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The Company She Keeps

by Diana R. Chambers A young southern woman, Evelyn-also known as "E"-is confronted by a CIA officer, Nick, who says her mysterious lover is being investigated as a foreign mole. Shocked, she agrees to cooperate, secretly. E thus enters the international world of espionage, with its intrigue, glamour, and danger. That world will mark her-and she [...]

The Journey Through Illusion

by Glenn Willoughby Jamison Everett is an ex-cop struggling to put his life back together after a series of tragic events cost him his career. Drifting through life, he is hired by his late grandfather's distribution company to locate Michael Reyes, a corporate analyst who has missed a crucial research deadline. At first, every lead [...]

Halloween Night Fever – End of the Long Walk

by Dan Graffeo Willy Hynes can't understand how he pulled a patch of caribou skin out of his dream. Willy's mentor, Vince, explains that other residents of Sleepy Owl have had similar dreams. It is a sign to join the Pniese, a secret society formed for Halloween, when the undead are allowed to cross over. [...]

Seven: Tales of Terror

by Michael P. Raff "The Door" - in 1963, two young, Catholic boys, Tommy Stockton and Roger Bartlett, discover an old, locked, metal door hidden beneath a stage in their school auditorium. Tommy suffers through two horrifying nightmares warning him that there is something evil behind it. Roger finds a key to open the door's padlock [...]

Stinger

by Diana R. Chambers An espionage thriller set in pre-Taliban Afghanistan. When a shipment of Stinger missiles disappears, a CIA officer becomes entangled in an unusual triangle with a journalist and her former lover, now an elusive mujahideen chief. These characters lead us into a world of danger, a world of spy versus spy, where hidden [...]

Dead End

by Carol W. Hazelwood All Patty Harkin has left in the world is her father's new truck. Without any hope of getting work as a mechanic in northern Minnesota, she accepts the job of driving Josh, a mysterious blindman, and his trailer to Arizona. Along the way she learns Josh is trying to prevent a [...]

Alive Again

by John Class Shakespeare said, "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones." The resurrection will make the evil that men do live much longer and pose more difficulty than was ever imagined. The good that men do will return with them as a medal of honor to [...]

From Ashes to Beauty

by John Class John Class had a lifelong fascination with stories, especially biblical stories. Stories somehow always ended at the grave. The promise of the resurrection of the dead would change this, and he envisioned stories in another dimension. Yes, it is electrifying to realize every story is going to be taken up again in the [...]

Web of Obsessions

by Carol W. Hazelwood Greed, environmental conflict, and ulterior motives result in murder in the wild-river setting of Canada's Northwest Territory during a canoe expedition. When a wolf trapper attempts to destroy evidence, long-kept secrets are divulged. Some seek a diamond lode, others try to locate radioactive debris from a downed Russian spy satellite, while [...]

Tag: thriller

The Company She Keeps

The Journey Through Illusion

Halloween Night Fever – End of the Long Walk

Seven: Tales of Terror

Stinger

Dead End

Alive Again

From Ashes to Beauty

Web of Obsessions

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