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Bianca St. Ives was recently put through the wringer, but she came out the same way she always does - the way her father trained her to - hungry for a fight. Still navigating the fallout from a shocking revelation that's left a network of assassins' crosshairs trained on her, Bianca's ready to take fate into her own hands. It's kill or be killed, and she's got her finger flush against the trigger. But as Bianca races to outmaneuver her tireless pursuers,...

"It took one hell of an effort for the authorities to finally get the jump on master manipulator Bianca St. Ives, but now that they have, it's far from the capture she expected. Instead of taking her in, there's an offer on the table, a one-shot deal that would allow Bianca to walk away scot-free as if they'd never found her. And all she has to do is run one last mission--the kind she might never return from. But if Bianca wants to go back to her...

Burly villains are terrorizing the city Shadow Guardian protects, and this superhero is pulling double duty of trying to protect the city and not fall in love. Diego Sanz grew up witnessing neglect by officials on the North side of Morgan City. Beating the odds, he became the CEO of a fortune 500 company, but he never left his community behind. Determined to fight the crime in Morgan City, Diego returns, donning the mantle of Shadow Guardian, a...

Elle Jameson, top investigative journalist, thinks reporting on corruption on a German military base will be an ordinary assignment, until she stumbles upon a deadly conspiracy. Nolan, one of the guardians assigned to safeguard others, fights to buy Elle time to complete her investigation, in a race to prevent a global catastrophe.

Sometimes running and hiding is the only logical reaction to an overwhelming threat. Amy isn't ashamed to admit that's what she and Sam have done. But no where is safe, and Amy if forced to make hard decisions. Will she keep running or will she face the threat head on? There is no easy answers, especially when it's more lives on the line than Amy knows. Can she save them all? Can she even save herself? Variables of Sky is the second book in the...

18+ Novella When FBI agent, Brock Williams, is assigned to a case centered around a mob-run drug operation in Oregon, he's unprepared to find a beautiful young woman, assaulted and bloody, protecting two young children in an abandoned meth house. Bailey Harper thought she was heading to a graduation party, only to find herself kidnapped, beaten, and left for dead. When a handsome and charismatic FBI agent comes to her rescue and offers his protection,...

Selected for the Best Books For Kids & Teens Maggie Johnson is dealing with too much - the rising distrust and hate of the townspeople, her growing (and unpredictable) supernatural powers, and the dead, waiting to be transitioned from this side to the next. Right now, they're her saving grace. But when a soul-eater steals the ghost she's transitioning, things don't just take a turn for the worse, they take a turn for the personal. This thing has...

Video-game designer River Weston has seen her world torn apart. The streets of Earth have filled with looting, sickness, and fighting, but River knows that she is in a unique position to help. Drawing on her Fae magic, she creates a computer-generated program called Hollow Man, designed to protect humans during battle. Worlds away, Guardian Chase Hawkins has finally returned to his own body after years of astral projection. His mission now that he's...

Selected for the Best Books for Kids & Teens 2015 Selected for The Sunburst Award For seventeen-year-old Maggie Johnson, transitioning the dead isn't hard. What's tough is surviving the insults and pranks of Serge Popov, high school thug and the dumbest jock to ever set foot in Dead Falls, Alberta. When she finds him dead and later discovers his spirit trapped in her room, she figures it's a case of divine justice. Let the jerk rot for eternity,...

Thief. Manipulator. Con artist. Call it what you will—Bianca St. Ives is the best in the business. And these three pulse-pounding international thrillers by New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards will prove it. Growing up, Bianca St. Ives knew she was different from all her friends. Instead of playing hopscotch or combing her dolls’ hair, she studied martial arts with sensei masters and dismantled explosives with special-ops retirees....