Ryan Lock thought he'd seen it all, but nothing could prepare him for the world he enters when searching for missing teenager Kristin Miller.Teaming up with Angie Garcia, a former trafficking victim turned advocate, Lock plunges into a shadowy realm where young girls are lured, groomed, and sold into sexual slavery.As he races to find Kristin before she disappears into this dark web, Lock confronts the harsh reality that sometimes victims don't want to be saved. With time r...

Los Angeles is a city of dreams, but for Raven Lane, it's become a nightmare.When the adult film star discovers a headless corpse in her car, she's plunged into a world of terror and suspicion.With the police offering little help and a stalker growing bolder by the day, Raven turns to Ryan Lock, a private security specialist with a reputation for getting results.As Lock digs deeper into the case, he uncovers a web of corruption and violence that threatens to consume...

When elite private security specialists Ryan Lock and Ty Johnson are hired by a wealthy socialite to protect her troubled son, they find themselves drawn into a harrowing game of cat and mouse. As they work to uncover the truth behind Marcus Griffiths' troubling behavior, they become embroiled in a high-stakes, often violent confrontation with dark forces intent on restoring a twisted vision of the "natural order."With his razor-sharp instincts and unwavering determination, former ...

ADJUTANT DESIRED for owner of modest country house. Collection of books, objects, art such as a Picasso to be cataloged before Christmas. Duties: dictation, pruning, shopping, hunting martens.So begins the tale of our young man, an aspiring archivist determined to begin a “serious” life after an undistinguished undergraduate career notable mainly for poor choices in love. Taking up residence in the Italian countryside, he becomes the all-purpose assistant to the Ba...

People put their lives in doctors' hands every day -- but in no other situation is this so literally true as the moment the anesthesiologist looks casually down at you and says, "You'll be going off to sleep now . . ."What if the eyes that gaze down at you in that moment of trust and surrender belong to a madman? What if, as you feel yourself slipping away, you see something in those eyes so rank, so terrifying you want to leap off the table and scream?But by then, of cours...

In this pulse-pounding action thriller perfect for fans of Brad Thor and David Baldacci, Tom Locke must stop dark forces working to overthrow the president"McFate just might be the next Tom Clancy, only I think he's even better . . . The action is non-stop and shuttles back and forth between scary-believable and rollicking good fun. I read High Treason during a six-hour plane ride and the trip went by like the snap of my fingers." —James Patterson

Award-winning combat journalist Sean Naylor reveals a firsthand account of the largest battle fought by American military forces in Afghanistan in an attempt to destroy al-Qaeda and Taliban forces.At dawn on March 2, 2002, America's first major battle of the 21st century began. Over 200 soldiers of the 101st Airborne and 10th Mountain Division flew into Afghanistan's Shah-i-Kot Valley—and into the mouth of a buzz saw. They were about to pay a bloody price for strat...

Delve into the history of the sinister Count Dooku in this audio original set in a galaxy far, far away….Darth Tyranus. Count of Serenno. Leader of the Separatists. A red saber, unsheathed in the dark. But who was he, before he became the right hand of the Sith? As Dooku courts a new apprentice, the hidden truth of the Sith Lord’s past begins to come to light.Dooku’s life began as one of privilege—born within the stony walls of his family’s estate, orbited ...

The epic #1 New York Times bestselling love story that spans decades and continents as two people at a crossroads—one from North Carolina and one from Zimbabwe—experience the transcendence and heartbreak of true love.Hope Anderson has some important choices to make. At thirty-six, she’s been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a week at he...

Are you a troubletwister? Jaide and Jack Shield's lives are changing in a very, very strange way. The weather is turning against them. Magical disasters occur when they're around. And a mysterious explosion has just destroyed their house...from the inside. Without knowing why, the twins are stolen away to live with Grandma X--a relative they've never, ever met. At Grandma X's house, things are even stranger. Weather vanes point in the opposite direction of the wind. Doors appear and disapp...

Xander has only been coming to the Teddy Bear Club meetings at the Roasty Bean for about six months, ever since his surrogate became pregnant. Now the birth of his twins is imminent and he’s feeling totally unprepared.Owner of the Bean and father of twin girls, Zack offers to help Xander round out his shopping list. Their efforts are interrupted though, by a call informing Xander that his daughters are coming right now.Once the babies are born, Xander leans on Zack for supp...

After divorcing the woman he'd been with since he was seventeen, 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 wor...