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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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He’s stubborn. She’s tougher. His kid? Already picked the bride.


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


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She came home to save the ranch… and found the cowboy she never forgot.


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From reality TV heartbreak to real-life reinvention.


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


PUNISHMENT
By: Scott J. Holliday

Detective Barnes Series #1
Thomas & Mercer
February 2018
On Sale: February 1, 2018
240 pages
ISBN: 1503949052
EAN: 9781503949058
Kindle: B072K458SR
Hardcover / e-Book
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Thriller Serial Killer | Thriller Psychological

Do you want to know what it’s like to die, to kill, to really fear for your life? Then get hooked…

Detroit-based homicide detective John Barnes has seen it allβ€”literally. Thanks to a technologically advanced machine, detectives have access to the memories of the living, the dying, and the recently dead. But extracting victims’ experiences firsthand and personally reliving everything up to the final, brutal moments of their lives β€”the sights, the sounds, the scents, the painβ€”is also the punishment reserved for the criminals themselves.

Barnes has had enough. Enough of the memories that aren’t his. Enough of the horror. Enough of the voices inside his head that were never meant to take root…until a masked serial killer known as Calavera strikes a little too close to home.

Now, with Calavera on the loose, Barnes is ready to reconnect, risking his lifeβ€”and his sanity. Because in the mind of this serial killer, there is one secret even Barnes has yet to see…

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