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From USA Today Bestselling Author Kennedy Layne comes a gripping first installment in a crime fiction series that follows Homicide Detective Kinsley Aspen as she navigates a web of small-town secrets while dealing with the haunting truths of her past…
A quiet community in northern North Dakota was shattered in the aftermath of two grisly murders. The Fallbrook Killer walked free, thanks to George Aspen’s unflinching defense. But for his daughter, Homicide Detective Kinsley Aspen, the acquittal is a scar that refuses to heal — on her career, her conscience, and the town’s fragile sense of security.

Now, one year later, a mutilated body is found in a desolate barn — the woman’s death horrifyingly reminiscent of the Fallbrook killings. Panic ricochets through the town as whispers of the killer’s return spread like wildfire. Kinsley is thrust into a relentless investigation, but this time, it’s more than a case — it’s a reckoning.

Because Kinsley has a secret. A very dark, monstrous secret — the killer they are hunting is a copycat. The real Fallbrook Killer has been dead for a year. She knows this because she was the one who pulled the trigger.

As the body count rises and the walls close in, Kinsley must face a terrifying question: how do you stop a killer when the monster might be staring back at you in the mirror?

Trouble is brewing.
Paige Palmer spent her entire adult life studying to earn her doctorate in Philosophy, only to be passed over for the job of her dreams. Escaping academia, the wounded young woman wants to leave her painful past behind and experience the real world. She takes a job as barista at a quirky and cozy shop; The Roastery on 33rd, feeling somehow drawn to the charming spot in the quaint New Hampshire town.

The wooden interior walls, worn with age and saturated with the dark, rich aroma of cappuccinos past, beckon to unsuspecting pedestrians, enticing them to enter and indulge in a sip of decadence in the form of a strong brew.

But there are secrets in the Roastery that have been percolating for decades. When a body is discovered in a secret room in the building, Paige’s impatient and tough-as-nails boss becomes increasingly convinced that an in-house investigation will be necessary to catch the culprit.

The team of would-be sleuths – Paige, and the Roastery’s eccentric owner, Margaret Hayward, along with a ‘starving artist’ who could use a bit of distraction as he attempts to grind out the opening lines of his debut novel – team up to do some investigating without quite realizing what they’re getting themselves into.

They need to hurry.

As clear as the rising hum of an espresso machine at work, the clock ticks away precious seconds as a ruthless killer lurks in the shadows, ready to strike again.

The Stars That Beckon is an action-packed, hard science fiction space adventure about mankind’s attempted colonisation of another planet. Written with intelligence, humour, a dash of romance and a twist of time travel thrown in for good measure, it is a completely engaging and compelling read. From the early scenes on Earth to the unfolding drama and tension of a desperate interstellar journey, the story moves at a cracking pace. It is an un-put-downable rollercoaster that draws you in and won’t let you go until the final thrilling chapter! But be warned: there are plenty of twists and turns awaiting you!

She left the Amish to become a police officer, but she never thought her most difficult case would be in her former community.

Detective Olivia Mast swore she’d never return to Unity, Maine, where she lost her entire family to a fire and killed her abusive husband in self-defense. She’d rather run through gunfire than go back there, but she has her orders.

The community refuses to seek justice after a murder, so Olivia must don her prayer kapp once more to investigate undercover. She’s the only one in her unit able to blend in as one of the Amish and get information from them.

Because she’s going undercover, she has to deceive her community and family by letting them think she wants to rejoin the Amish and come home for good.

To top it all off, she must also covertly protect the man she dated as a teenager, Isaac Troyer, who somehow looks even better now than he did back then. But that’s beside the point. They aren’t the teenagers they used to be.

When Olivia returns to Unity, Isaac Troyer believes he’s getting a second chance at love.

Though a plain cabinet maker, he’s a target. And he has no idea Olivia is now an undercover detective carrying a 9mm under her skirts.

When Olivia realizes she needs Isaac’s help most of all because of his connections to the suspect, she must tell him the truth. Will Isaac be willing to break sacred Amish rules in order to help Olivia stop the murderer?

Society cast them out as misfits and criminals. Now they may be the best hope of saving their own worlds as a powerful new technology threatens humanity across the multiverse – but few know it exists and fewer still who harnesses it…
In 2022, Shadow, her Earth’s most elite hacker, tracks a pattern of global corruption to an enigmatic group known only as LCorp while the world is on the brink of panic. With the corruption spreading to the highest levels of the world’s governments, Shadow identifies one among those hunting her that may become an ally.

In 2075, Daksis, criminal kingpin of the slum known as the Devil’s Marketplace, balances his duty of fighting the oppressive forces that threaten his city while seeking revenge for his wife’s murder. To do so, he must form the most unlikely of alliances and delve into a political and technological conspiracy whose scope is vast beyond his wildest imagination.

Near-future sci-fi dystopia blends with modern-day cyber espionage in this multiverse thriller that alternates between Earths whose futures have become dangerously intertwined.

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It’s no surprise that the cuisine from what was once called “the Paris of the Middle East” has become one of America’s best-loved. Mediterranean food. Lebanese cuisine boasts freshness, healthfulness, and variety. Lebanese food consists of the freshest grains, vegetables, fruit, fish and seafood, poultry, and meat. The flavors are always full, seasoned with herbs and spices.

In the unforgiving wilds of 1830s Texas, Texas Wild tells the true-inspired story of Josiah Wilbarger, a surveyor and settler who survives one of the most harrowing ordeals in frontier history: being shot and scalped alive by Comanche warriors, left for dead, and miraculously enduring days of agony before rescue. The novel opens with Josiah and four companions — Strother, Haynie, Standifer, and Thomas Christian — riding out from Hornsby Station to survey new land grants. They are ambushed in a brutal, sudden attack. Josiah is shot and scalped, left bleeding on the prairie as the others flee or fall. What follows is a visceral, deeply human account of survival against impossible odds: Josiah, naked and near death, crawls through the night, fights off coyotes, and clings to life beneath a lone post oak tree until his friends return, guided by visions of an apparition and a prophetic dream that reaches Sarah Hornsby.