Hiding in the shadows, lurking in the dark is a monster waiting to pounce, to suck the life from Alisa’s body, but what the monster doesn’t know is that Alisa will not be easy prey.As America approaches the middle of the 21st century, the total student loan debt outstanding has passed the $7 trillion mark. Hundreds of thousands of student loan debtors have fled a decaying American dystopia, searching for opportunity overseas. Mick Larson is one of these, having long ago ran out on his boring job while bravely leaving behind his massive student loan debt. He now lives comfortably in a Caribbean beach town with the money that he has been conning out of terrorist financiers while posing online as a radicalized American convert.Unfortunately for the student loan debt runaways, debt collectors have started to hunt them down. Now Mick finds himself targeted for collection, a process that can end in death. The feared student loan debt collector known only as 'The Executioner' has pinned down Mick's location, with the goal of confiscating his sizable cash reserves. The Executioner strongly believes that those who have fled the United States while leaving unpaid debts behind are responsible for the sad decline of America. His career of chasing down loan defaulters is part profit, part idealistic, and usually successful. And hoping to use Mick as bait to capture and bury alive The Executioner is Alison, a violent anarchist with a short temper and a long list of kills - mostly other anarchists. Alison has more than one set of loyalties. But today she is putting all that aside in her quest to kill The Executioner. All three want something from each other, and it won't likely be resolved peacefully. Views: 295
International news photographer Mike Scott is on assignment in The Bahamas working on a story about the recovery being made by Tiger Sharks because of the island-nation’s no take laws. When he discovers several sharks that have been finned and thrown back in the ocean to die, he goes searching for the most dangerous predator in the ocean: Man!Is there a problem at the behavioral science lab? No one is responding. Has something gone terribly wrong? The ownership has sent Jason Brentwood to find out. What he finds is hard to describe. Has everyone gone a little crazy? Or have some of the subjects received a long overdue and richly deserved freedom? It may depend on your perspective. Animal lovers may rejoice at this...then again---maybe not. Views: 294
A new era of Firefly canon in the fourth original novel tie-in of the much-missed Firefly series from creator Joss Whedon.
A mysterious star map
On an Outer Rim moon, Captain Malcolm Reynolds ends a card game the lucky winner of an old map covered in mysterious symbols. The former owner insists it's worthless; back on Serenity, River Tam is able to interpret it.
An ancient legend
River claims the map points the way to one of the Arks: legendary generation ships that brought humans from Earth- That-Was to the 'Verse. The salvage potential alone is staggering.
A drifting relic
As the crew approach the aged floating ship, they find it isn't quite as dead as it first seemed. The closer they get, the more agitated River becomes. She claims something is waiting on board, something powerful, and very angry... Views: 294
Guardian, Book One of the Guardian series is a roller coaster ride that will leave you questioning what you believe about our heavenly protectors. Thrilling, engrossing and impossible to put down, Guardian will have readers talking for years to come! And Book One is only the beginning . . . .Fifteen years ago, Alexandra Nolan witnessed her parents' murder on the side of a dark mountain highway. Now she wants nothing more than to forget Saluda, North Carolina and the life she once had there. When she is called back to the sleepy, mountain town to reclaim her family home, Alex is forced to face her fears and the memories she has tried so desperately to suppress. When the same evil that claimed her family returns for Alex, she must learn to rely on her broken faith and the strength of her Guardian, Donovan, to survive.But there is a problem.Alex cannot see him. Donovan exists in a reality apart from Alex and her lack of belief limits their interactions to spoken words and fleeting glimpses. With her life staked on her faith, can Alex open her mind enough to see before it's too late? Views: 293
America is on the brink of collapse, devastated by a brutal government trying to silence its citizens, in The Coming Storm, the next action-packed thriller from Mark Alpert.New York City, 2023: Rising seas and superstorms have ravaged the land. Food and electricity are scarce. A dangerous Washington regime has terrorized the city, forcing the most vulnerable and defenseless people into the flood-ravaged neighborhoods. The new laws are enforced by an army of genetically enhanced soldiers, designed to be the fiercest and cruelest of killers. Genetic scientist Dr. Jenna Khan knows too much about how these super-soldiers were engineered: by altering the DNA sequence in ways that could change the fabric of humanity.Escaping arrest and on the run, Jenna joins forces with a genetically enhanced soldier gone rogue and a Brooklyn gang kingpin to resist the government's plan to manipulate the DNA of all Americans. The race is on to stop the evil... Views: 293
A family picks up a hitchhiker in the worst blizzard in living memory. It's a mistake. Brand is not who he seems, to the mother, the father or the daughter. He is something more, something they fear in their own ways, and soon after the thaw they are all seeing him again. They begin to learn things about themselves, and each other, which perhaps would be best left unknown. And they begin to realise other, more painful truths ... love blinds . Fear distorts . Hate misleads. Views: 293
English Private Eye Sam Dyke tracks down a vicious killer who seems to have no regard for the law ... or anything else.Making a killing in business is one thing - doing it for real is another.Private Investigator Sam Dyke turns down a job that would require skills that he doesn't have - patience, computer-literacy, tact. Then he finds that the skills he does have - tenacity, aggression, street-smarts - are exactly the ones he needs for his next case - hunting down a cold-blooded murderer who seems to know what his every step will be.To solve the case Sam must negotiate with his ex-wife, cement a relationship with a new love, unravel an office-based financial fraud and fight off an arrogant murderer armed only with a pen-knife. Altered Life is fast-paced, bitterly comic and introduces a tough new English private eye who knows what he wants and, usually, how to get it. Views: 293
-White House Protection Force story #2- Colonel Michael Gibson left the field after twenty years to take command of Delta Force. Two years later he wonders at what mental aberration made him do it. A lifelong warrior, White House and Pentagon politics are now his battlefield, not directing operations as he should be. With a child on the way, his normal mission plans for survival are all failing him. A lifetime ago, retired spy Miss Watson, turned White House librarian, gave her all for her country. Her one regret? Betraying the Soviet general she fell in love with. Betraying him to his death. Perhaps together, with some help from their young friend Dilya, they can find the answers lost Between Shadow and Soul. Views: 293
