Robert James

Some Christmas gifts don't come neatly wrapped with a big red bow. If you had the chance to reconnect with your first, secret love, would you do it? Or is it better to preserve the sweet distant memory? Lovelorn Ezra is firmly entrenched in his holiday funk when Brant, a knight in shining swimming trunks who, as a camp counselor, rescued him from loneliness at summer camp two decades earlier, unexpectedly walks back into his life. Brant was his first...

Death Wears Pink Shoes, first published as a Crime Club book in 1952, is a New York City murder mystery. From the book's synopsis: "The tenants of 17 Crane Street were a highly combustible lot, and when they came together fireworks usually resulted. A lively display was set off one particular night when Mrs. Gladys O'Leary gave a party. They played a game of writing down the names of animals which their fellow residents resembled, and one of the entries...

Recent observations from space have revealed the existence of super-earth planets, larger than our earth, around other suns. Perhaps some of them may be in the "Goldilocks Zone" of their solar systems where life can be sustained. Take a visit to Auria, a super-earth where life has just recently produced intelligent creatures like ourselves, although, due to the greater gravity and slightly lower temperatures, we would see them as compact furry centaurs...

Elephant's child never stops asking questions. And when he asks what Crocodile eats for dinner, he gets a big surprise!

Private detective James O'Dell is hired by a widow to investigate her husband's murder. The case is connected to a serial killer who has eluded police for 25 years. James quickly finds the mystery to be much bigger than just murder.

If you're part of a financial brand marketing, sales, or leadership team, you know the entire industry is in the midst of exponential change fueled by new technologies. Consumers now make purchase decisions long before they walk into a physical branch location, if they walk into a branch at all, while mobile banks, digital lenders, and fintechs have transformed traditional growth models rooted in legacy broadcast marketing and branch sales strategies....

Deirdre Matheson leaves her small Midwestern town to attend Staunton College in Boston. There she thrives, building a close circle of friends, battling for the national championship in field hockey, and excelling in academics. Deirdre appears to be living the perfect lifebut perfect people often have secrets, and Deirdre is no different. Two murders take place on campus and bring back horrible memories. Soon Deirdres past begins to catch up with her,...

On the ghastly battlefields of the First World War, Jimmie Johnston drove teams or pack horses carrying ammunition and hauling guns to the front lines. One night, Johnston was hauling guns back from the front line. Suddenly, in the darkness and pouring rain, he, his team, the wagon, and the guns pitched into an old trench. After disentangling the horses from their harness, Johnston found a trenching tool, dug away the side of the trench, and led the...

A longtime industry insider and acclaimed Hollywood historian goes behind the scenes to tell the stories of 15 of the most spectacular movie megaflops of the past 50 years, such as Cleopatra, The Cotton Club, and Waterworld. He recounts, in every gory detail, how enormous hubris, unbridled ambition, artistic hauteur, and bad business sense on the parts of Tinsel Town wheeler-dealers and superstars such as Elizabeth Taylor, Clint Eastwood, and Francis...

Writer Mark Hamilton and Hurricane Ridge park ranger Lisa Andrews are swept into a vortex of death and political retribution when Mark shelters a drug overdosed hiker named BJ in his motel room. He doesn't know BJ was the lover of a murdered DEA undercover agent and knows where he hid 400 pounds of crystal meth stolen from a cartel and and a priceless cache of Aztec artifacts liberated from a site guarded by the U.S. government. BJ is under heavy...