For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future—a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire—both scientists and scholars—and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation. But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. And mankind’s last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and live as slaves—or take a stand for freedom and risk total destruction. Views: 27
In this latest thriller from *New York Times* bestselling author Jefferson Bass, Dr. Bill Brockton discovers the dark side of the Sunshine state when he's called in to investigate human remains found on the grounds of a boys' reform school in Florida
The Bone Yard
The onset of summer brings predictably steamy weather to the Body Farm, Dr. Bill Brockton's human-decomposition research facility at the University of Tennessee. But Brockton's about to get more heat than he's bargained for when Angie St. Claire, a forensic analyst with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, asks him to help prove that her sister's death was not suicide, but murder. Brockton's quick consulting trip takes a long, harrowing detour when bones begin turning up amid the pines and live oaks of the Florida panhandle. Two adolescent skulls — ravaged by time and animals, but bearing the telltale signs of lethal fractures — send Brockton, Angie, and Special Agent Stu Vickery on a search for the long-lost victims. The quest leads them to the ruins of the North Florida Boys' Reformatory, a notorious juvenile detention facility that met a fiery end more than forty years ago. Guided by the discovery of a diary kept by one of the school's young "students," Brockton's team finds a cluster of shallow graves, all of them containing the bones of boys who suffered violent deaths. The graves confirm one of the diary's grim claims: that one wrong move could land a boy in the Bone Yard. But as the investigation expands, it encounters opposition from the local sheriff, who's less than delighted to find forensic experts from the state capital and the Body Farm digging up dirt in his county. As Brockton and his team close in on the truth, they find skeletons in some surprisingly prominent closets… and they learn that the ghosts of the past pose perilous consequences in the present. Views: 27
AN UNSPOKEN LOVE BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE WHO WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR EACH OTHER, BUT WON’T ADMIT IT. Things are not looking good for Samantha Fox and her ‘partner’, the gorgeous former playboy, Brian Morton. Their new gym is not attracting customers, thanks to a crushing campaign from a rival gym. Having sunk all his money into Sam’s dream, Brian is almost destitute. Views: 27
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 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. Views: 27
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? Views: 27
