Tick, tick, tock. Time. That's all I have now. A small room, a photograph, and time. They want me to trust them and confess my sins. They told me they wouldn't judge me-they lied. I thought we could convince the world that this wasn't a crime. We were wrong. Time doesn't stand still. The clock keeps ticking, the world is unconvinced, and now... Now he is gone. Warning: adult themes/explicit sex scenes

Vodka Doe started her company to help other people, Black Swan Detective Agency was a rundown business when she first bought it at a young age. Now, they were known worldwide for helping out with kidnappings, ransom demands, exchanges, finding people, and helping solve cold cases. Vodka was determined to discover who killed her parents, and she would use any resource she had to help. Suddenly, when she is put on the radar of the killer, Black Swan Detective Agency has a new client, her. Everyone in her company is hell-bent on protecting their leader, even if they have to re-open their parent's unsolved murder in another country, they will leave no stone unturned to find the person who was trying to kill Vodka. With the help of a handsome police detective who suddenly takes an interest in Vodka, they are forced to delve into the mind of a serial killer. It is a battle against time for the crew to find the killer who is taunting them, and bring justice to Vodka Doe, so she would get back to the business of saving others.

A woman's mangled body found on the shoulder of a highway bypass near the small town of Astrick, Oklahoma, is mistakenly identified as 28-year-old Memory Smith. The town is aghast. Was Astrick's favorite daughter murdered or the victim of a grisly hit-and-run? Baffled by the initial reports, Astrick's Assistant District Attorney and Memory's former bad boy classmate, David (Mac) McCann, knows exactly where Memory is, and it's not lying dead beside a highway. While investigating the wild rumor of her death, and several subsequent foiled assaults on Memory, Mac and Memory stumble onto clues from another long-ago questionable death. Can they be connected to the mysterious woman on the highway? Better yet, can Astrick’s former hellion and the town's sainted miracle child find true love amid the chaos and confusion of a bumbling kidnapper and a town where everybody lies?

Soon after returning to the world of the living with her two bondmates, demon princess Lucinda is kidnapped and imprisoned by her enemy, Derek. He brings her back to a hidden outland in Hell, a bleak and desolate landscape riddled with disfigured rejects. At first enraged by Lucinda?s new abilities, Derek soon realizes that he may have just stumbled upon a way to regain his power?and Lucinda?s new life is the sacrifice.

"Though I had never met S.M. Stagwerth, it still felt as if I had stood there with Him atop all those train cars, beneath all those pitched tents, where curious congregants would gather momentarily and be swept away by His saline verbal prowess." - Mole Cricket Twelve-year-old Moses Cotton discovers dangerous mysteries, from a plague of field-mowing mole crickets to the long ago death of a fanatic evangelist named Stagwerth. Will Moses' persistence destroy his family, even the whole town? This is author Nick May's third writing adventure. He began with the folktale, Megabelt, and followed it with the thriller, Minutemen. He and his wife, Kayla, live along the Gulf Coast with their dog, Brother.

"Who is Christ? Who is Antichrist? Both are present in the world as well as within ourselves. How do we tell them apart, especially when the strategies of Antichrist are subtle and calculated to deceive? The Path of Christ or Antichrist provides clarity and insight into the most important choice that we make in life, to be or not to be who we really are. This is a choice we affirm with each decision, large or small, that we make in life. The authors outline the difference between Christ and Antichrist and hence the choices that we all face on the path to spiritual enlightenment and self-mastery. They offer new interpretations of the age-old battle between light and darkness and how it affects our daily lives along with spiritual techniques to guard our consciousness and direct spiritual light and energy for the blessing and healing of all life."

Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose much more than just their store. The sisters become separated from their father and make a harrowing escape from the flames with the help of Chicago Tribune reporter Nate Pierce. Once the smoke clears away, they reunite with Stephen, only to learn soon after that their family friend was murdered on the night of the fire. Even more shocking, Stephen is charged with the crime and committed to the Cook County Insane Asylum. Though homeless and suddenly unemployed, Meg must not only gather the pieces of her shattered life, but prove her father's innocence before the asylum truly drives him mad.