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I’d do anything for my family. Even go undercover and devote my life to the FBI so they can continue to thrive. Everything I do is for the Vitale name. I just have to focus, complete my job, divert attention and stay out of trouble.

Jane, a Minneapolis restaurateur, is invited to spend the week at Fothergill Inn, a Victorian house-turned B&B. Jane's old friend Leigh has spent years renovating the house and reopening it as an inn and restaurant. The inn has become so successful that people drive the 50 miles from Minneapolis just for dinner. But when Jane and her best friend, Cordelia, arrive for a week of relaxation, they find that the weekend's guests are anything but pleased, and that relaxing is the furthest thing from their minds. Broken glass litters the parking lot, dead animals turn up in the bedrooms, a bomb scare threatens the lives of the inn's guests. Then the pranks turn deadly....

Damiano De Luca: a curse with no cure. Before he ruled the De Luca family, before he became the man everyone feared, before he scoured an empire in search of me, he chose me to ruin. I was innocent. An untainted princess. The heiress to the Vitali mafia throne. And I was in the wrong place at the wrong time when I met the wrong boy. My name is Renata Vitali...and this is not a love story.

Jake Adams is back with his fourth thrilling adventure. When an old Cold Warrior from Russia asks Jake to observe the launch of their newest ICBM, Jake finds himself in the taiga of the Russian Far East. But something goes terribly wrong with the missile, and the Russians discover an American plane has shot down the missile with their new Airborne Laser system. This event sets into motion a chain of events that span from the United States capitol, California, the Pacific Northwest, a remote Aleutian Island, and across the Pacific to China and South Korea.

For more than 20 years, Joseph "Big Joey" Massino ran what was called the largest criminal network in the US, employing over 250 made men and untold numbers of associates. The Bonanno family was responsible for over 30 murders, even killing a dozen of its own members. He would be brought down by Salvatore "Good Looking Sal" Vitale, the underboss who was not only Massino's closest and most trusted friend but also his brother-in-law. King of the Godfathers is the story of the brutal mob war that made Massino head of the Bonanno family and the most powerful gangster in America.

Un amor prohibido. Un pasado que lo destruyó todo. Un viaje que hará tambalear los cimientos de una relación vetada. Los lazos de la familia atan, y los de la pasión pueden hacerlos saltar por los aires. Traiciones, secretos, intriga y mucha mafia te sumergirán en un mundo que no te permitirá salir indemne.

Grant Forrester is living his lifelong dream. He’s finally become a respected voice as the Arts and Entertainment writer for The Best of Texas, the state’s premier magazine. Through him, hundreds of thousands of readers discover the hidden treasures of rich history Texas has to offer. He has it all… including a trail of bodies left in his wake…

Beatrice is the convent's librarian. For years, she has shunned the company of her sisters, finding solace only with her manuscripts. Then, one carnival night, two women, bleeding and stricken, are abandoned outside the convent's walls. Moments from death, one of them presses something into Beatrice's hands: a bewitching book whose pages have a dangerous life of their own.

As the smoke from the bonfire spirals into the night sky and the cool drinks slip down our throats, none of us can take our eyes off Lacey. Everyone who is close to Lacey sits by the smoky fire. Her adoring boyfriend, who holds onto her, perhaps a little too tightly. Her little sister, always in Lacey’s shadow, sifting fine soft sand through her fingers, never taking her eyes off Lacey. And me. When the fire burns out, we stumble away from the beach, along the cliff path—faces burned by the wind, hearts full of secrets. But Lacey never makes it home.

Now, I'm forced into a marriage with the Italian mafia's Capo Alessio to unite our two families. From the very first night, he showed me brutality I should be used to by now. I'm haunted by the past and now the present. If he thinks I will break so easily, he's mistaken. I have lived among monsters my entire life. I will survive.

Six months after being tasked with an off-the-books, international investigation, Ben Porter finds himself bedridden in a Washington, DC, hospital, beset with mysterious, life-threatening symptoms. Faced not only with tragedy but also with mounting pressure from his superiors, Ben is forced into an impossible choice: Does he fulfill his duty, or does he disobey his command? Or...can he do both?

Six months after the events in Devious Measures, both women are moving on with their lives…or so they thought. Fearful of their abilities, they will find out that the most powerful and devious cabal ever assembled in American history has other plans for them. With the clock ticking to November, Tierra and Victoria must fight to survive the onslaught unleashed against them by dark forces bent on eliminating their Vital Targets.

When a Canadian spy comes to ex-black ops specialist Aubrey Sentro for help tracking down notorious Cold War spymaster Günter Witt, she wants to say no. It’s been thirty years since Aubrey’s captivity in East Berlin, and she has no desire to return. Her focus now is on mending the relationships that suffered during her years working in the shadows. But when a ruthless mercenary targets Aubrey and her daughter, the game changes.

Anya Volkov was everything I wanted and nothing I could have. I was never supposed to love her. My future has been set in stone since birth, down to who I am expected to marry. With our inner circle now compromised from my bastard of an uncle, it looked like my future had arrived earlier than expected. Cristiano Vitucci walked away from me without a backwards glance, deciding power was more important than me. I accepted that and moved on. Now he was back, ready to take over for his sick father, and no longer someone else’s husband. He says he wants me back.

The world has no shortage of moral ambiguity, especially in the emergency room. In Pulse, Dr. Jackson is an emergency room physician who seems to have the big house, beautiful wife, and an impeccable reputation as one of the most respected emergency physicians in Dallas. As the layers get peeled back, Dr. Jackson's life isn't so perfect after all. Filled with unique twists, complex medical cases, personal issues, and even a chess game, Pulse proves that there is always more to the story!

Someone’s killing one college co-ed a month in North Texas. A predator with exacting tastes uses technology to select his targets.

L’anima è una scintilla della sostanza delle stelle, scrisse Eraclito. Ed è sotto il cielo notturno di Caminiti, un borgo di un paio di migliaia di anime arroccato su un promontorio basaltico a picco sulle coste estreme dello Jonio, che il giudice Nicola Sciacchitano si ritrova, nel settembre del 2018, a trascorrere un periodo di ferie. Ha scelto quel luogo perché ha bisogno di raccoglimento. Attraversato dalle inquietudini della mezz’età e stanco di stendere sentenze ha deciso di cambiare spartito e di scrivere un romanzo.

In quel fine ottobre del 1929, sferzato dal vento e da una pioggerella fastidiosa e insistente, a Bellano non succede nulla di che. Ma se potessero, tra le contrade volerebbero sberle, eccome. Le stamperebbe volentieri il maresciallo dei carabinieri Ernesto Maccadò sul muso di tutti quelli che si credono indovini e vaticinano sul sesso del suo primogenito in arrivo, aumentando il tormento invece di sciogliere l’enigma, perché uno predice una cosa e l'altro l'esatto contrario.

Allarme rosso a Bellano: un toro, noleggiato per ben altri scopi, a causa di una maliziosa imprudenza semina feriti come piovesse. La bestia era... era... Né il Piattola né la moglie riuscirono a trovare le parole giuste per descrivere la sorpresa. Mai vista una bestia così insomma, così grossa e che emanava un senso di potenza pronta a esplodere. "D'altronde si chiama Benito", riassunse il bergamasco con l'intento di spiegare tutto. Milleduecento chili di peso, centosettanta centimetri al garrese. Ma fosse stato solo quello!

Siamo negli anni Trenta, all'epoca del fascismo più placido e trionfante. Nella stazione dei Carabinieri di Bellano, sotto gli occhi del carabiniere Locatelli (bergamasco), rivaleggiano il brigadiere Mannu (sardo) e l'appuntato Misfatti (siciliano). Un'anziana signora, "piccola, vestita con un cappotto grigio color topo, una borsetta tenuta con due mani all'altezza dello stomaco", vuole a tutti i costi parlare con il maresciallo Maccadò.