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'Tis the season for miracles... and murder.A rifle crack shatters the holiday bustle. Christmas shoppers scatter as a renowned big-game hunter drops to the sidewalk. Blind detective Steve Smiley and his partner Heather McBlythe rush to the scene—and to the teen who'd been locked in a heated argument with her adoptive father moments before.The teen's first plea isn't to find the killer—it's to find her birth parents. What begins as a straightforward adoption...

A floating corpse. A county on the verge of chaos. One man's race against corruption.When Fen Maguire handed over his badge nine months ago, Newman County was clean and safe—a legacy he thought would endure. But the drug dealer's corpse drifting down the Brazos tells a different story.With the victim's house torched and evidence implicating the new sheriff's father, Fen's artistic retirement is cut short. His discovery of a hidden drug cache and coded noteb...

Scottie Sanders is seventy-five years old when pancreatic cancer ends his life.Five years later, he awakens inside a crude mechanical body carrying the memories, personality, humor, and fears of the man who died. Even Scottie cannot prove he is that man, and his first second life lasts only nineteen days before a catastrophic failure returns him to darkness.When Scottie awakens again five years later, the technology has improved. His new synthetic body look...

Three Texas river murders. One former sheriff seeking justice. Clean mysteries in the classic tradition.This collection includes the prequel plus books 1-2, following Fen Maguire's transition from Newman County Sheriff to private investigator as he solves his most challenging cases along Texas waterways.Murder On Shinbone CreekWith ten days left as sheriff, Fen Maguire faces an impossible murder: a hunter shot throu...

He had never collected an account in his life. They handed him the worst portfolio in the store.Three months later it had turned. At six months it was one of the best in a franchise group of roughly two hundred stores. What Bruce Huddleston used was not a collections method. It was twenty years of getting strangers to trust him, applied to a job nobody had bothered to teach him.Bruce spent just under twelve years in buy here pay here, starting as a portfoli...

He sold cars for gross for twenty years. Then the incentive changed everything.For two decades, Bruce Huddleston sold cars the way most of retail automotive does: measured in gross, built on the room between what a customer paid and what the dealership had into the vehicle. Then a move to Texas put him behind a buy-here-pay-here sales desk, where the dealership's own money was the money at risk on every single contract. For the first time in his career, doing right...

The Farm is a lyrical and entertaining journey to the heart of rural life in New Zealand from one of our greatest living writers.When Bruce Ansley visited a friend on a sheep farm on Banks Peninsula, they pointed out a property for sale, down by the water.Down a drive curving through sycamores, oaks, and rhododendrons, there was a deer farm, with an old white Victorian homestead, overlooking soft green pastures beneath rocky crags - the Western Valley of Koukourara...

**ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROur earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into the behavioral patterns so many of us struggle to understand.**“Through this lens we can build a renewed sense of personal self-worth and ultimately recalibrate our responses to circumstances, situations, and relationships. It is, in other words, the ke...

What if the end of the world already happened 450 million years ago?For Dr. Samuel White and four of the world's leading quantum scientists, the nightmare is identical: a terrifying vision of non-Euclidean geometry, a cryptic SOS, and a maddening signal humming at exactly 400 Hertz. Driven to the brink of insanity, the strangers abandon their lives and converge on a dead zone in the freezing, desolate wastes of the Arctic Ocean.But what they find buried ben...

Bruce Taylor's monthly letters to a young and developing Presbyterian congregation are a biblically rich, theological feast for the entire church, pastorally composed, ecumenically visioned, oriented to worship and liturgy, fostering mission and stewardship, and exhibiting devotion to the whole people of God and a specific beloved community. This book chronicles the beginnings and growth, issues and interests of a new church development in northern Nevada. But while nurturing the seeds of ...

Short stories by amazing science fiction authors: Mike Jack Stoumbos, Paige Vest, Rob Grimoire, Zac Sherman, Kevin David Anderson, David Horn, L.N. Hunter, Brian R O'Rourke, Craig Borri, J.M. Phillippe, Mike Davis, Mike Rusetsky, Jim O'Loughlin, Avram Lavinsky, Kari Kilgore, Matthew McKiernan, Effie Kaltirimidou, Daryl Rothman, Bruce Buchanan, and Billy Todd