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Many years later, Cait Dawes and Marcus Roper have gone their separate ways. Marcus is still a detective and Cait is now a private investigator. The Stenfield carnival is attacked by a suicide bomber and yet in all the carnage, one young girl survives without a scratch on her. But there is something about the girl that makes Marcus uncomfortable in a way that he hasn't felt since his run-in with the Rogues. He calls on an old friend and soon he and Cait are reunited as they try and find answers to how the girl managed to survive and her link to the suicide bomber Boyd Rillington. There is a...

Jeremy 'Jez' Franco has been holding on to a secret for many years, a dark secret that changed the course of his already miserable life. After splitting from his wife Mel, he finds himself living in a flat in a tight knit community. He strikes up a friendship with his strange and elderly neighbour Walter Beck. When Jeremy's life hits rock bottom, Walter offers him a way to deal with the demon of his past, but something goes wrong. Soon, people from Jeremy's storied past are being killed in, what appear to be, freak accidents. Both Jeremy and Walter know that his past is about to catch up ...

Five years ago, Amy Dawes was attacked and snatched from her bedroom. Since then, her mother, Detective Cait Dawes has never been the same. Plagued by nightmares and mood swings, she spends every Monday evening with a psychotherapist to try and control the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Even her fractured marriage is hanging on by a thread. Then, Cait and her partner Marcus Roper are called to a grisly murder scene which brings them to Jean Boon, a suspect who has more than one secret beneath her harmless exterior. For Cait and Marcus, the world they’ve always known is about ...

Joe Braden is injured when he gets hit by a speeding car. On his way to the hospital he dies, but is revived by the paramedics. He goes on to make a full recovery. But all is not right in Joe’s world. Something has come back from the darkness with him and soon he is seeing visions of ordinary people becoming white faced screaming demons ready to commit acts of violence and murder. Joe is still in love with his ex wife Debbie and he fears that she is in mortal danger. But there is no way of getting her to believe him, until he comes across the mysterious Jack Houston who has lived through ...

Hurndell. A small village in the middle of the High Peak. The ideal place for holiday makers because of its old-fashioned look and the amazing, picturesque Barrington Reservoir. that peace is about to be shattered. The village is about to be invaded by the Black Rock, a small meteorite that crashes into the middle of the reservoir. June Dobson is a retired psychic, dogged by the dementia that is robbing her of her senses, she resides in the SunnyBank nursing home and she is the only one that saw the Black Rock arrive. Now the clouds sitting across June's mind are beginning to clear. The ...

A virus designed to control the burgeoning spider population causes them to mutate into overgrown, venomous killers. A large horde of the spiders take over the small village of Newtown, killing all but two of its residents. Laurence Johnson and Chloe Jones have only been together one night after Laurence parted ways with his wife. They find themselves trapped in the house with no way of escaping. Their only hope is to try and stay alive long enough for the army to intervene. Lorna Johnson is on the outskirts of town with nowhere to go and the spider invasion taking control. Her only hope of...

A few weeks later and Hurndell is the greatest mystery since the Marie Celeste. The residents have vanished and the village is covered in a thick layer of mud. Only two people made it out: Cory Walton is in the Bliss psychiatric unit after her child was taken by the water and Greg Farnam is found unconscious on a beach many miles from Hurndell. They hoped the water was dead, but something is stirring back in the ruined village, something that is not ready to die, something that wants life. For both of them, the answers they are looking for lie in Hurndell and before long the dead will walk ...

Garth Roberts and his family love their holidays. This year they have chosen to go to StarCoast World, a big complex on the south coast with nothing but fun and entertainment for the whole family. They think they are onto a winner until a terrible incident inside one of the arcades changes everything. A simple drain unblocking has uncovered a dark secret that StarCoast world has been keeping for many years and now the holiday makers are exposed to a deadly virus, one that will change you forever. Garth has to uncover the secret of the virus and set his family free from the enforced lockdown...

Welcome to the town of Gorton. This is a town low on excitement and high on hard work and doing your bit for the community. Many people in Gorton work at Meadowland hospital or Ackland Chemicals, a building that is considered an eyesore by everyone who looks upon it. The residents of Gorton, including Ben Larson, a doctor who is working his last shift in A&E, Wendy Withers a carer for her husband who, since his car accident, has locked-in syndrome and Jane Rogers a lorry driver for Ackland who is revelling in the life that she’s built for herself, will soon fight for survival. An accident...

Five years after Newtown went up in flames, everything has returned to an uneasy calm, until a little girl by the name of Lottie Richmond is killed in her back garden. Braden Benson has been on the frontline of journalism for most of his adult life. He has enjoyed some success, but that one big headline payoff has always eluded him. He decides to hang up his notepad in favour of spending more time with his neglected family, that is until a spate of grisly events in the nearby town of Layton makes him suspect that there is something fundamentally wrong. The events unfolding in Layton attract...

The city of Hemmington has fallen to the army of spiders. Becky Willis is trapped inside the Hurst Centre, imprisoned by the spiders with only one method of escape, but she wouldn’t wish it on her worst enemy. Johnny Lambert is right in the middle of ground zero, one of the last residents of Suicide Towers. He has two options, starve to death, or risk it all to make his escape while he still has the strength to do so. Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away, on the south coast of England, Mary Benson and her daughter Jax are refugees in a seaside town after escaping the spider invasion. Mary ...

There is a space that exists between the world of nightmares and the real world. A space where all your worst fears feel like they are coming true, where the nightmare is so real you can almost touch it, feel it, taste it. We are about to explore these nightmares. Within these pages are tales of revenge, regret, addiction, murder and a spider on the wall that will not die. Hopefully when you are finished you can sleep a little better... Or not at all...

November 1981. Jeff Durram is out of work and down on his luck. His marriage has fallen apart and he's living in the poor area of Perlow. Jeff's luck is about to change when he is offered a job of the future and he soon finds himself in a packed workplace where money, presents and cheesy music are an everyday occurrence. Has Jeff found the perfect job and the tools to put his life back together again? He thinks he has, until they meet the manager, the mysterious 'K' who won't tolerate a slacker.Those who fall behind must play the deadly game of K and an ordinary day at the office soon turns...

Joe Braden is on the bottom shelf of life. Recently fired for stealing from his warehouse job, he spends much of his time doing nothing and trying to find a way to strike up a relationship with his best friend Debbie, even though he knows nothing will ever come of it. Then in the early hours of the morning, Joe goes for a walk that changes the course of his life. Suddenly Joe has power beyond anything he could dream of. He sees the world in a whole new light and he could spread the light as far as he wants. But, on the other side of the city, a deep cold is beginning to grow. A man who is ...

Matty Bennett and his wife Amy run into marital trouble. The kind of trouble that festers under the surface, threatening to break them apart if they don't solve it. As a last resort, Matty suggests that they get in contact with the man who has been fixing people up three night per week on the most popular television show in history. To his surprise, they get invited to appear on the show. They get a crash course in what reality television is all about and when the show airs, Matty realises that his world will never be the same again and there is only one man to blame for his downfall, the ...

Ray Gretton couldn't remember a time when his life felt so rubbish. Classed as a nerd and a bit of an outcast at school, his only pleasure is playing War-Zone on his computer every evening and dreaming of a life that was as far removed from the one he had to endure right now. However, Ray's life is about to take a turn for the strange when a freak accident gives him the ability to do pretty much anything he wants. He has unlocked the Cheat Mode for life and he isn't going to waste it...

Maggie Bosworth is reaching the twilight of her years. Her two children have grown up and left home and she is waiting on her husband Frank to retire so that they can spend some quality time together. However, Maggie makes a shocking discovery about Frank and soon she is left all alone and having to start her life all over again. Maggie struggles with the loneliness and the endless boredom of life on her own. She begins to despair, until she meets her neighbour in the flat beneath hers. She agrees to have dinner with him and she discovers that he is a man with a few tricks up his sleeve and...

The debut novel from Brian O'Gorman returns. Patrick Hurst is a normal man whose idea of danger is a night in the pub with his long-term best friend Jack Samsun, until a visit from the police changes things forever. His estranged father is found dead in his home in the remote location of Layton Valley, a victim of a bizarre accident. Patrick inherits his fortune and the house where the accident happened. He finds his father's video diary which tells the story of his new invention, the Pharmacon, a healing machine that can cure any sickness. But the machine, like any medicine, has a terrible...