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Black Widow

forever red
2016
Natasha Romanov, called the Black Widow, agent of S.H.I.E.L.D, rescues a young girl from Ivan, the man who once trained her as an assassin--and eight years later she is called upon to protect the teenager Ava has become from a threat from the past--and possibly from S.H.I.E.L.D. itself.

Under the dome

a novel
2010
The citizens of Chester's Mill, Maine, find their relationships strained and lives in danger after an inexplicable force field develops around the town, cutting it off from the outside world and resulting in a power struggle between local politician and drug lord Big Jim Rennie, who enjoys the idea of dominating an isolated populace, and people who disagree with Jim and want to investigate the origins of the dome.

Pinnacle of Deceit

2003
Set in the gilded world of luxury hotels, high-stakes politics, drug czars, and money launderers, Pinnacle of Deceit follows the astonishingly successful lives of four men who share a dark secret from their troubled past in an Arizona orphanage, and a sadistic killer bent on hunting them down. Anthony Marshall, self-made owner of the world?s largest luxury hotel chain, Pinnacle Hotels?Gerald Pratt, his tortured accomplice?Ricardo Sanchez, the world?s most ruthless drug lord?and Harmon Baker, an aspiring congressman who becomes an accidental world leader?are all caught up in a web of intrigue that not only pits them against a merciless outside force, but also against one another. As the plot surges through the glamour capitals of the world to its shocking conclusion in Montreal, the price that the relentless pursuit of wealth and power can extract is made devastatingly clear.

STALK ME

Mary and her husband are involved in a terrible car crash. With her husband lying terribly injured beside her, Mary watches a set of feet emerge from behind the car they crashed into and walk over to where she is sprawled. One of the feet kicks her in the jaw and she blacks out.? When she wakes, she is still at the crash site but on a stretcher. Her husband is on a stretcher beside her and, despite his injuries, is trying to tell her something.?A large crowd has gathered and a number of people are recording the event with their phones. She goes ballistic and attacks them.? When she comes round in hospital, she is informed that her husband died of his injuries. Worse still, the most traumatic event of her life has become a YouTube sensation with footage of her attack on the onlookers being viewed all over the world.? Mary learns that the man driving the car in front vanished from the scene. The car was registered under a false name.?She must contact every person she attacked who recorded the event and ask for their help.? But somebody is murdering the people who used their hand held devices and is removing their recordings.?Mary must try to reach them before the digital fragments of the event disappear altogether.? As Mary moves closer to the truth. she realizes the crash conceals a secret someone will do anything to conceal.

The Daylight war

On the night of the new moon there is danger from demons. Two men seek to become the Deliverer. Arlen Bales and Ahmann Jardir were once as close as brothers. Now they are enemies. Can one, or both, defeat the demons? Will one become the Deliverer?.

The Breach

2010
Trying to regain his life in the Alaskan wilderness, Travis Chase stumbles upon a crashed passenger jet filled with murdered people, including the wife of the President of the United States. Soon Chase is dragged into a battle for the future that revolves around an amazing artifact.

Deep sky

2012
As the President addresses the American public from the Oval Office, a missile screams toward the White House and in a lightening flash, everything and everyone is gone. Travis Chase, Paige Campbell, and Bethany Stewart have only twenty-four hours to unearth a decades-old mystery once spoken of in terrified whispers.

The Scorpio Races

2013
Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.

The girl she used to be

2010
A woman in her twenties, who has been in the Witness Protection Program since she was six years old, tires of constantly changing her name and lifestyle, and willingly goes with the man who knows her true identity, the Mafioso who was hired to kill her.

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