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My partner's brother just snatched my baby. And I saw it coming. I thought I was lucky before all this happened. I have a beautiful baby boy. A man I want to make a life with. A gorgeous cottage in the Cotswolds that we're in the middle of doing up. Life's good. Then Ben drops a bombshell. His brother Adam is coming to stay. 'Promise me something — don't believe everything Adam tells you.' From the moment Adam shows up — all charm and dark smiles, his fragile girlfriend in tow — I know something's wrong. Something is off. He says they won't stay long. He lies. First, his girlfriend disappears.

My mother lied to me. My family is not my own. If it wasn’t for the genealogy test, I would never have known I was the child of another woman. Now I’m learning that I have four brothers I have never met. And one of them is a serial killer. My brother is taunting me to play his vicious game – solving his clues before he spills more blood. Who can I trust? How can I find and stop him before it is too late? And what if it is me he really wants?

It was an ordinary school day, the day I lost my little brother. One moment he was on the roundabout and then was gone. Gone. Missing. They all blamed me. I was in charge. Even though I was only ten years old. They sent me away. The hurt, the shame, the questions. The not knowing. I tried to move on. It’s been nineteen years in exile and now somebody wants me back. Someone with a dark secret.

Since Jake left the family farm in Vermont at age twelve to live with his uncle in New Orleans, he has seen Mason four times in the past twenty-three years. The first cost him two hundred grand and a trip to Colorado. The next dragged him to Turkey, where he had to cover up three murders. Africa almost killed him. And the fourth? It's 2004, and Mason has sold Jake, his skills, and his freedom to the highest bidder. Now Jake is trapped in Costa Rica, working for a man he despises, caught up in a business he hates.

Let the punishment fit the crime. No unit inside King’s Court Prison is more brutal than the newly refurbished “M” Division. Dubbed “Mayhem” by the inmates, the only ticket needed to gain entry is a life sentence, and cells are filling up fast. With death the only way out of this hell on earth, some are willing to risk everything for one final chance at freedom. After foiling an escape attempt by several prisoners, new guard Tyler White reaches out to the one man who saved him from certain death, the mysterious prisoner in Cell 9.

Ricky and Leonora Bates are brother and sister, best friends, allies in a loveless family. They are a constant disappointment to their domineering father. He views Ricky’s quiet bookishness as weakness and Leonora’s feisty intelligence as unbecoming. Then Ricky is sent away to a boarding school in South Africa to “toughen him up”. And Leonora is stuck dealing with her dysfunctional parents on her own. The unthinkable happens. Leonora’s father travels to South Africa to bring Ricky home. Disaster strikes. Her father is shot dead. And her brother is nowhere to be found.

When tragedy strikes and their beloved mother passes away, brothers Dominic and Dylan find themselves drowning in a tidal wave of sorrow. One suffers in silence. The other rages against the world. Together, they unravel at the seams.

All I want is to get my life started after college. But when a string of gruesome murders sends my hometown into lockdown it’s hard to find a place to live, never mind a job. So I can’t believe my luck when I land an interview at the flashy high-tech security firm. Then I meet my new boss ......... Damon Clark. My best friend’s older brother turned successful billionaire.