Won’t You be My Friend?

When a shattered city is hit with aftershocks, FBI Agent Tori Spark must sift through the survivors to decode cryptically staged murder scenes — and decode the killer’s pattern… before he strikes again.

AMIDST THE RUINS (A Tori Spark FBI Suspense Thriller — Book 2) is the second novel in a new series by mystery and suspense author Laura Rise. The series begins with AMIDST THE DARKNESS (Book 1).

A captivating crime thriller that centers on a brilliant but tortured female protagonist, the Tori Spark series offers an exhilarating experience filled with unrelenting suspense, ingenious narrative turns, shocking revelations, and a fast pace that will have you eagerly turning pages deep into the night. Fans of Rachel Caine, Mary Burton, and Kendra Elliot are sure to fall in love.

The Texas Tales short stories harken back to the magnificent 19th century Texas Frontier with the wanderings of an intrepid soul, Wade Maverick.

The Lone Star State has legends big and small. Common folk, unsung heroes, forgotten villains, and wind swept ghost towns among them all. Timeless tales of how Texas came to be…
A living connection between America’s past and present in the home of the free…

At Romano’s Family Restaurant, the cannelloni special is good enough to die for…

Gina Romano has decided to relaunch her family restaurant in small town, Lake Basil, New York. With her chef boyfriend, Jacob, on the staff and the menu increased to include pasta dishes and a new family aesthetic, she’s convinced that the new launch will be the biggest news to hit the town in years.

Until one of her new customers dies in the bathroom of the restaurant on opening night.

It’s murder by cannelloni poisoning, and her boyfriend, Jacob, was the last person seen with the victim or the cannelloni in question.

Gina will stop at nothing to ensure Jacob is cleared of the crime. With the local detective breathing down her neck, and convinced that her boyfriend is the one whodunit, Gina has to work out of sight to solve the murder. If she doesn’t, she might lose her restaurant and the man she loves.

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Soaring into Danger, Fighting for Love!

Dive into the heart-pounding world of Clean Contemporary Women’s Action & Adventure Fiction and Military Romance Women’s Fiction with Casey Dawson — a fearless former helicopter combat rescue pilot who has built her own air search and rescue team, Charlie Delta Rescue.

But her new copilot? He’s no stranger. Gabe Lassiter, her former commanding officer in Afghanistan, is back in her life. They were a perfect team in the past, but now the roles are reversed — Casey’s in charge.

Their first mission? A raging wildfire in Yellowstone National Park. Stranded vacationers need saving, and Casey and Gabe must battle the elements, their pasts, and the growing tension between them.

Can Casey’s crew come together under fire?
Will their skills — and faith — be enough to survive the inferno?
And as danger closes in, will the old sparks between Casey and Gabe ignite into something new?

In a space-faring future, janitorial engineer Casey Cassandra spends her days contentedly fixing robots on an ambassador’s spaceship. But when one of her robotic cleaning cubes happens to be in the wrong place at the right time, Casey overhears an ominous threat.

Someone is plotting to kill the ambassador, and that someone is a traitor within their own fleet.

Armed with only a hefty cleaning cube bot (named Charles) and her eccentric engineering knowledge, Casey must go against all fleet standards. She’ll have to break the rules in order to secretly warn her boss, Ambassador Dessian Tandor, that he’s in imminent danger — from his own people.

Although Dessian is hard-pressed to believe Casey’s claims, he can’t deny that things have been strange lately aboard his ship. With the help of a lazy yet charming pilot, Dessian and Casey escape from their spaceship home. Within a few hours, all three of them are publically branded as criminals. On the run now, Casey and Dessian must find out why they’re being framed — and who they can trust, when the whole fleet seems to be against them.

It’s just one command between life and death, and somehow the ship’s janitor has found herself at the helm of a universe-wide conspiracy plot.

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