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A deadly prophecy must be stopped before all is lost. Trust none, sacrifice all: words to live (or die) by in this edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller of deceit and intrigue. Five days before the presidential inauguration, rookie Special Agent Emma Noble is tasked with her first assignment—informing a shy young man from Boston that he is the victim of the most infamous kidnapping of the past century.

Sheriff Thomas Shepherd knows what it takes to catch a murderer. But when he discovers a dead woman buried in the forest, he believes a new killer is stalking Nightshade County. Nightmares afflict Thomas's girlfriend, private investigator Chelsey Byrd, a woman who has battled depression since she was a teenager. Something about the recent murder awakens forgotten memories in Chelsey, and she needs to solve the case to gain closure. The problem is, Thomas doesn't want Chelsey near the investigation in her present condition.

Christine is an actress, a breakout star in truth. She never believed in wizards. She never knew of the darkest wizard ever to have existed: Mortem. But Mortem knows of her. Christine is the sole survivor of his assassination of two wizarding journalists that resulted in a destroyed cafe and many dead civilians. Fearful her rising celebrity will bring his great plan to take over the wizarding world into the consciousness of the public, he seeks her out, and Christine is forced on the run.

Deep in the woods of upstate New York a woman flees a blazing barn. She is burned beyond recognition, and her dying words point police to a labyrinth of "confinement rooms"—rooms designed to hold human beings captive—where they make other chilling discoveries.

When a killer tornado rips through a Dallas flea market, a kind stranger helps Jenna Cooper protect her baby boy. But in the aftermath, Jenna can't find her son or the woman who'd been holding him. Upon discovering the tragedy, reporter and single mom Kate Page, battling for her career and trying to hold her life together, vows to determine what happened to tiny Caleb Cooper.

Maggie Dahl returns in Open Secrets. It’s been six months since the media circus surrounding the last murder Maggie solved and a year since her beloved husband David died. The dust seems to have finally settled. Then, one morning, a customer walks in and asks Maggie to do her a favor.

The Timekeeper's Inn is a thrilling ride through history and an imagined future, using actual historic figures who have disappeared in time, giving them an alternate reality as to what may have happened to them. Visit the Dark Ages and rescue a woman accused of witchcraft, or travel forward in time and help a family escape the death camps of Auschwitz. Sometimes the journey is the destination as Nicholas Keys and Brooke Gates team up to gather pieces of the puzzle and people along the way.

Araminta Elmore is a 67-year-old retired insurance adjustor. She is helpful and always finds herself in the middle of a police investigation. She has been invited to a piano recital at the Belle Meade home of Arthur and Beatrice Lyons. As she makes her way to the French doors of the drawing room, Araminta suddenly notices a glint in the grass. When she picks this up, it turns out to be a red stone - a real ruby. She shoves it into her bag until after the recital.

Hannah never takes her eyes off her son around strangers. So when her child vanishes at an amusement park, Hannah fears the worst. Working beside Chelsey Byrd and her team of private investigators, Thomas Shepherd looks into the potential abduction. But when disturbing evidence surfaces, the team suspects Hannah isn't telling the truth. With suspicion growing that Hannah is involved in her son's disappearance, the distraught mother will stop at nothing to prove her innocence and get her child back. But can she face the shocking truth surrounding her son's kidnapping?

It's a warm, cloudless morning on the day the envelope arrives for Daisy. Soft sunlight streams into the apartment she shares with her partner, Anderson, who is sleeping peacefully. Daisy's fought hard for this happiness, worked her way up from being a vulnerable teenage runaway to a woman with a stable job and a loving boyfriend.

Besieged by Bloods and placed on a hunger watch, the citizens of the mutant compound of Wallis turn to the one person they pray will help, the Battle Lord of Alta Novis. Despite the fact that they took away the woman the man risked his life to love, they hope he will show mercy and lend aid. They never expected to find Atrilan Ferran alive and thriving as the wife of Yulen D'Jacques. Yulen sees this as the perfect opportunity to show the citizens of Atty's home compound the power and status his wife wields. But first he, Atty, and his soldiers have to risk the journey.

Thomas Shepherd returns to Wolf Lake as the county’s new sheriff. This is the life he dreamed of. Friends he can rely on. An idyllic home along the water. Then a hiker uncovers human bones, rekindling the mysterious disappearance of Skye Feron, a popular teenager who vanished six years ago. Are these her remains? Disturbed by the grisly discovery, Skye’s close friends return to Wolf Lake. But as the investigation unfolds, Thomas links the girls to a ghost from their past. Are they hiding a deadly secret?

Ryder Hart came up the hard way. From his childhood, to scratching his way to the top of the charts. Every moment was a struggle. Now that he's at the top, nothing will take him down. Not even a secret so dark it invades his dreams and haunts his waking hours. Quinn Abernathy's hunger for success is no less than Ryder's. If she wants to succeed in the highly competitive world of photography, she can't let anything, or anyone, get in her way. Until Ryder. He makes her long for more than she ever thought possible.

In this tale, our narrator is deemed guilty of an unnamed crime and condemned to death by a tortuous method of which he can only imagine. In complete darkness in a room with only a large pit in the center and rats to keep him company, he soon realizes there is a large bladelike pendulum hanging above him, slowly getting closer to cutting through his chest.

A few weeks have passed since Sheriff Thomas Shepherd rescued Deputy Aguilar from a deranged serial killer. He's burned out and exhausted, struggling to hold the Nightshade County Sheriff's Department together. Then a series of bizarre deaths shock the community. They appear accidental, but closer inspection reveals that a common thread connects the victims. Eleven years ago, they were high school friends, popular bullies who ruled over their classmates. Is a tormented classmate hungry for vengeance?

When a criminal defense attorney is stabbed in her home, the police name her disturbed son, Shawn, their top suspect. But, no one can find Shawn. In a last-ditch effort to locate his son, Shawn’s father convinces PI Raven Hopkins to take the case and prove his son’s innocence. When Sheriff Thomas Shepherd takes over the investigation, the evidence against Shawn mounts. As hope of saving Shawn dwindles, another dead body surfaces. The victim’s shocking link to the criminal defense attorney wreaks havoc on the case.

The night holds dangerous secrets. And a girl who cried wolf is caught in a murderer’s crosshairs. Only 12 hours have passed since Violet saw her teenage boyfriend. Now his body lies in the morgue, riddled with stab wounds. And the evidence points to a mythical serial killer Violet invented to scare her friends...The Halloween Man.

Dashing stranger, Henry Dunham, comes to Salem on a mysterious errand, but is thrown from his horse in the dead of night and rescued by the local Puritan midwife, Lydia Colson. Haunted by her past, Lydia is running from her own dark secrets, avoiding intrusive questions by pretending her dead husband is simply...away.

When one of the Synod's shadow wraiths arrives on Oracle Briana Spurrier’s doorstep offering the answer to her prayers, she’s willing to defy both Zyne law and cosmic order to strike a bargain with him. But the journey will take her to the far reaches of the globe and into a spellbound forest that is the lair of an ancient enchantress.

Kane Harrison was born to play the part of the ultimate bad boy rock star. Trouble was, the life he lived wasn’t a game. Abused and discarded as a child, he used alcohol, drugs, and sex as weapons to combat the memories. More than his salvation, playing music with his band Razor’s Edge was his only lifeline. Then, he met Joplin Ashford, and for the first time in his life, he understood the meaning of love. She was the light to his dark, and his hardened heart began to soften.