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Louisa Torres knows there's trouble at the sound of the first gunshot. The town has more than its share of violence, but gunshots are rare. Dr. Maxwell Baer offered her a life-changing deal decades ago. No matter how many strings he kept adding to the deal, it was the best thing that ever happened to her. The moment the doctor disappeared, that deal was in jeopardy, leaving her life hanging by a thread. Sheriff Watkins is the latest of a long line of sheriffs trying to keep control in the chaotic little town. His disappearance normally wouldn't be that surprising since school teachers and sheriffs rarely stay in town very long. But Sheriff Watkins and his daughter both disappear within days of each other. The duo had been in town less than two weeks and the Sheriff abandoned his SUV in the alley outside the doctor's office. The signs are too much for Louisa. She steals the SUV and leaves town.Agent Winslow arrives on the scene a day later with Agent Jennings who will do anything to make a name for herself and Agent Armstrong whose star is fading faster with every glass of bourbon he pours on the job. The ragtag team makes sense at first for a tiny little town like this. But it shouldn't be this hard to find a doctor and a sheriff in a town of four hundred people. As the search drags on, Winslow realizes that Doctor Baer has some powerful enemies back in Washington and whatever he has been doing to these people hasn't made him any friends here either.As the bodies begin to pile up, Agent Winslow realizes he'll be lucky to get out of Ketch's Basin alive.

Felix Lacroix moves a clamshell on the beach. An hour later, a rowdy jock runs over it, slices his foot, and misses his chance to meet a beautiful girl he'd been flirting with. The girl blames fate when the boy is carted away, because Felix's manipulation is so crafty, she has no way of knowing he was responsible. For decades Felix uses his intelligence to shape the world to his liking. His meddling is so subtle no one ever understands his true intentions. He appears to be in complete control, but things begin to unravel as the summer solstice approaches. His most ambitious plan is at risk and as time runs down, he realizes he has woefully underestimated his most stubborn rival. Only hours remain for Felix to set things right, but the task is staggering even for a man who appears to hold the world in his hand.

Wes Holiday sells his landscaping business and retreats to a quaint mountain town to heal after ending a ten year relationship with a woman he couldn't bring himself to marry. In three weeks he is so captivated by a hair stylist that he deprives himself of food and sleep to be near her. When the local sheriff is murdered, Wes is recruited to keep the peace in the town his parents built, but he knows nothing about law enforcement and he's struggling to understand how a woman he just met can dominate his every waking thought. Soon the idyllic town with a penchant for romance is rocked by a bizarre series of murders that defy explanation and it is up to Wes to stop a raging epidemic of violence.

Product Description Gretchen Greene, ecoterrorist turned energy researcher, is militant about saving the planet. When her research team discovers an advance in solar technology that will make fossil fuels obsolete, she takes the invention and the data necessary to recreate it and runs. Unfortunately for Gretchen, she's not the only one aware of the discovery. A team of assassins destroys the lab and eliminates the researchers one by one until only Gretchen remains. Another student races Gretchen away from the scene, but the assassins catch up and trap Gretchen and her friend against a highway guardrail. Randy Black arrives. He believes he's been sent to save Gretchen, but he must learn what she's done and why she's surrounded by armed men all intent on having her in one way or another. From the Publisher CJ West's Randy Black series features a hero in turmoil. Sin & Vengeance shows the depths of Randy's anger as he lashes out against a man who has wronged him. Randy doesn't expect to survive his vendetta. When he does, A Demon Awaits presents him with a challenge to remake himself and earn redemption. Randy fights valiantly for others and the governor is so moved, he offers Randy his freedom-with a few strings attached. In Gretchen Greene, Randy finds himself running from his past while struggling to earn redemption. He meets Gretchen Greene and undertakes the first of many challenges he must overcome. For new readers, we suggest beginning the series with Sin & Vengeance and then A Demon Awaits. From there, readers can enjoy any Randy Black novel next.

Overcome with anger and grief after losing his parents, Randy Black plans to sacrifice himself to avenge them. He plots revenge for 10 years then destroys three families in spectacular fashion. When Randy's revenge is taken, his suicide mission takes an unexpected twist. Randy is beaten badly by the police, but he survives. In the dreamy haze of unconsciousness before he wakes in the hospital, Randy believes he sees God. He's told Hell's fury awaits him if he doesn't change course and he is terrified of the future that awaits. Facing a murder charge and the fury of Hell, Randy struggles to redeem himself in this world and the next. He tries to recall his Christian teachings and to do heroic deeds in the time he has left, but is this just the desperation of a raving psychopath, or is Randy worth saving? Originally Published as A Demon Awaits.

Tiny magnetic dots locked deep in Boston's financial district hold the keys to $44 billion. The massive fortune is spread among seventy-five thousand customers and only the computers know exactly how the shares are divided at any given time. Millions are spent to keep the systems safe in their temperature controlled room and keep Internet-based hackers at bay. No one knows this better than the people assigned to safeguard this fortune. Erica Fletcher is one such guardian, buried by an insurmountable workload, precisely how she likes it. Beautiful, smart, tough, nothing can knock her off course and nothing penetrates her defenses. She's locked her emotions away and poured her life into her career. She's a superstar among her peers and a nightmare to any man who tries to control her. Erica's boss wants her out and their confrontation wakes Erica to a stark reality. She's traded her life for success and security, forever running from her mother's mistakes. Her roommate convinces her to slow down and just as her first real romance blooms, her life is thrown into chaos. Two hundred million has disappeared from the firm and the evidence all points to Erica. She fights for her life as she struggles to hold on to the new woman she's become.

Gifted housebreaker, Michael O'Connor, awakens inside an ultramodern criminal justice system where prison walls are replaced by surveillance equipment and a host of actors hired to determine if he is worthy of freedom. While he was sleeping, the Supreme Court declared long term incarceration to be cruel and unusual punishment and ordered two million felons released. The result was utter chaos and the backlash from law-abiding citizens and police departments reshaped the United States. Felons now enter reeducation programs where they live freely among the population. At least that's what they think. In reality they are enslaved to an army of counselors and a black box that teaches them everything they failed to learn from kindergarten through adulthood. Michael believes he's being tested by the black box, but what he slowly begins to realize is that everything he does is evaluated to determine whether he lives or dies.

When his knee shatters on the playing field, Charlie Marston is plunged into turmoil. The fallen college superstar joins the family winemaking business, but working alongside his parents is not the future he had planned. He escapes work whenever he can and soon finds a new friend named Randy Black. Randy is part stunt-pilot, part Casanova, and part drunken Pied Piper. Randy introduces Charlie to Deirdre Deudon, the provocative wife of a French farmer. They come together in an ill-conceived stunt that explodes into consequences that chase Charlie and Randy back home to Massachusetts and change Deirdre's life forever. The after-effects of this tragic mistake bind the three of them together and threaten everything they hold dear.

Computer hacker, Jordan Voss is caught breaking into a sensitive government database and is arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced all in one day. Sounds like a third world dictatorship, but this is America after reeducation revolutionizes the criminal justice system. Jordan is moved to a special apartment where everything he does is monitored. Every person he meets, including the carpenter who comes to fix his broken door, is a counselor, working to teach Jordan to follow the law and, more importantly, to assess whether he is fit to live in polite society. Jordan received his Ph.D. at fifteen years old, so when his counselors try manipulating him with psychological ploys, they keep winding up one step behind. Jordan takes control and runs amok, exploiting every weakness in his reeducation team, pitting them against one another and causing complete chaos. When the inevitable crackdown comes from above, Jordan's life is on the line.

Lorado Martin has loved junk since his grandparents took him bottle digging in the backwoods of New England when he was a boy. The search for antiques and collectibles led him to a unique hobby: digging through the estates of the newly deceased, arranging the sale of goods for the heirs, and keeping the leftovers for himself. To make a living he builds and maintains housing for recovering addicts and along the way he's employed a number of his clients. The men wrestle with the siren call of drugs and teach Lorado about the difficult struggle to stay clean one day at a time. When these two worlds come together, Lorado learns that not every elderly person dies of natural causes and that some estates are sold to benefit a killer. His latest project hits close to home. A woman he's known since childhood haunts him from a fresh grave. Her grandson, an affable addict who has fallen off the wagon, stands to inherit a considerable sum whether he deserves it or not.