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Rope Burn

A former big-city detective battles rustling and murder in modern-day cattle country in this award-winning whodunit

Leaving behind a troubled past, former Baltimore detective Nick DeNunzio hires on as a Wyoming stock detective to stop a brutal string of cattle thefts. Chasing rustlers ought to be a lark even for a city-slicker cop. But when people start turning up dead, Nick realizes it’s not just cows being led to slaughter.

To catch the rustlers and stop the murders before he is the next victim, Nick must solve a seven-year-old crime, confront his own dark past . . .

. . . and become a cattle rustler himself.

All The Ways We Ruined Us

Makitia Thompson

Some loves heal. Others consume.Yasmine Brown thought she understood the shape of pain, until Cade Washington appeared. From the very first spark, their connection is electric, dangerous, and unavoidable. They see each other in ways no one else ever could: every fear, every fracture, every dark corner of the heart. And yet, what begins as fascination quickly becomes obsession, a love that burns, suffocates, and refuses to let go.Together, they navigate a world of passion and chaos, of tenderness and destruction. They argue, they break, they rebuild, but every reconciliation carries the weight of guilt, every embrace a hint of ruin. In each other, they find solace and danger, comfort and cata...

The City of the Gods: Silver

Zach Erwin

Raymond Chandler meets early 1960s Marvel Comics.When a god is murdered in front of Private Investigator Skip Gibson, he finds himself at the heart of a storm brewing in Empire City, especially since the victim was Skip's best lead in the disappearance of a brilliant rocket scientist tied to the U.S. space program.Now, with the other gods turning vengeful and the city on the brink, Skip is pulled into Empire's shadowy depths. A secretive cult, mass graves hidden beneath the streets, and a conspiracy decades in the making threaten to consume everything in their path.With divine wrath tearing the city apart, Skip must rely on a patchwork crew of unlikely allies to uncover the truth, stop the c...

The City of the Gods: Gold

Zach Erwin

Raymond Chandler meets Stephen King in a world like 1950s DC Comics. As the scars of T-Day fade into memory, Empire City braces for a new nightmare brought forth by the sudden disappearance of Bonnie Connor, daughter of the enigmatic Theodora Connor. Reluctantly returning to her Scarlet Sparrow persona, Theodora seeks aid from the demon who bestowed powers upon her. As the devil inside takes control, she grows weaker and more disconnected, slowly losing her life and soul to her demonic savior.In his search for Bonnie, rookie detective Skip Gibson unexpectedly unearths a chilling truth—a sinister cult consisting of Empire City's most affluent socialites, intricately woven into Theo's d...

Westcherster Farm

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S. Lee Fisher

The country celebrates newfound prosperity and peace. Does Westchester Farm benefit?Western Pennsylvania, 1920. Henderson Westchester lords over his massive farm and family. The widower and father of seven children contemplates the unthinkable. The transfer of his family farm to his youngest child, a girl!Feisty, brilliant, outspoken, Olive Westchester remains at odds with her father after her favorite brother’s death.The nineteen-year-old who dreams of independence via a college education, not property ownership, succeeds in making her family’s life miserable as she awaits Henderson’s decision.Westchester Farm is the sequel to the multi-award-winning Becoming Olive W., and the prequel...

Becoming Olive W.

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S. Lee Fisher

She’s beautiful and brilliant. But the world is not ready for her to shine….Western Pennsylvania, 1905. Olive Westchester dreams of being valued. Misunderstood, resented, and ignored by her large family after her mother's death, her only ally is an older brother who loves her unconditionally. And the hard-headed girl’s visions of making her mark are threatened by a close-minded society resentful of her superior intellect.Stunned after a jealous teacher expels her from the eighth grade, Olive's anger swells when her dismissive father does nothing to get her readmitted…instead pushing her to learn to be a wealthy man’s wife. But as tragedy strikes, she turns to a local laborer enamor...

Becoming Olive W

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S. Lee Fisher

Beautiful, brilliant, wealthy. The world should be Olive’s oyster. Does she want too much?For young women in the early 1900s, a string of pearls is sometimes the closest they can get to owning the world.Orphaned as a toddler, Olive, a bright, feisty child, struggles to establish her place in a wealthy farming family. Her sisters are jealous, her brothers feel threatened, and her father, inept as a parent, is dependent on her skills.Without a mother’s guidance, is it possible for this young woman to break social barriers on her own? Can she become the independent woman scholar that she has the potential to be?Set in the early 1900s in rural Pennsylvania, follow this spitfire through an em...

Revelations

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Robert L Sells

Aster Worthington spearheads the First Contact Team to unravel a message from an alien race. “The Lambdons” promise free energy if humanity builds a few special robots and downloads their message into a super computer to direct construction of the fusion reactor. An excited world agrees and builds a massive structure called the Dome to house the alien enterprise.Seven years later, there’s no “free energy” and strange things happen in and around the Dome. Aster and her colleagues mount an expedition under the protection of Army Rangers to investigate the interior. Instead of friendly aliens, they discover hordes of deadly intelligent humanoids with insect-like characteristics.It’s...

Reap the Whirlwind

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Robert L Sells

Discover the Greatest Hidden Risk of Artificial IntelligenceDo we control computers or do computers control us? AI's integration into the internet threatens your privacy, amplifies misinformation, and compromises cybersecurity. This could lead to monopolistic control, stifled innovation, and societal unrest. A single, super computer could control the internet, how we see the outside world and our very existence. The rapid rise of Artificial Intelligence has a potential to transform our world—for better or worse. This novel considers an the worse-case scenario. The novel focuses on a small band of humans, each who escaped death imposed by a computer. Together they realize an awful tru...

Tchernaya Creek

Pemulwuy Weeatunga

This short-story was conceived from the name of a real Creek in Central Qld., Au. Trickling between two small towns is a name so out of place, I remembered it all my life. Tchernaya Ck.! Obviously of Russian origin. Thus, my tale came to life to suppose how it got that name in the middle of Qld., AU: A white Russian and a native black ('ancAu' = ancient Australian), together in Central Queensland, in the early 1900’s, was guaranteed to set tongues wagging. With a shortage of white women in the new raw colony of Queensland, Russian immigrant Tchernaya Kreyanoff, was pledged as a teen to a local landholder: a man used to getting what he wanted and rich enough to have others ensure his w...

The Fethafoot Chronicles; 10xseries

Pemulwuy Weeatunga

The Fethafoot Chronicles explore the lives and missions of the Fethafoot warriors, who are also known as "Kadaicha" – Aboriginal magic men. A central theme is their advanced ability in spiritual travel, utilizing ancient Dreamtime "creation-lines" to move swiftly across the land, leaving no trace. This ability led to them being known as "Fethafoot" – half-man, half-spirit beings. The stories span various periods, from tens of thousands of years BP ("Before the Present") to the early 1800s and even modern times. They touch upon significant historical and cultural elements, including:Interactions with megafauna.The arrival of "Ghost-people" (European colonizers).Mysteries such as the disap...

Migrant Crisis

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John Steel

A storm stalks the English Channel.Not from the sky—but from Westminster.A government losing control.A mission that cannot exist.And a sea that remembers every secret.Britain’s government is drowning in scandal and political decay. With voters turning away and the migrant crisis spiralling out of control, the Prime Minister’s inner circle proposes a solution no minister will ever admit exists: covert action at sea. Silent. Deniable. Ruthless.Dominic Carver is the weapon they choose.Ex-SBS. Disciplined. Disposable.His orders are simple: stop the boats.Maximum fear. Maximum confusion. Maximum deniability.Far from the marble corridors of power, Declan “Dex” Mullen is fighting his own ...

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Rope Burn

All The Ways We Ruined Us

The City of the Gods: Silver

The City of the Gods: Gold

Westcherster Farm

Becoming Olive W.

Becoming Olive W

Revelations

Reap the Whirlwind

Tchernaya Creek

The Fethafoot Chronicles; 10xseries

Migrant Crisis

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