J.M. LeDuc

“J.M. Leduc does it again! Sinclair O’Malley is back in the biker’s saddle riding herd on mayhem and the malign in ‘Painted Beauty,’ a tale with more twists and turns than a double-jointed rhumba dancer. Leduc’s precise strokes of expert narrative and confident plots paint such a vivid picture, so colorful and unexpected, that I found myself hopelessly offering myself to Sin’s dream world just so I could stay there a little bit longer. Everybody needs a Sin in their lives. She’s the daughter I never had and always feared I deserved.” —Sandra Brannan, author of the Liv Bergen Mystery series Back with the FBI, Sinclair “Sin” O’Malley has promised that this time she’ll play by the rules. After a body is discovered lying on the sands of Miami Beach, she’s called in to lead the investigation. As the body count begins to rise, Sin soon realizes that she must dissect the killer’s MO by entering into a dark, twisted mind. Sin must go head to head with a madman whose artistic vision is clouded by a nightmarish past. A killer who lives by the belief that, “Nothing gets in the way of the art.” Pieces of the horrific puzzle link back to her friend, Charlie, and a case he solved forty-three years earlier. As confusion muddles her confidence, Sin must remind herself of the person she truly A righter of wrongs, an advocate for the underdog . . . the Pearl Angel of Death. When dealing with madness, one needs to be mad. Laws must be set aside. “Rules were made to be broken.”

Recruited by the FBI straight out of Quantico for her intelligence and attitude.Released by the bureau for the same reasons.Now, they need her back!Six girls have washed up along the shore of the Florida Keys and four agents are dead. The bureau's only chance is a rogue agent who flies by her own wings and will stop at nothing to make sure justice is achieved.It is said, "Fight fire with fire." The bureau knows, "Fight sin with SIN."Her name says it all: Tempting―Dangerous―Deadly.

After Task Force Zero’s latest mission goes off the rails, Sin knows she and her team need a break. They have been running one mission after another for months on end. One day into their month long sabbatical, a special request comes in from Frank Graham, the Director of the FBI and the task force’s only chain of command.Frank’s brother in law, Humphry Diggs, a Miami Beach Police Detective has been charged with murder, and Frank needs Sin and the task force to try and prove his innocence. Sin promises Frank that while on US soil she and the team will abide by the bureau’s rules and regulations.What begins as a simple murder investigation ends up so much more. Sin finds ties to the Chao Pho, Thailand’s largest organized crime syndicate. A syndicate led by Katana Sant, the infamous Sculptress, so named for her intricate and brutal use of bladed weapons. Sin and her team are soon embroiled against the Chao Pho who are peddling the synthetic drugs fentanyl and methamphetamine on the streets of Miami and along the US east coast.In Eastern Drift, Sin will find herself pitted against allies and joining forces with enemies to unravel a web of deceit and solve a crime so heinous that the Pearl Angel of Death must rise like a phoenix from the ashes to inflict justice where it is needed.In Eastern Drift, the task force will go from the glitzy beaches of Miami to the deepest recesses of Thailand and back again to solve a crime that makes Sin’s blood boil. In Eastern Drift, Sin knows she must keep her friends close and her enemies even closer.

IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE, A LIFE BEGINS AND ANOTHER ENDS. IN A BLINK OF AN EYE, BRENT VENTURI FALLS INTO THE CHASM OF DESPAIR. What do you do when everything is lost? When the person you loved is gone and all you have left is guilt? These are the questions that face Brent, the leader of the Phantom Squad and the latest in Noah’s line of descendants. His answer—go back to the beginning, back to where it all began—Mount Ararat. THE LAST KNOWN RESTING PLACE OF NOAH’S ARK In his travels, Brent will meet Rowtag Achak, a Cree brave and Special Forces sniper who is on a similar path of self-destruction. Together, they will trace their steps from Palm Cove to Washington D.C., all the way to Armenia and the Khor Virap Monastery which sits at the base of Mount Ararat. Their travels will eventually take them to Alpha Camp and the Hindu Kush mountains on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. When President Dupree and the Phantom Squad get captured by the Brotherhood of Gaza, time for introspection is over and time for action begins. Brent must find a way to get back to the man he was in order to save the people still left in his life. What begins as a sabbatical of self-awareness turns into a mission of survival. His own, that of the squad and more importantly, that of the president of the United States. What man and nature takes away, only God can restore. The restoration of the Cornerstone. TO FIND THE BEGINNING, ONE MUST WALK THROUGH THE PAST AND BE WILLING TO STEP INTO THE FUTURE. This is a new release of a previously published edition.

Cryptic messages written in Old Testament languages. A pleading from the Vatican. The probability of terrorist involvement. And that’s just the beginning of Cursed Days . Brent Venturi and the Phantom Squad will go in search for what the ancients have called ‘the messengers’. At stake, the mythical Ark of the Covenant. Some say the ark contains divine powers of heaven and hell. Some say it was destroyed along with Solomon’s Temple. Others say it was stolen by King Solomon’s son and taken to Egypt. Only the messengers know for sure. In the third installment of The Trilogy of The Chosen, the Covenant Team will race throughout the Middle East in search of the messengers and the ultimate prize, but they are not alone. The Brotherhood of Gaza is also in the hunt. Their motive...world domination. The only clues to the search were written at the time of Moses. The only rules to the The Chosen One must take the ones who came before him. His only Evil Finds A Way! Welcome to “Cursed Days,” where every day could be the last. This is a new release of a previously published edition.

Since the second century, A.D. a myth has been told among men. The Roman Catholic church has excommunicated all priests for even muttering its existence. In the Twenty-first century nothing has changed. An ex-priest preaches of a time called The Enlightenment. A time when the world is ripe for Satan’s taking. A time when Satan will hand pick the earth’s evilest to entrench his spirit. A time of epic battle between the Dark One’s spawn, the omega Butcher, and God’s chosen, Brent Venturi. The Everything…winner takes all! If the myth is to be believed, God’s chosen stands no chance in winning. If Satan wins…God help us all. Such is the backdrop to the thrilling plot of the second part of the Trilogy of the Chosen, Cursed Presence . This is a new release of a previously published edition.

Brent Venturi, leader of Delta Force’s Phantom Squad has moved back to Palm Cove where he was raised by his grandfather. There, he is content to live a peaceful existence as the town’s head librarian. Although he loves the peace and tranquility that have become his life, he is haunted by nightmares. Nightmares that always pertain to some skill that he had learned as a covert operative and they always contain an image of his lost love; Chloe. Brent’s life turns upside down when he receives a gift from Lucile Conklin. Her late husband has bequeathed a rare book collection to him upon his death. Among the books Brent finds a letter written by his grandfather twenty years earlier. What he doesn’t know is that he has also been passed a secret, now known as The Endowment. This secret is so old that it dates back to the dawn of creation. A secret which began as a gift from God, but because of man’s wickedness and immorality has become so evil that if it were to fall into the wrong hands, Armageddon would occur. A secret that is a Cursed Blessing. This is a new release of a previously published edition.

The buzz of his phone in the pitch of night is never a good thing, but the news is worse than anything President Lancaster could imagine. Along with her roommate, his only daughter, Becca is missing in Key West during Spring Break. The president reluctantly listens to FBI director, Frank Graham and turns to Special Agent Sinclair O’Malley to find and bring Becca home safe. There is only one problem: since Charlie’s passing, Sin has been living “off the grid” in Weir’s Beach, NH with no interest in returning to the FBI. After seeing a video of Becca Lancaster sent by the kidnappers, she agrees to come back, but only on her terms. Sin enlists the help of her old friends, Troy and Tiffany, to help track down the kidnappers and find the missing girls. What begins as a simple kidnapping case soon becomes much more. Sin finds herself embroiled in a cesspool of street gangs, Jamaican voodoo (Obeah), organized crime, and a possible leak in the West Wing. From the streets and bars of Key West to the Florida Everglades to the high-priced neighborhoods in downtown West Palm Beach, Sin hunts for the girls and their assailants. When the kidnappers strike close to Sin’s heart, all bets are off. Pitting herself against the president, she turns to her old squad for help. Along with old and new friends, Sin takes the fight to the streets and will leave no stone unturned to recover her family and take down everyone involved. “Gang members are like Dominoes, topple one, and the all fall down.”

“Evil Awakened is all the right things, creepy, suspenseful, and filled with a great cast of characters.” – Heather Graham, New York Times Bestselling Author The stories told around the campfire taught us of legends—tales of demons and heroes. I thought they were only stories, but I was wrong. They were warnings. My name is Pamoon and until recently I lived a normal life. Well, as normal as it could be growing up on a Cree reservation. My birth mom left me on the steps of the reservation medical center when I was just an infant. Being Cree is all I’ve ever known and all I ever wanted to be. My life changed the night my friends disappeared. They vanished while reciting a ritual they didn’t understand. That’s when I found out the truth of who I was, or who I was supposed to be. I discovered that I am the subject of one of the stories the elders the story of a sixteen-year-old girl, whose skin is as white as winter’s snow, come to send demons back to the Netherworld. Come to save a nation. That’s when I found out I was more than just a girl. I was to become a goddess. If my friends have any chance of being found, it’s up to me…me and Scout, my wolf cub. But I’m going to need help, help only the spirits can provide. I don’t know if I’m up to the task, but what choice do I have? Instead of listening to me babble on, come and hear the entire story. The story of the Kiche—the Sky Spirit Goddess. My story.

A phone call from an unknown number has Sin’s mind reeling. The man on the line explains that he was one of Charlie’s best friends, that he knew Charlie in Vietnam and went by the callsign, Python.Two days later, Sin and Tana are on their way to Python’s ranch situated on the Continental Divide in the town of Granby, Colorado to help him catch cattle killers who have been stalking the ranches between Granby and Estes Park.While waiting on Task Force 0 to arrive from Saudi Arabia, the girls find an ominous connection between the cattle killers and a mission gone wrong during Charlie’s deployment in Vietnam.A mission that occurred for all the wrong greed, promotion, and a one-way ticket stateside. Now those who were attacked are back for revenge ... but are they taking out their vengeance on the right people?When the enemy stops killing livestock and and tries to kill a teenage girl at a Country Western-themed competition and carnival, the Pearl Angel of Death must slither her way into the mind of a madman focused on revenge.Sin, along with Python, and Viper—Charlie’s old war buddies—and the mysterious organization, the Hand of God, will have to decipher the clues to which den of snakes is guilty and who is pulling the strings before the killers stage their final act of vengeance.In Viper’s Den, the corruption and lies that began in the jungles of Vietnam are alive and well in the mountains of Colorado and the swamps of Washington, D.C.