P. J. Parker
Distraction (A Thomas Smoke Thriller, #2)
Special Agent Thomas Smoke is a master of protection—and a prolific, government-sanctioned killer. With thirty-two documented "retirements" under his belt, he is assigned to the ultimate high-security asset: the protective detail of the First Lady of the United States, codename Jonquil.
But as Smoke approaches his thirty-fifth birthday, he harbors a dark personal obsession—he wants his lethal tally to match his age.…
P. J. Parker
Roxelana & Suleyman
The internationally acclaimed, polarizing, fictional romantic saga. Roxelana was the most seductive, powerful, egotistical, intriguing, manipulative and enigmatic woman of the early sixteenth century. History had never known anyone of such beauty and cunning. Yet very few know her story...…
P. J. Parker
Origin of the Vampyre: A Companion to Doctor Polidori's The Vampyre (Companion Series, #2)
Timeless. Beautiful. Dangerous.
1816 — the Year Without a Summer — resulted in two of literature’s most feared and beloved creations.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Doctor Polidori’s Vampyre.
American biographer Rachel Walton attained international recognition for her Shelley bio, unearthing the horrific events that jolted Frankenstein and his wretch into existence in the peaceful lakeside village of Montreux, Switzerland. What she hadn’t expected during her study was to fall in love with a man of gigantic structure, of uncommon beauty, of intriguing origin.…
P. J. Parker
America Túwaqachi: The Saga of an American Family
An historical adventure that catapults the reader through the millennia. The son of Great White Bear was the first to become a man on this new land, Tuwaqachi, at the age of seven. It was a life of danger and adventure. Yet even the wisest shaman could never have foreseen the immense journey ahead of them. Follow the Great White Bear Clan through 18,000 years of adventure, civilization, invasion, slavery, war, revolution, espionage, independence, discovery and romance. A grand family saga on a scale never before attempted. One that upholds the values of the country we have built. The legend of America and our family begins here.
P. J. Parker
Fire on the Water: A Companion to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Companion Series, #1)
Rachel Walton is a young American biographer researching the life of Mary Shelley and her iconic novel and creature on the shores of Lake Geneva, Switzerland.
But as she delves into the contents of an ancient document trunk that for generations has remained locked, she is repeatedly confronted by a man of gigantic structure, of uncommon beauty, of intriguing origin. The escalating threads of her investigation unexpectedly exhume aspects of Shelley's creation from the past, hacking and suturing precious memories to the unthinkable, stripping back the unblemished flesh to reveal what lies beneath.…
P. J. Parker
Smoke
Thomas Smoke is a killer.
An uncompromising predator.
Considered boy-next-door handsome by those who know him—and those who want to, he is a man with a ready smile, who loves to kiss, and who does it often and well.
Hunting the trails of Central Park’s densest woodland and within the chrome-plated grunge of New York City, he is as well suited to its opulent penthouses, tony rooftop bars, and socialite bedsheets as he is to the bone-numbing grottos and bloody subterranean passages hundreds of feet below the Manhattan grid.
But he isn’t the only killer in the city. And when their paths cross, the race for his life begins. Not only to stay alive but to determine his own identity and whether he is the good guy or the bad.…