In a World Where Shadows Govern, One Man Stands at the Edge of Truth and Treachery

In the shadowy world of espionage, the U.S. government has a secret weapon: Penumbra Division—a covert bureau where the line between right and wrong blurs in the name of national security. At the forefront is Adam Knight, its most skilled contractor.

After returning from a mission with a bullet in his leg, the question looms: Can he still be the fixer the government so desperately needs?

When a renowned genetic scientist is killed during a vacation in Greece, Knight is called up to pursue the murderer, who himself was thought dead two years earlier. Knight’s pursuit for truth across the globe turns perilous, facing ruthless forces, determined to bury their secrets. Among them, a deadly assassin, fixated on stopping him at all costs.

I’m her brother’s best friend. The guy she can’t stand. One business trip together and I’m no longer just her boss, I’m adding baby daddy to my credentials …

As co-owner of Ives & Wells, I’m ready to nail the most important business trip of my career. But does it have to include my business partner’s moody younger sister, Layla? Yes, it does, and she happens to be escorting me to New Orleans. As much as we hate each other, it isn’t completely crazy. Technically, she’s an employee and someone decided I should be her boss. But one fight after another leads us to an explosion in the bedroom… more than once.

I definitely wasn’t planning on nailing more than a good business deal on this trip.

Unfortunately, our plan to leave the antics in the bedroom and out of the office falls apart as soon as we return home. First, because some of our mutual talents can’t be forgotten. Two, because there is a business partner that may kill me as soon as he figures out what happened. And three, because some secrets can only be kept for so long, give or take nine months…

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An elusive code hidden in the writings of Shakespeare.

A desperate race against time.

An earth-shattering secret concealed for centuries…revealed at last.

While lecturing at a conference, world-renowned researcher of ancient civilizations Daniel Whitlock receives an urgent late-night visit from the FBI. A prominent nuclear physicist has been murdered at Idaho National Laboratory, with a baffling relic found near the body—one seemingly tied to William Shakespeare himself.

Did the famous playwright have a secret?

As Whitlock sorts through the bizarre clues, he follows an archaic cipher hidden in Shakespeare’s earliest printings, revealing an explosive truth about its author—and his true identity.

The stakes are raised when Whitlock learns of a startling link: The relic is directly connected to the Cosmic Key—an ancient artifact whispered to be so powerful that it was once referred to as “all knowledge.” Fiercely guarded by secret societies and passed down through the founding of America, the legend speaks of a trail of clues scattered throughout his works that reveals its location, buried for centuries somewhere in the New World.

It’s no secret that me and love don’t mix.
Not after it schemed to rip my heart out and leave me a single father.
The biggest question I have is what to do with forever now that my wife is gone.
As much as I hate it, it’s time for a break from my famous life.
A year off to spend time with my little girl is what the doctor ordered.
Giggles, smiles, and tons of ice cream for the two of us.
And somehow, the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen runs the ice-cream parlor.
But getting involved isn’t a choice.
Not even when my little girl falls head over heels for this woman that’s stealing my every thought.
No matter how much I want to give up everything for the curvy girl that’s rocking my world day and night.
She deserves far more than me, but I’m just selfish enough to want to deny her another lover.
To take up residence in her heart and stay.
It gets even more serious when I find myself playing her fake boyfriend to her uppity mother.
It’s a part I’d love to play daily.

The only way she feels safe is when she’s in control. But falling in love is all about losing it…

Libby Thompson has not exactly had the easiest childhood in the world.

After being abandoned by her father at twelve and getting bullied for months on end, it took years of hard work, cognitive behavior therapy, and her mother’s unconditional love for her to become who she is today: an educated, successful, attractive young woman who just has a nightmare or two every now and then.

But Libby knows how to keep the nightmares at bay.

She just has to avoid risks.

And Noah Rodrigo is the wildest risk she’s ever taken.

Libby feels it the moment Chelsea, her best and only friend, introduces them casually at a party.

Interweaving past and present, The Eye of the Leopard draws on bestselling author Henning Mankell’s deep understanding of both Scandinavia and post-colonial Africa.

Hans Olofson arrives in Zambia in the 1970s, at the start of its independence. There, he hopes to fulfill the missionary dream of a boyhood friend who was unable to make the journey. But he is also there to flee the traumas of his motherless childhood in provincial Sweden: his father’s alcoholism, his best friend’s terrible accident, his fear of an ordinary and stifled fate. Africa is a terrible shock, yet he stays and makes it his home.

In all his years as a mzungu, a wealthy white man among native blacks, he never comes to fully understand his adoptive home, or his precarious place in it. Rumors of an underground army of revolutionaries wearing leopard skins warn him that the fragile truce between blacks and whites is in danger of rupturing.

A woman who almost had it all. . . .

Celine Gonzalez had everything a young woman in Manhattan could want: an apartment on the Lower East Side, a job that (mostly) paid the bills, and an acceptance letter to a prestigious art institute, where she would finally live out her dream of becoming an antiques appraiser. All she had worked so hard to achieve was finally within her reach. So why would she kill herself?

A man who was supposed to be her salvation. . . .

Maggie Sparkes arrives in New York City to pack up what’s left of her best friend’s belongings after her shocking death. The police have deemed the evidence conclusive: Celine got into bed, downed a lethal cocktail of pills and vodka, and never woke up. But when Maggie discovers a scandalous photograph hidden in Celine’s apartment, she begins asking questions. Questions about the man Celine fell in love with. The man she never told anyone about, not even Maggie. The man Celine believed would change her life.

When a coma patient starts to have contractions and gives birth to a baby boy, the child’s arrival triggers an investigation into serious sexual assault.

Detectives McQuillan and Blalock are handed the case, while the internal hospital team collects information to help with the investigation.

When Dr. Angela Crawford, who helped deliver the baby, learns that the child will be put in foster care, she and her husband agree to take the little boy in.

Meanwhile, a young nurse, Jenny O’Hearn, helps compile data on the rapist and discovers several strange things. And when she is attacked, the detectives are forced to examine the case from a different perspective . . .

Could a staff doctor, male nurse, or the chaplain be the rapist? Sometimes the truth isn’t always obvious.

Some rebels deserve a second chance. Not this one, though…

Miss Maisie Beaufort has no intention of running away ever again. She’s more than ready to return home after a decade in the midst of society and take charge of her life as a spinster businesswoman. Nothing will distract her. Especially not her first love, the rebel who destroyed her young heart…

Apollo Everly always knew Maisie was too good for small town life…and for a spare heir like him. He never stopped wanting her, though. Not that it matters. Even though he’s reformed and a viscount, his lingering reputation is still a threat to her. He should stay away. But fate—and Mother Nature—seem to have other ideas…

If Maisie and Apollo want to rebuild their village after a devastating flood, they’ll need to work together. The only question now is whether they can trust each other when it matters most. And if they can avoid heartbreak this time around…

A minor seismic disturbance in a remote section of the Pacific causes barely a ripple of concern for Kai Tanaka, acting director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu. But when an airliner en route from L.A. to Sydney vanishes in the same location, Kai is the first to realize that a mysterious explosion has unleashed a series of massive waves destined to obliterate Hawaii. In just one hour, Kai will lose all he has ever known–including his wife and daughter– unless he can save them from nature’s most destructive force.

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