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The three horror/dark fiction novellas that make up this collection were previously released separately, in 2011 and 2012, and are offered here together in one volume for the first time. DARKNESS FALLS: Novelist Tyler Beckman was once a New York Times bestselling author and considered the heir to Stephen King. Now he's destroyed his marriage and squandered his money and is unable to write a single word of new material. Desperate to reclaim all he has lost, Tyler becomes convinced the only way to break through his writer's block is by returning to his old hometown of Darkness Falls, New ...

Given up for adoption just hours after her birth, thirty-year-old Caitlyn Connelly has longed her entire life to uncover her family history. Subject to bizarre and inexplicable visions, Cait is desperate to learn whether her biological mother can provide any insight as to the origin of her unusual ability. When a local investigator learns Cait was born in a Boston suburb, the Tampa lawyer wastes no time booking a flight to the East Coast. In Boston, with the city under siege by a killer known as "Mr. Midnight," Cait's visions intensify, morphing from merely annoying to graphic and ...

Tracie Tanner works in the world's most dangerous hot-spots. On the most high-stakes assignments. And she works alone. This mission should be easy, as these things go: smuggle a top-secret document out of the Soviet Union and deliver it to the White House. But no sooner does Tracie escape East Germany than things begin to careen out of control. A shadowy group of Russian radicals will stop at nothing to prevent delivery of the mysterious document. Soon Tracie is on the run with a civilian, suspecting a shocking conspiracy. With the clock ticking toward an assassination that would likely ...

A sacred Navajo artifact, imbued with a shocking and dangerous power. An amoral con man, willing to stop at nothing to achieve his goals. And a tiny northern Maine town, isolated and vulnerable. Last November, Paskagankee, Maine was shaken to its core, held hostage by a centuries-old curse, terrorized by a brutal killing spree stopped at the last possible moment by new police chief Mike McMahon and beautiful young patrol officer Sharon Dupont. Now, just as the pair - and the town - is beginning to recover, a new horror comes calling. Billionaire Seattle software designer Brett Parker is in ...

A dying city, cut off from the rest of civilization. A midnight visit by three people to a deserted graveyard from which only two will return. A young woman who haunts the nightclubs of the city in an endless search to find the man who ruined her life... All these stories and many more tales of noir, crime and dark fiction are featured in this shocking collection from author Allan Leverone. ---------- Allan Leverone is the Amazon bestselling author of the thriller, THE LONELY MILE, and is a 2012 Derringer Award winner as well as a 2011 Pushcart Prize nominee. In addition to THE LONELY MILE,...

Tracie Tanner works in the world's most dangerous hot-spots. On the most high-stakes assignments. And she works alone. SOMEONE IS STEALING CLASSIFIED MATERIAL AND MURDERING AMERICAN CITIZENS... And only one person can stop him...but she's being hunted by the KGB... ********** They call him "The Weasel." A Soviet operative so skilled at acquiring American secrets and murdering American citizens he has achieved near-mythic status in the intelligence community. When The Weasel is forced to leave a victim alive during his latest theft, legendary CIA Director Aaron Stallings realizes this might ...

Tracie Tanner works in the world's most dangerous hot-spots. On the most high-stakes assignments. And she works alone. When top executives at a defense department contracting agency are brutally murdered, CIA Director Aaron Stallings unleashes his secret weapon on the case, beautiful Black Ops specialist Tracie Tanner. She's been given instructions to follow the evidence wherever it leads and stop the killers at any cost, but almost immediately Tanner finds herself operating alone and without backup, knowing if she's caught or killed, the CIA will cut her loose like she never existed. The ...

When struggling hardware store owner Bill Ferguson witnesses a kidnapping in progress, he reacts instinctively, breaking up the crime and saving a young girl. But the kidnapper, a sociopath known as the "I-90 Killer," escapes and vows revenge, targeting Ferguson's own daughter as his next victim. Now one terrified father must unravel a plot that may go much deeper than he realizes, racing against time to save his only child from an unthinkable fate.

An isolated village, remote and vulnerable. A series of brutal murders. And a vengeful spirit born of tragedy, reawakened after a centuries-old massacre. Three distinctly different people must come together, racing against time and their own personal demons in a desperate attempt to stop an unstoppable killer, and in so doing, save their town. Welcome to Paskagankee, Maine. You may not survive the visit. *This book was previously released by StoneHouse Ink under the same title* ********** Praise for Allan Leverone: "Allan Leverone delivers a taut crime drama full of twists and conspiracy......

An aging assassin.A murderous mob enforcer.A psychopathic stalker.And a beautiful piano player, on the run from a tragic personal history.Over three days, the fates of all four will intersect in Las Vegas, where a battle of cat-and-mouse will culminate in an outbreak of deadly violence that will take your breath away.From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Allan Leverone comes THE ORGANIZATION, the first in a series of books written in homage to the old-time paperback pulp novels from decades past:Sometimes, whether through money, status or influence, the most vile and evil ...

Cody LeMaster's past was brutal. His future is worse. When eighteen year old Cody LeMaster packs his bags and hitchhikes out of the tiny farming community of Travis, Oklahoma, it's the middle of the night. And it's raining. And Cody has no idea where he's headed. The world he's leaving behind is brutal and dangerous. The world he is about to enter is worse. A trucker with a secret, a small-town cop who is not what he appears to be, and a series of terrifying events leave Cody questioning everything, even as he fights for his life... From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Allan...

WELLSPRING is Book Three in the Paskagankee series of supernatural suspense novels set in a tiny village in northern Maine. When contractor Dan Melton uncovers a secret underground death chamber filled with two human skeletons and what appears to be a living naked man, he notifies police immediately. But by the time patrol officer Sharon Dupont arrives on the scene, the man has vanished, disappearing into thin air. Within hours, a Paskagankee resident is murdered in his remote cabin, and brand-new police chief Pete Kendall calls on recently retired Mike McMahon for assistance in solving the...

When sixteen year old Paskagankee High School student Jake Beebe finds what appears to be a book of magic tricks hidden away inside a long-forgotten barn, he’s instantly fascinated. The book is clearly old, bound in dried-out, cracked leather and covered with bizarre symbology featuring unnatural, disturbing animal images: a capering horned goat. A beady-eyed crow’s head atop a horse’s body. Jake immerses himself in the book, and almost immediately it is all he can think about. But when he decides to attempt some of tricks contained inside the volume, the boy unwittingly calls forth ...

Tracie Tanner works in the world's most dangerous hot-spots. On the most high-stakes assignments. And she works alone. A SOVIET TACTICAL NUKE HAS DISAPPEARED AND AN AMERICAN CITY MAY BE TARGETED... Tracie Tanner is back at work, tasked with infiltrating the home of a Russian general and acquiring intel regarding a rumored breakthrough in Soviet radar technology. But what she finds is far more horrifying than a technological advance: a tactical nuclear device has been stolen out of a supposedly secure Soviet military base. Together, Tracie and CIA Director Aaron Stallings determine that a ...

Tracie Tanner works in the world's most dangerous hot-spots. On the most high-stakes assignments. And she works alone. When a secret Russian military facility is discovered deep inside the Soviet satellite nation of Bashkir, CIA black ops specialist Tracie Tanner is tasked with traveling to the Ural Mountains and placing the facility under surveillance. A simple assignment. But once in Bashkir, Tracie observes something so shocking it changes everything. What was once a straightforward mission now becomes nearly suicidal: Tracie must infiltrate the heavily fortified facility and then ...

A dirty politician. An ex-intelligence operative willing to do whatever it takes to help his boss get ahead. A terrified little girl, kidnapped off the street to be used as a pawn in a deadly game. And an aging assassin, looking to leave a life he's come to despise. Over the course of a week, their fates will intersect in New Hampshire and suburban Washington DC, as The Organization's Jack Sheridan faces off against an amoral and sociopathic foe in an intensely personal mission. Before the week is out, the mission may destroy not just Jack's career but his personal life and the lives of ...

When eighteen year old high school senior Eddie Senna drives down a long-abandoned logging trail with his girlfriend, all he's looking for is a little privacy. What he finds instead is a horror beyond all imagination. Because the logging trail ends just behind the Tamerlane Research Facility, a super-secret lab where experiments in animal neural conditioning are being conducted. And the animals have gotten loose. And they're far more intelligent - and far more deadly - than anyone realizes. After an unthinkable tragedy, it falls to Eddie's girlfriend Alicia and older brother Rob to ...

Tracie Tanner works in the world's most dangerous hotspots. On the most high-stakes assignments. And she works alone. But before she did any of those things, she was a normal college girl, living a normal college life in Providence, Rhode Island. A chance encounter with a pair of armed muggers leaves her with no choice but to take drastic action, and once that happens, dominoes begin to fall. And Tracie Tanner is drawn into a life she never imagined or expected. Whether you're a longtime reader who has enjoyed the action, thrills and plot twists of the Tracie Tanner spy novels for years, or...

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Allan Leverone comes DEAD RECKONING, the fourth in the Jack Sheridan Pulp Thriller series written in homage to the old-time paperback pulp novels from decades past: Jack Sheridan is back on The Organization's roster of operatives, although he's not exactly thrilled with the idea. His first assignment upon his return is to eliminate a mob kingpin with a penchant for running down innocent people in drunk driving accidents. But right from the start, there are problems, the first being the fact that the subject of the contract is already dead...

What do you get when you combine a failed accountant from L.A. with an eighty year old Boston P.I.? You get "Uncle Brick and the Four Novelettes," the irreverent mystery series featuring wise-cracking Brick Callahan and his forty-two year old nephew, recently divorced and back in Boston after a decade on the west coast. The first story, "Uncle Brick and Jimmy Kills," was named a finalist by the Short Mystery Fiction Society for a 2010 Derringer Award. In it, the unnamed narrator returns to Boston after the breakup of his marriage, intent on teaming up with his uncle to solve the murder of ...