The Spider Watched Me Run

A six-year-old girl is kidnapped from her bed in Tennessee’s oldest town.

The ransom note demands millions.

In this fifth installment of the highly-acclaimed and best-selling Joe Dillard series, Dillard is hired to represent the parents of a child who has gone missing. As the clock ticks, Dillard desperately tries to find the little girl, but the return of his wife’s dreaded disease and the stunning appearance of his father combine to push Dillard to his emotional limit.***A portion of the profits from the sale of every Joe Dillard novel is donated to the Ballad Health Cancer Patient Assistance Fund. Unfortunately, cancer plays a big role in the legacies of both Scott Pratt and Joe Dillard. This is our way of making the best of it.

A mysterious old house, an unforgettable romance and a lost granddaughter escaping to the stunning Irish coast…

Lily Fleury used to love visiting her eccentric grandmother Sylvia in Ireland, taking long sunset walks on the beach and exploring the nooks and crannies of the family’s old home Magnolia Manor. But when she arrives from Dublin broken-hearted, hoping to heal in Sylvia’s warm embrace, she finds the once ornate Georgian house in disrepair and the gardens wildly overgrown. Sylvia has always been fiercely independent, but Lily can’t believe she hasn’t told anyone she’s been struggling.

Lily knows she can’t leave until she gets Sylvia back on her feet. Although mysterious local builder Dominic agrees to help, from the moment Lily looks into his fierce green eyes they clash over how to fix the sprawling estate. It’s only when she hears the soft Irish lilt of his voice as he sings in the local pub that their arguments ignite a spark of passion neither can ignore…

But when Lily finds a trunk of tattered letters in the gatehouse, she discovers a devastating secret Sylvia has been hiding about Magnolia Manor. And she soon learns the real reason Dominic agreed to help out. Lily wanted to save her family home, and could see a life here with Dominic, but will the truth force her to leave the man who has captured her heart and never return?

Now a Great American Family Original Mystery TV series titled The Ainsley McGregor Mysteries: A Case for the Winemaker.

A dead body is bad for business. Finding it in your brand-new shop? Worse.

Ainsley McGregor risked everything to open Bless Your Art — Sweet River’s newest artisan market. It’s finally working… until her Great Dane, George Clooney, discovers a body during a wine tasting.
Now Ainsley’s friend is the prime suspect — and her brother, the sheriff, is making it clear she should stay out of the investigation.

She won’t.

As gossip spreads and secrets ferment beneath the town’s charming surface, Ainsley uncovers a web of grudges, lies, and motives that hit closer to home than she expected. And the deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes:

The killer isn’t worried about being caught.

They’re worried about Ainsley.

And they’ll do whatever it takes to stop her.

A spark of rebellion can topple an empire.

When Finn Brasa is thrust into a deadly gladiatorial battle against high-tech assassins and intelligent robots, it’s all for the entertainment of the masses.

No one expected him to survive – least of all, Finn himself.

His reward? Status and riches. But what Finn truly hungers for is revolution. The common people are desperate for a leader to rise up and challenge the ruthless empire that has subjugated humanity for centuries.

From the streets of Earth’s last city to the colossal space station Nimbus, Finn will stop at nothing to crush humanity’s high-tech overlords.

He’s beaten the odds before – but can one man really bring down an empire?

The federal prison on Alcatraz Island in the chilly waters of California’s San Francisco Bay housed some of America’s most difficult and dangerous prisoners during its years of operation from 1934 to 1963. Among those who served time at the maximum-security facility were the notorious gangster Al “Scarface” Capone (1899-1947) and murderer Robert “Birdman of Alcatraz” Stroud (1890-1963).

When prisoners boarded the boat for Alcatraz, they knew that they had reached the end of the line. Not only was this the toughest of all Federal penitentiaries, but it was also said to be virtually escape-proof. The island was a natural fortress, separated from the mainland by a narrow strait of freezing water and deadly currents. This prison was the U.S. government’s drastic answer to the lawlessness unleashed under Prohibition, which continued throughout the “Roaring Twenties” and into the teeth of the Great Depression. Alcatraz, with its damp cold and austere isolation, its rigid discipline and strict rule of silence, was as tough as the criminals that were sent there, and by the time the prison closed down in 1963, “the Rock” had indisputably done its job.

The book includes narratives of Alcatraz’s most notable inmates who include Robert Stroud (Birdman of Alcatraz), Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, Frank Morris, the Anglin Brothers, Doc Barker, Joe Cretzer, Bernard Coy, Miran Thompson, Sam Shockley, among others.