Mary was a circus elephant. The Star of the West. She could dance, play the trumpet and pleased crowds wherever she went.In 1916, after a disastrous Wild West show in Erwin Tennessee, acts against Mary the five-ton Indian elephant would go down in history as one of the most disturbing bizarre cases of animal cruelty the world has ever seen.But, Mary had a life before the circus. She was free once. Part of a wild herd.During the British Raj, she was captured, trained...

Ineke Valence: Single mother of one. Blond. A drinker in spite of prohibition. Resident of Staten Island.The Angel of New York: The law's gun for hire, the one they send when the job gets too risky, a thief, or bodyguard, or murderess... A former spy of the Russian Revolution.During the last months of the Roaring Twenties, one woman must play both roles. But when her NYPD contacts throw her a job that's close to home, she finds the lines between the two alter-agos beginning...

Jimmy Reeves is a down on his luck wildlife wrangler, his career once saw him traveling the globe, working on relocation programs and starring in documentary films. Now, he and his business partner Paul Franciscus are lucky if they can get a gig wrangling bulls in Arizona. Until one day, when they receive a massive advance payment from a mysterious company based in Florida. In return, they are to do what once brought them glory the world over; trap and relocated endangered animals. Little ...

The debut from fledgling publishing house, Wildlands Publishing, Creatures of the Night, by multi-award-winning author of Mighty Mary and Spirits of the Ice Forest, Max Davine.During the Klondike Gold Rush, a 14-year-old foundling escapes from a British Columbian orphanage and inadvertently joins a group of parlour actresses on their way to Dawson City, seeking their fortunes.They don't know she is being followed. A beast out of mythology will sto...

This is the story of the last, desperate attempt by the Vikings to tame what is now Canada's Newfoundland under their formidable Chieftain Freydis Eiriksdottir, one of the most notoriously fearsome shieldmaidens to ever have lived. And of the three natives of those ancient forests, Shanawdithit, Madawaak and Demasduit, who led their people to rise against an overwhelming force. This is the tale of the Spirits of the Ice Forest.

Jimmy Reeves is a down on his luck wildlife wrangler, his career once saw him traveling the globe, working on relocation programs and starring in documentary films. Now, he and his business partner Paul Franciscus are lucky if they can get a gig wrangling bulls in Arizona. Until one day, when they receive a massive advance payment from a mysterious company based in Florida. In return, they are to do what once brought them glory the world over; trap and relocated endangered animals. Little ...

" The Enchanted wrapped its beautiful and terrible fingers around me from the first page and refused to let go after the last. A wondrous book that finds transcendence in the most unlikely of places. . . . So dark yet so exquisite." — Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night CircusAn astonishing and redemptive novel for readers of Alice Sebold and Toni Morrison, told from the point of view of a convict whose magical interpretations of prison ...

"A master class in thriller writing" from the New York Times bestselling author of The Butcher's Boy and Sleeping Dogs ( Los Angeles Times).In Thomas Perry's Edgar Award–winning debut The Butcher's Boy, a professional killer betrayed by the Mafia leaves countless mobsters dead and then disappears. Justice Department official Elizabeth Waring is the only one who believes he ever existed.Many years later, the Butch...

A cop and a mysterious vigilante search for vengeance in this romantic suspense series opener by the USA Today–bestselling author of The Blackest Crimson.Detective Bobbie Gentry has one objective: to stop the serial killer who robbed her of her husband, her child and her life. Nick Shade understands Bobbie's pain—and her desire for vengeance. He's on a mission of his own, and the murderer known as the Storyteller is next on his list.Nick kno...

So terrifying it'll leave readers breathless...When a Minnesota teen is kidnapped, Doc Ford is given an unthinkable ultimatum, and only 36 hours to act on it. But there's something unusual about the boy that his captors don't even know, twisting this deadly game out of control in ways no one can imagine.

Behind closed doors, everyone suffers from some kind of demon.Veteran Elite Operative Landis “Chase” Coolidge’s latest mission requires every bit of her considerable tracking skills because she has to locate a colleague kidnapped by a brilliant scientist responsible for the deaths of millions. Former op Phantom is along for the ride, desperate to find her missing lover.By day, Heather Snyder works in the New York fashion industry. But her secret life as a high-class call gi...

Part Two of a chilling five-part serial killer thriller for fans of James Patterson, Chris Carter, Richard Montanari and Karen Rose.A madman is on the rampage in the Los Angeles streets.The City of Angels has become The City of Fear.And everyone from the Oval Office down wants a quick result.The heat is on Jake Mottram, head of the FBI's new Spree Killer Unit,and psychological profiler Angie Holmes to find the madman responsible.Until now, they'v...