A paroled burglar tries to get a job and keep on the straight-and-narrow. His hard-core parole officer has different ideas and sends him back to jail. When he gets out again, he goes after the parole officer, steals his car, and returns to crime.

Sloane, an unsuccessful but talented artist, discovers that a long-ago love affair had resulted in a child, but when he searches for his daughter, he suddenly finds himself embroiled in a web of criminal violence, police investigations, dangerous alliances, and murder.

Arizona Territory, 1898. Peter Van Hoek is set up for a crime and does his time in Yuma Prison. Now, he's ready for payback. He cons the mining boss who set him up, by selling him a fortune in gold that comes from the boss's own mine. An ex-inmate will provide muscle for the scheme. A downtrodden local will use his skill with TNT to be the job's Powder Monkey. Well, it's the plan anyway.

"It's been four years in prison since Jade Daniels last saw her hometown of Proofrock, Idaho, the day she took the fall, protecting her friend Letha and her family from incrimination. Since then, her reputation, and the town, have changed dramatically. There's a lot of unfinished business in Proofrock, from serial killer cultists to the rich trying to buy Western authenticity. But there's one aspect of Proofrock no one wants to confront... until Jade...

When enemies from his time in prison put a bounty on his head and target his family, Nate McClusky takes his eleven-year-old daughter Polly from in front of her school into a world of robbery, violence, and the constant threat of capture, or death.

"Christian O'Brady was pulled into a life of crime at a young age by his con artist parents. Now making amends for his corrupt past, he has become one of the country's foremost security experts. When a string of Southwestern art heists targets one of the galleries Christian secured, he is paired up with a gifted insurance investigator who has her own checkered past. Andi Forester was a brilliant FBI forensic analyst until her career was destroyed....

When Danny Flynn returns to his Belfast neighborhood after 14 years in prison, all he wants is to find peace, resume his career, and reclaim the love of the woman who has remained etched in his mind. As they slowly embrace the possibilities of renewed romance, they realize cultural taboos stand in the way and fighting for love could cost them their lives.

An ex-con and a call girl are thrown together when he becomes her chauffeur. Initially he detests her but winds up under her spell.

Includes Carlito's Way (A Puerto Rican drug lord wants to go straight, but his cohorts won't let him); and Carlito's Way: Rise to Power (The early years of gangster Carlito Brigante).

"Ex-inmate and musician, Jake Haynes, steals a car and travels to rural Arkansas hell bent on exacting revenge on his father, Henry, who abandoned him, but his plan begins to unravel as he discovers a complicated family history among the cotton fields and gospel churches. Through help of locals like Alvah and Maurice and finally through a forbidden romance with Nicole, he comes to understand the compexities of family and the virtue of forgiveness"--Back...