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The Business of Strangers

A WOMAN WITHOUT A PAST She didn't know her name, didn't know her nationality. The newly manufactured "Rianna Kingsley" only knew that her martial-arts skills and weaponry and assassination techniques went far beyond the average person's.... A MARK THAT BECAME A DEATH WARRANT The men who'd tried to assassinate her all shared one common trait: a tattoo of a winged horse, exactly like the one on her ankle. Where had it come from—and what did it mean to her survival? A MAN WHO WAS MORE THAN A STRANGER It was dangerous for Rianna to share too much with anyone—much less the criminal hired to kill her—but she couldn't resist Jake Tarrance's arms, his bed. With her shadowy past hot on her heels, would Rianna's business with Jake be passionate...or deadly?
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Death by Trial and Error (A Legal Suspense Short)

Death by Trial and Error is a psychological legal fantasy and suspense short in which a wife plots revenge against her unfaithful husband with an ending you will never see coming! A real page-turner and domestic drama, where the mind can take you to a place you never wanted to go.
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Hindsight

Mira Chambers has an infallible gift for solving mysteries ... but using it comes with a price. Determined to regain her independence after ten years in orphanages and asylums, Mira leaps at the chance to help her friend, Bennet Chiron, an enigmatic ex-con who risked his life to save hers. Mira plans to investigate the murder-robbery that put him behind bars for six years in the hope of clearing his name. But people are turning up dead under bizarre circumstances, and Mira discovers that she′s being hunted by two old adversaries.Layers of secrets are about to be ripped apart ... is Mira the only one with a steep price to pay?
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Return to Underland

When Spinner McPherson—accompanied by his friend Reglan, and Otter, his dog—hikes deep into Echo Valley, the last thing he expects is to discover a place where creatures long-thought to be extinct still exist. But that’s exactly what he and Reglan do. They discover Underland—a place like no other on Earth. Spinner immediately envisions the fame and fortune he will gain by reporting Underland’s existence; Reglan views the situation differently, wanting Underland to remain a secret. When they part ways, each doing what they think is right, the discovery propels Spinner on a race against time to prevent Underland, and all its mystical animals and intriguing secrets, from vanishing from the Earth forever.
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Deadly Intent

orensic linguist Macy Reid is an expert on kidnapping, having been abducted when she was a child. So, she is the perfect investigator to be called in when a Denver tycoon's eleven-year-old daughter is abducted-for the second time. But Macy's biggest stumbling block may be a member of her own team: Kellan Burke, the wise-cracking, rule- breaking investigator who relishes getting under Macy's skin-and who just may be the man to help her confront the demons from her past.
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Kill-Devil and Water

In London of 1840, the economy is sliding into recession; gangs of unemployed workers roam the streets; and a murderer prowls the capital's poor neighborhoods. Pyke, still grieving over the death of his wife and struggling to shoulder his responsibilities as a father, is in debtors' prison, having lost his home and reached the edge of bankruptcy. Fitzroy Tilling, now head of the new Metropolitan Police Force gives Pyke his freedom, but in return he must agree to investigate the brutal death of a young biracial woman, who was apparently working as a prostitute. It is not long before another woman turns up dead, and Pyke begins to suspect that he has stumbled on something more sinister, and more far-reaching than the murder of a couple of prostitutes. Pyke's investigation takes him from the London docks to the sugar plantations of Jamaica, from a fading colonial mansion to the backstreets of the East End in a struggle against ambitious and ruthless enemies, as well as demons of his own.
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Arizona Dreams

A PHOENIX COLD CASE: David Mapstone has returned to Phoenix, Arizona, the desert city he left behind a lifetime ago. The ex-cop, ex-history professor is working the police dept's cold case desk, unearthing long-buried secrets. And he's good at it: as an ex-historian Mapstone knows the past is never past, as an ex-cop he knows he can't trust anybody...ARIZONA DREAMS: Mapstone has received a letter confessing to a forty-year-old murder and providing directions to the body, but things are never what they seem in Phoenix. Buried beneath a mound of bowling-ball-sized rocks in the desert west of Tonopah, there's a body right where the letter said it would be - but it's only weeks old, not years.Its not the only fresh body, either. As the death count rises, the clues keep pointing back to the same remote piece of desert and a real-estate development called Arizona Dreams. But Mapstone knows something sinister is fueling this increasingly dangerous case...
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