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"Hell was kind of a bittersweet place ... " He owns her. He controls her life completely now, and she does what he tells her without question. But in a moment of accidental freedom, she realizes the truth. Everything he has told her is a lie. Does she have the strength to get free? Does she even want to? This 7500-word story is the shocking conclusion to I OWN YOU, the final chapter in the six-part series. Read the other parts only on Amazon. WARNING: THIS STORY CONTAINS EXTREMELY DISTURBING AND GRAPHIC MATERIAL. TRIGGER WARNING.

Some houses wait. This one watches. When crime writer Margot Weaver inherits her family’s abandoned home in Willow’s End, Iowa, she expects dust, drafts, maybe a few bad memories—not the strange, silent mirror lurking in the parlor. Something’s wrong with it. Margot sees things. A face not her own. Eyes that move. Smiles that don’t belong. Then she finds the journal. A century earlier, Clara Emerson vanished from the same house after a brutal family murder. Her last days—written in fragments—hint at a darkness tied to the mirror. One that’s never left. Now, Margot is ...

Who can tell sanity from madness when reality breaks? Something strange and terrible is happening to Randolph Stevens’s world. Pieces of it are disappearing, bit by bit. And he’s the only one who notices.

EVIL You want to know how many demons are in this world? Thousands- upon millions- upon billions! Everywhere you turn, everywhere you look, behind every door- every window, under every bed... hides a demon, waiting and lurking…for you. Sometimes they are like us... human form... laughing… crying... raising kids... holding down jobs. But other times they are unlike anything we have ever known. They are ugly beasts with snarling mouths and fiery eyes and wretched smelling bodies. They move swiftly in the night unnoticed by the human eye but can take your breath away in an instant. Zombie ...

In a striking reinterpretation of the postwar years, Robert Dallek examines what drove the leaders of the most powerful and populous nations around the globe - Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Mao, de Gaulle, and Truman - to rely on traditional power politics despite the catastrophic violence their nations had endured. The decisions of these men, for better and often for worse, had profound consequences for decades to come.

Where conspiracy theory becomes deadly reality Eddie and Amanda Rusk have settled into vacation mode at a Caribbean resort, attempting one last repair to a failing marriage. An ill-fated catamaran ride turns into tragedy, throwing the couple into a nightmare with no end. Washed back to shore they find things drastically changed. Jimmy Hoffa is working the front desk. Bigfoot is escorting guests to their rooms. Elvis and JFK are sipping mojitos by the pool, and Rasputin is serving the drinks. And in another part of the resort, a lethal game of poker is set to begin where the most evil man in...

From the outside, Rebecca Wright had an enviable life, and she enjoyed that envy. She had a beautiful house, handsome husband, and a no-limit credit card. What she didn't have was empathy. But, it's never too late in Middle Falls. A lesson that isn't learned in one lifetime can be learned in the next, or the next. Rebecca may need every chance she can get.

In a few short days, 37-year-old Emma Rossi's hard work will finally pay off. She will don her cap and gown and graduate with a degree in nursing, but not before she loses her first patient and is confronted with a new reality. In Cape Coral, Florida, a storm approaches. The dead are coming back to life. And they're hungry.

In an unassuming house on the edge of town, secrets linger like shadows in the corners, and the past is never truly past. Every creak in the floorboards, every sigh of the wind through the eaves, seems to carry a whisper of forgotten sins and untold stories. For those who dare to step inside, the house becomes more than just a home—it becomes a mirror to their fears, their desires, and their darkest regrets. But as the threads of its haunted history begin to unravel, one truth emerges: the house remembers. And it’s not done telling its story.

Sales have been good for Trevor. But when a faithful client text's him for a fix, he will regret deciding to go.

Bill and Rebecca Moore are an ordinary middle-aged couple raising two children in suburban Connecticut when an unsuccessful attempt on Rebecca's life by a mysterious stranger leaves her with an extreme case of post-traumatic stress. To help her recover, Bill suggests a move to southern California where they buy and renovate an old house in a posh neighborhood. It seems, however, that the house hosts a particularly persistent ghost named Ronny.

"A new type of thriller. This was such an unexpected book! It is a thriller to be sure, but the supernatural aspects were a complete and welcome surprise." Behavioral profiler Dr. Kate Winter shows up to a crime scene on Riverbend Road and what she discovers opens a portal into a world beyond instincts and intuition. Memory reminds us of our torment. We torture ourselves to find our footing without it. A moonlit night peeks in at our subconscious and the unclaimed parts of our past, where our weaknesses wait to betray us. Light defuses the time bombs we bury while the night infuses our ...

What would persuade you that the entire world is a product of your dead patient's imagination? Would you believe the unbelievable if the evidence seemed overwhelming? Psychiatrist Stanley Blake is quite amused when one of his patients tells him that the world is just an afterlife dream in his head and Stanley is nothing but a character with planted thoughts. However, he soon discovers that this man could be right. Things take a darker turn when the patient asks Stanley to put a bullet in his skull to test if his theory is correct. The Dreamer, a suspense novelette ----------------- ...

You either build your world or you burn in someone else's. With every fleeting moment, the whole world draws closer to being overcome by the deadliest virus known to man. Steele's family home lies in burnt ruins on the shore of Lake Michigan. His group hunts for his missing mother in the apocalyptic wilderness filled with the dead. Instead he finds a group of refugees badly in need of his skills learned in the shadow war on terror, for they are persecuted at every step by the Chosen, a group of fanatics hell-bent on creating God's Kingdom in the rubble of society.

Charles Waters has 30 days to live. Those days pass in a blur and he dies a quiet, unnoticed death. He opens his eyes back in the doctor's office as he is told, "I'm sorry to say, but you have 30 days to live." Thus begins The Many Short Lives of Charles Waters, who has to live the same 30 days over and over while he finds out what it is to be alive.

Unheard Echoes: A First-Person Horror Anthology A knock you shouldn't answer. A room that mirrors your regrets. A signal that rewrites your mind. In this chilling anthology of supernatural one-time encounters, six ordinary people step across the invisible line between the known and the unknowable—and never quite return. Told in gripping first-person narratives, Unheard Echoes explores the eerie moments when reality fractures, memory twists, and something on the other side calls your name. A grieving man returns to his coastal hometown, only to find a lighthouse that still echoes with the ...

Prepare to be terrified as international best-selling author Steve Hudgins unleashes a spine-chilling collection of standalone horror stories that will haunt your dreams!

Over 200 years ago, a covert expedition shadowing Lewis and Clark disappeared into the wilderness of central Idaho. Now, seven anthropology students and their professor vanish in the same area. The key to finding them lies in an ancient secret, one involving alchemy, gold, and immortality...a secret that men throughout history have sought to unveil. Michael Rempart is a brilliant archeologist whose colorful and controversial career has earned him admiring fans and implacable foes, but he is plagued by a troubling sense of the supernatural and a mysterious spiritual intuitiveness.

It's a beautiful day at the park for Brianna and her two sons. But when an emergency news alert comes over the music app, she soon realizes that her beautiful day will become a nightmare.

A university science student is mocked for his idea to use slugs to dissolve trash. So he decides to demonstrate personally just how well the slugs dissolve things. And the judge will definitely have second thoughts...