The Third Victim
by Phillip Margolin
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A woman stumbles onto a dark road in rural Oregon—tortured, battered, and bound. She tells a horrific story about being kidnapped, then tortured, until she finally managed to escape. She was the lucky one—two other women, with similar burns and bruises, were found dead.

The surviving victim identifies the house where she was held captive and the owner, Alex Mason—a prominent local attorney—is arrested. Although he loudly insists upon his innocence, his wife’s statements about his sexual sadism and the physical evidence found at the scene, his summer home, is damning.

Mr. Whiskers
by Joshua Koester
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To the universe, he is a Class Omega entity of undefined chaos, capable of rewriting reality and staring down elder gods. To Detective Emily Chen, he is Mr. Whiskers: a stray black cat who appeared at a crime scene, eats too much Fancy Feast, and refuses to stay off the furniture.

It is 1982 in Chicago, and the cracks in the world are starting to show. A cult obsessed with an ancient serpent is stealing artifacts, bodies are vanishing from the morgue, and a comet is hurtling toward Earth with an appetite for destruction.

The Baggers
by James Hale
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But beneath the surface of Main Street USA, after nightfall, the streets belong to a new breed of scavengers: the Baggers—young men chasing quick cash and fleeting purpose, whose choices go far beyond stolen copper pipes and discarded DVD players.

When a seasoned outsider arrives and organizes the Baggers into something more dangerous, Saint Albans becomes a battleground—not just between rival crews, but for the souls of its youth. As violence erupts and alliances shift, crime families from distant cities tighten their grip.

Red Fox Woman
by Judy Ann Davis
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Rancher Flint Ashmore never expected to find a redware potter squatting on the property he purchased along Cherry Creek with his four brothers and sister.

With a ruthless fiancé on her heels, Julia Gast has fled from Pennsylvania to the Colorado Territory to set up her pottery business and raise horses. She desperately needs not only the rich clay deposits of Cherry Creek, but also cash to survive. Against her better judgment, she aligns herself with a renegade Indian who helps her gather wild horses to sell to the same Army which is hunting him.

The Perfect Match
by Dandy Smith
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Zara has always felt a little ordinary next to her spirited best friend Ivy. Even her dreams seem mundane: a boyfriend, marriage, children… Besides, who would pick her when they could choose lvy? So when Zara meets Henry and there’s an instant spark, she can’t believe her luck. A wealthy CEO who wants to settle down? He’s perfect…until Ivy insists he’s too good to be true.

As Henry and Ivy repeatedly clash, doubts creep into Zara’s mind.

Zero Hour (The NUMA Files)
by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown
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It’s called zero point energy – a state of energy contained in all matter everywhere, and all but unlimited. Nobody has ever found a way to tap into it, however . . . until one scientist does.

The problem is, his machines also cause great earthquakes, even fissures in tectonic plates. One machine is buried deep underground; the other submerged in a vast ocean trench. If Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala and the rest of the NUMA team aren’t able to find and destroy them – and soon – the world will be on the threshold of a new era of catastrophe and unchecked volcanism.

Blood Moon
by Heather Graham and Jon Land
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They may have managed to win a major battle against the powerful enemy determined to destroy civilization as we know it. But the war continues, with Alex and Sam embarking on a desperate journey to save mankind, even as their friendship blossoms into something much more.

The roadmap for their journey lies in a mysterious book, the language of which has never been deciphered, until Alex finds himself able to translate the words that may hold the keys to saving the future.

When You Call My Name
by Sharon Sala
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Rediscover this romantic suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author Sharon Sala.

When Glory Dixon sees an injured man in her dreams who shares her same rare blood, she knows she must help by giving Wyatt the most precious gift of all—the gift of life. After the life-saving transfusion, Glory and Wyatt develop a connection that extends beyond blood. When Glory’s life is in danger, she communicates without words, and Wyatt jumps into action without hesitation to protect the stranger who saved his life.

Whispers of Kith and Kin
by Kaye Brownstone
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Lizzy James doesn’t want to ruffle any feathers. Still dealing with trauma from her past, the cautious appraiser is horrified when an ordinary day on the job turns up a trio of dead bodies. And when Witness Protection sweeps her off to a sleepy Mississippi hamlet, the determined twenty-something plans to pursue peaceful anonymity… until her gossipy neighbor joins the not-so-dearly departed.

Fending off accusations of murder from an unscrupulous sheriff, the desperate woman arms herself with wits, faith, and the support of a sharp-eyed ten-year-old.

The Perfect Witness
by Iris Johansen
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When Teresa Casali was young she discovered she had a strange gift: the ability to read people’s memories. But the gift seemed more like a curse as her mob boss father used her to gain the upper hand in his world of corruption and violence. Exposed by her own family to the darkest impulses of mankind, Teresa is alone and unprotected. She realizes that if she is to survive, she has to run.

Out of nowhere, or so she believes, a man by the name of Andre Mandak appears.

The Mischief Thief
by Johnnie Alexander
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Chaney Rose survives by staying in the shadows. Pick the lock. Lift the cash. Disappear. But when her cousin is jailed protecting her, staying invisible is no longer an option.

A missing veterinarian and a stolen racehorse worth millions could be her only chance to secure his freedom—if she can find them before a ruthless crime boss does. The search leads straight to Adam Thorne, a recently fired minister desperate to locate his vanished father. What begins as a calculated move quickly spirals into something far more dangerous.

Vampires II (Classic Monsters Book 4)
by Kevin J. Kennedy
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From war-torn Europe and WWII battlefields to southern backroads, abandoned arcades, isolated campsites, and post-apocalyptic highways, these stories explore vampires as monsters, predators, lovers, ghosts, weapons, and myths. You’ll find ancient Slavic spectres, elemental creatures hunted by their own kind, bat-like horrors that stalk the night, and old-world vampires clashing with modern survival. Revenge, addiction, secrecy, and sacrifice run through the collection, alongside moments of poetry, erotic danger, and raw human tragedy.

Some stories are intimate and unsettling; others are violent, fast, and unforgiving.

The Safe Room
by Sarah A. Denzil
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When I was fifteen years old, I made a mistake. I trusted the warm smile of a stranger called Peter Harlow, and accepted a ride home in his car. It would be the last moment of my life I’d ever feel safe again.

The trauma of what happened that night will never leave me—and it was only the beginning. For the last nineteen years, I’ve been trapped in a nightmare of blocked numbers, violated restraining orders, and the compulsion to scan every face in every crowd, waiting for the day when his will be among them.

Solomon’s Ring (The Unseen Truth Series)
by William Pickrel
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The ring was never a weapon. It was a receipt. For twenty years Dr. Elias Brock dug the Ophel in Jerusalem on money he never questioned. Then, live on air, with Solomon’s Ring on a velvet pedestal in front of the cameras, nine figures stepped out of nowhere and asked for it back.

Nine seconds later the ring was gone and the feed was dead. Within days, everyone who had been in that tent remembered a power surge. Everyone except Brock.

Requiem of a Lost Nation
by Angel Ramon
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Otilia is a woman who returns to El Salvador decades after escaping the civil war back in the 1980s. At the age of 51, she decides to write a requiem about her life and times before and during the Civil War. However, it proves to be a painful experience as she opens up old wounds from some of her worst days in life as the civil war intensifies.

As she writes about her past, she ends up bumping into painful memories even in the present time, such as a war memorial and a hotel that used to be an orphanage.

I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller
by Terry Hayes
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A breakneck race against time…and an implacable enemy.

An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying characteristics dissolved by acid. A father publicly beheaded in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square.

A notorious Syrian biotech expert found eyeless in a Damascus junkyard. Smoldering human remains on a remote mountainside in Afghanistan.

A flawless plot to commit an appalling crime against humanity. One path links them all, and only one man can make the journey.

Partita
by Barbara Kingsolver
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Livia Cable has made her peace with her marriage and modest livelihood in the farm country where she grew up, until a shocking phone call from an old lover shakes her to the core. Decades earlier, this man knew her as Livia Bohusz, a music conservatory student estranged from her home and family, uncertain of anything except her passion for music and promise as an extraordinary pianist.

His request, now, to see her again stirs up ghosts she’s kept at bay for a lifetime.