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Aztec Blood

In this colorful and exciting era of swords and cloaks, upheaval and revolution, a young beggar boy, in whose blood runs that of both Spanish and Aztec royalty must claim his birthright. From the torrid streets of the City of the Dead along the Veracruz Coast to the ageless glory of Seville in Old Spain, Cristo the Bast*ardo connives fights, and loves as he seeks the truth without knowing that he will be the founder of a proud new people. As we follow the loves and adventures of Cristo and experience the colorful splendor and barbarism of the era, a vanished culture is brought back to life in all its magnificence.

Aztec Rage

The fascinating history of Mexico that began in the 1 New York Times bestselling novel Aztec continues…
. Don Juan de Zavala was the most skilled fighter in all of New Spain as gifted with weapons and horses as he was with women. These pleasures were all he desired. But the magnificent Aztec empire, its grand cities and riches lay broken under the Spanish boot…
Now valiant men and fearless women rise and battle their brutal overlords. As a warrior priest leads an Aztec revolt, across the ocean in Spain courageous people battle Napoleon’s invading armies. No one, including Juan de Zavala could stay neutral. Especially if a shocking secret from Zavala s lurid past is exposed a secret so lethal to the Spanish Crown it threatens their very existence. Zavala will be swept from glittering Mexico City to snake and croc infested jungles, to lost Mayan civilizations to the torture chambers of the Inquisition, to beautiful Barcelona and the bloody carnage of Napoleon s war in Spain, to the bloodiest and most spectacular of New Spain s colonial Mexico revolutions. Everybody wants Don Juan de Zavala . . and many people want him dead:Isabella…
Instinctively wicked, sinfully seductive. Father Hidalgo…
Can a man of God take up the sword and lead a people by the hundreds of thousands into a bloody revolution he cannot control?Raquel…
Attractive, sensuous, erudite, she challenges Juan with her mind and her body. Marina…
A gorgeous pure blood Aztec, she knows too well the oppressor s rape and pillage of her people. 20051018

Aztec Fire

The Aztec uprising in 1810 left young Juan Martez orphaned in a savage land. Like many native Aztecs, Juan was sentenced to hang by the Spanish. But his life is spared when a Spanish gunmaker learns of his skills with gunpowder and buys him to make munitions. Keeping his Aztec heritage low key, Juan becomes the finest gunmaker in the colony and the best shot. But both talents are kept secret if the Spanish knew of his skills, he would surely be killed. Juan secretly works the Mexican underground, running guns and black powder to guerrilla forces fighting for independence. Along the way he falls in love with Maria Volza, a fiery revolutionary stirring up the mas*ses, but she rejects him as fallen under the Spanish boot. But Juan’s destiny is to lead the Mexicans against Spanish rule, and when Maria discovers the life Juan has hidden so well, a battle is ignited and the revolution begins.

Apocalypse 2012

In ancient Mexico, the End Time Codex prophesizing the world’s end in 2012 is entombed. A young Aztec Mayan slave tells us its story. Gifted in math and astronomy, Coyotl rises to king s counselor in Tula, a golden city of milk and honey ruled by the brilliant god king, Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent of lore. Gathering artists, scientists and craftsmen, this legendary ruler builds a city that will awe humanity for one thousand years. But he also faces war, catastrophic drought, betrayal and the rise of an evil death cult religion. Instituting the infamous Blood Covenant, its priests drag thousands of people a year atop temple pyramids and rip their hearts beating from their chests. To stop them Quetzalcoatl must defy the flames of bloody civil war.A thousand years later scientists discover the End Time Codex. While struggling to decipher it, they realize their own age mirrors Tula s. Can they crack the 2012 code and save their world from Tula s deadly fate?

The 2012 Codex

In the arid canyonlands of Mexico the race is on for the ultimate end of the world codex the final 1000 year old prophesy of the god king, Quetzalcoatl, who ruled Mexico 1000 years ago. Rita Critchlow and Cooper Jones hunt for that sacred codex in those scorching desert canyons, while 500 years ago, Pacal, a young slave scholar, sets out on the same deadly quest. He too must find those apocalyptic writings, knowing that his era the Age of the Aztecs may well come to an end if he does not find them. For Pacal, the End Time is at hand. Montezuma has built a vast empire based in what will one day be Mexico City. Now however he faces war, disastrous drought, death cult priests, who rip the hearts out of thousands of people atop their pyramids…
and the arrival of red bearded horse borne conquistador, bearing preternaturally powerful weapons and catastrophic plagues, sowing pandemic death wherever he goes. America’s leaders are also staring into an apocalyptic abyss. Their own time mirrors that of Quetzacoatl s and the Aztec s in shocking detail. Convinced that Quetzalcoatl s codex holds the key to humanity s survival that he is warning them of a global, planet killing threat the two women battle broiling desert canyons and drug cartel warlords to track it down and decipher it. Moreover, earlier glimpses of his prophesy foreshadow uncanny similarities to those of John s Book of Revelation. Are Quetzalcoatl s and Revelation s prophesies one and the same? Can they crack the 2012 code and save their world from their deadly fate? The countdown is on.

The Looters

In the world of priceless art, greed and egos collide anything goes, at any price

The world of priceless art is a playground for billionaires, a rarefied atmosphere even more privileged and ruthless than owning a champion race horse or a sports team. Money and ego have turned the quest for art into a deadly business in which the superrich battle to possess the rarest and most beautiful objets d art on Earth.

Sammu ramat: Queen of Babylon. The first warrior queen in history, called by some the Who*re of Babylon. Her golden death mask left a legacy of lust and violence to those who fought to possess it.

Madison Dupre: curator for the billion dollar Piedmont collection. She fights for her career, her freedom and her life after she acquires the fifty five million dollar golden mask of the long dead Babylonian queen.

Coby Lewis: an ex Navy SEAL, who uses his frogman training to dive for sunken treasure. Madison knows she can t trust him but she also can t resist him.

Abdul ibn Hussein: His father died protecting the golden mask from thieves. Abdul said that the mask was stolen when the Baghdad museum was looted as American troops entered the city. He also claims that Navy SEALs worked with Iraqis to loot the museum.

New York, London, Zurich, and Malaga are the venues as the heat is turned on Madison and she goes on the run to clear her name and save her life.

The Deceivers

The knock on the door of struggling art expert Madison Dupre’s low rent New York apartment is that of a Thai caf deliveryman but instead of succulent noodles, he has a rare work of art from the incredible antiquity site of Angkor Wat in the jungles of Cambodia. Angkor Wat, a wonder of the ancient world, is considered by many antiquity experts to be even more majestic than the monuments of the Egyptian pharaohs. Left unprotected, the vast complex has been a treasure trove for thieves who mercilessly cut off pieces, mutilating thousand year old sculptures with chainsaws. Madison knows there is no possibility that this artifact could have been acquired legally. That knock on her door sends her to one of the most dangerous places on the planet: Phnom Penh, the sex sin drug capital of the Far East, a place where sex with an underage girl costs less than a pack of cigarettes and the price of a life is even cheaper. Stepping into a cauldron of murder and antiquity looting that takes her from New York to Cambodia, Hong Kong to Thailand, Madison keeps one step ahead of temple robbers who kill as easily as they steal. She finds comfort in the arms of a soldier of fortune who hunts landmines; tangles with a Russian model and her stud bodyguard, who introduce her to the New Eroticism; and gets entangled with a Cambodian prince with sex moves that not even the worldly Madison had tried. Madison, broke and struggling to recover from her fall from grace with the art trade, is willing to sacrifice everything in order to protect priceless, irreplaceable antiquities that have come down to us over the ages.

The Shroud

Art investigator Madison Dupre knew the offer was too good to be true: $20,000 for a quick trip to Dubai, the fantastic Arabian Nights city on the Persian Gulf. The call came from Sir Henri Lipton, a man who was supposed to be dead and who she sincerely had hoped was burning in hell because he had ruined her career before his violent demise. He told her only one tantalizing thing about the piece of art: Let’s just say it s a couple thousand years old and was buried with Christ. The fact the offer came from a man wanted on three continents for art looting was fair warning that there would be a catch. But with credit collectors and an avaricious landlord pounding at her door, Madison listened when the devil whispered magic words in her ear: $20,000 cash upfront. There was a catch, of course. A number of them. Sir Henri was up to his neck in conspiracies and needed someone to deflect the danger onto not to mention frame for the most audacious art theft in history. Dubai, a city that has been called Las Vegas on steroids, would just be the first stop for Madison on a quest that takes her to an ancient Mesopotamian city, the dark streets of exotic Istanbul, Venice at Carnival time, and a cathedral where the most sacred object of Christendom is stored. Along the way, she finds romance in the arms of a Russian agent who she doesn t trust and can t resist.

Frost of Heaven

An investigative journalist sets out to unravel the mystery of his father’s disappearance three decades before and meets a woman as dangerous as she is beautiful. Together they share an exotic journey in search of a secret older than time.

Sin City

From the New York Times bestselling author of The PredatorsFor more than five decades, bestselling author Harold Robbins has thrilled millions of readers with tales heavy in action, ruthless characters, international intrigue, and the sexiest people ever captured in print. Now in Sin City, he takes us to a town famous for all these, Las Vegas. Jack ‘Lucky’ Riordan is anything but lucky. The illegitimate son of Howard Hughes, he and his mother are cast out of Las Vegas when Hughes learns of the pregnancy, only for Jack to return years later to make his fortune. Jack might not have luck. But he has an eye for a quick con. His skills soon allow him to climb the ladder as head of security for one of Glitter Gulch’s most ruthless casinos, where cheating will get you jail, if you’re not crippled by security first. Jack sees it all: the corruption of fast money, the ways his friends will stab in the back for a shot at a jackpot, and the allure of women who will do anything to hit the big time. But the big time in Vegas always comes at a cost…
and Jack is about to learn the price of life in Sin City.

Dark Passage

It began with a rain of frogs…
. A strange phenomenon grips the world of today and yesterday. A shepherd boy appears outside a scientific facility at Los Alamos, New Mexico, babbling in an ancient tongue. At the same time, two thousand years ago, mortal fear grips a queen whose murderous ambitions are boundless, as she entertains her subjects with screams of the dying men in an arena. In one moment, time is ripped apart…
. Brutal jihad terrorists slip through the hole in time, on a mysterious and deadly quest to change the course of history. To stop them, three innocent people, two men and a woman, are sent back on the most exciting mission in history to unravel a mystery and stop a killer. Back to a time when the people of Israel chaffed under the heel of Roman legions and a brutal queen used sex and murder in a scheme for empire. Set against the vivid and violent tapestry of modern and ancient Israel, Dark Passage is an unforgettable saga of war, murder, technology, and high adventure.

Heat of Passion

Win Liberte has it all. He prides himself on never having worked a day in his life. He has everything he wants fast cars, beautiful women, a racing yacht, a penthouse in Manhattan. Orphaned at eleven, Win inherited an international diamond business that is managed by his uncle. Then Win loses it all when his uncle commits suicide after investing all of Win’s money in a scheme that fails. His single remaining asset is a bankrupt diamond mine in Angola, a steaming, war ravaged country in equatorial Africa. In the blood and muck of central Africa, Win experiences the ‘Diamond Curse’ first hand. Battles over Angola’s vast wealth in gems occur daily, and fights for control of the diamond industry have wiped out generations. Thriving on the challenge, Win founds an international diamond business that challenges a powerful cartel’s stranglehold on the market. Loved by two women a movie goddess who sears men’s souls and a dedicated UN worker who risks her life in Africa Win doesn’t find anything worth living for until he loses love. From the tunnels of the diamond mine to the stage at the Academy Awards, from the beds of beautiful women to a battle with warlords, Win has to fight to get back everything he ever wanted.

The Betrayers

Nick Cutter starting with nothing crosses oceans and continents as he conquers the world’s gambling and liquor markets, only to risk everything for the love of a woman. Luz had nightheat, the sensuous quality in a woman that makes men ache with desire. Nick loved and lusted for her the first time he saw her. But what he didn’t know was that Luz had secrets that beneath the glamour and sex appeal was a woman determined to turn her back on wealth and challenge a corrupt political system. Even if it meant her life. Nick started out dirt poor as a child, he survived the war torn frozen hell of the Siege of Leningrad and saw his mother starve to death as fat cat bureaucrats ate well. He learned early that there were the haves and have nots in this world. He was going to get everything rich people had and more. From a brutal Soviet orphanage to a plantation in the steamy jungles of the Caribbean, from sultry, violent Havana to the dangerous streets of Santo Domingo, Nick battled men who controlled and exploited the wealth of nations. With bootleg vodka and exotic rum, he built a business empire that would one day bring him into conflict with the most brutal dictator in the Caribbean and a struggle for the love and life of the only woman he ever truly loved.

Blood Royal

Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales, was an ordinary young woman who was picked to be the future queen. Her wedding was a worldwide sensation. But she was deceived and betrayed before the honeymoon was over. Five months after a fairy tale wedding, she threw herself down a flight of stairs when she was pregnant with a future heir to the throne. Suicide attempts, illicit affairs, and paranoia that there were plots by the Royals to kill her became the norm as the fairy tale turned into a horror story. After suffering degradation and humiliation at the hands of her husband, the heir to the British throne, she shot him with one of his own antique pistols. Paranoid that her own attorneys would deceive her, the princess reaches across the Atlantic to hire someone she knows for certain has no ties to the Crown. Marlowe James is an American trial lawyer. Running away from an abusive home, she supported herself by working as a waitress, rising to become a famous trial lawyer. Marlowe James has been dubbed the ‘burning bed lawyer’ by the news media because of her successful defense of women who killed their abusive husbands. And to top that, she was the accused in her first murder trial. Now she not only has to do battle in the Old Bailey with barristers loyal to the Crown, she has to come to grips with her own feelings about a woman who has been handed everything any woman would desire and throws it all away. The explosive tale that will be exposed in the courtroom is one of jealous rage and unfulfilled desires, of sexual deceit by one of the most powerful men on earth and the bloody revenge enacted by a woman scorned.

The Devil To Pay

Nash Novak, a struggling Seattle businesswoman who has been framed for arson and murder, is in desperate need of money for her defense. The only way for her to get it: A coffee plantation she has inherited. But there’s a catch: She has to run the plantation, deep in the jungles of Colombia, a land of drug lords and warlords. The mysterious inheritance of the plantation, from the father she had never met, comes at the same time a criminal conspiracy is turning her life into a living hell a conspiracy that stretches all the way to Colombia. Racing to South America, on the run from the police, she becomes entangled with suspicious characters: Ramon, rich and handsome, with a secret sex life that shocks even Nash though she considers herself an adventurous woman; Josh, an American expatriate, who claims to be a simple gem smuggler and arouses passions in Nash she thought were long dead; and Lily Soong, an erotic Chinese beauty who men and women lust after, often to their doom. But no one brings as much danger to her life as Pablo Escobar, king of the Medell n drug cartels, considered the most dangerous man in Colombia, the murder capital of the world. Things get even more complicated when Nash’s quest to clear herself takes her to Shanghai, home of the powerful Chinese Triads that control the flow of dirty money from gambling, prostitution, drugs and murder. Refusing to let the cartel’s murderers drive her off the plantation and ruin the lives of hundreds of families who work it, Nash tackles organized crime and police agencies on two continents to save her plantation…
and stay alive.

Feathered Serpent 2012

December 21, 2012: The fabled Feathered Serpent begins his relentless ascent out of the bowels of the earth, escaping thousands of years of torturous confinement. Controversial astrobiologist and archaeologist Caden Montez who believes Teotihuacan is the best site on earth to find alien life forms, such as the Serpent is on his trail. While exploring this so called City of the Gods a place so eerie it terrified even the most ferocious Aztecs she discovers that the Serpent has broken free. Ancient Mayan priests prophesied that when the God King returned, he would open the gates to the End Time. Together with an ancient 1000 year old Mayan warrior who has crossed the Gulf of Time to save humanity from extinction the outrageous and beautiful Caden must stop him. Scientists, political leaders, and journalists who have long ridiculed Caden’s theories have no one else to turn to. The Mayans Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse is on the move, and humanity s survival hangs in the balance.