Dr. Simon Patterson is a successful and well-respected neurosurgeon at Central Hospital in the town of Seattle. Married, though without children, he keeps himself so busy that one day is not much different from another. Until, that is, he saves the life of the powerful mobster Carlo Vucci.At a dinner in honor of Dr. Patterson, Carlo Vucci introduces him to his alluring wife Christine. Simon is entranced by her beauty.Three weeks later, Christine shows up at the hospital, comp...

The novel opens with a hair-tingling scene, as two men kidnap Emely Donnovan, one of the wealthiest women in America, and bury her alive. What is behind this horrific crime?Raised in a strict religious institution, Emely never knew her parents. Fearing a life of poverty, she starts up a small business that deals mainly with buying and selling stocks. Thanks to her extreme dedication and knowledge, the company grows over time into a major conglomerate. In her desire for ever greater ...

When the FBI sends Special Agent Grayson Raman to investigate the Ajna Chakra Divinity, the assignment looks straightforward. Dr. Sami Aarav is a chemist and a con man who has synthesized a drug his followers call Garuda — a compound that kills the body, retains the soul, and resurrects it. The Bureau calls it a controlled substance. The dead call it something else entirely.Grayson is decorated, disciplined, and compromised — haunted by a married woman named Adriana an...

Reporter Anya Horvat, who works at Clarice, a weekly women's magazine, has relationship problems with men. She is thirty-five years old, yet has never had a single relationship that lasted more than two months. This reality prompts her to consult the well-known and successful psychiatrist, Patricia Bellows, who is later found horribly murdered. Anya has never dealt with a murder investigation before, but when her boss literally forces her to take the assignment, she begins to uncover the m...

Elderly Gordon Oregon has not been feeling his best recently. Nausea and vomiting are sapping his energy, and it is getting worse every day. The news that his son and daughter-in-law have died in a car accident is a great shock to him. But then his condition starts to improve. ...

Gary Nelson has problems with his father-in-law, the CEO and majority holder of the Trionid Corporation, who likes to make life difficult for Gary, the finance director of the same company. His father-in-law's sudden violent death puts Gary in the CEO's shoes. But now that Gary has everything a person could possibly want, he gets bored. Recently he has even felt that someone is following him. Finally, he realizes how to spice up his daily life. ...

Secrets, lies, and revenge provide the sparks that ignite a fiery collision between past and present…A puzzle takes shape as baseball's World Series unfolds, but the pieces don't fit: a string of missing women, strange threats, gambling problems, kidnappings, and relationships long dormant are all somehow connected, but Marshall Connors--major league umpire--may run out of time before he can solve the mystery.Marshall's season has ended and he is looking forward to post-sea...

Clarissa Tyler came from a good home with loving parents and a wide circle of friends. She, and her fiancé Nick, both prepared for college graduation and dreamed of a successful life together.Until the accident happened. Until Nick died and that sheltered world collapsed.She wakes in a remote and unfamiliar hospital after two months in a physician-induced fugue state. She is surrounded by an eccentric staff that won't provide any details about the accident. She is given a g...

16 glowing stones were hidden throughout the world. Whoever gets all 16 would have a power that could plunge the world into chaos. Even though Kenny Lincoln doesn't want the power, a family mystery throws him in the middle of two old rivals in a quest to find all sixteen. Lives will be lost, friendships torn, alliances forged, and trusts betrayed as the chase begins to collect the Tellurian Suns.

When Special Agent Catherine Macgregor arrives home from work to find her front door ajar, deep concern immediately engulfs her. With her gun drawn she enters, her baby sitter is brutally murdered, and her nine-year-old daughter Abigail is missing - abducted.Banned from working on the case by her superior nothing will stop this mother from doing what-ever is within her power throughout many twists, and turns, as she attempts to track down her daughter alive before it's too late.

A former member of Saddam Hussein's Special Security Force arrives in Richmond, Virginia. Under the name of Ari Ciminon, he sets up house on the James River. The house was purchased for him by the U.S. Marshals Service, which is responsible for watching over him while he supplies intelligence to CENTCOM. Because he is fluent in Italian (as well as a host of other languages) he is presented to his new neighbors as an Italian of Arab descent. Ari learns on his first day that the previous occ...

When a new family moves into their dream house, they think its everything they ever wanted. But what they don't realize is that the fun is just beginning. The family is forced to defend themselves against something no one would ever believe.