Slave (The Slave Series Book 1)by Laura Frances

Workers silently shuffle to their assigned posts.
Outcasts watch from the alley walls.
On every corner, a Watcher stands stone-faced, rifle in hand.

Nineteen-year-old Hannah exists in a gray, smog-covered world of labor and fear, where sunlight and stars are stories whispered in secret. She survives on the memories left by her parents, reliving the moment they were dragged from their family unit and shot.

Everything changes the night the valley erupts in explosions and gunfire. Edan, a young soldier in disguise, pulls Hannah from her unit and rushes her down to the streets. Surrounded by dozens of terrified slaves, she’s told to run.

Run as hard and as fast as you can and don’t stop!

Hannah’s world turns upside down. Now the enemy fights for her freedom, and she must struggle to shake loose from fear-conditioning and to forgive men who inflicted terror on her people.

For the sake of freedom, she has no choice.

The Blood of the Lamb: A Novelby Peter De Vries

This autobiographical novel of family tragedy by the author of Slouching Towards Kalamazoo “moves deftly from manic hilarity to manic fury, and back again” (Newsday).

The most poignant of Peter De Vries’s novels, The Blood of the Lamb is also his most personal. It follows the life of Don Wanderhop from his childhood in an immigrant Calvinist family living in Chicago in the 1950s through the loss of a brother, his faith, his wife, and finally his daughter–a tragedy drawn directly from De Vries’s own life.

Despite its basis in personal tragedy, The Blood of the Lamb offers glimpses of the comic sensibility for which De Vries was famous. Written with a powerful blend of grief, love, wit, and fury, De Vries’s “sensitive treatment of the death of a beloved child it has scarcely a superior in contemporary fiction" (Chicago Tribune).

Read Between the Linesby Ali Parker

Talented. Successful. Wealthy.

That’s me, and I look damn good in a three-piece suit or in nothing at all.

Nudity is my jam.

I’m an artist and my favorite inspiration is the female figure. Curvy. Beautiful. Lush.

My life is perfect. Fast cars. Big luxurious home.

And we’re opening more galleries across the country.

The only thing I don’t have is inconsequential: love.

Then a beautiful curvy woman shows up on my gallery floor and her wise ways and sexy sway make me think differently.

Maybe the life I have isn’t what I want after all.

I thought I knew what living was, but after her, I’m not so sure.

She’s challenging. Fickle. Flighty.

She wants to travel abroad and she never saw a man like me fitting into her life. Poor thing doesn’t know what she’s missing.

She’s mine. Period. Now I just need to be subtle, cool, collected.

And she needs to read between the lines.

NORTH KOREA DECEPTIONby RICHARD LYNTTON

Can a reporter who hates corruption…

…stay true to himself when lives are on the line?

Is he being setup?

Jack survived the first Gulf War, Bosnia, and his time as a UN Peacekeeper. As a captain and tank commander, he saw the dark side of war. Skilled in language, he speaks Russian, German, French, and Bosnian. That’s why they sent him.

Two UN Officials had gone missing.

They were last seen in the Tumen Triangle.

A 324-mile river that borders Russia, China, and North Korea, it’s a place few Westerners have heard of or understand. It would be a prize-winning story if he could crack it. Sometimes fate puts a person where they need to be and then he saw the child fall beneath the ice.

When Steele rescued the boy, it was the first domino to fall.

Would it lead to North Korea launching a nuclear missile?

You’ll love this adrenaline rush of an international thriller because it has twists, turns, an impossible romance, and one difficult choice. How does the puzzle fit together?

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