USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith takes you into the world of his acclaimed novel Dead Money with a new series about a group of retired Las Vegas Police detectives playing poker and solving cold cases.Retired Detective Bayard Lott hosts the weekly poker games at his home. The group calls themselves the Cold Poker Gang. And they succeed at closing old cases.Lott’s very first homicide case as a brand-new detective had gone cold more than twenty years earlier. But r...

It's not that Tate Grayson is impulsive, it's just that he thinks life is too short to take seriously. That's why he sold his multimillion-dollar company and spun his fanaticism for sports into a radio talk show. Tate also knows that love is fleeting as well--a fact he never resists rubbing into the face of the relationship advice radio host and total stick in the mud, Noelle Butler.After the death of her parents, a tragedy she blamed on herself, Noelle vowed to live a controlled, ...

The Incredible True Story of Two Girls in the Seventeen-Hundreds Who Become the Powers Behind the Thrones of the World's Greatest EmpiresThe fulfillment of an outrageous prediction seals the fates of two cousins in this true story that begins on a Caribbean sugar plantation and careens wildly towards the thrones of two empires. Innocent Aimée refuses to believe she might ever have to face the intrigue and evil that lurks beneath the exotic beauty and opulence of the...

International Bestseller: A novel of youthful love and loss and "a powerful evocation of the war years" in England ( The Guardian).On a hot August evening in 1939, cousins Oliver, Calypso, Polly, Walter, and Sophy spent one last night together, celebrating the end of summer, at the home of their aunt and uncle. Now, forty years later, as the motley cast of characters drive to the funeral of one of their own, they recall how important that night t...

A “superb fantasy saga” (Helene Wecker) of martial arts and magic, about what happens when a prophesied hero is not the chosen one after all—but has to work with a band of unlikely allies to save the kingdom anyway, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lives of Tao“An ambitious and touching exploration of disillusionment in faith, tradition, and family—a glorious reinvention of fantasy and wuxia tropes.”—Naomi Novik, Ne...

**Five ordinary teens are given the chance of a lifetime. An offer to have any super-power imaginable with only one condition . . . they must pledge allegiance to a league of notorious supervillains.“A healthy dose of clever one-liners, snappy dialogue, and plenty of chases and explosions.”—School Library Journal**Kidnapped from their everyday lives, five teens are given the chance to change their fate forever. Imagine being promised the super strength to take down...

A smart, sharply written novel from a talent whose "fresh and original" works made her one of England's most beloved authors ( The New York Times).Abandoned by her mother and betrayed by the men she thought she loved, Juno Marlowe is alone. So alone that when the air raid sirens ring out, she has nowhere to hide until a kind but frail man offers to take her in for the night. Her sad story inspires him to write her a letter of introduction to his family—a c...

Tensions escalate between two alien factions as the battle to leave Earth reaches deadly new heights in this funny sci-fi thriller sequel to The Lives of TaoThe Prophus and the Genjix are at war. For centuries they have sought a way off-planet, guiding humanity’s social and technological development to the stage where space travel is possible. The end is now in sight, and both factions have plans to leave the Earth, but the Genjix method will mean the dest...

A personal history of one family's hardships at the dawn of World War II, when thousands of Poles were forced into exile by the Soviet government."A finely wrought memoir of loss and survival…. With this work, Adamczyk has brought illumination and honor to the families of the thousands who suffered the same terrible fate."— Publishers WeeklyIn the shadow of the Holocaust, the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish ...

In wide-open Frisco, Jessie and Ki take on a Chinese gang in a deadly house of pleasure...The internation crime cartel that killed Jessie's dad is out to destroy the Starbuck empire, and they're allied with the Steel Claw, the gang leader of the West's wide-open city. To stop them, Ki fights the "tong" while Jessie goes "under-covers" in Frisco's most elegant brothel.

Revenge is supposed to be sweet...Caitlin Monroe is ready to confront her past…along with the biological father who ditched her pregnant mother for the NBA. Now he’s a big-shot coach with a reputation for being a “family man.” But not for long—because Caitlin has a plan to take dear ol’ dad down. That is, until she finds herself stranded and now her sexy rescuer is about to complicate everything.New NBA star Brady Hudson wants nothing more than to...

In the rugged New Mexico territory, Jessie and Ki battle fierce Indians involved in a sinister conspiracy in the tenth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck—a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki—the martial arts master sworn to protect her and the code she lived by. Together they conquered the West as no other man and woman ever had!