So the government sent in its unofficial six-man team of trouble-busters, the Wilde Boys, to play nursemaid.For once it looked as if the west's most reluctant lawmen had been handed a nice, quiet little assignment. But then the bullets started flying ... and in next to no time they were fighting off bushwhackers and nightriders alike.

Alex Payne would do anything to bring his wife back from the depths of her watery grave. But when a voodoo mambo offers her help, he soon realizes that turning back the tides of life comes not without repercussions. Somewhere between the living and the dead there lies a murky middle. Can he walk the tightrope between the two and bring her back, or will he lose everything, including his own life, trying?

Quinn Bennett may be dead, but he's not going to let a little thing like that stop him. With his body transformed into a zombie vessel for the voodoo spirit to walk upon the earth, and his spirit trapped in the Locker - the mythical Realm of the Dead - Quinn must find a way back to the land of the living and discover a way to free Asherah from the bondage of the Pirate Lords and Baron Tombstone's diabolical plans to make the girl his eternal bride.

The battle takes heavy toll on Spartan’s assault force and leaves him badly wounded and in an induced coma. By the time the battered but victorious fleet reaches the Hellstorm refugee fleet, news has already arrived of their victory against the undefeatable enemy. Inspired by multiple victories, as well as critical information recovered from Alkonost, these once scattered and defeated people are united. And together they begin their holy war that will wipe away every taint of the Guardians and restore their old empire.

Max Kane continues to wander around the country, solving crimes and helping people. When his twin sister Robin invites him to drive out east on a personal journey of discovery, he drops everything to help her out. After a DNA test turns up relatives that neither of the twins knew existed, both of them are skeptical, uncertain, but hopeful for what they might find in rural Vermont. How could they have living relatives, since their parents had always said they were the last of the Kane clan?

CIA Officer Karl Adams is undercover in Moscow, Russia, tracking a professor of international relations and geostrategic studies. A series of brutal events forces Karl to escape on the Trans-Siberian Railway toward the Russian Far East, where he must encounter a new threat. Soon, the murder of a passenger puts Karl in the cross-hairs of a brusque old Russian police officer. Karl must now prove his innocence while maintaining his legend as a college grad student.

If you think Monsters are scary...you don't know Jack! The Tritons are surfacing.... Dr. Obadiah "Jack" Jackson, the smart-mouth cryptozoologist with a penchant for trouble, is back. Now the Field Operations Director for ENIGMA (ENtity Identification and Global Management Agency), he and his team find themselves in way over their heads when they travel to the Greek islands to investigate the sudden appearance of strange aquatic creatures the locals are calling mermaids.

The Guadalcanal Campaign, which ran from August 1942 to February 1943, was a bitter and protracted struggle that also happened to be a strange and transitional confrontation quite unlike any other in the long Pacific War. In conjunction with the American victory at the Battle of Midway, Guadalcanal represented the crucial moment when the balance of power in the Pacific tipped in favor of the Allies, but the idea that Guadalcanal would be such a significant battle would have come as a surprise to military strategists and planners on both sides.

Legendary homicide detective Jack Dantzler has never failed to solve a murder. Thirty-three killers apprehended, tried, convicted. Perfect, like God's soul. But Dantzler's perfection ends when three college women are brutally murdered, victims of a serial killer who strangles his prey, decorates their bodies with a St. Jude medal and photo of Michelangelo's Pieta, then lacerates the jugular post-mortem. The series of murders reawaken Dantzler's memories of his own mother's murder when he was still a young boy.

Lucas Carmichael and Scott Anderson had it all - money, fame, and fortune. But one night's stupid mistake takes everything they thought they cherished and dumps it upside down. A car accident ends Lucas' life and leaves Scott injured and bitter. As the local ME, Tracy York, investigates the case, discrepancies begin to point to more than a simple drunk-driving incident. When threats are made to Tracy's life, can Scott and his guardian angel, Lucas, protect her? Or will she become another casualty of a crazed madman?