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Mark is the first detective on the scene when a dead body has washed ashore on the beach. He identifies the man as his old childhood friend, Brian, and he suspects suicide until another childhood friend is shot to the death nearby. With two homicides to solve, he attempts to unravel the riddles left behind by his two old friends as he tries to make sense of where and how their lives went wrong since their childhood.

A college psychology professor in Austin has apparently murdered almost his entire class of 35 students. Five students have survived, although they remember nothing. Chase, a cop who is a local hero from catching the "Sorority Killer" a few years earlier, is on the case. He's trying to locate Bill, the professor's teaching assistant who has disappeared, especially now that it seems he's still assisting - by killing off the remaining five students. It's a race against the clock to find Bill, and the visits to Professor Holland in jail aren't helping anyone but him.

Recently divorced and out, David is ready to learn the ropes of the gay dating scene, but he doesn't know where to start. Making changes in his life, he joins a new karate class while he's at it. A rising MMA star, Hunter has been traveling from dojo to dojo, both learning new fighting skills and earning his keep by making guest instructor appearances. But his recent Alexandria, Virginia post is turning tits-up. He's in the way of his host's cramped family, sleeping in the truck is uncomfortable, and his new MMA buddies still don't know his name.

Jenny Bolton has plans, and they don't bode well for Steve Dancy. Married at 15 to a Nevada politician, Jenny suffered repeated assaults, witnessed her husband's ghastly murder, buried her mother-in-law, and killed a man. Dancy, who had once served as her paladin, rejected her without as much as a goodbye. Abandoned on a raw frontier, she's single-handedly building an empire that spans the state. Despite her triumphs, she feels she never should have been left alone.

Scarpete Stories is set in southern Alabama. It is the tale of A. J. Waters, a man whose life has spiraled so out of control and disconnected that he creates a fictional detective to first moderate, then inhabit, and finally subsume that life. The detective, Scarpete, is left to try and find some explanation for the necessity of his existence. With nothing but a bundle of scrawled pages on a series of legal pads, Scarpete investigates the life and death of the author who created him.

After a three-year search, the CIA has finally captured the head of a terrorist cell in Yemen, Ameen Asal. CIA Agent Cole Parker is offered five minutes alone with Ameen, the man who killed his fiancée. For a man trained to kill, Cole's choice is obvious. Unfortunately, life is never that simple. An agreement, approved by the President, has been made to secretly trade Ameen for three high-profile American hostages. Cole must decide if acting on his revenge is worth the lives of three Americans.

What Primary Colors by Anonymous did for the Clintons, Schopenhauer's Maxim by Formichella does for the politics of the religious right. Part political intrigue, part fairy tale, and all humor at its darkest and most noir.

Handsome cowboy, meet ravishing ballet dancer. Hunky cowboy Clyde Walker grew up on a horse ranch working side by side with the rough and tough men who ran the place. When Clyde moved east for grad school, he didn't expect to find romance with the type of guy more comfortable in tights and ballet slippers than in jeans and work boots.

On a chilly evening in fall of 1966, Annie Jean Barnes left her home in East Brewton, Alabama, to spend time at a secluded fishing camp owned by a local doctor. Less than 48 hours later she was hospitalized - beaten and abused. Within a week, she was dead. And, it would seem, willfully forgotten by the citizens of Brewton - the more prosperous area on the west side of Murder Creek - who soon came to refer to the fate of Jean Barnes as an "unfortunate incident."

This story sells itself by inference as it goes along and relies for its context upon the clues scattered within its generalities and has as its bearing the vagaries of the human condition in confluence with life as it flows and so should not be mistaken for anything else but what you feel after listening to it.

Dave's agreement with Doc and Sally is to help the two adventurous scientists disappear into the future. But being left behind by the closest people Dave has to family isn't the bargain the 18-year-old expected. When Dave follows after his mentors, calibration issues place him centuries past his target date. Countless years and miles of wilderness separate him from Doc and Sally. Dave must survive in a primitive new world that has been waiting for him for a very...long...time....

Rumi said the wound is where the light gets in and this is a book about that.

The Kansas City Police Department is under attack by a small group of hackers. These cyber criminals threaten to sell personal information about each officer to the black market, essentially putting lives at stake. Wally Redmond is a sketch artist. He’s an alcoholic. He’s a sex fiend. And he’s given a chance to become a hero. His infatuation for a rookie leads him to situations he would otherwise avoid. But despite his personal issues, he may be the only hope for the cops who dedicate their lives to protect us. He may be the only one with a solution.

Gary escaped his fundamentalist family and their crazy church. Pittsburgh, snow, and no job prospects turns fishing coins out of fountains for food into a painful chore. While job-hunting in the busy downtown, Gary gets almost knocked down by some self-important suit. As they grapple, trying not to fall, Gary does the unthinkable. Running late again, Adrian weaves his way through the crows to a critical meeting. A bump, a jostle - he almost landed on the ground, and too bad he’d been so brusque with the tall-and-handsome who kept him from crashing to the sidewalk.

This is a very erotic story of the claiming of Af, an innocent Angel of Light who falls into sinful and lustful darkness as a result of her journeys through the Realm of the Fairee. Af encounters several very masterful beings who take control of her sweet and innocent angel body and force her to submit to unending waves of sexual pleasure.

Sparks fly after weeks of hitting it off, when Nick politely invites Brandy to join him for a post-workout soak in the gym's hot tub. With no one around, Brandy seizes the opportunity to have her way with the hot young stud. But, will they get caught doing something they shouldn't? And will their friendship be the same after this spontaneous encounter? Can timid Nick truly handle the wild and crazy Brandy?

Travel Tales: Getting Away with It — or Almost! is about travelers who perpetrate their own schemes on fellow travelers or even the locals themselves. Sometimes they succeed and sometimes they do not.