The Oxenburg WomanBook 1 in the Living Heavy, Traveling Light series.A hardened veteran of an obscure organization, reluctantly on vacation, drives into the Arizona desert foothills for a long-delayed celebration. Within the hour he's wounded and bleeding. A few miles away Suzanna Oxenburg plans an afternoon walk in the rain with her dog. A few weeks before, a million-dollar stallion vanished, the target of the perfect horse theft. Three seemingly unrelated events have conve...

"Touching character-driven literary thriller of life after espionage." — Booklife Reviews.SynopsisThis is a cerebral adventure novel about the unfamiliar side of the globe. It follows a pair of American technology professionals enmeshed in highly successful careers that appear similar on the surface but are wildly different in reality. Circumstances, described in the first two books in the series brought them together and establish...

"Mann offers a slow-burning espionage thriller set at the intersection of high-tech power and personal vulnerability. An often-riveting exploration of power and the antiheroes in its service." — Kirkus ReviewsSynopsisA hardened veteran of an obscure organization, reluctantly on vacation, drives into the Arizona desert foothills for a long-delayed celebration. Within the hour he's wounded and bleeding. A few miles away Suzanna Oxenb...

"The second installment of Mann's espionage trilogy pulls readers back into the high-stakes world of Lewis and Suzanna, exploring their evolving relationship amid a tangled web of international conspiracy." — Kirkus Reviews.SynopsisLewis faces the challenge of rethinking long held beliefs. Burdened by an ugly backstory, global responsibilities, and thorny business ventures, he's dedicated to the departure point where he can force t...

For Fans of Jo Nesbø, Stieg Larsson, and Henning Mankell, a Gripping Nordic Thriller That Was a Bestseller in DenmarkAfter the death of her industrialist father, Elizabeth Caspersen finds a compromising DVD in his safe: it seems to show two people being hunted to their death in a gruesome, well-organized manhunt. Michael Sander, a private investigator and security consultant, is hired to find out who the victims are and why Caspersen was involved. Meanwhile, police...

Traveling to China to retrieve a kidnapped scientist shows Diesel the depths of human depravity. Not that he needs more proof. He’s been doing this type of work for a decade. This is the first time though the person he was rescuing was this interesting.Eva Langston had been kidnapped while walking across the street and then locked up in a lab half a world away. Joining two other scientists, both letting her know there was no escape, she refuses to give up hope. When the rescue does...

Number Four: The Zero Finger Option is the fourth in a new series of Colin Cotterill short stories featuring his female news reporter and detective, Jimm Juree. Fans of Jimm know her from the four novels where, with the help of the members of her strange family, she usually solves the crime. Move over Miss Marple, Jimm Juree does it for the 21st Century.In The Zero Finger Option a letter a day delivered by a good looking young postman leads Jimm into a new mystery. It starts as a c...

“Gorgeous.”—The New York Times • NYPL Best Books of 2022 • School Library Journal Best Books of 2022 • Indigo Best Kids’ Books of 2022 • JLG Gold Standard Selection • Moonbeam Children's Book Award Gold Winner • Kids Indie Next PickBellwether Riggwelter is, once again, out of blackberries. This time, rather than tiptoe through a forest full of predators, he comes up with a new plan. He will keep himself safe by blending in—he will sew a Wolf Suit! The disg...

Duncan has always been a pretty boring guy, leading a simple life while working at a bread factory.Then he stumbles upon Brenda, a sad young woman who’s about to end her life. Convinced he’s fallen in love, Duncan strikes up a desperate deal: if he can get her to laugh, she'll give life another shot, but if she doesn’t even giggle, he'll help her go through with her plan. There’s just one catch: Duncan isn’t funny. At all.So he borrows Pat, his second-favou...

Callie has been hiding in plain sight ever since her dad tried to sell her out, or well, sell her. She's in her last year of college and isn't expecting to fall in love with a hot biker guy. But then again, most of her life has been unexpected.Raf has been living a quiet life, well as quiet as you can be being part of a large MC. He's put his previous life and job behind him and focuses on his dogs. He figures he's doing well until a trip to a bar changes everything. She's a bit sw...

A man murdered during Katrina in a hotel room two blocks from her art-restoration studio was closely tied to a part of Johanna’s past that she would like kept secret. But missing from the crime scene is a valuable artwork painted in 1926 by a renowned Belgian artist that might bring it all back.An acquaintance, Clay Fontenot, who has enabled a wide variety of personal violations in his life, some of which he has enjoyed, is the scion of a powerful New Orleans family.And Mar...

Everything I feel from reading and listening to musicI commit to paper in black penAnd gradually, blot by blot, stroke by stroke,A new mode of expression emerges.At this point, it's just scribbles in a diaryNot yet reborn as “Henn Kim” of the future._________________________________Depre...