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He’s hostage to his past. Betrayal and death haunt former British Special Air Service captain Lachlan Mackay after a disastrous mission in the mountains of Afghanistan ends his military career. His job with an American firm, LAI, gives him the opportunity to topple a powerful warlord, avenge the dead, and free himself from the crushing guilt of trusting the wrong woman. His new colleague, a petite redhead with wide hazel eyes, seems determined to breach his defenses. He knows better than to trust her, but he craves her light to chase away his shadows. She has a secret that could destroy him.

Jack Zulu and the Waylander's Key is an enchanting adventure in the tradition of Tolkien and Lewis, as well as Spielberg and Lucas. But this fantastical journey launches in rural West Virginia in the '80s, with a half-Appalachian, half-African kid trying to escape the town he sees defining his small, sad life. Jack discovers a gate hiding a city between 12 realms and finds out where he truly belongs in a surprising, satisfying adventure.

Jack Zulu explores a new realm in this fantastic adventure that stretches beyond Earth and into a world on the edge of destruction. Jack must search for answers about his fallen father’s story and risk everything to save the cause at the lost city of gold.

Foreign service officer Emily Dane is used to taking risks and standing up for what she believes in. As the daughter of a retired Navy SEAL, she's determined to live life on her own terms, without her father's overprotective shadow. But when she helps two young girls escape a sex trafficking ring in Paris, she unintentionally puts herself in the crosshairs of a powerful crime lord. When Emily goes missing, it falls to former Navy SEAL Nathan Long to rescue the very woman he slept with the night of his best friend's wedding.

Listen to a collection of 13 mystical tales, from some of the most exciting independent writers on the scene today. What happens when you can have your every desire come true? What price must be paid for this gift? G Is for Genies contains a variety of stories, from the innocent wishes of youth, to the horrors of a brutal serial killer, and everything in between.

A groundbreaking account of the Secret Gospel of Mark, one of the most hotly debated documents in Christian history.

Twelve US soldiers, assigned to Mason's former Army unit, are left behind on a mission in Southern Afghanistan. The Pentagon has declined to explain the true assignment. What Mason learns in Afghanistan ensnares him seemingly in Washington's biggest conspiracy. In Paris, the international truth frantically unravels between Mason, his beautiful girlfriend, and a wayward Taliban leader.

Mason Church, a decorated US soldier, returns home plagued by the emotional scars of war and the fragmented memories of his father. Loveless, broke, and jaded, he's recruited by National Clandestine Service to assassinate Mexico's biggest drug kingpin. Sixteen-year-old Valentina Vargas witnesses the massacre of her family by the ruthless drug lord. Suddenly orphaned, she must make a decision to remain a peasant or retaliate against the sadistic murderers. In order to succeed in Mexico, Mason must partner with Valentina.

Located in the former Republic of Sunny Emissions, Utopian Tetragon is conceived to be true in the mind of a mad writer, Willing Participant.

Fifteen-year-old Hutch tells us his story about growing up as a kid of free-spirited, drug-addicted parents, to hustling on the streets of New York City, to befriending misfits in a Bowery flophouse where he’s forced to fight predators and face the brutalities that lurk in the darkest corners of a runaway’s world. Through his determination, and by fate, he’s given an opportunity to change his life, and the lives of others. Embracing his future, finding redemption in literature, he must say farewell to his haunting past.

Carson Fuller is a hard-charging Boston Detective. His crime-solving instincts have earned him the respect of his peers, but managing murder cases daily has caused his pending divorce. Geeta Kumar is the first female detective of East Indian descent to work in the Boston Police Department. She’s an MIT graduate, perhaps too bright for the police force. It’s her wisdom and fearlessness that make her an ideal partner for Carson.