Dr. Alexandra Rose has everything a woman could want. She’s the wife of a renowned cardiologist, the mother of three adorable sons, and a successful chiropractor. But on their twentieth anniversary, her husband shocks her with his affair. Her life spins out of control, and she faces the other side of marriage where dreams implode and people are not who they seem.

Alexandra wants custody of her children, but so does her husband, and he’ll stop at nothing. Thrust into a nightmare spawned by chilling deception, a custody battle erupts that’s so poisonous it threatens to become murderous.

Certified psychic medium and clairvoyant Jerry McDaniel's readings, writings and messages have been received by thousands of people in over 45 countries. These messages have been obtained by channeling his Higher Self, which is connected to all parts of the Universe.

Inside this book you will contemplate topics such as . . .

Are we truly alone or are we all connected?
Are gifts of psychic, mediumship and clairvoyance a blessing or a curse?
How can you tap into your intuitive side?
What questions keep you up at night?
What is beyond your five senses?
What is destroying our free will?
Is revenge the same as karma?

This book will help parents and families understand how bad these opioids really are, and what signs to look for. The stigma and preconception of drug abuse is wrong – our kids are very smart and talented, with their whole lives ahead of them.

Our son Aaron James was a beautiful, bright, 30 year old with so many dreams, so many desires. He had a wonderful girlfriend, an adorable pooch,and a family that loved him and had such high hopes for him. His friends adored him. He would have had a fantastic life – if not for his accident in January 2014, after which he became addicted to prescription painkillers. 

From the award-winning author of Death: An Exploration comes a groundbreaking book on the Chinese wine industry.

The perfect book to read with a glass of wine in hand. Inside The Chinese Wine Industry takes you on a thrilling adventure through the past, present, and future of wine in China. 

The wine business is one of the world's most compelling industries, and China is considered the rising star. A hidden secret, the Chinese wine production continues to grow at an amazing pace. 

No matter the cause you are passionate about or whether you are a teacher, nurse, doctor or barber, building the right relationships is critical to your success. Inspired by the city council members, school administrators and mayors who came in for a haircut and passionate political debates in the barbershop where he worked,

Bob Keaton has written a refreshing guide to principled lobbying. “Lobbyist or Barber” illustrates just how incredibly lucky Americans are to live in a country where we are free to jump in and become a part of the political process. According to Bob, government is not some high and mighty separate entity out of our reach.

John Watson, a crime reporter in Florida, feeling threatened by a potential “stand your ground” trial, moves to Denver with his wife, Diana.They continue to be confronted with episodes of random gun violence in Colorado. Unable to have their own children, they adopt a nine year old boy and a nine year old girl.

Their daughter, Trish, likes playing soccer and does very well in school. Their son, Brian, is bullied in school and grows up to become a disturbed young man with an uncommon fondness for guns. This important new book offers a reflection on gun violence in America today and shows the impact it can have on a family. Midwest Book Review says this new novel is “a chilling but inherently fascinating read!”

What would you do if death came knocking at your door? And how would you carry on if your life was instantly turned upside down? Johnny Silva, a recovering alcoholic and addict, sets off on a weekend getaway from Pismo Beach to the foothills of Northern California.

Upon his arrival in the small town of Pioneer, he’s thrust into an encounter with a worn down homeless man, an encounter that forces him to look back at his rocky past as he listens to a tale of woe about a life suddenly launched in a tragic direction.

What would you Sacrifice to escape the inhumane torment and suffering of a World Gone Mad under Soviet brutality? What would you be willing to do save your family from the agony, anguish, and outrageous, cruel, despotic actions of the Soviet Army?

BITTERSWEET FREEDOM unfolds with heart-wrenching honesty, as the author, JUDITH BOGNAR BEAN lays bare her heart and invites the reader into the “Once Upon a Time World,” of her family's fist-clenching life story, as she details her family's unworldly struggles, conflicts, faults, joys, and failures, ungrudgingly taking the reader into the most private, intimate labyrinths of her family's world. 

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“I made one lousy request. All he had to do was say yes. But nooooo…” 

Vortigern Black's eyes flashed with unrepentant mischief before launching into the first RavenCroft story. A tale of a man with a dangerous secret, a family with paranormal abilities, and a woman desperate to escape her past.

The tragic tale of loss Vortigern shared, sent the hero, Kahner RavenCroft, head first into a world of intrigue and undercover work which eventually led him to Texas…and the wife of a local drug Lord, Kalysta Radford. 

Diana Rennie, daughter of a wealthy rancher, attempts to persuade mystery man Del Russell to leave his grievances behind and forgive her father for past mistakes. Her careful plan goes awry and results in a shotgun wedding and a prison sentence for Del.

Four years later, Del is back in her life with a vengeance—back for his rightful share of Diana's ranch, back to prove he isn't the criminal she thought he was, back to finish what the two of them started years ago in a passionate daze. And he isn’t going anywhere, no matter what beautiful, treacherous Diana does or says to try to get rid of him.

FORTUNE… SACRIFICE… PASSION…. and SECRETS.

A gripping tale of social morality, mystery and second chances in turn-of-the century San Francisco, The Art of Love will take you on an unforgettable journey from the last frontier of the Klondike to the new Sodom and Gomorrah of its time – Welcome to “The Golden City”.

After digging a fortune from the frozen fields of the Klondike, August Wolff heads south to the “Golden City” of San Francisco, hoping to start over and put the unsolved loss of his wife and daughter behind him. The turn of the twentieth century brings him even more success, but the distractions of a place some call the new Sodom and Gomorrah can’t fill the gaping hole in his life.

Years ago, in college, Owen, a man on the brink of suicide after losing his wife and baby daughter in a brutal drunk-driving accident, and Chloe, a dispassionate academic who believes in scientific research as a means to make the world a better place, took part in a ritualistic act in the woods. After, neither of them can remember exactly what happened that night, but darkness has since haunted them both.

Now, as adults living separate lives, the once minor manifestations from that night have grown into threats not only malignant and dangerous to them, but to all of humanity.

Every haunting has a design… 

Winter, 1809. Lord Francis Marryman’s wife, Patience, is dying. In the madness of his grief, desperate to keep Patience’s memory alive, he’s compelled to build a memorial in the form of a remote country Hall. But as the plans move forward, Marryman Hall seems to become alive with more than just memories.

Francis, a brilliant mathematician and scholar, has built more into the walls than just bricks and mortar.

COVER STORIES; 8 Classic Songs Remixed As Short Stories

A new kind of book that takes some of pop's greatest tracks and “covers” them as short stories.

Praise for “Cover Stories” “Funny, smart, chilling, moving and ultimately heartbreaking – if you like music, space travel, satire, counterfactual history, love and the human condition… you'll love these…  This deserves to be on every music lover's – and everyone else's – bookshelf.” – Lysette De Montmartre, Amazon. 

Pendergrass loved the city of London. But the economic success of the late 1800s had a dark side. London attracted criminals like a magnet. They immigrated to England from everywhere on earth to feed on the innocent, the naïve, and the desperate. Doctor Pendergrass knew their handiwork – stabbings, beatings, and maimings – they filled as many hospital beds as cholera and dysentery. 

World commerce had set upon England like a stiff wind from the sea that utterly refused to cease. It brought wealth, prosperity, business, banking, and, to some of its citizens, all the accouterments of success.

The Nights are Hotter in Africa…

When Erica Knight arrives in Lebombo Game Reserve for her first African safari she has no idea that her life is about to be changed forever. As an executive for a mining company she believes that negotiating the mining rights for the Lebombo Reserve will be a slam-dunk, but she didn’t count on locking horns with the reserve’s enigmatic owner, Jean-Luc de Graaf.

In the heart of a wild African landscape full of beauty and danger, Erica and Jean-Luc both stubborn and passionate find themselves on opposite sides of an escalating conflict. 

Harley lost everything. He was a biker, a rebel, and battling a deadly cancer. His man servant, Garrett, and Mari are both gone. Garrett was dismissed after being told his services are no longer needed. He returned to Lima, Ohio to tidy up the property before leaving.

Mari's world is a drift after hearing Harley has died. Her heart is broken. Harley meant the world to her and now he is gone. 

None of them could believe this happened. Everyone thought they were crazy to go chasing after illusions on some quest to beat death. This is their story about their search to find each other against all odds.

New York theater actress Teresa Guzman has landed the coveted lead role in the true story of the life of a murdered prostitute, but the emotions the role evokes are almost more than she can handle. Haunted by the suffering of her character, Teresa is losing faith in men and fights not to fall in love with Joaquin Solis, a generous fan. Joaquin will have to prove his love for Teresa is genuine.

After the tragic death of her fiancé, professional singer Eloisa Morales is putting her life back together. Eloisa wrestles with the decision of whether she will ever sing again. As she tries to find her path forward, Marcos Marquez, the theater's biggest backer, is determined not to lose Eloisa and the chance for love to her grief for her late fiancé.

A Spinster who has lost purpose in her life, no longer a companion to the aristocracy, a Vicar who has discovered that loneliness makes everything hollow, a mystery that draws them together, a Christmas where everything changes, an unexpected love.

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Miss Lydia Millpost has spent her life as a governess or companion to ladies of the aristocracy. Now, without a role to fill, she is faced with the possibility of having to actually live quietly in her little cottage, for the rest of her life. Suddenly, independence doesn’t taste so sweet, and with Christmas not far away, loneliness looms. But what choice does a spinster of near fifty have?

A Duke, promised to marry from childhood, who has no wish to hold to that promise, a Lady who has no desire to do as her father requires, a Christmas House Party, an intense instant attraction, an unconventional solution which leads to love.

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Alexander Fortescue, the Duke of Southolton, is trapped – before he reached his majority, whilst he was on the continent, his father signed a contract, binding him to marry Lady Phyllida, who was then a child. Now she is grown, and Alex is Duke – but despite his disinterest in her, the contract seems unbreakable.

Louisa Medcalf despairs that her twenty-year-old daughter Maria will never marry – or worse yet, that she will marry a man below the family’s ‘to the manor born’ station in English society.

Maria, on the other hand, is determined not to marry just any man, regardless of his station. Her uncompromising stance that her future husband must also share her fervour for strict adherence to Christian principles is of paramount importance.

Edward Cavendish is a dangerous liaison but outwardly he is the perfect gentleman. Initially unimpressed by Maria, his attitude towards her warms somewhat when he learns she has just become an heiress to a large fortune and Brampton Hall – a property Cavendish has been struggling to buy for years. 

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Scandal, blackmail, and murder haunt the small Vermont town of Culver's Mills. 

Pediatrician and amateur genealogist Anne McPhail seeks the history of her ancestors. She finds the dead body of librarian Jennifer Smith, the woman she planned to meet and her journey takes a dangerous detour into Jennifer's past of extortion and blackmail.

Anne is drawn further into the investigation by detective Adam Davidson, to help him understand the genealogy and the possible motives behind the murder. 

Asthmatic furniture restorer and covert witch Amanda Cadabra is a survivor. After all, her family’s bus went over a Cornish cliff. Now the presentable but irritating Inspector Trelawney is dogging her footsteps as he investigates the unexplained deaths.

But that’s the least of her problems. Amanda has just got a furniture restoration job at the old English Manor of Sunken Madley with its murky past.

Armed only with a wand and Tempest, her grumpy reincarnated cat, she’s going in. A body, ghosts, hidden tunnels, chills and unexplained lights; can Amanda solve the mystery in time and save the village from the scandal of murder?

The award-winning Enigma Series is a collection of grown-up fictional TechnoThriller stories, each of which focuses on a relevant technology topic. The stories take today's relevant technology and places the characters into situations where cyber good guys battle cyber bad guys often across the Dark Net. There are 150+ characters in the series which appear in the stories as needed. Each volume is designed to read or listen to individually, although they are richer in order.

We are confident that fans will fall in love with some or all of the characters. We look forward to feedback in reviews and at Authors@EnigmaSeries.com.

A simple domestic abuse case turns deadly when attorney Stephanie Ann “Sam” McRae’s client disappears and her ex-boyfriend, the alleged abuser, is found shot to death. When a friend asks Sam to find the client, Melanie Hayes, the Maryland attorney is drawn into a complex case of murder and identity theft that has her running from the Mob, breaking into a strip club and forming a shaky alliance with an offbeat private investigator to discover the truth, protect her client, and stay alive.

With her career and life on the line, Sam’s search takes her from the blue-collar Baltimore suburbs to the mansions of Gibson Island.

What would you do if you discovered a lost masterpiece worth millions, which a curator will kill to keep hidden?

Sarah Downing, an art conservator, hiding in witness protection, identifies a lost masterpiece by Caravaggio. History says it burned in WWII Berlin, but here it is, on her easel. 

Soon she is fighting to save the painting and herself. Someone has betrayed Sarah—an agent, a friend? Whoever it was, her ex-husband Jimmy is standing on her street, outside her house, waiting.

What Sarah does next sends her from Kingston to Italy to rural Ontario in her desperate attempt to survive, save the Caravaggio and rebuild her life. 

Stitches follows Jim Wolfe, a PTSD-riddled Army Ranger turned private investigator. Between his questionable relationship with a Romanian restaurateur’s son, and investigating the disappearance of a famous musician’s daughter with his partner, Scarlett Vaughn, Wolfe has a lot on his plate. When a string of grisly murders centering on college students grab the city of Boston by the throat, Wolfe finds himself entangled in mo

re than one mystery. While Wolfe and his partner attempt to unravel the threads connecting the killings to their missing rock n’ roll heiress, Sebastian Codreanu discovers how deeply his father is tied to the recent crime spree, and the Mass Art Murderer plots his masterpiece.

A Hmong “story cloth,” a Revolutionary War battle flag, forged Picassos and a Russian drug dealer—finding the link between these disparate elements is the challenge Mike Hegan faces in The Scopas Factor, the latest mystery from Vincent Panettiere.

After his last investigation ends tragically, Detective Mike Hegan returns to Chicago from St. Kitts, hoping to put everything behind him. But his girlfriend, Diana, has other plans, and although he has no interest in the job opportunity she presents him—in a small northern California town, no less—he wants to please her. Upon his arrival in Weedley, he's caught up in a kidnapping and two murders. 

Lieutenant Abigaile Truman’s latest case involves a skeleton in the closet, literally; and it has been there for sixty years. Ina Peterson’s husband has been missing for just that long, so odds are the skeleton is his. Thing is, Ina has what appears to be a serious case of dementia, and her fiery granddaughter

Jannita has her claws out in her defense. She and Truman clash in every way—or do they? As the case progresses, increasingly sabotaged by outside forces, it becomes obvious that there is more than one skeleton in the Peterson’s closet, and someone is resorting to murder to keep them there. 

Nick Bolder stumbles across corruption in his successful insurance agency—corruption that threatens to shut down his business and 
shame him! He is a diligent and honest insurance broker, and a  dedicated husband and father—a “straight shooter.” But suddenly, 
he must explain to regulatory investigators how unscrupulous business actions were done in his name. 

At the same time, he finds out his young daughter was attacked by a sexual predator, and his stepson is facing a long prison sentence. 
Nick must rethink his priorities as he tries to get his life back on track.

When a magical king becomes obsessed in his search for a mythical creature and causes devastation upon the realm, his inexperienced adviser is forced to choose between his honour or his family.

A mysterious overlord dominates the countryside of Gramadon after hundreds of years of battles from rival factions. He uses the power of the Enixar, an ancient element that gives its wielder almost omnipotent abilities over even the strongest of spellcasters and deities.

Using cunning strategy and his magical abilities, he quickly attains total rule over the entire land. 

A Celtic warrior princess is torn between her forbidden love for the enemy and duty to her people.

AWARD-WINNING APOLLO’S RAVEN sweeps you into an epic Celtic tale of forbidden love, mythological adventure, and political intrigue in Ancient Rome and Britannia. In 24 AD British kings hand-picked by Rome to rule are fighting each other for power. King Amren’s former queen, a powerful Druid, has cast a curse that Blood Wolf and the Raven will rise and destroy him.

The king’s daughter, Catrin, learns to her dismay that she is the Raven and her banished half-brother is Blood Wolf. Trained as a warrior, Catrin must find a way to break the curse, but she is torn between her forbidden love for her father’s enemy, Marcellus, and loyalty to her people. 

A teenage captive. A corrupt society. With the fate of the world in the balance, one outlier could tip the scales towards salvation or disaster.

Alex is determined to rise above his station and prove his worth to his true love's wealthy family. But in a world where the elite few lord over the dirt-poor masses, he knows the odds are stacked against him. So when he undergoes the Appraisal–a coming-of-age procedure that's supposed to alter life expectancy–he never dreams he'll be the one exception to the rule…

A remarkable tale of vengeance, time travel, and dark magic. What would you do if you woke up one morning and your world was inexplicably changed in the worst way imaginable?

Banished by his enemy into a hellish alternate dimension, Luke Decker fights to understand why his world has suddenly changed, and why is he on trial for the murder of his beloved Nina? What he doesn’t know is she’s not dead. Nina watches him vanish into thin air and is completely bereft, struggling to find out how and why he disappeared.

Using all of her psychic talents and traversing the astral realm, she frantically searches for him to no avail. 

Originally released in 2014 under the title His Masters Bride

A world of mysterious powers and tumultuous intrigues comes to life in Regency England as a djinni, burdened with a dark secret, is thrown into a love triangle fraught with subterfuge.

Will he defeat his nemesis or be betrayed?

The djinni Yasir, imprisoned in an urn by a jealous magician, searches the centuries for his lost love. He finds Lavinia reborn in 1811 England, only to discover she’s his new master’s bride.

A unicorn fairytale from the unicorn's point of view.

“Durant’s story is slyly whimsical as she builds up the world of Marbryn, a world where there are many wonders, but also threats to the existence of Blue’s tribe.” – Jack Magnus From Reader's Favorite.

“The Blue Unicorn…reads like old time fairy tales…where life and death choices are made…” – From Fundinmental As The Eyes See It Blog

“The gentle reminders of the importance of acceptance and maintaining a sense of self worth are artfully woven into this fun adventure tale.” – From The Reading Addict Blog.

Haunted by his past. Hunted in the present. Uncertain what is real.

This unique epic fantasy will keep you turning pages as Athson discovers his destiny is both inconvenient and unavoidable.

Athson has seen things that aren't there and suffered fits since being tragically orphaned as a child at the hands of trolls and Corgren the mage who serves Magdronu the dragon. 

When a strange will mentioning a mysterious bow comes into his possession, Athson's not sure it's real. 

Not since the Dark Ages has the plague been such a serious threat to mankind; able to kill millions and bring down governments. Only this time, the bacteria is being manipulated by a group of domestic terrorists who are organized, well-funded, and determined. Will the FBI be able to thwart their plan before human exposure hits a critical mass that no one can stop?

Jacob and his cybersleuths detect exchanges between Azure Nightshade and the Angel of Death in their normal scans of the dark web, but they can only decrypt part of the message–bomb and Y. pestis. A meeting with NIH confirms their worst fears; bioterrorism.

After 10 years service as a cryptographer with MI6 during the cold war, the extremely shy and reclusive George Withers becomes editor and compiler of the Sunday Times crossword.

30 years later and now in his 60's, an old MI6 colleague asks him to place a code within the Sunday Times cryptic crossword puzzle. Unknown to him, this results in a number of gruesome deaths. The father of one of the victims discovers the puzzle maker had something to do with his son's death, and goes on the hunt. Now George has to solve his own puzzle to save his own life.

‘FOR THE PASSIONS THAT THRILL LOVE, AND LIFT YOU HIGH TO HEAVEN—ARE THE PASSIONS THAT KILL LOVE, AND LET YOU FALL TO HELL!' Cable meets his would-be nemesis Cronus-Gor…as well as Gor's other-worldly wife, Saturnalia, not to mention the Girl Who Lived in a Seashell.

Along the way, he battles the forces of the Oculus, who are trying to wrest from him the secrets of the Fen de Fuqin. Beautiful women, danger and a magical experience with Saturnalia's exquisite daughter, Cassiopeia, are in the offing—while plenty of adrenalin-pumping action and murder dot the map of Cable's life; along with the respites that only great music, smoky dives and beautiful babes in revealing gowns, can provide. But for the ‘evil ones’ —how do you stop a 30 year old daredevil by the name of Cable Denning—who knows no fear?!!!