Clients call her Angel of the Outlaws. Ruby Dark is a fifty-year-old red-haired Lamborghini-driving widow who took over her husband’s Denver bail-bond business after his unsolved murder. Brash, with a shadowy past, Ruby is not a lady to be trifled with should you jump one of her bonds. Bayne Gibson, a wealthy radio-station owner, has made that mistake. He is charged with the murder of his inflammatory talk-show host, found dead in Gibson’s penthouse pool. Ruby posts the $2 million bond, the largest of her career. But Gibson skips his preliminary hearing and disappears. Her business on the ...

A former big-city detective battles rustling and murder in modern-day cattle country in this award-winning whodunitLeaving behind a troubled past, former Baltimore detective Nick DeNunzio hires on as a Wyoming stock detective to stop a brutal string of cattle thefts. Chasing rustlers ought to be a lark even for a city-slicker cop. But when people start turning up dead, Nick realizes it’s not just cows being led to slaughter. To catch the rustlers and stop the murders before he is the next victim, Nick must solve a seven-year-old crime, confront his own dark past . . . . . . and bec...

What if you could witness the stories of Genesis firsthand?Twelve-year-old Mateo lives in the mountains of Nicaragua, where an ancient Bible hidden inside an abandoned church changes everything. When the mysterious Verbum Aeternum transports him into the events of Genesis, Mateo is no longer simply reading Bible history—he is living it.From Creation and the Garden of Eden to Noah's Ark and the Tower of Babel, Mateo witnesses extraordinary events, meets the people behind the familiar stories, and returns from each journey with a deeper understanding of faith, courage, and God's Word.Mateo and...

A discharged veteran is delivering sandwiches when he scrapes past the wrong van and finds himself back in uniform within 24 hours. Only this time, he's in the uniform of the Cultural Isolation Directorate and he's enrolled in an interstellar Cold War with the Free Trade Alliance. His adversary owns a clone of a former employee with a clouded past, and the clone is beginning to wonder why she has the same nightmare every night. She's working for the Free Trade Alliance because that's what she's been programmed for, but part of her yearns for a phantom cat and a life that's intruding into ...

“The Coin & Both Sides” is a deep dive into the human condition. Experience the complex dynamic between the narrator and their inner self through a collection of assorted dialogues. Together, they embark on a turbulent journey while striving towards inner peace. Through introspective prose and poetic elements, “The Coin & Both Sides” paints a vivid picture of the challenges of navigating through life while being undeniably human and embodying pure chaos.

Halidom was built to survive after the world couldn't. A vertical city rises beneath an engineered rainfall, divided by the Cloudline. Above it, the Highborn live among the towers. Below, the Rooted keep the city running.When Jax crosses the Cloudline, he discovers that Halidom's divisions hide a much larger truth. Alongside Zinn, Elyra, and Brae, he follows clues toward an erased spire, the ancient Bloom stirring beneath the soil, and a system failing after generations of neglect.As old threats begin to stir beneath the city and the rain starts to change, four strangers have to repair what's ...

"Abatido llora el cielo mientras deshoja

Los almendros que sembré"

Así comienza "Tropiflexión," una pequeña colección de cuentos cortos y poesía por Mangotina Alcanflor, autora "indie" puertorriqueña.

A veces absurdista, a veces reflexiva, Mangotina ilustra los vaivenes retóricos desde una perspectiva irónica y jovial.

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(( Small collection of short stories and poems by Mangotina Alcanflor, Puerto Rican indie author. ))

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The third Dirk Strangelove case file sends a legally dead investigator deeper into Sanctuary, a city where identity, memory and personhood can be reduced to paperwork. Darkly comic, humane and unsettling, On the Other Hand... is for readers of speculative noir, hard-boiled mystery, corporate dystopia and bureaucratic horror. The book is live on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited, in paperback, and as a glossy hardcover.

This book contains inspirational prose and poetry meant to encourage and uplift. I write from the heart with the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. We have had a creative partnership for many years. I write for the lost or broken souls to show them they are not alone. We are all on a journey and should encourage each other daily.

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The fifth and final part of the fantasy series, ‘Heart Stone’.
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Meanwhile, Katy and Dylan flee the Academy at Sky Rock, only to find themselves on a new world where they are forced into facing a destiny that neither expected or wanted.
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Part 2 of the fantasy series, Heart Stone.

“By ancient Pact, by oath of fire, I claim entrance to the Academy of Sky Rock.”

With the news of the death of his wife, a grief-stricken Paul returns to the Welsh village of Carreg-y-galon, determined to be a proper father, and to settle down and build a home for his children, Katy and Dylan. But he does not receive the welcome he’d been expecting. He finds that his in-laws’ home has been attacked, Bryn talks of magi, Guardians and Heart Stones and worst of all, Katy and Dylan have vanished.
And then he meets the sethundra.

“In the absence of control, chaos will reign and that freedom of thought and deed will open the door for whatever may lurk beyond it to enter.”The Directorate, a land in which people can live in peace without fear of crime or war or famine: as long as they do not ask any questions. The Most Esteemed Grants Committee keep a rigorous control of scientific and technological advancement and anyone daring to create a work of pure fiction would soon find themselves under the close scrutiny of the Inquisition.But Why? What is the Directorate trying to hide?When Tobias Maunfeld, a young inventor, ...

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Before wildland firefighters were seen as heroes, they were cursed, threatened, and run off from the very communities they were trying to save. In Before We Were Heroes: Southern Fires, Bill Beebe a 30-year veteran forester and firefighter who served on National Type 1 Incident Management Teams across Arkansas, Alaska, and the nation pulls backthe curtain on an untold chapter of American history. This isn't the version told at retirement banquets. This is the raw, gripping story of a brotherhood forged not in glory, but in grit. From the sweltering swamps of eastern Arkansas to the remote wild...

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Ten years after the sudden death of his husband, Jack Bell has built a quiet life on the French Riviera. His routine is settled, and his grief is managed. Until he runs into an old flame.

Their reunion feels like a second chance at happiness. But as the days pass, the coincidences begin to stack up. What begins as a rekindled romance quickly turns into a desperate struggle for survival. As the shadows of the past close in, Jack is forced to piece together a terrifying puzzle: is he falling in love again, or is he falling into a trap?

This first book in the series "A Quest for Ancient Wisdom" also serves as a prequel to Rhuna's adventures. In the ancient, mystical past when an idyllic Atlantis-like civilization flourished, its people with exceptional powers could build giant stone structures like the Pyramids, and transform elements such as sand to stone and metal to gold with concentrated energy of the mind. This utopian Atlan Empire is rocked when one of its most preeminent Masters rebels and seeks to subvert the ideals of Atlan society. Roaming the countryside in a black robe, misusing his powers on innocent people,...

The death of a pope always creates a power vacuum. Even external forces will use the opportunity to attack once they get the chance.

On the other side of Rome, a wounded friar arrives at a Lutheran church with vital evidence of a conspiracy. The young pastor is dragged into an intricate web of lies, deceit and bloodshed, all the while dealing with his own personal demons.

As such, the fate of more than just the Vatican lies in the hands of someone they consider a heretic.