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Daughter of a prominent senator, ambitious Washington, D.C., attorney Isabella Kane has big dreams that include marriage to equally ambitious Randall Jarrett. But a funny thing happened on the way to the altar.

Melanie Thorton’s promising career as a campaign staffer for presidential hopeful John Hillman is compromised by a renegade political group that possesses scandalous information about the candidate and a gossip columnist who would exploit Melanie’s affair with a married political journalist.

When a promising young legislator is accused of the murder of a young woman, disgraced ex-cop Nik Kane is hired by a mysterious patron to investigate the case.

When a presidential candidate wins the election through sympathy votes after a terrorist attack kills his wife, CIA operative Mitch Rapp investigates dangerous allegations about the attack’s hidden agenda.

Counseled by his chief advisor to engage in a small scandal to make himself look more human to voters, presidential hopeful Ben Phillips reluctantly permits a rumor to spread about his extramarital affair, with unexpectedly volatile results.

Christian Gillette is confronted by a difficult choice when a powerful and mysterious organization sets out to gain a partnership in Gillette’s company, Everest Capital; Jesse Wood, a charismatic liberal politician, asks him to be his running mate in his candidacy for president; and he discovers that there is no one left to trust.

Struggling to overcome her own personality foibles in her work as an advisor to the vice president, Samantha Joyce finds herself torn by his request to fleece pharmaceutical supplies during a trip to India.

Working hard in the U.S. Senate for the rights of the underprivileged, Tommy Moran is determined to restore compassion and civility to American politics, only to find himself the target of vicious personal attacks, rumors, and assassination attempts.

Twin Cities P.I. Mac McKenzie is called in by an old girlfriend, now the First Lady of Minnesota, when she receives an e-mail hinting at nasty rumors about her husband, the governor, but as Mac begins sifting through the governor’s past, he discovers that he has uncovered a hornet’s nest of trouble, lies, decades-old secrets, and violence.

With her husband up for re-election, First Lady Kate Dixon returns home to care for her father, accompanied by a Secret Service agent, who suspects that Kate has been targeted by an escaped mental patient and by dark forces within the federal government.

Taking a seemingly simple assignment to follow and report on the activities of a pretty college student, private detective Dana Cutler is forced to flee for her life when the student is murdered, while junior lawyer Brad Miller discovers strange coincidences between Dana’s case and another killing with ties to the president.

Corey Grace, a charismatic Republican senator from Ohio and a politician noted for voting his own conscience rather than the party line, becomes locked in a no-holds-barred presidential primary campaign with his rival, a member of the party establishment and leader of the Christian right, in a saga of ruthless power politics that takes on key issues of modern American culture.

In the wake of an election involving a solitary strong candidate who is violently assassinated by terrorists, the nation is thrown into further chaos by the controversial campaigns of two wildcard candidates against a backdrop of the war on terrorism and a looming conflict with a newly nuclear Iran.

In the wake of a horrific war in the Middle East, the president’s second term is ending and the battle to succeed him is heating up into one of the most fiercely contested presidential elections in American history — and Jon and Erin Bennett realize the stakes could not be higher.

Foiling a murder attempt on a recently deceased congressman’s daughter, investigator Will Travis finds himself in over his head when the woman tells him that her father was actually murdered by a presidential candidate.

Cousins Alicia and Nora experience profound life changes from different perspectives when Castro’s rise to power incites political turbulence and revolution in Cuba, forcing Alicia to flee the country with her parents while Nora remains behind.

Hiring a private investigator to learn if a political candidate’s husband is having an affair, attorney Brady Coyne finds he is bound by attorney-client privilege from disclosing information when the investigator is murdered.

Ed Burke has waited a lifetime to become president of the United States. He’s not about to let his nemesis, Mac Foster, stop him now…especially when he’s sold his soul for the Oval Office.

When Illinois senator Lyle Simmons returns from a political fundraiser to find his wife brutally murdered, Detective Charles Chang is assigned to the investigation, in a case that draws him into the scandalous and dangerous world of political lobbyists with whom the senator has a close relationship to find a killer.