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In the quaint town of Pine Creek, the grand reopening of the Majestic Theater turns tragic when renowned actor Maxwell Chesterfield collapses during his final monologue. What seems at first to be a natural death soon reveals itself as something far more sinister.

Enter Evelyn Hawthorne, a sharp-witted retired English teacher with a knack for solving mysteries. As she delves into the case, she uncovers a web of secrets, lies, and long-buried grudges that threaten to shake Pine Creek to its core.

With a cast of colorful suspects including an ambitious understudy, a volatile director, and a theater owner with a mysterious past, Evelyn must navigate through a maze of clues both on and off the stage. As she gets closer to the truth, she realizes that in Pine Creek, everyone has something to hide, and some secrets are worth killing for.

Filled with twists, turns, and red herrings, “Curtain Call for Murder” will keep you guessing until the final page. Join Evelyn Hawthorne in her quest for justice as she proves that in the theater of crime, the most unlikely detective might just steal the show.

Will you be able to solve the case before the final curtain falls?

In the brutal, post-apocalyptic town of Sovereign, Oregon, survival demands submission.

For five long years, Maeve Willis has protected her younger sister, Marielle, by enduring the ruthless control of Sovereign’s Director. When Maeve, Marielle, and three other survivors manage to escape, they find a glimmer of hope in the idyllic town of Ferndale, California.

In Ferndale, Maeve works to rebuild her life and rekindle an old love affair, but peace proves short-lived. The darkness of Sovereign — and the trauma Maeve fought to leave behind — follows her, igniting tensions that threaten not just her safety but Ferndale’s very existence.

As the full extent of Sovereign’s atrocities becomes chillingly clear, Ferndale is drawn inexorably toward a heart-wrenching crossroads: the town must choose between launching a high-stakes intervention to free the trapped inhabitants of Sovereign or preserving their own hard-won peace.

Book Two: Sovereign serves as a natural starting point for the series, allowing readers to begin the story here and explore Book One: Founding later as a prologue. Alternatively, Book Two: Sovereign can be read as a continuation for those who have already read Book One: Founding.

The Town at the End of the World series is a gripping speculative fiction saga set in the haunting ruins of a post-apocalyptic world. Grounded in realism and high-stakes survival, it weaves unconventional love stories with action and political intrigue. Featuring complex, multifaceted characters, the series delves into the challenges of relationships, government, and human connection in a fractured and dangerous world.

The time is the nineteenth century. The place, the Serengeti Plain, where one Charlie Smithers – faithful manservant to the arrogant bone-head, Lord Brampton (with five lines in Debrett, and a hopeless shot to boot) – becomes separated from his master during an unfortunate episode with an angry rhinoceros, thereby launching Charlie on an odyssey into Deepest Darkest Africa, and subsequently into the arms of the beautiful Loiyan… and that’s where the trouble really begins.

Maasai warriors, xenophobic locals, or evil Arab slavers, the two forbidden lovers encounter everything that the unforgiving jungle can throw at them.

A hilarious, empowering romp through 1970s medicine, media, and one woman’s mission to rewrite the rules — prescription not required.

Samantha Stanton has had enough.

After her father dies from complications caused by a supposedly safe prescription, Sam isn’t content to grieve quietly. Armed with little more than a greenhouse, a typewriter, and a fierce sense of justice, she reinvents herself as the first holistic health advice columnist in a world where men still wear the white coats — and women are told to stay in the kitchen.

But Sam’s natural remedies and no-nonsense advice are shaking up more than just her readers’ marriages. She’s caught the attention of Thomas Cook, the powerful pharma exec whose charm is only rivaled by his ruthlessness.

And he’s not the only one watching Sam.

When a former flame returns with a warning — and a secret about her father’s death — Sam realizes she’s not just fighting for justice. She’s fighting for the truth. And maybe her life.

A MISSING MAN, AN ANCIENT GOLD COIN, AND AN EVIL UNLEASHED THAT THREATENS PARADISE.
On the island of St. Croix, retired homicide detective Mad Dog Cotton has a reputation for being able to find missing things. Betsy Rourk’s husband, Bob, is missing after going diving with a friend.
Mad Dog is reluctant to take the case until Betsy offers a single golden piece of ancient pirate treasure as his fee. Gold overcomes common sense, and Mad Dog takes the case.
Mad Dog has no idea that he’s about to walk into a four-hundred-year-old mystery. What he unearths brings the ancient ghosts of greed, lust, and insanity down on his head and erupts his quiet island into a volcano of chaos.
Will Mad Dog find the answer before a 400-year-old plague of greed, hatred, and insanity destroys paradise? Buy your copy Now!

This is Eric’s story, of how an ordinary office manager becomes invisible, and has to make choices that will change his life, and the course of history, forever. From trying to use his condition to make some quick and easy cash, to toppling governments, this thunderstorm of a book explores the journey of an average man in an extraordinary situation.
Do you feel like no-one knows you exist? No-one would notice if you weren’t there? No-one, not even your family can see you? That’s how Eric Curtis used to feel. Only he didn’t know the true meaning of being unseen.

Eric lives in a boring house, he works in a boring job. He has two children and a wife and a dog and a mortgage and plods. Endlessly. He pays his taxes, cares about his family and staff but knows deep down he’s surrendered and this is all there is. He’s not unhappy. But he’s drifting through life without purpose or real joy. He’s like most of us.

A life changing event takes place and Eric becomes invisible. He finally accepts his condition and works with his wife to squeeze some money out of a system that feels rigged against him. He takes revenge over people who’ve wronged him, and begins to find meaning and happiness.
Then he gets caught.

His new boss sends him to work, across borders and into war zones, presidential houses and west London toilets, How does an ordinary man make decisions of life and death? How does he protect his family against the state, and is he ready to be the hero his children and his country need?

To secure her inheritance and escape a scandal not of her making, wealthy socialite Cairstie Henderson relocates to a small town in the Scottish Isles, far from the city lights and runways she once frequented. There, she encounters the Irish spy responsible for the public breakup that made her the laughingstock of the Scottish Borders.

Sheridan, a hardened MI6 agent, is on an undercover assignment to locate missing operatives and the mysterious traitor leaking top-secret information to the Chinese. Unfortunately, there’s one hitch: Cairstie Henderson knows his true identity—and she detests him.

When Cairstie surprises an intruder, she seeks out Sheridan, the one man who can protect her. Over time, these opposites give way to an attraction that eventually blossoms into love. But with a dangerous criminal stalking their steps and intrigue around every corner, will Cairstie and Sheridan obtain their happily ever after, or will they end up dead?

In this debut almost-cozy mystery series novel, Charlie Parker, accountant and partner in an Albuquerque private investigation firm, is visited by her old school friend, Stacy North. Stacy’s Rolex watch is missing and she begs Charlie to help locate it before her husband finds out. Things are complicated by the fact that Stacy had been seeing another man, Gary Detweiller, and he’s the one she suspects of having stolen the watch. With a little detective work, Charlie and her sidekick dog, Rusty, retrieve the missing watch and all should be well. But three days later, Detweiller is murdered. All eyes turn to Stacy as the prime suspect.

Once again, Stacy begs Charlie’s help in proving her innocence. As she begins to ask questions, Charlie learns that Detweiller’s life was not as simple as first perceived and that any number of people had grievances against him. And before she can pinpoint the killer, her own life is in danger as well.

Mel’s an R.N., and Steve’s an ex-Navy medic and physical therapist. Although they’re instantly attracted, they’ve both suffered incredible loss with the death of their significant other. When they realize that they might be the only hope for a young disabled boy to have the future he deserves, can they finally stop their sparring long enough to come up with a solution, while admitting that the attraction they’re fighting just might be love?

Gunslinger shoots unarmed father in restaurant. Farmer’s family relentlessly pursues killer. Who’ll die next?

Zeke never thought he’d get Pa killed. Realizing he caused Pa’s death tears up the eighteen year-old farmer till he’s all sick inside. But when Grandpa McNichol, a U.S. Marshal in Topeka, comes to town for the funeral, he announces that Zeke and Uncle Billy will join him in catching the gunman.

Fearing he won’t measure up to a man he hasn’t seen since he was six, Zeke still chooses to join the pursuit with Grandpa and Uncle Billy. But with a bum left leg and having never shot a six-gun, Zeke knows he’ll be nearly helpless on such a hazardous venture.

Can Zeke survive the trip and help to catch the killer, or will he fail, or even die along the way?

Western Pursuit is the engrossing first book in the Zeke Halstead, U.S. Marshal Series. If you like coming of age stories where inexperience has its penalties, perseverance is essential, capture by Indians is definitely possible, and courage is paramount, then John Alexander’s sweeping 1871 Great Plains adventure is for you.

Viv just wants work — any work. Well, not quite any work. But she’s desperate enough to accept a job offer as personal assistant to Jasper Renner — the rich and mysterious owner of the Renner Tea House — even though odd things happen whenever he’s around.

She expects to deal with rich, entitled Melbournians and a full business schedule. Instead, Viv finds herself following Jasper into a strange new world where a murderous madman has been incarcerated in a secret floor at the old Kew Asylum that may or may not exist in the human world as she knows it.

Reality is just as worryingly soft at the old tea house itself, which hides a few too many not-quite-human secrets. In one of the downstairs rooms, there’s a little girl who has been a little girl for a suspiciously long time; in the uppermost floor, there are a few windows that show a view that doesn’t exist in Melbourne. And then there are the giant cephalopod tentacles that appear from nowhere and disappear again, seemingly at will…

Now Viv isn’t sure if she’s going mad, or if the world itself has gone mad and the lunatic in Kew Asylum is the only sane person she knows.

Victor Thomas Janko, the infamous “Baby Carriage Killer” has escaped from Vanderkill Prison Hospital, where Dr. David Rothberg works as a psychiatrist. Guilt-ridden David didn’t see the escape coming, and his shame and horror only compound when Victor launches a fresh killing spree.

As both killer and hunter spiral into the twisted darkness of Janko’s psychosis, David’s determined pursuit can only lead to a climax of shocking violence.

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