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The Road Beckons — Pantheon Calls — Hope GrowsLives endangered by colleagues they once trusted, a pair of mercenaries hit the road in an attempt to earn respect and coin.Lost messages and growing heresy threaten to collapse a holy order of Paladins while a simple guard is called to a deeper faith by his god.The physician to an aging matriarch takes up a seemingly ageless seed pod from a botanist's desk, an action that will change her life forever.

A trail of beribboned murders. A ticking bomb. A city about to explode.July, 1858: London swelters under the oppressive heat of the hottest summer on record, and trouble is brewing. Forensic scientist Professor Adolphus Hatton and his trusty assistant, Albert Roumande, have a morgue full of cholera victims. The dead are all Irish, the poorest of London's poor. They came in their thousands ten years ago, forced into the London slums by the terrible famine. Now they l...

**An aspiring architect is determined to enter the Royal Academy's all-male Exhibition, if only her rakish viscount husband weren't so enticingly distracting, in this sexy, STEMinist Regency romance“Brilliant, funny, complicated characters, delicious angst, and enough yearning to tear your heart out—I couldn’t love this book more.”—Alexandra Vasti, USA Today bestselling author of Scandal of the Summer**She’s the architect of her own dreams. He was neve...

When the mummified remains of a World War II G.I. are unearthed in the sub-basement of the Crawford County Courthouse, the local residents, well-known for their nonstop gossip, are suddenly as quiet as the soldier's grave. Sheriff Charles Matthews is frustrated by the town's silence. He isn't planning to arrest anyone for a murder more than fifty years old, but he does want to bury the soldier's remains with a name other than John Doe. One of the local oldster's must know that name, but no...

One of London's first forensic detectives chases a grisly killer in this stunning debut mystery rich in period detail and sinister intrigue.London in 1856 is gripped by a frightening obsession. The specimen-collecting craze is growing, and discoveries in far-off jungles are reshaping the known world in terrible and unimaginable ways. The new theories of evolution threaten to disrupt the fragile balance of power that keeps the chaotic city in order—a disruption that many would do jus...

When the battlemage Rosamandista and her lock-picking friend Lillivander leave their life of dungeon delves to open a new pie cart, adventure comes baked in!Along with Rosa's daughter Ivy, they meet a motley collection of vendors selling goods and taking names. Will Rosamandista get caught up in a guild war? Bake a pie? Perhaps both!

At first glance, he was a fine figure of a man. Even the butcher knife buried in the middle of his chest didn't seriously detract ffrom his good looks. But that corpse, nude except for a pair of mismatched socks--and the butcher knife , of course--is trouble with a capital T for Leroy MacPherson, in whose wheat field the body is dumped, and rest of his extended family. It's also trouble for the opponents of the nuclear waste depository the DOE plans to build in the Texas Panhandle. The vic...

A Lincoln Continental driven by Amy Steele, wife of millionaire rancher, James Steele, rams a tanker full of gasoline. Instant incineration of both drivers; a probable accident, according to Sergeant Larry Jenner of the Amarillo Police Department. Eight months later, it’s murder, according to Sergeant Ed Schroder of the Special Crimes Unit, and the probable murderer is the widower. Standing between James Steele and Sergeants Jenner and Schroder is John Lloyd Branson, reputed to be the be...

Eight thousand hunters decend on Crawford County, Texas, for the annual pheasant season. To Sheriff Charles Matthews that's eight thousand chances for a gun-related accident. But when the most hated man in the county, banker Rich Hansford, turns up with his face removed by a shotgun blast, it's no accident; it's murder. To Crawford County folk, it's a public service killing, and no one, not even the sheriff's staff, are much interested in seeing anyone arrested. Certainly no one will infor...

Opportunity Knocks — Secrets Deepen — Shadows LoomHanen and Rallia have made a new home for themselves, only to discover secrets from their past that reveal a darker future.The heretical rift forming in the order of Paladins widens—only Jined and his closest allies stand in the breach.As imminent danger wilts the Crysalas, Katiam is cast away to lands beyond the edge of any dream.The blind monk Seriah has never feared death, until she ...

The author was trained as a research scientist. His research skills were applied to undertake the research to aid in the understanding of the complexities of cancer and especially the silent killer, ovarian cancer. The author was present for every cancer treatment for his closest friend, and a sincere attempt was made to understand as much about the effectiveness and nature of the treatments as possible. A chronological history of events throughout the duration of the treatment process is ...

Someone is killing prostitutes on Amarillo Boulevard after sending each a cryptic invitation to "cleanse your soul in the blood of the lamb." One victim mails a letter to John Lloyd Branson, the Panhandle's most famous lawyer, begging for his help. When she is murdered before she can talk to him, and her appointment is kept by her pimp and his stable of girls, John Lloyd declines any involvement in the case. His legal assistant, Lydia Fairchild is so incensed that she goes undercover on th...