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CAUGHT BETWEENPolice and firefighters have been reduced. Racial tension is peaking.Murders, robberies, and arson are on the rise. Moral decay and financial ruin are cresting.New York City is a cesspool in mid-1970.Crime is front-page news daily, so why does the killing of a mafia henchman by an Italian cop arouse so much concern?The Feds come to town; the Mafia puts out a contract, politicians lie, and the police blame the "system" for any incompetence.The question remains, was the shooting excellent police work or premeditated murder?Most stories have twists and turns; this story is all twists and turns. Every person and organization involved just wanted this case to disappear. The police didn''t want to investigate the shooting; the truth was inconsequential. The Mafia issued a contract on the shooter''s life, but they hated the heat. The Feds wanted complete control and promised they would make it all go away. The case became a gnarled knot that kept getting tighter yet looser at the same time. The chief investigator would find extensive evidence to both exonerate and condemn the officer who did the shooting. He also discovered a ruthless and corrupt "system." Like unpeeling an onion, in the end, questions remained. What is relevant, what is not, and does truth matter?"Caught Between" is based on an actual incident, though names and places are changed.
Resident life is no picnic.But Arlo''s disability means he needs the extra help the Tower offers.The Tower stands at the center of Eidolon''s Tower City-one hundred fifty-four stories and a half-mile across-offering shelter, healthcare, food, and jobs to her Residents.Alone at the city center, she serves as a beacon of hope to struggling Citizens of Tower City......or a dark warning.At seventeen, Arlo has lived in Central Services Tower for ten years. He''s never spoken a word and has no memory of his life before. A one-night pass into the city below zaps Arlo into a world of intrigue and secrets.His life is a lie......and those who hid the truth will stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried. Fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent series will love to follow Arlo and kindred outcast Imma as they search for Arlo''s hidden past so he can decide his own future in this fast-paced, Young Adult Dystopian Adventure.
Set in the near future, after a meteor hits the earth and sends the world into chaos, an alien presence adapts its circuitry needs into five individuals, who in their innate desire to find the missing ship have to elude governments who see them as hostile.
Danny Gates lives in Rural Pacific Northwest, where he runs a small farm, lives alone, and is six foot ten. Lauren is an attractive attorney who moves to a neighboring city, does estate planning, and runs across Danny in one of her deals and is taken in by him. Only one problem, she's a serial killer.
This is the story of a young girl who grows up under the oppressive thumb of an angry mother, uncertain economic times of island living, and a host of other less-than-helpful characters. We watch her grow from a precocious seven year old into a woman wanting more than marriage and kids.
Meet Penrose Nelson, a scientist, a brilliant scientist. Yet, he's always lived in the shadow of his brother. One day, one day he would show him up and do something fantastic. His descent into madness creates a horror of unimaginable proportions as he tries to splice the genes of bats into humans, only to create grotesque creatures. He takes his experiments to countryside town and destroys a community as well as his sanity in a quest to be the more famous brother. Jax Mason only wanted to make his mother proud and do something more than be the poor kid in the trailer park. With the help of a fatherly mayor, he goes to medical school and becomes a reknowned plastic surgeon, making everyone look like perfection in a newly created city of Gospel, and city only the rich could afford to live in. Everything is supplied: penthouses, TVs, cars, and food. You just have to pay for the surgeries. However, something is odd about Gospel. Jax and the citizens can't seem to remember their past.
After falling through a wormhole, discovering she has superpowers and is a demigoddess, our female protagonist falls in love with Orion's Annu, also a demigoddess and also with superpowers. This story takes off after their marriage, and continues with one problematic meeting after another. They still don't quite have the universe saved, because it turns out that their relatives aren't such a great lot either. They literally have to go to hell and back to save each other.
"Good sir an' fellow man-at-arms," the man squawked, "I come in friendship a-seekin' to bear our good King's word to the young princess." He held his hands high and made no effort to draw his hatchet. The little horse drowned his last word with another scream, and earned him a smack between the eyes from his flustered master."Princess?" Allie found her voice at last. "King? What King? A-and why are you calling me Princess? You-you must be-you are mistaken!""Are ye nary the Leprechaun Princess, Alastríona Síofra of Rois?" The man's face turned pink."No! My name is Allie."
After the Kinane Patriarch and Matriarch are killed by a rival nightclub owner, their youngest son, Mikey, plots revenge. He rebuilds the nightclub and sets out to exact his punishment. In a world of dirty cops, drug deals, and prostitution, Mikey has to toe the line of honesty and revenge. With Kitty, the love of his life, joining the Queensland Police Force, Mikey has to work covertly with his brothers to set the hands of justice right.
The story of the Thread and the making of warriors who fight for the betterment of the universe. Given special abilities to travel through the web, a band of military warriors face off with the galaxies worst aliens.
Dick Dillard owns a small publishing company in the Los Angeles area, and for the most part, minds his own business as a misanthropic editor who holds up in his office reading shitty manuscripts all day long. However, when a tenet is beheaded on his floor, he finds that he's a better detective than the local police, and sets out to prove it, only he discovers that he might have been the target.
Raffi and Mia are bound by more than just the events around their meeting. they are bound around a life that begins years before they ever met each other, however, it is what happens to them when they meet that brings this story to a romance and mystery and carries this story to its end.
What really happened to Lady Di. Did she die of an accident, or was it more nepharious than that. This book examines the "What If" if it was actually a Royal murder in the house of British Royalty.
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