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At first, Linda Bergstrom's marriage to her husband James was idyllic. They were young and in love; he was about to enter the Navy and she was eager to start a family. But it wasn't long before the dream exploded. James became abusive and violent, prone to sudden bursts of anger, long silences, and unexplained disappearances. But Linda vowed to hold on, despite the pain and fear...and her disturbing suspicions about her husband's secret life.

Seventeen-year-old Therese Mills survives the unthinkable After. a brutal attack leaves her parents dead and her heart barely beating, Therese slips into a coma—and crosses a boundary no living soul should cross. In the shadowed realm between life and death, she meets him. Thanatos. Beautiful. Dangerous. Eternal.

When Ellen McManius impulsively purchases a mid-century fixer-upper in Santa Fe as a private art retreat, she hopes for solitude—time to rediscover herself in a new marriage and in a city famous for reinvention. Instead, she discovers that her property borders a ravine known locally as Suicide Bridge. The first cry for help comes at dusk. A woman’s voice from below the bridge. A name whispered through the darkness: Angie Cole.

When Boulder City is inundated with strange occurrences, the local, state, and federal authorities come up emptyhanded. Motivated by heart-wrenching appeals on Sue's blog, Ellen and her friends offer to help. But the pressure's on like never before when their paranormal investigation is met with scrutiny at every turn, especially when they discover, with the help of a one-hundred-year-old ghost, a sickening coverup from the days of the building of the Hoover Dam.

During a Christmas Eve wedding at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, Ellen and her friends are visited by multiple ghosts. The spirits have come to tell their stories to right the wrongs that history has done to their memories. Each of them died in Asheville with their voices stifled. One spirit is particularly adamant and threatening, despite her small size, and her mood fluctuates like the mountain winds surrounding the great estate. She claims to be the ghost of Zelda Fitzgerald, and she wants her story told, even if she has to kill to make it happen.

Over three hundred lives were lost in Tulsa in 1921. But some stories were never laid to rest. When Ellen, Sue, and Tanya travel to Oklahoma for a wedding, they stumble upon an abandoned warehouse on the edge of Tulsa’s revitalized arts district—an enormous structure with a violent history and a price too low to ignore. Locals claim it’s haunted. They’re right. Inside its walls, whispers echo through empty hallways. Phones die without warning. A presence demands to be heard.

Still grieving the sudden loss of her husband, she agrees to travel with Sue and Tanya to Portland, Oregon, to help a wealthy businessman whose brother has vanished during the renovation of a historic carriage house. The building is beautiful. It’s profitable. And it sits above something far darker than anyone expected.

Tanya is not herself. The nightmares. The voice that sometimes sounds like someone else. When Ellen and Sue realize their friend may be spiritually attached to something beyond their understanding, they follow its trail to New Orleans—where faith, folklore, and history intertwine in the shadow of one of the city’s most infamous houses. The Lalaurie Mansion. There, guided by the careful wisdom of a Voodoo priestess, they begin to uncover the truth behind a long-buried injustice—one tied to Madame Delphine Lalaurie’s documented cruelty and a child whose remains were never properly laid to rest.

When Sue falls in love with a dilapidated farmhouse near East Glacier Park Village—on land belonging to the Blackfeet Nation—she sees opportunity: sweeping mountain views, one hundred acres of forest, and the chance to create a retreat near Glacier National Park. The tribe sees something else. The property has stood vacant for decades, abandoned after a string of tragedies no one can explain. Families fled. Children suffered. And the land itself seems unwilling to be claimed.

Just when things were looking up for Than and Therese, everything crumbles. Eighteen-year-old Therese Mills has second thoughts about marrying Thanatos when she learns that no god has ever been faithful to his wife. But before she can move out of Than's rooms and into Hecate's, the Underworld is attacked, she and her friends are crushed, the souls are unleashed, and a malevolent goddess threatens to unhinge Mount Olympus.

Dive into a world in which the ancient gods of Greece still rule in modern times. Thanatos meets 17-year-old Therese while she's in a coma hovering between the realm of the dead and the realm of dreams. A lucid dreamer, she takes control of her dream and kisses him, unaware that he is Death. It was his first kiss. No one, in his long existence, has ever wanted to kiss Death. After Therese awakens from her coma, Thanatos is desperate to find her. He makes a deal with Hades and goes to the Upperworld as a mortal to pursue her and to see where it might lead.

On a quiet afternoon in the park, four-year-old Joey plays in the sandbox, when a stranger approaches looking for his puppy. While Joey's mom, Crystal, talks on her cell phone, the stranger convinces the child to help search. By the time Crystal turns around, her son has disappeared. Yet her reaction is odd, not what one would expect from a distraught mother. Is Crystal somehow involved in her son's abduction?

Hypnos and Jen aren’t married long when they realize something’s missing: They both want to have a child, especially when they see how happy Therese and Than are with their twins. But the creation of new gods is against the rules, and they aren’t willing to give up their immortality. Hermie and Hestie never asked to be demigods. Unlike others of their kind, they aren’t interested in going on quests and being the center of a world-changing prophecy. But when Zeus learns of Apollo’s vision, the hunt for Prometheus begins.

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The rebellion led by Hades prepares to storm Mount Olympus, but their every move is sabotaged. Morpheus is torn between his allegiance to his Underworld family and the oath he swore to Zeus under duress. Forced to play both sides, Morpheus sees no hope for the rebellion. Hermie and Hestie share Morpheus's despair. Although Poros turned them into gods, the transformation has only heightened Hermie's debilitating fears. And even Hestie's fierce determination isn't enough to overcome her trust issues. As the gods square off, how can one identify the friend from the foe?

Hypnos and Jen aren't married long when they realize something's missing: they both want to have a child, especially when they see how happy Therese and Than are with their twins. But the creation of new gods is against the rules, and they aren't willing to give up their immortality. So Hypnos goes to Mount Olympus to offer Zeus a deal. He'll make it his mission to find out the source of the recent attacks on Gaia - horrible earthquakes - if Zeus will agree to let him and Jen have one immortal child.

Hermie and Hestie never asked to be demigods. Unlike others of their kind, they aren't interested in going on quests and being the center of a world-changing prophecy. But when Zeus learns of Apollo's vision - of the twins finding Prometheus, Zeus's number-one enemy - the hunt for Prometheus begins. Zeus and his allies want to bind Prometheus and kill the twins before their threat of a revolution becomes a possibility. If Hermie and Hestie don't find the Titan first, they have no chance of fulfilling their destiny or of surviving Zeus's threat against them.

Can you love someone and still be free? Emma Wyatt agrees to tutor a recently blinded, embittered soldier because of the 50,000-dollar paycheck his brother offers. Blind herself, Emma dreams of independence and freedom away from her overprotective family. But when she's attracted to her student, she fears falling for him means giving up her dreams.

Profiler Sarah Armstrong knows what it's like to be in a sticky situation. As a single mother and one of the few female Rangers in Texas history, she has had to work twice as hard to rank among the best cops in the Lone Star State. But when mega-wealthy businessman Edward Lucas III is found murdered along with his mistress, their bodies posed in grotesque ways, Sara quickly senses that this will be the deadliest case of her career. While others focus the investigation on Lucas's estranged wife, Sarah disagrees.

When seventeen-year-old Therese Mills slips into a coma, she crosses into the realm between life and death—and meets Thanatos, the son of Hades and god of Death. One fearless kiss binds them together in a love that defies the laws of gods and mortals alike. But loving Death is only the beginning. To stay together, Therese must survive impossible trials set by Hades himself, outwit Olympian politics, and face the wrath of gods who refuse to accept a mortal among them. Immortality comes at a cost—and becoming a goddess may require sacrifices neither of them are prepared to make.