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THE LAWYER WHO KNEW TOO MUCH coverLegal Thriller

THE LAWYER WHO KNEW TOO MUCH

Defense attorney Mara Keller takes what looks like a straightforward embezzlement case for a terrified young bookkeeper — and finds, inside the first hour of representing him, that the numbers he's accused of stealing are the numbers that got him fired for finding. Over these ten episodes, Mara's new case begins to reach backward into a decade-old "accident" and into the one loss she has never let herself examine. Detective Noah Callahan enters her orbit sideways, through a break-in neither of them can yet explain. By the end of the block, three threads that were never supposed to touch — a bookkeeper, a dead auditor, and a man Mara failed to save seven years ago — turn out to share a single name.

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I FOUND MY PHOTOS IN HIS HOUSE coverContemporary Romance | Psychological Romance | Domestic Suspense

I FOUND MY PHOTOS IN HIS HOUSE

Mara Vale has spent her entire life being watched. Born into one of the city’s most powerful families, she is used to cameras, headlines, security teams, and strangers believing her wealth makes every part of her life public property. What she is not used to is Julian Cross. Julian is wealthy, controlled, fiercely private—and unlike most men around Mara, completely unimpressed by the Vale name. Their first meeting is accidental. Their attraction is not. What begins as irritation slowly becomes friendship, desire, and something dangerously close to love. Julian challenges Mara without trying to overpower her. Mara enters his carefully controlled world by choice. For the first time in years, she believes she has found a man who wants her rather than her fortune. Then she finds the photographs. Hidden inside Julian’s house is a private collection of images of Mara—some recent, some years old, and some taken long before they officially met. Suddenly, every coincidence becomes suspicious. Every meeting must be reconsidered. And the man she was beginning to trust has to answer one devastating question: How long had Julian Cross known who she was before he let her believe they were strangers? But the truth is more complicated than obsession, and Julian is not the only powerful person in Mara’s life who has confused love with protection and protection with control. As betrayal tears them apart, Mara must decide whether forgiveness can exist without surrendering her boundaries—and Julian must learn that loving someone does not mean knowing where they are, deciding what is best for them, or keeping pieces of them without permission. Because Mara may love him. But she will never belong to him. A contemporary psychological romance about obsession, wealth, betrayal, consent, second chances, and the dangerous difference between loving someone and possessing them.

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HIS LOVE COMES WITH LOCKS coverDark Romance • Obsession • Psychological Suspense

HIS LOVE COMES WITH LOCKS

Maren Ellis wakes at 2:17 a.m. in a stranger’s heavily guarded house with no memory of how she got there—and a bedroom door that refuses to open. Her first thought is simple. She has been kidnapped. Then she discovers the lock isn’t meant to keep her inside. It is meant to keep someone else out. Cillian Rook is everything Maren should run from: wealthy, ruthless, dangerously controlled, and far too interested in a woman he claims he barely knows. He watches everything. Remembers everything. Knows when she is lying, when she is frightened, and sometimes what she needs before she does. And when Maren demands to go home, Cillian gives her the one answer she hates most. “You can leave. I just can’t promise they won’t find you.” Because the attack that brought her into his house was no accident. Someone wants Maren silenced. Worse, Cillian may know why. As locked rooms begin opening and buried secrets connect Maren’s father to one of the most powerful families in the city, she discovers that Cillian’s obsession with protecting her began long before the night they supposedly met. Now Maren has to decide which frightens her more—the people hunting her, or the man willing to destroy anyone who touches her. Cillian calls it protection. Maren calls it control. But somewhere between forbidden doors, whispered threats, brutal jealousy, and the terrifying tenderness he shows only to her, the line between captivity and belonging begins to blur. Because Cillian Rook wants her. Desperately. Possessively. Enough to lock the entire world outside if that is what it takes to keep her safe. But if he truly loves her, he will eventually have to learn the one thing that terrifies him most: A woman who is free to leave can only become his if she chooses to stay.

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THE WOMAN WITH MY FACE coverMystery • Psychological Thriller

THE WOMAN WITH MY FACE

Elena Ward knows her own face. So when she sees a woman standing across the street who looks exactly like her—same eyes, same height, even the same tiny scar above her eyebrow—she knows it isn't a coincidence. Elena follows her. The woman disappears. Then people begin remembering a version of Elena that Elena has never been. A hotel receptionist insists she stayed there three nights ago. A restaurant manager accuses her of walking out without paying. A married man angrily demands to know why she has stopped answering his calls. Elena has never met any of them. But they have photographs. Signatures. Messages. Proof. And every piece of evidence points to her. Things become terrifying when security footage shows the mysterious woman entering Elena's apartment building while Elena was verifiably at work. Using Elena's key. Someone isn't simply impersonating her. Someone has been quietly constructing an entire second life in her name—opening accounts, creating relationships, altering records, and inserting herself into places Elena has never been. Even Elena's medical history is no longer entirely her own. But the most frightening discovery comes when the woman begins revealing details about Elena's childhood that Elena herself cannot remember. Memories that should belong to no one else. Before Elena can uncover the truth, a man is murdered. Witnesses identify Elena. The evidence places her at the scene. And suddenly Elena isn't just searching for the woman wearing her face. She's trying to prove that she isn't her. With the police closing in and pieces of her own past beginning to contradict everything she believed about herself, Elena must uncover who created the second Elena—and why—before the woman with her face takes the final thing Elena has left. Her life. A psychological mystery thriller about stolen identity, buried memories, murder, and one woman's terrifying discovery that the person destroying her life may know her better than she knows herself.

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THE GIRL BEHIND THE GUN coverMafia • Crime Thriller

THE GIRL BEHIND THE GUN

The Mafia world knows her only by the bodies she leaves behind. No one knows her real name. No one has clearly seen her face. For years, powerful men have whispered about a mysterious assassin they call The Girl Behind the Gun—a woman who appears without warning, never misses, and disappears before anyone can understand what happened. But she does not kill for money. She kills from a list. Every name on that list supposedly belongs to someone responsible for the massacre that destroyed her family when she was a child. The list was given to her by the only man she has ever trusted—the man who rescued her, raised her, trained her, and taught her how to survive in a world ruled by blood and power. For years, she has believed every word he told her. Until one target recognizes her. One name from a past she was told no longer existed begins to unravel everything. As she secretly investigates the night her family died, she discovers missing records, conflicting stories, surviving enemies, buried witnesses, and evidence that some of the people she killed may not have been responsible at all. Someone has been using her. Someone turned her grief into a weapon. And the closer she gets to the truth, the more dangerous the question becomes: Did the man who raised her save her from the massacre—or did he steal the only survivor and turn her into the perfect killer? Now the most feared assassin in the Mafia world must uncover the truth before the people behind her family's destruction realize that The Girl Behind the Gun has finally stopped following orders.

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GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN ALIVE coverCrime • Legal Thriller

GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN ALIVE

Nadia Rowan, twenty-nine, is one of the most respected digital-forensic analysts in Alder City. Her specialty is proving whether electronic evidence is authentic. She has built her career on the belief that data leaves traces and that the truth, however damaged, can be reconstructed. Then Judge Malcolm Avery is murdered. Within hours, the case against Nadia becomes almost impossibly complete. Security footage shows her entering Avery's home. Her fingerprints are recovered from the murder weapon. Her DNA is found at the scene. Her phone appears to travel with the killer. A transfer arrives in her bank account from a company connected to a case before Avery. Messages show her threatening him. Investigators recover a video confession in Nadia's own face and voice containing details the police have not released. Nadia insists every piece of evidence has been manufactured. That defense makes her look worse: if anyone could build fabricated digital evidence sophisticated enough to deceive experts, it would be her. Assistant District Attorney Ethan Cole prosecutes the case. He is not corrupt, foolish, or secretly sympathetic. He studies the evidence, believes it, defeats Nadia's defense, and helps send her to prison. Months after her conviction, another high-profile victim is murdered. Nadia's DNA, biometrics, device records, and face appear again. The new evidence says she committed this murder too. But the murder occurs while Ethan is personally standing across from Nadia inside a maximum-security prison. That impossible fact becomes the hinge of the entire novel. Ethan must decide whether to protect the conviction that made his career or reopen the case he once believed was airtight. Nadia must decide whether the man who destroyed her freedom can ever become useful, trustworthy, or eventually something more.

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The CEO Who Never Sleeps Alone coverRomance

The CEO Who Never Sleeps Alone

Every night, a different woman enters Adrian Vale's penthouse. By morning, she's gone. No woman stays twice. No woman talks. And the billionaire CEO has never cared what the world thinks happens behind his locked doors. Until Maya Bennett becomes the exception. One late night. One forbidden encounter. One glimpse of the man beneath Adrian Vale's ruthless reputation—and suddenly Maya knows something she was never meant to know. She expects him to fire her. Instead, he offers her a contract worth more money than she has ever seen. Her only job? Spend every night with him. No questions. No feelings. And whatever happens after the bedroom door closes stays there. Maya knows she should walk away. She doesn't. But the deeper she enters Adrian's private world, the stranger his rules become—and the more dangerous his secrets feel. Then one night, with Maya beside him, Adrian whispers a woman's name. Evelyn. Maya has never heard of her. Apparently, neither has the rest of the world. Because according to every record Maya can find... Evelyn never existed.

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My Mate Belongs to Another Pack coverWerewolf Romance

My Mate Belongs to Another Pack

Her mate died in her arms. She watched his eyes go empty. She felt their mating bond tear apart. She prepared his body herself. She watched him buried. For three years, Lyra has known one truth. Kael is dead. Then Alpha Darian of Blackridge crosses into her territory. A stranger. A powerful Alpha with his own pack, his own life, and no memory of ever meeting her. But the moment Lyra scents him, her wolf awakens after three years of silence. Mate. And beneath Darian’s unfamiliar scent is something that should be impossible. Kael. Darian insists she has the wrong man. Lyra knows she buried the right one. But as forgotten memories begin to surface and secrets from the night Kael died refuse to stay buried, one terrifying question remains— If Kael truly died three years ago, who exactly is Alpha Darian?

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The Man They Buried coverMystery & Thriller

The Man They Buried

Mira Voss loved her husband. Not perfectly. Not blindly. But truly. Elias made her coffee too strong, stole the blankets, remembered every small thing she forgot, and promised they would grow old arguing about the same harmless habits. Then Elias dies unexpectedly. His body is identified. His family mourns him. On Tuesday, Mira watches the man she expected to spend her life with lowered into the ground. On Friday night, her phone rings. ELIAS. She answers. At first there is only breathing. Then the dead man says her name. Mira tells herself grief can make the mind cruel. But the calls return - never on schedule, never often enough to become normal. The voice remembers private jokes, unfinished conversations, the side of the bed she sleeps on, and secrets nobody else should know. Then one call tells her not to go home. Hours later, someone breaks into the house. As Mira investigates, the husband she thought she knew begins splitting into two men: Elias, the man who loved her, and Elias, the man with a second phone, hidden transfers, a locked storage unit, an unknown woman, and a file on someone who had supposedly been dead for years. Elias is not alive. But before he died, he prepared for death. And someone is still following his instructions. The most dangerous question is no longer who is pretending to be Elias. It is which calls Elias planned - and which ones came from someone else.

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Beautifully Dangerous coverRomance

Beautifully Dangerous

Everyone thinks Elena Vale is an ordinary woman trying to rebuild her life after a devastating betrayal. But when she accidentally witnesses the assassination of one of the country's most powerful billionaires, she becomes the target of ruthless enemies, secret organizations, and a man known only as the Devil of Blackstone. Forced into a dangerous alliance where trust is more deadly than bullets, Elena discovers that her past has been carefully erased—and her future could either save an empire or destroy it. In a world where love is the greatest weakness, every kiss hides a secret, every promise demands a price, and surviving may mean becoming the very monster she's running from.

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The Disgraced Heir coverBillionaire Romance

The Disgraced Heir

Five years ago, Soren Kessler had everything: a future inside the Kessler Group, the respect of his powerful father, and a wedding ahead with Elena Reyes. Then fabricated evidence tied him to a devastating corporate scandal. His father disowned him. His accounts were frozen. His name became poison. With every door closing and danger following him, Soren fled New York carrying almost nothing except a stolen flash drive and the certainty that someone inside his family had framed him. Everyone believed Soren Kessler was finished. They were wrong. Five years later, billionaire investor Cole Mercer arrives in Manhattan. Marcus Kessler sees him as a potential ally. Vanessa Kessler sees him as a threat. Elena sees something far more dangerous: a stranger whose habits, voice, and eyes awaken memories of the man she never truly stopped loving. None of them know that Cole Mercer is Soren Kessler. As Soren quietly buys influence, attacks the Kessler empire from within, and traces the conspiracy that destroyed him, he discovers something worse than betrayal: his father's mysterious illness may be deliberate poisoning. Revenge becomes a race against time, and Soren must decide whether reclaiming his life is worth becoming as ruthless as the people who stole it.

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Saint of the Silent Ward coverMedical Mystery

Saint of the Silent Ward

A night doctor finds a ward where coma patients wake with memories from people who have not died yet.

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The Lighthouse of Black Rain coverSupernatural Suspense

The Lighthouse of Black Rain

A lighthouse keeper returns home when black rain begins falling upward and every drop contains a confession.

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