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Investing in the stock market is risky business. Over the years, there have been numerous theorists and practitioners who have developed ways to try and beat the odds. They are convinced they have....

In Shelby County, Indiana, a group of mega-farmers are about to make the deal of their lives. During a dry season that threatens to ruin their harvest, they begin to dig for irrigation water but hit a pocket of natural gas instead. A hasty deal is put on the table and the members of the Shelby County Co-op board are set to go from a Midwestern farming powerhouse to a multi-million dollar fracking operation that will ruin the land along the Flatrock River forever. Except one of the farmers doesn't like the idea. He doesn't like it at all....

Virgil Jones is in for the fight of his life. In recovery after being kidnapped and nearly tortured to death on his previous case, he is addicted to prescription pain killers, his life is spinning out of control and the governor has just fired him from his position as lead detective of the Indiana State Police Major Crimes Unit.

Every family has one: the black sheep, the problem child, the prodigal. Dominic Sean Love could teach all of those guys a lesson or two and really should come with his own warning label. Stuck in the middle of a boisterous group of siblings, he's given "acting out" a new meaning from the day he drew his first breath. When he shows up at his on-again, off-again girlfriend's farm, she's inclined to shoot first and ask questions later. She doesn't. And their lives entwine once more, for good, bad, and ugly.

Having witnessed one too many senseless deaths, Nikolai, a disillusioned Reaper 3rd Class, resigns his commission with the Angel Forces after a tedious century of gathering souls. Immediately, another division recruits him with the promise of a more rewarding career, and issues his initial assignments: To bring down a few very dangerous threats to the human race.

Someone has abducted television star Kelly Rogers, and the police and the FBI both believe that it was him. Jake Stelton can't really blame them, after all, he's done it before. 10 months earlier, their meteoric love affair ended with Jake taking Kelly hostage and threatening to kill anyone who dared try to separate them. When the chaos of that day ended, there were five innocent people dead, and Jake Stelton was in jail awaiting trial for murder.

Detectives O'Roarke and Garcia have a cold case dumped on their desk. Despite their objections that they don't do cold cases, their commander tells them that they do now, since the new mayor has asked for them. Three years earlier, a relative of the mayor's was murdered and the case was never solved. The cold case plunges the murder cops into the world of television and cooking.

Antony Love is the quintessential responsible oldest brother of a boisterous, Italian/Irish family, placed in charge at a young age by his parents who are busy running the family business. He manages his siblings with a fair but iron hand, until his life is shattered by personal tragedy leaving him the shell of the man he once was. When outspoken matriarch Lindsay Halloran Love becomes ill, the youngest brother Aiden shows up at Antony's garage, having dropped out of school (again), needing work and a place to crash.

Left to rot in the king's jail, and nearly forgotten, Captain Rob and his crew seize an offer to deliver Yuletide cargo to the Town of Dryden by Christmas Eve, in exchange for their release. But to reach their destination in time, earn the king's pardon, and ensure their freedom, they will have to chart a course straight through pirate-infested waters - a fool's errand while sailing under the king's colors.

Murder cops, O'Roarke and Garcia have a serial killer on their hands in Book 4 of The World of Murder series. The bodies of children, dressed for communion, are turning up in all five boroughs of New York City and there are no suspects. To complicate their investigation, a private detective has been hired by one of the families to find one of the missing girls. In spite of all of their efforts, O'Roarke and Garcia watch as their case goes cold. Who is this monster and when will he strike again?

The Ivy City is dying. It flails under a sea of the risen dead, the holy churches broken, the nobles largely destroyed, the population leaderless and alone, the city itself is bleeding and growing cold. Tattered crimson ribbons of blood fill the gutters. A despicable wizard, scion of the noble line, has shoved the Ivy City to the brink of death as he seeks what he sees as his rightful throne. Doomed by his forbidden love, discarded by the crown, forgotten by the people, a disgraced hero rises from the ashes to combat the rising darkness.

In Book 3 of The World of Murder series, Detectives O'Roarke and Garcia are called when a famous Broadway director dies. It appears that everyone hated this man, making the murder cops' job just that much harder. They have their pick of suspects as everyone within a five mile radius of Broadway had a reason to want this guy dead. From the jealous stage manager, to the resentful actors, to a disappointed and hurt lover.

In Book 2 of the World of Murder series, Detectives O'Roarke and Garcia are chasing a serial killer and time is running out. Strippers have been found with their throats cut and the killer's rage is escalating. To make things worse they have over 100 potential suspects. Is the killer an ex-boyfriend? An Internet stalker? A tattoo artist? Or the neighborhood priest? A cook, a cabbie, or one of the many customers who frequent the strip joints?

Monty is a struggling, unknown artist, living in a loft in Soho. From his third floor walk up, he watches his beautiful neighbor as she comes and goes. Too shy and reclusive to ask her out, he paints her again and again. Suddenly the police are at his door. His goddess, his dream woman, is dead, and the police like him for the crime.As time passes, several other suspects come to the attention of the detective, Roarke, and the case is now not so open and shut. As the detective immerses himself in her life, it turns out that she has more than one secret.

Clay just wants to get home. Six years ago, he moved to New York City after his wife and daughters were killed in a horrible automobile accident, and now, the day after Hurricane Sandy devastates the city and the tri-state area, Clay sets out on foot to escape both the city, and the prison of his old life there. What Clay discovers on his epic walk to freedom, will change everything... for everyone... forever. The Cold War is about to get Hot, and sometimes just saying 'NO' is a revolutionary act...

Five years after his sister, Katie, was murdered, Father Michael Jerome has moved on with his life, but he has never forgotten that terrible time. And he has never stopped wondering who killed her. And why. When a dying criminal's confession points Michael toward answers to these questions, he embarks on a journey of discovery.

From Remington Kane, the author of the Taken! series, comes Manhunt: A Tanner Novel, Book 46. Tanner works with Team Predator.

Tanner hunts down the fabled assassin, Specter, after the legendary killer claims another victim. Is Specter real? Or is he more myth than man? One thing is certain. Specter is deadly.

Erasmus Cromwell-Smilh tackles a full circle of life with subjects like Perseverance, Grit, Kindness, Discipline, Impetus, Tenacity, Greatness, etc., in this fifth and final volume of The Orloj, a compilation of all poems, essays, and fables.

After an assassin makes a failed attempt on their boss’s life, five bodyguards head off on a quest to capture or kill the man. When the hit man is revealed to be the legendary Tanner, the men grow more determined. Killing a man like Tanner would make someone a legend themselves. With their target injured and ill-prepared for the desolate and wintry landscape he finds himself in, the guards are certain Tanner will fall to one of them.