FICTION · MAN-WOMAN RELATIONSHIPS
Shannon K. Butcher
Also known as: Shannon K. Butcher
When Shannon was little, she wanted to be a daddy. When she learned the anatomical improbability of that happening, she decided instead to become what her dad was: an Industrial Engineer. After she graduated, she went to work for a big telecom company earning a steady paycheck while her husband pursued his dream to become a published author. Her husband is Jim Butcher, fantasy and sci-fi author extraordinaire. She learned to write in an effort to help him improve his own work and as soon as she discovered that writing was more a learned skill than a natural talent she knew she had to give it a try. She lives in Missouri with her husband and their teenage son and a dog.
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No escape
He Was Taught How To Kill Even behind bars, serial killer Harvey Day Smith exudes menace. Psychologist Jolene Granger has agreed to hear his dying confession, vowing not to let the monster inside her head. And Harvey has secrets to share--about bodies that were never found, and about the apprentice who is continuing his grisly work. . . And Now He'll Teach Them He buries his victims alive the way his mentor Harvey did, relishing their final screams as the earth rains down. And as one last gift to the only father he knew, he'll make the most perfect kill of all. How To Die Everything about this investigation is unnerving Jo, from Harvey's fascination with her to the fact that she's working alongside Texas Ranger Brody Winchester, her ex-husband. Harvey's protege is growing bolder and more vicious every day. And soon the trail of shallow graves will lead them to the last place Jo expected, and to the most terrifying truth of all. . .
On the Hunt
Fox News military analyst Colonel Hunt draws on his 29 years of active military service and his high-level military and intelligence contacts to give an inside perspective on this global struggle, setting him far apart from the usual pundits and talking heads. He presents fifty pages of previously unpublished documents that reveal the detailed plans of the terrorists and insurgents who target Americans, as well as U.S. tactics to stop our enemies. From the Department of Homeland Security ("Scrap it.") to military leaders who have almost zero combat experience, to risk-averse, politically correct strategic decision-making, Colonel Hunt pinpoints dire problems that need to be fixed before it's too late (which it nearly is).--From publisher description.
Dying wish
After being rescued from captivity and torture at the hands of the Synestryn by the Theronai, Jackie Patton is forced to choose a Theronai warrior as her mate and selects Iain, a coldhearted Sentinel who believes that his soul is dead.