Fighting terrorism on foreign ground, CIA superagent Mitch Rapp does whatever it takes to protect American freedom. MEMORIAL DAY CIA intelligence has pointed to a major terrorist attack on the United States, just as the nation's capital prepares for a grand Memorial Day tribute to the veterans of World War II. Racing to Afghanistan, Mitch Rapp leads a commando raid on an al Queda stronghold in a remote border village -- and defuses plans for a nuclear strike on Washington. The crisis averted, the special ops work is done. But Rapp knows, in the face of a new kind of enemy, nothing is as it seems -- and it's up to him alone to avert a disaster of unimaginable proportions.

Jim receives an unsettling visit from a stranger who tells him he needs to kill someone or his wife will die.Instinctively Jim calls the police who investigates the complaint. When Jim's wife dies and the stranger visits him once more he is told that he has to kill himself or his daughter dies.It is a race against the clock as Jim tries to figure out what the stranger has to gain from it all.Young and beautiful hairdresser, Payton, thought she had a normal, everyday life, no different from anyone else. When a mysterious man suddenly appears, he shatters her world by telling her that her entire life has been a lie. She is a god among many having lived for thousands of years. She is a key member of the Guardians! The Guardians seek only peace, unity and balance between all good & evil but the Anords want full control. To protect her from the Anords, the Guardians replaced her memory dropping her into her not-so-normal life. Now, the Anords know where she is and he needs to protect her at all costs.Payton holds the key to bringing all of them together as one, working together for the good of humanity. However, a mysteriously familiar woman complicates everything.

Filled with twists and turns, Old Habits continues the journey of Jamie Brewer, a high school student turned drug dealer, who must decide between continuing in a business he’s grown to love and putting the lives of those he cares about most in danger in order to get out.Jamie Brewer thought he had escaped a life of crime when he fled his hometown after a drug deal gone awry left his best friend dead and his life in ruins. But ‘Old Habits’ die hard…After taking on new identities in California, Jamie and his partner-in-crime Gabe can't hide from old enemies for long, and after being captured and transported to Chicago to work off their debts to the drug kingpin Harrison, the two hatch a plan big enough it could finally ensure their freedom for good, but at what price?Filled with twists and turns, Old Habits continues the journey of Jamie Brewer, a high school student turned drug dealer, who must decide between continuing in a business he’s grown to love and putting the lives of those he cares about most in danger in order to get out.Old Habits is the second book in the trilogy reviewers are calling "dark and gritty" and "unique YA.”

Possessed for fourteen years, Willa Queen has never tried too hard to get rid of her demon, Ithinara. But when the new boy in town, Cain Steele, starts giving her attention she becomes torn between the life she's used to and the life she could have. Getting close to Cain might be what finally lets her demon take over for good, or it could be exactly what sets Willa free.Willa Queen had gotten used to her life in Hollow’s Point, where she’d go to school, volunteer at the animal shelter, and play volleyball for the Wayward Tigers. She thinks her life is pretty normal, considering she’s been possessed by a demon for fourteen years. Ithinara has never made as big a deal out of anyone as she has the Steele family. She wants Willa to stay away from them, claiming they’re dangerous. Willa believes Ithinara, because this wouldn’t be the first time the demon has protected her. But Willa becomes torn between the life she’s used to and the life she could have. Getting close to Cain and the Steele’s might be what finally lets Ithinara take over for good, or it could be exactly what sets Willa free.

Project 6 is an interactive short story. Take on the role of agent 6, a Magnet Securities operative ordered to take out terrorists who have stormed LAX. Mission discretion is yours alone. How the mission proceeds, and how it ends, is up to you.Requires Amazon Kindle or Mobi for reader input to work.It is 2012. A new year, and a new era of counter-terrorism. Magnet Securities, the largest private security firm in America, leads the fight against rising domestic terror groups in the country. But do their methods make them better than the very people they hunt?Project 6 is an interactive short story. Take on the role of agent 6, a Magnet Securities operative ordered to take out terrorists who have stormed LAX. Mission discretion is yours alone. How the mission proceeds, and how it ends, is up to you.Requires Amazon Kindle or Mobi for reader input to work.

Killing Time is a collection of five short stories of varied characters, different locations, and unique situations that define the motive that precipitate the ultimate demise of the character or characters.Family makes us who we are. I buy into the fact that we’re all blank slates when we’re born and throughout life the presence or even the absence of family makes you who you are. My family is everything to me. People say that shit, but I believe it. When my son was born I gave up coke, booze, even porn. None of that mattered if it meant any of it could touch him and turn him into the fuck up I’ve been.Now I’ll grant you, I pull down six figures a game, have three houses, a dozen bikes, and a damn fine wife. Sounds like every man’s dream. I’d give up all of that if it meant keeping my lady and our boy safe and happy. I dropped three games my last season alone, a million and a half and change, to see a play he was in and take my bride to Vegas for our anniversary. Could have cost me my contract. Show me someone else who’s done that.Some things have changed since the world has gone to hell. Even my wife and son have... changed. But nothing can ever take them away from me. Nothing.

In a followup to United Arcadia Flight 817, the lone survivor of the doomed flight, Jared Mintz, has been forced to go out again. Another skeleton crew, now with an Air Marshall also on board, will he find the answers he is looking for? Will Jared be able to find Jennifer, as the man in the suit promised?Cleo has lost something beginning with the letter L. Will she be able to find it? A letter specific alphabet book.

A provocative literary thriller that playfully pays tribute to classic tales of mystery and adventure Lucas Corso is a book detective, a middle-aged mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found dead, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, Corso is brought in to authenticate the fragment. He is soon drawn into a swirling plot involving devil worship, occult practices, and swashbuckling derring-do among a cast of characters bearing a suspicious resemblance to those of Dumas's masterpiece. Aided by a mysterious beauty named for a Conan Doyle heroine, Corso travels from Madrid to Toledo to Paris on the killer's trail in this twisty intellectual romp through the book world.

A little girl’s body has been found in the wilderness near the desert community of Rubicon Ranch. Was it an accident? Or . . . murder! But who would want to kill a child? Everyone in this upscale housing development is hiding something.A little girl’s body has been found in the wilderness near the desert community of Rubicon Ranch. Was it an accident? Or . . . murder! But who would want to kill a child? Everyone in this upscale housing development is hiding something. Could Kourtney and Jeff Peterson have killed their daughter, mischievous nine-year-old Riley, to protect their secret? Moody Sinclair had once killed an eight-year-old boy. Has she killed again? Fifteen-year-old Dylan McKenzie is a straight A honor student. By day. Did Riley discover the other Dylan, the one who prowls at night? Cooper Dahlsing does strange things while sleepwalking. Could he have killed and not known it? Mark and Jamie Westbrook, self-styled private investigators, show up to help solve the murder, but perhaps they had a hand in creating the crime? Eighty-two-year-old Eloy Franklin sits on his porch and watches. But does he do more than watch? Forty-three-year-old Melanie Gray found Riley’s body stuffed in a television console that had been dumped in the desert. But is she as innocent as she seems? Sheriff Seth Bryan is bitter and cynical at having lost everything he values. Is he manufacturing crimes to bring him the notoriety he craves? Nine Second Wind Publishing authors collaborated to write Rubicon Ranch: Riley’s Story.

When Peter Moran, a former World War I pilot, picks up a man on the roadside while driving through a bitter rainy night, he is startled to discover that the bedraggled man is a wartime comrade of his who has just survived a crash landing. As he learns more about his old friend’s strange mission, Moran finds himself entangled in treasonous international plots, flying adventures, and tests of both his bravery and his loyalty.

Closure is a thriller of 440 (PB) pages with political and police procedural themes and is the first book in the Jack Randall series. Told from the sniper's and his pursuers point-of-view, Closure will keep you glued to the page as the killer, and the FBI team assigned to catch him, travel from target to target before their fates finally converge on live television in the nation's capital.When a prominent lawyer is shot while waiting at a suburban stop sign it sets off a nation-wide manhunt for an elusive killer. Special Agent Jack Randall of the FBI finds himself appointed to track down and stop the shooter. Not by his superiors, but by the killer himself.As more bodies fall the shooter takes his message to the press, earning the support of the public with his choice of targets and confounding the FBI at every turn. From the desert of Nevada to the urban jungle of New York City, Jack and his team follow the trail of bodies and haunting messages left behind by the killer. With the pressure to find him mounting on Jack, the assassin’s crimes grow bolder, and his message more sinister and closer to home. It becomes clear to Jack that in order to find the shooter, he may have to look inside his own past, and become the man he was years ago.

Mark and Michelle just have to survive. Well, they also have to make it home from Titan. And if they don't have a full load of Methane in the giant Gas-harvesting Balloon Ship Sojourner, everything they and dozens of other families invested will be lost. Loneliness, constant repairs, violent gas storms and government seizure aren't the only things keeping them awake at night.Stalling and Steffor inhabit different worlds, yet they are connected. Together, but unbeknownst to one of them, they race towards an inevitable, if unimaginable collision. As a Guardian, Steffor protects the Provider’s Citizens from a host of dangers inherent to a world of perpetual wilderness. When not serving as a resident hero, Steffor spends his time training for the Dive. Qualified for this season's championship, manifesting his future fame seems certain, if not for events manifesting a different future for Steffor and his peaceful society. A future in direct lockstep with destiny. On Antium, artificial intelligence fast approaches the point of exceeding human intelligence. Despite its aggressive development and implementation of technology over that past century, hubris hinders the Church of Salvation from seeing the Singularity's inevitable arrival, much less process its implications on the future. The lethal weakness of their enemy identified, Stalling Alterian and his cadre of gifted conspirators accelerate the Singularity’s arrival to lead a fertile insurrection against the merciless theocracy. Committed to saving their society, or die trying, moments away from completing the crucial and final phase of their clandestine mission, Stalling discovers a fatal error in his calculations that threatens to destroy it all. Absent of any solution and the enemy closing in, can Stalling impose his technological miracle onto humanity before the noose pulls tight? Praise for KNOWN AFTERLIFE:“…more of a profound level of meaning than we read in other novels in this genre.” Grady Harp, Amazon.com Top 50 Reviewer, Vine Voice, Hall of Fame Reviewer"Bravo! Brilliant and Intricate...Copeland does an expert job of reminding us that reality is what we make it and our beliefs, allegiance and loyalty are ours alone to give." Jay Mittener, Amazon.com Top 500 Reviewer"All is can say is--Interesting!... At the end of the book, I found myself doing a lot of soul searching." Karma, Amazon.com Reviewer“An intelligent and entertaining funfest…Copeland assumes that I have come to his book with imagination and the desire to enter a new creation, and he definitely delivers the goods. Well, done!” bertiejf's, Amazon.com reviewer“Thought-provoking and exciting…a surprisingly deep exploration of the role of religion in society…that isn't heavy-handed or evangelical, primarily because we get two very different takes on it, which keeps one viewpoint from dominating.” T. February, Amazon.com reviewer

Remember, with Truth, sometimes it is stranger than fiction, sometimes it is vastly outnumbered, sometimes it is out there some- where, and sometimes it lies in our inner awakening.I hope the investigations, interchanges, and interactions that sur- round the greatest discovery and controversy that pertain to the findings in the Sumerian clay tablets will eventually unite us in a beautiful harmonyIt is my sincere hope that everyone who reads this work will be in- spired to question things and to search out these and other new truths and discoveries for themselves.We should all be engaged in the most important intellectual di- alog, exchange, and sharing of the twenty-first century.I do not ask or expect anyone to blindly believe what is written within the pages of this book without investigating all the evidence for themselves. In the quest for truth, all our shutters will be opened onto a brave new world, as if seeing with new eyes life and society in all its splendor and glory with an ever greater sensitivity and re- alization.Remember, with Truth, sometimes it is stranger than fiction, sometimes it is vastly outnumbered, sometimes it is out there some- where, and sometimes it lies in our inner awakening.I hope the investigations, interchanges, and interactions that sur- round the greatest discovery and controversy that pertain to the findings in the Sumerian clay tablets will eventually unite us in a beautiful harmony called love. In our quest for the ultimate Truth, we shall progress and usher in the Golden Age.I thank you in advance for taking time to read my book and using it as a thought-provoking work.

Jason Bourne is one of the most popular and compelling characters in modern fiction. Originally created by bestselling author Robert Ludlum, now New York Times bestselling writer Eric Van Lustbader carries on Ludlum's legacy with a new novel about the rogue secret agent who has lost his memory . . . Jason Bourne has been pursued by powerful governments—and escaped. Hunted by the most skilled assassins in the world—and outsmarted them. Targeted by terrorists—and defeated their plans for global chaos. But now, Bourne wants only one thing: retribution.THE BOURNE RETRIBUTIONBourne's friend Eli Yadin, head of Mossad, learns that Ouyang Jidan, a senior member of China's Politburo, and a major Mexican drug lord may have been trafficking in something far more deadly than drugs. Yadin needs Bourne to investigate. Bourne agrees, but only because he has a personal agenda: Ouyang Jidan is the man who...

Bronze Medal Winner of 2018 Readers' Favorite Book Awards for Fiction-Thrillers-Political. * When twelve-year-old Congolese boy, Joseph Muamba, is sold to a wealthy American family he wants to die. Eventually, he comes to love the family and lives the life of the all-American boy. However, he cannot rid himself of a nagging feeling that he has a greater calling in life. Fourteen years later he competes at the Beijing Olympics for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and wins his birth country’s first ever medal – gold in the decathlon. However, the nagging feeling persists, not satisfied with Olympic gold. Revered, he returns to the Congo as a guest of the president and is mobbed by adoring crowds. Maya Tansi, his closest childhood friend, has metamorphosed into a beautiful woman, and they become reacquainted. When Maya tells him Western countries are bribing politicians and plundering the country’s mineral wealth, he does not believe her. He soon finds Maya is right. Government induced bribery, corruption, rape, and murder are taking place in the Congo on a grand scale. Western and Chinese mining companies are ripping gold and minerals out of the earth without paying compensation or taxes. When the poor, oppressed people protest, they are imprisoned or murdered. Finally, Joseph realizes what his calling is, but it involves risking his life, and the lives of those whom he loves. Can he bring down rapacious, Western billionaires and an evil government?