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Release Date:  September 8, 2015 Publisher:  Harlequin Enterprises Format:  Audio Length:  7 hours 12 minutes Narrator:  J.F. Harding Genre:  LGBT/Romance/mystery Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  |  Synopsis:  Fifty years ago, Roland Mills belonged to a violent activist group. Now, someone is willing to kill to prevent him from publishing his memoirs. When ex-FBI agent Elliot Mills is called out to examine the charred ruins of his childhood home, he quickly identifies the fire for what it is—arson. A knee injury may have forced Elliot out of the Bureau, but it's not going to stop him from bringing the man who wants his father dead to justice. Agent Tucker Lance is still working to find the serial killer who's obsessed with Elliot and can't bear the thought of his lover putting himself in additional danger. Straight-laced Tucker has never agreed with radical Roland on much—"opposing political viewpoints" is an understatement—but they're united on this: Ell

Release Date:  January 16, 2018 Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Format:  Audio Length:  6 hours 29 minutes Narrator:  Patrisse Khan-Cullors Genre:  Self Help/Memoir Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  A poetic and powerful memoir about what it means to be a Black woman in America—and the co-founding of a movement that demands justice for all in the land of the free. Raised by a single mother in an impoverished neighborhood in Los Angeles, Patrisse Khan-Cullors experienced firsthand the prejudice and persecution Black Americans endure at the hands of law enforcement. For Patrisse, the most vulnerable people in the country are Black people. Deliberately and ruthlessly targeted by a criminal justice system serving a white privilege agenda, Black people are subjected to unjustifiable racial profiling and police brutality. In 2013, when Trayvon Martin’s killer went free, Patrisse’s outrage led her to co-found Black Lives Matter with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi. Condemned as ter

Release Date:  November 8, 2016 Publisher:  Tantor Audio Format:  Audio Length:  5 hours 53 minutes Narrator:  Sean Crisden Genre:  Romance Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  A double shot of devastating news turns Justin Evanson’s life upside down. When he learns his father has cancer, and he has siblings he never knew existed, he leaves everything behind and moves to Virginia to support his dad as he tries to make amends with his family—a family Justin’s not sure he has a place in. Things go from bad to worse when he discovers his recent hookup is his newfound sister’s brother-in-law. Drew Sinclair never expected to see Justin after their night at the club or to discover their family connection. If anyone found out, it would give Drew’s brother another reason to hate him. But there’s something about Justin that draws him in, and it’s not only because they burn up the sheets together. One meeting leads to another, and before Justin realizes it, Drew has become the only

Release Date:  May 15, 2018 Publisher:  Ballantine Books Format:  ebook Pages:  368 pages Genre:   Mystery/ Thriller Buy:  Kindle  |  Hardcover Synopsis:  An obsessive young woman has been waiting half her life—since she was twelve years old—for this moment. She has planned. Researched. Trained. Imagined every scenario. Now she is almost certain the man who kidnapped and murdered her sister sits in the passenger seat beside her. Carl Louis Feldman is a documentary photographer. The young woman claims to be his long-lost daughter. He doesn’t believe her. He claims no memory of murdering girls across Texas, in a string of places where he shot eerie pictures. She doesn’t believe him.       Determined to find the truth, she lures him out of a halfway house and proposes a dangerous idea: a ten-day road trip, just the two of them, to examine cold cases linked to his haunting photographs. Is he a liar or a broken old man? Is he a pathological con artist? Or is she? Review:

Release Date:  May 23, 2016 Publisher:  Tantor Audio Format:  Audio Length:  6 hours 10 minutes Narrator:  Sean Crisden Genre:  Romance Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  Rod Nelson is used to being someone's good time, and that's fine with him. Spending his days at his adult toy store, Rods-N-Ends, he never knows who he'll meet. The second Landon Harrison walks in, he has Rod's full attention. It seems as if Landon wants him too, so why won't the man jump in the sack with him already? Landon never thought he'd return home to the town where memories lurk around every corner. He has to admit, Rod makes the adjustment a lot easier. He keeps Landon laughing. Despite the fierce attraction between them, he's not willing to risk his newfound friendship to get laid. Neither man wants something serious, but the more they're together, the harder it is to keep their hands to themselves, until eventually they stop trying. But flings between frie

Release Date:  April 19, 2018 Publisher:  Greyson Media Mystery Format:  ebook Pages:  254 pages Genre:   Mystery/suspense Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback   Synopsis: Jack has a new assignment: to investigate the suspicious death of a soundman on the hit TV show  Planet Survival . Jack goes undercover as a security agent where the show is filming on nearby Mount Minuit. Soon trapped on the treacherous peak by a blizzard, a mysterious killer continues to stalk the cast and crew of  Planet Survival . What started out as a game is now a deadly competition for survival. As the temperature drops and the body count rises, what will get them first… the mountain or the killer? Review: In 6 books Jack and Alice always work together having each others backs but this time Jack is sent up a mountain to go undercover while Alice stays behind to do research.  Unfortunately the mother of all blizzards keeps them from talking and Alice has information that is vital to Jack but Jack is fightin

Release Date:  November 17, 2015 Publisher:  Tantor Audio Format:  Audio Length:  7 hours 23 minutes Narrator:  Sean Crisden Genre:  Romance Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  After divorcing the woman he'd been with since he was 17, Nick Fuller is starting over. He owns the restaurant of his dreams, and he's determined to meet new people, find new passions, and experience life to its fullest. Easier said than done - that is until he meets his new neighbor, Bryce Tanner. Neither man has ever wanted another guy, but there's a connection between Nick and Bryce from the start - a spark they can't deny. They find themselves navigating an unfamiliar new world and dealing with unforeseen obstacles. Physical desire isn't enough, and now Nick and Bryce are at a crossroads. They have to decide which way to go: the easy path they've always followed or the one that's determined to trip them up at every turn. Review: Nick and Bryce are neighbors who sha

Release Date:  August 10, 2012 Publisher:  Harlequin Books SA Format:  Audio Length:  8 hours 46 minutes Narrator:  Alicia Harding Genre:  Romance/ Suspense Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis:  Work is a welcome refuge for New Orleans homicide detective Evangeline Theroux. Feeling suffocated by her new baby, in whose eyes she sees only her dead husband, she throws herself into a high-profile murder case. Reclusive writer Lena Saunders offers Evangeline a provocative theory about the crime: it is the work of a lunatic vigilante. Lena spins the sordid story of Ruth and Rebecca Lemay, whose mother brutally murdered her male children in an insane effort to root out an "evil" gene. The girls survived and grew to adulthood but one is carrying on her mother's grisly work. When the case takes a terrifyingly personal turn, Evangeline's whole life will depend on a crucial, impossible choice: the lesser of two evils. Review: This is a creepy myste

Release Date:  August 14, 2017 Publisher:  Greyson Media Mystery Format:  ebook Pages:  236 pages Genre:   Mystery/suspense Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback  |  Audio Synopsis: Jack Stratton is heading south for some fun in the sun. Already nervous about introducing his girlfriend, Alice, to his parents, the last thing Jack needed was for the dog-sitter to cancel, forcing him to bring Lady, their one-hundred-and-twenty-pound King Shepherd, on the plane with them. The dog holds Jack responsible and wants payback. On top of everything, Jack is still waiting for Alice's answer to his marriage proposal. When his mother and the members of her neighborhood book club ask him to catch the "Orange Blossom Cove Bandit," a small-time thief who's stealing garden gnomes and peace of mind from their quiet retirement community, how can Jack refuse? The peculiar mystery proves to be more than it appears, and things take a deadly turn. Now, Jack finds it's up to him to stop a

Release Date:  April 15, 2015 Publisher:  Greyson Media Mystery Format:  ebook Pages:  194 pages Genre:   Mystery/suspense Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback  |  Audio Synopsis: Jack Stratton's back is up against the wall. He's broke, kicked off the force, and his new bounty hunting business has slowed to a trickle. With no money coming in, Jack's license to carry suspended, and no good job prospects on the horizon, Jack's got it tough. He thinks things are turning around when Alice (aka Replacement) gets a lucrative job setting up a home data network. That is, until he discovers it's for a handsome, jet-setting software tycoon. The "boy billionaire" as Jack grudgingly refers to him, takes a liking to computer-savvy Alice. Jealous, Jack thinks life can't get any worse, but when the computer program the CEO invented becomes the key tool in an international data heist, things turn deadly. In this digital age of hackers, spyware, and cyber terrorism--data

Release Date:  October 4, 2014 Publisher:  Greyson Media Mystery Format:  ebook Pages:  218 pages Genre:   Mystery/suspense Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback  |  Audio Synopsis: A serial killer is stalking Jack's town--and no one's safe. But they don't know Jack. Jack looked up at the giant, dead body brazenly hung on the quaint Welcome to Darrington sign. He turned to the town's mayor. "Mayor Lewis, when you said people had nothing to fear, it pricked the killer's vanity. He's using this latest victim to send you a message: Be afraid. Be very afraid--of him. If you want to catch this serial killer, you need to feed his ego. Tell the people he's right. They should be scared--no one's safe while he controls the town." Rogue hero Jack Stratton is back in another action-packed, thrilling adventure. While recovering from a gunshot wound and the loss of his job on the police force, Jack's romance with feisty Alice (aka Replacement) continues

Release Date:  March 19, 2014 Publisher:  Greyson Media Mystery Format:  ebook Pages:  212 pages Genre:   Mystery/suspense Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback  |  Audio Synopsis: Handsome white-knight police officer Jack Stratton is back in this action-packed, thrilling adventure. When his sexy old flame disappears, no one thinks it's suspicious except Jack and one unbalanced witness. Jack feels in his gut that something is wrong. He knows that Marisa has a past, and if it ever caught up with her - it would be deadly. Determined to buck the critics and listen to his instincts, he and his feisty sidekick Alice (aka Replacement) plunge ahead and start tracking down leads, hoping to find Marisa in time. The trail leads them into all sorts of trouble - landing them smack in the middle of an all-out mob war between the Italian Mafia and the Japanese Yakuza. When evidence surfaces that Marisa was kidnapped, Jack must navigate through the warring parties, assassins, and cold-blooded hit

Release Date:  March 23, 2014 Publisher:  Greyson Media Mystery Format:  ebook Pages:  159 pages Genre:   Mystery/suspense Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback  |  Audio Synopsis: Jack felt the familiar burn of shame in his chest. Why do I keep doing this...thinking about her? It was so long ago, but I can't get what happened out of my head. I shouldn't let any of that junk define me, but I still do. I'm driving in circles, caught in some loop that I can't break out of. I want to know why she abandoned me...but some things, I guess, I'll never know.... Handsome police officer Jack Stratton is the "hometown hero cop with a heart of gold". Constant nightmares have forced him to seek answers about his rough childhood and the dark secrets hidden there. With Alice (aka Replacement) by his side, Jack travels to Hope Falls to solve a murder that occurred before he was born. Everyone in the small town remembers the unsolved murder of Steven Ritter, but after 2

Release Date:  July 17, 2014 Publisher:  Greyson Media Mystery Format:  ebook Pages:  264 pages Genre:   Mystery/suspense Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback  | Audio Synopsis: Everyone said the mystery will never be solved. They don't know Jack. Jack Stratton's a good guy on the ugly side of life. Eight years ago a bomb blew his world apart and he's been picking up the pieces ever since. Guilt has driven a wedge between him and the family he loves. When Jack hears the news that his foster-sister Michelle is missing, it cuts straight to his core. The police think she just took off, but Jack knows Michelle would never leave her loved ones behind--like he did. Forced to confront the demons from his past, Jack must take action, find Michelle and bring her home... or die trying. This runaway hit mystery series introduces us to handsome rogue Jack Stratton. Driven by a debt of honor to his fallen foster-brother and a deep need to protect his vulnerable, yet feisty sidekick, Ja

Release Date:  October 18, 2016 Publisher:  Harper Audio Format:  Audio Length:  10 hours 15 minutes Narrator:  Youssif Kamal, Sloane Carson Genre:  Fiction / Romance Buy:  Audible | Kindle | Paperback Synopsis:  Don't be fooled.  Don't make excuses for me.  I am not a good man. I've seen things no one should, done things no one should talk about. Honor and conscience have no place in my life. But I've fought, and I've survived. I've had to. The first time I saw her dancing on that seedy stage in that second-rate club, I felt my heart pulse for the first time. Keelyn Foster was too young, too vibrant for this place, and I knew in an instant that I would make her mine. But first I had to climb my way to the top. I had to have something more to offer her. I'm here now, money is no object, and I have no equal. Except for her. She's disappeared. But don't worry, I will find her and claim her. She will be mine. Like I said, don'

Release Date:  November 10, 2010 Publisher:  Carina Press Format:  Audio Length:  6 hours 49 minutes Narrator:  Sawyer Allerde Genre:  LGBT/Romance/mystery Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis:  A crippling knee injury forced Elliot Mills to trade in his FBI badge for dusty chalkboards and bored college students. Now a history professor at Puget Sound University, the former agent has put his old life behind him, but it seems his old life isn't finished with him. A young man has gone missing from campus and as a favor to a family friend, Elliot agrees to do a little sniffing around. His investigations bring him face-to-face with his former lover, Tucker Lance, the special agent handling the case. Things ended badly with Tucker, and neither man is ready to back down on the fight that drove them apart. But they have to figure out a way to move beyond their past and work together as more men go missing and Elliot becomes the target in a killer's obsessive