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When his estranged father Angus is put on trial for murdering his business partner, marine biologist Zach Wallace returns to the Scotland he left as a boy to help prove that “something” in Loch Ness was the real cause of the man’s death.

In a work of alternate history in which the peoples of Africa colonize the Americans, the fates of two families — one Islamic African aristocrats, the other Druidic Irish slaves — collide as two young men, one of each dynasty, confront their world and each other.

Major General Patrick McLanahan creates an untried futuristic air combat unit that must be used against the Taliban and their plans to seize control of an oil-rich Asian state as the unstable peace in Afghanistan threatens to dissolve in chaos.

Years after being released from jail, Matt Hunter’s hopes of moving on with his pregnant wife are shattered when he becomes the focus of a serial murder investigation.

When his teenage son, Keith, is accused in the disappearance of an eight-year-old girl, Eric Moore struggles to shelter Keith from the police investigation while seeking legal counsel and wondering about his son’s possible guilt.

When his father is murdered, the investigation into the crime uncovers dark family secrets that threaten to unravel the life of a North Carolina lawyer.

Imprisoned and drugged in a restricted island psychiatric facility for government intelligence employees, former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler manages a daring escape and sets out to discover why he was placed there.

Working for U.S. secret intelligence forces in Europe during WWII, Stephen Metcalfe undertakes a bold plan for which he must locate and betray a former lover in order to protect free-world interests.

The disappearance of nine-year-old Katie Mackey, the daughter of the most affluent family in a small Indiana town, has profound repercussions for the entire family.

In this science fiction adventure, Kip Dawson has won the lottery for a flight into space. After a micrometeorite damages the capsule and kills the pilot, Kip types his epitaph on the ship’s computer, unaware that his writings are being read on the internet by a horrified public.

In 1849, following the death of Edgar Allan Poe, Quentin Clark discovers that Poe’s final days had been marked by a series of bizarre, unanswered questions and launches his own investigation to resolve the mystery of Poe’s death.

The mysterious disappearance of treasure hunter and adventurer Maxwell Broadbent — along with his riches — sends his three sons on a search for their father, who has hidden himself and his treasures, in order to claim their inheritance.

When a trio of bloodthirsty misfits led by a media-savvy killer with a penchant for fame and revenge starts a merciless killing spree at a local church, bounty hunter Jack Keller and his girlfriend, Deputy Marie Jones, team up to stop them before they strike again.

Stewart Dubinsky plunges into the mystery of his family’s secret history when he discovers his deceased father’s wartime letters to his former fiancée, revealing his court-martial and imprisonment during World War II.

Although haunted by his wartime experiences, William Bromley relishes his quiet life as a boarding school history teacher, but when a soldier from his regiment reappears, he is forced to confront his fears and memories by returning to northern Italy.