Love cannot be bought or bartered, and a marriage may be built on the finest of threads.

Delilah, the smart and likable daughter of an ambitious merchant, fell in love with Charles Everett from afar. While she married for love, Charles only married her to salvage his aristocratic family’s disreputable accounts. Believing she had no...

Nikki St. James wants to get married more than anything. But what’s she to do when her fiancé spends his days sucking up to her rich father instead of helping with the simple task of, oh, setting a date? Why...fake a fling with the best man, of course!

Nikki is the first to admit that ambushing Alex Hart and whisking him off to secluded Lake Eden is a tad...

There's a new strong man in Russia but his rise to power is based on a dark secret hidden decades in the past. The clue to the mystery lies with a most unexpected source, President Jack Ryan.

When an Iranian nuclear scientist wants to defect, the Canadian Intelligence Service sends in its best agent, Justin Hall. After his mission is compromised and Justin barely escapes northern Iran with his life, he sets out to discover who has put him and the Service in grave danger.

CIA information about a traitor in the Service sends Justin into...

In the tradition of the great immigrant sagas, The Lion Seeker brings us Isaac Helger, son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, surviving the streets of Johannesburg in the shadow of World War II

Are you a stupid or a clever?

Such is the refrain in Isaac Helger’s mind as he makes his way from redheaded hooligan to searching adolescent to striving young man on...

“Reading Lee Smith ranks among the great pleasures of American fiction . . . Gives evidence again of the  grace and insight that distinguish her work.” —Robert Stone, author of Death of the Black-Haired Girl

It’s 1936 when orphaned thirteen-year-old Evalina Toussaint is admitted to Highland Hospital, a mental institution in Asheville, North Carolina, known...

The actors in James Franco’s brilliant debut novel include a McDonald’s drive-thru operator who spends his shift trying on accents; an ex-child star recalling a massive beachside bacchanal; hospital volunteers and Midwestern transplants; a vampire flick starlet who discovers a cryptic book written by a famous actor gone AWOL; and the ghost of River...

Acclaimed Architect “Builds” New Novel

FOLLOW THE BRICKYARD PATHS OF TWO BROTHERS WHO FACE MURDER, BETRAYAL, CRIME MOBS AND MURDER

Big House Dreams is a southern family saga that spans four generations beginning with pious, judgmental Emma Jenkins who dictates the way life should be lived by spouting old adages and Bible verses. Her daughter, Sara Mae, abandons tiny town, Cam’s Corner, and raises her daughter, Sheila, as a single mom. Pulled into the lives of Sheila’s four fast...

Nine Bucks and Change seamlessly picks up the story of Sara Mae and Sheila as they are thrown into a tangled web of events that tosses them into unexpected and uncharted territories. A plethora of folks – friends, family, and strangers, alike – enter into and exit their lives just when they least expect it, and the ramifications of those interactions leave...

In Heroic Measures, award-winning author and historian Jo-Ann Power pays homage to the brave women who served our country during World War I as members of the US Army Nurse Corps. Fascinated by what she calls their “grace under pressure,” Power began researching this group of women in 1985. Power brings their bravery, thoughts, and emotions to life with...

Crimson Lake: The Surge is an action/adventure/suspense literary work that chronicles the mission of two men, Angel Heavon, a Cuban diplomat and Emmanuel Cabrera, a Cuban military officer. The men are tasked with the mission of creating a narcotics empire to generate finances to assist in stabilizing Cuba’s infrastructure. The story takes place in 1980's...

A passionate love story about a young couple struggling to overcome the difficulties in their courtship, keep the faith, and wait for approval of their marriage. Leann Clark and Ralph Wade are in love and desire to be married, but obstacles stand in their way. Leann's father, John Clark, insists she is too young, and Ralph cannot yet make a living farming...

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Six strangers wake up on a remote island in the Florida Keys with no memory of their arrival. They soon discover their common bond: all of them are heroin addicts. As the first excruciating pangs of withdrawal make themselves felt, the six notice a yacht anchored across open water. On it lurk four shadowy...

Will Ferguson takes readers deep into the labyrinth of lies that is "419," the world’s most insidious Internet scam. 

A car tumbles through darkness down a snowy ravine.

A woman without a name walks out of a dust storm in sub-Saharan Africa.

And in the seething heat of Lagos City, a criminal cartel scours the Internet, looking...

Scotland Yard’s new chief inspector Nicholas Drummond is on the first...