Showing results for "Afterlife" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

I didn’t even want to go to the party. Seriously, I’d rather have stayed home with my librarian-witch grandmother and her mystical book club than go. But my best friend, Skyler, begged me. So I went. And it was the worst party of my life. The last party of my life. Not only was the band downright horrible, but the lead singer bit me afterward. And then stole Skyler. Now I’m chasing down a band of angry vamps with my other best friend, Vaughn, in tow - and a buttload of feelings between us we can’t even begin to address. And worse, I’m changing into something else.

In this thrilling, small-town YA romantic suspense novel from Lorie Langdon (the Doon novels; Happily Never After series), when convicted killer Ashton Keller returns to Gilt Hollow after being released, Willow finds herself questioning everything she knew about her former best friend. Is he...

Murdered in a Tokyo alley, a gamer is reborn as Noctis Ashworth in a world ruled by a System. Gifted with the dark powers of World Eater and Shadow Manipulation, his vow to never be powerless again is tested when his adoptive family is massacred by soldiers of King Valerius. Now, Noctis lives a double life: unremarkable academy student by day, terrifying Void Monarch by night. While hunting for revenge and clues to the monstrous Project Chimera, he finds himself entangled with the enemy king's daughter and targeted by suspicious instructors.

After defeating Lucifer and sacrificing the love of her life, Jack, Schuyler wakes up back in New York safe and sound. Only it's not quite the New York she knows, and she's not in her regular body. She looks different and feels different, and so does everyone else. Schuyler soon discovers that in this world, her best friend has a different last name, her parents are both alive and happy, and the love of her life? Not so dead after all. The catch? Jack has no idea who she is. As it turns out, Schuyler is not in her New York. She's not even in her universe. This is an alternate reality.

After David’s bizarre fall from grace, he has absolutely no idea what to do. No one in known history had ever been sent back to mortality as punishment before, and it’s no surprise when David falls into a deep depression. How could a mortal fulfill the duties of a guardian angel? And how could he ever live down the shame? With no other choice, David is forced to push onward with faith, just like any other mortal, and find new purpose in life.

Cody Treat has gotten used to living among the ruins of modern civilization. But when one of the thousands of ghosts following him finds a way to communicate their need for help, he learns that the end of the world was just the beginning of a fight for survival. Orphaned and alone after an apocalyptic meteor event followed by a plague, Cody roams the ruins of Oklahoma City, looking for food and shelter from the gangs hoarding supplies and torturing other survivors.

The Drainers are back. They’re singing a different song, but have they really changed? Even worse, werewolves’ hearts are being ripped from their bodies - which is putting the people I love in danger. I need to figure out who is behind the murders before there’s an all-out vampire-werewolf war.  

A budding starlet and her handsome-but-moody co-star go from bitter enemies to reluctant partners when they get tangled up in the disappearance of a beautiful young actress in 1930s Hollywood. Eighteen-year-old Henrietta arrives in Los Angeles in 1934 with dreams of trading her boring life for...

At age 17, David Garcia fell to his death and has spent the past 10 years filing papers for dead people. His uneventful afterlife is thrown into chaos when he’s attacked by a pernicious demon called Malum. Frozen in terror, David does absolutely nothing to prevent the demon’s escape.

Olga Gay Worontzoff left the Underworld for her final year of high school anxious for things to return to normal, but fate has other plans. The new hottie at school reads her thoughts but nobody else's. Her best friend wakes up from his coma acting like a completely different person. Caught in a world that's a mix of familiar and supernatural, she must confront what she will - or won't - do to bring him back and stare down her own perceived inadequacies to face a couple of tenacious demons, figurative and literal.

Sixteen-year-old Nicole already had enough on her plate between distancing herself from her embarrassingly witchy bestie Isabel and competing with her don’t-mess-with-me romantic rival Cassie, who happens to be dating Nicole’s crush. Now Nicole is dead and on Substation Fifteen, a special afterlife realm for teens who ended their own lives. She’s convinced she doesn’t belong there, even though she has zero memory of what really happened to her.

It’s not because she hates weddings. It’s not because the groom is her boyfriend’s dad (although yuck). It’s not even because Vegas weddings are cliché as hell. It’s because her mom is an evil incarnate vamp known as The Executioner. Nothing good can come of someone marrying a person named The Executioner. Nothing.