#suspense

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An ancient ritual. A buried evil. A race to save the world. If you’re a fan of Dan Brown, you’ll love Dormant Angels—a gripping historical thriller packed with real locations, ancient secrets, and pulse-pounding suspense. Every building, street, and document in this novel is factually accurate, grounding a tale of supernatural evil in the very real world we know.

Families have secrets. Some secrets are locked, sealed, and taken to the grave. Others beg to be told. They ooze through cracks a little at a time. You tease them out until an ugly truth is fully exposed. Ella Perri knows there’s something hidden in the family cottage.

In these novelettes, short stories and flash fiction, ordinary people are faced with a curious, cruel, or serendipitous twist of fate meant to open their hearts and minds to new adventures and possibilities. But will they take the plunge? Not without the help of a friend, a push from a stranger or a kick in the arse from kismet. (Or cheers from someone with a fine imagination, like you!)

All seventeen-year-old Maggie Warshauer wants is to leave her stifled life in Filliyaw Creek behind and head to college. An outsider at school and uncertain of her own sexual identity, Maggie longs to start again somewhere new. Inspired by a long-dead biologist's journals, scientific-minded Maggie spends her days sailing, exploring, and categorizing life around her. But when her beautiful cousin Charisse disappears on prom night and is found dead at the marina where Maggie lives, Maggie's plans begin to unravel.

Chase Jordan is a social media personality and reality tv star living her best life... until she receives a staggering phone call about her cousin that upends her life. Chase drops everything to head into a mystery she isn’t prepared for. The more Chase investigates the stranger the story becomes. She is soon over her head and targeted by a deadly threat. Chase wants to leave town and save herself but didn't expect to be drawn to Victor. Victor Morris is everything Chase wants but nothing she needs.

Five years after the turmoil in Samara Carpenter’s life began, her issues have resurfaced with a vengeance. Now married with two children and more alluring than ever, she stands to lose everything when an acquaintance reappears and an evening of drinking turns into a night of passion and leads to a proposition that she will regret.

After working the dreaded closing shift at a local restaurant, Samara Carpenter soon finds herself recklessly in the arms of two men: her flirtatious and mysterious co-worker, Russ Cooper, and her harsh and vindictive boss, Jeff who has a hidden dark side. As this awkward love triangle develops, Samara feels the walls closing in. And just when she thinks her life couldn’t get any messier, her jealous ex-boyfriend resurfaces with a vengeance and her world is shattered.

A dead girl, clutching a stuffed toy elephant covered in political buttons, is found posed on a luggage carousel at O’Hare Airport. Chicago, oblivious to the evil that has gripped the city for the past two months, believes they have discovered the first victim of the errantly named “Patriotic Killer.” Only Lieutenant Jonathan Dearfield knows the truth: He must solve this case before the unimaginable happens. Perfect Posture takes readers inside the mind of a killer, while chronicling the lives of those committed to stopping the escalating carnage.

Deep Waters: Follow Jack as his life evolves from a high school football quarterback in Janesville, a small town in Wisconsin, to a crew member of the USS Indianapolis—the ship that delivered the nuclear bomb that helped end World War II and then suffered the worst open ocean disaster in U.S. naval history.

Set in the early years of the twentieth century, when the greatest expectation for a woman’s future was marriage and children, Rose longed to be wanted and loved, but no one seemed to want her. Until the day she has a riding accident and is rescued by success-driven Henry, a childhood friend and someone she secretly admires. For a moment it seems possible they will share a life together and she might have the family she longs for. But just when their friendship is blossoming and Henry proposes to Rose, World War 1 breaks out in Europe and the local men begin to enlist.

"In Serenade of Souls", the final instalment of The Tokyo Trilogy, most of the love stories started in the previous volumes reach their suspenseful conclusions. Another five years have gone by, and Shoko is now the oyabun, or clan head, of the Hashimoto family. Her attempts to revamp and rebrand the crime syndicate as a slick and modern corporation meet with resistance, and unrest is brewing within her organization as a conspiracy to topple her is unfolding. Linda for her part is back in Tokyo, but she now faces competition in her attempts to win back Tanaka’s heart.

"No Medicine for Falling in Love" takes place five years after the first volume of the trilogy. Tomoko has left her husband and living on her own she is now working for Yumiko who in turn has become CEO of a lifestyle company. While Tomoko is flirting with Yumiko’s new female secretary, Yumiko herself is initiating a steamy office romance with one of her young male employees. Unfortunately, professional headwinds are blowing her way because she stood her ground against an influential but sexist politician, Mr. Kuroda, hellbent on harassing her after being rejected.

"Ripples in the Waters by Lake Kawaguchi" traces the sexual road trip of the lonely and neglected Japanese housewife, Tomoko, and the young, vibrant and spontaneous college girl, Ai, who is her counterpart on that riveting journey. It also introduces us to the depressed and suicidal CTO, Takeda, a “sarariman” (salaryman) who, having been made redundant, has lost his raison d’être and is struggling to shield his family from the financial fallout of his failure.

The tender scars on her abdomen throb as memories of the attack come rushing back, flooding her mind and sending her heart racing... Psychotherapist Neve Keane knew that returning to work at the hospital after being stabbed by a patient would be difficult. But entering her unit only to be surrounded by a crowd of people claiming they need her help to stop the apocalypse—that’s more than she bargained for.

Two best friends. One deadly secret. Something dark and brooding stalks the mysterious Bosque nature reserve. Bird watchers fall prey to the menace and thefts of rare falcons are on the rise. But it is the body of a murdered girl discovered on the banks of The Rio Grande River that eventually brings Detectives Temeke and Santiago onto the trail.

The truth is dead and buried. Or is it? When two bodies are recovered from a house fire, Detective Temeke is called in to investigate what he believes is a routine case. The tragedy takes a more sinister turn when a post mortem reveals that one victim was beaten to death.

Lies hurt. Truth kills. Four years after the tragic suicide of Alice Delgado, eldest daughter of Albuquerque’s top racing driver, her younger sister, Lily, is reported missing and two of her peers are found dead. Detective Temeke’s investigation leads him to a private boarding school on the Rio Grande where the discovery of occult practices and an ancient book ignite a chain reaction of heartbreaking truths.

Andra Vandersan is an expert code breaker, as fiercely independent and beautiful as she is brilliant. Working in Hong Kong at the highest levels of deciphering. When her next-door neighbor is brutally murdered in a way that suggests the work of the Chinese triads, two things become clear: Andra was the intended target of the hit, and the assassin is going to return.

Free Book! In 1929, Helen Blackstone is forced to do the unthinkable—return to her childhood home. A place full of secrets and lies … where her mother had gone mad. Helen had hoped she had left those dark days behind her, but when her brother is threatened, she uncovers a shocking truth that changes everything …