The battle is one of wits and cunning, where the strong heart will overcome his enemy.Ex-marine Arthur Nakai spent years as a member of the Shadow Wolves, an ICE tactical unit tasked by the US government to hunt human traffickers and drug smugglers on the US/Mexico border. He put that life of confronting violence in the darker contours of the desert landscape behind him and settled into a quiet existence in New Mexico with his wife, Sharon, a local TV reporter.But ...

“So clever and fresh with a wild and incredibly satisfying twist at the end.” —Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling authorA dinner party in a beautiful Notting Hill townhouse turns into a sinister game as six old friends are forced to spill their darkest secrets…or else.Six friends reunite in London to celebrate the life of their recently deceased ex-employer, a professor that brought them together in 1999 to help build a dat...

It took all of thirty seconds for two shots to bring the world of Margaret Tabaaha crashing down around her. After losing her husband in Afghanistan during the first year of Operation Enduring Freedom, her two sons were all she had left. Now they had been taken from her violently, deliberately, plunging her into a whiskey bottle and stripping away her reason for living.When Arthur Nakai receives a call from his first love, Margaret, her voice pleading for his help, it comes as he i...

A chance meeting at a cathedral's demolition site between a suffering young woman and a stranger morphs from unsettling to terrifying when you discover the stranger's true identity. He is simultaneously more and less than he appears: An injured man lost in the wilderness is haunted by a demon that he might or might not recognize from his past: Is John Lennon still alive? Deb Stiles thinks so, and when she convinces a young reporter to investigate, nothing in their lives will ever be the sa...

In 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative book, we are present at the creation of an ancient imperial order whose major features would endure for two millennia.The Qin and Han constitute the “classical period” of Chinese history—a role played by the Greeks and Romans in the W...

In 1925, three children vanish without a trace in Arrowhead Lake. Nearly a century later, there are those who still report seeing the children swimming beneath the surface like elusive dolphinsAfter losing her husband in a violent car crash, Rachel King and her two young sons venture to Arrowhead Lake to heal. When Rachel discovers that Great Woods Timber is planning to clear-cut this beautiful wilderness, she enlists the help of Lilly Bowman and her mysterious father, chief and sh...

Danny Wolf, a gifted rock musician with alcohol problems is witnessing brutal murder in his dreams. Newly released from prison for a crime he did not commit, Wolf is having trouble adjusting to civilian life. He believes the dreams are a symptom of his adjustment until he discovers that they are real and that the victims are his own groupies. He soon begins to doubt his sanity. Could he be a homicidal madman?Wolf has no memory of his early childhood but discovers that he spent his ...

"Mark Edward is an equivocator, fibber, and mountebank. Which begs the question: if a liar admits to lying, can he be telling the truth? He is a literate, informative, intellectual, a student of the psychology of humans, a foe of those who would defraud the public for personal gain, and as an author and practicing psychic, he is first and foremost an entertainer."—Joel Moskowitz, International Brotherhood of MagiciansMark Edward admits that for years he exploited believers who wish...

The “so clever and fresh” (Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author) author of The Wasp Trap returns with a novel best described as Succession set in the Scottish Highlands where a plot to murder the patriarch’s younger fiancée entangles an innocent outsider in a nest of deadly secrets.A week in paradise—with the family from hell.When Patrick is invited by his girlfriend to join her and her family on a luxury hol...

This cookbook is absolutely not for people who rise early to visit the French market off Boulevard St. Germain, pick out the plumpest chicken, take it home, kill it and strip off all the feathers. It's for workaday people who come home after a long day at the office or are staring down a holiday weekend with guests coming and having nary an idea what to bring to the table which can impress without stress. My simple premise is that if you have a well provisioned pantry, an appetite for adve...

The Progress Trilogy, no matter the number of books, is an ongoing saga. A saga of a statement on the state of things and it feels like it will never end because, you know, the state, things, that keep being stated.

There may be some who could not agree that Ballet is an “art,” or even that it has, or ever had, any special charm or historic interest. The charm—as in the case of any other art—will probably always remain rather a matter of individual opinion; the historic interest is merely a matter of fact. No man can hope for agreement with his fellows in all things. The world were flat if it could be so. He may hector, and not convince; he may cajole and not convert; he may tell the simple truth in s...