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Caleb Jansen's old life is in ruins after being possessed by the vampire spirit Gray. Now all Caleb wants is for Gray to be exorcised so he can adjust to living as a registered paranormal. Instead, District Chief Kaniyar of SPECTR offers him a new choice: be locked away for public safety, or come work for the very agency he's spent years trying to avoid.

John Starkweather is reeling from the discovery that SPECTR, the agency to which he’s dedicated his life, experimented on him as a child. As his true memories continue to return, he has but one purpose: to find the other victims.

After becoming possessed by the vampire spirit Gray, telekinetic Caleb Jansen thought his situation couldn't get any worse. But that was before Graham Forsyth, head of SPECTR's sinister Research Division, took him into custody. Forsyth claims he can exorcise Gray before the forty-day time limit runs out. But once at RD, Caleb and Gray find themselves ensnared in a web of lies. What is the truth behind the tests Forsyth is performing on them? What does the agency really plan to do with Gray?

In the fifth book of the award-winning Boystown mystery series, it's fall 1982 and Chicago is gripped by panic after five people die from poisoned Tylenol capsules. Amid the chaos, the Bughouse Slasher takes his eighth victim, this time striking close to private investigator Nick Nowak. With the Chicago Police Department stretched to its limit, Nick takes matters into his own hands. But what will he do with the Bughouse Slasher once he finds him?

In the first full-length novel of the Boystown series, it's late summer 1982 and private detective Nick Nowak is asked to find a retired gentleman's long lost lover. Instead, he finds himself embroiled in a decades old murder connected to the man who wants to be Chicago's next mayor. Meanwhile, an ambitious young reporter develops a friendship with Nick's lover Bert, making Nick wonder exactly where their relationship may be heading.

Coleman Wilder is a half-breed werewolf. Some days the tension between his human side and his werewolf instincts threaten to tear him apart. But the challenge of running a horse farm as a gay man in a conservative Tennessee town keeps him focused until he meets horse shifter, Jonah Marks.

She’s an interstellar spy. He’s an alien warlord. Can their love heal a rift in time and space? Delilah Oliver "Doc" Clementyne specializes in impossible missions. When relations between the Earth Expedition and the Gadi starts to turn ugly, she’s sent on a desperate mission to bring their people home before war breaks out. But Doc nearly blows her cover when she saves the life...and loses her heart...to the most hated leader in the galaxy.

A 20-something paramedic suffering from PTSD and a failing relationship with his high school sweetheart becomes embroiled in the tragic life of a young, gay man brutally beaten, raped, and left for dead. Kane Abel can't help falling for his caregiver, the handsome paramedic who saves his life, but he's resistant. The one time Kane threw caution to the wind, he was left with a wired jaw and a tracheostomy. He can't take much more hurt.

Federal exorcist John Starkweather's life is in tatters. His best friend, Sean, betrayed him. SPECTR, the agency he viewed more as a surrogate family than an employer, wants him dead. His only allies are members of the mysterious organization called the Vigilant, whose motives remain in question.

Sexual energy is often overlooked in much of the dating, seduction, and pick-up artist material out there. Why do some guys just seem to ooze this sexual confidence while others seem like sexually-neutered nice guys? Is there a precise, step-by-step method of harnessing this sexual energy so that attracting beautiful women is effortless? For years I struggled with meeting and attracting women, dating women, and escalating to sex with women.

The second she meets Ellis, she knows there's something about him and immediately makes him her private bodyguard. But he's determined just to do his job, and she's determined to make him open up. When her life is threatened and his secrets are exposed, will Ellis be able to guard Sam from danger, and his heart from her?

Bods Among Men is aimed as a guidebook for reshaping how we think about ourselves in relation to the food we eat, the bodies we move, and the emotional and spiritual travails that consume us in our ongoing physical journey as men. Finally, there is the most essential acknowledgement of all: Reframing our choices so that diet and exercise are no longer a means to an end, but rather an inevitable consequence of life-altering awareness.

Where can we find a wellspring of inspiration to raise us from our doldrums, rekindle our enthusiasm about everyday events, and encourage us to explore untested possibilities? Maybe we can find it in familiar places: within ideas and examples of people we know that illuminate higher values to aspire to; among simple interests and pleasures that we take for granted and never fully recognize; and connected to unresolved problems that cry out for innovative solutions.

Keepers of Secrets is a science fiction thriller with a touch of religious overtones. The intense plot surrounds the Vatican in Rome, a religious order with centuries of dark secrets hidden within their archives and vaults, hidden from many inquiring minds, searching for answers and truth.

Why are each of us here? Is this our first and last time around? If not, what aspects of our true "selves" will follow present mortal experiences? Such fundamental questions have fascinated philosophers, theologians, and scientists over thousands of years. Cosmic Musings author Professor Larry Bell explores a literal universe of possibilities revealed through his provocatively thoughtful lifelong tour of diverse teachings and theories dating from Aristotle to leading contemporary thought leaders.

Big crime has come literally crashing down on the small town of Wind River, Wyoming. When a small plane bound for the Canadian border, and carrying money for the Sustantivo Cartel, smashes into the glacial Wind River Mountains, the event brings a heartless evil presence to one of the more remote places on Earth.

When God whispers, the wise listen. In this SHORT STORY [19 Minutes], a busy husband and father fails to heed the quiet voice of the Lord. In doing so, he experiences the loving admonition of God whispering loudly.

Fifteen years ago... On a beautiful September afternoon, Colin Wyle was boating with his girlfriend Natalie Merian when she disappeared. Natalie's politician father assumed the worst. A media storm ensued, causing panic in the area and Colin came under suspicion. Desperate to find his love, he sought help from a mysterious source, forcing Colin to make the hardest choice of his life: Commit a crime or lose her forever.

He didn't do short term relationships.... American ad exec, Thane Aleksander, doesn't date co-workers either-until business takes him to Ghana, West Africa, and he meets Naaki. Now he's at risk of breaking all the rules. Can he stop this headlong fall before it's too late? Until he met her! Naaki Tabika has a burning need to prove, to herself and to others, that she's more than wife and mother material. To do so, she's prepared to give up everything for her job. Meeting Thane, however, makes her want to get personal.

Blood Land is a gritty, emotional saga set in the Wyoming badlands with both greed and vengeance at its core. When billions of dollars in natural gas rights hang in the balance and the town's top law officer's wife is slain by her own blood, a reluctant hero is forced to battle his own demons and ultimately choose between justice, revenge, and duty.