Kissing the Key Witness

Kissing the Key Witness
Author: Jenna Ryan
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2009-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1426832869

A dying man's last words threatened to reveal the identity of a powerful crime boss, and after hearing them, Dr. Maya Santiago knew her life was in danger. As a killer stalked her, only one man could help… Homicide lieutenant Stephen Talbot had always wanted Maya. Even though he didn't feel worthy of the compassionate doctor, he was determined to protect her at all costs—especially from himself. But as he and Maya grew closer…and the killer drew nearer…could she convince him to put his heart on the line as well?

Key Witness

Key Witness
Author: Christy Barritt
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2020-09-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0369702719

After witnessing an armed robbery, a woman in danger needs a bodyguard’s protection in this suspenseful romance from USA TODAY bestselling author Christy Barritt, part of The Security Experts series. When Elle Philips witnesses an armed robbery while standing in line at the bank, she sets into motion a deadly game of cat and mouse. Mark Denton, a security contractor and former Navy SEAL, also witnesses the robbery, and is hired by Elle’s father to keep his daughter safe following the incident. And while Denton’s desire to protect Elle goes beyond professional bounds, he cannot let personal feelings cloud his judgment—judgment he’ll have to rely on when the robbers’ true motives are revealed…and Elle becomes a target in the ultimate plot of revenge. Experience more action-packed mystery and suspense in the rest of The Security Experts series by Christy Barritt: Key Witness Lifeline High-Stakes Holiday Reunion From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.

Handcuffs, Wishes, and Misinterpreted Kisses

Handcuffs, Wishes, and Misinterpreted Kisses
Author: Bree Smith
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2016-10-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1365484440

"We don't shoot the warn. We shoot to kill." Mitchell threatened. "You think I'm afraid of you?" Darren laughed, a little too loud for their liking. "You've got some nerve Darren to be trying to play me like this. You should know I never lose." Kale barked. "You can't lose if you were never in the game to begin with Kale." "Looks like I'll keep on reigning with you out of the picture. Remember, Kings never die. Say hi to your gang in hell for me." Kale spat, cocking his gun and pointing it down at the beaten body that was smiling victoriously up at him. What happens when a gang leader and a rich girl end up in a tricky situation? Chaos. It's a paradise, and it's a war zone. On what looks to be like the perfect first day of summer, turns into complete destruction. You wouldn't expect to become friends with the town's notorious bad boy and kidnapped by a gang of rebellious boys, but unfortunately for Addison Montgomery - exactly that happens. You could say her luck runs thin, but for Kale Matthews it's not all bad. But of course, with every bad boy comes a good girl who doesn't know the tricks of the trade.

Kissing the Rain

Kissing the Rain
Author: Kevin Brooks
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2014-09-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 190948928X

Pale, blubbery Moo silently endures a rain of spite each day. But when he sees a murder, he must take a stand, and choose between truth and lies, weakness and strength...

Archangel's Kiss

Archangel's Kiss
Author: Anna Santos
Publisher: Crystal Palace Publishing
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2018-08-27
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

Angels and Vampires are deadly enemies. An Angel Prince looking for his fated mate to break his curse. A Vampire King with a heart of stone. Rejected by her fated mate, Aria loses her humanity after being saved by a monster she believed only to exist in horror stories. But everything isn’t what it seems when her savior becomes a handsome angel prince who awakened her ancient and deadly powers. Powers that can destroy the world, or save it. Only true love can break the prince’s curse and stop him from turning into stone for all eternity. Despite the overwhelming chemistry between Aria and the prince, they only have thirty days to fall in love before their bond is put to the test. Peril strikes in the form of an addictive drug that can kill vampires and angels are to blame. Conflict is blooming and the peace treaty between the Angel Prince and the Vampire King is threatened. Aria is caught in a love triangle when the Vampire King discovers that the young woman he had refused to take as his is now the prince’s new mate. Tormented by the rash decision that almost killed her, the king now believes that he’s saving Aria from the clutches of the manipulative prince. Finding out that supernatural creatures exist becomes less terrifying for Aria than discovering what she’s destined to become if she lets her Archangel’s abilities take over and change her. Aria is much more than an average, eighteen-year-old girl, she’s now a deadly Archangel warrior and the future queen of the angels and gargoyles if only she can manage to break her lover’s curse and keep the Vampire King at bay. What would you give up for true love? Find out in Archangel’s Kiss.

Dangerous Kiss

Dangerous Kiss
Author: Jackie Collins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 598
Release: 2000-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0671020951

LUCKY SANTANGELO IS BACK IN Jackie Collins' SCINTILLATING NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! She's the seductively beautiful, street-smart survivor who fought for fame and power in Hollywood and happiness in marriage. She's the strong, exciting woman who dares to take chances -- and always wins. Now, driven by raw fury when a member of her family is randomly gunned down, Lucky hunts for a killer throughout glamorous Los Angeles. But her quest for revenge is complicated by the sudden return of a man from her past -- a man with a Dangerous Kiss ...will it destroy everything she has?

Drawn Testimony

Drawn Testimony
Author: Jane Rosenberg
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2024-08-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0369746619

From America’s top courtroom sketch artist, a penetrating, compulsively readable memoir about her dramatic four-decade career For over forty years, Jane Rosenberg has been at the heart of the news cycle, covering almost every major trial that has passed through the New York justice system as a courtroom sketch artist, including the most recent Donald Trump hush money trial. In Drawn Testimony, Rosenberg brings us into the dramatic high-stakes world of her craft, where art, psychology and courtroom drama collide. Over the course of her legendary career, Jane has had a front-row seat to some of the most iconic and notorious moments in our nation’s recent history, including cases pertaining to: • Mick Jagger • Martha Stewart • Tom Brady's "Deflategate" scandal • John Lennon’s murder trial • Ghislaine Maxwell • John Gotti • Harvey Weinstein • The Boston Marathon bomber • Donald Trump Readers will learn how she has honed her unique powers of perception and also what her portraits reveal, not only about her subjects, but about the human condition in general. Fearless, fascinating and gorgeously written, Drawn Testimony captures the unique career of an artist whose body of work depicts history as it’s happening.

Free Love

Free Love
Author: Robert Shaplen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2024-04-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 196134100X

A wry, instructive, and hugely entertaining account of “one of the most sensational trials in American history” (New York Times Book Review). On the night of July 3, 1870, Elizabeth Tilton confessed to her husband that she’d had an affair with their pastor, Henry Ward Beecher. This secret would soon transfix America, for Beecher was the most famous preacher of the day, founder of the most fashionable church in Brooklyn Heights, a presidential hopeful, an influential supporter of Abolition, and a leader of the campaign for women’s suffrage. When Beecher tried to silence the Tiltons, it was a whisper network of suffragists, notably Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who spread news of the affair, and it was the radical Victoria Woodhull—an outspoken proponent of “free love”—who seized on it, as political dynamite, to blow up the myth of monogamy among the political elite. Her public accusations led to even more public trials, which shocked the country and divided the most progressive thinkers of the era. In 1953, the journalist Robert Shaplen revisited the Tilton-Beecher affair in a series of articles for the New Yorker, relying on 3,000 pages of contemporary accounts—court transcripts, love-letters, newspaper reports and illustrations, even political cartoons—to reanimate a scandal that shook the American reform movement and to expose a strand of America’s cultural DNA that remains recognizable today.

The Army Lawyer

The Army Lawyer
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1032
Release: 1998
Genre: Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
ISBN:

The Honored Society

The Honored Society
Author: Petra Reski
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2013-01-08
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1568589697

In the early hours of an August 2007 morning a gunfight broke out in an Italian restaurant in Duisburg, Germany; in less than five minutes over seventy shots were fired into the bodies of six men. Both the victims and the assassins were members of the 'Ndrangheta crime organization. Calabria's Mafia had brazenly shown its savage influence outside Italy for the first time. In The Honored Society award-winning investigative reporter Petra Reski reveals the Mafia menace lurking throughout the world-- from espresso bars in Palermo to European halls of parliament to the corporate headquarters of enormous agricultural firms. In haunting and exquisite prose she explores the Byzantine structure of the 'Ndrangheta, Cosa Nostra and other mafia clans throughout Italy -- the code they live by, the destruction they wreak, how they operate within the country and how they operate internationally. She shows how these syndicates dominate everything from nuclear waste disposal to hotel chains to the marijuana trade in Australia and cocaine trafficked throughout the world. Reski shows how figures such as Silvio Berlusconi were made by the Mafia, and how those who dared to defy its codes were broken. A searing portrait of the criminals who have come to control not only Italy but vast swathes of the globe, The Honored Society is a journalistic tour de force.