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Love, Danger, Homecomings & Heart β€” Your June Reading Escape Starts Here

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One disastrous night. One devastating man. One diabolical proposition.


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A small-town second chance wrapped in danger, desire, and Sharon Sala heart.


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A missing twin. A deadly cartel. One K-9 team caught in the crossfire.


The Bitter Past by Bruce Borgos

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Also by Bruce Borgos:

The Blue Horse, July 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
Shades of Mercy, July 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
The Bitter Past, June 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The Bitter Past, July 2023
Hardcover / e-Book

THE BITTER PAST
By: Bruce Borgos

Porter Beck #1
Minotaur Books
June 2024
On Sale: June 11, 2024
336 pages
ISBN: 1250321182
EAN: 9781250321183
Kindle: B0B9KSJ6JF
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Hardcover (July 2023)

Thriller Historical | Small Town

In the tradition of Craig Johnson and C. J. Box, Bruce Borgos's The Bitter Past begins a compelling series set in the high desert of Nevada featuring Sheriff Porter Beck…

Porter Beck is the sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, north of Las Vegas. Born and raised there, he left to join the Army, where he worked in Intelligence, deep in the shadows in far off places. Now he's back home, doing the same lawman's job his father once did, before his father started to develop dementia. All is relatively quiet in this corner of the world, until an old, retired FBI agent is found killed. He was brutally tortured before he was killed and clues at the scene point to a mystery dating back to the early days of the nuclear age. If that wasn't strange enough, a current FBI agent shows up to help Beck's investigation.

In a case that unfolds in the past (the 1950s) and the present, it seems that a Russian spy infiltrated the nuclear testing site and now someone is looking for that long-ago, all-but forgotten person, who holds the key to what happened then and to the deadly goings on now.

Porter Beck

The Bitter Past
THE BITTER PAST
#1.0 β€’ June 2024
Shades of Mercy
SHADES OF MERCY
#2.0 β€’ July 2024
The Blue Horse
THE BLUE HORSE
#3.0 β€’ July 2025

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