Love hurts... Makani Young thought she'd left her dark past behind her in Hawaii, settling in with her grandmother in landlocked Nebraska. She's found new friends and has even started to fall for mysterious outsider Ollie Larsson. But her past isn't far behind. Then, one by one, the students of Osborne Hugh begin to die in a series of gruesome murders, each with increasingly grotesque flair. As the terror grows closer and her feelings for Ollie intensify, Makani is forced to confront her own dark secrets.

What would you do if you were framed and sentenced to twenty years in an Asian prison? Would it make any difference if the heinous crimes that you’d gotten away with carried far longer sentences? Would knowing that your actions led directly to the suicide of your financial controller prick your conscience? Blind hate kept Douglas Aspine alive in Changi Prison. He had no conscience or compassion for those he had hurt, only the lust for revenge. Would this evil man succeed in bringing down those who had framed him?

The cat in this story is Einar, known as a Master in the world of the contract killer. The mouse is James Marsh, a businessman with a wife and a child and, you'd expect, no skills to outwit a professional killer. But James Marsh isn't quite what you expect. In his spare time he does a spot of the old hitman stuff himself - as you do. So maybe the mouse can outwit the cat in this story.The cat in this story is Einar, known as a Master in the world of the contract killer. The mouse is James Marsh, a businessman with a wife and a child and, you'd expect, no skills to outwit a professional killer. But James Marsh isn't quite what you expect. In his spare time he does a spot of the old hitman stuff himself - as you do. So maybe the mouse can outwit the cat in this story. And, if he can stay alive, he might just find out who put a killer on his tail.(previously published as THE EXECUTION GAME)

A young woman is so desperate to overcome her phobias that she decides to undergo hypnosis. Her chosen hypnotist cures all phobias... and then some.THIS IS A SHORT STORY OF APPROX. 5,000 WORDS.Claire knows only a world where most of humanity lives inside sparsely populated cities protected from the Outside by guarded walls. She is a new Driver whose job is to transport items between these cities. Under the watchful eye of her Protector, Shaun, Claire makes her first run from San Jose to Angel City to bring back medicine needed to save hundreds of lives. However, the trip takes them through the dangerous land of the Outsiders. Using their skills, Claire and Shaun must escape from their armed pursuers in a chase across miles of barren wasteland with no hope of help.

In the hush sleepy town of Rosewood Creek on the outskirts of London, Suzanne Edwards, a young and vibrant girl struggles coming to terms with the sudden disappearance of her best friend, Melissa Andrews. Follow along on this streamline novella to discover the challenges, heartaches and horrors that emanate from the quest to uncover the events that follow.In the hush sleepy town of Rosewood Creek on the outskirts of London, Suzanne Edwards, a young and vibrant girl struggles coming to terms with the sudden disappearance of her best friend, Melissa Andrews. Follow along on this streamline novella to discover the challenges, heartaches and horrors that emanate from the quest to uncover the events that follow. With deep seated mystery, this novella will keep you captivated by the intense situations that unfold and the development of an obsessive and demented character. Who will solve the mystery behind the tragic events happening in this little town?

Life on the road as a truck driver can be boring at times, but when bad things keep happening wherever you go, things are anything but boring. After stumbling across a murdered couple in a car one night, everywhere Joe goes, murders occur. Will he survive the long haul, or will the killer catch up to him?A long haul trucker's life is a very nomadic, lonely life. Life on the road can be boring at times, but when bad things keep happening wherever you go, things are anything but boring. One night on a lonely stretch of highway, Joe nearly hits a car parked on the highway. When he stops to help, he discovers a grizzly murder. After reporting the crime, he notices that people are being killed wherever he goes. Is the killer toying with him? Will he be next? Follow Joe as things quickly spin out of control and the body count gets bigger and bigger while he tries to deliver his load.

Cutter is an Australian soldier finishing his tour of duty in Iraq. All he wants to do is get home to his wife and daughter in Sydney. But when his family become innocent victims in an underworld turf war, and the police are too gutless to act, Cutter takes the law into his own hands. When there are no rules there is only Vengeance: Cutter's Law by James HopwoodJudge, Jury and Executioner!Remember the men's action adventure stories of the '70s and '80s? Did you thrill to the blood and thunder exploits of the Executioner, the Death Merchant and the Penetrator? Now author James Hopwood introduces readers to Nathan Cutter in Hopwood's Pro Se Single Shot Signature Series- Vengeance. In Cutter's Law, the debut digital single in the series, Cutter is an Australian soldier finishing his tour of duty in Iraq. All he wants to do is get home to his wife and daughter in Sydney. But when his family become innocent victims in an underworld turf war, and the police are too gutless to act, Cutter takes the law into his own hands. When there are no rules there is only Vengeance: Cutter's Law by James Hopwood.

Chloe Marin was lucky. She was just a teenager when a party at a Florida beachside mansion turned into a savage killing spree, and she was one of the few to survive. Bloody handwriting on the walls pointed to a cult whose rituals included human sacrifice. Chloe's sketch of one of the killers linked two dead cult members found in the Everglades to the massacre, closing the case as far as the cops were concerned. Ten years later Chloe works as a psychologist specializing in art therapy to help traumatized victims, and on the side she finds release in her passion for the martial arts. Police who hire her as a consultant know she's a literal kick-ass advocate for victims who can't always speak for themselves. The current disappearance of a young swimsuit model ranks low on the cops' priority list. Everyone assumes the girl has run off for some fun in the sun, instead of getting ready for a photo shoot. Everyone but Chloe, who suspects a killer is using the modeling agency to stalk his prey. When the ghost of the model appears, asking Chloe for help, she knows that she has to do everything she can. So does Luke Cane, a British ex-cop-turned-P.I. investigating the disappearance of the model on behalf of her father. Chloe and Luke have trouble trusting each other, but they can't help their strong attraction for one another. Luckily they agree on the important things: someone needs to find those missing girls, and if a few laws have to get bent so lives can be saved, too bad. When Chloe arrives late for an appointment at the modeling agency, she discovers a gruesome mass murder eerily similar to the one she witnessed a decade ago—and can't help thinking that if she hadn't run late, she would have been there when the killer arrived. Ten years ago she hadn't been convinced the police had identified the real killers, and now she's sure of it. The same evil mind is behind the current murders, and she's afraid she's the target— and terrified that she won't be able to cheat death a third time. She has no choice now but to trust Luke on every level, because with a killer closing in, he's the only one who's willing to do whatever it takes to keep her alive.

It’s been twenty years since Western State Hospital was closed down and the last of its inmates reintegrated into society. Francis Petrel was barely out of his teens when his family committed him to the asylum, after his erratic behavior culminated in a terrifying outburst. Now middle-aged, he leads an aimless, solitary life housed in a cheap apartment, periodically tended to by his sisters, and perpetually medicated to quiet the chorus of voices in his head. But a reunion on the grounds of the shuttered institution stirs something deep in Francis’s troubled mind: dark memories he thought he had laid to rest, about the grisly events that led to Western State Hospital’s demise. It begins in 1979, when twenty-one-year-old Petrel descends into the state-run purgatory of an overcrowded, understaffed Massachusetts mental hospital. Surrounded by inmates roaming the halls like drugged zombies and raving behind locked doors, well-meaning orderlies, jaded nurses, and patronizing doctors, Francis finds friendship with a motley assortment of fellow patients: a would-be Napoleon, a wise ex-firefighter, and a man obsessed with battling imagined devils. But there’s nothing imaginary about the young nurse found sexually assaulted and brutally murdered late one night after lights-out. The police suspect an inmate, while patients whisper about visions of a white-shrouded “angel.” But the striking and mysterious prosecuting attorney who arrives to investigate has her own chilling theory—about the grim, telltale “signature” left on the victim’s body, a string of unsolved sex killings, and a very real devil who, by chance or design, has come to turn a madhouse into a slaughterhouse. Now, with the past creeping back to haunt his thoughts, and nothing but a pencil and the bare walls of his bleak apartment, Francis surrenders to the overwhelming need to tell the story of those nightmarish days. But because the crime was never solved, it’s a story doomed to remain unfinished. Until, like Francis’s long-buried recollections, the killer resurfaces . . . with a vengeance. A tour de force narrative journey through the eerily unpredictable mind of an utterly unusual hero, The Madman’s Tale will keep even the most astute thriller reader uncertain, unnerved, and unable to resist the tantalizing twists and turns of this fiendishly suspenseful shadow show. From the Hardcover edition.

Let's not die today. Not even to make things easier for our parents. When a building collapses around five teenagers--and they just barely escape--they know something strange is going on. Little by little, the group pieces together a theory: Their parents are working together to kill them all. Is it true? And if so, how did their parents come together--and why? And, most importantly, how can the five of them work together to save themselves?

In the harsh wilderness of colonial Massachusetts, Martha Allen works as a servant in her cousin's household, taking charge and locking wills with everyone. Thomas Carrier labors for the family and is known both for his immense strength and size and mysterious past. The two begin a courtship that suits their independent natures, with Thomas slowly revealing the story of his part in the English Civil War. But in the rugged new world they inhabit, danger is ever present, whether it be from the assassins sent from London to kill the executioner of Charles I or the wolves-in many forms-who hunt for blood. A love story and a tale of courage, The Wolves of Andover confirms Kathleen Kent's ability to craft powerful stories of family from colonial history.

A rough takeoff to a job Hedley really wished he hadn't takenNot even fond of flying, a trip in a small plane terrifies Hedley. A rough takeoff makes it a job he really wished he hadn't taken. A pity the pilot wasn't scared too.

In the fading autumn twilight, one young boy must face his fear to discover the very real secret of the old Dooley House.On a dare, one young boy takes a journey into his own nightmare, a decaying mansion rumored to be haunted by the victims and perpetrators of several brutal murders. In the fading autumn twilight, this boy must face his fear to discover the very real secret of the old Dooley House.

The world's most elite counter-terrorist operators.A cyber-security guru suddenly getting shot at and blown up rather more than usual.And nuclear-armed terrorists rolling with impunity through a lawless and brutal virtual world. Get ready for D-Boys.The world's most elite counter-terrorist operators.A cyber-security guru suddenly getting shot at and blown up rather more than usual.And nuclear-armed terrorists rolling with impunity through a lawless and brutal virtual world.Get Ready for D-BOYS.The year is now. Islamist terrorists hack into America's most sensitive defense networks, launch chemical weapons attacks on Western cities, and stage a raid on the vulnerable nuclear weapons storage facilities in Pakistan. They are using a massively-multiplayer online video game (or "virtual world") as a platform for planning and rehearsing their attacks - forcing a squad of supremely elite Delta Force operators (reinforced by an info-security expert from the Department of Homeland Security) to go inside the game to fight them.But the fight only begins there. Michael Stephen Fuchs' forthcoming novel is a high-tech special-forces nuclear terror thriller - featuring perilous night-time supercarrier landings, clockwork safehouse takedowns in bandit country, combat helicopter assaults into north London mosques, virtual fights to the death for control of an enormous dry dock in the largest first-person-shooter online video game of all time, breathless aircraft shoot-downs in the remote mountains of Pakistan, brutal and precise close-quarters battle sequences, waterborne SEAL Team assaults of hijacked super-container ships, Predator drones with real-time video feeds to smart-phones, and CheyTac Intervention sniper rifle systems that can kill you from a mile and a half away. These weapons, tactics, tech, battlespaces, and 21st-century warriors will be unlike anything you've ever read.Are you ready for D-Boys? Get an advanced preview (3000 words) of the incomparable adventure, today.

Seeking fun and exploration, Kyleigh travels to Scotland on an invitation. However, unsettling dreams plague her on her stay at a castle on the Highlands, leading her to believe everything is not what it appears. (2014’s YA Novelette)Getting comfortable with her new-found independence, Kyleigh Blaire is a normal college girl, looking for adventure. So when her roommate, Isobel Keith, invites her to join her on a vacation to an old Scottish castle, she is excited. However, as soon as she arrives Kyleigh finds she is uneasy. With every step into the castle, she feels an unsettling familiarity. Kyleigh is aware that all is not right and begins to have weird dreams at night of walking through the halls as if being led by an unseen force. Will she allow herself to be guided in order to unlock the mystery?