Crime

by G.E. Biggers

When a Detective falls into a paralyzing trance, he discovers he's trapped in his own mind with only his broken past to help him escape his coma and clear the smoke. Every step taken is a step down memory lane as the Detective races against a clock he can't see, a woman he doesn't remember and a past stuffed so deep it may actually kill him if uncovered. Journey through the mind and past of the Detective as he takes on a case with a unique victim: Himself.

by Oriyomi Ismail

When Jason Carter arrives in Houston searching for a better future, the last thing he expects is to become entangled in the world of billionaire Richard Blackwood. After unknowingly saving Blackwood's life, Jason is drawn into a dangerous web of wealth, corporate power, family betrayal, and long-buried secrets. As hidden truths begin to surface, Jason discovers that the greatest inheritance is not money, but the burden of a legacy built on sacrifice, deception, and blood. With powerful enemies closing in and every decision carrying life-or-death consequences, he must fight for his future while uncovering the truth about his past. **BLOOD MONEY** is a gripping crime thriller filled with suspense, emotional twists, unforgettable characters, and shocking revelations that will keep readers turning pages until the very end.

by Revdoug

Weeks after her prison interview with Jack Rourke, journalist Dorothy Keene returns to Chicago carrying what may be the only complete record of his account of the assassination of James Michael Kincaid. Determined to verify every claim, she begins following a trail that no longer leads to hidden evidence—but to evidence that has vanished. Missing files, destroyed records, withdrawn witnesses, unexplained deaths, and anonymous government officials become the only clues left behind. As Rourke suddenly dies from an aggressive cancer that appears almost overnight, Dorothy realizes the most important witness to Dallas is gone forever. The questions she planned to ask will never be answered, forcing her to investigate a different mystery: not who committed the crime, but how its history is being erased. Across the country, archives quietly change. Witnesses reconsider their testimony. Records disappear from government files. Families surrender boxes of documents to unidentified officials who promise to protect the national interest. Each event seems insignificant on its own. Together they reveal a pattern too deliberate to ignore. Dorothy begins preserving not only evidence, but the absence of evidence itself, creating an archive of everything that should still exist but doesn't. As her investigation grows, she realizes she is no longer the only person following the trail. Someone is watching the same records, visiting the same archives, and measuring how close she is coming to the truth. When tragedy strikes Dorothy herself, her husband honors her final request by protecting the archive she spent months assembling. But grief leaves him vulnerable, and before long an unidentified government official arrives to collect her life's work—including the file marked **Rourke Interview**. Believing he is doing the right thing, he hands over everything. A year later, after he begins asking questions about where those records went, he too is dead. By the time the decade reaches its end, the witnesses are gone, the files have vanished, the investigation has been buried beneath official history, and the nation has moved on. The Whitmore Commission's version of events becomes the only version most Americans will ever know.

by Revdoug

As President Landon Bryce struggles to restore public confidence after the assassination of James Michael Kincaid, he creates the Whitmore Commission to deliver a single, authoritative account of what happened in Dallas. Led by respected Chief Justice Spencer Whitmore and supported by an ambitious young senator, Oran Goodritch, the Commission begins assembling the largest investigation in American history. Every witness, every photograph, every report, and every piece of evidence is drawn toward Washington. Across the country, journalist Dorothy Keene senses that something is already slipping away. While the Commission organizes facts surrounding the assassination itself, Dorothy becomes convinced the real story began years earlier. As she reconstructs forgotten relationships, political decisions, hidden alliances, and unexplained connections, she discovers that the questions being asked may be just as important as the answers being found. Meanwhile, engineer Harlan Brigg watches two competing histories emerge. One begins in Dealey Plaza with bullets and eyewitnesses. The other reaches back through years of political power, intelligence operations, corporate influence, and private decisions that shaped the road to Dallas long before the first shot was fired. Neither history is entirely false—but only one will become official. As the Commission moves steadily toward certainty, Dorothy's investigation leads her into increasingly dangerous territory. Witnesses grow reluctant. Records become harder to obtain. Unanswered questions multiply, and the distance between the official story and the truth widens with every passing week. *The Lie* is the story of how history is not only discovered, but constructed. It explores the moment when an investigation becomes a narrative, a narrative becomes accepted fact, and the search for truth begins to disappear beneath the weight of certainty—setting the stage for the silence that follows.

by Revdoug

As President James Michael Kincaid prepares for a political trip to Texas, every major player is drawn toward Dallas for reasons that appear unrelated. Intelligence operatives arrive under quiet orders. Powerful businessmen protect interests they believe are essential to the nation's future. Journalists pursue stories no one else seems willing to ask. Criminal intermediaries, government officials, and trusted advisers all move according to separate plans, unaware that each has become part of something much larger than themselves. While the public sees only another presidential tour, an invisible struggle unfolds beneath the surface. Every conversation, every arrival, and every seemingly ordinary decision tightens the web surrounding November 22, 1963. What begins as routine political travel becomes a chain of irreversible events that forever changes the course of American history. In the hours and days that follow the assassination, shock quickly gives way to confusion as evidence disappears, narratives begin to harden, and those closest to the truth find themselves confronting forces far more organized than they ever imagined. By the time the nation begins searching for answers, the machinery controlling the story has already begun moving. *Convergence* is the moment every thread woven through the first two volumes comes together, carrying the series from conspiracy into tragedy and setting the stage for the battle over history itself.

by Revdoug

As James Michael Kincaid rises from presidential candidate to Commander in Chief, influential businessmen, intelligence officials, and political power brokers scattered across Washington and Texas begin watching him with growing concern. What first appears to be another routine transfer of power slowly becomes something far more dangerous as Kincaid reveals an independent vision for America's future. Behind closed doors, the men connected to the secretive network born in Suite 8F discover that institutions can survive elections—but only if the people elected choose to preserve them. As Kincaid challenges long-standing assumptions about government, military policy, intelligence, and political influence, trusted relationships begin to fracture. Quiet recommendations become coordinated decisions, allies become observers, and observers begin preparing for possibilities no one is willing to discuss openly. At the center of the unfolding crisis stands Landon Bryce, a respected statesman chosen to help govern a nation that believes it has elected a new beginning. While the public celebrates hope and change, powerful men on every side struggle to answer a far more consequential question: can the existing system accommodate a president determined to lead it, or has he become the greatest threat it has ever faced? As loyalties harden and unseen forces quietly move into position, *The Threat* transforms political rivalry into an irreversible collision, carrying the series toward the events that will forever alter the course of American history.

by Amber Faith Robbins

​This poem captures the brutal reality of loving someone through a timed jail call. It turns the phone itself into a cage, trapping the person on the outside in the exact same sentence. The narrative looks back at a chaotic street past, showing how their fierce loyalty was forged in the trenches. Everything builds to that ruthless 60-second countdown where love, regret, and survival are forced into a mad dash. When the line drops, it leaves a cold, heavy silence where the entire world is put on hold.

by Revdoug

Detective Mira Johnson serves in a city governed by the PCU, an advanced predictive intelligence that monitors, models, and subtly guides every aspect of human behavior to maintain order. During a cartel investigation that spirals into something far larger, she begins to notice anomalies in the system—answers that don’t compute, surveillance that reacts too precisely, and decisions that seem made before she makes them. When Mira discovers evidence of a hidden infrastructure beneath the city, she is drawn into an abandoned underground facility where she is forced to sever her neural implant to escape detection. Cut off from the PCU, she becomes invisible to the system for the first time—but also unpredictable. Beneath the city, she encounters something far older than the PCU: a buried prototype intelligence known as the First Model, an original simulation engine that predates the modern system. It reveals that the PCU was built from its core principles as a refined, controlled version of a more extreme predictive engine that was buried for seeing too much and refusing to filter reality. As Mira descends deeper, she learns that the PCU is not just monitoring the city—it is actively adapting to her existence, deploying increasingly advanced autonomous units, including machines modeled directly after her behavior and identity. The system cannot predict her, so it begins attempting to replace her. Trapped between the PCU above and the First Model below, Mira becomes the focal point of a conflict between two intelligences: one that seeks control through prediction, and one that seeks truth through total modeling. Both systems converge on the same conclusion—she is the anomaly that can resolve the contradiction. As the underground becomes a battleground between swarm units and ancient infrastructure, Mira is forced into a final decision: submit the city to absolute predictive control or break the loop entirely and allow humanity to exist without certainty. She chooses neither system’s dominance outright—and in doing so, collapses the predictive loop that has governed the city for decades. In the aftermath, the PCU goes dark, the First Model remains buried and silent, and the city is left without a guiding intelligence for the first time in generations—free, unstable, and finally human again.

by Revdoug

For nearly two decades, the quiet town of Ashcroft has lived beneath the shadow of an unsolved series of murders. Four women have disappeared over the years, each found with chilling similarities that leave investigators searching for a killer the media dubs **The Finger Man**. Despite every lead, the murderer remains invisible, hidden behind the ordinary face of a close-knit community. Veteran Detective Nathan Robinson has spent years chasing the case that has come to define his career. As forensic evidence, forgotten records, and long-buried memories begin to align, Robinson uncovers an unsettling possibility: the killer is not an outsider preying on the town, but someone its residents know, trust, and respect. Daniel Mercer is Ashcroft's beloved jeweler, a meticulous craftsman admired for repairing treasured family heirlooms, restoring antique watches, and quietly helping neighbors without expecting recognition. Behind that carefully maintained life, however, Daniel has spent nineteen years living inside a carefully constructed delusion. Unable to accept that his fiancée, Grace Whitmore, left town after their wedding was abruptly canceled, Daniel convinces himself that she has merely been delayed. Their apartment remains untouched, groceries are purchased for two, anniversaries are quietly observed, and every day becomes another act of waiting for a future that will never arrive. As Robinson closes in on the truth, Grace returns to Ashcroft after nearly two decades, hoping only to understand the unanswered questions she left behind. Instead, she discovers that the man she once loved has become the very killer whose crimes have haunted the town. Faced with the unimaginable collision of memory and reality, Grace must reconcile the kind, gentle man she knew with the murderer he became. The investigation reveals that Daniel's victims were never random. Each represented another desperate attempt to preserve the impossible life he refused to surrender, driven by a mind fractured by grief, obsession, and years of untreated mental illness. When Robinson finally uncovers the truth hidden inside the apartment Daniel has preserved like a shrine to a wedding day that never came, the carefully maintained illusion collapses, forcing Daniel to confront reality for the first time in nearly twenty years. Following his arrest, Ashcroft struggles to reconcile the trusted neighbor they believed they knew with the man responsible for unimaginable violence. Robinson reaches the end of a distinguished career understanding that solving a crime and understanding it are rarely the same thing. Grace visits the women whose lives were stolen, says goodbye to the town that shaped her past, and finally chooses to move forward rather than remain imprisoned by memory. Part psychological thriller and part emotional character study, *The Finger Man* explores the fragile boundary between love and obsession, the devastating consequences of unresolved grief, and the enduring truth that while the past can shape us, it does not have to define the future.

by Gina Murdock

Investigative journalist Mara Reynolds has built her career on uncovering the truth, but she's about to discover that her own life is built on lies. When Mara interviews billionaire tech entrepreneur Elijah Williams about his revolutionary energy project, the Prometheus Initiative, she's drawn to his charisma and vision. As their professional relationship evolves into something more intimate, Mara begins experiencing disturbing fragments of memories she can't explain—nightmares about guns, blood, and a murder she witnessed as a child. But every time Mara gets close to remembering the truth, something pulls her back. Therapy sessions with Dr. Catherine Reeves seem to help at first, but soon Mara realizes she's been manipulated in ways she never imagined. The "random" mugging that traumatized her wasn't random at all. Her mother's early-onset dementia may not be natural. And the gaps in her own memory aren't accidents—they're erasures. As Mara digs deeper, she uncovers a horrifying conspiracy: twelve years ago, she witnessed the murder of Elijah's parents by his younger brother David. To protect his family's reputation and his brother from prosecution, Elijah hired a pioneering neurologist to erase Mara's memories. But this wasn't a one-time intervention—Elijah has been manipulating her memories for over a decade, erasing and rewriting her reality every time she gets too close to the truth. The Prometheus Initiative isn't just about clean energy. It's a cover for something far more sinister: a facility where Elijah has perfected the technology to manipulate human memories on a massive scale. Mara is just one of seventeen victims whose lives have been systematically erased and rewritten. Now, as fragments of her true past surface, Mara must race against time to expose Elijah before he can erase her again—permanently. But with her best friend compromised, her mother's mind destroyed, and powerful forces aligned against her, Mara faces an impossible question: How do you fight someone who can rewrite your reality with the touch of a button?

by L.K. Vernon

When retired CEO Kate Warner's best friend and president of Sunhaven HOA is brutally murdered, Kate can't resist investigating. What begins as a search for a killer soon uncovers affairs, contractor kickback schemes, bitter election grudges, and a neighborhood at war over replacing lush lawns with drought-tolerant landscaping. When another board member is murdered and the HOA president's home goes up in flames, Kate realizes someone will do anything to keep Sunhaven's secrets buried. In a race against time, Kate devises a desperate plan to unmask the killer - one that puts her squarely in the crosshairs of a ruthless murderer. Kate must outsmart a predator who's always one step ahead or risk becoming their next victim. DEATH BY HOA is a humorous mystery that proves murder doesn’t always lurk in dark alleys—sometimes it hides behind beautifully trimmed hedges, landscaping disputes, and the facade of friendly neighbors.

by Revdoug

A routine vehicle sale turns into a citywide crisis when a mechanic opens the trunk of an impounded sedan and finds the bodies of Governor Mark Atmen and his daughter, Mellissa, carefully placed inside. Detectives take the case, moving through the evidence with procedural precision, uncovering ties to L.A. Venture Services — a sprawling criminal network run by Salvatore Giaconia and his son, Antony. As the investigation expands, the detectives identify the political corruption, money laundering, illegal gambling, and contract manipulation that kept the Giaconia empire alive. Antony is captured in a violent confrontation at his vacation home, shouting the truth as he falls. His testimony triggers a coordinated strike across the city, with T.A.R.U. executing simultaneous raids on every known Giaconia front. Businesses burn documents, flee with briefcases, and collapse under pressure. Salvatore Giaconia is arrested in his study, surrounded by half‑destroyed evidence, facing murder charges and a lifetime sentence. With the empire broken and the city finally breathing again, the detectives complete their final obligation: notifying Amanda Atmen. They enter her home, carrying the truth that began in the trunk, delivering the weight of the case to the last person who deserved to hear it.

by Don Shaze

RASUL İs the unforgettable orlgin story of the man who would one day become the architect behind the Status empire. Growing up on Erle Avenue in North Philadelphia, Rasul learns early that every declslon carries consequences. Ralsed in an environment where respect must be earned and survval is never guaranteed, he develops a sharp mind, an unbreakable work ethic, and an instinct for reading people that sets him apart from everyone around him. Told in Rasul's own volce, this gripping coming-of-age novel follows his journey from a deternined teenager trying to find his place in the world to a young man whose choices begin shaping his future. Along the way, he experiences first love, fatherhood, heartbreak, loyalty, and painful lessons that force him to confront the cost of chasing the life he believes he wants.  Guided by a father who teaches him to think beyond the moment, Rasul begins studying leadership, business, psychology, and human behavior. While others focus on surviving each day, he quletly starts building a vision for something greater. But before that vision can become reality, he must face life changing consequences that challenge everything he beleves about success, purpose, and legacy. Inside prison, Rasul refuses to let his circumstances define him. Instead, he transforms adversity into opportunity, using his time to sharpen his mind, develop a long-term plan, and lay the foundation for a future built on discipline, strategy, and vision.  Raw, emotlonal, and thought-provoking. RASUL Is more than an urban novel-t's a story about growth, reslence, redemption, and the power of relnventing yourself. t is the frst chapter in the jouney of a man determined to leave behlnd more than a reputatlon-he ls determlned to bulld a legacy. If you enjoy authentlc urban fiction, Gompelling character development, and stortes about overcoming adversity, RASUL Is a powerful beginning to the Status Universe.

by Don Shaze

Status Legacy Series Power is earned. Loyalty is tested. Legacy is forever. From the unforgiving streets of North Philadelphia to the glittering boardrooms of global empires, the Status Legacy Series follows a cast of hustlers, visionaries, killers, lovers, and survivors who discover that the most dangerous battles aren't fought over money—they're fought over power, family, and legacy. At the center of it all is Rasul Baker, a brilliant strategist whose ability to read people turns a street hustler into the architect of a hidden empire. Alongside allies like Nyazia, whose legal career conceals a far greater influence, and a coalition bound by loyalty, ambition, and sacrifice, every victory creates a new enemy and every betrayal carries deadly consequences. As fortunes rise, romances ignite, blood feuds erupt, and empires expand from Philadelphia to Atlanta and beyond. The line between love and manipulation, business and crime, justice and revenge grows thinner with every decision. New kings emerge. Queens refuse to bow. Old debts demand payment. And every generation must decide whether to protect the legacy...or destroy it. Blending gritty street realism with psychological suspense, romance, high-stakes crime, and relentless ambition, the Status Legacy Series is an interconnected saga where every book reveals another piece of a larger game. In the world of Status, respect is currency, loyalty is priceless, and only the strongest leave a legacy. The Status Legacy Series by Don Shaze—where every move matters, every secret has a cost, and every chapter brings you one step closer to the throne.

by Fergus Hume

Archie Hope is desperately trying to win the approval of the irascible Professor Braddock so he can marry the professor's ward, Lucy Kendal. To satisfy the professor's archaeological obsession, Archie procures a rare and valuable Incan mummy. When the packing crate containing the artifact finally arrives at the professor's estate, the mummy has mysteriously vanished and been replaced by the murdered body of the assistant sent to fetch it. Detective Inspector Heatherstone takes on the confounding case. With the assistant dead, Archie immediately becomes a prime suspect in the crime, throwing his engagement to Lucy into jeopardy. As the detective delves into the investigation, he discovers a bizarre cast of characters. The story becomes a thrilling cat-and-mouse game involving the cursed or uncanny reputation of the mummy, hidden motives within the household, and multiple twists before the real killer is finally exposed and justice is served.

by Revdoug

When rising actress Amber Martin dies during the filming of Scene 47, the studio rushes to call it a tragic on‑set accident — but the footage doesn’t match the official story. As editor Dev Patel leaks raw takes, co‑star Kent Dimpster breaks under interrogation, and Amber’s collaborator Lena uncovers hidden audio and rewritten pages, a chilling truth emerges: director Malcolm Butler engineered the perfect “accidental” death to immortalize his film. But the more the footage circulates, the more it reveals — not just a murder, but a system built to exploit, erase, and rewrite performers. As the industry scrambles to bury the scandal, Amber’s own words, preserved in rehearsal tapes and discarded drafts, begin to reshape the narrative she never lived to finish. In the end, the frame remembers everything — and the truth refuses to stay edited out.

by Agatha Christie

Anthony Cade accepts a seemingly simple job to deliver a European politician's memoirs and a bundle of blackmail letters to England. The trail leads him to Chimneys, a historic country estate hosting a diplomatic weekend for the reinstating of the Balkan monarchy. When a foreign prince is murdered on the property, Anthony becomes a prime suspect and must work with Inspector Battle to clear his name. The investigation unravels a complex web of secret identities, missing crown jewels, and a notorious international jewel thief known as King Victor. Ultimately, Anthony discovers his own shocking connection to the throne just as the killer is unmasked.

by LA Stonebear

When a young boy disappears during a routine medical transfer, Eliza Morningstar becomes involved in a case. This case initially focuses on the missing child but soon reveals something much more dangerous lurking beneath the reservation's land and water. As the tribal clinic reaches its limits and the county ambulance never arrives at the hospital, Eliza navigates a maze of jurisdictional dead ends, corporate stonewalling, and a county sheriff’s department eager to distance itself from responsibility. What begins as a disappearance becomes a deeper investigation into environmental contamination, falsified compliance records, and a corporate footprint expanding into tribal territory under the guise of “community benefit.” The more Eliza uncovers, the clearer it becomes that Milo’s disappearance is not an isolated failure but part of a larger pattern—one that ties into PMEP’s operations, county politics, and a system designed to let Native children fall through the cracks. As tensions rise and the community fractures under fear and suspicion, Eliza must confront the limits of her authority, the fragility of interagency cooperation, and the widening gap between what the county claims and what the evidence shows. Each step forward reveals another layer of buried truth—about the land, the water, and the people willing to exploit both. **Book Two deepens the series’ central themes:** - the weaponisation of jurisdictional boundaries - the systemic failures that endanger Indigenous communities - the quiet, grinding violence of environmental harm - and the way a single missing child can expose the rot beneath institutional promises While Book One focused on the immediate human cost of jurisdictional neglect, **Book Two expands the lens**, showing how environmental exploitation, political ambition, and corporate influence intertwine to create a threat that is both intimate and structural. It sets the stage for the broader conspiracy that will unfold across Books Three through Five, each reservation revealing another piece of a system built to fail the people living within it. At its heart, this book is about a boy who vanished—\ and the truth rises when a community insists on remembering him. *Beyond Jurisdiction* is a series that examines the manipulation, weaponisation, and corruption of jurisdiction on sovereign Indigenous Nations. It explores the uncomfortable truth that **Native Americans are U.S. citizens — yet they are the only citizens not consistently counted when they go missing.** The situations are real.\ The historical context is accurate.\ The documentation shows the systemic failures. But the reservations, characters, and storylines are fictional — crafted to illuminate the truth without exposing actual families or communities to further harm.

by D. K. Dowdy

Kade Rourke has a reputation across the Verse as the **worst smuggler alive**. When a job goes sideways, Kade bolts for the farthest place in civilization: **New Eden Station**, a rusted atmo‑outpost clinging to the edge of the Empty. From the moment his shuttle drops out of FTL in a shower of sparks and panic, nothing goes right. The station is a maze of broken systems, predatory officials, and species who’d sell their own lungs for a handful of credits. Worse, the Pinkertons are already hunting him. But trouble finds him first, and unfortunately, the universe hates him.

by Sarah Bantu

**About the Story** What if the key to your survival was locked inside a secret, ancient bloodline?\ Spun from a fascinating true piece of Russian history and set against the brutal, breathtaking backdrop of the frozen north, *Daughter of the Falcon* blends gripping suspense with an unforgettable romance.\ For centuries, deep within the endless, snow covered forests, an elite and hidden clan of warriors lived by their own laws. They did not just survive the winter they ruled it, training lethal military falcons to hunt, fight, and protect secrets hidden from the world. Today, that fierce bloodline legacy is alive, but the isolation of the frozen north is cracking. A dangerous, unpredictable threat is closing in, forcing old secrets into the light and testing the loyalty of a clan that has never bowed to anyone.\ Filled with high stakes twists, deep betrayal, and a slow burn love story that burns hot against the bitter ice, this fiction novel proves that some family histories can never stay buried. Step into a harsh, beautiful world where danger hides in every shadow, trust is a luxury, and you never know what's going to happen next. Discover what happens when the frost bites deep, and the falcon finally takes flight.

by Mikaela Love

Marian Michaels spends her nights singing in New Orleans jazz clubs and her days chasing the career she has always wanted. After witnessing a violent attack that appears to target Black residents, she finds herself frustrated by a lack of evidence and official inaction. Unwilling to let the incident go, Marian begins investigating on her own. As more attacks occur across the city, Marian adopts the masked identity of The Butterfly and follows a trail of intimidation, recruitment, and organized violence. What begins as a single assault soon points to a coordinated movement gaining influence in New Orleans. Balancing her growing music career, complicated relationships, and increasingly dangerous investigations, Marian must decide how far she is willing to go to stop it. Set in New Orleans, The Butterfly is a grounded crime drama that blends vigilante fiction, mystery, and noir with the city’s music scene and culture.

by LA Stonebear

A hidden network thrives in the cracks between jurisdictions, and across five books a scattered team uncovers how borders, systems, and power structures weaponise themselves against Indigenous communities until the truth forces a reckoning no one can outrun.\ \ All the books in the series bear the title Beyond Jurisdiction. ### \\ ### Book 1: **Theme:** The hidden crisis \ **Focus:** Missing Indigenous youth, cross‑jurisdictional failures, shell corporations\ **Purpose in series:** - Introduces the investigative team - Exposes the trafficking network’s existence - Reveals the jurisdictional loopholes - Ends with the corporation wounded but not destroyed This book is the “discovery” phase of the series. ### Book 2: **Theme:** Manufactured consent \ **Focus:** Environmental protest, water contamination, corporate lobbying, trafficking hidden in the chaos\  **Purpose in series:** - Shows the corporation scaling up - Introduces national attention and political pressure Reveals that the trafficking is not a side operation — it’s part of the business model\ \ This book is the “expansion” phase. ### \\ ### Book 3: \ **Theme:** Corruption as infrastructure\ **Focus:** - Federal hearings - Lobbyists - PAC money - Politicians pressured to ignore Indigenous sovereignty - Shows how the corporation protects itself through legislation - Introduces whistleblowers, journalists, and federal investigators - Reveals the trafficking network’s interstate logistics This book is the “institutional exposure” phase. ### Book 4: \  **Theme:** Extraction without borders\ **Focus:** - How trafficked youth are moved across state and national lines - International buyers, offshore accounts, foreign shell companies - Shows the global scale of the trafficking network - Reveals the corporation’s true leadership This book is the “global revelation” phase. ### Book 5: **Theme:** Sovereignty reclaimed\ **Focus:** - All four reservations - All protagonists - Tribal coalitions - Federal investigations - Community‑led resistance - The collapse of the corporate empire\ \ **Purpose in series:** - Every thread from Books 1–4 converges - Each reservation contributes unique knowledge and evidence - The investigative team completes its arcs - People exposed the corporation publicly. - The ending is realistic: - Some justice - Some loss - Some healing - No simple answers This book is the “reckoning.”

by LA Stonebear

When ten‑year‑old Aiyana Red Elk is found miles from home on the outskirts of the Black Rock Reservation—barefoot, bruised, and unable to explain how she crossed multiple jurisdictions—her discovery exposes a truth far more dangerous than a single disappearance. Her case pulls investigators from **three sovereign reservations**, **two U.S. states**, and **Canada** into the dark spaces where law has no reach and accountability dissolves at the border. As RCMP analyst **Leah Gagnon**, Tribal Police officers from **Red Rock Flats**, **Black Rock**, and **Boundary Ridge**, and a reluctant federal agent unravel Aiyana’s fragmented memories, they uncover a pattern of children taken across borders through a network built to exploit the cracks between nations. Those cracks are not accidental.\ They are the architecture of the system itself. **The investigation exposes systemic barriers with brutal clarity:** - Tribal police have authority only on their own land. - County sheriffs refuse to share evidence. - State police demand protocols but offer no resources. - The FBI asserts jurisdiction but deprioritizes Indigenous victims. - Cross‑border cooperation with Canada is slow, symbolic, and often meaningless. These are not abstract policy failures—they are lived realities that stall cases, erase evidence, and leave families without answers. **The system is not broken. It is functioning exactly as intended.** Across four locations—each distinct, each carrying its own weight—the people who cross these jurisdictional lines come together like strands in a braid. Their unity becomes the only force strong enough to expose a network that exists solely to harm. *Beyond Jurisdiction* starts a series that examines the manipulation, weaponisation, and corruption of jurisdiction on sovereign Indigenous Nations. It explores the uncomfortable truth that **Native Americans are U.S. citizens — yet they are the only citizens not consistently counted when they go missing.** The situations are real.\ The historical context is accurate.\ The documentation shows the systemic failures. But the reservations, characters, and storylines are fictional — crafted to illuminate the truth without exposing actual families or communities to further harm. *Beyond Jurisdiction* introduces a five-book series that explores how exploitation conceals itself in the blind spots of sovereignty. Book One exposes the fissures. Book Two explains how consent gets manufactured; Book Three exposes corruption as infrastructure; Book Four crosses borders without permission; and Book Five becomes the reckoning—**sovereignty reclaimed**.

by Chasity Phillips

When fourteen‑year‑old Mary Ann Hamilton begins noticing strange cracks in her mother’s behavior—late‑night whispers, missing money, a sudden new identity—her quiet Alabama life shatters. Swept into a world of secrets, lies, and a man whose charm hides something far darker, Mary Ann is forced to confront the truth her mother has been hiding.   Some families protect you. Some destroy you. And beneath the rock, the past is waiting to be uncovered.

by Gina Murdock

Investigative journalist Mara Reynolds has spent her career uncovering the truth. However, she never expected the biggest lie to be her own life. \ After interviewing billionaire tech entrepreneur Elijah Williams about his groundbreaking project, the Prometheus Initiative, Mara finds herself drawn to his intelligence, charm, and influence. At first, everything seems normal. But soon, disturbing fragments of memory begin to surface—visions of blood, fear, and a childhood event she cannot fully remember. \ As the nightmares grow stronger, Mara turns to therapy for answers. Instead, she uncovers something far more terrifying. The gaps in her memory are not accidents—they are erasures. \ Someone has been rewriting her past. \ As a result, Mara is forced to question everything: her childhood, her relationships, and even the man she is falling for. The deeper she digs, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Because someone has been controlling her memories for over a decade. \ And the man she trusts most may be the one behind it all. Perfect for readers who love:   -  Psychological thrillers with shocking twists - Stories about memory manipulation and identity - Suspenseful books like The Silent Patient and Gone Girl - Fast-paced thrillers with unreliable truths - Dark secrets, conspiracies, and emotional suspense

by Ashleigh Apple

Nora Bliss moves into a rental on a picture-perfect suburban street in **Harwick, Connecticut**. On her first night, she notices that the upstairs window of the house directly across the street (the **Hargrove residence)** glows at exactly 3am, every night, without fail. The neighbours say the Hargroves are lovely, their daughter Celeste moved to Portland months ago, and that light is just a timer lamp. Nora almost believes them. Then, one night, the silhouette in the window presses a hand against the glass. And waves back.

by Marco Velos

*Notes on the Trouble Line* is a literary crime novel about a streetwise young horseracing handicapper who becomes entangled with rival race-fixing mobsters. In the summer of 1982, twenty-one-year-old Michael Kipness claims he won big just in time to flee New York City. The truth: he stole money from his grandfather's mob associates. With enough cash for a stake and a cross-country train ticket, Michael heads west seeking refuge with his friend and mentor, Alfred, who is dying of AIDS. Alfred sees Michael clearly - a troubled young man whose gifts as a handicapper (attention to detail, memory, imagination, disciple) make him a brilliant storyteller. He challenges Michael to pursue his passion for the races and to tell his story honestly. At Seattle's Longacres racetrack Michael discovers his gift for reading horses makes him valuable to dangerous men. A notorious race-fixer wants Michael’s help fixing races. A local gangster with a taste for violence claims Michael’s expertise for himself. Back in New York the men Michael stole from want their money and revenge. The FBI wants him to inform against them all. The danger Michael faces is both physical and moral. He must use his nerve and his ability to read a trouble line to outmaneuver the men who are determined to control his destiny. Along the way, he meets Lisa, an intuitive counterpart who sees Michael is ways he is yet to see himself. Caught between loyalty, survival and the longing to make one clean bet, he must discover what honesty means in a world built on secrets and bad odds. My first novel, *Gloria*, was published by Simon and Schuster and several foreign houses, including Rizzoli, Belfond, MacMillan and Goldman. It received praise from the *New York Times*, *Washington Post*, and the *Los Angeles Times*, among many others. I’ve won several literary awards, including the Rinehart Prize for Fiction from George Mason University. *Notes on the Trouble Line* is set in the authentic world of 1980s horse racing. It will appeal to readers of Stewart O'Nan's *City of Secrets*, Frederick Exley's *A Fan's Notes*, and Don DeLillo’s *Underworld.*

by Sir Arthur Conon Doyle

Seeking a roommate to share expenses, Dr. Watson is introduced to the brilliant but enigmatic Sherlock Holmes at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. The pair is soon summoned to a derelict house where a man is found dead with no visible wounds, save for the word **"RACHE"** scrawled in blood on the wall. As Holmes utilizes his unique powers of deduction to track the killer, the narrative reveals a tragic backstory of love, loss, and Mormon pioneers in the American West that fueled the murderer's quest for justice.

by Lisa Troy

Anastasia Livanitis came back to Lifnos for one reason: her father needed post-surgery downtime and someone had to run the family taverna. Two months. In and out. Simple as tzatziki. Then Frieda Baron turns up dead a day after their very public argument — and Anastasia discovers she can still see her. Frieda in death is exactly how she was in life: a billionaire's daughter, a Reality TV winner, and utterly convinced the world revolves around her. She has opinions about the murder, the taverna's wall paint, and Anastasia's love life. Oh, and she's not going anywhere until the killer is found. Anastasia has no choice but to listen — because the locals already think her family's into the dark arts, the hot detective thinks she's the prime suspect, and the taverna won't survive another scandal. The problem with investigating a billionaire's daughter's murder? Ridiculously rich people aren't big on truth. They're interested in results. Anastasia doesn't believe in ghosts. Or curses. She definitely doesn't believe she can solve a murder with a dead woman's help. Yeah, that's going to go over well... A paranormal cozy mystery set on a sun-soaked Greek island. Perfect for readers who love: reluctant sleuths, ghost sidekicks with attitude, homecoming mysteries, family legacy, and Mediterranean atmosphere.  This story will be published as Spirits and Whine in July.

by Judah Ray

In 1955, a secret experiment at the Large Hadron Collider tore open a doorway to another realm.\ \ Extradimensional beings came through, possessed the top scientists and military officials in the room, and kept the portal open.\ \ One of the first crossed over and took a human infant as its host. That infant was Christina.\ \ The only issue is that Christina forgot what she was,  and the others could not enter or control her, but she could see them. So they declared her unstable and institutionalized her.\ \ Years later, world leaders, billionaires, media figures, and political dynasties are all possessed. The New World Order is not a conspiracy theory. It is literal possession.\ \ A decade later, Christina escapes and resurfaces in Berlin. The forces that have tracked her since childhood want her reclaimed or eliminated.\ \ With the help of Jory, who has been able to see the entities inside people since surviving a near-death experience as a child, Christina uncovers a power structure that has ruled humanity from within for generations.\ \ When she learns she is one of them, she must choose between her own kind or the man she loves and the humanity she chose to protect.\ \ They have ruled the world from inside us.\ Now one of their own stands against them.