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In the library, every story is tested. Some are judged, some are erased, and some are forced to endure their longest day.Alexandria thought she knew the rules of survival: endure the trials, cling to faith, and keep walking. But when the library turns its gaze fully upon her, she’s thrust into a gauntlet of judgment halls, forgotten shelves, and suffocating silences that threaten to erase her voice forever. Haunted by migraines that blur reality and faith that steadies her steps, she must face the Library’s cruelest truth — it doesn’t just want to test her, it wants to rewrite her.And as the library fractures, its corruption spills outward. Council hearings glitch into game shows, ne...

When the ocean buries a secret, it keeps it deep—unless someone is reckless enough to drag it back into the light.Dr. Clara Holt has dedicated her life to chasing ghosts no sane archaeologist wants to touch—shipwrecks sealed so tight by the Atlantic’s cold teeth that even history forgot they were there. But her obsession has always been one wreck: Orion’s Mercy, a 19th-century merchant ship swallowed whole by a storm that shouldn’t have been strong enough to sink it. Legends claim its captain sealed something terrible in his cabin the night he put a pistol to his own skull.When sonar footage reveals the Mercy’s broken hull resting off the storm-lashed coast of Nova Scotia, Clara ...

Some secrets are too deep for the tide to wash clean.Maritime archaeologist Dr. Clara Holt has spent her life trying to leave the ghosts of the deep where they belong — at the bottom of the cold Atlantic. But when a lighthouse keeper’s mysterious death delivers her a fragment of an old logbook — the last whisper of a shipwreck rumored to hold the infamous Constellation Ledger — Clara is dragged back beneath the surface she swore she’d escaped.The Constellation Ledger is no sailor’s ghost story. If real, it’s the missing key to a hidden trail of colonial smuggling routes that never died — they just evolved. For centuries, powerful families have paid in blood and bribes to keep...

Some debts never drown. Some ghosts never let go.When Clara Holt finds her father’s battered dive log under a bruised sky, she knows the sea hasn’t finished with her family yet. The Iron Revenant — half-legend, half-cursed freighter — waits somewhere beneath the salt-black waves, carrying a vault of stolen gold and secrets that killed better men than Clara’s father ever was.But the Revenant isn’t lost alone. It’s hunted by men who’ll bury the truth deeper than any trench can hold.Clara’s father went down chasing promises he couldn’t buy his way out of — and when Clara vows to finish what he started, she drags a fractured crew into waters colder and darker than any chart...

NCIS Special Agent Linus Schag is no stranger to violence and bloodshed, but when he’s sent to Iraq to take custody of two Navy SEALs suspected of murder, he finds himself thrust into a manmade inferno as coalition forces fight to free northern Iraq from the Islamic extremist group called ISIS.The explosion of an IED allows the SEALs, suspected of killing a fellow commando, to escape and flee up the Tigris River in a stolen Navy patrol boat. Schag pursues the SEALs in another boat assisted by an Army criminal investigator, a vengeful Iraqi interpreter, and a hostile Navy boat crew. Facing danger at each bend in the river, Schag and his companions endure ambushes, firefights, and friendly f...

Gary's created something truly haunting here with 'Astrid: Who Killed Me?' - a supernatural thriller that hooks you from the very first page.Detective Marcus Reid is still tormented by his twin sister Emma's unsolved murder from 14 years ago, spending sleepless nights surrounded by case files and cold coffee.When he's called to investigate the brutal killing of 22-year-old bartender Astrid Novak behind Murphy's Tavern, the crime scene triggers something devastating - Astrid looks exactly like his deceased sister, right down to a matching scar above the left eyebrow.The psychological trauma causes Marcus to collapse at the scene, but what happens next transforms this from a standard police pr...

This is the debut novel of the Abbey Roberts series.  It is a medical thriller.  Abbey is an RN who after brain surgery returns to her workplace, the ICU/trauma unit.  As she navigates her new normal she realizes that the meth-addicted neurosurgeon who botched her surgery is now working in her ICU.  She must stop him before he hurts others, even at the risk of her own career.

This is book 2 of the Abbey Roberts series.  Abbey Roberts becomes the Director of Nursing Care at the Toronto Manor and quickly realizes that her residents are not safe.  With the help of a senior retired investigative journalist, Larry, Abbey must identify what is wrong and fix it so her residents are safe and cared for, even at the risk of her health and marriage.