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Vincent King, last seen in KINGS RANSOM, is back from his Himalayan adventure. Hes in Upstate New York, looking into a suicide that a bereaved husband doesnt accept, despite all the evidence. As King pokes around, the evidence begins to unravel. But no one thanks him for his efforts. Eventually hes...

Once Vinn might have believed that vampires were nothing but legend and myth. But when his life is threatened by a legend it takes a myth to save him.This short story is also part of the RED anthology.

Synopsis The Liberty Ship Murder on Hull # 13, it will not be remembered for the murder which was of no importance except to the participants. What will be remembered are the antics of the shipyard stud by many of the young women on their lonely nights? My job was as an agent...

While at a Gothic club called Midnight, Melissa Bryant encounters the man of her dreams—he is the man from her dreams, literally. Gladimir Lazar is not only handsome, but he has a secret. He is a three-hundred-year-old vampire. The protectors, a group of men whose job it is to keep the mortal...

Once she posed as a camp trollop to pry a colonel's secrets loose between kisses. At splendid balls she coquetted with redcoats -- traitors unaware for the promise in her eyes. Posing as a ragged boy she fled through swamps, desperately eluding the King's death regiment—minutes ahead of her...

Two worlds clash one day and neither will ever be quite the same again. Barbara comes from a world of safety but filled with lies. Taya comes from a world of darkness and violence.From the bowels of an underworld filled with the drug of choice, the white, and the trade of human flesh comes ‘Black...

When Marabella Vinegar finds her psychotherapist’s bloody corpse, she becomes the NYPD’s perp of choice. Her recently deceased mother—the bane of her existence in life—comes back as a ghost to help get her out of trouble and find the real killer. Things get even worse when, thanks to Marabella...

THE MAN whose acquaintance with cosmogony and physiography is confined to what he learned in school, and, perhaps, afterward read in popular publications, has certain very definite notions about the shape of the earth and the construction of its interior. These notions, he thinks, are based upon the...

De mortuis nil nisi bonum, (of the dead speak nothing but good), is the rule which governed the friends of Stephen A. Douglas after his death. “Of political foes speak nothing but ill,” is the rule which has guided much of our discussion of him for forty years. The time has now arrived when we can...

A dead chemist and the sabotage of a steel mill's products come up against the determination of Ray Locke to clear himself, after a year in prison, of a framed charge. Who is the man who wrecked a train with a faulty axel? Successive "accidents" require the assistance of General Ulysses Grant Flint for their solution...and Ray keeps coming back to the steel mill, which seems to hold the key...

No longer wanted by the Army, Jake Beck returns home. Having witnessed the atrocities and lawlessness of war in Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, he wasnt expecting hooliganism and drug dealing on his own patch. Unwittingly he gets drawn in to the problem which almost costs him his life.

Admission to the Celestial Kingdom can be very costly, as discovered by the wealthy Scottish importer, Malcolm Sinclair. A devout seeker and converted follower of Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith Jr., Malcolm and his family are held together by the tenacity and love of Katharine Brand. But Katharine has...

472 Tage lang lernte sie, wie viel ein Mensch ertragen kann: Flora Dane, College-Studentin, am helllichten Tag gekidnappt. Wie durch ein Wunder überlebte sie. Und entkam ihrem Peiniger. Sieben Jahre ist das nun her – doch vergessen kann Flora nicht. Die Wände ihres Zimmers sind voller Fotos: Mädchen,...

Justin und Libby Denby führen ein Leben wie aus dem Hochglanzmagazin: Sie sind wohlhabend, gut aussehend, wohnen mit ihrer reizenden Tochter Ashlyn in einem wunderschönen Haus in bester Bostoner Lage. Die perfekte Familie. Doch dann kommt der Abend, an dem die Denbys in die Katastrophe stürzen:...