by L.A. Starks (2014)
When several people involved in bidding for an oil refinery are murdered, the situation becomes far more than a billion-dollar business deal. A self-made woman in the oil industry, Lynn Dayton fights to save lives when escalating attacks reveal a hired assassin's plan to disrupt oil trade, wreck world economies, and draw another global power into dangerous confrontation with the United States. Are the killers rogue civil servants challenging the Cherokees' financial independence, Sansei operatives again wreaking violence, or sinister investors swapping the bidding war for a real one? Lynn Dayton and Cherokee tribal executive Jesse Drum must learn to trust each other so they can find and stop the killers.
Christopher Belton
When a biologically engineered bacterium is unleashed on the unsuspecting Tokyo population, spreading death and destruction, American Peter Bryant, while trying to contain the bacterium, finds himself torn between two nations and trapped in a dangerous web of murder, corruption, and betrayal.
Lotte and Søren Hammer
When the body of a girl is discovered in the melting Greenland ice cap, hundreds of miles from any civilization, Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen investigates the murder and discovers disturbing details about some of Denmark's most powerful figures.
A.M. Dean
A Key, Lost for Millennia While tracking down the relic hunters who murdered her cousin, Dr Emily Weiss and her husband Michael are seeking a dangerous artefact. This ancient key lies hidden in the Egyptian desert and will wreak havoc in the wrong hands. A Religious Order, Promising the End In Chicago, the Magnificent Mile is about to go down in history. A dangerous sect is preparing for an explosive Independence Day parade and the finishing touches are being put on a device that will wreak untold havoc on the city. An Attack, Shrouded in Mystery Soon Emily, Michael and the ruler of the sect are racing to Egypt. One party craves retribution, the other seeks spiritual ascendancy, and both sides will do whatever it takes to succeed. But can Emily and Michael stop the sect before they transform an ancient promise into a very modern curse?
Lee Hoffman
It seems easy enough for James Fox to convince rancher Amos McRae that for $60,000 the mineral spring on his land could be converted into a spa that would attract a railroad into Stick City. When things go wrong, Fox is in a situation that requires all his wits to come out alive. Two deaths threaten to expose his identity--a turn of events that could put him at the wrong end of a hangman's noose.