Award Winner: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Thriller/Adventure
Medicine has no cure for evil.
Ben Oris, a pragmatic med student from Philadelphia, gets cut by an old bone while touring the Paris catacombs. His companion Laurette, a public health student from Haiti, senses danger and worries an evil curse now runs through him.
Ben scoffs at the idea--he simply has a wound that won't heal--and back home he returns to his stressful clerkship at the hospital. But when people close to him succumb to a grisly illness and a dark priest pursues him, his skepticism wavers. Could a bone from an 18th century skeleton with a frightening history really cause modern-day disease?
With the help of Laurette, he scrambles to find a cure through Vodou before more of his loved ones die. But first, he must battle the mysterious priest who's bent on vengeance and determined to have Ben's blood as his own.
The Bone Curse, though a standalone, is the first in a series about a man of science who gets caught up in otherworldly situations.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Thriller/Adventure
An overzealous decision by Cleveland Police Lieutenant Stacy Tavitt leads to a botched undercover investigation, leading to Stacy being attacked and her unconscious body dumped into the frigid Cuyahoga River. Six months later, Stacy’s first case back from medical leave involves the murder of Cleveland Browns football player Devon Baker. With little forensic evidence connecting anyone to the crime, Stacy sets out to find the killer. As Stacy comes very close to unraveling the tangled threads of the case, the killer wants her, and those close to her, to suffer for another impulsive decision she made in the line of duty. The killer just may be more familiar to Stacy than she realizes.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Thriller/Adventure
“Frozen in time; Frozen in fear: Frozen in fact, but on fire throughout! Grabs you at the Prologue and will not let you put it down from there on after. A great story that quickly builds in suspense and eeriness to the point you are anxious to get to the next chapter, and afraid that you will.” John Hart worked tirelessly to develop a truly advanced technology. Now the U.S. Army is his secret customer, the protector of the greatest advancement in power source technology ever, and source of John’s billions. Having just completed the Hart Compound in a wilderness area outside of Jonesborough TN. John finds that creature like aberrations have been visiting his property every night. As their numbers grow, John is secretly warned that his financial group is about to come under the eye of one of the world’s most dangerous hunters of secrets; a murderer who uses torture, and kidnapping to leverage information. As John and his friends rally to derail their cyber enemy, John is thrust into a sequence of bizarre events that leads him to a point where he faces the destruction of all they had built, and the murder of all of those he loves.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Thriller/Adventure
Three years removed from a picturesque life, songwriter Brennen Reynold’s addiction is reaching a bizarre nadir, complete with severe headaches, tormented dreams, and a stray cat that is far from ordinary. His dreams get him into trouble with the law as he finds himself the lead suspect of a murder investigation. His troubles are exacerbated when he crosses paths with a mysterious girl, Beth. A recent cult escapee, Beth is relentlessly tracked by her prophet and his enforcers. Pursued from all sides, the two are forced to seek the help from unexpected places as they try to piece together a way—physically and mentally—out of eminent danger. The story of the madness of addiction, redemption and the power of friendship quickly escalates into a heart-pounding finale that will leave you questioning the nature of reality.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Thriller/Adventure
SOME SECRETS CAN BE DEADLY… Stepping into the darkened hospital clinic, Mackenzie (Mac) Dodd hears the faint click of a revolver before spotting the barrel pressed against the young Marine’s temple. Unable to stop the suicide, Mac blames herself. Encouraged by her idealistic neighbor, she posts the incident on “Silent Survivor”, a blog in which she encourages veterans with PTSD to share stories. When the Marine’s widow reveals there may be more to her husband's suicide, Mac begins an investigation, risking her life to expose secrets and betrayals as she uncovers the unintended consequences of covert government research.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Thriller/Adventure
Two years have passed since humankind faced extinction: Cousin, Brian and Steven, are leaving the protection of their underground bunker for the first time, after a cataclysmic war and unrelenting disease ravaged the earth. On the other side of North America, a young survivalist is leaving the seclusion of his cabin deep in the woods, traveling with his aging canine companion, Winston. For individual reasons, these men are traveling east, where the fragmented lives of a small number of survivors will soon be decided by the choices of a corrupt few. Although they are not yet aware, the strength that resides inside them will soon be tested, and destiny will call for their fates to be forever intertwined.
Stockton Clay, an ambitious young automotive journalist, receives a mysterious invitation to the world premiere of a secret prototype supercar. The half-Asian, half-Caucasian Clay, who was adopted as an infant and is desperate to find his own place in the world, sees this invitation as the break he had long been waiting for. At the gala event in Southern France, one of his colleagues is killed in a bizarre accident, and Clay is secretly led to CIA agents who tell him that he was the real target in the murder. Clay then discovers he suffers from a rare disease that can only be cured by the blood cells from a direct relative. Clay's search for his biological father leads him to Japan, where he is caught in the crossfire between the CIA and a mad Russian scientist trying to sway the balance of world power.
Ten-year-old Woody, and his twelve-year-old sister, Vette, are growing up in the Midwest nurtured by their caring parents, Opal and Max. They return to their trailer from school one day to the horror of a man wearing a white mask who takes them prisoner. He rapes Woody, and leaves Vette shattered. Terrified, they keep the secret from their parents.
Not far away, seven-year-old Alice and her eight-year-old friend, Betty, are spending the day bicycling small-town backroads when they encounter a sadistic killer. Alice is captured; Betty runs free. Brad Denver, the killer, is captured before Alice's naked and broken body is found. He was coming back for the one that got away--Betty.
The two families move on with their lives through adolescence and marriage. But the crimes don't go away and the wounds never heal. The pedophile lives on in plain sight, but invisible to Woody and Vette. Someone has to make restitution for the pain they've suffered, and a Good Samaritan arrives to deliver justice.
Revenge is made and justice is delivered. Take a trip through the minds of the killers and victims. All those twisted from childhood will twist together in the end.
The Billy Gogan story is a fictional memoir told by an old Army general of his adventures as a young man. Billy Gogan, American, opens with recently orphaned Billy Gogan fleeing Ireland on the eve of the Great Hunger — either because he is the son of a dangerous revolutionary, or because his cousin doesn't trust him around his daughter. Billy befriends a destitute Irish peasant named Máire and her young daughter Fíona, and together they endure a harsh passage to New York, America's greatest city. They get separated as they debark, and Billy searches tirelessly for them in the dangerous Five Points, ground zero in the collision of Americans, ex-slaves, and Irish refugees.
Here, Billy completes his education. Already able to declaim Cicero and construe Aristotle, he learns voting fraud from Bill Tweed, the future head of Tammany Hall, and the numbers game from Charlie Backwell, Tammany's top bookie. Finally, Brannagh O’Marran, the beautiful mulatta daughter of the Irish madam of Gotham’s finest brothel, teaches him about love.
Billy eventually finds Máire and Fíona, and the three of them plan their future together. But that future is taken in a cruel stroke, and nothing will ever be the same.
Abandoned by his part-Cherokee Ma, Charlie Kincaid escapes servitude with his uncle. He jumps a boxcar, accompanied by his schoolmate Roxy, who is escaping troubles of her own. Charlie becomes a US Navy Diver.
Mattie Blanc is from a genteel New Zealand family. But when her brother's friend persuades her to take a ride, it all goes horribly wrong. Desperate, she flees her family's stifling expectations for a new life in Auckland.
After the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, Charlie sets sail for Auckland aboard the USS Rigel. And there she is, the girl of his dreams. Mattie is everything that Roxy isn't-- sophisticated, tender, and patient. But the war intervenes... Rigel embarks for the Pacific war zones.
Charlie's letters are sporadic. Mattie is tormented by doubts; did he truly love her, or was it only a dream?
The Rigel Affair produces a rip-roaring wartime romance and chilling danger unknown to most.
The Singularity Witness. What happens when a radical technology ushers in an ominous future? Governments and corporations will kill to control it. So murder and abduction are just the beginning.
When a clandestine research lab disposes of its test subject and kidnaps a U.S. Senator to protect its secrets, those events trigger a federal investigation. The covert program requires the services of Thomas Parker, a Princeton University professor and cutting-edge neurologist, to deliver its breakthrough achievement. And FBI Special Agent Kate Morgan needs Parker to help her infiltrate the secret lab.
What they don't know is that the senator's abduction was orchestrated by Stewart Richards, who is obsessed with creating The Frontier--neurological singularity. To Richards, no sacrifice is too great for a cause that brings him world-wide recognition and unravels the mysteries of the mind.
Together, Parker and Morgan are faced with the dilemma of advancing the revolutionary technology in order to solve the senator's abduction, save The Singularity Witness and others, and survive.
The Singularity Witness plays off "what if" scenarios facing current medical and biological research endeavors. Some of these initiatives may fundamentally change social and geopolitical landscapes forever.
What is neurological singularity? Who is The Singularity Witness? Read the book to find out.
For fans of Indiana Jones, or authors Dan Brown and Clive Cussler, with an added touch of magic: Get ready to journey into an action adventure filled with archaeology, mystery, and intrigue.
Midwest Book Review calls the first book in Joan K. Lacy's Alex Cort Action Adventures an "extraordinary and thoroughly entertaining read." Philly Life & Culture gives it a "high recommendation for adventure lovers," and The Nerdy Girl Express touts it as a "strong supernatural adventure" and a "delightful story of discovery."
When British archaeologist Andrew Seaton discovers a jewel-encrusted golden statue, he realizes he may have uncovered the key to the lost city of El Dorado. The statue disappears before he can verify his findings, and Andrew must rely on private detective Alex Cort to recover the prized artifact.
The two men find themselves caught up in a dangerous race against a corrupt colleague and a ruthless art thief who will stop at nothing to claim the statue for themselves.
As each new clue leads them up the Amazon River and deeper into the jungle, they soon discover things are not quite what they appear. When all seems lost, the mystical powers of a beautiful woman guide them out of danger and ultimately to the ruins of an ancient city, where Andrew must right the wrongs he committed in a past life and Alex discovers a secret of his own.
"Baroota" is a fictional tale of Nick Hudson a retired and aging cop attempting to get in one last mission to make a difference. He gets sucked in to an "off the books Black Ops mission" to rescue victims of Human Trafficking being sold into sexual slavery. He meets Nõnkos Zia or Nõn. A woman born in South Africa and herself a former victim of Muti-medicine, a type of medicine still practiced in South Africa that weaves the occult and human sacrifices into the locals belief system. She is also a victim of human trafficking, from which she barely escaped after taking revenge on her captors. They are outsiders in a dark twisted tale of deceit, lies and double crosses that take them to the "Darien Gap" of Panama, one of the most remote areas in the world to hunt human traffickers.
Camp Baroota has fallen and The Director has moved on. Forming a replacement - Camp Cachibaché. He has a new psychotic camp director, new security team and an impenetrable remote location. The Director is back in business. However, before the camp is even up and rolling The Wild Card has begun his vengeful hunt for The Director. The Hunter has become the hunted. Nick Hudson is back, more motivated, angry and mentally unstable. He's now committed to a no holds barred death match. A final violent confrontation with The Director. Fate however has another plan for Nick, as he and Nõnkos Zia, the only other survivor from Camp Baroota, begin their quest to crush the elusive Director. The battle has begun for Nick and Nõn. Cachibaché is full of unexpected twists and turns that set Nick into a downward spiral. Hold on tight and avoid the wrath of the Wild Card!
Lies told at ten. Secrets shared at eleven. Murder at 11:30. Time's up. The camera may not lie, but sometimes it can trap you in a web of no return. That’s what Kami Corley learns one late night when she connects online with a girl named GoAskAlice--and receives a disturbing plea for help. Without knowing her real name or location, Kami doesn’t know where to turn, but as she uses the few clues she has, she finds herself caught in a deadly trap. Will Kami live or die when she is thrust into the very heart of a secret organization known only as the GKS? Without warning, she becomes the one on the inside looking out—and very well may be the next one chosen to play the deadly midnight game known as the Late Night Show. Get TJ Alexian's latest thriller now!
Too many fathers and mothers know the feeling of pride but also the dread that follows a son or daughter going off to war. And along with dread, when the worst you can imagine happens, there is sorrow … and anger. Sometimes there is more. Join author B.A. Sherman at his most stirring and shocking best as he imagines the horror of war from a parent’s view.
This is a story of love, hatred and revenge so gripping and so true to life, it’s hard to tell where reality ends and frightening fantasy takes over. Told in both the quiet streets of the U.S. and the explosive sands of Afghanistan, The Chief and His Marine goes where few have gone…and written about the experience. But war is real and likely here to stay, he will tell you. Worth thinking about, and deciding what you might do if it were your son or daughter out there. Or you.
These are the thoughts to grapple with in this story. They will make you hug your child a little tighter today, as you follow the Chief and Nick, his Marine—just out of school and so proud to be serving his country—into the killing fields of hell.
The Chief and His Marine is B.A. Sherman’s first military thriller, inspired by true events.
Dr. Mitchell “Mitch” Brody is one of the top experts in his profession. He excels at solving the medical mysteries of patients and providing empathetic care. One patient, however, confounds him. After a car accident, teenage Tamara has had organ failure, accompanied by strange dreams of the distant past. The dreams are intense. Tamara feels any wound inflicted in the dream. Mitch is at his wits’ end as he tries to diagnose her condition.
Soon, Mitch will realize that science doesn’t have all the answers. The secrets of Tamara’s affliction lie in something else entirely. One key to the mystery is the Exile Carpet, a strange tapestry whose images frequently appear in Tamara’s dreams.
To solve the mystery of Tamara and the carpet, Mitch will have to collect seven ancient artifacts. As he travels around Scotland, delving deep into its history and artifacts, allies and enemies will dog his quest. One group in particular will stop at nothing to destroy Tamara.
In this amazing thriller, discover the true power of destiny, family, and love. Tamara’s story is built on centuries of heroism and valor. This history will blend with the present in a truly magical adventure.
What has a war orphan, a terrorist organization and an F-16 fighter jet got in common? The answer is the motive, method and means for revenge.
Prior to the start of Operation Enduring Freedom a young Afghan boy’s parents and younger brother are accidently killed and his sister critically injured by American commandos. The seed of motivation is planted. A terrorist organization called the Warrior Brotherhood provides the method by nurturing that seed to adulthood; by indoctrinating the young man with radical religious and political beliefs. When he’s an adult he learns to fly and joins the fledgling Afghan Air Force. The third leg of the triad is complete. He is sent to the United States to learn how to fly the F-16, aka The Fighting Falcon. He finally has the means and soon the opportunity to exact his revenge.
One of the Warrior Brotherhood’s international terror cells ships weapons and a stealth drone to Mexico from their secret base in the Cape Verde Islands and smuggles the cache into the U.S. Dubbed Operation Falcon by the terrorists its goal is to secretly arm an F-16 and attack a large public gathering at an airshow celebrating Military Appreciation Day. The airshow VIP list includes the President of the United States, Government officials and Defense contractor CEOs. A recently retired FBI agent, now private detective, Eric Tyson discovers and tries to stop the terrorists from carrying out their plan. Betrayal and deception play out on the ground and in the sky of the American Southwest. Time is running out....
Classic case of wrong place at the wrong time. Sienna's only hope of survival is Agent Colt Masters. Colt and Sienna must work together to solve the case, but first they must learn to trust each other.
Plundering the Past is a rollicking pirate adventure with a modern, sci-fi twist. It is a tale of adventure and romance, replete with daring sword fights, desperate sea battles, and captured treasure.
Roger and Tom Petrie were lost at sea in 2003, to be found on a deserted Caribbean island two years later. Roger married and resolved to forge a new life with his family. Tom, however, reveled in the past, spinning fanciful tales of their daring exploits.
Now, evidence is surfacing that gives credence to Tom's stories. People are starting to wonder - did something incredible, something unbelievable happen to the brothers after their ship went down? And if so, what exactly were they doing in the Caribbean the two years they were lost?
The earth is threatened with a catastrophic political event which could result in international warfare and destroy all life on the planet. In heaven, a divine council decides that extraordinary measures are essential. They call for an intervention that involves two souls returning to earth. The chosen two sign a contract that they will work to avert the disaster.
Brad Channing, a Navy SEAL, and Sarah O'Brien, a teacher, become heaven's representatives on earth. The story follows them as they individually and then together face overwhelming obstacles and eventually end up on a strategic Air Force base in California. It is there that they discover a conspiracy to assassinate the President of the United States. The terrorists have a plan for global dominance and they are determined to complete their mission. Although military leadership appears to have the President's best interests at heart, it is not clear who can be trusted and who should be feared. The action is rough and tumble as Brad and Sarah try to figure out the culprits for the plot that will turn into a worldwide conflagration unless stopped.
If you enjoy thrillers, this is one with enough twists and adventure to keep you riveted and guessing. If you like your thriller along with a good romance, Brad and Sarah's initial attraction and eventual love will sustain you as they live out their heavenly and earthly desires. A Great summer read.
