Heart of the assassin

Sample

Julia McDermott

After years of guilt over a long-ago tragedy, Candace Morgan is finally poised for success. The CEO of her own women's shapewear company, she's about to launch a new swimsuit line--and make a fortune. When she is guilted into loaning her brother a huge sum of money for real estate, she believes she's simply fulfilling a family promise. In reality, she's enabling a devious sociopath ... and now, she's roped into the renovation from hell. For years, Monty Carawan has envied his sister's wealth. Spiteful and self-centered, he's convinced that her success came at the expense of his own future. But when the housing market plunges and Candace attempts to disentangle herself from Monty's mess, her brother's malicious streak brings the family tension to a dangerous boiling point.--Back cover.

Sample

Colin D. Peel

In a new job, but unable to forget the horrors of his last assignment, freelance photojournalist Michael Fraser is unprepared for the tragedy that introduces him to Anna Todini. When he agrees to help her, he finds himself entangled in an international conspiracy that aims to undermine the future of the West's military defences. Against his better judgement, but no longer able to ignore attempts on Anna's life, Fraser is forced to relive his past and fight for his own survival in remote and dangerous regions of Eastern Europe To keep Anna alive Fraser must depend on men who operate outside the law and he has somehow to discover whether or not he has been fatally betrayed.

Sample

Gregg Hurwitz

Over the past two decades, Nick Horrigan has built a quiet, safe life for himself, living as much under the radar as possible. But all of that shatters when, in the middle of the night, a SWAT team bursts into his apartment, grabs him and drags him to a waiting helicopter. A terrorist--someone Nick has never heard of--has seized control of a nuclear reactor, threatening to blow it up. And the only person he'll talk to is Nick, promising to tell Nick the truth behind the events that shattered his life twenty years ago.

Sample

Jason Webster

"Sent on leave after his last, brutal case, Detective Max Cámara returns to his home town in La Mancha. There, the past keeps pulling at him. The town is exhuming a mass grave from the Civil War, but why is his grandfather behaving so strangely? His old friend Yago is investigating a particularly nasty murder, which sets off memories Max has been trying to bury for years. And then there are Yago's whisperings about a saffron mafia. Max finds himself plunged into the thick of a complex and intensely personal case that will put him in severe danger and have him questioning his past - and his future in the police."--Publisher description.