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Cody Anderson burns with rage. Raised to believe in law and order, the 16-year-old son of a sheriff can only watch in horror as a band of desperados murder his father in cold blood. And as he kneels by the tombstone, the distraught youth vows to repay the killers with hot lead. Taken in by a gunsmith, the grim-hearted greenhorn spends the next two years training to become the quickest draw in the West. But when he faces the first of the outlaws, Cody fears he might not have the guts to end another man’s life....

Newly married and back from his honeymoon, C.T. Ferguson is out on the town when the lights go out, plunging the city into a winter darkness. Other city systems quickly start failing. The beleaguered IT staff can’t stop it. C.T. suspects the worst–a ransomware attack.

Emmy Jenkins knows what it feels like to have a serial killer come after her. She escaped him twice. Emmy and Brian must start over in a new town, away from the tragic events and the killer’s family. Unfortunately, he escapes custody. The authorities think the killer committed suicide by drowning himself in the river. They do not locate his body, but they do find a girl drowned in Elk Lake. Her death is ruled an accidental drowning, but Emmy knows he is still alive. And he is coming for her.

In the quiet corners of life, where routine and privilege reign, emerges the story of Sally Anne. Sheltered from the world's cruelties, she navigates life's calm waters until an unforeseen tempest violently disrupts her existence. Suddenly cast adrift, Sally must find her own way in a world she never knew existed. The Thought of Her is not just a tale; it's an intimate journey of self-discovery. Struggling with unfamiliar challenges, Sally transforms, evolving from a sheltered girl to a resilient woman.

When a notorious lawyer, at the request of a famed composer, meticulously conceals his origins, his adoptive mother takes every measure to bury the truth. Pulling strings and enlisting influential allies—including a television icon—she constructs a carefully crafted facade to ensure he never uncovers his past. But as he grows older, cracks in the carefully constructed facade begin to show, leaving him haunted by an unsettling sense that something is being hidden from him.

Cody thought that his long, difficult quest to seek justice from all the outlaws who murdered his father, Sheriff Anderson, was over after he killed Jim Gallahan, the last member of the gang. With the gunman’s dying words, however, Cody learns that these desperados were hired to kill the sheriff, by the father of his boyhood nemesis and realizes that he must now go all the way back to Shiprock, New Mexico to seek his final revenge.

Thanks to his daughter’s encouragement, retired soldier John Tyler attends a classic car convention in another state. Lexi tags along for moral and technical support. When Tyler is jailed for a bogus vehicular violation, the weekend gets off to a terrible start. Then, his captors learn who he is...and what he’s done. After he deals with the men sent to kill him, Tyler tries to figure out what’s going on and who wants him dead. He learns some shocking truths about the town where he’s imprisoned and its power brokers. They’ll do anything to keep their corrupt business going.

Midnight on Fireworks Island is Shawshank Redemption, Do The Right Thing and It's a Wonderful Life for middle grade kids. Midnight on Fireworks Island is a hilarious yet deep and compelling tale. It starts simple and funny but when you finish the last chapter your life has changed. This book is Shawshank Redemption in that it is a story of an unbreakable friendship that develops in a dangerous prison/correctional academy. The boys are sent to Rockweiler Correctional Academy, a facility for boys under 18 and too young for the traditional prison system.

After killing the gang’s leader in Paradise, Cody Anderson is eager to continue his quest to track down and confront Jim Gallahan, the last surviving member of the band gunman that killed his father. However, his horse is too tired to continue the chase, and Cody is forced to board the eastbound stage to follow the fleeing desperado.

It is the mid-22nd century, a time in which humankind has reached a point of no return with respect to the destruction of its habitat on Earth. The only ray of hope is the Human Resiliency Program—a conglomeration of government sponsored efforts to preserve human life until such time as the Earth is able to recover.

Whether you have already been on a quest for greater understanding or are just beginning, The Seeker and The Teacher of Light is for anyone looking for the next step in their spiritual journey—anyone intrigued by and wanting to explore the true nature of our individual and collective reality.

Vavra, the first immortal winged unicorn, was born even before the god Mesagan and the goddess Mendina. Over five hundred years later, Vavra’s stepchildren, the twins Cornelia and Cygnet, go to Mauvewood to meet their grandparents and build a relationship with the community there.

A boy wakes up surrounded by corpses. Unable to move, he is assaulted by vultures who stop pecking at him only when he speaks. To survive this nightmarish ordeal, he tells them the story of how he ended up on their menu…What follows is the wild tale of the young gardener Khurafa, coping with the aftermath of the Mongol invasion of Baghdad and the death of his parents amidst the bloodshed.

Cody Anderson, son of a murdered sheriff in Shiprock, New Mexico, embarks on a journey of revenge to track down the last two gunmen that killed his father. Four hours east of Denver, his horse becomes lame from a sharp rock that got wedged in its hoof. Suddenly, Cody becomes aware that he too can be hunted. Word has begun to spread of his exploits, which has others wanting to try their hand at beating him and gain a larger reputation.

While the press hounds her and the internet erupts, Kate wants nothing more than to disappear. While researching her next novel at a boat show, a moment of desperation leads to the most outrageous impulse buy of her life—a yacht. She doesn’t know the first thing about boats, but the eager salesman finds her a captain who’s available immediately: a gruff, no-nonsense former Marine named Monitor.

Ten-year-old Keely Rosalie Tucker is a modern-day knight with no armor. Constantly bullied by a neighbor boy, Keely struggles to find her place in the world in which she is comforted only by the stories her Gramms has told her about enchanted, faraway places, where unicorns, fairies, and angels protect children from life's everyday pains and dangers. Now all Keely has to do is figure out how to call them to help her.

Mesagan, immortal son of the God of Light Susegi and the Goddess of Love Unacoria, was born with the gift of foresight. But one thing his parents taught him was that the future is always changing, affected by one’s choices in the present. It has been three months since the events of Cole’s Hunt and only nineteen years since Mesagan told Deucalion “Cal,” the light wolf he loves, “See you in twenty-eight years.” Mesagan met Rislucian, Cal’s young son from a previous relationship during the events of Cole’s Hunt for a reason.

On the planet Entitya, on the island of Sinuatollion, Mendina’s father Susegi, God of Creation and Light, offers Mendina the chance to have her soulmate made for her, but she declines, having met her first love Tarius. She and Tarius live a life together and have a daughter, Solange, staying together for almost nineteen years. When Tarius is mortally wounded by Tajincour, son of the God of Darkness, Nefarion, neither Mendina’s kiss of love nor her unicorn horn are able to heal him, and Tarius dies.

Kenny's had a hard life. His parents didn't want him, and now he's been laid off from his job. Desperate for change, he decides to leave the town he's always known. Unfortunately, when his truck breaks down on a deserted back road, he's not sure what he's going to do. He's out of money, out of hope, and out of time.

Is John Yates a wise man, mad man, or both? This is the question Type A attorney John Yates faces after a journey he never expected and a trial he never signed on for. Chosen by an elite Tribunal to appear before them in order to argue in defense of one of the highest atrocities of mankind–the act of war–Yates finds himself having to dig deeper into his own beliefs that ever before.