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A Quiet Place in the Country
by Heather Parker
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Jessica enjoys her work as community copper in a small English village - until a young girl is found dead at the bottom of Lowther Crag. As the policewoman starts to investigate, she finds disturbing undercurrents in her quiet community. With the help of the local doctor, she sets out to uncover the girl's dark secrets, but soon finds her own life threatened... (Published: 2009)
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Night Shift: Book 2
by M. King
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What connects an Animal Control Officer, a hound with bright red ears, and an elf dressed in black leathers? Rebecah Pearsall is about to find out, and it has nothing to do with Santa's workshop. This Christmas, Rebecah has to make a choice that shouldn't even exist. Trouble is, it could be the most important decision of her life. (Published: 2008)
Words: 4922 - Reading Time: 14-19 min.
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Hosts
by Dylan J. Morgan
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On a Canadian mountainside above the ski resort of Snow Peak, archaeologists have made a fantastic discovery: a First Nation family frozen in ice, superbly preserved. The man is exhumed for examination, but what resides within his mummified body is something science has never seen before. Experts brought in to control the situation have their own ulterior motives, and Sheriff Richard Wade and Doctor Lauren Kemper are the only lifeline for a town plunged into a nightmare. Snow Peak is isolated, c... more info>> (Published: 2008)
Words: 72312 - Reading Time: 206-289 min.
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A Parasol in a Hurricane
by James Greer
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What would you risk to keep a promise to someone you hardly knew? Your job, your marriage.... Your life? Parasol in a Hurricane poses that question to a young policewoman and dares her to choose. Karen O'Neil is a California girl with a domineering husband, ripped from a sun-drenched, stimulating life as a San Diego cop and spirited away to the isolation of rural Wisconsin. Talented, attractive and intense, she is cut off from everything she knows except how to be a police officer. She works for... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 8917 - Reading Time: 25-35 min.
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After the Fall of Night
by Sherri Lee Claytor
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Jackson County, Wisconsin was a tranquil area of the globe, until murder struck the small community. The local sheriff investigates and begins unearthing things he never imagined possible. An immortal shape-shifter... Nightwalker, Corin von Vadim, inhabits a secluded sprawling estate in the town of Hixton. An enigmatic loner, he hides the fact that during the daylight hours, he rests within the dark confines of the earth, only rising after twilight--a routine he has carried out for five hundred ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 87934 - Reading Time: 251-351 min.
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Casey's Luck
by Maggi Coleman
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When Casey Rowan finds her best friend Donald Broughton murdered and his wife Tessa unconscious, she embarks on a search for their attacker. The Devon police aren't happy, particularly the man in charge of the investigation, DCI Roderick Carlisle. A woman's magazine editor, Casey uses her experience to pursue leads. She uncovers a puzzling list of artworks--and discovers she didn't know the Broughtons as well as she thought. Desire to clear Donald's name and find his killer drives Casey on, even... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Dark Roads
by J.G. Craig
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Dark Roads The passengers of a broken down bus in the lonely Highlands of Scotland are about to face the darkness... Why is there a deserted village that looks for all the world like it was made of and moulded from plastic? Why do the passengers start to disappear one by one? And what are the strange manifestations that baffle the confused, remaining passengers? Lost in an unearthly fog that never dissipates, fate will eventually find these people and take them to new lives or to the other side ... more info>> (Published: 2007)
Words: 32840 - Reading Time: 93-131 min.
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Dismember
by Daniel Pyle
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The summer he turned seven, Dave Abbott survived a gruesome mountainside car accident that left the rest of his family savaged and dead. Now, after living twenty-three years with the twisted backwoodsman who pulled him from the wreckage, Dave is carrying out a plan to replace each of his lost loved ones with members of nearby, unsuspecting families. He has prepared, he's stalked, and now his chance has come to get his family safely out of the mounta (Published: 2009)
Words: 82050 - Reading Time: 234-328 min.
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How to Avoid Writer's Hell: The Query-Go-Round
by Faith Bicknell-Brown
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This is book IV of a series that addresses most of what there is to know about writing a tight, exciting story. Finally, the long-awaited The Query-Go-Round addresses writing the dreaded query letter, the synopsis, and even how to compose confusing bibliographies. In Laymen's terms and with a touch of irreverent humor (and her rolled newspaper...mwahaha!), Ms. Bicknell-Brown delivers another installment that will help you learn as you laugh and have fun. (Published: 2008)
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Into the Soul of Madness
by Rob Seyk
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In the final year of college, Gregg Mason's criminal psychology professor, Dr. Max Madwen, offers him the assignment of a lifetime--to interview three serial killers. During his first interview, Gregg unlocks a secret power buried deep within him. The moment he makes eye contact with the serial killers, he discovers the ability to enter their souls and see everything that person has lived and experienced. As he delves deeper into each killer's soul, Gregg finds a link between all three. Soldiers... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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Night Shift: Part 1
by M. King
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Animal Control Officer Rebecah Pearsall hates working the night shift, especially in the run-up to Christmas. With a full moon rising over Seattle, even more crazy people than usual roaming the streets, and an on-off romance with her boss to contend with, Rebecah just doesn't need any more complications. But an encounter behind the local pizzeria with the strangest dog she's ever seen brings Gabe into her life, and he's not your run-of-the-mill, black-leather-clad hottie. The question is, what d... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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Samhane
by Daniel I. Russell
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"For weeks, I have tossed and turned in my bed in turmoil over whether to publish this. But the people of this town must be warned. Everyone must be aware of the danger lurking in the dark, waiting." Samhane. Just a sleepy town in the rolling hills of northern England. A nice place to live. Few people know the truth. Donald Patterson travels to Samhane in pursuit of a sadistic murderer and rapist. Unless Donald reaches Orchard House by midnight, his fiancee will be the star of the next torturous... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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Amber's Mysterious Death [Sheryl Locke Holmes Mysteries: Book 1]
by C.L. Exline
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The game's afoot when Sheryl Locke Holmes spots Amber's husband, Roger, who'd disappeared without a trace after Amber's tragic death. With the help of her sidekick, Dot Watson, Sheryl follows Roger and a trail of amber jewelry which leads to duplicity, mayhem and murder. As different as day and night, Sheryl, Dot and Amber bonded like sisters during college. Their friend's death left unanswered questions and an unidentifiable body. This time Sheryl won't stop until she gets answers--and avenges ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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American Samurai
by Steve Hendry
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At the demand of his father, Steve Johnson, an eleven-year-old Air Force brat, is trained in the martial arts by a vicious underground Japanese gang. At fourteen, he gets involved in a terrible martial arts fight with a veteran SAS commando and kills him. Witnessed by the CIA, he's coerced into their assassin program, and his life is changed forever. Years later, he serves his country as a navy pilot during the Vietnam War, and the deeds of his secret life come back to haunt him. Can Steve outru... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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At My Window with a Broken Wing
by Ric Wasley
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What happens when a sweet, naive college girl from a small town in Ohio decides that she wants to leave the predictable small town life and small town boyfriend behind and take a "walk on the wild side"? And suppose that one night she meets the lead singer in a rock and roll band--a guy just as wild and wicked as she is sweet and innocent. And suppose the lure of something dangerous, unpredictable, and life changing tempts her to throw all of her small town, good girl morals out the window. What... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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Bad Things
by John Craig
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Carl is trying to raise his blind son, Donnie, alone as best he can. After Donnie goes through a traumatic operation in an attempt to restore his sight, they return home to find something is seriously wrong with their world. For one thing, there is a hideous monstrosity awaiting Donnie in his bedroom cupboard and a red-eyed demon-woman stalking their every move as they flee their invaded home. Saved on the lonely roads of Aberdeenshire by a mysterious young woman who seems to know her stuff when... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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Beckoned
by Ronald Scala
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When his ex-wife Margot asks to meet for dinner, Nick's life had long been in a downward spiral. Plagued by hallucinations and voices that he attributes to his rather liberal use of alcohol, he soon discovers something far more sinister was at play. Margot reveals that both she and Nick are possessed by a demon known only to a seventeenth century Indian tribe. The creature slips unnoticed through time and space and orchestrates its victims to enact hideous acts of violence upon loved ones and ne... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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Beneath the Surface
by Suzanne Perazzini
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Jo has the darkest of secrets in her past, which drives her to seek out the most traumatic of hotspots in the world as a war correspondent so she never has the time to confront what she did. A fellow reporter, Craig, accompanies her into war-torn Sergavia to recover rolls of film from a dead colleague. Along the way Jo finds love and a reason to go back to the beginning so she can move forward. (Published: 2008)
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Breach of Trust
by M. L. Cordle
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Cori is a single mother and has just discovered that the man she loves--the best friend of her child's estranged father--is being stalked by something not of this world. Cori Hubbard suspects she is in for some big trouble when her misfit of an employee, Chris Banks, claims he has received a death threat. The note, taped to his cat's collar, appears to have been written by Roby McConaughey, the man Cori has secretly loved her entire life. Faced with running her century old boarding house while d... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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Buried Secrets
by R. Alan
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When a construction crew digs up a pair of skeletons sitting in an old car, former homicide detective Hap gets called out of retirement to find their identities and who buried them many years before their discovery. When Hap's home is firebombed in an effort to stop the investigation, Hap's wife, Darlene, becomes infuriated and installs herself as his "assistant." Together their investigation takes them from one end of the country to the other, following leads that uncover insurance fraud, infid... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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Changling
by Kelly Madden
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Merta is lonely. One of the last pixies in Ireland, she's seen her own kind diminish, and now her adopted human family is migrating to America. But Merta isn't about to let her favorite people leave without her. The new, strange land she encounters is sparsely populated with humans but abounds in Native American spirits. Merta is herself adopted by one native entity, Bear. Together they encounter great danger and wonder as two cultures clash and finally intertwine. (Published: 2008)
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Chosen Sister
by Ardyth DeBruyn
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When the Gold Wizard comes looking for the Child Warrior in Reina's village, it's no surprise he's only looking at the boys. However, when the wizard magically selects her younger brother as the warrior prophesied to defeat the Red Wizard, Reina has mixed feelings--jealousy and concern. Austyn is only six. Allowed to accompany her brother, Reina soon finds they're in deeper trouble than she thought. The Gold Wizard's fake beard is ripped off by attacking harpies, revealing he's only seventeen, n... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 48354 - Reading Time: 138-193 min.
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Cruising the Green of Second Avenue
by Walter Giersbach
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Daily life was dramatic on New York's Lower East Side in the late 1960s. Klein the Biker, Straight Charlie, Sammy the Madman, Frank and the Chick from Canarsie and a cast of tens romp through the city in the dawning of a new age. Jake, the narrator, delivers artistic distance to these dysfunctional people grasping at the metaphorical magic of hitting every green light on Second Avenue. Their highs and lows are chronicled with humor and insight, elation and sadness. The collection updates a rich ... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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Cruising the Green of Second Avenue, Vol. 2
by Walter Giersbach
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Daily life was dramatic on New York's Lower East Side in the late 1960s. Klein the Biker, Straight Charlie, Sammy the Madman, Frank and the Chick from Canarsie and a cast of tens romp through the city in the dawning of a new age. Jake, the narrator, delivers artistic distance to these dysfunctional people grasping at the metaphorical magic of hitting every green light on Second Avenue. Their highs and lows are chronicled with humor and insight, elation and sadness. The collection updates a rich ... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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Damn the Luck
by Ken Smith
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In the early hours of March 5, 1865, Lucas Brooks and Danny Boyle broke into the home of President Abraham Lincoln. They were hoping to find just a few semi-valuable objects left behind after the First Family had moved to Washington. What the two burglars found was much more than they had hoped for--or maybe not: a mysterious, and seemingly impenetrable, iron box. All the boys had to do was break into the box. Well, that was easy to say. Actually doing it proved to be much more difficult--and da... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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