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Slocum and the High-graders

Slocum's short fuse is going to blow some gold thieves sky high!Slocum's lost his horse trying to raise a grub stake against cardsharps in Cripple Creek. Hungry and broke in a hostile boomtown, Slocum literally falls into a job—when an explosion caves in a mine beneath him. Working in a dangerous hellhole may seem a little like digging your own grave, but it beats starving, so Slocum hires on as a miner. Every vein of gold in the Low Down peters out faster than morals in a cathouse. The miners hate the treacherous foreman—and Slocum almost gets buried alive. But the owner won't get involved. Not even his gorgeous daughter, Evangeline—who makes Slocum feel like he's scored the mother lode—can convince her papa that high-graders are robbing him blind. But Slocum is determined to find who's behind this, and he's giving these high-graders an F—for fatal...
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Samurai Code

This intriguing, suspense-packed novel is the fourth Jack Taggart Mystery in the series commencing with Loose Ends, Above Ground, and Angel in the Full Moon. This time the implacable Mountie Jack Taggart goes undercover to follow the trail of a cheap Saturday-night special found at the scene of a murder.He traces the gun from the manufacturer to the person it was stolen from and through several criminals until the trail leads him to a suspected heroin importer. Taggart pretends to be an Irish gangster and penetrates the criminal organization, only to discover that the real crime boss is a mysterious figure out of Asia.Taggart and his partner are unexpectedly taken aboard a private jet where they find themselves alone and without backup in the lair of one of the largest yakuza organized crime families in Japan. East meets west. The clash of culture explodes into violence when their real identities are discovered.Review"Easton will quickly suck you into the story with his crisp, clean prose, fast-moving plots, and a gift for dialogue that breathes life into his characters."From the Inside FlapJack Taggart goes undercover to follow the trail of a cheap weapon found at the scene of a murder. He traces the gun to a suspected heroin importer and pretends to be an Irish gangster to penetrate the criminal organization -- only to discover that the real crime boss is a mysterious figure out of Asia.
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Plain Jane

A Patterson-style thriller with a dash of Hannibal...A city paralyzed by a serial killer stalking the night, taking a most gruesome trophy.The only standing in the murderer's way is an FBI profiler...recently released from a mental institution.Plain Jane combines the swift action of Patterson with the macabre of Harris.Just remember to keep the lights on when reading this one!About the AuthorI always wanted to catch a serial killer. Now I have. #onpaperofcourse To find out more go to www.plainjanethenovel.com or @writingnodrama on Twitter
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Good Lord, Deliver Us

Book #2 in the Z-Detective Series. How lowly P.I. Bob Zapolska came to be chaperoning a girl ghost hunter, was difficult to figure. How he got himself into haunting a ghost house, was impossible to explain. As for avoiding the charms of frolicsome ghost hunter, Jamie Stewart, Z could only follow one of his own rules: To avoid temptation, give in to it immediately!
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Lie with Me

Forced together by fate, bound together by desire. Framed for a double murder, Delta Force operative Cameron Moore is given a new lease on life by the CIA -- provided he pays them back by doing their black ops dirty work. Now Cam is ready to renegotiate their deal, and he thinks he’s found the perfect bargaining chip: Skylar Slavin, bestselling author of espionage thrillers and the daughter of the CIA man who saved him from a prison sentence. Skylar has been living in anonymity, never suspecting that someone so dangerous -- and so desirable -- would plunge her into a world as treacherous as one of her spy novels. But how can Cam go through with his plan to kidnap Skylar when just the sight of her sets off an explosive attraction he’s never experienced before? And when Skylar falls prey to an even more perilous threat, this special ops soldier must call upon all his combat skills to protect the one person who can help him win his freedom -- and the only woman he’s ever loved.
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Dreaming

            Most English girls meet their heart's desire across a crowded ballroom or in a genteel parlor. Letitia Olive Hornsby finds hers when she knocks him into a river. A curly-haired, blue-eyed hellion of only eleven, she decides right then that Richard, the dashing, handsome, and totally disreputable son of the Earl of Downe, is the white knight of her dreams.             Now fully grown, Letty is spinning a plan to save Richard from himself...by marrying him. And he soon has the bruises to prove it. The chit has come back into Richard's life with a crash -- literally falling into his arms--and soon she is meddling in his ruinous drinking, gambling, and amorous liaisons. But when fate makes them prisoners of a ring of dangerous smugglers, Richard discovers in his mischievous cellmate a pure, romantic spirit that sparks a flame in his own darkly shadowed heart. If only they can escape with their lives, perhaps they find a lifetime of adventures in each other's arms.    
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