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Thomas Gunn is ex-British Special Forces with a talent for infiltration and assassination. Skills that year ago he reluctantly called on, to expose an international conspiracy that led to the murder of his father and death of his best friend. He thought it was all behind him. But a desperate call from his journalist friend Morgan, propels him into an even more sinister plot that threatens global politics and the security of the United States. Racing to follow her cryptic clues, Thomas and his partner Julie are thrust into the deadly path of Mexican drug cartels, corrupt politicians, the CIA, FBI, MI5, and ruthless Wall St brokers. What evil end-game binds these unlikely players together? It appears the shocking truth lies in the painful memories of Thomas’s past, during covert operations in Afghanistan at the height of the war. A past he had hoped to forget, but will not forget him. Tearing at his soul is a haunting question – was he used as a pawn in an insidious “game” back then? Is he still being “played” even now? Outraged at the thought, he does something so unexpected that its boldness and daring will take your breath away! But how high a price will he have to pay for uncovering the truth? As the son of an MI6 operative, former Officer in Britain’s elite Parachute Regiment, pilot, race-car driver, yachtsman and bestselling author of Contact, AFN Clarke brings a wealth of experience to this second book of the Thomas Gunn thriller series. Together with The Orange Moon Affair, the books have been hailed by the San Francisco Book Review as “fast-paced books that you won’t want to put down and you won’t want them to finish.” Available in both ebook and paperback format.
Alien Encounters of a different kind!
Infiltrating an international drug cartel is the dangerous chance of a lifetime for Asher Beaulieu of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Falling in love while running the op isn’t part of the plan, but he never had much use for plans anyway. Shrouded in deception and surrounded by temptation, his charmed life explodes in betrayal and tragedy. DEA Special Agent Emmaline Justice is determined to be recognized for her work, not her sex. She doesn’t have time for an intriguing, wounded RCMP inspector. When the contacts she cultivated over long months of an international undercover investigation keep showing up dead, Emma must use her instincts as both an agent and a woman to determine Beaulieu’s role in the case and in her life. One woman tore him apart. Another is brave enough to put him back together—if his past doesn’t kill him first.
How does a world armed with bows, arrows and catapults, where steam power has only begun to replace horses and sailing ships, avert conquest from beyond the stars? Prince Regilius has been engineered to combat the Dalthin, a predatory alien species that enslaves worlds telepathically, and to do so he must unite his people. But when his mother murders his father, the land descends into chaos and his task may prove impossible. Faced with slaying the one who gave him life in order to protect his world, he seeks a better way. Set in a vast and varied land where telepaths and those with unusual mental abilities tip the course of events, Awakening goes to the heart of family, friendship and betrayal.
At the end of his obligated commitment to the Space Service, Frey Berger decides to stay on Earth to further experience human emotions rather than return to Ginnun where his intended has already mated with another. Looking for real love and someone to accept him for what he is, Frey enlists in Madame Evangeline’s popular dating service. Although he does not understand the concept of a one-night stand, he hopes to find his perfect mate. Carrie Cooper’s husband divorced her for someone who could provide him with children, leaving her with little self-confidence and no desire to let a man hurt her again. Her best friend convinces her to join a dating service, claiming Carrie needs to get laid, while not winding up with a broken heart since her date requires no commitment after the night is over. Although several misunderstandings nearly derail them before the date has even begun, Carrie and Frey end up becoming closer than they ever believed possible. Still, Frey will need to convince Carrie that her perfect mate isn’t human at all, and that one night can lead to a forever love.
The past has caught up with Kate. A decade wasted in a futile search only compounds the questions when she happens across a stranger with the same telltale birthmark. The birthmark of another traveler.
Something insidious lurks behind the safe haven of Sanctuary’s wrought iron gates.
Working as a schoolteacher in Vancouver in 1957, Mavis believes her secret relationship with a black classmate in Halifax has been left in the past—until he shows up at her door. Though she hasn’t seen Will since he left to serve in the Korean War seven years before, the passion they once shared is easily rekindled. This time Mavis is determined not to hide their love. But society’s rules haven’t changed, and as Mavis and Will confront the prejudice that once tore them apart, they must face painful events from their past in order to build a future together.
What would you do if your perfect life was shattered by a series of uncontrollable events?
Set in northern Wisconsin, ‘Treehouse’ is a mystery/thriller that follows Detective Henry Sauter as he attempts to solve a string of child murders eerily similar to the killing of a young boy he investigated years ago as a rookie cop. Demons have chased Sauter since that fateful night when he loosened the noose from a dead child’s neck and lowered the limp body to the forest floor beneath the menacing door of a ramshackle treehouse. Now, more than two decades later, children are once again turning up dead beneath the same treehouse Sauter had torn down himself in the wake of the first child’s death. Finally confronted by those persistent demons, Sauter finds himself in a life and death race to solve the recent murders before the next child ends up dangling from the noose.