Bad Deeds

Wall Street meets the Sons of Anarchy in Bad Deeds, the smoldering, scorching next novel in the explosively sexy Dirty Money series from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones. Would you bleed for the one you love? To save his family empire from the grip of the drug cartel, Shane is pushed to the edge of darkness, forced to make choices he might never make. His father is dying. His brother is desperate to rule the empire and this means war and all gloves are off. His brother only thought he knew what dirty meant. Shane is about to give it new meaning. There is another war brewing though, and that one, is inside him, his battle between right and wrong, light and dark, and in the heat of the night, it is Emily he turns to for escape. Driving her to new limits, pushing her to accept a part of him that even he cannot. In every one of Shane's seductive demands, Emily can taste and feel, his torment, his struggle to save his family and not lose himself. But he is losing himself, and that is a problem just as dangerous as her secret, that still lurk in the shadows, a threat to the Brandon Family waiting to erupt. No matter where she and Shane have traveled, or will travel in the future, she can't just sit back and watch him become everything he hates, everything he never wanted to become, everything she tried to save him from when she tried to run. It could be their undoing, the end. His end. This is war, blood will spill, and someone in the heart of the Brandon family will not survive.... This is book THREE of FOUR in Shane and Emily's story.
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Sympathy for the devil

SUMMARY: Be careful what you wish for...One day, dayne Kuttner, a nurse, couldn't take it anymore. Sick at heart from doctors ordering her to maintain the life in patients who were already dead, saving people who didn't want the help, and most of all angry over the thought her recently deceased husband would rot in Hell for an eternity on a technicality, Dayne threw up a challenge to God. She asked that God should have sympathy for the Devil and those in Hell should get a second chance. Throughout the time of man, God had always answered people's prayers if they were done in perfect sincerity, purity and belief.So God grants Dayne's request. In His Fashion.A few of Hell's denizens are to be released to Earth so long as they follow a few rules. Lucifer, sensing a once-in-an-eternity opportunity, puts his second-in-command, Agonostis, in charge of the "Hellraised." Agonostis, currently out of favor with his leader, wonders if he's being set up. His suspicions are confirmed when Lucifer takes him aside to tell him about a second special mission while he's on Earth: within a month he must Damn Dayne's soul. A person unarguably on God's special list...
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Unspoken

She came back three days after, early in the morning.... Death is not the end in this haunting short story from the author of Thread and The Cannibal's Daughter.The preoccupation stage of our existence, determines our type of evolution, and future. Preordain is a cosmic inter global and intergalactic glow-flow of every critical and relative performed actions and inaction. Everyone plays and intricate role, whether ying or yang, everyone that ever existed, contributes to our stepping stone relay future, of our earth, and off course the universe.
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The Edge Of Honor (Part One)

When a forensic psychologist warns the city of San Diego about a modern day Jack the Ripper on live TV, she becomes the killer's next target and must work with her black ops fiancé to catch the Savior before it’s too late.When honor becomes disgrace…When two boys form an alliance in 1958 Brooklyn, neither realizes that sworn friends will later become bitter enemies. John Edge and Vince DeMeneoDISCLAIMER: This is SERIAL, not a book, novella, or short story. Each section will be approximately 10,000 words, some more, some less. This serial should be read in the correct order. I am planning on releasing each new section 3-5 weeks apart, This is a Romantic Thriller that contains adult language and violence. Does NOT contain erotica.When a forensic psychologist warns the city of San Diego about a modern day Jack the Ripper on live TV, she becomes the killer's next target and must work with her black ops fiancé to catch the Savior before it’s too late.When honor becomes disgrace…When two boys form an alliance in 1958 Brooklyn, neither realizes that sworn friends will later become bitter enemies. John Edge and Vince DeMeneo live by a code. When that code is broken, it will cost them their children, because inevitably what goes around, does at some point, come around.Their honor has created a monster.A brilliant madman is watching….A serial killer the media has dubbed the “Savior” is terrorizing San Diego. He is a chameleon, a computer hacker who can create and delete his identity at will. He blazes through firewalls, strolls through doors that are closed to millions, and dreams about saving the world against sin. He’s a wizard, a god, a ruthless killer. What started as a friendship has become something more…When Jessica Bentley’s horrific past rises from the shadows and threatens her life, Jake Kincaid must find the Savior before the Savior finds Jessi.Wanted for murder, Jake is the Navy SEAL whose choices could lock him away. Jessi must face her worst fear or face certain death.How far will a man go to save the woman he loves? The answer is simple--all the way over the edge.
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Beneath the Secrets

Blake Walker left behind the ATF when the drug cartel he was hunting cost him the life of his fellow agent, and fiancee. Now, two years later, he's working with his brothers at Walker Security, but he's living fast, hard, and wild, until he reaches the ultimate high...revenge. He's one meeting, one woman, away from being inside one of the money laundering shells the cartel operates. Their two will paths collide. Two people who will do anything, including sleeping with the enemy, to avenge or save someone they love. But what if everything isn't as it seems and the enemy isn't the enemy at all? Can these two broken people drawn together by their sizzling hot attraction see beyond their pain and their need for vengeance Undoubtedly, they will face the ghosts of their pasts, but will those ghost destroy them or forever bind them?
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Old Dog New Tricks

Daniel Kilcannon, the veterinarian known as the Dogfather, has been widowed for four years. He's spent the time running the largest canine rescue and training facility in North Carolina and pulling some strings to make sure each of his six grown children find a love like the one he lost when his beloved Annie died. But as the years slip by, Daniel's vow to never love again is starting to make him restless. When a woman who was pivotal to his past arrives in Bitter Bark, he wonders if her appearance is coincidence or the guiding hand of his dearly departed wife...but the truth is neither. She's about to change his life again in ways he could never have imagined. And Daniel isn't sure if his heart — or his family — will ever recover from the impact. Like every other book in this popular series, the cover of Old Dog New Tricks was shot at Alaqua Animal Refuge in the author's home state of Florida using only rescue dogs (and local guys)...
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At the Sight of Holly: A Barrington Billionaire Winter Novella

Jeannette Winters Barrington Billionaires series is part of the larger Barrington World shared by Jeannette Winters; her sister, Ruth Cardello; and her niece, Danielle Stewart. The timeline of each author's Barrington Billionaires series will mirror and their characters will intermingle. It isn’t necessary to read all three, but it will greatly enhance your enjoyment.77 pagesVinny Hartman found hiding from the truth difficult, but not impossible. It just meant starting over where no one knew him. He didn’t care how hard the road was, he was free to live his life, his way.Janet Holly couldn’t pass up a promotion, even one that took her to the other side of the world. This wasn’t just another job, it could be the start of a new career. Without friends or family there to distract her, nothing should prevent her from proving she was an asset to the Hendersons.Yet when their paths cross, fate seemed to have other plans for them. Vinny’s secret is revealed and Janet finds herself being torn in two. Will they deny their attraction or will they follow their hearts and give into the sparks waiting to ignite and consume them both?
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Disillusioned, A Stan Turner Mystery Vol 2

Stan returns to law school after narrowly escaping the United States Marines Corps and court martial for the murder of his drill sergeant. He thinks law school should be a snap after the ordeal he has just endured, but he is wrong and quickly finds himself mired in a web of intrigue and deception that threatens both him and his family.After being discharged from the United States Marine Corps, Stan ends up in Dallas where he intends to finish law school. In the spring of 1976, while attending SMU, he is recruited into the Republican party, elected county chairman, and finds himself helping President Gerald Ford in his campaign against Jimmy Carter. The campaign is marred, however by an untimely FBI investigation into the financial dealings of a major party contributor, Brad Thornton.The investigation unleashes an avalanche of misfortune beginning with the alleged murder-suicide of Stan’s friend, Rob Shepard, his wife Cindy and their three children and culminating in the resignation of two Republican candidates for the 67th District’s state representative seat. Stan, who can’t believe his best friend could have murdered his family, launches his own personal investigation to clear Rob’s name. When the investigation turns up new evidence that threatens members of a powerful Mexican drug cartel, Stan becomes the target of Cartel thugs and hit men. Undaunted by these threats, Stan enlists the help of a resourceful classmate, Paula Waters, and a law professor, Harry Hertel (aka Snake) and undertakes a dangerous mission to extract a key witness held by the Cartel at a Mexican resort. Still saddled with the responsibly to field a candidate in the 67th District Stan recruits his assistant, Kristina Tenison, for the job. Kristina is reluctant to run as no woman has ever been elected to this office since Reconstruction, but when Stan agrees to be her campaign manager, and promises her she’ll win, she reluctantly enters the race against the veteran incumbent, Ron Wells. But as the election draws near and she still finds herself lagging in the polls, she wonders if she hasn’t made a big mistake and questions Stan’s continued assurances that she’ll win.
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Cry of the Cicada (Short)

An ode to classic creature fiction. This Cicada brood is something new.Entomologist Kate Wolfe and her precocious daughter, Sasha, join a team of scientists in Florida to investigate a Cicada infestation. What begins as a working holiday turns to horror when they encounter the abnormally large and aggressive insects. (Short Story: 9000 words)
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The Colonels Timely Bride (Timely Bride Book 1)

She’s a modern woman with a mind of her own. He’s a colonel in His Majesty’s Army and the son of an earl. Do they have a chance to make a timeless love match?The last thing Mckenzie James expected when she visited England for her grandmother’s funeral was to find a time portal. Now, stuck two hundred years in the past, she must rely on her new friend, Miss Georgiana Darcy, to help her transform into a proper regency lady. All is going well until she meets Georgiana’s dashing cousin, Colonel Fitzwilliam. Suddenly, hiding her identity isn’t her only problem…she must protect her heart, too!Colonel Richard Fitzwilliam wants what his cousin Darcy has- a love match. Unfortunately, society demands he marry a wealthy woman from a noble family. His duty has always been a bittersweet one, but now it is almost more than he can bear, for he is losing his heart to the mysterious Miss James.How can such a match work? Will his family- or her secret- be the wedge that divides them…forever?
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