After two attempts on her life, RH Gina Mazzio needs a break, needs to get away from San Francisco and Ridgewood Hospital. What better plan than to go with fiancé Harry on one of his travel nurse assignments … an adventure in Northern Nevada’s gold country.
In this third Gina Mazzio medical thriller, (BONE DRY & SIN & BONE), her ever-present curiosity draws the two of them into the midst of an illegal scheme to manipulate test results for an experimental drug to cure Alzheimer’s.
It’s Mines, madness, and murder!
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BONE PIT is available from Amazon.
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“Gina Mazzio and Harry Lucke are a dynamic pair of nurses who get more than they bargained for. Within a few hours of their arrival at a rehab facility for Alzheimer’s patients, they realize that the patients aren’t getting better. And some are disappearing. Deftly plotted and artfully executed, BONE PIT is a compelling read that provides a shocking look at the world of contemporary medicine and big pharma. Highly recommended. Sheldon Siegel, New York Times best selling author of PERFECT ALIBI.
*****
BETTE GOLDEN LAMB, a registered nurse, has developed parallel careers as a painter, sculptor, and ceramist. Her art works can be found in a number of galleries and private collections.
BONE PIT is the third book in the Gina Mazzio, RN medical thriller series, which includes BONE DRY and SIN & BONE. These, along with SISTERS IN SILENCE and HEIR TODAY…, were co-authored with husband J.J.
J. J. LAMB is a career writer – journalism, short stories, and novels. In addition to fiction co-authored with Bette, he is the creator of the Zachariah Tobias Rolfe III private eye series, the latest of which, NO PAT HANDS, is scheduled to appear in 2013.
The LAMBS live in Northern California and are members of International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America, and Sisters in Crime
How far do you go for a friendship?
That’s the question Daniel Wade is forced to ask when a simple favor has fatal consequences. For the sake of his old schoolmate, Robbie – and more importantly for Robbie’s sister, Cate – Dan agrees to go along with a lie. But soon he’s sucked into a conspiracy that threatens to consume them all.
How hard do you fight for a fortune?
For Gordon and Patricia Blake, the dead man held the key to a glorious future. Now that future has been ripped from their grasp, and the Blakes want to know why. Then they want revenge.
How can you hope to survive?
With a ruthless predator on their trail, Dan realizes that evading justice is the least of their worries. All that matters now is staying alive.
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Welcome to the Big Show!
Once a year, the greatest tabletop gamers in the world descend upon Indianapolis for Gen Con — the Best Four Days in Gaming — to play games, see friends, and have fun. They play things like Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Warhammer 40,000, Settlers of Catan, Munchkin, and everything else they can get their hands on. Mostly the competition is friendly.
Sometimes it is not.
When a world-famous game designer turns up murdered at the convention, Liam Parker — the young game designer who stumbles across the body — makes it his quest to figure out who killed the man, and why. In the end, Liam must figure out the rules of this most dangerous game fast — or risk losing his life.
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HOW FAR MUST AN ANGEL FALL TO FIND HIS DESTINY?
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. In the process, Nikolai falls in love with one of his targets–Hope Matheson, a woman who will lead thousands astray.
Caught between conflicting agendas, Nikolai chooses to “fall” from his celestial state and become mortal in order to circumvent angel law and be with her. But for angels and humans alike, things are not always as they appear. Still a target, the threat against Hope’s life intensifies.
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Book 6 in the USA Today bestselling Savannah Martin mystery series
It’s late February, just two months after Savannah Martin and Rafael Collier finally worked things out between them, and Rafe is already sneaking out of bed in the wee hours.
Catching fellow realtor Tim Briggs rinsing blood from his hands in the office sink makes for a welcome distraction, and when Tim disappears just as one of his clients is found dead in a nearby park, Savannah throws herself into the investigation with abandon.
But even the murder mystery taking place right under her nose can’t completely distract her from worrying about her personal problems. Has Rafe changed his mind about their relationship, or is something else going on? And what are the chances of Savannah coming out of this latest debacle with her life – and her heart – intact?
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About Wiggle Room…While serving as an Air Force surgeon at the height of the Iraq War, Major Brad Cummins fails to save an injured soldier yet must mend the Iraqi national maimed in the same IED blast. Brad survives the medical tribunal’s inquest over the GI’s unexplained death but endures rigid criticism from his peers. Still blaming himself for losing the soldier after successful surgery, Brad is haunted by the Iraqi’s words: Maybe you should rethink what you really are. When he returns from deployment, Brad resumes surgical practice with his twin brother in Mississippi—until he discovers his twin shot to death in a suspected robbery. When he finds their name tags mistakenly switched, Brad cannot forget a haunting, anonymous message—I will give you a little wiggle room— and is certain that he was the intended target. But when the police, and even his fiancée, discount his fears as paranoia, Brad is forced to uncover the truth—even if that means risking his life, and the lives of those closest to him. Expect the unexpected in this exhilarating and extraordinary page turner….
A captivating contemporary thriller set against the backdrop of the Iraqi war and the Deep South, Wiggle Room will leave readers gasping for breath until the final page is turned.
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Hollywood movie star Lawton Fletcher has come to tiny Warrendale, Georgia, with plans to buy the entire town. Instead, when attorney Tammi Randall and her friend Mitch Griffeth arrive to keep an appointment with Fletcher, they find him shot to death. To the police, the obvious culprit is Freddy Meadows, a local man known to be violent. Tammi is less than impressed by the unappealing Meadows, but believing he is innocent, she agrees to represent him on behalf of the Legal Aid Society. Investigating Fletcher’s background for other possible suspects, Tammi travels to the fleshpots of Los Angeles and New Orleans, but the clues she finds lead her back to Georgia. There, the young lawyer and her friends uncover corruption among government officials and an ever-widening list of suspects, including Warrendale’s police chief, the sheriff, the county commissioner, a Dixie Mafia king-pin, a Satan-worshiping teenager, and a migrant worker. Is the handsome young Warrendale heir among them? She very much hopes not. Tammi desperately needs to find the one among them who actually killed Lawton Fletcher–and learn whether it’s the same person making death threats to her.
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When a restaurant gas oven explodes in Killer Kitchens, killing two men, destroying the chef’s livelihood and tossing heroine Deva Dunne out onto the sidewalk, you know something’s gone terribly wrong with Deva’s first commercial project. Actually it’s been blown all to, well–smithereens. The reason? An accidental propane leak. Or was arson the cause? Either way, just because Dynamite Shrimp was on the menu, did the place have to explode?
Amazon says: Jean Harrington has a few surprises up her sleeve for her intrepid sleuth in Killer Kitchens. Mystery lovers are sure this entertaining and intriguing addition to the fabulous Murders by Design series.
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‘Deanna, vote for the legislation or die.’
So begins Deanna Layne’s nightmare. Pregnant with twins, she needs to survive a killer in an environment sated with unusual alliances, lethal relationships, and solutions.
Police and Mitchell Pappas come together again to try to save Deanna in a devious and perplexing revenge thriller filled with love and hate that also turns Mitchell into a primary target to force him to search for answers among twins and shadows to save Deanna…and himself.
Gus Leodas writes about strong women, good or evil. He is a member of ITW, Mystery Writers of America and Directors Guild of America and is a 5-time Amazon bestseller author. He also wrote The Letter From Magda, A Sorority of Angels, Huntress, Unsafe Harbor and The Forgotten Mission – a WWII cold-case mystery. His background includes a creative advertising service and a film production company in New York City (owner).
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Ann Gavrion returned from her glorious quest on The Ghost Ship with an inglorious curse – that of telepathy. This second in The Ghost Ship Series also features Ann’s lover, Rod Curator.
When an unpopular archeologist is found murdered on his dig in the dead of night, Ann “sees” who didn’t murder him, although they were present when he was killed, but she encounters a murderer so narcissistic she can’t read the mind of this guiltless killer.
Thought transference can be a deadly when what you learn from a murderer’s mind could get you killed.
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While Mick Murphy is out to kill Russian mobster Alexei, he stumbles across evidence that a terrorist attack will take place in Key West, Florida within days. He has to choose between catching up to Alexei in Miami or returning to Key West to save the lives of innocent men and women. He soon discovers that there is a cover up of the pending attack by officials of Homeland Security and FBI, and maybe others, as he tries to present evidence of the attack. With the help of Norm, Murphy’s all Central American black-ops friend, a drug smuggler Pauly, ex-SEAL Bob and the spiritual guidance, wanted or not, from a Jesuit who sees and talks to angels, the ragtag collect of eclectic characters unite to stop the attack with a WWII P51 Mustang and little else on their side.
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It happens each winter, and has for over 35 years. Every time the snow starts to fall late in the evening before a school day, the dreams begin again for Billy Stone. They are always the same – there’s a dark tunnel, and there’s blood, lots of blood, and someone is screaming.
In this chilling childhood tale, Billy, recounts the events of one unforgettable day in 1975. On that day, he and his friends played carefree in the snow, until an adventure gone awry left him far from home, staring death in the face, and running from a killer bent on keeping a horrible secret.
Set in a time before Amber Alerts, when horror stories were told around camp fires instead of on the nightly news, Snow Day is a blend of nostalgia and nightmare that makes us question if the good old days were really as good as we remember.
From a new voice in dark fiction comes a thriller about an idyllic childhood turned horrifying; a cautionary tale about how losing sight of the difference between feeling safe and being safe can lead to deadly consequences.
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On the trail of a pedophile and out of time before more victims die, sheriff’s deputy Suzie Jensen turns to the only person she knows who can help: Columbus, Ohio’s top bounty hunter, Grace deHaviland.
On a snowy, winter night, sheriff’s deputy, Suzie Jensen finds a shoeless kid scrounging for food in a dumpster. Taken in, the abused boy refuses to talk. Undeterred, Suzie identifies a suspect, but finding him proves a more difficult task. Out of clues and out of time, Suzie calls her best friend, bounty hunter Grace deHaviland for help. Together, will they be enough to stop a pedophile in time to save his other victims?
By the author of Fatal Destiny and Crystal White
The explosive new novella in the Grace deHaviland bounty hunter series
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Every legend has a beginning! Some are just bloodier than others!
In Feudal Japan, warriors are trained in every conceivable form of combat known, but when Kumamoto Castle is attacked—not by people, but by an army of mythical creatures—samurai Saito Izumi is more than up for the challenge.
But while Saito stands side-by-side with her lover and their best friend defending the castle to the death, she must also uncover the reasons behind the attack. What she learns may break her heart and will change her forever—if it doesn’t kill her first.
An ancient tale of mythical proportion featuring the vampire Saito Izumi
From the author of STONE OF DESTINY – Book One in the Irish Cycle Series
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The wealthy, charismatic real-estate developer Ralph Behr is driven to build the tallest most imposing skyscrapers in Manhattan. Gail Benedict is the opposite of Ralph in every way. His passion is to make money and immortalize his family’s name. Hers is to remake the world, and she despises everything Ralph stands for. They have not set eyes on each other since childhood. But dark secrets buried deep in their pasts force them into a wedding neither wants—a wedding that will make her $100 million richer.
Publishers Weekly called DEEDS: “A dramatic novel filled with memorable, complex, volatile characters expertly portrayed.”
For Ralph, Gail, and those other characters, deeds come in many forms: deception and passion, betrayal and love, as well as riveting suspense when the blame for a deadly catastrophe at the project falls on Ralph, and he must discover those responsible before he is charged with their deaths.
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The Green Berets: Chasing The Lost
Horace Chase arrives on Hilton Head Island to pay his last respects at the Intracoastal Waterway where his late mother’s ashes were spread and to inspect the home his mother left him in her will. He’s been recently forced into retirement, his divorce is officially final, and now he’s standing in the middle of the front yard of his ‘new’ house where a tree has crashed right through the center of it.
What could possibly go wrong?
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DEATH TOLL
An Anthology
Short Thriller Fiction; Full Length Adrenalin–
Stephen Leather, Alex Shaw, JH Bográn, Stephen Edger, Liam Saville, and Howard Manson, with an introduction by Jake Needham.
You are embarking on an expedition into the dangerous, deadly world of assassins, spies, cold-blooded killers, rogue robbers and ruthless revenge. Of course the stories are great. They wouldn’t be here otherwise. But the inspiration was to create an opportunity for some brand new writers to work alongside a few seasoned writers and a few bestsellers and then see their work published with the best in the business.
The result is a collection of eight short stories that delight in the ultimate dirty deed. Everybody dies, but some deaths are just more entertaining than others. We’ve found those for you, and this anthology is here to introduce you to the work of these excellent thriller writers: established, and up and coming masters of the short story form.
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From R. Barri Flowers, award winning crime writer and internationally bestselling author of DARK STREETS OF WHITECHAPEL and KILLER IN THE WOODS, comes a gripping new psychological thriller, BEFORE HE KILLS AGAIN: A Veronica Vasquez Thriller.
FBI psychologist and criminal profiler Veronica Vasquez returns to her hometown of Portland, Oregon, to assist police in apprehending a ruthless serial killer dubbed “The Rose Killer,” who kills beautiful women in pairs, leaving a rose on top of each corpse.
Heading the investigation is homicide Detective Sergeant Bryan Waldicott, whom Veronica must win over along with the entire task force in proving herself. Since losing her husband three years ago, Veronica had been focused on her work to escape the pain of loneliness and separation. A romance with Waldicott, with issues of his own, complicates things for them both as they try and stop a serial murderer before he kills again.
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The sequel to Sokoloff’s Thriller Award-nominated Huntress Moon, about a haunted FBI agent on the trail of that most rare of killers: a female serial.
Twenty-five years have passed since a savage killer terrorized California, massacring three ordinary families before disappearing without a trace.
The haunted child who was the only surviving victim of his rampage is now wanted by the FBI for brutal crimes of her own, and Special Agent Matthew Roarke is on an interstate manhunt for her, despite his conflicted sympathies for her history and motives.
But when his search for her unearths evidence of new family slayings, the dangerous woman Roarke seeks – and wants – may be his only hope of preventing another bloodbath.
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One year ago, Elle made the mistake of a lifetime: she fell in love with a man considered a bitter enemy of her people. A Red Dragon shifter, the handsome Kirin was at once forbidden and irresistible. Then Elle’s mother disappeared, and everyone believed that Kirin’s father was responsible, including Elle. When Kirin chose to side with his father, it made Elle lose faith in love forever . . .
Summoned home when his own father goes missing, Kirin must determine whether the same evil mastermind is to blame. When he discovers that Elle’s father has vanished as well, Kirin and Elle must combine his Dragon power with her magick to find the ones they loved and lost.
But as their old desires flare up again, can their burning passion overcome their past—or the danger that the future holds?
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In medical ethics, the line between right and wrong is often blurred. Who is to decide what is for the good of humanity?
Changing the world. One person at a time…
That is the mission statement of Tethys Hospital, run by Dr. Bill Gilchrist and his deformed sister, Abra. VG723, their revolutionary stem-cell-based therapy, appears to be capable of doing just that for the cancer patients who come to Tethys. VG723 is often their last hope. But if they match the protocol, they’re virtually guaranteed a cure.
Dr. Sheila Takamura, a young, dedicated oncologist, is proud to be involved in the clinical trials. Once the FDA approves it for widespread use, VG723 will revolutionize cancer therapy. That is why she’s alarmed when former patients return with bizarre syndromes. Yes, they’re cancer free, but they’re experiencing dramatic changes in their hair and skin and general appearance. When she investigates a possible link to the protocol, those patients start dying. As the body count grows, Sheila finds her own life in danger. She comes to suspect there might be a literal meaning behind the Tethys motto – but can she learn the truth in time to save herself and millions of others?
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Her first date could be her last…
Three years after the demise of her seventeen year marriage, Mandy Russell decides to jump back into the choppy waters of the dating world. With very little options available in her small town of Bainsville, Tennessee, Mandy lets her best friend Shawna persuade her into joining an online dating site.
Feeling she has met someone she can really connect with, Mandy decides it’s time to meet face to face with her new suitor, unaware of his true plans for her. Dark, sinister plans that will test Mandy’s physical strength, mental fortitude and will to survive.
Will Mandy prevail or will she become number seventy-five?
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The War of 1812 is long over. The War of 2012 has just begun.
IRONSIDES’ PERIL is the new Zach Colt thriller from award-winning author Michael D. Urban.
The City of Boston is under attack. A trail of burning ships and downed jet aircraft litters the harbor. A ruthless band of Iranian backed terrorists has hijacked U.S.S. Constitution. A former President of the United States, the current Vice President, and the Secretary of the Navy are onboard together with the ship’s crew and other hostages.
Unfortunately for the terrorists, so is Zach Colt. And he’s spoiling for a fight.
Now it’s time to take “Old Ironsides” back. Before she is destroyed and the terrorists’ final, devastating revenge is enacted on the City of Boston.
The question is …. How do you recapture an 18th-Century warship — and sacred American icon — using 21st-Century weapons and tactics?
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A hiker finds a journal deep inside a glacier that was lost during World War II. On its frozen pages are etched the secret locations of treasures lost since the 1940s. But something more ominous is scribed in the journal, something that threatens the Presidency of the United States.
Jake Pendleton and his new partner, Francesca Catanzaro, work for an “off the books” intelligence firm and are summoned to the White House where they are instructed to locate and acquire the book. Jake soon realizes there are others on a quest to find it as well.
Others who will kill to get to it first.
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When eleven-year-old Rosa Garcia disappears from an El Paso, Texas playground, Penny Larkin, a newly-certified remote viewer, is hired by Sheriff Leo Tellez to find her. The FBI believes she’s a runaway, but this is the second time Rosa has been kidnapped, and Leo fears she’s been taken by a sexual predator. Penny’s lingering memory of fighting off a rape attempt by her foster father clouds her thoughts and prevents her from locating the kidnapper quickly. The sheriff, who rescued Rosa from a homeless man five years earlier, is up for reelection and seeks to curry public favor by finding her again. His deputies claim Penny is a charlatan and a waste of the department’s money. When Penny can’t locate Rosa promptly, Leo boils with frustration and fires her. Penny refuses to give up, and soon discovers the bloodcurdling kidnapper’s hideout. With time running out, Penny sets out alone to rescue Rosa.
Will Penny find young Rosa and exorcise her own demons in the process, or will she fall into the clutches of a Russian child-trafficking ring? Find the answers in The Middle Eye.
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A rogue rescue operation sanctions five CIA case officers to the Agency’s despised counterintelligence division (X Div). Their first assignment is finding a former instructor in South America, only to discover they’ve tripped over a pending coup d’état.
This is the debut of a digital-only series of CIA-mystery novellas. Three books are available now and more are on the way!
*****
“T.J. Waters’ superb action trilogy establishes a new benchmark for the spy thriller. Rich in authenticity, seasoned with just the right amount of detail, and crackling with subterfuge, these are the kinds of books the great Ian Fleming would be penning today post-James Bond.”
- JON LAND, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PANDORA’S TEMPLE
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“CSI meets The Exorcist.” “In the sleepy college town of Cumberton, Md., an old cemetery must be moved to make room for a new dormitory, and an ungodly Light, buried for centuries, escapes. A rash of student suicides rocks the town,” Pace’s Web site states. “Sheriff Estin Booker teams up with Baltimore homicide detective Anna Tucci to investigate the deaths. What neither expects is to have all roads point to a 2000-year-old legend which, if true, could lead to the destruction of mankind. With the clock ticking, and an impossible burden placed upon their shoulders, they must defeat their own long-hidden demons or Satan himself will claim the ultimate victory.”
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London. Paris. Guantanamo Bay. Donna Stone is looking for love — and terrorists — in all the wrong places.
In this fourth full-length novel of The Housewife Assassin series, Donna Stone finds out that breaking up is hard to do. Then again, so is dating a terrorist, let alone eleven of them! Does this make Donna a serial dater, or a serial killer?
Worse yet, an old flame gets in the way of Donna’s chance for true love. But she doesn’t cry…She gets even.
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From the 1890′s through 1943, this true story follows genius NIKOLA TESLA, arguably the most influential inventor in history—and certainly the most unfairly ignored. His powerful work even exceeded that of the venerated Thomas Edison. The book’s portrayal of this tall, handsome figure is historically accurate and offers a “young-to-old” portrayal (beginning at age 18) of a genius’ personality that explores the mysteries of this brilliant creative force.
The story tells how Tesla, though handsome and charming, lived a self-chosen life of isolation – a “monk” to his calling of electronic invention. In America, he was supported by George Westinghouse, who funded Tesla’s successful effort to design and install the first hydraulic generators under Niagara Falls, providing electricity to the entire eastern seaboard for the first time – in an era of candles and lanterns. Eventually, Westinghouse would betray Tesla by not paying him many millions of dollars in royalties he was owed — leaving him in poverty.
Tesla was clandestinely betrayed by J. P. Morgan, who funded just enough of Tesla’s experimentation to realize that Tesla really could succeed in building the technology to provide FREE electricity to anyone, anywhere on the planet, effectively ending world poverty. Morgan was aghast that Tesla would actually release technology to the world that Morgan couldn’t charge them for.
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About Indivisible: there is tension—a growing tension—in American politics. a tension exists between those who look to government for a solution, and those who see government itself as the problem. And while tension itself is nothing new to American government, this situation is different ; it is starting to stretch the iron bonds of unity that had been put in place after the Civil War of 1861–1865—iron bonds that had held the country together since. Indivisible is the story of how those bonds broke.
When the story opens, it’s July 1861 and Confederate soldier Abraham Bellamy has found his mission: supporting the cause of the Confederacy. But not even a full four years later—on April 9, 1865— that mission, now in defeat, would cause Abraham Bellamy to take his own life.
Now, in present day, Abraham Bellamy’s great, great, great grandson Abner Bellamy has found his own mission: reasserting the rights of the states that made up the United States. Fiercely intelligent, charismatic, tenacious, and possessing a vocabulary devoid of the word “forgiveness,” Abner has collected 22 men for his mission to resurrect the Confederate ideal. Filled with confidence and purpose, Abner doggedly pursues the role he relishes— bringing America back to what it was supposed to be.
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