True Mystery

Skye Starling is overjoyed when her boyfriend, Burke Michaels, proposes after a whirlwind courtship. Though Skye seems to have the world at her fingertips - she’s smart, beautiful, and from a well-off family - she’s also battled crippling OCD ever since her mother’s death when she was 11, and her romantic relationships have suffered as a result.

🛑 People vanish without a trace. Some are never found. For decades, strange disappearances have plagued national parks across the country. Hikers, campers, and even experienced outdoorsmen walk into the wilderness—never to return. What happened to them? And why do these cases share disturbing similarities? 📖 Lost and Gone: National Parks investigates real-life cases of mysterious vanishings, eerie encounters, and theories that range from tragic accidents to something far more unexplainable. Inside, you'll explore: ✅ Chilling accounts of people who disappeared in broad daylight ✅...

The Killer Queens is a new series of historical fiction books based on true stories. Sources, such as police reports and newspaper articles, are examined to gather as many facts as possible surrounding each case. As with any work of fiction, some creative additions are made when telling these stories, usually within the conversations between the personalities involved. The various sources are the basis of these conversations and hopefully, make them come alive for the readers to help understand what was meant by those words. Book 1 of the series focuses on what has been called "The Crime of...

On a spring night in 2006, Brian Shaffer—a 27-year-old medical student with a promising future—walked into a crowded bar in Columbus, Ohio. Surveillance cameras captured him entering the Ugly Tuna Saloona. But no footage ever showed him leaving. He was never seen again. How does someone vanish without a trace from a bar under constant surveillance? Was it an accident, foul play, or something more sinister? Gone Without a Trace delves deep into one of America's most baffling missing person cases. This meticulously researched account examines the night Brian disappeared, the exhaustive ...

The names Peter, Barbara Ann, and Gerald Egan were familiar to Watertown police before December 31, 1964. The police suspected the trio in a long string of burglaries, and they were under investigation by the FBI for grand theft auto. But on that New Year's night, the Egans were shot execution style at a rest stop off Interstate 81. The gruesome gangland-style killings puzzled local and state police. Theories ranged from a simple confrontation gone awry to a premeditated act of retribution by hardened criminals who feared the Egans would turn state's witness.

In the quiet, affluent communities of Long Island, a series of chilling murders remained unsolved for over a decade, casting a long shadow over the area. Dubbed the "Gilgo Beach Murders," these crimes involved the discovery of multiple bodies along the desolate shores, all linked by a common thread of tragedy and mystery. Shadows on the Shore delves deep into this haunting case, unraveling the complex web of events that led to the identification of the elusive killer. Through meticulous research and compelling storytelling, the book explores the lives of the victims, the challenges faced by...

The Evidence Technician stopped to take more photographs. No one, not even the Detective, knew what he could see. He assumed it was an article of evidence on the ground but was sadly mistaken. It was a child. Detective Michaels was enraged and desperately wanted to kill whoever committed this despicable act. He knew his assignment had changed him. He never thought he would shed a tear again over death. The job had robbed him of that. Little did he know a serial murder investigation would thrust him into an unexpected love affair and an unforseen twisted turn of revenge.This gripping novel ...

Celebrating her 45th birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her 45th birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.

In 1941, with London burning in the Blitz, a group of hedonistic English nobles partied shamelessly in Kenya. Far removed from falling bombs, the wealthy elites of "Happy Valley" indulged in morphine, alcohol, and unrestricted sex, often with their friends' spouses. But the party turned sinister in the early hours of a January morning for Josslyn Hay, Lord Erroll, who had been enjoying the favors of the beautiful young wife of a middle-aged neighbor. Hay was found dead, a bullet in his brain.

In the quiet, close-knit town of Lake Redding, a sudden abduction shatters the community's calm. When seven-year-old Lacy Peters vanishes, her teenage cousin Blakely is left haunted by secrets that everyone in town seems to be hiding. As Blakely digs deeper into the mystery, she uncovers a web of lies that could unravel the town’s reputation and bring a long-buried truth to light. In a race against time, Blakely must piece together the clues before Lacy’s fate is sealed forever.

Of all the demons and monsters Samantha Moon has faced over the years, only one is unstoppable: time. Life feels as stable as it's likely to get for her, which should have been her first warning something was about to go wrong. An out-of-the-blue call from her sister brings bad news concerning her father's health. Ever since she went off to college, Sam has been somewhat estranged from her parents—no surprise since they never seemed to much even notice their kids' existence, leaving the eldest sister to fill the role of mother and father. Whatever notion she had to reestablish contact ...

In the quiet town of Belen, New Mexico, 19-year-old Tara Calico embarked on a routine bike ride on September 20, 1988. She never returned. Her disappearance remains one of the most perplexing mysteries in American true crime history. This meticulously researched account delves into Tara's life, the events leading up to her vanishing, and the haunting aftermath. From the discovery of a chilling Polaroid photograph in Florida, believed to depict Tara and a young boy bound and gagged, to the cryptic clues and conflicting analyses that followed, the case has baffled investigators and captivated...

RED SILENCE, BLACK ORBIT The Shocking True Story of the Phantom Cosmonauts By Gary Covella, Ph.D. A Cold War Mystery That Refuses to Stay Buried In the height of the Space Race—when Sputnik’s beeps rattled the world and Yuri Gagarin’s orbit electrified humanity—something far darker floated unseen in the void. Red Silence, Black Orbit shatters six decades of iron-clad Soviet secrecy to reveal the cosmonauts whose final transmissions were systematically erased, the distress calls silenced by state decree, and the covert missions that never officially existed—until now. Newly ...

Three boys, linked by a terrible secret, grow into adulthood while sharing an unshakable bond. David, the survivor of an abusive childhood, attempts to forge the perfect nuclear family. Instead, his wife's devastating miscarriage and David's scandalous infatuation with Jackie, the sister of his best friend, destroys his marriage. A second attempt at a stable life is cut short when David is murdered in a robbery gone wrong. Proclaimed a hero, David's life appears to have ended with a noble sacrifice. Now released from their earlier pledge not to take revenge on David's father, the remaining ...

It seems straightforward to Attorney Nate Shepherd: a middle-aged billionaire dies while celebrating at a wedding reception. The grief-stricken family lashes out, though, blaming the billionaire’s date for his death. When the family brings all of its power to bear, the wheels of local justice threaten to overwhelm the woman. As Nate Shepherd steps in to defend her, he tries to deflect the misplaced anger that’s directed at the woman for the tragedy. But as the investigation progresses, a tangled history unravels, including unexpected ties to Nate’s own life.

Humanoids and High Strangeness presents 20 original cases of face-to-face contact with humanoids. The diversity of entities is mind-boggling: grays, human-looking ETs, mantids, reptilians, strange humanoids, angels, nature spirits, ghosts, poltergeists, demons, bigfoot, and supernatural entities of all kinds. A mother and son from Ohio are taken onboard a UFO together that will leave them searching for answers for the rest of their lives. An English teacher in Peru sees a UFO with a human-looking ET inside it, and experiences missing time. Soon, the ETs return.

Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. I don’t know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was Gollum—as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face. He had a little boat, and he rowed about quite quietly on the lake; for lake it was, wide and deep and deadly cold.

Strange things are happening in the deep south. So strange, in fact, that it brings a Texas Ranger all the way to the most southern part of Georgia. The small town has had their fair share of voodoo and witchcraft but this was the most evil thing any of them had ever faced. When the Texas Ranger goes to talk to the local minister, the people in the congregation could only think he must be moving to the area and looking for a place to worship. Little did they know that his motives were much more serious than anyone could have suspected.During a time of Charles Manson and an explosion of ...

In 1998 an Alku, Minnesota, family of five was brutally murdered in their sleep. The event shook the insulated community but, without any solid leads, was relegated to the cold case files, where it moldered for twenty-five years. Until today. Agent Harry Steinbeck hoped never to return to the northland, a place that holds terrible memories of his sister’s abduction. But when a recent homicide is connected to Alku’s unsolved mass murder, he and cold case agent Evangeline Reed have no choice but to investigate.

Lily Bradley is a respected psychotherapist married to a distinguished professor. They live in a dream house with their two children in close-knit Story Cove. Lily lives a well-ordered life. Or so it seems. As a therapist, she knows everyone keeps things hidden. Even her. Then sensual and free-spirited Arwen Harper rolls into town in her hand-painted VW van, her sixteen-year-old son riding shotgun. Overnight, Story Cove’s secrets are no longer safe. Because Arwen might know her new neighbors better than they know themselves.