As the Kelly Can Saga continues, Charlie and his wife, Susan, must deal with
continued conflict as they attempt to grow their fledgling Kelly Oil Company.
Like many other oilmen, Charlie and his partner, Hank Thomas, want to acquire
oil and mineral rights to the Osage Nation’s land in northern Oklahoma.
This leads them to confrontations with an adversary from their recent past.
Susan’s life is imperiled by those evil characters. How will her cowboy
come to her rescue and deal with dangerous direct threats on their lives?
Charlie rapidly steps up to the challenge as any past Top Hand at the
world-famous Miller’s 101 Ranch would.
The Cardinal Code: Absolution Avery Sterling (The Cardinal Code, #2) Publication date: April 17th 2026 Genres: New Adult, Paranormal, Romance
The Cardinal Code: Absolution continues the dark, seductive saga of the Cardinales—an elite society of vampires whose influence shapes governments, history, and the hidden world beneath human civilization.
Paislee Sullivan never wanted power. She only wanted Michael. But loving a man born into a secret dynasty of blood and control means standing in the shadow of everything he represents.
When Michael Chamberlain is summoned to London, he’s pulled into a political struggle rooted in ancient bloodlines and forbidden truths. As old laws are challenged and long-buried secrets begin to surface, Paislee finds herself no longer at the edge of his world—but at its center.
The deeper she is drawn into Cardinales society, the more dangerous her presence becomes. To some, she is leverage. To others, a threat. To Michael, she is the only thing that has ever mattered.
Bound by love and hunted by forces determined to preserve the Order’s control, they must confront a truth the Dominium has spent centuries suppressing.
Because some bloodlines were never meant to merge.
The Truth Behind One of This Nation’s Biggest False Arrest &
Imprisonment Scandals
Political Nonfiction
Date Published: September 11, 2025
USA v Raj is a MUST READ, INSPIRING TRUE STORY now available in
paperback with a motion picture by BOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD PRODUCTION coming
summer 2026. This tell-all memoir dares to share the truth behind one of the
biggest federal false arrest and imprisonment scandals of the decade. This is
a story about federal government corruption and a broken judiciary that turns
innocent people into convicted criminals with their unchecked power and
weaponized obsession with winning at any cost. This is also an innocent man's
story of gratitude, steadfast faith, and endurance to persevere until the end
of a war waged against him. Imagine being an immigrant from India who worked
hard and lived by integrity for 50 years to achieve his American dream. Then,
imagine waking up one morning to an indictment that leads to a
three-and-a-half-year period of unlawful detention and torture. The pages
within retrace my journey to become a renowned surgeon, interventional pain
specialist, and activist for just causes and my fight to survive my false
arrest and 1301-day imprisonment, which led to a unanimous acquittal by a jury
at trial. May you be encouraged as this story leads you through the many
twists and turns of a grueling experience marked by trials, tribulations, and,
ultimately, triumphs.
Fracture Basar Gorur (Shadow Sovereign Series, #1) Publication date: April 17th 2026 Genres: Adult, Techno Thriller
A murdered diplomat. A dying man’s cryptic message. A conspiracy that could shatter NATO.
When U.S. geopolitical strategist Roger ‘Simms’ Osbourne receives word that his colleague and friend Aslı Green has been killed, he inherits more than grief. He inherits her secret: evidence of a sophisticated Russian operation that sank a Ukrainian tanker and made it look like an accident.
Sent to London to sell a critical NATO surveillance system, Simms quickly discovers his official mission is compromised. A powerful British political faction, backed by shadowy money and royal connections, is determined to see him fail. The deeper he digs into Aslı’s murder, the more he realizes the two threats are connected.
Forced to abandon the rulebook, Simms assembles an unlikely alliance: his embattled team, a mysterious operative named Katya who knows too much, and assets on both sides of the law. Together, they uncover a sprawling network funneling Russian profits through international shell companies to fuel a political war against the West.
But Russian Admiral Sidorov isn’t waiting for the dust to settle. His devastating military demonstration exposes NATO’s vulnerabilities and humiliates the alliance on the world stage. And lurking beneath it all is an even darker secret: Chinese technology at the heart of Russia’s most advanced weapons.
Now Simms must wage war on three fronts: political, financial, and military. Because if he fails, his friend died for nothing. And the next strike won’t be disguised as an accident.
For fans of Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney, and Brad Thor.
Join us for this exciting spotlight featuring the covers for Fake It Until It’s Real and Fight It Until We Can’t by Tina Gallagher & Cissy Mecca. Fans who love forced proximity romances will sink their teeth into these sexy, small-town romances. Keep scrolling for more details about these sexy covers.
Title: Fake It Until It’s Real
Authors: Tina Gallagher & Cissy Mecca
Release Date: 04/28/2026
Genres: Contemporary Romance
Word Count: 58,000
Trope: Small-Town, Fake Dating, Forced Proximity, Cinnamon Roll Hero, Friend’s Brother, Blue Collar Hero, Matchmaking Dog, Found Family
She's afraid she's too much. He's convinced he'll never be enough.
Maplemoor is Jess Harper's fresh start. A quiet place to rebuild after a future that never happened. Now she has a book club that feels like family, a coffee shop that knows her order, and a life that finally feels steady again.
What she doesn't have is a date to her best friend's wedding—the one where her ex and his brand-new fiancée will also be there.
Enter Caleb Ward. Dependable. Steady. The kind of man who shows up before you even have to ask—for everyone except himself. He's got a life in Maplemoor that works for him, but when it comes to love, he keeps his walls firmly in place—and exactly where he wants them.
Agreeing to be Jess's date to the wedding is just a favor. Nothing more.
Until it isn't.
One weekend together. One very convincing performance.
Turns out the line between pretending and real is thinner than either of them thought. The hard part is knowing which side they're on.
Operations Manager Carli Porter runs The Lochwell as if it were her own and is fiercely protective of the community she’s built within its walls. But when the building's owner sends in his best friend to evaluate its future, Caril finds herself fighting to keep everything she loves from slipping away. Left with no other option, she’s forced to team up with Alexander Grassi, the very man who could decide the building's fate. Pre-order this he-falls-first romance with small-town and rivals-to-lovers tropes from Cissy Mecca & Tina Gallagher.
Title: Fight It Until We Can’t
Author: Cissy Mecca & Tina Gallagher
Release Date: 05/12/2026
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Page Count: 280 pages
Tropes: Small-Town, Rivals-to-Lovers, Forced Proximity, He Falls First, Found Family, Competence Kink
Blurb
He's a property analyst hired to find the cracks.
She's the operations manager who will make sure he doesn't.
Carli Porter runs The Lochwell like it's hers. The coffee shop is her living room. Its book club members are her family. The residents are her friends. The pub is her Friday night. The only problem? The building belongs to someone else, and that someone just sent his best friend to decide its fate.
Alexander Grassi is smart and annoyingly hard to hate. He also has the kind of forearms that make it very difficult to stay mad at him. (She's tried. It hasn't worked.) He's supposed to write a report, hand it over to his friend and leave. He wasn't supposed to start showing up to trivia night. Or turning her coffee cup so the handle faces her. Or looking at her like she's the best thing in a building full of things worth saving.
She says his report could ruin her life.
He says she's not wrong.
She says that's makes him the last person she should want around.
He says he's staying anyway.
Because some legacies (and people) are worth fighting for.
Publisher: Secret Staircase Books, an imprint of Columbine Publishing Group,
LLC
School’s out for the summer and math teacher Katie Wilk needs
something to occupy her time, something beyond helping to plan Jane
Mackey’s upcoming wedding. So, when Jane suggests golf lessons and Katie
secures a part-time job at the Shady Oaks Country Club to cover the cost of
her golfing gear, it seems like a win-win plan. Unfortunately, the
club’s irascible golf pro seems to make enemies wherever he goes, so
when his body turns up near the 14th hole, it’s anyone’s guess who
might have done him in.
Katie doesn’t really want another murder to investigate, but Officer
Ronnie Christianson is back to his old ways, and it looks like he’ll do
what it takes to implicate her in the death. And Katie just happens to have
seen a potentially incriminating clue, behind a secret garden wall that few
know about. Can Katie, Jane, and Ida ask enough questions to find out what
really happened before the police come after her?
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