“Brilliant!” —John Lescroart on *Abandon * For Will Innis and his daughter, Devlin, the loss was catastrophic. Will’s wife, Devlin’s mother, vanished one night during an electrical storm on a lonely desert highway and, suspected of her death, Will took his daughter and fled. Then one night, a hardedged FBI agent appears on their doorstep and says, “I know you’re innocent, because Rachael wasn’t the first…or the last.”

Celina Gayheart is a young woman who experiences heartbreak, humiliation, trauma, and bodily injury, all in one evening. On top of everything she has been through, she now has to face a night in the freezing North Dakota wilderness, complete with a menacing lupine threat.This vignette serves as a snapshot of the fateful night, and it is the beginning of a new series.Celina Gayheart is a first year med student who has been in love with Caiden McCauley ever since he stepped foot into her 7th grade math class, more than 10 years ago.In fact, "love" is not the exact word to describe Celina's feelings for Caiden, "obsession" is more accurate.When she and Caiden "coincidentally" end up at the same small college, on the opposite side of the country from their Georgia hometown, Caiden feels stalked and trapped. He eventually pulls away from Celina, and he spends most of his undergraduate years dating his newly found dream girl, Kristen Fellows.Celina has never accepted losing Caiden to Kristen, and she will do anything to win his heart. She gets her chance with Caiden, but does he really want her, or is he simply giving in to her constant presence? In one traumatic evening, everything comes to a head for Celina. In the midst of a treacherous personal crisis, she is forced to face the absolute truth. Grave decisions are made that will shape the futures of everyone involved. Celina formulates a destructive plan to remedy her problems for once and for all...Letting Go is a vignette that offers a glimpse into the events of the fateful evening. This short story is the precursor to a series that follows the tragically intertwined lives of Celina Gayheart, Caiden McCauley, and Kristen Fellows.

Sam Harman has just inherited three billion dollars, thrusting him into a dangerous world of money, power, intrigue and murder. How will Sam and his family survive?Sam Harman is a decent guy, working hard and raising a family. One day he learns that his recently-deceased biological father was one of the richest men in America. Now Sam is a billionaire and part owner of a huge corporation. The quick trip to Easy Street becomes a deadly journey into a world of money, power, intrigue and murder. Who are his enemies? Who are his friends? Will he survive? What will happen to him becuase of 'The Inheritance?'

A young woman, a man from her past, and a psychic connection between two strangers sets the stage for a dangerous situation where heroes emerge when we least expect them to.Maeve Tidewell has a gift, of sorts. She sees glimpses of the future in her dreams. Unfortunately for her, Joseph Binyon wants that gift for his own.When Maeve wakes to find she is being held captive by the disturbed man froA ravaged corpse is discovered in the mountains while a local medical specialist goes missing without a trace. A young woman and her children suddenly disappear and the only witness is a teenage boy who doesn’t realize yet what he’s seen. Ben Drake hopes to strengthen his relationship with his teenage son Jason during a road trip that takes them from their home in California to the Mountains of Colorado. Their plans are interrupted when they are unexpectedly drawn into a police investigation involving Maeve Tidewell and her two young daughters. Ben and Jason are compelled to keep searching for the missing family near a cabin they have discovered deep in the woods, and an almost psychic connection draws Ben toward a dangerous, and possibly deadly, confrontation.Meanwhile Maeve finds herself held captive, along with her daughters and the missing doctor, by a disturbed man from her past. They work together to devise a plan to overpower the gruesome killer before he decides the time is right for them to die. Somehow, fate brings them all together in a brave and desperate attempt to escape a bizarre kidnapper.

A psychopathic female fugitive provokes a mother’s vengeance in this terrifying thriller by the New York Times–bestselling author of Gone South and Boy’s Life. Back in the 1960s, Mary Terrell shot and killed a man. A former member of the fanatical Storm Front Brigade—a splinter group of the notorious Weathermen—Terrell has stayed one step ahead of the FBI for decades. Living with numerous identities and menial jobs, Terrell’s only constants in life have been LSD, psychotic delusions of motherhood, and murderous rage. The sixties are long gone, but Mary is still out there. Now, provoked by a message she reads in Rolling Stone, she’s convinced that the surviving leader of her old band of radicals wants to build a life with her. So one night, Mary sneaks into the maternity ward of an Atlanta hospital. Laura Clayborne has a successful career and now, a newborn baby. She’s the type of person who is sensitive to suffering and injustice. But the kidnapping of her infant son has brought out a white-hot fury. She’s not going to sit and wait while the FBI investigates. She’s going after Mary herself—headlong and relentless—on a twisting and violent cross-country pursuit to get her child back. But to track a madwoman, Laura will have to think like one . . . A Bram Stoker Award winner, this “expertly constructed novel of suspense and horror” (Publishers Weekly) from the author of Swan Song, Speaks the Nightbird, and other acclaimed works is “feverishly exciting . . . a page-whipping thriller” (Kirkus Reviews).

"Charlatans is an explosive thriller from New York Times bestselling author and master of the medical thriller Robin Cook. Noah Rothauser is the new super chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital. Housing state-of-the-art medical facilities, it’s always been Noah’s dream to work for such an esteemed institution. But the pressures of the role become all too clear when a seemingly routine operation results in the tragic death of an otherwise healthy man. With potential malpractice suspected it falls to the newly appointed surgical doctor to investigate what happened. Questioning those involved uncovers bitter feuds within the hospital’s surgical staff when Dr. William Mason, the egotistical, world-class surgeon who performed the operation, is quick to blame staff anaeshtetist Dr. Ava London for the disastrous outcome. However Dr. London, along with the nursing staff, point the finger at the surgeon. When two more anaesthesia-related deaths occur, Noah is forced to look closer at the impressively competent, charming, yet mysterious Dr. London, and he quickly realizes there’s far more to her than meets the eye. With his own job and integrity coming into jeopardy, Noah must decide which doctor is at fault and who he can believe – before any more lives are lost . . ."

Crime doesn't pay. Or does it? If you can't afford to buy something, you can just go and steal it, can't you? You'll probably get away with it. Unless you are really unlucky. Then you'll just have to live with the consequences.This is the tale of an ingenious robbery. One that goes wrong.Crime doesn't pay. Or does it? If you can't afford to buy something, you can just go and steal it, can't you? You'll probably get away with it. Unless you are really unlucky. Then you'll just have to live with the consequences.This is the tale of an ingenious robbery. One that goes wrong.Jen lives right in the middle of a massive run down council estate with her fifteen year old son. For years, she has dreamed of leaving for a better life, but simply doesn’t have the money to do so. Until she wins the lottery, that is. But will that win be the start of good or bad luck? Approx 8800 words.

Stunning, cutting-edge thriller with a chilling supernatural twist from Japan's stylish new literary star.

DIANE D In The Headlines is a sequel to DIANE D The Musical Drama and DANGEROUS DANA A Suspense Thriller. It is a suspense, drama, psychological, thriller about a family owned Charity and Entertainment Organization. This story involves 3 generations of the Diaz-Davidson family. The family's Charity and Entertainment Organization performs shows around the country and the world to raise money.DIANE D In The Headlines involves headline and article scandals, sniper shootings, highway shootings, road rage, drunk driving arrests, weapons possession charges, fist fights, attacks, highway car chasings, motorcycle chasings, paralyzations, miscarriages, abortions, suicide, mental illness, split personalities, eerie spirit possessions, superhuman strength and the supernatural. It also involves Diane D and her deranged and dangerous cousin Dana, of DANGEROUS DANA A Suspense Thriller, being tossed and thrown behind bars together! While Diane D and her cousin Dana are in jail, their lawyer is on the phone talking to Diane D. While he is talking to Diane D, he overhears Dana in the background hollering, cursing and swearing about him calling him every name in the book after he fails to get them bail! After the lawyer overhears Dana belittling him, he turns to Diane D and Dana’s family and threatens to quit and walk out on their case telling Diane D‘s family that he will represent Diane D, but not Dana! Diane D and Dana’s Grandfather Mike will not hear of it! He has a fit and tells the lawyer to either represent both Diane D and Dana or represent none of them!This story also involves a newspaper reporter and Dana getting into a heated argument and physical altercation outside a Banquet Hall over what the newspaper reporter threatens to write about Diane D! This story also involves three female police officers being beat up, attacked and injured on two separate occasions by Dana. Dana is soon tossed and thrown behind bars again for assaulting the female police officers. All three female officers are forced to quit and resign from the police force because of the injuries they suffered. This story also involves the Dianettes rivalry against another well known female pop group who wanted to perform and collaborate on stage with them and Diane D. Diane D says ‘yes’ to the collaboration but the Dianettes will not hear of it! The Dianettes and the other well known female pop group fuss and go at it with each other! The Dianettes later speed in their van and chase the other well known female singing group’s limousine down the highway all the way to the airport! When the Dianettes’ van and well-known female group’s limousine stop at the airport terminal, the Dianettes come out their van, run to the limousine and start to pull the other well known female pop group right out of the limousine! They then attack the other well known female pop group right at the airport! All six of the Dianettes are then tossed and thrown behind bars over the beat down! The other female pop group had to be hospitalized which causes them to miss their flight and upcoming concert in Paris!

Where are our Children rolls on to it's devastating climax. After much isolation the game's surviving players reunite only to see two more players fall for the final time. In the meantime, a Tempest of unequaled power and strength rises over Atlanta and adds more misery to the city's weary residents.The Zero Hour is long past; Scar’s destructive trap has been sprung and now an unexpected event from Mother Nature, an Earthquake, has caused a bad situation to become far worse. As a result, all sides in this conflict have taken heavy losses.The surviving combatants of 411: Special Agent Christopher Prince, Serena Tennyson, Doctors Angel Hicks Dupree and her estranged husband Seth Dupree, Thomas Pepper, Roxanne Sanchez and Louis Keaton's lives have all been changed forever. And now let the reckoning begin—yet again.Two of the anointed will meet their prophesized fate, two more will have the fires of hell burning inside them, while the other three will face a new crisis that make them wish for their own deaths before this game is at it's end.And then the lost ones will fall at last.A tempest will rise in their place.And Atlanta will burn.

Using a restricted FBI database, genetic researcher Jeanie Ferrami has located identical twins *born to different mothers*. Frightened by her bizarre discovery, she is determined to discover the truth at any cost—until she finds herself at the center of a scandal that could ruin her career. To fight the charges, Jeannie plunges into a maze of hidden evidence. With growing horror, she uncovers a cynical, far-reaching conspiracy involving disturbing genetic experiments and some of the most powerful men in America—men who will kill to keep their secrets concealed.

When two dead bodies are found inside a wrecked car on the Golden Gate Bridge, Detective Lindsay Boxer doubts that it will be anything as simple as a traffic accident. The scene is more gruesome than anything she has seen before. It definitely wasn’t the crash that killed these people. While Lindsay starts to piece this case together, she gets a call she wasn’t expecting. Sightings of her ex-colleague-turned-ruthless-killer Mackie Morales have been reported. Wanted for three murders, Mackie has been in hiding since she escaped from custody. But now she’s ready to return to San Francisco and pay a visit to some old friends

On Christmas Day 1884, a desperate plea from a mysterious woman leads Arthur Conan Doyle—struggling physician, aspiring writer, and part-time demystifier of the occult—to a seance in London’s East End and into a fiendish and deadly trap. Stunned by a shocking display of black magic, Doyle witnesses a murder, nearly falling victim himself before being rescued by a secretive stranger: Jack Sparks, a man who claims to be special agent to Queen Victoria. He tells Doyle that he has been targeted by a diabolical coven of Satanists—the Dark Brotherhood. As they track their attackers across the length and breadth of Britain, assailed by forces of darkness both human and supernatural, Conan Doyle and Sparks unmask a terrifying conspiracy that threatens not only the Crown but the very fabric of modern civilization. Their only clue: a list of seven names, the leaders of the Brotherhood. Skeptical by nature and profession, Doyle labors to prove that the events he has witnessed—horrifying visions, zombies, ghouls, molecular alteration—are elaborate ruses with logical explanations. But if so, why? Simply because Doyle’s anti-occultist writings, never even published, have inadvertently exposed the Brotherhood’s intentions? Who is the elusive, seemingly superhuman mastermind behind the Seven? Most important, as Doyle continues to put his life in the hands of Jack Sparks, the question persists: Can Sparks be trusted?

Verona, North Carolina. 2009. Jessica Kincaid, a wildly intelligent 18 year old with a dark past, finds her worst enemies being brutally taken down by Angry Jonny - an anonymous vigilante who has tapped into enraged psyche of the recession era. As her world descends into chaos, Jessica must track down Angry Jonny before she succumbs to his dangerous manifesto and the fury of her own demons.Imagine the worst individuals to have ever crossed you – the traitors, liars, cheats.Bullies, predators and sociopaths. Imagine if there were someone out there taking down every last one of them. Punishing them through savage acts of sadistic torture. Bringing your darkest fantasies to life while your hands remain clean. Imagine that you were the only one capable of stopping him. Then try to imagine why you ever would.It’s the summer of 2009, and Angry Jonny, an anonymous and calculating vigilante, has made the southern city of Verona his playground. His targets are drugged, then tied down – tongues severed, eyes cut out – left to live the rest of their lives blind and disfigured.The only thread linking them is Jessica Kincaid – a tough, wildly intelligent high school senior with a troubled past and track record of making more enemies than friends. Angry Jonny’s victims have all previously used their stature and power to humiliate and ruin Jessica, making her and everyone she knows a suspect or potential target. If she hopes to stay alive and out of jail, Jessica must stay one step ahead of the authorities in her pursuit of Angry Jonny. But a guardian angel, no matter how ruthless, can be a handy companion. The closer she gets to Angry Jonny, the more contaminated she becomes by his manifesto of brutal retribution. As Verona spirals into chaos, Jessica must choose her path: unmask the devil that holds her hand, or lose herself, irrevocably, to the seductive spell of Angry Jonny’s single minded fury.

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, an ordinary young couple, settle into a New York City apartment, unaware that the elderly neighbors and their bizarre group of friends have taken a disturbing interest in them. But by the time Rosemary discovers the horrifying truth, it may be far too late!