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The White Carnation

He’s watching, waiting...The last person disgraced reporter Faye Lewis wants back in her life is Detective Rob Halliday, her former fiancé, the man she blames for ruining her career and breaking her heart. But when she discovers her best friend’s mother murdered, she doesn’t hesitate to call him.Breaking up with Faye after she unjustly accused him of sabotaging her career was a crippling personal blow for Rob, but he coped by burying himself in his work. For the past year, his team has been hunting the Harvester, a serial killer who ritualistically murders new mothers and vanishes with their infants. What Rob doesn't need is another case, especially one involving his ex-fiancée. But,...

The Long Game - Slow Space series book 2

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Daniel Hatch

The Long Game - Slow Space series book 2

How you can have a decent space opera if you can’t travel faster than the speed of light: Stay in the spaceport, everything will come to you.Alex has come to the spaceport on Minos following the trail of his long-lost grandfather – who hasn’t been heard from for more than 100 years. His family runs a vast interstellar business empire, made possible by the soliton drive. The drive lets you leap across space and time. To you it only seems like an instant, but to everyone else the years go by, as the interest on your investments accumulates.When Alex’s father died and his estate had to be settled, one question needed to be answered: What was the fate of his grandfather. He left on a mis...

Jeffrey H Baer

THE STRICKLAND FILE

Gary Strickland is astonished to lose his job before proposing to his childhood sweetheart Angela and braces for a lengthy search through the maze of New York City companies. Three days later Alex Schneider, a successful trade paper’s CFO, hires the recent college graduate to collect unpaid amounts from advertisers. But no sooner is Gary wedged among stingy clients, selfish coworkers, and his frazzled manager, than he and Angela learn they’ll become parents before husband and wife. Three months later Gary’s company-wide invitation to his engagement party inadvertently enrages Alex, who then manipulates the young and unproven employee to protect his own fragile position. After Gary...

Jeffrey H Baer

A SONG APART

Rising pop singer Shannon Kistler never expected to see college student Kevin Derow on a Manhattan street wearing her concert shirt. But she offers gratitude in her own way, leaving her biggest fan in shock. When the two teenagers meet again six days later, Shannon slips Kevin her phone number, and the unlikely romance begins. Soon they find they have several things in common: lonely childhoods, a passion for music, and making unpopular choices about their own lives. The public cannot take Shannon seriously as a teenaged recording artist, but she risks her sudden success by making some public mistakes after breaking into a soulless music industry with unusual ease. Meanwhile Kevin loses...

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Lister Fielding

Bill the burglar

On a cold post Christmas evening, a boy, Albert Ramsbottom, is walking his dog ‘Lucky’ when he detects a burglar breaking into a neighbour’s house. He decides to act and thwart Bill , the burglar. Will he succeed in preventing the crime?

The Ickles® First Bite!: 20 taste-tempting stories including HEROICKLE and the Alien Invasion.

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A. J. Eccles

The Ickles® First Bite!: 20 taste-tempting stories including HEROICKLE and the Alien Invasion.

The Ickles® are proud to dish up 20 mind-tingling short stories to delight readers whose appetite includes fun, fantasy, adventure, and sci-fi themes– you certainly won’t go hungry.

If you like aliens, AI robots, sharks, octopus and mermaid stories, plus animals, bugs, boats and planes you'll love these Ickle stories. Each page-turning tale transports you to a whimsical world of pure imagination.

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Graham Wilson

The Victim

2 faces on TV - VICTIM and KILLER - which is she? She thought she'd escaped. Now a man's remains are found in a remote Australian waterhole. Police say MURDER! She is linked to it, brought back from England, and charged with the crime. Newspapers say, "KILLED HER LOVER, FED HIM TO CROCODILES!" She will tell nobody what happened on that fateful day!

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Chuck Morgan

Resurrection: The Deadly Mission

THERE IS A DANGER RISING FROM THE DEEP...In the year 2024, a mysterious electrical storm has resurrected a long-lost Nazi submarine from the depths of the North Atlantic. FBI Special Agent Sarah Carter's world is turned upside down when she receives a call from a naval officer, warning her of the submarine's dangerous cargo: an atomic bomb. Bound for New York City, the sub and its crew, revived after eighty years, are determined to fulfill their mission given to them by Hitler himself. Destroy the City of New York. Sarah must race against time to stop them before they destroy the unsuspecting city. With her skills and determination, she is the only one who can put an end to this deadly threa...

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Thomas L Hay

The Abduction Chronicles

Who are the abductors? Where are they from? What do they want? Where are they hiding? Travel the globe and the future as the author searches and uncovers the hidden secret's that had been buried in his subconscious. Inspired by some true life events of the author. Written in a conversational memoir style, it is an entertaining tale that will have the reader questioning whether it is a real memoir, a hallucination, or a fermentation of an imagination. A story filled with mystery, suspense, and a forbidden love intertwined with a few twists and turns.

NOTE: This book was awarded the PIPS Quality Award.

Shannon MacLeod

Embrace The Lace

In the rugged highlands of 17th-century Scotland, Andrew MacIver has to deal with a crumbling castle, a comically inept cook, and a dangerous power-hungry uncle. At twenty and five, Andrew is already a widower and the chieftain of his large clan. Amidst all this, the clan's expectations loom large — he must find a noble wife, befitting his status, to secure his lineage. With the clan gathering on the horizon, Andrew prepares to fulfill his duty, but fate has some other plans.Enter Paisley Evangeline Darling, known as Van, a modern-day maverick with dreams as big as her spirit. An avid fan of Tony Stark and on the brink of a major academic milestone...

Steve Sheppard

A Very Important Teapot

Dawson’s life is going nowhere. Out of work and nearly out of money, he is forlornly pursuing the love of Rachel Whyte. But Rachel is engaged to Pat Bootle, an apparently successful local solicitor who has appeared from nowhere.Then, out of the blue, Dawson receives a job offer from the bloke he thinks is his best friend which involves him jumping on a plane to Australia to await further instructions. Instructions which turn out to be: Go to Yackandandah.This is the start of a frantic chase around south eastern Australia with half the local underworld, spies from three different countries, two off-duty police officers, the beautiful but mysterious Lucy Smith and a journalist with a drink p...

Stephen B. Anthony

Transmigrant

Humanity's reach extends across four planets. Earth, its population halved, is slowly healing, reclaiming its lost beauty.For centuries, the Niruku Corporation has shaped humanity’s future, sending genetically engineered colonists—“transmigrants”—aboard generation ships to prepare new worlds for settlement. But beneath the façade of progress lies a chilling truth: the colonists are enslaved, their lifespans cruelly shortened, their reproduction strictly controlled, their existence erased from history once their purpose is fulfilled.Kaylie Stewart, a Niruku geneticist, uncovers the corporation’s sinister colonization project and risks everything to escape with Estia, an orphan wh...

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The White Carnation

The Long Game - Slow Space series book 2

THE STRICKLAND FILE

A SONG APART

Bill the burglar

The Ickles® First Bite!: 20 taste-tempting stories including HEROICKLE and the Alien Invasion.

The Victim

Resurrection: The Deadly Mission

The Abduction Chronicles

Embrace The Lace

A Very Important Teapot

Transmigrant