Plans can be thwarted, and people can be astoundingly manipulative and deceptive. It’s a lesson Tyson should never forget. One he’s learned numerous times by those he should’ve been able to trust. But then someone new crosses his path, and he lets them get past his manifested defenses. Amara's desperation to escape and end her life ripped his heart out. As a result, a fortified shield encased his heart, one that’s nearly impenetrable. Inner turmoil cripples him when he has doubts and suspects that maybe he had been wrong to build it as volatile and unwavering as he had. The free-spirited person he used to be no longer exists. In its place is a hardcore casing that strangles him and refuses to release its grip. A well thought out future, one that has been calibrated down to the smallest detail, can collapse and tumble around you. No one knows that better than Hemmingway. She went into the armed forces with the mindset to better herself and make herself a stronger, formidable woman so that she could try to tweak her fate and weave her fantasy into reality. Make him see her instead of through her. Hemmi’s heartfelt crush, that once seemed so imperative, is now a superficial ambition. Her goals and aspirations have been altered, because the motivation to find love was obliterated by two sinister men, and it no longer fuels her desires. Will their past win, or will they give into the temptation? The draw to each other is hard to deny, but they both have demons that hold them back. They have a rocky road before them. It’ll be jolting, but the longer they’re confined, and on the run, the harder the tug is to resist.

Buckle in for a wild ride through the heart-pounding twists and turns of this complete urban fantasy action adventure where powerful magical families make the mafia look like choirboys and connections are everything in Jami Gray’s spellbinding Arcane Transporter series. A failed assassination, a kidnapped ally, and a treasonous scheme pit Rory and Zev against a devious enemy determined to watch Arcane society crash and burn. After a bumpy start, Rory Costas, Arcane Transporter, is gaining professional traction while her personal journey with the sexy Zev Aslanov is accelerating at an exhilarating pace. That is, until their date night is crashed by a mercenary team of magical assassins. Their goal—to derail the upcoming Arcane Council hearing on the ill-fated Delphi project and its magic altering serum. The assassination attempt leaves Zev stripped of his memories and Rory scrabbling to secure her fledgling alliances even as her mentor and employer, Sabella, disappears under mysterious and worrisome circumstances. Thrust into the resulting investigation, Rory dodges the hazards of her evolving magic and the unexpected exposure of long-buried family secrets as she speeds through the treacherous plots threatening to fracture Arcane society. As she careens toward the finish line will Rory’s ability to hold the wheel steady be enough to keep her world from veering off the cliff, or will it shift her into uncharted territory? LETHAL CONTENTS is the third novel in the complete urban fantasy series the Arcane Transporter. If you love Shannon Mayer, H.P. Mallory, and Annabel Chase, you’re going to want to claim your ticket to this sweet ride through the unexpected twists and turns of a high-octane adventure filled with intriguing mystery, a flash of romance, and riveting magic.

New York fashion designer Jamie Nova has chosen the glitz of Las Vegas as the setting for celebrating her impending divorce. Joined by her two best friends, street-smart Madison Castelli, and Natalie de Barge, an ambitious TV reporter - Jamie plans to make the most of her hard-earned holiday and forget all about her controlling ex. When the threesome encounters Mark Blaine, the fun-loving playboy scion of a real estate billionaire, things start to heat up very quickly. Madison and Natalie receive a frantic midnight phone call telling them Mark is lying in Jamie's bed. And he's dead...

She’s paying for her father's mistake. He thrives on breaking the rules. But running from their pasts was never an option. Held for ransom by a hideous overlord, the once fiercely independent Yasmin Sanders is now paying for her father’s deadly mistake. But she knows too much and fears the monster she’s forced to work for will never set her free. Fearless ex-army hero, and leg amputee, Cole Tanner (Codename: Cobra) hacked into his first computer when he was twelve. That reckless action pitched him into an underworld that’s had him on a knife edge ever since. When Cobra cracks a supposedly unbreakable system, he gains intel on a shipment that could provide answers to the disastrous mission in Antarctica that he and his Alpha Tactical Ops team have failed to solve. Cobra and his team launch a covert mission onto a freighter in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. But trapped in the rusted hellhole, they are severely outnumbered. Cobra discovers a fiery redhead hiding from the chaos and she turns his world and his heart upside down when she unwittingly reveals a secret that proves the ruthless killers on the massive ship are the least of their worries. With the ghosts of his past hell-bent on revenge, will Cobra make the right sacrifice to set Yasmin free? Or will they both drown in mistakes that will trap them forever. Shadow Mission is a steamy, opposites attract romance, featuring a protective hero who is battling his demons and a feisty heroine who doesn’t trust anyone. Shadow Mission is packed with action, forbidden steamy moments and a mysterious hero who must learn from his past, to be free in his future. Shadow Mission is book five in the Alpha Tactical Ops series. Alpha Tactical Ops is a series of standalone books with interconnecting characters, featuring ex-military men and women and the partners trying to tame them.

“Readers looking for an updated Charlie’s Angels in ‘wild women’ mode will be most satisfied” with this thriller in the New York Times bestselling series (Publishers Weekly). The fun, smart, sassy women of the Sisterhood are the best friends a woman wants by her side in good times and bad. Meeting once again in Myra Rutledge’s beautiful Virginia home, they’re ready to face a new challenge and right a vicious wrong . . . Alexis Thorn, once a successful securities broker, spent a hellish year behind bars for a crime she never committed. Now she has her freedom, but she’s left with haunting memories of being hauled from her office in handcuffs . . . of the cell door clanging shut behind her . . . of her pleas going unheard. Meanwhile the real criminals—her former employers—continue to make millions by conning the innocent, especially preying on the elderly and taking their life savings. Alexis dreams of getting even. The legal system failed her, but the Sisterhood won’t. They have a delicious plan that can give the scammers a taste of their own bitter medicine . . . “Fans of the series will relish the latest episode because it’s as full of daring and rough justice as all the rest.”—Booklist Series praise “Spunky women who fight for truth, justice, and the American way.”—Fresh Fiction on Final Justice “Readers will enjoy seeing what happens when well-funded, very angry women take the law into their own hands.”—Booklist on Weekend Warriors “Delectable . . . deliver[s] revenge that’s creatively swift and sweet, Michaels-style.”—Publishers Weekly on

Nobody's Home is a bold view of the American novel from its beginnings to the contemporary scene. Focusing on some of the deepest instincts of American life and culture--individual liberty, freedom of speech, constructing a life--Arnold Weinstein brilliantly sketches the remarkable career of the American self in some of the major works of the past one hundred fifty years. Weinstein contends that American writers are haunted by the twin specters of the self as a mirage, as Nobody, and by the brutal forces of culture and ideology that deny selfhood to people on the basis of money, sex, and color of skin. His central thesis is that language makes possible freedoms and accomplishments that are achievable in no other realm, and that American fiction is a fascinating record of the human fight against coercion, of the kinds of maneuvering room that we may find in life and in art. This study is unique in several respects: it offers some of the keenest readings of major American texts that have ever been written, including some of the most significant works of the past decades, and it fashions a rich and supple view of the American novel as a writerly form of freedom, in sharp contrast to today's critical emphasis on blindness and co-option.

It was thought that during the height of tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States, the KGB may have cleverly smuggled a nuclear bomb into the very heart of Washington D.C. In Pete Earley's new thriller, Lethal Secrets, this bomb is in the hands of a band of Chechen rebels, lead by an insane terrorist, Movladi 'the Viper' Islamov, who's threatening to detonate it unless his demands are met. The fate of the city rests in the hands of a disgraced deputy U.S. Marshal, Wyatt Conway, who is reluctantly called into action by his FBI and CIA rivals because he was once a friend of Islamov's, before the freedom fighter turned into an international terrorist. But to stop Islamov, Conway must trust Vladimir Khrenkov, a possibly corrupt Russian intelligence agent, and Kimberly Lodge, a skeptical CIA beauty. Conway suspects Khrenkov of being the man who executed a top Russian mobster that Conway was protecting in federal witness protection program. And the CIA's Lodge isn't all that certain Conway is capable of outwitting the terrorists and protecting the capital of the free world. With time running out, Conway must find a way to manipulate and expose Khrenkov, keep Lodge and her bureaucratic cronies off his back, and prevent Islamov from igniting the spark for Armageddon. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.