Sam is drawn into a world of mystery and magic he never knew existed, bringing him closer to a destiny he never knew was possible.Sam Dalcome thinks he is so completely average that no one ever notices him. Until he discovers a mysterious stranger outside his home. Bewildered, he tries to uncover the stranger's intentions. But Sam is sidetracked when he and his friend Travis discover a secret passageway deep in the town's quarry that leads to a hidden cavern. What they uncover next will not only change their lives forever, but will uncover the first clue to a deadly Dalcome family secret. Sam finds himself drawn into a world of mystery and magic he never knew existed, which brings him closer to a destiny he never knew was possible.HAVEN SERIES: Known as a place of refuge, Haven is a sanctuary for those with supernatural abilities. Decades of peace between the Witches, Vampires, Goblins, Elves, and Orcs is coming to an end. Now the once tranquil world is shrouded in deception and corruption. Dark secrets tear at the very fabric of their alliance giving way to an evil that stirs in the shadows. Exhilarating and utterly gripping, the HAVEN series is an action-packed journey full of suspense, magic, mystery, and intrigue.HAVEN: A Stranger Magic is the first Novella in the HAVEN series by author D.C. Akers. This Novella contains 28,817 words, and about 172 pages in print form.

During the latter half of the 25th century, at the climax of Terrace exploration into the outer clusters of their home front spiral galaxy, a distressing behavior crept its way inward from the farthest star clusters. A mysterious force dubbed the Rot by Terrace explorers was killing whole worlds, eating them from the inside. On a space station near the edge of the galaxy, Terrace watched.Tom is desperate to have a granny. His best friend, Declan, has two grannies, and Tom is determined to find one for himself and his little sister, Amy. Tom also wants to learn to tie the laces on his new lace-up shoes and he thinks a granny will be able to teach him.How will Tom find a granny?Will he find a granny?And will he find a granny who can teach him to tie his shoe-laces?Here Comes Granny Ticktock is an easy-listening story for 3 - 5 year-olds, made colourful with simple illustrations. It is the introduction to the series of stories featuring Granny Ticktock - the accident-prone granny who, in future stories, will always get stuck in small spaces with hilarious consequences.

English private investigator Matt Rider wants to find out if his grandfather killed Sophie Bernay in WW2, and uncovers an appalling international secret. Domestic Chemicals is a New York company owned by the Heinman dynasty. Matt Rider in England and Frank B. Heinman in New York are on a collision course. Frank Heinman will make sure no one stays alive if he sees them as a danger to his company.English private investigator Matt Rider wants to find out if his grandfather killed Sophie Bernay in WW2, and uncovers an appalling international secret. Domestic Chemicals, a New York company owned by the Heinman dynasty, made poison gas for Nazi Germany. And now the past is back to haunt them -- like the bloated corpse Frank B. Heinman saw rising to the surface in the East River as a boy. Matt Rider in England and Frank Heinman in New York are on a collision course. The ex-president of Domestic Chemicals will make sure no one stays alive if he sees them as a danger to the company. Matt Rider just wants the truth. Hands of the Traitor is the first Matt Rider detective thriller.

When a forensic psychologist warns the city of San Diego about a modern day Jack the Ripper on live TV, she becomes the killer's next target and must work with her black ops fiancé to catch the Savior before it’s too late.When honor becomes disgrace…When two boys form an alliance in 1958 Brooklyn, neither realizes that sworn friends will later become bitter enemies. John Edge and Vince DeMeneoDISCLAIMER: This is SERIAL, not a book, novella, or short story. Each section will be approximately 10,000 words, some more, some less. This serial should be read in the correct order. I am planning on releasing each new section 3-5 weeks apart, This is a Romantic Thriller that contains adult language and violence. Does NOT contain erotica.When a forensic psychologist warns the city of San Diego about a modern day Jack the Ripper on live TV, she becomes the killer's next target and must work with her black ops fiancé to catch the Savior before it’s too late.When honor becomes disgrace…When two boys form an alliance in 1958 Brooklyn, neither realizes that sworn friends will later become bitter enemies. John Edge and Vince DeMeneo live by a code. When that code is broken, it will cost them their children, because inevitably what goes around, does at some point, come around.Their honor has created a monster.A brilliant madman is watching….A serial killer the media has dubbed the “Savior” is terrorizing San Diego. He is a chameleon, a computer hacker who can create and delete his identity at will. He blazes through firewalls, strolls through doors that are closed to millions, and dreams about saving the world against sin. He’s a wizard, a god, a ruthless killer. What started as a friendship has become something more…When Jessica Bentley’s horrific past rises from the shadows and threatens her life, Jake Kincaid must find the Savior before the Savior finds Jessi.Wanted for murder, Jake is the Navy SEAL whose choices could lock him away. Jessi must face her worst fear or face certain death.How far will a man go to save the woman he loves? The answer is simple--all the way over the edge.

A bloody and apparently senseless murder had been committed at Carne School, one of the oldest and most glittering ornaments in the British public school system. George Smiley, whose connections with Carne were complicated by sentiment, had had a curious forewarning of the crime and, in a private capacity, pursued its investigation. Without his espionage-trained insight into the workings of the human mind, Smiley might never have solved the case. But logic and insight were hardly enough to spare him the emotional aftermath of a conclusion he did not want to face.

In this latest novel from bestselling author John Verdon, ingenious puzzle solver Dave Gurney puts under the magnifying glass a notorious serial murder case – one whose motives have been enshrined as law-enforcement dogma - and discovers that everyone has it wrong.   The most decorated homicide detective in NYPD history, Dave Gurney is still trying to adjust to his life of quasi-retirement in upstate New York when a young woman who is producing a documentary on a notorious murder spree seeks his counsel.  Soon after, Gurney begins feeling threatened: a razor-sharp hunting arrow lands in his yard, and he narrowly escapes serious injury in a booby-trapped basement.  As things grow more bizarre, he finds himself reexamining the case of The Good Shepherd, which ten years before involved a series of roadside shootings and a rage-against-the-rich manifesto.  The killings ceased, and a cult of analysis grew up around the case with a consensus opinion that no one would dream of challenging  -- no one, that is, but Dave Gurney.  Mocked even by some who’d been his supporters in previous investigations, Dave realizes that the killer is too clever to ever be found.  The only gambit that may make sense is also the most dangerous – to make himself a target and get the killer to come to him. To survive, Gurney must rely on three allies: his beloved wife Madeleine, impressively intuitive and a beacon of light in the gathering darkness; his de-facto investigative “partner” Jack Hardwick, always ready to spit in authority’s face but wily when it counts; and his son Kyle, who has come back into Gurney’s life with surprising force, love and loyalty. Displaying all the hallmarks for which the Dave Gurney series is lauded -- well-etched characters, deft black humor, and ingenious deduction that ends in a climactic showdown – Let the Devil Sleep is something more: a reminder of the power of self-belief in a world that contains too little of it. From the Hardcover edition.

The Fourth Protocol

Juan Cabrillo skippers a disguised spy ship - for hire for covert missions. In this adventure he must find and seize a golden Buddha - the artifact and its contents are vital to striking a deal with the Russians and the Chinese and restoring the Dalai Lama to power in Tibet.

The mystery of the missing twenty-three remains unsolved, even after their return. Paul, the man who organized the masquerade party, has been cleared of any wrong-doing, but Norrah, Jay, and Aaron aren’t so sure. They seek to uncover his dark and secretive past. The more they learn, the more they become convinced that he is responsible for what happened.They mystery of the missing twenty-three remains unsolved, even after their return. Paul, the man who organized the masquerade party, has been cleared of any wrong-doing, but Norrah, Jay, and Aaron aren’t so sure. They seek to uncover his dark and secretive past. The more they learn, the more they become convinced that he is responsible for what happened.They find a connection between Paul and the man behind the horned mask, one with religious implications that hints at prophecy. The closer they become to unraveling the mystery, the more dangerous their situation gets. Could the man behind the horned mask be who they think he is?

Do you like Dirk Pitt's adventures? Then you'll like Michael Kirkland as he takes on a new client with a secret to hide, one that threatens to expose decades of deception – brought on by one of Joseph Stalin’s most cunning ploys in the early days of the Great Patriotic War. An unimaginable fortune in Romanov treasure could be at stake, and Kirkland and his client aren’t the only ones in the hunt!It’s 1997, and the recent death of an American executive in Texas triggers the unraveling of a decades-old mystery – the disappearance of a fortune in Romanov-era jewelry that vanished from the Soviet Union in the early months of The Great Patriotic War.Only one man with the answers remains alive - and now, after the breakup of the Soviet Union there are those in Russia who are also trying to find him.Michael Kirkland, his newest clients and a beautiful woman quickly become ensnared in a web of international intrigue and danger as they race to find and protect the man, the family’s secret and the fortune in missing treasure.Iron Dogs and Caesar’s Ruby blends historical fact with fiction to introduce a new genre of behind-the-headlines operative, the one many of the world’s wealthiest private art collectors and their insurance carriers routinely call on to do what no one else can.

James Lee Burke’s most beloved character, Dave Robicheaux, returns in this gritty, atmospheric mystery set in the towns and backwoods of Louisiana. DAVE ROBICHEAUX IS A HAUNTED MAN. Between his recurrent nightmares about Vietnam, his battle with alcoholism, and the sudden loss of his beloved wife, Molly, his thoughts drift from one irreconcilable memory to the next. Images of ghosts at Spanish Lake live on the edge of his vision. During a murder investigation, Dave Robicheaux discovers he may have committed the homicide he’s investigating, one which involved the death of the man who took the life of Dave’s beloved wife. As he works to clear his name and make sense of the murder, Robicheaux encounters a cast of characters and a resurgence of dark social forces that threaten to destroy all of those whom he loves. What emerges is not only a propulsive and thrilling novel, but a harrowing study of America: this nation’s abiding conflict between a sense of past grandeur and a legacy of shame, its easy seduction by demagogues and wealth, and its predilection for violence and revenge. James Lee Burke has returned with one of America’s favorite characters, in his most searing, most prescient novel to date.

A murderer obsessed with comic strips...When Mayor Marsalis' son, Gerald, is found dead in his studio, his body is stained red and arranged like the cartoon character Linus - with a blanket next to his ear and his thumb stuck in his mouth. Desperate, Marsalis asks his ex-cop brother, Jordan, to investigate the murder. Yet the killer strikes again. This time Chandelle Stuart, a film producer with strange sexual predilections, is found leant against a piano like Lucy, listening to Shroeder playing. Meanwhile, a beautiful young detective Maureen Martini has moved from Rome to New York to forget the brutal murder of her boyfriend. After undergoing a corneal transplant, she starts having distressing visions that somehow seem connected with the grisly murders. Thrown together, Maureen and Jordan race against time to unmask this killer. But who is Snoopy? And who is Pig Pen? And why does this killer find pleasure in arranging his victims like comic-strip characters? In New York nothing is ever quite what it seems...

Jace has one last week of work with elder twin brothers, paroled thieves, both total jerks. On arrival at the eerie locale of their final contract, a crippled young girl warns him off Grey Manor. But a cameo is lost inside and it's two million reasons too tempting for his greedy brothers. Jace must keep them out or face the malevolent Lady Grey who never permits a guest to leave.After three trying months, Jace must get through one last week of work with elder twin brothers, both on parole for burglary, both total jerks. And then he's free of the family who've held him down for seventeen years. On arrival at the eerie locale of their final contract, a young girl with a crippled body warns him off Grey Manor, insisting no-one enter the abandoned mansion. But a lost cameo worth two million dollars is hidden inside and Jace faces the impossible task of keeping his greedy brothers out. When he witnesses a grisly death at the hands of the supposedly missing Lady Grey, Jace learns the girl's words are not easily dismissed, forced to unravel the mystery before it unravels him. Leaving has never been harder and the only one with answers is a comatose girl trapped by an entity whose vengeance knows no bounds. (Short Story)

2 cassettes / 2 hours Read by F. Murray Abraham "Allah!" With that shrill cry, three Muslim terrorists blow up a key Soviet oil complex, creating a critical oil shortage that threatens the stability of the USSR. To offer the effects of this disaster, members of the Politburo and the KGB devise a brilliant plan of diplomatic trickery - a sequence of events designed to pit the NATO allies against each other - a distraction calculated to enable the Soviets to seize all the oil in the Persian Gulf. But as this spellbinding story of international intrigue and global politics nears its climax, the Soviets are faced with another prospect, one they hadn't planned on: a full-scale conflict in which nobody can win.

A deadly fire exposes the dark side of Amish life in this harrowing new thriller in the New York Times bestselling series. When a historic barn burns to the ground in the middle of the night, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called in to investigate. At first, it looks like an accident, but when the body of eighteen-year-old Daniel Gingerich is found inside—burned alive—Kate suspects murder. Who would want a well-liked, hardworking young Amish man dead? Kate delves into the investigation only to find herself stonewalled by the community to which she once belonged. Is their silence a result of the Amish tenet of separation? Or is this peaceful and deeply religious community conspiring to hide a truth no one wants to talk about? Kate doubles down only to discover a plethora of secrets and a chilling series of crimes that shatters everything she thought she knew about her Amish roots—and herself. As Kate wades through a sea of suspects, she’s confronted by her own violent past and an unthinkable possibility.