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How do you stop a killer you can't even see?It's been two years since Detective Marissa Ambrose nearly lost her life working the Couple’s Killer case, but time hasn't stopped the vivid nightmares. She still carries the heavy guilt of her partner's death, and the Seattle Police Department refuses to support her theory that the suspect they arrested had an accomplice. With her ex-husband regretfully out of the picture, Marissa was supposed to be focusing on adjusting back to somethin...

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the YearA moving portrait of a grim period in American immigration history, when approximately one million ethnic Mexicans—mostly women and children who were US citizens—were forced to relocate across the southern border.From 1921 to 1944, approximately one million ethnic Mexicans living in the United States were removed across the border to Mexico. What officials called “repatriation” was i...

The city of Leithon is under Imperial occupation, and Arian Athensor has made it her playground.In stealing magical artifacts for the Resistance, bounding over rooftops to evade Imperial soldiers, and establishing herself as the darling thief of the underground, Arian lives a life wrapped in danger and trained toward survival. She’ll stealanything for the right price, and if she runs fast enough, she can almost escape the fact that her mother is dead, her father is missing, ...

Her only memory is dying from her wounds…Jane wakes up in a lab. She's alone, immersed in a sterilized tank with wires and tubes connected to her. She looks around. There are others–test subjects like her. Except they're all dead. What makes her different?She has no answers, but she wants them. Wants them with a powerful drive that courses through her like the life she lost in a night raid in Afghanistan. It's a life she shouldn't have now. Someone brought ...

Publisher's summaryBrand-new stories by: Tom Abrahams, Robert Boswell, Sarah Cortez, Anton DiSclafani, Stephanie Jaye Evans, Wanjiku Wa Ngugi, Adrienne Perry, Pia Pico, Reyes Ramirez, Icess Fernandez Rojas, Sehba Sarwar, Leslie Contreras Schwartz, Larry Watts, and Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton.Critic reviews"Brooklyn Noir came first in 2004, and now, 15 years later, Houston Noir--14 stories of intrigue, betrayal and death set from Tanglewood to Third Ward penned by cu...

How do you stop a killer you can't even see?It's been two years since Detective Marissa Ambrose nearly lost her life working the Couple's Killer case, but time hasn't stopped the vivid nightmares. She still carries the heavy guilt of her partner's death, and the Seattle Police Department refuses to support her theory that the suspect they arrested had an accomplice. With her ex-husband regretfully out of the picture, Marissa was supposed to be focusing on adjusting...

Distance makes the heart grow fonder-especially when your admirer is a serial killer.Detective Marissa Ambrose survived three days of torture by a serial killer, but two years later, her integrity and sanity are being called into question while her personal life is breaking apart at the seams.After a phone call from her deceased partner's wife, Marissa finds herself trying to unravel the cold case he left behind. Meanwhile, the serial killer she could never...

It's nearing the third anniversary of the Couple's Killer case—and the day Marissa Ambrose nearly lost her life.Today, one of those cold-blooded killers is behind bars while the other one is still out there, watching her. But he's not the only one.When the biggest case of her career was picked apart, the mob boss she put away took the opportunity to escape. Now, he's revisiting everyone who played a part in putting him in jail. As he makes his way down the hi...

It's nearing the third anniversary of the Couple's Killer case-and the day Marissa Ambrose nearly lost her life.Today, one of those cold-blooded killers is behind bars while the other one is still out there, watching her. But he's not the only one.When the biggest case of her career was picked apart, the mob boss she put away took the opportunity to escape. Now, he's revisiting everyone who played a part in putting him in jail. As he makes his way down the ...

He was there to keep her safe. He failed.James Mackenzie's whole world has been turned upside down. He has spent the last year by Marissa's side, trying to keep her safe from the serial killer who is stalking her. She had already been kidnapped once, three years ago. The killer has been watching her ever since, always close and always watching. Now the killer has her again, Mac is certain of it.The police and FBI are less certain. Even some of her family me...

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, especially when your admirer is a serial killer.Detective Marissa Ambrose survived three days of torture by a serial killer, but two years later, her integrity and sanity are being called into question while her personal life is breaking apart at the seams.After a phone call from her deceased partner's wife, Marissa finds herself trying to unravel the cold case he left behind. Meanwhile, the serial killer she could never catch is gettin...

He won’t let her forget.Detective Marissa Ambrose is a small town detective with scars—both physical and psychological. While she survived a brutal attack, her assailant still haunts her, sending photos and letters. Despite her efforts to keep people at a distance, her relationship with FBI Agent Mackenzie helps breathe new life into her existence.As Detective Ambrose investigates a Jane Doe’s potential murder, she finds herself closely involved with a turb...