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Heartbeats Of A Killer

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For the past several weeks, Colorado Springs has been stalked by the Pikes Peak Killer. Young women are going missing, then showing up dead, their bodies raped and no longer whole. Detective Axel Frost is exhausted, frustrated, and out of leads when he gets help from an uninvited FBI agent. Agent Jaxson Locke arrives late in the investigation, bringing with him a profile lead that could upend the entire department. Pressured by the media, Frost knows he’s already out of time and utilizes Locke’s perspective at great risk, hoping to get to PPK before he can kill again.

The Secrets of Taylor Creek

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FBI Agent Jaxson Locke arrives in Beaufort, North Carolina to recover a rare car that belonged to another agent that disappeared. The only thing Agent Locke knows before his arrival to the small coastal town of Beaufort, North Carolina is that FBI Agent Nathan Emerson went there to conduct an unauthorized investigation. An investigation into the mysterious deaths of three young women in July of 1965. Agent Locke learns that during Agent Emerson’s investigation, innocent people were killed and Agent Emerson is still currently wanted for those murders. When Agent Locke arrives in Beaufort, he speaks to the only two witnesses still alive that know anything about Agent Emerson and the case that he was investigating. But they tell him nothing new. When Agent Locke searches Agent Emerson’s vehicle, he finds a journal that reveals that the two witnesses know more than they lead Agent Locke to believe. Agent Locke goes back to the witnesses wanting the truth, and they finally share with him the Secrets of Taylor Creek.

Roses in the Sand

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Seven women, seven roses, and seven graves. All seven women have a story, and it’s up to Agent Jaxson Locke to discover why they were killed and who killed them. There are just a few problems. Jaxson is falling for Taylor Long, a beautiful woman who’s close to the investigation. Agent Locke must also work with a local detective, who doesn’t want the FBI profiler’s help.

Chance Hardway

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Chance Hardway is a debt collector, bounty hunter, assets-recovery specialist, and anything else needed—if the money is right. He’s a retired Green Beret, a former police officer, and a man who knows how to deal with difficulties his way, the Hardway.

 

Chance often finds himself helping innocent people who are in trouble with the wrong crowd. For one reason or another, they can’t call the police. In a place like Las Vegas, trouble comes in the form of dirty cops, the Russian Mafia, and violent street gangs. All of them are after Chance and Morgan, Chance’s girl, who has troubles of her own. Morgan has a dark secret that she’s keeping from the man she loves. When Morgan is wronged by the Russians, Chance prepares to set it right, and he’ll stop at nothing to get it done, even if it costs him his life.    

Chance Hardway wants revenge.
His woman was wronged by the Russian Mafia, and he has every intention of hunting them down for it. But information doesn’t come free. He’s got to get his hands dirty to find the men he’s looking for, so he jumps cities, doing odd jobs no one else wants.
With someone on his tail, trying to beat him to the punch, Chance realizes he’s in a different position than he’d thought, and he’s running out of time. The Romano crime family, the Russian Mafia, the Muñoz Cartel, and every law enforcement agency in and around Las Vegas is after him and the woman he loves. There’s only one option, and it’s a longshot, but that’s all he has left.

Once her father was pronounced dead, Shelby Finn inherited a small fortune, a collectible coupe, and an old beach house in Florida. It was the perfect time to dump her cheating boyfriend and start a new life far away from Las Vegas. Some people, who had known her felon of a father and wanted him dead, decided she was on the run with their money. They’d earned it, after all. Truth be told, she was on the run. Shelby just didn’t know it yet.

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Beach Escape

Mountain Retreat

 Some memories are better forgotten. Enjoying his day off, Deputy Brody Katz made the catch of his life while fishing in the South Platte River. The beaten woman had been shot and was on the brink of death by the time her body made it to the riverbank. When she wakes, she has no recollection of who she is, where she came from, or why someone tried to kill her.
The powerful people who want her dead will do whatever it takes to finish the job they started. They even manage to block the sheriff’s office in their attempts to locate her identity. Even if they must kill everyone getting in their way, they’ll stop at nothing to ensure she is dead.

Victim's Advocate

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The law was created to ensure citizens were viewed equally in the eyes of the criminal justice system. But justice could be blind. When criminals escaped justice, victims often turned to someone else, hoping the guilty were punished accordingly.

Vigilantes, avengers, redeemers… No matter the name, they were people who took matters into their own hands. With the new millennium came a new type of redeemer: the victim's advocate. Every victim's advocate had a beginning, and this is the story of one of them.

The Border Kings, an outlaw motorcycle gang, lived up to the 1 percent lifestyle moniker. Carlos Leto was the gang's notorious and ruthless leader, who protected the gang's interests at all costs. When the Border Kings killed an innocent woman, they found themselves in more trouble than they had bargained for. Carlos and his men tried to silence everyone who could hurt them, including the woman's husband.

Jacob Mean was a devoted husband, soon-to-be father, and police officer, until the Border Kings took it all away. Jake, like other victims, discovered the justice system was flawed, and the guilty often went free.

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A pound of flesh is never enough!

Jake Mean never had the time to grieve his wife and unborn child. She was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and members of the Border Kings decided she was a liability. Months later, they walk free, the legal system failing to bring consequences to those responsible.

Once the motorcycle gang tries to kill Jake too, he realizes there is no justice, only revenge. Alone, he can set things right, but he soon discovers others have been victimized by the Border Kings too. And they are after the same thing he is.

Jake Mean’s not looking for his pound of flesh. He wants a whole lot more.

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