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A past master at playing with your mind, Richard & Judy million-copy bestselling author Sharon Bolton has penned a menacing and gripping thrill ride that will keep you gripped. Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Cara Hunter and Karin Slaughter. 'Bolton is a gripping storyteller, with fine, haunted...

On December 31, 1981, high atop a snowy mountain peak in the rugged interior of British Columbia, Canada, ninety-eight beautiful people eat, drink, laugh, and dance inside the opulent grand ballroom of the Sinclair Resort Hotel. The clock strikes twelve, a cheer goes up and the music swells...

Kadence has been sheltered from the world for her entire life, never allowed outside her home. It's not a life she's happy with, but it's one she's come to accept. Everything changes the day her father is slaughtered by a vampire and she escapes the walls that have kept her caged. After she's attacked by the monster responsible for killing her father, Kadence is unsure how to react when she's rescued by Ronan. Though raised to hate vampires, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Ronan as she slowly begins to realize that everything she's been taught over the years may not be true. 

Rage Sutherland, an unemployed, foul-mouthed 30-year-old had never once made his dead parents proud – or tried to for that matter. Instead, he lives happily in his consequence-free forever-adolescence in the house his parents left him. Down the hill behind his home, Mother, a massive underground fungus, is having an existential crisis. Starving and desperate, she births a new offspring—a mushroom that promises boundless love, followed by a slow, blissful death.

A whole new world. When Alastair Stone chooses to remain in captivity to save his son, he has no idea how much his life is about to change. While he does manage to break free from his bizarre prison, his newfound freedom doesn’t come without a price. Everything around him is different - the world, his friends, what he thinks he knows about what he left behind. And despite all the power he commands, he can’t do a thing to fix any of it. Worse, he’s still bound by an oath he made to his captor - and that contract is now coming due.

Katarina Daniels is an up and coming FBI agent with the perfect life. But when she discovers her husband has spent them into financial ruin, things quickly begin to spiral out of control. She questions her sanity when she starts having visions of an apocalyptic world inhabited by hideous creatures. She hatches a desperate scheme to steal drug money, but unwittingly sets off a cascade of tragic events. With her life in tatters and a ruthless cartel enforcer in pursuit, she discovers her visions are not only real, but demons bent on the destruction of the world have already arrived.

When 11 rising-star managers attend a mysterious leadership conference in a secluded luxury lodge, they do not anticipate the twisted mind games that await them. As the group exercise progresses rapidly from a friendly election to a dangerous web of no-holds-barred power plays, the players don't realize that soon some of them will be facing the harshest challenge of their lives.

For the uninitiated who discover the dark goals of the puppet masters of the world, only one option remains: run! Gabriel, Othia and Samantha have a single focus: escape Europe and make it back to the United States. A daunting task that seems impossible, considering what hunts them. Yet even the ultra-powerful cannot stop the change from coming. Employing ancient unholy rituals, they hide in the periphery of humanity, manipulating the masses for their barbaric goals.

After her ex-boyfriend's betrayal, revenge propels Vicky to find and destroy the man who sold her into captivity. The minute she gets the chance to search for Duke alone, she seizes the opportunity. When her hunt causes her to cross paths with Nathan, she finds herself secretly aligning with the one man she's vowed to avoid. Determined to hunt down the Savage who murdered his father, Nathan has told no one about his private search for Joseph. The night he runs into Vicky and learns she's on her own quest, he reluctantly agrees to join forces with her to achieve his goal.   

My name is Amelia Gray, and I'm a cemetery restorer who lives with the dead. An anonymous donor has hired me to restore Woodbine Cemetery, a place where the rich and powerful bury their secrets. Forty years ago, a child disappeared without a trace and now her ghost has awakened, demanding that I find out the truth about her death. Only I know that she was murdered. Only I can bring her killer to justice. But the clues that I follow lead me to a series of disturbing suspects.

Penelope Drayton Spence made a choice years earlier, and picked marriage and family over a promising career as an investigative reporter. Now, divorced and with her children spread around the country, she is having second thoughts. A mysterious call from the Managing Editor of the Washington Post, offers her a second chance at big time journalism. He has a story so sensitive that the President of the United States personally asked the Post to leave it alone.

I'm safe. And so is my family, all because of the sacrifice Stone made to save us. I don't know what has happened to Stone or Walker, but I believe in my heart that Stone will do everything he can to make sure Walker never comes near us again. I know he's out there, and I cannot allow myself to think otherwise. He will come back to me, to us.

Peter Adam wakes up on an oil rig to discover he has survived a mortal injury, and learns that the Vatican's chief exorcist, Don Luigi, has been elected pope. The news is worrying, not least because it appears Pope Peter II is doing everything possible to fulfil the prophecy of Malachi. Following a migraine attack, Peter wakes up to find himself in Cologne Cathedral after a gap in his life of five days of which he has no memory. Suddenly, all hell breaks loose around him.

The journey begins in Rochester, New York. As Detective Chase Harper investigates the death of Mr. William Carlyle, a web of deception is revealed in the midst of a pandemic. The nation has been asleep. Worse yet, the Church has been sleep. It is time for us all to awaken for such a time as this.

Tara Spencer is the new mother of a baby girl - one who, by all accounts, should not exist. And though her worries go far beyond diapers and feeding times, she finds herself settling comfortably into the community of Willow Springs, away from the prying eyes of The Brotherhood religious order and former-flame-turned-betrayer Cyril Woods. But when her daughter goes missing and her best friend is violently attacked, Tara's newfound sense of security comes to a screeching halt.

In a city haunted by unmarked graves and forgotten names, the cries of the missing refuse to stay silent. Gideon Samuels was once a pastor—until a brutal trafficking network stole the life of a young woman from his community and exposed a darkness deeper than he ever imagined. When the system fails, the law looks away, and the blood of the innocent is buried beneath bureaucracy and lies, Gideon is thrust into a war he never asked for.

From the outside, 17-year-old Siena has the perfect life.... She and her two younger sisters are adored by their wealthy father and grandmother. They are removed from the world, living in a modern-day castle in the middle of their grand family estate on the majestic shores of Maine.

Nicki Keating has been living a double life, torn between the guilt of lying to her husband and the allure of a passionate affair. But when she arrives at her lover’s secluded mountain home for a Valentine’s rendezvous, her darkest nightmare becomes a chilling reality. Terrified and devastated, Nicki must flee—but where can she turn?

Nearly a year after being shot and left for dead, Sergeant Rose Booker returns to active duty with the Worcester Police Department, hoping to put the past behind her - except she's not sure it's her past that's haunting her. When hard-drinking hell-raiser Julie d'Aubigny enters Rose's life, she promises to reveal the truth behind Rose's nightmares - or are they memories - of her death at the end of a hangman's noose. But first Rose must stop the mysterious madman waging a bloody campaign of vengeance that threatens to turn the city's streets red.

Caught in a dire car accident Zer0XHDX0137 passes into a coma reality where he meets all the characters from his life post the incident. This is the story of Zer0's life set in a fictitious situation set up to say "What if he did die?" After awakening from the coma reality Zer0 found himself trapped within, this is the story of what happened thereafter to Zer0 & the other characters from the coma reality. Set in a real-life situation Zer0 must battle Hex & other demons that haunt him to find his way back to Azrl & the chosen ones of light.