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Author: Jean Thomas
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460329260
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Falling back in love with his ex may be more dangerous than being trapped on an island… Brenna Coleman's past has caught up to her on the island of St. Sebastian…and she's not happy to see him. FBI agent Casey McBride has a job to do, and he won't let feelings for his ex-fiancée foil his mission. While investigating the activities of Marcus Bradley—a powerful billionaire commissioning a series of Brenna's paintings—Casey discovers the island's darkest atrocity. With Brenna at his side, he can't ignore the love they once felt—and still feel—for one another. But as Casey keeps close watch on Brenna, one question remains uncertain: Who is keeping close watch on them?

Author: Kim Baldwin
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN: 1602823200
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Love has never been more lethal. Elite operative Domino is no stranger to peril and impossible situations. Trained all her life to be just as comfortable fighting terrorists as mixing with the gala crowd, she is proficient at playing any role necessary to accomplish her objective and believes the cause sanctifies the means. But her latest assignment to investigate journalist Hayley Ward will test more than her skills, ingenuity, and courage, because this time she faces the ultimate dilemma: a choice between loyalty and love. First in the Elite Operatives romantic intrigue series.

Author: Caroline Light
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807064661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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A history of America’s Stand Your Ground gun laws, from Reconstruction to Trayvon Martin After a young, white gunman killed twenty-six people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012, conservative legislators lamented that the tragedy could have been avoided if the schoolteachers had been armed and the classrooms equipped with guns. Similar claims were repeated in the aftermath of other recent shootings—after nine were killed in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, and in the aftermath of the massacre in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Despite inevitable questions about gun control, there is a sharp increase in firearm sales in the wake of every mass shooting. Yet, this kind of DIY-security activism predates the contemporary gun rights movement—and even the stand-your-ground self-defense laws adopted in thirty-three states, or the thirteen million civilians currently licensed to carry concealed firearms. As scholar Caroline Light proves, support for “good guys with guns” relies on the entrenched belief that certain “bad guys with guns” threaten us all. Stand Your Ground explores the development of the American right to self-defense and reveals how the original “duty to retreat” from threat was transformed into a selective right to kill. In her rigorous genealogy, Light traces white America’s attachment to racialized, lethal self-defense by unearthing its complex legal and social histories—from the original “castle laws” of the 1600s, which gave white men the right to protect their homes, to the brutal lynching of “criminal” Black bodies during the Jim Crow era and the radicalization of the NRA as it transitioned from a sporting organization to one of our country’s most powerful lobbying forces. In this convincing treatise on the United States’ unprecedented ascension as the world’s foremost stand-your-ground nation, Light exposes a history hidden in plain sight, showing how violent self-defense has been legalized for the most privileged and used as a weapon against the most vulnerable.

Author: Linda Howard
Publisher: HQN Books
ISBN: 0373778236
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 606

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In this double dose of romance, two worlds collide in timeless stories of love and deception by "New York Times"-bestselling author Howard and "USA Today"-bestselling author Force.

Author: Tom Henderson
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN: 1466866918
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 393

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***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.*** A promising young attorney and a dedicated family man, Michael Fletcher seemed to have it all. But in the summer of 2000, Michael found himself standing trial for the murder of his pregnant wife, Leann. The verdict--guilty of second-degree murder--would leave friends, family, and the public at large scrambling to make sense of a twisted and frightening series of events that ended in the brutal killing of Leann Fletcher. What could possibly have led Michael Fletcher to commit such a gruesome act? As a college student, Michael Fletcher married the girl of his dreams after a three-year courtship. It seems like a fairy-tale romance come true: a match made in heaven. So why would a man with no history of domestic violence murder his devoted wife right after he told her how much he loved her? Why would Michael shoot Leann in the back of the head, not only killing her but also the child that she was carrying inside her? According to prosecutors, Fletcher has been involved in an extramarital affair with a beautiful judge for two years. Was his relationship with respected District Judge Susan Chrzanowski enough cause for him to murder his wife in cold blood? Raising even more troubling questions, the startling discovery colored Leann's already shocking murder with shadings of sex, political scandal, and deadly betrayal.

Author: Linda Howard
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1743640528
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 391

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Against the Rules by Linda Howard At seventeen, Cathryn Ashe fought her attraction to Rule Jackson and lost. Humiliated, she fled to the anonymity of the city. Now she's back, independent and more sure of herself than ever – and ready to challenge him again. But Rule is raising the stakes, and what Cat stands to lose is something she's known all along is his for the taking – her heart. Fatal Affair by Marie Force Detective Sergeant Sam Holland needs a big win to salvage her career – and her confidence – after a disastrous case. The perfect opportunity arises when she's assigned to the investigation of a senator's murder. But she has to team up with Nick Cappuano, the senator's friend and chief of staff and the man she had a memorable one–night stand with years earlier. Their sexual chemistry still sizzles, but sleeping with a material witness is a mistake Sam can't afford – especially when the bodies keep piling up.

Author: Maria Eftimiades
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466863137
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Her father called her his little princess... The adored only child of affluent parents who placed the world at her feet, Amy Fisher had a glowing future. But she yearned for excitement, for the dark thrill of danger. Her friends called her a mysterious loner... While her classmates happily planned dates for the prom, 17-year-old Amy Fisher appalled them with tales of her wild sexual escapades, of her steamy, obsessive alleged affair with a married man--of a wife she wanted out of the picture. Police called her a call girl and a killer... But it wasn't until Amy was arrested for attempting to slay unsuspecting Mary Jo Buttafuoco in cold blood in front of her own home, that police and reporters uncovered stories that included a sinister hidden world of secret call girl rings, attempts to hire hitmen with payment in sex--and a beeper still nestled in her purse on which clients could page her with personal codes. Veteran People reporter Maria Eftimiades has covered the case in Lethal Lolita--and in this riveting book reveals a story even more shocking than the sensational headlines that captured the attention of the nation, and turn an all-American town inside out.

Author: Marie Force
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780373002214
Category : Holland, Sam (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Detective Sergeant Sam Holland has a chance to redeem her career when she is assigned to investigate a senator's murder, but when she is teamed up with a former fling, she must separate her reignited passions from the case at hand.

Author: Jennifer D. Bokal
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0369743075
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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Shoutline options: A killer broadcasting his crimes… Where will he strike next? When Decker Newsome brings his violent crimes to Kathryn Glass’s doorstep, the undersheriff will stop at nothing to capture the killer. Ryan Steele may be her best chance to catch the criminal, but can she really trust Decker’s former partner in crime…even if he’s redeemed himself? To Kathryn’s surprise, Ryan makes a good partner—in more ways than one. But as they make their way through Decker's web of violence, will their connection be enough to save them? From Harlequin Romantic Suspense: Danger. Passion. Drama. Feel the excitement in these uplifting romances, part of the Texas Law series: Book 1: Texas Law: Undercover Justice Book 2: Texas Law: Serial Manhunt Book 3: Texas Law: Lethal Encounter

Author: Alexis Hall
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 044000134X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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In this charming, witty, and weird fantasy novel, Alexis Hall pays homage to Sherlock Holmes with a new twist on those renowned characters. Upon returning to the city of Khelathra-Ven after five years fighting a war in another universe, Captain John Wyndham finds himself looking for somewhere to live, and expediency forces him to take lodgings at 221b Martyrs Walk. His new housemate is Ms. Shaharazad Haas, a consulting sorceress of mercurial temperament and dark reputation. When Ms. Haas is enlisted to solve a case of blackmail against one of her former lovers, Miss Eirene Viola, Captain Wyndham is drawn into a mystery that leads him from the salons of the literary set to the drowned back-alleys of Ven and even to a prison cell in lost Carcosa. Along the way he is beset by criminals, menaced by pirates, molested by vampires, almost devoured by mad gods, and called upon to punch a shark. But the further the companions go in pursuit of the elusive blackmailer, the more impossible the case appears. Then again, in Khelathra-Ven reality is flexible, and the impossible is Ms. Haas' stock-in-trade.