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Presumed Guilty & Keeper of the Bride
by Tess GerritsenPresumed GuiltyMiranda Wood thought she had seen the last of Richard Tremain, her rich and married ex-lover--until she discovered him stabbed to death in her bed. With her knife. With her world falling around her, Miranda is determined to clear her name and discover who killed Richard. But proving her innocence may become secondary to staying alive. . . . Keeper of the BrideAfter Nina Cormier was jilted at the altar, the empty church exploded. Then someone tried to run Nina off the road, and she realized someone wanted her dead--but who? That's what Detective Sam Navarro needs to find out. . . fast. With a nightmare unfolding around them, Sam and Nina decipher the stunning truth. Now they're at the mercy of a brilliant madman who plays for keeps. . . .
Act of War
by Don PendletonSTONY MAN. When crisis demands skill, stealth and the kind of diplomacy that comes from a mandate to strike down terror, the call to action goes to Stony Man. Under presidential directive, the crack commando teams of Phoenix Force and Able Team, backed by the most sophisticated cybernetics team in the world, bring the fight to the enemy. . . and take no prisoners. REMOTE NUKE TRIGGER. Technology capable of exploding cached nuclear arsenals around the globe has fallen into the hands of a group of unidentified terrorists. Mushroom clouds are appearing from the deserts of New Mexico to the mountains of Asia, as warhead stockpiles become radioactive fallout. Facing an untenable decision on whether to disarm or stand and fight, the Oval Office can only watch and wait as Stony Man tracks the enemy to the far-flung reaches of the Balkans, where fifteen families of organized crime will be masters of the universe--or blow it out of existence.
Out of Time
by Cliff RyderONE LAST MISSION. When crisis looms and politics and red tape conspire against effective measures, the International Intelligence Agency plays its hidden hand. Now the spymasters of Room 59--dedicated, dangerous and willing to push the limit--get the green light to eradicate the threat. ONE LAST CHANCE. Room 59 agent Alex Tempest has a secret: a degenerative illness that may end his career as a field operative. But first he accepts one final mission. And ... it's personal. A research facility in China has built the ultimate biological weapon. Alex's job: infiltrate and destroy. His wife works at the biotech company's stateside lab, and Alex fears danger is poised to hit home. But when Alex is captured, his personal and professional worlds collide in a last, desperate gamble to stop ruthless masterminds from unleashing virulent, unstoppable death.
Black Death Reprise
by Don PendletonThe search for a missing virologist leads Mack Bolan to a cult with a horrific agenda. An order of monks has emerged as a new force of unprecedented terror. Legend has it that the centuries-old brotherhood was the mastermind of the Black Death. Reborn as a fully modern paramilitary organization with cells across the globe, the order is ready to unleash a new plague upon the world. With ritualistic precision, forty couriers of death will be deployed to major cities. Bolan's race to stop the unthinkable takes him from the U. S. to Australia. The Executioner must find the source before a designer disease with its roots in history's darkest nightmare causes untold human suffering.
Flashpoint
by Connie HallLucy Karmon always does the right thing, even if her methods are sometimes questionable. So when the mercenary is offered a chance to dole out her own brand of justice against Athena Academy's darkest enemy, she takes it. She'll use her contacts to gather intelligence and her expertise in explosives to blast apart Arachne's global network. What her complicated plan doesn't include? Being thwarted at every turn by a follow-the-rules military man. Though Lucy will stop at nothing--not even fireworks--to bring down the bad guy, she suddenly finds herself torn between duty and explosive desire.
The Huntress
by Crystal GreenAfter a band of female vampires steal her boyfriend in Romania, Camille Howard vows to get him back before it's too late. Teaming up with world-renown vampire killer, Elijah Sargent, the two of them take on the creatures of the night in their own lair and win. But have they? Escaping the lair with Camille's boyfriend, Peter Griffin, and another captive male, the two of them soon discover they were too late. Peter is already a vampire and in the middle of the night, he viciously attacks Sargent. But Camille isn't ready to give up on Peter just yet. Just as Sargent is about to kill Peter, she interferes and saves the man she once loved. However, when a murderous rampage occurs in the village after Camille and Peter return, Camille realizes she has made a big mistake. Peter can't be cured and there's only one solution: she's got to hunt him down and slay him. Unfortunately Peter has his own murdering agenda, and Camille is about to find out she's not the hunter, but the hunted.
The Survivor
by Tim ChamplinEscaping from a French penal colony in Guiana, Marcel Dupr runs for his life. Marcel was no ordinary prisoner--a manuscript he carries would seriously threaten the French government, and French agents have been sent out to ensure it and Marcel are never seen again. Wells Fargo messenger Jay McGraw is enlisted to locate Marcel and get them both safely across the West. But that's easier said than done. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Ekaterina (Heirs of Anton #1)
by Susan May Warren Susan K. DownsUpon receiving an unusual package in the mail, Ekaterina "Kat" Moore boards a plane to Russia, her ancestral home, to seek some answers. What she finds leads her on a perilous journey through time as Kat must flee the Russian underground. To further complicate matters, she finds herself falling in love with FSB Captain Vadeem Spasonov, a man trying to forget the nightmares of his own past. When Kat's secrets lead to the answers Vadeem needs, the treasures they find unleash an avalanche of God's design.
Things Fall Apart: Forensic Engineering (The Crime Scene Club, Case #10)
by Kenneth McintoshThe sound of breaking glass. A scream. A shot. Then ... silence. Blood, fingerprints, a bullet, a skull, fire debris, a hair, shoeprints--enter the wonderful world of forensic science. A world of searching to find clues, collecting that which others cannot see, testing to find answers to seemingly impossible questions, and testifying to juries so that justice will be served. A world where curiosity, love of a puzzle, and gathering information are basic. The books in this series will take you to this world.
Nurse Jan and the Legacy
by Laura C. RaefWhen the special-delivery letter from California arrived, Jan Cummings was sure it was from Brett, the helicopter pilot who had left her behind in Boston when he took a job near San Francisco. Disappointed by the unfamiliar signature of an aunt she had never met, Jan read the letter and discovered that her wealthy grandfather had died, naming her an heir in his will. Furthermore, Aunt Mildred wanted Jan to come to Hillyard Castle in the mountains of Northern California as a companion to Sandra Lancing, Mildred's daughter. Sandra was pregnant with her first child, and Hill-yard Castle was remote from any medical facilities. Having a registered nurse on the premises might assuage some of Sandra's anxieties, which included what Aunt Mildred described as a "fearful obsession" about the old house. Intrigued by the opportunity to meet her relatives and more than a little curious about Sandra's "obsession," Jan decided to accept the offer. In the back of her mind was the hope that she might see Brett again. When she arrived at the castle, a gloomy edifice with pointed towers, Jan took an instant liking to her cousin and to Sandra's doctor, dark-haired Colin Whitmore. However, the fog-enshrouded mansion was an eerie place, and Jan's uneasiness multiplied when Sandra confided to her that someone was bent on destroying her unborn child in order to invalidate the peculiar codicil attached to Grandfather Hillyard's will.
Patriot Play
by Don PendletonBlood Resolve America is under attack from within. Using violence and destruction to throw the population into a panic, a group known as The Brethren, and their political masterminds, are orchestrating anarchy, operating above the law. They have allied themselves with foreign terrorist organizations and are planning a strike to make themselves heard, and to spearhead a direct collision with the U. S. Administration. With federal agencies at a standstill, a determined President needs a direct, no-mercy solution, one prepared to deal with the enemy on the enemy's terms. Mack Bolan is ready and willing to declare war. Partnered with Able Team's leader Carl Lyons, Bolan returns fi re on a relentless search-and-destroy mission against an organization driven by warped ideology to claim absolute power.
Killing Trade
by Don PendletonA shell-shocked city A new type of ammunition has Mack Bolan fighting a deadly war. But this time the battleground is New York City. Bolan has to uncover the source of the devastating new ammunition. The explosive, high-penetration bullets not only slice through armored vehicles with ease, but are the hottest item on the small-arms market. Not everyone wants these bullets destroyed. Having had a taste of their destructive power, those involved are willing to kill to keep their supply moving. With the Big Apple at stake and the city's toughest thugs and paid assassins wanting him dead, the Executioner must destroy the source--before he becomes the target.
Provenance
by Alex ArcherFinding the relic is a divine quest. Even if it means committing murder. When a mysterious man orchestrates an attack on archaeologist Annja Creed and then offers her an assignment, Annja is baffled. But the mission is too intriguing for her to refuse. She must find an object that possesses a sacred and powerful secret offering atonement to anyone who uncovers it--or wreaking havoc on the world. Stolen from an ancient order of knights, the relic is now in the clutches of a band of pirates sailing the South China Sea. When a government leader threatens to destroy the pirate ship--along with the artifact--rather than let it get into the wrong hands, Annja must decide at what cost the sacred prize should be protected. Destroying it would defile history. But saving it could bring about apocalypse.
Without a Trace
by Sandra K. MooreU. S. Coast Guard Lieutenant Nikki Bustillo has tracked her target to the bowels of a phantom ship--and she refuses to lose the scent now. But when her overseas contact is brutally murdered on the streets of Hong Kong, Nikki's manhunt is compromised. The mission came from the higher-ups at her alma mater, Athena Academy, and failure isn't an option. Her only hope: the help of a maverick, martial arts expert, police detective. Nikki and her new partner will follow the enemy's shadowy trail out of the ocean and to the ends of the earth--even after their invisible foe turns the skilled trackers into vulnerable prey.
Deadly Payload
by Don PendletonSTONY MAN Unflinching duty and patriotism stand at the core of the covert operations group known as Stony Man. Answering only to the Oval Office, and with a mandate to strik before the world suffers, the clandestine field and cyber operatives work without a warrant and outside the law, enabling them to strike down those who obey no law. LETHAL SOLUTION A powerful U. S. -based consortium has begun a full-scale assault to take over the world. Attacking on multiple fronts, this secret cadre has enough high-tech weaponry to push nations to an apocalyptic standoff--and now China, Russia and the Middle East are poised to unleash swift, savage and bloody nuclear relatiations. Stony Man teams are spread thin, racing to stop the unthinkable as the world is pushed over the edge of reason, and an unseen, perhaps unstoppable, enemy brings the planet seconds closer to flash point.
Double Blind
by Hannah AlexanderA virus is sweeping the Navajo reservation, and two of her childhood friends are dead. For Sheila Metcalf that's a call to leave Hideaway, Missouri, and return to Arizona. Neither her father's objections nor the arguments of Preston Black, the man who loves her, can stop Sheila from returning to the land of her youth. Her nursing skills are needed, and it's past time she found out the truth about her mother's long-ago death. There's a medical mystery to unravel, secrets about the past to uncover and questions about the future to explore. Along the way, Sheila will need courage and strength--and faith that God will protect her and lead her to where she belongs.
The Killing Rule
by Don PendletonDemolition Charge The disappearance of two CIA agents in London plus intelligence chatter involving the IRA and access to weapons of mass destruction launch Bolan's hard probe in the British Isles. Suspecting the IRA link is the lesser part of something more far-reaching and sinister, Bolan recruits a renegade force to close in on a traitor high in the ranks of the British government--exposing a conspiracy involving stolen Russian nuclear submarine warheads and a death deal brokered with Iran. All that stands between a desert continent and a crippling blow to humanity is Bolan's sheer determination to take whatever action necessary to thwart a victory for terror.
Serpent's Kiss
by Alex ArcherSome say they are a cursed people. But those who try to find them will be just as unlucky. . . Working on a dig on the southern coast of India, the last thing Annja Creed expects is to be hit by a tsunami. Or to strike archaeological gold. But that's exactly what happens when several objects wash ashore in the storm. The relics carry unfamiliar markings that hint at a legendary city. Excited by the prospect of discovering a culture believed lost to civilization, Annja embarks on a perilous journey deep into the heart of danger. She learns of a mysterious artifact that could provide clues to the whereabouts of the lost city, which means trekking through an inhospitable jungle and forbidding terrain. But nature's denizens and death traps are not the only threats: someone else is also pursuing the prize. Just as Annja's grail comes into view, she must ward off an even greater evil. Because deep in the Nilgiris mountains is a race of people that the world forgot. And they don't like strangers.
Moving Target
by Lori A. MayFrancesca Thorn is the FBI's best profiler. . . and she's needed to target Athena Academy's most dangerous foe. Getting inside the dark mind of a serial blackmailer is easy. The hard part? Working alongside an irritatingly sexy U. S. Army bodyguard who's shadowing her every move. But as she gets dangerously close to revealing the identity of her alma mater's greatest threat, it seems someone will stop at nothing to ensure she remains dead silent. And her only choice is to accept all the help her personal protector can provide.
The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes
by Diane ChamberlainAn unsolved murder. A missing child. A lifetime of deception. In 1977, pregnant Genevieve Russell disappeared. Twenty years later, her remains are discovered and Timothy Gleason is charged with murder. But there is no sign of the unborn child. CeeCee Wilkes knows how Genevieve Russell died, because she was there. And she also knows what happened to the missing infant, because two decades ago she made the devastating choice to raise the baby as her own. Now Timothy Gleason is facing the death penalty, and she has another choice to make. Tell the truth, and destroy her family. Or let an innocent man die in order to protect a lifetime of lies. . .
Capital Offensive
by Don PendletonSTONY MAN. Dedicated to a seek-and-destroy mandate when presidential directive sends them into the heat of battle, the cyber and commando teams of Stony Man hit hard and fast to remove threats of global magnitude. Now a secret terrorist organization has hacked its way into defense satellites--opening a trapdoor to Hell. . . CAPITAL OFFENSIVE. America stands virtually defenseless as global security is compromised and nations prepare for the final conflagration that will end civilization. Stony Man gets a lead on a rogue Argentinean general and his twisted vision of a scorched and reborn planet Earth, but tracking the technology and the masters of destruction is a race where seconds count. . . and the loser will be humanity itself.
Firestorm
by Don PendletonMack Bolan's mission takes him to Bogotá, Colombia, where an American corporation has been practicing bad business for nearly two decades. If it's a weapons contract, classified materials or soldiers for hire, the company will deal--all with the blessing of the CIA. But now, certain high-ranking individuals are playing by their own rules, stepping outside of their operating field into a whole new ball game: selling America's secrets to hostile nations. The members of a CIA investigating team are all dead, except one hostage. U. S. officials, from the Oval Office down, are anxious. The Executioner's objective is to reel in an operation spinning out of control. . . by any means necessary.
Stacked Deck
by Terry WatkinsNo one is better at exposing a cheat than professional gambler and sometimes government agent Bethany James. Now, posing as a glamorous high roller, she'll use every trick she learned at Athena Academy to uncover a mob boss's ugly sins. . . and his deadly secrets. But when a daredevil with a tantalizing drawl calls her bluff, the stakes--and her heart rate--become much, much higher. Beth can't help but wonder: Have the cards finally been stacked against her?
Campus Exposures (Nancy Drew on Campus #13)
by Carolyn KeeneThe focus at Wilder is on full exposure. . and setting the record straight. Nancy's suitemate Eileen O'Connor just can't seem to keep up with her friends. Her social life has gone south: No dates, no guys, no fun! Football player Emmet Lehman could change all that. Sure, nobody's perfect, and maybe it's a big mistake, but he's smart, he's handsome, and he's asked Eileen to the upcoming party at her sorority. Nancy, too, is looking for answers. . . to two questions, both related to a campus film festival. 1) The truth behind an unsolved, three-decade-old crime -- a scandalous case in which a movie ended in murder. And 2) The reason for her attraction to one of the festival's organizers. His name is Terry Schneider, and he looks exactly like Ned!
Devil's Playground
by Don PendletonWarrior StateWhen Emilio Brujillo, governor of Mexico's Guerro state, finds himself under siege by the Juarez cartel, he turns to the U. S. for help against one of the most brutal narcotraficante organizations. Working undercover to stem the escalating violence, Mack Bolan is surrounded by corrupt military officials, Russian organized crime and a renegade cult that engages in ritual sacrifice. But the deadliest threat that Bolan faces is the seductive governor's wife, who is also the secret leader of a Santeria cult. Anibella Brujillo is leaking information on Bolan's activities to the enemy while playing her husband, her government and its people with skill and cunning. Mack Bolan is willing to swallow the lady's bait, see where it leads. . . especially if its straight to the darkest hellholes of human depravity.