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The Crimson Key : Wes Dodd
The Crimson Key
David Paige, a young detective from Charleston, S.C., is about to embark on an investigation of a lifetime.
After an unexpected tragedy shatters his perfect world, he also discovers that his mother had been keeping a life-long secret from him, revealing that he is not who he believed he was.
With no family member to turn to, David has to rely on his detective skills and a mysterious item left to him from his mother…a crimson-colored key.
The search for the truth takes David to New York City, where he runs head on into lies, deception and murder, all in an attempt to cover up a string of dreadful crimes.
Then if this is not enough to deal with, he falls for the daughter of a prominent man, both sharing an unexplainable attraction, which complicates his life even further.
It isn’t until a near-death experience, and the help of his mother through several frightening nightmares, that the pieces of the puzzle begin to come together.
The Crimson Key ultimately unveils many secrets, surprising many people including David, which opens his eyes and heart as well.
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The Labors of Ki’shto’ba Huge-Head : Lorinda J. Taylor
The Labors of Ki’shto’ba Huge-Head: Volume One: The War of the Stolen Mother
Intelligent termites relive Greek myth! At the end of the novel The Termite Queen, Ki’shto’ba Huge-Head and Di’fa’kro’mi, the Champion and Remembrancer (Bard) of the Shshi, decide to set out on an epic journey to reach the sea, inspired by tales told by the humans with whom they have just made first contact.
Early in the story, we learn that Ki’shto’ba may have been sired by a Sky-King, that it has a twin, and that its life is enmeshed in many prophecies. After being joined by four Companions, including Ki’shto’ba’s twin, two Worker/Helpers, and a clever outcast Worker, the travelers find themselves caught up in a long war.
Ki’shto’ba swears to defend one of the warring fortresses but is forced to foreswear its oath and join the enemy when it learns it has been deceived – that this fortress has committed an unspeakable act that threatens the very Shshi Way of Life …
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Vengeance of the Werewolf : Mercedes Ludill
Vengeance of the Werewolf
Werewolves are living in town. Some are good, some are bad, and some are really bad.
Vengeance of the Werewolf is filled with suspense of the hunt for the werewolf, explicit sexual situations, gore as only werewolves can inspire. This book isn’t intended for younger readers as it is rated R.
Wolfcreek’s werewolves are raw, dangerous, compassionate, vengeful, vicious,and human.
There are no mad beasts here; these monsters know exactly what they are doing as they retain their human control when in beast form.
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Missing Rebecca : John Worsley Simpson
Missing Rebecca
Death and deception. After a whirlwind romance, Liam and Rebecca marry, knowing almost nothing of each other’s backgrounds.
Only months later, on an afternoon shopping trip to a mall in the Buffalo, New York, suburb of Cheektowaga, Rebecca vanishes, seemingly abducted.
Or did she make herself disappear? Was the marriage a sham? Was Liam a dupe?
This is a novel of high crimes and dark shadows, involving the immensely profitable drug industry in which exclusive access to the market for a medication can mean billions of dollars, and holding on to that exclusivity might lead to lies, deceit, corruption, payoffs, and even murder.
The Ancient Ones : Lori Hines
The Ancient Ones
Lorelei Lanier is adjusting to the powerful connections she has to spirits. Unfortunately, her medium abilities are only the beginning.
While working a dark arts case with the FBI and the Arizona-Irish Paranormal Research Society, she discovers she is the reincarnation of Annie O’Shea, the original owner of the Texas Canyon Ranch where the mystery unfolds. And Lorelei’s astral abilities that saved her from a mine three years ago are becoming stronger upon discovery of an extinct, ancient race of people.
Underground tunnels, Stonehenge-like monuments, petroglyphs of the solar system, an alternate dimension and hidden Indian ruins—clues discovered in southeast Arizona pertaining to the ancient ones existence. But Lorelei has much more to worry about than the supernatural. She is struggling with her feelings for fellow investigator Ian Healy. Pagan and Wiccan, it is Ian’s ability to heal with his eyes that captures her heart.
Two mysteries, one in Southeast Arizona and the other north of Flagstaff, soon culminate into a new reality for Lorelei Lanier. Will she be prepared for what the ancient ones have in store?
The Long Shadow : Loretta Proctor
The Long Shadow
Fourteen-year-old Andrew discovers his mother’s hidden diary at his grandmother’s home during a Christmas gathering. His eyes are opened to a family secret when he reads about her time as a nurse in Salonika during the First World War, and the tragic love affair she had with his father, a Greek officer who died in battle.
Four years later, Andrew is compelled to visit his father’s land and trace his roots. What—and whom—he finds there will change his life forever.
The Long Shadow is filled with descriptions of Greece and its people. Dramatic images of battle and the terrible conditions endured by the Allied Armies entrenched around Salonika in the “Birdcage” are authentic and vivid. Greek music and dance play a vital role, reconciling in Andrew the dichotomy of belonging to two very different cultures and helping him to unite them in his heart and soul.
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The Pyramid Legacy : Clive Eaton
The Pyramid Legacy
For over four millennia the Great Pyramid of Giza has guarded a secret image; until NOW!
A prominent Egyptologist is murdered by a colleague, deep within the bowels of the Great Pyramid of Giza. The authorities are keen to cover it up, but they know they can’t achieve total closure whilst English robotics engineer, Ben Anderson, remains in possession of a powerful image. An image, which suggests the Great Pyramid at Giza was not built by ancient Egyptians.
Anderson manages to escape Egypt at the earliest opportunity, together with his astrophysicist girlfriend, Samantha Gibson, but the authorities are quickly on their tail when it becomes evident they have arrested the wrong person.
Keen to establish who really built the Pyramids, Anderson seeks to gain additional proof to support his theory. As he and Gibson begin to discover a series of seemingly disparate clues, they soon realise that everything is far from straightforward.
Whilst seeking additional resources, Gibson is unwittingly embroiled in the internal politics of the US military, with the result that she becomes a pawn in a vicious power struggle involving a corrupt senior officer. Her path crosses that of an ex-lover and her relationship with Anderson stretches to breaking point.
As Anderson begins to see Gibson from a totally different perspective, his focus changes, and he pushes himself well beyond the limits of his comfort zone in an attempt to discover the truth. Gibson is now prepared to do anything to fulfil a lifetime ambition, but as her objective becomes almost within her grasp a virulent virus threatens to stop her . . . and Anderson has the antidote . . . together with a totally different agenda. And so an unprecedented race begins to finally reveal the true legacy of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
The Pyramid Legacy is a thriller, but also has a story of love and deceit deeply woven in.
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Crystal Promise : James Funfer
Crystal Promise: The Shattered Crystal: Book 1
The country of Novem is in a dire state of affairs. Still recovering from a great war in which they were the aggressor, an economic depression has swept the continent and leaves Novem in the throes of poverty. The republic struggles to hold back a revolution, but strong socialist sentiments threaten Novem’s stability, and many seek to return Novem to its former glory as a powerful totalitarian empire.
Novem runs on crystals mined from the ground, but many consider them to be more than just a power source. The Church of Novem worships a ‘Great Crystal’, which is thought to be a liaison between the gods and humanity. Those who can alter crystals at will, known as crystal-speakers, are an important part of that link between the earth and the divine.
For finishing school students Jacoby, Timori, Racquela and Crystara, concerns about revolutions and the church are overshadowed by school, dances, sports and summer vacations. But when the Great Crystal selects its arranged marriages that year, a chain of events is set into motion that threatens to upset the entire nation. Betrothal promises are made with rings of crystal, but if they shatter, hearts are not the only things that will break…
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Senseless Confidential : Martin Bannon
Senseless Confidential
“Hardly a day goes by when some f&%#head doesn’t want to shoot me. Today is no exception.”
Meet Nick Prince, who wants nothing more than to go drown his sorrows at the Safari Club and pine for Beth, his lost college love. But before he can do that, his job with the U.S. Census Bureau requires him to face down reluctant respondents in the remote forests of Oregon, who repel him with everything from pit bulls to shotguns.
When a chance encounter in the tiny town of Elwood lands him in the midst of a loopy polygamist clan, it sets off a wild, wacky race to save himself, his job, and his bleeding heart. You won’t know whether to laugh or cry as Nick struggles to sort out the multiple warrants and women that stand between him and his sanity.
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Henrietha : Joyce M. Johnson
Henrietha
A pair of novellas about friendship and endurance in the face of hardship.
In the titular story, Johnson introduces an unlikely pair of friends: Joanna White, a white Canadian journalist struggling to overcome the breakup of her long-term relationship, and Henrietha Browne, a Jamaican woman who has seen her share of troubles. Henrietha relates her history of oppression and abuse as well as her quest to find autonomy in a world beset with racism, sexism and poverty.
In the process, Joanna comes to a deeper understanding of her own oppression and how her identity, while playing a role in both her successes and failures, is more of a bridge than a barrier to her communion with women of all races and backgrounds.
A smaller novella follows, Waiting for the World to Change, with a similar structure as black lawyer Susan Ottawa seeks counsel with Jamaican housekeeper Anita Kingsley. As they share their feelings about men, religion and racism, Susan sees her life in a new light and slowly opens her heart to Anita’s brand of optimistic spirituality.
Cathartic and politically thoughtful, the stories it contains look pointedly at injustices that go ignored and say things that need to be said.