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Love and marriage for Barton and Elise Barre began in the oilfields of Texas. With Barts innovative drill designs, financial backing from friends, and a hearty appetite for making money, the Barre Oil Drilling and Engineering (BODE) office has now moved to Austin Texas. With his beautiful and talented...

When famed L.A. Detective, Charlotte Rinning, is called to her next case, it’s anything but normal. With her and her ex’s prints at the scene, an explosion, and the same old bad guys still after her, she does something drastic… and resigns. Now in her new early retirement, she attempts to live...

A grieving artist, a smitten detective, a devious killer: You never know who you'll meet at the dog park. Would you recognize a killer if you talked to one every day? Artist Lia Anderson doesn't. Neither do her friends at the Mount Airy Dog Park. When the apparent suicide of Lia’s deadbeat...

Meet Chris Heifner, overachieving drug runner for a Mexican marijuana cartel. But he wasn’t always. This one-time econ student from Texas—broke, deep in debt, and facing eviction with a growing family to support—yielded to the temptation that he had resisted countless times before and went to...

On the morning of the 19th of April, 1792, after weeks of stormy agitation in Paris, the Ministers of Louis XVI. brought down a letter from the King to the Legislative Assembly of France. The letter was brief but significant. It announced that the King intended to appear in the Hall of Assembly at...

Lauren Beckwith, environmental scientist and pediatric oncologist, works tirelessly to identify industrial pollution and the corporations responsible. When the pollution is in the pristine wildness of northern Colorado, her own backyard, her friends challenge her professional ethics and demand that...

The composition of the most remote objects brought into view by the Hubble telescope can no longer be reconciled with the nucleogenesis of standard cosmology and the alternative explanation, in terms of the Λ-Cold-Dark-Matter model, has no recognizable chemical basis. A more rational scheme, based...

When Leaves Fall A Different Point of View Story Ralph wakes up to what others only experience in a nightmare. Chained to a shed, he has no idea where he is, or who his captor is. His memories are blurred at best. As the days press on, he finds himself experiencing a roller coaster of feelings. Hunger,...

Theodosius: kingdom betrayal is a story set on Forecastia; a futuristic planet mixed with a dash of convenience in its simplicity. The inhabitants, Forecastians, live as purely and peacefully as possible. Trust had become so promoted, that none had anticipated the betrayal. The story begins, with...

ALICIA A tropical vacation turns to heartache when Alicia makes an incorrect assumption. While enjoying a brief vacation between jobs, Alicia Danvers runs into self-made millionaire Nathan Langston. Literally. She’s always wanted to knock a man off-balance, but would have preferred...

Belmond's much-beloved debut novel, A Rather Lovely Inheritance was "a rare gem" (Romance Reviews Today) and "An entertaining yarn with family drama and intrigue aplenty." (Booklist). Now, in the eagerly anticipated sequel, A Rather Curious Engagement, our American freelancer-turned-heiress Penny...

Two viewpoints, a world war, two hearts, the end of the world and the hope of a new world and a new future. A love story that almost never happened because the world was on the brink of a holocaust. This story is a tale of betrayal on many levels. When Hatred Brews at Home is a startlingly...

Ted Landson, a troubled oil company CEO, is thrown into a bizarre chain of events when his private plane is shot down over Colorado. Three single professional people backpacking in the mountains save his life. Heather, a Dallas programmer, finds herself thrown together with Ted. They travel to Nigeria,...

"Work smarter, not harder." Gerard Fonte presents the construction of the Great Pyramid as a wonder indeed, while challenging our cherished notions of the arduous labor and extreme human costs required for the project. Starting with his knowledge of project management, the properties of basic...