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There is a house overlooking the vast, rolling plains. A home station where a traveler will be welcomed with a piping hot meal and a downy bed. It is a refuge for the weary. A beacon for the lost. A place where blood and bones feed the land.

Deanne Stephens Nuwer explores the social, political, racial, and economic consequences of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi. A mild winter, a long spring, and a torrid summer produced conditions favoring the Aedes aegypti and spread of fever. In late July New Orleans newspapers reported the epidemic and upriver officials established checkpoints, but efforts at quarantine came too late. Yellow fever was developing by late July, and in August deaths were reported. The fever raged until mid-October, killing many.

When Sal Williams is found dead on the trail, a local Sheriff has to find out who murdered him, and track down his killer. Will one local Sheriff be enough to take down one of the most notorious murderers in the West?

The Big Show chronicles Jocelyn McLaren's involvement with a presidential election. As her history of working for a US defense conglomerate collides with global finance and murder, her future becomes increasingly unstable. Will she survive?

Divided into three books, Security Through Absurdity is the story of corporate shenanigans, an uneasy home life, and a quixotic presidential campaign. These situations propel Jocelyn through a believably bizarre journey and into dangerous psychological territory. In a matrix of life-threatening situations, she is forced to question the very fabric of her Gen-X American upbringing. Bubbles Will Pop is the second book in Jocelyn's journey.

Jocelyn McLaren is a beautiful, hardworking, yet naive visual artist who, through a twist of fate, ends up working for a major US defense contractor during the lead up to the Iraq war. She unknowingly witnesses and unwittingly participates in crimes that haunt her and are ultimately interlinked with the most nefarious psychopaths on the planet.

Billionaire Val Dragomir was offering to help fulfil her lifelong dream of becoming a famous published author. But only if she agreed to help fulfil his dream of being a father. However, Val was more than a secretive billionaire. He was a werewolf - a werewolf with enemies. And if Hazel were to decide to have his baby, she would have her work cut out in more ways than one.

Cyrus Callister deserted his pack to join the Civil War and came back a three-legged wolf. By rights, he should have been exiled, but his alpha granted him mercy. Now, his alpha needs a favor, and Cyrus can't say no. She-wolf Remember Pritchett is pregnant and ruined. She begs her uncle to find her a husband among the wolves in his pack. She will take any man who will have her as long as it gets her away from the man who fathered her child during a brutal assault. Remember doesn't know if she will ever feel safe again, but she will stop at nothing to keep her child safe.

Hillary "Lary" Wilkes is at the lowest point of her life, having lost her dream job to a younger woman. But enough of the self-pity: This is the year she will find herself an exciting new career, lose the 20 pounds for good, and find the perfect mate. Quit smoking. Sort out her finances and...well - maybe she can’t do it all at once. But with the help of her best friend Becks; her wonderful neighbor Howard; her lovely niece Pumpkin, and her loyal brother Roger; and the cheery encouragement from a new friend Dudley, she knows she can do it. One step at a time.

Café at the End of the Internet, G. Michael Rapp’s debut speculative fiction story collection, will take you from the far edge of the galaxy to the peripheries of the seedier side of the World Wide Web. Each story explores a range of sub-genres, with unique characters who come to life. From an interstellar spy on a backwater planet, to a movie rental store guru who hates his job, to a former cop who wears the uniform once more in a post-apocalyptic landscape.

Denny’s wife - the only woman he’s ever loved - died the year before, and his friends are intent on finding him a new love. Jill’s first experience with love in college left her skeptical that she would ever be able to find love. Both the widower and the bachelorette hope for a second chance at love. When Denny and Jill find themselves lustfully drawn to one another, they’re ashamed of their secret encounters.

Six years of traveling for her reality TV series has left Kiley Nelson, a dedicated career woman, longing for a place to call her own. Spending a weekend at her girlfriend’s beach house is the perfect reprieve, especially when she purchases property to finally settle down. But her peaceful escape is shaken when she smashes into a car containing the sinfully sexy and infuriated passenger Jeff Hammond, who immediately melts her heart.

1896. In the vast network of the Niger Delta waterways, where palm oil and blood flow from the hinterlands, the ancient kingdom of Benin is under siege. Legendary trader and leopard hunter Brendan Donivan battles to protect his adopted homeland's sacred civilization from the colonial expansion of the British while balancing his commerce with the White man's world. Brendan's reality is fractured by the arrival of....

Sally Jean Compton is in love. And this time it's with a man who isn't in love with someone else. Dr. Brett Gorman arrives in Victory to help the veterans of Deer River with PTSD military symptoms. When tragedy strikes, neither Sally Jean nor Brett are prepared for what happens next. The shocking aftermath of the terror of PTSD untreated leaves the entire town of Victory reeling. But none are more affected than Sally Jean and Brett, who must deal with their own pasts and the trauma left behind.

Lisa Williams has discovered a way to achieve her life-long goal of becoming a famous actress by bringing a reality television show to her hometown. Tommy Jackson despises the idea of exploiting the town and hates it even more when his editor assigns him to cover the show for a Tampa newspaper.

After the wedding of their best friends, Reggie resists Susie’s hints about marrying. He suggests they take a break. An angry and heartbroken Susie kicks him down the road and into the arms of the voluptuous Sally Jean. After Susie is mugged, she discovers Reggie’s gambling debt brought the thugs to Victory to scare him into paying. With her love for Reggie in doubt, she is tempted by a rich publisher and reconsiders her options.

Dr. Nicole Phillips gets dumped by her fiancé, Dr. Winston Thorpe. She takes revenge and is fired by the hospital. Upset and out of work, she heads home to mend her broken heart. Along the way, she runs into a fence owned by the RFK Ranch. She meets cowboy Ross Kincaid, a man with a body and a hot temper that matches her own. The two get along like oil and water.

A tattoo artist on a Harley. A do-gooder beauty. A forbidden passion. Leah Bryant lives a quiet life helping others. When her future mother-in-law, Geraldine, threatens her causes, she's left confused by the hypocrisy and befuddled by a stranger who roars into town on a Harley. Dean Davis never wanted to return to his hometown. But when his father dies, he knows he must return and faced his mother, Geraldine, and his ugly past. When Leah discovers the stranger is the brother of her fiancé that she'd been told was dead, she's drawn to him and furious about the deception.

One of the biggest bounties anyone has ever heard of has drawn bounty hunters to Portland, Oregon from across the country. Can Burt and Shade catch the bounty? More importantly, can they survive the other hunters who will kill anyone to collect the gold? This is an action-packed novel of crime, romance, and adventure. Burt and Shade are back, and in a race to catch a man that every hunter in the West is looking for.

Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been besieged by a vicious outlaw gang. Burt and Shade are two bounty hunters who have come to town to catch them. This is a fast-paced western novel full of twists and turns. This book has it all: Gunfights, saloon brawls, and damsels in distress.