I checked my gun to make sure I had a full clip, chambered a round, and ran downstairs. When I put a gun in this guy's face and maybe knocked out a tooth or two, he would sure as hell tell me where Jackie was. But he was gone when I got down there, no trace of his presence left behind. Just as if I had imagined the whole thing. I stood on the street with a gun in my hand, and looked around in all directions. She was lost, the people who took her from me were lost, and I was more lost than any of them. Special Agent Gavin Holder is a man with secrets – among them his relationship with Jackie Cole, widow of a dead FBI informant. What the FBI doesn't know about Gavin Holder could put him in prison, but what Holder doesn't know about Jackie Cole could put him in the grave. As Holder desperately tries to keep his past a secret, the consequences of his involvement with Jackie become more and more deadly. Holder is slowly drawn into a vast conspiracy, directed by a sinister fanatic known only as Father - the leader of the terrorist cult Ultima Thule. Gavin Holder may not be a very good FBI agent – but he may also be the only man alive who can stop the cult. Sometimes the "bad guy" saves the day.
"Mr. Orlando, the custody of your son Austin Orlando has been given to Ms. Mackenzie Ziegler." Because of hatred towards each other, two parents start an unhealthy competition to get the custody of their child. But then Johnny's current fiancée gets missing and some psychotic behavior of Austin's character changes the whole plot. Mackenzie faces some new challenges with some cryptic messages. Who will win this custody? And who's their new enemy trying to harm them?
The Complete Father Brown Mysteries includes 24 stories featuring G. K. Chesterton’s eponymous Roman Catholic sleuth. These mysteries are the original source material for the current hit BBC TV show Father Brown starring Mark Williams. Chesterton’s priest-sleuth was loosely based on Father John O"Connor, a parish priest in Bradford, who was involved in Chesterton"s conversion to Catholicism in 1922. By bringing murder and mayhem into the genteel setting of a village parish, Chesterton pioneered the ‘cozy’ mystery genre which Agatha Christie and others would further develop in subsequent decades.
Lady Audley’s Secret has been called "the most sensationally successful of all the sensational novels". The success of the book, along with Mary Elizabeth Braddon"s other bestseller, Aurora Floyd, established the author as the main rival of the master of the sensational novel, Wilkie Collins. A protest against the passive, insipid 19th-century heroine, Lady Audley was described by one critic of the time as "high-strung, full of passion, purpose, and movement." Her crime (the secret of the title) is shown to threaten the apparently respectable middle-class world of Victorian England. The story centres on "accidental bigamy" which was in literary fashion in the early 1860s. The plot was summarised by literary critic Elaine Showalter (1982): "Braddon"s bigamous heroine deserts her child, pushes husband number one down a well, thinks about poisoning husband number two and sets fire to a hotel in which her other male acquaintances are residing". Elements of the novel mirror themes of the real-life Constance Kent case of June 1860 which gripped the nation for years. The follow-up novel (Aurora Floyd) appeared in 1863. There have been three silent film adaptations, one UK television version in 2000, and three minor stage adaptations.
Prequel to The Alpha That Calls Me Pup (can be read as a stand alone) Sylvan Sasha Whitney's life was forever changed on Christmas day, and not for the better. She was fifteen that night, the pride and joy of her mother and father, a U.S. immigrant coming stateside hoping for a better life. A young girl with a bright future, studious and kind. Her whole world shattered into minuscule fragments through a betrayal so fierce one wouldn't think it was possible. Sylvan survived the betrayal after having violently fought back, the aggressive self defense later being used against her in court. Yet her journey had only just begun. The day Sylvan entered the Blackwoods Juvenile Correctional Facility marked the day her life world take a turn, for better or for worse. Despite her environment she meets friends, makes allies, finds a family for herself with ties as strong as though they shared blood. Even though she ended up getting involved in something she never thought she would, life was looking good. With an adoptive father who mentored her in every aspect and her first love Sylvan was enjoying her time. Yet even so, dangerous conflicts lie ahead. She had expected this, considering what she had gotten involved in, but she didn't expect to be pulled into something of such a horrendous proportion. Or to lose people close and dear to this conflict. Betrayal, loss, mysteries and vengeance was in store whether she wished for it or not. This is Sylvan's story of how she became the Sylvan we known and love; the bitchy, the savage, the Queen.
Philip and Simon Trenchard lost their parents at the age of seven and eight in a road accident, and were brought up by their beloved grandfather, the eminent archaeologist Sir Lawrence. At his funeral, years later, their world is about to be shattered once again – in fact the entire world as we know it faces an Armageddon of unimaginable evil. In Sir Lawrence’s will, he entrusts to the brothers the terrible secret he uncovered in the Holy Lands – some ancient apparently Biblical scrolls. But these were not the testaments of Mathew, Mark or John but of Judas… “The truth was potentially explosive. We had found the map and instructions to the biggest religious discovery of all time… Not only that, but if the Book of Judas really existed it was prophesised that its unearthing would destroy the pillars upon which the entire Christian religion had grown… It had the power to unlock the devil himself.” The very knowledge of their existence is deadly. Now Sir Lawrence is gone the Vatican is determined to claim the secret that undermines its raison d’être and their hired agents will stop at nothing. Worse still, is the knowledge that the Antichrist’s disciples on earth, The Satanica, have unleashed an assassin of pure, implacable evil leaving hideously mutilated bodies in his wake as he follows the Trenchard brothers on their quest. In a terrifying, nail-biting mission that takes us from leafy Oxfordshire to the Dead Sea; from Greece to the Vatican, the brothers travel the world to save the world – and themselves – from Satan’s ultimate revengeLanguage English
Exploring the dark side of social media and the human psyche, LoveClub takes the reader on a twisted journey into the mind of a sexual predator, and the dark world of LoveClub. The streets of Hungary are being hunted... When a string of gruesome suicides are suggested to be the work of a serial killer, Lili, a young and aspiring journalist, wants to expose the details of the case to the public after one of her friends turns up a victim. The Budapest Police Department bring on renowned criminal psychologist David Lengyel to aid their investigation, but some are wary of his presence when they learn of his past. All of them, however, are thrust into a world of sex, drugs, and death. They enter the digital world of LoveClub. Fulfill yourself! This could easily be the popular Hungarian writer, Levente Lakatos’s life motto. The twenty-seven-year-old author has been mesmerized by the magic of books and the literary world since his childhood but it wasn’t until his adult years that he finally put pen to paper and wrote his first novel. He spent his years studying to be an actor, working as a journalist and later becoming known as a television presenter before he fell in love with the art of storytelling. He’s been referred to as the Hungarian Bret Easton Ellis; his style has been compared to that of Quentin Tarantino and critics found his latest erotic thriller more exciting than Fifty Shades of Grey. In his book Levente introduces you to the New Adult thriller genre and gives you a more intense treat than you have ever experienced.
Mia, living miserably, hopes for a better life after completing her studies and securing a good job. However, her dreams are shattered when her father forces her to marry a ruthless billionaire mafia boss after her sister backs out. Xavier Leonardi is the most cruel and heartless Mafia. He loathes Mia as the rumor says she is as promiscuous as her mother was. He vows to make her life hell. But, when a conspiracy arises and the hidden enemy lies within the family, the possessive husband surfaces and makes everyone pay who messes with his "wrong" bride. ✓✓Available As Paperback On A.M.A.Z.O.N ✓✓Book 1 in The Mafia's Bride Series. ✓✓Can be read as standalone. Warning ⚠️ 18+, B D S M, detailed sexually explicit content.
The Complete Father Brown Mysteries includes 24 mysteries featuring G. K. Chesterton"s eponymous Roman Catholic sleuth.
Lies, Deception, Betrayal are the three words that Sadie Frasier never imagined to experience in her once happy and normal life. If fame and wealth could not save her from pain and suffering, how will she survive if everyone she holds dear in her life turned out to be... The Stalker