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Author: Steve N. Lee

Title: Blood Justice (Angel of Darkness Thriller, Noir & Hardboiled Crime Fiction Book 3)

When killing is so wrong, how can murder be so right?

★★★★★ “Kick-ass non-stop action and intrigue will keep you reading when you should be somewhere else.” Dave

In the dead of night, a simple car theft in suburbia turns into a brutal homicide. White-picket-fence dreams aren’t supposed to turn into blood-drenched nightmares, so ex-assassin Tess Williams suspects dark secrets lurk behind the carnage. She’s hunted killers all over the world using her lethal skills, so believes tracking down some lowlife in her own backyard should be easy.

With the trail going cold, Tess launches a full-throttle investigation. Not just in the hope of finding the killer, but in the hope of finding redemption through helping those most in need of her unique talents.

 Stalking NYC’s sleazy streets, Tess clashes with thugs and car thieves, but slams into one dead end after another. Gradually, she pieces together clues to the mystery, only to discover that a ruthless crime boss might hold the key to unveiling the killer’s identity. Someone not to be messed with. Someone connected. Someone deadly.

 With the clock ticking, Tess has only two options if she’s going to survive this job – let the murderer go free to kill again, or confront a criminal mastermind and his army of henchmen.

 Some crimes are worth killing for, but are they ever worth dying for?

Love assassin books, revenge thrillers, vigilante series, action novels, noir fiction, hard boiled mystery? Then you’ll love Steve N. Lee's kick-ass hero, fast-paced plots, and Jack Reacher-style action

Author: Katherine Kim

Title: Sarah's Inheritance (Spirits of Los Gatos Book 1)

Sarah only knew her grandmother left her the house in her will. The rest came as a bit of a shock.

 Learning of her grandmother’s death shook Sarah Richards. She hadn’t seen the woman since she was a child, kept far away on the other side of the country by her overbearing mother. Now, though, she owned the house Gran had lived in, and Sarah was determined to break free of her mother’s controlling grasp.

 Sarah was ready for the exhausting phone arguments with her mom and the grief that sat like a stone in her chest as she sorted through Gran's things. She was not ready to come face to face with a nightmare creature on a suburban jogging path, nor to be rescued by a man who talked as though a wild fox like it was a normal conversation. Now Sarah is learning about Gran's secret life, her not-quite-human friends, and even less human enemies. Sarah has the house, now she has to decide if she's ready to accept the rest of what Gran passed down to her. Assuming they all survive the next few weeks.

 Sarah’s Inheritance is the first book in the Spirits of Los Gatos series. If you like Andre Norten and Jaymin Eve, you’ll enjoy this tale of one woman finding out what she actually wants from life. Buy Sarah’s Inheritance now and see what secrets Los Gatos is hiding.

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Author: L.C. Mawson

Title: Hunt (Freya Snow Book 1)

Checklist for your first day at a new high school: headphones; the darkest eyeliner you can find; and plenty of protection runes to keep demons at bay.

Freya Snow isn’t here to make friends. She also isn’t here to fight demons, but some things you don’t get a choice in.

Getting through the social hell of high school would have been hard enough without a ghost appearing to tell Freya that she’s not human, has magic, and demons are out for her blood.

For the first time in her life, Freya wishes she had someone watching her back, but the only person she hasn’t managed to chase off already is Damon, the other new kid with enough secrets of his own that Freya doesn’t feel so weird keeping the magical side of her life from him.

But Damon’s secrets might be just as deadly as Freya’s as his father, the man who abused him for years, makes an appearance just as the demons on Freya’s trail get a power boost from a mysterious benefactor.

Will the two lonely teens learn to trust each other, or will their secrets tear them apart?

HUNT is the first book in the Freya Snow urban fantasy series, which starts out as YA and follows Freya’s magical adventures into adulthood. If you like kick-ass, sarcastic heroines, immersive magical worlds beneath our own, and love that crosses the lines of magical feuds, then you’ll be instantly hooked on L.C. Mawson’s fast-paced urban fantasy series.

Download the book to get your fix of strong heroines and immersive fantasy today!

Author: Laura Andrews

Title: Where the Music Ends

A girl who runs. A boy who dreams.

Every year, a witch’s enchanted music draws the children of the seven villages into the forest. Some never return. When her twin brother, Joseph, follows the call, thirteen-year-old Alice refuses to accept that he is lost forever.

The mysterious and powerful free words may be her only way to save him, but when she escapes over the mountains she is pursued by the witch, who is determined to keep her from rescuing Joseph.

Accompanied by Gilbert, a boy who sees the future in his dreams, she must race against time to learn how to use the free words before her brother is lost forever.

But how far does the music reach, and can anyone truly escape it?

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Author: Robin Storey

Title: An Affair With Danger (Noir Nights Book 1)

Will is a lawyer. Frankie is a criminal’s girlfriend. Against all odds they fall in love. Now Frankie’s boyfriend is seeking revenge.

When corporate lawyer Will McPherson is held up in an armed robbery, his life changes in ways he’d never dreamed of.

He goes to court to give evidence and upon meeting the perpetrator’s girlfriend Frankie Slater, he is instantly smitten.

But feisty, straight-talking Frankie has her own problems, not least of which is her violent boyfriend Eddie.

And he soon becomes Will’s problem as well.

An Affair With Danger is the first book in Noir Nights, a series of stand-alone short novels in the crime/suspense genre. Second book coming in April 2019.

If you like your romance stories with a liberal dose of grit and suspense, you'll love this novel you can read in one sitting.

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Author: Melissa Stevens

Title: Bobby's Surrender: A WMC Novel (White Mountain Chanat Book 4)

Bobby had long since given up on finding his mate.

Rachel was living day to day, just trying to get through.

Neither expected to find the other.

When Bobby is assigned to guard his clan leader, he's determined to keep her safe, even from her family if he has to. What he doesn't expect is the draw he feels to her younger sister.

Rachel is still getting on her feet. Her life has been turned upside down in the last few months, her engagment ended, her father sent into exile. She has no thought to doing more than visiting her sister.

But fate had more in mind for them.

Buy your copy of Bobby's Surrender now to find out how they navigate the difficulties.

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Author: Andy Brown

Title: Warnings Unheeded: Twin Tragedies at Fairchild Air Force Base

Mass murder and military aviation disaster. One community's experience with two fatal tragedies that occurred suddenly... but not without warning.

On 20 June 1994, a gunman opened fire on the patrons and staff of an Air Force hospital. Four days later, a B-52 bomber and the lives of her crew were lost in a fiery crash. Hundreds of ordinary men and women experienced the tragedies... countless others had struggled to prevent them.

Everyone who met the would-be gunman thought he was odd. Some said he was creepy. His Air Force roommates and co-workers feared him... for good reason. When the disturbed airman's behavior became threatening, the mental-health doctors at Fairchild Air Force Base had him committed to the psychiatric ward of a military hospital. For months, they watched helplessly as he slipped through the cracks of a broken system. Out of options, a Fairchild psychiatrist warned his staff, "This is the kind of patient who ... one day ... he's going to come back and kill you."

The B-52 aircrews who refused to fly with a veteran pilot said, "We predicted the worst air-show disaster in history when we found out that he was gonna fly." The pilot's dangerous maneuvers had always wowed the crowd at Fairchild's air shows. He was also favored by his military leadership. But the men who had to fly with him said he didn't limit his reckless flying to one day a year. They shared tales of the risk-taking pilot routinely pushing the airliner-sized bomber and her crew to their breaking point. One brave officer risked his career by pushing to have the rogue pilot grounded and when his superiors failed to act, he made the ultimate sacrifice to save his men.

This compelling narrative is the work of former military policeman and criminal investigator, Andy Brown. Drawing from extensive research, and personal interviews with the people who witnessed the tragedies unfold, Brown tells their story with cinematic clarity. As the man who ended the killing spree, Brown shares how he had prepared for the deadly gunfight, describes his encounter with the gunman and offers a candid insight into the hidden cost of becoming a "hero."

More than a true-crime story, criminal biography or military memoir. Warnings Unheeded is a gripping story of courage, heroics and resilience, a story of survival and a lesson from history.

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Read this page-turning true story of mental illness, mass murder and aviation disaster.

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Author: Aila Stephens

Title: Alabama Rain

Sarah Johansen left Dry Creek, Alabama before the ink on her high school diploma had a chance to dry and she never looked back.

But, when Sarah's elderly father is brutally murdered in the summer of 1994, she has no choice but to return home in order to make sense of what happened—and to prove her estranged mother's innocence.

Proving Corrie Bryant is innocent, however, is no easy task.

Hard and heavy truths lie buried in the past, and now that people are looking, Corrie must double down to keep decades-old secrets where she left them, to make amends with the people she cares for most, and to learn how to be the mother she should have been fifty years ago.

The truth may be as hard for Sarah to learn as it is for Corrie to tell.

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Author: Tom Fowler

Title: The Confessional: A Gripping C.T. Ferguson Crime Novella (C.T. Ferguson Crime Novellas Book 1)

A bloody corpse. A priest with the wrong history. A rookie PI trying to save an innocent man.

Hacker-turned-private investigator C.T. Ferguson is new to the job. He's learning the ropes. He wants an easy case.

Instead he gets Ernie, a publicity-hungry blogger. He injected himself into a murder case and is now the prime suspect.

Near a Baltimore church, a man is found murdered, stabbed a dozen times in the chest. C.T. uncovers the victim's history of abuse by priests—including the one stationed at the church where his body was discovered.

He also learns of plans to build a new church . . . plans that could be threatened by a corpse turning up.

With Ernie in jail and the priest reluctant to talk about the past, C.T. must dodge the shadowy figures harassing him to sort through the reverend's and the victim's histories. If he can't figure out what happened, an innocent man will pay the price.

You'll love this novella because it's a quick read that combines classic noir mystery with modern cyber intrigue.

Add it to your collection today!

Author: J. L. Stowers

Title: Vengeance Lost: Ardent Redux Saga: Episode 1 (A Space Opera Adventure)

She tried to be a hero...

... will she die a traitor?

Star Captain Dani Deveraux is the Galactic Conglomerate’s rising star. And why wouldn’t she be? “Hero” is in her DNA.

After her father’s tragic death Dani has big shoes to fill. But she and her crew are up to the challenge with no shortage of bad guys.

But Dani’s about to learn a hard lesson… even the best heroes have to lose sometimes.

In a battle nobody can win, Dani has only seconds to make the most momentous decision of her career.

But was it the right choice?

Things instantly spiral out of control when the empire she serves hunts for a place to pin the blame.

Will this mean the end of Dani’s career? Her life? Or is this just the beginning?

Heads will roll in this first installment of the Ardent Redux Saga – an episodic space opera serial perfect for fans of Firefly and the Stargate Universe.

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Author: IQ Malcolm

Title: The Draxler Program

He has one last chance to save his mind. Too bad it’s all a lie…

Pete Rivers is a survivor. Forced to endure an abusive childhood, he turned to a life of crime. When his cons finally caught up with him, he was given fifteen years in prison and scheduled to be brainwashed at the end of his sentence. However, when offered a loophole that reduced his prison time and kept his mind intact, he took it without thinking twice.

He soon discovers that The Draxler Program isn’t the criminal reform program he was sold; it’s a reality TV show. Like himself, the other contestants are convicted felons and their lives now rest in the hands of the voting public. The winner gets to keep their mind, while the losers are doomed to an early trip to the washer.

Does Pete have what it takes to survive the demented show, or will his brain get erased like the contestants before him?

Malcolm’s debut novel is an action-packed, psychological thriller that will keep you guessing all the way to the last page.

Buy The Draxler Program today to watch the madness unfold!

Author: BJ Hanlon

Title: The Abomination of Yaultan (Legend of the Ecta Mastrino Book 1)

He has become everything he hates. Now he must run from everything he knows.

17-year-old Edin longs for adventure. Languishing in his little of Yaultan, he is desperate to become one of the Por Fen–monks of the church whose sole job it is to hunt down and destroy magi also known as abominations for the evil their magic is.

One day, Edin is attacked by a monster. In a desperate attempt to save himself and his best friend, he produces a magic barrier, demonstrating to everyone that he himself is a magi and bringing down the wrath of the Por Fen on himself and his family.

He is soon forced from his home and must embark on a deadly journey through a wilderness full of monstrous beasts, both man and animal–with commoners and nobles alike ready to slay him at every turn.

Edin will need all his skills–even magic–if he’s to survive in a world bent on destroying him.

The Abomination of Yaultan is the first book of B. J. Hanlon’s new Legend of the Ecta Mastrino Series. If you love your fantasy adventures with just the right dash of lightheartedness, pick up your copy today!

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Author: Vania Rheault

Title: All of Nothing

“I took a life, and when I did, he took mine.”

After his fiancée leaves him at the altar, cold-hearted millionaire Jaxon Brooks blackmails the church janitor, forcing her to stand in as his bride.

When she accidentally signs her real name on the marriage certificate, Jax must find his wife to file for divorce.

Since the death of her brother, Raven Grey has been living a hard life on the streets.

When Jax offers his help in exchange for her signature, Raven agrees, hoping for a better future and to repair her relationship with her parents.

As Jax and Raven grow closer, his past haunts them, and the death of her brother threatens their new love in ways neither of them thought possible.

Author: Dale Ripley

Title: The Trenton Legacy: (Maggie Trenton Thriller Series Book 1)

AN IRON-WILLED CHEMISTRY STUDENT.

A RUTHLESS RESEARCH SCIENTIST.

A VACCINE THAT COULD KILL MILLIONS...

Maggie Trenton is being targeted for elimination.

When her grandfather, a college professor, is murdered on his fishing boat, Maggie races to uncover the deadly secrets he'd been protecting.

Her journey leads her on a breadcrumb trail across the country in a desperate cloak-and-dagger search for her grandfather's final research notes.

Maggie soon discovers that there are others joining the chase who have little regard for human life and who will stop at nothing to prevent Maggie from getting to the research first.

As Maggie mourns the loss of her grandfather, she must fend off the ruthless thugs sent to eliminate her. How will she find the covert research in time and escape her own death?

Highly addictive and action-packed, The Trenton Legacy is a fast-paced, suspense thriller you'll want to share with friends.

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Author: Martha Henley

Title: Don't Kill For Me (The Crew Book 1)

Eileen must question everyone she’s ever met to save everyone she’s ever hated.

Serial killers are out there, but nobody expected this one to resurface. An anonymous letter is left on the counter of a floral boutique in a dying shopping mall. In it is a confession for murder — it’s signed RIP.

The vigilante Rest in Peace Killer has chosen Eileen Somers as his latest victim. Now he’s killing her adversaries one by one so Eileen can rest in peace, but she doesn’t want his kind of help.

Identifying a serial killer who walks among the ordinary shoppers in the mall seems impossible, but Eileen is desperate to stop him. After three men are killed, she’s running low on enemies. If she doesn’t crack the code in his confession letters, an innocent man will die.

Don't Kill For Me is the debut psychological thriller from Martha Henley. This plot-twisting novel will have you looking twice at every stranger who crosses your path.

Don’t miss reading the Rest in Peace Killer’s terrifying mission to please one woman by committing murder on her behalf.

Author: J.D.L. Rosell

Title: Absalom’s Fate: A GameLit/LitRPG Quest (The Everlands Book 1)

Sean Marrow is desperate to enter The Everlands, the ground-breaking VR game that everyone's talking about. He's so desperate that, despite being underage, he sneaks into a gaming lounge just for a chance to play.

The Everlands has everything he'd hoped for: daring quests, wicked monsters, and more than a few intriguing women. But Marrow is also in danger. For reasons he doesn't understand, the gods of the Everlands are in conflict, and he's caught in the middle of it.

Stuck in the game, Marrow has to quickly gain power in order to discover the reason behind the game of the gods, and put an end to it before the Everlands are destroyed -- and Marrow along with them.

If you can't get enough LitRPG and GameLit, you'll love the first thrilling book of The Everlands saga!

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Author: W.H. Lock

Title: Saint Heist: An Urban Fantasy Heist novel (The Quinn Chronicle Book 1)

In any other story, he'd be the bad guy.

Quinn is a talented sorcerer and a better con artist. But even the best get caught. On his first day out of prison, Quinn has one thing on his mind: steak dinner. Rare with blue cheese sprinkles and probably those fried onion bits on top.

What he didn't have in mind, was a member of his parole board asking him for a favor during his first good meal in years. Steal a skull from a powerful LA necromancer. A skull that might grant the owner the power to destroy the world.

Quinn assembles a team of supernatural criminals that should be able to steal the skull before lunch. Except the angelic crime boss forces Quinn to swear a magical oath to not steal the skull. And the necromancer ropes Quinn into a scheme to rob a bank.

Somehow Quinn has to help the necromancer rob a bank. Steal the skull without the necromancer noticing and not break his oath to the Angel of Los Angeles. And he has to do it while trying to find out who in the group is out to betray him. All of it leaves Quinn with just one question on his mind: why would the parole board want a skull capable of destroying the world?  

Suddenly, prison doesn’t seem so bad.

Author: TE Olivant

Title: The Lunar Deception (The Moon Colony Series Book 1)

Alya has anxiety issues. Well, so do a lot of people. But not everyone explodes their enemies when they lose control.

Alya is a Geep, a mutant. Her genes were contaminated by an accident on the moon. This gives her extraordinary powers, but it also makes her a threat.

Determined to discover the secret of the contamination, Alya takes a position in the Lunar University. Unfortunately, the Continuum controls the moon, and it doesn’t like Geeps. There’s nothing the organisation would like better than to wipe out Alya’s people completely. But Alya is not about to let that happen.

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Author: John Lillie

Title: Miami Rage: Passion kills Miami (Damon Slade Book 1)

Serial killing with a passion.

Justice for murder cannot be executed quick enough.

Retired US Marshal Damon Slade is on easy street. Until he is called back into service. Prominent people are dying all over the country.

After a crime spree that terrorized eleven states for two years, justice came quickly for the original Bonnie and Clyde.

Now, 80 years later, a brutal couple nicknamed Bonnie and Clyde is breaking new ground. Ruthless and unrepentant, they kill prominent guests during a convention in Miami.

Never one to let murderers walk free, Slade prepares for one of his greatest challenges. With the help and smarts of a previous U.S. Marshal partner, Chantel Browning, he sets out to stop the callous and cunning couple. Chantel is capable and curvy, and Slade still has feelings for her and another former lover. One misstep, and he could lose everything. Including his family members.

Slade knows he will solve the murders and dish out his own form of justice. What is not clear, until a heartbreaking twist, is who will pay Lady Justice and at what price.

Buy now and feel the passion.

Author: Matthew Staggs

Title: Containment

Don't get sick...

...don't get caught.

For years, Martin managed to keep his family off the government's radar. Then hours after watching their neighbors arrested by CDC agents, his daughter reveals her own infection.

Their fate if they stay is clear.

Their odds if they run are slim.

But the danger they face on the road is nothing compared to who will come knocking on their door.

For decades, the government has fought to control the spread of the virus. Their greatest weapon is knowing the secrets of those they are sworn to protect. But what secrets of their own do they keep?

Containment is the first book in the Containment Series. If you're a fan of chilling dystopian futures, gripping post-apocalyptic survival, and shocking conspiracies, you'll love Containment.

Buy Containment today, and don't get sick, don't get caught.

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