For the Viel and Powers families, revenge served cold is not on the menu. Fuelled by a long-standing feud between the clan patriarchs, nothing less than hot-blooded vengeance will do... When Sean is called to the bedside of his dying father in Atlanta, he never expects what is waiting for him there. In the hospital room he learns Walter, the man who raised him, isn’t his father. Walter tells Sean the story about his true parents and a feud between two families, a feud that goes horribly wrong. Gregory Powers and Skipper Viel hold reign over a network of powerful Toronto business interests. For years the balance of power has remained intact. But when Powers discovers the love affair between his daughter, Jenn, and the young Marshall Viel, son of his enemy, a deadly game tips the balance. In a violent power play, he decides to have her lover killed, sending a clear signal to his nemesis, Skipper Viel. In hot-blooded retaliation, Viel arranges a hit on the Powers’ family, drawing a special target on the head of Gregory Powers’ most prized possession: his daughter. Rocky –trusted bodyguard and driver with a few shady connections of his own – escapes with Jenn to the presumed safety and anonymity of Lockport, New York. But no place on Earth is safe from all-out revenge. As the assassins close in, Rocky narrowly escapes with baby Sean and goes into hiding, creating a new identity. Disappearing into another world, he is able to raise Sean in peace for many years. Faced with this incredible story, Sean decides to go to Canada – out of curiosity about his family roots and a growing need for some act of revenge for the past, to seek atonement for the parents that were lost to him. What he finds when he gets there will force him to make a choice: to succumb to the path set before him by heritage, or to turn away and forego the desire for vengeance pulsing in his veins?

At dawn on an early June morning, a body lies on the tenth green of an elite golf club in the hills of New England. Golf balls fill the dead mans mouth; crusted blood encircles the bullet hole his forehead. Vincent Nardi, once a homicide detective with the NYPD and now chief of police for town of Abenaki, sees his dream of a laid-back second career fading as he gazes at the corpse. Things get complicated when he learns that the victim was the son of the most powerful man in town andwhen the man insists Nardi use the services of his former partner, a woman with whom he shares a tangled sexual history. As Nardi works to solve the murder, he finds himself encountering soldiers suffering the anguish of their combat experiences, a psychiatrist determined to help the young men and a priest with confessional knowledge of a second killing about to happen. DiClerico deftly weaves together a cast of small-town characters who alternate between helping and thwarting Nardi as he races towards the explosive conclusion of this debut novel.

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A Monika Paniatowski British police procedural On the night the Whitebridge Players staged their last ever performance, the idealistic young actors in the company resolved that twenty years on they would return to the same theatre and stage the same play. But two decades later, old resentments have grown and new jealousies have germinated, and it is a very different company that returns to re-enact the Spanish Tragedy. The cast members all have their axes to grind – and some have clear targets for those axes . . . It is in this world – where normal rules and standards have no meaning – that DCI Monika Paniatowski finds herself, once a tragedy within the Tragedy has occurred. But how can she uncover the killer’s motive when everyone seemed to want the victim dead? And how can she decide who is telling the truth – when all these people lie for a living?

After Raina Basil is attacked in college, her future is thwarted. Facing financial problems, she trades college for an education in Dominance and submission... And graduates as Storm, a professional Domina. Her primary clients are privileged, alpha, white males, who are bored with the weekly romp with the wife. Storm delivers hardcore BDSM sessions which focus on her clients' deepest depravities. She doesn't put up with brats, and she doesn't accept excuses. And she doesn’t get upset... she gets even. Think you can handle her? Think again. Severe Content Warning: B.J. Frazier books contain *plots* and *well-developed characters* Word Count: 75,340

Roger Zottis latest collection of essays, Best Served Cold, is mostly a true book with some stretchers, as Mark Twains Huck Finn says about Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In part one, Zotti focuses on sports, while in part two hes concerned with books and movies. Agree or disagree with his views, its certain that Best Served Cold is an entertaining and informative mix of concise and inventive writings.

How far would you go to change your life? Eric "Chance" West hates being poor and often ponders his future as a young black man in America. He decides that joining the U.S. Army, rather than going to college, is his way out of the vicious cycle of under-earning and tenement-dwelling in which he and his friends grew up. Not long after his eighteenth birthday, Chance is sent to Vietnam. During this time abroad, he witnesses rampant drug use and decides that if other people are getting rich off dealing drugs, he might as well be one of them. As soon as he gets discharged, Chance hooks up with some of his old friends and service buddies to form a gentlemen's syndicate. To his surprise, they all agree to follow his lead-albeit with dollar signs in their eyes. After making millions in the drug business, Chance intends to redeem himself by going legit. But becoming a philanthropist and helping his fellow African Americans obtain jobs may not be enough to keep his checkered past at bay .

SERVED COLD 2019 AUSTRALIAN SHADOWS AWARDS WINNER – Best Collected Work Includes “In Vaulted Halls Entombed” as seen on the Netflix Original Series LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS 16 provocative and intensely chilling tales blending horror, fantasy, and the weird. “At turns creepy and visceral, Baxter delivers the horror goods.” – Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World Collected together for the first time ever, these sixteen provocative and intensely chilling tales by multi-award-winning-author Alan Baxter venture into the depths of the darkest and most shadowy places where unspeakable horrors are the predators and we the willing prey. Prepare for an always terrifying, frequently heartbreaking journey in multiple stages, each piece echoing Baxter’s unique voice that effortlessly blends horror, fantasy and the weird, cementing his place as a modern master of the dark fantastique, and resulting in an unforgettable volume of fiction. This collection includes 16 stories, several of which received a number of accolades: “Served Cold” – Finalist for the 2016 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novella and Finalist for the 2016 Australian Shadows Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction “In Vaulted Halls Entombed” – adapted for the Netflix Original series LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS and winner of the 2015 Australian Shadows Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction “Crying Demon” – Finalist for the 2018 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story “The Ocean Hushed The Stones” – Finalist for the 2019 Australian Shadows Award for Best Short Story and received an Honorable Mention in Ellen Datlow’s The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 12 “Yellowheart” – Finalist for the 2019 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novella

Best When Served Cold: A Jubal Chain Novel By: D.A. Dawson After retiring from a thrilling, often dangerous career as an Army Special Forces officer, Jubal Chain is finally slowing down. But his quiet life of retirement in Mt. Charleston, Nevada, soon comes grinding to a halt when is recalled to active duty. A new mission, both classified and extremely dangerous, soon follows. Intrigue, assassinations, and terror plots become his world once again as he fights to survive.