As Coral slides into a mansion stuffed with historical artifacts for another heist, she has no clue what awaits on the other side of the door. She escapes with the stolen goods only to find that her father has been killed in retaliation; his charred remains found in her childhood home. Now she must come out of the shadows and find out who did this. When she does, she realizes that the forces she faces might be too much for her.Meanwhile, Matt works at a shadow private intelligence a...

An assassin sits at a cafe, photo in hand. He's waiting for his target. The target arrives, and the assassin reaches for his gun. But nothing is as it seems. And as the assassin tries to finish his job, he realizes that it's him who's being hunted...What will happen? Will he survive?

In the wild tundra of Alaska a young man, Joe, finds himself on the wrong end of a gun during a drug deal. It's not long before he's quivering, and tasting his own blood. He and his friends decide to find out who is behind this betrayal.As they dig, they discover that Alaska has a dark underbelly—teeming with corrupt cops, mad gunmen, and femme fatales—that's just waiting to eat them alive. They wade in, and Joe soon finds that they may have chewed off more than they can handle.

As John mourns the loss of his mother, he must learn to fight off the hunters coming after him. And come they will. Never stopping, never letting him relax. Will he survive? His uncle tries to help, though it may not be enough. Evil keeps on coming at him.In this sequel to the mind-bending High School Freak, we travel with John as he finds out more about his powers while trying to survive the hordes out to get him for being him...

Jack's been through war, but he's struggling to make it in New York City. On the way to a last chance job interview his heart drops... he sees a man he recognizes from his time in Iraq! An evil man.A terrorist is lose in NY and Jack needs to find out why. Forgetting his interview, he's soon on the chase trying to stop another act of terror. But will he succeed?

John lives alone with his mother, who is much too protective for his tastes. He gets made fun of at school, and hates every minute he spends there. He's resigned himself to surviving high school by not being seen.One day the school bullies push him too far, and he strikes back. But the consequences are too much for him to handle. He knows he's special, his mother always says so, but these new powers might be too special for his own good.Before he knows it, John is thrown in...

This book gathers together nearly 200 of the most beautiful entries into four distinct chapters; Sun, Moon, Stars, Rain. Together with several new and exclusive poems that don't appear anywhere else, each chapter of I Wrote This For You focuses on a different facet of life, love, loss, beginnings and endings."I need you to understand something. I wrote this for you. I wrote this for you and only you. Everyone else who reads it, doesn't get it."

An intelligence agent is on the hunt for a nefarious cyberterrorist in this “utterly compelling” spy thriller by the acclaimed author and Black Ops veteran (Jeffrey Deaver).The world is descending into chaos—and Dan Morgan of the elite intelligence unit Zeta Division knows the worst is yet to come. Mysterious government contractor Acevedo International is smuggling drugs and weapons across the globe. But as Morgan tracks down the nerve center of their illegal opera...

With time running out to stop the nuclear destruction of Tel Aviv, Dewey Andreas must defeat his most fearsome opponent yet.Off a quiet street in Brooklyn, New York, Israeli Special Forces commander Kohl Meir is captured by operatives of the Iranian secret service, who smuggle Meir back to Iran, where he is imprisoned, tortured, and prepared for a show trial.What they don't know is that Meir was in New York to recruit Dewey Andreas for a secret operation. Meir had ...

In October 2008, Mellissa Fung, a long-time reporter for CBC’s The National, was leaving a refugee camp outside of Kabul. Suddenly, she was grabbed by armed men claiming to be Taliban, stabbed, stuffed into the back of a car and driven off into the desert. When the group finally reached a village in the middle of nowhere, her kidnappers pushed her towards a hole in the ground. For twenty-eight days, Mellissa Fung lived in that hole, which was barely big enough to stand up or lie d...

An "impressive" and "gripping" Scandinavian mystery from an author who "succeeds in evoking sympathy for all her characters . . . [in a] fair-play whodunit" (Publishers Weekly).Inspector Sejer is hard at work again, investigating the brutal murder of a woman who lived alone in the middle of the woods. The chief suspect is another loner, a schizophrenic recently escaped from a mental institution. The only witness is a twelve-year-old boy, overweight, obsessed with ar...

Have you been told there's a little too much telling in your novel? Want to remedy it? Then this is the book for you!In Show & Tell in a Nutshell: Demonstrated Transitions from Telling to Showing you will find sixteen real scenes depicting a variety of situations, emotions, and characteristics which clearly demonstrate how to turn telling into showing. A few short writing prompts are also provided.Not only is this pocket guide an excellent learning tool for aspirin...