Once upon a time, Robert “Butch” Bliss was a rising star in the adult film entertainment industry. He had promise. He had talent. Everyone said he was on his way up.But he went down instead. Down for a load of cocaine that wasn’t his, in a car that wasn’t his, either. Bliss is sentenced to five years at the state correctional facility in Tehachapi, where he gets five more years following an unfortunate incident in the prison shower. Ten years is a long time. Ten years can do a lot ...

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Robert "Butch" Bliss has spent the last ten years in prison, for crimes he didn't commit. Now, his time served, he's ready to get out and find his way back to the world he knew.Or not, because his old job? Working in the adult filmed entertainment industry. Perhaps it is time for Butch to find a new career, though not ten minutes after he walks out of jail, he finds himself drawn back into that same salacious world. Is he in or is he out? He needs to decide pretty quick, before som...

Once upon a time, Robert "Butch" Bliss paid his debt to society, and now he's not looking for any trouble. But it finds him anyway. It starts with a trip across the border with a handful of co-eds and a large python in a sack. Soon, he's got mysterious government agencies, conspiracy theorists, drug smugglers, high-price lawyers, and a seriously yappy dog on his tail. Oh, and one of the co-eds is trying to blackmail him, but she's not very good at it . . .Filled with unforgettable ...

Robert "Butch" Bliss is not a man who goes looking for trouble. He's out of work, doesn't owe anyone money, and is happily living rent-free in the bungalow in Mrs. Chow's backyard. He did his time in prison, and he paid his debt to Mr. Chow, before the old man died. Life is simple and easy for Butch.Until two guys try to rob a convenience store when Butch is buying beer. It looks like one of those "what are the chances?" coincidences, except Butch knows one of the robbers. The last...

From bestselling team James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge, Nina Bloom must confront the killer she thought she escaped forever to save the life of an innocent man.The perfect lifeA successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York—including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows that she can't let him pay for ...

Your best friend . . . or a vicious killer? You won't know until it's too late in this Women's Murder Club novel from the world's #1 bestselling author.Lindsay Boxer is pregnant at last! But her work doesn't slow for a second. When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, she discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four of San Francisco's most untouchable criminals. And it was taken from her own department's evidence locker. Anyone cou...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now!“A solid, poignant tale of violence against the innocent . . . cool, brisk and polished.”—The Washington Post“The combination of Alex Delaware [and] Detective Milo Sturgis . . . makes for the most original whodunit duo since Watson and Holmes.”—Forbes**In an upscale L.A. neighborhood, a backy...

Discover where it all began—the first “snappily written, fast-paced, and witty” (USA TODAY) novel in the beloved Stephanie Plum series featuring a feisty and funny heroine who “comes roaring in like a blast of very fresh air” (The Washington Post), from Janet Evanovich, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dirty Thirty.Meet Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter with attitude. In Stephanie’s opinion, toxic waste, rabid drivers, armed...

The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now!**A second-rate actor is found mutilated in a car trunk. Then a psychologist at a Los Angeles hospital for the criminally insane is murdered in a similar grisly fashion. Suddenly the incoherent ramblings of an inmate at the presumably secure institution begin to make chilling sense—they are, in fact, horrifying predictions. Yet how can a barely functional psycho...

In this spectacular New York Times bestselling father/son collaboration that “barrels along like a freight train” (Publishers Weekly), Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep: they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodi...

“I leaned forward and put my hand softly against his chest, my fingers tracing lightly over the patches on his jacket.  My lips, quivering with anticipation, pressed forward against his and I felt no resistance in him.  He kissed me back and I was shocked at the softness he brought me.  So much of him seemed like a fearsome animal.  The softness was a surprise that made me smile ear to ear – a hard thing to do when you’re trying to kiss someone.”  ...