Private eye Mac McClellan investigates the death of a young archaeologist whose recent discovery threatens to shut down a planned multi-million dollar Florida bay side community development.

Suspenseful and sexy with a cast of delicious men, Deadly Dunes, the first book of the new Carabella Nichols Mystery series, will have you hooked!Carabella Nichols, a self-labeled lab geek, quickly finds out that life after college can be scary. After graduating with honors, meeting an amazing man, and landing her dream job at a research laboratory in Monterey, California, Cara moves across the country believing life is looking up. The sheltered girl from Connecticut quickly realizes the dangers hidden in her picturesque new hometown when her lab partner is murdered in the office only days after she's hired. Cara is sucked in to the investigation and drawn to the gorgeous investigating officer, and her mysterious and sexy but off limits Italian employer. As the investigation unfolds, Cara is introduced to California's most dangerous and barely legal cash crop business, and draws the killer's attention to herself. Is the killer the only person she needs to worry about, or is there more to the mystery?Fans of Gemma Halliday's Maddie Springer, Camilla Chafer's Lexi Graves, or Julie Moffett's Lexi Carmichael will love this racy new series.Intended for mature audiences.

When PI Mac McClellan's girlfriend convinces him to join the Palmetto Paranormal Society, he becomes embroiled in a case of whooodunnit. The society president, while investigating an old hotel, is found dead at the foot of the stairwell, his neck broken--a tragic accident. Then the secretary dies in an apparent suicide. Mac suspects there's more going on than a vengeful spirit.

According to the Bible, the number (8) has a special meaning for God, as He chose the 8th day to mark the beginning of the new week. Everything that has a new beginning in the Bible has the number (8) associated with it. Number (8) is the personal number of Jesus. When we add together the (letter values) of the name Jesus in Greek, we get 888. Jesus was called The Christ, the (numerical value) of this title is 1480 (185 x 8). He was Saviour which has the value of 1408 (2 x 8 x 88). Messiah has a (numerical value) of 656 (82 x8). Jesus also called himself the Son of man. The term occurs 88 times and is valued at 2960 (370 x 8). Jesus said, "I am the truth": the (numerical value) of "the truth" is 64 (8 x 8). The last book in the Bible is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which has exactly 888 Greek words.

The Devil’s Highway crosses a stretch of borderland desert in northern Mexico where many immigrants have traveled—and too many have died. It is a despoblado where desperate people defend secret places. But it is also known as El Gran Desierto—a place where stately saguaros stand near aromatic elephant trees, where sand dunes caress the edges of jagged granite mountains, where one can watch bighorn sheep in the morning and whales in the afternoon. Over the years, desert rat Bill Broyles has ventured repeatedly into this sunshot landscape, slogged across its salt flats and sand dunes, and defied its deadly heat. This book chronicles his years of exploration, a vivid and personal introduction to a thorny but ultimately enchanting place that manages to endear itself over time, if it doesn’t kill you first. Michael Berman’s stark black-and-white photographs capture the desolate beauty of the desert while conveying a sense of Broyles’ adventures. Gleaned from more than 4,000 images shot with a large-format camera, these exquisite photographs translate the desert’s formidable monotone into finely tuned studies of light and represent some of the best photos ever taken of this mysterious region. El Gran Desierto is a grand desert indeed, with beauty, spirit, and mystery rivaling any place on Earth, and anyone captivated by the earlier explorations of Lumholtz, Ives, or Hornaday—or by Edward Abbey’s love of desert places—will revel in these modern-day adventures. Sunshot defies the stereotype of a punishing wilderness to show how even the most perilous desert can be alluring if approached with knowledge and respect.

• DUNE: PART TWO • THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE COMING NOVEMBER 3rd, 2023 Directed by Denis Villeneuve, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based on the novel Dune by Frank Herbert • Starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Léa Seydoux, with Stellan Skarsgård, with Charlotte Rampling, and Javier Bardem Frank Herbert’s classic masterpiece—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides−who would become known as Maud'Dib—and of a great family's ambition to bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream. A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction.

Ray is a writer for a sizeable publication company in LA. His position with the company is in jeopardy, and his writing style requires a transformation if he is to obtain retirement. In search of the fresh, new material his employer desires, Ray becomes intrigued by the life of Mike Long, an alleged transient whose life is not at all what it appears. Mike Long’s challenged life is portrayed through the chaos of terrorism, blood, death, destruction, desire, and the never-ending need to stay alive. Ray transforms Mike’s struggles into an energizing account, all the while, the writer and the one-time transient, unknowingly, achieve duplicate goals.