Small Town Thriller

An EMP bomb blasts a small town in Pennsylvania back to primitive times. Former Marine Raider Lori, a committed survivalist, finds herself in a race against the coming winter and a growing foreign threat to ensure her family's survival. As society crumbles around her, will Lori's meticulous preparation be sufficient, or will she fall to the encroaching chaos and snow?

Two mysterious shootings. Two club employees dead. A war's about to start, and the only witness is running scared. I have to find her before the killers do, make her talk, and then dispense some MC justice. There's just one problem: I want to make her mine. And she wants me dead. Emma has a painful past in the MC life. A past that’s left her with anger at anyone in a cut. A past that has her fighting the lust that makes her tremble when we touch. She’d rather run than talk to a beast like me. But one look at her and I turn into a protective animal. I won’t stop until she’s safe. ...

The son of a serial killer, investigative reporter Rooker Lindström has been shadowed by death. He believes the worst is behind him, until a body is discovered in California that matches the MO of Tate Meachum, the Madman killer. But Meachum, who counted Rooker’s son among his victims, has been in prison all these years. Did Rooker help lock away the wrong man? Or is the latest kill the work of a copycat?

It's been seven weeks, two days, and ten hours since she discovered the grave of a dead girl with her face… In the dark underworld, Red is a witch trained as a supernatural bounty hunter. Where she came from is a mystery even to herself. Over four books, the plot thickened as she came up against vampire conspiracies, doppelganger mysteries, shady warlocks, modern alchemists, greedy werewolves, and more supernatural weirdness. Now, the road takes her north to an idyllic village on the Oregon coast. It could hold all the answers she has desperately wanted for so long, but her origins aren't...

I’m kidnapped by the man who swore to protect me. Is he my salvation or my destruction? Set up by a crooked cop, my only hope is to clear my name and go undercover with an MC. I’m terrified, hopeless, and certain I’ll be murdered. Until I meet Bones. The fearsome biker who wraps me in his leather and tells me he’ll protect me. Then he kidnaps me. At first, I fight to escape. But when he growls my name and presses his lips to mine, My heart and body both submit. Then I’m no longer his prisoner. I’m just his. But our haunted pasts and a brewing MC war threaten everything. Bones ...

When a shadowy couple turn up on Conor O’Shea’s grand tour of Ireland, the tranquility of Ireland’s landscape acts as a shelter against the stormy reality of the life they left behind. On the run from a notorious mob boss, this mysterious couple flees the U.S. in search of sanctuary on the shores of the Emerald Isle, hoping to blend in with the tourists. In their wake lies a mafia family’s secrets and a scarred priest torn between his duty to the cloth and to the truth.

Special Agent Clay Copeland lives his job. As a behavioral specialist with the FBI’s Investigative Support Unit, his days are spent traveling the country assisting other law enforcement agencies with their most disturbing and difficult cases. Clay excels at his work, maintaining an easygoing affability and sense of humor despite his frequently gruesome job. Until one case goes terribly wrong… Shaken by the loss of a young child whose death he lays at his own feet, Clay seeks refuge in the sandy beaches and plentiful feminine distractions to be found along the South Carolina coast. And ...

A disappearance that unravels dark secrets. When therapy dog Bentley and his handler Maggie Shaw visit Viewpoint Retirement Community, they expect to bring comfort, but instead, they find themselves embroiled in a chilling mystery. This gripping tale will keep you guessing until the last page! Why You Need This Book: Join Maggie and Bentley as they dig deep into a web of deceit and danger. If you love mysteries that blend heartwarming moments with thrilling twists, this book is for you!Key Features: 🐾 Engaging Mystery: A beloved resident vanishes without a trace, sparking a frantic ...

No good deed goes unpunished. Slogging through life in cement-filled boots, Jamie Henderson is bound and determined to get past her recent betrayal...or die trying. But when two men chase her, the near attack shakes her to the core, reigniting old fears and worry. Now more than ever, she's ready to take control of her life. When arson investigator, Max Gruden is called to a blaze at an abandoned warehouse, he finds a man inside, clinging to his life. Rushing him to the hospital, Max encounters Jamie as she attempts to cross the police barriers to gain knowledge about the fire's victim. As ...

Thirteen years ago, Jori Trahan’s boyfriend vanished without a trace. Now, after moving back home to Alabama to care for her ailing grandmother and autistic brother, she comes face-to-face with the deadly mystery behind his disappearance. Jori has a rare form of synesthesia, meaning she can “hear” colors; to her, tones of voice are as unique as fingerprints. With the help of this ability and a sympathetic cop, Jori comes dangerously close to uncovering the truth. But those responsible will go to any length - including murder - to keep their dark secrets buried.

Knox Thompson thinks he's working a hustle, but it's a hustle that's working him. Trying to keep his pizza shop and parents afloat, he cleans out a backroom Kentucky poker game only to be roped into dealing marijuana by the proprietor—an arrangement Knox only halfheartedly resists. Knox's shop makes the perfect front for a marijuana operation, but his supplier turns out to be violent and calculating, and Knox ends up under his thumb. It's not long before more than just the pizza shop is at risk.

Abounding in Southern charm, Miss Julia Paints the Town finds the plucky North Carolinian pushed to the limit by a daunting heap of difficulties. Already trying to help three friends find their missing husbands, Miss Julia also must concoct a scheme to chase a slick New Jersey developer away from Abbotsville. But perhaps she's bitten off a bit more than she can chew.

Quilter Hadley Carroll thinks her life can't get any worse after being demoted from reporter to newspaper courier and having her fiance, Matt Ackerman, dump her without explanation. But then, while chucking a sack of newspapers into the Ohio River in Paducah, Kentucky-known as Quilt City-she finds Matt's body snagged under the transient dock. She knows she'll never find peace if she doesn't figure out why he left her and who killed him, so she gets to work.

Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter, The Wife and the Widow is an unsettling thriller told from two perspectives: Kate, a widow whose grief is compounded by what she learns about her dead husband’s secret life; and Abby, an island local whose world is turned upside when she’s forced to confront the evidence of her husband’s guilt. But nothing on this island is quite as it seems, and only when these women come together can they discover the whole story about the men in their lives.

All communities have their secrets...but on Widow’s Island, there’s a skeleton in every closet, as Deputy Tessa Black knows all too well. When Tessa stumbles upon a half-buried body in the woods, a peaceful morning hike suddenly turns into a race to catch a killer. Tessa identifies the skeletal corpse as Aurora Franklin, a young college student and aspiring actor. She’d come to Widow’s Island for a summer job, only to be strangled and discarded. Aurora has been dead for over a month - and not a single islander has reported her missing.

In the glorious sunshine of Oxford, on a day when everyone should be celebrating, tragedy strikes when a university student is found floating in the river, dead. Probationary WPC Trudy Loveday finds herself paired with coroner Clement Ryder to investigate and it soon becomes clear that this case is not going to be easy. The witnesses all refuse to give a straight answer, each new lead sends them in a new direction and tales of other missing youngsters add further mystery to the investigation.

It began with a call...a secret code she’d been taught as a child without ever believing she’d have to use it...an attempted murder...and the last man on earth she wanted to be within ten feet of. Danae knew before she ever heard her brother’s voice that it was bad...and it didn’t take long to find out just how bad it was. She and everyone in her family had always understood the high cost of secrets...and quickly learned that sometimes the price of truths was far more costly. It took her even less time to realize that she’d never really known true heart-stopping fear. She knew ...

Father Solomon Lancaster—the town's dry-witted sheriff and priest at the community Catholic church—finds himself on the forefront of an investigation into a series of murders. Soon, he's fighting to match wits with the serial killer terrorizing his town while trying to justify his law-enforcement credentials to the FBI as their analysts and profilers take Crooked Creek, Indiana, by storm. But Father Solomon is hiding secrets of his own. Ones that threaten to rise to the surface as the murders continue and the investigation draws nearer to the truth.

The sheriff's deputy at the front door brings hard news to Ree Dolly. Her father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn't show up for his next court date. Ree's father has disappeared before. The Dolly clan has worked the shadowy side of the law for generations, and arrests (and attempts to avoid them) are part of life in Rathlin Valley.

Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest. For most of the year it is under a thick blanket of snow, experiencing the kind of cold and dark that brings people closer together - or pulls them apart. Its isolation means that Beartown has been slowly shrinking with each passing year. But now the town is on the verge of an astonishing revival. A bright new future is just around the corner. Until the day it is all put in jeopardy by a single, brutal act. It divides the town into those who think it should be hushed up and forgotten, and those who'll risk the future to see justice done.