Master Chef Michael Rogan owns a world-renowned restaurant, is married to his college sweetheart, and has a daughter beginning college. His life is as picturesque as their mountaintop retreat overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.That is until Frederick Dalton, an old Army buddy turned Warden at San Quentin, drifts in from the past with an odd request. He will release Michael's estranged father—serving time on Death Row for the murder of his wife 30 years ago—in exchange for one small...

The Mathesons have always been the cornerstone of the Mission Grove, NC community. Deep wounds start to blur that idyllic image, when they can no longer hide the pain of past events. Their story is an adventure that casts its hooks in several directions at once. They chase after hope, but must first come face to face with the very things that threaten to destroy it. Laugh, heal and hope with us.

Look back at Chevrolet’s breakthroughs in the 1950s, including technological innovations and the development and introduction of the iconic Corvette and 1955-1957 Bel Air.Automotive historian and veteran author David Temple takes you behind the scenes to reveal how these technologies were designed, manufactured, and installed on Chevrolet’s fine portfolio of cars: the Corvette, Bel Air, Nomad, Impala, and many more.As the 1950s dawned, General Motors focused its industrial ...

It's the end of summer in small town Mission Grove, NC, where life is simple and family still means everything. During those last picture-perfect days of the season, parents bask in a lazy weekend before heading back to work. Children happily play, enjoying the last days of freedom before school starts. Life is about as normal as it gets in this quiet southern town. In a split second an accident changes everything. It threatens to tear a family apart and divide close friendships. Pastor Jo...

It's Oscar night in Hollywood, and after years of climbing the entertainment ladder, media darling Meredith Johansen has finally taken home a gold statue.Across town, rookie Detective Patricia Norelli is working late with hopes of breaking through her own glass ceiling with a promotion in the LAPD. Their paths unexpectedly collide when Johansen is discovered dead in her Bel Air home, only hours after Oscar night festivities ended.With a note but few clues, authorities rule ...

By 1955, the one-size car to fit all-customers era ended, and by 1960, Ford offered compact, mid-size, and full-size cars. While Ford's Mustang and Thunderbird stole the headlines, Ford's full-size models, the Galaxies, Fairlanes, XL/500s, LTD, Crown Victorias, and others, delivered exceptional comfort, performance, and style in a variety of different trim levels and power train packages. For families, the full-size car was the chosen mode of transportation. Many owners remember these cars...

In FIVE TIMES LUCKY, an intrepid traveler gets more than her share of tabloid celebrity. Who hasn’t wondered what life was like inside the velvet rope of the Hollywood in-crowd? In this fast-moving comedy the quest for fame has no boundaries...but celebrity has its downside. We follow ex-actress BunnyLee Welles, who returns to Los Angeles for her best friend’s wedding and finds that she is instantly recognizable. From the customs officer to the baggage clerk to the Lyft dr...

Contains the River City books, Dead Even, Some Degree of Murder, and No Good Deed.DEAD EVEN:Dead Even features fifteen stories highlighting major and minor characters from the River City series, including series favorite Katie MacLeod, Detectives Finch and Elias, hard-luck Officer Paul Hiero, and transplanted gangster, Dominic Bracco.SOME DEGREE OF MURDER:...

Detectives Finch and Elias have seen a lot -- murders, assaults, rapes, missing persons -- but they've never investigated a missing mummy before. Follow the two partners as they sift through a half dozen different suspects and try to solve the mystery of a stolen child mummy from the River City museum.Part whodunit mystery, part procedural, with more than a little wise-cracking along the way, The Bastard Mummy has a little something for all kinds of mystery readers.

Lance Bear Wolf and his Shadow Tier operators must stop the rebirth of The French Connection and its terror funding connection to the Taliban. By any means necessary.When the resurgent Sinaloa cartel attacks Wolf and his wife, Elle Parker, on the Crow Indian reservation, the safety of his people becomes Job One—until the president of the United States orders Shadow Tier to stop the Taliban’s opium trade. The president’s underlying message: The drug war is a failu...

Sam and Rachel are on the grift, on the make, and on the run.Long time grifters and lovers, the couple is in St. Louis to run a con on Barry Jacobsen, who owns a concrete business. But the clock is ticking on the deal, and on them. Mobsters from Philadelphia are one step behind, seeking revenge for the pair’s most recent scam.Caught between the dangers of this con being discovered and a mafia hit man finding them before they can wrap it up, Sam and Rachel walk a thin line o...

The Matheson family has always been the cornerstone of the Mission Grove, NC community. But deep wounds begin to blur that idyllic image of the preacher's family when they can no longer hide the pain of past events. Their story is an adventure that cast its hook in several engaging directions at once, eventually reeling us back into the core of the family. They chase after hope, but must first come face to face with the very things that threaten to destroy it. Family secrets must be brough...