THIS KILLER CARVES HIS VICTIMS!
RN Gina Mazzio and her long-time love, Harry Lucke, are deep into marriage plans when a particularly nasty murder intervenes—the bookkeeper in their friend Lolly’s office has been raped and carved up. The worst part? The carving occurred before the murder. 

Lolly suspects her cardiologist boss, Dr. Mort Tallent, is involved. And since Gina helped her friend get “the job of a lifetime,” she jumps right into the fire. What she uncovers? Mort is one unsavory cardiologist. 

His ex-wife was murdered when she dumped him a year ago, and there's some shady shenanigans of a business nature—the kind you might kill to keep secret.

Worst of all, there’s that pal of his, the kind of person you never want to meet in a dark alley, or anywhere else. 
 
Digging after-hours at Tallent’s office, Gina and Lolly never realize they're under surveillance. Afterwards: Lolly is horribly and brutally attacked, in much the same way the bookkeeper was. There's only one possible conclusion: she knew too much.
Gina is the next target. 

Once again, in Bone Crack, the Lambs deliver a pulse-pounding tale of medical suspense packed with action, terror, and, of course, the requisite Mazzio mayhem. 
 

These authors’ patented “not-for-the squeamish” signature applies as usual—so if you're skittish, beware! As always with Gina, this is an action-packed but shocking, take-no-prisoners story. Definitely not for the faint-hearted, but fans of the more hard-boiled medical thrillers (and also of Patricia Cornwell) will eat it up! As will lovers of strong women sleuths, hospital mysteries, and all medical fiction, especially fans of Tess Gerritsen, Carolyn McCray, Eileen Dreyer, Lisa Genova, and Robin Cook.

Praise for the Lambs
"In Gina Mazzio and Harry Lucke, the Lambs have created a tenacious and engaging duo who are worth rooting for." Sheldon Siegel, New York Times best-selling author

"A chilling, gripping thriller by a talented writing couple." Marcia Muller, MWA Grand Master, on SIN & BONE

Holding a Hero
When things go wrong…hold on tight and don't let go. These sexy, larger-than-life heroes—firefighters, cops, bad boys, Rock stars and Navy Seals—will hold you through the night and keep you safe from all harm. Six full length novels and one bonus novella by best-selling and award-winning Romance authors. This set is available for only a limited time.


Burst Into Flame by Lyssa Layne
For Dr. Katy Garrity, life is a whirlwind, and the New York Fire Department is the heart of the storm. When sparks fly between her and her late husband's best friend, can they find a way to make it work?

Guilty Until Proven Innocent by Deb Julienne
When a photo journalist gets hit in the crossfire, a cop falsely accused of killing a fellow office must make the sacrifice…only love can set them free.

Unhurt by KS Thomas
Joss Kelley will do anything to save her son, even if it means making impromptu marriage proposals to random strangers. It's just her luck the man who accepts is Derek Tice - An Ex Navy SEAL in need of a new mission and Joss and her son just might be it.

Body, Ink, and Soul by Jude Ouvrard
Nix has finally found the perfect man and the life she wants...until she meets Levi, the charming, tattooed sexy bad boy. Will Nix stay true to her heart or will her body sent her life spiraling out of control?

119 Days by RaeAnne Hadley
Celeste was happily divorced for 5 years but the nights were becoming lonelier. She decided a one night stand could fill a lonely night but her target has something else in mind.

Call Me Cowboy by D’Ann Lindun
Rock star Johnny Cortez is being targeted by a killer, sending him and hunting guide Montana Weaver racing across the Colorado Rockies.

Forever Love by Melissa Keir
Can two former companions become friends again, or will the sparks turn a childhood friendship into a forever love?

Critically-acclaimed author Ed Kovacs presents his most heart-stopping, can’t–put-it-down spies & politics thriller to date. Queen of the espionage thriller, New York Times bestselling author Gayle Lynds said “Kovacs writes like a master.” Bestselling author Jonathan Maberry said “Kovacs comes out of the gate with a bang.” And Steve Berry called Kovacs a “vivid addition to the thriller genre.”

In Kovacs’ latest nail-biter, when a former NSA analyst is targeted for assassination by rogue elements of the Chinese and U.S. governments, she’s forced to team with a renegade CIA spy and fight back using technology to extract the ultimate form of justice. The tension and suspense locks in on the first page and doesn’t let up until the last.

While on a carefree vacation in Hong Kong, a former analyst and computer engineer with the National Security Agency has one concern: bargain hunting. Thirty-year-old Nicole Grant is a methodical planner and leads a carefully structured life working in the private sector for an IT security firm. She works behind a desk, plans out every hour of every day, and almost never succumbs to impulse.

But when a face from the past shows up—a past when she was involved in super-secret high-tech espionage for the American government—her bargain hunting excursion turns deadly and now it’s she who’s being hunted.

Nicole’s safe, meticulously constructed world is instantly turned upside down. An engineer with a technological mindset who's been a life-long desk jockey, she’s forced to go on the run and team with a sketchy CIA spook named Ron Hernandez, a troubled former special operations soldier who may or may not be a saving grace.

As she fights back using what she knows best—computers—to stay one step ahead of her pursuers, Nicole comes face-to-face with a searing family guilt she has carried for years. Beyond that, if she and Hernandez are to beat the odds stacked against them, not only must Nicole learn how to operate in the field, she has to learn how to throw the plan out the window and improvise in the face of overwhelming obstacles.

The sixth thriller novel from Ed Kovacs, LOCKED DOWN, is a new addition to the time-honored espionage, suspense, and tecnothriller traditions of Robert Ludlum, Michael Crichton, David Baldacci, Vince Flynn, and Brad Thor.

Smart-mouthed food writer Trudi Wells loves her new life in Europe. But after witnessing the death of her elderly landlady, Trudi knows that it couldn't have been an accident — despite what the police claim. Can Trudi figure out what really happened to the owner of Prague’s most famous spice shop?

"Murder and Pestle" is a clean cozy mystery, set in Europe. It is the follow-up to the clean cozy mystery "Knife Skills," set in California.

Waking up at the crack of dawn to an irritable gnome demanding payment for some valuable information was not how Caval Ignolius planned to start his morning. He had, after all, just gotten back from traveling through a picture to a world one million miles away.

His morning's about to get a lot worse.

Caval soon learns that someone's trying to kill him, he's gotten on the bad side of a sixteen-eyed personification of evil, and a crotchety old crone is messing with occult magic that could have deadly consequences. Oh, and there's a plot to overthrow his world.

Caval has a few problems to solve. Luckily he has help, in the form of enchanted chalk, magical pictures, and a crack team involving a hunchbacked Cyclops, an out-of-practice witch, and an illegal stowaway with an extraordinary gift.

A prequel for Fool's Gold, the hottest billionaire romance since Fifty Shades. 

When Ivy flees her home in search of safe haven for the night, she happens across an enigmatic stranger. Unable to resist the draw of his charisma, Ivy takes him up on his offer for dinner - without realizing dinner is set to take place in a penthouse suite in one of the most extravagant hotels in New York.

This short story explains the history behind one of the Fox Pit girls. Follow their stories by reading the rest of the Fox Pit prequels and the subsequent full length novels. 

Love JS Scott? Alexa Riley? Then you're going to love these hunky, controlling bad boys and their pets.

What if you came home after a journey and your family was no longer there? What if someone else was living in your house, running what you used to manage—and trying to kill you?

Wade Forester must stay in the shadows because, it seems, everyone has reason to shoot him. His father has disappeared, and his sister won’t speak a word to anyone. Beautiful Patricia Laughlin is searching for her family as well. Few people gain her trust or approval, though powerful landowner Bridger Calhoun just might be the man to do it.

After a clash throws them to opposite sides, Wade must decide if risking his life to help Patricia is worth the trouble. Bridger must win Patricia’s heart, and Patricia must learn which killer to trust with her life.

Set in Nevada’s historic silver rush, and reminiscent of Crichton, Grey, and L’Amour, the writing comes from intimate knowledge of the era and area. Having lived off the land, Wilcox depended on his wit, grit, and strength—and that of his animals—for survival, just as these characters do. Wilcox and Beckstrand weave authentic detail and care for the terrain and its creatures into a mystery that will make your heart pound and fill your lungs with the “rarefied air” of the old Sierra Nevada Mountains.

The Owl & Raccoon series combines the raw cop talk of police thrillers with locked room puzzles designed to delight mystery buffs. Now readers can get the first three novellas in the series, combined in one boxed set.

In Owl & Raccoon 1: The Single Staircase, a baby disappears from a third-floor nursery while her parents sit just a few feet away. In Owl & Raccoon 2: WDYG, Owl & Raccoon race to learn how a teenage girl could have gone missing from a mall restroom while her friends wait just outside the door. And in Owl & Raccoon 3: Not With A Bang, a hostage vanishes from a bus completely surrounded by a SWAT team. 

At the heart of these three novellas, you'll find Owl & Raccoon themselves. Two quiet, competent men whose frustration and cynicism only barely hides an icy resolve to bring missing children home.

The Owl and Raccoon mysteries are one of the most innovative things going in American crime fiction. They'll delight fans of Agatha Christie and Michael Connelly alike. And this boxed set is the perfect way to get the whole series of mysteries in one place.

>>> Meet the heroine for the digital age.

Haylie Black, a 17-year-old hacker with a chip on her shoulder, has never met a system she couldn't crack. When her brother vanishes trying to solve a legendary Internet puzzle, Haylie knows that she's the only one who can track him down. But as she begins to unwind the mysteries behind each clue, she finds herself getting pulled deeper and deeper into a secret world she never could have imagined.

This award-winning thriller fuses action, tech, and a worldwide race against the clock to keep you turning pages and trying to stay one step ahead.

From the critically acclaimed author of Etched On Me comes a poignant, moving story of resilience and second chances.

After nine short but blissful years of marriage, American expat Gloria Burgess's world shatters when her British artist husband dies of leukemia. Estranged from her mother, utterly alone in her adopted home of London, she must now struggle to raise her young son on her own -- and fight the temptation to sink into the self-absorption of grief that once drove her father to suicide.

As she puts on a retrospective of her late husband's work, Gloria finds solace in the form of an empathetic friendship with a charming widower, and agrees to let her mother cross the Atlantic to stay with her for their first visit in a decade. The reunion could drive the wedge between them deeper ... or offer Gloria a priceless opportunity for regaining equilibrium and wholeness. Will she seize the opportunity, or turn her back on a new beginning?

Alone on the Atlantic Ocean, three days out from Boston Harbor and the coastline of America, the MV CALEB may be bringing a very dangerous cargo to the United States. Brice Bannon, along with his friends Tarakesh “Blades” Sardana and Skyjack McMurphy, must confirm the existence of the threat and then neutralize it by any means necessary.

The war have been on going for centuries, and have ripped apart the ties that the clans of the dark elves once shared. When Aodh of the creek clan- war weary warrior, ex bronze crafter- is sent by his Chieftain to find the source of the Portal Clan’s endless warriors, he has no idea what he and his friends is getting into.

Moirin of the Valley- seer, witch- leaves the isolated Mountain valley she has called home for centuries when her goddess sends a vision warning her of a coming threat.

Together these unlikely allies will have to collaborate if they are to stop the Portal Clan and their tame sorcerer. Before the Portal Clan’s vicious trap snaps into place, crushing the clans that is opposing them.

Struck by tragedy at an early age, Meri Palmer escaped into the only world she understood. Within the virtual realm of online gaming, she lived a life filled with mythical creatures and thrilling adventures, where she was strong, powerful, clever, and beautiful—everything she believed she wasn't in real life. As the years went by, her desire to cling to her cherished fantasyland only grew stronger.

But when Meri meets Morgan, equal parts gorgeous and goofball, she begins to wonder if the time has finally come to rejoin the so-called real world. Channeling the bravery of her fairy warrior alter ego, Meri slowly lets Morgan beyond the protective walls she’s built around her heart. Just as she finds a comfortable groove in an uncertain world, Morgan succumbs to insecurities of his own, leaving her lost and confused. Through her battle to regain her equilibrium, Meri will discover that even in reality, things aren’t always what they seem.

Will Meri win the battle raging in her heart and summon the will to rescue her knight in shining armor? Or will she give in to the fear and find her game over?

New Orleans pastry chef Rita Lucero is out to bake her way to the top. But when she finds her almost-ex-husband killed with a chef's knife in his back, she becomes suspect number one. Now it's up to her to find the real killer before she winds up as the next victim served.

Ron Ketchum saw his share of the dark side of life as a cop in Los Angeles. Then he left L.A. to become the chief of police in the Sierra Nevada resort town of Goldstrike. One sunny morning in the mountains, though, he comes upon a crime unlike anything he’s ever seen before.

He finds the body of an African American man nailed to a tree.

The victim is a highly respected minister, and his father is the nationally known televangelist Jimmy Thunder. Ron, on the other hand, has described himself in court as a recovering bigot.

Goldstrike’s mayor for life and movie icon, Clay Steadman, wants Ron to catch the killer fast. Adding to the pressure, the victim’s grandmother comes to town. She tells the media mob that has descended on Goldstrike that God will curse the town until the killer is caught.

That’s when a rogue mountain lion begins attacking people. At first, the attacks happen on the wilderness outskirts of Goldstrike. Then the predator moves into town, leaping a fence into a family’s backyard. Finally, it turns the tables on one of the hunters sent out to bring it down.

Looking for a killer, hunting a lion and defending his own integrity — makes being a cop in L.A. seem like the good old days.

A playboy in hiding
A woman searching for answers
Will he let her in or send her packing?

After a tragic accident, Chef Chase Fitzgerald left his life in Los Angeles behind and moved to a ranch in Montana. He's convinced that all he needs to be happy are his horses, a few ranch hands and the Big Sky Country. Until one day, Nikki Savoy walks through his doors with her city clothes, sexy mouth, and a body designed to drive a man insane.

Nikki wants to know the truth about the accident that left her sister in a coma. Getting a job at Chase’s ranch is just the beginning. Throw in a crafty housekeeper, a cantankerous old cowboy, a few adorable horses, and an attraction that can’t be denied, and you have a recipe for disaster or romance. Will Nikki get her answers or will Chase offer her something better?

A Multi-Author Box Set of Select Bestsellers! Hundreds of pages of apocalyptic fiction for a bargain price. This is Volume 2. Look for other books in series for more great stories!

When the world falls apart, when civilization collapses, when life as we know it ends, our greatest terrors becomes real. Perhaps it's nuclear war with its poisonous radiation, hideous plagues or chemical contamination, rogue artificial intelligences controlling killer robots, or zombies that turn our friends and neighbors into inhuman monsters. What can the common man or woman do in the face of apocalyptic fears?

The Apocalyptic Fears Series gives you collections of bestselling, award-winning or just plain exciting stories by some of the best independent authors of today.

Knights and Demons: Tanshuku by Greg Dragon

Surviving the apocalypse means staying clear of monsters. Alysia never dreamed her first years as an adult would be spent fighting demons. However, as the chosen warrior of the Turevila, she must defeat them in order to save the world.

Massacre at Lonesome Ridge: A Zombie Western by Samantha Warren

Sheriff Connor McClane would like the world to leave him in peace at the bottom of the bottle he's crawled into. Unfortunately an army of the undead, led by Charity Banks, very unhappy transplant to the west, have other plans for him.

You Will Be Like God by Steve Stroble

In 2095, being a parent is complicated but eliminating grandchildren is profitable. Bud Lee believes he has proof that his boss is plotting to decide Earth's fate by recruiting surrogate children into a think tank named The Club.

Numbers Game by Rebecca Rode

Treena isn't sure she wants to be Rated anymore. This number will brand her forever. But Rating Day comes and her number is announced-and it shocks everyone.

Swarmers by R. V. Doon

A lethal virus with no known cure is awakened in a secret lab and goes airborne. Their world is forever altered, and the stunned survivors must keep fighting for their very existence.

Thrown Away, Parts 1-3 by Glynn James

Among the remnants of mankind it is thought that the strangers who live behind the barrier, inside their protected city, may still hold that secret. But no one taken by the hunters from the city ever comes back.

Zombie Maneuvers by Griffin Carmichael

Before the world fell apart, Janet's life was already indistinguishable from Hell. In Connor, she'd thought she found a strong protector, someone who would take care of her. What she got was a brutal man who used and abused her.

The Moon Dwellers by David Estes

Seventeen-year-old Adele, a member of the middle-class moon dwellers, is unjustly sentenced to life in prison for her parents' crimes of treason. Against all odds, Adele must escape and find her family while being hunted by a deranged killing machine named Rivet.

The Protectors by Ryan King

It's been twenty years since the Great Plague. In a few months, Teal will turn sixteen and be able to Take the Chit from a Protector as so many have before her. But as Teal seeks to stand for truth, she sets off a chain of events that could destroy them all.

Reaper's Run by David VanDyke

When US Marine Sergeant Jill Repeth's blown-off legs begin to regenerate, she thinks it's a medical miracle, but the breakthrough that heals her war injuries is exactly what the government desperately wants to quash - by any means Necessary.

This is a standalone short story about the beginning of a military Captain's career. The short is based on the character from the Wolfegang series, but can be read alone.

In the future, a twelve year old boy desperately wishes to become one of the best soldiers the Federation could want. When he is accepted to Duke Military Academy, Chase Wolfe doesn't realize it is not quite that simple. He will be tested in ways he never thought possible. Will Chase Wolfe be able to take that final step on to the path of his dreams?