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If masculinity is toxic, then Jack Ruger is the cultural equivalent of a raging bull on steroids. Born and raised in the cold and frozen northern paradise of Michigan’s upper peninsula, Chief of Police Jack Ruger is sworn to protect and defend the citizens of Jackpine. So when escaped killer Bobby Lee Harper descends on the town, threatening to kill him and all he holds dear, it’s a formal declaration of war, and only one man will survive.

Nights have become women’s greatest fear in Spokane County, Washington and for good reason. There’s something lurking in the bushes and woods surrounding homes. An unsuspecting man that is thirsty for blood. The mystery behind the deaths and disappearances has put the special investigators team on edge. Who is this man? And where do the bodies go?

Meet Nataly, a loving father, ex-husband, and hitman. He’s charming and likable, but the decisions of his past keep haunting him and tear the people closest to him away. A decision he makes to not kill a mark costs him everything and sends his life spinning out of control. Nataly is forced to fight for his family at all costs and ultimately pays the price to protect those he loves.

Torn between love and freedom to work alone and administer his brand of justice, Walter reluctantly agrees to cohabit with Anna. What could go wrong? They are Palatini Knights fighting the same fight, in love, and lonely. A beautiful beginning soon revealed underlying problems. Walter's sense of being leashed combined with Anna's deep loyalty to the Palatini interfered with their relationship, which became nonexistent as she prepared for an extended commitment on the Isle of Man.

Jared Thompson, aka the Blind Man, has taken over much of America, but General Rodney T. Branch, commanding general of the Shadow Militia, continues to thwart him at every turn. Despite having overwhelming air and ground superiority, the Blind Man and his forces cannot quite deliver the knockout punch to America. But now, the Shadow Militia has a plan that could save or doom the nation.

Father Divine’s Bikes exposes the dark underbelly of 1945 Newark, New Jersey, a city that boomed during World War II but finds itself unable to cope with the peace that brings joblessness, despair, and crime. As deeply entrenched white enclaves are squeezed by the mass migration of blacks, escape routes for poor ethnic whites rapidly close. Two Catholic altar boys living in a world ripe for grifters, like Father Divine, soon learn that his promise of heaven on earth has hellish consequences.

After assisting in taking down a Mafia operated porn and sex ring using underage girls in Toronto, Palatini Knight, Walter Eloy Goe, needs to kick back and wind down. How better than with a little more than friend, Joyce Farmer, in sleepy little Shell Knob, Missouri, where headlines of the weekly paper are comprised of simple news like birthdays, vegetable gardens, and too much or too little rain. Shortly after checking into Miss Farmer's Lakeside Resort a disturbing 911 call comes into the local sheriff, "I've's got me a body layin' out here, and she's a-lookin' deader n' hell."

Walter Eloy Goe, crime fighter and vigilante for justice, takes on a Palatini project aimed at eliminating the Mafias sex trafficking of underage girls along the New York and Canadian border. The operation morphs into an all-out war when the Palatini's lead asset for the project, Anna Sasins, goes missing and is presumed murdered by the Abbandanza crime family. Walter splits with the Palatini Knighthood when he's ordered by Society Palatini Grand Master Maximillian Karnage to abandon Anna and to tie off the operation.

Kevin Ross, a brilliant surgeon, and his family are kidnapped and taken, along with other families, to an island. Their home is luxurious and the remote location is idyllic. Kevin is given a laboratory in which he can concentrate on his research on a serum that will allow human beings to utilize more of their brain and allow them to improve their lives. The inhabitants are, however, subjected to continuous surveillance by guards or cameras that record everything, including intimate moments in their own homes. Communication with others is not allowed.

Walter, an ordinary factory worker obsessing over the mistreatment of victims by the courts, becomes a vigilante for justice. Appalled by adjudicators coddling criminals under the guise of civil rights, Walter factors himself in as a lethal consequence for depraved individuals walking out of court with a slap on the wrist as punishment for heinous crimes. He has no particular skill sets qualifying him to fight crime. He relies on cunning, isolation, and his hunting and tracking skills to take down targets and bring about his form of justice.

Imagine you are stranded on a strange planet which is eternally light on one side and dark on the other. Professor Edmunds, a disgruntled, underappreciated genius existing in the dingy basements of UC Berkeley's Astronomy Department, experiences this very fate. Professor Edmunds, on that historic night, not only discovered the Dark Planet - he discovered something much, much more. His discovery confirms his long-held, and largely-ridiculed, scientific speculation: that every soul on earth shares, somewhere in the universe, an exact replica - a biological duplicate - an Other.

They said it was impossible. Reanimation of dead tissue could never be done. They were wrong and now the dead are arising. Attempts to reanimate dead cells had been happening for decades. But all experiments had been a complete failure. Or were they? In a race against time, bounty hunter Harrison Quaid must band together with a beautiful genetic scientist and her mysterious grandfather who has walked right out of the history books to stop an evil mastermind from using this technology for mass destruction.

Nick Burke's family is trapped on Ground 134. A new quarantine erected in the middle of the night seals off his neighborhood from the rest of the city. But Nick isn't sick, and his family isn't, either. In fact, no one seems to be sick. More disturbing still, rumors circulate that quarantines on distant Grounds are becoming permanent, the affected people never heard from again. If he stays, he risks his family becoming sick or worse. The only way out is to break laws that carry a penalty of death.

American agent Richard Monroe, still working on assignments too sensitive for the official agencies, is shocked to find the President of the United States sitting in his apartment. The First Daughter has run off to seek freedom from the constraints of being the child of the world's most powerful man. At the president's request, Monroe is dispatched to find the young woman, a mission that soon turns into something far deadlier than it seems on the surface.

The Greer Agency tells the story of Mike Greer, private eye, in 15 connected stories. Greer, the only PI in the Altoona phone book, scratches out a living in the decaying railroad town. With the help of an anonymous benefactor, Greer gets interesting cases that he solves with pluck and determination. All the while, his romance with Susan grows increasingly more intimate.

An army of 30,000 jihadists make their way north, through Michigan, killing anyone who will not convert to Islam. Will the Shadow Militia and the people of Iroquois be able to defeat this newest threat?

The president of the Orange Grove Homeowners Association is murdered, and there are plenty of suspects - in fact everyone, who lives in Orange Grove. Brent Marks thinks he is dealing with a routine foreclosure defense until his client is implicated in the crime and calls upon Brent to defend her. To make matters worse, another client's destiny is about to cross their path. At the crossroads of morality and ethics, the courtroom drama explodes, while the action outside the courtroom spirals out of control.

Los Angeles is terrorized by a series of murders. One man can stop the killer: Detective Daniel Kane. But for Kane - devastated by personal tragedy and haunted by a secret that could destroy his family - to do so may cost him everything, even his life....

Psychologist Gary Schaade started receiving tapes and letters from potential killers soon after releasing his best-selling book, Psyche of a Serial Killer. When Gary received a tape at his office, he was sure it is another entertaining attempt to scare him and his wife. This tape was different: a confession to prove his theory.

A sailing adventure! This richly textured mystery begins in the dark jungles of the Congo basin, develops a sinister edge in the Seychelle Islands in the Indian Ocean, drips with Southern charm in old Charleston, is buffeted by seduction and betrayal during a hurricane on the Atlantic, and explodes in a violent climax in the Azores. It will leave the listener stunned at the perfidy of man - and wanting more.