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This is the second collection of stories from Justin M. Johnson.

Rose has loved Quinn since she first set eyes on him at age 15. A tragedy causes him to spiral out of control and use saloon women and drinking to forget. She knows she can save him by tricking him into marrying her. Misfortune leaves Quinn grieving. He turns away from family, friends, and good, clean Christian living. Rose's trick works, but there would be consequences to pay because Quinn refuses to consummate the marriage.

A charismatic evangelist, a seductress minister’s wife, and a congregation lured by their false prophet. America’s premier blackmailer, One Eyed Jack, goes undercover to expose a powerful and deadly ministry. But by the time he discovers the church’s true mission, he finds himself in a fight for his own life. Murder, lust, and greed abound in this fast paced thriller.

Annie is struggling to keep her ranch afloat. When her foreman of many years is called away to care for his ailing sister, she has no choice but to run an ad in the local newspaper, looking for help. What she didn't bargain with was finding a man who not only does the work of three men, but one who also lights a fire within her that hasn't been lit since her ex-husband walked out on her seven years before. Sexy, dominant, and scarred, not only from a horrendous accident but from a bad marriage and divorce, Quinn has decided that Annie should be his wife.

Mick Winters spent three summers as a child with his aunt in a small, rural town, where everyone is your neighbor. He hasn’t been back in 20 years. But when his aunt passes and leaves her house to him with the note “and you know why”, he finds the old town exactly the way he remembers. Everything is the same—including the thing in the cellar he tried so hard to forget. Except now, the rules have changed. What once lurked in the dark, hiding, only to disappear again if you looked closely, is now more powerful than ever before.

Something strange is happening in Cleveland. Peaceful, law-abiding citizens are turning into violent criminals. Homicide detective Noah Wright isn’t willing to accept the incidents may be supernatural in nature…until he comes face-to-face with the True Self, a dark elemental determined to blanket the world in darkness. Can Project Specter stop the force in time, or will all secrets be revealed?

Eric Slater returns from the Navy to find that his childhood friend may have been murdered. Angela Jeffries begs him to investigate, and Maggie, the little sister he barely remembers, wants to help. It turns out, the stunning redhead is one hell of an investigator. As their feelings turn romantic, Maggie and Slater follow a trail of deception and murder, hoping to prove their dead friend innocent of what they fear most. No one is safe, and the men involved will stop at nothing to cover their tracks.

Professional blackmailer One Eyed Jack has few boundaries when it comes to choosing his targets: Embezzlers, philanderers, and scammers. They're all fair game in his eyes. But when he dips his toe into the high stakes world of college football to target athletes who use performance enhancing drugs, he finds that the pond is far more toxic and dangerous than he thought. Betrayal, greed and murder abound in this fast paced thriller.

It’s the '60s: a time of war and revolution. It is a time of demonstrations and riots. The nation is tearing itself apart. Robbie Doyle's life, too, is in chaos. Robbie's father had died suddenly. He and his mother had moved to Florida, and now he was lost in a new school and town. Then the day Kennedy was shot, he would meet people that would define his next years: Samatha (Sam) and Nick, both from the wrong side of things. Civil rights, Vietnam, and the draft would change them all. The one place he found peace was surfing at 29th Street South.

In 1945, Isabela de Cordoba’s great-grandfather, the famous silent movie actor Lorenzo de Cordoba, mysteriously hid a legendary, multimillion-dollar emerald somewhere on the family’s sprawling Eucalyptus Street estate. Seventy years later, the gem remains concealed. Nicknamed the “Green Curse”, the emerald is blamed for the Southern California familia’s numerous, untimely deaths.

As a child in racially turbulent Detroit, Mort Meisner witnessed an attack on a Black boy as White parents shouted the n-word and threw rocks to protest bussing to integrate his elementary school in 1960. This - and the vicious beatings that his father inflicted on Mort inside their run-down home - instilled in him a deep disdain for hatred, violence, and discrimination. Enough to Be Dangerous chronicles Mort's against-the-odds success and his courageous quest to call out sexism and racism in newsrooms in St. Louis, Chicago, and Detroit throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

World-famous Egyptologist Dr. Winston Thornsley died suddenly, two months ago, in disgrace. His widow Ida Thornsley remains convinced her husband was falsely accused of stealing an ancient burial urn he discovered in Egypt, last summer. The local and federal law enforcement officers are stumped. Mrs. Thornsley, desperate for answers, calls in her 13-year-old neighbors, the Botanic Hill Detectives - twins Lanny and Lexi Wyatt, Moki Kalani, and Rani Kumar.

The final book in the Club X series! Life after Club X has been good for the three brothers who used to run Tampa's most exclusive fantasy club. Cassian and Kane run one of the city's up and coming restaurants, CK, and Stefan has his own successful bar in the old Club X building. Two marriages, three kids, and three happy couples make up one big happy family. But there's another son of Cassian March III out there, another illegitimate child who never knew his father. The three brothers don't agree that they should find him, and even more importantly, what they don't know about Sebastian could risk everything they cherish so dearly.

The creatures of classic horror are coming together this Halloween, lurking through the pages of this exciting new guide! Enjoy learning fun facts about their history, superstitious folk lore, literary appearances and film adaptations. Just when you thought you knew all there was to learn about monsters!

Dominic Lawrence has planned this marriage proposal for six months. Nothing can go wrong-until his Nonna calls. Now he must interrupt the tenderest night of Katie's life with the news that another woman will be under their roof.

A righteous King with a choice to make realizes he's less virtuous than he originally thought....

Caught with pot in her dorm room, Bailey Randolph is exiled to a relative's ancestral home in Virginia to straighten herself out. Banishment to Maple Hill is dismal, until a ghost appears requesting her help. Bailey is frightened but intrigued. Then her girlhood crush, Eric Burke, arrives and suddenly Maple Hill isn't so bad. To Eric, wounded in Vietnam, his military career shattered, this homecoming feels no less like exile. But when he finds Bailey at Maple Hill, her fairy-like beauty gives him reason to hope - until she tells him about the ghost haunting the house.

On a dark desert highway, hidden from sight, there is a place that exists just beyond the shadows. A place that calls to the broken, the lost, and the tormented who wander the desolate roads of night. Temptation to leave the world behind presents itself as a beautiful seductress offering a variety of exquisite pleasures, luring you further into the dream. But elegant parties and pretty faces quickly dissolve into the stuff of nightmares as the door closes and the feast begins.

The Windsors face a choice no parent should ever have to face. Unfortunately, the decision is not theirs to make....

The Mid-Metro Bridge is known by just one moniker nowadays: The Bridge. And everyone knows it. It's the place where people go to jump. But the Mayor has other ideas. Will it be enough? Or will it be too much?