Publisher: Bu Classics Books
A stern and unyielding judge finds his life threatened by the very criminals he has sentenced, forcing him to navigate a treacherous path where legal power clashes with underworld violence.
In Devil’s Paradise, Kamau’s story begins within the cold, confining walls of prison—but what truly traps him is not the cell, it’s the demon within. Haunted by his choices and the women who’ve both loved and lost him, Kamau reflects on a life that spiraled from charm and promise into chaos and self-destruction. His “demon seed”—a force that attached itself to him from childhood feeds on trauma and a world of survival over sincerity—this has driven him to hurt those who only wanted to love him. Yet through his darkness, one truth keeps calling him back: love has always been his greatest weakness and his only hope for redemption. As Kamau recounts the women who shaped him—Denise, whose innocence he betrayed; Edwina, his intoxicating yet destructive partner in crime; Devina, who blurred the line between temptation and salvation—he begins to understand how his demon feed on every act of manipulation, every lie, and every kiss. It fed and had a hunger for power and his longing to be seen, to be forgiven kept blind and week. Inside Devil’s Paradise, violence and tenderness coexist. Kamau’s reflections blend the raw grit of street life with the vulnerability of a man who, for the first time, is forced to feel. This story peels back the armor of masculinity to reveal the man beneath: strength in destruction, scared by war of life, and desperate to love without destroying. It’s a passionate, emotionally charged journey that captures the magnetic pull between danger and devotion, exploring how a man’s greatest redemption can come from the women who dared to love him. Devil’s Paradise is not just a prison story—it’s a love story born in the ashes of pain. It’s about the spiritual power of women’s influence, the truth of demonic energy, and the fragile beauty of forgiveness. In Kamau’s reckoning, every wound becomes a lesson, every romance a mirror, and every heartbreak a step toward the freedom of the soul.Show book
Book 24: Psychic VisionsDr. Cresswell Simmons, a dream worker, is passionate about traumatized psychics and works in a psychiatric hospital to find those she can help. Six months ago, she barely survived a traumatic experience with a patient. Now on the cusp of returning to work and dreading every minute of it, she’s asked to step back into the same case that almost destroyed her. She desperately wants to say no, but an eight-year-old boy’s life is at stake.Gray Burnett had worked on the original case, watching the devastation that had hurt Cressy. When asked to help her retrieve the information they need, he agrees—but more to protect her and the little boy than following orders. When her return to work is less than joyful, he wonders at the undercurrents in the hospital, as jealousy, admin disputes, even Board of Director members dominate the investigation and not in a good way.Cressy is used to a world that doesn’t understand her work, but she needs Gray to open up and to see what’s going on around them. It’s the only way they will survive, as the case takes a bizarre turn that shocks even her.Show book
1933. A body has been found on a luxury airship en route from Berlin to Rio de Janeiro. Police Detective Bruno Brückner, travelling on board, is immediately asked to investigate—and soon discovers that the murdered man was not the proud Nazi he claimed to be. What's more, he was carrying a stash of banned 'degenerate' material. As Brückner interviews his fellow passengers—a wealthy baroness, an antisemitic doctor, a debonair Englishman—he realizes that each of them has something to hide. Uncovering the truth will reveal a story of secret identities, forbidden love and revenge, where nothing is as it appears.Show book
"Quality fiction and real history make a great match, and Sarah Angleton's Gentleman of Misfortune offers the best of both. This is an engaging story with surprises on every page". -- Jeff Guinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Gunfight and Manson Spring 1833 Gentleman swindler Lyman Moreau is accustomed to changing his identity to suit his schemes. A new opportunity arrives when a collection of eleven mummies and several papyri covered in indecipherable hieroglyphs are due to arrive in New York's South Street Seaport direct from the Valley of the Kings. Enlisting the help of a crooked customs agent and a black market antiquities dealer, he assumes the identity of Michael Chandler, nephew of deceased Egyptologist Antonio Lebolo, and lays claim to the shipment. The showman's plan to amass his fortune displaying the stolen artifacts across the country becomes more complicated when one of his accomplices dies a suspicious death, causing Lyman and the man's beautiful widow to make a hasty escape from the city. Through four states, along the Erie Canal, and eventually to the doorstep of Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, Lyman exhibits his dusty companions before a curious public. Rarely more than a few breaths ahead of his enemies, Lyman struggles to keep his prize from slipping away as he tangles with grief, love, betrayal, and a growing sense of his own mortality.Show book
An unwitting couple are set-up by mysterious manipulators in this gripping novel by Paul Erdman, the inventor of the financial thriller.On a routine visit to Switzerland, Charles Black— recently retired Federal Reserve Chairman— finds himself suddenly and inexplicable jailed by Swiss police. Framed with perpetrating massive financial frauds, Charlie and his wife Sally realize that he has no chance of avoiding a 30-year sentence of hard labor. So when a mysterious Italian offers to engineer Charlie's escape for $3 million, Sally gladly pays. What she doesn't realize is that the stranger is in cahoots with the people who framed Charlie, and the troubles she thought were ending have only just begun.Show book
Catherine Lloyd presents Book 5 in the Miss Morton Mysteries.Show book
