Isabella's dead. She must be, because she just found her own corpse in an alley. Now she'd quite like some answers, like who killed her, and how come she's never felt so alive? There's only one man who can solve such an impossible mystery: shoe maker and reluctant detective Lorenzo Valentini. But how does it relate to a farm worker who lived in the Casentino Valley over twenty years earlier? Will an attempt to divert the course of the Arno to win the war with Pisa succeed? And, most importantly of all, can Isabella afford Valentini's fee? Witness a murderous romp through Renaissance Italy in a tale of death, obsession, shoe making and war

For twenty years, sex-drenched rock diva Angel has kept herself at the top of the pop charts and in the public eye, thanks to her uncanny knack for controversy and amazing talent for personal reinvention. But the dead body of a rising NBA hoop star has been discovered at Angel's L.A. pleasure palace -- and suddenly the most recognizable face in America is nowhere to be seen. The music world is private investigator Jim McNamara's arena, and its pulse, glitter, and volume make him come alive. Now he needs to explore its darkest corners to track down rock's undisputed queen bee -- one Angela "Angel" Chiavone -- and get to the bottom of one very nasty murder. But how do you find a chameleon who could be anywhere and anyone? If McNamara can't figure it out, the elusive enigma's next hit just might be, quite literally, number one with a bullet.

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Deep in the darkest shadows, evil plots its revenge… Shane Ryan has seen enough darkness to last a lifetime. No matter how hard he tries to protect the innocent, a trail of death and bloodshed seems to follow in his wake. Now the world’s greatest ghost hunter is a fugitive, on the run from the FBI… Shane and his sole ally, the ghost of a carny named Herbert, manage to outwit the authorities, and track this vicious enemy to a nearby children’s hospital. There, within its festering walls, the foe Shane seeks has taken refuge. She whispers from beyond the veil of death. And other spirits heed her call. Forced to battle an army of ghosts, Shane is outnumbered and outgunned. But he’s not going down without a fight. If his enemies want war, Shane will give them one. But can he survive long enough to uncover an even greater evil, lurking in the shadows?

"This book wowed me." —Michael McClellan, bestselling author of The Sand Sea She left a slave. She returns a conqueror. As an Adept, Reiva blasts fire from her hands and leaps over walls. But when her first solo mission leaves her half-dead amidst a heap of massacred allies, she gets just one chance at redemption. The Empire orders her to crush the one kingdom she thought she would never see again: Talynis, the land of her birth, the land she left in chains. Standing in her way is the Wolf, a vicious assassin hellbent on killing Adepts—and a single cut from his cursed blade will destroy Reiva’s magic forever. Even if she can survive, victory may come at a price too high to pay…

The Tree of Lost Dreams takes Johnny DaSilva and his Big Tree buddies from youths who lived out their fantasies of heroism high on the towering limbs of the Big Tree to the real world. While trying and failing to enter WW II because of their youth, they were greeted with the Korean War. Johnny's words "Now we have our own war" were received with some standing tall on their high limb while others deciding to instead abandon the heights and place their two feet squarely on the ground. Johnny, Righty, Scoff, Rhesus and others bought into Johnny's words, "If we don't fight them there, we will fight them here." The two young girls that were in love with Johnny, wealthy and popular Yelena, and poor and abused Bernadette, are now women. It took little time for the Big Tree gang to learn the great distance between the lofty fresh air of their beloved Tree to the lowly face in the muck, nearly impossible to breathe gasps of battlefield blood and barf. Johnny suffers the epitome of the wounds of the lower depths and the different directions it spirals him, Yelena and Bernadette into. Hopefully you have read the Tree of Young Dreamers, Frank Sousa's first novel of the Tree Trilogy. The third, the Tree of New Roots is underway.