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Tom Messingham and Tasha, Jaclyn Johnson's teenage ward, are safe and sound on the east coast following Jaclyn's daring mission to Las Vegas, and it's time for her to head west again-this time to break up the human trafficking ring that had ensnared Tasha a year prior. Yet as she arrives in Tasha's hometown, Jaclyn has several obstacles-a town wiped from the map, plus a persnickety police chief with one foot in the grave-to overcome before she can keep her promise to her new friend. Set between the novels DOUBLE AGENT and FEDERAL AGENT, Jaclyn Johnson squares off against an unknown pervert in another nail-biting thriller.

One hundred years in the future, after a world war and another economic downturn, the United States is in recovery. A Chinese company, Gong & Dinow, manufactures inexpensive tablet computers. Everyone has them.Little does everyone know, those devices will lead to the destruction of the East Coast.A man from Boston survives the carnage and rows to what was Washington D.C. in order to inform the president... and to begin the healing.

A small-town cold case gets new life when a woman hands a 22-year-old private investigator his first assignment. Going with the notes his father used when he first investigated the case, Alex Bourque delves into the 31-year-old mystery: an 11-year-old boy, kidnapped without witnesses, abused and murdered. There is little evidence to go on except a white L on the boy's chest as well as a black smudge on his forehead, but with the help of his girlfriend Lauryn, Alex makes do with what he has and tries to solve the case from scratch. Yet there are people who don't want him to find out what happened, and they'll go to any lengths to stop Alex from discovering the truth. A classic whodunit in the vein of the late Robert B. Parker, COLD ALTAR is the first book in the Small Town PI series.

PI Alex Bourque has jury duty. As he's challenged by the prosecution during jury selection, the defense has a brilliant idea: Hire Alex to help defend an accused murderer. Yet as Alex delves into the case, he discovers that the defense attorney has done a shoddy job in building the defense. He also discovers something's not right with the defendant-especially something that could set the man free.

Over the last few years, Jaclyn Johnson and Tom Messingham have turned into quite the terrorist-fighting tandem: the pair have worked together up close and personal, their bond strong. But the job is abut to affect their marriage: with the pair investigating attacks in the remote wilds of South Dakota to the military academy at West Point, the call comes in. Tom is to report to London immediately, as a business tycoon, Oliver Klozov, appears to have plotted to kill rival footballers--soccer players--in one of England's top leagues. Klozov, the owner of the Southwest Aces FC, is allegedly behind the death of another club's top-notch goal scorer, and he's threatening more--for promotion to the top flight. It is when Jaclyn discovers her cases and Tom's case intertwine when she receives a chilling email--Tom's life is in danger, and Klozov's crosshairs are locked on him. TICKET AGENT: A THRILLER is the eighth full-length adventure of the blonde bombshell, one born from the ashes of terrorism itself.

Det. Ricky Madison is back in this pulse-quickening, gritty sequel Now suffering from PTSD following the events at the end of THE LONG CRIMSON LINE, Ricky returns to Worcester, Mass., the city where he was once a police detective; he's undergoing therapy in both solo and group settings, and in his first session, he meets a young lady struggling to cope with her love life's tribulations-she's a cutter, and he offers her his ear whenever she needs it. When elements of past crimes he had investigated creep back into the present, Ricky is brought back into the fold of Worcester Police to help link the crimes together-even though the one in charge of the investigation isn't thrilled about his presence. Together, the two comb through the facts and similarities of the respective cases until Ricky discovers the one responsible for everything.

A well-timed string of attacks and events in Washington, D.C. has President Eric B. Forrister and the CIA scrambling for answers in the ninth Jaclyn Johnson thriller novel. How well-timed are they? It just so happens the attacks occur as Jaclyn is out of the country, on her honeymoon in Wales. With Tasha Verkler, Jaclyn's ward and confidante, at the head of the investigation alongside Desmond Daly, a.k.a. Salt, the duo look to discover who's behind these brazen attacks-the new Supreme Court Museum has been bombed, two Justices dead; the Senate Majority Leader killed by a sniper-until the unthinkable occurs: Jaclyn and Tom's ride home from Heathrow is also bombed. Do Jaclyn and Tom make it back to the United States, or does Tasha manage to solve it herself?