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Ethan Brooks has led an extremely long double life, one that always felt stable and secure - until he crossed paths with Nora St. Clair. Suddenly, the dogged police lieutenant is invading his office in her quest for answers about the mysterious Brightrock Island he hails from, an idyllic community off the coast of Massachusetts and home to a literal fountain of youth.

Which petals will fall in the Hall of Flowers? Lanna has a heavy duty as Seer. A single mistake and Ashioto could be assassinated. Power games soon turn poisonous and Lanna finds it difficult to tell friend from foe. As his court grows lethal, Ashioto takes a troubling interest in Lanna. Manipulated at every turn, who can she trust? Lanna needs to unmask Ashioto’s enemies before it is too late and the growing threats to the Empire overwhelm them all.

Adam Eberhardt has always felt different, but he never would’ve guessed he was a clone of Albert Einstein. Science geeks don't usually live inside the body of a hulk. A brain that never shuts off can be a blessing or a curse, but Adam hasn’t felt many blessings during his sleepless nights, regular victims of his severe anxiety disorder. Weaving through harrowing childhood memories, science research, and self-doubt, he most enjoys spending his mind power thinking about his wunderkind fellow student, Margot. . .who remains oblivious to his interest.

Zany families, eccentric friends, and ne'er-do-well neighbors inhabit the labyrinthine lives of three women friends as they grapple with real-world events in one "Golden Year". An unwelcome visit from local law enforcement, a younger friend's romantic chaos, and the death of a parent combine with daily mundanities - laundry, scones, and senior sex - to create a walloping, raucous listen.

An intergalactic assassin with numerous identities strikes without leaving any hint of his existence, giving him the moniker: Ghost. His lethal work will touch lives across the galaxy, from the military to the primitive farmer to the Zahlian Merchant Marine. In the wake of death follows a capital ship captain hunting for a target he scarcely believes in and an over-the-hill marshal who still has another chase in him. But what happens with the flawless contract killer may have reached too far during a job?

Without his knowledge, Mick Murphy is thrust into the middle of plans to smoke out Mexican cartel gangs in Tijuana, Mexico and their cohorts in the USA. The actions stresses Murphy's relationship with his black-ops friend Norm, as he turns to a cartel attorney and ex-drug smuggler for help. Before the plan comes to an end Murphy could lose his fiancée, Tita, and other Key West friends.

She was a professional beauty, with a face and body that every woman envied and every man desired. Then an anonymous madman destroyed that beauty, and private investigator Paul Murdock was hired to find out why.

As Zadie, Babs, Cricket, and Nadine navigate new allegiances, and the political intrigue of the fae courts, they must decide where their loyalties truly lie. With the fate of their father hanging in the balance and a dangerous prophecy haunting their every move, they are drawn toward an ancient power hidden deep beneath the sea in the heart of Atlantis. Can the sisters reunite their family, or will the fae courts tear them apart for good?

Jessy was a married man, a retired Army Veteran, and a successful pipeline welder who finds love in a very unexpected time and place in his life. A native from East Texas, Jessy grew up in Conroe Texas and attended Conroe High School. This is where he met Bruce, Chuck, and Penny, his lifelong friends. Because of Jessy’s disability, “PTSD”, that he got while in the US Army during wartime, Jessy learned to drink rum and Pepsi to deal with his bouts of depression and mood swings.

What would Eve do if given a second chance? Would she share all knowledge this time? Sara Waters finds herself in that very position after working on a way to encrypt data she finds herself writing the perfect program for hacking in anywhere, anytime, completely undetected. Can she use it for good or should she destroy it?

Deep within the political machinations of the fae court, Babs embarks on a year-long quest of supernatural training to assert her role in the summer court. As she navigates this enthralling yet perilous realm, she uncovers long-concealed family secrets, including the mysterious fate of her father. Meanwhile, Cricket is preoccupied with her maid of honor duties for her friend Caroline's imminent wedding. But the mundane turns to the mystical when Caroline is overtaken by a dark possession.

David Markham, a Vietnam-era veteran, and a regular computer geek, wants to shoot guns, blow up stuff, have access to every digital device on Earth, end terrorism, eat breakfast at Lowell's, and watch football, especially the Seattle Seahawks. Only his computer - Igor - knows how much money he has. Igor is the real brains of the operation. The computer organizes everything by having access to every computer and device on the planet including printers, cameras, microphones, GPS, and other satellite data. If David wants something done, Igor gets it done.

In a post-cataclysmic world threatened by stinking ooze, a brave girl searches for her missing parents with the help of talking animals and evolving powers. When a mountain spirit challenges her to save the planet, she and a flying frog must overcome a magical, malicious castle of sand and a shapeshifter who wants her dead. But the protagonist in Waterwight isn't like the others. She's done with being shunned by those who refuse to discuss "The Event," the global catastrophe that changed the planet.

In Ports 2, the saga continues, accessing different characters and ports while taking a dive across the boundaries of life and death through the Septarine Portal to another world. Water still encompasses most of the globe, with only 12 ports and an unknown portal rising above the oceans. Much of surviving humanity lives on one of these diminished areas of land and the rest on various ships that dot the waters.

The Legend of Dominick Brasi follows the journey of a New York City man by the name of Dominick Brasi. He goes off to fight in the Vietnam War during the mid-1960s and returns back to the borough of Richmond (present-day Staten Island) in 1968, only to find himself lost. Both in net worth and lost in purpose. With the help of his older brother, Charlie "Bricks" Brasi, Dominick ascends through the ranks of the feared Romano Family—one of New York's Five Families.

Luci de Foix was nine when her parents were killed in a car accident. But was it an accident? Unbeknownst to Luci, a group known as the Order, under the protection of the Pope, has been watching her family for many years. It was waiting for the day that a diary written in the 13th century would be delivered to her family. A journal that contains a key to a lost codex. And they would do anything to get it.

The Rangers may have won a battle but the war is far from over. The question was: What would Rick Cassidy and Molly Pickford do? The answer certainly would not include asking permission to do what needed to be done. Three weeks into the alien invasion of the New Hope Colony on Tau Ceti 4, Major Naomi MacCaffrey, Captain Zoey Bryant and a group of other officers from the Hot Tub Brain Trust have proposed a raid on the New Cancun Ranger Base to recover material needed for the defense of the colony.

It's just two weeks into the alien invasion and the looming Battle of Winter Haven may be the end of the human presence on the eastern end of the Alpha continent. The aliens have shrugged off their loss at McKinley Pass and plan to overwhelm the defenders with their biggest attack yet. Can the aliens be stopped at Winter Haven? Everything may depend upon it.

Two and a half weeks left of training, then Pike Evans takes the final test for a chance to become an agent of G.H.O.S.T. Team one of the Highland Yeti are on schedule for training. Pike, Agent Kittrick, and Agent Morris fly back to Bragg with this group after delivering glowing cargo into the mountain’s observation and testing facility. The Yeti’s are the team Pike will train with over the next two weeks.

After a beautiful woman with ties to a local matchmaking service falls to her death on Valentine's Day, Franklin County demands answers. So when Captain Joe Davenport assigns the investigation to Detective Skylar Reid and Harvey Baker, it’s only a matter of time before trouble ensues. And when Harvey discovers the unscrupulous Callum Jackson may be behind it, nothing will stop him until he proves it, even if his witch hunt could cost him his marriage, his sanity, and his badge.