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Some women donate eggs to help families. I did it to pay the rent. In 1990s Los Angeles, I was a broke Swedish immigrant with limited options and unlimited eggs. Egg donation paid better than waitressing, hurt less than telemarketing, and seemed harmless enough—at first. So I did it. Then I did it again. And again. Twelve times, actually. I became a super donor, injecting myself with hormones in traffic, recruiting other women into the business, and fielding six-figure offers from couples seeking designer genes. I mastered the donor hustle—until my body had other plans. When extreme ...

Money is a fact of everyday life. We earn it, spend it and save it. We’re tempted to worship it and to trust it to provide for our needs. While much has been written about the power, danger, and stewardship of money, little has been written about what money actually is and whether or not money itself is moral. That information gap has been exploited to enrich a privileged few, enslave millions, and reap confusion and division throughout the world. How did this happen and what can we do about it?

YOU CAN'T OUTRUN YOUR DEMONS WHEN THEY'RE LIVING INSIDE YOU. Sage Wellington has built her life around control. As an elite trainer at Manhattan's exclusive Verve Health Club, her carefully structured routine keeps the trauma of her childhood locked safely away—until Vanessa Reid walks through the door. Her new client is everything Sage respects: disciplined, knowledgeable, and eerily similar to herself. When Vanessa shares her story of narrowly escaping a predator who "collected perfect bodies," it triggers something dark in Sage's suppressed past. Then a fitness model is killed, and ...

A MURDERED HUSBAND. A DANGEROUS PAST. Stay-at-home mom Kate Martinez’s life is turned upside down when her husband is stabbed to death, leaving her with no means to support their toddlers. Detectives Cooper and White are put on the case, and their only lead is the unusual knife left at the crime scene. Naïve Kate insists neither she nor her husband have any enemies. But as the weeks pass, she learns that her husband wasn’t at all the man she’d thought he was. Not only did he once belong to a street gang, but he was one of the gang’s most vicious members. What other secrets did he ...

When a suspicious death rocks The Sinclair, Manhattan’s most exclusive residence, security supervisor Eden Wright and resident Liam Blackwood uncover The Ember Club—a secret society hiding deadly secrets within its walls. Eden Wright thought she'd finally found a safe haven—a night security job at The Sinclair, Manhattan’s most exclusive residential tower. Haunted by betrayal and loss from her military past, Eden is desperate for a fresh start and a chance to rebuild her shattered confidence. But The Sinclair is anything but safe. When a resident dies under suspicious circumstances,...

SHE CAME FOR REVENGE. SHE UNCOVERS A WORLDWIDE CONSPIRACY. LAPD Detective Gabi Longoria returns home to an unspeakable crime—her husband has been brutally killed. Her captain refuses to let her join the murder investigation, so Gabi decides to do her own. Plus, she wants revenge. Convinced the reason for her husband’s death can be found at the New York health club where she met him, she goes undercover as a trainer there. As she seeks the truth, she befriends a handsome, mysterious man who claims an evil corporation killed her husband. What’s worse, he also claims they’ve developed ...

I had the perfect life with my devoted stay-at-home husband, great career, and beautiful daughter. Until my husband's obsession with perfection took a dark turn and I learned more about my sister-in-law's suspicious suicide. I had only just gotten promoted to executive director at Morgan Stanley – one of the youngest ever – when I began to notice that something wasn't right in our house. The walls change shades overnight. Coffee cups appear in strange places, always full and cold. And my husband Mark's obsession with perfection grows more disturbing by the day. An encounter with his ...

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU FOUND OUT YOUR CHILD IS A PSYCHOPATH? One night when Jennifer Hanson returns home, she catches her 12-year-old son Shane stabbing their cat to death. Thankfully, he doesn't see her. Having long known Shane has a brain with psychopathic tendencies, her worst fears may be confirmed. Ever since he accidentally shot his father to death at age six, she has done everything she can to ensure Shane doesn't become a full-blown psychopath. He has behaved normally up until now. Have her efforts been in vain? She can tell he's changing, becoming increasingly dangerous, but she ...

Jennifer Hanson comes home and catches her 12-year-old son, Shane, stabbing their cat to death. Thankfully, he doesn't see her. She has long known Shane has a brain with psychopathic tendencies. Ever since he accidentally shot his father to death at age six, she has done everything she can to ensure Shane doesn't become a full-blown psychopath. She can tell he's changing, becoming increasingly dangerous, but she can't stomach putting him in a psych ward. But then she finds pictures of a dead girl in his phone, a girl everyone thought had died accidentally.

I thought my nightmare was over when my husband was arrested. I never imagined his mother would finish what he started. Seven months after her husband is jailed for attempted murder, Skyler Lawrence gives birth while battling crushing postpartum depression. When her wealthy mother-in-law, Eleanor, moves in to “help,” Skyler is too desperate to refuse. Eleanor is the perfect grandmother—nurturing Grace through the night, managing the house, always knowing what Skyler needs. But as the weeks pass, Skyler’s mind unravels. Her memory fractures. Her depression deepens. One by one, she ...

Trusting a Lawrence nearly killed her. Now one might be her only hope. Skyler Lacy survived her psychopath ex-husband—and his mother’s attempt to poison her. But the Lawrence family isn’t finished with her yet. Mark Lawrence fights for visitation rights from his prison cell. Eleanor, awaiting trial, has one last target: Scott Lawrence, the only family member who tried to save Skyler. Her weapon? A brain surgery that will erase Scott’s memories—and his testimony—forever. With only weeks before the procedure, Skyler forges a desperate alliance with Hannah Lawrence—Eleanor’s ...

Haunted by her brother's brutal murder, FBI Agent Sidney Stone races against time to unravel a chilling wave of child abductions that mirror her own traumatic past, pushing her to the brink of sanity as she confronts both ruthless criminals and her own demons. FBI Agent Sidney Stone has dedicated her life to the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, determined to prevent others from suffering the same fate as her kid brother, Ben. They were abducted when she was 16 and he seven. He was killed while she was let go.

Driven by a haunting past, FBI Agent Sidney Stone confronts her most chilling case yet: a string of brutal murders in the foster care system, marked by cryptic origami clues. As she peels back layers of deception surrounding a seemingly benevolent charity, she unearths a conspiracy so vast and twisted, it threatens to upend everything Sidney holds true. FBI Agent Sidney Stone is no stranger to darkness, but her latest case plunges her into an abyss deeper than she ever imagined. When a series of brutal murders rocks the foster care community, Sidney and her partner Alex Kane find themselves...

KARMA HAS NO DEADLINE Gabe Landis didn’t expect to bump into one of the men who molested him years ago when rescuing Yvonne, his missing fugitive mother. Yvonne reveals why the private investigator who helped him feels so familiar. The PI made a plea deal with the prosecutor at the trial, witnessing against the child-traffickers kidnapping Gabe and other children in exchange for immunity. Gabe cannot accept that this man is walking free after what he did to him and other children. He must kill the man in order to have peace again. Yvonne agrees the man deserves to die, but she worries the...

BRANDY IS IN OVER HER HEAD. SHE MIGHT END UP DEAD. Brand-new private eye Brandy Francine Baker has yet to officially open her P.I. business when a socialite named Dana Donovan approaches her. Dana wants Brandy to investigate why a dead stranger left her an antique gold ring in his will. The case seems easy to solve, so Brandy takes it on. But it’s more complicated than she had expected. Not until a mysterious woman calls the dead stranger’s widow and leaves a nasty message do things start coming together. The woman is the connection between Dana and the dead stranger. Dana used to know ...

In a gripping game of cat and mouse, FBI Agent Sidney Stone hunts a vigilante killer targeting child predators, while battling her growing feelings for her unavailable partner, Alex Kane. As the Avenger's brutal spree intensifies and long-buried secrets surface, Sidney must confront her conflicted heart and outsmart a killer who's always one step ahead. In the shadows of New York City, a vigilante known as the Avenger is hunting child predators, leaving a trail of brutally killed bodies and cryptic puzzle pieces in his wake. FBI Agent and profiler Sidney Stone is called in to crack the case...

Yvonne Landis has escaped from a mental institution, where she was treated for psychosis. Accused of murder, she will stand trial once psychiatrists deem her fit enough to understand her charges. Only Yvonne knows that she didn't kill her husband; her son Gabe did. Because she was onto him, he tricked the authorities into believing that Mom killed Dad. Having been traumatized in his tweens, he suffers from extreme anger issues. In order to deal with them, he must kill on occasion.

FBI Agent Sidney Stone and her partner, Alex Kane, investigate a chilling case of psychological warfare after a therapist's patients begin committing murders based on what appear to be false memories. As they race to stop a mastermind weaponizing the human mind, they must also prevent a grieving mother from taking her own deadly path of revenge. FBI Agent Sidney Stone finally glimpses happiness after years of trauma—until a chilling new case threatens to destroy everything. When a respected therapist uncovers a horrifying pattern—ordinary people turning into killers after recovering ...

Shane Hanson was set up for a double homicide when he was only 13-years-old. His relative did it because she blames him for the death of her one true love. After spending five years in juvie, he’s released on parole and determined to reveal the truth about his relative. In the meantime, he meets a girl he develops feelings for. Shane's relative is a psychopath so good at manipulating people that she has managed to get everyone to believe Shane killed two people that she’s killed.

Stay-at-home mom Yvonne Landis enters her kitchen one day to meet a huge surprise: Seated on a chair is her son, Gabe. He went missing when he was ten years old, more than three years ago. It turns out he was abducted by pedophiles who made his existence a living hell. Yvonne is determined to heal Gabe. Her husband Ben is not completely on board with that idea, especially since Gabe stabbed him with a fork shortly after they were reunited. Then disturbing things happen to their younger son, 9-year-old Joseph, and Gabe may be behind those, too....