First book in the Caleb Promise Series, Mission One. A deep 630 page meaty thriller, espionage and political mystery novel.
K. A. Bryant pulls a dystopian thread through the book with a literary hand. If you like the Jack Reacher novels the Caleb Promise Series Novels are for you. M.O.T.E.S. (Mark of the Two-Edged Sword) bursts with suspense, emotional rides and espionage at the highest levels of government.
OVERVIEW
A car accident kills Caleb Promise’s parents. Mysterious? Normally not, but when your father was the master strategist for an under-cover military strike team and the sole survivor of a mission-gone-bad, his death is definitely mysterious. Out of the old stone Monastery orphanage, Caleb is wrapped in bitterness and entangled in trying to finish his father’s final mission. The promise for embarking on this traitorous mission? Finding his parents murderer and destroying a mysterious living weapon of mass destruction called the Beaston.
Assassins on his heels, time is running out. He must overcome his personal issues to figure out the clues his father left him. Clues encrypted in their father and son relationship. Can they cut through layers of deception to the core… like a two-edged sword? If they can, they’ll leave their mark, the Mark of the Two-Edged Sword.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
Caleb Promise is orphaned at fifteen then pulled into the life of undercover agent. The promise for adopting this traitorous life? Finding his parents murder and preserving world peace. Caleb’s determination welded to his father’s intelligence together may cut through layers of deception to the core like a two-edged sword.
Caleb’s father was a master strategist for a United States Special Operations team that took orders directly from the President of the United States. If Caleb can't figure out the clues his father left for him, a living hybrid weapon capable of mass destruction will threaten world peace.
He has the blood of a master strategist coursing through his veins, and a trail to guide him, so what is his dilemma? He’s gotten lost in depression and drink. Time is running out. Can he find his parents murder? Can he finish his father's last mission? Views: 578
Can a lonely driver and a tragic hitchhiker cheat both time and death?
One night in the pouring rain, Alex stops on Gallows Hill to pick up a hitchhiker. But when the hitchhiker vanishes from the passenger seat, Alex fears for his sanity.
Then he discovers that Gallows Hill is a place filled with ghosts – of smugglers, witches and highwaymen.
And a young, tragic hitchhiker named Joe.
When Joe appears again on Gallows Hill, Alex dares to hope that they can cheat both time and death. But how can there be a future for them when Joe is trapped in a few minutes of a rainy night forty years before? Views: 578
The bestselling author of Windfall and The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight returns with a meet-cute romance about Hugo and Mae, two teens who are thrown together on a cross-country train trip that will teach them about love, each other, and the futures they can build for themselves.It's the perfect idea for a romantic week together: traveling across America by train.But then Hugo's girlfriend dumps him. Her parting gift: the tickets for their long-planned last-hurrah-before-uni trip. Only, it's been booked under her name. Nontransferable, no exceptions.Mae is still reeling from being rejected from USC's film school. When she stumbles across Hugo's ad for a replacement Margaret Campbell (her full name!), she's certain it's exactly the adventure she needs to shake off her disappointment and jump-start her next film.A cross-country train trip with a complete stranger might not seem like the best... Views: 578
1968. It's the season of siren songs and loosened bonds—as well as war, campaign slogans, and assassination. When the Rayson family leaves the East Coast for the gathering anarchy of Berkeley, twelve-year-old Alice embraces the moment in a hippie paradise that's fast becoming a cultural ground zero. As her family and school fade away in a tear gas fog, the 1960s counterculture brings ambiguous freedom. Guided only by a child's-eye view in a tumultuous era, Alice could become another casualty—or she could come through to her new family, her developing life. But first, she must find her way in a world where the street signs hang backward and there's a bootleg candy called Orange Sunshine. Views: 578
Making peace with the past...'Tis the season for forgiveness...Is this the first step to their second chance?Lance Drummond doesn't do Christmas...not after the tragic loss of his daughter or the painful divorce that followed. But when his ex-wife, Erin, is injured, Lance moves in temporarily to help her make the holidays perfect for her nephews. Amid all the merrymaking, Lance realizes he's falling for Erin again. After so much heartache, can love bring them back together?Three Sisters Ranch Views: 578
With a touch of her hand, Octavia Hollows can restore life. Yet, she couldn’t save the man she loved from the horrific accident that stole him from her. Octavia thought she could outrun the pain, but ghosts from the past refuse to be silenced. Out of options, she chooses to retrace her wayward journey across the country in search of answers. Surrounded by baffling mysteries of the undead, what she learns about herself along the way might become her greatest weapon.
Las Vegas, Nevada: Sin City
When Octavia visits her old boss to get a few questions answered, she stumbles onto yet another mystery. This time in the form of a charred body and a huge stack of cash. Thinking she is doing a good deed, she wakes the victim to help him seek justice for his death. Instead, she finds herself on the run from a mob hitman, and tempted by a malevolent entity offering her heart’s desire.
Is the promise of a wish granted more alluring than the hunt of truth?
If you like snarky humor, fantastical monsters, and farm-animal sidekicks, The Journals of Octavia Hollows are the paranormal cozy mystery novellas you've been waiting for!
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BREAK THE FAITH is the continuation of Abraham and Myra's story and the finale of the Breaking Trilogy."Taking the easy way out was an option, but it wasn't our style. Together, we fought."I never expected to love Myra or for her to love me back, but something greater than either of us stepped in and forged us together. Soulmates, bonded as one.We are survivors, learning how to walk our chosen paths.Together we can break the cycle.Together we will break the faith. Views: 578
One of 2019's Most Anticipated Books: BuzzFeed, Bustle, HelloGiggles, LitHub, She Reads Acclaimed essayist and bookseller Mary Laura Philpott presents a charmingly relatable and wise memoir-in-essays about what happened after she checked off all the boxes on her successful life's to-do list and realized she might need to reinvent the list—and herself. Mary Laura Philpott thought she'd cracked the code: Always be right, and you'll always be happy. But once she'd completed her life's to-do list (job, spouse, house, babies—check!), she found that instead of feeling content and successful, she felt anxious. Lost. Stuck in a daily grind of overflowing calendars, grueling small talk, and sprawling traffic. She'd done everything "right," but she felt all wrong. What's the worse failure, she wondered: smiling and staying the course, or blowing it all up and running away? And are those the only options?... Views: 578
