Dark Thriller

Christine Daae has spent eight years fatherless, alone, and left to fend for herself day in and day out. She has abandoned her dreams of performing on stage and instead works as a tutor and accompanist. On a chance encounter with the new co-owner of the Premier Theater, Raoul Chagny, she is swept once again into the world of theater and into a romance that transcends her wildest dreams. Little does she know, a masked stranger lurks in the shadows and is determined to dominate her will. Just as Christine’s relationship with Raoul blossoms, she is swept away into darkness and imprisoned in ...

Philip Chambers is a normal man with a normal job, living a normal life in a normal house. He has a normal wife, two normal children and three normal grandchildren. His life is perfect - Or so it appears. Philip however, is not as normal as everyone thinks he is and the book title ‘HOW TO KILL YOUR WIFE’ says it all - Or does it? This is a most unusual murder thriller, full of dark humour that will have the reader turning pages, wondering how much worse things could get, what could possibly happen next and how will it all end.

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 ...

A brutal home invasion shocks Brattleboro's small Asian community, but no one is talking. Undeterred, Joe Gunther digs deeper and discovers a cross-border smuggling route carrying drugs, contraband, and illegal aliens into and out of Canada. Operating below the radar for years, competition between underworld rivals is bringing it into the light with deadly consequences.

She says I’m a beast. She's right. But I’m the man she needs if she wants to survive. I’m no family man. Big, bearded, tatted – I’m no teddy bear either. As a member of the Twisted Devils MC, I fix bikes and break heads. At night, it’s all about easy riding and fast women. No commitments, except to my club. Until Trixie. That night, everything changes. The curvy bar singer takes the stage and my world shifts. She’s gorgeous. And her sinful voice stirs an animal inside me. All I want is one night. Nothing more. She tells me I'm full of it. She wants nothing from a man like me. ...

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.

Steve Mason is pulled out of retirement to track down a genius millionaire killer bent on assassinating the President of the United States. With little time and few clues, he traces Raymond Armstrong's last known steps and finds more than he bargained for. Using his skills crafted in the heart of South American drug country, Steve searches in a race against time. Yet, his search is not as clandestine as he would like. There is a mole in the highest levels of the agency. This fast-paced, high-octane thriller is filled with twists and turns that will keep you turning page after page.

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.

In The Wind Through the Keyhole, Stephen King has returned to the rich landscape of Mid-World. This story within a story within a story finds Roland Deschain, Mid-World’s last gunslinger, in his early days during the guilt-ridden year following his mother’s death. Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape-shifter, a "skin-man", Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast’s most recent slaughter.

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 ...

Seabury Quinn's most famous character, the supernatural French detective Dr. Jules de Grandin, investigated cases involving monsters, devil worshippers, serial killers, and spirits from beyond the grave. The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, presents all 93 published works featuring the supernatural detective. Presented in chronological order over five volumes, this is the definitive collection of an iconic pulp hero. The third volume, The Dark Angel, includes all Jules de Grandin stories from "The Lost Lady" to "The Hand of Glory", as well as The Devil's Bride.

One night with a superpowered babe. Alan Star thinks he's the luckiest guy in the world, but fantasy turns into nightmare when a late-night meetup with a heroine turns deadly. To the dismay of the powers-in-charge, Alan has stumbled upon the dirty truth behind the squeaky-clean image of the hero business. Soon, everyone from government black ops to angry superpowered flames want to shut him up. Permanently. With nowhere else to run, Alan escapes to the one place that the heroes won't go: the underground world of a fabled hero-killer. There, he discovers the key to becoming the greatest hero...

When the lightning illuminated the night, I saw their bloodied faces. They were no longer the boys from next door. As quick as the storm rolled over the neighborhood, a crime of passion was committed, Lucas and Mason Carter dangerously altering the course of all our lives. Ten years later, on my 26th birthday, when detectives come digging for information on a cold case, I find myself once again unwillingly tangled in the spider's web. I hold information on a heinous crime. I have become the number-one target. More specificly, I have become Mason Carter's obsession.

"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo & Gone Girl meet THE GAME, anyone?" For fans of T L Swan's Mr. Masters and 50 Shades. By New York Times, USA Today and #1 Crime Thriller bestseller Marata Eros 🔥 Club Beta plunges into a world of spine-chilling suspense and heart-racing romance across three countries. Masterfully crafted by NY Times bestseller Marata Eros, this standalone novel from the Top-100 International Mystery & Crime Thriller series explores the darkest corners of the human psyche. Not for the faint-hearted and may contain triggers. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Your Next Great Read is Waiting....

Flight of Horror! On a long overseas flight, ordinary airline passengers are suddenly turning into mindless, flesh-eating monsters. And no one wants to let them land … No one knows if it’s the result of an incredibly fast-acting virus, hard-hitting disease, or mysterious infection. But it’s loose and getting worse, and there’s no stopping it. Several passengers are already dead, many more hurt or injured. And now missile-laden jet fighters are trailing the aircraft … possibly with orders to shoot it down. For fifteen-year-old Jax and his high school wrestling team, the nightmare ...

Bullied. Beaten. Betrayed. Jon Harper’s life is falling apart. Until he finds the serum. Until he meets Thorn. She's not just a vampire—she’s a weapon. And what she offers Jon is simple: one night of power and the chance to fight back. But the vampire formula doesn’t just change his body—it changes everything. Now, with a new hunger inside him and a growing darkness he can’t control, Jon must face a brutal truth: Some powers can’t be undone. And revenge costs more than blood. As he follows Thorn into her shadowed world, Jon realizes he’s fighting more than just his enemies. ...

He warned me once. If I ever came back, he’d make sure I never left again. I should’ve listened. Zain Finley was my first love. My biggest mistake. The boy who turned obsession into a religion and made sure I’d never forget the way he broke me. Now I’m back in Magnolia Hills, and he’s waiting—like a shadow that never left. Watching. Hunting. Haunting. He doesn’t ask why I came home. He doesn’t care. He only wants one thing. Me. And this time, he’s not giving me the chance to run. Not without reminding me exactly who I belong to. I tell myself I hate him. That I’m ...

Junior Bender, Los Angeles burglar and off-the-books detective to the felonious, is reminded that rock and roll will never die (no matter how fervently he wishes some of it would) when Hollywood’s most dangerous geriatric mobster, Irwin Dressler, retains Junior’s investigative services to solve a rather unharmonious problem. Junior has one weekend to figure out who’s to blame—a weekend that begins with his tires being slashed, threatening notes left on his car, and a theatrical backdrop falling on a drummer during the truly terrible first set of the first concert.

Once, I was broken, battered, and bruised. Too weak to save myself, my summer Skye did what had to be done. My sister bears the guilt of taking a life to protect her little beanpole. I should have saved her, but I was too weak, too small, too fragile to fight. But, I’m not little anymore. I’m not scared. I’m no longer afraid. Skye’s little beanpole grew into a giant of a man, and I’m on a mission to make those who hurt us pay for their crimes. Every step of my life brings me to this moment. I will bring down evil. John Snowden doesn’t know the power of love. He has no idea what ...