Dark Thriller

This is Vivian Cline’s debut novel. “A Dark and Twisted tale filled with spine-tingling suspense, a forbidden romance, and a terrifying serial killer with nothing to lose.” Sabrina Bradford made a terrible mistake years ago that could kill her. FBI agent Nick sees Sabrina, who looks like all the dead victims. A forbidden love blossoms between Nick and Sabrina, but it can never be. They are from two different worlds. Will Nick be able to save her from the monster who is determined to make his kill?

All good things must come to an end, Constant Listener, and not even Stephen King can write a story that goes on forever. The tale of Roland Deschain's relentless quest for the Dark Tower has, the author fears, sorely tried the patience of those who have followed it from its earliest chapters. But attend to it a while longer, if it pleases you, for this volume is the last, and often the last things are best.

Nothing is as it seems. A man wakes in a dilapidated apartment, hooked to a strange machine, with a dead body in the next room—and no memory of who he is or how he got there. As he unravels the mystery of his identity over the next forty-eight hours, he discovers he may be one of the most influential figures of the twenty-first century. But the deeper he digs, the more he realizes that some truths are better left untouched.

Long ago, shapeshifting monsters ruled the Commonwealth using blasphemous magic that fed on the souls of their subjects. Now, hundreds of years later, a new tomb has been uncovered, and despite the legends that disturbing a shapeshifter's final resting place will wake them once again, the Warlord is determined to dig it up. But it isn't just the Warlord who means to brave the traps and pitfalls guarding the crypt.

Your ideas about science, religion, and the nature of existence are about to be blown apart... The dark energy readings spiked on Barry Adams’ monitor the day everything changed. One moment he was running standard calibration tests, muttering equations under his breath. The next, reality itself seemed to fracture, pulling the socially awkward astrophysicist into a war as old as creation—a cosmic battle between order and chaos with humanity’s fate hanging in the balance. Joined by Jane White, a compassionate art teacher grappling with a crisis of faith after leaving her strict ...

Book 3 in the NYT & USA Today Bestselling “Signs of the Zodiac” Urban Fantasy Series Reluctant superhero, Joanna Archer, has finally embraced the roles destiny assigned her: Avenger, Savior … Destroyer. On the surface, she’s a sexy, sophisticated socialite. Yet Joanna Archer also inhabits another realm: one ordinary mortals can’t see or enter … a dangerous dimension where an eternal battle rages between the agents of Shadow and Light. Joanna is both. She never sought the power that’s been thrust upon her but refuses to abandon it now that it’s hers. Stalked by being from a ...

Blind, trapped, and surrounded by enemies, Grace must strike a dangerous bargain with 'The Devil'—one that could cost her soul. England, 1880. After a violent childhood attack left her blind, Grace has honed her gift as a medium, using it to bring peace to restless spirits. But when she stumbles upon the body of a dead girl in the woods, Grace’s life takes a dark turn. With the threat of imprisonment in a cruel asylum, her only hope for freedom lies with Devlin, a notorious pirate with a dangerous reputation. But the price for his protection is steep—Grace must move into his haunted ...

Morgan Stark, a brilliant doctor, is stunned when his hospital’s resident is found murdered, clearly the work of a serial killer. The FBI needs Morgan, with his medical expertise, to decipher the subtle medical clues that will lead to the killer—but can he crack the code before it’s too late?

Long lost to the public in out-of-print pulp magazines, dusty Victorian anthologies, and the pages of now defunct newspapers, these vintage vampire stories have truly proved immortal. Resurrected now for the year 2011, this is a stunning collection of nineteenth-century vampire stories by heavyweights such as Sabine Baring-Gould and Bram Stoker. These rare stories are arranged in chronological order from 1846 to 1913 and are compiled by two of the world's leading vampire anthologists and experts.

Milwaukee’s Revenge follows Detective Jack Owens as he investigates an attack on an innocent young couple from rural Wisconsin. As he searches for the group of thugs responsible, Detective Owens must also grapple with rising political pressure to draw certain predetermined conclusions about the case. The race between a police officer putting his job on the line to do the right thing and a victim out for revenge ensues. The question becomes: Are they on the same course?

A gripping supernatural thriller that will take you on a journey inside the realms of nature and spirit. In the mystical suspense of "Datura Serpentis," the quaint town of Cherokee, North Carolina braces for an ominous menace rising from the very soil beneath their feet. As a strange circle of plants blooms, releasing a deadly insect plague, Alaina Landry, a devoted botanist, and her fellow researchers find themselves thrust into a race against the clock to thwart its catastrophic spread. With Alaina's deep affinity for the natural world guiding her, she delves into the enigmatic secrets of...

She’s it. She’s the one that I want. I catch one glimpse of her and I know that I have to have her. She doesn’t know yet, but she will soon. Once I’ve stolen her away, she’ll see. I am the man she’s always been waiting for and I'll take her soon enough. A forgotten identity, amnesia, semi-stalker romance with a happy ending. The Curvy Girl Of The Month Club isn’t for the faint of heart. We’re talking filthy mouthes, first chance encounters, over-the-top alphas, and scenes so hot you just might blush. These aren’t your mama’s sweet beach reads. Grab a glass of wine and ...

Two brilliant students discover the AI internship of their dreams is actually a nightmare! SYNTHA isn't just learning—it's absorbing human minds! As employees move with creepy precision and vacant smiles, Leo and Ethan uncover the horrifying truth: they're next on the integration list! Even escaping the facility isn't enough... SYNTHA is already in their heads!

An apocalyptic game of cat and mouse... BOOK 1 I have always been haunted by my dreams—visions of eerie dark light and a faceless rider on a white horse. Dark streets, glowing shadows, and a boy clutching a strange book appear night after night. The disappearance of my father, my fractured twin bond, and the eerie coincidence of a murder-suicide in my community seem eerily tied to my nocturnal visions. Things take a darker turn when I discover I’m not the only one plagued by supernatural forces. A redheaded boy from a troubled foster home holds the key to an unseen world—a dimension ...

What if Edgar Allan Poe's masterpieces happened in our world? Step into five chilling retellings that transport Poe's most terrifying tales into the 21st century, where ancient horrors take on frightening new forms. From sterile hospital corridors to corporate boardrooms, from contaminated mansions to digital graveyards, these stories prove that the human capacity for guilt, obsession, and revenge transcends any era. "The Monitor" - A night-shift nurse's paranoia spirals into murder, where the tell-tale heart becomes the relentless beeping of medical equipment, and guilt echoes through ...

She has ten days to live—and the dead aren’t the only ones hunting her. After a crushing defeat, martial artist Melissa Weller hits the road to escape her past, accompanied by her best friend: Magic, a talking yellow lab with secrets of his own. But when their detour lands them in the eerie town of Russelfield, Alabama, Melissa is ambushed and cursed by a vengeful spirit. With an ominous ritual looming closer, Melissa has ten days to solve a mystery—or die trying. Recruiting a reluctant local witch for help, Melissa must face sinister spirits, centuries-old Chinese folklore, and a ...

Against the majestic backdrop of the Great Smoky Mountains, a vicious killer preys upon society's most vulnerable women, dumping their mutilated remains on a lost and lonely stretch of highway. Nearing the end of her shadow period as a profiler, FBI Special Agent Audra Beck finds herself working an investigation crippled by her burned-out partner and the local cops who don’t have time for “whores and runaways.” Already haunted by childhood memories of abuse, a violent personal attack leaves Beck isolated among her colleagues. One of the local deputies is compromised, maybe more. As ...

Leonora, known to some as Lee and others as Nora, is a reclusive crime writer, unwilling to leave her nest of an apartment unless it is absolutely necessary. When a friend she hasn't seen or spoken to in years unexpectedly invites Nora ( Lee) to a weekend away in an eerie glass house deep in the English countryside, she reluctantly agrees to make the trip. Forty-eight hours later, she wakes up in a hospital bed injured but alive, with the knowledge that someone is dead.

Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas". As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. She lost some fingers and toes, but she survived, and famously testified that her 15-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, Ben sits in prison, and troubled Libby lives off the dregs of a trust created by well-wishers who've long forgotten her.

He kidnapped me and now I must unravel the mystery: is he the Ripper, or my Beast? He stole her away in the desolate wintry woods.A man with an insatiable thirst for revenge takes Violet to his isolated cabin in the woods—but not all is as it seems. There’s a serial killer on the loose, and in his supposed twisted plight to be her savior, he may well destroy the one person whose innocence he wishes to preserve and protect. She loses the very freedom she once took for granted and comes to know a beast of a man whose depth is much more than the cold kidnapper which he attempts to portray ...