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First Chapter Spotlight: Fade In

Sometimes a Loose Cannon is Your Best Weapon

September 12, 2025

Excerpt: Motive For Murder by Ray Collins

CHAPTER 1 Her diary was missing. Deborah Chu stared at the empty bottom drawer of her bedside table. At

December 8, 2023

Excerpt: Kennedy’s Spy by Noel Hynd

October 2, 2023

Excerpt: Requiem for a Queen by Kaylin McFarren

DARKNESS RISES (Excerpt from REQUIEM FOR A QUEEN) During Lucifer’s absence, a tall stranger dressed all in black walked toward

October 31, 2022

Excerpt: The Trouble With Miracles by Stephen Steele

Chapter One January 10th The sun burned bright and hot on this steamy summer day in January as the Boeing

October 31, 2022

Excerpt: Hero Haters by Ken MacQueen

Local hero Anderson Wise can’t remember the last time he paid for a drink at Sharkey’s. Nor can he remember

September 30, 2022

Excerpt: The Collector by Lane Stone

Everybody had a story and then another story. Even the police. I stood at the Metropolitan Museum entrance, shifting my

June 29, 2022

Excerpt: The Last Mile by Kat Martin

An odd sound penetrated the darkness of her bedroom. Abby stirred awake and opened her eyes, her gaze landing on

May 31, 2022

Excerpt: The Rx for Murder by Sue Hinkin

“We can’t just walk away from this, chief.” Veteran newspaper reporter David Pine, early fifties with the nervous energy of

May 31, 2022

Excerpt: The Darkness in the Light by Daniel Kalla

“I’m not trying to kill myself.” Though his expression was flat, Nigel McGowan’s color—at least how it appeared on my

May 2, 2022

Excerpt: Dead Wind by Tessa Wegert

Trey Hayes arrived wearing a hoodie and sweatpants, white stripes down the sides of his thin legs. When he met

March 31, 2022

Excerpt: Blood Running Hot by Robert Valletta

He stepped carefully from the ceramic tile and steamed glass shower stall, naked and dripping wet, to the plush dry

March 31, 2022

Excerpt: The Bucharest Dossier by William Maz

Professor Andrei Pincus left through the rear door of the Harvard Faculty Club wearing another man’s coat. He had chosen

February 28, 2022

Excerpt: The Doomsday Medallion by Avanti Centrae

Disguised as a hunchbacked old man using a cane, the Watcher followed her down the narrow street called Rue Nostradamus.

February 28, 2022

Excerpt: A Divine Wind by Norman M. Jacobs MD, MS

Doron ben Avrahim, an Israeli army lieutenant, was on his knees while a wickedly beautiful woman danced provocatively around him.

January 31, 2022

Excerpt: The Last Goodnight by Kat Martin

Kade Logan stood on the bank, watching the sheriff and his deputies haul the mud-covered vehicle out of the lake.

October 31, 2021

Excerpt: Deadly Tide by William Nikkel

Three inches of titanium steel separated Jack Ferrell from certain death three and a half miles beneath the surface of

August 31, 2021

Excerpt: Substitute by Susi Holliday

She spots him from the bedroom window. Jittery. Anxious. Cheap suit and battered briefcase. He shifts from one foot to

July 30, 2021

Excerpt: Shadow Hill by Thomas Kies

Bleach.

The smell is all that’s left behind when the cleanup crew in the hazmat suits have scraped up the

June 30, 2021

Excerpt: Sleeping Bear by Connor Sullivan

PAUL BRADY WOKE up with a start and went for his rifl e. Sweat poured down his face, his cotton

May 31, 2021

Excerpt: Lost and Found by Amy Shojai

Linda Birch raced out the back door into the snow. “Help, somebody help me!” She slipped and fell, struggled to

May 31, 2021

Excerpt: The Day She Died by S.M. Freedman

EVE GOLD WASN’T SURPRISED to die on her twenty-seventh birthday. The Angel of Death’s greasy fingers had been pressing against

April 30, 2021

Ruby Falls by Deborah Goodrich Royce

I was standing with my father in the pitch-black dark—the blackest dark I’d ever seen in the few short years

April 30, 2021

A Clash of Forces by Larysa Rychkova

The white Yak 42 with blue flashes touched down smoothly on the tarmac at Saratov airport in southern Russia, with

March 31, 2021

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