Romance

Becoming Quetzalcoatlby G.B. Brulte

A drunken kite-boarder, Cody Catanzaro, falls harder for Dr. Amanda Knoxville than he fell from the sky while trying to jump the Mobile, Alabama pier. A mysterious implant is found in his gluteus maximus during an MRI, and the implant turns out to be an exact replica of a crop-circle that had appeared in England in the year 2007. That crop-circle pointed to a two-week period in 2012. A two-week period that many paranormal experts believed would have something to do with the return of Quetzalcoatl, the ancient Mayan god.

Cody had inexplicably gone missing during those two weeks, and has no recollection of his lost time.

Did Quetzalcoatl actually return? Bizarre happenings suggest that maybe he did.
As more and more weirdness begins to follow the clueless kite-boarder, Cody decides he wants to change for Amanda Knoxville. He has no idea of how much change is in his future, and how much the future of the world will depend upon his change.

Room 15by Charles Harris

If you enter THERE IS NO TURNING BACK

Ross Blackleigh is on trial for four crimes which he insists he didn’t commit. A detective inspector and a thoughtful self-reflective man, he goes against his counsel’s advice and takes the stand in court. 
 
This is his story. 
 
Ross found himself wandering the streets one night, bleeding from the head and unable to remember the past year and a half. But before he could make sense of it, he was summoned to a crime scene where a nurse had been brutally murdered.
 
His amnesia unnerved him and, fearing the worst, Ross allowed himself to be taken to hospital, only to be viciously attacked by a stranger with a knife. 
 
Suspecting that the attack was connected with the nurse’s murder and that his own police colleagues were behind it, Ross set out on two parallel investigations: one into the killing and the other into his own mind. 
 
But when he digs into his own psyche, he is scared by what he finds…
 
Is Ross being set up or is something far more disturbing behind the killings? 

The Outsider Series: The Complete Collectionby Lorhainne Eckhart

In this complete collection of 10 western romances, follow the strong, sexy Friessen
men as they find love and stand by their family through thick and thin, from a NY Times & USA Today bestselling author.

The Apocalypse Strainby Jason Parent

A multi-national research team, led by a medical genomics expert suffering from MS, study an ancient pandoravirus at a remote Siberian research facility. Called "Molli" by the research team, the organic substance reveals some unique but troublesome characteristics, qualities that, in the wrong hands, could lead to human extinction.

The researchers soon learn that even in the right hands, Molli is a force too dangerous to escape their compound. But the virus has a mind of its own, and it wants out.

The Kafir: The Unbelieverby Abigail Rook

September release

What if the world’s most deadly weapon falls into the wrong hands?
Can we rely on those who are supposed to protect us?

For fans of political conspiracy thrillers à la Tom Clancy, John Grisham or Dan Brown.

A deadly epidemic erupts, but it seems to be under control quickly.
Carolin Falkenberg, a microbiologist at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, sees a chance to finally advance her career–or at least her habilitation thesis on the Ebola virus.
She is flying to Zimbabwe on behalf of the WHO to inspect the situation there. What she finds on the scene leaves her increasingly doubtful that everyone is playing with open cards. A mysterious Facebook post in a virologist group also poses a riddle. Is someone trying to contact her in encrypted form?
A game of lies, intrigue, and betrayal unfolds and brings the world to the brink of disaster.

The Third Callby Lorhainne Eckhart

When dispatcher Charlotte Roy passes along a call to bad-boy deputy Marcus O’Connell, they learn a six-year-old child is in danger. Can they save the girl from a desperate situation?

NY Times & USA Today bestselling author Lorhainne Eckhart brings you an emotional O’Connell family novel that is both “Gut-wrenching & Riveting.” When Deputy Marcus O’Connell is blindsided one night after a series of calls comes in from an unknown number, and the caller on the other end is a child. All he knows is she’s six years old, her name is Eva, and there’s someone in the house who wants to hurt her. “A new family series more suspenseful than the Friessens.” Karen L. Vine Voice

“This book masterfully interweaves several hot button topics and evokes feelings of anger, sympathy and even shock. A scared little girl and her calls for help are the catalyst to a situation that quickly spirals out of control and ends in tragedy.” Rebmay

“I truly love this author. She writes from the heart about the everyday things that actually happen in real life.” Caroline L.

Marcus is the ultimate bad boy turned deputy. He knows everything about how to get away with something, considering he was one of the middle of the six O’Connell siblings. He never had responsibility resting on his shoulders like his brother Owen, and he’s never been the center of attention like his little sister, Suzanne. Marcus knows how to find trouble and talk his way out of it.

Now, as the head deputy for the Livingston sheriff’s office, he knows everything about everybody, and no one can pull anything over on him. It’s why he’s such a damn good deputy. But even Marcus dreads what cops know as the third call.

When Marcus takes the call the first time, he thinks it’s a prank. The second time, he knows there’s a problem. The third time the call comes in and is patched through to him, he knows it’s something he can’t ignore. The only thing is, the girl is terrified and keeps hanging up, and Marcus knows someone is in the house with her.

Where are her parents, and who is this mysterious girl who needs his help?

Parlez-Vous Murder?by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

While American Jules Hooker is on vacation, a bomb explodes over the Riviera, destroying technology and leaving Jules stranded in Provence where she must make a living by solving murders the old-fashioned way—without help from DNA, databases, CSI crime labs or the police.

The Cat’s Sure In The Ryeby B.K. Baxter

Bodies are piling up, and I’m in charge of figuring out why.

I can’t help it! There are innocent people being accused.

And don’t get me started on the heat and humidity in Beulah.

The thick cloud of death is only surpassed by the constant hot flashes induced by the weather.

I could keep going. I should actually.

After almost being killed by a history-obsessed realtor that wanted my inherited house for herself, I’m ready to get out of Dodge.

Unfortunately, this new situation is a bit more personal in nature.

A guy that disappeared a decade ago was discovered dead in this new case. Where has he been for the last ten years?

And one of my friends just happens to have the murder weapon. You can’t make these things up. Not even in the pages of a good mystery novel.

Speaking of books, my new book club is at the center of my thoughts as the judgmental kitty and I traverse this new mystery.

The members of the club are fan-girling over the town’s new resident, but the man is up to no good! I can feel it.

With all this craziness, it isn’t easy being a sleuth right now, but Chonks will help me navigate the twists and turns of this gritty mystery, as long as we’re home in time for his dinner.

That is a must.

Commando KidZ: The Islandby Brenda Elkin

In 1969, the Central Intelligence Agency opened the program named Tiny Threat. Since its conception, the program was plagued with problems. They found that trying to train, candidates under a certain age level was close to impossible.

After turning control of the program over to the Department of Defense in 1999, candidates excelled. They infiltrated more enemy strongholds than ever before. Even though the casualty rate dropped dramatically, eight out of 10 were still dying in the field from battle related injuries.

It wasn’t until 2012, the program went through its last and final restructuring. Assuring guardians and parents the risk was minimal at best, their juvenile wouldn’t be killed. Since then, the loss to debt ratio continued to decline. Praising the success in 2014, the program was renamed to the current ‘Commando KidZ.’

In 2015, the program was given a cash infusion of $2.2 billion, from the Pentagon’s Black Fund. The Black Fund budget was designed and backed by the Department of Defense for projects that are considered top-secret or clandestine in nature.

So far to date, 2000 missions have been carried out successfully. Over 200 arrests have been made in the program.