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Ezra Riley, a hardened Montana rancher, is taken secretly to the White House because of his gift for interpreting dreams. His visit there unleashes attacks by an elderly master spy and his human creation, Blue Man.
Detective Mateo Rodriquez of the San Diego Police Department is a crack-shot investigator, usually calm and lawfully shepherding the cozy beach village of La Jolla, California, but he has a problem. Late on a weekend night, Ned Cole reports his domestic partner, sultry film actress Catalina Braxton, missing from a luxurious party he is hosting at his beach home. The next morning lifeguards find her dead at the surf with her hands bound behind her back. Ruling out accidental downing her death appears like a homicide, but the toxicology report, coroner's examination, and police rule it as a suicide by default of corroborative evidence.Local friends finger Jessie Vargas, ex-husband and the California Delegate in the Order of Delacroix, a quasi-military and philanthropic secret cult. But there are other contenders-the domestic partner, and a secret lover. Mateo's ace is Camila Ortega Vazquez-an old crone psychic who helps him with difficult cases, but this time even her visions are enigmatic and tedious.As Mateo investigates acquaintances and suspects, bartender friend Ransom Craven arranges a blind date for him with Alina Kanerva-a rebellious Finnish nurse pregnant from an earlier boyfriend. Peril arises when the Order wounds Ransom and injures Alina to thwart the investigation. After Alina's birth of the baby, Rodriquez pushes plans for marriage but an elegant sea ceremony on a superyacht is shadowed by a terrorist attack. As the case cracks to an unpredictable conclusion, control yields to karma.
"Freedom is a fool's paradox... even the devil gets his due, eventually". Such was the mantra of Amyra Rose Moore. Before it all went to sh*t, Amyra's life was blissfully centered. As the comely daughter of a West Coast socialite and pillar of her law school's LGBTQ-collegiate society, nothing could stop this rising L-gunner; that was... until that fatal-night. After being convicted for her involvement in her biracial girlfriend's accidental death, causing insatiable media frenzies, and death-threats to ensue. To ensure her daughter's protection, her mother (the town's mayor) struck a secret deal forcing Amyra into hard servitude at a distant boarding school located in the middle of nowhere New England-town of 'Rennington' for the duration of her sentence. Upon arrival, she notices strange occurrences happening throughout the town via its reconstruction efforts; as an outside entity, MalCORP seemed to be funding the endeavor single-handedly without question.When all seemed lost, she encounters a newly on-boarded professor who immediately took the school by storm. As she learns to adjust to her situation, an old trouble resurfaces, causing her to cower until a near-death experience prostrates her to remain at the school, as if fated. Later, Amyra is taken on a journey where she and the recently acquired teacher venture together, forming a solid friendship that churns into something unexpected. While their friendly liaison aggrandizes, the unusual occurrences happening in the woods behind the academy suddenly bring to light the deadly truth of the town's cryptic past, as well as the pernicious reasoning behind why Amyra was truly brought there.
In book 2 of the Code Name Series, Mountains of Fire, its D-Day. Men fight. Some live. Some die. This is the story of one who made a difference. In Pas de Calais, Henri, having saved Sonny, is now cornered by Waffen SS soldiers as they close in to end his life. Enter Lieutenant Robbie Robertson, and his team of paratroopers, sent in to fool the Germans as part of Operation Bodyguard. Will their paths cross, and will the paratroopers arrive in time to save Henri? Back in 2002, in New Hampshire, Jack and Emily face the demons of their past, and they are forced to confront them. Pitted against a cruel and vicious enemy, they learn the craft of Jack's father to survive, and to avenge his death. K.E. Pottie, the award winning author of Code Name Sonny, continues the thrilling story of Henri, Madeline, Charlene and the French partisans as Jack and Emily uncover a plot to attack New York City with a dirty bomb.
Moving to Ireland from America during the sixties seemed a good move for Sarah and her husband Otis.The house in the village of Cappawhite which was bequeathed to her after her uncle died seemed the perfect place to escape the racism which her mixed marriage had brought to her doorstep.Brought up as a child in Cappawhite Sarah had great memories of the place, and she was happy to return.But peace and happiness would come in short supply for the couple when Sarah fails to heed the warnings of the locals to stay well away from the forest.
This wise and poignant memoir offers a pragmatic glimpse into the joy, pain and humility experienced while caring for a dying loved one with Alzheimers disease. It is the story of their love as they faced their greatest challenge together.
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