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Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been besieged by a vicious outlaw gang. Burt and Shade are two bounty hunters who have come to town to catch them. This is a fast-paced western novel full of twists and turns. This book has it all: Gunfights, saloon brawls, and damsels in distress.

Morgan Hunter sacrificed everything for her career. She had yet to encounter anything she wasn’t willing to do to succeed...until now. When she uncovers evidence that the healthy foods she’s been hired to promote may be dangerous, she must reevaluate her priorities. As questions mount and the body count rises, she finds herself caught in the crosshairs of an organization that will stop at nothing to hide its secrets and protect its profits. With no one else to trust, Morgan is forced to seek help from the man she drove away but whom she never stopped loving....

Hillary Broome, ghostwriter from Lodi, California, and her detective husband Ed fly to Ireland on vacation, but digging into Hillary's Irish roots entangles them in a battle against a greedy theme park developer as they uncover deadly secrets in the land of 1,000 welcomes.

Part family saga, part love story, “Royalties” traces the rise of two immigrant families, whose paths would romantically, and, sometimes, tragically cross throughout much of the 20th century. From the humble beginnings of Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley to the glamour and power of Hollywood at its zenith, this multi-generational tale weaves the indelible story of struggles, sacrifice, and love. The year is 1908 when Eve Solomon, an 18-year-old orphan, arrives in New York to live with her aunt and uncle and pursue her dream of becoming a concert pianist.

A tragic accident ends Laura Nelson's career as a surgeon. After accepting a position as Vice President of Research at a large pharmaceutical company, Laura works to finalize the imminent approval of the company's groundbreaking new drug. But Jake Harter, a malicious Food and Drug Administration employee, cannot let that happen. He is obsessed with Adawia Abdul, the beautiful Iraqi scientist who discovered the drug. As soon as the drug is approved, Adawia will collect a substantial bonus and reluctantly return home.

Local landowner James Francis goes up against a corrupt sheriff, his hometown, and the Confederate army to save his son. In this new country & western novel from author Michael Haden, hell hath no fury like a father scorned.

After years of an on and off again relationship, New Age shop clerk Peyton Reynolds thinks she's finally got Rob Morris out of her system. That is, until he dies and starts following her around like an undead puppy. Peyton figures that if she can help Rob solve his murder, maybe he can move on. But it isn't as easy as it sounds. Poking her nose into his death lands Peyton in the middle of some very nasty business.

Righteous Rewards Retreat has its own unique aura - one of death. After the second mysterious death at the retreat, Rhetta McCarter re-examines her decision to help the neighboring landowner - a Native American tribe that her foundation selected as its first project - build a museum. Avery Fielding, the enigmatic leader of the retreat is determined to own the tribe's land and warns Rhetta away.

In the years after the American Civil War, the West is wild, and the East is run by the robber barons battling each other for power and money. The range is untamed and blood-soaked, and the cities are dazzling tributes to culture and questionable scientific development. Outlaws roam free on the frontiers, and crooked lawmen and Pinkertons compete with lawless bounty hunters for the prices on their heads. Tess Mercury and her posse are the best damn bounty hunters in the West.

While driving home from work, banker Rhetta McCarter's quiet evening is shattered when she witnesses a fatal hit-and-run accident. Her world is soon turned upside-down when she learns the dead man, a total stranger has no identification, except her business card. Then Rhetta's long estranged and presumed dead father leaves her a voice mail telling her that he can prove the victim was murdered. He also tells her he and the victim served together in Vietnam.

When Rhetta McCarter's '79 Camaro is destroyed in a fire, her best friend and mechanic Victoria (Ricky) Lane, finds a replacement, a vintage Camaro in perfect condition, except for one major flaw: a body buried beneath it. Later, Ricky is arrested when a second victim is found murdered in the same barn. Rhetta is convinced not only that Ricky is innocent, but that the two murders are connected.

Ellen Martin has a soaring corporate legal career in Chicago's powerhouse firm Cowley & Tate. She is handpicked, under questionable circumstances, to perform a pro bono case in the sweltering Colombian town of Barrancabermeja. But Barranca is a place where she is not welcome and events soon conspire against her, pushing her into a downward spiral of trouble and desperation.