These short-stories by Mike Casey take your soul by the hand and bring it for an ice-cream."He did not know how long he had been prisoner in the place. Maybe for months or years, perhaps longer or less. The darkness around him was thick and impenetrable. He knew to be in a very small room, which allowed him to walk only three or four steps from wall to wall."A mysterious prisoner, locked up for years in the same small underground room, without light, with very little food other than mice and insects, sees materializing a glimmer of freedom. Who has locked him up? Why was he imprisoned? But the bigger mystery for the prisoner is his own identity: who am I? The mystery unfolds in a succession of horrors until the impossible truth.

Cain's Cross book 2 of Bullard's Battle Cain—hearing a killer's last words, "You're next,"—knows his time is running out, not only for him but for his entire team. As members of his team search for the still missing Bullard in the ocean, Cain has focused on tracking the killer's history, hopefully to lead to the madman after them all. A trip to Sicily brings more information to light but also more puzzles to sort out. And an unexpected light in Cain's life. When Petra picks up the two men at the airport, she has no idea how fast her personal life is about to unravel. Not only do these men bring up old terrible memories but they also shine a light on an ugly corner of town. People she avoids at all costs. Still she can't afford to dwell on the past, as her present blows up. With Cain and Eton at her side, they're all trying to stay alive, as the bodies drop around them.

Jax (The Mavericks, Book 3)

Simon Says… Jump (Kate Morgan, Book #2)

Lachlan: SEALs of Honor, Book 28

Welcome to a brand-new connected series of intrigue, betrayal, and ... murder, from the USA Today best-selling author Dale Mayer. A series with all the elements you've come to love, plus so much more... including psychics! A betrayal from within has Terkel frantic to protect those he can, as his team falls one by one, from a murderous killer he helped create. With the bulk of his team down, Terk tries to establish a new base, while struggling to heal the team through the special connection each has. Damon is concerned about finding Tasha, one of their admins, and keeping her safe. But, without any secure place to take her, Damon's making do with the little they have—whether she's happy about his plan or not. Tasha, barely surviving an assassination attempt, is not sure who to trust. When Damon comes to check on her, she can only hope her instincts and her heart are right about him. This man meant everything to her for the years they'd worked together,...

Ryker (The Mavericks, Book 6)

Rick’s Road (Terkel’s Team Series, Book #5)

Hatch is more than happy to step up and to rescue the missing father-and-daughter archeological duo. Now if only it were that easy. They'd been questioned by the Egyptian government and released, with a warning to not leave Cairo. But, when their hotel room is found empty, most believe they took off ahead of punishment—but not Hatch's team. When the father's foreman turns up dead, Hatch investigates the body-dump location and finds the daughter, weaving through the sand, ready to collapse. Milly is shaken and grieving. During her captivity, her father dies, and she escapes, only to find herself lost in the sand dunes. She may be safe, but her father will never come home. Millie is determined to find the man responsible for her father's death and for the information that's changed her entire life.

Hathaway House:Aaron(Book 1) Welcome to Hathaway House, a heartwarming military romance series from USA TODAY best-selling author Dale Mayer. Here you'll meet a whole new group of friends, along with a few favorite characters from Heroes for Hire. Instead of action, you'll find emotion. Instead of suspense, you'll find healing. Instead of romance, ... oh, wait. ... There is romance—of course! Welcome to Hathaway House. Rehab Center. Safe Haven. Second chance at life and love. Former Navy SEAL Aaron Hammond has no idea how he wound up at Hathaway House, Texas. Nor does he particularly care. All he can see is his anger. Anger at the betrayal that destroyed his physical body and at the loss of the future he wanted but that he'll never have now. He's a cripple, less than half a man, and all he can look forward to is a half life, alone with himself and his pain. Dani Hathaway runs Hathaway House with her father, an ex-military man...

Deep Beneath: Book #15 of Psychic Visions

Parker: The K9 Files, Book 6

Mikael uses his contacts to gain passage for the Efljos and his companions to the streets of Incarnate. But their reunion is marred by terrible news from the Orphan's allies on Taiiruz.This is the fifteenth chapter of 'To Walk the Path', the final part of my cyber-fantasy 'The Star Plague Journals'.

SEALs of Honor: Axel book 24. Life was never boring, but, for Axel, things kick up a notch when he helps in an underwater rescue of a downed submarine that's low on oxygen. What they find is nothing like what they expected. All the crew but one was dead—as in shot to death. The last remaining crew member was alive but in rough shape. What the hell happened here? Allee woke up in the hospital and barely remembers how she got here. But a fuzzy memory only compounds the horror when the investigation ranks her as their number one suspect in the nightmare that won't quit. As the investigation takes a darker turn, so does her life, as someone decides a dead patsy is better than one who can talk ...

Mountain hit the Arctic, knowing full well they would have to drag his dead body back out of the tundra before he ever quit on his little brother, Teegan. Theirs hadn't been the easiest of upbringings, but, when times had been tough, there'd always been the two of them. Yet the series of events so far has gone from mysterious to downright deadly, and just what is the elusive Dr. Amelia's part in all this anyway? Like a ghost, she slips in and around everyone. What is her problem with the base, and, more important, what is her end game? Dr. Amelia Morrison had seen too much in her life to trust anything she can't fathom with her own eyes. So, what she sees here makes no sense. Something is rotten at the Arctic international military training camp. She needs to stay close, but, deep inside, she just wants to run for cover. But this mountain of a man keeps her coming back, and his younger brother she manages to keep alive. However, saving a man out in these harsh...