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"Matt Drabble is a name that will one day be as widely recognized as Stephen King & Dean Koontz" - READERS FAVORITE Gated is a UK & US Horror Chart Top 10 best seller, the 2015 Readers Favorite Gold Medal Winner for Horror Fiction & the 2014 Full Moon Awards Horror Book of the year. Michael and Emily are a happy and contented English couple, a writer and a school teacher. Their lives are complete when Emily falls pregnant, however their dreams are shattered one cold winter night by a car accident that robs them of their happiness. To overcome their loss they up stick and move to Eden ...

Behind the gates lies a secluded community with secrets to die for . . . The idyllic gated community of Long Lakes, Tennessee, is the perfect location for Italian-born Valentina Bianco to start over after her painful divorce. Except the town isn’t the quiet refuge she thinks it is. Undercover FBI agent Jack Erikson doesn’t know what to make of the fiery, outspoken beauty he encounters at the general store. He can’t afford to get on the wrong side of the locals while he’s investigating a suspected fraud and is determined to win Valentina over. Valentina can’t deny the spark between...

A fast-paced, nerve-fraying contemporary thriller that questions loyalties and twists truths. Appearances can be deceiving. Lyla Hamilton is a loyal member of the Community. Her family was happy to be chosen by Pioneer to join such an lovely gated neighborhood. Here, life seems perfect. ...

Princess Gisela of Steinland was born without color. Albino. To add to this curse, her betrothal to Prince Jerrik of Kronga ends in his death and starts a 10-year war her father is determined to win, even if it means bringing her out of hiding to do it. Desperate, her father agrees to another alliance that involves her marrying an old brute of a king. Unwilling to be the sacrificial lamb, Gisela goes on the run. Can the girl who started the war find a way to end it?

"Matt Drabble is a name that will one day be as widely recognized as Stephen King & Dean Koontz" - READERS FAVORITE It has been 10 years since the events in the small picturesque town of Eden. Lives were forever altered as two newcomers found the courage to peek behind the curtain and bring Tolan Christian's reign to a violent end as the town burned around them. No-one was more affected than Sarah-Jane Mears. The once bubbly ball of good nature is now a shadow of the former woman she used to be. After travelling to try and find a new home she has eventually settled in Northern England. She ...

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s detective Eve Ronin and her soon-to-retire partner, Duncan Pavone, are running a 24-7 sting in a guard-gated enclave of palatial homes in Calabasas. Their luxury McMansion is a honey trap, set to lure in the violent home invaders terrorizing the community. The trap works, leaving three intruders dead, a body count that nearly includes Eve and Duncan. Eve’s bosses are eager to declare the case closed, but there are too many unanswered questions for her to let go.

"Matt Drabble is a name that will one day be as widely recognized as Stephen King& Dean Koontz" - READERS FAVORITE THE GATED TRILOGY - Winner of multiple achievements including - a UK & US Horror Chart Top 10 best seller, 2015 Readers Favorite Gold Medal Winner for Horror Fiction & the 2014 Full Moon Awards Horror Book of the year. It was the chance of a lifetime for Avery Grant, the opportunity to run an election campaign for a candidate that seemed like the real deal. Christian Tolanson has risen through the ranks of British politics. A man with a unique ability to inspire those around ...

It's not supposed to be possible, but I guess when your BFF is some sort of unicorn wolf with special powers, things tend to get a bit wonky. But that's not really the point. The point is I'm super duper for sure pregnant, and he's pissed off, growly, and grumpy as hell. Oh, and he found out by accident. While I was telling his best friend. And puking loudly. Huzzah for morning sickness, yo. And... he didn't seem thrilled. Not loving the trajectory here. But I'll protect my tiny, perfect Petal. Even from her own father if I have to.

She thought her ex-husband was locked away in federal prison. She didn't know the gated community she'd just moved into was a trap he'd spent years building—for their daughter. When insurance fraud investigator Jenna Rhodes relocates to the Willows with her fourteen-year-old daughter Sophie, she thinks she's finally escaped the wreckage of her marriage. The scholarship, the beautiful townhouse, the welcoming neighbors—it all seems too good to be true. It is. Behind the manicured lawns and Olympic-sized pool lies a decades-old tradition no one speaks of openly. Parents with stopwatches. ...

I thought my husband was having an affair. I had proof. Late-night texts from “J.” Missing hours. Hotel charges he couldn’t explain. So I did what any reasonable woman would do. I started watching him. Tracking his phone. Following his car. Building a case, piece by piece. And then I met her. Gemma Holloway—my beautiful, lonely neighbor with secrets of her own. When she confesses she thinks her husband is cheating too, we make a pact: We’ll find the truth. Together. But the deeper we dig, the less anything makes sense. Two husbands. Two lies. One name that connects everything. And...

This—a sequel to Gated—is a nerve-fraying contemporary young adult thriller that will make readers question loyalties as it twists truths. Her life was based on a lie. Lyla Hamilton almost died escaping the Community. In her new life, the outsiders call the Community a cult. They don’t...

If you’ve ever felt gifted yet underused… capable yet capped… brilliant yet boxed in — this book is for you. Across the world, and especially in fast-changing environments, countless talented individuals feel stuck. Not because they lack potential, but because something—internal or external—is gating their growth. Gifted but Gated exposes those barriers with honesty and clarity. It shines a light on the seven major “gates” that block gifted people and provides a practical roadmap for unlocking potential, strengthening character, and building a guided life of purpose and ...

It's Spring 2142 (a Tuesday), and Gated Galaxies has launched its 400 Oz-8000 ships, each carrying 50,000 "resting guests" to, hopefully, a new home on a shiny, brand-new planet. Except this whole "terraform and take over" idea isn't actually the plan; the real plan is far more nefarious and involves a great deal of cackling. But those aboard the ships don't know that, so off they toodle (those that make it out of Earth's atmosphere, at least), all shiny and optimistic. This is the story of one of those ships – the Oz 9 – and its tiny crew of hopeless incompetents. So far, they've been in ...

Despite a childhood in the care system, Anna Price has beaten the odds and built for herself the perfect life, complete with beautiful seaside home, devoted husband and a job she loves. Then a policeman appears at Anna’s door: her estranged brother Henry is a wanted serial killer, and the police need Anna’s help to catch him before he strikes again. When an envelope turns up on her doorstep, Anna suddenly finds herself caught in a sick game. One that she remembers all too well from childhood – one that, this time, she must win at all costs.

An award-winning historian argues that America's obsession with security imperils our democracy in this "compelling" portrait of cultural anxiety (Mary L. Dudziak, author of War Time). For the last sixty years, fear has seeped into every area of American life: Americans own more guns than...

Against the odds, Sarah Augustina Dawson (Sadie) survived the wrath of Guillermo. But not without a price. Forced to leave her beloved Montana behind, she and Josh are on the run. Within the warmth of the South, she's determined to find peace and conquer her past, even if only in her mind. But Guillermo can't let go. He's still orchestrating, hunting, and devising ways to exact his own kind of justice. When the law swings in his favor, he's ready to end the feud that started the moment Josh walked into Sadie's life. "A very emotional journey of guilt, grief, fear, want, rage, and ultimately...

This book proposes a new vision for security management in modern residential cities by applying Toyota's proven methodologies—Gemba, Kaizen, Hoshin Kanri, Standardized Work, and Visual Management—within urban security systems. By aligning strategic goals, standardizing operations, and involving real-time field assessments, we advocate for a holistic transformation that addresses organizational, technical, and human dimensions of safety. "Lean Security Management in Gated Communities: Applying Toyota Principles to Urban Safety" In an era where safety is a growing concern in residential ...

A sadistic killer has come to Long Lakes . . . After the harrowing events of the past summer, Valentina Bianco is happy to take it easy, working on her wine importing business and enjoying the beauty of her Eastern Tennessee cabin, Elsewhere. With her boyfriend and FBI agent Jack Erikson all the way across the state, working an important case, she’s content to have a quiet few weeks ahead of her. But all is not quiet in idyllic Long Lakes. A new resident has moved into the gated community, a famous actor hiding from his past. He has secrets, and they’re about to catch up with him. From ...

Lillian Prestridge and her husband Bill are introduced to Eli, a standard Poodle when he leads them to the scene of a heinous murder in their normally quiet, gated community in the heart of East Texas. Lillian lends her investigative instincts to her son Jake, County Sheriff, and his best friend, Grant Perryman, Chief of Security at Leisure Lake as they try to solve not one murder, but two, in the first of Linda Pirtle’s Christian novels: The Mah Jongg Murders.

A bi-weekly podcast that covers the ins and outs of the iconic soap opera, Beyond the Gates✨