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She wakes on the shore of a remote lake in the middle of the night, freezing and afraid. With no memory of who she is or how she got there, she stumbles frantically toward the lights of a house. The handsome stranger who lives there is shocked to see a woman on his doorstep and takes her in. Trapped by a winter storm and cut off from the outside world, she starts to suspect that all is not right with the house on Gravewater Lake—or the man, who says his name is Gregg.

Jack the Ripper faded into history over a century ago, his identity lost to the ages. Until a work crew restoring a Mayfair home make a shocking find. A secret basement room walled up since Victorian times. The Whitechapel murderer's lair. And inside, a corpse that has waited in silent darkness for over a hundred years. But it won't stay that way… Within hours of the room's discovery, the body goes missing, and the murders begin anew. With a violent killer on the loose and the body count rising, John Decker, still new to CUSP, is sent to England, along with seasoned operative Colum O'Shea.

Following the clues of her sister's disappearance to Amarillo, FBI Special Agent Patterson Blake is hopeful she will finally learn the truth about Julie. But there's a problem. The man who might hold those answers has been accused of a heinous crime. One he claims to be innocent of. When Patterson starts to dig into the case, she stumbles upon a dangerous conspiracy that threatens to not only derail her search for Julie but could also get her killed.

Following the clues of her sister Julie’s disappearance to Dallas, newly reinstated FBI Special Agent Patterson Blake finds herself saddled with a rookie partner she feels can only get in her way. A cocky ex-cop who thinks he doesn’t need a babysitter. But that proves to be the least of her problems…

FBI Special Agent Patterson Blake is armed with new information and ready to continue the search for her sister Julie, who disappeared sixteen years ago on a cross-country road trip. But Dallas isn't done with her yet. A predator is on the loose, snatching girls off their bicycles as they ride home from school and carrying them away. When the girls start showing up dead, investigators realize they have something even worse on their hands. A depraved psychopath with an unknown agenda.

Patterson Blake is an FBI Agent on a mission. When she was a teenager, her older sister vanished while on a cross-country road trip and hasn't been seen since. Patterson thought she'd put the trauma of her sister's disappearance behind her, but now there is new evidence, and suddenly the old wounds reopen. Except that Patterson isn't a kid anymore. She has a badge and a gun, and the resources to follow her sister's trail. But it won't be as easy as Patterson thinks.

This collection includes What Vengeance Comes, Cold Sanctuary, and Crimson Deep.

NYPD detective John Decker thinks his family’s dark past is behind him when he’s offered the job as town sheriff in his sleepy southern hometown. Happy for a change in scenery, and a quieter way of life, he accepts the position. But when a pair of mutilated bodies are found in the woods just days before a massive storm is due to make landfall, the similarities dredge up the horrific memories of his mother’s unsolved murder almost thirty years ago. A murder that drove his father to madness and an early grave, and John to abandon his high school sweetheart and escape to New York.

FBI Special Agent Patterson Blake has accepted that the disappearance of her sister Julie sixteen years ago will never be solved. Until shocking new evidence comes to light that makes her question everything she thought she knew. When the grisly dumping ground of a twisted serial killer is discovered, it looks like she may have found her sister's final resting spot. This sadistic murderer has been taking girls for decades and leaving them chained up, alone and terrified, to die a slow and gruesome death. Was her sister a victim of this deranged psychopath?

Books Four, Five, and Six in the John Decker Supernatural Thriller series.

Books 7, 8, and 9 in the John Decker Supernatural Thriller series.

In the post-9/11 world of special operations, the Navy SEALs establish a reputation for excellence, courage, and fortitude. A new SEAL leader, Lieutenant Junior Grade, Matthew Barrett, finds that to become a officer worthy of respect in this elite band of brothers, he'll have to measure up to men individually selected for their prowess in combat and their poise under unimaginable stress. Death Before Dawn is the first in an exciting series of novels authored by M. L. Strong.

Newly minted special agent, Patterson Blake, fresh out of Quantico, hasn’t seen much action since arriving at the FBI’s New York Field Office weeks before. In fact, she’s beginning to think her life will be nothing but routine inquiries and boring paperwork. Until she receives a call late one night with an unexpected assignment. A man has been brutally murdered. Bludgeoned to death on the stage of a community theater in the idyllic resort town of Montauk.

John Decker has never been so far from home… Alone in the year 1911 and stranded in London, John Decker searches for Mina, whom he fears is trapped in the past along with him. Instead, he finds the precursor to CUSP, an organization known as The Order of St. George. And when he does, it raises more questions than answers. Meanwhile, in a village on the city's outskirts, something terrifying has been released. A supernatural force that drives people to murder.

Five years ago, Tessa Chamberlain was the lone survivor of a beach house massacre that left three of her friends dead—and Tessa with an inescapable, unending dread. Now she’s going back to face her fears. Renting the same beach house where she almost died, Tessa returns to lonely Cassadaga Island off the coast of Maine long after the tourists and summer residents have departed for the winter. But as the fog rolls in and the nights grow longer, she wonders if she made a terrible mistake. There are footsteps on the porch, creaks from the second floor, and an unsettling feeling of being watched.

Under a ruined monastery near the quaint village of Clareconnell, a labyrinth of caves hides a dark secret. The remains of Grendel. Defeated by Beowulf and entombed there by the Danes, he has remained hidden for 1000 years, guarded first by warriors, then by monks, and finally by the villagers themselves. But nothing stays lost forever. A team of archaeologists are excavating the monastery and searching for his grave. Because Grendel’s bones may hold the key to a medical breakthrough that could change the world.

Deep in the Florida woodlands, a pair of recreational divers are attacked and killed. Miles away, a research team captures an impossible sight on their remote-operated submersible. Meanwhile, a team of bank robbers speeds toward their Florida hideout. As deaths mount, ex-sheriff John Decker is called from a much-needed vacation by a longtime friend, to help a baffled police department track an impossible enemy. Thrust into one of the most dangerous situations of his life, Decker must combat not only a ruthless killer but a cadre of criminals with nothing to lose.

Matthew Barrett is a SEAL combat leader who wears the Navy Cross - proof of his prowess as a warrior and an irrefutable symbol of his personal valor. Yet, as adept as he was in the art of war, Matthew was a failure at love and still haunted by the long shadow of his father. His overdue break from near continuous combat tours is suddenly interrupted when he’s injected into an international crisis in Central America, and he finds he’s once again required to execute an impossible task that could very well be a one-way trip.

It's Christmas in 1911, and John Decker is stuck in London, far from those he loves. When he gets invited to a holiday party at a manor house in the country, he reluctantly agrees to go, expecting a quiet few days of holiday cheer. But Blackthorn Manor is not just any country house. It hides a dark secret from centuries past, and a restless spirit that never left.

In 2015, the historian Chris Momany helped discover a manuscript that had been forgotten in a storage closet at Adrian College in Michigan. He identified it as the journal of a nineteenth-century Christian abolitionist and missionary, David Ingraham. As Momany and a fellow historian Doug Strong pored over the diary, they realized that studying this document could open new conversations for twenty-first-century Christians to address the reality of racism today. They invited a multiracial team of fourteen scholars to join in, thus launching the Dialogue on Race and Faith Project.