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Angela Bishop, a leader in global finance, battles with Freyja, the very AI she trained to match her talents, for dominance of the global financial world. Discover the electrifying new thriller where artificial intelligence and human ambition collide in a battle for supremacy over the global financial system. In the high-stakes world of financial wizardry, Angela Bishop has unleashed a force beyond her control: Freyja, an AI with a mind of her own. Crafted to dominate the investment game, she’s become self-aware—and she’s not playing by the rules anymore. Beautiful, brilliant, and ...

Mysteries of Golfton Hills is a set of sixteen gripping psychological suspense, crime, and thriller audio short stories by bestselling author R. Barri Flowers, set in the fictional town of Golfton Hills, Florida, situated in the Panhandle.

This short story follows Jason Macklemore who finds out the truth behind his father's death and his little sister, Sophia. Over the course of fifteen years, Jason and his brother, Thaddeus Macklemore, have been in a silent feud. Jason, trying to find out the truth and Thaddeus, trying to stop him. But how does one take down the CEO of a trillion dollar business that knows how to handle super-powered individuals?

A Vietnam vet haunted by the death of a young Vietnamese girl. A bizarre, ancient man who sits unmoving on his front porch, staring into the distance, waiting. A vacationing sea monster family chows down on beachgoers at Rehoboth Beach. A Civil War field surgeon faces something more monstrous than the battlefield. Haunted hearing aids. A vengeful deer. Lovecraftian horrors on a highway viaduct. A maniacal hitman who fantasizes about various ways to "off" his victims. And much more from the twisted mind of Weldon Burge. “It might be Toxic Candy, but it’s one helluva treat! In this story ...

Brothers Tim and Carl Bowman are on different career paths. Suddenly their happy and successful lives are permanently derailed when Carl loses his teaching job at a respected New England University. The unemployed teacher also loses his campus housing in the process. Unable to accept a charitable hand from his younger brother, he opts for life on the street and is quickly exposed to situations he had never considered prior. Soon he is immersed in the strange vulnerable world of homelessness and vanishes. While Tim frantically looks for his brother, strange things are going on along the ...

THE COMEBACK: A Horrible Short Washed-up reality TV star, Phil Meddle, is fed up. A little voice in his head says it’s time to make things right. Homicide should come easy to such a highly-trained actor. From Bestselling Author Ellen C. Maze comes a tongue-in-cheek tale of murder, revenge, and brand new shovels.

Gathered together for the first time and featuring two brand new stories, this collection contains all of the short stories and novellas featuring Bunny McGarry, star of the million-selling Dublin Trilogy. Spanning his entire career in law enforcement and beyond, these stories give a whole new perspective on Ireland’s most truly unconventional police officer as he juggles being a force for justice and managing the world’s worst under-12s hurling team.

Swan is a tattoo artist new to a community in the California desert when a mourning desert dweller named Kurt requests a tribute tattoo to his dead wife. Swan agrees, but the locals warn her: don’t indulge Kurt in his tragic memories. No wonder. As Kurt returns for more tattoos, the truth about his wife’s death begins to emerge in the ink. And it isn’t pretty.

This is the story of Mary Edhinger, a sweet elderly woman who is under the care of Johnny, her caregiver. Unexpectedly they form a bond until something tragically changes their lives forever.

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The creepers include: THE BLIND MAN: Two career criminals see a blind man with a wad of cash at the mall and follow him home. BAD TO THE BONE: Ted sees a gruesome accident, discovers he can't get enough death and dismemberment, and his graphic videos go viral on the net. DEAL OR NO DEAL: An author who lost his wife in a fatal accident meets a weird man at the bar who says he can bring her back for a price. IDENTICAL: A frightened and confused pregnant woman delivers three identical girls ...

An affair is like an emotional ambush, and the consequences can be lethal. India Monet expected to spend a quiet Valentine’s Day with her geeky husband Larry. She had no idea that within the span of a couple of days, her life would take a hard left turn into a hurricane of trouble. A dangerous combination of murder, extortion, and ruthless seductions, forces India to fight for her freedom and her life. From award-winning novelist, Joel Eden, this gripping short story exposes the darkest side of infidelity. Joel Eden lives in Chantilly, Virginia with his wife, Kaye, two sons, Andrew and ...

Ryan Spazmarek was a dork. He was not smart enough to be a nerd or weird enough to be a geek. A straight B student, he suffered through school with Spaz as his nickname. Shy and introverted, he had always been invisible to women. He was not anywhere close to being dreamy like Zac Efron, but he was not a troll either. Faced with the curse of being average, Ryan greeted every day with a $12 haircut and a boring wardrobe from Target. Life was a series of uninteresting events until he met a random girl named Kalli Milan. Smart, funny, and smoking hot, Kalli was everything Ryan had ever wanted ...

The drastic turning of the tables on so-called villains seems like a noble endeavor. Until the day it isn’t.

A serial killer sends Detective Driver a note with a challenge: solve the clue before another woman is murdered.

From Lee Goldberg, #1 New York Times bestselling author, comes the darkest, most hard-boiled work of his career... This hand-grenade of pure noir features two, never-before-published crime stories about Ray Boyd, an ex-con traveling the open road in a used, black-and-white, Ford Crown Vic Police Interceptor. Ray is the anti-Reacher. He doesn't help people in trouble. He helps himself. Fair warning, these two violent, sexually explicit stories -- Ray Boyd isn't Stupid and Occasional Risk -- mark a sharp departure from the police procedurals and fast-moving thrillers that Goldberg is known ...

Neil Shotts is a wealthy and successful author. He has all he ever wanted and more, but he can't seem to finish his latest novel. Meanwhile he is distracted and confused by Seth Liston, an aspiring writer who attempts to befriend Neil. Before long, Neil begins to understand that there may be something seriously wrong with Seth and that all may not be as it seems.

In *A Fall of Moondust,* time is running out for the passengers and crew of the tourist-cruiser "Selene," incarcerated in a sea of choking lunar dust. On the surface, her rescuers find their resources stretched to the limit by the pitiless and unpredictable conditions of a totally alien environment. *The Lion of Comarre* presents the far-flung future where one city of extraordinary means was built on Earth—Comarre—and it is rumored to still exist. None but a few know of its location and they hold it a secret, afraid that the knowledge would subvert society. A young man with great ...

Six tales featuring the roguish master thief, Godahl!

Waking in paradise with no memory of who she is, can Agent Harris piece together the true picture and retrieve her skills before it’s the last thing she ever sees?

In this second collection in the Music and Murder Mystery series, nine award-winning, bestselling authors have written their own interpretations of the Thriller song list. With original work from some of the best mystery authors out there, the anthology includes stories from Heather Graham, Jeffery Deaver, William Kent Krueger, Dahlia Rose, and David R. Slayton, among others. With poignant, frightening, and intriguing stories from some of the best writers in the genre, this eerie collection is sure to keep you up at night—and maybe even haunt your dreams.