Mystery Cults

The strange and sinister world of cults is a source of endless fascination. Their secrets, rituals and shadowy hierarchies make for some of the most disturbing and shocking revelations in history. Most chilling of all is the fact that many of their followers forfeit all independence in order to carry out the often sadistic bidding of a mysterious master manipulator - and continue to defend their leader to this day.

When twenty-eight-year-old Nadine Singh escaped the clutches of the insidious Spiritology, she abandoned the lies, manipulation, and darkness that had tried her patience and perverted her faith. But breaking free from the cult’s physical hold didn’t mean escaping its grip entirely. Haunted by the lives she couldn’t save, Nadine is determined to bring the organization and its charismatic, tyrannical leader, David Markowitz crashing down.

One Girl… Info: The last few years have been awfully hard for Kaitlyn, growing up in a house that lacked love, honesty and most of all, freedom. She wanted more for her life than to be isolated and held prisoner against her will. But she soon learns that there is much more going on than she ever thought. She soon learns that she was special to a secret organization who had more control of her life than she ever knew…and she was about to find out exactly why that is. What happens when you wake up from the nightmare called your life to find out that everything you ever knew was a lie? How...

Thirty years ago, in the English countryside, a commune was set up. Led by Uncle Saviour, it was supposed to be a place of love, peace and harmony. But what started out as paradise turned into hell. Now, two young children have vanished from their home in the middle of the night. Their parents are frantic; the police are at a loss. DI Ottoline is leading the search - her only clue a mask found in the woods. Could the key lie in events that took place decades ago, when a dream of a new way of life became something far more sinister?

Sunshine of Your Cult is the fifth mission of Black Ocean: Mercy for Hire. It follows the exploits of a pair of do-gooder bounty hunters who care more about saving the day than getting a payday. Mercy for Hire builds on the rich Black Ocean universe and introduces a colorful cast for new and returning listeners alike. Fans of vigilante justice and heroes who exemplify the word will love this series.

This - a sequel to Gated - is a nerve-fraying contemporary young adult thriller that will make listeners question loyalties as it twists truths. Her life was based on a lie. Lyla Hamilton almost died escaping the Community. In her new life, the outsiders call the Community a cult. They don’t understand how easy it was to believe. How good it felt to belong. “Normal” life - high school and dating - is harder than Lyla expected. Who should she love? Who should she hate? The Community is willing to do terrible things to bring her back to the fold.

A religious cult, militia conspirators, and an FBI standoff. Can a nine-year-old girl survive them all? Sophia’s mom has been promised Zion after meeting and marrying a fanatic religious cult member. Sophia is left to protect her younger sister while facing severe punishments, strange rules, and meetings meant to indoctrinate them.

Homeless couple Isaac Newton and his girlfriend both harbor secrets. When Marsha tells Isaac that she is pregnant, Isaac, the half-breed angel shares with her that he has wings when he pulls them out inside the cardboard box they inhabit. When a mysterious video of him goes viral, Isaac, unbeknownst to himself, becomes the target of a man whose job it is to hunt down half-breeds.

Walter Rothschild is an American Egyptologist living in London and charged by the British Museum with the task of unlocking the riddle of the Stela of Paser, a centuries-old funerary stone. In the final hours of his quest, with six days left before his contract is up with the British Museum, Walter meets a young woman who expresses an interest in him and his work.

After solving two of the most gruesome and arduous murder cases over the past three years, Detective Krystal Emery, eight months pregnant, sits behind a desk at the Cheshire, Connecticut, Police Department typing incident reports for her fellow detectives. She is terribly bored and uncomfortable, anxiously waiting to have her baby so she can get back in shape and return to her regular duties. Considered one of the premier detectives among her peers, the Director of the North East Crime Share Alliance (NECSA) recommends Krystal join the Hartford Cold Case Council (CCC) in solving a 1982 ...

When the only son of a wealthy family goes missing in the heart of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, Alex Schofield is sent in to find him. A highly trained ex-Delta soldier, he’s the best man for the job. There’s only one catch: he has sworn to never kill again.

In a town where grief festers and vengeance is the only currency that matters, trust is just another weapon waiting to be turned against you. Henry and his daughter, Samantha, are still reeling from the blood-soaked past that stole their family away from them at the hands of a grotesque monster. Their hunt for Kushim, the murderer who shattered their world, should have been simple. But nothing in this town stays simple for long. A new force slithers into power—a cult leader whose whispers spread like poison, upending the criminal syndicate and realm of monsters and creating a restless ...

Since my run-in with the degenerate tech billionaire, Martin Phillips, things have gone to shit. The dread witch Morganna still has Zee imprisoned in her staff, my sister is missing, I've run afoul of a murderous cult, and I fell off the wagon, to boot. Now it’s just a question of which one kills me first - the smack or my enemies. At this point, death would be a blessing.

Cult is a thriller with a chilling climax that shows how the power of sinister forces using mind control techniques can turn innocent people into weapons of destruction. Barney Harrigan, a successful computer entrepreneur, discovers that his young and impressionable wife has been lured by her fanatical sister into the "Glory Cult", a ruthless and powerful group in Oregon run by a charismatic "Guru".

The mass suicide of a cult known as The Flock sent shockwaves through the small rural town of Iola, Michigan. Led by the charismatic Dominic Bragg, The Flock camped at an abandoned bird sanctuary before their sudden and shocking demise. The deaths came just weeks after one of their members, Laurel Tai, a local pageant queen, was abducted. The town turned its blame and fear onto the sole survivor, Claire Kettler—Laurel’s best friend. Burdened by grief and unanswered questions about her friend’s murder and her fellow cult members’ deaths, Claire can’t help but wonder what really happened.

Casey Banks is a devoutly anorexic man who discovers he can see the future by binge-eating. His new plan? Perform visions for cash while staying thin by any means necessary. Reading futures proves to be lucrative, but when he ignores a vision of his girlfriend committing a grisly murder, it sets Casey on a dangerous path toward a destiny he'll do anything to avoid.

In 1944, in the outer-Melbourne suburb of Nunawading, the brutal deaths of a family herald the return of a long-forgotten cult. A man named Anthony Prescott has declared himself the Messiah, and has promised his followers immortality. There are those who believe him—and who are ready to kill in his name. Inspector Titus Lambert of the Melbourne Homicide unit, whose detectives are over-stretched, requests the discreet assistance of Helen Lord and Joe Sable, once members of his unit, now private inquiry agents.

It's been two years since the divorce, and Dana has moved on. She's killing it at her law firm; she's never looked better, thanks to all those healthy meals she cooks; and she's thrown away Ethan's ratty old plaid recliner. She hardly thinks about her husband - ex-husband - anymore or about how the man she'd known since college ran away to the Southwest with a yoga instructor, spouting spiritual claptrap that Dana still can't comprehend.

Dustin Mitchell has left the Real Dreams club, but the club hasn't left him. After Dustin foils a murder attempt in the house opposite his, he realizes that the worm goddess Boku Veeza’s crazy cult is much closer to him than he realizes. Next, a sexy new neighbor moves in opposite Dustin again, and all of a sudden he's caught up in a web of bloody intrigue. Before Dustin even realizes what's happening, he's once more navigating through murderous occult layers of Real Dreams craziness, trying not to lose his mind to the rainbow drink called Nightmare Fuel, and trying to prevent the woman ...

She’s the town good girl. He’s the bad boy… only everyone has it all wrong. When firefighter Luke Hernandez saves Ivy Dean in a daring rescue, he gets the flash of an idea: He should ask Ivy out. Lately, his family has been dragging the Hernandez name through the mud and Ivy—with her twinsets and library books—could help clean up his image. Ivy hasn’t dated anyone since… well, since she moved to the small town of Redemption to start over. What no one here knows is that she has a past of wild nights partying and there are still tattoos under those twinsets. Behind the parties ...