Showing results by publisher "Author's Republic" in Thriller & Suspense

It's 1995. When famous author Barron Docksteder moves to the Carolina foothills, the locals don’t know what to make of it. Why did this hotshot writer, whose works have been made into Hollywood films, move to the middle of nowhere? Despite living in North Carolina, Docksteder regularly drives across the border to South Carolina for a late breakfast at a comfortable small-town café. The young café owner, who is a frustrated writer, is befriended by Docksteder, and the two initiate a mentor-mentee relationship that extends well beyond the page.

It’s been six months since Neal Becker was convicted of the murder of his mother-in-law. He’s been committed to the Central State Psychiatric Hospital for life. Meanwhile, "poor, innocent" Baby Natasha is in the custody of Susan Matlow, the compassionate nurse who helped "rescue" her from her criminally insane father. Neal knows what his daughter is. And he knows he only has one chance to stop her from causing more death and destruction.

Set in a typical American city, hacker Jason, a talented computer programmer, is thrown into captivity with Tasha, a woman caught in the snare of human sex trafficking from the darkest part of the Internet, where antivirus efforts and firewalls are shown to be ineffective and useless. Together they must invade computers remotely to steal what they can to satisfy their captors.

Jules was born with a gift, but until now, he's only used it for small and selfish reasons. That will all change as he's inducted into The Circle, a secret international organization that takes the magickally gifted and puts them to work, fighting the forces of darkness, saving an unknowing world from malevolence that hides in the shadows. And Jules knows shadows all too well; he can command them to do his bidding...

A desperate woman steals from a dangerous man. The dominatrix Gabriella steals two paintings from a Montreal mob boss and splits for the west coast, where she meets club jazzer Johnny who quickly discovers her problematic past. When her ex, Francesco, comes to seek revenge, the mob boss sends the assassin Rhino to clean up the mess and retrieve a secret document hidden in one of the paintings - one that could sink the east coast Cosa Nostra.

Forty miles north of New York, at 85 Rochdale Road, there sits a tiny cottage, in a utopian summer community, where Sam Teres spent his summers, far from home and family back in the Bronx. Owned by his maiden aunt, the cottage is the scene of a life-imprinting drama of love and loneliness, of fathers and sons, of passion, work and money.

The Priest follows a working class altar boy's decision to become a priest, exploring the struggle many boys have becoming men, especially around sexuality. Pierre finds safety within the vocational confines and celibacy of his Catholic faith, only then to be astonished as he experiences life vicariously in the shadow of the confessional. Ultimately, he must confront his own emerging sexuality in the real world and reconcile the inevitable collision between the security of doctrine and the risks of being human - all of which takes him to a surprising place.

After a chance meeting between a European DJ and an elite Arabic businessman at an airport, the narrative unfolds, as we discover that all is not what it seems.

While being tracked by a well-known Manhattan investigator, Benjamin Holder won't stop at anything until he finds his daughter. After being imprisoned for 15 years, he finds himself in some financial distress. With Detective Matthew Raegan closing in on him at every turn, he uses the ultimate weapon he designed (while in prison) to help squelch many controversial injustices within the community.

Hiko Shimuzu is not a nice man, but he is ingenious. Ingenious enough to find a lost artifact capable of catalyzing a revolution in China? Maybe. And that's close enough to draw the attention of powerful forces that won't hesitate to kill to keep their secrets safe. Meanwhile, Matthys Rossouw is in hot pursuit, unaware of the full scale of the danger he faces.

Sam and Scarlett have been married for a little more than a year. Scarlett has recently inherited her fathers multimillion-dollar business empire, and Sam has retired from being a private detective to help Scarlett run the business. A four-day weekend at the Windsor, designed as a "getaway" from the pressures of their new life, is interrupted by Detective Inspector Blank, who tries to entice Sam out of retirement to help him with a high-profile murder committed not far from Sam and Scarlett’s iconic hotel, The Windsor.

What do you call it when you ride to a spooky house in the middle of the night and find a device that allows you to talk to animals, and then get kidnapped to become a laboratory experiment, and finally join forces with FBI Agent Scott Tracker to help rescue a town? You call it a day in the life of an 11-year-old Ben Meyer, who reads too many detective adventure stories and doesn’t get along with his dad. His only saving grace is his neighbor’s pet rabbit whose name is Ricky. He’s furry, cuddly, warm, and Ben considers him to be his best friend. That is until someone steals him.

Seventeen-year-old Marylyn Zhasa is a very ambitious young girl who has her future all planned out. She meets Dan, a charming fellow student whose own ambition is to get her at any cost. Not the kind of girl to stand by and let things happen, Marylyn puts up her well-practiced defenses against Dan's unusual advances, in spite of which she gets sucked into a fast-paced world of danger and uncertainty, where plans don't always work out as expected....

It is 1979, and the Cold War tensions between the the United States and Soviet Union have risen to a peak of intensity that makes MAD—mutually assured destruction—seem inevitable. But the nuclear arsenals are not the true weaponry. Spiritual forces, powers of darkness and light, are gathering to battle for the soul and future of the world. Off the coast of Brazil, Brady, a young man who has received a beautiful and terrible gift from the Blessed Virgin, begins the dance of death, delivering long overdue vengeance on a Nazi war criminal.

Brady, the young man who talks with angels and who can call on the Light of the Blessed Virgin to both heal and destroy, retreats to a sanctuary, far off the grid, to protect his wife and unborn child. But there is a prophecy on his destiny, passed to him through his grandfather and great grandfather, which will not allow him to dwell in peace and safety. Brady is a warrior, chosen by God and sealed by his relentless courage and obedience. With his brothers at his side, he has wreaked death and devastation on Satan’s plans to create a new world order.

Just when US WAVE Livvy Delacourt thinks she and her team of psychic Nazi hunters are ready for whatever the Reich can throw at them, Hitler adds to the mix a spy who also happens to be a wizard. Now dark magic is being used to attack US facilities. Livvy must match wits with the evil wizard whose objective is to destroy Operation Delphi and all her team. She must sharpen her skills quickly - or risk dying and taking the team down with her.

Amie Fish, an ordinary English housewife, is thrown headlong into a third world African country when her husband, Jonathan, receives a once-in-a-lifetime promotion. Far from the normal expatriate life Amie was expecting, she finds herself deep in political intrigue, indebted to a corrupt African master manipulator and fighting for her life in the African bush.

Darkness fell upon her as if it had its own life. As it turned out, it did. Charlie’s 39-year-old journey was surrounded by hidden forces. Blind to their powerful influences, she unknowingly walked into a wicked trap that she believed to offer momentary peace. However, this trap was permanent in its grip, and it thrust her into hidden realms that were more alive and vivid than her conscious awareness. Profound regret and overwhelming fear became her reality as she was dragged through the horrors of this unknown realm.

A missing artist has painted a fantastic mermaid portrait that is taking the art world by storm. Larry Settlebottom, a lonesome Chicago museum curator, is hired to find the artist and his model at any cost. His encounters with sea pirates, exotic gypsies, and oceanographers lead him toward a secluded island with a secret guarded by a madman. Did mermaids once inhabit the Earth? To unravel the mystery, Larry must also face his own buried past.

"¿Cuánta tierra necesita un hombre?" es un relato corto escrito por el famoso autor ruso León Tolstói, publicado por primera vez en 1886. Esta obra es considerada una de las obras maestras de la literatura rusa y es conocida por su profundidad filosófica y su crítica social. El relato narra la historia de Pajom, un campesino ambicioso que sueña con poseer más tierras. La trama se centra en su búsqueda de tierras y en su encuentro con los bashkir, un grupo étnico local que le ofrece la oportunidad de adquirir todas las tierras que pueda recorrer a pie en un solo día por un precio muy bajo.