Metaphysical Thriller

Every family has its own little secrets, but none are as big as mine. Ever since my mother was murdered by vampires, my life has been turned upside down. After spending the better part of the school year in an asylum, I finally get to go back home. But with my mother now gone, and only a step father who would rather climb into a bottle than pretend that he cares for me, who could ever call this place home? And to top it all off, now I’m being shipped off to go live with an aunt who I never met, on some strange island no one ever heard of. What a weird place. I hate it here. That is, until...

From the bestselling author of the Noah Hunter series, and Grim Measures, comes a novel that spans centuries as a farmer from the 1700s and an FBI agent travel through time to stop a black hole from destroying the world. "Darling has crafted a truly fantastic time-travel novel. Riveting, page-turning, and mind-bending from end to beginning..." - James Downe, author of Sisters of Jade. FBI Special Agent Bradley Holman has been hand-picked to investigate the mother of all cover-ups: a three-hundred-year-old meteorite fragment, sealed away in Fort Knox, was stolen from under the government’s...

In the underground world of crime, Jet Rusco clashes with gangsters and space thugs. He’s a man who lives on the edge, turned to hustling to survive. A heist gone bad centering on alien tech leads him on a dodgy adventure, forces him to find allies. Who can he trust? Rough-boy Marty, headstrong Deidra, the tech-savvy TK, the kickbutt Wren? Wracked with self doubts and with bounty hunters on his tail, Rusco finds his choices bringing him face to face with a mystical despot who if left unchecked, will subjugate the human-populated free colonies. The question is, can Rusco outwit his enemies...

Wilson has blended H. P. Lovecraft's dark vision with his own revolutionary philosophy and unique narrative powers to produce a stunning, high-tension story of vaulting imagination. A professor makes a horrifying discovery while excavating a sinister archaeological site. For over 200 years, mind parasites have been lurking in the deepest layers of human consciousness, feeding on human life force and steadily gaining a foothold on the planet. Now they threaten humanity's extinction.

Twelve classic science fiction stories. Bizarre, unconventional, and problematic characters seeking the meaning of their lives on a journey toward an unknown destination... Each of the classic science fiction stories contained in this collection answers, in its own way, the questions haunting mankind from time immemorial: Who are we? Why are we here? What is conscience? What does it mean to be truly human? Where are we going? Is there life after death? Are there other life forms? Every story presented here offers its personal answer—unique, sometimes bizarre, but invariably human—to the...

Garden in the South Battery is the first novel of a trilogy with the main character named Abigail, a 40-something interior designer, who moves to start a new life with her college age daughter, Anna, now living in Charleston, S.C. Abigail fulfills her lifelong dream of buying a historic home on the infamous Charleston Battery. Yankees, Abigail and Anna, skate their way through living in the South by sipping sweet tea and finding they may have a spirit hanging about in the new home. Through trials and tribulations, they deduce that moving to Charleston and being Southern entails more than ...

Anthropologist Calliope Santiago awakens to find herself in a strange and sinister wasteland, a shadow of the New Mexico she knew. Empty vehicles litter the road. Everyone has disappeared - or almost everyone. Calliope, heavy-bellied with the twins she carries inside her, must make her way across this dangerous landscape with a group of fellow survivors in search of answers. Long-dead volcanoes erupt, the ground rattles and splits, and monsters come to ominous life. Calliope will be forced to reconcile the geological record with the heritage she once denied.

Dr. Adrian Vale believes he has discovered the source of human suffering buried deep within the brain — a neurological structure he calls the God Node. By surgically removing it, he believes he can eliminate guilt, fear, trauma, and emotional pain forever. Death row inmate Marcus Wynn becomes the first human subject. At first, the procedure appears miraculous. Marcus becomes calm. Focused. Free from rage, fear, and remorse. Then the whispering begins. As violent deaths spread through Blackwater Correctional Institution and strange neurological phenomena emerge inside Vale Institute, ...

Cass Neary made her name in the 70s as a photographer embedded in the burgeoning punk movement in New York City. Her pictures earned her a brief moment of fame. Thirty years later she is adrift, on her way down, and almost out when an old acquaintance sends her on a mercy gig to interview a famously reclusive photographer who lives on an island in Maine. When she arrives Down East, Cass stumbles across a decades-old mystery that is still claiming victims, and she finds one final shot at redemption.

A British special agent is murdered for an unusual artifact. On any given day, the experts at Atlanta’s International Archaeological Agency crisscross the globe to rescue ancient relics long feared lost to time, war, or thieves. IAA agents have recovered billions’ worth of missing antiquities, have wiped out entire networks of smugglers, and have even solved a murder at the Vatican. Their successes have made headlines from Tokyo to Turin to Tulsa. But some mysteries require deeper investigation—enigmas so puzzling that they’ve defied the explanations of history, science, and faith ...

A Parent's Worst Nightmare This is a story for anyone that likes a fast-paced thriller, full of emotion and heart-stopping drama, woven with a thread of the supernatural. Twelve-year-old Kyle Connely is devastated by the death of his father; a murder he witnessed. In his grief, he becomes hopelessly lost in Croatan National Forest where terrifying dangers await his every turn. His time is running out. A hurricane is looming, and in its path is the coastal forest he is trying to survive. Jacob Hanson, a reporter assigned to cover the story, has a gift he's kept hidden all his life. And when ...

New York City, New Year's weekend, 2001. Jillian Guthrie, a troubled young journalist, stumbles onto a tantalizing mystery: the same man, unaged, stands alongside Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, and Gandhi in three different photographs spanning eighty-five years of history.

In a future where reality itself is being rewritten, humanity’s greatest enemy is not an army, a weapon, or even a machine. It is the loss of its own mind. Blending epic science fiction with philosophical depth, SAIFA explores questions that feel increasingly urgent in an age of artificial intelligence and digital systems that shape human thought. What happens when technology begins to understand us better than we understand ourselves? What if the greatest power the human mind possesses is not intelligence—but the ability to shape our own consciousness? Part speculative fiction and part...

Semele Cavnow appraises antiquities for an exclusive Manhattan auction house. When she discovers a manuscript written in the time of Cleopatra, she knows it will be the find of her career. Its author tells the story of a priceless tarot deck, now lost to history. As Semele delves further, she realizes the manuscript is more than it seems. Both a memoir and a prophecy, it appears to be the work of a powerful seer, describing devastating wars and natural disasters in detail thousands of years before they occurred.

[This is book 2 in a four book series entitled The Vampire Chronicles. The books should be read in order. "Vampire Island of Nightfall" is book 1). The Binding Ceremony failed. Mia was taken deep into the living heart of the island before the covenant could be completed — leaving the ancient magic unstable, the Council shaken, and Jude desperate to reach her. Inside the mountain, Mia awakens to a presence that watches, listens… and wants. The island itself is alive, aware of her in ways no one expected — and deeply intrigued by her bond with Jude. As Mia and Jude fight to stay ...

Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room - haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

A secret government unit is formed under the oversight of Adam Harrison, famed paranormal investigator. The case: In a historic mansion in New Orleans’ French Quarter, a senator’s wife falls to her death from a balcony. Most think she jumped, distraught over the loss of her young son. Some say she was pushed. And yet others believe she was beckoned by the ghostly spirits that inhabit the house - once the site of a serial killer’s grisly work.

Demigods is a sweeping metaphysical thriller that begins on the sun‑drenched coast of Monaco and spirals into a world where art, mysticism, and human evolution collide. Hans Winters is no ordinary wanderer. Gifted with an uncanny mind, a body hardened by endless pilgrimage, and abilities he barely understands, he drifts across Europe winning just enough at casinos to survive until the criminal underworld notices. When a seductive stranger named Monaco lures him into a trap, Hans discovers he is being hunted not for what he has done, but for what he is. His only hope lies with Augustin ...

In the heart of New Orleans, where the echoes of jazz and ancient magic fill the air, Detective Jason Chalk thought he had a firm grasp on the city's shadows. But his world begins to unravel when a routine investigation leads him into a realm where faith and mysticism blur into something much darker. Aida Devine, a captivating dancer at one of the city's leading gentlemen's clubs, has always intrigued him. As their connection deepens, Jason discovers that she holds secrets far beyond what he imagined. Can Jason and Aida navigate New Orleans’ hidden spiritual landscape, where Catholic ...

They knew us before we began to walk upright. Shamans called them guardians, mythmakers called them tricksters, pagans called them gods, churchmen called them demons, folklorists called them shape-shifters. They've obligingly taken any role we've assigned them, and, while needing nothing from us, have accepted whatever we thought was their due?