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While connecting me up to various machines and monitors and placing nitroglycerine tablets under my tongue, the doctor looked at me early on and said: "You waited too long to get here, sir." I was petrified. There was no immediate response on my part, only a deep sense of fear entombed by a completely paralyzed inner spirit. Much to my surprise, he spoke again: "Sir, you've waited too long to get here. You're not going to make it."

In 2005, after working for 10 years in a comfortable but mundane corporate job in San Antonio, Texas, Vincent Sellers successfully managed to leave behind a dreary cubicle landscape and begin the exciting challenges of a crime-fighting FBI agent. His journey is chronicled in Eyes Pried Open: Rookie FBI Agent. Listeners will experience both the highs and the lows of an FBI agent working bank robbery, kidnapping, murder-for-hire cases, and border-related crimes in San Diego, California. 

Three friends, inseparable as children, take very different paths toward adulthood. In spite of the distances that emerge among them, they are thrust together by the tragedy of death. Each affected in different ways. Giuseppe Lozano, candidate for US Senate, returns home one night to find his wife and three children mysteriously murdered. There seems to be no motive, and little evidence is left at the scene. How will this affect him and his run for office? 

Sometimes, love crosses boundaries, breaks chains, and demands freedom. The social order of the 1860s compels John Richard Sagamore to put aside his black pet Georgia Anne, an accomplished slave. In an attempt to quell his unnatural yearnings, John Richard sets into motion events that divide his family, steal his freedom, and threaten his life.

Josh Marshall is on trial for his life, but he doesn’t care. He has already lost more than he can bear, his brother, Ben. With no identification and no will to live, even his name he will not reveal. The secret that might free him is locked in his impenetrable will. He can imagine no greater sin than killing another man, and he will do anything to protect everyone he loves from the shame he has heaped on his family name. Chains and bars or lethal injection will not dislodge his awful truth. 

What dark secret is hidden in her past? What evil has been handed down through the generations? Emily Burton found happiness in a small, picturesque town on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Her sense of peace and security is shattered when she’s brutally attacked, and an innocent person is murdered. The authorities believe the incident is random, until Emily becomes the target of further violence and threats. With the help of her enigmatic neighbor, she uncovers an eerily similar crime that dates back 60 years. Could there be a connection between the two attacks?

Senator Giuseppe Lozano will stop at nothing in his quest for power. Having artfully silenced the only two people who could disclose his murderous past, he is free to pursue the presidency of the United States of America. Meanwhile, the senator’s brother, Fr. Giovanni Lozano, and his life long friend, police lieutenant Tom Moran, combine forces with Moran’s wife, Emily, a journalist with the Los Angeles Times. The three of them engage in a dangerous effort to expose the truth and save the country.

International terrorism and political turmoil dominate the early 21st century in this sequel to Shattered Triangle: A Consequential Murder. War looms on the horizon, straining ancient friendships as nations are divided over how to confront and conquer terror. As world conflicts threaten to spiral out of control, politics, religion, and law enforcement each seek ways to respond to these new realities and bring order from chaos.

“I wish he was dead!” Have you ever had that wicked thought? If not, then you’ve never met the contemptible Mike DiMarco, a man that gets his solitary pleasure from wrecking lives. Hypothetically, if DiMarco ruined your life and left you penniless, beaten, and broken, could you kill him? Well, you’re off the hook because Sturgis will do it for you - or try. Your mission now becomes that of a cheering supporter as you hear about the efforts of a lovable, clumsy man as he humorously, yet doggedly, discovers the ins and outs of getting even as an entry-level assassin.

Always at his mother's side, Frank Shankwitz spent much of his childhood on the move, frequently hungry and forever homeless. They moved around the country, sleeping in the family car as they ventured from one city to another in search of gainful employment. Frank remembers vividly those who went out of their way to show kindness and compassion. In every way, these acts of kindness fueled Frank's journey. Journey with Frank as he shares the story of his legacy; a life rooted in kindness, near-misses, and close calls. A life centered around the magic of making wishes come true.

The town of Whittier is isolated in Alaska, and the people all live within towers once used by the military. The tourist season is over, and winter is on the way. Then, a body washes up on shore. A body that says it's from the government facility across the sound at Esther Island. With a storm coming, the citizens of Whittier have to deal with this on their own. They put the body in the basement of the towers, but their doctor wants to find out what killed this man. Was it a disease? How dangerous is it? Then, the horror begins.

Arcadia was a small town, nestled in the countryside, hidden from the bustling life of the metropolis Athens to the north. It was once an idyllic village of hills and apple orchards, a place to settle down, a place where children and families could grow. One abandoned home, a monument of history and decay, cast its long shadow across the village and hidden forces from darker places plague the residents in their attempt to reclaim the town.